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Lumumba: Africa's Lost Leader by Leo Zeilig
RRP: £12.99£8.99Patrice Lumumba (1925-61) is perhaps the most famous leader of the African independence movement. After his execution in 1961, when he had been prime minister of the newly-liberated Congo for only seven months, he became an icon of anti-imperialist... -
Richard III: The Self-Made King by Michael Hicks
RRP: £12.99£11.46An "excellent new biography" (Keith Thomas, New York Review of Books) of the wily and formidable prince who unexpectedly became monarch-the most infamous king in British history"An intricately detailed account of Richard's every recorded move on his... -
Handel in London: The Making of a Genius by Jane Glover 9781509882069
RRP: £25.00£18.02'How refreshing, to read a book about music written for a music lover and not a musicologist. In clear, lucid, entertaining prose, Jane Glover makes those of us who lack musical literacy better understand and appreciate Handel's divinity.' - Donna Leon,... -
James Connolly: 16Lives by Lorcan Collins
RRP: £15.99£12.37James Connolly (1868-1916) became a leading Irish socialist and revolutionary, and was one of the leaders of Ireland's rebellion in 1916. As a youth he had served in the British army in Ireland and, seeing how they treated the local population, became... -
The Two Headed Whale by Sandy Winterbottom
RRP: £14.99£9.80Shortlisted for the Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award In 2016, Sandy Winterbottom embarked on an epic six-week tall-ship voyage from Uruguay to Antarctica. At the mid-way stop in South Georgia, her pristine image of the Antarctic was... -
All My Mother's Secrets: A Powerful True Story of Love, Loss and a Family Torn Apart by Beezy Marsh
RRP: £7.99£5.94THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Beautifully-penned story on the harshness of life and how hope survives' - Sun'Absorbing . . . Marsh writes with a novelistic flair' - Daily Mail From the grimy streets of Acton and Notting Hill to the bright lights of the... -
Before Mrs Beeton: Elizabeth Raffald, England's Most Influential Housekeeper by Neil Buttery
RRP: £20.00£14.29The great Elizabeth Raffald used to be a household name, and her list of accomplishments would make even the highest of achievers feel suddenly impotent. After becoming housekeeper at Arley Hall in Cheshire at age twenty-five, she married and moved to... -
Dreams in a Time of War by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
RRP: £9.99£7.11Ngugi wa Thiong'o was born the fifth child of his father's third wife, in a family that includes twenty-four children born to four different mothers. He spent his 1930s childhood as the apple of his mother's eye, before attending school to slake what is... -
Hayek: A Life, 1899-1950 by Bruce Caldwell 9780226816821
RRP: £35.00£29.57The definitive account of the distinguished economist's formative years. Few twentieth-century figures have been lionized and vilified in such equal measure as Friedrich Hayek-economist, social theorist, leader of the Austrian school of economics,... -
The Man Under the Radar by Linda Nissen Samuels 9781908291844 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£5.27This biography of Jack Maurice Nissenthall, written by his daughter, Linda Nissen Samuels, draws heavily on Jack's own writings: The Wizard War, an unpublished autobiographical account of his part in the development of radar before and during WW2 and its... -
The Man Under the Radar by Linda Nissen Samuels 9781908291844
RRP: £9.99£8.76This biography of Jack Maurice Nissenthall, written by his daughter, Linda Nissen Samuels, draws heavily on Jack's own writings: The Wizard War, an unpublished autobiographical account of his part in the development of radar before and during WW2 and its... -
Montaigne by Stefan Zweig
RRP: £12.00£7.95'He who thinks freely for himself, honours all freedom on earth.' Stefan Zweig was already an emigre-driven from a Europe torn apart by brutality and totalitarianism-when he found, in a damp cellar, a copy of Michel de Montaigne's Essais. Montaigne... -
BOUDICA THE TRUTH by Janet Smart
RRP: £9.99£9.61In the province of Britannia during AD60. the brutality of the Roman Empire forced catastrophic retaliation by the people. Boudica, Queen of the Iceni, rose in rebellion, joined by thousands of her fellow countrymen. Together they engaged in a deadly... -
The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis
RRP: £25.95£20.64The clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse when, on a summer's day in 1560, a man swaggered into the court on a wooden leg, denounced Arnaud, and reestablished his claim to the identity,... -
Caesar by Christian Meier 9780006863496 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29James Boswell called him 'the greatest man of any age'. Christian Meier's biography is the definitive modern account of Caesar's life and career, and places him within the wider context of the crisis of the Roman republic. It is a compelling work of... -
Boris: The Adventures of Boris Johnson by Andrew Gimson 9781471162343 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.65THE MAKING OF A PRIME MINISTER 'My biography of the year' Michael Crick 'The scariest thing I've read since Silence of the Lambs' Ken Livingstone A brilliant and definitive biography of Boris Johnson, the politician who risked his career to lead the... -
Boris: The Adventures of Boris Johnson by Andrew Gimson 9781471162343
RRP: £10.99£7.00THE MAKING OF A PRIME MINISTER 'My biography of the year' Michael Crick 'The scariest thing I've read since Silence of the Lambs' Ken Livingstone A brilliant and definitive biography of Boris Johnson, the politician who risked his career to lead the... -
Auschwitz and After by Charlotte Delbo
RRP: £16.99£16.66The memoir of Charlotte Delbo, a French writer sent to Auschwitz for her resistance activities against the Nazi occupation of France and the Vichy government"Delbo's exquisite and unflinching account of life and death under Nazi atrocity grows fiercer... -
The Children of Athena: Greek writers and thinkers in the Age of Rome, 150 BC–AD 400 by Charles Freeman 9781803281957
RRP: £30.00£20.95The remarkable story of how Greek-speaking writers and thinkers sustained and developed the intellectual legacy of Classical Greece under the rule of Rome. In 146 BC, Greece yielded to the military might of the Roman Republic; some sixty years later,... -
Thomas MacDonagh: 16Lives by Shane Kenna
RRP: £15.99£12.37Born in Cloughjordan in Co. Tipperary, MacDonagh was a poet and playwright, an educator and political activist. Appointed to the IRB Military Council he became a member of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic and was a signatory of the 1916... -
Killer Women: Chilling, Dark and Gripping True Crime Stories of Women Who Kill by Nigel Cawthorne
RRP: £10.99£7.40The Disturbing Inside Story of Women Who Are Driven to Kill Killer Women are the most disturbing yet compelling of all criminals, representing the very darkest side of humanity and subverting the conventional view of women as the weaker sex. From... -
Finding Home: A Windrush Story by Alford Dalrymple Gardner
RRP: £18.99£13.61On 24 May 1948, the Empire Windrush sailed from Kingston, Jamaica, to harbour at Tilbury Docks. It carried 1,027 passengers and some stowaways, and more than two thirds of them were West Indies nationals. On 22 June 1948 they disembarked onto the docks,... -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by Himself by Frederick Douglass 9780486284996
RRP: £3.99£2.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486284996Author Frederick DouglassFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Dam Buster: Barnes Wallis: An Engineer’s Life by Richard Morris 9781474623421
RRP: £28.00£23.45'A stunningly good and surely definitive biography of one of the most fascinating British engineers ever to have lived' JAMES HOLLANDBarnes Wallis became a household name after the hit 1955 film The Dam Busters, in which Michael Redgrave portrayed him as... -
The Lesser Evil: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-1959 by Victor Klemperer
RRP: £18.99£13.15The superb, bestselling diaries of Victor Klemperer, a Jew in Dresden who survived the war - hailed as one of the 20th century's most important chronicles.'Compulsive reading' LITERARY REVIEW 'Deeply engrossing' SPECTATOR'Klemperer's diary deserves to... -
Henry VII: The Maligned Tudor King by Terry Breverton
RRP: £10.99£7.25Henry Tudor, the future Henry VII, has been called the most unlikely King of England. Yet his rise from obscurity was foretold by the bards, and by 1485, the familial bloodbath of the Wars of the Roses left Henry as the sole adult Lancastrian claimant to... -
The King's Mother: Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby by Michael K. Jones 9780521447942
RRP: £40.99£38.14This is a study of the life of Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII and foundress of two Cambridge colleges. It is at once the first biography of Lady Margaret to explore the full range of archival sources, and one of the best-documented studies of any... -
Mary Queen of Scots: Film Tie-In by John Guy 9780008304904
RRP: £12.99£8.48Now a major film, this is a dramatic reinterpretation of the life of Mary Queen of Scots by one of the leading historians of this period. Who was the real Mary Queen of Scots? The most enigmatic ruler of England lived... -
Charles I's Private Life by Mark Turnbull 9781399082907
RRP: £25.00£17.62The execution of King Charles I is one of the well-known facts of British history, and an often-quoted snippet from our past. He lost the civil war and his head. But there is more to Charles than the civil war and his death. To fully appreciate the... -
A Memoir Of The Warsaw Uprising by Miron Bialoszewski
RRP: £16.99£12.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590176658Author Madeline LevineFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Among the Wolves of Court: The Untold Story of Thomas and George Boleyn by Lauren Mackay 9781350147058
RRP: £12.99£9.79The tragic story of Anne Boleyn has been retold over the centuries, yet two key figures in Anne's life-her father Thomas and brother George- are often relegated to the margins of the history of Henry VIII's turbulent reign. Well before Anne's coronation... -
Curzon: Imperial Statesman by David Gilmour
RRP: £18.99£13.61'A fast-moving, entertaining and finely written story' Simon Schama'Masterly ... a remarkable portrait of a brilliant complex and tragic genius' William Dalrymple, Los Angeles TimesGeorge Nathaniel Curzon's controversial life in public service stretched ... -
Inside the Mind of Xi Jinping by Francois Bougon
RRP: £17.99£16.14Xi Jinping wants to become the world's most powerful leader. To succeed, he must balance Mao's Little Red Book with the Analects of Confucius, and more. For Xi, the task ahead of China is to preserve the guiding ideology of Marxism, while challenging... -
Healing Haunted Histories: A Settler Discipleship of Decolonization by Elaine Enns 9781725255364
RRP: £41.00£29.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781725255364Author Elaine EnnsFormat HardbackPage Count 420Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 735gDimensions(mm)... -
Jan Morris: life from both sides by Paul Clements
RRP: £25.00£16.99'A marvel of clarity, fluency, and (Morris's favourite word in her final days) kindness.' The Sunday Times 'A measured and elegant biography that Morris aficionados will find fascinating.' The Times The first full account of a truly remarkable life. ... -
Josiah the Great: The True Story of The Man Who Would Be King by Ben Macintyre
RRP: £12.99£8.48The amazing tale of a resourceful and unscrupulous early-19th-century American adventurer who forges his own kingdom in the wilds of Afghanistan. In the year 1838, a young adventurer, surrounded by his native troops and mounted on an elephant,... -
The Dark Queens: A gripping tale of power, ambition and murderous rivalry in early medieval France by Shelley Puhak
RRP: £10.99£7.77A vivid double biography of two fearless early medieval queens. 'Brings the Merovingian empire to thrilling, bewildering, horrifying life' Helen Castor 'Restores two half-forgotten and much-mythologized queens to their proper place in medieval... -
In My Life: A Music Memoir by Alan Johnson
RRP: £10.99£7.77From being transported by the sound of 'True Love' by Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly on the radio, as a small child living in condemned housing in ungentrified West London in the late 1950s, to going out to work as a postman humming 'Watching the... -
Mussolini: The Rise and Fall of Il Duce by Christopher Hibbert 9780230606050
RRP: £16.99£15.23With his signature insight and compelling style, Christopher Hibbert explains the extraordinary complexities and contradictions that characterized Benito Mussolini. Mussolini was born on a Sunday afternoon in 1883 in a village in central Italy. On a... -
The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy by Adrienne Mayor
RRP: £15.99£13.31Machiavelli praised his military genius. European royalty sought out his secret elixir against poison. His life inspired Mozart's first opera, while for centuries poets and playwrights recited bloody, romantic tales of his victories, defeats, intrigues,...