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Thomas Clarke: 16Lives Helen Litton 9781847172617
RRP: £15.99£12.37A fascinating examination of the life of Thomas Clarke, a member of the Fenians and a key leader of the Irish Republican Brotherhood in 1916. Clarke spent fifteen years in penal labour for his role in a bombing campaign in London between 1883 and... -
Havel: A Life by Michael Zantovsky
RRP: £20.00£13.67This startling biography explores the remarkable life of an iconic figure of the twentieth century, Vaclav Havel, author and dissident, who became the first president of the Czech Republic.Vaclav Havel: iconoclast and philosopher king, an internationally... -
Diana, William and Harry by James Patterson 9781529125535 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.65'[A] pacy, frictionless read' Sunday Telegraph'Cinematic. . . an entertaining and persuasive study of the royal family' Publisher's Weekly'Patterson treats the princess as a person and tells the story from a mother's perspective'... -
Diana, William and Harry James Patterson 9781529125535
RRP: £20.00£18.30'[A] pacy, frictionless read' Sunday Telegraph'Cinematic. . . an entertaining and persuasive study of the royal family' Publisher's Weekly'Patterson treats the princess as a person and tells the story from a mother's perspective'... -
Lion Rampant: The Memoirs of an Infantry Officer from D-Day to the Rhineland by Robert Woollcombe
RRP: £7.99£6.35Lion Rampant is Robert Woollcombe's graphic account of his experiences as a front-line infantry officer with the King's Own Scottish Borderers during the desperate battle for Normandy and the Allied advance into Germany. Vividly evoking the confusion,... -
The Lamplighters of the Phoenix Park: A unique history of one of Ireland's most famous places James Flanagan 9781399722810
RRP: £22.99£15.80The Phoenix Park in Dublin holds a special place in the collective memory of Irish people. From the assassinations of 1882 and the destruction of several imperial monuments, to the arrival of Douglas Hyde as Ireland's first president and Pope John Paul's... -
Royal Witches: From Joan of Navarre to Elizabeth Woodville by Gemma Hollman
RRP: £12.99£9.87'An important and timely book.' - Philippa Gregory Joan of Navarre was the richest woman in the land, at a time when war-torn England was penniless. Eleanor Cobham was the wife of a weak king's uncle - and her husband was about to fall from grace. ... -
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce Colm Toibin 9780241354421
RRP: £10.99£7.99An intimate study of three of Ireland's greatest writers from one of its best-loved contemporary voices, Colm Toibin__________________In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin takes three of Ireland's greatest writers - Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats and James... -
Charles Rennie Mackintosh by Fiona Davidson 9780853728740 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.00£2.09Charles Rennie Mackintosh was an innovator. He is undoubtedly one of Scotland's most celebrated architects. His astounding buildings creatively reinterpreted the past and opened the way for the Modern Movement. Architecture was his first love, though he... -
Napoleon: v. 1: The Path to Power 1769 - 1799 by Philip Dwyer 9780747566779
RRP: £18.99£13.82Napoleon Bonaparte's rise to power was neither inevitable nor smooth; it was full of mistakes, wrong turns and pitfalls. During his formative years his identity was constantly shifting, his character ambiguous and his intentions often ill-defined. He... -
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,... -
The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy by David Nasaw
RRP: £10.99£8.39In this pioneering new work, celebrated historian David Nasaw examines the life of Joseph P. Kennedy, the founder of the twentieth century's most famous political dynasty. Drawing on never-before-published materials from archives on three continents and... -
All My Mother's Secrets: A Powerful True Story of Love, Loss and a Family Torn Apart by Beezy Marsh
RRP: £7.99£6.13THE 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... -
The Martyr and the Red Kimono: A Fearless Priest’s Sacrifice and A New Generation of Hope in Japan by Naoko Abe 9781784744533
RRP: £22.00£16.27The remarkable true story of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, and the two men in war-torn Japan whose lives he changed forever.On the 14th of August 1941, a Polish priest named Maximilian Maria Kolbe was murdered in Auschwitz.Kolbe's life had been remarkable... -
Obedient Unto Deat.: A Panzer-Grenadier of the Leibstandarte-SS Adolf Hitler Reports by Werner Kindler 9781526765550
RRP: £14.99£11.11Drafted into the SS-Totenkopf in 1939, Werner Kindler served with a motorised unit in Poland before, in May 1941, he was selected for the elite Leibstandarte-SS Adolf Hitler. It was with the Leibstandarte-SS Adolf Hitler that he participated in Operation... -
Coleridge: Darker Reflections by Richard Holmes
RRP: £17.99£12.95Timely reissue of the second volume of Holmes's classic biographies of one of the greatest Romantic poets. Richard Holmes's biography of Coleridge transforms our view of the poet of 'Kubla Khan' forever. Holmes's Coleridge leaps out of these... -
One Pair of Hands: From Upstairs to Downstairs, in this charming 1930s memoir by Monica Dickens
RRP: £14.99£10.95'Life was a wordless battle of wits between us, with her keeping a sharp look-out for signs of neglect, and me trying to disguise my slovenliness by subterfuge. I became an adept at sweeping dust under the bed, and always used the same few pieces of... -
Killer Women: Chilling, Dark and Gripping True Crime Stories of Women Who Kill Nigel Cawthorne 9781786489142
RRP: £10.99£7.61The 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... -
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£9.00This 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... -
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... -
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,... -
Long Walk To Freedom Vol 2: 1962-1994 by Nelson Mandela 9780349116303
£14.87The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, LONG WALK TO FREEDOM brilliantly recreates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. From his imprisonment on Robben Island to his remarkable... -
Fool: In Search of Henry VIII's Closest Man by Peter K. Andersson 9780691250168
RRP: £22.00£17.63The first biography of Henry VIII’s court fool William Somer, a legendary entertainer and one of the most intriguing figures of the Tudor ageIn some portraits of Henry VIII there appears another, striking figure—a gaunt and morose-looking man with a... -
James Connolly: 16Lives by Lorcan Collins
RRP: £15.99£12.57James 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... -
Ann Walker: The Life and Death of Gentleman Jack's Wife by Rebecca Batley
RRP: £20.00£14.51Lesbian. Lover. Lunatic. These are just some of the words usually used to describe Ann Walker, the oft overlooked wife of Anne Lister, better known by some as Gentleman Jack. Ann was one half of England's first same-sex marriage and yet the rainbow... -
Hope Against Hope by Nadezhda Mandelstam 9781841594125
RRP: £18.99£14.22A harrowing yet uplifting account of Stalin's persecution of the Russian intelligentsia in the 1930s, and of one man - Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938), whose poetry, in spite of the unfolding tragedy of his life, preserved its unique creative gaiety... -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by Himself by Frederick Douglass 9780486284996
RRP: £3.99£2.97Apologies 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£24.02'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... -
Betty Boothroyd Autobiography by Betty Boothroyd 9780099427049 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29The enormous respect and affection of the British public for Betty Boothroyd has its roots in a strong belief in what she stands for: fair play, an unshakeable sense of honour and a passionate belief in the sovereignty of Parliament. Her convictions, she... -
Betty Boothroyd Autobiography by Betty Boothroyd
RRP: £12.99£9.34The enormous respect and affection of the British public for Betty Boothroyd has its roots in a strong belief in what she stands for: fair play, an unshakeable sense of honour and a passionate belief in the sovereignty of Parliament. Her convictions, she... -
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... -
Queen of the World Robert Hardman 9781784759513
RRP: £10.99£7.99A brilliant portrait of the most famous woman in the world and her place in it, written by the renowned royal biographer and author of Queen of Our Times, Robert Hardman._____________________________'Dazzling, poignant and full of delicious surprises;... -
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... -
Deadwood: The Best Writings On The Most Notorious Town In The West by T. D. Griffith 9780762754168
RRP: £12.99£9.86Of the many iconic towns of the old West, none has quite captured our imagination like Deadwood. From the legacy of Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane to the current resurgence in mining and gambling, this city in the Black Hills of South Dakota... -
Scripta Minora by Xenophon
RRP: £24.95£23.76A miscellany of minor works.Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BC) was a wealthy Athenian and friend of Socrates. He left Athens in 401 and joined an expedition including ten thousand Greeks led by the Persian governor Cyrus against the Persian king... -
Mary Queen of Scots: Film Tie-In by John Guy 9780008304904
RRP: £12.99£9.34Now 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... -
How Churchill Waged War: The Most Challenging Decisions of the Second World War by Allen Packwood 9781526771094
RRP: £14.99£11.11When Winston Churchill accepted the position of Prime Minister in May 1940, he insisted in also becoming Minister of Defence. He was not going to play the chairman's role, adjudicating between the competing claims of the ministers below him. He was going... -
Granuaile: The Pirate Queen by John Burke 9780717183500
RRP: £9.99£9.74Learn about Ireland's original rebel girl in this exciting new series of inspirational Irish lives In an exciting new series of books for children, John and Fatti Burke go deeper into the lives and subjects first introduced in Irelandopedia,... -
Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right by Jennifer Burns 9780195324877
RRP: £25.49£19.93Worshipped by her fans, denounced by her enemies, and forever shadowed by controversy and scandal, the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand was a powerful thinker whose views on government and markets shaped the conservative movement from its earliest days...