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Kings & Queens of Ancient Britain by Charles Phillips
RRP: £7.99£5.79Britain's royal history brought to life with 200 contemporary and historical illustrations, maps, shields and comprehensive genealogical tables. It includes the story of King Arthur, why William the Conqueror won the Battle of Hastings, how Robert the... -
A Mother's Courage: How I survived the Holocaust - a remarkable story of bravery, kindness and hope by Malka Levine 9781035025008
RRP: £20.00£13.10'A deeply humane memoir of immense power - there is nothing more affecting than a first-hand experience finely told' - PHILIPPE SANDS'A fabulous memoir . . . a testament to [Malka's] skill and determination' - DAME MAUREEN LIPMANA Mother's Courage is... -
The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames: A Foundling's Story by Justine Cowan 9780349013183 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.65A gripping memoir and revelatory investigation into the history of the Foundling Hospital and one girl who grew up in its care - the author's own mother.'Extraordinary ... A fascinating, moving book: part history of the Foundling Hospital and the... -
The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames: A Foundling's Story by Justine Cowan 9780349013183
RRP: £20.00£13.35A gripping memoir and revelatory investigation into the history of the Foundling Hospital and one girl who grew up in its care - the author's own mother.'Extraordinary ... A fascinating, moving book: part history of the Foundling Hospital and the... -
The Progressive Patriot by Billy Bragg 9780552772426 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29What does it mean to be English? What does it mean to be British? Is the cross of St George a proud symbol of a great tradition, or the badge of a neo-Nazi? In a world where British citizens can lay bombs to kill their countrymen, where religious... -
The Progressive Patriot by Billy Bragg
RRP: £12.99£9.09What does it mean to be English? What does it mean to be British? Is the cross of St George a proud symbol of a great tradition, or the badge of a neo-Nazi? In a world where British citizens can lay bombs to kill their countrymen, where religious... -
Reporting India: My Seventy-year Journey as a Journalist by Prem Prakash
RRP: £27.99£15.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670093984Author Prem PrakashFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 240mm * 150mm * 30mm -
Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink by Anthony McCarten 9780062790767
RRP: £22.99£16.58May, 1940. Britain is at war. The horrors of blitzkrieg have seen one Western European democracy after another fall in rapid succession to Nazi boot and shell. Invasion seems mere hours away. Just days after becoming prime minister, Winston Churchill... -
Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs Oscar Wilde by Franny Moyle
RRP: £12.99£8.60In the spring of 1895 the life of Constance Wilde changed irrevocably. Up until the conviction of her husband, Oscar, for homosexual crimes, she had held a privileged position in society. Part of a gilded couple, she was a popular children's author, a... -
Chaucer: Brief Lives by Peter Ackroyd 9780099287483
RRP: £12.99£5.47Geoffrey Chaucer has some claim to being the greatest poet in the English language. Yet he has also been considered to be an invisible poet, self-depreciating and ironic, leaving only the breath of his comedy behind. In truth a great deal is known of him... -
The Day the Nazis Came: My childhood journey from Britain to a German concentration camp by Stephen R. Matthews 9781789462074
RRP: £8.99£6.03By the time he was six years old, Stephen Matthews had been bombarded by the Luftwaffe and deported from occupied Guernsey, along with his family, to a prison camp in the heart of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. He had seen men die in front of him and walked... -
The Day the Nazis Came: My childhood journey from Britain to a German concentration camp by Stephen R. Matthews 9781789462074 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£2.29By the time he was six years old, Stephen Matthews had been bombarded by the Luftwaffe and deported from occupied Guernsey, along with his family, to a prison camp in the heart of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. He had seen men die in front of him and walked... -
Scott of the Antarctic: We Shall Die Like Gentlemen by Sue Blackhall 9781526796653
RRP: £12.99£9.09Captain Robert Falcon Scott CVO (6 June 1868 29 March 1912) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions. During the second venture, Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, only... -
Mad Dogs and Englishmen by Sir Ranulph Fiennes 9780340925041
RRP: £10.99£7.40Ranulph Fiennes tells the story of his unconventional, exceptional family, and reveals the ingredients for the man described by the Guinness Book of Records as 'the world's greatest living explorer'.Discover Sir Ranulph Twistelton-Wykham-Fiennes's... -
Fragrant Palm Leaves by Thich Nhat Hanh
RRP: £15.99£11.61'It isn't likely that this collection of journal entries will pass the censors. If it can't be published, I hope my friends will circulate it among themselves. I'll leave Vietnam tomorrow...' Thus Thich Nhat Hanh begins his 11 May 1966 journal entry... -
Inheritance: The Lost History of Mary Davies: A Story of Property, Marriage and Madness by Leo Hollis 9781786079954
RRP: £20.00£13.50'Brilliant' Financial Times 'Hollis expertly weaves together the human tragedy and high politics behind the explosion of one of the world's greatest cities' Dan Snow The reclaimed history of a woman whose tragic life tells a story of madness,... -
Edward II by Seymour Phillips
RRP: £25.00£21.92The latest definitive biography in the acclaimed Yale English Monarchs series Edward II (1284-1327), King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine, was the object of ignominy during his lifetime and calumny since it. Conventionally viewed as... -
Zelensky: The President and His Country by Steven Derix
RRP: £16.99£11.08Zelensky is the first major biography of Ukraine's leader written for a Western audience. Told with flair and authority, it is the gripping story of one of the most admired and inspirational leaders in the world. Action-packed biography of Ukraine's... -
In the Footsteps of Florence Nightingale: Memoirs of a QA (Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps) by Margaret Thomas
RRP: £8.99£6.20In this heartfelt memoir, spanning the 1950s and '60s, Major Margaret Thomas ARRC rises through the ranks of the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (the QAs), the nursing branch of the British Army, healing injured soldiers far from home as well... -
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson 9780802144119
£18.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802144119Author Jon Lee AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
The Emperor Who Never Was: Dara Shukoh in Mughal India by Supriya Gandhi 9780674987296
RRP: £27.95£24.10The definitive biography of the eldest son of Emperor Shah Jahan, whose death at the hands of his younger brother Aurangzeb changed the course of South Asian history.Dara Shukoh was the eldest son of Shah Jahan, the fifth Mughal emperor, best known for... -
Mary Queen of Scots' Secretary: William Maitland - Politician, Reformer and Conspirator by Robert Stedall 9781526787798
RRP: £25.00£17.62Maitland was the most able politician and diplomat during the lifetime of Mary Queen of Scots. It was he who master-minded the Scottish Reformation by breaking the 'Auld Alliance' with France, which presaged Scotland's lasting union with England. ... -
Let Me Go by Helga Schneider 9780099443742 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£1.78When Helga Schneider was four, her mother, Traudi, abandoned her to pursue her career. In 1998, Helga received a letter asking her to visit Traudi, now 90-years old, before she dies. Mother and daughter have met only once after Traudi left, on a... -
One Pair of Hands: From Upstairs to Downstairs, in this charming 1930s memoir by Monica Dickens 9780091944681 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£1.85'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... -
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... -
Hope Against Hope by Nadezhda Mandelstam
RRP: £16.99£12.68'Suddently, at about one o'clock in the morning, there was a sharp, unbearably explicit knock on the door. 'They've come for Osip', I said'.In 1933 the poet Osip Mandelstam- friend to Boris Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova- wrote a spirited satire denouncing... -
Henry VIII: The Life and Rule of England's Nero by John Matusiak 9780752497075 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.65This compelling new account of Henry VIII is by no means yet another history of the 'old monster' and his reign. The 'monster' displayed here is, at the very least, a newer type, more beset by anxieties and insecurities, and more tightly surrounded by... -
Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography by Jeffrey Meyers 9780062316950
£13.21Scott Fitzgerald, a romantic and tragic figure who embodied the decades between the two world wars, was a writer who took his material almost entirely from his life. Despite his early success with The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald battled against failure and... -
Citizen of London: Richard Whittington-The Boy Who Would Be Mayor by Michael McCarthy
RRP: £25.00£22.43A vivid, richly informative biography of the medieval entrepreneur, social reformer and 'influencer' at court. The extraordinary story of Richard Whittington, from his arrival in London as a young boy to his death in 1423, against a backdrop of plague,... -
Hannibal by Patrick N. Hunt 9781439102183
£11.70Hannibal is "an exciting biography of one of history's greatest commanders...a thrilling page-turner" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) about the brilliant general who successfully crossed the Alps with his war elephants and brought Rome to its knees, and... -
Franklin Delano Roosevelt by Roy Jenkins 9780805069594
RRP: £35.00£21.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805069594Author Roy JenkinsFormat HardbackPage Count 186Imprint St. Martin's PressPublisher St. Martin's PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 213mm *... -
Some Sunny Day by Dame Vera Lynn
RRP: £8.99£6.02The remarkable autobiography of the last great wartime icon. Born Vera Welch on 20 March, 1917 in the East End of London, Dame Vera Lynn's career was set from an early age - along with her father, who also did a 'turn', she sang in Working... -
Napoleon by Paul Johnson
RRP: £9.99£5.96A short and vivid biography, which deconstructs the Napoleonic myth and reveals the reality of his rule.'Written with his customary verve and certainty' Andrew Roberts, SUNDAY TELEGRAPHWritten with great wit and panache, this biography also has a serious... -
Galileo: And the Science Deniers by Mario Livio 9781501194733
RRP: £28.00£15.72Galileo's story may be more relevant today than ever before. At present, we face enormous crises-such as the minimization of the dangers of climate change-because the science behind these threats is erroneously questioned or ignored. Galileo... -
Mitterrand: A Study in Ambiguity by Philip Short
RRP: £16.99£12.28Aesthete, sensualist, bookworm, politician of Machiavellian cunning: Francois Mitterrand was a man of exceptional gifts and exceptional flaws who, during his fourteen years as President, strove to drag his tradition-bound and change-averse country into... -
The Utopians: Six Attempts to Build the Perfect Society by Anna Neima
RRP: £25.00£21.79'Neima's book, impeccably researched and beautifully written, will be an inspiration for anyone looking to an alternative future today.' - Stella Tillyard, author of Aristocrats and The Great Level'Deeply interesting and a pleasure to read, The Utopians... -
Abu Hanifah: His Life, Legal Method & Legacy by Mohammad Akram Nadwi 9781847740175
RRP: £8.99£7.40In this book Mohammad Akram reviews the life and legacy of Abu Hanifa, and surveys the evolution of the Hanafi school in different regions of the Islamic world. His argument is based on the traditional sources and faithfully reports both history and... -
Marie-Antoinette by Helene Delalex 9781606064832
RRP: £45.00£39.23An intimate glimpse into the public and private world of one of history's most famous- and infamous-queens Marie-Antoinette (1755-1793) continues to fascinate historians, writers, and filmmakers more than two centuries after her death. She became a... -
Legends: Twelve People Who Made South Africa a Better Place by Matthew Blackman 9781776391066
RRP: £13.99£9.20We have a lot to be positive about in South Africa. With all our problems, it's easy to feel bleak. But hold those thoughts, because Legends might be just the tonic you need to drive off the gloom. This book tells the stories of a dozen... -
Anne Neville: Richard III's Tragic Queen by Amy Licence
RRP: £10.99£7.12Shakespeare's enduring image of Richard III's queen is one of bitterness and sorrow. Anne curses the killer of her husband and father, before succumbing to his marriage proposal, bringing to herself a terrible legacy of grief and suffering an untimely...