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The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War by Alexander Waugh
RRP: £12.99£9.09The Wittgenstein family was one of the richest, most talented and most eccentric in European history. The domineering paternal influence of Karl Wittgenstein left his eight children fraught by inner antagonisms and nervous tension. Three of his sons... -
Churchill by Paul Johnson
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143117995Author Paul JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 157g -
Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece by Hugo Vickers 9780312302399
RRP: £30.99£19.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312302399Author Hugo VickersFormat PaperbackPage Count 477Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm)... -
Voltaire in Love by Nancy Mitford
RRP: £9.99£7.11The meeting of Voltaire, successful financier, famous poet and troublemaker, and the enchanting amateur physicist and countess Emilie du Chatelet, was a meeting of both hearts and minds. In the Chateau de Cirey, the two brilliant intellects scandalised... -
Blackbeard: America's Most Notorious Pirate by Angus Konstam 9780471758853
£22.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471758853Author Angus KonstamFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by ,Kate Larson
£12.00The revelatory, poignant story of Rosemary Kennedy, the eldest and eventually secreted-away Kennedy daughter, and how her life transformed her family, its women especially, and an entire nation."[Larson] succeeds in providing a well-rounded portrait of a... -
Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies by Ross King
RRP: £18.99£13.61Claude Monet's water lily paintings are among the most iconic and beloved works of art of the past century. Yet these entrancing images were created at a time of terrible private turmoil and sadness for the artist. The dramatic history behind these... -
More Testing Times: Test Flying in the 1980s and '90s by Mike Brooke 9780750969857
RRP: £14.99£11.55Following his first three successful books, describing his long career as a military pilot, Mike Brooke completes the story with more tales of test flying during the 1980s and '90s. During this period his career changed to see him take control of flying... -
Women and the Autobiographical Impulse: A History by Barbara Caine 9781350237629
RRP: £22.99£21.48Forming a critical introduction to the history of women's autobiography from the mid 18th-century to the present, this book analyses the most important changes in women's autobiography, exploring their motivation, context, style, and the role of life... -
Hope Against Hope by Nadezhda Mandelstam 9781841594125
RRP: £18.99£14.01A 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... -
Devices and Desires: Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England by Kate Hubbard
RRP: £12.99£9.09'The definitive biography' Roy StrongThe remarkable story of Bess of Hardwick, her ascent through Elizabethan society and the houses she built that shaped British architectural history.Born in 1521, Bess of Hardwick, businesswoman, money-lender and... -
Belfast to Benghazi: Untold challenges of war by Rupert Wieloch 9781861515667
£19.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861515667Author Rupert WielochFormat PaperbackPage Count 381Imprint Mereo BooksPublisher Mereo BooksWeight(grams) 425gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 40mm -
The Favourite: The Life of Sarah Churchill and the History Behind the Major Motion Picture by Ophelia Field 9781474605359 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29'An incredible story crackling with royal passion, envy, ambition and betrayal ... A tour de force' Lucy WorsleySarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, was as glamorous as she was controversial. Politically influential and independently powerful, she... -
The Favourite: The Life of Sarah Churchill and the History Behind the Major Motion Picture by Ophelia Field
RRP: £12.99£8.60'An incredible story crackling with royal passion, envy, ambition and betrayal ... A tour de force' Lucy WorsleySarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, was as glamorous as she was controversial. Politically influential and independently powerful, she... -
Sister Queens: Katherine of Aragon and Juana Queen of Castile by Julia Fox
RRP: £10.99£7.40Katherine of Aragon, Henry VIII's first bride, has become an icon: the betrayed wife, the revered Queen, the devoted mother, a woman callously cast aside by a selfish husband besotted by his strumpet of a mistress. Her sister, Juana of Castile, wife of... -
Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa by Mark Mathabane 9780684848280 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99£2.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684848280Author Mark MathabaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & Schuster LtdWeight(grams) 331g -
Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa by Mark Mathabane
RRP: £18.99£12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684848280Author Mark MathabaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & Schuster LtdWeight(grams) 331g -
The Art of Fairness: The Power of Decency in a World Turned Mean by David Bodanis 9780349128214
RRP: £20.00£4.51'David Bodanis is an enthralling storyteller. Prepare to be taken on a surprising, wide-ranging and ultimately inspiring journey to explore what makes us human' Tim HarfordCan you succeed without being a terrible person? We often think not: recognising... -
Inge's War: A Story of Family, Secrets and Survival under Hitler by Svenja O'Donnell 9781529105476
RRP: £15.99£6.52'A lyrical, engrossing and essential read' - Sathnam Sanghera 'A superbly nuanced reclamation of history and family secrets' - Brian Van Reet, author of SpoilsWhat does it mean to be on the wrong side of history?Svenja O'Donnell's beautiful, aloof... -
The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II by Ian Buruma
RRP: £20.00£13.86'A multiple biography with overlapping chronology is a tricky feat and Buruma pulls it off magnificently.' Ben Macintyre, The TimesOn the face of it, the three characters here seem to have little in common - aside from the fact that each committed... -
Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan
RRP: £14.99£11.47'Compassionate and compelling, this is not a political story but a quest for love in the heart of darkness' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'A biography on an epic scale, with a combination of tragedy and history worthy of a Russian novel' Independent ... -
Jean Paul Marat: Tribune of the French Revolution by Clifford D. Conner
RRP: £24.99£16.38Jean-Paul Marat's role in the French Revolution has long been a matter of controversy among historians. Often he is portrayed as a violent, sociopathic demagogue. This biography challenges that interpretation and argues that without Marat's contributions... -
Napoleon: A Life in Gardens and Shadows by Ruth Scurr
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Glorious... Scurr is one of the most gifted non-fiction writers alive' Simon Schama, Financial TimesA revelatory portrait of Napoleon written for our own time, exploring his love of nature and the gardens that gave his revolutionary life its light and... -
The Speckled People by Hugo Hamilton 9780007148110
RRP: £9.99£6.64'This is the most gripping book I've read in ages ... It is beautifully written, fascinating, disturbing and often very funny.' Roddy Doyle The childhood world of Hugo Hamilton, born and brought up in Dublin, is a confused place. His father, a... -
Brave as a Lion: The Life and Times of Field Marshal Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough by Christopher Brice 9781910294611
RRP: £35.00£31.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910294611Author Christopher BriceFormat HardbackPage Count 616Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Edith Cavell: Nurse, Martyr, Heroine by Diana Souhami
RRP: £12.99£8.60Edith Cavell was born on 4th December 1865, daughter of the vicar of Swardeston in Norfolk, and shot in Brussels on 12th October 1915 by the Germans for sheltering British and French soldiers and helping them escape over the Belgian border. Following a... -
King Harald's Saga by Snorri Sturluson
RRP: £10.99£7.77This compelling Icelandic history describes the life of King Harald Hardradi, from his battles across Europe and Russia to his final assault on England in 1066, less than three weeks before the invasion of William the Conqueror. It was a battle that led... -
Travelling With Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary by Alberto Granado 9781844134267 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£1.85In 1952 Alberto Granado, a young doctor, and his friend Ernesto Guevara, a 23-year-old medical student from a distinguished Buenos Aires family decided to explore their continent. They set off from Cordoba in Argentina on a 1949 Norton 500cc motorbike... -
Travelling With Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary by Alberto Granado
RRP: £10.99£7.77In 1952 Alberto Granado, a young doctor, and his friend Ernesto Guevara, a 23-year-old medical student from a distinguished Buenos Aires family decided to explore their continent. They set off from Cordoba in Argentina on a 1949 Norton 500cc motorbike... -
Defenders of the Faith by Catherine Pepinster
RRP: £25.00£14.26During the Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla, the Christian Church will take centre stage once again, as the established religion in England. But why does the Church have such prominence in state affairs, and should it keep this privileged... -
Shadows and Light: The Life of James McBey by Alasdair Soussi
RRP: £29.99£20.99Creative genius, war artist, adventurer, lover. These are just some of the words that can be used to describe Aberdeenshire-born painter and printmaker James McBey (1883-1959). McBey was a Scottish superstar amongst the creative spirits that fuelled... -
Afghan Napoleon - The Life of Ahmad Shah Massoud by Sandy Gall
RRP: £12.99£8.99When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the forces of resistance were disparate and divided mujahideen groups, as interested in fighting each other and competing for Western arms as opposing the Russians. The exception was Ahmed Shah Massoud, the... -
Mary Seacole: The Charismatic Black Nurse Who Became a Heroine of the Crimea by Jane Robinson
£10.47The 'Greatest Black Briton in History' triumphed over the Crimea and Victorian England. "The Times" called her a heroine, Florence Nightingale called her a brothel-keeping quack, and Queen Victoria's nephew called her, simply, 'Mammy' - Mary Seacole was... -
After They Killed Our Father: A Refugee from the Killing Fields Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind by Loung Ung 9781845963088 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.13In 1980, at the age of ten, Loung Ung escaped a devastated Cambodia and flew to the US as a refugee. She and her eldest brother, with whom she escaped, left behind their three surviving siblings, and her book is alternately heart-wrenching and... -
After They Killed Our Father: A Refugee from the Killing Fields Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind by Loung Ung
RRP: £10.99£7.77In 1980, at the age of ten, Loung Ung escaped a devastated Cambodia and flew to the US as a refugee. She and her eldest brother, with whom she escaped, left behind their three surviving siblings, and her book is alternately heart-wrenching and... -
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library by Edward Wilson-Lee
RRP: £12.99£8.48WINNER OF THE 2019 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE The fascinating history of Christopher Columbus's illegitimate son Hernando, guardian of his father's flame, courtier, bibliophile and catalogue supreme, whose travels took him to the... -
Eleven Days in August: The Liberation of Paris in 1944 by Matthew Cobb 9781471186196
RRP: £10.99£7.77'I had thought that for me there could never again be any elation in war. But I had reckoned without the liberation of Paris - I had reckoned without remembering that I might be a part of that richly historic day. We were in Paris on the first day - one... -
Walking Among Pharaohs: George Reisner and the Dawn of Modern Egyptology by Peter Der Manuelian
RRP: £31.49£28.78In this expansive new biography of George Reisner, Egyptologist Peter Der Manuelian examines the life and work of America's greatest archaeologist. Manuelian presents Reisner's undeniable impact and considers his life within the context of Western... -
The Interpreter's Daughter by Teresa Lim
RRP: £20.00£13.10Discover one family's fascinating story in this beautiful, sweeping, multigenerational memoir, spanning 19th century south China to modern day Singapore'A captivating, compelling story of history, family loyalty, and personal sacrifice. A fascinating and... -
A Hero for High Times: A Younger Reader's Guide to the Beats, Hippies, Freaks, Punks, Ravers, New-Age Travellers and Dog-on-a-Rope Brew Crew Crusties of the British Isles, 1956-1994 by Ian Marchant
RRP: £12.99£9.09'My book of the year. Extraordinary' The Times A new history of counterculture...