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Katherine Howard: Henry VIII's Slandered Queen by Conor Byrne 9780750990608
RRP: £18.99£15.65Over the years Katherine Howard, Henry VIII's fifth wife, has been slandered as a 'juvenile delinquent', 'empty-headed wanton' and 'natural born tart', who engaged in promiscuous liaisons prior to her marriage and committed adultery after. Though she was... -
The Pankhursts: The History of One Radical Family by Martin Pugh 9780099520436 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.65The suffragettes outraged Victorian society but their personal lives were just as dramatic as their public actions. In this gripping and incisive account of the Pankhursts, Martin Pugh reveals the full story behind this unique family: Emmeline, the... -
Hypatia of Alexandria: Mathematician and Martyr by Michael Deakin
RRP: £25.00£18.96In the late fourth and early fifth centuries of our era, Hypatia of Alexandria was the world's greatest living mathematician and astronomer. A strikingly beautiful woman and a devoted celibate, she lived in a city as turbulent and troubled as Baghdad or... -
The Mint: Lawrence After Arabia by T E Lawrence
RRP: £12.99£9.79Lawrence's own account of his experience after the Arab Revolt - when he joined the RAF under a new name. In 1922, his dreams of an independent Arabia shattered, T.E. Lawrence enlisted in the RAF under the assumed name John Hume Ross. Though... -
I Escaped from Auschwitz: The Shocking True Story of the World War II Hero Who Escaped the Nazis and Helped Save Over 200,000 Jews by Rudolf Vrba
RRP: £14.99£12.12The Stunning and Emotional Autobiography of an Auschwitz Survivor April 7, 1944-This date marks the successful escape of two Slovak prisoners from one of the most heavily-guarded and notorious concentration camps of Nazi Germany. The escapees, Rudolf... -
Muhammad by Maxime Rodinson
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681374925Author Maxime RodinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Boudica by Vanessa Collingridge
RRP: £16.99£12.28Boudica has been immortalised throughout history as the woman who dared take on the Romans - an act of vengeance on behalf of her daughters, tribe and enslaved country. Her known life is a rich tapestry of wife, widow, mother, queen and Celtic... -
Daughter Of Persia by Sattareh Farman-Farmaian 9780552139281 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29Sattareh Farman Farmaian, the daughter of a once-powerful and wealthy Iranian prince, was raised and educated in the 1920s and 1930s in a Persian harem compound, along with numerous mothers and more than 30 brothers and sisters. As a young woman, she... -
Daughter Of Persia by Sattareh Farman-Farmaian
RRP: £12.99£9.09Sattareh Farman Farmaian, the daughter of a once-powerful and wealthy Iranian prince, was raised and educated in the 1920s and 1930s in a Persian harem compound, along with numerous mothers and more than 30 brothers and sisters. As a young woman, she... -
The Queen: 1926–2022 by Andrew Morton
RRP: £10.99£7.47Following her death in September 2022, the outpouring of affection and admiration for the Queen was as touching as it was remarkable. She had been a matriarch to the nation for over seven decades, and tens of millions of people - in Britain and across... -
Titanic: A Survivor's Story by Archibald Gracie
RRP: £9.99£7.55Here is a survivor's vivid account of the greatest maritime disaster in history. The information contained in Gracie's account is available from no other source. He provides details of those final moments, including names of passengers pulled from the... -
Stalin and His Hangmen: An Authoritative Portrait of a Tyrant and Those Who Served Him by Donald Rayfield
RRP: £17.99£12.95Stalin, like Hitler and other tyrants, won and held power because he had collaborators - hangmen. Drawing on newly released archival material, Donald Rayfield gives us a fuller and more colourful picture of Stalin's inner circle than ever before. Stalin... -
The Rebel Suffragette: The Life of Edith Rigby by Beverley Adams
RRP: £19.99£14.28The suffragette movement swept the country in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Led by the Pankhurst's, the focus of the movement was in London with demonstrations and rallies taking place across the capital. But this was a nationwide movement with... -
American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant by Ronald C White
RRP: £19.99£14.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812981254Author Ronald C. White, Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 864Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Titanic: 'Iceberg Ahead': The Story of the Disaster By Some of those Who Were There by James W Bancroft
RRP: £14.99£10.95To have sailed on the voyage of the century' aboard White Star Line's RMS Titanic - described at the time as a floating palace' - was like being one of the first passengers to fly on Concorde. On 10 April 1912, people from all walks of life began... -
Adventuress: The Life and Loves of Lucy, Lady Houston by Teresa Crompton
RRP: £20.00£15.44In the 1930s Lucy, Lady Houston was one of the richest women in England and a household name, notorious for her virulent criticisms of the government. But politics had been far from her mind when, as young Fanny Radmall, she had set out to conquer the... -
From Churchill's War Rooms: Letters of a Secretary 1943-45 by Joanna Moody 9780752446080 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£1.92Published for the first time, this illuminating and poignant correspondence offers a rare insight into the workings of the Cabinet War Rooms towards the end of the Second World War, and documents the rich wartime experiences of a woman with exclusive... -
From Churchill's War Rooms: Letters of a Secretary 1943-45 by Joanna Moody
RRP: £10.99£8.25Published for the first time, this illuminating and poignant correspondence offers a rare insight into the workings of the Cabinet War Rooms towards the end of the Second World War, and documents the rich wartime experiences of a woman with exclusive... -
The King's Speech: How one man saved the British monarchy by Mark Logue
RRP: £10.99£7.40THE BESTSELLING BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE OSCAR AND BAFTA AWARD-WINNING FILM One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - amazingly he was an almost unknown, and certainly unqualified, speech therapist called Lionel... -
The Angel and the Cad: Love, Loss and Scandal in Regency England by Geraldine Roberts
RRP: £10.99£7.93At the age of sixteen, Catherine Tylney Long became the wealthiest heiress in England, and the public found their 'angel'. Witty, wealthy and beautiful, Catherine was the most eligible of young ladies and was courted by royalty but, ignoring the warnings... -
Lansdowne: The Last Great Whig by Simon Kerry
RRP: £25.00£17.70A remarkable figure of British politics between the late Victorian and interwar years, Lord Lansdowne was among the last hereditary aristocrats to wield power by birth. Over the course of a distinguished fifty year career he served as Governor-General of... -
The Queen of Whale Cay: The Extraordinary Story of 'Joe' Carstairs, the Fastest Woman on Water by Kate Summerscale
RRP: £12.99£9.09_______________ 'A biography that sparkles with enthusiastic research and empathetic writing' - Sunday Times 'A small jewel of a biography' - The New Yorker 'A fascinating, hilarious and deliciously subversive book' - Literary Review ... -
Norfolk at War 1939 - 1945 by Stephen Browning 9781473856998
RRP: £14.99£11.35This year-on-year study of Norfolk at war is the first such for many years, which utilises material that has not been published in book form before or, sometimes, at all. In both the First and Second World War, Norfolk was pivotal, albeit for different... -
Hitler: Only the World Was Enough by Brendan Simms 9780141043302 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£8.11SHORTLISTED FOR THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE 2020A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019A revelatory new biography of Adolf Hitler from the acclaimed historian Brendan SimmsAdolf Hitler is one of the most studied men in history, and yet the most... -
Hitler: Only the World Was Enough by Brendan Simms
RRP: £16.99£12.28SHORTLISTED FOR THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE 2020A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019A revelatory new biography of Adolf Hitler from the acclaimed historian Brendan SimmsAdolf Hitler is one of the most studied men in history, and yet the most... -
The American Duchess: The Real Wallis Simpson by Anna Pasternak 9781501198458
RRP: £18.00£11.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501198458Author Anna PasternakFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm * 23mm -
Blood And Champagne: The Life And Times Of Robert Capa by Alex Kershaw 9780306813566
£14.28Robert Capa, one of the finest photojournalists and combat photographers of the twentieth century, covered every major conflict from the Spanish Civil War to the early conflict in Vietnam. Always close to the action, he created some of the most enduring... -
Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald by Jonathan Bate
RRP: £25.00£22.19A dazzling biography of two interwoven, tragic lives: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald. 'Highly engaging ... Go now, read this book' THE TIMES 'For awhile after you quit Keats,' Fitzgerald once wrote,... -
The Shoemaker and his Daughter by Conor O'Clery 9781784163112
RRP: £10.99£7.77WINNER OF THE 2020 MICHEL DEON PRIZE'O'Clery takes us into the hidden heart of Soviet Russia... An arresting and evocative story' Keggie Carew, author of Dadland'A tour de force ... Love, politics, murder, wars, and the fracturing of ties, personal and... -
The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill by Dominique Enright 9781843175650
RRP: £9.99£6.85Sir Winston Churchill remains a British hero, lauded for his oratorical skill. He wrote histories, biographies, memoirs, and even a novel, while his journalism, speeches and broadcasts run to millions of words. From 1940 he inspired and united the... -
Have You Been Good?: A Memoir by Vanessa Nicolson 9781783780785
RRP: £9.99£6.70Vanessa Nicolson is the granddaughter of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson. She was born to an illustrious name and an unhappy marriage. Her father, the art historian Ben Nicolson, was homosexual and his marriage to Vanessa's Italian mother fell... -
Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & 60s. Volume 2. Britain 1965 - 1970 by Ernest Tate
RRP: £13.00£12.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780902869608Author Ernest TateFormat PaperbackPage Count 422Imprint I.M.G.PublicationsPublisher Resistance Books -
Amazing Grace by Laura Knight-Jadczyk 9781897244814
RRP: £42.00£35.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897244814Author Laura Knight-JadczykFormat PaperbackPage Count 614Imprint Red Pill PressPublisher Red Pill PressWeight(grams) 807gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Etty Hillesum: Essential Writings by Annemarie S. Kidder
RRP: £13.99£11.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570758386Author Annemarie S. KidderFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Orbis Books (USA)Publisher Orbis Books (USA) -
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs 9780486419312
RRP: £3.99£2.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486419312Author Harriet JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Mother Of US All: A History of Queen Nanny, Leader of the Windward Jamaican Maroons by Carla Gottlieb
RRP: £18.95£12.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865435650Author Carla GottliebFormat PaperbackPage Count 119Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 216g -
The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran by Andrew Scott Cooper
£17.40In this remarkably human portrait of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Emperor of Iran, Andrew Scott Cooper examines the life of an infamously complex personality in a bold new light. The recent wave of instability in the Middle East has led Iranians and... -
Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova by Leo Damrosch
RRP: £25.00£21.32A fast-paced narrative about the world-famous libertine Giacomo Casanova, from celebrated biographer Leo Damrosch "Fully succeeds in communicating that 'vivid presentness,' that 'joyful eagerness' for life, which is what keeps us reading Casanova-and... -
Free At Last: Diaries 1991 - 2001 by Tony Benn 9780099415022 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99£2.29Tony Benn is the longest serving MP in the history of the Labour Party. He left Parliament in 2001, after more than half a century in the House of Commons, to devote more time to politics. This volume of his Diaries describes and comments, in a... -
The Red Prince: The Fall of a Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Europe by Timothy Snyder
£13.28Wilhelm von Habsburg wore the uniform of an Austrian officer, the court regalia of a Habsburg archduke, the simple suit of a Parisian exile, the decorations of the Order of the Golden Fleece and, every so often, a dress. He spoke the Italian of his...