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Thomas Aquinas: A Portrait by Denys Turner
RRP: £14.99£13.03An illuminating introduction to the elusive Thomas Aquinas-the man and the saint"A marvellous introduction to the thought of the most daring and most important thinker of the Christian Middle Ages. . . . The best single-volume introduction to St. Thomas... -
Citizen of London: Richard Whittington-The Boy Who Would Be Mayor by Michael McCarthy
RRP: £25.00£22.78A 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,... -
Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman Hannah Arendt 9781681375892
RRP: £16.99£11.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681375892Author Hannah ArendtFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
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... -
Bomb Girls - Britain's Secret Army: The Munitions Women of World War II by Jacky Hyams 9781789462050 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£2.13They were the unsung heroines of World War II; the wives and mothers and teenage girls who clocked in daily to work in vast munitions factories, helping to make explosives, bullets, shells, bombs and war machines that would ensure victory. It was... -
Bomb Girls - Britain's Secret Army: The Munitions Women of World War II by Jacky Hyams
RRP: £8.99£6.42They were the unsung heroines of World War II; the wives and mothers and teenage girls who clocked in daily to work in vast munitions factories, helping to make explosives, bullets, shells, bombs and war machines that would ensure victory. It was... -
Anne Neville: Richard III's Tragic Queen by Amy Licence
RRP: £10.99£7.33Shakespeare'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... -
The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life's Work at 72 Molly Peacock 9781608196975
RRP: £14.99£11.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608196975Author Molly PeacockFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Bloomsbury PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams) 625g -
Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction by Harvey C. Mansfield 9780195175394
RRP: £8.99£6.65No one has ever described American democracy with more accurate insight or more profoundly than Alexis de Tocqueville. After meeting with Americans on extensive travels in the United States, and intense study of documents and authorities, he authored the... -
Godfather of the Kremlin: Boris Berezovsky and the Looting of Russia by Paul Klebnikov 9780156013307
RRP: £18.99£14.43Chronicles the life of the head of one of Moscow's gangster families, who financed the reelection of Boris Yeltsin and became one of his key advisors.Book InformationISBN 9780156013307Author Paul KlebnikovFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Wadsworth... -
Conspiracy, Calamity and Cover-up: The Truth Behind the Hess Flight to Scotland, May 10th 1941 by John Harris
RRP: £35.00£24.18The Hess affair requires an understanding of a variety of disciplines and practices: Wartime aviation, political history and human psychology to name but three. Harris and Wilbourn have over an extended period tried to learn as much as possible about all... -
Somewhere Out There: My Animated Life Don Bluth 9781637740538
RRP: £17.99£13.15After more than five decades in Hollywood, Don Bluth, the man behind some of the most iconic animated films ever made, tells his story.Don Bluth never felt like a Donald. So people have always called him Don. A matinee of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs... -
Mrs Jordan's Profession: The Story of a Great Actress and a Future King by Claire Tomalin
RRP: £22.99£16.28Mrs Jordan's Profession is the acclaimed biography of Dora Jordan by bestselling author Claire Tomalin'Intelligent, finely made and wonderfully readable. As gripping as the best fiction' Independent on Sunday Acclaimed as the greatest comic actress of... -
The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de' Medici by Catherine Fletcher
RRP: £12.99£9.34'A spectacular, elegant, brilliant portrait of skulduggery, murder and sex in Renaissance Florence' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard, Books of the Year 1531 - after years of brutal war and political intrigue, the bastard son of a Medici Duke and... -
Have You Been Good?: A Memoir by Vanessa Nicolson 9781783780785
RRP: £9.99£6.90Vanessa 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... -
Thomas MacDonagh: 16Lives by Shane Kenna
RRP: £15.99£12.57Born 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... -
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 -
Henry I by C. Warren Hollister
RRP: £25.00£21.32Henry I, son of William the Conqueror, ruled from 1100 to 1135, a time of fundamental change in the Anglo-Norman world. This long-awaited biography, written by one of the most distinguished medievalists of his generation, offers a major reassessment of... -
Alastair Sim: The Real Belle of St Trinian's by Simpson Mark
RRP: £12.99£9.87Alastair Sim was an enigmatic character both on and off the screen. His idiosyncratic style of acting in films such as The Belles of St Trinian's endeared him to a cinema-going audience desperate to escape the day-to-day dreariness of an invasive,... -
Elizabeth I by Anne Somerset
RRP: £14.99£11.11An acclaimed biography of Elizabeth I and an examination of the politics and intrigues of her Tudor court.Elizabeth I ruled England in defiance of convention, exercising supreme authority in a man's world. With courage, brilliance and style, she reigned... -
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs 9780486419312
RRP: £3.99£3.01Apologies 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 -
Mary Seacole: The Charismatic Black Nurse Who Became a Heroine of the Crimea Jane Robinson 9781845294977
£10.63The '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... -
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 Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton: A 19th Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women Lady Antonia Fraser 9781474610933
RRP: £10.99£7.61'Before biography was fashionable, Antonia Fraser made the past popular' Guardian'As a pure storyteller, Antonia Fraser has few equals' Sunday TimesCAROLINE NORTON, a nineteenth-century heroine who wanted justice for women.Poet, pamphleteer and artist's... -
Cecily Neville: Mother of Richard III by John Ashdown-Hill 9781526706324
RRP: £25.00£17.90Wife to Richard, Duke of York, mother to Edward IV and Richard III, and aunt to the famous 'Kingmaker', Richard, Earl of Warwick, Cecily Neville was a key player on the political stage of fifteenth-century Britain England. Mythologically rumoured to... -
Kissinger: A Biography by Walter Isaacson 9780743286978
RRP: £25.00£17.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743286978Author Walter IsaacsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 896Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 1089gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
The Polymath: A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag by Peter Burke
RRP: £11.99£10.41From Leonardo Da Vinci to Oliver Sacks: the first history of the western polymath, from the Renaissance to the present"An absorbing group portrait and intellectual history."-Kirkus Reviews"An admirable mixture of industry and erudition."-Robert Wilson,... -
Lenin and Gorky: Letters - Reminiscences - Articles by Vladimir I Lenin 9781410204080
RRP: £20.50£16.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410204080Author Vladimir I LeninFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the... -
Jane Seymour: Henry VIII's True Love by Elizabeth Norton 9781848685277
RRP: £11.99£8.09The first ever biography of Jane Seymour, Henry VIII's third wife, who died in childbirth giving the king what he craved most - a son and heir. Jane Seymour is often portrayed as meek and mild and as the most successful, but one of the least significant,... -
William Adams: His Life and Locomotives: A Life in Engineering 1823-1904 by John Woodhams 9781399071963
RRP: £25.00£17.90Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Lorenz: Breaking Hitler's Top Secret Code at Bletchley Park by Jerry Roberts
RRP: £12.99£9.87The breaking of the Enigma machine is one of the most heroic stories of the Second World War. But there was another German cipher machine, used by Hitler himself to convey messages to his top generals in the field. A machine more complex and secure than... -
John Wesley: A Biography by Stephen Tomkins 9780745950785
RRP: £8.99£8.16This biography tells the story of John Wesley's colourful and dramatic life, beginning with his childhood and his family background, looking especially at the influence of his powerful and austere mother, Susannah. The author then goes on to examine... -
Sheila: The Australian ingenue who bewitched British society by Robert Wainwright 9781743319444 [USED COPY]
RRP: £13.99£2.86Vivacious, confident and striking, young Australian Sheila Chisholm met her first husband, Lord Loughborough, in Egypt during the First World War. Arriving in London as a young married woman, she quickly conquered English society, and would spend the... -
Sheila: The Australian ingenue who bewitched British society Robert Wainwright 9781743319444
RRP: £13.99£10.01Vivacious, confident and striking, young Australian Sheila Chisholm met her first husband, Lord Loughborough, in Egypt during the First World War. Arriving in London as a young married woman, she quickly conquered English society, and would spend the... -
Around the World in Eighty Days (Collins Classics) by Jules Verne
RRP: £6.99£5.36HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Phileas Fogg was one of those mathematically exact people, who, never hurried and always ready, are economical of their steps and their motions. He... -
The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II by Ian Buruma
RRP: £20.00£14.69'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... -
Churchill's Few: The Battle of Britain by John Willis
RRP: £25.00£17.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912914050Author John WillisFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Mensch PublishingPublisher Mensch PublishingWeight(grams) 532g -
Mao: The Man Who Made China by Philip Short 9781350376724
RRP: £18.99£14.81One of the great figures of the twentieth century, Chairman Mao looms irrepressibly over the economic rise of China. Mao Zedong was the leader of a revolution, a communist who lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, an aggressive and distrustful... -
These Wonderful Rumours!: A Young Schoolteacher's Wartime Diaries 1939-1945 May Smith 9781844088119
RRP: £12.99£8.83May Smith is twenty-four at the outbreak of World War Two; at night, the sirens wail, and the young men of the village leave to fight. But still, ordinary life goes on: May goes shopping, plays tennis, takes holidays and even falls in love - while...