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Daily Rituals Women at Work: How Great Women Make Time, Find Inspiration, and Get to Work by Mason Currey
RRP: £12.99£9.26'That word, "vacation," makes me sweat.' Coco Chanel on taking a break'You must do it irregardless, or it will eat its way out of you.' Zora Neale Hurston on writing'One has to choose between the Life and the Project.' Susan Sontag on choosing artFrom... -
Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature by Elizabeth Winkler
RRP: £20.00£13.26A thrillingly provocative investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy...and who the Bard might really be. The theory that Shakespeare may not have... -
Nine Lives: My Time As MI6's Top Spy Inside al-Qaeda by Aimen Dean
RRP: £10.99£7.77As one of al-Qaeda's most respected bomb-makers, Aimen Dean rubbed shoulders with the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and swore allegiance to Osama bin Laden. As a double agent at the heart of al-Qaeda's chemical weapons programme, he foiled attacks on... -
Lorenz: Breaking Hitler's Top Secret Code at Bletchley Park by Jerry Roberts
RRP: £12.99£9.62The 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... -
Elizabeth of York: The First Tudor Queen by Alison Weir 9780099546474 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.41'Weir perfectly combines the dramatic colour and timing of an historical novelist with the truth to fact of a scrupulous historian' The TimesBritain's foremost female historian reveals the true story of this key figure in the Wars of the Roses and the... -
Elizabeth of York: The First Tudor Queen by Alison Weir
RRP: £12.99£9.49'Weir perfectly combines the dramatic colour and timing of an historical novelist with the truth to fact of a scrupulous historian' The TimesBritain's foremost female historian reveals the true story of this key figure in the Wars of the Roses and the... -
Decision Points by George W. Bush
RRP: £16.99£12.28Decision Points is the extraordinary memoir of America's 43rd president. Shattering the conventions of political autobiography, George W. Bush offers a strikingly candid journey through the defining decisions of his life. In gripping, never-before-heard... -
Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint by Professor Peter Sarris 9781529365382
RRP: £30.00£19.80A SUNDAY TIMES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE AND EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR'A majestic, sparkling account of one of the most important rulers in history . . . this is modern history writing at its finest' Peter Frankopan'Superb and gripping. Epic... -
Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live by Lily Ebert 9781529073447
RRP: £10.99£7.51The Sunday Times top 10 bestsellerThe incredibly moving and powerful memoir of an Auschwitz survivor who made headlines around the world. With a foreword by King Charles III.'Unforgettable' - Daily MailWhen Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert was liberated in... -
The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin by Jonathan Phillips
RRP: £10.99£8.53'Superbly researched and enormously entertaining... One of the outstanding books of the year' The TimesAn epic story of empire-building and bloody conflict, this ground-breaking biography of one of history's most venerated military and religious heroes... -
The Travels by Marco Polo
RRP: £18.99£14.01A sparkling new translation of one of the greatest travel books ever written: Marco Polo's seminal account of his journeys in the east, in a collectible clothbound edition. Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271... -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
RRP: £7.99£5.79'I was born in Tuckahoe I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my... -
Kilvert's Diary by William Plomer
RRP: £10.99£7.77Few have written more beautifully about the British countryside than Francis Kilvert. A country clergyman born in 1840, Kilvert spent much of his time visiting parishioners, walking the lanes and fields of Herefordshire and writing in his diary. Full of... -
The Steel Bonnets by George MacDonald Fraser
RRP: £18.99£12.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorThe author of the famous 'Flashman Papers' and the 'Private McAuslan' stories, George MacDonald Fraser has worked on newspapers in Britain and Canada. In addition... -
Black Girl from Pyongyang: In Search of My Identity by Monica Macias 9780715655177
RRP: £10.99£7.38The extraordinary true story of a West African girl's upbringing in North Korea under the guardianship of President Kim Il Sung. In 1979, aged only seven, Monica Macias was sent from West Africa to the unfamiliar surroundings of North Korea by her... -
The Real James Herriot: The Authorized Biography by Jim Wight
RRP: £12.99£9.09Take a trip down memory lane and read about the life of Britain's most beloved vet, who charmed us all with his bestselling tales of veterinary life in Yorkshire.'A wonderful, glorious insight into the life of the man behind the books' 5***** Reader... -
The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram: A compelling story of courage and endurance in the Second World War by David M. Guss
RRP: £9.99£7.27A genuinely new Second World War story, The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram by David M. Guss is a riveting account of the wartime exploits of the Scotsman. It is a tale of courage in the face of extraordinary odds and a testament to one man's dogged... -
Churchill and the Islamic World: Orientalism, Empire and Diplomacy in the Middle East by Warren Dockter 9781788319249
RRP: £24.99£21.78Winston Churchill began his career as a junior officer and war correspondent in the North West borderlands of British India, and this experience was the beginning of his long relationship with the Islamic world. Overturning the widely-accepted consensus... -
The Great Stink of London by Stephen Halliday
RRP: £16.99£13.34'An extraordinary history' PETER ACKROYD, The Times'A lively account of (Bazalgette's) magnificent achievements. . . graphically illustrated' HERMIONE HOBHOUSE'Halliday is good on sanitary engineering and even better on cloaca, crud and putrefaction . . ... -
Boris Johnson: The Rise and Fall of a Troublemaker at Number 10 by Andrew Gimson 9781398502819
RRP: £12.99£8.18'Entertaining...essential...peppered with brilliant observations' Tim Shipman, Sunday Times Andrew Gimson, whose previous book Boris is the essential read on Johnson's earlier career, returns with a penetrating and entertaining new account of Boris... -
The Button Box: The Story of Women in the 20th Century Told Through the Clothes They Wore by Lynn Knight
RRP: £10.99£7.77A wooden box holds the buttons of three generations of women in Lynn Knight's family - each one with its own tale to tell...Tracing the story of women at home and in work, from the jet buttons of Victorian mourning, to the short skirts of the 1960s,... -
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture by Sudhir Hazareesingh
RRP: £10.99£7.77The definitive modern biography of the great slave leader, military genius and revolutionary hero Toussaint LouvertureThe Haitian Revolution began in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue with a slave revolt in August 1791, and culminated a dozen... -
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
£6.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345350688Author MALCOLM XFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group... -
Cunningham: The Greatest Admiral Since Nelson by John Winton 9781800553996
RRP: £19.99£17.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800553996Author John WintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Sapere BooksPublisher Sapere BooksWeight(grams) 885g -
The Story of My Life by Giacomo Casanova
RRP: £14.99£10.95Seducer, gambler, necromancer, swindler, swashbuckler, poet, self-made gentleman, bon vivant, Giacomo Casanova was not only the most notorious lover of the Western world, but a supreme story teller. He lived a life stranger than most fictions, and the... -
Inside The Third Reich by Albert Speer
RRP: £16.99£11.94The classic eye-witness account of Nazi Germany, by Hitler's Armaments Minister and right-hand man.'Inside the Third Reich is not only the most significant personal German account to come out of the war but the most revealing document on the Hitler... -
George VI (Penguin Monarchs): The Dutiful King by Philip Ziegler
RRP: £4.99£3.80The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackIf Ethelred was notoriously 'Unready' and Alfred 'Great', King George VI should bear the designation of 'George the Dutiful'. Throughout his life... -
The Life and Times of Mary Attenborough (1896-1961) by Richard Graves 9781914471148 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£9.24Mary's own story is here revealed and given value in its own right, not merely as 'the wife of ...' or 'the mother of ...'. This remarkable woman deserves her own place in history. Mary Clegg was a spirited young woman from a liberal, non-conformist... -
The Life and Times of Mary Attenborough (1896-1961) by Richard Graves
RRP: £12.99£9.10Mary's own story is here revealed and given value in its own right, not merely as 'the wife of ...' or 'the mother of ...'. This remarkable woman deserves her own place in history. Mary Clegg was a spirited young woman from a liberal, non-conformist... -
King of Kings: The Triumph and Tragedy of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia by Asfa-Wossen Asserate
RRP: £14.99£10.80Haile Selassie I, the last emperor of Ethiopia, was as brilliant as he was formidable. An early proponent of African unity and independence who claimed to be a descendant of King Solomon, he fought with the Allies against the Axis powers during World War... -
Joan, the Fair Maid of Kent - A Fourteenth-Century Princess and her World by Anthony Goodman
RRP: £30.00£25.25A new account of the life and turbulent times of Joan, the wife of the Black Prince and mother of Richard II. Anthony Goodman's brilliant yet accessible scholarship draws in the reader in the most entertaining and vibrant way. He was one of our... -
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump 9781471190131 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£4.65In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald's only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how... -
Do Let’s Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother by Gareth Russell 9780008542658
RRP: £10.99£7.25A Times Best Book on the Royal Family of the Year 2022 This is a biography of the Queen Mother with all the dull bits stripped out. When told that Lady Mountbatten was being buried... -
Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz by Shlomo Venezia 9780745643847
RRP: £12.99£8.60This is a unique, eye-witness account of everyday life right at the heart of the Nazi extermination machine. Slomo Venezia was born into a poor Jewish-Italian community living in Thessaloniki, Greece. At first, the occupying Italians protected his... -
Eastern Approaches by Fitzroy Maclean
RRP: £12.99£9.0970th Anniversary Edition with a New Foreword by Sunday Times Bestselling Author Simon Sebag Montefiore'A classic' Observer | 'A legend' Washington Post | 'The best book you will read this year' Colonel Tim CollinsPosted to Moscow as a young diplomat... -
The Past is Myself & The Road Ahead Omnibus: When I Was a German, 1934-1945 by Christabel Bielenberg
RRP: £18.99£13.61Brought together for the first time in one edition, both of Christabel Bielenberg's bestselling memoirs give an incredibly moving, emotionally charged and compelling insight into life in Nazi Germany during The Third Reich and during the aftermath of... -
Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X 9780141032726 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£3.51They called him the 'angriest black man in America' . . . Celebrated and vilified the world over for his courageous but bitter fight to gain for millions of black men and women the equality and respect denied them by their white neighbours, Malcolm X... -
Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
RRP: £12.99£9.09They called him the 'angriest black man in America' . . . Celebrated and vilified the world over for his courageous but bitter fight to gain for millions of black men and women the equality and respect denied them by their white neighbours, Malcolm X... -
Wedlock: How Georgian Britain's Worst Husband Met His Match by Wendy Moore
RRP: £12.99£8.60WEDLOCK is the remarkable story of the Countess of Strathmore and her marriage to Andrew Robinson Stoney. Mary Eleanor Bowes was one of Britain's richest young heiresses. She married the Count of Strathmore who died young, and pregnant with her lover's... -
Attila The Hun by John Man
RRP: £10.99£7.77The name Attila the Hun has become a byword for barbarism, savagery and violence. His is a truly household name, but what do we really know about the man himself, his position in history and the world in which he lived? This riveting biography reveals...