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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. Bird 9780806113289
RRP: £10.95£7.72In 1872, Isabella Bird, daughter of a clergyman, set off alone to the Antipodes 'in search of health' and found she had embarked on a life of adventurous travel. In 1873, wearing Hawaiian riding dress, she rode her horse through the American Wild West, a... -
The Improbable Adventures of Miss Emily Soldene by Helen Batten
RRP: £16.99£12.47From humble beginnings as the daughter of a Clerkenwell milliner, Emily Soldene rose to become a leading lady of the London stage and a formidable impresario with her own opera company. The darling of London's theatreland, she later reinvented herself as... -
Jackie After O: One Remarkable Year When Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Defied Expectations and Rediscovered Her Dreams by Tina Cassidy 9780061994340
£12.15Former Boston Globe reporter Tina Cassidy delivers a remarkable account of one year in the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, America's favorite first lady and an international icon. 1975 was a year of monumental changes for Jackie: it was the year she... -
Fisher's Face by Jan Morris
RRP: £12.99£8.80Admiral of the Fleet Lord 'Jacky' Fisher (1841-1920) was one of the greatest naval reformers in history. He was also a colossal figure to contemporaries, both loved and loathed, a man of exceptional charm, presence and charisma. Since the late 1940s, Jan... -
Mary Queen of Scots and All That by Allan Burnett
£5.58Mary, Queen of Scots and All That is packed with historical facts about Scotland's headless heroine. Follow hot-blooded Mary's lifelong rivalry with her frosty cousin, Queen Elizabeth I of England - and discover why the Queen of Scots gets her head... -
The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery by Wendy Moore
RRP: £19.00£13.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767916530Author Wendy MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 209mm *... -
Famous Women by Giovanni Boccaccio
RRP: £29.95£24.43After the composition of the Decameron, and under the influence of Petrarch's humanism, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) devoted the last decades of his life to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is Famous Women, the first collection of... -
Neville Chamberlain by Graham Macklin 9781904950622
£9.23With the agreement at Munich in 1938 he effectively abandoned Czechoslovakia, but immediately accelerated Britain's rearmament programme and the following year declared that Britain would defend Poland. This commitment led, in September 1939, to the... -
The Loneliest Boy in the World by Gearoid Cheaist O Cathain
RRP: £11.99£10.01* `The Loneliest Boy in the World - he has only seagulls as playmates.' 1949 newspaper article * Gearoid Cheaist O Cathain had a unique childhood - he was the last child brought up on the Blasket Islands of Ireland's southwest coast. The nearest in age... -
Hitler's First War: Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War by Thomas Weber 9780199226382
RRP: £16.99£13.34Hitler claimed that his years as a soldier in the First World War were the most formative years of his life. However, for the six decades since his death in the ruins of Berlin, Hitler's time as a soldier on the Western Front has, remarkably, remained a... -
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro 9780394499734
RRP: £60.00£50.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394499734Author Robert A. CaroFormat HardbackPage Count 912Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 1378gDimensions(mm) 242mm *... -
Neville Chamberlain: The Passionate Radical by Walter Reid 9781780276748
RRP: £25.00£23.78Neville Chamberlain is remembered today as Hitler's credulous dupe, the man who proclaimed in September 1938 that the Munich agreement guaranteed 'peace in our time'. This is a magisterial reappraisal of Chamberlain and his legacy. It reveals the... -
Zachary Taylor by MR John S D Eisenhower 9780805082371
RRP: £30.00£17.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805082371Author MR John S D EisenhowerImprint Times BooksPublisher Times Books -
Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife by Francine Prose 9780061430800
RRP: £10.99£9.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061430800Author Francine ProseFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 199mm *... -
Black Man on the Titanic: The Story of Joseph Laroche by Serge Bile
RRP: £14.95£10.12#1 New Release in Caribbean & West Indies History - Discover the True Story Behind One of the Black Passengers on the TitanicAn Incredible Tragedy: Joseph Laroche was an anomaly among the passengers of the Titanic. He was exceptionally well-educated in a... -
William the Conqueror: The Bastard of Normandy by Peter Rex
RRP: £9.99£6.84Of Franco-Scandinavian descent through his father, Duke Robert 'the Magnificent', William the Conqueror is revealed as the brutal and violent product of his time, much given to outbursts of rage, capable of great cruelty, autocratic, avaricious and prone... -
The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The Story of the Enslaved Jamaican Who Became Samuel Johnson's Heir Michael Bundock 9780300260960
RRP: £11.99£10.41The story of the extraordinary relationship between Francis Barber, a former slave, and Samuel Johnson, England's most distinguished man of letters"A remarkable work of detection, a biography of a black Briton from the eighteenth century that brings to... -
A House For Spies: SIS Operations into Occupied France from a Sussex Farmhouse by Edward Wake-Walker 9781913518011
RRP: £14.99£13.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913518011Author Edward Wake-WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Sapere BooksPublisher Sapere BooksWeight(grams) 553gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Jane Haining: A Life of Love and Courage by Mary Miller 9781780275758
RRP: £14.99£14.95'Balances detailed research with powerful storytelling to create a well-written and heart-wrenching account' - Nicole Gemine, Press and Journal Jane Haining was undoubtedly one of Scotland's heroines. A farmer's daughter from Galloway in south-west... -
Jane Haining: A Life of Love and Courage by Mary Miller 9781780275758 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£12.89'Balances detailed research with powerful storytelling to create a well-written and heart-wrenching account' - Nicole Gemine, Press and Journal Jane Haining was undoubtedly one of Scotland's heroines. A farmer's daughter from Galloway in south-west... -
Of Fortunes and War: Clare Hollingworth, first of the female war correspondents by Patrick Garrett 9781473664814 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£3.01'The list of female war reporters is long and distinguished. But the great-grandmother of them all was Clare Hollingworth' Mail on Sunday 'She was a pioneer' Kate Adie OBE'Unputdownable' Alexander McCall Smith'One of the most unforgettable journalists... -
Of Fortunes and War: Clare Hollingworth, first of the female war correspondents Patrick Garrett 9781473664814
RRP: £12.99£8.83'The list of female war reporters is long and distinguished. But the great-grandmother of them all was Clare Hollingworth' Mail on Sunday 'She was a pioneer' Kate Adie OBE'Unputdownable' Alexander McCall Smith'One of the most unforgettable journalists... -
Richard III: From Contemporary Chronicles, Letters and Records by Keith Dockray 9781781553138
RRP: £14.99£11.55No English king has suffered wider fluctuations of reputation than Richard III, perhaps the most controversial ruler England has ever had. Vilified by critics as a ruthless master of intrigue and a callous murderer, he has been no less extravagantly... -
Long Live the King: The Mysterious Fate of Edward II by Kathryn Warner
RRP: £12.99£9.87Edward II's murder at Berkeley Castle in 1327 is one of the most famous and lurid tales in all of English history. But is it true? For over five centuries, few people questioned it, but with the discovery in a Montpellier archive of a remarkable... -
The Cabin in the Mountains: A Norwegian Odyssey by Robert Ferguson 9781789544671
RRP: £9.99£7.32The wooden holiday cabin, or hytte, is a staple of Norwegian life. Robert Ferguson, author of Scandinavians, explores the significance of a national icon in this charming, affectionate history. Turf-roofed and wooden-built, offering fresh air,... -
Queen Margaret of Scotland by Eileen Dunlop
RRP: £8.99£7.62Queen Margaret died in 1093 and was canonised in 1250. Until a generation ago, every Scots child was taught a pallid and uncontentious version of her life, drawn from the hagiography written not long after her death. Even twentieth-century biographies... -
Among the Reeds: The true story of how a family survived the Holocaust by Tammy Bottner 9789492371287
RRP: £17.95£12.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Readers Choice Awards contest by TCK Publishing! 2018 (United States).Book InformationISBN 9789492371287Author Tammy BottnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint... -
The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War by Nicholas Thompson 9780312658861
RRP: £28.00£19.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312658861Author Nicholas ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm *... -
Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens by Jane Dunn
RRP: £16.99£11.47This is the first biography of the fateful relationship between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. It was the defining relationship of their lives, and marked the intersection of the great Tudor and Stuart dynasties, a landmark event in British history... -
George II: King and Elector by Andrew C. Thompson
RRP: £19.99£17.37Despite a long and eventful reign, Britain's George II is a largely forgotten monarch, his achievements overlooked and his abilities misunderstood. This landmark biography uncovers extensive new evidence in British and German archives, making possible... -
It's Easier to Reach Heaven Than the End of the Street: A Jerusalem Memoir by Emma Williams
RRP: £15.99£11.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566567893Author Emma WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint Olive Branch PressPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc -
Cornelius Vanderbilt - The Commodore: Insight and Analysis Into the Life and Success of America's First Tycoon by J R MacGregor 9781950010356
RRP: £19.95£12.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950010356Author J R MacGregorFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Cac Publishing LLCPublisher Cac Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Titanic Survivor by Violet Jessop 9781574093155
RRP: £13.99£11.00Violet Jessop's life is an inspiring story of survival. Born in 1887 in Argentina, the eldest child of Irish immigrants, at the age of 21 she became the breadwinner for her widowed mother and five siblings when she commenced a career as a stewardess and... -
Agricola by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: £24.95£23.76The paramount historian of the early Roman empire. Tacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in AD 55, 56 or 57 and lived to about 120. He became an orator, married in 77 a daughter of Julius Agricola before Agricola went to Britain, was... -
The Green & White House: Ireland and the US Presidents by Lynne Kelleher 9781785304248
RRP: £9.99£7.32'Fascinating' - Eamon Dunphy'Meticulously researched' - Sunday Independent'A wonderful account of the special relationships between Ireland and the USA' Bertie AhernThe links between Ireland and US presidents extend much further and deeper than JFK: from... -
Thompson, His Life and Locomotives by Tim Hillier-Graves 9781526731166
£25.29Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Douglas Home by David Dutton
RRP: £12.99£9.23Douglas-Home had a complex career between the two Houses of Parliament, disclaiming his peerage to become Prime Minister. His term in office was short elected in 1963 he lost the election of 1964.Book InformationISBN 9781904950677Author David... -
Memoirs of the Second World War by Winston Churchill
£21.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395599686Author Winston ChurchillFormat PaperbackPage Count 1088Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 1164g -
Alfred: Queen Victoria's Second Son by John Van der Kiste 9781781553190
RRP: £14.99£11.11Prince Alfred, who was created Duke of Edinburgh in 1866 and became Duke of Saxe-Coburg Gotha in 1893, was the second son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. A patron of the arts, pioneer philatelist and amateur violinist, he joined the Royal Navy as a... -
Attack on the Scheldt: The Struggle for Antwerp 1944 by Graham A Thomas 9781526781482
RRP: £14.99£11.11During the Allied advance across northwest Europe in 1944, the opening up of the key port of Antwerp was a pivotal event, yet it has been neglected in histories of the conflict. The battles in Normandy and on the German frontier have been studied often...