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Caligula: The Mad Emperor of Rome by Stephen Dando-Collins 9781684422869
RRP: £21.99£14.83Explore all of the murder, madness and mayhem in Ancient Rome during the reign of the mad emperor, Caligula. In this book about Rome's most infamous emperor, expert author, Stephen Dando-Collins' chronicles all the palace intrigues and murders... -
The Dukes of Burgundy - Charles the Bold, John the Fearless, Philip the Bold, Philip the Good - 4 vol by Richard Vaughan 9781843833970
RRP: £75.00£74.33Richard Vaughan's classic history of Burgundy under the four Valois dukes, now available as a specially-priced 4 volume set. First published nearly forty years ago, Richard Vaughan's masterly 4 volume set history of the Valois dukes of Burgundy has... -
Life and Letters by Etty Hillesum 9780805050875
£14.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805050875Author Etty HillesumFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams) 240g -
Journey of Crazy Horse, the by Joseph M Marshall
RRP: £19.00£11.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143036210Author Joseph M. MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 197mm *... -
A King's Ransom: The Life of Charles Theveneau De Morande, Blackmailer, Scandalmonger and Master-spy by Simon Burrows 9780826419897
£55.14If Charles Theveneau de Morande was a character in a novel, he would be considered the ultimate anti-hero. He has variously been described as 'the incarnation of an eighteenth-century rogue', 'a minor prince among blackmailers', and 'a man so cunning... -
Flying Freestyle: An RAF Fast Jet Pilot's Story by Squadron Leader Jerry Pook 9781399020558
RRP: £14.99£10.95During a twenty-five year flying career in the RAF, Jerry Pook has flown Hunter Fighter/Ground Attack aircraft in the Gulf, Harriers in West Germany, the supersonic Starfighter with the Dutch Air Force, the Harrier in Belize, Central America and the... -
Marie Curie: The Pioneer, The Nobel Laureate by Richard Gunderman
RRP: £20.00£13.75Marie Curie coined the term 'radioactivity', and it is to her and her husband, Pierre Curie, that we owe much of our current understanding of the very fabric of reality. Born in Warsaw, Marie was the fifth and youngest child of teachers. Her father... -
Franci's War by Franci Epstein
RRP: £14.99£10.95What are you willing to do to survive? What are you willing to endure if it means you might live?'Achingly moving, gives much-needed hope . . . Deserves the status both as a valuable historical source and as a stand-out memoir' Daily Express'A story that... -
Fighter Master Folland and the Gladiators by Derek N. James 9780752443973
RRP: £16.99£12.94Although Henry P. Folland never received the public acclaim accorded to the Spitfire and Hurricane's designers, more than 7,000 examples were built of the seventeen fighters he designed. His first biplane fighter, the Royal Aircraft Factory's S.E.5/5a,... -
Works: v. 1: The Life AND Against Apion by Flavius Josephus
RRP: £24.95£23.39Greco-Roman antiquity's premier Jewish historian.Josephus, soldier, statesman, historian, was a Jew born at Jerusalem about AD 37. A man of high descent, he early became learned in Jewish law and Greek literature and was a Pharisee. After pleading in... -
Queen Margaret of Scotland by Eileen Dunlop
RRP: £8.99£7.40Queen 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... -
Gandhi the Man: How One Man Changed Himself to Change the World by Eknath Easwaran
RRP: £14.99£9.88This is the moving story of a nonviolent hero, illustrated with more than 70 photographs, and told by a highly respected author who grew up in Gandhi's India. Gandhi's life continues to inspire and baffle readers today. How did an unsuccessful young... -
The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames: A Foundling's Story by Justine Cowan 9780349013190 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.43The true story of a foundling. 'Extraordinary ... A fascinating, moving book: part history of the Foundling Hospital and the development of child psychology, part Cowan's own story, and part that of Cowan's mother' LUCY SCHOLES, TELEGRAPH Growing up in a... -
The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames: A Foundling's Story by Justine Cowan
RRP: £10.99£7.40The true story of a foundling. 'Extraordinary ... A fascinating, moving book: part history of the Foundling Hospital and the development of child psychology, part Cowan's own story, and part that of Cowan's mother' LUCY SCHOLES, TELEGRAPH Growing up in a... -
The Last Knight Errant: Sir Edward Woodville and the Age of Chivalry by Christopher Wilkins
£29.07Sir Edward Woodville was the medieval knight par excellence - except that his life coincided with the beginning of the Renaissance. With this vivid and long-awaited biography, Christopher Wilkins demonstrates how Sir Edward carved out an important role... -
The Day Michael Collins Was Shot: 2022 by Meda Ryan 9781781997260
£14.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781997260Author Meda RyanFormat PaperbackImprint Poolbeg Press LtdPublisher Poolbeg Press Ltd -
Hitler's Piano Player: The Rise and Fall of Ernst Hanfstaengl - Confidant of Hitler, Ally of Roosevelt by Peter Conradi
RRP: £12.99£8.63Ernst Hanfstaengl was court jester, pianist, and foreign press chief for Hitler, he even claimed to have devised the chant of Sieg Heil, but when the two men fell out he fled to Britain, where he was interned and transferred to America. There he worked... -
Louis: The French Prince Who Invaded England by Catherine Hanley
RRP: £30.00£29.65In 1215 a group of English barons, dissatisfied with the weak and despicable King John, decided that they needed a new monarch. They wanted a strong, experienced man, of royal blood, and they found him on the other side of the Channel: Louis, eldest son... -
Strange Blooms: The Curious Lives and Adventures of the John Tradescants by Jennifer Potter
RRP: £14.99£9.80In seventeenth-century Britain, a new breed of 'curious' gardeners were pushing at the frontiers of knowledge and new plants were stealing into Europe from East and West. John Tradescant and his son were at the vanguard of this change - as gardeners, as... -
The Caesar of Paris: Napoleon Bonaparte, Rome, and the Artistic Obsession that Shaped an Empire by Susan Jaques 9781643134772
RRP: £19.95£13.53A monumental cultural history of Napoleon Bonaparte's fascination with antiquity and how it shaped Paris' artistic landscape.Napoleon is one of history's most fascinating figures. But his complex relationship with Rome-both with antiquity and his... -
Alfred Hitchcock by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £14.99£11.54Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition, his childhood was an isolated one, scented with fish from his father's shop. Afraid to leave his bedroom, he would plan great voyages, using railway timetables to plot an... -
My Life as a Whore: The Biography of Madam Laura Evens by Tracy Beach 9781555664626
RRP: £18.95£12.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555664626Author Tracy BeachFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Bower HousePublisher Bower House -
Jim Bridger: Mountain Man by Stanley Vestal 9780803257207
RRP: £15.99£11.38Even among the mighty mountain men, Jim Bridger was a towering figure. He was one of the greatest explorers and pathfinders in American history. He couldn't write his name, but at eighteen he had braved the fury of the Missouri, ascending it in a... -
Conversations with Isaac Newton: A Fictional Dialogue Based on Biographical Facts by Michael White
RRP: £9.99£6.80Isaac Newton's influence on our world is immense. He formulated the theory of gravity, devised a radical new theory of light and created a calculus that would revolutionize mathematics. His theory of matter in motion sparked the Industrial Revolution... -
Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah 9780582848887
£15.70What's the hook? A fascinating and moving autobiographical novel. What are the themes? Different cultures, families/generations, friendship, school life and the individual vs society. Teaching points? Excellent for multicultural work, as it is set... -
Historia Augusta: Volume III by David Magie
RRP: £24.95£23.39March of the emperors.The Historia Augusta is a biographical work roughly following the model of the imperial biographer Suetonius (LCL 31, 38) and covering the lives of the Roman emperors from Hadrian (r. 117-138) to Carinus (r. 283-285), with a ... -
Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
RRP: £19.95£16.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060530624Author John F. KennedyFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Joanna Cotler BooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
The Greatest Escape by Neil Churches
RRP: £20.00£14.69The gripping, vividly told story of the largest POW escape in the Second World War - organized by an Australian bank clerk, a British jazz pianist and an American spy.In August 1944 the most successful POW escape of the Second World War took place - 106... -
The Burning Of The World by Bela Zombory-Moldovan
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590178096Author Bela Zombory-MoldovanFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers by Ralph Moody 9780803281783
RRP: £12.99£11.77A most appealing book . . . Its genuineness and its simplicity will build up a large audience of enthusiastic readers.-San Francisco ChronicleRalph Moody was eight years old in 1906 when his family moved from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch. Through... -
Eileen: The Making of George Orwell by Sylvia Topp 9781783527083
RRP: £25.00£17.19This is the never-before-told story of George Orwell's first wife, Eileen, a woman who shaped, supported, and even saved the life of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. In 1934, Eileen O'Shaughnessy's futuristic poem, 'End of the Century,... -
Casanova by Ian Kelly
RRP: £12.99£8.60Giacomo Casanova was one of the most beguiling and controversial individuals of his or any age. Braggart or perfect lover? Conman or genius? He made and lost fortunes, founded state lotteries, wrote forty-two books and 3,600 pages of memoirs recording... -
A Song for Nagasaki: The Story of Takashi Nagai: Scientist, Convert, and Survivor of the Atomic Bomb by Fr Paul Glynn 9781586173432
RRP: £17.95£11.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586173432Author Fr Paul GlynnFormat PaperbackPage Count 267Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius PressWeight(grams) 295g -
Aethelred the Unready: The Ill-Counselled King by Ann Williams 9781852853822
RRP: £65.00£27.43Aethelred became king of England in 978, following the murder of his half-brother Edward the Martyr (possibly at the instigation of their mother) at Corfe. On his own death in April 1016, his son Edmund Ironside succeeded him and fought the invading... -
Julius Caesar by Philip Freeman 9780743289542
RRP: £20.00£13.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743289542Author Philip FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 218mm *... -
Adventures in Aviation by Wg Cdr Roy Gamblin AFC
RRP: £14.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784657987Author Wg Cdr Roy Gamblin AFCFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Vanguard PressPublisher Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers -
James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Age by James G. Hershberg 9780804726191
RRP: £49.00£47.37A Stanford University Press classic.Reviews"This splendid portrait of Conant . . . illuminates the life of a pivotal figure in the making of U.S. nuclear, scientific, educational, and foreign policy for almost half a century. But the book is much more:... -
Elizabeth I and Her Circle by Susan Doran 9780199574957
RRP: £28.99£21.72This is the story of Elizabeth I's inner circle and the crucial human relationships which lay at the heart of her personal and political life. Using a wide range of original sources - including private letters, portraits, verse, drama, and state papers -... -
How to Create the Perfect Wife: The True Story of One Gentleman, Two Orphans and an Experiment to Create the Ideal Woman by Wendy Moore
RRP: £10.99£7.40From the No.1 bestselling author of WEDLOCK. The Georgian scandal of one gentleman, two orphans and an experiment to create the ideal wife.This is the story of how Thomas Day, a young man of means, decided he could never marry a woman with brains, spirit... -
Richard III: A Ruler and his Reputation by David Horspool 9781472902993
RRP: £10.00£6.93Famously depicted as 'Crookback Dick', and as Shakespeare's 'bunch-back'd toad', the murderer of the Princes in the Tower and the warrior vanquished at the Battle of Bosworth Field, Richard III is one of England's most enigmatic monarchs. Now, with the...