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Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle that Set them Free by Hector Tobar 9781444755411 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£1.92NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JULIETTE BINOCHE AND ANTONIO BANDERASTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST'Riveting ...The best book I've read all year.' Ann Patchett'An astonishing tale of... -
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle that Set them Free Hector Tobar 9781444755411
RRP: £9.99£7.00NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JULIETTE BINOCHE AND ANTONIO BANDERASTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST'Riveting ...The best book I've read all year.' Ann Patchett'An astonishing tale of... -
Strange Blooms: The Curious Lives and Adventures of the John Tradescants by Jennifer Potter
RRP: £14.99£10.06In 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... -
Into the Lion's Mouth: The True Story of Dusko Popov: World War II Spy, Patriot, and the Real-Life Inspiration for James Bond by Larry Loftis 9780593473979
RRP: £19.99£13.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593473979Author Larry LoftisFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin Young ReadersPublisher Penguin Young ReadersWeight(grams) 152g -
Titanic Valour: The Life of Fifth Officer Harold Lowe by Inger Sheil 9780752469966
RRP: £9.99£7.77Harold Lowe, Fifth Officer of RMS Titanic, was described by another survivor as 'the real hero of the Titanic.' After taking an active role in the evacuation, Lowe took command of a raft of lifeboats, distributing passengers among them so he could return... -
Owain Glyndwr by Glanmor Williams 9780708319413
RRP: £2.99£2.83Offers a brief, attractively written account of Owain Glyndwr (1359-1415) and his Rebellion (1400-1415), one of the most exciting and romantic episodes in the history of Wales.About the AuthorSir Glanmor Williams was the author of many books and articles... -
Finding Poland by Matthew Kelly 9780099515999 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.65Following the partitioning of Poland by Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939, Matthew Kelly's great grandmother and her two daughters were deported to the East. Thus began an extraordinary ordeal that took them, and many thousands like them, on a journey... -
Finding Poland by Matthew Kelly
RRP: £16.99£12.28Following the partitioning of Poland by Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939, Matthew Kelly's great grandmother and her two daughters were deported to the East. Thus began an extraordinary ordeal that took them, and many thousands like them, on a journey... -
Imprisoning Mary Queen of Scots: The Men Who Kept the Stuart Queen by Mayhew, Mickey 9781399010993
RRP: £20.00£14.51Imprisoning Mary Queen of Scots covers the lives and careers of the men and women who kept' Mary Queen of Scots when she was a political prisoner in England, circa 1568/9-1587. Mary's troubled claim to the English throne - much to the consternation of... -
Jesus: A Biography from a Believer by Paul Johnson
RRP: £21.99£13.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143118770Author Paul JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 218g -
Zamenhof, Autoro de Esperanto by Marjorie Boulton 9780902756373
RRP: £14.00£13.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780902756373Author Marjorie BoultonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Esperanto-Asocio de BritioPublisher Esperanto-Asocio de BritioWeight(grams)... -
Blood and Fire: William and Catherine Booth and the Salvation Army by Roy Hattersley 9780349112817
RRP: £15.99£15.94An uneducated youth, William Booth left home in 1849 at the age of twenty to preach the gospel for the New Methodist Connexion. Six years later he founded a new religious movement which succeeded to such a degree that the Salvation Army (which it became)... -
The Long Song of Tchaikovsky Street: a Russian adventure Pieter Waterdrinker 9781912854073
RRP: £18.99£17.44'History doesn't repeat itself, it rhymes.' One day in 1988, an enigmatic priest knocks on Pieter Waterdrinker's door with an unusual request: will he smuggle seven thousand bibles into the Soviet Union? Pieter agrees, and soon finds himself living in... -
Doggy People: The Victorians Who Made the Modern Dog by Michael Worboys
RRP: £20.00£14.53We know that there were dogs in Victorian Britain, but who were the 'Doggy People' who kept them, bred them, showed them, worked with them and cared for them?Chapter by chapter, this book reveals the varied and often eccentric lives of the Victorians who... -
Up to Mametz...and Beyond by Llewelyn Wyn Griffith 9781526700551
RRP: £14.99£11.11Llewelyn Wyn Griffiths Up to Mametz, published in 1931, is now firmly established as one of the finest accounts of soldiering on the Western Front. It tells the story of the creation of a famous Welsh wartime battalion (The Royal Welsh Fusiliers), its... -
The Other Mitford: Pamela's Story by Diana Alexander
RRP: £9.99£7.77Pamela Jackson, nee Mitford, is perhaps the least well known of the illustrious Mitford sisters, and yet her story is just as captivating, and more revealing. Despite shunning the bright city lights that her sisters so desperately craved, she was very... -
Catherine the Great: Life and Legend by John T. Alexander 9780195052367 [USED COPY]
RRP: £45.49£2.29John Alexander has provided the first popular biography of one of the most powerful, infamous, and colourful figures in modern history. Empress of the vast Russian Empire by the age of 33, Catherine's private and public life generated tremendous... -
Catherine the Great: Life and Legend by John T. Alexander 9780195052367
£47.16John Alexander has provided the first popular biography of one of the most powerful, infamous, and colourful figures in modern history. Empress of the vast Russian Empire by the age of 33, Catherine's private and public life generated tremendous... -
James Buchanan: The American Presidents Series: The 15th President, 1857-1861 by Professor of History Jean H Baker 9780805069464
RRP: £30.00£18.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805069464Author Jean H. BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press -
Penguin Diplomacy: Brian Roberts, polar explorer, treaty maker and conservationist by June Roberts
RRP: £21.50£14.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861519634Author June RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 484Imprint Mereo BooksPublisher Mereo Books -
Our Man Down in Havana: The Story Behind Graham Greene's Cold War Spy Novel by Christopher Hull
RRP: £20.00£13.46When U.S. immigration authorities deported Graham Greene from Puerto Rico in 1954, the British author made an unplanned visit to Havana and discovered that "every vice was permissible and every trade possible" in a Caribbean fleshpot of mafia-run casinos... -
The Stuarts by John Miller 9781852855451
£28.75When James VI of Scotland succeeded Elizabeth as James I on the throne of England in 1603, the Stuarts became the first dynasty to rule Britain as a whole. The problems that James and his successors encountered in reconciling their kingdoms led to... -
More Time for Politics: Diaries 2001-2007 by Tony Benn 9780099517054 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.29When Tony Benn left Parliament after 51 years he quoted his wife Caroline's remark that now he would have 'more time for politics'. And so this has proved: in the first seven years of this century he has helped reinvigorate national debate through public... -
Great Escapes of the First World War by Rachel Bilton 9781473887732
RRP: £19.99£14.50Just how far would you go to escape? Would you bury yourself under the floor? Would you board a boat with a rotten bottom? Would you tunnel underground? Contained within this book are the daring true stories of fifteen soldiers and their escapes from... -
Con Colbert: 16Lives by John O'Callaghan
RRP: £15.99£12.57Con Colbert was one of the lesser-known leaders of the 1916 Rising. From a comfortable background in Newcastlewest, County Limerick, he moved to Dublin aged fifteen and worked as a junior clerk in a bakery. Already politically radicalised, he became... -
The Greatest Escape by Neil Churches
RRP: £20.00£14.91The 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 Sacred Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family by Mai Elliott
RRP: £18.49£14.37A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Duong Van Mai Elliott's The Sacred Willow illuminates recent Vietnamese history by weaving together the stories of the lives of four generations of her family. Beginning with her great-grandfather, who rose from rural... -
Queen Victoria: A Personal History by Christopher Hibbert
RRP: £14.99£9.96Christopher Hibbert's acclaimed biography of Queen Victoria is as impressive and authoritative as the great woman herself. In 1837 an eighteen-year-old girl, raised by a German mother, inherited the throne of the United Kingdom. She was to... -
The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue by Mark Logue 9780857381101 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.09One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the 1930s... -
B. R. Ambedkar: The Man Who Gave Hope to India's Dispossessed by Shashi Tharoor 9781526173584
RRP: £16.99£12.48A household name throughout India, B. R. Ambedkar is one of the country's most important figures, second only to Mahatma Gandhi. He played a major role in drafting the constitution for a newly independent India and led the fight against caste-based... -
Dictator Literature: A History of Bad Books by Terrible People by Daniel Kalder
RRP: £10.99£7.99A Book of the Year for The Times and the Sunday Times 'The writer is the engineer of the human soul,' claimed Stalin. Although one wonders how many found nourishment in Turkmenbashi's Book of the Soul (once required reading for driving tests in... -
Queen Victoria: Gender and Empire by Susan Kingsley Kent
RRP: £31.99£13.80Part of The World in A Life series, this brief, inexpensive text provides insight into the life of Queen Victoria. As one of the longest reigning monarchs in British history, Queen Victoria gave her name to an age filled with enormous possibilities and... -
Missing: The Need for Closure after the Great War by Richard van Emden 9781526761002
RRP: £14.99£11.51In May 1918, Angela and Leopold Mond received a knock on the front door. It was the postman and he was delivering the letter every family in the United Kingdom dreaded: the notification of a loved one's battlefield death, in their case the death in... -
Warwick the Kingmaker: Politics, Power and Fame by A.J. Pollard 9781847251824
RRP: £60.00£58.24Warwick the Kingmaker was a fifteenth-century celebrity; a military hero, self-publicist and populist. For twelve years, he was the arbiter of English politics, not hesitating to set up and put down kings. In the dominant strand of recent English... -
William Blackstone: Law and Letters in the Eighteenth Century by Wilfrid Prest 9780199652013
£43.13Lawyer, judge, politician, poet, teacher, and architect, William Blackstone was a major figure in eighteenth century public life. Over his varied and brilliant career he made profound contributions to English politics, law, education, and culture through... -
Margaret Thatcher Volume Two: The Iron Lady by John Campbell 9780099516774 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99£4.61The first volume of John Campbell's biography of Margaret Thatcher was described by Frank Johnson in the Daily Telegraph as 'much the best book yet written about Lady Thatcher'. That volume, The Grocer's Daughter, described Mrs Thatcher's childhood and... -
Dog Man: An Uncommon Life on a Faraway Mountain by Martha Sherrill
RRP: £24.00£16.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594483905Author Martha SherrillFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 256gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888-1938 by Stephen F. Cohen 9780195026979
£15.60This classic biography carefully traces Bukharin's rise to and fall from power, focusing particularly on the development of his theories and programmatic ideas during the critical period between Lenin's death in 1924 and the ascendancy of Stalin in 1929... -
Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered by Ruth Kluger
£16.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558614369Author Ruth KlugerFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Feminist PressPublisher Feminist PressWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 140mm *... -
Belle: The True Story of Dido Belle by Paula Byrne
RRP: £12.99£9.35The inspiration behind the powerful new film starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson and Emily Watson, this is the story of Dido Belle, whose adoption by an aristocratic family challenged the conventions of 18th century England. In one of the...