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The Highland Lady In Ireland: Journals 1840-50 by Elizabeth Grant
RRP: €19.04€13.04'They have made an Irishwoman of you now, and may they know the value of the daughter they adopted into their country.' Elizabeth Grant's sisterThe early life of Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus, so memorably recorded in her Memoirs of a Highland Lady... -
The Forgotten Tudor Royal: Margaret Douglas, Grandmother to King James VI & I by Beverley Adams 9781399085908
RRP: €26.18€18.59As the daughter and cousin of queens and the granddaughter and niece of kings, Lady Margaret Douglas was an integral part of the Tudor royal dynasty. A favourite of her uncle King Henry VIII and a close friend of Queen Mary I she courted scandal which... -
Autobiography of an Ex-White Man - Learning a New Master Narrative for America by Robert Paul Wolff
RRP: €29.74€24.87An intensely personal meditation on the nature of America by a White Philosopher who joined a Black Studies Department and found his understanding of the world transformed by the experience. Autobiography of an Ex-White Man is an intensely personal... -
Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave by William L. Andrews 9780195343328
RRP: €26.76€19.25Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave is the first fugitive slave narrative in American history. When it appeared in New York in 1825, it was the longest African American autobiography published up to that time. Because Grimes wrote and published his... -
Gertruda's Oath by Ram Oren 9780385527194 [USED COPY]
RRP: €19.03€2.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385527194Author Ram OrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Image BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
Gertruda's Oath by Ram Oren 9780385527194
RRP: €19.03€12.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385527194Author Ram OrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Image BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
Alfred: Queen Victoria's Second Son by John Van der Kiste 9781781553190
RRP: €17.84€13.03Prince 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... -
Stradivari's Genius: Five Violins, One Cello, and Three Centuries of Enduring Perfection by Toby Faber 9780375760853
RRP: €22.61€15.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375760853Author Toby FaberFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 230gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
The Empress Theodora: Partner of Justinian by James Allan Evans
RRP: €19.03€16.95Even by modern standards, the Empress Theodora (?-548) had a remarkable rise to power. Born into the lowest class of Byzantine society, she worked as an actress in burlesque theater. Yet she attracted the love of the future emperor Justinian, who, to the... -
Churchill: A Study in Greatness by Geoffrey Best 9781852852535 [USED COPY]
RRP: €77.35€3.15This work aims to make sense of the extraordinary man - whom many people feel they know well. His career, personal life and his role in Britain's survival during World War II, including her help in the defeat of Hitler, are investigated.About the... -
Churchill: A Study in Greatness by Geoffrey Best 9781852852535
€77.74This work aims to make sense of the extraordinary man - whom many people feel they know well. His career, personal life and his role in Britain's survival during World War II, including her help in the defeat of Hitler, are investigated.About the... -
Memories of Chinatown by Geraldene Lowe-Ismail 9789810958299
RRP: €10.70€9.62Memories of Chinatown is a Singapore classic and is now republished with a new visual interpretation by watercolour artist Graham Byfield. Both a memoir and a narrative guide to the vibrant spirit of a bygone Singapore, it is written by much loved... -
Wrestling With His Angel: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. II, 1849-1856 by Sidney Blumenthal 9781501153792
RRP: €23.80€15.60The "magisterial" (The New York Times Book Review) second volume of Sidney Blumenthal's acclaimed, landmark biography, The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, reveals the future president's genius during the most decisive period of his political life when... -
The Boxer and The Goal Keeper: Sartre Versus Camus by Andy Martin 9781847394255
RRP: €17.84€16.01Jean-Paul Sartre is the author of possibly the most notorious one-liner of twentieth-century philosophy: 'Hell is other people'. Albert Camus was The Outsider. The two men first came together in Occupied Paris in the middle of the Second World War, and... -
Immortal Longings: F.W.H. Myers and the Victorian Search for Life After Death by Trevor Hamilton 9781845402488
€21.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845402488Author Trevor HamiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 550gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
Old Man Goya by Julia Blackburn
RRP: €13.08€9.25In 1792, when he was forty-seven, the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya contracted a serious illness which left him stone deaf. In this extraordinary book Julia Blackburn follows Goya through the remaining thirty-five years of his life. It was a time of... -
Black Cat 2-1: The True Story of a Vietnam Helicopter Pilot and His Crew by Bob Ford 9781612548968
RRP: €18.29€14.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612548968Author Bob FordFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Brown Books Publishing GroupPublisher Brown Books Publishing GroupWeight(grams)... -
Margot Asquith's Great War Diary 1914-1916: The View from Downing Street by Michael Brock
RRP: €41.04€30.42Margot Asquith was the wife of Herbert Henry Asquith, the Liberal Prime Minister who led Britain into war in August 1914. Asquith's early war leadership drew praise from all quarters, but in December 1916 he was forced from office in a palace coup, and... -
Temptation & Downfall of the Vicar of Stanton Lacy by Peter Klein
RRP: €14.28€11.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873674710Author Peter KleinFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Merlin Unwin BooksPublisher Merlin Unwin BooksWeight(grams) 370g -
When The Hills Ask For Your Blood: A Personal Story of Genocide and Rwanda by David Belton
RRP: €15.46€10.82'Tremendous. A moving and haunting tribute to the human spirit' WILLIAM BOYDInto the heart of a genocide that left a million people dead6 April 1994: In the skies above Rwanda the president's plane is shot down in flames. Near Kigali, Jean-Pierre holds... -
Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography by Robert Irwin 9780691174662
RRP: €29.75€23.79The definitive account of the life and thought of the medieval Arab genius who wrote the MuqaddimaIbn Khaldun (1332-1406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in the Arab world--a genius who ranks as one of the world's... -
Lives of the Caesars: v. 2 by Suetonius
RRP: €29.69€27.83Antiquity's imperial biographer par excellence.Suetonius (C. Suetonius Tranquillus, born ca. AD 70), son of a military tribune, was at first an advocate and a teacher of rhetoric, but later became the emperor Hadrian's private secretary, 119-121. He... -
In Search of Amrit Kaur: An Indian Princess in Wartime Paris by Livia Manera Sambuy 9781784741204
RRP: €16.65€14.20'Remarkable and compelling. I loved this book' EDMUND DE WAAL'An exemplary sleuth, both astute and open-minded . . . Manera Sambuy writes with impassioned style and insight' TELEGRAPHA lost princess and a vanished world: a remarkable true story that... -
One Good Day: My Journey to the Good Friday Agreement by David Donoghue 9780717195572
RRP: €29.74€20.96When George Mitchell described his time helping broker peace in Northern Ireland, he said, 'We had 700 bad days - and then one good day, which changed the course of history.' One Good Day is the fascinating insider account of those negotiations... -
Peg Plunkett: Memoirs of a Whore by Julie Peakman
RRP: €15.46€10.23Of picking, washing and cleaning my pretty little toes, which he took great delight in, and in which pleasurable, innocent, and inoffensive pastime he as often spent hours; twas the greatest gratification to him on earth, nor did he (said she) indulge in... -
Rebel Saint, A PB: Baptist Wriothesley Noel, 1798-1873 by Philip Hill
€33.34Baptist Noel (1798-1873) has been described by the American Evangelical Anglican historian Grayson Carter as a towering figure in nineteenth-century Evangelicalism, but he has been written out of its story because he was a saintly rebel who counted a... -
Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian by James Grant 9780393609196
RRP: €28.55€24.41During the upheavals of 2007-9, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, had the name of a Victorian icon on the tip of his tongue: Walter Bagehot. Banker, man of letters, inventor of the Treasury bill and author of Lombard Street, Bagehot... -
The History of Zonaras: From Alexander Severus to the Death of Theodosius the Great by Thomas Banchich
RRP: €44.02€38.71While an exile from Constantinople, the twelfth-century Byzantine functionary and canonist John Zonaras culled earlier chronicles and histories to compose an account of events from creation to the reign of Alexius Comnenus. For topics where his sources... -
The Age of Uncertainty: how the greatest minds in physics changed the way we see the world by Tobias Hurter
RRP: €29.75€19.74The epic, page-turning history of how a group of physicists toppled the Newtonian universe in the early decades of the twentieth century. Marie Curie, Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schroedinger, and Albert Einstein didn't only... -
Bringing the House Down by David Profumo
RRP: €13.08€7.70David Profumo was just seven when his father, who had been Secretary of State for War, resigned from the Macmillan government. Despite the furore and humiliation that followed, his parents famously stayed together - and now, forty years on, their son has... -
Napoleon For Dummies by J. David Markham 9780764597985
RRP: €19.03€13.48Explains his influence on the military, law, politics, and religion Get the real story of Napoleon Bonaparte Not sure what's true about Napoleon? This easy-to-follow guide gets past the stereotypes and introduces you to this extraordinary man's... -
Thomas Cromwell: Servant to Henry VIII by David Loades
RRP: €11.89€7.90Thomas Cromwell was a self-made lawyer who served first Cardinal Wolsey and then Henry VIII. His time with Wolsey served him well in his work for the king after the cardinal's fall from power in 1529. Cromwell's time in office from 1530 until his... -
Her Little Majesty: The Life of Queen Victoria by Carolly Erickson 9780743236577
RRP: €24.93€17.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743236577Author Carolly EricksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm) 232mm *... -
Blair Inc.: The Money, The Power, The Scandals by David Hencke 9781784189983
€11.41Since leaving office in 2007, the empire of Tony Blair has grown exponentially. As a businessman he has been unprecedentedly successful for a former public servant, with a large property portfolio and an estimated GBP80 million of earnings accrued in... -
The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London 9780142437735
RRP: €16.10€12.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142437735Author Jack LondonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)... -
The Lives of Thomas Becket by Michael Staunton
RRP: €23.79€21.21This collection tells the story of Thomas Becket's turbulent life, violent death and extraordinary posthumous acclaim in the words of his contemporaries. The only modern collection from the twelfth-century Lives of Thomas Becket in English and features... -
Remembering Leningrad: The Story of a Generation by Mary McAuley 9780299322502
€58.70Englishwoman Mary McAuley first arrived in Leningrad in the early 1960s, eager to study labor relations for her thesis. Staying at a hostel, she met a number of Soviet students, many born under the rule of Joseph Stalin. Over the half-century that... -
Thomas Jones of Pencerrig - Artist, Traveller, Country Squire by Richard Veasey
RRP: €15.46€10.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784613709Author Richard VeaseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa -
Suleiman the Magnificent by Andre Clot 9780863564987
RRP: €17.84€11.66Suleiman the Magnificent, most glorious of the Ottoman sultans, kept Europe atremble for nearly half a century. In a few years he led his army as far as the gates of Vienna, made himself master of the Mediterranean and established his court in Baghdad... -
Lincoln by D. Herbert
RRP: €28.56€19.49David Herbert Donald's "Lincoln" is a stunningly original portrait of Lincoln's life and presidency. Donald brilliantly depicts Lincoln's gradual ascent from humble beginnings in rural Kentucky to the ever-expanding political circles in...