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Queen Emma and the Vikings: The Woman Who Shaped the Events of 1066 by Harriet O'Brien
RRP: $31.48$23.00Emma was one of England's most remarkable queens: a formidable woman who made her mark on a Europe beset by Vikings. By birth a Norman, she married and outlived two kings of England and witnessed the coronations of two of her sons: Harthcnut the Viking... -
Freedom at Midnight by Larry Collins
RRP: $35.68$24.09The electrifying story of India's struggle for independence, told in this classic account (first published in 1975) by two fine journalists who conducted hundreds of interviews with nearly all the surviving participants - from Mountbatten to the... -
William Adams: His Life and Locomotives: A Life in Engineering 1823-1904 by John Woodhams 9781399071963
RRP: $52.50$37.00Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Double Crossed: A Code of Honour, A Complete Betrayal by Brian Wood 9780753552612 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.78$4.85The Sunday Times BestsellerAt the age of 23, Brian Wood was thrust into the front line in Iraq, in the infamous Battle of Danny Boy. Ambushed, he led a charge across open ground with insurgents firing at just five soldiers. On his return, he was awarded... -
Eastern Approaches by Fitzroy Maclean
RRP: $27.28$19.0970th 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... -
Empress of Rome: The Life of Livia by Matthew Dennison
RRP: $27.28$18.06Empress of Rome is the fascinating biography of one of the most perplexing and powerful figures of the ancient world: the empress Livia. Second wife of the emperor Augustus and the mother of his successor Tiberius, Livia has been vilified by posterity... -
Etta Lemon: The Woman who Saved the Birds by Tessa Boase
RRP: $27.28$18.06Read the fascinating story of one of the greatest unsung figures of the nature conservation movement, founder of the RSPB and icon of early animal rights activism, Etta Lemon. A heroine for our times, Etta Lemon campaigned for fifty years against the... -
The Rival Queens: Catherine de' Medici, her daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal That Ignited a Kingdom by Nancy Goldstone
RRP: $27.28$15.77'A gripping tale of royal feuds and divided kingdoms' - AMANDA FOREMANParis, 1572. Catherine de' Medici, the infamous queen mother of France, is a consummate pragmatist and powerbroker who has dominated the throne for thirty years. Her youngest daughter,... -
Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors by Adrian Goldsworthy
RRP: $27.28$19.09'A thrilling read' Tom Holland 'History-writing at its best' Barry Strauss By the end of his short life, Alexander the Great had redrawn the map of the ancient world to create an empire that stretched from the Adriatic Sea to the Indian subcontinent... -
Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live by Lily Ebert 9781529073447
RRP: $23.08$15.77The 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... -
Empress of the Nile: the daredevil archaeologist who saved Egypt’s ancient temples from destruction by Lynne Olson
RRP: $52.50$34.84The riveting story of a true-life female Indiana Jones: an archaeologist who survived the Nazis and then saved Egypt's ancient temples. In the 1960s, the world's attention was focused on a nail-biting race against time: fifty countries had contributed... -
Shackleton by Ranulph Fiennes
RRP: $23.08$16.32Discover the exhilarating true story of Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expeditionTold through the words of the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes - one of the only men to understand his experience first-hand . . .'For anyone... -
Diana, William and Harry by James Patterson 9781529160642 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.88$4.85'[A] pacy, frictionless read' Sunday Telegraph'Cinematic. . . an entertaining and persuasive study of the royal family' Publisher's Weekly'Patterson treats the princess as a person and tells the story from a mother's perspective'... -
Diana, William and Harry by James Patterson
RRP: $18.88$13.55'[A] pacy, frictionless read' Sunday Telegraph'Cinematic. . . an entertaining and persuasive study of the royal family' Publisher's Weekly'Patterson treats the princess as a person and tells the story from a mother's perspective'... -
Alexander the Great by Philip Freeman 9781416592815 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.18$21.95Alexander the Great (Alexander III of Macedon) was one of history's great generals, a man studied by Caesar and Napoleon, among hundreds of others. He was born to the king of Macedon and educated by Aristotle, whose inquiring mind Alexander appreciated... -
Alexander the Great by Philip Freeman
RRP: $25.18$15.94Alexander the Great (Alexander III of Macedon) was one of history's great generals, a man studied by Caesar and Napoleon, among hundreds of others. He was born to the king of Macedon and educated by Aristotle, whose inquiring mind Alexander appreciated... -
I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche by Sue Prideaux
RRP: $27.28$17.98The Times Biography of the YearWinner of the Hawthornden Prize 2019Shortlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Prize 2019Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2019Longlisted for the Cundhill History Prize 2019'Outstanding.' The Sunday Times 'A revelation.'... -
A Life Of Picasso Volume I: 1881-1906 by John Richardson
RRP: $84.00$61.72From 1950 to 1962, John Richardson lived near Picasso in France and was a friend of the artist. With a view to writing a biography, the acclaimed art historian kept a diary of their meetings. After Picasso's death, his widow Jacqueline collaborated in... -
The Story of a Life: ‘A sparkling, supremely precious literary achievement’ Telegraph by Konstantin Paustovsky
RRP: $31.48$23.84Discover one of Twentieth-Century Russia's most lauded lost classics, now in a remarkable new translation.'Outstanding... A sparkling, supremely precious literary achievement' Telegraph'One of the great Russian autobiographies, as fresh now as the day it... -
Uncrowned Queen: The Fateful Life of Margaret Beaufort, Tudor Matriarch by Nicola Tallis
RRP: $20.98$13.6928 January 1457. England is in the grip of the Wars of the Roses. Inside the walls of Pembroke Castle a thirteen-year-old girl gives birth to a boy. The ordeal nearly kills them both, forging a powerful bond that will see mother and son work together to... -
Captain James Cook by Richard Hough 9780340825563 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.48$5.31In Cook's relatively short and adventurous life (1728-79) he voyaged to the eastern and western seaboards of North America, the North and South Pacific and the Arctic and Antarctic bringing about a new comprehension of the world's geography and its... -
Captain James Cook by Richard Hough
RRP: $31.48$20.58In Cook's relatively short and adventurous life (1728-79) he voyaged to the eastern and western seaboards of North America, the North and South Pacific and the Arctic and Antarctic bringing about a new comprehension of the world's geography and its... -
Mavis Batey: Bletchley Codebreaker - Garden Historian - Conservationist - Writer by Jean Stone
RRP: $42.00$30.85Late 1930s. When World War II was declared, Mavis Batey, previously studying German Romanticism, abandoned her studies to do her duty for her country. At Bletchley Park, Britain's best kept secret, she became one of the first women codebreakers, a... -
Boris Johnson: The Rise and Fall of a Troublemaker at Number 10 by Andrew Gimson 9781398502819
RRP: $27.28$17.18'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 Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson by Hugo Mercier
RRP: $41.98$30.83The starting point of Roger Knight's magnificent new biography is to explain how Nelson achieved such extraordinary success. Knight places him firmly in the context of the Royal Navy at the time. He analyses Nelson's more obvious qualities, his... -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Collins Classics) by Frederick Douglass
RRP: $6.28$4.91HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man. Born into slavery during the early nineteenth century,... -
Still Alive (Surprisingly) by John Wick with K Ratzeburg 9781803781280
RRP: $27.28$19.09A laugh-out-loud memoir by Parachute Regiment and 22 SAS veteran John Wick - the man who helped break the story of the 2009 MPs' Expenses Scandal. Have you ever wondered how to conduct a ransom negotiation? Would you know what to do if you... -
All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes by Maya Angelou
RRP: $20.98$14.28A memoir about home and belonging, from the author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMAMaya Angelou's five volumes of autobiography, beginning with I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD... -
Below the Parapet by Carol Thatcher 9780006384588 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98$3.93When Denis and Margaret Thatcher met on a blind date in 1949, he never dreamed that he would become the consort to the first woman prime minister. He fulfilled this role with tact, humour and charm but remained a private man. This biography, written by... -
Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz by Thomas Harding 9780099559054 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$4.91_____________________________________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE JQ WINGATE PRIZE 2015SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD'A gripping thriller, an unspeakable crime, an essential history.' JOHN LE... -
Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz by Thomas Harding
RRP: $27.28$19.09_____________________________________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE JQ WINGATE PRIZE 2015SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD'A gripping thriller, an unspeakable crime, an essential history.' JOHN LE... -
The True Life of the World's Greatest Showman by P T Barnum 9780692101742
RRP: $52.50$37.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692101742Author P T BarnumFormat PaperbackPage Count 442Imprint Creative Texts Publishers, LLCPublisher Creative Texts Publishers, LLCWeight(grams)... -
Wellington: The Iron Duke by Richard Holmes 9780007137503
RRP: $31.48$20.37Richard Holmes, highly acclaimed military historian and broadcaster, tells the exhilarating story of Britain's greatest-ever soldier, the man who posed the most serious threat to Napoleon. The Duke of Wellington's remarkable life and extraordinary... -
The Button Box: The Story of Women in the 20th Century Told Through the Clothes They Wore by Lynn Knight
RRP: $23.08$16.32A 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,... -
The Travels of Ibn Battutah by Ibn Battutah
RRP: $23.08$16.32Ibn Battutah - ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist - was just twenty-one when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgrimage to Mecca. He did not return to Morocco for another twenty-nine years, travelling... -
Bobby Kennedy: The Making Of A Liberal Icon by Larry Tye
RRP: $36.75$27.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812983500Author Larry TyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
Memoirs From Beyond The Grave by Alex Andriesse
RRP: $31.48$23.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681371290Author Alex AndriesseFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,... -
The Steel Bonnets by George MacDonald Fraser
RRP: $39.88$26.69Apologies 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 Tudors: The Untold Story by Miranda Kaufmann
RRP: $23.08$14.70Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2018 A Book of the Year for the Evening Standard and the Observer A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in the hall of a Gloucestershire manor house. A Moroccan woman is baptised in a London... -
Mr. Jefferson's Hammer: William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy by Robert M Owens 9780806141985
$40.15Often remembered as the president who died shortly after taking office, William Henry Harrison remains misunderstood by most Americans. Before becoming the ninth president of the United States in 1841, Harrison was instrumental in shaping the early years...