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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£7.61The 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 Age of Uncertainty: how the greatest minds in physics changed the way we see the world by Tobias Hurter
RRP: £25.00£16.59The 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... -
The River of Doubt by Candice Millard
£11.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767913737Author Candice MillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday DelPublisher Broadway Books (A... -
Kerouac: a Biography by Ann Charters 9780312113476
RRP: £22.99£18.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312113476Author Ann ChartersFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 499g -
The Road to Station X: From Debutante Ball to Fighter-Plane Factory to Bletchley Park, a Memoir of One Woman's Journey Through World War Two by Sarah Baring 9781800550599
RRP: £8.99£8.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800550599Author Sarah BaringFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Sapere BooksPublisher Sapere BooksWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 11mm -
With Dust Still in His Throat: The Writing of B. L. Coombes, the Voice of a Working Miner by B. L. Coombes 9781783161492
RRP: £11.99£9.24The real history of the mines ought to be written by a man still at work underground. The dust should still be in his throat as he was writing-it seemed to me-then it would be authentic. Despite my searching, I knew of no man who answered this... -
Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883-1924 by Vikram Sampath 9780670090303
RRP: £28.95£22.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670090303Author Vikram SampathFormat HardbackPage Count 624Imprint Penguin VikingPublisher Penguin Random House India -
Michael Collins and the Making of the Irish State by Gabriel Doherty 9781856355124
£16.76This is a professional evaluation of Michael Collins which brings to light his multi-faceted and complex character. The contributors examine Collins as Minister for Finance, his role in intelligence, his policy towards the north, his career as... -
My Father Joachim von Ribbentrop: Hitler's Foreign Minister, Experiences and Memories by Rudolf von Ribbentrop 9781526739254
RRP: £30.00£21.69On 16 October 1946 Joachim von Ribbentrop, Hitler's wartime Foreign Minister, was executed at Nuremberg, convicted on four counts including deliberately planning a war of aggression and war crimes. In this first English Language edition of his memoirs,... -
The Man in the Iron Mask: The Truth about Europe's Most Famous Prisoner by Josephine Wilkinson
RRP: £20.00£13.34The Man in the Iron Mask has all the hallmarks of a thrilling adventure story: a glamorous and all-powerful king, ambitious ministers, a cruel and despotic gaoler, dark and sinister dungeons - and a secret prisoner. It is easy for forget that this story,... -
Follow Me Through: The Ups and Downs of a RAF Flying Instructor by Mike Brooke 9780752497013
RRP: £14.99£11.72Catch a rare glimpse into the training of the nation's defence personnel, as pilot turned flying instructor Mike Brooke shares with us some of his amusing firsthand flying stories. After his success as a Cold War Canberra pilot, Mike was dispatched to... -
Lord Seaforth: Highland Landowner, Caribbean Governor by Finlay McKichan
RRP: £17.99£16.91This is the first full-length study of Seaforth. Drawing on an extensive archival research in Scotland, England and Barbados, Finlay McKichan links important themes in Scottish and imperial history to show how far the principles and policies developed... -
The Last Train from Estonia by Jaak Jurison 9780692619902
RRP: £14.99£13.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692619902Author Jaak JurisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Kurni PressPublisher Kurni PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm * 15mm -
Charles the Second: King of England, Scotland, and Ireland by Ronald Hutton 9780198229117
£66.50This is the first scholarly biography of the king who is remembered by the English with more popular affection than almost any other. Covering his entire life, it takes in his colourful years as a prince and as an exiled monarch during the Civil War and... -
Birdie Bowers: Captain Scott's Marvel by Anne Strathie
RRP: £16.99£13.13Henry 'Birdie' Bowers realised his life's ambition when he was selected for Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition to the Antarctic, yet he also met his death on the journey. Born to a sea-faring father and adventurous mother on the Firth of Clyde,... -
Anna of Denmark, Queen of England: A Cultural Biography by Leeds Barroll 9780812235746
RRP: £50.00£43.75In the well-entrenched critical view of the Jacobean period, James I is credited with the flowering of culture in the early years of the seventeenth century. His queen, Anna of Denmark, is seen as a shadowy figure at best, a capricious and shallow one at... -
Flight of the WASP: The Rise, Fall, and Future of America’s Original Ruling Class by Michael Gross 9780802161864
RRP: £21.99£14.83Fifteen families. Four hundred years. The complex saga of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite in America's history. For decades, writers from Cleveland Amory to Joseph Alsop to the editors of Politico have proclaimed the diminishment of the... -
St Cuthbert of Durham by Philip Nixon
RRP: £15.99£10.85Saint Cuthbert, the best-loved Northern saint, was born in the early seventh century and lived during an exciting and mysterious time in the history of Northumbria. During his life he had connections with many places - the Lammermuir Hills, Melrose,... -
Waco: A Survivor's Story by David Thibodeau
RRP: £13.99£13.33To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the siege at Waco, and a tie-in to the upcoming Spike TV mini-series, an updated reissue of the critically acclaimed A PLACE CALLED WACO by Branch Davidian survivor, David Thibodeau now titled Waco: A Survivor's... -
The Memoirs of Walter Bagehot by Frank Prochaska 9780300195545
RRP: £25.00£23.94Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Varhaug, Sonne and Elecktra: The Rudolf Hess Flight Book by John Harris 9781911397748
RRP: £25.00£17.57May 11th 1941 - Berchtesgaden. The day after Rudolf Hess took off from Augsburg and hadn't yet returned or sent any signal, Adolf Hitler had to say something to justify Hess' so far unexplained disappearance. Not least for the benefit of the German... -
The Burning Of The World Bela Zombory-Moldovan 9781590178096
RRP: £15.99£11.09Apologies 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)... -
Diaries Volume Two: Power and the People by Alastair Campbell
RRP: £18.99£13.61Power & the People covers the first two years of the New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997. This second voume of Campbell's unexpurgated diaries details the initial challenges faced by Labour as they come to... -
The Life Of Henry Brulard Stendhal 9780940322899
RRP: £23.00£16.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940322899Author StendhalFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 550gDimensions(mm)... -
Danger Close: My Epic Journey as a Combat Helicopter Pilot in Iraq and Afghanistan by Amber Smith 9781501116391
RRP: £17.99£12.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501116391Author Amber SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life by Alice Wong
RRP: £13.99£11.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593315392Author Alice WongFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc -
In Search of Amrit Kaur: An Indian Princess in Wartime Paris by Livia Manera Sambuy 9781784741204
RRP: £13.99£12.19'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... -
Henrietta Maria by Dominic Pearce
RRP: £11.99£8.09At the heart of the English Civil War stands the wife of Charles I, Henrietta Maria. She came to England in 1625 at the age of fifteen, undermined by her greedy French entourage, blocked by the forceful Duke of Buckingham and weighed down by instructions... -
Queen of the Courtesans: Fanny Murray by Barbara White 9780752468693
RRP: £20.00£15.67Fanny Murray was an incomparable Georgian beauty and the most desired courtesan of the 1750s. The daughter of an impoverished musician from Bath, she took London society by storm, not only as the most prized 'purchaseable beauty' of her day, but also as... -
A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Mark Dawidziak
RRP: £24.99£18.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250792495Author Mark DawidziakFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm) 245mm *... -
Isabella de'Medici: The Glorious Life and Tragic End of a Renaissance Princess by Caroline P. Murphy
RRP: £12.99£8.80Isabella de' Medici was the hostess of a glittering circle in Renaissance Florence. Beautiful and liberated, she not only matched the intellectual accomplishments of her male contemporaries, but sought sexual parity also, engaging in an adulterous affair... -
Teller of the Unexpected: The Life of Roald Dahl, An Unofficial Biography by Matthew Dennison 9781788549448
RRP: £10.99£7.33Book of the Week on Radio 4, and in the Observer, Sunday Times, Daily Mail and The Week 'Riveting, and immaculately written' Sunday Telegraph 'A superb psychological study of a literary genius' Business Post 'A rounded picture... and gets to... -
Glenn Miller Declassified by Dennis M. Spragg 9781612348957
RRP: £31.00£27.59On December 15, 1944, Major Alton Glenn Miller, commanding officer of the Army Air Force Band (Special), boarded a plane in England bound for France with Lt. Col. Norman Francis Baessell. Somewhere over the English Channel, the plane vanished; no trace... -
James III by Norman Macdougall
RRP: £35.00£24.27James III is the most enigmatic of the Stewart kings of Scotland. Variously characterised as artistic, peace-loving, morbidly suspicious, treacherous, pious, lecherous and lazy, King James was much criticised by contemporaries and later chroniclers for... -
Napoleon For Dummies J. David Markham 9780764597985
RRP: £15.99£11.49Explains 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... -
Britain's Greatest Prime Minister: Lord Liverpool by Martin Hutchinson
RRP: £25.00£18.24Britain's Greatest Prime Minister: Lord Liverpool unpicks two centuries of Whig history to redeem Lord Liverpool (1770-1828) from 'arch-mediocrity' and establish him as the greatest political leader the country has ever seen. In the past, biographers... -
Yvonne, Child of the Somme by Sara Rowell
RRP: £8.99£6.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398481695Author Sara RowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
The Lost Pilots: The Spectacular Rise and Scandalous Fall of Aviation's Golden Couple Corey Mead 9781509828494
RRP: £20.00£14.51The Sahara Desert, February 1962: the wreckage of a plane emerges from the sands revealing, too, the body of the plane's long-dead pilot. But who was he? And what had happened to him?Baker Street, London, June 1927: twenty-five-year-old Jessie Miller... -
Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary by Joe Jackson
£17.73Black Elk, the Native American holy man, is known to millions of readers around the world from his 1932 testimonial, Black Elk Speaks. Cryptic and deeply personal, it has been read as a spiritual guide, a philosophical manifesto, and a text to be...