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Rose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch by Barbara A. Perry
RRP: £12.99£11.46Training her eye on traits that other biographers have neglected and mining newly released diaries and letters, Barbara Perry captures Rose Kennedy's genuine contributions to her family's political dynasty. Rose's perfectionism created a family image... -
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£9.00The 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... -
Gilded Lily: Lily Safra: The Making of One of the World's Wealthiest Widows by Isabel Vincent 9780061133947
RRP: £17.99£11.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061133947Author Isabel VincentFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Once a Grand Duchess: Xenia, Sister of Nicolas II by John van der Kiste
RRP: £10.99£8.25This biography of Xenia, sister of Nicholas II gives a new angle on the Romanov story and provides new information on relationships within the family after the Revolution. Important new letters and photographs are also included.Book InformationISBN... -
Love and War in London: The Mass Observation Wartime Diary of Olivia Cockett by Olivia Cockett 9780752452678
RRP: £9.99£7.55Love & War in London is rooted in the extraordinary milieu of wartime London. Vibrant and engaging, Olivia Cockett's diary reveals her frustrations, fears, pleasures and self-doubts. She recorded her mood swings and tried to understand them, and wrote of... -
The Elephant Man: A Study in Human Dignity by Ashley Montagu
RRP: £15.99£10.48The Elephant Man is a 138-page softcover book whose first edition inspired the movie and the Tony Award-winning play by the same name. This fascinating story, which has touched the hearts of readers throughout the world for over a century, is now... -
War On The Run by John F. Ross
RRP: £16.99£13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553384574Author John F. RossFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Sir John Plumb: The Hidden Life of a Great Historian by Neil McKendrick 9781913087227
RRP: £34.95£33.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913087227Author Neil McKendrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Edward Everett Root Publishers Co. Ltd.Publisher Edward Everett Root Publishers Co... -
The Last Train from Estonia by Jaak Jurison 9780692619902
RRP: £14.99£13.16Apologies 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... -
One Day in December: Celia Sanchez and the Cuban Revolution by Nancy Stout 9781583673171
RRP: £25.00£20.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583673171Author Nancy StoutFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S. -
Attack on the Scheldt: The Struggle for Antwerp 1944 by Graham A Thomas 9781526781482
RRP: £14.99£10.95During the Allied advance across northwest Europe in 1944, the opening up of the key port of Antwerp was a pivotal event, yet it has been neglected in histories of the conflict. The battles in Normandy and on the German frontier have been studied often... -
Lenin: A Revolutionary Life by Christopher Read 9780415206495
RRP: £32.99£29.16From a highly distinguished author on the subject, this biography is an excellent scholarly introduction to one of the key figures of the Russian Revolution and post-Tsarist Russia. Not only does it make use of archive material made newly available in... -
M. Degas Steps Out: an essay by Philip Hoy 9781911379119
RRP: £13.99£9.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911379119Author Philip HoyFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint The Waywiser PressPublisher The Waywiser Press -
The Shores of Bohemia: A Cape Cod Story, 1910-1960 by John Taylor Williams
RRP: £35.00£19.60Their names are iconic: Eugene O'Neill, Willem de Kooning, Josef and Annie Albers, Emma Goldman, Mary McCarthy, Edward Hopper, Walter Gropius-and the list goes on and on. Scorning the devastation that industrialization had wrought on the nation's economy... -
The Memoirs of Walter Bagehot by Frank Prochaska 9780300195545
RRP: £25.00£23.94Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
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,... -
Before Leonard: The Early Suitors of Virginia Woolf by Sarah M. Hall 9780720612226
RRP: £22.50£5.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780720612226Author Sarah M. HallFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Peter Owen PublishersPublisher Peter Owen Publishers -
Erasmus Darwin: A Life of Unequalled Achievement by Desmond King-Hele 9781900357081
RRP: £25.00£16.99It has been said of Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) that no one from his day to ours has ever rivalled him in his achievements in such a wide range of fields. He was a far-sighted scientific genius, fertile in theory and invention, and one of the foremost... -
Collected Autobio/Maya Angelou by Maya Angelou
£25.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679643258Author Maya AngelouFormat HardbackPage Count 1184Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1168gDimensions(mm) 211mm *... -
A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Mark Dawidziak
RRP: £24.99£17.85Apologies 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£8.56Isabella 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... -
The Men Who Would Be King: Suitors to Queen Elizabeth I by Josephine Ross
RRP: £12.99£8.60The story of the many suitors of Elizabeth I - one of the most eligible brides in 16th century Europe.From her childhood, overshadowed by the marital upheavals of her father Henry VIII, and the tragic first encounter with courtship, to the fantastical... -
Churchill by Chris Wrigley 9781904950639
RRP: £10.99£7.71Biography of the most famous Prime Minister of the 20th CenturyBook InformationISBN 9781904950639Author Chris WrigleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Haus PublishingPublisher Haus PublishingWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 25mm * 15mm * 2mm -
Charles Dickens: His Life and Times: A Pictorial Biography of the World's Greatest Storyteller by Phil Carradice 9781781552780 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£5.61Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, but most of all a great novelist - the creator of characters who live immortally in... -
Charles Dickens: His Life and Times: A Pictorial Biography of the World's Greatest Storyteller by Phil Carradice 9781781552780
RRP: £14.99£11.55Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, but most of all a great novelist - the creator of characters who live immortally in... -
Dancing to the Precipice: Lucie de la Tour du Pin and the French Revolution by Caroline Moorehead
RRP: £16.99£12.28Lucie de la Tour du Pin was the Pepys of her generation. She witnessed, participated in, and wrote diaries detailing one of the most tumultuous periods of history. From life in the Court of Versailles, through the French Revolution to Napoleon's rule,... -
The Work I Did by Brunhilde Pomsel
RRP: £9.99£7.11____________________________ 'The last surviving eyewitness to the Nazi power apparatus ... Her memories are remarkable given her age. Yet this book is also notable for what is not recalled ... These gaps result not from memory's decay, but from... -
Daughters of the North: Jean Gordon and Mary, Queen of Scots by Jennifer Morag Henderson
RRP: £24.99£23.39Longlisted for the 2022 Highland Book Prize Mary, Queen of Scots' marriage to the Earl of Bothwell is notorious. Less known is Bothwell's first wife, Jean Gordon, who extricated herself from their marriage and survived the intrigue of the Queen'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... -
City Adrift: A Short Biography of Bombay by Naresh Fernandes 9789382277200
£15.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789382277200Author Naresh FernandesFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Aleph Book CompanyPublisher Aleph Book Company -
3 Commando: Helmand Assault by Ewen Southby-Tailyour 9780091937768
RRP: £15.99£11.61When the Royal Marines Commandos returned to a chaotic Helmand in the winter of 2008, they realised that to stand any chance of success they would need to pursue an increasingly determined Taliban harder than ever before. This time they were going to... -
Moura: The Dangerous Life of the Baroness Budberg by Nina Berberova
RRP: £23.00£16.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590171370Author Nina BerberovaFormat HardbackPage Count 404Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,... -
Essex Girls: The Scandalous History of the Women of Essex by Karen Bowman
RRP: £9.99£6.64Queen, temptress, martyr, witch: the Essex Girl has left her mark on history. For centuries, society allocated women a role of service and obedience; an invisible woman, circumscribed by home and family, was a righteous woman. The Essex Girl, however,... -
Swami in a Strange Land: How Krishna Came to the West by Joshua M. Greene 9781683831747
RRP: £14.99£11.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683831747Author Joshua M. GreeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions -
Cold: Three Winters at the South Pole by Wayne L White 9781640125520
RRP: £23.99£20.84Winter owns most of the year at the South Pole, starting in mid-February and ending in early November. Total darkness lasts for months, temperatures can drop below -100 degrees Fahrenheit, and windchill can push temperatures to -140 degrees. At those... -
Essex Boys by Karen Bowman
RRP: £9.99£6.64Warrior, prince, lover and rogue: there is much to be said for the Essex man. Henry VIII, Daniel Defoe and Wat Tyler are all covered along with many more in this exciting exploration of Essex Boys. Pepys and Dickens captured Essex in words, while the... -
Tesla: Man Out of Time by Margaret Cheney
RRP: £18.99£12.13Called a madman by some, a genius by others, and an enigma by nearly everyone, Nikola Tesla was possibly the greatest inventor the world has ever known. He was, without a doubt, a trail blazer who created astonishing, sometimes world-transforming,... -
Sophia Tolstoy: A Biography by Alexandra Popoff 9781416597605
RRP: £16.99£16.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416597605Author Alexandra PopoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 540gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America by Conor Pope 9780571218417
RRP: £12.99£8.56A dramatic, exciting and tragic book about the Irish fur trapper who held the fate of America and the British Empire in his hands.William Johnson began life as a poor Irish Catholic peasant. After converting to Protestantism, he emigrated to America...