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Peig by Peig Sayers 9780815602583
£18.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815602583Author Sayers.Format PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Syracuse University PressPublisher Syracuse University Press -
The Night Trilogy: "Night", "Dawn", "Day" by Elie Wiesel 9780809073641
RRP: £22.00£13.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809073641Author Elie WieselFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S. -
Stanford Tuck: Hero of the Battle of Britain: The Life of the Great Fighter Ace by Helen Doe 9781911667919
RRP: £25.00£17.90The first full reappraisal of one of Britain's great fighter aces, this book examines the truth behind Tuck's 1956 biography, Fly for Your Life. It looks at the evidence behind the myths, checks out some of the exaggerated stories and reveals the real... -
Gerry Adams: An Unauthorised Life by Malachi O'Doherty 9780571315963
RRP: £12.99£8.80How did Gerry Adams grow from a revolutionary street activist - in perpetual danger of arrest and assassination - into the leader of Sinn Fein, with intimate access to the British and Irish prime ministers and the US president? And how did he outlast... -
Boris Johnson: The Rise and Fall of a Troublemaker at Number 10 by Andrew Gimson 9781398502819
RRP: £12.99£8.41'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... -
William Wilberforce: Take Up the Fight by Janet Benge 9781624860577
RRP: £11.99£9.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781624860577Author Janet BengeFormat PaperbackImprint Emerald BooksPublisher Emerald BooksWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm * 18mm -
Bittersweet: A Story of Food and Yemen by World Food Program 9781911487937
RRP: £30.00£24.56Bittersweet, A Story of Food and Yemen is a captivating exploration of Yemen’s rich culinary heritage. Authored by Bangladeshi photographer, Sayed Asif Mahmud, with contributions from Marta Colburn and Jessica Olney, this visually stunning book takes the... -
Behind Enemy Lines: The Autobiography of Britain's Most Decorated Living War Hero by Sir Tommy MacPherson 9781845967086 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.29With three Military Crosses, three Croix de guerre, a Legion d'honneur and a papal knighthood for his heroics during the Second World War, Sir Tommy Macpherson is the most decorated living soldier of the British Army. Yet for 65 years the Highlander's... -
Behind Enemy Lines: The Autobiography of Britain's Most Decorated Living War Hero Richard Bath 9781845967086
RRP: £10.99£7.99With three Military Crosses, three Croix de guerre, a Legion d'honneur and a papal knighthood for his heroics during the Second World War, Sir Tommy Macpherson is the most decorated living soldier of the British Army. Yet for 65 years the Highlander's... -
Finding Peggy by Meg Henderson
RRP: £12.99£9.34Glasgow in the 1950s was a deprived and often violent place. Meg Henderson was part of a large family, and when the tenement block in which they lived collapsed they had to move to the notorious Blackhill district where religious sectarianism and gang... -
Marcus Aurelius: Warrior, Philosopher, Emperor by Frank McLynn
RRP: £16.99£12.28Marcus Aurelius is the one great figure of antiquity who still speaks to us today, nearly 2,000 years after his death. A philosopher as well as an emperor, his was an extraordinary reign. He proved himself a great leader, protecting the Empire from... -
Tomorrow to Be Brave: A Memoir of the Only Woman Ever to Serve in the French Foreign Legion by Susan Travers 9780743200028
£16.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743200028Author Susan TraversFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Simon de Montfort and the Rise of the English Nation by Darren Baker
RRP: £9.99£6.84Like his crusading father before him, Simon de Montfort's combination of charisma and fearlessness made him one of the greatest men of his age. This biography follows his life from his birth in France and arrival in England to his defeat and death at... -
Bede and the Theory of Everything Michelle P Brown 9781789147889
RRP: £16.95£12.45This book investigates the life and world of Bede (c. 673-735), foremost scholar of the early Middle Ages and 'the father of English history'. It examines his notable feats, including calculating the first tide-tables; playing a role in the creation of... -
Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power by Claudia Renton 9780007544912 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99£2.65Winner of the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2014 A rich historical biography of 'those wild Wyndhams' - three cultured aristocratic sisters born into great privilege in late Victorian Britain. Mary, Madeline and Pamela -... -
Letters To My Grandchildren by Tony Benn
RRP: £9.99£7.32As a diarist I have chronicled the time through which I have lived in meticulous detail: but all that is history. What matters now is the future for those who will live through it.The past is the past but there may be lessons to be learned which could... -
Extreme Risk by Chris Hunter 9780552157599 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.29BOSNIA...NORTHERN IRELAND...IRAQ...AFGHANISTAN...For the past twenty years, some of the most dangerous places on earth. And for Major Chris Hunter, just some of the places where he has defused bombs in his ceaseless battle against terrorism and the... -
Henry VIII: King and Court by Alison Weir 9780099532422 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.65Henry VIII, renowned for his command of power and celebrated for his intellect, presided over one of the most magnificent-and dangerous-courts in Renaissance Europe. Never before has a detailed, personal biography of this charismatic monarch been set... -
Henry VIII: King and Court by Alison Weir
RRP: £14.99£10.95Henry VIII, renowned for his command of power and celebrated for his intellect, presided over one of the most magnificent-and dangerous-courts in Renaissance Europe. Never before has a detailed, personal biography of this charismatic monarch been set... -
The River Of Doubt: Into the Unknown Amazon by Candice Millard 9780316027144
£13.73In 1912, shortly after losing his bid to spend a third term as American President to Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt with his son Kermit, a Brazilian guide and a band of camaradas set off deep into the Amazon jungle and a very uncertain fate. Although... -
Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane by James Delbourgo
RRP: £14.99£11.11Hans Sloane was the greatest collector of his time, and one of the greatest of all time. His name is familiar today through the London streets and squares named after him, but the man himself, and his achievements, are almost forgotten.Born in the north... -
The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World by Claire Tomalin
RRP: £10.99£7.99A fascinating journey into the life of H.G. Wells, from one of Britain's best biographersHow did the first forty years of H. G. Wells' life shape the father of science fiction?From his impoverished childhood in a working-class English family, to his... -
Broken Archangel: The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement by Roland Philipps 9781847927071
RRP: £25.00£18.30Pioneering human rights campaigner, patriot, romantic, traitor, LGBTQ+ martyr: this is the story of Roger Casement, one of the 20th century’s most complex and compelling figures.'Minutely researched, superbly written, genuinely exciting' ANDREW... -
Bess Of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth by Mary S. Lovell
RRP: £14.99£10.05Bess of Hardwick was one of the most remarkable women of the Tudor era. Gently-born in reduced circumstances, she was married at 15, wedded at 16 and still a virgin. At 19 she married a man more than twice her age, Sir William Cavendish, a senior auditor... -
Fall of the Roman Republic by Plutarch
RRP: £12.99£9.34Dramatic artist, natural scientist and philosopher, Plutarch is widely regarded as the most significant historian of his era, writing sharp and succinct accounts of the greatest politicians and statesman of the classical period. Taken from the Lives, a... -
Stalin: A Biography by Robert Service
RRP: £16.99£12.47Drawing on a wealth of unexplored material - available for the first time since the collapse of the former Soviet Union - Robert Service's biography of Stalin is the most authoritative yet published. It concentrates not simply on Stalin as dedicated... -
Edward II: The Unconventional King by Kathryn Warner 9781445666723
RRP: £10.99£7.46He is one of the most reviled English kings in history. He drove his kingdom to the brink of civil war a dozen times in less than twenty years. He allowed his male lovers to rule the kingdom. He led a great army to the most ignominious military defeat in... -
Seven Troop by Andy McNab 9780552158664 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29They were like a band of brothers...In 1983 Andy McNab was assigned to B Squadron, one of the four Sabre Squadrons of the SAS, and within it to Air Troop, otherwise known as SEVEN TROOP.This is Andy McNab's gripping account of the time he served in the... -
Seven Troop by Andy McNab
RRP: £12.99£9.34They were like a band of brothers...In 1983 Andy McNab was assigned to B Squadron, one of the four Sabre Squadrons of the SAS, and within it to Air Troop, otherwise known as SEVEN TROOP.This is Andy McNab's gripping account of the time he served in the... -
Putin: The explosive and extraordinary new biography of Russia’s leader by Philip Short
RRP: £16.99£12.68'A perfect mirror to its subject... should be compulsory reading' ObserverVladimir Putin is a pariah to the West.He has the power to reduce the West to nuclear ashes. He invades his neighbours, meddles in western elections and orders assassinations. His... -
Queen Victoria by Elizabeth Longford
RRP: £14.99£6.72'The truth was stranger than any of the fictions that have since been offered to explain her away'Drawing upon Queen Victoria's previously unpublished journals, Elizabeth Longford's classic biography recalls the contrasts and curiosities of an earlier... -
The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward's Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump by Bob Woodward
RRP: £8.99£6.01"An uncharacteristic warning from one of the most respected, non-partisan journalists in the world" -Jake Tapper, CNN"It was riveting. I couldn't get enough of it." -Gayle King, CBS MorningsThe Trump Tapes explodes with the exclusive, inside story of... -
A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle by Julian Jackson
RRP: £18.99£14.01Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize for History, the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, the American Library in Paris Award, the Franco-British Society Literary Prize and the Grand Prix de la Biographie Politique du TouquetA SUNDAY TIMES, THE... -
Nelson: A Dream of Glory by John Sugden
RRP: £35.00£25.68"Nelson: A Dream of Glory" is the most comprehensive and thoroughly researched account ever written of Horatio Nelson's rise to international fame. Giving us the private as well as the public man, it combines ground-breaking scholarship with a... -
Blood, Fire and Gold: The story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici by Estelle Paranque
RRP: £12.99£9.34'A story told with verve and passion' The Times, Book of the Week'An alternative and engaging biography...accessible and unpretentious' The Telegraph'A stunning portrayal of two of the most powerful women in European history' Tracy Borman'Exciting and... -
Lust For Life Irving Stone 9781787461390
RRP: £11.99£8.66Lust for Life is the classic fictional re-telling of the incredible life of Vincent Van Gogh. "Vincent is not dead. He will never die. His love, his genius, the great beauty he has created will go on forever, enriching the world... He was a colossus... a... -
Wedlock: How Georgian Britain's Worst Husband Met His Match by Wendy Moore
RRP: £12.99£8.83WEDLOCK is the remarkable story of the Countess of Strathmore and her marriage to Andrew Robinson Stoney. Mary Eleanor Bowes was one of Britain's richest young heiresses. She married the Count of Strathmore who died young, and pregnant with her lover's... -
I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust by Julian Borger 9781399803304
RRP: £20.00£11.83'A powerful, eloquent and deeply affecting book. I loved it' EDMUND DE WAAL'Tender, evocative and deeply moving' JONATHAN FREEDLAND'Profound, elegiac and fascinating... I zipped through it' PHILIPPE SANDS'Compelling' DAILY MAIL, BOOK OF THE WEEK'I SEEK A... -
Thomas Cromwell: A Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch
RRP: £18.99£12.48A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN, BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR'This is the biography we have been awaiting for 400 years' Hilary Mantel'A masterpiece' Dan Jones, Sunday TimesThomas Cromwell is one of the... -
Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and His Scandalous Duchess by Alison Weir
RRP: £14.99£11.11'Weir combines high drama with high passion while involving us in the domestic life of a most remarkable woman in an equally remarkable book' Scotland on Sunday The first full-length biography of an extraordinary love affair between one of the most...