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West With The Night by Beryl Markham
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75WEST WITH THE NIGHT appeared on 13 bestseller lists on first publication in 1942. It tells the spellbinding story of Beryl Markham -- aviator, racehorse trainer, fascinating beauty -and her life in... -
West with the Night: A Memoir by Beryl Markham
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $17.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865477636Author Beryl MarkhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
Straight On Till Morning: The Life Of Beryl Markham by Mary S. Lovell
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.24Beryl Markham, like Karen Blixen, could only have come out of Africa. Pioneering aviatrix, flamboyant beauty, brilliant race-horse trainer, unscrupulous seducer - her life story is for every reader... -
Lady Killmore by Robert Wainwright 9781911630845
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.06Enid Lindeman stood almost six feet tall, with silver hair and flashing turquoise eyes. She stopped traffic in Manhattan, silenced gamblers in Monte Carlo and walked her pet cheetah through Hyde Park... -
Enid: The Scandalous High-society Life of the Formidable 'Lady Killmore' by Robert Wainwright 9781911630852
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $9.02Enid Lindeman stopped traffic in Manhattan, silenced gamblers in Monte Carlo and walked her pet cheetah through Hyde Park on a diamond collar. In early twentieth-century society, where women were... -
Too Close To The Sun: The Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton by Sara Wheeler
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68Conservationist, scholar, soldier, white hunter and fabled lover - Denys Finch Hatton was an aristocrat of leonine nonchalance. After a dazzling career at Eton and Oxford, he sailed in 1910 for... -
Circling the Sun by Paula McLain 9781844088300
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75A RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK'Thrilling...sun-soaked, gin-fuelled...A totally absorbing and compelling read.' Richard & JudyThe author of The Paris Wife takes us to the heart of another true story:... -
The Riviera Set by Mary S. Lovell
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.24'I loved every word' - Sarra Manning, Red'[A] blissful book - it's like basking in the warm Med' - Rachel Johnson, Mail on SundayThe Riviera Set is the story of the group of people who lived,... -
Circling the Sun by Paula McLain 9781844088300 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $3.94A RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK'Thrilling...sun-soaked, gin-fuelled...A totally absorbing and compelling read.' Richard & JudyThe author of The Paris Wife takes us to the heart of another true story:... -
She Who Dares: Ten Trailblazing Society Women by Lyndsy Spence 9780750988971
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.79History has seen many women make their mark by defying the limits set against them, stepping out of the boxes they had been put in and forging their own path.She Who Dares is a collection of pen... -
The Riviera Set by Mary S. Lovell 9780349139890 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.23'I loved every word' - Sarra Manning, Red'[A] blissful book - it's like basking in the warm Med' - Rachel Johnson, Mail on SundayThe Riviera Set is the story of the group of people who lived,... -
The Riviera Set by Mary S. Lovell 9781408705209 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $4.74The Riviera Set is the story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped and politicked at the Chateau de l'Horizon near Cannes, over the course of forty years from the time when Coco... -
Alastair Humphreys' Great Adventurers by Alastair Humphreys
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.20** WINNER OF THE ORDNANCE SURVEY CHILDREN'S TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 AND LONG-LISTED FOR THE BLUE PETER BOOK AWARD 2019**Hand-picked by adventurer Alastair Humphreys, this compilation retells the... -
The Ghosts of Happy Valley: Searching for the Lost World of Africa's Infamous Aristocrats by Juliet Barnes 9781781311677
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $12.41Happy Valley was the name given to the Wanjohi Valley in the Kenya Highlands, where a small community of affluent, hedonistic white expatriates settled between the wars. While Kenya's early colonial... -
The Churchills: A Family at the Heart of History - from the Duke of Marlborough to Winston Churchill by Mary S. Lovell
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07There never was a Churchill from John of Marlborough down who had either morals or principles', so said Gladstone. From the First Duke of Marlborough - soldier of genius, restless empire-builder and... -
The Churchills: A Family at the Heart of History - from the Duke of Marlborough to Winston Churchill by Mary S. Lovell 9780349119786 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $3.22There never was a Churchill from John of Marlborough down who had either morals or principles', so said Gladstone. From the First Duke of Marlborough - soldier of genius, restless empire-builder and... -
Amelia Earhart: The Sound of Wings by Mary S. Lovell
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07When she disappeared in 1937 over a shark-infested sea, Amelia Earhart had lived up to her wish - internationally famous, a daring and pioneering aviator, and ambassador extraordinary for the United... -
I Dreamed of Africa by Kuki Gallmann
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.51'Often, at the hour of day when the savannah grass is streaked with silver, and pale gold rims the silhouettes of the hills, I drive with my dogs up to the Mukutan, to watch the sun setting behind... -
A Scandalous Life: The Biography of Jane Digby by Mary S. Lovell 9781857024692
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.55The biography of Jane Digby, an 'enthralling tale of a nineteenth-century beauty whose heart - and hormones - ruled her head.' Harpers and Queen A celebrated aristocratic beauty, Jane... -
A Rage To Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton by Mary S. Lovell
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.17Richard Burton was a brilliant, charismatic man - a unique blend of erudite scholar and daring adventurer. Fluent in twenty-nine languages, he found it easy to pass himself off as a native, thereby... -
The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family by Mary S. Lovell
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $22.14This is the story of a close, loving family splintered by the violent ideologies of Europe between the world wars. Jessica was a Communist; Debo became the Duchess of Devonshire; Nancy was one of the... -
Brave Companions: Portraits in History by David McCullough 9781668003541
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $25.31Master historian David McCullough's classic book about some of history's most daring and accomplished figures from Alexander von Humboldt to Charles and Anne Lindbergh.Pulitzer Prize-winning author... -
The Mitford Girls: The Biography of an Extraordinary Family by Mary S. Lovell 9780349115054
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07'A sensational saga' Mail on Sunday'A cracking read' Lynn Barber, Observer'Engrossing from beginning to end' Vogue'Fascinating, the way all great family stories are fascinating' New York Times Book...