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Trotsky: A Biography by Robert Service
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $16.08Revolutionary practitioner, theorist, factional chief, sparkling writer, 'ladies' man' (e.g., his affair with Frieda Kahlo), icon of the Revolution, anti-Jewish Jew, philosopher of everyday life,... -
Operation Heartbreak by Duff Cooper 9781903155417
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $20.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903155417Author Duff CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint -
The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951 by Lord John Julius Norwich
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.83The long awaited and highly revealing diaries of the politician, diplomat, and socialite (married to Lady Diana Cooper)'This is a fabulous, jaw-dropping read' SUNDAY TIMES'Duff Cooper was as close to... -
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa Adam Hochschild 9781035038817
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, Adam Hochschild's King Leopold's Ghost is the true and haunting account of Leopold's brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. In the late nineteenth... -
![Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca by Ferdinand Mount 9781472991980 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9687649/10704365/9781472991980__43493.1781309051.jpg?c=1 "Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca by Ferdinand Mount 9781472991980 [USED COPY]")
Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca by Ferdinand Mount 9781472991980 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $2.96'Grimly funny and superbly written, with a twist on every page' - Hilary Mantel'Delightfully compulsive and unforgettably original' - Hadley Freeman'Wonderful, funny and wise' - Kate... -
Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca by Ferdinand Mount 9781472991980
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28'Grimly funny and superbly written, with a twist on every page' - Hilary Mantel 'Delightfully compulsive and unforgettably original' - Hadley Freeman 'Wonderful, funny and wise' - Kate... -
Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2022 A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2022 _______________ 'Rigorous, deft and entertaining ... a sparkling read' - The Spectator 'The ride is... -
Secrets of the Human Body by Dr. Chris van Tulleken
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10206 bones. One heart. Two eyes. Ten fingers. You may think you know what makes up a human. But it turns out our bodies are full of surprises. What makes tears of... -
![Edith Sitwell by Victoria Glendinning 9780192813695 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9966293/10982735/9780192813695__33370.1786557756.jpg?c=1 "Edith Sitwell by Victoria Glendinning 9780192813695 [USED COPY]")
Edith Sitwell by Victoria Glendinning 9780192813695 [USED COPY]
RRP: $9.31Booksplease Price: $3.97This vivid and sympathetic portrait, winner of both the Duff Cooper Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography, draws on Edith Sitwell's brilliantly funny and often outrageous... -
Gulag: A History by Ms Anne Applebaum
RRP: $32.16Booksplease Price: $22.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Duff Cooper Prize 2003 and Pulitzer Prize 2004. Short-listed for Mark Lynton History Prize 2004 and... -
![The Discovery of France by Graham Robb 9780330427616 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9705930/10722626/9780330427616__88212.1781363079.jpg?c=1 "The Discovery of France by Graham Robb 9780330427616 [USED COPY]")
The Discovery of France by Graham Robb 9780330427616 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $3.39Illuminating, engrossing and full of surprises, The Discovery of France is a literary exploration of a country few will recognize; from maps and migration to magic, language and landscape, it's a... -
Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps by Anne Applebaum
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66This landmark book uncovers for the first time in detail one of the greatest horrors of the twentieth century: the vast system of Soviet camps that were responsible for the deaths of countless... -
Virginia Woolf: A Biography by Quentin Bell
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.17As the nephew of Virginia Woolf, Quentin Bell enjoyed an initimacy with his subject granted to few biographers. Originally published in two volumes in 1972, his acclaimed biography describes Virginia... -
Other People's Countries: A Journey into Memory by Patrick McGuinness 9780099587033
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Winner of the 2014 Duff Cooper PrizeWinner of the 2015 Welsh Book of the Year AwardShortlisted for the 2015 James Tait Black Memorial PrizeShortlisted for the 2015 PEN Ackerley prize Longlisted for... -
Federico Garcia Lorca: A Life by Ian Gibson
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.06Known primarily as a poet and dramatist, Spanish writer Federico Garcia Lorca published four books before his early death in the Spanish Civil War. This biography gives an account of his family, his... -
Trumpets from the Steep by Diana Cooper 9781784873028
Booksplease Price: $15.53This last volume of Lady Diana Cooper's memoirs covers the years of the Second World War and its aftermath, when her husband Duff Cooper served as Minister of Information and then in various diplomat... -
![Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century by Mark Mazower 9780140241594 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/10102775/11119120/9780140241594__99785.1788328507.jpg?c=1 "Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century by Mark Mazower 9780140241594 [USED COPY]")
Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century by Mark Mazower 9780140241594 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.50From award-winning historian Mark Mazower, Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century retells the story of a century of division, charting the struggles of rival ideologies to create a new world... -
The Secret State: Preparing For The Worst 1945 - 2010 by Peter Hennessy
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.66Peter Hennessy's The Secret State: Preparing for the Worst 1945-2010 is the story of secret government plans for combatting attacks on Britain, from the Cold War to modern counter-terrorism. Now... -
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin Sue Prideaux 9780571365944
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.08A TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, ECONOMIST, NEW STATESMAN AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2025SHORTLISTED... -
A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.67Diarmaid MacCulloch's epic, acclaimed history A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years follows the story of Christianity around the globe, from ancient Palestine to contemporary... -
The Prime Minister: The Office And Its Holders Since 1945 by Peter Hennessy
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.27In The Prime Minister: the Office and its Holders since 1945, Peter Hennessy explores the formal powers of the Prime Minister and how each incumbent has made the job his or her own. Drawing on... -
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The Oxford Book of War Poetry by Jon Stallworthy 9780192825841 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $3.46This anthology of 250 war poems was first published in 1988 to coincide with the 70th Anniversary of the Armistice of 1918. They range from Homer and the Bible to John Betjeman, Randell Jarrell,... -
Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700 by Diarmaid MacCulloch
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.80'A masterpiece ... In its field it is the best book ever' GuardianWinner of the Wolfson Prize for history, Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700 charts a seismic shift in European culture... -
The Light of Common Day by Diana Cooper
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04Lady Diana Cooper had been famous from her earliest youth, the subject of gossip and adoration as the queen of the 'Coterie', an exclusive high society set. Her marriage to Duff Cooper, a rising... -
Never Again: Britain 1945-1951 by Peter Hennessy
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.66Winner of the Duff Cooper PrizeWinner of the NCR Award for Non-Fiction From the high politics of Court and Cabinet room to the kitchen or the queue, Peter Hennessy's Never Again: Britain 1945-51, the... -
The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, its Regions and their Peoples by David Gilmour
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.66The book that explains the whole extraordinary course of Italian history like no other in English The Pursuit of Italy traces the whole history of the Italian peninsula in a wonderfully readable... -
Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.37Infamous as the inspiration for the novel which slowly corrupts Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray, Joris-Karl Huysmans' Against Nature (A Rebours) is translated by Robert Baldick with an introduction by... -
Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe by Mark Mazower
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.27Mark Mazower's Hitler's Empire is a provocative account of the rise and fall of Nazi Europe by one of Britain's leading historians. Hitler's empire was the largest, most brutal and most ambitious... -
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $15.79Winner of the Duff Cooper and Lionel Gelber prizesIn 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating ... -
De Gaulle by Julian Jackson 9781913368784
Booksplease Price: $17.98Charles de Gaulle, saviour of France's honour in 1940 and founder of the Fifth Republic, was a man and leader of deep contradictions. A conservative and a Catholic from a monarchist family, he... -
Cries Unheard by Gitta Sereny 9781447266587
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $21.13Renowned journalist and biographer Gitta Sereny covered the Mary Bell case in the 1960s and wrote about it at the time. Mary, then eleven, was charged and subsequently convicted of the manslaughter... -
How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer by Sarah Bakewell
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love? How to live? This question obsessed Renaissance nobleman Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92), who... -
Hans Christian Andersen: The Life of a Storyteller by Jackie Wullschlager
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $18.56The first English language biographer to have returned to the original Danish sources, Wullshlager creates a fascinating picture of Andersen as a deeply troubled man, as far from Danny Kaye's... -
Silence: A Christian History by Diarmaid MacCulloch
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65This book unravels a polyphony of silences from the history of Christianity and beyond. MacCulloch considers Judaeo-Christian borrowings from Greek explorations of the divine, and the silences which... -
Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth by Gitta Sereny 9780330346979
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.10'A masterpiece . . . a contribution to the effort of recuperation of human dignity at the end of this atrocious century . . . This is the account Joan of Arc would have given if she had been charged... -
In These Times: Living in Britain through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815 by Jenny Uglow
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.06Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper PrizeAs the Napoleonic wars raged, what was life really like for those left at home? Award-winning social historian Jenny Uglow reveals the colourful and turbulent... -
Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century by Graham Robb
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.78In Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century, award-winning author Graham Robb explores the story - and history - of male and female homosexuality in the UK and US, uncovering elements... -
From the Holy Mountain: A Journey In The Shadow of Byzantium by William Dalrymple 9780006547747
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.84A rich blend of history and spirituality, adventure and politics, laced with the thread of black comedy familiar to readers of William Dalrymple's previous work. In AD 587, two monks, John... -
Bitter Lemons of Cyprus by Lawrence Durrell
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Lose yourself in this classic prize-winning memoir of life in 1950s Cyprus on the brink of revolution by the legendary king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu... -
The Erotomaniac by Ian Gibson
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Henry Spencer Ashbee seemed a prosperous and respectable Victorian gentleman. But his well-upholstered chambers in Gray's Inn concealed a shocking secret: a vast collection of erotica and...