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Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford by Jessica Mitford 9798217008117
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798217008117Author Jessica MitfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random... -
Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford Jessica Mitford 9781399601238
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.68The captivating letters by the most idiosyncratic, witty and irrepressible of the notorious Mitford sisters.Here's what readers are saying:'It is both laugh-out-loud funny and enthralling' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'A... -
The American Prison Business by Jessica Mitford
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £106.11First published in 1974, The American Prison Business studies the lunacies, the delusions, and the bizarre inner workings of the American prison business. From the first demonstration that the... -
Hons and Rebels by Professor Jessica Mitford
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £12.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590171103Author Professor Jessica MitfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint New York Review of... -
The American Prison Business Jessica Mitford 9781032355566
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.04First published in 1974, The American Prison Business studies the lunacies, the delusions, and the bizarre inner workings of the American prison business. From the first demonstration that the... -
The American Way of Death Revisited by Jessica Mitford 9780679771869
Booksplease Price: £13.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679771869Author Jessica MitfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random... -
Hons and Rebels: The Mitford Family Memoir by Jessica Mitford
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'This book is just about my favourite book of all time ... I'm not entirely convinced I could like somebody who didn't like this book ... it's funny and moving and gives you an insight into this... -
The American Way Of Death Revisited Jessica Mitford 9781860497629
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26In the early 1960s this classic work of investigative journalism was a number one bestseller. The savage and hilarious analysis of America's funeral practices rocked the industry and shocked the... -
Irrepressible: The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford by Leslie Brody 9781582437675
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582437675Author Leslie BrodyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint CounterpointPublisher... -
The Mitford Vanishing: Jessica Mitford and the case of the disappearing soldier by Jessica Fellowes
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.93A classic mystery starring the glamorous Mitford sisters and inspired real events, The Mitford Vanishing is the perfect story for fans of Agatha Christie.1937. War with Germany is dawning, and a... -
Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford Carla Kaplan 9781805265375
Booksplease Price: £25.94From British country homes to Republican Spain and civil rights America, the inspiring, wildly entertaining story of Jessica Mitford--investigative journalist, radical activist, renegade aristocrat. ... -
Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford by Carla Kaplan 9780061578946
Booksplease Price: £30.23Troublemaker tells the wild and unlikely story of Jessica Mitford, fifth of the six famous Mitford Girls, a British aristocrat-turned-American Communist, famous for exposes like The American Way of... -
The Mitford Vanishing: Jessica Mitford and the case of the disappearing sister Jessica Fellowes 9780751580617
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40A classic mystery starring the glamorous Mitford sisters and inspired real events, The Mitford Vanishing is the perfect story for fans of Agatha Christie.1937. War with Germany is dawning, and a... -
The Horror of Love: Nancy Mitford and Gaston Palewski in Paris and London Lisa Hilton 9780753827734
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42The compelling love story of two extraordinary individuals - Nancy Mitford and Free French commander Gaston Palewski - living in extraordinary times - immortalised in THE PURSUIT OF LOVE'A delicious... -
The Mitford Girls' Guide to Life by Lyndsy Spence
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31The six Mitford girls were blessed with beauty, wit and talent, yet they led very distinct, cultural lives and not one sister, except for Diana and Unity, shared the same opinion or ideology. Nancy... -
The Party Girls Amy Rosenthal 9781839044755
Booksplease Price: £9.27The glamorous Mitford girls cut a glorious swathe through pre-war high society, amidst the glittering world of debutantes and dukes. But as fascism rises and political storm clouds crackle over... -
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty 9780393351903
Booksplease Price: £9.78Armed with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre, Caitlin Doughty took a job at a crematory and turned morbid curiosity into her life's work. She cared for bodies of every color,... -
Muv: The Story of the Mitford Girls' Mother Rachel Trethewey 9781803997803
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £16.44'Rachel Trethewey has done the seemingly impossible in a book about the Mitfords: she has found something original to say, thanks to her excellent scholarship, and has written Muv's story... -
The Downton Era: Great Houses, Churchills, and Mitfords by Nancy C. Parrish 9781838592103
Booksplease Price: £11.29Who was the most beautiful woman in England in the twentieth century - and why did she become the most hated woman? Who spent GBP500,000 to remodel her house for a king's weekend visit? What country... -
The Mighty Franks: A Memoir by Michael Frank
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE 2018 JQ WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE ... -
An Uneasy Inheritance: My Family and Other Radicals by Polly Toynbee 9781838958374
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Fascinating' Spectator'Entertaining' Sunday Times'Enthralling' Guardian'Beautiful, funny and moving' Daily Mail'Compelling and moving' Observer'Replete with vivid - often hilarious, often shocking -... -
Images of Aging: Cultural Representations of Later Life Mike Featherstone 9780415112598
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.80We all have a finite life-span. We are born, we get old and we die. Given the universiality of the ageing process, it is remarkable that there is almost a complete absence of study of culture and... -
The Mitford Girls: The Biography of an Extraordinary Family by Mary S. Lovell 9780349115054
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50'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... -
Encyclopedia of Death and Dying Glennys Howarth 9780415757577
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £53.24In recent years there has been a massive upsurge in academic, professional and lay interest in mortality. This is reflected in academic and professional literature, in the popular media and in the... -
British Women and the Spanish Civil War Angela Jackson 9781138008571
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94Through oral and written narratives, this book examines the interaction between women and the war in Spain, their motivation, the distinctive form of their involvment and the effect of the war on... -
Crime Control As Industry: Towards Gulags, Western Style Nils Christie 9781138690127
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.74Crime Control As Industry, translated into many languages, is a modern classic of criminology and sociology. Nils Christie, one of the leading criminologists of his era, argues that crime control,... -
Managing Overflow in Affluent Societies by Barbara Czarniawska 9780415754514
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £46.08"It is simply too much" is a common complaint of the modern age. This book looks at how people and institutions deal with overflow - of information, consumption or choices. The essays explore the... -
One Nation Under God?: Religion and American Culture Marjorie Garber 9780415922241
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.89One Nation Under God? is a remarkable consideration of how religion manifests itself in America today.About the AuthorMarjorie Garber is the William R Kenan, Jr Professor of English and Director of... -
Visual Interface Design for Digital Cultural Heritage: A Guide to Rich-Prospect Browsing by Stan Ruecker 9781138250307
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Browsing for information is a significant part of most research activity, but many online collections hamper browsing with interfaces that are variants on a search box. Research shows that... -
Death, Dying, and Bereavement in a Changing World Alan Kemp 9781138301528
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.34In this introductory text on thanatology, Alan Kemp continues to take on the central question of mortality: the centrality of death coupled with the denial of death in the human experience. Drawing... -
My Father's Wake: How the Irish Teach Us to Live, Love and Die Kevin Toolis 9781474605243
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £5.87Death is a whisper in the Anglo-Saxon world. But on a remote island, off the coast of County Mayo, it has a louder voice. The local radio station runs a thrice-daily roll-call of the recently... -
Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era by Dan Berger 9781469629797
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.62In this pathbreaking book, Dan Berger offers a bold reconsideration of twentieth century black activism, the prison system, and the origins of mass incarceration. Throughout the civil rights era,... -
Among You Taking Notes... Naomi Mitchison 9781399602518
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50'As in a good novel, the people, their feelings and reactions are instantly recognisable and as fresh and immediate today as they were then' GUARDIAN'She writes vividly and movingly' DAILY... -
From Here to Eternity: Travelling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty
Booksplease Price: £5.30As a practising mortician, Caitlin Doughty has long been fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies. In From Here to Eternity she sets out in search of cultures unburdened by such fears. With... -
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: And Other Questions About Dead Bodies by Caitlin Doughty
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.77Can we give Grandma a Viking funeral?Why don't animals dig up all the graves?Will my hair keep growing in my coffin after I'm buried?Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of... -
Alanbrooke War Diaries 1939-1945: Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke by Lord Alanbrooke
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.86'These are almost certainly the last secrets to be unlocked about the British high command in World War II' DAILY MAIL'Superb' SPECTATOR'A fascinating daily snapshot of the direction of the greatest... -
The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951 by Lord John Julius Norwich
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56The 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... -
The Noel Coward Diaries: With a Foreword by Stephen Fry Sheridan Morley 9781398709218
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38'A gold mine of gossip with a cast of thousands' GUARDIANThe unexpurgated diaries of one of the greatest, most talented, and wittily flamboyant characters of the 20th century - with a new... -
Women's Voices from the Spanish Civil War by Jim Fyrth 9781905007875
Booksplease Price: £19.72Perhaps more than any other war in the twentieth century, the Spanish Civil War was seen as a 'writers' war' - names such as Hemingway and Orwell spring to mind. But the women who went to Spain and... -
The Harold Nicolson Diaries: 1907-1964 Harold Nicolson 9780753819975
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50One of the great 20th century political diaries'A tremendous read' SPECTATOR'One stops to marvel at the achievement. Honesty, decency, modesty, magnanimity, are stamped on every page, as evident as...