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Emblem by Lucy Mercer 9781913513221
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.96Emblem is the debut collection from Lucy Mercer, winner of the inaugural White Review Poet's Prize. This is a book of ecological poetics, interested in exploring the changing symbols of the natural... -
Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd: Eleanor's Rival, FDR's Other Love by Christine M. Totten
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £29.69What more could there be to know about FDR, given how exhaustively his life has been written about? As it happens, there is more and that focuses on Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, the queen of her... -
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY SUMMER 2022 BULLETIN by Alice Mullen 9781913129408
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.44The quarterly poetry magazine of the Poetry Book Society, founded by T.S. Eliot. Featuring poems, reviews and exclusive interviews from Choice Poet Lucy Mercer and Recommended Poets Victoria Adukwei... -
FDR's Funeral Train: A Betrayed Widow, a Soviet Spy, and a Presidency in the Balance by Robert Klara 9780230108035
Booksplease Price: £13.15In April 1945, the funeral train carrying the body of Franklin D. Roosevelt embarked on a three-day, thousand-mile odyssey through nine states before reaching the president's home where he was buried... -
Baroness of Hobcaw: The Life of Belle W. Baruch by Mary E. Miller 9781570036552
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £36.40Daughter of the ""Wolf of Wall Street,"" Belle Baruch (1899-1964) could outride, outshoot, outhunt, and outsail most of the young men of her elite social circle. Unapologetic for her athleticism and... -
Lucy by Ellen Feldman 9780393325102
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.06On the eve of World War I, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Delano Roosevelt, fiercely ambitious and still untouched by polio, falls in love with his wife's social secretary, Lucy Mercer... -
The Three Graces of Val-Kill: Eleanor Roosevelt, Marion Dickerman, and Nancy Cook in the Place They Made Their Own by Emily Herring Wilson 9781469635835
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02The Three Graces of Val-Kill changes the way we think about Eleanor Roosevelt. Wilson examines what she calls the most formative period in Roosevelt's life, from 1922 to 1936, when she cultivated an... -
PROTOTYPE 6 by Jess Chandler 9781913513566
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £10.48The sixth instalment of Prototype's annual anthology: a space for new work, open to all and free from formal guidelines or restrictions. Poetry, prose, visual work and experiments in between... -
Sex with Presidents: The Ins and Outs of Love and Lust in the White House by Eleanor Herman 9780063021914
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.78In this fascinating work of popular history, the New York Times bestselling author of Sex with Kings and The Royal Art of Poison uncovers the bedroom secrets of American presidents and explores the... -
Try To Be Better by 9781916052000
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.96Try To Be Better is a multi-disciplinary engagement with the idiosyncratic creative practice of W. S. Graham, foregrounding experiment and process. Contemporary writers and artists respond to prompts... -
Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage by Hazel Rowley 9780312610630
Booksplease Price: £20.45Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt's marriage is one of the most celebrated and scrutinized partnerships in presidential history. It raised eyebrows in their lifetimes and has only become more... -
PROTOTYPE 2 Jess Chandler 9781913513030
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.96The 2nd issue of Prototype's annual anthology: a space for new work, open to all and free from formal guidelines or restrictions. Poetry, prose, visual work and experiments in between.With... -
Spells: 21st Century Occult Poetry Sarah Shin 9781739371739
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Spell-poems take us into a realm where words can influence the universe.Spells brings together over forty contemporary voices exploring the territory where justice, selfhood and the imagination meet... -
FDR and Lucy: Lovers and Friends Resa Willis (Drury University) 9780415980135
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £25.84The last face FDR saw before he died was that of Lucy Mercer Rutherford, his mistress of thirty-one years. Although Eleanor, his children, and the press knew about Lucy, the American public would not...