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An Unquiet Heart by Martin Sixsmith
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.61From the bestselling author of Philomena comes a beautiful and heartbreaking tale about Sergei Yesenin, one of Russia's most beloved poets. It vividly captures the extraordinary life of a man... -
Despots by Martin Sixsmith 9780753562437
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $34.77A razor-sharp analysis of the increasing - and terrifying - parallels between Trump's America and Putin's Russia, from the former BBC Moscow Correspondent and Sunday Times bestselling author Martin... -
An Unquiet Heart by Martin Sixsmith 9781471149795
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $30.541917. Russia is dying amid war, revolution and terror. The birth pains of the new world are a foretaste of the cruellest century. At their heart is Sergei Yesenin, 22, a poet, lover, wounded veteran,... -
An Unquiet Heart by Martin Sixsmith 9781471149818 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $5.62From the bestselling author of Philomena comes a beautiful and heartbreaking tale about Sergei Yesenin, one of Russia's most beloved poets. It vividly captures the extraordinary life of a man... -
Russia: A 1,000-Year Chronicle of the Wild East by Martin Sixsmith
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $35.11Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist'. In this riveting history, Martin Sixsmith shows... -
Russia: A 1,000 Year Chronicle of the Wild East by Martin Sixsmith 9781468305012
RRP: $52.24Booksplease Price: $36.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781468305012Author Martin SixsmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 611Imprint -
Putin and the Return of History: How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War by Martin Sixsmith 9781399409872
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $30.44An original history of Russia's thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Putin's politics and rekindled the Cold War. Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has reshaped... -
Philomena: The True Story of a Mother and the Son She Had to Give Away (Film Tie-in Edition) by Martin Sixsmith
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $15.73Inspiring the film starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan, and directed by Stephen Frears, Philomena is the tale of a mother and a son whose lives were scarred by the forces of hypocrisy on both sides... -
Philomena: The True Story of a Mother and the Son She Had to Give Away (Film Tie-in Edition) by Martin Sixsmith 9781447245223 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $5.57The extraordinary true story that inspired an acclaimed film starring Steve Coogan and Judi Dench, Philomena, by Martin Sixsmith, is a gripping tale of heartache, hypocrisy and ultimately, redemption... -
The Undesirables: The Law that Locked Away a Generation Sarah Wise 9780861549795
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.40Through the early twentieth century, the British Government locked away over 50,000 innocent people. Their 'crimes'? Being poor and unyielding. This is their story. 'Staggering... Wise's book... -
Devil's Child by Jerry A. Coyne
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.21Deserted by his mother and abandoned by his father at just three months old, Jerry Coyne was sent to live in a Catholic children's home run by nuns of the order of the Sisters of Nazareth. Life soon... -
A Short History of Russia by Mark Galeotti
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $22.51'Fascinating... One of the most astute political commentators on Putin and modern Russia' Financial Times'An amazing achievement' Peter FrankopanCan anyone truly understand Russia?Russia is a country... -
Empty Cradles (Oranges and Sunshine) by Margaret Humphreys
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $20.97THE BOOK THAT EXPOSED THE HEARTBREAKING SCANDAL OF BRITAIN'S FORGOTTEN AND ABUSED CHILD MIGRANTS - now a film, Oranges and Sunshine, starring Emily Watson.In 1986 Margaret Humphreys, a Nottingham... -
Empty Cradles (Oranges and Sunshine) by Margaret Humphreys 9780552165327 [USED COPY]
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $5.74THE BOOK THAT EXPOSED THE HEARTBREAKING SCANDAL OF BRITAIN'S FORGOTTEN AND ABUSED CHILD MIGRANTS - now a film, Oranges and Sunshine, starring Emily Watson.In 1986 Margaret Humphreys, a Nottingham... -
The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames: A Foundling's Story by Justine Cowan
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.09The true story of a foundling. 'Extraordinary ... A fascinating, moving book: part history of the Foundling Hospital and the development of child psychology, part Cowan's own story, and part that of... -
The Lost Pianos of Siberia: A Sunday Times Paperback of 2021 by Sophy Roberts
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.40A SUNDAY TIMES BEST PAPERBACK OF 2021* Shortlisted for the 2021 Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year prize* A critically-acclaimed Sunday Times, Spectator and Independent Book of 2020* Now with... -
The Girl Behind the Gates: A raw, heart-breaking historical novel based on a true story that will stay with you for ever by Brenda Davies
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $7.38Perfect for fans of THE GIRL IN THE LETTER and PHILOMENA, this gripping, heartbreaking novel based on a true story will grab hold of your heart and never let go.1939. Seventeen-year-old Nora Jennings... -
The Girl With No Name: Heartbreaking, emotional and gripping historical fiction by Reine Andrieu 9781529384215 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $5.36Heartbreaking. Gripping. Terribly captivating.'Read it in one sitting!' ***** Madeleine, Amazon reviewerShe may not remember her name,but her body knows.1940. When a French family is forced to house... -
Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, the Berlin Wall and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth Iain MacGregor 9781408715420
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $22.04With a foreword by William Boyd'Gripping and revelatory' Tom Holland'As convoluted and deadly as the plot of a novel by John le Carre, but all too real' Daily Mail, Must Reads'With a gripping... -
The Girls Left Behind: A home for troubled children; a lifetime of hidden secrets. The BRAND NEW novel from the bestselling author by Emily Gunnis 9781472272096
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.09NO ONE WANTED TO END UP AT MORGATE HOUSE. BUT THE GIRLS HAD NOWHERE ELSE TO GO . . . 'The thrilling, heartbreaking, and shocking story of dark secrets, twisted lives, lies, and manipulation. The... -
The Russia Conundrum: One man’s fight to save his country’s soul by Mikhail Khodorkovsky 9780753559253
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.42'I'm a fairly calm fellow; I don't usually get het up about things. But I was, let's say, concerned when I tuned into the Moscow Echo radio station and heard that the Kremlin had put a price on my... -
The Russia Conundrum: How the West Fell For Putin's Power Gambit - and How to Fix It by Mikhail Khodorkovsky
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $46.48'I'm a fairly calm fellow; I don't usually get het up about things. But I was, let's say, concerned when I tuned into the Moscow Echo radio station and heard that the Kremlin had put a price on my... -
Catherine the Great and Potemkin: Power, Love and the Russian Empire Simon Sebag Montefiore 9781474614832
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $24.99'One of the great love stories of history, in a league with Napoleon and Josephine, and Antony and Cleopatra ... Excellent, with dazzling mastery of detail and literary flair' EconomistIt was... -
The Romanovs: 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.70The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did... -
The Romanovs: 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore 9781474600873 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $6.02The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did... -
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar Simon Sebag Montefiore 9781474614818
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.70Winner of the British Book Awards History Book of the YearLonglisted for the Samuel Johnson PrizeThis thrilling biography of Stalin and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme... -
A Nasty Little War: The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution Anna Reid 9781529326789
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $22.04'Chillingly original' Max Hastings'Brilliantly depicts a disastrous failure' Antony Beevor'Witty and elegant . . . Excellent background to today's events' Anne Applebaum'Britain's most forgotten war,... -
Sleeping Beauties: A gripping serial-killer thriller packed with tension and mystery (An Inspector Tom Reynolds Mystery Book 3) Jo Spain 9781786483942
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $19.09THE THIRD TOM REYNOLDS MYSTERY FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE PERFECT LIEAs he scanned the glade, his stomach lurched. One, two, three, four. Five, counting the mound of earth... -
A Nasty Little War: The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution by Anna Reid 9781529326765
RRP: $59.50Booksplease Price: $42.08A BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Chillingly original' Max Hastings'A vivid and sparkling account, full of colour and dark drama' Observer'Brilliantly depicts a disastrous failure' Antony... -
FRONTLINE: Saving Lives in War, Disaster and Disease by Dr Tony Redmond
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.16A heroic doctor's unflinchingly honest and visceral tale of impossible choices in emergency medicine. 'A brilliant insight into the forgotten heroes at the sharp end of... -
FRONTLINE: How to Save Lives in War, Disaster and Disease by Dr Tony Redmond
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $35.56A heroic doctor's unflinchingly honest and visceral tale of impossible choices in emergency medicine. 'A brilliant insight into the forgotten heroes at the sharp end of... -
Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost the War by Jonathan Dimbleby
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER'The best single-volume account of the Barbarossa campaign to date' Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny'A page-turning descent into Hell and... -
I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust Julian Borger 9781399803311
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.09'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'... -
I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust by Julian Borger 9781399803304
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $36.27'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... -
Who Lost Russia?: How the World Entered a New Cold War by Peter Conradi
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.42'A must read for anyone interested in the future of Europe and the world as a whole.' Serhii Plokhy, author of The Last Empire An essential insight into Russia's relations with Ukraine, the US and...