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Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74Cleopatra's palace shimmered with onyx and gold but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world... -
Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £14.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316001946Author Stacy SchiffFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint < -
Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff 9780316120449
Booksplease Price: £36.52The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt.Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold, but... -
The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.57'An oppressive, forensic, psychological thriller: J.K. Rowling meets Antony Beevor, Stephen King and Marina Warner ... Schiff's writing is to die for' THE TIMESIt began in 1692, over an exceptionally... -
Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff 9780316001922
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Literary Award (Biography) 2011. Commended for Indies Choice Book Awards (Nonfiction) 2011.Book... -
The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams by Stacy Schiff 9780316441094
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, "Samuel Adams was the man." With high-minded ideals and bare-knuckle tactics, Adams led what could be called the greatest... -
The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff 9780316387743
Booksplease Price: £40.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316387743Author Stacy SchiffFormat HardbackPage Count 816Imprint -
The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff 9780316200608
Booksplease Price: £33.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316200608Author Stacy SchiffFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint -
Saint-Exupery: A Biography by Stacy Schiff 9780805079135
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £24.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805079135Author Stacy SchiffFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint < -
The Revolutionary Samuel Adams by Stacy Schiff 9780316441117
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.60A Top 10 Best Books of the Year (Wall Street Journal), Top 10 Best Nonfiction (Time), Top 5 Nonfiction (LA Times), Top 10 Books of 2022 (Fresh Air), and One of Oprah Daily's Favourite Books of 2022:... -
Vera: Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov by Stacy Schiff 9780375755347
Booksplease Price: £17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize 2000.Book InformationISBN 9780375755347Author Stacy SchiffFormat Paper -
The Witches: Suspicion, Betrayal, and Hysteria in 1692 Salem by Stacy Schiff
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £13.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316200592Author Stacy SchiffFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint < -
A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America by Stacy Schiff
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £14.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805080094Author Stacy SchiffFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint < -
Writers and Their Teachers by Dale Salwak
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £17.21By turns reflective, entertaining and moving, this book reveals how some of the most influential and best loved writers of our time were shaped by their inspirational teachers. Nobel laureate J. M... -
Cleopatra: I Am Fire and Air by Harold Bloom 9781501164170
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £9.93From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, comes an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Cleopatra-one of the Bard's most riveting and memorable female... -
The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For by David McCullough 9781501174193
Booksplease Price: £11.16A New York Times Bestseller A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States-winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the... -
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson 9780684807614
Booksplease Price: £29.61During his 84-year life Benjamin Franklin was America's best scientist, inventor, publisher, business strategist, diplomat, and writer. He was also one of its most practical political thinkers... -
Hellish Nell: Last of Britain's Witches by Malcolm Gaskill 9781802061994
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23One of the last criminal trials using the 1735 Witchcraft Act was, improbably, in London in 1944. The accused was Helen Duncan, a middle-aged Scotswoman. This is her extraordinary story.Helen Duncan... -
This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark by Craig Fehrman 9781982174248
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £22.36NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A major revisionist history of the Lewis and Clark expedition: For the first time in a generation, This Vast Enterprise offers a fresh and more accurate account of one of... -
A Benjamin Franklin Reader: The Autobiography by Walter Isaacson 9780743273985
Booksplease Price: £16.42A selection of Benjamin Franklin's writings, with an introduction and commentary by renowned author Walter Isaacson.Selected and annotated by the author of the acclaimed Benjamin Franklin: An... -
Benjamin Franklin in London: The British Life of America's Founding Father George Goodwin 9781780227351
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Sensitive, moving and finely textured' Guardian'Fantastic' Dan SnowFor the great majority of his long life, Benjamin Franklin was a loyal British royalist. In 1757, having made his fortune in... -
Lady Romeo: The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America's First Celebrity by Tana Wojczuk 9781501199530
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £11.13Finalist for a Lambda Literary Award Finalist for the Publishing Triangle's Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction Finalist for the Marfield Prize For fans of Book of Ages and American Eve, this... -
Every Valley: The Story of Handel’s Messiah Charles King 9781847928450
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53Every Valley is the cinematic and moving true story that lies behind the creation of one of the greatest pieces of music ever written, Handel's Messiah.'A mesmerizing journey [through] one of the... -
The Good Kings: Absolute Power in Ancient Egypt and the Modern World by Kara Cooney
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.42Written in the tradition of historians like Mary Beard and Stacy Schiff who find modern lessons in ancient history, this provocative narrative explores the lives of five remarkable pharaohs who ruled... -
Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder by Matthew Pearl 9780063338074
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the bestselling author of The Taking of Jemima Boone, the unbelievable true story of a real-life Swiss Family Robinson (and their dog) who faced sharks, shipwreck, and... -
Rachel to the Rescue Elinor Lipman 9781785632556
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05Rachel Klein is sacked from her job at the White House after she sends an email criticising Donald Trump. As she is escorted off the premises she is hit by a speeding car, driven by what the press... -
America's Collection: Art and Architecture of the Diplomatic Reception Rooms at the U.S. Department of State, The by Virginia Hart 9780847873272
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £59.83The first volume in more than 20 years tells a new and modern story of the U.S. State Department s Diplomatic Reception Rooms, one of the top collections of American fine and decorative arts in... -
The Shadow in the Garden: A Biographer's Tale by James Atlas
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.35The biographer - so often in the shadows, kibbitzing, casting doubt, proving facts - here comes to the stage.James Atlas takes us back to his childhood in suburban Chicago, where he fell in love with... -
We Are As Gods: Back to the Land in the 1970s on the Quest for a New America by Kate Daloz
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.72At the dawn of the 1970s, waves of hopeful idealists abandoned the city and headed for the country, convinced that a better life awaited. They were full of dreams, mostly lacking in practical skills,... -
Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature by Elizabeth Winkler 9781982171278
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02An "extraordinarily brilliant" and "pleasurably naughty" (Andre Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became... -
The Men Who United the States by Simon Winchester 9780007532407
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.86From bestselling author Simon Winchester, the extraordinary story of how America was united into a single nation. For more than two centuries, E pluribus unum - out of many, one - has been... -
The Many Lives of Anne Frank Ruth Franklin 9780300248128
Booksplease Price: £23.99A revealing biography of Anne Frank, exploring both her life and the impact of her extraordinary diary In this innovative biography, Ruth Franklin explores the transformation of Anne Frank... -
Taking Manhattan: The Invention of the World's Greatest City by Russell Shorto 9780393881165
Booksplease Price: £23.21In 1664, England decided to invade the Dutch-controlled city of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. Charles II and his brother, the Duke of York, had dreams of empire and their arch-rivals, the Dutch,... -
Truevine: An Extraordinary True Story of Two Brothers and a Mother's Love by Beth Macy
Booksplease Price: £9.26In Truevine, Virginia, in 1899 everyone the Muse brothers knew was either a former slave, or a child or grandchild of slaves. George and Willie Muse were just six and nine years old, but they worked... -
Taking Manhattan Russell Shorto 9781800754966
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.80In 1664, England decided to invade the Dutch-controlled city of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. Charles II and his brother, the Duke of York, had dreams of empire, and their arch-rivals, the... -
The Red Man's Bones: George Catlin, Artist and Showman by Benita Eisler 9780393066166
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.63George Catlin has been called the "first artist of the West," as none before him lived among and painted the Native American tribes of the Northern Plains. After a false start as a painter of... -
Nicolas Nabokov: A Life in Freedom and Music by Vincent Giroud 9780199399895
Booksplease Price: £44.66Composer and cultural official Nicolas Nabokov (1903-78) led an unusual life even for a composer who was also a high-level diplomat. Nabokov was for nearly three decades an outstanding and... -
When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-44 Ronald Rosbottom 9781848547391
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.88In May and June 1940 almost four million people fled Paris and its suburbs in anticipation of a German invasion. On June 14, the German Army tentatively entered the silent and eerily empty French... -
Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back by Janice P. Nimura 9780393352788
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.21In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help nurture a new generation of enlightened men to lead Japan... -
The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty John Seabrook 9781324003526
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.98"Having left this material for his writer son, my father must have wanted the story told, even if he couldn't bear to tell it himself." So begins the multigenerational story of a forgotten American...