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Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber: The Extraordinary Life of Rose Dugdale by Sean O'Driscoll
RRP: £10.99£6.56'Fascinating . . . O'Driscoll's research is impressive' Ben Macintyre, The Times_____The astonishing story of the English heiress who devoted her life to the IRAShe grew up in a Chelsea townhouse and on a Devon estate.She was presented to the Queen at... -
The Code Book: The Secret History of Codes and Code-breaking by Dr. Simon Singh 9781857028898
RRP: £10.99£6.10The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography From the best-selling author of Fermat's Last Theorem, The Code Book is a history of man's urge to uncover the secrets of codes, from Egyptian puzzles to modern day computer... -
Veni, Vidi, Vici: Everything you ever wanted to know about the Romans but were afraid to ask by Peter Jones
RRP: £10.99£6.17The Romans left a long-lasting legacy and their influence can still be seen all around us - from our calendar and coins, to our language and laws - but how much do we really know about them? Help is at hand in the form of Veni, Vidi, Vici, which tells... -
Cambridge IGCSE and O Level History Study and Revision Guide, Second Edition by Benjamin Harrison 9781398375062
RRP: £15.99£13.47New edition to match the revised Cambridge IGCSE (TM), IGCSE (9-1) and O Level syllabuses (0470/0977/2147) for examination from 2024.Reinforce knowledge and skills using a concise summary of the syllabus content and step-by-step support from an... -
The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment by Amelia Gentleman
RRP: £10.99£6.17A NEW STATESMAN AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITINGLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZEA searing portrait of Britain's hostile environment by the journalist behind the Windrush expose. 'A timely... -
Fate is the Hunter by Ernest K. Gann
RRP: £10.99£6.56The copper-bottomed classic from a memorable and courageous pilot.FATE IS THE HUNTER is a fascinating and thrilling account of some of the more memorable experiences Ernest K Gann had in the air. He's flown in both peace and war and come close to death... -
New Grade 9-1 GCSE History AQA Topic Guide - Elizabethan England, c1568-1603 by CGP Books
RRP: £6.50£4.89For AQA 9-1 GCSE History exam success, don't miss CGP's fantastic Topic Guide covering Elizabethan England (c1568-1603). It's packed with crystal-clear revision notes, heaps of activities, interpretations and exam-style questions (with answers) - perfect... -
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
RRP: £9.99£5.98The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deepThe revolutionary writings of Audre Lorde gave voice to those 'outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women'. ... -
A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, death and defiance in Ukraine by Andrew Harding 9781804185025
RRP: £10.99£6.32'Extraordinary.' Philippe Sands'We are touched by the courage and dignity of Andrew Harding's characters - qualities that the author must surely possess in equal measure.' - Andrey Kurkov'A story of extraordinary heroism by ordinary people. - James... -
The Avro Lancaster: Wwii's Most Successful Heavy Bomber by Mike Lepine
RRP: £34.95£12.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912918799Author Mike LepineFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Sona BooksPublisher Danann Media Publishing Limited -
Explorers: Amazing Tales of the World's Greatest Adventurers by Jessamy Hawke
RRP: £16.99£10.46Live and see the world through the eyes of 50 of the world's greatest explorers and their trusty companions!This book for kids is brimming with first-person accounts of gripping adventures in explorers' own words. Find exciting tales complemented by rare... -
The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End by Neil Howe
RRP: £20.00£10.82The visionary behind the bestselling phenomenon The Fourth Turning looks once again to America's past to predict our future in this startling and hopeful prophecy for how our present era of civil unrest will resolve over the next ten years-and what our... -
The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism by Martin Wolf 9780141985831
RRP: £12.99£7.73From the author of The Shifts and the Shocks, and one of the most influential writers on economics, a reckoning with how and why the relationship between democracy and capitalism is coming undone We are living in an age when economic failings have shaken... -
Storm Tide: The landmark 50th global bestseller from the one and only Master of Historical Adventure, Wilbur Smith by Wilbur Smith
RRP: £10.99£4.92BOOK 19 IN THE EPIC HISTORICAL SAGA OF THE COURTNEY FAMILY, FROM GLOBAL SENSATION WILBUR SMITH. BOOK 3 IN THE TIGER'S PREY SEQUENCE.The Courtney family is torn apart as three generations fight on opposing sides of a terrible war that will change the face... -
Resistance: The Underground War in Europe, 1939-1945 by Halik Kochanski
RRP: £20.00£12.08*WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2023**A NEW YORKER BOOK OF THE YEAR*'The best book about the subject I have ever read' Max Hastings, Sunday TimesA sweeping history of occupation and resistance in war-torn Europe, from the acclaimed author of The... -
China: An Epic Novel by Edward Rutherfurd
RRP: £10.99£3.32THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Bravo; this is a big, complex and utterly involving portrait of 19th-century China' THE TIMESThe internationally bestselling author portrays the great clash of East and West in his new epic: China China in the nineteenth... -
The Age Of Extremes: 1914-1991 by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: £16.99£4.92THE AGE OF EXTREMES is eminent historian Eric Hobsbawm's personal vision of the twentieth century. Remarkable in its scope, and breathtaking in its depth of knowledge, this immensely rewarding book reviews the uniquely destructive and creative nature of... -
Lawrence of Arabia: An in-depth glance at the life of a 20th Century legend by Ranulph Fiennes 9780241450611
RRP: £25.00£15.01The authoritative and illuminating biography of T. E. Lawrence - the man who inspired the iconic film Lawrence of Arabia - from "The World's Greatest Living Explorer" Ranulph Fiennes.Thomas Edward Lawrence first set foot on the hot sands of Arabia in... -
The Scottish Clearances: A History of the Dispossessed, 1600-1900 by T. M. Devine
RRP: £12.99£7.73'A superb book ... Anybody interested in Scottish history needs to read it' Andrew Marr, Sunday TimesEighteenth-century Scotland is famed for generating many of the enlightened ideas which helped to shape the modern world. But there was in the same... -
Why the Germans Do it Better: Notes from a Grown-Up Country by John Kampfner
RRP: £10.99£6.17***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***BOOK OF THE YEAR IN GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST & NEW STATESMAN'Excellent and provocative... a passionate, timely book.' Sunday Times'A fine new book... thoughtful, deeply reported and impeccably even-handed.' The TimesEmerging... -
Terrible Thames by Terry Deary
RRP: £7.99£4.32Keep your hands inside the boat at all times! Discover all the terrifying tales about the number one river in London with history's most horrible headlines: Terrible Thames edition. The master of making history fun,... -
The Holocaust: An Unfinished History by Dan Stone 9780241508749
RRP: £12.99£7.73'This vital history shatters many myths about the Nazi genocide . . . . surprising . . . provocative . . . fizzes with ideas. Even if you think you know the subject, you'll probably find something here to make you think' Sunday Times'Erudite..... -
The Great Game by Peter Hopkirk
RRP: £14.99£8.54For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth, Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia, fought a secret war in the lonely passes and deserts of Central Asia. Those engaged in this shadowy struggle called it 'The Great Game', a phrase... -
The Autists: women on the spectrum by Clara Törnvall
RRP: £12.99£7.26An incisive and deeply candid account that explores autistic women in culture, myth, and society through the prism of the author's own diagnosis. Until the 1980s, autism was regarded as a condition found mostly in boys. Even in our time, autistic girls... -
Hopscotch: Histories: Toby and The Great Fire Of London by Margaret Nash
RRP: £5.99£4.40Toby has forgotten a delivery for Mr Pepys, but as he sets out across London he sees the sky is full of flames! Hopscotch Histories are brand new stories in historical settings, told in under 400 words, perfect for children who are building up their... -
Augustus: From Revolutionary to Emperor by Adrian Goldsworthy
RRP: £14.99£4.39'Masterly' - Robert Harris, author of Imperium 'Essential reading for anyone interested in Ancient Rome' Independent*****Caesar Augustus schemed and fought his way to absolute power. He became Rome's first emperor and ruled for forty-four years before... -
Our Enemies will Vanish by Yaroslav Trofimov 9780241655443
RRP: £25.00£15.01A revelatory eyewitness account of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and heroism of the Ukrainian resistance by Pulitzer Prize finalist Yaroslav Trofimov, the chief foreign-affairs correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.'Reads like a great novel' SEBASTIAN... -
The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power behind Five English Thrones by Thomas Asbridge 9781471196447
RRP: £10.99£7.00'A rip-roaring new life of Marshal ... [a] splendid account of a great medieval life' Dan Jones, author of Crusaders'A thoroughly entertaining account of England's most colourful and courageous medieval knight' Sunday Times Drawing upon an array of... -
Suggs and the City: Journeys through Disappearing London by Suggs
RRP: £10.99£7.40Revelling in the off-beat and eccentric, Londoner Suggs takes us on a nostalgic adventure to explore the disappearing history of his extraordinary home town: from the sharp tailors of Saville Row to the sex traders of Bohemian Soho, by way of quaint and... -
Escape or Die: True stories of heroic escape in the Second World War by Paul Brickhill
RRP: £9.99£3.32Extraordinary times. Extraordinary courage.Here, from the bestselling author of The Great Escape, are eight true and startling escape stories from the Second World War.The heroism of the servicemen who dared to defy their captors in this volume is... -
Rebel Island: the incredible history of Taiwan by Jonathan Clements 9781915590275
RRP: £22.00£12.35The gripping story of Taiwan, from the flood myths of ancient legend to its ‘Asian Tiger’ economic miracle — and the looming threat of invasion by China. Once dismissed by the Kangxi Emperor as nothing but a ‘ball of mud’, Taiwan has a modern GDP larger... -
Everything And The Moon: Number 1 in series by Julia Quinn
RRP: £9.99£2.79Book One in the sparkling Lyndon Sisters duet, by the globally bestselling author of the Bridgerton seriesAbout the AuthorJulia Quinn started writing her first book one month after finishing university and has been tapping away at her keyboard ever since... -
Heroic Animals: 100 Amazing Creatures Great and Small by Clare Balding
RRP: £8.99£3.86THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN ORDINARY ANIMAL. EVERY ONE HAS A HEROIC STORY TO TELL. Discover how . . . Able Seacat Simon rescued the crew of HMS Amethyst Bobby the Wonder Dog crossed a continent to find his family Galipolli Murphy carried 250 wounded... -
Titans of War: The thrilling bestselling new Ancient-Egyptian epic from the Master of Adventure by Wilbur Smith 9781838776343
RRP: £9.99£5.46BOOK 2 IN A THRILLING NEW ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SERIES, FROM INTERNATIONAL SENSATION WILBUR SMITH'Best historical novelist' - Stephen King'A master storyteller' - Sunday Times'Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared' - The... -
A Brief History of the Normans: The Conquests that Changed the Face of Europe by Francois Neveux
RRP: £11.99£3.32The history of the Normans began a long time before 1066. Originating from the 'Norsemen' they were one of the most successful warrior tribes of the Dark Ages that came to dominate Europe from the Baltic Sea to the island of Sicily and the borders of... -
Maeve's Times by Maeve Binchy
RRP: £9.99£2.79'Maeve's Times is funny and clever and kind, which are excellent qualities in both books and people' Irish Times'As someone who fell off a chair not long ago trying to hear what they were saying at the next table in a restaurant, I suppose I am... -
The Spitfire Kids: The generation who built, supported and flew Britain's most beloved fighter by Alasdair Cross
RRP: £12.99£3.86THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An inspirational read celebrating the incredible young people who gave so much for this iconic British aircraft'. John Nichol, bestselling author of Spitfire: A Very British Love StoryDespite the many films and television... -
The History of Europe in Bite-Sized Chunks by Jacob F Field
RRP: £7.99£2.79An accessible and succinct account of the story of Europe from its ancient foundations to the twenty-first century, The History of Europe in Bite-sized Chunks details the events, personalities, ideas and disasters that have shaped our continent.The book... -
What Happens In London by Julia Quinn
RRP: £8.99£2.79Welcome to The Bevelstokes, an irresistibly romantic collection by the bestselling author of Bridgerton, now a series created for Netflix by ShondalandAbout the AuthorJulia Quinn started writing her first book one month after finishing university and has... -
Just Like Heaven by Julia Quinn
RRP: £9.99£2.79From New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn comes the first, dazzling instalment of the Smythe-Smith Quartet that will appeal to fans of historical and women's fiction alike. If you loved The Bridgertons, you'll adore the Smythe-Smiths! About the...