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Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.56In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. From Little Britain's Vicky Pollard to the demonization of Jade Goody, media and politicians alike dismiss as feckless,... -
On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37'A training manual for our troubled times ... It makes sense of our world, but is also capable of beautifully crafted pithy historical judgements. ... It is a book that cares about liberty, choice... -
A Long Petal of the Sea: 'Allende's finest book yet' - now a Sunday Times bestseller by Isabel Allende
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04_______________ THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER _______________ 'A powerful love story spanning generations... Full of ambition and humanity' - Sunday Times 'One... -
Britain BC: Life in Britain and Ireland Before the Romans by Francis Pryor
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.55An authoritative and radical rethinking of the history of Ancient Britain and Ancient Ireland, based on remarkable new archaeological finds. British history is traditionally regarded as... -
How to Be a Good Husband by 9781851243761
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $6.69The art of being a good husband is not an easy one. This little guide was written for the middle classes of the 1930s who were reading one of the first modern self-help books. Illustrated with... -
The World: A Family History by Simon Sebag Montefiore 9781780225616
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.99THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARFrom the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from prehistory to the... -
Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide full edition by 9781908402479
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $34.77A facsimile edition of Bradshaw's fascinating guide to Europe's rail network. Bradshaw's descriptive railway handbook of Europe was originally published in 1913 and was the inspiration behind... -
Ancient Egypt: The Definitive Illustrated History by DK
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $30.35Take a journey through Ancient Egypt and see how the pharaohs once lived!An enticing and insightful guide that covers 3000 years of life under the pharaoh's rule (c.3200-30 BCE), from the early kings... -
The Ghost by Susan Owens
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.47"Five thousand years have now elapsed since the creation of the world, and still it is undecided whether or not there has even been an instance of the spirit of any person appearing after death. All... -
The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny by Neil Howe 9780767900461
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767900461Author William StraussFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint -
Born in the 30s by Tim Glynne-Jones 9781784047399
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $6.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784047399Author Tim Glynne-JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint -
Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens by Andrea Wulf
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $9.88On two days in 1761 and 1769 hundreds of astronomers pointed their telescopes towards the skies to observe a rare astronomical event: the transit of Venus across the face of the sun.United by this... -
The Art of War & Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy by Lao-Tzu
Booksplease Price: $17.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Benjamin Franklin Award (Cover Design (Large)) 2017.Book InformationISBN 9781626868021Author Sun Tzu -
Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics by Jonathan Wilson 9781399610094
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'MASTERFUL' Time Out'REVELATORY' Scotland on Sunday'GLORIOUSLY READABLE' Metro'FASCINATING' Independent 'EXCELLENT' Telegraph'ABSORBING' GuardianWinner of the British Sports Book AwardsFootball Book... -
Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.67'A Napoleonic triumph of a book, irresistibly galloping with the momentum of a cavalry charge' Simon Sebag Montefiore'Simply dynamite' Bernard CornwellFrom Andrew Roberts, author of the... -
Apollo Remastered by Andy Saunders 9780241508695
RRP: $100.50Booksplease Price: $71.49AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERDiscover space as you've never seen it before, with these awe-inspiring, breathtakingly restored images of our first missions to the Moon'The next best thing to... -
Return of a King by William Dalrymple
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.79SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2013 'As taut and richly embroidered as a great novel . . . a masterpiece' Sunday Telegraph 'Dazzling' Sunday Times | 'Magnificent' Guardian | 'Sparkling'... -
Resistance: The Underground War in Europe, 1939-1945 by Halik Kochanski
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $16.20*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... -
With the Old Breed: The World War Two Pacific Classic by Eugene B. Sledge
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29The inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFICThis was a brutish, primitive hatred, as characteristic of the horror of war in the Pacific as the palm trees and the islands...Landing on the beach... -
The Little Book of World Mythology: A Pocket Guide to Myths and Legends Hannah Bowstead 9781800071766
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.25Step into a world of gods, heroes and monstersThroughout history, mythologies have been fundamental to societies and cultures across the world. They are the collected stories of a people - the... -
Richard III and the Princes in the Tower by Alison Weir
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.05Includes a new foreword by the author The story of the death, in sinister circumstances, of the boy-king Edward V and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York, is one of the most fascinating murder... -
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil 9780349108803
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07What Britain refined, America defined. Assembled by two key figures at the heart of the movement and told through the voices o musicians, artists, iconoclastic reporters and entrepreneurial groupies,... -
The Bangalore Detectives Club Harini Nagendra 9781408715185
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75'The first in an effervescent new mystery series. . . a treat for historical mystery lovers looking for a new series to savour (or devour)' NEW YORK TIMES'A gorgeous debut mystery with a charming... -
If Walls Could Talk: An intimate history of the home by Lucy Worsley
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $9.89Why did the flushing toilet take two centuries to catch on? Why did Samuel Pepys never give his mistresses an orgasm? Why did medieval people sleep sitting up? When were the two 'dirty centuries'?... -
OCR A Level History: England 1445-1509: Lancastrians, Yorkists and Henry VII Nicholas Fellows 9781471836688
RRP: $38.86Booksplease Price: $38.83Exam Board: OCRLevel: A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016This is an OCR endorsed resourceBuild strong subject knowledge and skills in A Level History using the... -
Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.72'[A] comprehensive and important history of black Britain . . . Written with a wonderful clarity of style and with great force and passion.' - Kwasi Kwarteng, Sunday TimesIn this vital re-examination... -
Vicious Vikings (newspaper edition) by Terry Deary 9780702312618
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $6.94Discover all the foul facts about these famous invaders in history's most horrible headlines: Vicious Vikings edition. The master of making history fun, Terry Deary takes on... -
Inheritance: The Story of Knole and the Sackvilles Robert Sackville-West 9781408809686
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79Since its purchase in 1604 by Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, the house at Knole, Kent, has been inhabited by thirteen generations of a single aristocratic family, the Sackvilles. Here, drawing... -
SAS: Rogue Heroes - the Authorized Wartime History by Ben Macintyre
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.51THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERTHE BOOK BEHIND THE HIT BBC SERIES SAS: ROGUE HEROES, STARRING CONNOR SWINDELLS, JACK O'CONNELL, ALFIE ALLEN AND DOMINIC WESTFrom the secret SAS archives and... -
Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through a Country's Hidden Past by Giles Tremlett
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Spaniards are reputed to be amongst Europe's most forthright people. So why have they kept silent about the terrors of their Civil War and the rule of General Franco? This apparent 'pact of... -
The Heretic's Mark by S. W. Perry 9781786499004
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $8.84'Historical fiction at its most sumptuous' Rory Clements'S. J. Parris fans will be pleased' Publishers WeeklyFrom the bestselling, CWA Historical Dagger Award-nominated author of The Angel's Mark... -
The Honour of Rome by Simon Scarrow 9781472258502
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $8.56A stunning novel of courage, camaraderie and deadly enemies from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Centurion and The Emperor's Exile.AD 59. BRITANNIA. TENSION IS SIMMERING. DANGER LIES ROUND... -
Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Definitive History of Secret CIA Assassins, Armies and Operators by Annie Jacobsen
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07THE USA TODAY BESTSELLER'As fast paced as a thriller' Fred Burton, Stratfor Talks' Pen and Sword Podcast'Jacobsen here presents a tour de force exploring the CIA's paramilitary activities...this... -
Listen to the Land Speak: A Journey into the wisdom of what lies beneath us by Manchan Magan
RRP: $32.15Booksplease Price: $24.09Our ancestors developed a uniquely nature-focused society, centred on esteemed poets, seers, monks, healers and wise women who were deeply connected to the land. They used this connection to the... -
One Life: The True Story of Sir Nicholas Winton by Barbara Winton 9781472148667
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $10.05The book that inspired major motion picture ONE LIFE, starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonham Carter.'Remarkable' - GuardianSir Nicholas Winton rescued 669 children from Nazi-occupied... -
My Revision Notes: Edexcel AS/A-level History: Russia 1917-91: From Lenin to Yeltsin by Robin Bunce
RRP: $15.41Booksplease Price: $15.10Exam Board: EdexcelLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Target success in Edexcel AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured... -
Persians: The Age of The Great Kings by Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $10.02THE PERSIANS is a definitive new history of the Persian Empire, the world's first superpower.The Great Kings of Persia ruled over the largest Empire of antiquity, stretching from Libya to the Steppes... -
The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History - Abridged Edition by Ibn Khaldun
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.10The Muqaddimah, often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldun (d... -
Access to History: Democracy and Dictatorships in Germany 1919-63 for OCR Second Edition Geoff Layton 9781471839153
Booksplease Price: $32.16Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJECLevel: A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series,... -
The Faber Book of Reportage by John Carey
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.66***FEATURED ON BBC 2's BETWEEN THE COVERS WITH SARA COX***The Faber Book of Reportage is John Carey's remarkable collection of eyewitness accounts that draws on the voices and emotions of the people...