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The Lover of the Grave: The Lydmouth Crime Series Book 3 by Andrew Taylor
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75'Andrew Taylor is a master story-teller' Daily Telegraph From the No.1 bestselling author of The Ashes of London and The Fire Court, this is the third instalment in the acclaimed Lydmouth... -
A Russian Diary: With a Foreword by Jon Snow by Anna Politkovskaya 9780099523451
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71A Russian Diary is the book that Anna Politkovskaya had recently completed when she was murdered in a contract killing in Moscow. Covering the period from the Russian parliamentary elections of... -
Hazard Spectrum: To The Limit — And Beyond With Britain’s Top Test Pilot Nathan Gray 9781035402540
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'Nerve-shattering, enlightening and deeply moving' - JOHN NICHOL'A powerful and compelling read' - ROWLAND WHITEOn 5 December 2002, trainee pilot Nathan Gray walked away from an 'unsurvivable' crash... -
Arabella Boxer's Book of English Food: A Rediscovery of British Food From Before the War by Arabella Boxer
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71A Book of English Food is an elegant compendium of brilliant recipes adapted from the cookery books of the 1920s and 1930s by Arabella Boxer, with beautiful new illustrations by Cressida Bell... -
Frostquake: How the frozen winter of 1962 changed Britain forever Juliet Nicolson 9781529111033
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.28** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER **'This book is a must' Peter HennessyOn Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not stop for ten weeks.The threat of... -
The Last Witch Craze: John Aubrey, the Royal Society and the Witches by Tony McAleavy
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $18.77The seventeenth-century man of letters John Aubrey is remembered, above all, for his great biographical work, Brief Lives. He also wrote pioneering works dealing with education, geology, languages,... -
Miami by Joan Didion 9781783785247
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65This is a surprising portrait of the pastel city, a masterly study of Cuban immigration and exile, and a sly account of vile moments in the Cold War. Miami may be the sunniest place in America but... -
Soldier 'I': the Story of an SAS Hero: From Mirbat to the Iranian Embassy Siege and Beyond by Pete Winner 9781846039959
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28The true story of a legendary SAS soldier who participated in the battle of Mirbat and assaulted the Iranian Embassy to free the hostages held within.No publicity, no media. We move in silently, do... -
Mudlarks: Treasures from the Thames by Jason Sandy 9781739178109
Booksplease Price: $61.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739178109Author Jason SandyFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint -
Women of Power: Formidable Females of the Medieval World by Teresa Cole 9781445698748
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $22.06The stereotypical medieval woman is a pious, helpless creature of little intelligence, and still less drive and ambition. Completely at the mercy of the men in her life, she was married young, had... -
Prussian Princesses: The Sisters of Kaiser Wilhelm II by John Van der Kiste 9781781554357
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.42Kaiser Friedrich III and his consort Victoria, Princess Royal of Great Britain, had six children who lived to maturity, the eldest being Kaiser Wilhelm II. The three younger sisters, Victoria,... -
The Russian Revolution: A Beginner's Guide by Abraham Ascher
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $8.481917: the year a series of rebellions toppled three centuries of autocratic rule and placed a group of political radicals in charge of a world power. Here, suddenly, was the first modern socialist... -
Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets: Life in the village hardware shop by Tom Fort
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $28.48'A hymn to hardware, charming, lyrical' - The Sunday Times, BOOK OF THE WEEK'A paean to DIY' - The Times'Strung together very agreeably, with dry wit and, dare I say it, considerable polish' -... -
The Age and Purpose of the Pyramids, as Indicated by Sirius by Mahmoud Bey 9781913378141
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20A translation from the original French by Tessa Dickinson of an unpublished original manuscript dated 11 May 1862, in the possession of Robert Temple, LondonBook InformationISBN 9781913378141Author... -
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World Professor Peter Frankopan 9781408839973
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $36.34The No. 1 Sunday Times and international bestseller - a major reassessment of world history in light of the economic and political renaissance in the re-emerging east For centuries, fame and... -
War In A Stringbag by Charles Lamb
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41A classic autobiography by the best known Second World War Fleet Air Arm pilot. A story of real life adventure, action and heroism.Commander Charles Lamb fought an exceptional war flying the slow and... -
Female Railway Workers in World War II by Susan Major 9781526703088
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $17.15During World War II women took on railway roles which were completely new to females. They worked as porters and guards, on the permanent way, and in maintenance and workshop operations. In this book... -
How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America by Heather Cox Richardson 9780197581797
RRP: $22.10Booksplease Price: $16.48Named one of The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson... -
The Blitz: The British Under Attack by Juliet Gardiner 9780007386611
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.55From the author of 'Wartime' comes an outstanding history of the most sustained onslaught ever endured by Britain's civilian population - the Blitz. September 1940 marked the beginning of... -
Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 by Ian W. Toll 9780393080650
RRP: $42.87Booksplease Price: $41.73In June 1944, the United States launched a crushing assault on the Japanese navy in the Battle of the Philippine Sea. The capture of the Mariana Islands and the accompanying ruin of Japanese carrier... -
The Creation of Patriarchy: The Origins of Women's Subordination. Women and History, Volume 1 by Gerda Lerner
RRP: $26.12Booksplease Price: $22.77When precisely did the ideas, symbols and metaphors of patriarchy take hold of Western civilization? When were women, so central to the creation of society, moved on to the sidelines? Where is the... -
A State in Denial:: British Collaboration with Loyalist Paramilitaries by Margaret Urwin 9781781174623
Booksplease Price: $17.41This meticulously researched book uses previously secret official documents to explore the tangled web of relationships between the top echelons of the British establishment, incl Cabinet ministers,... -
The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity by Peter Brown
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $37.52First published in 1988, Peter Brown's The Body and Society was a groundbreaking study of the marriage and sexual practices of early Christians in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Brown... -
Admiral Lord St. Vincent - Saint or Tyrant?: The Life of Sir John Jervis, Nelson's Patron by James D G Davidson 9781526784346
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79This biography of John Jervis, who became Admiral Lord Vincent, makes compelling reading. It throws an oblique light on Nelsons personality. St Vincent, who was born twenty-three years before Nelson,... -
Paradise Lost: The Destruction of Islam's City of Tolerance Giles Milton 9780340837870
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.24On Saturday 9th September, 1922, the victorious Turkish cavalry rode into Smyrna, the richest and most cosmopolitan city in the Ottoman Empire. What happened over the next two weeks must rank as one... -
It's Our Turn to Eat by Michela Wrong 9780007241972
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.84A gripping account of both an individual caught on the horns of an excruciating moral dilemma and a continent at a turning point. When Michela Wrong's Kenyan friend John Githongo appeared... -
The Great Train Robbery: The Untold Story from the Closed Investigation Files by Andrew Cook 9780752499819
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.48The Great Train Robbery of 1963 is one of the most infamous crimes in British history. The bulk of the money stolen (equivalent to over GBP40 million today) has never been recovered, and there has... -
Oxford Bible Atlas by Adrian Curtis 9780199560462
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.63This new edition of the Oxford Bible Atlas, now with full-colour maps and illustrations, has been thoroughly revised to bring it up to date with regard both to biblical scholarship and to archaeology... -
1931: Debt, Crisis, and the Rise of Hitler by Tobias Straumann
RRP: $20.76Booksplease Price: $16.60Germany's financial collapse in the summer of 1931 was one of the biggest economic catastrophes of modern history. It led to a global panic, brought down the international monetary system, and turned... -
Mediaeval Feudalism by Carl Stephenson
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $14.57"In the following pages I have tried to explain, as simply and concisely as possible, the historical significance of the feudal system.... My purpose has not been to give a comprehensive description... -
The Rations Challenge: Forty Days of Feasting in a Wartime Kitchen by Claud Fullwood
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $13.24Food is always a hot topic - Food waste, food banks, food miles, local versus imported. As we all need food, we can't ignore it. But as some families struggle without enough food to live on, others... -
All Secure: A Special Operations Soldier's Fight to Survive on the Battlefield and the Homefront by Steve Jackson
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.99As a senior non-commissioned officer of Delta Force, the most elite and secretive special operations unit in the U.S. military, Command Sergeant Major Tom Satterly fought some of this country's most... -
Rifles: Six Years with Wellington's Legendary Sharpshooters by Mark Urban
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37As part of the Light Division created to act as the advance guard of Wellington's army, the 95th Rifles are the first into battle and the last out. Fighting and thieving their way across Europe, they... -
Parkland by Vincent Bugliosi 9780393347333
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.48Parkland is an extraordinarily exciting, precise and definitive narrative of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on 22 November 1963, by Lee Harvey Oswald. It is drawn from Reclaiming... -
The Perfect Stranger by P. J. Kavanagh 9781910463291
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.45The Perfect Stranger was first published in the '60s and since then has continued to find a select group of passionate admirers. Evocative and engaging, and ultimately deeply emotional, The Perfect... -
Haunebu: The Secret Files: The Greatest UFO Secret of All Time by David Childress 9781948803311
RRP: $32.16Booksplease Price: $19.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948803311Author David Hatcher ChildressFormat PaperbackPage Count 382 -
Titanic: A Survivor's Story by Archibald Gracie
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.88Here is a survivor's vivid account of the greatest maritime disaster in history. The information contained in Gracie's account is available from no other source. He provides details of those final... -
Honourable Misfits: A Brief History of Britain's Weirdest, Unluckiest and Most Outrageous MPs Marie Le Conte 9781529349641
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Politicians are weird - we can all agree on that. But do you know how much weirder they used to be? If not, Honourable Misfits is the book for you. Spanning from the past seven hundred years, this is... -
The Oxford History of the Holy Land by Robert G. Hoyland
RRP: $18.08Booksplease Price: $14.02Histories you can trust. The Oxford History of the Holy Land covers the 3,000 years which saw the rise of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and relates the familiar stories of the sacred texts... -
Dominion: A History of England Volume V by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59'Ackroyd makes history accessible to the layman' - Ian Thomson, IndependentThe penultimate volume of Peter Ackroyd's masterful History of England series, Dominion begins in 1815 as national glory...