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A Gift of Poison: Betrayal. Mystery. Murder. The Brontë sisters are on the case . . . by Bella Ellis 9781529363470
RRP: $19.48$13.65BETRAYAL. MYSTERY. MURDER. THE BRONTE SISTERS ARE ON THE CASE.'The Brontes are so skilfully and cleverly depicted that it's no stretch at all to imagine the sisters as amateur sleuths' SARRA MANNING, REDHaworth 1847 - Anne and Emily Bronte have had their... -
A New Voyage Round the World by William Dampier
RRP: $25.33$17.92'A roaring tale ... remains as vivid and exciting today as it was on publication in 1697' GuardianThe pirate and adventurer William Dampier circumnavigated the globe three times, and took notes wherever he went. This is his frank, vivid account of his... -
The Travels by Marco Polo
RRP: $37.03$27.32A sparkling new translation of one of the greatest travel books ever written: Marco Polo's seminal account of his journeys in the east, in a collectible clothbound edition. Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271... -
Ashton Under Lyne and Mossley by Alice Lock 9780752401201
RRP: $29.23$22.85Ashton Under Lyne and MossleyBook InformationISBN 9780752401201Author Alice LockFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 310gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 10mm -
Ghost Empire Richard Fidler 9780733338557
RRP: $25.33$16.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780733338557Author Richard FidlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint ABC BooksPublisher ABC BooksWeight(grams) 626gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 155mm * 40mm -
The Sinking of the Titanic: Eyewitness Accounts from Survivors by Jay Henry Mowbray
RRP: $29.23$21.66I ran out on the deck and then I could see ice. It was a veritable sea of ice and the boat was rocking over it. I should say that parts of the iceberg were eighty feet high, but it had been broken into sections, probably by our ship. There fell on the... -
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, The West and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War by Stephen R. Platt
RRP: $35.08$24.92In the early 1850s, during the twilight of the Qing dynasty, word spread of a major revolution brewing in the provinces. The leader of this movement - who called themselves the Taiping - was Hong Xiuquan, a failed civil servant who claimed to be the son... -
The Bronte Sisters: Life, Loss and Literature Catherine Rayner 9781526703125
RRP: $29.23$21.66Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall...these fictional masterpieces are all recognised as landmarks of English Literature. Still inspirational and challenging to readers today, upon release in the mid-nineteenth century they caused a... -
The Albigensian Crusade by Jonathan Sumption
RRP: $29.23$19.62In twelfth century Languedoc a subversive heresy of Eastern origin flourished to an extraordinary degree. The Albingenses believed that the world was created by an evil spirit, and that all worldly things - including the Church - were by nature sinful... -
Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books by Hilary Mantel 9780008429973
$14.72A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the Light In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London... -
Chess Fundamentals by Jose Capablanca 9780999319451
$19.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999319451Author Jose CapablancaFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Sde PublishingPublisher Sde PublishingWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam by Raymond Ibrahim
RRP: $58.50$37.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642938203Author Raymond IbrahimFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Bombardier BooksPublisher Bombardier BooksWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 231mm *... -
Freedom Next Time by John Pilger
RRP: $29.23$21.35John Pilger is one of the world's pre-eminent investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. His best-selling books of reportage, which include Heroes and Hidden Voices, have in the words of Noam Chomsky 'been a beacon of light in often dark... -
Maeve's Times by Maeve Binchy
RRP: $19.48$7.04'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 Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America by Elizabeth Letts 9780525619321
RRP: $48.75$32.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525619321Author Elizabeth LettsFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc -
The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die by Niall Ferguson
RRP: $21.43$15.58The decline of the West is something that has long been prophesied. Symptoms of decline are all around us today: slowing growth, crushing debts, ageing populations. But what exactly is amiss with Western civilization? The answer, Niall Ferguson... -
Naming Names: With a New Afterword by the Author by Victor S Navasky
RRP: $70.20$46.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809001835Author Victor S NavaskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)... -
Behind the Enigma: The Authorised History of GCHQ, Britain's Secret Cyber-Intelligence Agency by John Ferris
RRP: $33.13$23.93You know about MI5. You know about MI6. Now discover the untold stories behind Britain's most secretive intelligence agency, in the first ever authorised history of GCHQ. For a hundred years, GCHQ - Government Communications Headquarters - has been... -
Convair B-36 Peacemaker Manual: 1948-59 (all marks and models) by David Baker
RRP: $48.75$36.86With six powerful radial engines and four turbojets paired in pods, the B-36 was the largest American aircraft to enter volume production, joining the US Air Force in 1948 as the world's first operational bomber with hemispheric range. AmericaBook... -
The Lord Stewartby Collection of Scottish Coins at the Hunterian, University of Glasgow: Part I. James IV - James VI, 1488-1625 by William A. MacKay 9780197266878
$129.25This latest volume from the Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles publishes the first portion of the Lord Stewartby Collection, the most important assemblage of Scottish coins ever put together by a private individual. The collection has a depth and... -
Animal Farm: GCSE 9-1 set text student edition (Collins Classroom Classics) by George Orwell
$6.45Exam board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR; CXCLevel & Subject: GCSE 9-1 English Literature; CSEC English BFirst teaching: September 2015Next exams: 2024 This edition of Animal Farm is perfect for GCSE-level students, with the complete novel, engaging... -
The Origins of the First and Second World Wars by Frank McDonough 9780521568616
RRP: $25.84$23.69An engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history. This text analyses the origins of the First and Second World Wars in one single volume, drawing on a wide range of material, including original sources. In concise chapters,... -
The Father: A Revenge by Niklas Frank 9781785906794
RRP: $25.33$18.53Niklas Frank was just seven years old when his father, Hans Frank, Hitler's legal adviser and Governor General of occupied Poland, was executed at Nuremberg as a Nazi war criminal. Throughout his life, Niklas has attempted to come to terms with the... -
Blitzkrieg: Myth, Reality and Hitler's Lightning War - France, 1940 Lloyd Clark 9781782391364
RRP: $25.33$17.16The German campaign in France during the summer of 1940 was pivotal to Hitler's ambitions and fundamentally affected the course of the Second World War. Having squabbled about fighting methods right up to the start of the campaign, the German forces... -
The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster by Helen Carr
RRP: $21.43$15.58War, revolution, treason and love - the thrilling tale of Sir John of Gaunt brought to life by medieval history's rising star. 'The Red Prince announces Helen Carr as one of the most exciting new voices in narrative history.' Dan Jones Son of... -
Looking at Agamemnon by David Stuttard
$59.14Agamemnon is the first of the three plays within the Oresteia trilogy and is considered to be one of Aeschylus' greatest works. This collection of 12 essays, written by prominent international academics, brings together a wide range of topics surrounding... -
Craic Baby: Dispatches from a Rising Language by Darach O Seaghdha 9781788545266
RRP: $19.48$14.27From the author of the bestselling Motherfocloir, Non-fiction Irish Book of the Year. A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR. What do we talk about when we talk about Irish? When we talk about saving or supporting a language do we mean the musical combination of... -
The One That Got Away by Chris Ryan
RRP: $21.43$15.58Eight members of the SAS set off on the mission. Only one evaded capture.This is his true story.The SAS mission conducted behind Iraqi lines is one of the most famous true stories of courage and survival in modern warfare. Late on the evening of 24... -
A Brief History of British Kings & Queens Mike Ashley 9781841195513
RRP: $25.33$17.22Here is the whole of recorded British royal history, from the legendary King Alfred the Great onwards, including the monarchies of England, Scotland, Wales and the United Kingdom for over a thousand years. Fascinating portraits are expertly woven into a... -
Knowing Their Place: Domestic service in twentieth-century Britain by Lucy Delap 9780198718246
RRP: $69.21$47.79Historians have traditionally seen domestic service as an obsolete or redundant sector from the middle of the twentieth century. Knowing Their Place challenges this by linking the early twentieth-century employment of maids and cooks to later practices... -
Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads by David Rundell
RRP: $29.23$22.91'Clear-eyed and illuminating.' Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor 'A rich, superbly researched, balanced history of the modern Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.' General David Petraeus, former Commander U.S. Central... -
Whitley Bay & Seaton Sluice History Tour by Ken Hutchinson
RRP: $17.53$12.13Whitley Bay & Seaton Sluice History Tour is a unique insight into the illustrious history of these popular north-east seaside towns. This new book guides us through the streets and alleyways, showing how their famous landmarks used to look and how... -
Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy by Mircea Eliade
RRP: $42.90$35.16The foundational work on shamanism now available as a Princeton Classics paperbackShamanism is an essential work on the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. The founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Mircea Eliade surveys... -
Parkland: Birth of a Movement Dave Cullen 9781787477070
RRP: $33.13$22.83The deeply moving account of the extraordinary teenage survivors of the Parkland shooting.Emma Gonzalez called BS. David Hogg called out Adult America. Cameron Kasky recruited a colorful band of teenagers. Four days after escaping Marjory Stoneman... -
House of Stone: The True Story of a Family Divided in War-Torn Zimbabwe by Christina Lamb
RRP: $25.33$16.98A powerful and intensely human insight into the civil war in Zimbabwe, focusing on a white farmer and his maid who find themselves on opposing sides. One bright morning Nigel Hough, one of the few remaining white farmers in Mugabe's Zimbabwe,... -
The Friar of Carcassonne: The Last Days of the Cathars by Stephen O'Shea
RRP: $25.33$18.21Nearly a century had passed since Languedoc had been put to the sword in the Albigensian Crusade, but the stain of Catharism still lay on the land. Any accusation of Catharism invited peril. But repression bred resentment and it was in Carcassonne that... -
Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War Two by Len Deighton
RRP: $25.33$18.21'Every page of Deighton's work glows with the excitement of discovery ... wonderful' Geoff Dyer, GuardianThis unflinching history of the darkest days of the Second World War covers the entire world stage, from the Battle of the Atlantic to Pearl Harbor... -
A Grim Almanac of Cornwall by John van der Kiste
RRP: $37.03$28.35A Grim Almanac of Cornwall is a day-by-day catalogue of 365 ghastly tales from around the county. Full of dreadful deeds, macabre deaths, strange occurrences and heinous homicides, this almanac explores the darker side of the county's past. Read about... -
Monte Cassino: Ten Armies in Hell Prof. Peter Caddick-Adams, TD, VR, BA (Hons), PhD, FRHistS, FRGS, KJ 9780099568674
RRP: $21.43$15.58The five-month Monte Cassino campaign in central Italy is one of the best-known European land battles of World War Two, alongside D-Day and Stalingrad. It has a particular resonance now, because Cassino, with its multitude of participating armies - most... -
Symmetry: The Ordering Principle by David Wade 9781904263517
RRP: $11.68$8.33Why on earth do cars have the same symmetry as dragonflies? Is there really a beautiful swirling pattern lurking in every dripping tap? What do insect eggs have in common with planets, and why? In this exquisite book, the smallest and most concise ever...