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In the Cafe of Lost Youth by Patrick Modiano
RRP: £8.99£6.39Four narrators, a student from a cafe, a private detective hired by an aggrieved husband, the heroine herself and one of her lovers, construct a portrait of Jacqueline Delanque, otherwise known as Louki. The daughter of a single mother who works in the... -
Sir Christopher Wren by Paul Rabbitts
RRP: £9.99£7.77Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723) is now mostly remembered as a genius of architecture - but he was also an accomplished polymath, who only came to architecture quite late in life. Most famous as the mastermind behind the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral... -
The Best Summer of Our Lives: A Photographic History of the Derbyshire Miners' Holiday Camp by Geoffrey N. Gration
RRP: £14.99£14.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780914817Author Geoffrey N. GrationFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint JMD MediaPublisher JMD Media -
Rogue Warrior of the SAS: The Blair Mayne Legend by Martin Dillon
RRP: £10.99£7.99More than half a century after his death, Lt Col. Robert Blair Mayne is still regarded as one of the greatest soldiers in the history of military special operations. He was the most decorated British soldier of the Second World War, receiving four DSOs,... -
Crocodile on the Sandbank: Miss Marple crossed with Indiana Jones! Elizabeth Peters 9781845293888
RRP: £9.99£6.90Amelia Peabody is Elizabeth Peters' most brilliant and best-loved creation, a thoroughly Victorian feminist who takes the stuffy world of archaeology by storm with her shocking men's pants and no-nonsense attitude!In this first adventure, our headstrong... -
The Channel Islands at War: A Dark History by Robert Bard
RRP: £15.99£11.02The incredible true story of what really happened in the Channel Islands during the Second World War. The Channel lslands were occupied on 30 June 1940 when four German planes landed at Guernsey Airport. They were the only part of Britain to be occupied... -
The Moor: A journey into the English wilderness by William Atkins
RRP: £12.99£8.80Shortlisted for the 2015 Wainwright Prize In this journey across England's most forbidding and mysterious terrain, William Atkins takes the reader from south to north, exploring moorland's uniquely captivating position in our history, literature and... -
Elizabeth of York, the Last White Rose: Tudor Rose Book 1 by Alison Weir
RRP: £20.00£18.30The captivating new historical novel from Alison Weir, Sunday Times bestselling author of the Six Tudor Queens series . 'With Elizabeth of York, Alison Weir gives us her most compelling heroine yet... This is where the story of the Tudors begins and is... -
Queens' Play: The Lymond Chronicles Book Two by Dorothy Dunnett
RRP: £10.99£7.99Before George R. R. Martin there was Dorothy Dunnett . . . PERFECT for fans of A Game of Thrones.'She is a brilliant story teller, The Lymond Chronicles will keep you reading late into the night, desperate to know the fate of the characters you have come... -
Former People: The Destruction of the Russian Aristocracy by Douglas Smith
£9.50Epic in scope, intimate in detail, heartbreaking in its human drama, this is the first book to recount the history of the nobility caught up the maelstrom of the Bolshevik Revolution and the creation of Stalin's Russia. Historian Douglas Smith's Former... -
Eight Days at Yalta: How Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin Shaped the Post-War World by Diana Preston
RRP: £12.99£9.50Meticulously researched and vividly written, Eight Days at Yalta is a remarkable work of intense historical drama.In the last winter of the Second World War, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin arrived in the Crimean resort of... -
Battle of Britain Attack of the Eagles: 13 August 1940 – 18 August 1940 by Dilip Sarkar 9781399057912
RRP: £25.00£17.62In this unprecedented series exploring the big story of the Battle of Britain, renowned historian Dilip Sarkar investigates the wider context and intimate details of the epic aerial conflict in the summer of 1940 from all sides. In so doing, he gives due... -
Elizabeth's Women: The Hidden Story of the Virgin Queen by Tracy Borman
RRP: £16.99£12.28'History as it should be written' Alison Weir, bestselling author of the Six Tudor Queens seriesA groundbreaking and fascinating biography of England's most famous queen, viewed through the women who influenced her life.Elizabeth I is often portrayed as... -
Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad by Eric Foner
£14.04More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian once again reconfigures the national saga of American slavery and... -
Race: The History of an Idea in the West by Ivan Hannaford
RRP: £26.50£24.06In Race: The History of an Idea in the West Ivan Hannaford guides readers through a dangerous engagement with an idea that so permeates Western thinking that we expect to find it, active or dormant, as an organizing principle in all societies. But,... -
The Times Golden Years of Rail Travel by Julian Holland
RRP: £30.00£20.53Celebrate the heyday of passenger rail travel around Britain with this beautiful Times railway book. Take a journey back to the boom time for Britain's railways, through a unique collection of fascinating stories, photographs, posters and... -
Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914 by Professor J. R. McNeill 9780521459105
RRP: £24.99£20.34This book explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean - the landscapes lying between Surinam and the Chesapeake - in the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries. Ecological changes... -
Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy by Stephen Wertheim
RRP: £17.95£14.82A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year"Even in these dismal times genuinely important books do occasionally make their appearance...You really ought to read it...A tour de force...While Wertheim is not the first to expose isolationism as a carefully... -
A History of Britain in 100 Objects by Paul Chrystal 9781838008659
RRP: £14.99£11.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838008659Author Paul ChrystalFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Destinworld Publishing LtdPublisher Destinworld Publishing Ltd -
Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah: The United States and Iran in the Cold War by Roham Alvandi 9780199375691
RRP: £94.00£59.26Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last shah of Iran, is often remembered as a pliant instrument of American power during the Cold War. In this book Roham Alvandi offers a revisionist account of the shah's relationship with the United States by examining the... -
February 1933: The Winter of Literature by Wittstock
RRP: £25.00£17.03It all happened in a flash. February 1933 was the month in which the fate of German writers, as for so many others, was decided. In a tensely spun narrative, Uwe Wittstock tells the story of a demise which was predicted by some but also scarcely thought... -
Izabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess Adam Zamoyski 9780008521684
RRP: £25.00£16.43Trawling through a vast family archive and arcane sources in half a dozen languages, Adam Zamoyski has revealed the dramatic life of his great-great-great grandmother, an uneducated, vulnerable girl cast into a man’s world. Her aristocratic position... -
Cathedrals of Steam: How London's Great Stations Were Built - And How They Transformed the City by Christian Wolmar
RRP: £12.99£8.80'Fascinating' 'Books of the Year', Financial Times'London's twelve great rail termini are the epic survivors of the Victorian age... Wolmar brings them to life with the knowledge of an expert and the panache of a connoisseur.' Simon Jenkins'A wonderful... -
War without Garlands: Operation Barbarossa 1941-1942 by Robert Kershaw 9781910809761
RRP: £10.99£8.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809761Author Robert J KershawFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-century London - by BBC New Generation Thinker 2022 by Oskar Jensen
RRP: £10.99£7.60Dickensian London is brought to real and vivid life in this Wolfson History Prize-shortlisted portrait by a rising-star historian and New Generation Thinker Until now, our view of bustling late Georgian and Victorian London has been filtered through... -
CCEA A2-level History Student Guide: Clash of Ideologies in Europe (1900-2000) by Henry Jefferies
£12.13Build, reinforce and assess students' knowledge throughout their course; tailored to the 2016 CCEA specification and brought to you by the leading History publisher, this study and revision guide combines clear content coverage with practice questions... -
The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began by Stephen Greenblatt
RRP: £14.99£10.95WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2012Almost six hundred years ago, a short, genial man took a very old manuscript off a library shelf. With excitement, he saw what he had discovered and ordered it copied. The book was a miraculously surviving... -
The Wisest Fool: The Lavish Life of James VI and I by Steven Veerapen 9781780278162
RRP: £25.00£16.99James VI and I, the first monarch to reign over Scotland, England and Ireland, has long endured a mixed reputation. To many, he is simply the homosexual King, the inveterate witch-roaster, the smelly sovereign who never washed, the colourless man behind... -
The Medieval World Complete by Robert Bartlett 9780500283332
RRP: £30.00£21.00'The Medieval World Complete' re-creates one of the great ages of European civilization through a sequence of spectacular images accompanied by a lively, informed commentary. Ingeniously organized by topic and thoroughly cross-referenced, this... -
Yukikaze's War: The Unsinkable Japanese Destroyer and World War II in the Pacific by Brett L. Walker 9781108837293
RRP: £25.00£17.62Only one elite Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer survived the cruel ocean battlefields of World War II. This is her story. Brett Walker, historian and captain, delves into questions of mechanics, armaments, navigation, training, and even indoctrination,... -
Under a White Sky: Can we save the natural world in time? by Elizabeth Kolbert
RRP: £9.99£7.32The author of the international bestseller The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: after doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it?Meet the biologists trying to save the... -
Caesar's Vast Ghost by Lawrence Durrell
RRP: £9.99£6.90Lose yourself in this classic travelogue evoking the idyllic South of France by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu. 'Full of stories, landscapes, comedy, history, heresies, animals, food, drink, and songs of... -
Lifting the Latch: A Life on the Land - Based on the Life of Mont Abbott of Enstone, Oxfordshire by Sheila Stewart 9780953221332
RRP: £8.99£8.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953221332Author Sheila StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Day BooksPublisher Day Books -
The Teutonic Knights: Rise and Fall of a Religious Corporation by Aleksander Pluskowski 9781789148688
RRP: £16.95£12.45This book provides a concise and incisive introduction to the Teutonic Knights, or Teutonic Order, the last of the great military orders established in the twelfth century. Evolving into a powerful religious institution, the Knights left a profound and... -
To the Limit: An Air Cav Huey Pilot in Vietnam by Tom A. Johnson
RRP: £23.99£21.29Helicopter pilots in Vietnam kidded one another about being nothing but glorified bus drivers. But these "rotor heads" saved thousands of American lives while performing what the Army classified as the most dangerous job it had to offer. One in eighteen... -
1916: The Easter Rising Tim Pat Coogan 9780753818527
RRP: £9.99£7.32An account of the events, personalities and repercussions of the Irish rebellionThe Easter Rising began at 12 noon, 24 April, 1916 and lasted for six short but bloody days, resulting in the deaths of innocent civilians, the destruction of many parts of... -
Empires of the Normans: Makers of Europe, Conquerors of Asia Levi Roach 9781529300321
RRP: £12.99£7.61'Powerful' The Economist'Fascinating, panoramic . . . Roach brings an expert eye and page-turning energy' Helen Castor, bestselling author of She Wolves'Narrated with pace, clarity, authority and style, Roach's book is a bracing tour of the world that... -
Fear of Dreaming: The Selected Poems by Jim Carroll
RRP: £24.00£17.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140586954Author Jim CarrollFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 138mm *... -
The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich Callum MacDonald 9781843410362
RRP: £9.99£6.80On 4 June 1942 one of the most powerful figures of the Nazi regime died in agony from wounds sustained during an assassination attempt in Prague. This is the story of the killing of Reinhard Heydrich, a man of extraordinary intelligence, ruthlessness and... -
They All Love Jack: Busting the Ripper by Bruce Robinson
RRP: £18.99£13.11LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION A book like no other - the tale of a gripping quest to discover the identity of history's most notorious murderer and a literary high-wire act from the legendary writer and director of...