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Women of the Dunes by Sarah Maine
RRP: £9.99£7.00The new novel from the acclaimed author of The House Between Tides, winner of the Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2018!'Sarah Maine is a master of Scottish historical fiction' Sunday Post****It is the women who are keepers of tales.Atmospheric,... -
God's Shadow: The Ottoman Sultan Who Shaped the Modern World by Alan Mikhail 9780571331949
RRP: £12.99£8.80A Times Literary Supplement and History Today Book of the Year'An astonishing and thrilling story.' Stephen GreenblattThe Ottoman Empire was a hub of flourishing intellectual fervour, geopolitical power, and enlightened pluralistic rule. At the helm of... -
The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery by Seb Falk
RRP: £12.99£9.34Chosen as a Book of the Year by The Times, Daily Telegraph, TLS, BBC History Magazine and Tablet'Compulsive, brilliantly clear and superbly well-written, it's a charismatic evocation of another world' Ian Mortimer, author of The Time Traveller's Guide to... -
Pro Caecina, etc. by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£23.76The ascending statesman.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius... -
The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations by Samuel P. Huntington
RRP: £33.95£28.02In a classic work, Samuel P. Huntington challenges most of the old assumptions and ideas on the role of the military in society. Stressing the value of the military outlook for American national policy, Huntington has performed the distinctive task of... -
Italian Communism in Transition: The Rise and Fall of the Historic Compromise in Turin, 1975-1980 by Stephen Hellman 9780195053357
£69.52This is a study of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) during the most critical period of its recent history. In the mid-1970s, the PCI almost succeeded in entering the national government; by the end of that decade, it had been relegated to the opposition... -
The Streets of Europe: The Sights, Sounds, and Smells That Shaped Its Great Cities by Brian Ladd
RRP: £26.00£25.25Merchants' shouts, jostling strangers, aromas of fresh fish and flowers, plodding horses, and friendly chatter long filled the narrow, crowded streets of the European city. As they developed over many centuries, these spaces of commerce, communion, and... -
50 Big Ideas You Really Need to Know Ben Dupre 9781529425147
RRP: £9.99£7.00In a series of 50 accessible essays, Ben Dupre introduces and explains the central ideas of politics, philosophy, religion, economics, science, and the arts that have engaged key thinkers and leaders, from Plato to the present day.From the Big Bang to... -
The War for American Independence, 1775-1783 by Jeremy Black
RRP: £14.99£11.72The bitter and often bloody fight which accompanied the emergence of the United States of America as an independent force on the world stage has always been a subject of much debate and controversy. Historian Jeremy Black challenges many traditional... -
The Hush-Kit Book of Warplanes Joe Coles 9781800180949
RRP: £35.00£23.60'Irresistible . . . My aviation title of the year' Rowland White'Stupendously brilliant . . . Completely addictive' James Holland'The most explosive book about aircraft ever' Jim Moir, aka Vic ReevesFrom the terror and exhilaration of First World War... -
The British Regulatory State: High Modernism and Hyper-Innovation by Michael Moran 9780199219216
£46.07For the first two thirds of the twentieth century, British government was among the most stable in the advanced industrial world. In the last three decades, the governing arrangements have been in turmoil and the country has been a pioneer in economic... -
The Castle on Sunset: Love, Fame, Death and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont Shawn Levy 9781474611848
RRP: £9.99£6.90For nearly ninety years, Hollywood's brightest stars have favoured the Chateau Marmont as a home away from home. Filled with deep secrets but hidden in plain sight, its evolution parallels the growth of Hollywood itself. Perched above the Sunset Strip... -
Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History Foundation Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941-91 Student Book Christopher Catherwood 9781292258317
£19.11We've worked with teachers to develop versions of our core textbooks that feature reduced content and language level, providing greater support and enabling students of all abilities to progress. Now available for the seven most popular options, these... -
Lighting the Fuse by Lucy Lewis 9781841883946
RRP: £9.99£6.90Imagine standing over a bomb - you need to make a choice. Remember, your life depends on it.In this extraordinary memoir, Lucy Lewis reveals the hidden world of bomb disposal training and how she came to be the UK's first female bomb disposal expert... -
Dover Castle: England's First Line of Defence by Roy S. Humphreys
RRP: £14.99£11.72The towering fortress of Dover Castle has stood as the gateway to England for many centuries, an imposing and, to an enemy at least, threatening sight. But on the high white cliffs and overlooking the Channel, from where it was intended to protect the... -
The New Kingdom: Global bestselling author of River God, Wilbur Smith, returns with a brand-new Ancient Egyptian epic by Wilbur Smith 9781785767999
RRP: £8.99£6.89BOOK 1 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... -
As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-century Japan by Sarashina
RRP: £10.99£7.87As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams is a unique autobiography in which the anonymous writer known as Lady Sarashina intersperses personal reflections, anecdotes and lyrical poems with accounts of her travels and evocative descriptions of the Japanese... -
Human Body Colouring Book: Human Anatomy in 215 Illustrations by Peter Abrahams
RRP: £14.99£10.08Discover how the individual parts of the human body function in this anatomy book with a difference, and learn about the body through colouring in. Organised by body area and system, each page includes a detailed colour artwork alongside an identical,... -
Lightning Boys by Grub Street 9781911703266
RRP: £9.99£7.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911703266Author Grub StreetFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 359g -
To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power by Sergey Radchenko 9781108477352
RRP: £30.00£21.58What would it feel like To Run the World? The Soviet rulers spent the Cold War trying desperately to find out. In this panoramic new history of the conflict that defined the postwar era, Sergey Radchenko provides an unprecedented deep dive into the... -
David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music by Darryl W. Bullock 9780715654927
RRP: £10.99£7.60'Lovingly detailed and exhaustively researched - easily the most readable and comprehensive guide I've seen to this fascinating hidden history' Tom Robinson, musician, broadcaster and long-time LGBT rights activist From Sia to Elton John, Dusty... -
The Franco-Prussian War: The German Conquest of France in 1870-1871 by Geoffrey Wawro 9780521617437
RRP: £24.99£19.83The Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1 violently changed the course of European History. Alarmed by Bismarck's territorial ambitions and the Prussian army's crushing defeats of Denmark in 1864 and Austria in 1866, French Emperor Napoleon III vowed to bring... -
The Fall of Boris Johnson: The Full Story by Sebastian Payne 9781035016563
RRP: £10.99£7.73The Fall of Boris Johnson is the explosive inside account of how a prime minister lost his hold on power. From Sebastian Payne, former Whitehall Editor for the Financial Times and author of Broken Heartlands.Winner of the Parlimentary Book AwardsA New... -
The Animal Victoria Cross: The Dickin Medal - 80th Annivesary Revised Edition by Peter Hawthorne 9781399024167
RRP: £14.99£10.95Seventy-Four animals have won the Dicken Medal, the highest award for animal bravery. Their inspiring stories are told, for the first time in one book, The Animal Victoria Cross. Four types of animal have been honoured, dogs, horses, pigeons and one... -
Aberdeen by Alistair Burnett 9780752418285
RRP: £12.99£9.87AberdeenBook InformationISBN 9780752418285Author Alistair BurnettFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press Ltd -
The Pie At Night: In Search of the North at Play by Stuart Maconie
RRP: £14.99£10.95Factory, mine and mill. Industry, toil and grime. Its manufacturing roots mean we still see the North of England as a hardworking place. But, more than possibly anywhere else, the North has always known how to get dressed up, take itself out on the town... -
Maus I & II Paperback Box Set by Art Spiegelman
RRP: £20.00£16.04A SPECIAL-EDITION BOXSET CREATED TO CELEBRATE THE PULITZER-PRIZE WINNING GRAPHIC NOVEL'S 40TH ANNIVERSARY'The first masterpiece in comic book history' The New Yorker 'The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust' Wall Street... -
The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £33.95£29.22"To great writers," Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives." Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940, The Arcades Project... -
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Aftermath of World War II by John W. Dower
RRP: £16.99£12.68Drawing on a vast range of sources, from manga comics to MacArthur's report to Congress, this monumental new work by America's foremost historian of modern Japan traces the impact of defeat and reconstruction on every aspect of Japan's national life... -
Infamous Yorkshire Women by Issy Shannon
RRP: £12.99£9.87Many remarkable women have been born in, or have strong connections with Yorkshire. In Issy Shannon's new book we hear about the most infamous - including witches, thieves, fraudsters and murders. Among many other are the calculating Queen Cartimandua,... -
Most Secret War by R.V. Jones
RRP: £16.99£12.28Reginald Jones was nothing less than a genius. And his appointment to the Intelligence Section of Britain's Air Ministry in 1939 led to some of the most astonishing scientific and technological breakthroughs of the Second World War.In Most Secret War he... -
Society of the Snow: The Definitive Account of the World’s Greatest Survival Story by Pablo Vierci
RRP: £25.00£16.53NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX FILMIt was 13 October 1972. Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, carrying a team of young rugby players, their families and friends, took off for the very last time. A deadly miscalculation saw F571 crash directly into the Andean mountains... -
Thames: Sacred River by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £25.00£18.02Just as Peter Ackroyd's bestselling London is the biography of the city, Thames: Sacred River is the biography of the river, from sea to source. Exploring its history from prehistoric times to the present day, the reader is drawn into an extraordinary... -
Japanese Jiu-jitsu: Secret Techniques of Self-Defense Darrell Max Craig 9784805313244
RRP: £14.99£9.90With extensive, step-by-step photographs and instructions, this jiu-jitsu guide is an efficient tool for mastering this ancient martial art.The original Japanese martial art developed by the elite samurai class during Japan's feudal era, Jiu-jitsu is the... -
The Tale of the Axe: How the Neolithic Revolution Transformed Britain by David Miles 9780500051863
RRP: £29.95£21.38Focusing on the British Isles, the author explores a period of huge societal change - the Neolithic, or 'New Stone Age' - through the most iconic artifact of its time: the polished stone axe, using his own ancient stone axe-head, given to him by a... -
The Storm by Daniel Defoe
RRP: £12.99£9.34On the evening of 26th November 1703, a cyclone from the north Atlantic hammered into southern Britain at over seventy miles an hour, claiming the lives of over 8,000 people. Eyewitnesses reported seeing cows left stranded in the branches of trees and... -
The Story of Gardening: A cultural history of famous gardens from around the world by Penelope Hobhouse
RRP: £35.00£25.02A fully updated and revised edition of a gardening classic. From the cooling fountains of the Alhambra to the imposing palace grounds of Chinese emperors and the clean lines of the formal French parterre, this... -
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: The Official Biography by William Shawcross
RRP: £25.00£18.84'Totally absorbing and highly readable account of a remarkable life . . . genuinely revelatory' The Times'A colossal book about a colossal life, a spectacular journey across the entire twentieth century' Daily MailWritten with complete access to the... -
Building The H Bomb: A Personal History by Kenneth W. Ford 9789814618793
RRP: £20.00£17.62In this engaging scientific memoir, Kenneth Ford recounts the time when, in his mid-twenties, he was a member of the team that designed and built the first hydrogen bomb. He worked with - and relaxed with - scientific giants of that time such as Edward... -
The Little Book of Mayo by Eamonn Henry
RRP: £14.99£11.72The Little Book of Mayo is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about County Mayo. Here you will find out about Mayo's natural history, its myth and legend, its proud sporting heritage - particularly its long-running quest...