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Newgate: London's Prototype of Hell by Stephen Halliday
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.17There have been more prisons in London than in any other European city. Of these, Newgate was the largest, most notorious and worst. Built during the twelfth century, it became a legendary place -... -
The Last London: True Fictions from an Unreal City by Iain Sinclair
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.29A New Statesman Book of the Year London. A city apart. Inimitable. Or so it once seemed. Spiralling from the outer limits of the Overground to the pinnacle of the Shard, Iain Sinclair... -
Tacitus, Annals XIV: A Selection by John Storey
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €14.74This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin A-Level (Group 2) prescription of Annals XIV, 1-13, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary, with a detailed introduction that also... -
The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective: Secrets and Lies in the Golden Age of Crime by Susannah Stapleton
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.88'If you are susceptible to Miss Marple and Harriet Vane you must read The Adventures of Maud West. You will never know the difference between fact and fiction again.' - Jill Paton Walsh, author of... -
Lichfield Pubs by Neil Coley
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €13.69'As smooth as oil, sweet as milk, clear as amber and strong as brandy.' Boniface, in George Farquhar's play The Beaux Stratagem, describing Lichfield ale. Farquhar was one of the visitors to... -
Conquistadores by Fernando Cervantes
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €14.92NAMED A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, THE TABLET AND THE LADY'This book is a terrific read ... I could not put it down' Matthew Restall, Literary ReviewThe... -
London's Hidden Walks Volume 1: 1 by 9781902910703
RRP: €14.39Booksplease Price: €10.92The best-selling London's Hidden Walks Volume 1 is back, in a new and updated third edition! Following any of the 12 walks featured in the book will allow the reader to walk in the footsteps of... -
Wall Street and FDR: The True Story of How Franklin D. Roosevelt Colluded with Corporate America by Antony Cyril Sutton 9781905570713
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €12.10Franklin D. Roosevelt is frequently described as one of the greatest presidents in American history, remembered for his leadership during the Great Depression and Second World War. Antony Sutton... -
The Unreturning Army by Huntly Gordon
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.35In the centenary year of the Great War, names such as Ypres, the Marne, the Somme, Passchendaele are heavy with meaning as settings for the near-destruction of a generation of men. It is this aura of... -
The Battle of Midway by Craig L. Symonds 9780199315987
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €21.65There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled the... -
Commando Helicopter Aircrewman: 51 Years in Action with the RN and RAF by Sheldon, John 9781399093798
RRP: €24.00Booksplease Price: €18.29This is the remarkable story of one man's service in the Royal Navy, RAF and the Royal Naval Reserve Air Branch of the Fleet Air Arm. It is a flying career which lasted for an impressive 51 years and... -
Brighton in the Great War by Douglas D'Enno 9781783032990
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €11.03Although the impact of the Great War on Brighton was profound, the seaside town was spared any direct attack by the enemy. The fear of spies and sabotage, however, was widespread at first and aliens... -
A Little History of Dublin by Trevor White 9781785374623
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €15.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785374623Author Trevor WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint < -
Corgi Toys by Edward Force
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €14.10Little Corgi cars, trucks, and planes are big collectibles worldwide. Production of these wonderful toys began in England in 1934, and continues today. This unique book shows every model issued to... -
Secrets of Station X by Michael Smith 9781849540957
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €10.55When Captain Ridley's shooting partyA" arrived at Bletchley Park in 1939 no-one would have guessed that by 1945 the guests would number nearly 10,000 and that collectively they would have... -
Scottish Traditional Tales by Alan Bruford
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.61All over the world traditional tales used to be told at the fireseide until their place came to be taken by books, newspapers, radio and television. This is an entertaining collection from Scotland,... -
De Valera: Long Fellow, Long Shadow by Tim Pat Coogan 9781784753276
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €17.45The history of Ireland for much of the Twentieth century is the history of Eamon De Valera. From the 1916 Rising, the troubled Treaty negotiations and the Civil War, right through to his retirement... -
Churches of Lancashire David Paul 9781398113893
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €14.02Lancashire is a county of contrasts, with heavily industrialised and urbanised areas, remote mountain and moorland and an extensive coastline. These contrasts are reflected in its churches, from... -
Cnut the Great by Timothy Bolton
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €14.76A seminal biography of Cnut, the underappreciated eleventh-century Scandinavian warlord-turned-Anglo-Saxon monarch who united the English and Danish crowns to forge a North Sea empire "A gripping and... -
Women of the Anarchy by Sharon Bennett Connolly 9781445691718
RRP: €27.59Booksplease Price: €19.75In 1135, Stephen of Blois usurped the throne, stealing it from his cousin Empress Matilda and sparking a nineteen-year civil war that would become known as the Anarchy, one of the bloodiest periods... -
Under Fire: Black Britain in Wartime 1939-45 by Stephen Bourne
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.23During the Second World War all British citizens were called upon to do their part for their country. Despite facing the discriminatory 'colour bar', many black civilians were determined to... -
Buried Lives: The Protestants of Southern Ireland by Robin Bury 9781845888800
RRP: €24.00Booksplease Price: €18.04The early twentieth century saw the transformation of the southern Irish Protestants from a once strong people into an isolated, pacified community. Their influence, status and numbers had all but... -
Edmund Burke: The Visionary who Invented Modern Politics by Jesse Norman 9780007489640
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.50Longlisted for the Orwell Prize and the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction; both conservative and subversive, Burke's beliefs have never been more relevant, as MP Jesse Norman explains. ... -
The Winter War: The Russo-Finnish War of 1939-40 by William R. Trotter 9781781312261
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11This fascinating millitary history tells the intriguing tale of the bitter and attritional Winter War between the USSR and Finland in the midst of World War II.On 30 November 1939, Soviet bombers... -
Masterpieces of the British Museum by J. D. Hill
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €17.10The British Museum's collection is one of the world's finest and broadest, ranging from prehistoric times to the present in ancient and modern cultures around the globe. This new and updated edition... -
The Thirties: An Intimate History of Britain by Juliet Gardiner
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €17.27As 'Wartime' did for the 1940s, this book will grasp the broad spectrum of events in the 1930s in the words of contemporary witnesses drawn from metropolitan and provincial letters and diaries,... -
Shorelines: The Coastal Atlas of Ireland by Robert Devoy 9781782054511
RRP: €66.00Booksplease Price: €58.66The Coastal Atlas of Ireland is a celebration of Ireland's coastal and marine spaces. Drawing on written contributions from over 100 authors from across the island of Ireland and beyond, the Atlas... -
Haiti: The Tumultuous History - from Pearl of the Caribbean to Broken Nation by Philippe Girard
RRP: €16.79Booksplease Price: €14.53In the aftermath of January's horrific earthquake, the world's attention is focused on Haiti. In this full narrative history of the Caribbean nation, historian Philippe Girard offers insight into... -
The Souls of Black Folk: The Unabridged Classic by W. E. B. Dubois
RRP: €3.59Booksplease Price: €3.41One of the Most Important Books on Civil Rights, Race, and Freedom Ever Written. "A groundbreaking challenge to white supremacy." -The New York Times A classic work of American literature,... -
Barney Greatrex: From Bomber Command to the French Resistance - the stirring story of an Australian hero by Michael Veitch
Booksplease Price: €22.79The incredible untold World War II story of Australian hero BARNEY GREATREX - from Bomber Command to French Resistance fighter. A school and university cadet in Sydney, Barney Greatrex signed up for... -
The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter by Kai Bird
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €18.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451495242Author Kai BirdFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint -
To Kill a King by David Gilman 9781801108096
RRP: €26.40Booksplease Price: €22.86The eighth gripping adventure in David Gilman's critically acclaimed Master of War series set in fourteenth-century Europe. Bordeaux, 1367. Having angered the bloodthirsty Don Pedro, King of... -
The Story of Hull by Richard Gurnham
RRP: €24.00Booksplease Price: €17.76Hull was first built as a port by the Cistercian monks of Meaux Abbey, to export wool from their rapidly expanding sheep flocks. Before the end of the 13th century Hull had been acquired by Edward I,... -
Indians: A Brief History of a Civilization by Namit Arora 9780670090433
RRP: €23.99Booksplease Price: €16.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670090433Author Namit AroraFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint -
Bourton on the Water: Illustrated Guide Paul Snowdon 9781901037289
RRP: €7.19Booksplease Price: €6.83"Bourton on the Water: An Illustrated Guide" is written by Paul Snowdon. This beautifully handrawn guide to this famous Cotswold village brings alive the history of the area dating from before Roman... -
Love In A Torn Land Jean Sasson 9780553818147
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €8.20Bestselling author Jean Sasson tells the dramatic true story of a young woman caught up in Saddam Hussein's genocide of the Kurdish people of Iraq.One morning Joanna, a young bride living in the... -
Barbara W. Tuchman: The Guns Of August, The Proud Tower (loa #222) by Barbara W. Tuchman
RRP: €57.59Booksplease Price: €36.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598531459Author Barbara W. TuchmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 1264Impri -
Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain by John Darwin
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €12.61A both controversial and comprehensive historical analysis of how the British Empire worked, from Wolfson Prize-winning author and historian John DarwinThe British Empire shaped the world in... -
American Psychosis: An Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy by David Corn
RRP: €30.00Booksplease Price: €21.22"[Corn is] a great journalist. I love the way he thinks. I love the way he writes. I'm so glad he's done a super-readable, modern history of the right...We just need smart, digestible history about... -
Seeing Further: The Story of Science and the Royal Society by Bill Bryson 9780008301620
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €13.03Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, Richard Holmes, Martin Rees, Richard Fortey, Steve Jones, James Gleick and Neal...