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African Art Now: Fifty pioneers defining African art for the twenty-first century Osei Bonsu 9781781578384
RRP: $53.60Booksplease Price: $39.13Over the past two decades contemporary African art has taken its rightful place on the world stage. Today, African artists work outside the confines of limiting categories and outdated perceptions;... -
Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh Helena Norberg Hodge Hodge 9780712606561
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.07Ladakh, or 'Little Tibet', is a wildly beautiful desert land up in the Western Himalayas. It is a place of few resources and an extreme climate. Yet for more than a thousand years, it has been home... -
Titanic: A Passenger's Guide Pocket Book by John Blake
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36An examination of one of the most famous ships of all time, from a refreshingly different angle. Compiled from authentic period sources with nostalgic illustrations. Launched in May 1911, the... -
Churches of Oxfordshire by Nicola Coldstream
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.65Oxfordshire, once part of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia, has always been a wealthy county. Its landscapes vary from the chalk and beechwood Chiltern Hills in the south to the limestone uplands of... -
Into That Darkness: From Mercy Killing to Mass Murder Gitta Sereny 9780712674478
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.85The biography of Franz Stangl, commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp - a classic and utterly compelling study of evilOnly four men commanded Nazi extermination (as opposed to concentration)... -
Jungle Soldier: The true story of Freddy Spencer Chapman Brian Moynahan 9781849162081
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Arctic explorer, survival expert and naturalist Freddy Spencer Chapman was trapped behind enemy lines when the Japanese overran Malaya in 1942. His response was to begin a commando campaign of such... -
The Mythology of the 'Princes in the Tower' by John Ashdown-Hill 9781445699134
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.26When did the term 'Princes in the Tower' come into usage, who invented it, and to whom did it refer? To the general public the term is synonymous with the supposedly murdered boy King Edward V and... -
Island on the Edge of the World: The Story of St Kilda by Charles Maclean
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65For more than two thousand years the people of St Kilda remained remote from the world. Their society was viable, utopian even; but in the nineteenth century the islands were discovered by... -
Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia Peter Hopkirk 9780719564505
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41'Let us turn our faces towards Asia', exhorted Lenin when the long-awaited revolution in Europe failed to materialize. 'The East will help us conquer the West.' Peter Hopkirk's book tells for the... -
Lost Cities, Ancient Tombs: 100 Discoveries That Changed the World Douglas Preston 9781426221989
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $30.89Blending high adventure with history, this chronicle of 100 astonishing discoveries from the Dead Sea Scrolls to the fabulous "Lost City of the Monkey God" tells incredible stories of how explorers... -
The Ford Capri Story by Giles Chapman 9780752484617
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.73Before the Ford Capri arrived in 1969, GT cars had tended to be expensive, temperamental, impractical and rarefied. Ford decided there was no reason why a four-seater coupe couldn't look stunning and... -
Megalithomania: Artists, Antiquarians and Archaeologists at the Old Stone Monuments by John Michell 9781906069032
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.47A feast of extraordinary theories and personalities centred around the mysterious standing stones of antiquity. John Michell tells the incredible story of the amazing reactions, ancient and modern,... -
General Jack's Diary 1914-18 John Terraine 9781474609708
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 Captain J. L. Jack was serving with the First Cameronians, one of the earliest British regiments to arrive in France. Almost every day while serving in... -
The Fresh and the Salt: The Story of the Solway by Ann Lingard 9781780278490
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Shortlisted for the Lakeland Book of the Year Firths and estuaries are liminal places, where land meets sea and tides meet freshwater. Their unique ecosystems support a huge range of marine and... -
The Armada Legacy (Ben Hope, Book 8) by Scott Mariani
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.22A GRIPPING THRILLER FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'Deadly conspiracies, bone-crunching action and a tormented hero with a heart . . . packs a real punch' Andy McDermott ... -
Where I Come from: Stories from the Deep South by Rick Bragg
RRP: $24.12Booksplease Price: $14.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593310809Author Rick BraggFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint -
The Night Climbers of Cambridge by Whipplesnaith 9781909349551
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909349551Author WhipplesnaithFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint -
Bees: Heroes of the Garden by Tom Jackson
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.17Bees is an outstanding collection of photographs showing these fascinating insects in their natural habitat. Honey bees, bumblebees, mining bees, dwarf bees, carpenter, leafcutter and mason bees:... -
Warsaw 1944: Hitler, Himmler and the Crushing of a City by Alexandra Richie 9780007180431
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.88The traumatic story of one of the last major battles of World War II, in which the Poles fought off German troops and police, street by street, for sixty-three days. The Warsaw Uprising of... -
My Life by Fidel Castro
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $21.00The acclaimed autobiography of Fidel Castro, one of the towering political figures of our age, who dominated both Cuba and the world stage for over half a century.Here Castro tells his story in ... -
New Rome: The Roman Empire in the East, AD 395 - 700 - Longlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic Runciman Award by Paul Stephenson
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07'Fascinating ... illuminating ... Stephenson examines ordinary life, painting a vivid and intriguing picture.' The Times Long before Rome fell to the Ostrogoths in AD 476, a new city had risen... -
We Have Never Been Modern by Bruno Latour
RRP: $37.45Booksplease Price: $27.22With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever from our primitive, premodern ancestors. But if we were to let go of this fond conviction, Bruno... -
Young Elizabeth: One Extraordinary African Summer in the Life of the Princess Graham Viney 9781472143198
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Young Elizabeth captures in vivid detail perhaps the single-most important formative experience in Queen Elizabeth's life, the 1947 royal tour of southern Africa with her parents King George VI,... -
Falling Sky by Harry Sidebottom
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.95The thrilling new historical adventure in the Warrior of Rome series from Sunday Times bestseller Harry Sidebottom.*** 'What Bernard Cornwell is to the Napoleonic Wars, Harry Sidebottom is to Roman... -
Reporting the Troubles 2: More Journalists Tell Their Stories of the Northern Ireland Conflict by Deric Henderson
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $15.79In this follow-up to their landmark first book, Deric Henderson and Ivan Little have gathered new stories from seventy journalists who have worked in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. These... -
The Last Million by David Nasaw
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $14.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143110996Author David NasawFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint -
Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails: Prohibition Centennial Edition: From the 1920 Pick-Me-Up to the Zombie and Beyond - 150+ Rediscovered Recipes and the Stories Behind Them, With a New Introduction and 66 New Recipes by Ted Haigh
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.67In this new, expanded edition of Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails-issued for the 100th Anniversary of National Prohibition-historian, expert, and drink aficionado Ted Haigh, aka Dr. Cocktail... -
Historical Research Using British Newspapers by Denise Bates
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Thanks to digitisation, newspapers from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century have become an indispensable and accessible source for researchers. Through their pages, historians with a passion... -
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.66'Groundbreaking ... It will be difficult for anyone to better this book ... a work of art, a feast that combines genres skilfully: biography, true-crime, political commentary. It gives us Malcolm X... -
Ancient Giants: History, Myth, and Scientific Evidence from around the World by Xaviant Haze 9781591432937
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Hidden Histories of House Plants: The Stories Behind How Our Most-loved Plants Made Their Way to Our Homes by Maddie Bailey
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.83The Hidden Histories of Houseplants explores 20 of the world's most common houseplants.This book isn't just a dry exploration of historical cultivation; the narrative explores the plants' places in... -
Lost Kingdom: A History of Russian Nationalism from Ivan the Great to Vladimir Putin by Serhii Plokhy
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37'Brisk and thoughtful, this book could hardly be more timely' Dominic Sandbrook, BBC History Magazine, Books of the YearFrom a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe and the prize-winning author of... -
Southall by Jonathan Oates 9780752422688
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79A history of SouthallBook InformationISBN 9780752422688Author Dr Jonathan OatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint -
How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks by Adam Nicolson
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $18.04A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should we... -
Renegade: The Life and Times of Darcus Howe by Robin Bunce
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $8.87Explore the struggle for racial justice in Britain through the lens of one of Britain's most prominent and controversial Black journalists and campaigners. Born in Trinidad during the dying days... -
History of My Life by Giacomo Casanova 9781857152906
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.84The name of Giacomo Casanova, Chevalier de Seingalt (1725-1798), in now synonymous with amorous exploits, and there are plenty of these, vividly narrated, in him memoirs. But Casanova was not just an... -
Courtney's War by Wilbur Smith 9781785766503
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.69BOOK 16 IN THE EPIC HISTORICAL SAGA OF THE COURTNEY FAMILY, FROM INTERNATIONAL SENSATION WILBUR SMITH'Best historical novelist' - Stephen King'A master storyteller' - Sunday Times'Wilbur Smith is one... -
The Little History of Cornwall by Paul Wreyford 9780750984430
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.71There is nothing 'little' about the history of Cornwall! However, this small volume condenses that fascinating, rich history into a collection of stories and facts that will make you marvel at the... -
Bellatrix by Simon Turney 9781801108980
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36Warrior and combat medic of the Twenty Second Legion, Titus Cervianus, must fight the armies of the fabled Warrior Queen in this blistering new Roman adventure from Simon Turney. Egypt, 25 BC... -
The Skripal Files: The only book you need to read on the Salisbury Poisonings by Mark Urban
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $10.71The Skripal Files tells the full story behind the Salisbury Poisonings, one of the most shocking incidents to occur in Britain in recent memory. Broadcaster and historian Mark Urban interviewed...