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Reeling in the Queers: Tales of Ireland’s LGBTQ Past by Páraic Kerrigan 9781848409224
RRP: $29.23$21.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848409224Author Páraic KerriganFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint New Island BooksPublisher New Island BooksWeight(grams) 350g -
Maybe You Will Survive: A Holocaust Memoir Aron Goldfarb 9781804364307
RRP: $25.33$16.40"Go on, my son. Maybe you will survive..." The remarkable autobiography of a Holocaust escapeeAron Goldfarb was fifteen years old when he was ripped from his bed in Poland and forced to enter a Jewish work camp.Watching helplessly as Nazis murdered his... -
Kilvert's Diary by William Plomer
RRP: $21.43$15.35Few have written more beautifully about the British countryside than Francis Kilvert. A country clergyman born in 1840, Kilvert spent much of his time visiting parishioners, walking the lanes and fields of Herefordshire and writing in his diary. Full of... -
The Outlaw Ocean: Crime and Survival in the Last Untamed Frontier by Ian Urbina
RRP: $25.33$17.92'Just incredible' Naomi Klein'Gripping and shocking...with the pace of a thriller' The TimesA New York Times bestseller, The Outlaw Ocean is a riveting, adrenalin-fuelled tour of a vast, lawless and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the... -
Introducing Einstein's Relativity: A Deeper Understanding by Ray d'Inverno 9780198862031
RRP: $93.58$89.64There is little doubt that Einstein's theory of relativity captures the imagination. Not only has it radically altered the way we view the universe, but the theory also has a considerable number of surprises in store. This is especially so in the three... -
A Boot Up North Cornwall's Sites of Magic and Mystery by Terry Faull 9781906887933
RRP: $9.73$7.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906887933Author Terry FaullFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint PiXZ BooksPublisher PiXZ Books -
Red Love: The Story of an East German Family Maxim Leo (Author) 9781782270423
RRP: $25.33$16.89A Sunday Telegraph, Irish Times and Glasgow Herald Book of the Year "Tender, acute and utterly absorbing" Anna Funder, author of Stasiland "A wry and unheroic witness... an unofficial history of a country that no longer exists" Julian... -
The Trojan Horse and Other Stories: Ten Ancient Creatures That Make Us Human by Julia Kindt 9781009411387
RRP: $48.75$35.69What makes us human? What, if anything, sets us apart from all other creatures? Ever since Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, the answer to these questions has pointed to our own intrinsic animal nature. Yet the idea that, in one way or another, our... -
Operation Crossbow: The Untold Story of the Search for Hitler's Secret Weapons by Allan Williams
RRP: $29.23$21.35The story of the photographic intelligence work undertaken from a country house at Medmenham, Buckinghamshire, is one of the great lost stories of the Second World War . At its peak in 1944, almost 2,000 British and American men and women worked at the... -
The Making of the Crofting Community by James Hunter
RRP: $29.23$21.00This book has been seminal in bringing to the fore the injustices that have been inflicted on the Highlands in the name of government and landlord - injustices often lost in the name of dry statistics and academic balance. Written by a man who has... -
Pro Caelio by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $48.65$46.02Three postconsular speeches.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 ... -
The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania and Mutiny in the South Pacific by Brandon Presser 9781785788949
RRP: $21.43$14.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785788949Author Brandon PresserFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Icon BooksPublisher Icon Books -
Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa by Peter Godwin
RRP: $21.43$15.89Growing up in Rhodesia in the 1960s, Peter Godwin inhabited a magical and frightening world of leopard-hunting, lepers, witch doctors, snakes and forest fires. As an adolescent, a conscript caught in the middle of a vicious civil war, and then as an... -
Shake it Up, Baby: The Rise of Beatlemania and the Mayhem of 1963 by Ken McNab 9781846976346
RRP: $42.90$29.46When BEATLEMANIA seized the nation: Relive the Mayhem of 1963 The Beatles broke up more than half a century ago, yet millions around the globe are still drawn to the legacy of four lads from Liverpool. It really shouldn't be like this. But, from the... -
Ancient Magic in Greece and Rome: A Hands-on Guide by Philip Matyszak 9780500026410
RRP: $29.23$19.60Bestselling author Philip Matyszak explores how the Greeks and Romans used magic, who performed it - and why. Magic was everywhere in the ancient world. The supernatural abounded, turning flowers into fruit and caterpillars into butterflies. Magic... -
Himmler's Children: Lebensborn and Racial Politics by Guus de Vries 9781399080552
RRP: $48.75$34.36The Nazis’ dream was to populate their future Greater-German Reich exclusively with ‘racial valuable’ people and Himmler became the main executor of this gruesome and unimaginable plan. For this purpose, millions of ‘inferior’ people had to be expelled... -
Japanese Swords: Cultural Icons of a Nation; The History, Metallurgy and Iconography of the Samurai Sword Colin M. Roach 9784805313312
RRP: $54.58$37.42With over 300 stunning photographs and woodblock prints along with extensive historical and cultural commentary, Japanese Swords is the ultimate authority on Samurai weaponry.Historically, Japanese warriors considered their swords to be more elevated... -
Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race by Patrick Wolfe
RRP: $38.98$38.57Traces of History presents a new approach to race and to comparative colonial studies. Bringing a historical perspective to bear on the regimes of race that colonizers have sought to impose on Aboriginal people in Australia, on Blacks and Native... -
The Tudor Crown by Joanna Hickson
RRP: $15.58$10.90'An intriguing tale, told with confidence' The Times 'A great tale... the golden thread that led to the crown of England' Conn Iggulden She'll betray her king to crown her sonWhen Edward of York... -
Panic as Man Burns Crumpets: The Vanishing World of the Local Journalist Roger Lytollis 9781472145796
RRP: $33.13$22.50WINNER OF THE LAKELAND BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2022You dreamed of being a journalist and the dream has come true. You love working for your local paper . . . although not everything is as you imagined.You embarrass yourself with a range of celebrities,... -
False Flag 911: How Bush, Cheney and the Saudis Created the Post-911 World by Philip Marshall 9781439202647
RRP: $29.23$24.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439202647Author Philpi MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge Publishing -
The Russian Concubine: 'Wonderful . . . hugely ambitious and atmospheric' Kate Mosse by Kate Furnivall 9780751540420
RRP: $21.43$13.01Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Corporation That Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational Nick Robins 9780745331959
RRP: $33.13$22.83This is the history of the East India Company and its enduring legacy as a corporation, dealing in exploitation and violence. The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational. Its trading empire encircled the globe, importing... -
Fulham by Patrick Loobey 9780752432311
RRP: $29.23$22.85This collection of over 200 photographs depicts how Fulham has developed from an area renowned for its rich and fertile soil, producing fruit and vegetables for the London markets, into the densely populated and vibrant centre it is known as today. Once... -
The Dawn of the Roman Empire: Books 31-40 by Livy
RRP: $25.33$17.92'With a single announcement from a herald, all the cities of Greece and Asia had been set free; only an intrepid soul could formulate such an ambitious project, only phenomenal valour and fortune bring it to fruition. (Livy, 33. 33) Thus Livy... -
A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia by Hannes Wessels
$44.32During the West's great transition into the post-Colonial age, the country of Rhodesia refused to succumb quietly, and throughout the 1970s fought back almost alone against Communist-supported elements that it did not believe would deliver proper... -
Matilda: Wife of the Conqueror, First Queen of England by Tracy Borman
RRP: $29.23$21.35Read the thrilling, tempestuous story of the 'first' Queen of England. Matilda, wife of William the Conqueror, was the first woman to be crowned Queen of England and formally recognised as such by her subjects. Beyond this, however, little is known of... -
CCEA GCSE History, Third Edition Finbar Madden 9781471889721
$61.70Exam board: CCEALevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2017First exam: Summer 2019Trust the experts to guide you through CCEA GCSE History with this bestselling Student Book, which covers every option in a single volume.> Skilfully steers... -
Blowing up Russia: The Book that Got Litvinenko Assassinated by Alexander Litvinenko
RRP: $21.43$17.63Updated edition of the book that got former FSB Colonel Alexander Litvinenko killed according to MI6. It unveils the first-ever fake news campaign that the FSB created to have former FSB head Vladimir Putin elected as President of Russia.About the... -
Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy by Henry Kissinger
RRP: $48.75$35.14Henry Kissinger analyses how six extraordinary leaders he has known have shaped their countries and the world'Leaders,' writes Henry Kissinger in this compelling book, 'think and act at the intersection of two axes: the first, between the past and the... -
Zhou Enlai: A Life by Jian Chen 9780674659582
RRP: $58.40$47.27The definitive biography of Zhou Enlai, the first premier and preeminent diplomat of the People’s Republic of China, who protected his country against the excesses of his boss—Chairman Mao.Zhou Enlai spent twenty-seven years as premier of the People’s... -
Pendulum Of War: Three Battles at El Alamein by Niall Barr
RRP: $29.23$21.66In late June 1942, the dispirited and defeated British Eighth Army was pouring back towards the tiny railway halt of El Alamein in the western desert of Egypt. Tobruk had fallen and Eighth Army had suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of Rommel's... -
The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West by Christopher Andrew
RRP: $39.00$28.65'One of the biggest intelligence coups in recent years' The TimesFor years KGB operative Vasili Mitrokhin risked his life hiding top-secret material from Russian secret service archives beneath his family dacha. When he was exfiltrated to the West he... -
Sinking Force Z 1941: The day the Imperial Japanese Navy killed the battleship by Angus Konstam
RRP: $29.23$21.35A history and analysis of one of the most dramatic moments in both air power and naval history. With the sinking of HMS Prince of Wales and Repulse, no battleship was safe on the open ocean, and the aircraft took its crown as the most powerful maritime... -
The Origins of Manchester: from Roman conquest to industrial revolution by Alan Kidd 9781859362396
RRP: $25.33$17.92This fascinating book, by a leading historian of the city, tells Manchester's story from the Romans to the first steam-powered factories, showing how the centuries before the Industrial Revolution formed the foundation for the city's later greatness. ... -
NKJV, Thinline Bible, Large Print, Leathersoft, Blue, Red Letter, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, New King James Version by Thomas Nelson
RRP: $48.75$32.82A balance of being both easy-to-read and easy-to-carry, this Bible is an ideal choice to take with you wherever you go.This edition is published in large NKJV Comfort Print type, which was designed exclusively for Thomas Nelson to be the most readable at... -
Crisis? What Crisis?: Britain in the 1970s Alwyn W. Turner 9781781310717
RRP: $23.38$15.80'A masterful work of social history and cultural commentary, told with much wit. It almost makes you feel as if you were there' ROGER LEWIS, Mail on Sunday The 1970s. They were the best of times and the worst of times. Wealth inequality was at a record... -
Mary I: England's Catholic Queen by John Edwards
RRP: $37.03$32.33A new appraisal of the first Tudor queen, her European connections, her ambitions and intentions, and the religious violence that stained her short reign The lifestory of Mary I-daughter of Henry VIII and his Spanish wife, Catherine of Aragon-is often... -
The Eighteenth Century: Europe 1688-1815 by T. C. W. Blanning
$69.07The complete Short Oxford History of Europe (series editor: Professor T.C.W. Blanning) will cover the history of Europe from Classical Greece to the present in eleven volumes. In each, experts write to their strengths tackling the key issues including... -
The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho: Based on a true story, the utterly gripping and heartbreaking historical novel from the star of Vigil by Paterson Joseph
RRP: $33.13$19.93PICKED FOR THE TIMES BIGGEST BOOKS FOR AUTUMN 2022'An absolutely thrilling, throat-catching wonder of a historical novel. Told with dazzling energy and brilliant panache. Hugely recommended.' STEPHEN FRY'Phenomenal! Highly recommended' MALORIE BLACKMAN,...