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Swindled: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee - The Dark History of the Food Cheats Bee Wilson 9780719567766
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $22.04Salmonella . . . toxins . . . additives . . . food scares . . . Have you ever wondered how our food has become so untrustworthy? Have we ever been able to trust what we eat? Via a fascinating mix of... -
A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy by Thomas Buergenthal
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $20.56Thomas Buergenthal is unique. Liberated from the death camps of Auschwitz at the age of eleven, in adulthood he became a judge at the International Court in The Hague. In his honest and heartfelt... -
Japan at War in the Pacific: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Empire in Asia: 1868-1945 by Jonathan Clements
RRP: $42.82Booksplease Price: $30.87"A lucid history of the rise and fall of militarism in Japan..." -New York Journal of BooksJapan at War in the Pacific recounts the dramatic story of Japan's transformation from a Samurai-led feudal... -
The Engineers: A memoir of survival through World War II in Poland and Hungary by Henry Reiss 9789493322363
RRP: $64.14Booksplease Price: $49.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493322363Author Henry ReissFormat PaperbackPage Count 554Imprint -
This Is Anfield: The Illustrated History of Liverpool Football Club's Matchday Programme by Liverpool Football Club 9781914197451
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $33.92'I Feel Fine' is a beautifully produced official book, a must-buy for every Reds fan wanting to revel in the colour, culture and pride of Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool FC.Book InformationISBN... -
British Naval Weapons of World War Two: The John Lambert Collection, Volume I: Destroyer Weapons by Norman Friedman 9781526747679
RRP: $161.72Booksplease Price: $67.50John Lambert was a renowned naval draughtsman, whose plans were highly valued for their accuracy and detail by modelmakers and enthusiasts. By the time of his death in 2016 he had produced over 850... -
Anglo-Saxon England: 400-790 by Sally Crawford
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $19.14The Anglo-Saxon period has often been dismissed as 'lost centuries' or the Dark Ages, but archaeological evidence and later written sources reveal a complex and sophisticated culture that was... -
Strange Relations: Masculinity, Sexuality and Art in Mid-Century America Ralf Webb 9781399713214
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $29.18'Textured literary portraits of the masculine mind and body'Raymond Antrobus, author of The PerseveranceIn October 1960, James Baldwin and John Cheever spoke on a panel together at San Francisco... -
On Bonfires, Butlins and Being Welsh: Growing up in Pwllheli in the 1950s and 1960s by Jos Simon 9781800991873
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $22.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800991873Author Jos SimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint -
The Tale of the Axe: How the Neolithic Revolution Transformed Britain by David Miles
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $22.71Focusing 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... -
The A-Z of Curious Essex: Strange Stories of Mysteries, Crimes and Eccentrics by Paul Wreyford 9780752489865
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.27'Curious' is perhaps not the first word you would use to label Essex. But 'curiouser and curiouser' it becomes when you dig below the surface. Forget the popular image of Essex boy and girl. Come and... -
Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
RRP: $47.58Booksplease Price: $41.03Stone maps the force, vivacity, and stories within our most mundane matter, stone. For too long stone has served as an unexamined metaphor for the "really real": blunt factuality, nature's curt... -
Three Came Home by Agnes Newton Keith 9780907871286
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $24.56When the Japanese take Borneo in 1942, Agnes Keith is captured and imprisoned with her two-year-old son. Fed on minimal rations, forced to work through recurrent bouts of malaria and fighting with... -
Strongbow: The Norman Invasion of Ireland by Conor Kostick 9781788493833
RRP: $33.30Booksplease Price: $29.16The coming of the Normans to Ireland from 1169 is a pivotal moment in the country's history. It is a period full of bloodthirsty battles, both between armies and individuals. With colourful... -
A Brief Guide to Classical Civilization by Dr. Stephen P. Kershaw
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $23.51A general introduction to the classical world from its origins to the fall of the Roman Empire. The book focuses on questions of how we know about Classical civilization from archaeology and... -
The Bookseller's Tale by Martin Latham
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.92A SPECTATOR AND EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'A joy. Each chapter instantly became my favourite' David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas'Wonderful' Lucy Mangan'The right book has a... -
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $34.32Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History: a bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy "Stunning."-Rebecca Onion, Slate "Makes a vital... -
Where Next?: Finding our place in a world falling apart by Lisa Nandy
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $38.29'A persuasive manifesto for a better Britain.' Observer Book of the Day Britain is in crisis. This timely book by one of the stars of frontline politics shows a way out. ... -
Gerald of Wales by Robert Bartlett 9780752440316
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $25.23This study of Gerald discusses the political path he had to tread and portrays him as an example of the medieval world.About the AuthorRobert Bartlett is professor of Medieval History at the... -
Master Slave Husband Wife: An epic journey from slavery to freedom by Ilyon Woo 9781804183632
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $29.39A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA New York Times bestseller, the incredible true story of a couple that escaped slavery in the South and eventually made their way to the UK, Africa and beyond.The... -
The Avoidable War?: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict Between the Us and China by Kevin Rudd
RRP: $66.64Booksplease Price: $41.36The relationship between the US and China, the world's two superpowers, is peculiarly volatile. It rests on a seismic fault-of cultural misunderstanding, historical grievance, and ideological... -
A Murder in the Neighborhood by Ellen Green
Booksplease Price: $22.04On 6th September 1949, twenty-eight-year-old Howard Barton Unruh shot thirteen people in less than twelve minutes on his block in East Camden, New Jersey. The shocking true story of the first... -
Velikiye Luki 1942-43: The Doomed Fortress by Robert Forczyk
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $29.85Velikiye Luki had been an important Russian fortress city since the 13th century and had become an important rail-hub by the 19th century. In August 1941, the Germans occupied the city of 30,000... -
Lady Fanshawe's Receipt Book: An Englishwoman's Life During the Civil War by Lucy Moore
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $15.40'Fascinating... A vivid account' - Philippa Gregory, The TimesIn the mid-seventeenth century, England was divided by Civil War, but inside the home domestic life continued as it always had done. Lady... -
Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly's Truths from Jim Crow's Lies Sheila Curran Bernard 9781009098120
RRP: $59.50Booksplease Price: $42.51Known worldwide as Lead Belly, Huddie Ledbetter (1889-1949) is an American icon whose influence on modern music was tremendous - as was, according to legend, the temper that landed him in two of the... -
The Battleship Bismarck by Stefan Draminski
RRP: $83.30Booksplease Price: $70.50The Bismarck is perhaps the most famous - and notorious - warship ever built. Completed in 1941, the 45,000-ton German battleship sank HMS Hood, the pride of the British Navy, during one of the most... -
A Short History of Slavery by James Walvin
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $21.97As we approach the bicentenary of the abolition of the Atlantic trade, Walvin has selected the historical texts that recreate the mindset that made such a savage institution possible - morally... -
The Bystander Effect: The Psychology of Courage and Inaction by Catherine Sanderson
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.16'Fantastic ... It explains the misperception of stacked odds and personal powerlessness that stops individuals challenging bad behaviour. Stunning. Humbling. Thought-provoking'Kathryn Mannix, author... -
The Battle of the Bismarck Sea by Michael Veitch
RRP: $47.58Booksplease Price: $35.41'Readers look for and admire good writers and great writing. They will find it, in spades, in The Battle of the Bismarck Sea.' - The Canberra TimesIn the thick of World War II, during the first week... -
The Fourth Man: The Hunt for the KGB's CIA Mole and Why the US Overlooked Putin Robert Baer 9781800960398
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $34.39***'Reads like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy' -James Risen, The Intercept'A compelling account of the ongoing search for the Fourth Man... a gripping and mind-bending read' - Dr. Mark Stout, The Daily... -
Art Deco by Oliver Green
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $17.23Art deco refers to a striking range of decorative design styles that emerged in the early twentieth century and comes from the influential 1925 Paris International Exhibition of Decorative Arts... -
The Frontiers of Knowledge: What We Know About Science, History and The Mind by A. C. Grayling
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.92'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects' Steven Pinker_________________________In very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the past, and itself. But... -
The Roman Revolution by Ronald Syme
RRP: $49.96Booksplease Price: $38.06The Roman Revolution is a profound and unconventional treatment of a great theme - the fall of the Republic and the decline of freedom in Rome between 60 BC and AD 14, and the rise to power of the... -
Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century by Graham Robb
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $29.80In Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century, award-winning author Graham Robb explores the story - and history - of male and female homosexuality in the UK and US, uncovering elements... -
The Shadow of the Mine: Coal and the End of Industrial Britain by Ray Hudson
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $34.63No one personified the age of industry more than the miners. The Shadow of the Mine tells the story of King Coal in its heyday - and what happened to mining communities after the last pits closed... -
Alexander the Great: His Life and His Mysterious Death by Anthony Everitt 9780425286531
RRP: $49.98Booksplease Price: $34.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425286531Author Anthony EverittFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint -
Secret Edinburgh by Jack Gillon
RRP: $38.06Booksplease Price: $27.80Not all of Edinburgh's history is well known; some of it has remained a secret, lost behind the facades of the familiar and hidden from view ... until now. Fascinated by Edinburgh's hidden history,... -
Uttermost Part of the Earth by E Lucas Bridges 9781648371769
RRP: $54.62Booksplease Price: $52.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648371769Author E Lucas BridgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 616Imprint -
Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life: A Social History of Family Life by PHILIPPE Y ARIES 9780394702865
RRP: $42.82Booksplease Price: $36.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394702865Author Philippe AriesFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint -
Lorries in Britain: The 1980s Carl Johnson 9781398100800
RRP: $38.06Booksplease Price: $25.23In the 1980s Great Britain had steadily seen an influx of foreign manufacturers, a trend that was to eventually see the demise of all the major UK makes. However, it was still possible to see lots of...