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The Museum Makers: From Old Boxes of Dark Family Secrets to a Golden Era of Museums by Rachel Morris 9781912836826
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Part memoir, part detective story, part untold history of museums - this is a fascinating and moving family story. Museum expert Rachel Morris had been ignoring the boxes under her bed for decades... -
Loco Spotter's Guide by Stuart Black
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.54Since the 1800s locomotives have steamed, chugged and sparked their way into the nation's affections. These powerful engines were the drivers of the Industrial Revolution, and to the present day... -
How to Behave Badly in Renaissance Britain by Ruth Goodman 9781789292664
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92From royalty to peasantry, every age has its bad eggs, those who break all the rules and rub everyone up the wrong way. But their niggling, anti-social and irritating ways not only tell us about what... -
Sandstorm by Lindsey Hilsum
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37The overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi has been one of the twenty-first century's defining moments: the Arab world's most bizarre dictator brought down by his own people with the aid of NATO aircraft... -
She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me by Emma Brockes
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37"A beautiful, wise book. It deals with the some of the grimmest aspects of human experience, but it is also one of the most genuinely up-lifting works I have read in years. Emma Brockes' superb,... -
Kinship Myth in Ancient Greece by Lee E. Patterson 9780292737501
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.07In ancient Greece, interstate relations, such as in the formation of alliances, calls for assistance, exchanges of citizenship, and territorial conquest, were often grounded in mythical kinship. In... -
Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World by Deirdre McCloskey 9780226556741
RRP: $28.14Booksplease Price: $26.73The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attributed a sense of dignity and liberty to the... -
Fate Deals a Hand: The Slippery Fortunes of Titanic’s Professional Gamblers by George Behe
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.43During the early twentieth century, professional gamblers were such a scourge in the smoking rooms of trans-Atlantic passenger liners that White Star Line warned its passengers about them. In spring... -
George III (Penguin Monarchs): Madness and Majesty by Jeremy Black
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.49King of Britain for sixty years and the last king of what would become the United States, George III inspired both hatred and loyalty and is now best known for two reasons: as a villainous tyrant for... -
Hitler's Revolution: Ideology, Social Programs, Foreign Affairs by Tedor Richard 9780988368231
RRP: $20.68Booksplease Price: $16.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988368231Author Tedor RichardFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint -
The Dacians and Getae at War: 4th Century BC– 2nd Century AD by Andrei Pogacias
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.75This intriguing book describes the Romans' formidably warlike enemies in modern Romania and Bulgaria - their 'most illustrated' opponents, thanks to friezes on Trajan's Column and carvings on... -
Secret Colchester by Patrick Denney
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.65Much has been written about Colchester's rich historical past, from the Iron Age settlement and the coming of the Romans, the Norman castle, the woollen cloth trade, the Siege of Colchester and many... -
But You Did Not Come Back by Marceline Loridan-Ivens
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65In 1944, at the age of fifteen, Marceline Loridan-Ivens was arrested in occupied France, along with her father. They were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and forcibly separated. Though he managed to... -
Haunted Sheffield by Darren Johnson-Smith 9780752441955
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79Everyone loves a good ghost story and the city of Sheffield seems to have plenty of them. The tales contained in this book are told by the Steel City Tours ghost walkers themselves, Mr and Mrs P... -
The No-State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto by Daniel Boyarin
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $22.51A provocative manifesto, arguing for a new understanding of the Jews' peoplehood "A self-consciously radical statement that is both astute and joyous."-Kirkus Reviews Today there are two... -
Prayers for the Stolen by Jennifer Clement 9780099587590
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.92'Now we make you ugly,' my mother said. 'The best thing you can be in Mexico is an ugly girl.'On the mountainside in rural Mexico where Ladydi lives, being a girl is dangerous. Especially a pretty... -
George V: Never a Dull Moment by Jane Ridley
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29The prequel to The Crown: the first truly candid portrait of George V and Mary, the Queen's grandparents and creators of the modern monarchyShortlisted for the Elizabeth Longford Historical Biography... -
Chronicles of the First Crusade by Christopher Tyerman
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11'O day so ardently desired! O time of times the most memorable! O deed before all other deeds!'The fall of Jerusalem in the summer of 1099 to an exhausted and starving army of Western European... -
Pakistan: A Hard Country by Anatol Lieven
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.21DAILY TELEGRAPH and INDEPENDENT BOOKS OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 20122011 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALISTIn the wake of Pakistan's development of nuclear weapons, unpoliceable... -
Sunderland: Britain in Old Photographs by Stuart Miller 9780752449272
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.74This collection is comprised almost entirely of images which have never previously appeared in print. Starting in the earliest days of photography, travelling through the war years to the post-war... -
The Giants of Stonehenge and Ancient Britain by Jim Vieira 9780956786548
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956786548Author Jim VieiraFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint -
The Gate to China: A New History of the People's Republic & Hong Kong by Michael Sheridan
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28'Impressive ... Fascinating' Sunday Times 'An authoritative history' Financial Times 'Gripping and richly... -
A History of Scotland's Landscapes by Fiona Watson 9781849173339
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.58It is easy to overlook how much of our history is preserved all around us – the way the narrative of bygone days has been inscribed in fields, forests, hills and mountains, roads, railways, canals,... -
A History of Masculinity: From Patriarchy to Gender Justice by Ivan Jablonka 9780141993706
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37'Exhilarating . . . a work of scholarship, but also inspiration. . . Go and read Jablonka and change the world' Christina Patterson, Sunday Times'An unexpected bestseller in France. . . it has... -
Peaceful Heart, Warrior Spirit: A Memoir by 9781608687909
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $15.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608687909Author Dan MillmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint -
Scottish Samurai: Thomas Blake Glover, 1838-1911 by Alexander McKay
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Thomas Glover arrived in Nagasaki in 1859, just as Japan was opening to the West. Within a few years he had played a crucial part in the overthrow of the Tokugawa Shogunate, providing the rebels with... -
King Arthur: Man or Myth? by Tony Sullivan 9781526763679
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.23The book is an investigation of the evidence for King Arthur based on the earliest written sources rather than later myths and legends. The evidence is laid out in a chronological order starting... -
Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past by Kevin Kruse 9781541604667
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.83In this "incisive" (Vanity Fair) and "authoritative" (New York Times) instant New York Times bestseller, America's top historians set the record straight on the most pernicious myths about our... -
Tokyo 1944-45: The destruction of Imperial Japan's capital Mark Lardas 9781472860354
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.80The full history of how the United States targeted and destroyed the Japanese capital from the air, in a ten-month long campaign by the US Army Air Force and the US Navy. In November 1944, the US... -
The Philosophers' Secret Fire: A History of the Imagination by Patrick Harpur 9781906069063
RRP: $20.03Booksplease Price: $16.11In this dazzling history of the imagination, Patrick Harpur links together fields as far apart as Greek philosophy and depth psychology, Renaissance magic and tribal ritual, Romantic poetry and... -
The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance by Catherine Fletcher
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29*A THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020*'Brilliant and gripping, here is the full true Renaissance in a history of compelling originality and freshness' Simon Sebag MontefioreThe Italian Renaissance... -
Women Were Pirates, Too by C.T. Anthony
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.11From women who fought alongside the men in dastardly high-sea robberies, to an Irish heroine who plundered British ships, to women unfortunate enough to fall amongst thieves, captured and virtually... -
Suffolk Strange But True by Robert Halliday
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.74Suffolk Strange But True describes many unusual, odd and extraordinary people, places and events from this fascinating county. Featured within these pages are tales of 'the fasting woman of... -
Bolton in 50 Buildings by Ray Jefferson
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.65Bolton has a proud and distinctive identity. Flemish weavers settled in the area in the fourteenth century, introducing a wool- and cotton-weaving tradition, but it was the introduction of textile... -
The Reckoning: The Defeat of Army Group South, 1944 by Prit Buttar
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.04'The Reckoning is vivid history, the tragic Eastern Front brought to life through the widest range of Russian and German sources I've ever read. Bravo.' - Peter Caddick-Adams, author and broadcaster ... -
Ten Engineers Who Made Britain Great: The Men Behind the Industrial Revolution by Anthony Burton
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.92Samuel Smiles published Lives of the Engineers in 1862. The noted biographer presented his engineers as heroic progress makers who conquered nature and overcame impossible obstacles to drive the... -
Mimi and Toutou Go Forth: The Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganyika by Giles Foden
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71At the start of World War One, German warships controlled Lake Tanganyika in Central Africa. The British had no naval craft at all upon 'Tanganjikasee', as the Germans called it. This mattered: it... -
The Maid and the Queen: The Secret History of Joan of Arc Nancy Goldstone 9781780220291
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41An exceptionally dramatic life of Joan of Arc and her previously unchronicled mentor, Yolande of Aragon.How did an illiterate seventeen-year-old peasant girl manage to become one of histories most... -
Embracing Israel/ Palestine by Michael Lerner
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583943076Author Michael LernerFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint -
Prince William: Born to be King: An intimate portrait Penny Junor 9781444720419
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41As the nation celebrates the birth of William and Kate's son Prince George, Penny Junor brings us the definitive biography of the man who will be King before him. His face is recognized the world...