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Henry III: The Great King England Never Knew It Had by Darren Baker
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.10'Henry III is generally classed among the weakest and most incompetent of England's medieval kings. Darren Baker tells a different story.'- Michael Clanchy, author of England and Its Rulers,... -
Up the Rhondda!: A peculiar sort of hiraeth by John Geraint 9781800994874
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800994874Author John GeraintFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint < -
A Silent Fury: The El Bordo Mine Fire by Yuri Herrera
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.94On March 10, 1920, in Pachuca, Mexico, the Compania de Santa Gertrudis - the largest employer in the region, and a subsidiary of the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company - may have... -
Agnes Finnie: The 'Witch' of the Potterrow Port by Mary W Craig
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28Witchcraft holds a continued fascination for readers around the world, and the Scottish witch hunts have recently received renewed media attention, especially with the BBC 2 show Lucy Worsley... -
The Placenames of Scotland by Iain Taylor
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.19Placenames are a constant source of debate. Who was Edwin, whose name is said to live on in that of Scotland's capital city? Are the 'drum' and 'chapel' still to be found in Drumchapel? And which... -
A Short History of Financial Euphoria by John Kenneth Galbraith
Booksplease Price: £10.00With all the financial know-how and experience of the wizards on Wall Street and elsewhere, how is it that the market still goes boom and bust? How can people be so willing to get caught up in the... -
Welsh Food Stories by Carwyn Graves
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Welsh Food Stories explores more than two thousand years of history to discover the rich but forgotten heritage of Welsh foods - from oysters to cider, salted butter to salt-marsh lamb. Despite... -
Women in the Second World War by Neil R. Storey
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.61The Second World War affected the people of Britain like nothing before. This was especially true of Britain's women. With thousands of men called up to join the armed forces, women took their place... -
The rise and fall of KING COAL: British mining from beginning to end by Nick Piggott
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £24.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658634Author Nick PiggottFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint -
Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzan: A Philosophical Tale by Lenn E. Goodman
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £18.05The Arabic philosophical fable "Hayy Ibn Yaqzan" is a classic of medieval Islamic philosophy. Ibn Tufayl (d. 1185), an Andalusian philosopher, tells of a happy child raised by a doe on an equatorial... -
Concorde: The Rise and Fall of the Supersonic Airliner by Jonathan Glancey
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £8.61In Concorde, Jonathan Glancey tells the story of this magnificent and hugely popular aircraft anew, taking the reader from the moment Captain Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in 1947... -
A Pocket Essential Short History of the Anglo-Saxons Giles Morgan 9780857301666
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £4.39From popular fiction such as The Hobbit and Game of Thrones to the universality of the English language, the continuing influence of the Anglo-Saxons can be found throughout the world. But who were... -
Remarkable Journeys of World War Two: A Collection of Untold Stories by Victoria Panton Bacon
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.53Those who lived through the Second World War have many stories of bravery, sadness, horror, doubt and longing. Inspired by conversations with veterans following the publication of her grandfather's... -
Essex Dialect: A Selection of Words and Anecdotes from Around Essex by Camilla Zajac 9781902674674
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902674674Author Camilla ZajacFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint -
So Once Was I: Forgotten Tales from Glasnevin Cemetery by Warren Farrell 9781785375125
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785375125Author Warren FarrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint -
Unlocking the World: Port Cities and Globalization in the Age of Steam, 1830-1930 by John Darwin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95From the acclaimed historian of global empire, the dramatic story of how steam power reshaped our cities and our seas, and forged a new world orderSteam power transformed our world, initiating the... -
After Auschwitz: A story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister of Anne Frank Eva Schloss 9781444760712
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99THE SUNDAY TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'A standalone classic . . . An incredible book, remarkable for its unflinching gaze at the past and also for its hope'GUARDIAN, 'Books to Give You... -
The Shortest History of the Crown by Stephen Bates 9781910400883
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910400883Author Stephen BatesFormat HardbackPage Count 286Imprint -
Stug IIl Enthusiasts' Manual: Ausfuhrung A to G (Sd.Kfz.142) Mark Healy 9781785212130
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.08Based on the chassis of the Panzer III tank, the Second World War German Sturmgeschutz series of assault guns was a successful and cost-effective range of armoured fighting vehicles. Originally... -
Eminent Churchillians Andrew Roberts 9781857992137
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56A controversial account of the Churchill years by a bestselling historian.'The best sort of history - revealing, gossipy and acidulous' OBSERVERThis highly praised book by the Wolfson History... -
Augustine of Hippo: A Biography by Peter Brown 9780520280410
Booksplease Price: £25.00This classic biography was first published forty-five years ago and has since established itself as the standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching.About the AuthorPeter Brown is Rollins... -
Precolonial Black Africa by Cheikh Anta Diop 9781556520884
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556520884Author Cheikh Anta DiopFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint
Battle for the Big Top: P. T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the Death-Defying Saga of the American Circus Les Standiford 9781541762282
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.38Millions have sat under the "big top," watching as trapeze artists glide and clowns entertain, but few know the captivating stories behind the men whose creativity, ingenuity, and determination...
Khartoum: The Ultimate Imperial Adventure Michael Asher 9780140258554
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £8.99The British campaign in the Sudan in Queen Victoria's reign is an epic tale of adventure more thrilling than any fiction. The story begins with the massacre of the 11,000 strong Hicks Pasha column in...
Wartime Juliet Gardiner 9780755310289
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Juliet Gardiner's critically acclaimed book - the first in a generation to tell the people's story of the Second World War - offers a compelling and comprehensive account of the pervasiveness of war...
The de Havilland Mosquito: Through the Eyes of a Pilot by David Ogilvy
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £10.80The de Havilland DH 98 Mosquito was one of the fastest and most versatile aircraft of the Second World War. One of the first multi-role aircraft, it was used for reconnaissance and also as a fighter,...
Stalling For Time by Gary Noesner
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525511281Author Gary NoesnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint <
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan 9780375760525
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Governor General's Literary Award - Nonfiction 2003 and Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2002...
Stationary Steam Engines by Anthony Coulls
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.61Stationary steam engines were the quiet powerhouses of the Industrial Revolution. They provided the driving force behind every manufacturing process for well over a century, as well as drainage of...
The Crime and the Silence by Anna Bikont 9780099592525
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.85Winner of the European Book Prize'A masterpiece' Jan T. Gross'Terrifying and necessary' Julian Barnes'Scrupulously objective and profoundly personal' Kate AtkinsonOn 10 July 1941 a horrifying crime...
The Secret Queen: Eleanor Talbot, the Woman Who Put Richard III on the Throne by John Ashdown-Hill 9780750968461
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31When Edward IV died in 1483, the Yorkist succession was called into question by doubts about the legitimacy of his sons (the 'Princes in the Tower'). The crown therefore passed to Edward IV's...
Bernini: His Life and His Rome by Franco Mormando
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £17.10Sculptor, architect, painter, playwright, and scenographer, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was the last of the great universal artistic geniuses of early modern Italy, placed by both contemporaries...
The Folk-lore of Herefordshire by Ella Mary Leather
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910839294Author Ella Mary LeatherFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint
Mr Selden's Map of China: The spice trade, a lost chart & the South China Sea Timothy Brook 9781781250396
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.37In 1659, a vast and unusual map of China arrived in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It was bequeathed by John Selden, a London business lawyer, political activist, former convict, MP and the city's...
Minehead to Watchet by Glyn Court 9781845882976
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.70Presents a pictorial history of Minehead through a series of photographs and images.Book InformationISBN 9781845882976Author Glyn CourtFormat PaperbackPage Count
Leap of Faith: An Astronaut's Journey Into the Unknown by Gordon Cooper 9781504054249
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.34"An exciting insider's look at Projects Mercury, Gemini and Apollo . . . NASA's internal politics, disasters, glitches and close calls" by a pioneering astronaut (Publishers Weekly). Gordon "Gordo"...
Donegal in Old Photographs by Sean Beattie 9780750938259
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Donegal is the most northerly county in Ireland and one of the largest. In this photographic collection, the reader will find over 200 images depicting life in the county from 1880s onwards.Book...
Love on the Island: The most gorgeously romantic, escapist and spicy summer read of 2023! by Jessica Gilmore 9781398715547
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £4.32'Sunny, sexy and gloriously escapist. The perfect beach read' ALEX BROWN'The perfect summer escape - hot, romantic and funny' RACHAEL LUCASOne week. Two couples. A holiday they'll never forget... ...
China Root: Taoism, Ch’an, and Original Zen by David Hinton
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611807134Author David HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint <
The Little Book of Berkshire by Stuart Hylton
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31The Little Book of Berkshire is an intriguing, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of places, people and events in the county, from its earliest origins to the present day. Here you can read about the...