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London Street Signs: A visual history of nameplates by Alistair Hall
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $12.52A showcase of London's street nameplates - from the curious to the ornate. All around London, you can find a remarkable public archive of lettering in the city's street nameplates. A unique... -
The Sloth Lemur’s Song: Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain Present by Alison Richard
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.71'Full of wonder and forensic intelligence' Isabella Tree, author of Wilding A moving account of Madagascar told by a researcher who has spent over fifty years investigating... -
The Lewis Land Struggle: Na Gaisgich by Joni Buchanan 9780861521661
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $15.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861521661Author Joni BuchananFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint -
Midway 1942: Turning Point in the Pacific by Mark Stille 9781846035012
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.80In less than one day, the might of the Imperial Japanese Navy was destroyed and four of her great aircraft carriers sank burning into the dark depths of the Pacific. Utilizing the latest research and... -
The Witches of St. Petersburg Imogen Edwards-Jones 9781788544047
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36'Sumptuous, sexy and haunting. I adored this novel' SANTA MONTEFIORE. Starving men and women stalk the streets of St. Petersburg. Revolution is brewing. Yet in the Imperial court of Nicholas II and... -
Secret Chester by John Idris Jones
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.65Secret Chester offers a unique insight into one of England's most visited cities through a series of little-known and forgotten stories, facts and anecdotes. Author and historian John Idris Jones... -
Abbeys and Priories of Britain by Stephen Platten
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.76A guide to over 60 of Britain's most notable abbeys and monasteries. Taking you on a journey that has inspired pilgrims and visitors for centuries, Abbeys and Priories of Britain is the perfect... -
UDR: Declassified by Micheal Smith
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785374272Author Micheal SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint -
An Eye on the Hebrides: An Illustrated Journey Mairi Hedderwick 9781780279152
Booksplease Price: $20.09Mairi Hedderwick embarks on a six-month-long journey to 40 islands from Arran to Lewis, recounting her pilgrimage around the archipelago of the Western Isles with which she has had a lifelong love... -
But What If We're Wrong? by Chuck Klosterman 9781445663388
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.22This has always been the case, no matter how often that certainty has failed. Though no generation believes there's nothing left to learn, every generation unconsciously assumes that what has already... -
East End Neighbourhoods by Brian Girling 9780752435190
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.74The River Thames, with its docks, wharves and associated industries, has been a source of livelihood for generations of East Enders living in the historic riverside neighbourhoods of the former... -
Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans by Malcolm Gaskill
RRP: $23.44Booksplease Price: $18.43Between Two Worlds is a story teeming with people on the move, making decisions, indulging or resisting their desires and dreams. In the seventeenth century a quarter of a million men, women, and... -
Forza Italia: The Fall and Rise of Italian Football by Paddy Agnew
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.07When journalist Paddy Agnew and his girlfriend Dympna touched down in Rome in 1985 in search of adventure, sunshine and the soul of Italian football (well, Paddy was looking for that), they were... -
The Battle of Gettysburg 1863 (1): The First Day by Timothy J. Orr
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63This first volume of three discusses the tactical decisions made on day one and the ensuing combat, while also including a brief summary of the grand strategy in the Eastern Theater of the war, the... -
Samurai: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Wert
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of the samurai. As early as the late seventeenth century,... -
D-Day in Photographs by Andrew Whitmarsh 9780752474793
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.10The Allied landings in France on 6 June 1944 were a turning point in world history. This book is a compilation of 200 images relating to all aspects of D-Day and the Normandy landings, beginning with... -
Uncivilised: Ten Lies that Made the West by Subhadra Das 9781399704359
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.10Knowledge is power. Time in money. Justice is blind.Western civilisation is a powerful brand, and full of accepted wisdoms like these that we rarely question. Taking cues from Greek philosophy and... -
Orkney: Megalithic Marvel of the Northern Isles by Hector McDonnell 9781904263289
RRP: $9.31Booksplease Price: $7.01Were the Stones of Stenness the world's first henge and stone circle? Why has Orkney preserved so many Neolithic farmhouses and villages? What was the purpose of the huge buildings on the Ness of... -
Rebel Cork's Fighting Story: Told by the Men Who Made it by The Kerryman 9781856356442
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $21.56Originally published by The Kerryman in 1947, this is one of the four titles in the Fighting Stories Series. It records the events of the War of Independence in the words of the people who fought it... -
Code Name Sapphire: The unforgettable story of female resistance in WW2 inspired by true events Pam Jenoff 9781405956574
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Discover the powerful and unforgettable story of female resistance from the New York Times bestselling author, inspired by real events'Code Name Sapphire will break your heart and, at the same time,... -
Six Weeks: The Short and Gallant Life of the British Officer in the First World War John Lewis-Stempel 9781409102144
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11The extraordinary story of British junior officers in the First World War, who led their men out of the trenches and faced a life expectancy of six weeks.During the Great War, many boys went straight... -
Till Time's Last Sand: A History of the Bank of England 1694-2013 by David Kynaston 9781408898284
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $21.49'An exemplary narrative history, with the archives plundered judiciously ... [Kynaston's] portrait of a globally influential institution is, in characteristic style, rendered on an entertainingly... -
The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han by Mark Edward Lewis
RRP: $29.41Booksplease Price: $25.13In 221 BC, the First Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese empire. Though forged by conquest, this vast domain depended for its political survival on a fundamental... -
Endurance: 100 Tales of Survival, Adventure and Exploration by Levison Wood 9781801102575
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $17.59100 of the most astonishing stories of human survival, adventure and exploration, chosen by Levison Wood. We are always captivated by tales of courage and bravery, of world-firsts and... -
Medieval Scandinavian Armies: v. 2: 1300-1500 by David Nicolle 9781841765068
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $16.68This period saw profound changes, as Scandinavia became greatly influenced by military events and developments elsewhere in Europe. Most noticeably, plate armour began to take over from mail; and... -
Master of Deception: The Wartime Adventures of Peter Fleming by Alan Ogden
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.17Master of Deception is a biography of Peter Fleming, elder brother of Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond. Peter Fleming worked as a travel writer and journalist, serving with distinction throughout... -
Fighting for the French Foreign Legion: Memoirs of a Scottish Legionnaire by Alex Lochrie 9781783376155
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11The author describes how he joined the French Foreign Legion, without being able to speak any French and very close to the age limit. He takes the reader through the vigorous selection procedure,... -
Letters of Pliny: A Selection by Carl Hope
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.54This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin A-Level (Group 2) prescription of Pliny, Letters 1.9; 3.16; 4.2; 4.19; 8.8; 8.16; 8.17; 9.6, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary,... -
Hitchin Town Through Time by Hugh Madgin
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.65With emerging archaeological evidence pointing to its origins being as far back as the 'lost' centuries after the Roman era, Hitchin has a long and fascinating history. The town flourished on the... -
This is Why I Resist: Don't Define My Black Identity by Dr Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.07The essential anti-racist book from one of the world's leading voices for change'With This Is Why I Resist, Dr Shola is shaking a nation out of its slumber.' Annie Lennox OBE'Smart and courageous,... -
The Historian'S Craft by Marc Bloch 9780719032929
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.04This work, by the co-founder of the "Annales School" deals with the uses and methods of history. It is useful for students of history, teachers of historiography and all those interested in the... -
Medici Money: Banking, metaphysics and art in fifteenth-century Florence Tim Parks 9781861977571
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75The Medici are famous as the rulers of Florence at the high point of the Renaissance. Their power derived from the family bank, and this book tells the fascinating, frequently bloody story of the... -
British Napoleonic Ship-of-the-Line Angus Konstam 9781841763088
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.97The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars encompassed a period when rival European fleets vied for naval supremacy, and naval tactics were evolving. The British Royal Navy emerged triumphant as... -
Voices of History: Speeches that Changed the World by Simon Sebag Montefiore
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92A new, updated edition including new speeches from Queen Elizabeth II and John Boyega in the year 2020.This collection of extraordinary speeches ranges from ancient times to the twenty-first century... -
Under the Wire Paul Conroy 9781787478275
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41NOW A MAJOR FEATURE DOCUMENTARYDetermined to cover the Syrian regime's brutal crackdown on dissent and the devastating impact of the war on Syria's civilians, veteran photographer Paul Conroy and... -
Pharaohs of the Sun: Radio 4 Book of the Week, How Egypt's Despots and Dreamers Drove the Rise and Fall of Tutankhamun's Dynasty by Guy de la Bédoyère
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'An impressive amalgamation of scholarly research with popular history' The Times'An evocative account of an era of epic riches and ruthlessness' History Revealed'De la... -
Blood's Campaign: There can only be one victor . . . by Angus Donald
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.94ONE OF THE MOST TURBULENT REIGNS IN HISTORY PAVED THE WAY FOR THE FIRST MODERN REVOLUTION. AFTER THE TUDORS CAME THE STUARTS . . . If you enjoy S. J. Parris and Andrew Taylor, then this is the series... -
Black England: A Forgotten Georgian History by Gretchen Gerzina 9781399804905
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'The classic book on Black people in Georgian London' DAVID OLUSOGA'Deeply researched, lucidly written and utterly fascinating . . . If you ever thought Black British history started with Windrush,... -
The Edifice Complex: The architecture of power by Deyan Sudjic
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.08Deyan Sudjic's The Edifice Complex: The Architecture of Power is a fascinating exploration of the language of architecture as an insight into the psychology of power, from tyrants to billionaires. ... -
Wellington's Smallest Victory: The Story of William Siborne & Great Model of Waterloo by Peter Hofschroer
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37'A first-class work of historical investigation.' Andrew Roberts, author of Napoleon and WellingtonThe extraordinary story of how one man's obsession to build a huge model of Waterloo - the greatest...