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Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
RRP: £9.99£6.90** Cahokia Jazz, the new novel from Francis Spufford, is available for preorder now. ** 'Best book of the century.' Richard Osman'Just wonderful.' Jan Morris'A marvel.' Zadie Smith 'Every bit as superb as everyone says.' Sarah PerryWinner of the Costa... -
Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won The War by Jonathan Dimbleby 9780241536711
RRP: £25.00£18.02'Terrific . . . a tour de force' Sir Richard Evans 'Military history at its very best' Keith LoweA gripping and authoritative account of the year that sealed the fate of the Nazis, from the bestselling historian***********June 1944: In Operation... -
Magical Britain: Rediscovering our animist landscapes & sacred places - over 600 pagan and mystical sites by Rob Wildwood 9781910636305
RRP: £18.99£14.22This richly illustrated guide to 650 places will appeal to those who want to explore Britain's lost animist landscape of fairies, folklore, myth and paganism. Discover pre-Christian healing shrines and Norse mythology. Learn where rock, water and hill... -
Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story by Keren Blankfeld 9780753560808
RRP: £22.00£14.71'Haunting and powerfully resonant... this is a story not just of remarkable individuals, but also a tribute to the wider indomitability of the human spirit at the darkest moment in European history' - Sinclair McKay, bestselling author of Berlin and... -
The Emperor by Ryszard Kapuscinski
RRP: £9.99£7.21The Penguin Modern Classics edition of Ryszard Kapuscinski's The Emperor is translated by William R. Brand and Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand, with an introduction by Neal Ascherton.After the deposition of Haile Selassie in 1974, which ended the ancient... -
History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
RRP: £14.99£11.11'With icy remorselessness, it puts paid to any notion that the horrors of modern history might be an aberration - for it tells of universal war, of terrorism, revolution and genocide' Tom HollandThe long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta... -
Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust (With New Material) by Viktor E. Frankl
RRP: £14.99£11.11A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that both he and others in Auschwitz coped (or didn't) with the experience. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their... -
In the Shadow of the Rising Sun: Surviving a Prisoner of War Childhood by Olga Henderson 9781915306425
RRP: £9.99£7.32"When they heard the allies were coming, we were given extra rice to have the strength and energy to dig our own graves." In February 1942, ten-year old Olga Morris and her family were living in Singapore when the city fell to the Japanese Imperial Army... -
Homelands: A Personal History of Europe - Updated with a New Chapter by Timothy Garton Ash 9781529925074
RRP: £10.99£7.87**Winner of the Lionel Gelber Prize 2024****A Financial Times Best Book of 2023**'A moving love letter to Europe' Lea Ypi, author of FreeDrawing from the people who lived it, Homelands explores how Europe slowly recovered and rebuilt from World War Two... -
The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff
RRP: £10.99£7.99'An oppressive, forensic, psychological thriller: J.K. Rowling meets Antony Beevor, Stephen King and Marina Warner ... Schiff's writing is to die for' THE TIMESIt began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's niece... -
Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts
RRP: £18.99£14.01THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, ECONOMIST, DAILY TELEGRAPH, EVENING STANDARD, OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR'Undoubtedly the best single-volume life of Churchill ever written' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday TimesA magnificently fresh and... -
Retreat from Moscow: A New History of Germany's Winter Campaign, 1941-1942 by David Stahel
RRP: £25.00£16.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250758163Author David StahelFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 25mm -
Quest for Cosmic Justice, the by Thomas Sowell
RRP: £17.99£10.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684864631Author SowellPage Count 224Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
Harrier 809: Britain's Legendary Jump Jet and the Untold Story of the Falklands War by Rowland White
RRP: £10.99£6.72'Utterly brilliant: a fantastically exciting book... This really does read like the best kind of thriller. His best book yet'James Holland, author of Normandy '44April 1982. Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.In response, Britain despatches a naval... -
I Ching or Book of Changes: Ancient Chinese wisdom to inspire and enlighten by Wilhelm Richard
RRP: £16.99£12.28Find inspiration from one of the most important books in the world's literature . . . __________ The I Ching is a book of oracles containing the whole of human experience. Used for divination, it is a method of exploring the unconscious; through the... -
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
RRP: £10.99£7.73Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, King Leopold's Ghost is the true and haunting account of Leopold's brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver.In the late nineteenth century,... -
Women Holding Things by Maira Kalman
RRP: £25.00£17.88From the critically acclaimed artist, designer, and author of the bestsellers The Principles of Uncertainty and My Favorite Things comes a wondrous collection of words and paintings that is a moving meditation on the beauty and complexity of women's... -
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 by Milton Mayer
RRP: £19.00£14.82When this book was first published it received some attention from the critics but none at all from the public. Nazism was finished in the bunker in Berlin and its death warrant signed on the bench at Nuremberg. That's Milton Mayer, writing in a foreword... -
Viking Britain: A History by Thomas Williams
RRP: £9.99£6.84A new narrative history of the Viking Age, interwoven with exploration of the physical remains and landscapes that the Vikings fashioned and walked: their rune-stones and ship burials, settlements and battlefields. To... -
Five Broken Blades: The epic fantasy debut taking the world by storm by Mai Corland 9781804186596
RRP: £13.99£11.42Five ruthless killers. Five deadly motives. One King - who must die. Game of Thrones meets Kill Bill in a feast of treason and seduction set against a dazzling fantasy backdrop of Korean history and folklore.**AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW**The king of... -
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple
RRP: £35.00£24.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635573954Author William DalrympleFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint Bloomsbury PublishingPublisher Bloomsbury PublishingWeight(grams)... -
The Horned God: Weird Tales of the Great God Pan by Michael Wheatley 9780712354967
RRP: £9.99£7.16'...and then the music was so loud, so beautiful that I couldn't think of anything else. I was completely lost to the music, enveloped by melody which was part of Pan.' In 1894, Arthur Machen's landmark novella The Great God Pan was published,... -
The Christmas Castle in Scotland (Romantic Escapes, Book 9) by Julie Caplin
RRP: £9.99£6.74Unwrap this gorgeous gift of a book for an escape to the snow-peaked caps of the Scottish Highlands and a romance that will melt your heart... Izzy McBride had never in a million years expected to inherit an actual castle from her great uncle... -
AQA A-level History Coursework Workbook: Component 3 Historical investigation (non-exam assessment) by Keith Milne
£9.67Exam board: AQALevel: A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2017Maximise your chance of coursework success; this AQA A-level History Workbook breaks the non-examined assessment down into manageable steps, builds the... -
The Atlas of Unusual Borders: Discover intriguing boundaries, territories and geographical curiosities by Zoran Nikolic
RRP: £14.99£10.36A beautifully presented gift for anyone with an intrigue for geographical curiosities. This beautifully designed book presents unusual borders, enclaves and exclaves, divided or non-existent cities and islands. Numerous conflicts... -
The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words (1000 BCE - 1492) by Simon Schama
RRP: £12.99£9.34It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life against the steepest of odds. It spans the millennia and the continents - from India to Andalusia and from the... -
Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard
RRP: £7.99£5.98An updated edition of the Sunday Times Bestseller Britain's best-known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit, she revisits the gender agenda and shows how history has treated powerful women. Her examples range... -
British Politics: A Very Short Introduction by Tony Wright
RRP: £8.99£6.65At a time when politics in Britain is experiencing unprecedented turmoil, this Very Short Introduction examines the past, present, and possible future of British politics. Tony Wright puts current events into a longer and larger perspective, ranging from... -
Horrible History of the World (newspaper edition) by Terry Deary 9780702326530
RRP: £9.99£6.51Discover all the blood-curdling stories with: The Horrible History of the World. The master of making history fun, Terry Deary, turns his attention to the foul but fascinating story of humans, from brain-nibbling ... -
Visions 2023__illustrators Book Pixiv Inc 9781975389093
RRP: £35.99£24.39The ultimate collection of pixiv artists returns with a 2023 compilation featuring 170 of some of the greatest illustrators on the platform. This year's collection boasts a broad selection of styles and contributors from across the globe that any art fan... -
The Fall of Yugoslavia by Misha Glenny 9780140261011
RRP: £10.99£7.99Misha Glenny's acclaimed account of the war in former Yugoslavia contains substantial new material that discusses the end of the five-year conflict and looks ahead to an uneasy future in this turbulent region. Writing in the Evening Standard, Fitzroy... -
Unstoppable Us, Volume 2: Why the World Isn't Fair by Yuval Noah Harari 9780593711521
RRP: £24.99£16.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593711521Author Yuval Noah HarariFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Bright Matter BooksPublisher Random House Children's BooksWeight(grams)... -
Fierce Valor: The True Story of Ronald Speirs and his Band of Brothers by Jared Frederick 9781684514038
RRP: £14.99£13.02Fans of Stephen E. Ambrose's Band of Brothers will be drawn to this complex portrait of the controversial Ronald Speirs, an iconic commander of Easy Company during World War II, whose ferocious courage in three foreign conflicts was matched by his... -
Battles Map by Map by DK
RRP: £30.00£19.91Explore the world's most famous battles by their geography as you uncover the most ancient, medieval and modern combats in history.If you're interested in finding out more about the biggest battles fought throughout the ages, then this war book is... -
From the Holy Mountain: A Journey In The Shadow of Byzantium by William Dalrymple 9780006547747
RRP: £12.99£8.71A rich blend of history and spirituality, adventure and politics, laced with the thread of black comedy familiar to readers of William Dalrymple's previous work. In AD 587, two monks, John Moschos and Sophronius the Sophist, embarked on an... -
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide by Gary J Bass
RRP: £18.00£11.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Arthur Ross Book Award 2014 and Asia Society's Bernard Schwartz Book Award 2014 and Cundill Prize in Historical Literature 2014 and Lionel Gelber Prize 2014 and... -
Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt
RRP: £10.99£7.87'Brilliant and disturbing' Stephen Spender, New York Review of BooksThe classic work on 'the banality of evil', and a journalistic masterpieceHannah Arendt's stunning and unnverving report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a... -
Sicily: A Short History, from the Greeks to Cosa Nostra by John Julius Norwich
RRP: £14.99£9.90'Sicily is the key to everything' Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The author of the classic book on Venice turns his sights to Sicily in this beautiful book full of maps and colour photographs.'I discovered Sicily almost by mistake . . .We drove as far as... -
A Song for the Dark Times: The Brand New Must-Read Rebus Thriller by Ian Rankin
RRP: £9.99£3.61From the iconic Number One bestseller Ian Rankin, comes one of the must-read books of the year: A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES 'Genius ... Only great novels capture the spirit of the age. This is one of them.'THE TIMES* * * * *'He's gone...'When his daughter... -
Poland: A history by Adam Zamoyski 9780007556212
RRP: £12.99£8.71Adam Zamoyski first wrote his history of Poland two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. This substantially revised and updated edition sets the Soviet era in the context of the rise, fall and remarkable rebirth of an indomitable nation. ...