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Columbine Dave Cullen 9781787477094
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59**THE GROUNDBREAKING BESTSELLER AND CLASSIC**'Excellent . . . amazing how much still comes as a surprise' New York Times Book Review'Like Capote's In Cold Blood, this tour de force gets below the who... -
Paris After the Liberation: 1944 - 1949 by Antony Beevor
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37A remarkable historical account of the chaos and uncertainty that followed the liberation of Paris in August, 1944'A beautifully written book about a vast tapestry of military, political and social... -
Dartmoor 365: An exploration of every one of the 365 square miles in the Dartmoor National Park by John Hayward
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916485310Author John HaywardFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint < -
The Way It Was: Life in Elizabeth’s Britain, 1952-1979 by Matthew Engel 9781786496690
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Book of the Year in the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph and New Statesman'A powerful illumination of a lost world that is nevertheless part of living memory.' Simon Heffer, 'Books of the Year' , Daily... -
Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference - New Edition by Dipesh Chakrabarty
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $33.79First published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential Provincializing Europe addresses the mythical figure of Europe that is often taken to be the original site of modernity in many histories of... -
The Newsmongers: A History of Tabloid Journalism Terry Kirby 9781789149418
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.42The Newsmongers unfolds the seedy history of tabloid journalism, from the first printed 'Strange Newes' sheets of the sixteenth century to the sensationalism of today's digital age. The narrative... -
A Short History Of Myth by Karen Armstrong
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80As long as we have been human, we have been mythmakers. In A Short History of Myth, Karen Armstrong holds up the mirror of mythology to show us the history of ourselves, and embarks on a journey that... -
Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape by Jeremy Harte 9781789148336
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11According to legend, the English landscape - so calm on the surface - is really the Devil's work. Cloven Country, now in paperback, tells of rocks hurled into place and valleys carved out by infernal... -
Private Life Of Chairman Mao: The Memoirs of Mao's Personal Physician by Zhisui Li
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.58For the first time, here is the extraordinary true story of one of the most powerful men, and ruthless dictators, who ever lived. Mao Zedong had control over more people for a longer period than any... -
Suffolk Airfields in the Second World War by Graham Smith 9781853063428
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79This illustrated, action-packed book contains a full account of the part played by Suffolk's airfields during the Second World War. The history of each airfield is described, with details of the... -
The Unfree French: Life Under the Occupation by Richard Vinen 9780140296846
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63In the summer of 1940 the French army was one of the largest and best in the world, confident of victory. In the space of a few nightmarish weeks that all changed as the French and their British... -
What Would the Spice Girls Do?: How the Girl Power Generation Grew Up Lauren Bravo 9781787631304
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.99The perfect gift for the Spice Girls fan in your life!'Lauren Bravo is one of my very favourite writers.' Dolly Alderton'A joyous and energetic celebration of girlhood, friendship and pop culture. If... -
The Map That Changed the World: A Tale of Rocks, Ruin and Redemption by Simon Winchester
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37THE EXTRAORDINARY TALE OF THE FATHER OF MODERN GEOLOGYHidden behind velvet curtains above a stairway in a house in London's Piccadilly is an enormous and beautiful hand-coloured map - the first... -
Lichfield Then & Now by Annette Rubery 9780752461137
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41The city of Lichfield in Staffordshire - known for its three-spired cathedral and its famous son, the great lexicographer Dr Samuel Johnson - has witnessed many important events in the history of the... -
In Search of Amrit Kaur: An Indian Princess in Wartime Paris Livia Manera Sambuy 9781529922721
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.22A lost princess and a vanished world: a remarkable true story that moves from the Punjab of the Raj to 1930s Paris and the cataclysm of the Second World War'Remarkable and compelling. I loved this... -
Cuneiform by Irving Finkel
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04Cuneiform script on tablets of clay is, as far as we know, the oldest form of writing in the world. The choice of clay as writing medium in ancient Mesopotamia meant that records of all kinds could... -
The Fran Lebowitz Reader by Fran Lebowitz
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679761808Author Fran LebowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint -
Church Curiosities: Strange Objects and Bizarre Legends by David Castleton 9781784424442
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.56In churches and cathedrals across Britain, tucked away among ordinary items such as pews, screens and pulpits, sit a plethora of fascinating and unexpected objects.From dragon-slaying spears and the... -
When America Stopped Being Great: A History of the Present by Nick Bryant 9781399404990
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.41'Nick Bryant is brilliant. He has a way of showing you what you've been missing from the whole story whilst never leaving you feeling stupid.' - Emily Maitlis 'Bryant is a genuine rarity, a Brit... -
The Fran Lebowitz Reader by Fran Lebowitz 9780349015880
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.67Acerbic, wisecracking and hilarious, this is the definitive essay collection from New York legend and satirist, Fran Lebowitz, star of Martin Scorsese's hit Netflix series, Pretend It's a City.'The... -
A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel 9780006546818
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.54This study of the history of reading goes from the earliest examples of the clay tablets and cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt via the invention of printing in the 15th century to the birth... -
Rex v Edith Thompson: A Tale of Two Murders by Laura Thompson
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36'Another dark parable of society's vilification of women. Intelligent... A tantalizing investigation' Kate Colquhoun. On the night of 3 October 1922, in the quiet suburb of Ilford, Edith Thompson... -
The Inheritance of Rome: A History of Europe from 400 to 1000 by Chris Wickham
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.80'The Penguin History of Europe series ... is one of contemporary publishing's great projects' New StatesmanThe world known as the 'Dark Ages', often seen as a time of barbarism, was in fact the... -
Goose Green: The decisive battle of the Falklands War - by the British troops who fought it by Nigel Ely
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92*As featured in the landmark BBC2 documentary Our Falklands War: A Frontline Story*Published to mark the fortieth anniversary of the Falklands war'There was a time when we did extraordinary things.'... -
Blood and Ruins: The Great Imperial War, 1931-1945 by Richard Overy
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $15.44A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORYSHORTLISTED FOR THE GILDER LEHRMAN PRIZE FOR MILITARY HISTORY'A masterpiece. It puts all previous single-volume... -
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley 9780007267125
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.56Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction 2011. Life is on the up. We are wealthier, healthier, happier, kinder, cleaner, more peaceful, more equal and... -
The Russian Revolution by Sheila Fitzpatrick
RRP: $20.76Booksplease Price: $14.73The Russian Revolution had a decisive impact on the history of the twentieth century. In the years following the collapse of the Soviet regime and the opening of its archives, it has become possible... -
Painted People: A History of Humanity in 21 Tattoos by Matt Lodder
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $14.61In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing 'an art without a history'. 'No-one', it went on, 'has made it the business of his life to study the development of tattooing.' ... -
AH-1 Cobra Gunship vs NVA Armor: Vietnam 1967–73 Peter E. Davies 9781472861740
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.07A new study of how the first purpose-built anti-tank helicopter gunship - the Bell AH-1 Cobra - engaged communist armor and well-armed irregular fighters in the war for control of Vietnam. The... -
White King: Charles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr by Leanda de Lisle
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.86The subject of a BBC TV series on Charles I The prize-winning biography of Charles I * Winner of the HWA Crown for Best Work of Historical Non-Fiction 2018 ** Times Book of the Year ** Shortlisted... -
ESV Archaeology Study Bible by 9781433550409
RRP: $69.67Booksplease Price: $48.78The ESV Archaeology Study Bible roots the biblical text in its historical and cultural context, giving Bible readers a framework for better understanding the people, places, and events recorded in... -
Elizabeth of York: The First Tudor Queen by Alison Weir
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.69'Weir perfectly combines the dramatic colour and timing of an historical novelist with the truth to fact of a scrupulous historian' The TimesBritain's foremost female historian reveals the true story... -
Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv: Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023 by Andrey Kurkov 9781529427837
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92"Both a pleasure and a testament to life in Ukraine, before" Sunday Times"Ukraine's greatest living novelist" New European"A Ukrainian Murakami" GuardianA love letter to the beautiful city of Lviv,... -
Sherlock's Squadron by Steve Holmes 9781782194217
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $3.42John Holmes was a schoolboy when World War II broke out in 1939, but even then he knew his destiny lay in the skies. 'Boys from these parts don't join the RAF', he was told on more than one occasion... -
Family Britain, 1951-1957 by David Kynaston
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.89As in Austerity Britain, an astonishing array of vivid, intimate and unselfconscious voices drive this narrative. The keen-eyed Nella Last shops assiduously at Barrow Market as austerity and... -
The 1930s House Explained by Trevor Yorke 9781846740022
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36This is a guide to the style of houses built in the 1930s. Tradition continued to dominate the outside while inside art deco was all the rage. It contains many photographs and detailed drawings.About... -
How the Irish Became White by Noel Ignatiev
RRP: $32.15Booksplease Price: $26.79'...from time to time a study comes along that truly can be called `path breaking,' `seminal,' `essential,' a `must read.' How the Irish Became White is such a study.' John Bracey, W.E.B. Du Bois... -
Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization by Richard Miles
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66Richard Miles's Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Civilization charts one of the bloodiest dramas of the Ancient World: the devastating struggle to the death between Carthage... -
Visit Britain's Cathedrals: A guidebook and logbook for visiting 97 cathedrals in England, Wales and Scotland: 2023 by Heritage Hunter 9781905315802
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $10.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905315802Author Heritage HunterFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint -
Liverpool Docks by Michael Stammers 9780752417127
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79The story of Liverpool is, in many ways, the story of its docks. Before the docks, trade was limited by the tides and at the mercy of the Mersey's currents. After dock construction began, the city...