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Deep Water: the world in the ocean by James Bradley 9781914484605
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.97'Wise, compassionate, and urgent.' Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland A Bookseller Nonfiction Editor's Choice for March 2024 Plunge into the depths of the unknown in this thrilling work of... -
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova 9781783783205
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Winner of the the British Academy Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2018 Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2017 Winner of the 2017 Highland Book Prize ... -
The Romanovs: 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.80The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did... -
Genghis Khan: And the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £11.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609809648Author Jack WeatherfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint
Turkey: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Andrew Finkel 9780199733040
Booksplease Price: £10.99Turkey occupies a strategic position in today's world: culturally, historically, and geographically, it is the link between Islam and Western democracy, between Europe and the Middle East. The only...
Go! Go! Go!: The SAS. The Iranian Embassy Siege. The True Story by Will Pearson 9780753828540
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The first comprehensive account of the storming of the Iranian Embassy in London in 1980.GO! GO! GO! tells the action-packed story of the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege. It is a comprehensive, detailed...
Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance by Jeremy Eichler 9780571370535
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.91SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2023THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR'Profoundly moving.' EDMUND DE WAAL'A work of searching scholarship, acute critical observation,...
A Cheesemonger's History of The British Isles Ned Palmer 9781788161176
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.26THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Shortlisted for the Andre Simon Food and Drink Book Awards for 2019 'A beautifully textured tour around the cheeseboard' Simon Garfield 'Full of flavour'...
Arnhem 1944: The Airborne Battle by Martin Middlebrook 9781526726803
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.39Arnhem was meant to end the war in Europe. The Germans were in retreat from Normandy and seemed to be beaten. Three airborne divisions were to seize the bridges across the great rivers of Holland and...
Collected Papers on Alexander the Great by Ernst Badian 9780415711395
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £40.99Professor Ernst Badian (1925-2011) was one of the most influential Alexander historians of the twentieth century. His first articles on the subject appeared in 1958, and he continued for a full fifty...
The Lewis Man: AN INGENIOUS CRIME THRILLER ABOUT MEMORY AND MURDER (LEWIS TRILOGY 2) by Peter May
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING SEQUEL TO THE BLACKHOUSEBOOK TWO IN THE MILLION-SELLING LEWIS TRILOGY'One of the best regarded crime series of recent years' IndependentA MAN WITH NO NAMEAn unidentified...
The Great British Bobby: A history of British policing from 1829 to the present Clive Emsley 9781849161978
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The Victorians called him 'Bobby' after Sir Robert Peel, the Home Secretary who created the Metropolitan Police in 1829. The generations that followed came to regard the force in which he served as...
The 43 Group: Battling with Mosley's Blackshirts by Morris Beckman 9780752499420
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.37Oswald Mosley decided he could carry on where Hitler and Mussolini had left off. On street corners his fascist speakers would proclaim 'not enough Jews were burned at Belsen'. Enter the 43 Group. In...
Kaiser Wilhelm II: A Life in Power by Christopher Clark
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Christopher Clark's Kaiser Wilhelm II: A Life in Power is a short, fascinating and accessible biography of one of the 20th century's most important figures.King of Prussia, German Emperor, war leader...
Outsiders: Class, Gender and Nation by Dorothy Thompson 9780860916505
Booksplease Price: £14.99Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.
The Sociology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained Sarah Tomley 9780241182291
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.68Learn about how we organise our society in The Sociology Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about...
The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Civilizations by John Haywood
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.09This new historical atlas - richly illustrated with photographs, artwork recreations and full-colour maps - explores the world's earliest civilisations from the first farming settlements of...
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America by Timothy Snyder
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.46From the author of international bestseller On Tyranny, this prescient analysis of Russia's ongoing interference in the West is now more relevant than ever. 'One of the best...brisk, conceptually...
The Downing Street Years by Margaret Thatcher 9780007456635
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.85This first volume of Margaret Thatcher's memoirs, which encompasses the entirety of her career as Prime Minister. Margaret Thatcher was the towering figure of late-twentieth-century...
The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin by Jonathan Phillips
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'Superbly researched and enormously entertaining... One of the outstanding books of the year' The TimesAn epic story of empire-building and bloody conflict, this ground-breaking biography of one of...
The Cragg Vale Coiners' Walk by Christopher Goddard 9780995450219
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995450219Author Christopher GoddardFormat PaperbackPage Count 12Impri
The Greek Alexander Romance by Richard Stoneman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Mystery surrounds the parentage of Alexander, the prince born to Queen Olympias. Is his father Philip, King of Macedonia, or Nectanebo, the mysterious sorcerer who seduced the queen by trickery? One...
Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World by Danielle Friedman 9781785788093
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.18A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2022'Well-researched and readable' - Financial Times'An absorbing, pacy read' - New Statesman'The story of lycra-clad feminism' Stylist'Canny and informative' - The New...
Hunt For Zero Point by Nick Cook
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15In 1966 a group of highly respected aerospace engineers revealed that US scientists were perfecting ways to control gravity. They predicted a breakthrough would come by the end of the decade,...
Wild Ruins: The Explorer's Guide to Britain Lost Castles, Follies, Relics and Remains Dave Hamilton 9781910636022
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.69Discover and explore Britain's extraordinary history through its most beautiful lost ruins. From crag-top castles to crumbling houses lost in ancient forest, and ivy-encrusted relics of industry to...
Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution by Mike Duncan
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.38A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA #1 ABA INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE BESTSELLERFew in history can match the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette. Over fifty incredible years at the heart of the Age...
English Churches Explained by Trevor Yorke 9781846741913
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73The local church is a familiar landmark in every town, city and village. The story of its past is the story of the people for whom, down the centuries, it was the center of the community. But how...
The Return: The gripping breakout historical thriller of 2020 by Harry Sidebottom
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67145BC - CALABRIA, ANCIENT ROME. After many years of spilling blood for Rome, Gaius Furius Paullus has returned home to spend his remaining days working quietly on the family farm.But it seems death...
The Shortest History of India by John Zubrzycki 9781913083489
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913083489Author John ZubrzyckiFormat PaperbackImprint
The Guinness Girls - A Hint of Scandal: A truly captivating and page-turning story of the famous society girls by Emily Hourican 9781472274649
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Glorious! Glamorous, feisty women living through shifting times. Wonderful escapism' TRACY REESFrom the top ten bestselling author of The Glorious Guinness Girls, a stunning new novel of secrets,...
Orphans of War by Michael Reit 9783950503364
Booksplease Price: £17.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783950503364Author Michael ReitFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint <
A Medieval Family: The Pastons of Fifteenth-Century England by Frances Gies 9780060930554
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.42In the late 18th century, Members of the English gentry - a tiny group of roughly 1,000 households sandwiched between the ruling nobility and the peasants, and a rough analog for the contemporary...
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by David Womersley
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.81Spanning thirteen centuries from the age of Trajan to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, DECLINE & FALL is one of the greatest narratives in European Literature. David Womersley's masterly...
Enoch Powell: Politics and Ideas in Modern Britain by Paul Corthorn
RRP: £17.49Booksplease Price: £12.99Best known for his notorious 'Rivers of Blood' speech in 1968 and his outspoken opposition to immigration, Enoch Powell was one of the most controversial figures in British political life in the...
A Brief History of Slavery: A New Global History by Professor Jeremy Black
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A thought-provoking and important book that raises essential issues crucial not only for understanding our past but also the present day.In this panoramic history, Jeremy Black tells how slavery was...
American Tanks of World War II by Dr Stephen Hart
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.99With the United States producing almost 90,000 AFVs during World War II, American tanks made up the bulk of those deployed by the western Allies, and were even supplied through the lend-lease scheme...
The Hitler Bloodline: Uncovering the Fuhrer’s Secret Family by David Gardner 9781789466683
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28Adolf Hitler was one of six children born to his mother, and one of eight born to his father from two of his three marriages. Alois Hitler, né Schicklgruber, was an official of the Austrian customs...
Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation by Roderick Beaton
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.25SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020 AND THE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2021A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'The best history of Greece around... Beautifully written and packed with insights about...
Life in a Medieval Village by Frances Gies 9780062415660
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28The reissue of Joseph and Frances Gies's classic bestseller on life in medieval villages. This new reissue of Life in a Medieval Village, by respected historians Joseph and Frances Gies, paints a...
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson 9781782392026
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.73The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War One was, in the words of T.E. Lawrence, 'a sideshow of a sideshow'. Amidst the slaughter in European trenches, the Western combatants paid scant...