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The Japanese Myths: A Guide to Gods, Heroes and Spirits by Joshua Frydman
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50The perfect introduction to the world of Japanese myth and legend. This is a smart and succinct guide to the rich tradition of Japanese mythology, from the earliest recorded legends of Izanagi and... -
Audio Erotica: Hi-Fi brochures 1950s-1980s by Jonny Trunk 9781739887810
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £19.14Audio Erotica is a perfectly pitched visual anthem to home audio entertainment. Using sales brochures from the 1950-1980s, a symphony of graphic nostalgia tracks the technological progress of our... -
Witchfinders by Malcolm Gaskill
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £5.26By the spring of 1645, civil war had exacted a terrible toll upon England. Disease was rife, apocalyptic omens appeared in the skies, and idolators detected in every shire. In a remote corner of... -
Football in Sun and Shadow Eduardo Galeano 9780241355350
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Football is a pleasure that hurts'This unashamedly emotional history of football is a homage to the romance and drama, spectacle and passion of a 'great pagan mass'. Through stories of superstition,... -
Multisensory Living in Ancient Rome: Power and Space in Roman Houses by Hannah Platts 9781350194496
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £27.79Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Don Troiani's Civil War Soldiers by Don Troiani 9780811719704
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.80In the world of historical painting, Don Troiani stands alone, universally acclaimed for the accuracy, drama, and sensitivity of his depictions of America's past. His images, both stirring and... -
Run The Gauntlet: The Channel Dash 1942 by Ken Ford 9781849085700
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.54In February 1942, three of the major ships of the German surface fleet – the battle-cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen – stormed out of the harbour at Brest on a... -
The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson by Hugo Mercier
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.67The starting point of Roger Knight's magnificent new biography is to explain how Nelson achieved such extraordinary success. Knight places him firmly in the context of the Royal Navy at the time. ... -
Six Records of a Floating Life by Shen Fu
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Six Records of a Floating Life (1809) is an extraordinary blend of autobiography, love story and social document written by a man who was educated as a scholar but earned his living as a civil... -
Underground, Overground: A Passenger's History of the Tube Andrew Martin 9781846684784
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.96Why is the Victoria Line so hot? What is an Electrical Multiple Unit? Is it really possible to ride from King's Cross to King's Cross on the Circle line? The London Underground is the oldest, most... -
Orson Welles, Volume 1: The Road to Xanadu by Simon Callow
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £15.91A brilliant biography of the young Orson Welles, from his prodigious childhood and youth, his triumphs with the Mercury Theatre, to the making of Citizen Kane. Vivid, vastly entertaining, this is the... -
I Saw Ramallah Mourid Barghouti 9781917092043
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781917092043Author Mourid BarghoutiFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint
Geographies of Regulation: Policing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the Empire by Philip Howell 9780521853651
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £95.39Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.
The Strangest Family: The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte and the Hanoverians by Janice Hadlow
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.74An intensely moving account of George III's doomed attempt to create a happy, harmonious family, written with astonishing emotional force by a stunning new history writer. George III came...
Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson by Mitch Albom 9780751529814
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.02THE GLOBAL PHENOMENON THAT HAS TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF OVER 9 MILLION READERS'Mitch Albom sees the magical in the ordinary' Cecelia Ahern__________Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a...
Escape or Die: True stories of heroic escape in the Second World War by Paul Brickhill
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28Extraordinary times. Extraordinary courage.Here, from the bestselling author of The Great Escape, are eight true and startling escape stories from the Second World War.The heroism of the servicemen...
Hundred Years War Vol 2: Trial By Fire by Jonathan Sumption
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.18In the second volume of his celebrated history of the Hundred Years War, Jonathan Sumption examines the middle years of the fourteenth century and the succession of crises that threatened French...
Sisters of the Somme: True Stories from a First World War Field Hospital by Penny Starns 9780750961622
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31With First World War casualties mounting, there was an appeal for volunteers to train as front-line medical staff. Many women heeded the call: some responding to a vocational or religious calling,...
Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story by David Maraniss
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £16.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476748399Author David MaranissFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint
In Focus 1: Jagdpanzer 38 by Lee Archer 9781908032133
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £16.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908032133Author Lee ArcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint
The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj Anita Anand 9781471174247
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40WINNER OF THE PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE 'Reads like something from a thriller...colourful, detailed and meticulously researched' Sunday Times'Gripping from start to finish' Peter Frankopan, author of...
The Art of Hearing: English Preachers and their Audiences, 1590-1640 by Arnold Hunt 9781107679825
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £34.50Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.
Marrakech Express by Peter Millar
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Back in 1969 when Morocco's ancient capital was a hashish clouded happy mecca, Crosby, Stills and Nash recorded their cheesy (and hopelessly inaccurate) foot-tapping anthem 'Marrakech Express'. A...
A Child of the Jago by Arthur Morrison 9780199605514
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'The Jago had got him, and it held him fast.' In the worst of London's East End slums, in an area called the Jago, young Dicky Perrott is used to a life of poverty, crime, and violence. Gang...
Oxford AQA History for A Level: The Tudors: England 1485-1603 by Sally Waller 9780198354604
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £36.32This title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: AQA Level: A Level Subject: History First teaching: September 2015 First exams: June 2017 The Tudors has been approved by...
Europe's 100 Greatest Cathedrals by Simon Jenkins
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.18READERS OF EUROPEAN HISTORY WILL LOVE THIS BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED BOOK!"Simon Jenkins has provided a feast for both eyes and mind in this sumptuously illustrated guide to Europe's greatest cathedrals"...
Ocean of Sound: Ambient sound and radical listening in the age of communication David Toop 9781788160308
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26David Toop's extraordinary work of sonic history travels from the rainforests of Amazonas to the megalopolis of Tokyo via the work of artists as diverse as Brian Eno, Sun Ra, Erik Satie, Kate Bush,...
A World Lit Only by Fire by W MANCHESTER 9780316545310
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £21.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316545310Author W MANCHESTERFormat HardbackImprint
The Great Game by Peter Hopkirk
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £4.63For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth, Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia, fought a secret war in the lonely passes and deserts of Central Asia. Those engaged in this shadowy...
A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, death and defiance in Ukraine by Andrew Harding 9781804183793
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.93A Telegraph Book of the Year, soon to be a BBC Radio 4 dramatisation.'Extraordinary.' Philippe Sands'We are touched by the courage and dignity of Andrew Harding's characters - qualities that the...
Foxe's Book of Martyrs: Select Narratives by John Foxe
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.01'Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man: we shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England, as, I trust, shall never be put out.' Hugh Latimer's famous words of...
The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels by Adam Nicolson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.19SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2019 'This is a book of wonders' Sunday Times 'Spellbinding and...
The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters by Adam Nicolson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Longlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (now the Bailie Gifford) 'A thrilling and complex book, enlarges our view of Homer .....
The Safeguard of the Sea: A Naval History of Britain 660-1649 by N. A. M. Rodger
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38Throughout Britain's history, one factor above all others has determined the fate of the nation: its navy. N. A. M. Rodger's definitive account reveals how the political and social progress of...
Richard II: A True King's Fall by Kathryn Warner 9781445694412
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.15Richard II is a figure famous in England's national myths - the king who went insane, the narcissist, the tyrant of Shakespeare's play. History regards his rule either as that of a superhuman monarch...
Courage Under Fire: Testing Epictetus's Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior by James B. Stockdale
Booksplease Price: £6.88When physical disability from combat wounds brought about Jim Stockdale's early retirement from military life, he had the distinction of being the only three-star officer in the history of the navy...
How the French Won Waterloo - or Think They Did by Stephen Clarke
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Published in the 200th Anniversary year of the Battle of Waterloo a witty look at how the French still think they won, by Stephen Clarke, author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French and A Year in the...
The Penguin History of the World: 6th edition J M Roberts 9781846144431
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.18The completely updated edition of J. M. Roberts and Odd Arne Westad's widely acclaimed, landmark bestseller The Penguin History of the WorldFor generations of readers The Penguin History of the World...
Between Silk and Cyanide: A Code Maker's War 1941-45 by Leo Marks
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.99In 1942, with a black-market chicken under his arm, Leo Marks left his father's famous bookshop, 84 Charing Cross Road, and went to war. He was twenty-two and a cryptopgraher of genius. In Between...
I May Be Some Time: The Story Behind the Antarctic Tragedy of Captain Scott by Francis Spufford
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'A truly majestic work of scholarship, thought and literary imagination.' Jan Morris, The Times 'Shot through with crystalline brilliance.' Washington Post 'Fascinating.' Sunday Times When Captain...