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Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World by Jason Hickel
RRP: £10.99£7.99'A powerfully disruptive book for disrupted times ... If you're looking for transformative ideas, this book is for you.' KATE RAWORTH, economist and author of Doughnut EconomicsA Financial Times Book of the Year______________________________________Our... -
Little Book of Gucci by Karen Homer
RRP: £13.99£9.44From its founding in Florence in 1921 as luggage supplier to the elite to its modern standing as purveyor of cult accessories and couture, the house of Gucci is a titan of the luxury fashion world. Over the last century, Gucci's signature leather goods... -
Agent Zo: The Untold Story of Fearless WW2 Resistance Fighter Elzbieta Zawacka by Clare Mulley 9781399601078
RRP: £14.99£12.46Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos Who Helped Defeat the Nazis by Leah Garrett
RRP: £9.99£7.32THE UNTOLD STORY OF BRITAIN'S MOST SECRETIVE SPECIAL FORCES UNITJune 1942. The shadow of the Third Reich falls across Europe. In desperation, Winston Churchill and his chief of staff form an unusual plan - a new commando unit made up of Jewish refugees... -
Reading Virgil: AeneidI and II by Peter Jones
RRP: £24.99£22.53Virgil's Aeneid, an epic which tells the story of Aeneas' flight from burning Troy, his adventures on the high seas and eventual arrival in Italy, thereby founding the Roman race, is one of the most influential works of Roman literature. This edition of... -
Music: A Subversive History by Ted Gioia
RRP: £15.99£11.09The phrase "music history" likely summons up images of long-dead composers, smug men in wigs and waistcoats, and people dancing without touching. In Music: A Subversive History, Gioia responds to the false notions that undergird this tedium. Traditional... -
How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler by Peter Pomerantsev 9780571366347
RRP: £20.00£13.67FROM THE AUTHOR OF NOTHING IS TRUE AND EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE'Elegant, effortlessly readable . . . essential reading for the new dark age of disinformation.' JONATHAN FREEDLAND'Original . . . Pomerantsev digs deep into the past history of information... -
Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Desperadoes Who Plotted Hitler's Downfall, Giving Birth to Modern-Day Black Ops by Damien Lewis 9781529432336
RRP: £10.99£7.50One of the most remarkable stories in the history of Special Forces' operations - Daily ExpressIn the bleak moments after defeat on mainland Europe in winter 1939, Winston Churchill knew that Britain had to strike back hard. So Britain's wartime leader... -
The Great Depression: A Diary by James Ledbetter
RRP: £14.99£10.05When the stock market crashed in 1929, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer in Youngstown, Ohio. After he began to grasp the magnitude of what had happened to American economic life, he decided to set down his impressions in his diary. This collection of... -
Sexed: A History of British Feminism by Susanna Rustin 9781509559114
RRP: £20.00£13.55Susanna Rustin's Sexed is a radical retelling of the story of British feminism. Starting in the revolutionary 1790s and ending in the present day, she introduces the 1830s radicals who demanded "LIBERTY FOR EVER!", Victorian petitioners who expected to... -
A Bag of Marbles by Joseph Joffo 9780226400693
RRP: £18.00£16.07When Joseph Joffo was ten years old, his father gave him and his brother 50 francs and instructions to flee Nazi-occupied Paris and, somehow, get to the south where France was free. This book is a story of these children caught in the whirlwind of World... -
Henry VIII: The Heart and the Crown: 'this novel makes Henry VIII’s story feel like it has never been told before' (Tracy Borman) by Alison Weir 9781472278111
RRP: £10.99£7.61The Sunday Times top 10 bestseller'Alison Weir makes Henry VIII's story feel like it has never been told before... This novel will open your eyes and, at times, break your heart. By the end of it, I felt like I had met Henry for the first time' Tracy... -
Amazing Facts Every 9 Year Old Needs to Know (Amazing Facts Every Kid Needs to Know) Catherine Brereton 9780008492205
RRP: £4.99£3.72Bursting with fascinating facts for impressing friends, parents, grandparents and teachers - perfect for curious children everywhere! Wow your friends! Amaze your teachers! Astonish your family! Find over 130... -
Facing the Lion: Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe by Simone Arnold Liebster
RRP: £8.95£6.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937188009Author Simone Arnold LiebsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint George Milakovich & Assoc IncPublisher George Milakovich & Assoc... -
A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's Perfumer by Elisabeth de Feydeau
RRP: £9.99£7.89The untold story of Marie Antoinette's perfumer, Jean-Louis Fargeon. Montpellier, 1748: Jean-Louis Fargeon was born into a family of perfumers and soon became apprentice to his father's modest perfumery. But he dreamed of the glittering court of... -
Wanderers: A History of Women Walking by Kerri Andrews
RRP: £9.99£7.32Now in B-format paperback, this book describes ten women over the past three hundred years who have found walking essential to their sense of themselves, as people and as writers. Wanderers traces their footsteps, from eighteenth-century parson's... -
Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen 9781911709596
RRP: £20.00£14.69The Sunday Times bestselling edge-of-your-seat exploration of what would happen in the event of nuclear war, perfect for readers of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer.'Essential' New York Times'A stomach-clenching,... -
Secret Projects of the Luftwaffe Vol7 by Dan Sharp 9781911703280
RRP: £11.99£8.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911703280Author Dan SharpFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 432g -
The 21: A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs by Martin Mosebach
RRP: £14.99£8.81Behind a gruesome ISIS beheading video lies the untold story of the men in orange and the faith community that formed these unlikely modern-day saints and heroes. In a carefully choreographed propaganda video released in February 2015, ISIS militants... -
Stranger in the Mask of a Deer by Richard Skelton 9781908058843
RRP: £9.99£7.20Stranger in the Mask of a Deer conjures an elemental, dreamlike narrative ranging from the present to the Late-Upper Palaeolithic, when the British peninsula was gradually reoccupied by humans and animals returning from the greater continent after the... -
Herod the Great: Jewish King in a Roman World by Martin Goodman 9780300228410
RRP: £16.99£14.83A vivid account of the political triumphs and domestic tragedies of the Jewish king Herod the Great during the turmoil of the Roman revolution "Herod the Great is typical of Yale's Jewish Lives series: short, clear, deeply knowledgeable, deeply... -
How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler by Peter Pomerantsev 9780571366354
RRP: £14.99£12.16BY THE AUTHOR OF NOTHING IS TRUE AND EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE'Both history and a rallying cry . . . an illuminating guide to the nature and possibilities of propaganda.' TLSFrom one of our leading experts on disinformation, the incredible true story of the... -
Scotland's Forgotten Past: A History of the Mislaid, Misplaced and Misunderstood by Alistair Moffatt 9780500297803
RRP: £9.99£7.00A charming, lively and often amusing tour of 36 forgotten episodes and overlooked people and places of Scottish history. Scotland's history is full of famous kings, queens, saints and warriors. But what about its lesser-known places, people and events?... -
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI Yuval Noah Harari 9781911717096
£15.50The story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Sapiens.For the last 100,000 years, humans have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions and conquests,... -
The Complete Collection of Plutarch's Parallel Lives by John Dryden 9781505387513
RRP: £5.99£5.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781505387513Author John DrydenFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Dancing In The Streets: A History Of Collective Joy by Barbara Ehrenreich 9781847080080
RRP: £9.99£7.11In Dancing in the Streets Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. She discovers that the same elements come up in every human culture throughout history: a love of masking, carnival, music-making and dance... -
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
RRP: £12.99£8.42'Interesting and provocative... It gives you a sense of how briefly we've been on this Earth' Barack ObamaWhat makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers, Yuval Noah Harari... -
Owain Glyndwr: The Story of the Last Prince of Wales by Terry Breverton
RRP: £12.99£8.71If it had not been for Owain Glyndwr's 15-year struggle against overwhelming odds, the Welsh would not have survived as Europe's oldest nation. His war is the defining era in the history of Wales. Yet Glyndwr is hardly known - a cultured, literate... -
The Games: A Global History of the Olympics by David Goldblatt 9780393355512
RRP: £13.99£11.22A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year The Games is best-selling sportswriter David Goldblatt's sweeping, definitive history of the modern Olympics. Goldblatt brilliantly traces their history from the... -
Spec Ops: Case Studies in Special Operations Warfare - Theory and Practice by Admiral William H. McRaven
RRP: £16.99£12.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891416005Author William H. McRavenFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 380gDimensions(mm)... -
Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live by Lily Ebert 9781529073447
RRP: £10.99£8.63The Sunday Times top 10 bestsellerThe incredibly moving and powerful memoir of an Auschwitz survivor who made headlines around the world. With a foreword by King Charles III.'Unforgettable' - Daily MailWhen Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert was liberated in... -
Titanic by DK
RRP: £9.99£7.61Set sail and discover what happened when the "unsinkable" ship hit an iceberg with this picture-packed guide to the Titanic disaster.Introduce children aged 9-12 years to the story of Titanic's fateful maiden voyage from Southampton, UK to New York City... -
The Malleus Maleficarum by P. G. Maxwell-Stuart
RRP: £14.99£11.30The Malleus Maleficarum is one of the best-known treatises dealing with the problem of what to do with witches. It was written in 1487 by a Dominican inquisitor, Heinrich Institoris, following his failure to prosecute a number of women for witchcraft, it... -
The Witches' Ointment: The Secret History of Psychedelic Magic by Thomas Hatsis 9781620554739
RRP: £14.99£9.61In the medieval period preparations with hallucinogenic herbs were part of the practice of veneficium, or poison magic. This collection of magical arts used poisons, herbs, and rituals to bewitch, heal, prophesy, infect, and murder. In the form of... -
The Fate of Abraham: Why the West is Wrong about Islam by Peter Oborne 9781398501058
RRP: £12.99£8.41As the Cold War faded into history, it appeared to have been replaced by a new conflict - between Islam and the West. Or so we are told. After the events of 9/11 and the advent of the 'war on terror', this narrative seemed prophetic. But, as Peter Oborne... -
Medal Yearbook 2024 by Philip Mussell 9781908828668
RRP: £19.95£18.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908828668Author Philip MussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Token Publishing LtdPublisher Token Publishing Ltd -
Bubishi: The Classic Manual of Combat by Patrick McCarthy
RRP: £14.99£10.05Treasured for centuries by karate's top masters, the Bubishi is a classic Chinese work on philosophy, strategy, medicine, and technique as they relate to the martial arts.Referred to as the "bible of karate" by famous master Chojun Miyagi, for hundreds... -
Nuts! A 101st Airborne Division Machine Gunner at Bastogne by Vincent J Speranza 9781941165515
RRP: £16.95£12.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941165515Author Vincent J SperanzaFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Vincent J. SperanzaPublisher Vincent J. SperanzaWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm)... -
Stuart Tank Vol. 2: The M5, M5A1, and Howitzer Motor Carriage M8 Versions in World War II by David Doyle 9780764358234
RRP: £18.99£12.86The Stuart light tanks were the first tanks taken into combat by US troops during WWII. Production of these vehicles can be broken into two categories: the early tanks powered by air-cooled radial engines, and late vehicles powered by twin V-8 engines... -
When Scotland Was Jewish: DNA Evidence, Archeology, Analysis of Migrations, and Public and Family Records Show Twelfth Century Semitic Roots by Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman 9780786477098
RRP: £28.99£24.16The popular image of Scotland is dominated by widely recognised elements of Celtic culture. But could it be that a significant non-Celtic influence on Scotland's history has been largely ignored or unknown for centuries? This book argues just such a...