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Convoys: The British Struggle Against Napoleonic Europe and America by Roger Knight 9780300273403
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.64The first account of Britain's convoys during the Napoleonic Wars-showing how the protection of trade played a decisive role in victory During the Napoleonic Wars thousands of merchant ships... -
The Enemy within: The Secret War Against the Miners by Seumas Milne
Booksplease Price: €41.00Margaret Thatcher branded the leaders of the 1984-85 miners' strike "the enemy within."In this classic account, Seumas Milne reveals the astonishing lengths to which her government and its... -
50 Gems of Dorset: The History & Heritage of the Most Iconic Places by John Megoran
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.90Famous for its spectacular coastal scenery, beautiful beaches and ancient castles, Dorset is a county with a huge and diverse appeal. From the delights of Lyme Regis to lovely Lulworth Cove, this... -
The Italians by John Hooper
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.02'Hooper has written a fascinating, affectionate and well-researched study that delivers the tantalising flavour of a country as hot, cold, bitter and sweet as an affogato' The Telegraph'This portrait... -
Orpheus: The Song of Life by Ann Wroe
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.16For at least two and a half millennia, the figure of Orpheus has haunted humanity. Half-man, half-god, musician, magician, theologian, poet and lover, his story never leaves us. He may be myth, but... -
The Book that Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization by Vishal Mangalwadi
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.92Whether you're an avid student of the Bible or a skeptic of its relevance, The Book That Made Your World will transform your perception of its influence on virtually every facet of Western... -
Globe: Life in Shakespeare's London by Catharine Arnold
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54The life of William Shakespeare, Britain's greatest dramatist, was inextricably linked with the history of London. Together, the great writer and the great city came of age and confronted triumph and... -
British Sidecars of the Post-War Boom 1945-1965 by Glen Fallow 9781803818122
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €32.14The war had left a population with a desire for personal family transport. The demand for this far outstripped the existing supply capacity. Cars were out of the question; it would be fifteen years... -
Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings by Thomas Paine
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.22`An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot . . . it will march on the horizon of the world and it will conquer.' Thomas Paine was the first international... -
The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park: The Secret Intelligence Station that Helped Defeat the Nazis by Sir John Dermot Turing 9781789506211
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789506211Author Sir John Dermot TuringFormat PaperbackPage Count 256 -
Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other by Sam Heughan
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWith a foreword by Diana Gabaldon. Two men. One country. And a lot of whisky.As stars of Outlander, Sam and Graham eat, sleep and breathe the Highlands on this epic road... -
Italy's Lies: Debunking History's Lies So That Italy Might Become a Normal Country by Lorenzo Del Boca 9781599540849
RRP: €16.96Booksplease Price: €14.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599540849Author Lorenzo Del BocaFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint
Letters of Note: New York by Shaun Usher
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.16In Letters of Note: New York, Shaun Usher curates a collection of extraordinary written exchanges about the Big Apple, from the marvelling of wide-eyed newcomers and the devoted outpourings of native...
Where I Was From Joan Didion 9780007178872
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.85A memoir of land, family and perseverance from one of the most influential writers in America. In this moving and surprising book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her...
Enid Blyton and Her Enchantment with Dorset by Andrew Norman 9780857040701
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.89Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.
The Penguin History of the Church: The Reformation by Owen Chadwick 9780140137576
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.02The beginning the sixteenth century brought growing pressure within the Western Church for Reformation. The popes could not hold Western Christendom together and there was confusion about Church...
Price of Power by Seymour M Hersh 9780671506889
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €29.38Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.
The Saffron Tales: Recipes from the Persian Kitchen by Yasmin Khan 9781408868737
RRP: €30.94Booksplease Price: €24.66'This is so much more than a compilation of recipes, gorgeous though they themselves are. This is a book that tells a story, both cultural and personal, and her voice is as engaging as her food'...
Now It Can Be Told: The Story Of The Manhattan Project by Leslie Groves
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €16.22General Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer were the two men chiefly responsible for the building of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, code name "The Manhattan Project." As the ranking...
A Book of Voyages by Patrick O'Brian
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.85An anthology of 17th and 18th century travel writing that inspired the hugely popular Aubrey/Maturin series, collected and introduced by Patrick O'Brian, beautifully repackaged to mark the centenary...
Blitz City by David Young 9781838774349
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.94The brand new 2022 historical crime thriller from the award-winning author of STASI CHILD.*** 'A tense, smartly plotted new police procedural' - DAILY MAIL ***1942. HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE - It is the...
Courtiers: The Secret History of the Georgian Court by Lucy Worsley
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98In the eighteenth century, the palace's most elegant assembly room was in fact a bloody battlefield. This was a world of skulduggery, politicking, wigs and beauty-spots, where fans whistled open like...
The Victorians: A Very Short Introduction by Professor Martin Hewitt 9780198736813
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.48Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The Victorian period may have come to an end over 120 years ago, but the Victorians continue to be a vital presence in the modern world...
Red Ellen: The life of Ellen Wilkinson, Socialist, Feminist, Internationalist by Laura Beers
RRP: €42.78Booksplease Price: €36.96In 1908 Ellen Wilkinson, a fiery adolescent from a working-class family in Manchester, was "the only girl who talks in school debates." By midcentury, Wilkinson had helped found Britain's Communist...
London Night Buses Since 1984 by Philip Wallis
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.90London's traditional Night Bus network was once small, infrequent and little used. That changed from April 1984 when London Transport expanded the network to serve more districts and increased...
Stalin, Vol. II: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 by Stephen Kotkin
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €17.47A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017'A brilliant, compelling, propulsively written, magnificent tour de force' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard'The second volume of what will surely...
Hesiod and Theognis by Hesiod
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.46Together the poetry of Hesiod and Theognis offers a superb introduction to the life and thought of ancient Greece. Hesiod's Theogoney (c. 725 BCE) is a powerful creation myth: an epic, bloody tale of...
The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World by Catherine Nixey
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02In The Darkening Age, Catherine Nixey tells the little-known - and deeply shocking - story of how a militant religion deliberately tried to extinguish the teachings of the Classical world, ushering...
Terms & Conditions: Life in Girls' Boarding Schools, 1939-1979 by Ysenda Maxtone Graham 9780349143064
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.51'Brilliant, hilarious... My book of the year' INDIA KNIGHT'A wonderful book' CRAIG BROWN, Mail on Sunday'Funny, bloodcurdling and moving' Daily MailThe cruel teachers. The pashes on other girls. The...
The Makers of Rome by Plutarch
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98These nine biographies illuminate the careers, personalities and military campaigns of some of Rome's greatest statesmen, whose lives span the earliest days of the Republic to the establishment of...
The Moses Mystery: The Egyptian Origins of the Jewish People by Gary Greenberg 9780981496603
RRP: €20.17Booksplease Price: €15.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981496603Author Gary GreenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint
Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46'One of his masterpieces . . . without doubt a great novel' GuardianOne of Hermann Hesse's greatest novels, Narcissus and Goldmund is an extraordinary recreation of the Middle Ages, contrasting the...
Their Finest Hour: The Second World War by Winston Churchill
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.34Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep and for...
The British Lighthouse Trail: A Regional Guide by Sarah Kerr 9781849954402
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €18.15Lighthouses have been used as aids to maritime navigation for centuries. They are highly recognisable and beloved features of our coastline and waterways, treasured by communities and captivating...
Cinderella Boys: The Forgotten RAF Force that Won the Battle of the Atlantic by Leo McKinstry 9781529319378
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02'Masterful' David Price'McKinstry has done a fine job in rescuing Coastal Command from long neglect' Richard OveryThe remarkable story of the unsung RAF wing who made Allied victory possible.In 1943...
Mini Philosophy: A Small Book of Big Ideas Jonny Thomson 9781472282170
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.73'Engaging, smart and wise, Mini-Philosophy is a diverse taster menu of ideas on life, the mind and the world. Nutritious, bite-sized portions of philosophy that whet the appetite for more' - David...
The Wars of the Roses: The Key Players in the Struggle for Supremacy by Matthew Lewis
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.21In the second half of the fifteenth century, for over thirty years, civil war tore England apart. However, its roots were deeper and its thorns were felt for longer than this time frame suggests. ...
Riddle of the Sphinx: An Ancient Egyptian Puzzle Book Trevor Naylor 9780500298138
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €10.71Unlock the mysteries of ancient Egypt as you navigate through puzzles and riddles, myths and magic, rhyme and reason - from the twisting Nile to the enigmatic secrets of the Sphinx. On your journey,...
How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Syrian Arab Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Liberal-Islamic Alliance by Elizabeth F. Thompson
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.79When Europe's Great War engulfed the Ottoman Empire, Arab nationalists rose in revolt against their Turkish rulers and allied with the British on the promise of an independent Arab state. In October...
Chicken Soup Under the Tree: A Journey to Hell and Back by Ivor Perl 9781999378158
RRP: €9.52Booksplease Price: €6.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999378158Author Ivor PerlFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint