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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: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.03When 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: $10.32Booksplease Price: $7.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999378158Author Ivor PerlFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint -
The Great Reset: And the War for the World Alex Jones 9781510774049
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $20.00In The Great Reset: And the War for the World, the most controversial man on earth Alex Jones gives you a full analysis of The Great Reset, the global elite's international conspiracy to enslave... -
Halifax Through Time by Stephen Gee
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07The town of Halifax is full of magnificent buildings designed by famous architects such as Sir Charles Barry, John Carr, Sir George Gilbert Scott and other buildings designed by the town's own... -
Perfectly Ordinary People by Nick Alexander
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.67In occupied France, two people sacrificed everything. Now their granddaughter has come looking for the truth... Ruth's childhood was a happy one, and her family-on her mother's side-large and... -
The Unlikely Duke: Memoirs of an eclectic life - from rock 'n' roll to Badminton House Harry Beaufort 9781399725194
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.42'Beaufort chronicles his unusual and rarified world with flashes of Wodehousian genius'. --- Jools Holland'So funny ... bristling with glamorous but eccentric characters'. --- Jilly Cooper'Very funny... -
Sudan: The Failure and Division of an African State by Richard Cockett
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.87Over the past two decades, the situation in Africa's largest country, Sudan, has progressively deteriorated: the country is in second position on the Failed States Index, a war in Darfur has claimed... -
Tumshie: The Forgotten Turnip Lantern by Mark Mechan 9781849345323
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $9.34Tumshie is the story of a dad and son making old fashioned Halloween lanterns and a costume together. The story is set today in Scotland, and it's inspired by how a Scottish Halloween used to be... -
All the Lives We Never Lived: Shortlisted for the 2020 International DUBLIN Literary Award Anuradha Roy 9780857058188
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35"A writer of great subtlety and intelligence . . . a beautifully written and compelling story of how families fall apart and what remains of the aftermath" Kamila Shamsie, winner of the Women's Prize... -
Russian Tanks of World War II: 1939-1945 by Stephen Hart
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $18.38Organised chronologically by type, Russian Tanks of World War II offers a highly-illustrated guide to the main armoured fighting vehicles used by the Red Army during World War II. The book offers a... -
Haywire: A Political History of Britain since 2000 by Andrew Hindmoor 9780241651711
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $34.08Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95True crime in the American heartland. Under the Banner of Heaven is a riveting account of Mormon fundamentalism and renegade prophets, from the bestselling author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air... -
Ovid: A Very Short Introduction by Llewelyn Morgan 9780198837688
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.48"Vivam" is the very last word of Ovid's masterpiece, the Metamorphoses: "I shall live." If we're still reading it two millennia after Ovid's death, this is by definition a remarkably accurate... -
First Light: The Phenomenal Fighter Pilot Bestseller by Geoffrey Wellum
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.91'Vivid, wholly convincing, compelling. One of the best memoirs for years about the experience of flying in war' Max Hastings, Sunday TelegraphTwo months before the outbreak of WWII,... -
Glasgow A History by Michael Meighan 9781445647197
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.38Located on the banks of the River Clyde, Glasgow was once the second city of the Empire, producing ships, locomotives, cars and heavy engineering for the world. Its docks would see huge numbers of... -
Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700 by Diarmaid MacCulloch
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.10'A masterpiece ... In its field it is the best book ever' GuardianWinner of the Wolfson Prize for history, Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700 charts a seismic shift in European culture... -
Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived without Men After the First World War by Virginia Nicholson
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.76Virginia Nicholson's Singled Out is the touching and beautifully told story of the women who were left alone after World War I - a remarkable generation of women who were changed by war; and in their... -
Ataturk Patrick Kinross 9781842125991
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.21The definitive biography of the father of modern Turkey, a powerful figure in the still-unfolding drama of the Middle East.With the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after the First World War came the... -
The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.18** The wise, warm, defiant meditation on what it means to be a woman - from literary legend Isabel Allende ** 'Allende combine[s] wit with anger as she picks apart the patriarchy' Independent ... -
Conquistador by Buddy Levy
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553384710Author Buddy LevyFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint -
The Hungarians: A Thousand Years of Victory in Defeat by Paul Lendvai 9781787383364
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.78This is a comprehensive history of a legendarily proud and passionate but lonely people. Much of Europe once knew them as 'child-devouring cannibals' and 'bloodthirsty Huns', but it was not long... -
England from a Side-Saddle: The Great Journeys of Celia Fiennes by Derek J. Taylor 9781803993591
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $11.56In 1697, a 34-year-old woman mounted her horse and set off on a 3,000-mile journey which over two summers would take her to every county in England. Her name was Celia Fiennes. It was a time when... -
Figuring by Maria Popova
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.02Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries - beginning with the... -
Owning the Earth: The Transforming History of Land Ownership Andro Linklater 9781408855430
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.47Barely two centuries ago, most of the world's productive land still belonged either communally to traditional societies or to the higher powers of monarch or church. But that pattern, and the ways of... -
All Change at the Beach Hotel: A heartwarming and romantic World War One saga Francesca Capaldi 9781804361351
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86Can she choose between her duty and her heart?While World War One changes the country beyond measure, with food becoming scarce and Britain's young men being called up to foreign battlefields, it is... -
Antwerp: The Glory Years by Michael Pye
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62This rich history of Antwerp was a Times Book of the Year and Radio 4 Book of the WeekEven before Amsterdam there was a dazzling North Sea port at the hub of the known world: the city of Antwerp... -
Roaring Girls: The forgotten feminists of British history by Holly Kyte
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $8.97'Extraordinary' Woman&Home A Roaring Girl was loud when she should be quiet, disruptive when she should be submissive, sexual when she should be pure, 'masculine' when she... -
The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime by Judith Flanders 9780007248896
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.36'We are a trading community, a commercial people. Murder is doubtless a very shocking offence, nevertheless as what is done is not to be undone, let us make our money out of it.' Punch ... -
Task Force Black: The explosive true story of the SAS and the secret war in Iraq by Mark Urban
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95The book the MoD doesn't want you to read' Daily MailSoon after British and American forces invaded Iraq they faced an insurgency that was almost impossible to understand, let alone reverse.Facing... -
Huddersfield Through Time by Paul Chrystal
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07Famous as the birthplace of rugby league and of former Prime Minister Harold Wilson as well as being the childhood home of Herbert Asquith, Huddersfield rose to prominence during the Industrial... -
Delirious New York by Rem Koolhaas
RRP: $32.19Booksplease Price: $22.07Since its original publication in 1978, Delirious New York has attained mythic status. Back in print in a newly designed edition, this influential cultural, architectural, and social history of New... -
Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann 9781398513341
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.51WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FACT CRIME SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION **NOW A MAJOR MOTION... -
The Band That Went to War: The Royal Marine Band in the Falklands War Brian Short 9781399096409
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $25.19The Royal Marines are renowned for their military skill and also for having one of the finest military bands in the world. These highly trained and talented musicians are equally at home parading at... -
Orkney: A Historical Guide by Caroline Wickham-Jones
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26Orkney lies only 20 miles north of mainland Scotland, yet for many centuries its culture was more Scandanavian than Scottish. Strong westerly winds account for the scarcity of trees on Orkney and... -
De Gaulle by Julian Jackson 9781913368784
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.74Charles de Gaulle, saviour of France's honour in 1940 and founder of the Fifth Republic, was a man and leader of deep contradictions. A conservative and a Catholic from a monarchist family, he... -
Rood Screens by Richard Hayman
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.09The rood screen was the visual focus of the medieval parish church, dividing the nave from the chancel. Most were built of wood and were adorned with intricate carved decoration painted in bright... -
D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win the Second World War Sarah Rose 9780751578270
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95The dramatic, untold story of the extraordinary women recruited by Britain's elite spy agency to help pave the way for Allied victory, for fans of A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE by Sonia Purnell'Gripping:... -
Cod by Mark Kurlansky
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20'Who would ever think that a book on cod would make a compulsive read? And yet this is precisely what Kurlansky has done' Express on SundayThe Cod. Wars have been fought over it, revolutions have... -
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides 9781780747453
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.20The age of exploration was drawing to a close, yet the mystery of the North Pole remained. Contemporaries described the pole as the 'unattainable object of our dreams', and the urge to fill in this... -
Weatherland: Writers & Artists Under English Skies by Alexandra Harris 9780500292655
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.97Writers and artists across the centuries, from Chaucer to Ian McEwan, and from the creator of the Luttrell Psalter in the 14th century to John Piper in the 20th, looking up at the same skies and...