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The Plantagenets: The Kings That Made Britain by Derek Wilson
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45England, 1154. As Henry II seizes the throne after years of turmoil, a new dynasty is poised to haul this hitherto turbulent nation out from the Dark Ages and transform it into the nation state we... -
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China by Jung Chang
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $23.96*SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWN 2020*Meet the three women who helped shape the course of modern Chinese history; a gripping story of sisterhood and betrayal from the bestselling author of... -
The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum Sarah Wise 9781844133314
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87'An excellent and intelligent investigation of the realities of urban living that respond to no design or directive... This is a book about the nature of London itself' Peter Ackroyd, The TimesA... -
The Interpretation of Dreams: The Psychology Classic by Sigmund Freud
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $17.91Part of the bestselling Capstone Classics Series edited by Tom Butler-Bowdon, this collectible, hard-back edition of The Interpretation of Dreams provides an accessible and insightful edition of this... -
On War by Carl von Clausewitz 9781853264825
RRP: $12.58Booksplease Price: $10.25Translated by J.J. Graham, revised by F.N. Maude Abridged and with an Introduction by Louise Willmot. On War is perhaps the greatest book ever written about war. Carl von Clausewitz, a Prussian... -
Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations Professor Mary Beard 9781781250495
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $18.14Mary Beard is one of the world's best-known classicists - a brilliant academic, with a rare gift for communicating with a wide audience both though her TV presenting and her books. In a series... -
Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition by Robert Pogue Harrison 9780226317892
RRP: $55.65Booksplease Price: $52.88Humans have long turned to gardens - both real and imaginary - for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. With "Gardens", Robert Pogue Harrison graces readers with a thoughtful,... -
Berlin: Imagine a City Rory MacLean 9781780224589
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.48The first single-volume biography of Berlin, one of the world's great cities - told via twenty-one portraits, from medieval times to the twenty-first century.A city devastated by Allied bombs,... -
Pathfinder: A Special Forces Mission Behind Enemy Lines David Blakeley 9781409129028
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84Nine men. 2,000 enemies. No back-up. No air support. No rescue. No chance...First in - the official motto of one of the British Army's smallest and most secretive units, 16 Air Assault Brigade's... -
Chronicle of the Roman Emperors: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial Rome by Chris Scarre
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $30.56This is a highly readable history and a unique work of reference. Focusing on the succession of the rulers of imperial Rome, it uses timelines with at-a-glance visual guides to each reign and its... -
The Fears of Henry IV: The Life of England's Self-Made King by Ian Mortimer
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.75From the saviour of the realm to the subject of multiple attempted assassinations in the space of six years. King Henry IV's reign was characterised by his fear and paranoia, but above all a... -
Beacon Hill, Back Bay and the Building of Boston's Golden Age by Ted Clarke 9781596291614
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $31.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596291614Author Ted ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint -
Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City by Russell Shorto
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $11.05Amsterdam is not just any city. Despite its relative size it has stood alongside its larger cousins - Paris, London, Berlin - and has influenced the modern world to a degree that few other cities... -
The Invention of Paris: A History in Footsteps by Eric Hazan 9781844677054
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $49.71The Invention of Paris is a tour through the streets and history of the French capital under the guidance of radical Parisian author and publisher Eric Hazan.Hazan reveals a city whose squares echo... -
There She Goes: Liverpool, A City on Its Own. The Long Decade: 1979-1993 by Simon Hughes
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916278448Author Simon HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint < -
The Book of Contemplation: Islam and the Crusades by Usamah ibn Munqidh
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38The volume comprises lightly annotated translation of a key medieval Arabic text that bears directly on the Crusades and Crusader society and the Muslim experience of them.About the AuthorUsama ibn... -
Sir David Attenborough by Lizzie Huxley-Jones 9780702302879
RRP: $12.58Booksplease Price: $9.72Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf 9780863560231
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.38European and Arab versions of the Crusades have little in common. For Arabs, the twelfth and thirteenth centuries were years of strenuous efforts to repel a brutal and destructive invasion by... -
The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches by Brian MacArthur
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.07From Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama, discover the most significant speeches of the modern era!Whether it was Churchill rousing the British to take up arms or the dream of Martin Luther King,... -
Land Rover: The Story of the Car that Conquered the World by Ben Fogle
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.39Sunday Times Bestseller As quintessentially British as a plate of fish and chips or a British Bulldog, the boxy, utilitarian Land Rover Defender has become an... -
A Galaxy of Her Own: Amazing Stories of Women in Space by Libby Jackson
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.38From small steps to giant leaps, A Galaxy of Her Own tells fifty stories of inspirational women who have been fundamental to the story of humans in space, from scientists to astronauts to some... -
A World Beneath the Sands: Adventurers and Archaeologists in the Golden Age of Egyptology by Toby Wilkinson
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.00'It is a story full of drama, with the Nile, the pyramids and the Valley of the Kings as backdrop. That A World Beneath the Sands is also a subtle and stimulating study of the paradoxes of... -
The Carnation Revolution: The Day Portugal's Dictatorship Fell by Alex Fernandes 9780861547548
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $33.8125 April 1974, Lisbon. Over the course of a single day, Europe's oldest fascist regime falls. On its 50th anniversary, this is the story of the revolution that changed Portugal forever. 'A... -
Imperial Mud: The Fight for the Fens by James Boyce
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70**WINNER OF THE HISTORY AND TRADITION CATEGORY, EAST ANGLIAN BOOK AWARDS 2020****SHORTLISTED FOR THE TASMANIAN LITERARY AWARD 2022****LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2021** 'A real page-turner ... -
Lady Gregory's Toothbrush by Colm Toibin
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.24Colm Toibin's Lady Gregory's Toothbrush is a beautiful insight into the life of outspoken Irishwoman, Augusta Gregory.A remarkable figure in Celtic history, she was married to an MP and land-owner,... -
Calum's Road by Roger Hutchinson
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.01'An incredible testament to one man's determination' - The Sunday Herald Calum MacLeod had lived on the northern point of Raasay since his birth in 1911. He tended the Rona lighthouse at the very... -
Shaftesbury: The great reformer by Revd Dr Richard Turnbull
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.14The best-loved politician and social reformer of nineteenth century England, Lord Shaftesbury's deep compassion for the poor became legendary. He campaigned tirelessly to limit factory hours, to stop... -
The Last Women of the Durham Coalfield: Hannah's Granddaughter by Margaret Hedley 9781803994192
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $24.13'As this book shows, the women of the Durham coalfield played an equal role in shaping daily life and trajectories of history in the region, just as women today are building their own futures in... -
Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery Ana Lucia Araujo 9780226771588
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $61.11A sweeping narrative history of the Atlantic slave trade and slavery in the Americas. During the era of the Atlantic slave trade, more than twelve million enslaved Africans were forcibly... -
What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture by Ben Horowitz
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $30.98Ben Horowitz, a leading venture capitalist, modern management expert, and New York Times bestselling author combines lessons both from history and modern organisational practice with... -
Undertones of War by Edmund Blunden
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70In what is one of the finest autobiographies to come out of the First World War, the distinguished poet Edmund Blunden records his experiences as an infantry subaltern in France and Flanders. Blunden... -
Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek 9781848871571
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $17.79In Babylon, Paul Kriwaczek tells the story of ancient Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements around 5400 BC, to the eclipse of Babylon by the Persians in the sixth century BC. He chronicles the... -
Defendu: Scientific Self-Defence by W E Fairbairn 9781783314973
Booksplease Price: $27.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783314973Author W E FairbairnFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint -
Et Cetera: An Illustrated Guide to Latin Phrases Maia Lee-Chin 9781524886349
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $30.56A USA TODAY BESTSELLER AN NPR "BOOK WE LOVE" FOR SUMMER 2024 A gorgeously illustrated guide to memorable Latin phrases, including famous quotations on love, death, nature, politics, and more.Latin... -
McMafia: Seriously Organised Crime Misha Glenny 9781784706746
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.87The extraordinary real stories that inspired the major BBC series Have you ever illegally downloaded a DVD? Taken drugs? Fallen for a phishing scam?Organised crime is part of all our worlds - often... -
Joan Clarke - The biography of a Bletchley Park enigma by Anthony J. Randall 9781909465961
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $20.33Anthony J Randall examines the life of Joan Clarke and her role in breaking the Naval Enigma at Bletchley Park, alongside Alan Turing. An outstanding mathematician, Joan was the daughter of an... -
Embroidering Her Truth: Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power Clare Hunter 9781529346282
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.75I felt that Mary was there, pulling at my sleeve, willing me to appreciate the artistry, wanting me to understand the dazzle of the material world that shaped her.At her execution Mary, Queen of... -
My Revision Notes: Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History: Medicine in Britain, c1250-present and The British sector of the Western Front, 1914-18 Sam Slater 9781510403215
Booksplease Price: $13.44Exam Board: Pearson EdexcelLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018Endorsed for EdexcelTarget success in Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History with this proven formula... -
NKJV, Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible, Hardcover, Red Letter Edition: Bringing to Life the Ancient World of Scripture by Craig S. Keener
RRP: $115.50Booksplease Price: $83.27Discover new dimensions of insight with a behind-the-scenes tour of the ancient worldYou've heard many Bible stories hundreds of times, but how many details are you missing? Sometimes a little... -
Cumbrian Folk Tales by Taffy Thomas
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.55These engaging folk tales from Cumbria were collected as fragments that the author has brought back to life. Shaped by the natural world, local customs and generations of chattering, these...