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A Queen for All Seasons: A Celebration of our One and Only Queen Elizabeth II on her Platinum Jubilee by Joanna Lumley
RRP: £20.00£13.75'Lovely... delivers the warmest of glows' - Telegraph'Who wouldn't love this chocolate-box delight of insights and snapshots of The Queen...A treasure chest' - Good HousekeepingA sparkling celebration of our much-loved Queen Elizabeth II including... -
The Performer: Art, Life, Politics by Richard Sennett 9780241637647
RRP: £25.00£18.02An exploration of public performance in everyday life, by the leading cultural and social thinkerThe Performer explores the relations between performing in art (particularly music), politics and everyday experience. It focuses on the bodily and physical... -
World War II Tanks: Western Allies 1939-45: Identification Guide by David Porter
RRP: £19.99£14.05Illustrated with detailed artworks of American, British, Canadian, Australian, French, Polish and other Western Allied nations tanks and their markings with exhaustive captions and specifications, World War II Tanks: Western Allies 1939-45:... -
A Force Like No Other: The Real Stories of the Ruc Men and Women Who Policed the Troubles by Colin Breen 9780856409721
RRP: £9.99£8.17In 1983, Interpol named Northern Ireland the most dangerous place in the world to be a police officer. In 1968, the RUC was catapulted into the Troubles. Bombs, death threats and murder became a regular part of the day job. Working right at the heart... -
Around Pulborough by P. A. L. Vine 9780752426112
RRP: £14.99£11.55Around PulboroughBook InformationISBN 9780752426112Author P A L VineFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 10mm -
London: A History in Maps by Peter Barber 9780712358798
RRP: £45.00£29.97Over the past 2000 years London has developed from a small town, fitting snugly within its walls, into one of the world's largest and most dynamic cities. This book illustrates and helps to explain the transformation. Side-by-side with the great,... -
Sex and Sexuality in Ancient Rome by L J Trafford
RRP: £15.99£11.61From Emperors and empresses, poets and prostitutes, slaves and plebs, Ancient Rome was a wealth of different experiences and expectations. None more so than around the subject of sex and sexuality. The image of Ancient Rome that has come down to us is... -
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson
RRP: £18.99£14.01Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History'Read it. It will open your eyes about race history in America. It will shock you for what it tells you about politics in America today.' Richard Ford'A remarkably wide-ranging synthesis of the history of the 1850s... -
The Great Book of British Useless Information by Hannah Warner
RRP: £9.99£6.85Which king ordered everyone to bed at 8pm? How many Pot Noodles are sold every second in Great Britain? How many streets must a London cabbie memorise in order to pass 'the knowledge'? How much does the hammer of Big Ben's bell weigh? If you want to... -
Illuminations by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £16.99£12.28Illuminations contains the most celebrated work of Walter Benjamin, one of the most original and influential thinkers of the 20th Century: 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', 'The Task of the Translator' and 'Theses on the Philosophy... -
Outspoken: 50 Speeches by Incredible Women from Boudicca to Michelle Obama by Deborah Coughlin
RRP: £18.99£13.61History didn't listen to women, but that never stopped them from speaking out ...A lot of history is made up of speeches. Speeches about big ideas, celebratory speeches, rousing speeches to inspire soldiers to fight to the death, comic speeches to help... -
Petticoat Pilots: Biographies and Achievements of Irish Female Aviators, 1909-1939 by Michael Traynor
RRP: £29.99£26.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954919429Author Michael TraynorFormat HardbackPage Count 326Imprint Michael TraynorPublisher Michael Traynor -
Petticoat Pilots: Biographies and Achievements of Irish Female Aviators, 1909-1939: Volume one by Michael Traynor
RRP: £29.99£26.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954919412Author Michael TraynorFormat HardbackPage Count 295Imprint Michael TraynorPublisher Michael Traynor -
The First Enigma Codebreaker: Marian Rejewski who passed the baton to Alan Turing by Robert Gawlowski
RRP: £20.00£14.29The history of Enigma is of interest to many researchers and authors on an international scale. The capture and unraveling of the most hidden secret of the army of the Third Reich that was decisive for the fate of one of the greatest armed conflicts in... -
Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation by Roderick Beaton
RRP: £14.99£10.95SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020 AND THE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2021A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'The best history of Greece around... Beautifully written and packed with insights about the culture and the people. I will be dipping into this... -
The Reign of Elizabeth: England 1558-1603 by Barbara Mervyn
£35.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780719574863Author Barbara MervynFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Hodder MurrayPublisher Hodder EducationWeight(grams) 900gDimensions(mm) 274mm * 218mm... -
Latin for the Illiterati: A Modern Guide to an Ancient Language by Jon R. Stone 9780415777674
RRP: £19.99£17.69This revised and updated edition includes a brand new foreword by Richard LaFleur and more than fifteen hundred new entries and abbreviations. Organized alphabetically within the categories of verba (common words and expressions), dicta (common phrases... -
Bastard Prince: Henry VIII's Lost Son by Beverley A. Murphy
RRP: £12.99£9.62It took Henry VIII twenty-eight years, three wives, and a break with Rome before he secured a legitimate male heir. Yet he already had a son - the illegitimate Henry Fitzroy. Fitzroy was born in 1519 after the King's affair with Elizabeth Blount. He was... -
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq by Steve Coll 9780525562269
RRP: £35.00£20.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525562269Author Steve CollFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 850gDimensions(mm) 242mm *... -
The Spartacus War by Barry Strauss 9780753826980
RRP: £9.99£6.80The story of the most famous revolt of the ancient world, and its legendary leader, Spartacus the Gladiator.Spartacus was a Thracian gladiator who started a prison breakout with 74 men, armed with kitchen knives. It grew into a full scale rebellion... -
The State of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence by Martin Meredith
RRP: £12.99£8.58'Meredith has given a spectacularly clear view of the African political jungle' - Spectator 'This book is hard to beat... Elegantly written as well as unerringly accurate' - Financial Times The fortunes of Africa have changed dramatically since the... -
A History of the Tudors in 100 Objects by John Matusiak 9780750991254
RRP: £14.99£9.93This seminal period of British history is a far-off world in which poverty, violence and superstition went hand-in-hand with opulence, religious virtue and a thriving cultural landscape, at once familiar and alien to the modern reader. John Matusiak sets... -
Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles by Bernard Cornwell
RRP: £12.99£8.48The Sunday Times Number 1 Bestseller 'A fabulous story, superbly told ... cannot be bettered' Max Hastings 'Some battles change nothing. Waterloo changed almost everything.' ... -
The Wicked Wit of Queen Elizabeth II by Karen Dolby
RRP: £9.99£6.85A beautiful collection celebrating the Queen's humour, with amusing quotations and stories about royal life.When thinking of the Queen, our first image is one of dignity and authority. She is the very definition of majesty: the British monarch, the... -
NKJV, Deluxe Gift Bible, Leathersoft, Gray, Red Letter Edition, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, New King James Version by Thomas Nelson 9780718075040
RRP: £14.99£11.35The NKJV Deluxe Gift Bible is perfect for personal use or to give as a gift to celebrate special occasions like graduations, baptisms, birthdays, or achievements.The popular and reliable New King James Version, now with the enhanced readability of Thomas... -
Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship by Robert Baden-Powell 9780192802460
RRP: £9.99£7.11'A trained scout will see little signs and tracks, he puts them together in his mind and quickly reads a meaning from them such as an untrained man would never arrive at.' A startling amalgam of Zulu war-cry and imperial and urban myth, of borrowed... -
The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy by Adam Tooze
RRP: £19.99£14.68Adam Tooze's The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy provides a groundbreaking new account of how Hitler established himself in power, mobilized for war - and led his country to annihilation. Was the tragedy of the Second... -
The Case for Israel by Alan Dershowitz
RRP: £14.99£12.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471679523Author Alan DershowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing Company -
The Apocryphal Gospels by Simon Gathercole
RRP: £12.99£9.09A new translation of the oldest non-canonical Christian gospels In the early years of Christianity, several groups produced 'hidden' or 'apocryphal' gospels, alternative versions of the story of Christ. Sometimes these texts complemented the four... -
A Little History of Science by William F. Bynum
RRP: £10.99£9.37A spirited volume on the great adventures of science throughout history, for curious readers of all ages Science is fantastic. It tells us about the infinite reaches of space, the tiniest living organism, the human body, the history of Earth. People... -
Howard Hughes and the Spruce Goose: The Story of the HK-1 Hercules by Simons, Graham M 9781399014410
RRP: £14.99£10.95Howard Hughes' life ambition was to make a significant contribution to the field of aviation development. But the monumental folly of his endeavours on the HK-I Hercules meant that he came to be known and remembered to a great extent for all the wrong... -
The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj by Anne De Courcy
RRP: £9.99£6.80The adventurous young women who sailed to India during the Raj in search of husbands.From the late 19th century, when the Raj was at its height, many of Britain's best and brightest young men went out to India to work as administrators, soldiers and... -
Billy the Kid and Jesse James: Outlaws of the Legendary West by Bill Markley 9781493038381
RRP: £12.99£9.61Who was the biggest, baddest outlaw in the Old West? Billy the Kid or Jesse James?Bat Masterson or Wyatt Earp? Which outlaw did the most to wreak havoc across the frontier? And which outlaw left behind the biggest legacy? Author Bill Markley takes on... -
Chinook Crew 'Chick': Highs and Lows of Forces Life from the Longest Serving Female RAF Chinook Force Crewmember by McConaghy, Liz 9781399072922
RRP: £20.00£14.29Liz McConaghy, from a small town in County Down, spent a total of seventeen years flying with the RAF's Chinook Fleet. Aged just 21, she was the youngest aircrew member to deploy to Iraq and was also the only female crewman' on the Chinook wing for four... -
The Point of the Needle: Why Sewing Matters by Barbara Burman 9781789147193
RRP: £15.95£11.59Tens of millions of people sew for necessity or pleasure every day, yet the craft is surprisingly under-appreciated. The Point of the Needle redresses the balance: this is a book that argues for sewing's place in our lives. It celebrates not only... -
A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain by Marc Morris
RRP: £14.99£10.95This is the first major biography for a generation of a truly formidable king. Edward I is familiar to millions as 'Longshanks', conqueror of Scotland and nemesis of Sir William Wallace ('Braveheart'). Edward was born to rule England, but believed that... -
The Cold War: A World History by Odd Arne Westad
RRP: £16.99£12.28'Masterly ... a book of resounding importance for appraising our global future as well as understanding our past' Richard Davenport-Hines, The Times Literary Supplement, Books of the Year'A masterful survey that will set the standard for Cold War... -
A History of the World in Twelve Maps by Jerry Brotton
RRP: £14.99£10.95Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it. But far from being purely scientific objects, maps of the world are unavoidably ideological and subjective, intimately bound up with the systems of... -
Radio Operator on the Eastern Front: An Illustrated Memoir, 1940-1949 by Erhard Steiniger
RRP: £25.00£18.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784386184Author Erhard SteinigerFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Greenhill BooksPublisher Greenhill BooksWeight(grams) 152g -
The Cat and The City: 'Vibrant and accomplished' David Mitchell by Nick Bradley
RRP: £9.99£7.32A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick'A love letter to Japan and its literature' Rowan Hisayo Buchanan'Ingenious... Touching, surprising and sometimes heartbreaking' Guardian'An ideal tonic for anyone craving far-flung adventure' Mail on Sunday'If you're itching...