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The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed by Judith Flanders
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.14The bestselling social history of Victorian domestic life, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of 19th-century men and women. The Victorian age is both recent and... -
Traitor King: The Duke and Duchess of Windsor in Exile by Andrew Lownie
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $26.17THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Daily Mail Royal Book of the Year, 2021'Darkly compelling...hundreds of eye-popping details...Gripping ... damning portrait of the Windsors' Daily Mail 'Book of the... -
Augustus: From Revolutionary to Emperor by Adrian Goldsworthy
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $14.38'Masterly' - Robert Harris, author of Imperium 'Essential reading for anyone interested in Ancient Rome' Independent*****Caesar Augustus schemed and fought his way to absolute power. He became Rome's... -
Lockerbie: The Truth by Douglas Boyd 9780750985772
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.43On 21 December 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 from Frankfurt to Detroit was destroyed by a bomb, killing all 243 passengers and sixteen crew. Large sections of the aircraft, bodies and personal effects... -
Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World (Fully Revised Edition) by Edward W. Said
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68From the Iranian hostage crisis through the Gulf War and the World Trade Centre bombing, the West has been haunted by a spectre called 'Islam'. As portrayed by the news media - and by a chorus of... -
The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War by S. C. M. Paine 9781107676169
RRP: $30.82Booksplease Price: $27.16The Japanese experience of war from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century presents a stunning example of the meteoric rise and shattering fall of a great power. As Japan modernized and... -
The White Road: a pilgrimage of sorts by Edmund de Waal
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68The gripping story of the lure of porcelain, or 'white gold', from the Number One bestselling author of The Hare with Amber Eyes.** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller ** "Other things in the world are... -
Typewriter: The History, The Machines, The Writers by Tony Allan 9781627950343
Booksplease Price: $16.40Personal computers may have replaced the typewriter in most homes and offices, but the venerable writing machine is currently staging a comeback. From portable models that hipsters are snapping up,... -
The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties Robert Conquest 9781847925688
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $24.62Robert Conquest's The Great Terror is the book that revealed the horrors of Stalin's regime to the West. This definitive fiftieth anniversary edition features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.One of... -
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive Lucy Adlington 9781529311983
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.05*** The New York Times Bestseller ***'Lucy Adlington tells of the horrors of the Nazi occupation and the concentration camps from a fascinating and original angle. She introduces us to a little... -
The First Bridge Too Far: The Battle of Primosole Bridge 1943 by Mark Saliger 9781636243757
RRP: $20.03Booksplease Price: $15.76For the very first time, the Battle of Primosole Bridge is brought to life in a well-researched narrative solely dedicated to one of the bloodiest and hardest fought battles for British airborne... -
The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, an American Legend by Bob Drury
RRP: $28.14Booksplease Price: $19.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451654684Author Bob DruryFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint -
Money For Nothing: The South Sea Bubble and the Invention of Modern Capitalism by Thomas Levenson
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36A Financial Times Economics Book of the Year A brilliant narrative of early capitalism's most famous scandal, a speculative frenzy that nearly bankrupted the British state during the hot summer of... -
The Mavericks: English Football When Flair Wore Flares Rob Steen 9781472974853
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11ONE OF FOUR FOUR TWO MAGAZINE'S '50 FOOTBALL BOOKS YOU MUST READ' 'A great book' - Henry Winter 'A lovely read, the kind in which you constantly annoy people by reading the funny bits out loud'... -
The Lies of the Land: An Honest History of Political Deceit Adam Macqueen 9781786492517
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11'A fun history of political dishonesty' The TimesIn a history full of wit and acumen, Private Eye journalist Adam Macqueen dissects the gripping stories of the biggest political lies of the last... -
The Queens' English: The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Expressions by Chloe O. Davis 9781529110401
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.47A landmark reference guide to the LGBTQIA+ community's contributions to the English language-an intersectional, inclusive illustrated glossary featuring more than 800 terms created by and for queer... -
Defeat Into Victory: (Pan Military Classics Series) by William Slim
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59Field Marshal William Slim stands alongside Montgomery as the outstanding British field commander of World War II. Defeat Into Victory is his classic account of the Burma campaign: a story of... -
Supermarine Spitfire (Icon): 1936 onwards (all marks) by Blackah Price 9781785215742
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.711936 onwards (all marks), The legendary Supermarine Spitfire receives the famous Haynes manual treatment with the full co-operation and authorisation of the Royal Air Force., Here is a unique... -
Not Enough Room to Swing a Cat: Naval slang and its everyday usage by Martin Robson
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.54As the crow flies'', ''chunder'', ''cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey'', ''three sheets to the wind'' - many terms like these are used in everyday English language conversation and... -
The Age Of Capital: 1848-1875 by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $11.70The first and best, major treatment of the crucial years 1848-1875, a penetrating analysis of the rise of capitalism throught the world.In the 1860s a new word entered the economic and political... -
Ancient Rome A Colouring Book by Hilary Travis
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.70Ancient Rome captures the imagination like few other historical places or periods. Its dress, buildings, mosaics and inscriptions are instantly recognisable the world over. Romans and their way of... -
Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters by Steven E Koonin
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $21.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards (Science/Technology) 2021.Book InformationISBN... -
Great Kingdoms of Africa by John Parker
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.99An essential overview of great kingdoms in African history and their legacies, written by world-leading experts. From the ancient Nile Valley to the savannas of medieval West Africa, the highlands... -
Ottoman Armies 1820-1914 Gabriele Esposito 9781472855374
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11This book describes and illustrates the armies of the embattled Ottoman Turkish Empire involved in 19th-century wars during the Empire's long spiral of decline. During the so called 'long 19th... -
Revolution: A History of England Volume IV by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59Revolution, the fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England begins in 1688 with a revolution and ends in 1815 with a famous victory. In it, Ackroyd takes readers from William of... -
The Spanish Civil War by Hugh Thomas
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $21.40Since its first publication, Hugh Thomas's The Spanish Civil War has become established as the definitive one-volume history of a conflict that continues to provoke intense controversy today. What... -
The Crusader Armies: 1099-1187 by Steve Tibble
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.73A major new history of the Crusades that illuminates the strength and sophistication of the Western and Muslim armies During the Crusades, the Western and Muslim armies developed various highly... -
About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks by David Rooney 9780241370513
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65'An utterly dazzling book, the best piece of history I have read for a long time' Jerry Brotton, author of A History of the World in Twelve Maps'Not merely an horologist's delight, but an ingenious... -
SAS Italian Job: The Secret Mission to Storm a Forbidden Nazi Fortress Damien Lewis 9781787475168
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Praise for Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author Damien Lewis' SAS mission series:'One of the great untold stories of WWII' - Bear Grylls on SAS Ghost Patrol'The untold story' - Daily Mail on SAS Nazi... -
Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.05From inside a surreal bubble of pure Americana known as the Green Zone, the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority attempted to rule Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Drawing on... -
Voice of Hezbollah: The Statements of Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah by Nicholas Noe 9781844671533
RRP: $34.83Booksplease Price: $29.82In July 2006, with the commencement of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the longstanding secretary general of the "Party of God," burst into the spotlight of the... -
The Air War Through German Eyes: How the Luftwaffe Lost the Skies over the Reich by Jonathan Trigg 9781398116504
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $22.06Starting with leaflet drops in 1940, the aerial offensive against the Nazis' homeland grew into a huge armada that pulverised much of Germany, seriously damaging her ability to make war and killing... -
Callanish and Other Megalithic Sites of the Outer Hebrides: And Other Megalithic Sites of the Outer Hebrides by Gerald Ponting 9781904263081
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $7.96On the remote north-western Isle of Lewis stands one of the most spectacular megalithic monuments in the world, a stone circle forming part of a huge Celtic Cross, built over four thousand years ago... -
Emily Dickinson: A selection of poems from one of America's most iconic poets Emily Dickinson 9781474625647
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.25American poet Emily Dickinson is revered around the world, and influenced many feminist artists and writers. Her work is some of the best known and most quoted or adapted:'Hope is the thing with... -
Shake Hands With The Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by Romeo Dallaire
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD'Indisputably the best account of the whole terrible Rwandan genocide.' R. W. Johnson, Sunday Times'Angry, accusatory and... -
The Islandman by Tomas O'Crohan
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.88Tomas O'Crohan was born on the Great Blasket Island in 1865 and died there in 1937, a great master of his native Irish. He shared to the full the perilous life of a primitive community, yet possessed... -
Venus and Aphrodite by Bettany Hughes
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'Lively' THE TIMES'Engrossing' THE SPECTATOR'Stunning' WOMAN & HOME'Marvellous' BBC HISTORY MAGAZINEThrough ancient art, evocative myth, intriguing archaeological discoveries and philosophical... -
Napoleon'S Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History by Penny Le Couteur
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585423316Author Penny Le CouteurFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint
Cambodia - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Kate Reavill 9781787023154
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.72Don't just see the sights-get to know the people. Say "Cambodia," and two associations often come to mind: the lost glories of Angkor, and the horrors of the Khmer Rouge. Any understanding of...
British Lorries 1900-1945 by S. W. Stevens-Stratten
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.51The first forty-five years of the twentieth century saw the most formative period in the history of commercial vehicles: in 1900 the mechanically powered lorry was a novelty, yet by 1945 the...