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Cumbria's Prehistoric Monuments by Adam Morgan Ibbotson
RRP: $37.80$28.67Whether it is Hadrian's Wall, Kendal Castle or the beautiful fells of the Lake District - for thousands of years people have found a certain elegance and utility in stone. Nestled amongst these common relics are a multitude of massive stone monuments,... -
Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now - As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It and Long for It by Craig Taylor 9781847083296
RRP: $23.08$15.37The ground-breaking and bestselling group portrait of London today: a book as rich, dynamic, lively, and diverse as the city itself 'Epic' David Nicholls 'Electrifying' The Times 'This is a book to deepen your relationship with London and make... -
The Western Front by Richard Holmes 9781846075827
RRP: $33.58$24.38For most British people, the First World War was the Western Front, the trench line stretching from the Swiss Frontier to the North Sea. It was there that the majority of nearly nine million British and Dominion soldiers who enlisted during the war... -
The Little Book of the Tudors by Annie Bullen 9780750993388
RRP: $27.28$17.47The five Tudor monarchs - Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I - were some of the most influential rulers in British history. This volume explores all aspects of life in the Tudor age, from life at court (and at the grand country... -
Titanic Voices: 63 Survivors Tell Their Extraordinary Stories by Hannah Holman
RRP: $46.20$31.46There were over 700 survivors of the Titanic disaster and their horrific experience has captivated readers and moviegoers for over 100 years. But what was it actually like for a woman to say goodbye to her husband? For a mother to leave her teenage sons?... -
Queens of the Wild: Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe: An Investigation by Ronald Hutton 9780300273342
RRP: $23.08$19.68A concise history of the goddess-like figures who evade both Christian and pagan traditions, from the medieval period to the present day In this riveting account, renowned scholar Ronald Hutton explores the history of deity-like figures in Christian... -
In Search of Enemies: A CIA Story by John Stockwell 9780393009262
RRP: $42.00$36.08In Search of Enemies is much more than the story of the only war to be found when the CIA sought to recoup its prestige after the Vietnam debacle. Though no American troops were committed to Angola, only "advisors," many millions were spent, many... -
Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee: Winner of the Orwell Prize by John Bew
RRP: $33.58$23.79**WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING****WINNER OF THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY***Book of the year: The Times, Sunday Times, New Statesman, Spectator, Evening Standard*'Outstanding . . . We still live in the society... -
Spies: The epic intelligence war between East and West by Calder Walton
RRP: $52.50$30.79The riveting story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China'A masterpiece' CHRISTOPHER ANDREW, author of The Defence of the Realm: The Authorised History of MI5'The book we... -
The Bad Trip: Dark Omens, New Worlds and the End of the Sixties by James Riley
RRP: $20.98$14.07'A history that makes perfect sense when the sky is falling down.' - The Sunday TimesBeneath the psychedelic utopianism of the sixties lay a dark seam of apocalyptic thinking that seemed to rupture into violence and despair by 1969.Literary and cultural... -
Talleyrand by Duff Cooper
RRP: $27.28$19.09Duff Cooper's classic biography charts the remarkable progress of Talleyrand; a silver-tongued master diplomat, infamous turncoat, peacekeeper and libertine. Talleyrand held high office in five successive regimes from France's Ancient Regime, into the... -
Common Entrance 13+ History Revision Guide by Ed Adams
RRP: $41.98$38.18Exam board: ISEB Level: 13+ CE and KS3 Subject: History First exams: November 2022Consolidate knowledge and build confidence ahead of the ISEB CE 13+ History exam with this comprehensive, ISEB-endorsed revision guide aligned to the latest ISEB... -
Blue Mauritius: The Hunt for the World's Most Valuable Stamps by Helen Morgan
RRP: $31.48$20.58In September 1847 coloured squares of paper were stuck to envelopes and used to send out admission cards to a fancy-dress ball on the tropical island of Mauritius. No-one at the party would have guessed that the envelopes bearing these stamps would one... -
Wentworth Woodhouse: The House, the Estate and the Family by Melvyn Jones
RRP: $31.48$23.00It was the home of a knight, a baron, a viscount, two marquises and nine earls. The family had estates not only in South Yorkshire, but also in North Yorkshire, the Midlands and Ireland, at their greatest extent covering nearly 120,000 acres. One head of... -
The A-Z of Curious Suffolk: Strange Stories of Mysteries, Crimes and Eccentrics by Sarah E. Doig
RRP: $31.48$24.26This book romps through the rolling countryside and along the shingled coastline of Suffolk, unearthing the curious along the way. Sandwiched between ecclesiastical penances handed down to adulterers and fornicators, and the odd porcelain incendiary... -
Queen Emma and the Vikings: The Woman Who Shaped the Events of 1066 by Harriet O'Brien
RRP: $31.48$23.00Emma was one of England's most remarkable queens: a formidable woman who made her mark on a Europe beset by Vikings. By birth a Norman, she married and outlived two kings of England and witnessed the coronations of two of her sons: Harthcnut the Viking... -
Who's Sorry Now by Freda Lightfoot
RRP: $20.98$13.46There were never such devoted sisters...Things are far from simple in the noisy, warm-hearted Bertalone family. Carmina is the quintessential extrovert with beaus flocking to her side like bees round a honeypot - all except Luc Fabriani. For some... -
The Accidental Detectorist: Uncovering an Underground Obsession by Nigel Richardson 9781788403726
RRP: $23.08$15.54'Richardson writes beautifully about his return to the land, about listening to the soil and about understanding the ancient world.' - The Spectator Each new field is hope, each old one reality.There are things below the surface that pull people together... -
Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War by Tim Bouverie
RRP: $20.98$14.93** SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER **'Astonishing' ANTONY BEEVOR 'One of the most promising young historians to enter our field for years' MAX HASTINGSA thrilling new history of the disastrous years of indecision, failed diplomacy and parliamentary infighting... -
The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
RRP: $18.88$13.02As discussed in The Da Vinci Code... Long buried and suppressed, the Gnostic Gospels contain the secret writings attributed to the followers of Jesus.In 1945 fifty-two papyrus texts, including gospels and other secret documents, were found concealed in... -
Among the Braves: Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy by Shibani Mahtani 9780306830365
RRP: $52.50$29.95Hong Kong was an experiment in governance. Handed back to China in 1997 after 156 years of British rule, it was meant to be a carve-out between hostile systems: a bridge between communism and capitalism, authoritarianism and liberal democracy. "One... -
Who Was: Samuel Pepys? by Paul Harrison
RRP: $18.88$13.02Samuel Pepys is famous for the diary he wrote 400 years ago. The diary tells us about lots of important events such as the Great Fire of London and the Great Plague. Find out why people thought his diary was written in code, why Pepys was known as the... -
Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II: Owners' Workshop Manual by Haynes
RRP: $52.50$44.771972 to date (all marks), Dubbed 'Warthog' - or just 'Hog' - the Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II is the world's undisputed close air-support attack jet. As tough as it is ugly, it has built a fearsome reputation as a tank buster and infantry... -
Women of the Durham Coalfield in the 20th Century: Hannah's Daughter by Margaret Hedley 9780750995047
RRP: $31.48$24.26Life in the early twentieth-century coalmining communities changed very little for the women who dedicated their lives to their miner husbands. The women's working days were much longer than the miners, who typically worked an 8-hour shift. Their living... -
Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began - Winner of the Scottish Book of the Year Award by Leah Hazard 9780349015804
RRP: $23.08$13.59*WINNER OF THE SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2023* A landmark book on the womb - its history, its present and the possibilities for its future - by the bestselling author of Hard Pushed: A Midwife's Story'A gripping exploration of the science of the... -
Poetics by Aristotle
RRP: $18.88$13.88'What is poetry, how many kinds of it are there, and what are their specific effects?' Aristotle's Poetics is the most influential book on poetry ever written. A founding text of European aesthetics and literary criticism, from it stems much of our... -
The Modernity of Ancient Sculpture: Greek Sculpture and Modern Art from Winckelmann to Picasso by Elizabeth Prettejohn 9781848859036
$55.50What can modern art have to do with ancient sculpture? Surely the excitement of modern art lies in its utter repudiation of classical example? Elizabeth Prettejohn's important and revisionist new book argues otherwise: that ancient sculpture and modern... -
Freedom at Midnight by Larry Collins
RRP: $35.68$24.09The electrifying story of India's struggle for independence, told in this classic account (first published in 1975) by two fine journalists who conducted hundreds of interviews with nearly all the surviving participants - from Mountbatten to the... -
Henry III: Reform, Rebellion, Civil War, Settlement, 1258-1272 by David Carpenter
RRP: $63.00$52.86The second volume in the definitive history of Henry III’s rule, covering the revolutionary events between 1258 and the king’s death in 1272 After coming to the throne aged just nine, Henry III spent much of his reign peaceably. Conciliatory and deeply... -
D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor
RRP: $27.28$19.09THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER - REISSUED WITH A NEW FOREWORD FOR THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY 'Magnificent, vivid, moving, superb' Max Hastings, Sunday Times ______________This is the closest you will ever get to war - the taste, the smell, the noise and the fear... -
Black Country Dictionary & Phrase Book by Steve Edwards 9780993530166
RRP: $10.48$8.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993530166Author Steve EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Lydeard PressPublisher Lydeard PressWeight(grams) 64g -
Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition by Captain Robert Falcon Scott
RRP: $18.88$13.55'For God's sake look after our people' Captain Scott's harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. In his journals Scott records his party's optimistic departure from New Zealand, the hazardous voyage... -
The Battle of the Beams: The secret science of radar that turned the tide of the Second World War by Tom Whipple
RRP: $42.00$30.01'Deeply researched and engagingly written' The Times'Has the pace and style of a well-crafted thriller' Mail on Sunday'Chock full of memorable characters and written with all the drama and pace of a Robert Harris thriller' Rowland White, author of... -
Before It Went Rotten: The Music That Rocked London's Pubs 1972-1976 by Simon Matthews 9780857305749
RRP: $41.98$28.04Before It Went Rotten takes a trip back to the world before punk. When Anarchy in the UK appeared, London enjoyed one of the most vibrant music scenes in the world. A network of mainly Irish owned pubs and clubs provided music every night, much of it... -
Space Below My Feet by Gwen Moffat
RRP: $27.28$15.77A classic mountaineering memoir by one of the UK's foremost female climbers.'A story of climbing and compulsive love of mountains ... magnificent' OBSERVERIn 1945, when Gwen Moffat was in her twenties, she deserted from her post as a driver and dispatch... -
Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior by Catherine Hanley
RRP: $27.28$24.07A life of Matilda-empress, skilled military leader, and one of the greatest figures of the English Middle Ages "[Matilda] will attract a growing audience interested in stories of women challenging the male-dominated European past."-Alexandra Locking,... -
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
RRP: $23.08$16.32New edition with a foreword by Bernardine Evaristo 'A brutal record of segregated America ... essential reading' Guardian 'An anti-racist classic' Bernardine Evaristo In the autumn of 1959, a white Texan journalist named John Howard Griffin... -
Jacobites by Jacqueline Riding
RRP: $31.48$23.00The 1745 Jacobite Rebellion was a turning point in British history. When Charles Edward Stuart, commonly known as the Young Pretender, sailed from France to Scotland in July 1745, and with only a handful of supporters to claim the throne for his exiled... -
The Penguin History of Modern Spain: 1898 to the Present by Nigel Townson
RRP: $63.00$46.10A revelatory new history of Spain, from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first'Spain is different,' proclaimed the Franco regime in the 1940s, keen to attract foreign tourists. For the most part, the world has agreed. From the end of its... -
The Philosophy of History by G. W. F. Hegel 9780486437552
RRP: $26.23$16.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486437552Author Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...