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The Meroe Head of Augustus by Thorsten Opper
RRP: $7.74Booksplease Price: $6.35Made from Bronze with eyes inlaid with glass pupils set in metal rings, the 'Meroe Head' is a magnificent portrait of Julius Caesar's great nephew and adopted heir Augustus (63 BC-AD 14). Once... -
The Vatican Pimpernel by Brian Fleming
Booksplease Price: $15.20During the German occupation of Rome from 1942 to 1944, Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty ran an escape organisation for Allied POWs and civilians, including Jews. Safe within the Vatican state, he regularly... -
Innovation: The History of England Volume VI by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $13.25'Ackroyd makes history accessible to the layman' - Ian Thomson, Independent Innovation brings Peter Ackroyd's History of England to a triumphant close. In it, Ackroyd takes readers from the end of... -
Hundred Years War Vol 4: Cursed Kings by Jonathan Sumption
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $23.48Cursed Kings tells the story of the destruction of France by the madness of its king and the greed and violence of his family. In the early fifteenth century, France had gone from being the... -
The Battle of Stalingrad Through German Eyes: The Death of the Sixth Army Jonathan Trigg 9781398119635
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $10.98Five months, one week and three days of hell. The German offensive to capture Stalingrad began in August 1942, using Friedrich Paulus's 6th Army and elements of the 4th Panzer Army. The attack was... -
The Idea of North by Peter Davidson 9781780235981
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $13.49Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Sarn Helen: A Journey Through Wales, Past, Present and Future by Tom Bullough 9781783788118
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26WATERSTONES WELSH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2023 From the author of Addlands, and featuring illustrations by Jackie Morris, an immersive and evocative... -
By Permission Of Heaven: The Story of the Great Fire of London by Adrian Tinniswood 9780712668477
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.98There had, of course, been other fires, Four Hundred and fifty years before, the city had almost burned to the ground. Yet the signs from the heavens in 1666 were ominous: comets, pyramids of flame,... -
Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience by Shaun Usher
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $28.61Letters of Note, the book based on the beloved website of the same name, became an instant classic on publication in 2013, selling hundreds of thousands of copies. This new edition sees the... -
Putin: The explosive and extraordinary new biography of Russia’s leader by Philip Short
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.54'A perfect mirror to its subject... should be compulsory reading' ObserverVladimir Putin is a pariah to the West.He has the power to reduce the West to nuclear ashes. He invades his neighbours,... -
The Madman's Library: The Greatest Curiosities of Literature by Edward Brooke-Hitching
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.58* BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK *'Anybody who loves the printed word will be bowled over by this amusing, erudite, beautiful book about books. It is in every way a triumph. One of the loveliest books... -
Agricola and Germania by Tacitus
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $10.86The Agricola is both a portrait of Julius Agricola - the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and respected father-in-law - and the first detailed account of Britain that has... -
Bloody British History: Lincoln by Douglas Wynn 9780752462899
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $12.63Built by the Romans, looted by the Danes and conquered by King William I (who devastated the town to build a castle and a cathedral), the city of Lincoln has had a long and most dreadful history... -
Family Business by Victoria Glendinning
Booksplease Price: $5.61From Victoria Glendinning, winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, the James Tait Black Prize and (twice) the Whitbread Prize for Biography. 'It's... -
The English Year by Steve Roud
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.03This enthralling book will take you, month-by-month, day-by-day, through all the festivities of English life. From national celebrations such as New Year's Eve to regional customs such as the Padstow... -
Very Ordinary Seaman: The unforgettable account of British naval experience in World War II by J.P.W. Mallalieu 9781907206443
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $16.76First published to huge acclaim during the war it describes, Very Ordinary Seaman relates-with humanity, humour and the authority of experience-lower-deck life in the British navy, from basic... -
Aircraft Wrecks: A Walker's Guide: Historic Crash Sites on the Moors and Mountains of the British Isles by C. N. Wotherspoon 9781781594735
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.35Originally published to acclaim in 2009, this paperback re-issue aims to give readers access to the tangible remains of hundreds of historic aircraft that still lie at crash sites on the moors and... -
Sweeney Astray by Seamus Heaney
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibhne - the first complete translation since 1913. Its hero, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventures... -
The Burning Of Bridget Cleary: A True Story by Angela Bourke
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20In 1895 twenty-six-year-old Bridget Cleary disappeared from her house in rural Tipperary. At first, some said that the fairies had taken her into their stronghold in a nearby hill, from where she... -
Hitler's Russian & Cossack Allies 1941-45 by Nigel Thomas
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.24Given the merciless way in which the war on the Eastern Front of World War II was conducted, it is difficult to envisage anyone changing sides during the conflict. Yet after the German invasion of... -
Melancholy Witness: Images of the Troubles by Sean Hillen 9781845889975
RRP: $29.03Booksplease Price: $20.47Melancholy Witness is the published collection of the images of Sean Hillen's lauded exhibition of photography, documenting the years of The Troubles in Northern Ireland. Combining personality with... -
Bobby Fischer Goes to War by David Edmonds
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91PERFECT FOR FANS OF NETFLIX'S THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT'Gripping.' SUNDAY TIMES'Pure drama.'INDEPENDENT'Compelling.'NEW YORK TIMESBobby Fischer Goes to War by David Edmonds and John Eidinow details the... -
Secret Sheffield Professor Ian D. Rotherham 9781445653105
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.98Sheffield is the fourth largest city in England and was where the Industrial Revolution began in earnest. It is renowned for its high-quality steel and fine cutlery, for its two large universities... -
Slightly Married: Number 3 in series by Mary Balogh
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35Colonel Lord Aidan Bedwyn has come to Ringwood Manor to keep his promise to a dying fellow officer. He has sworn to protect the man's sister no matter what - even when he finds that Miss Eve Morris... -
Gossip from the Forest: The Tangled Roots of Our Forests and Fairytales by Sara Maitland
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26Fairytales are one of our earliest and most vital cultural forms, and forests one of our most ancient landscapes. Both evoke a similar sensation in us - we find them beautiful and magical, but also... -
North by Seamus Heaney
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91In North Seamus Heaney found a myth which allowed him to articulate a vision of Ireland - its people, history and landscape. Here the Irish experience is refracted through images drawn from... -
A History of Women in 101 Objects: A walk through female history by Annabelle Hirsch 9781805300878
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $19.29A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023This is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular. A single journey, picked... -
The Origins of the Final Solution by Christopher Browning
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.59The Origins of the Final Solution is the most detailed, careful, and comprehensive analysis to date of the descent of the Nazi persecution of the Jews into mass murder: the Holocaust. Arguing that... -
The War in the West: A New History: Volume 2: The Allies Fight Back 1941-43 by James Holland
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.11From Hitler's invasion of Russia, America's entry into the conflict and the devastating Thousand Bomber Raids over Germany, to the long grinding struggle in the deserts of North Africa and the... -
A Century of War: : Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order by F William Engdahl 9783981326321
RRP: $38.64Booksplease Price: $29.70Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Silence of the Stands: Stories from Football's Lost Season by Daniel Gray
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.08LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023 - FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Powerful and poignant' Henry Winter ... -
Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween by Lisa Morton 9781789141580
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.89Trick or Treat is the first book to both examine the origins and history of Halloween and explore in depth its current global popularity. Festivals like the Celtic Samhain and Catholic All Souls' Day... -
Under a White Sky: Can we save the natural world in time? by Elizabeth Kolbert
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51The author of the international bestseller The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: after doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time... -
The Carry On Girls by Gemma Ross 9781803993409
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $20.78Whether it is the seaside postcard bubbly blondes of Barbara Windsor, the hysterically historical leading ladies of Joan Sims, the coquettish authoritarians of Hattie Jacques, or the statuesque... -
All-In Fighting by W E Fairbairn 9781783313419
RRP: $7.73Booksplease Price: $7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783313419Author W E FairbairnFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint -
Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend: 200th Anniversary Edition by Mark Bostridge
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62Winner of the Elizabeth Longford prize for Historical Biography 'Engrossing' Claire Tomalin / 'Superb' Sunday Times / 'A triumph' Daily Mail Whether honoured and admired or criticized and... -
Borderlines: A History of Europe, Told From the Edges by Lewis Baston 9781399723763
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $23.45'Beautiful. A true gem... [his] unique take on human nature through the history and heritage of the borderlands ends up being deeply moving.' - IRISH INDEPENDENT'Thrillingly unique, knowledgeable,... -
Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History by Douglass C. North 9781107646995
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $30.65Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Gun Button to Fire: A Hurricane Pilot's Dramatic Story of the Battle of Britain by Tom Neil
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.80The amazing story of one of the 'Few', fighter ace Tom Neil who shot down 13 enemy aircraft during the Battle of Britain. This is a fighter pilot's story of eight memorable months from May to... -
Blitz Spirit: 'Fascinating' -Tom Hanks Becky Brown 9781529347050
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.98'Fascinating ' Elizabeth Day'Finally, a book that is proving very therapeutic in these difficult times... Full of doubt, fear, anger and rueful comedy, they give the lie to the idea that the Brits...