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Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe by Richard Holloway 9781786899965
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Throughout history we have told ourselves stories to try and make sense of our place in the universe. Richard Holloway takes us on a personal, scientific and philosophical journey to explore what he... -
The Angels of Englemere Wood: The uplifting and inspiring true story of a children’s home during the Blitz by Karen Farrington
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.44The inspiring, uplifting true story of a group of London girls dispatched to a children's home in rural England during the Blitz, and meet the formidable nurse and Lady in Waiting who transformed... -
Elizabeth, the Queen by Alison Weir
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29Elizabeth the Queen begins as the young Elizabeth ascends the throne in the wake of her sister Mary's disastrous reign - both a woman and a queen, Elizabeth's story is an extraordinary phenomenon in... -
The Greek and Roman Myths: A Guide to the Classical Stories by Philip Matyszak
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07This handy guide to the Greek and Roman Myths brings classical mythology to life. Written by a bestselling author on Ancient Greece and Rome, the book features an engaging blend of stories, facts and... -
Shadows of a Forgotten Past: To the Edge with the Rhodesian SAS and Selous Scouts by Paul French
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $17.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908916600Author Paul FrenchFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint -
In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Cultural History of Naples by Jordan Lancaster
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.90The definitive companion for anyone seeking to delve beneath the surface of Naples. Naples is an Italian city like no other. Drama and darkness are often associated with the Naples, which rests... -
Queens of the Crusades: Eleanor of Aquitaine and her Successors by Alison Weir
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29'Stunning... Weir has brought those five queens to life like never before. I just raced through it - it has all the drama and suspense of a novel' Tracy BormanCrusading queens, queens in rebellion... -
Watergate: A New History by Garrett M. Graff
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.55NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Do we need still another Watergate book? The answer turns out to be yes-this one." -The Washington Post * "Dazzling." -The New York Times Book Review From the New York... -
Mappa Mundi: Hereford's Curious Map by Sarah Arrowsmith
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $11.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906663919Author Sarah ArrowsmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint -
I Never Knew That About Scotland by Christopher Winn
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.07The inspiration for the primetime ITV series on Great Britain, this is the ultimate journey around Scotland from bestselling author Christopher Winn. Travelling county by county, this irresistible... -
Witches: James I and the English Witch Hunts by Tracy Borman
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.26September 1613.In Belvoir Castle, the heir of one of England's great noble families falls suddenly and dangerously ill. His body is 'tormented' with violent convulsions. Within a few short weeks he... -
Old Parish Life: A guide for the curious by 9780956204622
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $21.84A richly detailed guide to parish life in England from medieval to Victorian times, based on a wide range of churchwardens' accounts and other records. It describes the parish and church our... -
The Prince Rupert Hotel for the Homeless: A True Story of Love and Compassion Amid a Pandemic by Christina Lamb 9780008487584
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10'There will be an avalanche of books about the pandemic. None will be as eye-opening or humane or moving as Lamb's' DAILY TELEGRAPH A story of poverty, generosity and worlds... -
My Life by President Bill Clinton 9780099441359
RRP: $29.47Booksplease Price: $21.92President Bill Clinton's My Life is the strikingly candid self-portrait of a world leader who decided in early life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for... -
Bess Of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth by Mary S. Lovell
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07Bess of Hardwick was one of the most remarkable women of the Tudor era. Gently-born in reduced circumstances, she was married at 15, wedded at 16 and still a virgin. At 19 she married a man more than... -
Cambodia's Curse: The Modern History of a Troubled Land by Joel Brinkley
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.52A generation after the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia shows every sign of having overcome its history- the streets of Phnom Penh are paved skyscrapers dot the skyline. But under this facade lies a country... -
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.26The New York Times bestselling account of one of history's most brutal- and forgotten- massacres, when the Japanese army destroyed China's capital city on the eve of World War IIIn December 1937, one... -
Nobody Leaves: Impressions of Poland by Ryszard Kapuscinski
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65'A masterpiece ... a moving image of post-war Poland, and the first breathing of one of the essential voices of the twentieth century... the master of literary reportage' The Times Literary... -
75 Years of the Israeli Air Force Volume 1: The First Quarter of a Century, 1948-1973 by Bill Norton
RRP: $26.73Booksplease Price: $18.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913336349Author Bill NortonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint -
A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell 9780465002054
Booksplease Price: $28.62In this classic work, Thomas Sowell analyzes the two competing visions that shape our debates about the nature of reason, justice, equality, and power: the constrained" vision, which sees human... -
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union by Vladislav M. Zubok
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $12.98A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union-showing how Gorbachev's misguided reforms led to its demise "A deeply informed account of how the Soviet Union fell apart."-Rodric Braithwaite,... -
The Book of Sea Shanties by Nathan Evans
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07An epic journey through sea shanties, high tides and seven seasFrom the international bestselling singer comes The Book of Sea Shanties.The world sang in harmony with Nathan Evans, the Glaswegian... -
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs 9780393614565
Booksplease Price: $17.41This Norton Critical Edition includes: The first edition (1861), with the editors' explanatory annotations, introduction, and glossary of the people of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.Three... -
The Paris Bookseller: A sweeping story of love, friendship and betrayal in bohemian 1920s Paris by Kerri Maher
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41INSPIRED BY AN EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORY... 'A novel I long to live in' Kate Quinn, author of The Alice NetworkPARIS, 1920. On the bohemian Left Bank, Sylvia runs a little bookshop called Shakespeare... -
The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic by Mike Duncan 9781541724037
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.83The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilization. Beginning as a small city-state in central Italy, Rome gradually expanded into a wider world filled with... -
Shogun: The Life and Times of Tokugawa Ieyasu: Japan's Greatest Ruler by A. L. Sadler
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.15Uncover the true history behind the critically acclaimed FX/Hulu series "SHOGUN" in this epic biography of the man who unified Medieval Japan. For 700 years, Japan was ruled by military commanders... -
Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China by Frank Dikotter
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $21.75To this day, the perception persists that China was a civilisation defeated by imperialist Britain's most desirable trade commodity, opium - a drug that turned the Chinese into cadaverous addicts in... -
On the Soul: and Other Psychological works by Aristotle
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.55'. . . the more honourable animals have been allotted a more honourable soul. . . ' What is the nature of the soul? It is this question that Aristotle sought to answer in De Anima (On the Soul)... -
A History of Britain - Volume 3: The Fate of Empire 1776-2000 by Simon Schama
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $29.80The final stage of Simon Schama's epic voyage around Britain spans centuries, crosses the breadth of the empire and covers a vast expanse of topics - from the birth of feminism to the fate of freedom... -
How to Feed a Dictator: Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks by Witold Szablowski 9781785788352
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Porto: Gateway to the World by Dr. Neill Lochery
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.08'I fell in love with Porto and I love it still. The city's spectacular bridges, its vertiginous riverbanks, steep with ancient buildings, the old port houses, the wide squares: I was entranced by... -
Tudor: The Family Story by Leanda de Lisle
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.71*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*Tudor tells a family story like no other.The Tudors are a national obsession, undoubtedly British history's most notorious family. But beyond the well-worn headlines is a... -
How To Survive (Almost) Anything: The Special Forces Guide To Staying Alive by Ollie Ollerton 9781788704984
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $16.00THE MODERN-DAY SURVIVAL BIBLE FROM EX-SPECIAL FORCES SOLDIER AND NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OLLIE OLLERTONDo you know how to thrive, not just survive?Can you build a fire? Administer critical... -
Year Zero: A History of 1945 by Ian Buruma
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Many books have been written, and continue to be written, about the Second World War: military histories, histories of the Holocaust, the war in Asia, or collaboration and resistance in Europe. Few... -
Beginning History: The Great Fire Of London Liz Gogerly 9780750237895
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.25This book combines good quality artwork and contemporary illustrations with simple, well-written text. Young readers will discover how the fire started, what devastation it caused and will be able to... -
The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz - Costa Book of the Year 2019 Jack Fairweather 9780753545188
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68One of the Sunday Times paperbacks of the Year 2020One of the Financial Times best books of 2020 'Totally gripping'-- Simon Sebag Montefiore'Pilecki is perhaps one of the greatest unsung heroes of... -
Staring at God: Britain in the Great War by Simon Heffer
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.47_______________________________'A brilliant history: The first serious and really wide-ranging history of the Home Front during the Great War for decades. Scholarly, objective and extremely... -
A History of My Times by Xenophon
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Xenophon's History recounts nearly fifty turbulent years of warfare in Greece between 411 and 362 BC. Continuing the story of the Peloponnesian War at the point where Thucydides finished his... -
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75With an introduction by author Anne Enright.Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book award, a story of civil war and a family's unbreakable bond.How you see a country depends on whether you are... -
Bede and the Theory of Everything Michelle P Brown 9781789147889
RRP: $25.39Booksplease Price: $22.71This book investigates the life and world of Bede (c. 673-735), foremost scholar of the early Middle Ages and 'the father of English history'. It examines his notable feats, including calculating the...