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Netley Diary 1915-1916 by Alec Riley 9780645235975
RRP: £17.99£13.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645235975Author Alec RileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Little Gully PublishingPublisher Little Gully PublishingWeight(grams) 249g -
Paradise Lost: The Destruction of Islam's City of Tolerance Giles Milton 9780340837870
RRP: £12.99£8.83On Saturday 9th September, 1922, the victorious Turkish cavalry rode into Smyrna, the richest and most cosmopolitan city in the Ottoman Empire. What happened over the next two weeks must rank as one of the most compelling human dramas of the twentieth... -
Measly Middle Ages (newspaper edition) by Terry Deary 9780702311260
RRP: £6.99£4.81Discover all the foul facts about the Measly Middle Ages with history's most horrible headlines. All the foul facts about the Measly Middle Ages are ready to uncover, including: why chickens had... -
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination by Sandra M. Gilbert
RRP: £16.99£16.66"A feminist classic."-Judith Shulevitz, New York Times Book Review"A pivotal book, one of those after which we will never think the same again."-Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Washington Post Book World A pathbreaking book of literary criticism is now reissued... -
DB COOPER and the FBI: A Case Study of America's Only Unsolved Skyjacking by Bruce a Smith 9781952439384
£26.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952439384Author Bruce a SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 506Imprint Moonshine Cove Publishing, LLCPublisher Moonshine Cove Publishing, LLCWeight(grams)... -
Call The Midwife: A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s by Jennifer Worth 9780753827871
RRP: £9.99£3.66Jennifer Worth's tales of being a midwife in 1950s London, now a major BBC TV series.Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a... -
السودان: مهبط التوراة ومجمع البحرين by محمود عثمان رزق 9780464535218
RRP: £12.72£11.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780464535218Author محمود عثمان رزقFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 336g -
A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes by Anthony Bale 9780241530849
RRP: £18.99£14.01A delightfully captivating journey across the medieval world, seen through the eyes of those who travelled across it. History readers will love this gift!'Rich and wonderful . . . This is the world as you've never seen it before' Ian Mortimer'A joyful,... -
Medieval Britain, c.1000-1500 by David Crouch
RRP: £25.99£23.01Though England was the emerging super-state in the medieval British Isles, its story is not the only one Britain can offer; there is a wider context of Britain in Europe, and the story of this period is one of how European Latin and French culture and... -
A Book of Middle English by Thorlac Turville–Petre
RRP: £37.95£34.02The fourth edition of this essential Middle English textbook introduces students to the wide range of literature written in England between 1150 and 1400. Beginning with an extensive overview of middle English history, grammar, syntax, and pronunciation,... -
Strongmen: How They Rise, Why They Succeed, How They Fall by Ruth Ben-Ghiat
RRP: £11.99£8.66'A gripping and illuminating picture of how strongmen have deployed violence, seduction, and corruption' Daniel Ziblatt, co-author of How Democracies Die 'A timely analysis of how a certain kind of charisma delivers political disaster' Timothy Snyder,... -
Jacobitism and the English People, 1688-1788 by Paul Kleber Monod 9780521447935
RRP: £44.99£38.54Although historians have devoted much attention to the influence of Jacobitism on Parliamentary politics, none has hitherto attempted to explore its broader implications in English society. Paul Monod's acclaimed study, newly available in paperback,... -
Korea 1950-53 Recounting REME Involvement by John Dutton 9780955675300
RRP: £16.75£14.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955675300Author John DuttonFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint Las Atalayas PublishingPublisher Las Atalayas PublishingWeight(grams) 504g -
The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law – A Hidden History by Kate Morgan 9780008559571
RRP: £20.00£13.34'Compulsively readable' - Times Literary Supplement 'An outstanding work' - Philippa Gregory 'A powerful narrative told with frankness and sensitivity' Helen Fry, historian and author of Women... -
The Maths That Made Us: how numbers created civilisation Michael Brooks 9781913348984
RRP: £10.99£7.54Quadratic equations, Pythagoras' theorem, imaginary numbers, and pi - you may remember studying these at school, but did anyone ever explain why? Never fear - bestselling science writer, and your new favourite maths teacher, Michael Brooks is here to... -
AQA A-level History: Tsarist and Communist Russia 1855-1964 Chris Corin 9781471837807
£40.00Exam Board: AQALevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016AQA approvedEnhance and expand your students' knowledge and understanding of their AQA breadth study through expert narrative, progressive skills... -
The Penguin History of the World: 6th edition J M Roberts 9781846144431
RRP: £18.99£14.82The completely updated edition of J. M. Roberts and Odd Arne Westad's widely acclaimed, landmark bestseller The Penguin History of the WorldFor generations of readers The Penguin History of the World has been one of the great cultural experiences - the... -
I'm Black So You Don't Have to Be: A Memoir in Eight Lives by Colin Grant 9781529918366
RRP: £10.99£7.99A memoir told through a series of intimate portraits, which build into a poignant, insightful and unforgettable testimony of West Indian British experience.***A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023***'Grant is a natural storyteller... Compelling and... -
The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648-1815 by Tim Blanning
RRP: £19.99£14.50'The Penguin History of Europe series ... is one of contemporary publishing's great projects' New StatesmanThe Pursuit of Glory brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods in European history - from the battered, introvert continent after the... -
Lysistrata and Other Plays by Aristophanes
RRP: £10.99£7.99The Acharnians/The Clouds/Lysistrata'We women have the salvation of Greece in our hands'Writing at a time of political and social crisis in Athens, the ancient Greek comic playwright Aristophanes was an eloquent, yet bawdy, challenger to the demagogue... -
The Battle of Britain by James Holland
RRP: £14.99£11.35'A notable account of an epic human experience' Max Hastings, Sunday Times'Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war' Sir Winston Churchill, speech to the House of Commons, 18 June 1940The Nazi Blitzkrieg was unlike any... -
Pursued Economy: Understanding and Overcoming the Challenging New Realities for Advanced Economies Richard C. Koo 9781119984276
RRP: £29.99£20.10In Pursued Economy: Understanding and Overcoming the Challenging New Realities for Advanced Economies, celebrated economist and thought leader Richard C. Koo dives deep into the failure of traditional economic solutions to address the economic and social... -
A History of Western Astrology: v. 2: Medieval and Modern Worlds by Nicholas Campion 9781441181299
£30.73Following on from "The History of Western Astrology Volume I", Nicholas Campion examines the foundation of modern astrology in the medieval and Renaissance worlds. Medieval and Renaissance Europe marked the high water mark for astrology. It was a subject... -
The Family of Richard III by Michael Hicks
RRP: £9.99£6.72The Wars of the Roses were quarrels within the Plantagenet family, of which Richard's dynasty, the House of York, was one branch. They were about family trees - the capacity of family relationships both to unite and to divide - and notoriously about the... -
City of Djinns by William Dalrymple
RRP: £10.99£7.46'Could you show me a djinn?' I asked. 'Certainly,' replied the Sufi. 'But you would run away.' From the author of the Samuel Johnson prize shortlisted 'The Return of a King', this is William Dalrymple's captivating memoir of a year spent in... -
Hollywood: The Oral History by Sam Wasson 9780571366958
RRP: £18.99£13.83'Essential . . . thrilling . . . invaluable.' Irish Times'Absorbing . . . rippling with fun and atmosphere.' Sight & Sound'Hollywood's ultimate oral history.' New YorkerThe greatest conversation in the history of Hollywood.From the archives of the... -
The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon
RRP: £12.99£9.34'A mistress of wry observation and scalding wit ... The Pillow Book retains its fresh, authentic appeal more than 1,000 years after its inception' Japan TimesWritten by the court gentlewoman Sei Shonagon as a journal for her own amusement, The Pillow... -
The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character by David Riesman
RRP: £14.99£13.23"The Lonely Crowd . . . remains not only the best-selling book by a professional sociologist in American history, but arguably one that has had the widest influence on the nation at large."-Orlando Patterson, New York Times "As accessible as it is... -
Shooting an Elephant;With the Introductory Essay 'Why I Write' by George Orwell 9781528719049
RRP: £9.99£9.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528719049Author George OrwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 32gDimensions(mm) 152mm * 102mm * 2mm -
Hidden Histories: A Spotter's Guide to the British Landscape by Mary-Ann Ochota
RRP: £19.99£13.21'A definitive classic field guide [...] Its scope is as magnificent as our countryside itself.' BBC Countryfile Magazine'This book is perfect for anyone who's travelled through the countryside, scratched their head, and thought, 'what on earth is that... -
Yield by Claire Dyer 9781909747845
RRP: £9.99£7.20Three definitions of the word Yield give meaning to the odyssey undergone in Claire Dyer's third collection: a journey which sees a son become a daughter, and a mother a poet for both of them. Charting these transitions, the poems take us through... -
SOE Manual: How to be an Agent in Occupied Europe by Special Operations Executive
RRP: £9.99£6.84The actual course given to all secret agents in SOE before working behind enemy lines. It includes everything you needed to know to go undercover - from documents, cover stories and how to live off the land to how to get through an interrogation. ... -
Jigsaw Murders: The True Story of the Ruxton Killings and the Birth of Modern Forensics by Jeremy Craddock
RRP: £14.99£11.55'Absolutely gripping. Impeccably researched and written with the pace and narrative drive of a thriller, but attentive too to the dignity of the victims.' - Daragh Carville, creator of ITV's The BayThe true story of the shocking 1930s murder case, and... -
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
RRP: £9.99£7.32**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**'A sort of survival book, a sort of symptom-diagnosis manual in terms of losing your democracy and what tyranny and authoritarianism look like up close' Rachel Maddow 'These 128 pages are a brief primer in every important... -
Venus and Aphrodite by Bettany Hughes
RRP: £9.99£7.00'Lively' THE TIMES'Engrossing' THE SPECTATOR'Stunning' WOMAN & HOME'Marvellous' BBC HISTORY MAGAZINEThrough ancient art, evocative myth, intriguing archaeological discoveries and philosophical explorations, Bettany Hughes takes us on a voyage of... -
Hitler's Secret: The Sunday Times bestselling spy thriller by Rory Clements
RRP: £9.99£7.05The blockbuster spy thriller from the award-winning author of Corpus.___________________Autumn 1941. The war is going badly for Britain and its allies. If Hitler is to be stopped, a new weapon is desperately needed.In Cambridge, professor Tom Wilde is... -
Writers in Paris: Literary Lives in the City of Light by David Burke 9780984004386
RRP: £19.95£17.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984004386Author David BurkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Paris Writers PressPublisher Paris Writers PressWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 235mm *... -
1964: The Year the Swinging Sixties Began by Christopher Sandford 9781803991238
RRP: £20.00£15.04Step back in time to 1964, a year of cultural upheaval and political transformation. From the rise of the Civil Rights movement in the United States to the global phenomenon of Beatlemania, this was the year that gave us bold fashion, unforgettable music... -
British Napoleonic Field Artillery: The First Complete Illustrated Guide to Equipment and Uniforms by Carl Franklin
RRP: £40.00£30.57This beautifully illustrated guide by master draughtsman and Napoleonic expert Carl Franklin draws together extensive research and previously unpublished information to provide a new insight into the field artillery and uniforms of the Napoleonic Wars... -
He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters by Schuyler Bailar 9780241626085
RRP: £16.99£12.28How can we change the conversation around gender, become better allies, challenge misconceptions and make the world a better place?Anti-transgender legislation is being introduced across the world in record-breaking numbers. Trans people are under attack...