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Revolutionary Acts: Love & Brotherhood in Black Gay Britain by Jason Okundaye 9780571372218
RRP: £20.00£13.46Announcing the arrival of a major new talent, an astonishing work of social history which captures Black gay Britain as never before.'In this seminal book Okundaye gives us juicy dialogue, tears and laughter, and vivid landscapes of memory.'MENDEZ,... -
Tomorrow to Be Brave: A Memoir of the Only Woman Ever to Serve in the French Foreign Legion by Susan Travers 9780743200028
£16.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743200028Author Susan TraversFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
The Book Of Hiram by Christopher Knight
RRP: £12.99£9.34This is the extraordinary story of Knight and Lomas's fourteen year quest to uncover the secret teachings buried beneath Roslin Chapel near Edinburgh. Their quest ends with extraordinary revelations about early human history - the origins of... -
KJV, The King James Study Bible, Leathersoft, Brown, Red Letter, Full-Color Edition: Holy Bible, King James Version by Thomas Nelson 9780718079826
RRP: £65.00£48.23The full text of the classic King James Version with robust study notes, vibrant full-color images, and dozens of study resources to help you grow deeper in your faith. Published in large easy-to-read print type. Standing apart from all other KJV study... -
A Brief History of Timekeeping: The Science of Marking Time, From Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks by Chad Orzel
RRP: £10.99£7.99'Entertaining and engrossing' Sean Carroll Press the snooze button on your alarm once too often and you soon remember the importance of good timekeeping. That need to tell the time connects you to over five thousand years of human history, from the... -
All You Need Is Love: The End of the Beatles - An Oral History by Those Who Were There by Steven Gaines 9781800962330
RRP: £25.00£17.03THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'I can think of no one better placed to tell the story behind The Beatles than Peter Brown.' -Pattie Boyd Harrison'Interviews so controversial they were locked in a vault for 40 years' The Times'A revealing oral history of... -
DK Eyewitness Turkey by DK
RRP: £14.99£11.35The ideal travel companion, full of insider advice on what to see and do, plus detailed itineraries and comprehensive maps for exploring Turkey.Browse the lively bazaars of Istanbul, laze on Bodrum's picturesque bays or stroll around the incredible rock... -
The Scottish Enlightenment: An Anthology Alexander Broadie 9780862417383
RRP: £18.00£12.80The Scottish Enlightenment is one of the great achievements of European culture. In philosophy, law, economics, politics, linguistics and the physical sciences, Scots were key players in changing the way the world was viewed. And this explosion of... -
Simon de Montfort and the Rise of the English Nation by Darren Baker
RRP: £9.99£6.84Like his crusading father before him, Simon de Montfort's combination of charisma and fearlessness made him one of the greatest men of his age. This biography follows his life from his birth in France and arrival in England to his defeat and death at... -
Bede and the Theory of Everything Michelle P Brown 9781789147889
RRP: £16.95£12.45This 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 first tide-tables; playing a role in the creation of... -
Farewell To The East End by Jennifer Worth
RRP: £9.99£7.00The third and final book in the bestselling CALL THE MIDWIFE series, the basis of the major BBC TV series.This final book in Jennifer Worth's memories of her time as a midwife in London's East end brings her story full circle. As always there are... -
Pearl Harbor's Revenge: How the Devastated U.S. Battleships Returned to War by Rod Macdonald
RRP: £25.00£17.90Early on Sunday, 7 December 1941, Japanese carrier-borne aircraft launched a surprise attack against the US Pacific Fleet based at Pearl Harbor. It was a date that President Roosevelt declared will live in infamy . During the strike, Japanese planes... -
Channel Island Murders by Nicola Sly
RRP: £14.99£11.72Although an idyllic setting, where violent crime is thankfully rare, the Channel Islands have a shadier side. Contained within the pages of this book are twenty-five historic cases of murder committed in the Channel Islands. They include a fatal assault... -
We Were Soldiers Once...And Young by Harold G. Moore
RRP: £10.99£7.99'If you want to know what is was like to go to Vietnam as a young American... and find yourself caught in ferocious, remorseless combat with an enemy as courageous and idealistic as you were, then you must read this book. Moore and Galloway have captured... -
Letters To My Grandchildren by Tony Benn
RRP: £9.99£7.32As a diarist I have chronicled the time through which I have lived in meticulous detail: but all that is history. What matters now is the future for those who will live through it.The past is the past but there may be lessons to be learned which could... -
Britain in the Second World War: A Social History by Harold Smith 9780719044939
RRP: £19.99£14.52This text provides original documents which are designed to help the reader evaluate claims that World War II introduced a new sense of social solidarity and social idealism which led to a consensus on welfare state reform. The book offers important... -
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise by Peter Abelard
RRP: £12.99£9.34The story of Abelard and Heloise remains one of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairs. Through their letters, we follow the path of their romance from its reckless and ecstatic beginnings when Heloise became Abelard's pupil, through the... -
Mr Barry's War: Rebuilding the Houses of Parliament after the Great Fire of 1834 by Caroline Shenton
RRP: £28.99£21.20When the brilliant classical architect Charles Barry won the competition to build a new, Gothic, Houses of Parliament in London he thought it was the chance of a lifetime. It swiftly turned into the most nightmarish building programme of the century... -
The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer by Skip Hollandsworth 9781250118493
£12.70In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas, was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis. But beginning in December 1884, Austin was terrorised by someone equally as vicious and, in some ways, far... -
My Friend Anne Frank by Hannah Pick-Goslar
RRP: £22.00£19.60THE LONG-AWAITED, MOVING MEMOIR OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR HANNAH PICK-GOSLAR.'Heartbreaking and life-affirming' - Edith Eger, bestselling author of The Choice'An extraordinary story of love, loss and the power of friendship in the darkest time.' - Jack... -
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route by Saidiya Hartman
RRP: £10.99£7.99The slave, Saidiya Hartman observes, is a stranger torn from family, home, and country. To lose your mother is to be severed from your kin, to forget your past, and to inhabit the world as an outsider. In Lose Your Mother, Hartman traces the history of... -
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
RRP: £9.99£7.32Every Thursday morning in a living room in Iran, over tea and pastries, eight women meet in secret to discuss forbidden works of Western literature. As they lose themselves in the worlds of Lolita, The Great Gatsby and Pride and Prejudice, gradually they... -
My Revision Notes: Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History: Four units in one Sam Slater 9781510469440
RRP: £11.50£11.39Exam board: Pearson EdexcelLevel: GCSE (9-1)Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018Target success in Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision.Key content coverage is... -
Camp!: The Story of the Attitude that Conquered the World by Paul Baker
RRP: £20.00£13.65'My dear, she's on fire!' DAMIAN BARR'A snappy guide to an all-conquering aesthetic' Financial Times'The following things have seemed impossibly camp to me at one point or another: a doll whose body acts as a cover for a toilet roll, a tantrum over wire... -
The Oxford Handbook of Roman Egypt by Christina Riggs 9780198854906
£47.92Roman Egypt is a critical area of interdisciplinary research, which has steadily expanded since the 1970s and continues to grow. Egypt played a pivotal role in the Roman empire, not only in terms of political, economic, and military strategies, but also... -
The London of Jack the Ripper Then and Now by Philip Hutchinson
RRP: £12.99£9.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859838785Author Philip HutchinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing -
A Very Simple Secret: My parents, their mission to change the world, and me by Judi Conner 9781805141624
RRP: £12.99£9.34Judi's parents were on a mission to remake the world. These were the Cold War years of the 1950s and '60s, following a catastrophic world war and the breaking up of colonial empires. The couple had joined many others in giving up conventional careers and... -
The History of the SAS by Chris Ryan
RRP: £12.99£8.83'Drawing on the stories of the soldiers who were there, this dramatic history of the SAS is full of bravado. Forged to fight guerrillas in the sweltering jungles of Malaya... Ryan writes with the authority of a man familiar with every nuance of the... -
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by Anderson Cooper
RRP: £12.99£8.71Now in paperback, the #1 New York Times bestselling chronicle of the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty, from CNN anchor and journalist Anderson Cooper and historian and novelist Katherine Howe. One of the Washington Post's Notable Works of... -
Babi Yar: The Story of Ukraine's Holocaust by A. Anatoli
RRP: £20.00£16.09The powerful rediscovered masterpiece of Kyiv during the Second World War, told by a young boy who saw it all.'Read it and weep... Nothing I have read about that barbaric time has been as affecting as this gripping, disturbing book - rightly hailed a... -
Free Time: The History of an Elusive Ideal by Gary S. Cross 9781479813070
RRP: £27.99£24.54The history of leisure time, from the earliest societies to the work-from-home era Free time, one of life's most precious things, often feels unfulfilling. But why? And how did leisure activities transition from strolling in the park for hours to... -
Henry VIII: King and Court by Alison Weir
RRP: £14.99£10.95Henry VIII, renowned for his command of power and celebrated for his intellect, presided over one of the most magnificent-and dangerous-courts in Renaissance Europe. Never before has a detailed, personal biography of this charismatic monarch been set... -
Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain by Leyla Daybelge
RRP: £25.00£18.40In the mid-1930s, three giants of the international Modern movement, Bauhaus professors Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, fled Nazi Germany and sought refuge in Hampstead in the most exciting new apartment block in Britain. The Lawn... -
Among the Layers of the Land by Frank Rennie 9781789071603
RRP: £14.00£11.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789071603Author Frank RennieFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint AcairPublisher AcairWeight(grams) 300g -
A Concise History of Wales by Geraint H. Jenkins
RRP: £24.99£19.99Based on historical research and debates about Wales and Welshness, this volume offers an authoritative and accessible account of the period from Neanderthal times to the opening of the Senedd, the home of the National Assembly for Wales, in 2006. Within... -
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
RRP: £12.99£8.80'Bizarre and quite brilliant.' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times'Thrilling.' Michael Burleigh, Sunday Telegraph'Francis Spufford has one of the most original minds in contemporary literature.' Nick HornbyThe Soviet Union was founded on a fairytale. It was... -
The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims by Khaled A. Beydoun 9780520402690
RRP: £20.00£15.90"The New Crusades is an intersectional milestone. It lucidly illustrates how converging systems of subordination, power, and violence related to Islamophobia are experienced across the globe."-Kimberle Crenshaw, from the foreword "A profound wake-up call... -
The Prisoner of Bhopal by Tim Walker 9781839133732
RRP: £7.99£5.78Amil has always dreamed of working at the modern, space-age pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, where he lives. Instead, on his tenth birthday, he is torn from his family and taken to work for Mr Kumar and his cruel son, Jalesh, in their dilapidated... -
Staffordshire Murders by Alan Hayhurst
RRP: £14.99£11.72Staffordshire Murders brings together murderous tales that shocked not only the county but made headline news throughout the nation. They include the poisonous Dr Palmer, murder on the canal, a tale of infanticide, the body in the gasometer, the... -
All the Kremlin's Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin by Mikhail Zygar
RRP: £15.99£13.45All the Kremlin's Men is a gripping narrative of an accidental king and a court out of control. Based on an unprecedented series of interviews with Vladimir Putin's inner circle, this book presents a radically different view of power and politics in...