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The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968 Luke A. Nichter 9780300280135
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.08The unknown story of the election that set the tone for today's fractured politics A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2023: Politics "The book is a delightful demolition of the many political myths... -
Escape from Kabul: The Inside Story Levison Wood 9781399718127
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.99'An important account of one of the defining moments of the modern world' PETER FRANKOPANThe evacuation of Kabul in August 2021 will go down in military history as one of the most unexpected events... -
Dance Your Way Home: A Journey Through the Dancefloor by Emma Warren 9780571366040
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37'A clarion call to get up on the dance floor.' FINANCIAL TIMESWhy do we dance together? What does dancing tell us about ourselves, individually and collectively? Whether at home, in '80s club nights,... -
Two Brothers Jonathan Wilson 9781408714492
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.50Shortlisted for Football Book of the Year (Sports Book Awards)'Gripping' Daily Mail'Moving... chronicles two remarkable lives' Guardian'Razor-sharp tactical analysis' Irish Independent'Wilson is a... -
The Prince by 9780199535699
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.13'A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought...but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.' When Machiavelli's brief... -
Uriel's Machine: Reconstructing the Disaster Behind Human History by Christopher Knight
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68* What is the standard view of history is completely wrong? * What if science and writing developed from an advanced prehistoric civilisation in the British Isles? * What is written evidence in the... -
Atlas of Imagined Places: from Lilliput to Gotham City Matt Brown 9781849946414
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $24.24WINNER, Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2022: Illustrated Travel Book of the Year. HIGHLY COMMENDED, British Cartographic Society Awards 2022. From Stephen King's Salem's Lot to the superhero... -
Roman Britain: Life at the Edge of Empire Richard Hobbs 9780714150611
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41For nearly four centuries Britain was a province on the outer edge of the Roman Empire and developed a distinctively Romano-British culture and way of life. Using the archaeological evidence, ancient... -
The Borgias: Power and Fortune by Paul Strathern
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.08* * A Daily Mail Book of the Week * *The sensational story of the rise and fall of one of the most notorious families in history.____________________ 'A wickedly entertaining read' The... -
American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis by Adam Hochschild 9780063278523
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.88National Bestseller * One of the year's most acclaimed works of nonfictionA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Kirkus, New York Post, Fast... -
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Illustrated & Annotated by Bob Carruthers 9781781580424
RRP: $33.49Booksplease Price: $31.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781580424Author Bob CarruthersFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint -
Edexcel A-level History Coursework Workbook by Oliver Bullock
Booksplease Price: $12.06Exam board: EdexcelLevel: A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2017Maximise your chance of coursework success; this Edexcel A-level History Workbook breaks the... -
UNITE History Volume 1 (1880-1931): The Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU): Representing a mass trade union movement Mary Davis 9781800859715
Booksplease Price: $14.04Sold as a multi-volume set - the individual volumes are also available for purchase. This is volume 1 of six accessible volumes covering UNITE's history from 1880-2010. The history of the TGWU is the... -
Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle by Clare Hunter
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41**SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** **RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK** **WATERSTONES SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE MONTH**'An astonishing feat'Christina Patterson, Sunday Times'An inspiring and moving sideways look at... -
A Short History Of Progress Ronald Wright 9781841958309
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Palaeolithic hunters who learnt how to kill two mammoths instead of one had made progress. Those who learnt how to kill 200 by driving a whole herd over a cliff had made too much. Many of the great... -
Free Speech And Why It Matters by Andrew Doyle
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75'Impassioned, scholarly and succinct' The TimesFREE SPEECH AND WHY IT MATTERSFree speech is the bedrock of all our liberties, and yet in recent years it has come to be mistrusted. A new form of... -
Crimes Unspoken: The Rape of German Women at the End of the Second World War Miriam Gebhardt 9781509541669
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.89The soldiers who occupied Germany after the Second World War were not only liberators: they also brought with them a new threat, as women throughout the country became victims of sexual violence. In... -
And God Created Cricket by Simon Hughes
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.81Cricket defines Englishness like no other national pastime. From its earliest origins in the sixteenth century (or an early version played by shepherds called creag in the 1300s), through the... -
Samurai William: The Adventurer Who Unlocked Japan by Giles Milton
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.02In 1611 an astonishing letter arrived at the East India Trading Company in London after a tortuous seven-year journey. Englishman William Adams was one of only twenty-four survivors of a fleet of... -
Newton: A Very Short Introduction by Rob Iliffe
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.14This Very Short Introduction uses Newton's own unpublished writings to provide fascinating insight into the man who kept the Royal Society under his thumb, was Head of the Mint, and whose... -
The Making of the British Landscape: How We Have Transformed the Land, from Prehistory to Today by Francis Pryor
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.66From our suburban streets which still trace the boundaries of long vanished farms to the Norfolk Broads, formed when medieval peat pits flooded - evidence of man's effect on Britain is everywhere... -
A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death by Chris Woodyard 9780988192546
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $15.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988192546Author Chris WoodyardFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint -
An Illustrated Dictionary of the Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya by Mary Miller
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.47Nearly 300 entries, from accession to yoke, describe the main gods and symbols of the Aztecs, Olmecs, Zapotecs, Maya, Teotihuacanos, Mixtects and Toltecs.Introductory essays provide succinct accounts... -
The Little Princesses: The Story Of The Queen's Childhood By Her Nanny Crawfie by Marion Crawford
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $8.67'A unique insight into the isolated childhood of the future queen and her sister' YOU MAGAZINE, THE DAILY MAIL~The touching and ground-breaking stories of the Queen and Princess Margaret's childhoods... -
Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh by Wendy S. Painting 9781634240031
RRP: $28.07Booksplease Price: $21.35Presenting startling new biographical details about Timothy McVeigh and exposing stark contradictions and errors contained in previous depictions of the "All-American Terrorist," this book traces... -
EMPIRE OF THE SEAS by 9781472835604
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11The BBC TV Tie-in to Dan Snow's Timewatch series exploring the navy's rise over four centuries.The year 1588 marked a turning point in our national story. Victory over the Spanish Armada transformed... -
The Lost King: The Search for Richard III by Philippa Langley
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Previously published as The King's Grave.NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING SALLY HAWKINS AND STEVE COOGAN.The official inside story of the discovery of history's most controversial monarch.On 22... -
The Portable Machiavelli by Niccolo Machiavelli
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Edited and translated by Peter Bondanella and Mark Musa, "The Portable Machiavelli" not only gives the casual reader a chance to read different personal and professional works of Machiavelli, but... -
Popski's Private Army Vladimir Peniakoff 9781474609692
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.78In October 1942, with the sanction of the army, Vladimir Peniakoff (nicknamed Popski) formed his own elite fighting force. By befriending and enlisting desert Arabs, he was able to penetrate deep... -
Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin's War Against Ukraine by Owen Matthews
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $26.17Winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize 2023 *A Telegraph Book of the Year* A Times Best Book of Summer 2023 ... -
Garden History: A Very Short Introduction by Gordon Campbell 9780199689873
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36Gardens take many forms, and have a variety of functions. They can serve as spaces of peace and tranquilty, a way to cultivate wildlife, or as places to develop agricultural resources. Globally,... -
William I (Penguin Monarchs): England's Conqueror by Marc Morris
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.07Part of the Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackOn Christmas Day 1066, William, duke of Normandy was crowned in Westminster, the first Norman... -
Time and Tide: The Long, Long Life of Landscape by Fiona Stafford 9781473686328
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.36'Poetic and profound, Time and Tide is wise, considered and full of surprises' Observer'Poignant and touching' Mail on Sunday'Miraculous' ScotsmanA village waits at the bottom of a reservoir. A... -
The Ascent Of Man by Jacob Bronowski
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.19Dr Jacob Bronowksi's The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through our understanding of science.First published in 1973 to accompany the groundbreaking BBC television series, it... -
The Mammoth General Knowledge Quiz Book: 2,800 Questions and Answers Nick Holt 9781472141156
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07A bumper collection of 2,800 questions and answers to test even the most ardent quiz fanatic.About the AuthorNICK HOLT has over 20 books in print. He is the author, with Guy Lloyd of Football: The... -
War in the Wilderness: The Chindits in Burma 1943-1944 by Tony Redding
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $24.20War in the Wilderness is the most comprehensive account ever published of the human aspects of the Chindit war in Burma. The word 'Chindit' will always have a special resonance in military circles... -
The Secret History by Procopius
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37A trusted member of the Byzantine establishment, Procopius was the Empire's official chronicler, and his History of the Wars of Justinian proclaimed the strength and wisdom of the Emperor's reign... -
Germany: Memories of a Nation by Neil MacGregor
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.40From Neil MacGregor, the author of A History of the World in 100 Objects, this is a view of Germany like no otherFor the past 140 years, Germany has been the central power in continental Europe... -
Osman's Dream by Caroline Finkel
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.83The Ottoman chronicles recount that the first sultan, Osman, dreamt of the dynasty he would found - a tree, fully-formed, emerged from his navel, symbolising the vigour of his successors and the... -
Berwick-upon-Tweed: Three places, two nations, one town Adam Menuge 9781848020290
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $22.26Nikolaus Pevsner described Berwick-upon-Tweed as 'one of the most exciting towns in England' [Nikolaus Pevsner, Buildings of England: Northumberland (1957), 88] - a place where an absorbing...