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Netsuke: 100 miniature masterpieces from Japan Noriko Tsuchiya 9780714124810
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.47Netsuke have once again come to the fore in the popular imagination of the public. In part this is due to the phenomenal success of Edmund De Waal's 2010 book, Hare with the Amber Eyes, which... -
Mysterious Wales by Chris Barber
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.51Wales is a land haunted by its own past, with a treasure trove of beautiful and magical places - some rarely visited. Chris Barber guides explorers to prehistoric megaliths, remote stone circles,... -
Abandoned Castles by Kieron Connolly
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.17An ancient hilltop fortress. A crusader citadel in the West Bank. A fairytale medieval castle fallen into ruin. From ancient times to the end of the nineteenth century, Abandoned Castles explores... -
The North: (And Almost Everything In It) by Paul Morley
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63A celebratory and beautiful mixture of memoir, social history and cultural observation, Paul Morley's The North is a unique portrait of Northern England and almost everything within it ... -
The Illustrated Letters of Jane Austen: Selected and Introduced by Penelope Hughes-Hallett by Penelope Hughes-Hallet
RRP: $24.05Booksplease Price: $19.50A beautifully illustrated account of the letters and correspondence of Jane Austen. It has been said that Jane Austen the woman and Jane Austen the author are all of a piece, and nowhere is this more... -
The Lost Rivers of Manchester by geoffrey ashworth 9780946361496
RRP: $24.05Booksplease Price: $18.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946361496Author geoffrey ashworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint -
The Gates of Athens: Book One of Athenian by Conn Iggulden
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.35BE TRANSPORTED TO THE EPIC WORLD OF THE ATHENIANS WITH CONN IGGULDEN'S LATEST LEGENDARY TALE 'Astonishing, convincing and compelling, with ferocious battles that bring the Ancient World of Greece... -
Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire by Hugh Thomas
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.05The first part of his trilogy on the Spanish Empire, Hugh Thomas's Rivers of Gold brings the rise of Spain's global empire vividly to life, capturing the spirit of an ebullient age. Inspired by... -
Napoleon’s Hussars and Chasseurs: Uniforms and Equipment of the Grande Armée, 1805-1815 by Paul L Dawson 9781399030786
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $32.74Small men, with big egos and moustaches, the hussars of Napoleon’s army wore some of the most flamboyant and stylish uniforms of the epoch. In this book, the uniforms of the seventeen regiments of... -
Estonian Textbook: Grammar, Exercises, Conversation by J. Tuldava
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $21.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780933070547Author J TuldavaFormat PaperbackPage Count 379Imprint -
The Holy Roman Empire: A Very Short Introduction by Joachim Whaley
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36Voltaire's description of the Holy Roman Empire as 'neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire' is often cited to underline its worthlessness. German historians traditionally despised it because it had... -
Crocodile on the Sandbank: Miss Marple crossed with Indiana Jones! Elizabeth Peters 9781845293888
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75Amelia Peabody is Elizabeth Peters' most brilliant and best-loved creation, a thoroughly Victorian feminist who takes the stuffy world of archaeology by storm with her shocking men's pants and... -
The Age Of Arthur by John Morris 9781842124772
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $14.16A lifetime's scholarship enabled John Morris to recreate a past hitherto hidden in myth and mystery. He describes the Arthurian Age as 'the starting point of future British history', for it saw the... -
A History of Ancient Greece in 50 Lives by David Stuttard
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41The political leaders, writers, artists and philosophers of ancient Greece turned a small group of city states into a pan-Mediterranean civilization, whose legacy can be found everywhere today. But... -
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden by Steve Coll
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.27Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer PrizeThe explosive, New York Times bestselling first-hand account of America's secret history in AfghanistanPrize-winning journalist Steve Coll has spent years reporting... -
Grimsby Streets by Emma Lingard 9781473876019
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $15.79Grimsby Streets is a journey through time, which examines the meaning of many of the towns names and their association with the Danish settlers, through to the Victorian era, and the men who helped... -
The Military and Police Forces of the Gulf States: Volume 3: Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar by Athol Yates 9781912866427
RRP: $26.73Booksplease Price: $19.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912866427Author Athol YatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint -
The Rise And Fall of British Naval Mastery by Paul Kennedy
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Paul Kennedy's classic naval history, now updated with a new introduction by the authorThis acclaimed book traces Britain's rise and fall as a sea power from the Tudors to the present day... -
The Penguin Dictionary of British Surnames by John Titford
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63The Penguin Dictionary of British Surnames is a useful and fascinating guide to the surnames that offer a unique insight into the place of origin, the occupations - and even the personality traits -... -
Burning the Books: RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK: A History of Knowledge Under Attack Richard Ovenden 9781529378771
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41An unforgettable 3,000-year-old journey - from Mesopotamian clay tablets trying to predict the future, to Tudor book-hunters and Nazi bonfires, and on into the dangers of our increasingly digital... -
Soldiers of God by Robert D. Kaplan 9781400030255
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400030255Author Robert D. KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint
Ghassan Kanafani: Selected Political Writings Ghassan Kanafani 9780745349374
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $20.42'No other author has been as profoundly formative for me as Kanafani' - Mohammed El-Kurd, author of Rifqa 'I cannot think of a better collection to guide anyone seeking a moral role in the...
The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia by Neil Price 9781842172605
Booksplease Price: $46.95Magic, sorcery and witchcraft are among the most common themes of the great medieval Icelandic sagas and poems, the problematic yet vital sources that provide our primary textual evidence for the...
Mission France: The True History of the Women of SOE by Kate Vigurs 9780300264814
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.47The full story of the thirty-nine female SOE agents who went undercover in France"The freshness and honesty of Mission France make it an ideal book for taking a new look at the secret war, at a time...
All Around the Year by Michael Morpurgo 9781915068224
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $16.72Originally published in 1979, All Around the Year is a diary following a year at Parsonage Farm, a mixed farm in Devon, close to Dartmoor. The book documented a way of life unchanged for centuries,...
Crusader vs M13/40: North Africa 1941–42 David Greentree 9781472861092
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71This illustrated study assesses the British Crusader and the Italian M13/40, two medium tanks that played crucial roles in World War II's Desert War. Making its combat debut in North Africa during...
They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America Ivan Van Sertima 9780812968170
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812968170Author Ivan Van SertimaFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint
Stalin's Revenge: Operation Bagration and the Annihilation of Army Group Centre by Anthony Tucker-Jones 9781399078504
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79In the summer of 1944 the Red Army crushed Army Group Centre in one of the largest offensives in military history. Operation Bagration - launched almost exactly three years after the Nazi invasion of...
Sussex, Kent and Surrey 1939 by Richard Wyndham
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.76A remarkable and eccentric insight into the south east of England in the pre-war period. Richard Wyndham's 'last look round' was a tour taken immediately before the Second World War in 1939 and was...
Wish Lanterns: Young Lives in New China by Alec Ash
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.96As read on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.This is the generation that will change China. The youth, over 320 million of them in their teens and twenties, more than the population of the USA. Born after...
Lindisfarne: The Cradle Island by Magnus Magnusson
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.20Lindisfarne has captured the imagination of visitors and residents alike for decades. Also know as 'Holy Island', the rich and eventful history of the area is explored in great depth in this...
Access to History: The Middle East 1908-2011 Second Edition by Michael Scott-Baumann
RRP: $32.16Booksplease Price: $24.11Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJECLevel: A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series,...
The Gospel of Judas by Rodolphe Kasser 9781426200427
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.83In this radical reinterpretation, Jesus asks Judas to betray him. In contrast to the New Testament Gospels, Judas Iscariot is presented as a role model for all those who wish to be disciples of Jesus...
Harlots, Whores & Hackabouts: A History of Sex for Sale by Kate Lister
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $24.66The history of selling sex is a hidden one, its practitioners a 'damnable crew' pushed to the margins of history. Harlots, Whores & Hackabouts redresses the balance, revealing the history of sex for...
Legion: life in the Roman army by Richard Abdy 9780714122939
RRP: $60.30Booksplease Price: $43.35The Roman army has been immortalised in heroic art and screen epics, but what was life really like for an ordinary soldier? 'Everything the best history books can be: erudite, entertaining and...
Yemen: Dancing on the Heads of Snakes by Victoria Clark 9780300117011
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $20.09Yemen is the dark horse of the Middle East. Every so often it enters the headlines for one alarming reason or another-links with al-Qaeda, kidnapped Westerners, explosive population growth-then sinks...
Zero Six Bravo: 60 Special Forces. 100,000 Enemy. The Explosive True Story by Damien Lewis
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28The Sunday Times No.1 bestseller. 'Sixty special forces against 100,000 - a feat of British arms to take the breath away' Frederick Forsyth.They were branded as cowards and accused of...
When I Was a Nipper: The Way We Were in Disappearing Britain by Alan Titchmarsh 9781849901529
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.41In When I Was a Nipper Alan Titchmarsh goes on a personal and nostalgic journey through post-War Britain in search of treasured values and traditions that were once the soul of society. With...
Destined for War: can America and China escape Thucydides' Trap? by Graham Allison
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37A Sunday Times and FT Book of the Year When a rising power threatens to displace a ruling one, the most likely outcome is war. In this razor-sharp analysis, Harvard scholar Graham Allison...
Ancient Greek Philosophers by Editors of Canterbury Classics 9781684125531
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684125531Author Editors of Canterbury ClassicsFormat HardbackPage Count