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Gentry: Six Hundred Years of a Peculiarly English Class by Adam Nicolson
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.55Adam Nicolson tells the story of England through the history of fourteen gentry families - from the 15th century to the present day. This sparkling work of history reads like a real-life Downton... -
Women of Scotland by David R. Ross
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.76In a mix of historical fact and folklore, 'biker-historian' David R. Ross journeys across Scotland to tell the stories of some of Scotland's finest women. From the legend of Scota over 3,000 years... -
The Perfect Heresy: The Life and Death of the Cathars by Stephen O'Shea
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Eight hundred years ago, the Cathars, a group of heretical Christians from all walks of society, high and low, flourished in what is now the Languedoc in Southern France. Their subversive beliefs... -
Edward III (Penguin Monarchs): A Heroic Failure by Jonathan Sumption
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.94The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackEdward III ruled England for fifty years. He was a paragon of kingship in the eyes of his... -
The Crooked Branch Jeanine Cummins 9781472272850
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75'Rich and intricately drawn... luminous prose' Carolyn ParkhurstAfter the birth of her daughter Emma, the usually resilient Majella finds herself feeling isolated and exhausted. Then, at her... -
England's Gardens: A Modern History by Stephen Parker
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $24.36We may all feel we know what an "English" garden is, but do we really? England's Gardens offers a holistic, modern-day tour and an update on the history of some of the most iconic, enduring, and... -
A New Nobility of Blood and Soil by R Walther Darré 9781953730961
Booksplease Price: $46.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953730961Author R Walther DarreFormat HardbackPage Count 278Imprint -
Craeft: How Traditional Crafts Are about More than Just Making by Alexander Langlands
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $20.05In a period of meaningless mass manufacturing, our growing appetite for hand-made objects, artisan food, and craft beverages reveals our deep cravings for tradition and quality. But there was a time... -
Bread and Roses: Gender and Class Under Capitalism by Andrea D'Atri
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $20.42Is it possible to develop a radical socialist feminism that fights for the emancipation of women and of all humankind? This book is a journey through the history of feminism. Using the concrete... -
Beastly Fury: The Strange Birth Of British Football by Richard Sanders 9780553819359
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71"Footeballe is nothinge but beastlie furie and extreme violence", wrote Thomas Elyot in 1531. Nearly five hundred years later, the game may still seem furious and violent, but it has also become the... -
Why the Germans Do it Better: Notes from a Grown-Up Country by John Kampfner
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.77***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***BOOK OF THE YEAR IN GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST & NEW STATESMAN'Excellent and provocative... a passionate, timely book.' Sunday Times'A fine new book... thoughtful, deeply... -
Australia by R. M. Crawford
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68Australia celebrated one hundred years as a nation in 2001. This book - part history, part travelogue, part memoir - tells the inspiring story of how a one-time British colony of convicts turned... -
Ten Men Dead by David Beresford
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780586065334Author David BeresfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint -
The Red Prince: The Fall of a Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Europe by Timothy Snyder
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68Wilhelm von Habsburg wore the uniform of an Austrian officer, the court regalia of a Habsburg archduke, the simple suit of a Parisian exile, the decorations of the Order of the Golden Fleece and,... -
Destiny in the Desert: The road to El Alamein - the Battle that Turned the Tide Jonathan Dimbleby 9781846684456
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07It was the British victory at the Battle of El Alamein in November 1942 that inspired one of Winston Churchill's most famous aphorisms: 'This is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end,... -
Tanks, The World Encyclopedia of: An illustrated history and directory of tanks, from 1916 to the present day, with more than 650 photographs George Forty 9780754835745
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.80This fully-updated book is an authoritative directory of tanks and their immediate derivatives, such as tank destroyers and armoured recovery vehicles. It begins with a history of tank design and... -
By Tank: D to Ve Days by Ken Tout
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75'...a minor classic in battle picture painting. It has an authenticity about it which could only come from deep personal experience, translated by a lucid pen.' The Times 'Movingly and evocatively... -
Sydney by Jan Morris
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Renowned and much-loved travel writer Jan Morris turns her eye to Sydney: 'not the best of the cities the British Empire created ... but the most hyperbolic, the youngest at heart, the shiniest.'... -
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When China Rules The World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World [Greatly updated and expanded] by Martin Jacques
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.40China will replace the United States as the world's dominant power. In so doing, it will not become more western but the world will become more Chinese. Jacques argues that we cannot understand China... -
Colours of London: A History Peter Ackroyd 9780711269422
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $24.36Celebrated novelist, biographer and critic Peter Ackroyd paints a vivid picture of one of the world's greatest cities in this brilliant and original work, exploring how the city's many hues have come... -
Luxury and power: Persia to Greece by James Fraser
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $33.84An eye-opening publication that contrasts perceptions of luxury - together with its positive and negative connotations - in imperial Persia, democratic Athens and the Hellenistic world between 600... -
Albert and the Whale by Philip Hoare
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR AN OBSERVER BEST ART BOOK OF 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022 ... -
An Air That Kills: The Lydmouth Crime Series Book 1 by Andrew Taylor
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75'Andrew Taylor is a master story-teller' Daily Telegraph From the No.1 bestselling author of The Ashes of London and The Fire Court, this is the first instalment in the acclaimed Lydmouth... -
Truman by David McCullough
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.66The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by... -
Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century by Brad de Long 9781399803434
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $11.95AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEARA FINANCIAL TIMES BEST ECONOMICS BOOK OF THE YEAR AND THE ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE... -
Viking London by Thomas Williams 9780008299897
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.37London was reborn in the fires of the Viking Age, transformed by immigrants and natives, kings and commoners, warriors and saints. In this short history,... -
Fabulosa!: The Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language by Paul Baker
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.48Polari is a language that was used chiefly by gay men in the first half of the twentieth century. At a time when being gay could result in criminal prosecution - or worse - Polari offered its... -
Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane by S. Frederick Starr 9780691165851
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $23.29In this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but largely unknown story of Central Asia's medieval enlightenment through the eventful lives and astonishing... -
The Nazis: A Warning From History by Laurence Rees
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29Following the success of Rees' bestselling Auschwitz, this substantially revised and updated edition of The Nazis - A Warning from History tells the powerfully gripping story of the rise and fall of... -
The Frayed Atlantic Edge: A Historian's Journey from Shetland to the Channel by David Gange 9780008225148
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.84COLLECTIVE WINNER OF THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 'This is the book that has been wanting to be written for... -
When the Wheels Come Off: More Confessions of a 1970s & '80s Car Mechanic by Brian Cunningham
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.48Brian Cunningham's popular first book, Under the Bonnet, was a colourful and humorous collection of memories of his time as a car mechanic in the 1970s and '80s. When he wrote it, he was sure he had... -
The Sugar Barons by Matthew Parker
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.05For 200 years after 1650 the West Indies were the most fought-over colonies in the world, as Europeans made and lost immense fortunes growing and trading in sugar - a commodity so lucrative that it... -
Israel: A History by Anita Shapira
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59Written by one of Israel's most notable scholars, this volume provides a breathtaking history of Israel from the origins of the Zionist movement in the late 19th century to the present day.Anita... -
Coconut: A Black girl fostered by a white family in the 1960s and her search for belonging and identity Florence Olajide 9781909770652
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09'Why am I not white like everybody else?' Nan came and sat on the edge of my bed. 'What do you mean?' A tender finger brushed against my cheek. 'Well, everyone in this house is white. Why am I... -
The Autumn Throne by Elizabeth Chadwick
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75'An author who makes history come gloriously alive' The Times'Meticulous research and strong storytelling' Woman & Home 'A sumptuous ride' Toby Clements, Daily Telegraph**********************Eleanor... -
Qatar: Small State, Big Politics by Mehran Kamrava 9780801456770
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.09The Persian Gulf state of Qatar has fewer than 2 million inhabitants, virtually no potable water, and has been an independent nation only since 1971. Yet its enormous oil and gas wealth has permitted... -
Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North by Ibn Fadlan
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37In 922 AD, an Arab envoy from Baghdad named Ibn Fadlan encountered a party of Viking traders on the upper reaches of the Volga River. In his subsequent report on his mission he gave a meticulous and... -
Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy by Mircea Eliade
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $28.74The foundational work on shamanism now available as a Princeton Classics paperbackShamanism is an essential work on the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. The founder of the modern... -
A History of Britain in 100 Maps Jeremy Black 9780712354714
RRP: $53.60Booksplease Price: $39.13In A History of Britain in 100 Maps Jeremy Black takes readers deep into the unparalleled collections of the British Library Map Room to tell a new story of the British Isles through acknowledged... -
The Portuguese: A Modern History by Barry Hatton
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $12.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566568449Author Barry HattonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint <