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Pathogenesis: How germs made history by Jonathan Kennedy 9781804991893
RRP: $14.18$10.02A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKA TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEARA SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Powerfully argued... Fascinating and pacy' Sunday Times, Book of the Week'Superbly written... sure to please readers of Yuval Noah Harari or Rutger... -
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein 9780743243032
RRP: $16.76$11.84Heralded by stunning reviews, Perlstein's best-selling NIXONLAND begins in the blood and fire of the Watts riots - one week after President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, and nine months after his historic landslide victory over Barry Goldwater... -
A Night to Remember: The Classic Bestselling Account of the Sinking of the Titanic by Walter Lord
RRP: $14.18$9.18'There is no danger that Titanic will sink. The boat is unsinkable and nothing but inconvenience will be suffered by the passengers.' - Phillip Franklin, White Star Line Vice-PresidentOn April 15th, 1912, Titanic, the world's largest passenger ship, sank... -
Amarna: A Guide to the Ancient City of Akhetaten by Anna Stevens 9789774169823
RRP: $38.69$32.46This informed and richly illustrated guidebook brings the ancient city of Akhetaten alive with a keen archaeological eye, drawing on ongoing archaeological research and the knowledge and insight of Amarna's modern-day communities and caretakers to... -
The Woman They Could Not Silence: one woman, her incredible fight for freedom, and the men who tried to make her disappear by Kate Moore
RRP: $14.18$9.44From the internationally bestselling author of The Radium Girls comes a dark but ultimately uplifting tale of a woman whose incredible journey still resonates today. Elizabeth Packard was an ordinary Victorian housewife and mother of six. That was,... -
Father William Doyle S.J. by Alfred O'Rahilly 9781015564893
RRP: $38.64$34.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781015564893Author Alfred O'RahillyFormat HardbackPage Count 404Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 739g -
A Map of Tudor London: The City and Southwark in 1520. Second edition by Caroline Barron 9781838071943
RRP: $14.18$9.95A full colour map showing London in about 1520 - its many churches, monasteries, legal inns, guild halls, and a large number of substantial private houses, in the context of the streets and alleyways that survived the Great Fire and can still be... -
The Wisdom of the Beguines: The Forgotten Story of a Medieval Women's Movement by Laura Swan 9781629190082
RRP: $14.18$9.52The beguines began to form in various parts of Europe over eight hundred years ago. Beguines were laywomen, not nuns, and they did not live in monasteries. They practiced a remarkable way of living independently, and they were never a religious order or... -
Hold On Edna!: The heartwarming true story of the first baby born on the NHS by Aneira Thomas
RRP: $11.60$8.32THIS HEARTBREAKING, HEARTWARMING, TRUE STORY FOLLOWING THE HISTORY OF A FAMILY IN WALES IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS EVER WRITTEN.'I am a proud supporter of our National Health Service which has shown yet again what an important and valued... -
Sea and Fog by Etel Adnan 9780984459872
RRP: $16.76$11.13These interrelated meditations explore the nature of the individual spirit and the individual spiritedness of the natural world. As skilled a philosopher as she is a poet, in Sea & Fog, Adnan weaves multiple sonic, theoretical, and syntactic pleasures... -
The Shankill Butchers: A Case Study of Mass Murder by Martin Dillon
RRP: $14.18$10.02The bestselling investigation of one of Northern Ireland's most brutal and infamous murder cases'Makes for gripping but altogether terrifying reading' Washington Times'Dillon is recommended reading for anyone wishing to understand the complexities of... -
Slightly Out Of Focus by Robert Capa
RRP: $19.34$12.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375753961Author Robert CapaFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Juno Beach: Canada's D-Day Victory by Mark Zuehlke 9781771623841
RRP: $25.79$24.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771623841Author Mark ZuehlkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint Douglas & McIntyrePublisher Douglas & McIntyre -
Rotten Romans by Terry Deary 9781407143729
$5.26A new series of Horrible Histories sticker activity books, crammed with quick quizzes, foul facts and putrid pictures, the Horrible Histories Sticker Activity Book: Rotten Romans covers all things horrible in ruthless Rome. With over 250 savage stickers,... -
Fire and Sword (Wellington and Napoleon 3) by Simon Scarrow 9780755324385
RRP: $12.89$8.77FIRE AND SWORD is the unputdownable third novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Wellington and Napoleon Quartet. A must read for fans of Robert Harris.1804. Napoleon Bonaparte is Emperor of France, his ultimate aim: to rule Europe. After defeat at the... -
Nothing But Blood and Slaughter: The Revolutionary War in the Carolinas - Volume 2 1780 by Patrick O'Kelley 9781591135883
$29.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591135883Author Patrick O'KelleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 564Imprint Booklocker Inc.,USPublisher Booklocker Inc.,USWeight(grams) 709gDimensions(mm)... -
Sherwood Forest & the Dukeries: A Companion to the Land of Robin Hood by Ian D. Rotherham
RRP: $20.63$14.98Sherwood Forest is arguably the most famous historic landscape in the world, immortalized through storytelling, mythology, romantic books, and ultimately by Hollywood. This is the setting for Robin Hood, Little John and the rest of the 'Merry Men'. Yet... -
To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign of September 1862 by David S. Hartwig 9781421428963
RRP: $50.31$46.14A richly detailed account of the hard-fought campaign that led to Antietam Creek and changed the course of the Civil War.In early September 1862 thousands of Union soldiers huddled within the defenses of Washington, disorganized and discouraged from... -
Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
RRP: $15.48$10.89Winner of the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize'Reading Vuong is like watching a fish move: he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition.' New YorkerAn extraordinary debut from a young Vietnamese American, Night Sky with Exit Wounds is a book of... -
What Has Government Done to Our Money? by Murray N Rothbard
RRP: $21.92$15.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607967767Author Murray RothbardFormat HardbackPage Count 114Imprint www.bnpublishing.comPublisher www.bnpublishing.comWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)... -
Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth by Noa Tishby
RRP: $14.18$9.03A "fascinating and very moving" (Aaron Sorkin, award-winning screenwriter of The West Wing and The Social Network) chronological timeline spanning from Biblical times to today that explores one of the most interesting countries in the world-Israel.Israel... -
Mystery Cults in the Ancient World by Hugh Bowden 9780500297278
RRP: $19.34$12.64A landmark study of ancient Greek and Roman cults, from the nocturnal mysteries at Eleusis to the cults of Dionysus and Mithras. Mystery cults are one of the most intriguing areas of Greek and Roman religion. In the nocturnal mysteries at Eleusis,... -
The Coffin Roads: Journeys to the West by Ian Bradley
RRP: $11.60$7.84'Coffin roads' along which bodies were carried for burial are a marked feature of the landscape of the Scottish Highlands and islands - many are now popular walking and cycling routes. This book journeys along eight coffin roads to discover and explore... -
Commandant Of Auschwitz: Commandant Of Auschwitz by Rudolf Hoess
RRP: $14.18$10.02'The chilling narrative presents a graphic and compelling self-portrait of the Nazi war criminal who oversaw Auschwitz concentration camp' JEWISH BOOK WORLD'This book is filled with evil ... and yet it is one of the most instructive books ever... -
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
RRP: $16.76$10.73'Interesting and provocative... It gives you a sense of how briefly we've been on this Earth' Barack ObamaWhat makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers, Yuval Noah Harari... -
Africa's Tarnished Name by Chinua Achebe
RRP: $3.87$3.21He needed to hear Africa speak for itself after a lifetime of hearing Africa spoken about by othersElectrifying essays on the history, complexity, diversity of a continent, from the father of modern African literature.Penguin Modern: fifty new books... -
Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East Robert Fisk 9780007350612
RRP: $25.80$20.61'ROBERT FISK HAS BEEN REPORTING FROM THE MIDDLE EAST WITH INCOMPARABLE DEPTH AND UNDERSTANDING…AND EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE' NOAM CHOMSKY In this final work from renowned journalist Robert Fisk, he picks up reporting on the Middle East where his... -
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union by Vladislav M. Zubok
RRP: $19.34$16.81A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union-showing how Gorbachev's misguided reforms led to its demise "A deeply informed account of how the Soviet Union fell apart."-Rodric Braithwaite, Financial Times "[A] masterly analysis."-Joshua... -
The Tennis Champion Who Escaped the Nazis: Liesl Herbst’s Journey, from Vienna to Wimbledon by Felice Hardy
RRP: $12.89$8.31"Stunningly descriptive, compelling writing. I was moved close to tears on several occasions." - Peter James, international bestselling crime writer 'A fabulous story guaranteed to capture people's imagination' - Mail on Sunday In 1930, at the age... -
A Small Town in Ukraine: The place we came from, the place we went back to by Bernard Wasserstein 9781802061406
RRP: $16.76$11.73'A fine and deeply affecting work of history and memoir' Philippe SandsDecades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family originated: Krakowiec (Krah-KOV-yets). In... -
My Struggle: English Translation of Mein Kamphf - Mein Kampt - Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler 9781682043738
$24.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682043738Author Adolf HitlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Free Thought BooksPublisher Free Thought BooksWeight(grams) 699gDimensions(mm) 279mm *... -
Still Life by Sarah Winman
RRP: $12.89$8.04THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Over 500,000 copies sold internationally A BBC Between the Covers Book Club Pick A BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime ... -
A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women Emma Southon 9780861548323
RRP: $14.18$10.02Rome as you've never seen it before - brazenly unconventional, badly behaved and ever so feminine. 'Hugely entertaining and illuminating' -Elodie Harper, author of The Wolf Den A WATERSTONES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 Here's how the history of... -
The Worst Journey In The World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
RRP: $19.34$14.64One of the world's greatest works of travel and adventure writing, reissued on its 100th birthday.This is a gripping account of an expedition gone disastrously wrong. Apsley Cherry-Garrard, one of the youngest members of Scott's team, recorded the... -
Stanton Drew: and Its Ancient Stone Circles by Gordon Strong 9781904263739
RRP: $7.73$5.30In the sleepy Avon village of Stanton Drew stand the forgotten remains of the third major neolithic temple complex of Southern Britain after Stonehenge and Avebury. In this guidebook to the site, packed with rare images, Stanton Drew boffin Gordon Strong... -
Grey Wolf: The Escape of Adolf Hitler by Simon Dunstan
RRP: $19.34$13.16Did Hitler - code name: `Grey Wolf' - really die in 1945? In a riveting scenario that has never been fully investigated until now, international journalist Gerrard Williams and military historian Simon Dunstan make a powerful case for the Fuhrer's escape... -
Land Girl: A Manual for Volunteers in the Women's Land Army by W. E. Shewell-Cooper
RRP: $12.89$8.57A fabulous slice of wartime nostalgia, a facsimile edition of the manual used by the Land Girls during the Second World War. With millions of men away to fight in the Second World War Britain was struggling for labour. In order to replace the... -
Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team by John Steinbeck
RRP: $20.64$14.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143105916Author John SteinbeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 155gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 128mm... -
Bad Gays: A Homosexual History by Huw Lemmey
RRP: $14.18$12.82Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller argue, the past is filled with queer people whose sexualities and/or dastardly deeds have been overlooked. We all remember Oscar Wilde, but who... -
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of Virginia Hall, WWII's Most Dangerous Spy by Sonia Purnell
RRP: $16.76$11.09'A METICULOUS HISTORY THAT READS LIKE A THRILLER' BEN MACINTYRE, TEN BEST BOOKS TO READ ABOUT WORLD WAR II An astounding story of heroism, spycraft, resistance and personal triumph over shocking adversity. 'A rousing tale of derring-do' THE TIMES ...