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Wiltshire Folk Tales by Kirsty Hartsiotis
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11These lively and entertaining folk tales from one of Britain's most ancient counties are vividly retold by local storyteller Kirsty Hartsiotis. Their origins lost in the oral tradition, these thirty... -
Odd People: Hunting Spies in the First World War by Basil Thomson 9781849547970
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.78First World War espionage was a fascinating and dangerous affair, spawning widespread paranoia in its clandestine wake. The hysteria of the age, stoked by those within the British establishment who... -
Unearthing Churchill's Secret Army: The Official List of SOE Casualties and Their Stories by Martin Mace
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $14.98Special Operations Executive was one of the most secretive organizations of the Second World War, its activities cloaked in mystery and intrigue. The fate, therefore, of many of its agents was not... -
Monsieur Linh and His Child by Philippe Claudel
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75Traumatized by memories of his war-ravaged country, and with his son and daughter-in-law dead, Monsieur Linh travels to a foreign land to bring the child in his arms to safety. The other refugees in... -
A-Z Secret Oxford Walks by A-Z maps
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $7.64Discover hidden gems around Oxford with 20 walking routes. Featuring 20 walks in and around the city, including lesser-known circuits and details on popular walks. Accompanied by guided... -
Saga Land: The Island Stories at the Edge of the World by Richard Fidler
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.95'I adored this book - a wondrous compendium of Iceland's best sagas' - Hannah Kent A new friendship. An unforgettable journey. A beautiful and bloody history.This is Iceland as you've never read it... -
The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity by Amartya Sen
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37From Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian Culture, History and Identity brings together an illuminating selection of writings on contemporary India... -
Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World by Emma Southon
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $17.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643136103Author Emma SouthonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint < -
Ibn Saud: The Desert Warrior and His Legacy by Michael Darlow 9780704371811
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $24.66Ibn Saud grew to manhood first through living the harsh traditional life of the desert nomad, a life that had changed little since the days of Abraham, and then, through a careful study during his... -
Old Puglia: A Cultural Companion to South-Eastern Italy by Desmond Seward
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37In recent years, tourists have discovered the rustic charms of Puglia, also known as Apulia, the heel stretching down from the spur of the Italian boot. The region boasts beautiful landscapes and... -
The Origins of the Irish by J. P. Mallory
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Written as an engrossing detective story by the leading authority on the subject, this is the first major account in nearly a century to deal with the core issues of how the Irish people came into... -
The Twelve Apostles by Tim Pat Coogan
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36Ireland, 1919: When Sinn Fein proclaims Dail Eireann the parliament of the independent Irish republic, London declares the new assembly to be illegal, and a vicious guerilla war breaks out between... -
We Need to Talk by Dr Tony Holohan 9781804182499
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $20.77Dr Tony Holohan served as Chief Medical Officer in Ireland for 14 years, but only really became known to the public during the Covid 19 pandemic. During this time his remarkable leadership skills... -
The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy by Adrienne Mayor
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.20Machiavelli praised his military genius. European royalty sought out his secret elixir against poison. His life inspired Mozart's first opera, while for centuries poets and playwrights recited... -
A Small Place Jamaica Kincaid 9781911547099
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911547099Author Jamaica KincaidFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint -
Essays on Fascism by Benito Mussolini 9781913176037
Booksplease Price: $12.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913176037Author Benito MussoliniFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint -
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes 9781451677614
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451677614Author Richard RhodesFormat PaperbackPage Count 896Imprint -
Dust Carolyn Steedman 9780719060151
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.39In this witty, engaging and challenging book, Carolyn Steedman has produced a highly original and sometimes irreverent investigation into the development of modern history writing. Dust is about the... -
The Last Imperialist: Sir Alan Burns' Epic Defense of the British Empire by Bruce Gilley 9781684515202
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07The British Empire, one of the most powerful forces in history, was also one of the most humane. Yet at its twilight, few were willing to defy the anti-colonial reaction that condemned millions to... -
Enigma: The Battle For The Code by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore 9781474608329
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07The complete story of how the German Enigma codes were broken. Perfect for fans of THE IMITATION GAME, the new film on Alan Turing's Enigma code, starring Benedict Cumberbatch.Breaking the German... -
Dandy Style: 250 Years of British Men's Fashion by Shaun Cole
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $30.11Celebrating 250 years of male self-expression, investigating the portraiture and wardrobe of the fashionable British man The style of the dandy is elegant but bold-dedicated to the perfection of... -
We Were Eight Years in Power: 'One of the foremost essayists on race in the West' Nikesh Shukla, author of The Good Immigrant by Ta-Nehisi Coates
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.51THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'I've been wondering who might fill the intellectual void after James Baldwin died. Clearly it is Ta-Nehisi Coates' Toni Morrison'Searing. One of the foremost essayists... -
British Battle Tanks: British-made tanks of World War II by David Fletcher
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $31.46Plagued by unreliable vehicles and poorly thought-out doctrine, the early years of World War II were years of struggle for Britain's tank corps. Relying on tanks built in the late 1930s, and those... -
In Sicily Norman Lewis 9781780600093
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41In Sicily is a loving take on an extraordinary island, based on Norman Lewis's sixty-yearlong fascination with all things Sicilian! Few places on earth have escaped the singular eye of Norman Lewis,... -
Scotland the How?: The Hows and Whys of Scottish History by John and Noreen Hamilton
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.92How much do you know about Scottish history?We all know bits of it. This book by the authors of Scottish History: Strange but True sets out to show how these 'bits' fit together - how the characters... -
Medieval Europe by Chris Wickham
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.19A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and... -
The Silk House: The thrilling new historical novel from the bestselling author of The Botanist's Daughter by Kayte Nunn 9781398700185
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75'Exquisitely written, this vivid story may just bewitch you' Woman'Utterly spellbinding' Natasha Lester'Exquisitely written, this vivid story may just bewitch you' Woman's WeeklyAn enchanting mystery... -
The Fall of Carthage: The Punic Wars 265-146BC by Adrian Goldsworthy
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07The greatest conflict of antiquity, the struggle for supremacy between Rome and Carthage.The struggle between Rome and Carthage in the Punic Wars was arguably the greatest and most desperate conflict... -
Crowdie And Cream And Other Stories: Memoirs of a Hebridean Childhood Finlay J. Macdonald 9780751513486
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07CROWDIE AND CREAM: Peopled with characters like Great Aunt Rachel, 'built like a Churchill tank and with a personality to match', these are the stories of a childhood, of the hard years of the... -
Cider Country: How an Ancient Craft Became a Way of Life by James Crowden
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.22'James Crowden is Britain's best cider writer ... Cider Country is the book we've all been waiting for.' Oz Clarke Join James Crowden as he embarks... -
Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets: Life in the village hardware shop by Tom Fort 9781472291950
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'A hymn to hardware, charming, lyrical' - The Sunday Times, BOOK OF THE WEEK'A paean to DIY' - The Times'Strung together very agreeably, with dry wit and, dare I say it, considerable polish' -... -
The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade by Susan Wise Bauer
RRP: $37.51Booksplease Price: $36.06In her earlier work, The History of the Ancient World, Susan Wise Bauer wrote of the rise of kingship based on might. But in the years between the fourth and twelfth centuries, rulers had to find new... -
Tanks and Armored Vehicles by Bruce LaFontaine 9780486413174
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $5.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486413174Author Bruce LafontainePage Count 48Imprint -
Eggs or Anarchy: The remarkable story of the man tasked with the impossible: to feed a nation at war by William Sitwell 9781471151071
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Eggs or Anarchy is one of the great, British stories of the Second World War yet to be told in full. It reveals the heroic tale of how Lord Woolton, Minister for Food, really fed Britain. As a nation... -
The Faber Pocket Guide to Wagner by Michael Tanner
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Richard Wagner remains, almost 130 years after his death, the most controversial composer in the history of music. Creator of huge and hugely ambitious operas, which have an immense immediate impact,... -
Warless Societies and the Origin of War by Raymond C. Kelly 9780472067381
RRP: $33.43Booksplease Price: $31.91Warless Societies and the Origin of War employs a comparative ethnographic analysis of warless and warlike hunting and gathering societies to isolate distinctive features of peaceful preagricultural... -
Rome: An Empire's Story by Greg Woolf 9780192895172
RRP: $20.76Booksplease Price: $15.14The complete history of the Roman Empire - how it was created, how it was sustained in crisis, and how it shaped the world of its rulers and subjects, from the eighth century BCE to the dawn of the... -
Latin Prose Composition by Andrew Leigh
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.44This book helps students to write Latin using increasingly complex forms of expression. Part 1 gives guidance and practice exercises for the new sentences required at GCSE, while Parts 2 and 3... -
The Wall: Rome's Greatest Frontier Alistair Moffat 9781780274553
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Hadrian's Wall is the largest, most spectacular and one of the most enigmatic historical monument in Britain. Nothing else approaches its vast scale: a land wall running 73 miles from east to west... -
The Secret History of Oxford by Paul Sullivan 9780752499567
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.23The Secret History of Oxford offers the reader an off-the-beaten-track tour of the city's landmarks and streets. Filled with hundreds of facts and anecdotes, it reveals the amusing, unlikely and...