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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... -
The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I Douglas Brunt 9781982169916
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75This instant New York Times bestselling "dynamic detective story" (The New York Times) reveals the hidden history Rudolf Diesel, one of the world's greatest inventors, and his mysterious... -
Elisabeth's Lists: A Life Between the Lines by Lulah Ellender 9781783783854
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'Go to your "books to read" list and place Elisabeth's Lists right at the top' Damian Barr The vivacious and moving true story of a lost era and a lost grandmother, pieced together from an... -
God's War: A New History of the Crusades by Christopher Tyerman
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $21.40The story of how a group of warriors, driven by faith, greed and wanderlust, carved out new Christian-ruled states in the Middle East is one of the most extraordinary of all epics. The crusaders'... -
Witch Hunters: Professional Prickers, Unwitchers and Witch-finders of the Renaissance by P G Maxwell-Stuart 9780752434339
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.20The history of a unique reign of terror. A thoroughly readable book on the lives and careers of possibly the most sadistic group of people of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the 'great age'... -
RAF Airman Tests: Sample Test Questions for the RAF Airman Test by Richard McMunn
RRP: $17.42Booksplease Price: $13.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909229914Author Richard McMunnFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint -
The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: v. 1: Authentic First-person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes by Henry Mayhew 9780486440064
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486440064Author Henry MayhewFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint < -
The Last Witches of England: A Tragedy of Sorcery and Superstition by John Callow 9781350387126
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.59"Fascinating and vivid." New Statesman "Thoroughly researched." The Spectator "Intriguing." BBC History Magazine "Vividly told." BBC History Revealed "A timely warning against persecution."... -
A House Unlocked by Penelope Lively
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71A House Unlocked is Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively's classic memoir.The only child of divorced parents, Penelope Lively was often sent to stay at her grandparents' country house... -
No Modernism Without Lesbians by Diana Souhami
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28A Sunday Times Book of the Year Winner of the Polari Prize 'A book about love, identity, acceptance and the freedom to write, paint, compose and wear corduroy breeches with gaiters. To swear,... -
The Gorgeous Georgians by Terry Deary 9781407104195
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $6.47Learn all about the Gorgeous Georgians with all the nasty bits left in. You probably thought that Georgians just spent their time prancing about in powdered wigs and pantaloons. Find out the horrible... -
A Teenagers War: A true-story of one young boy's fight for the liberation of Europe during World War II by James Brearley 9781861511270
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $10.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861511270Author James BrearleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint -
Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave by Zora Neale Hurston
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.31Abducted from Africa, sold in America. "A deeply affecting record of an extraordinary life"- Daily Telegraph ... -
Who Was: Samuel Pepys? Paul Harrison 9780750259897
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09Samuel Pepys is famous for the diary he wrote 400 years ago. The diary tells us about lots of important events such as the Great Fire of London and the Great Plague. Find out why people thought his... -
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Anisfield-Wolf Book Award 2011 and Anisfield-Wolf Book Award 2011 and Heartland Award 2011 and... -
Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem and Russia's Remaking of the West Luke Harding 9781783352067
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37**Pre-order INVASION: RUSSIA'S BLOODY WAR AND UKRAINE'S FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL now**FROM THE AWARD-WINNING JOURNALIST and #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF COLLUSION A gripping investigative... -
Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization by Barry J. Kemp
RRP: $61.63Booksplease Price: $55.86This fully revised and updated third edition of the bestselling Ancient Egypt seeks to identify what gave ancient Egypt its distinctive and enduring characteristics, ranging across material culture,... -
My Revision Notes: AQA AS/A-level History: Democracy and Nazism: Germany, 1918-1945 by Alan Farmer
RRP: $18.09Booksplease Price: $16.11Exam Board: AQALevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Target success in AQA AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured... -
Twentieth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction by Kenneth O. Morgan
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Kenneth Morgan's Very Short Introduction to Twentieth-Century Britain examines the forces of consensus and of... -
Hundred Years War: Trial by Battle: Vol 1: Trial by Battle by Jonathan Sumption 9780571200955
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $29.05'Compulsively readable' (History), this is the first volume in a series that details the long and violent endeavour of the English to dismember Europe's strongest state, a succession of wars that is... -
A Brief History of Life in Victorian Britain by Michael Paterson
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41The Victorian era has dominated the popular imagination like no other period, but these myths and stories also give a very distorted view of the 19th century. The early Victorians were much stranger... -
SAS Operation Storm: Nine men against four hundred Roger Cole 9781444726961
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41SAS OPERATION STORM is the inside story - told by those who took part - of the greatest secret war in SAS history. The tipping point, Mirbat, South Oman, 19 July 1972 is one of the least-known yet... -
B-17G Flying Fortress by Malcolm Lowe
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.60The B-17 Flying Fortress was conceived by the well-known US aviation designer and manufacturer Boeing during the 1930s, principally as a defensive weapon. Owing to the high levels of publicity it... -
Medieval Medicine: Its Mysteries and Science Toni Mount 9781445655420
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.56Conjuring up a time when butchers and executioners knew more about anatomy than university-trained physicians, the phrase 'medieval medicine' sounds horrific to those of us with modern ideas on... -
The History Thieves: Secrets, Lies and the Shaping of a Modern Nation by Ian Cobain 9781846275852
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37'As British official records are still "going missing", the significance of Cobain's work only increases' David Olusoga, author of Black and British 'In an astonishing book, the writer Ian Cobain... -
Animal Farm: GCSE 9-1 set text student edition (Collins Classroom Classics) by George Orwell
Booksplease Price: $4.02Exam board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR; CXCLevel & Subject: GCSE 9-1 English Literature; CSEC English BFirst teaching: September 2015Next exams: 2024 This edition of Animal Farm is perfect for... -
Heaven's Command by Jan Morris
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.08Jan Morris tells the epic story of the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 to her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. In this celebrated masterwork she vividly evokes every... -
Stanley: Africa's Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Henry Morton Stanley was a cruel imperialist - a bad man of Africa. Or so we think: but as Tim Jeal brilliantly shows, the reality of Stanley's life is yet more extraordinary. Few people know of his... -
The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Egypt by Bill Manley
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $15.81From its humble origins as a cluster of rival chiefdoms along the banks of the Nile, ancient Egypt rose to become one of the most advanced civilizations of its time. This atlas traces its turbulent... -
The New Machiavelli: How to Wield Power in the Modern World by Jonathan Powell
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68The New Machiavelli is a gripping account of life inside 'the bunker' of Number 10. In his twenty-first century reworking of Niccolo Machiavelli's influential masterpiece, The Prince, Jonathan Powell... -
Last Man Off: A True Story of Disaster, Survival and One Man's Ultimate Test by Matt Lewis
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37In the depths of Antarctic winter, hundreds of miles from land or rescue, a small fishing boat is swallowed by waves as high as houses. The captain is fatally slow to act, and then paralyzed by fear... -
Brigatta Rossa: Far-Left Guerillas in Italy, 1970-1988 by David Francois 9781914377075
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $18.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914377075Author David FrancoisFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint -
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity by Marshall Berman
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $15.72All That Is Solid Melts into Air is widely acclaimed as one of the greatest books on modernity. A kaleidoscopic journey into the experience of modernization, it captures the dizzying social changes... -
Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads by David Rundell
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.14'Clear-eyed and illuminating.' Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor 'A rich, superbly researched, balanced history of the modern Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.' ... -
The Girl in the Glass Tower by Elizabeth Fremantle
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Lost in history . . . losing her self. Uncover Tudor heroine Arbella Stuart's incredible story, reimagined by Elizabeth Fremantle in this tense, historical thriller.Hardwick Hall, sixteenth-century... -
Pillboxes of Britain and Ireland by Mike Osborne 9780752443294
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.29The pillboxes of Britain and Ireland are among the most important military structures employed in the history of the defence of these islands. This work presents the first thorough study and... -
Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers by Mary Wellesley
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $9.88'This book is an expression of love... Sublimely conceived and beautifully written' Gerard DeGroot, The Times'Immersive, conversational and intensely visual' Helen... -
Tarot and Divination Cards: A Visual Archive Laetitia Barbier 9781419756375
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $32.87Used for self-exploration or divination, Tarot has, for more than a 500 years, been the most popular and accessible of all esoteric tools, looming large in today's mainstream culture. Why? Because... -
Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me by Matthew Lewis 9781445699097
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.71King Richard III remains one of the most controversial figures in British history. Matthew Lewis's new biography aims to become a definitive account by exploring what is known of his childhood and... -
A Small Town in Ukraine: The place we came from, the place we went back to by Bernard Wasserstein 9781802061406
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $10.32'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...