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Crime and Punishment in Tudor England: From Alchemists to Zealots by April Taylor 9781399071666
RRP: £22.00£17.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Riotous Assembly by Tom Sharpe
RRP: £9.99£7.11When Miss Hazelstone of Jacaranda Park kills her Zulu cook in a sensational crime passionel, the gallant members of the South African police force are soon on the scene: Kommandant van Heerden, whose secret longing for the heart of an English gentleman... -
Hannibal's War: Books 21-30 by Livy
RRP: £13.99£9.75'You know how to win a battle, Hannibal; you do not know how to use the victory!' Livy's great history of Rome contains, in Books 21 to 30, the definitive ancient account of Hannibal's invasion of Italy in 218 BC, and the war he fought with the Romans... -
A Natural History of Ghosts: 500 Years of Hunting for Proof by Roger Clarke
RRP: £10.99£7.77The fascinating true history of ghosts - how we see them and why we believe in them, from Roger ClarkeWhat explains spectral sightings? Why do we fear the supernatural? What proof is there? Growing up in a haunted house, Roger Clarke spent much of his... -
Battle of Britain The Movie: The Men and Machines of one of the Greatest War Films Ever Made by Dilip Sarkar MBE
RRP: £25.00£18.02Released in 1969, the film _Battle of Britain_ went on to become one of the most iconic war movies ever produced. The film drew many respected British actors to accept roles as key figures of the battle, including Sir Laurence Olivier as Hugh Dowding and... -
The Royal Navy Officer's Pocket-Book by Brian Lavery
RRP: £9.99£7.11""The art of command is...to be the complete master, and yet the complete friend of every man on board; the temporal lord and yet the spiritual brother of every rating; to be detached and yet not dissociated.' A Seaman's Pocket-Book, 1943', has found... -
Queer St Ives and Other Stories by Ian Massey 9781909932692
RRP: £30.00£24.28This first ever queer history of St Ives weaves together biography with art and social history to shine new light on a pivotal era in the development of British modernism. At its centre is the sculptor John Milne (1931-1978), who arrived in the town in... -
Unofficial Britain: Journeys Through Unexpected Places by Gareth E. Rees
RRP: £9.99£6.85'Terrific... Britain's urban landscape is just as freighted with myth and mystery as its castles and ancient monuments and [Rees] proves it by unearthing a treasure trove of riveting stories.' - Sunday Times, Best Books of the Year, 2020 ----- There is... -
God: An Anatomy by Francesca Stavrakopoulou
RRP: £25.00£18.62Winner of The PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022Shortlisted for The Wolfson History Prize 2022A The Times Books of the Year 2022Three thousand years ago, in the Southwest Asian lands we now call Israel and Palestine, a group of people worshipped a complex... -
Skyscrapers: A History of the World's Most Extraordinary Buildings - Revised and Updated by Judith Dupre
£29.77Now, bigger than ever, this long-awaited revised edition of Judith?Dupr?'s best-selling Skyscrapers is a giant celebration of today's most significant superstructures. It features an all-new design with full-color photographs, 10 new buildings, and... -
Pakistan: Origins, Identity and Future by Pervez Hoodbhoy
RRP: £41.99£36.75This book is an accessible, comprehensive, and nuanced history of Pakistan. It reflects upon state and society in Pakistan and shows they have been shaped by historical forces and personae. Hoodbhoy expertly maps the journey of the region from many... -
The Afrikaners: A Concise History by Hermann Giliomee 9780624089896
RRP: £15.99£13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780624089896Author Hermann GiliomeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Tafelberg Publishers LtdPublisher Tafelberg Publishers LtdWeight(grams)... -
Access to History: Italy: The Rise of Fascism 1896-1946 Fifth Edition by Mark Robson
£25.21Exam board: AQA; Pearson Edexcel; OCRLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level)Put your trust in the textbook series that has given thousands of A-level History students deeper... -
Lucifer'S Court: A Heretic's Journey in Search of the Light Bringers by Otto Rahn
RRP: £14.99£11.80Otto Rahn's lifelong search for the Grail brought him to the attention of the SS leader Himmler, who shared his esoteric interests. Induced by Himmler to become the chief investigator of the occult for the Nazis, Rahn traveled throughout Europe--from... -
The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey by Tim Hannigan
RRP: £27.99£20.01Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year Award A fascinating, lyrical account of an east-west walk across Britain's westernmost and most mysterious region. A distant and exotic Celtic land, domain of tin-miners, pirates,... -
Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture by Bruce Pascoe 9781911344780
RRP: £12.99£8.56History has portrayed Australia's First Peoples, the Aboriginals, as hunter-gatherers who lived on an empty, uncultivated land. History is wrong. In this seminal book, Bruce Pascoe uncovers evidence that long before the arrival of white men,... -
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
RRP: £14.99£10.95Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot. Call if what you like, it matters now more than ever. In The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that financial history is the back-story to all history.From the banking dynasty who funded the Italian Renaissance to the... -
Thin Places by Kerri ni Dochartaigh
RRP: £10.99£7.32SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING - HIGHLY COMMENDED'Remarkable' Robert Macfarlane'Beautiful' Amy Liptrot'Powerful, unflinching . . . Part hymn to nature, part Troubles memoir' GuardianKerri ni Dochartaigh was born in Derry at the... -
The Fetterman Massacre by Dee Brown 9780803257306
RRP: £16.99£12.17The Fetterman Massacre occurred on December 21, 1866, at Fort Phil Kearny, a small outpost in the foothills of the Big Horns. The second battle in American history from which came no survivors, it became a cause celebre and was the subject of a... -
Most Secret War by R.V. Jones
RRP: £16.99£12.28Reginald Jones was nothing less than a genius. And his appointment to the Intelligence Section of Britain's Air Ministry in 1939 led to some of the most astonishing scientific and technological breakthroughs of the Second World War.In Most Secret War he... -
Empire of Lies by Paul Craig Roberts 9788793987494
RRP: £18.95£17.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788793987494Author Paul Craig RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Korsgaard PublishingPublisher Korsgaard PublishingWeight(grams)... -
The Operator: The Seal Team Operative And The Mission That Changed The World by Robert O'Neill 9781471148156
RRP: £9.99£6.41'A riveting, unvarnished and wholly unforgettable portrait of America's most storied commandos at war.' - Joby Warrick, author of Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction A stirringly evocative,... -
On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar by Clare Hammond 9780241623893
RRP: £25.00£17.62'On the Shadow Tracks harnesses the railway lines of Myanmar’s complicated past to its turbulent present, and the result is part travelogue, part history and completely absorbing. An astonishing achievement’Joanna LumleyIn 2016, while working as a... -
Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict by Norman G. Finkelstein
RRP: £21.99£21.89First published in 1995, this acclaimed study challenges generally accepted truths of the Israel-Palestine conflict as well as much of the revisionist literature. This new edition critically reexamines dominant popular and scholarly images in the light... -
The Crystal Palace by Patrick Beaver 9781860771989
RRP: £20.00£15.44The Crystal Palace was built in Hyde Park to house the treasures of the world for the Great Exhibition of 1851. It became a microcosm of Victorian life, industry and leisure, reflecting every aspect of its age. Designed by Joseph Paxton as a temporary... -
A Concise History of Finland by David Kirby
RRP: £22.99£19.15Few countries in Europe have undergone such rapid social, political and economic changes as Finland has during the last fifty years. David Kirby here sets out the fascinating history of this northern country, for centuries on the east-west divide of... -
The Fourth Sacrifice: A hold-your-heart hunt for a horrifying truth (China Thriller 2) by Peter May
RRP: £10.99£5.47THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LEWIS TRILOGY AND THE ENZO FILESAWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021'Peter May is one of the most accomplished novelists writing today.' Undiscovered Scotland 'No one can create a more... -
An Utterly Impartial History of Britain: (or 2000 Years Of Upper Class Idiots In Charge) by John O'Farrell
RRP: £10.99£7.77Many of us were put off history by the dry and dreary way it was taught at school. Back then 'The Origins of the Industrial Revolution' somehow seemed less compelling than the chance to test the bold claim on Timothy Johnson's 'Shatterproof' ruler.But... -
100 Tricks to Appear Smart In Meetings by Sarah Cooper
RRP: £10.00£7.12Discover the perfect work companion from viral tik tok and Netflix star Sarah Cooper The book that's missing from offices and Zoom calls around the world: the idiot's guide to conquering the corporate meeting. In it you will learn the essential subtle... -
The Punishment of Gaza by Gideon Levy
£16.65Israel's 2009 invasion of Gaza was an act of aggression that killed over a thousand Palestinians and devastated the infrastructure of an already impoverished enclave. The Punishment of Gaza shows how the ground was prepared for the assault and documents... -
The Jungle War Against the Japanese: Ensanguined Asia, 1941-1945 by Tim Heath
RRP: £19.99£14.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526759863Author Tim HeathFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Pen and Sword HistoryPublisher Pen and Sword HistoryWeight(grams) 152g -
Lighthouse by Tony Parker 9780907871583
RRP: £14.99£9.80An extraordinary collection of interviews with lighthouse keepers and their families, in their own words - a record of a vanished profession and a vanished Britain of the 1970s. Described by William Golding as "one of the most fascinating social... -
Gladius: Living, Fighting and Dying in the Roman Army by Guy de la Bedoyere
RRP: £14.99£9.80The Roman army was the greatest fighting machine the ancient world produced. The Roman Empire depended on soldiers not just to win its wars, defend its frontiers and control the seas but also to act as the engine of the state. Roman legionaries and... -
News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
RRP: £9.99£7.11Gabriel Garcia Marquez's News of a Kidnapping is a powerful retelling of actual events from a turbulent period of Colombian history. 'She looked over her shoulder before getting into the car to be sure no one was following her'Pablo Escobar: billionaire... -
Juve! by Herbie Sykes
RRP: £12.99£9.09The definitive history of the iconic football club: the glory, the scandal, the stars and its enduring influence on Italian life.Juventus utterly dominates the Italian game. Home to some of the biggest names in sport, it has won title after title, trophy... -
The Nautical Puzzle Book by The National Maritime Museum
RRP: £18.99£13.15__________Available now: the biggest and best quiz book about the deep blue!__________Think you know the difference between a ship and a boat? Do you really understand the shipping forecast? And what do all the different flags at sea mean?The Nautical... -
The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz
RRP: £12.99£9.09Written in Paris in the early 1950s, this book created instant controversy in its analysis of modern society that had allowed itself to be hypnotized by socio-political doctrines, and to accept totalitarian terror on the strength of a hypothetical future... -
Figuring by Maria Popova
RRP: £14.99£9.80Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries - beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of... -
Letters of Note: Dogs by Shaun Usher
RRP: £7.99£5.46In Letters of Note: Dogs, Shaun Usher brings together a delightful collection of correspondence about our canine friends, featuring affectionate accounts of pups' playful misdemeanours, heartfelt tributes to loyal fidos and shared tales of remarkable... -
Olwibulo Lwa Lwande Wesonga by Elizabeth Masiga Kakembo 9780995599819
RRP: £45.00£39.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995599819Author Elizabeth Masiga KakemboFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Lwande BooksPublisher Lwande BooksWeight(grams) 472g