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The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster by Helen Carr
RRP: £10.99£7.12War, revolution, treason and love - the thrilling tale of Sir John of Gaunt brought to life by medieval history's rising star. 'The Red Prince announces Helen Carr as one of the most exciting new voices in narrative history.' Dan Jones Son of... -
The Woman Who Shot Mussolini by Frances Stonor Saunders 9780571239795
RRP: £14.99£9.80A gripping account of the life and fate of the woman who almost assassinated Benito Mussolini. 7 April 1926: on the steps of the Capitol in Rome, surrounded by chanting Fascists, The Honourable Violet Gibson raises her old revolver and fires at the... -
The Last Man on the Moon by Eugene A. Cernan
£13.30Eugene Cernan is a unique American who came of age as an astronaut during the most exciting and dangerous decade of spaceflight. His career spanned the entire Gemini and Apollo programs, from being the first person to spacewalk all the way around our... -
Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum by Kathryn Hughes
RRP: £14.99£9.70'Victorians Undone is the most original history book I have read in a long while' Daily Mail A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR * AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR A groundbreaking account of what it... -
Saga Land: The Island Stories at the Edge of the World by Richard Fidler
RRP: £12.99£8.88'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 before ...Broadcaster Richard Fidler and author Kari... -
In The Garden of Beasts: Love and terror in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson
RRP: £12.99£9.09'A compelling tale... a narrative that makes such a brave effort to see history as it evolves and not as it becomes.' SPECTATORSuffused with the tense atmosphere of the times, and with brilliant portraits of Hitler, Goebbels, Goering and Himmler amongst... -
Red: A Natural History of the Redhead by Jacky Colliss Harvey
RRP: £16.99£11.58A New York Times bestseller, Red is the first book to explore the history of red hair and red-headedness throughout the world.With an obsessive fascination that is as contagious as it is compelling, Jacky Colliss Harvey explores red hair in the ancient... -
Crown of Thorns: The Reign of King Boris III of Bulgaria, 1918-1943 by Stephane Groueff 9781568331140
RRP: £25.00£18.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568331140Author Stephane GroueffFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint Madison BooksPublisher Madison BooksWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 154mm... -
Oliver Cromwell (Penguin Monarchs): England's Protector by David Horspool
RRP: £7.99£5.79The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackAlthough he styled himself 'His Highness', adopted the court ritual of his royal predecessors, and lived in the former royal palaces of Whitehall... -
Brothers in the Beloved Community: The Friendship of Thich Nhat Hanh and Martin Luther King Jr. by Marc Andrus 9781952692451
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952692451Author Marc AndrusFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Parallax PressPublisher Parallax PressWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
One Party After Another: The Unruly Life of Nigel Farage by Michael Crick
RRP: £25.00£16.24'Enormously readable...excellent' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times 'A superb piece of thorough journalism' David Aaronovitch, The TimesNigel Farage is arguably one of the most influential British politicians of the 21st century. His campaign to take the... -
A Rose For Winter by Laurie Lee
RRP: £8.99£6.45Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by the Civil War, but the totems of indestructible Spain survive: the Christ in agony, the thrilling flamenco cry-the pride in poverty, the... -
Napoleon: A Brilliant Leader Who Helped Shape the Modern World - or a Brutal Tyrant? by Adam Zamoyski
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912568017Author Adam ZamoyskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
The Lunar Men: The Inventors of the Modern World 1730-1810 by Jenny Uglow
RRP: £16.99£11.58Led by Erasmus Darwin, the Lunar Society of Birmingham was formed from a group of amateur experimenters, tradesmen and artisans who met and made friends in the Midlands in the 1760s. Most came from humble families, all lived far from the centre of... -
King David: A Biography by Steven L. McKenzie 9780195132731
RRP: £33.99£30.71One of the most important and complex characters in the Bible, King David has been the subject of innumerable portraits, both artistic and literary. Michaelangelo's magnificent sculpture of him is perhaps the single best known work of art in the world,... -
Imprudent King: A New Life of Philip II by Geoffrey Parker
RRP: £18.99£16.58A vast archive of documents, unread since the sixteenth century, revises the portrait of Philip II, Spain's best-known king"A superbly informed narrative of Philip II's long career as Europe's most powerful king."-Henry Kamen, Little Reviews"This... -
The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome by Harry Sidebottom
RRP: £20.00£14.69What happens when you put the Roman Empire in the hands of a teenage boy? Discover the scandalous life and times of Rome's worst emperor. 'Buy the book; it's very entertaining.' David Aaronovitch, The Times On 8 June 218 AD, a fourteen-year-old... -
Henry VII's New Men and the Making of Tudor England by Steven Gunn
RRP: £32.49£29.81The reign of Henry VII is important but mysterious. He ended the Wars of the Roses and laid the foundations for the strong governments of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. Yet his style of rule was unconventional and at times oppressive. At the heart of his... -
Attila The Hun: Barbarian Terror and the Fall of the Roman Empire by Christopher Kelly
RRP: £15.99£11.61Attila the Hun - godless barbarian and near-mythical warrior king - has become a byword for mindless ferocity. His brutal attacks smashed through the frontiers of the Roman empire in a savage wave of death and destruction. His reign of terror shattered... -
The Anne Boleyn Papers by Elizabeth Norton
RRP: £14.99£9.70Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII, caused comment wherever she went. Through the chronicles, letters and dispatches written by both Anne and her contemporaries, it is possible to see her life and thoughts as she struggled to become queen of... -
The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective: Secrets and Lies in the Golden Age of Crime by Susannah Stapleton 9781509867325 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.29'If you are susceptible to Miss Marple and Harriet Vane you must read The Adventures of Maud West. You will never know the difference between fact and fiction again.' - Jill Paton Walsh, author of the Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane mysteries.Maud West ran her... -
The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective: Secrets and Lies in the Golden Age of Crime by Susannah Stapleton
RRP: £9.99£7.27'If you are susceptible to Miss Marple and Harriet Vane you must read The Adventures of Maud West. You will never know the difference between fact and fiction again.' - Jill Paton Walsh, author of the Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane mysteries.Maud West ran her... -
Uncommon Wrath: Caesar, Cato, and the quarrel that ended the Roman Republic by Josiah Osgood 9780192859563
RRP: £28.99£20.28A dual biography of Julius Caesar and Cato the Younger that offers a dire warning: republics collapse when personal pride overrides the common good. In Uncommon Wrath, historian Josiah Osgood tells the story of how the political rivalry between... -
Searching For Schindler: The true story behind the Booker Prize winning novel 'Schindler's Ark' by Thomas Keneally
RRP: £10.99£7.40The extraordinary tale of Oskar Schindler, the Aryan who saved hundreds of Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland, is now legendary, but as Tom Keneally reveals in this absorbing memoir, luck and the dogged persistence of one of 'Schindler's Jews' were vital in... -
The Wilder Shores Of Love by Lesley Blanch
RRP: £9.99£6.80The classic story of four nineteenth-century women who, for different reasons, gravitated to the wildness of the Middle East and North Africa."There have been many women who have followed the beckoning Eastern star" says Lesley Blanch. She writes about... -
The Serpent Queen: Now a major TV series by Leonie Frieda
RRP: £14.99£9.80NOW THE TV SERIES 'THE SERPENT QUEEN', STARRING SAMANTHA MORTONThe bestselling revisionist biography of one of the great women of the 16th centuryOrphaned in infancy, Catherine de Medici was the sole legitimate heiress to the Medici family fortune... -
Clementine Churchill by Mary Soames
RRP: £25.00£18.02When Clementine, Lady Spencer-Churchill died in 1977, aged 92, she had become a much-loved and iconic figure to the British public. In spite of being instantly recognisable as the seemingly serene, cool and detached wife of Winston Churchill, she had... -
The Stepney Doorstep Society: The remarkable true story of the women who ruled the East End through war and peace by Kate Thompson
RRP: £9.99£7.11The unsung and remarkable stories of the women who held London's East End together during not one, but two world wars.'Inspiring tales of courage in the face of hardship' Mail on Sunday'Inspiring . . . Takes you back to a time of community and helping... -
Salvator Rosa: Paint and Performance by Helen Langdon 9781789145731
RRP: £17.95£13.32Painter, poet and actor Salvator Rosa was one of the most engaging and charismatic personalities of seventeenth-century Italy. Although a gifted landscape painter, he longed to be seen as the pre-eminent philosopher-painter of his age. This new account... -
The Originals: The Secret History of the Birth of the SAS: In Their Own Words by Gordon Stevens
RRP: £15.99£11.61'We've been approached something like 25 times since the war. I kicked each out the window because they weren't going to make it with the integrity we require the story of the SAS to be told.' - Colonel Sir David Stirling, OBE, DSO, Founder of the... -
Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince by Lisa Hilton
RRP: £9.99£6.80A definitive portrait of one of the most compelling monarchs England has ever had: Elizabeth I.'We are a prince from a line of princes.'Lisa Hilton's majestic biography of Elizabeth I, 'The Virgin Queen', uses new research to present a fresh... -
Primo Levi: The Elements of a Life by Ian Thomson 9780099515210 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.99£7.28'One of the best literary biographies of the year...superb... Levi, I think, would have appreciated it' Observer Re-issued to mark the centenary of Primo Levi's birth, now featuring a new introduction from the author.Discover the definitive biography of... -
After Auschwitz: A story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister of Anne Frank by Eva Schloss
RRP: £10.99£7.40THE SUNDAY TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'A standalone classic . . . An incredible book, remarkable for its unflinching gaze at the past and also for its hope'GUARDIAN, 'Books to Give You Hope''Remarkable . . . Makes it clear just what an achievement... -
Egypt's Golden Couple: When Akhenaten and Nefertiti Were Gods on Earth by John Darnell and Colleen Darnell
RRP: £25.00£18.94Akhenaten has been the subject of radically different, even contradictory, biographies. The king has achieved fame as the world's first individual and the first monotheist, but others have seen him as an incestuous tyrant who nearly ruined the kingdom... -
Koba The Dread by Martin Amis
RRP: £12.99£9.09Koba the Dread is the successor to Amis's celebrated memoir, Experience. It addresses itself to the central lacuna of twentieth-century thought: the indulgence of communism by Western intellectuals. In between the personal beginning and the personal... -
Enlightened Eclecticism - The Grand Design of the 1st Duke and Duchess of Northumberland by Adriano Aymonino
RRP: £50.00£41.65A beautifully illustrated exploration of opulent tastes and the power of patronage in 18th-century Britain The central decades of the eighteenth century in Britain were crucial to the history of European taste and design. One of the period's most... -
Open Secret: The Autobiography of the Former Director-General of MI5 by Stella Rimington
RRP: £10.99£7.77'The story of MI5's transformation - is fascinating. So, too is Rimington's account of her rise in what was very definitely a man's world.' Guardian____________________________The eye-opening memoir from the first female Director-General of MI5Stella... -
Connected Women: Inspiring women who have shaped the world and each other by Kate Hodges
RRP: £12.99£8.60Behind every great woman... is another great woman. Here, the extraordinary achievements, relationships and secret histories of 84 pioneering women are revealed in inspirational stories which together show the indomitable strength of womankind. From... -
Queen Victoria by Elizabeth Longford
RRP: £14.99£5.46'The truth was stranger than any of the fictions that have since been offered to explain her away'Drawing upon Queen Victoria's previously unpublished journals, Elizabeth Longford's classic biography recalls the contrasts and curiosities of an earlier... -
The Song of Simon de Montfort: England's First Revolutionary by Sophie Therese Ambler 9781509837632
RRP: £12.99£8.32'Alive with human detail and acute political judgement, this book marks the arrival of a formidably gifted historian.' - Dan Jones, author of The Plantagenets and The TemplarsIt was around half-past eight in the morning, with summer rainclouds weighing...