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Henry the Young King, 1155-1183 by Matthew Strickland
RRP: £16.99£15.01This first modern study of Henry the Young King, eldest son of Henry II but the least known Plantagenet monarch, explores the brief but eventful life of the only English ruler after the Norman Conquest to be created co-ruler in his father's lifetime... -
The Kings and Queens of Britain by John Cannon
RRP: £13.99£10.84This authoritative and accessible guide to the British monarchy spans the Romano-British rulers of 55 BC to the present day House of Windsor. Generously illustrated with maps, photos, paintings, and genealogies, it contains a wealth of information on the... -
Gorbachev: The Man and His Era by Prof. William Taubman 9781471147951 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£4.74SHORTLISTED FOR THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZEFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and his Era, the most comprehensive portrait of the former Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on 30 August 2022.'A phenomenally researched... -
Gorbachev: The Man and His Era by Prof. William Taubman 9781471147951
RRP: £16.99£11.08SHORTLISTED FOR THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZEFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and his Era, the most comprehensive portrait of the former Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on 30 August 2022.'A phenomenally researched... -
A Woman in Arabia: The Writings of the Queen of the Desert by Gertrude Bell
RRP: £9.99£7.32The writings of one of the great woman adventurers of the twentieth century - the 'female Lawrence of Arabia' - and the subject of a new film starring Nicole Kidman.In the last century, few people lived more astounding - or influential - lives than... -
The Writings of Teresa de Cartagena by Dayle Seidenspinner-Nunez 9780859914468
RRP: £19.99£15.11Translation, with full explanatory notes, of the two works of Teresa de Cartagena, the fifteenth-century Spanish nun. This affordable, engaging and important translation of Teresa de Cartagena's works significantly expands and enriches the current... -
Enlightened Eclecticism: The Grand Design of the 1st Duke and Duchess of Northumberland Adriano Aymonino 9781913107178
RRP: £50.00£41.98A 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... -
The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York Anne de Courcy 9781474601450
RRP: £10.99£7.61Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel of power, privilege and breeding in which the titled, land-owning governing class had barricaded itself for so... -
Statesman of Europe: A Life of Sir Edward Grey by T. G. Otte 9780241413364 [USED COPY]
RRP: £35.00£15.64A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our life-time.' The words of Sir Edward Grey, looking out from the windows of the Foreign Office in early August 1914, are amongst the most... -
Against the Ice by Ejnar Mikkelson
RRP: £13.99£9.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586423346Author Ejnar MikkelsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Steerforth PressPublisher Steerforth Press -
Greek Lives by Plutarch
RRP: £10.99£7.99Lycurgus, Pericles, Solon, Nicias, Themistocles, Alcibiades, Cimon, Agesilaus, Alexander `I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them: I receive... -
The Maggie Greville Story by Pam Burbidge
RRP: £12.99£9.34Maggie Greville lived in obscurity, until her father William McEwan changed everything. He was a self-made man, controller, and philanthropist, who staged the rise of Maggie A to Maggie G. Power, money, and tutoring created the new modern emancipated... -
Saladin: The Triumph of the Sunni Revival by Abdul Rahman Azzam 9781903682876
RRP: £19.99£14.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903682876Author Abdul Rahman AzzamFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint The Islamic Texts SocietyPublisher The Islamic Texts SocietyWeight(grams) 435g -
Miss Savidge Moves Her House: The Extraordinary Story of May Savidge and her House of a Lifetime Christine Adams 9781845135188
RRP: £11.99£8.22' This story will appeal to those who still believe that an Englishman' s home is his castle, and to those who have a soft spot for indomitable old women' Daily Telegraph The hardback edition of this book, published... -
The Grit in the Pearl: The Scandalous Life of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll by Lyndsy Spence
RRP: £9.99£7.77The shocking true story behind A Very British Scandal, starring Claire Foy and Paul Bettany Margaret, Duchess of Argyll's life was one of complexity and controversy. Born Ethel Margaret Whigham, the only child of a Scottish self-made millionaire and a... -
Genghis Khan's Greatest General: Subotai the Valiant by Richard A Gabriel 9780806137346
RRP: £18.95£11.64This book tells the story of Subotai the Valiant, a warrior for Genghis Khan and one of the greatest generals in military history. Subotai commanded armies whose size, scale, and scope of operations surpassed those led by any other commander in the... -
Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: Winston Churchill's Famous Speeches by Winston Churchill
RRP: £12.99£9.34The most eloquent and expressive statesman of his time - phrases such as 'iron curtain', 'business as usual', 'the few', and 'summit meeting' passed quickly into everyday use - Winston Churchill used language as his most powerful weapon at a time when... -
Titans of History: The Giants Who Made Our World Simon Sebag Montefiore 9781474606462
RRP: £14.99£8.64NEW EDITION - FEATURING UPDATED INTRODUCTION AND NEW CHAPTERS The giant characters of history - from Mozart to Michelangelo, Shakespeare to Einstein, Henry VIII to Hitler, Catherine the Great to Margaret Thatcher, Jesus Christ to Genghis Khan - lived... -
Rachmaninoff: The Last of the Great Romantics by Michael Scott
RRP: £12.99£11.01The musical child of Russia's golden age, Sergei Rachmaninoff, was the last of the great Romantics. Scorned by the musical establishment until very recently, his music received hostile reviews from critics and other composers. Conversely, it never failed... -
The Nine Lives of John Ogilby: Britain's Master Map Maker and His Secrets by Alan Ereira
RRP: £12.99£8.87Four hundred years ago, every barrister had to dance because dancing put them in harmony with the universe. John Ogilby's first job, in 1612, was to teach them. By the 1670s, he was Charles II's Royal Cosmographer, creating beautiful measured drawings... -
Henry VIII by J. J. Scarisbrick 9780300071580
RRP: £25.00£21.92Henry VIII's forceful personality dominated his age and continues to fascinate our own. In few other reigns have there been developments of such magnitude-in politics, foreign relations, religion, and society-that have so radically affected succeeding... -
Captain Cook by Alistair MacLean
RRP: £9.99£6.84On the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook's successful navigation to the coast of Australia, this is Alistair MacLean's absorbing story of one of Britain's great national heroes, from his obscure beginnings to his sudden and violent death at the age of... -
Wolfram: The Boy Who Went to War by Giles Milton
RRP: £10.99£7.61The Aichele family were decent, cultured, peace-loving Germans trying their hardest not to get swept up in the madness of Hitler's Third Reich. But by the time war came, for civilians on all sides, there was nowhere left to hide.The conflict took... -
Sitting Bull: His Life and Legacy Earnie LaPointe 9781423657989
RRP: £12.99£8.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423657989Author Earnie LaPointeFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Gibbs M. Smith IncPublisher Gibbs M. Smith Inc -
The Mystery of Olga Chekhova: A Life Torn Apart By Revolution And War by Antony Beevor
RRP: £12.99£9.34'An extraordinary drama of exile and espionage' Boyd Tonkin, Independent'Compelling . . . as engaging a read as Stalingrad and Berlin' Guardian______________Olga Chekhova was the niece of playwright Anton Chekhov and a Russian beauty. She was also a... -
The Good Sharps: The Eighteenth-Century Family that Changed Britain Hester Grant 9781784707224
RRP: £10.99£7.99The enthralling story of an eighteenth-century family and their extraordinary achievements.Four brothers, three sisters. Brought up in a Northumberland rectory and in the close of Durham Cathedral, the Sharps would achieve exalted positions at the heart... -
Devices and Desires: Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England by Kate Hubbard
RRP: £12.99£9.34'The definitive biography' Roy StrongThe remarkable story of Bess of Hardwick, her ascent through Elizabethan society and the houses she built that shaped British architectural history.Born in 1521, Bess of Hardwick, businesswoman, money-lender and... -
John (Penguin Monarchs): An Evil King? by Nicholas Vincent 9780141977690
RRP: £14.99£10.95King John ruled England for seventeen and a half years, yet his entire reign is usually reduced to one image: of the villainous monarch outmanoeuvred by rebellious barons into agreeing to Magna Carta at Runnymede in 1215. Ever since, John has come to be... -
Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck by William Souder
RRP: £17.99£14.18This first full-length biography of the Nobel Laureate to appear in a quarter century explores John Steinbeck's long apprenticeship as a writer struggling through the depths of the Great Depression, and his rise to greatness with masterpieces such as The... -
Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks 9780715652763 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£5.07As liberty and truth are increasingly challenged, the figures of Churchill and Orwell loom large. Exemplars of Britishness, they preserved individual freedom and democracy for the world through their far-sighted vision and inspired action, and cast a... -
Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks
RRP: £12.99£8.87As liberty and truth are increasingly challenged, the figures of Churchill and Orwell loom large. Exemplars of Britishness, they preserved individual freedom and democracy for the world through their far-sighted vision and inspired action, and cast a... -
My Life and Work: An Autobiography of Henry Ford by Henry Ford 9780979311987
RRP: £9.98£7.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979311987Author Henry FordFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint WWW.Therichestmaninbabylon.OrgPublisher WWW.Therichestmaninbabylon.OrgWeight(grams) 290g -
Shakespearean: On Life & Language in Times of Disruption by Robert McCrum
RRP: £12.99£9.34'Enchanting' - Simon Russell Beale 'Remarkable' - James Shapiro'Wonderful . . . compulsively readable' - Nicholas HytnerWhy do the collected works of an Elizabethan writer continue to speak to us as if they were written yesterday?When Robert McCrum began... -
Jungle Soldier: The true story of Freddy Spencer Chapman Brian Moynahan 9781849162081
RRP: £12.99£8.83Arctic explorer, survival expert and naturalist Freddy Spencer Chapman was trapped behind enemy lines when the Japanese overran Malaya in 1942. His response was to begin a commando campaign of such lethal effectiveness that the Japanese deployed an... -
Lime Street at Two by Helen Forrester
RRP: £9.99£6.84The fourth and final part of Helen Forrester's bestselling autobiography continues the moving story of her early poverty-stricken life with an account of the war years in Blitz-torn Liverpool In 1940 Helen, now twenty, is working long hours at... -
The Dream of Rome by Boris Johnson
RRP: £9.99£6.84Focussing on how the Romans made Europe work as a homogenous civilisation and looking at why we are failing to make the EU work in modern times, this is an authoritative and amusing study from bestselling author Boris Johnson. In addition to... -
Secrets and Lies: The Trials of Christine Keeler by Christine Keeler 9781789461374 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£2.13In her own words, the life of the beautiful young model and dancer who helped to bring down the Tory government of Harold Macmillan - the 'Profumo Affair' remains the greatest political sex scandal in recent British history.Following Christine Keeler's... -
Secrets and Lies: The Trials of Christine Keeler by Christine Keeler
RRP: £8.99£6.42In her own words, the life of the beautiful young model and dancer who helped to bring down the Tory government of Harold Macmillan - the 'Profumo Affair' remains the greatest political sex scandal in recent British history.Following Christine Keeler's... -
The Bend for Home by Dermot Healy
RRP: £10.99£7.60One day, years after he's moved away from his childhood home in rural Ireland, Dermot Healy returns to care for his ailing mother. Out of the blue she hands him the forgotten diary he had kept as a fifteen-year-old. He is amazed to find the makings of... -
Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution by Yehudah Mirsky 9780300248579
RRP: £15.99£13.82The life and thought of a forceful figure in Israel's religious and political life Rav Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935) was one of the most influential-and controversial-rabbis of the twentieth century. A visionary writer and outstanding rabbinic leader,...