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Fingerprints Of The Gods by Graham Hancock
RRP: £22.99£17.28THE MULTI-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING SENSATION THAT TURNED HISTORY ON ITS HEAD, FROM THE CREATOR OF NETFLIX'S ANCIENT APOCALYPSE 'One of the intellectual landmarks of the decade' Literary Review'Readers will hugely enjoy their quest in these pages of... -
Conversations of Socrates by Xenophon
RRP: £12.99£9.34After the execution of Socrates in 399 BC, a number of his followers wrote dialogues featuring him as the protagonist and, in so doing, transformed the great philosopher into a legendary figure. Xenophon's portrait is the only one other than Plato's to... -
What Is History, Now? by Suzannah Lipscomb 9781474622479
RRP: £10.99£7.30This groundbreaking new collection addresses the burning issue of how we interpret history today. What stories are told, and by whom, who should be celebrated, and what rewritten, are questions that have been asked recently not just within the history... -
The House By The Thames: And The People Who Lived There by Gillian Tindall
RRP: £12.99£9.34Just across the River Thames from St Paul's Cathedral stands an old and elegant house. Over the course of almost 450 years the dwelling on this site has witnessed many changes. From its windows, people have watched the ferrymen carry Londoners to and... -
In Defence of Witches: Why women are still on trial by Mona Chollet
RRP: £10.99£7.76'Intriguing' - Sunday Times'A rousing read' - Irish Times'A bright light of Francophone feminism' - New York TimesRenowned journalist Mona Chollet recasts the witch as a powerful role model: an emblem of strength, free to exist beyond the narrow limits... -
Semicolon: How a misunderstood punctuation mark can improve your writing, enrich your reading and even change your life by Cecelia Watson
RRP: £8.99£6.27'Fascinating... I loved this book; I really did' David Crystal, Spectator A biography of a much misunderstood punctuation mark and a call to arms in favour of clear expression and against stifling... -
Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe
RRP: £14.99£10.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914198144Author Christina SharpeFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books -
Assume Nothing: Encounters with Assassins, Spies, Presidents, and Would-Be Masters of the Universe by Edward Jay Epstein
RRP: £26.99£18.38Curiosity led Edward Epstein to investigate some of the greatest political mysteries of our time, such as the JFK assassination in Dallas, the Vatican banking scandal in Rome, and the diamond cartel in South Africa. Seeking more information, he often... -
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi 9781529114676
RRP: £10.99£8.02*THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*Four Hundred Souls is an epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, told by ninety leading Black voices -- co-curated by Ibram X. Kendi, author of the million-copy bestseller How To... -
Between the Wars: 1919-1939 by Philip Ziegler
RRP: £12.99£9.34At the end of 1918 one prescient American historian began to write a history of the Great War. "What will you call it?" he was asked. "The First World War," was his bleak response.In Between the Wars Philip Ziegler examines the major international... -
Calm the F**k Down by Sarah Knight
RRP: £16.99£10.70The latest no-f**ks-given guide from July 2017 New York Times bestselling author of the international sensation The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k, Get Your Sh*t Together, and You Do YouDo you waste time overthinking things you can't do... -
In the Land of the Cyclops: Essays by Karl Ove Knausgaard
RRP: £10.99£8.02A brilliantly wide-ranging essay collection from the author of My Struggle, spanning literature, philosophy, art and how our daily and creative lives intertwine.In the Land of the Cyclops is Karl Ove Knausgaard's first collection of essays to be... -
The Faber Book of Reportage by John Carey
RRP: £19.99£13.85***FEATURED ON BBC 2's BETWEEN THE COVERS WITH SARA COX***The Faber Book of Reportage is John Carey's remarkable collection of eyewitness accounts that draws on the voices and emotions of the people who experienced some of history's most memorable events... -
Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004-2021 by Margaret Atwood
RRP: £20.00£14.69In this funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient collection of essays cultural icon Margaret Atwood asks:- Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories?- How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating?- How can we... -
The Second Plane: September 11, 2001-2007 by Martin Amis
RRP: £10.99£8.02Martin Amis first wrote about September 11 a week later in a piece for The Guardian beginning, 'It was the advent of the second plane, sharking in low over the Statue of Liberty: that was the defining moment.' He has kept returning to September 11, in... -
History as Mystery by Michael Parenti 9780872863576
RRP: £15.99£11.04In a lively challenge to mainstream history, Michael Parenti does battle with a number of mass-marketed historical myths. He shows how history's victors distort and suppress the documentary record in order to perpetuate their power and privilege. And he... -
Thoughts From the Ice-Drinker's Studio: Essays on China and the World by Liang Qichao 9780241568781
RRP: £12.99£9.34'China's first iconic modern intellectual. His lucid and prolific writings, touching on all major concerns in his own time and anticipating many in the future, inspired several generations of thinkers' Pankaj Mishra'A country does not become corrupt and... -
Wild Garden by William Robinson
RRP: £28.00£18.27First published in 1870, The Wild Garden challenged the prevailing garden style of the day and advocated a naturalistic style, in which hardy plants, both native and exotic, are arranged in groupings that mimic wild landscapes. Thanks to Robinson's... -
City of Lions by Jozef Wittlin
RRP: £12.99£9.34Lviv, Lwow, Lvov, Lemberg. Known by a variety of names, the City of Lions is now in western Ukraine. Situated in different countries during its history, it is a city located along the fault-lines of Europe's history. City of Lions presents two essays,... -
Romaine Wasn't Built in a Day: The Delightful History of Food Language by Judith Tschann
RRP: £18.99£12.12'A splendid book . . . anyone who eats food and/or likes words will gain hours of innocent pleasure from this veritable feast of fun.' - Daily MailPerfect for readers of Susie Dent and Mark Forsyth, and fans of QI. All food has a story, reaching as far... -
Selected Letters by Horace Walpole
RRP: £16.99£12.68Author of the first gothic novel and son of the first prime minister of Great Britain, Horace Walpole had wide-ranging interests that included literature, politics, world affairs, collecting, antiquities, and architecture, and to his numerous... -
The Lion Sleeps Tonight by Rian Malan
RRP: £9.99£7.36For Rian Malan, the blessing of living in South Africa is that every day presents him with material whose richness astounds those who live in saner places. Twenty years after the publication of his bestseller My Traitor's Heart, he is still strongly... -
Mud Sweeter than Honey: Voices of Communist Albania by Margo Rejmer
RRP: £12.99£8.43"[An] incredibly moving collection of oral histories . . . important enough to be added to the history curriculum" Telegraph"Essential reading" History Today"A moving evocation . . . An illuminating if harrowing insight into life in a totalitarian state... -
Too Much by Rachel Vorona Cote
RRP: £20.00£12.69Lacing cultural criticism, Victorian literature, and storytelling together, Too Much explores how culture corsets women's bodies, souls, and sexualities - and how we might finally undo the strings.Written in the tradition of Shrill, Dead Girls, Sex... -
Death Across Oceans: Archaeology of Coffins and Vaults in Britain, America, and Australia by Harold Mytum 9781944466152
RRP: £35.00£27.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944466152Author Harold MytumFormat HardbackPage Count 326Imprint Smithsonian Institution Scholarly PressPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 1g -
Late Antiquity: A Very Short Introduction by Gillian Clark
RRP: £8.99£6.70Late antiquity: decline or transformation, conflict or interaction? Late antiquity is the period (c.300 - c.800) in which barbarian invasions ended Roman Empire in Western Europe by the fifth century and Arab invasions ended Roman rule over the... -
Cursed Objects by J. W. Ocker
RRP: £17.99£12.18They re lurking in museums, graveyards, and private homes around the world. Their stories have inspired countless horror movies, reality TV shows, campfire tales, books, and even chain emails. They re cursed objects, and in order to unleash a wave of... -
Imagining Reality by Kevin MacDonald
RRP: £14.99£10.95In Imaging Reality: The Faber Book of Documentary, Oscar-winning documentary-maker Kevin Macdonald (One Day in September, Touching the Void) and leading broadcaster/historian Mark Cousins (The Story of Film) offer an expanded, revised edition of their... -
Titans of History: The Giants Who Made Our World by Simon Sebag Montefiore
RRP: £14.99£9.57NEW 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... -
Mud Sweeter than Honey: Voices of Communist Albania by Margo Rejmer 9781529411461
RRP: £18.99£12.12"[An] incredibly moving collection of oral histories . . . important enough to be added to the history curriculum" Telegraph"A moving evocation of the 'everyday terror' systematically perpetrated over 41 years of Albanian communism . . . An illuminating... -
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari 9780062464316
RRP: £37.50£15.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062464316Author Yuval Noah HarariFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 1161gDimensions(mm)... -
In Defence of the Terror: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution by Sophie Wahnich
RRP: £12.99£11.31For two hundred years after the French Revolution, the Republican tradition celebrated the execution of princes and aristocrats, defending the Terror that the Revolution inflicted upon on its enemies. But recent decades have brought a marked change in... -
Undelivered: The Never-Heard Speeches That Would Have Rewritten History by Jeff Nussbaum
RRP: £29.99£19.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250240705Author Jeff NussbaumFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Flatiron BooksPublisher Flatiron BooksWeight(grams) 562gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 165mm *... -
Mother Country: Real Stories of the Windrush Children by Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
RRP: £12.99£8.43***LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 JHALAK PRIZE***A leading new exploration of the Windrush generation featuring David Lammy, Lenny Henry, Corinne Bailey Rae, Sharmaine Lovegrove, Hannah Lowe, Jamz Supernova, Natasha Gordon and Rikki Beadle-Blair.For the... -
Five Hundred Years Of Printing by S. Steinberg 9780486814452
RRP: £12.49£9.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486814452Author S. SteinbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
La Folie Baudelaire by Roberto Calasso
RRP: £12.99£9.34Roberto Calasso is one of the most original and acclaimed of writers on literature, art, culture and mythology. In Baudelaire's Folly, Calasso turns his attention to the poets and writers of Paris in the nineteenth century who created what was later... -
Encounters and Destinies: A Farewell to Europe by Stefan Zweig
RRP: £9.99£7.36Stefan Zweig was a born eulogist. In this collection of powerful elegies, homages and personal memories, Zweig forms a richly interconnected portrait of key creative figures in the European cultural diaspora up to 1939. Many of those mourned or... -
The Missing of the Somme by Geoff Dyer
RRP: £10.99£7.57The Missing of the Somme has become a classic meditation upon war and remembrance. It weaves a network of myth and memory, photos and films, poetry and sculptures, graveyards and ceremonies that illuminate our understanding of, and relationship to, the... -
The Souls of Black Folk: The Unabridged Classic by W. E. B. Dubois
RRP: £2.99£2.73One of the Most Important Books on Civil Rights, Race, and Freedom Ever Written. "A groundbreaking challenge to white supremacy." -The New York Times A classic work of American literature, African-American history, and sociology by W. E. B. Du Bois, The... -
Twelve Against the Gods: The Story of Adventure by William Bolitho
RRP: £16.99£13.13"It's really quite good." - Elon Musk Twelve Against the Gods was an instant bestseller when it first published in 1929. In his trademark journalist style, author William Bolitho details the lives of twelve great adventurers-Alexander the Great,...