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The House By The Thames: And The People Who Lived There by Gillian Tindall
RRP: £12.99£9.09Just 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... -
The Early History of Rome by Livy
RRP: £12.99£9.09'I hope my passion for Rome's past has not impaired my judgement; for I do honestly believe that no country has ever been greater or purer than ours or richer in good citizens and noble deeds'Livy dedicated most of his life to writing some 142 volumes of... -
Up the Rhondda!: A peculiar sort of hiraeth by John Geraint 9781800994874
RRP: £9.99£8.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800994874Author John GeraintFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm * 19mm -
The Letters of the Younger Pliny by Pliny the Younger
RRP: £12.99£9.09Providing a series of fascinating views of Imperial Rome, The Letters of the Younger Pliny also offer one of the fullest self-portraits to survive from classical times. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction by Betty Radice.A... -
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi
RRP: £20.00£14.69*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... -
Titans of History: The Giants Who Made Our World by Simon Sebag Montefiore
RRP: £14.99£9.32NEW 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... -
The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £33.95£28.49"To great writers," Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives." Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940, The Arcades Project... -
Late Antiquity: A Very Short Introduction by Gillian Clark
RRP: £8.99£6.45Late 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... -
The Journey Through Wales and the Description of Wales by Gerald of Wales
RRP: £12.99£9.09Scholar, churchman, diplomat and theologian, Gerald of Wales was one of the most fascinating figures of the Middle Ages and The Journey Through Wales describes his eventful tour of the country as a missionary in 1188. In a style reminiscent of a diary,... -
Imagining Reality by Kevin MacDonald
RRP: £14.99£9.80In 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... -
Political Speeches by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Two things alone I long for: first, that when I die I may leave the Roman people free...and second, that each person's fate may reflect the way he has behaved towards his country.' Cicero (106-43 BC) was the greatest orator of the ancient world and a... -
Rural Rides by William Cobbett
RRP: £12.99£9.09Travelling on horseback through southern England in the early 19th century, William Cobbett provides evocative and accurate descriptions of the countryside, colourful accounts of his encounters with labourers, and indignant outbursts at the encroaching... -
Works: v. 3: The Jewish War, Bks.III-IV by Flavius Josephus
RRP: £24.95£22.92Greco-Roman antiquity's premier Jewish historian.Josephus, soldier, statesman, historian, was a Jew born at Jerusalem about AD 37. A man of high descent, he early became learned in Jewish law and Greek literature and was a Pharisee. After pleading in... -
The Treasure of the City of Ladies: Or the Book of the Three Virtues by Christine
RRP: £12.99£9.09Written by Europe's first professional woman writer, The Treasure of the City of Ladies offers advice and guidance to women of all ages and from all levels of medieval society, from royal courtiers to prostitutes. It paints an intricate picture of daily... -
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... -
The Roman History: The Reign of Augustus by Cassius Cocceianus Dio
RRP: £12.99£9.09Augustus Caesar, the first emperor of Rome (27 BC-AD 14), brought peace and prosperity to his city after decades of savage civil war. This selection from Cassius Dio's Roman History gives the fullest description of that long struggle and ultimate triumph... -
How Carrots Won the Trojan War: Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables by Rebecca Rupp 9781603429689
RRP: £13.99£8.75Discover why Roman gladiators were massaged with onion juice before battle, how celery contributed to Casanova's conquests, how peas almost poisoned General Washington, and why some seventeenth-century turnips were considered degenerate. Rebecca Rupp... -
Bram Stoker And The Man Who Was Dracula by Barbara Belford 9780306810985
£20.19"What a splendid subject to sink one's teeth into," raved the Washington Post . Here was a six-foot-two Irishman with a red beard,a Victorian family man, a spirited debater, and the author of novels and short stories largely forgotten today. All, of... -
Democracy in America: And Two Essays on America by Alexis Tocqueville
RRP: £14.99£11.35One of the most influential political texts ever written on America, and an indispensable authority on the nature of democracy In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and civil servant, made a nine-month journey through eastern America... -
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... -
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf
RRP: £8.99£6.45'Intellectual freedom depends on material things. Poetry depends on intellectual freedom. And women have always been poor...' In these two classic essays of feminist literature, Woolf argues passionately for women's intellectual freedom and their role... -
Complete Letters by Pliny the Younger
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Gaius Pliny sends greetings to his friend Septicius Clarus...' In these letters to his friends and relations, Pliny provides a fascinating insight into Roman life in the period 97 to 112 AD. Part autobiography, part social history, they document the... -
The Souls of Black Folk: The Unabridged Classic by W. E. B. Dubois
£3.96One 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... -
A Viceroy's Vindication: Sir Henry Sidney's Memoir, 1583 by Sir Henry Sidney 9781859181805
RRP: £9.00£7.41Three times viceroy, Sir Henry Sidney was a key figure in the Elizabethan conquest of Ireland. This is Sidney's own account of his career in Ireland, last published in the mid-19th century.Book InformationISBN 9781859181805Author Sir Henry SidneyFormat... -
Fall of the Roman Republic by Plutarch
RRP: £12.99£9.09Dramatic artist, natural scientist and philosopher, Plutarch is widely regarded as the most significant historian of his era, writing sharp and succinct accounts of the greatest politicians and statesman of the classical period. Taken from the Lives, a... -
The Great Fire of London by Samuel Pepys
RRP: £3.00£2.49'With one's face in the wind you were almost burned with a shower of Firedrops'A selection from Pepys' startlingly vivid and candid diary, including his famous account of the Great FireIntroducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th... -
Hemingway on War by Ernest Hemingway 9780099583189
RRP: £12.99£9.09'The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one.' - Ernest HemingwayA unique and captivating collection of Hemingway's writings on war, including extracts from his unparalleled war novels, some classic short stories, an extract from his only... -
An Ethnic At Large: A Memoir of America in the Thirties and Forties by Jerre Mangione 9780815607168
RRP: £8.95£8.18This work begins with a boy named Geraldo growing up Sicilian in Rochester, New York, and ends with the author breakfasting with Eleanor Roosevelt in the White House. It is a portrait of what it was like to come of age in the 1930s and 1940s.Book... -
The Rise of Rome: Books One to Five by Livy
RRP: £10.99£7.77`the fates ordained the founding of this great city and the beginning of the world's mightiest empire, second only to the power of the gods' Romulus and Remus, the rape of Lucretia, Horatius at the bridge, the saga of Coriolanus, Cincinnatus called... -
Mother Country: Real Stories of the Windrush Children by Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
RRP: £12.99£8.18***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... -
Encounters and Destinies: A Farewell to Europe by Stefan Zweig
RRP: £9.99£6.70Stefan 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... -
Cultures of London: Legacies of Migration by Charlotte Grant 9781350242012
RRP: £19.99£17.61From its origin as the Roman city of Londinium through to its latest incarnation as a super-diverse World City in the twenty-first century, London's history and culture has been shaped by migration. This book expresses and celebrates the plurality of the... -
La Folie Baudelaire by Roberto Calasso
RRP: £12.99£9.09Roberto 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... -
The Second Plane: September 11, 2001-2007 by Martin Amis
RRP: £10.99£7.77Martin 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... -
The Annals by Cornelius Tacitus 9780872205581
RRP: £20.99£17.24A.J. Woodman's translation combines accuracy and Tacitean invention, masterfully conveying Tacitus' distinctive and powerful manner of expression, and reflecting the best of current scholarship. An introductory essay discusses Tacitus' career, the period... -
Heroes of Postman's Park: Heroic Self-Sacrifice in Victorian London by Dr. John Price
RRP: £16.99£12.64The Watts Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice in Postman's Park, London, is a Victorian monument containing fifty-four ceramic plaques commemorating sixty-two individuals, each of whom lost their own life while attempting to save another. Every plaque... -
Their Darkest Hour: People Tested to the Extreme in WWII by Laurence Rees
RRP: £10.99£7.77How could Nazi killers shoot Jewish women and children at close range? Why did Japanese soldiers rape and murder on such a horrendous scale? How was it possible to endure the torment of a Nazi death camp?Award-winning documentary maker and historian... -
Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America by Alma Guillermoprieto 9780375725821
RRP: £22.00£16.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375725821Author Alma GuillermoprietoFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 288gDimensions(mm)... -
Histories by Herodotus 9781857152340
RRP: £20.00£14.69Traditionally known as the Father of History, the Greek writer Herodotus(c. 484-420 BC), was the first man to tell a story in prose on the scale of the ILIAD and the ODYSSEY. His subject is the war between the Persians and the Greeks but, in order to...