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The Little Book of Carmarthenshire by Dr Russell Grigg
RRP: €13.08€9.82Fast-paced and fact-packed, this compendium revels in Carmarthenshire's rich heritage and what makes it special in areas such as culture, landscape, wildlife, food and sport.This whistle-stop tour through the 'Garden of Wales' covers both celebrated... -
Where's Boris? by Various
RRP: €9.51€7.04Search for Boris Johnson in this eye-boggling illustrated adventure!Greetings citizens! Can you spot Boris?In an array of crowded scenes, from zip wires and bikes to Beijing and the Bullingdon Club, search for Boris amongst the masses. Anyone for... -
The English Public School - An Irreverent and Personal History: An Irreverent and Personal History by Martin Stephen
RRP: €20.22€13.99Until his retirement in 2011, Dr Martin Stephen was High Master of St Paul's School, and before that of Manchester Grammar School, two of the most academically successful independent schools in the world, bar none. As such, he is uniquely placed to write... -
Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years by John Guy
RRP: €15.46€10.82History has pictured Elizabeth I as Gloriana, an icon of strength and power -- and has focused on the early years of her reign. But in 1583, when Elizabeth is fifty, there is relentless plotting among her courtiers -- and still to come is the Spanish... -
W. B. Yeats, A Life I: The Apprentice Mage 1865-1914 by R. F. Foster
€42.26In the first authorized biography of W. B. Yeats for over 50 years, Roy Foster brings new light to one of the most complex and fascinating lives of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Working from a great archive of personal and contemporary... -
Material Cultures of Childhood in Second World War Britain by Gabriel Moshenska 9781013292811
RRP: €39.21€34.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013292811Author Gabriel MoshenskaFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g -
On the Trail of the Mortimers in the Marches: Lords of Wigmore and Ludlow - the story of a dynasty and the places that give an insight into their lives by Philip Hume 9781910839591
RRP: €15.46€13.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910839591Author Philip HumeFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Logaston PressPublisher Fircone Books Ltd -
Flag Fen: Life and Death of a Prehistoric Landscape by Francis Pryor 9780752429007
RRP: €29.75€22.06The Fens of eastern England form a very distinct environment which has produced particular patterns of prehistoric occupation. Dr Francis Pryor, the Director of the Flag Fen Archaeological Trust, gives his own personal account of his discovery and... -
The Fight for Scottish Democracy: Rebellion and Reform in 1820 by Murray Armstrong
RRP: €20.22€13.73Three Scottish weavers, James Wilson, Andrew Hardie and John Baird, were hanged and beheaded for high treason in the summer of 1820. Nineteen more men were transported to the penal colony of Botany Bay. Their crime? To have taken up arms against a... -
The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700 by Jennifer M Rampling
RRP: €27.37€26.33A 400-year history of the development of alchemy in England that brings to light the evolution of the practice. In medieval and early modern Europe, the practice of alchemy promised extraordinary physical transformations. Who would not be amazed to see... -
Peasant Perspectives on the Medieval Landscape: A study of three communities by Susan Kilby 9781912260218
RRP: €22.60€20.21This compelling new study forms part of a new wave of scholarship on the medieval rural environment in which the focus moves beyond purely socio-economic concerns to incorporate the lived experience of peasants. For too long, the principal intellectual... -
Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957 by Matt Houlbrook
RRP: €32.13€31.98In August 1934, young Cyril L. wrote to his friend Billy about all the exciting men he had met, the swinging nightclubs he had visited, and the vibrant new life he had forged for himself in the big city. He wrote, "I have only been queer since I came to... -
A History of Wales 1485-1660 by Thomas Hugh 9780708324875
RRP: €5.94€4.81The events of the period 1485 - 1660 were decisive in the development of modern Wales and, in Hugh Thomas' first in the four-volume "Welsh History Text Books" series, students are presented with a scholarly, balanced and informative discussion. From the... -
Violent Victorians: Popular Entertainment in Nineteenth-Century London by Rosalind Crone 9780719086854
RRP: €23.79€21.21By drawing attention to the wide range of gruesome, bloody and confronting amusements patronised by ordinary Londoners this book challenges our understanding of Victorian society and culture. From the turn of the nineteenth century, graphic, yet orderly,... -
Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law by James Q. Whitman 9780691183060
RRP: €15.46€11.04How American race law provided a blueprint for Nazi GermanyNazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes. In... -
Elizabeth: A Celebration in Photographs of Elizabeth II's Life & Reign by Jennie Bond
RRP: €29.75€19.49Fully revised and updated.Queen Elizabeth II was the longest-serving monarch in British history, with a reign even longer than Queen Victoria. Her extraordinary life is expertly portrayed by Jennie Bond, former BBC royal correspondent, in this... -
Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals by Ken Follett
RRP: €15.46€11.44Written in aid of the crucial restoration work to restore Paris's great cathedral, Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals is a moving, short piece of non-fiction celebrating the stunning history of this beloved building, from Ken... -
The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama by Sanjay Subrahmanyam 9780521646291
RRP: €36.88€31.93Vasco da Gama (?1469-1524) is well known as one of a generation of discoverers, along with Magellan, Cabral, and Columbus. Yet little is known about his life, or about the context within which he 'discovered' the all-sea route to India in 1497-99. This... -
The Life of Jews in Poland before the Holocaust: A Memoir by Ben-Zion Gold 9780803271753
RRP: €17.84€14.52Ben-Zion Gold's memoir brings to life the world of a million Jews in pre-World War II Poland who were later destroyed by the Nazis. Warmly recalling the relationships, rituals, observances, and celebrations, Gold evokes the sense of family and faith that... -
Oxford by Jan Morris 9780192801364
RRP: €20.22€14.98'Few cities,' Jan Morris observes, 'have been much more loved, loathed, and celebrated.' This book has become a classic account of the character, history, mores, buildings, climate, and people of one of Britain's most fascinating cities. 'A book of... -
What is Paleolithic Art?: Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity by Jean Clottes
RRP: €21.42€18.33Was it a trick of the light that drew our Stone Age ancestors into caves to paint in charcoal and red hematite, to watch the heads of lions, likenesses of bison, horses, and aurochs in the reliefs of the walls, as they flickered by firelight? Or was it... -
The Penguin History of the Church: The Reformation by Owen Chadwick
RRP: €17.84€13.03The beginning the sixteenth century brought growing pressure within the Western Church for Reformation. The popes could not hold Western Christendom together and there was confusion about Church reform. What some believed to be abuses, others found... -
Dostoyevsky, or The Flood of Language by Julia Kristeva
RRP: €20.22€16.24Growing up in Bulgaria, Julia Kristeva was warned by her father not to read Dostoyevsky. "Of course, and as usual," she recalls, "I disobeyed paternal orders and plunged into Dosto. Dazzled, overwhelmed, engulfed." Kristeva would go on to become one of... -
Keir Hardie by Bob Holman
RRP: €14.27€13.03Keir Hardie was a founder and the first parliamentary leader of the Labour Party. At the turn of the 19th century he was Labour's most famous face. But despite being voted Labour's 'Greatest Hero' at the 2008 Party Conference, in recent years his... -
Who's Buried Where in London by Peter Matthews
RRP: €20.22€16.14London's many cemeteries, churches and graveyards are the last resting places of a multitude of important people from many different walks of life. Politicians, writers and military heroes rub shoulders with engineers, courtesans, artists and musicians,... -
Tir a'Mhurain: The Outer Hebrides of Scotland by Paul Strand
RRP: €29.75€20.93Tir a'Mhurain is a collection of photographs that reflects the impressions gathered by Paul Strand and his wife Hazel during their 3-month visit to the Hebrides in 1945. Juxtaposing people and landscape, Strand's beautifully sequenced photographs depict... -
Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune by Kristin Ross
€13.51Kristin Ross's new work on the thought and culture of the Communard uprising of 1871 resonates with the motivations and actions of contemporary protest, which has found its most powerful expression in the reclamation of public space. Today's... -
Vintage Crime: A Short History of Wine Fraud by Rebecca Gibb 9780520385931
RRP: €29.75€22.40"This slim yet insightful and entertaining volume documents the many instances where wine drinkers did not get what they paid for, sometimes with deadly consequences."-New York Times, Best Wine Books of 2023How fakes, fraudsters, and grape crusaders have... -
Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London by Matthew Beaumont
RRP: €14.27€13.63"Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night," wrote the poet Rupert Brooke. Before the age of electricity, the nighttime city was a very different place to the one we know today - home to the lost, the vagrant and the noctambulant. Matthew... -
British Sheep Breeds by Susannah Robin Parkin
RRP: €10.70€8.28Sheep have been farmed in Britain for hundreds of years and more than thirty million sheep now inhabit these islands. The many breeds developed over this time have been carefully matched to their surroundings - from the hardy, seaweed-eating North... -
The Weaker Vessel by Lady Antonia Fraser
RRP: €20.22€14.21Antonia Fraser's bestselling account of the lives of women in seventeenth-century England.Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent... -
Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers by Cheryl Misak
RRP: €17.84€13.03The full story of Frank Ramsey's extraordinary life. When he died in 1930 aged 26, Frank Ramsey had already invented one branch of mathematics and two branches of economics, laying the foundations for decision theory and game theory. Keynes deferred... -
Pembrokeshire and Gwynedd Myths and Legends by Horatio Clare 9781913134297
RRP: €15.46€11.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913134297Author Horatio ClareFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg LimitedDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 10mm -
The Tudor Housewife by Alison Sim
RRP: €15.46€9.72The political and military history of the sixteenth century is well known, and much written about, but what of the thousands of women who have, for the most part, eluded the historian's pen? The Tudor Housewife aims to answer this question, providing a... -
The Man Behind the Tudors: Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk by Kirsten Claiden-Yardley 9781526745538
RRP: €23.79€16.99Thomas Howard, 2nd duke of Norfolk, lived a remarkable life spanning eighty years and the reigns of six kings. Amongst his descendants are his granddaughters, Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, and his great-granddaughter, Elizabeth I. The foundations of... -
Diana: The People's Princess by Nicholas Owen
RRP: €23.80€14.34On 31 August 1997, the world was stunned by the tragic death of the most popular and photographed woman of the modern age: Diana, Princess of Wales. The outpouring of public grief at this tragically early death was unprecedented in modern times. Now,... -
When the Clock Struck in 1916 by Derek Molyneux
RRP: €19.03€16.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848892132Author Derek MolyneuxFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint The Collins PressPublisher The Collins PressWeight(grams) 502g -
Catherine the Great: Life and Legend by John T. Alexander
RRP: €15.46€11.91Empress of the vast Russian Empire by the age of 33, Catherine's private and public life generated tremendous contemporary controversy, and she has subsequently been portrayed variously as a political genius, a despotic foreign adventuress, a tyrant, and... -
The Adoption Papers by Jackie Kay
RRP: €13.08€8.81Jackie Kay tells the story of a black girl's adoption by a white Scottish couple, from three different viewpoints: the mother, the birth mother, and the daughter. The Adoption Papers won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. In 2022 The Adoption... -
Mallard: The Story of Britain's Most Magnificent Locomotive by Robin Jones
RRP: €17.84€13.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658214Author Robin JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 596gDimensions(mm) 246mm *...