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A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain
RRP: £12.99£9.49Twain's account of travelling in Europe, A TRAMP ABROAD (1880), sparkles with the author's shrewd observations and highly opinionated comments on Old World culture, and showcases his unparalleled ability to integrate humorous sketches, autobiographical... -
Haunted Stirling by David Kinnaird 9780752458441
RRP: £14.99£11.55From heart-stopping accounts of apparitions, poltergeists and related supernatural phenomena, to first-hand encounters with phantoms and spirits, this collection of stories contains both new and well-known spooky tales from around Stirling. A whole... -
Edmund Campion: Jesuit and Martyr by Evelyn Waugh
RRP: £9.99£7.11In 1581 Edmund Campion, a Jesuit priest working underground in Protestant England, was found guilty of treason and hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn. Years later he would be beatified. Evelyn Waugh's compelling and elegant narrative is a homage to... -
England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton by Kate Williams
RRP: £12.99£9.09A dramatic, sparkling tale of sex, glamour, intrigue, romance and heartbreak, England's Mistress traces the rise and rise of the gorgeous Emma Hamilton.Born into poverty, she clawed her way up through London's underworlds of sex for sale to become... -
Stepping-Stones: A Journey through the Ice Age Caves of the Dordogne by Christine Desdemaines-Hugon
RRP: £25.00£20.92An awe-inspiring study of the enduring power of Paleolithic art The cave art of France's Dordogne region is world-famous for the mythology and beauty of its remarkable drawings and paintings. These ancient images of lively bison, horses, and mammoths, as... -
Failed Illusions: Moscow, Washington, Budapest, and the 1956 Hungarian Revolt by Charles Gati 9780804759649
RRP: £19.99£16.45Winner of the 2007 Marshall Shulman Prize The 1956 Hungarian revolution, and its suppression by the U.S.S.R., was a key event in the cold war, demonstrating deep dissatisfaction with both the communist system and old-fashioned Soviet imperialism. But... -
Forgotten Land: Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia by Max Egremont
RRP: £14.99£11.13East Prussia is no longer on any map, though it was once a thriving land, famously military, deeply forested, artistically fertile, and the birthplace of Immanuel Kant. As the scene of Stalin's 'terrible revenge' it came to embody the turbulence of the... -
No. 10 - The Geography of Power at Dowing Street by Jack Brown
RRP: £18.99£13.40Fronted by one of the world's most iconic doors, 10 Downing Street is the home and office of the British Prime Minister and the heart of British politics. This is the story of the intimately entwined relationships between the house and its post-war... -
An American Uprising in Second World War England: Mutiny in the Duchy by Kate Werran 9781526759542
RRP: £25.00£18.02This is the incredible story of a Second World War shoot-out between black and white American soldiers in a quiet Cornish town that ended up putting the special relationship' itself on trial. The subsequent court martial into what tabloids labelled a ... -
How the Country House Became English by Stephanie Barczewski 9781789147605
RRP: £25.00£18.02Country houses have come to be regarded as quintessentially English, not only in terms of their architectural style but because they appear to embody national values of continuity and insularity. The histories of country houses and England, however, have... -
The Lowland Clearances: Scotland's Silent Revolution 1760 - 1830 by Peter Aitchison
RRP: £9.99£6.99The Highland Clearances are a well-documented episode in Scotland's past but they were not unique. The process began in the Scottish Lowlands nearly a century before, when tens of thousands of people - significantly more than were later exiled form the... -
The Unfree French: Life Under the Occupation by Richard Vinen
RRP: £16.99£12.28In the summer of 1940 the French army was one of the largest and best in the world, confident of victory. In the space of a few nightmarish weeks that all changed as the French and their British allies were crushed and eight million people fled their... -
Fighting with the Long Range Desert Group: Merlyn Craw MM's War 1940 1945 by O'Carroll, Brendan 9781399084277
RRP: £25.00£18.02Formed in 1940 the Long Range Desert Group was the first Allied Special Forces unit established to operate behind German and Italian lines in North Africa. Its officers and men were volunteers recruited from British and Commonwealth units. Merlyn Craw... -
Richard III: The Self-Made King by Michael Hicks
RRP: £12.99£11.46An "excellent new biography" (Keith Thomas, New York Review of Books) of the wily and formidable prince who unexpectedly became monarch-the most infamous king in British history"An intricately detailed account of Richard's every recorded move on his... -
Becoming Dr Jones: A Wild Life by Dr Dr Rhys Jones 9781472299598
RRP: £22.00£14.56'Inspirational' - Professor Alice Roberts'Engrossing' - Professor Ben GarrodRhys Jones was brought up on a council estate in South Wales where expectations for what life held in store for you were slim. As he recalls, he was born fighting and never... -
The Northern Question: A History of a Divided Country by Thomas Hazeldine
RRP: £20.00£14.05Britain has scarcely begun to come to terms with its recent upheavals, from the crisis over Brexit to the collapse of Labour's 'red wall'. What can explain such momentous shifts?In this essential work, Tom Hazeldine excavates the history of a divided... -
Chivalry by Maurice Keen 9780300107678
RRP: £16.99£14.61Chivalry-with its pageants, heraldry, and knights in shining armor-was a social ideal that had a profound influence on the history of early modern Europe. In this eloquent and richly detailed book, a leading medieval historian discusses the complex... -
The Faber Pocket Guide to Wagner by Michael Tanner
RRP: £10.99£7.32Richard Wagner remains, almost 130 years after his death, the most controversial composer in the history of music. Creator of huge and hugely ambitious operas, which have an immense immediate impact, as well as providing food for endless thought and... -
Save the Last Bullet: Memoir of a Boy Soldier in Hitler's Army by Heidi Langbein-Allen 9781399072397
RRP: £20.00£14.29Willi Langbein was just thirteen when the Nazis took him away from his parents under the pretence of protecting him. Their real reason was to turn him into cannon-fodder for use against Hitler's enemies. Deployed to the collapsing Eastern Front in the... -
Medieval Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Elaine Treharne
RRP: £8.99£6.45This Very Short Introduction provides a compelling account of the emergence of the earliest literature in Britain and Ireland, including English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Norman. Introducing the reader to some of the greatest poetry,... -
Viking Dublin: The Wood Quay Excavations by Patrick Wallace 9780716533146
£58.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780716533146Author Patrick WallaceFormat HardbackPage Count 600Imprint Irish Academic Press LtdPublisher Irish Academic Press LtdWeight(grams)... -
What's Tha Up To?: Memories of a Yorkshire Bobby by Martyn Johnson 9780751547771
RRP: £10.99£7.40'A wonderful slice-of-life autobiography' Daily Express'I've turned boys into men and policemen into coppers,' said the Sergeant. 'Policemen have got brains, but coppers, they've got brains and common sense.'No two days were ever the same for... -
A Dictionary of the Roman Empire by Matthew E. Bunson 9780195102338
RRP: £25.49£18.50The extraordinarily rich cultural legacy of the Roman world has had a profound affect world civilization. Roman achievements in architecture, law, politics, literature, war, and philosophy serve as the foundation of modern Western society. Now, for the... -
A Land of Liberty?: England 1689-1727 by Julian Hoppit 9780199251001
£51.16The Glorious Revolution was a decisive moment in England's history; an invading Dutch army forced James II to flee to France, and his son-in-law and daughter, William and Mary, were crowned as joint sovereigns. The wider consequences were no less... -
All My Mother's Secrets: A Powerful True Story of Love, Loss and a Family Torn Apart by Beezy Marsh
RRP: £7.99£5.94THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Beautifully-penned story on the harshness of life and how hope survives' - Sun'Absorbing . . . Marsh writes with a novelistic flair' - Daily Mail From the grimy streets of Acton and Notting Hill to the bright lights of the... -
Medieval Herbal Remedies: The Old English Herbarium and Early-Medieval Medicine by Anne Van Arsdall 9780367753771
RRP: £35.99£31.69Featured here is a modern translation of a medieval herbal, with a study showing how this technical treatise on herbs was turned into a literary curiosity in the nineteenth century. The contours of this second edition replicate the first; however, it has... -
Twelve Days that Made Modern Britain by Andrew Hindmoor
RRP: £26.49£14.29This is the story of modern Britain, focusing on twelve formative days in the history of the United Kingdom over the last five decades. By describing what happened on those days and the subsequent consequences, Andrew Hindmoor paints a suggestive - and... -
The Thirty Years War by C V Wedgwood
RRP: £24.95£16.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590171462Author C. V. WedgwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 536Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
The Psychedelic Gospels: The Secret History of Hallucinogens in Christianity by Jerry B. Brown 9781620555026
RRP: £14.99£9.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620555026Author Jerry B. BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyPublisher Inner Traditions Bear and... -
Before Mrs Beeton: Elizabeth Raffald, England's Most Influential Housekeeper by Neil Buttery
RRP: £20.00£14.29The great Elizabeth Raffald used to be a household name, and her list of accomplishments would make even the highest of achievers feel suddenly impotent. After becoming housekeeper at Arley Hall in Cheshire at age twenty-five, she married and moved to... -
Northmen: The Viking Saga 793-1241 by John Haywood
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Haywood's lucid explanations of the cultures of the Danes, Swedes, and Norwegians are vital to understanding the motivations for their movements' KIRKUS REVIEWS. The violent and predatory society of Dark Age Scandinavia left a unique impact on the... -
1688: The First Modern Revolution by Steve Pincus
RRP: £25.00£18.13Based on new archival information, this book upends two hundred years of scholarship on England's Glorious Revolution to claim that it-not the French Revolution-was the first truly modern revolution For two hundred years historians have viewed England's... -
Lisbon: War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939-1945 by Neill Lochery
RRP: £15.99£9.06Lisbon had a pivotal role in the history of World War II, though not a gun was fired there. The only European city in which both the Allies and the Axis power operated openly, it was temporary home to much of Europe's exiled royalty, over one million... -
My Life by Tommie Gorman
RRP: £20.00£14.69The warm, rich and fascinating memoir of beloved broadcaster Tommie Gorman.When Tommie Gorman was growing up in Sligo in the 1960s, struggle was never far away but his household had a surplus of love and warmth. From modest beginnings as a local reporter... -
The Crossing Place: A Journey among the Armenians by Philip Marsden 9780008127435
RRP: £9.99£7.11A revised and updated edition of Philip Marsden's classic travel book, published to coincide with the centenary of the Armenian massacres. After centuries of prominence as a world power, Armenia has withstood every attempt during the 20th... -
Anatomy of a Nation: British Identity in 50 Documents by Dominic Selwood
RRP: £30.00£20.40From an obscure, misty archipelago on the fringes of the Roman world to history's largest empire and originator of the world's mongrel, magpie language - this is Britain's past. But, today, Britain is experiencing an acute trauma of identity, pulled... -
A Place For Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order by Judith Flanders 9781509881567
RRP: £16.99£12.68'Marvellous . . . I read it with astonished delight . . . It is equally scholarly and entertaining.' - Jan Morris 'Quirky and compelling.' - The Times Once we've learned it as children, few of us think much of the alphabet and its familiar sing-song... -
Montaigne by Stefan Zweig
RRP: £12.00£7.95'He who thinks freely for himself, honours all freedom on earth.' Stefan Zweig was already an emigre-driven from a Europe torn apart by brutality and totalitarianism-when he found, in a damp cellar, a copy of Michel de Montaigne's Essais. Montaigne... -
Giving (Back): How to Do Good, Better by Derek A. Bardowell
RRP: £20.00£12.05Do you wish you could do more to change the world but don't know how? Do you ever look around at the many charities asking for donations and feel overwhelmed? This inspiring and uplifting book explores the effectiveness of charity and calls for more... -
Scottish History For Dummies by William Knox 9781118676158
RRP: £18.99£13.15Explore the fascinating history of Scotland in an easy-to-read guide Want to discover how a small country on the edge of Northern Europe packs an almighty historical punch? Scottish History For Dummies is your guide to the story of Scotland and its place...