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A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's Perfumer by Elisabeth de Feydeau
RRP: £9.99£7.89The untold story of Marie Antoinette's perfumer, Jean-Louis Fargeon. Montpellier, 1748: Jean-Louis Fargeon was born into a family of perfumers and soon became apprentice to his father's modest perfumery. But he dreamed of the glittering court of... -
Scotland's Forgotten Past: A History of the Mislaid, Misplaced and Misunderstood by Alistair Moffatt 9780500297803
RRP: £9.99£7.00A charming, lively and often amusing tour of 36 forgotten episodes and overlooked people and places of Scottish history. Scotland's history is full of famous kings, queens, saints and warriors. But what about its lesser-known places, people and events?... -
Owain Glyndwr: The Story of the Last Prince of Wales by Terry Breverton
RRP: £12.99£8.71If it had not been for Owain Glyndwr's 15-year struggle against overwhelming odds, the Welsh would not have survived as Europe's oldest nation. His war is the defining era in the history of Wales. Yet Glyndwr is hardly known - a cultured, literate... -
The Malleus Maleficarum by P. G. Maxwell-Stuart
RRP: £14.99£11.30The Malleus Maleficarum is one of the best-known treatises dealing with the problem of what to do with witches. It was written in 1487 by a Dominican inquisitor, Heinrich Institoris, following his failure to prosecute a number of women for witchcraft, it... -
The Witches' Ointment: The Secret History of Psychedelic Magic by Thomas Hatsis 9781620554739
RRP: £14.99£9.61In the medieval period preparations with hallucinogenic herbs were part of the practice of veneficium, or poison magic. This collection of magical arts used poisons, herbs, and rituals to bewitch, heal, prophesy, infect, and murder. In the form of... -
The Yorkshire Forager: A Wild Food Survival Journey by Alysia Vasey
RRP: £14.99£10.05Alysia Vasey's earliest memories are of walking alongside her grandfather as they explored the West Yorkshire moors that they called home. As an adult, this love for wild things stayed with her, even as she learnt that her family's knowledge of edible... -
In His Own Words: The Essential Speeches of Adolf Hitler by Adolf Hitler 9781956887129
£26.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956887129Author Adolf HitlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Antelope Hill PublishingPublisher Antelope Hill PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Orkneyinga Saga: The History of the Earls of Orkney by Hermann Palsson
RRP: £9.99£7.32Written around AD 1200 by an unnamed Icelandic author, the Orkneyinga Saga is an intriguing fusion of myth, legend and history. The only medieval chronicle to have Orkney as the central place of action, it tells of an era when the islands were still part... -
Sweeney Astray by Seamus Heaney
RRP: £12.99£8.80Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibhne - the first complete translation since 1913. Its hero, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and turned into a bird at... -
The Consolation of Philosophy by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 9780140447804
RRP: £9.99£7.32Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar. When he became involved in a conspiracy and was imprisoned in Pavia, it was to the Greek philosophers that he turned. THE CONSOLATION was written... -
Swimming in the Dark: ‘One of the most astonishing contemporary gay novels we have ever read … A masterpiece’ – Attitude by Tomasz Jedrowski 9781526604989
RRP: £9.99£7.08LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI PRIZE 2021 A Guardian Book of the Year 'The highest talent at work' Sebastian Barry 'Beautiful ... A masterpiece' Attitude Poland, 1980. Shy, anxious Ludwik has been sent along with the rest of his university class... -
Crusaders: An Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands by Dan Jones
RRP: £9.99£7.08From the bestselling author of The Templars. 'Voyages, battles, sieges and slaughter: Dan Jones's tumultuous and thrilling history of the crusades is one of the best' SUNDAY TIMES. 'A powerful story brilliantly told. Dan Jones writes with pace,... -
The Prisoner of St Kilda: The True Story of the Unfortunate Lady Grange by Margaret Macaulay
RRP: £8.99£6.80In the 18th century shotgun weddings were not unusual, but in most cases it wasn't the bride that was holding the gun. So began the stormy marriage between Lord and Lady Grange, a marriage which was to end with Lady Grange's death on the Isle of Skye... -
The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor by Eddie Jaku
RRP: £10.99£7.22Holocaust survivor Eddie Jaku made a vow to smile every day and believed he was the 'happiest man on earth'. In his inspirational memoir, he paid tribute to those who were lost by telling his story and sharing his wisdom.'Eddie looked evil in the eye and... -
Hitler's Revolution: Ideology, Social Programs, Foreign Affairs by Tedor Richard 9780988368231
RRP: £15.43£11.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988368231Author Tedor RichardFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Richard TedorPublisher Richard TedorWeight(grams) 440g -
Little Book of Dior by Karen Homer
RRP: £13.99£9.44Little Book of Dior is the pocket-sized and beautifully illustrated story of 70 years of opulent fashion. Christian Dior's spectacular rise to the upper echelons of the Parisian fashion world is one of the most compelling stories of twentieth-century... -
The Appin Murder: The Killing That Shook a Nation by James Hunter
RRP: £12.99£8.80On a hillside near Ballachulish in the Scottish Highlands in May 1752 a rider is assassinated by a gunman. The murdered man is Colin Campbell, a government agent travelling to nearby Duror where he's evicting farm tenants to make way for his relatives... -
Still Life by Sarah Winman 9780008666804
RRP: £9.99£7.08THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Over 500,000 copies sold internationally A BBC Between the Covers Book Club Pick A BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime ... -
Crown & Sceptre: 1000 Years of Kings and Queens by Tracy Borman
RRP: £14.99£10.05A stunning tour de force and a remarkable achievement.- Alison WeirThis is Our Island Story for the modern age. - Charles Spencer'Not just a brilliant compendium of biographies, but the biography of an institution: a marvellous read' - Tom Holland'This... -
Homage to Catalonia (Collins Classics) by George Orwell 9780008442743
RRP: £2.99£2.47HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. In 1936, George Orwell volunteered as a soldier in the Spanish Civil War. In Homage to Catalonia, first published just before the outbreak of World War... -
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen J. Greenblatt 9780393343403
RRP: £14.03£8.83In the winter of 1417, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties plucked a very old manuscript off a dusty shelf in a remote monastery, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. He was Poggio Bracciolini,... -
Weaponising Anti-Semitism by Asa Winstanley 9781682193815
RRP: £17.99£11.84Meticulously researched while reading like a fast-paced thriller, this explosive new book details the way the Israel lobby deployed charges of anti-Semitism to destroy Jeremy Corbyn's bid for power as leader of the Labour Party. In an electrifying... -
Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands by Hazel V Carby
RRP: £12.99£11.17'Where are you from?' was the question hounding Hazel Carby as a girl in post-World War II London. One of the so-called brown babies of the Windrush generation, born to a Jamaican father and Welsh mother, Carby's place in her home, her neighbourhood, and... -
Unruly: The Number One Bestseller ‘Horrible Histories for grownups’ The Times by David Mitchell 9781405953191
RRP: £10.99£7.99THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA funny book about a serious subject, Unruly is for anyone who has ever wondered how we got here - and who is to blame.'Clever, amusing, gloriously bizarre and razor sharp. Mitchell - a funny man and skilled historian -... -
The Scarfolk Annual by Richard Littler
RRP: £12.99£9.11'Horrific and hilarious ... a dystopic vision of an England that would have given Orwell the heebie-jeebies' Independent 'A brilliant work of satire' The Quietus A SCARFOLK SANCTIONED BOOK ... -
The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy by Tim Pat Coogan 9781137278838
RRP: £11.99£8.22During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, fully a quarter of Ireland's citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated in what came to be known as Gorta Mor, the Great Hunger. Waves of hungry peasants fled across the... -
Malleus Maleficarum by Heinrich Kramer 9781960069382
RRP: £14.99£10.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781960069382Author Heinrich KramerFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Dalcassian Publishing CompanyPublisher Dalcassian Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Field Men: The SS Officers Who Led the Einsatzkommand - the Nazi Mobile Killing Units by French Maclean
RRP: £54.99£35.89Two thousand nine hundred forty-five men lined up in four motorized columns immediately behind the German Army on June 22, 1941 as it prepared to launch Operation Barbarossa a the German attack on the Soviet Union a an attack designed to win the war... -
The Sinner's Mark by S. W. Perry 9781838954031
RRP: £9.99£6.90'Dramatic and colourful' SUNDAY TIMES'Beautiful writing' GILES KRISTIAN Treason, heresy and revolt in Queen Elizabeth's England . . . The year is 1600. With a dying queen on the throne, war raging on the high seas and famine on the rise, England is on... -
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by University Christopher Clark
RRP: £18.99£11.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061146664Author University Christopher ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 697Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 544g -
The Searchers: Five Rebels, Their Dream of a Different Britain, and Their Many Enemies by Andy Beckett 9780241394229
RRP: £30.00£21.29From the acclaimed author of Promised You a Miracle and When the Lights Went Out, the untold story of British politics in modern times, through the triumphs and disasters of its five most radical figures'A breath of fresh air: a vivid eye for detail... -
Black England: A Forgotten Georgian History by Gretchen Gerzina 9781399804905
RRP: £12.99£8.83'The classic book on Black people in Georgian London' DAVID OLUSOGA'Deeply researched, lucidly written and utterly fascinating . . . If you ever thought Black British history started with Windrush, read this book' GREG JENNERGeorgian England had a large... -
Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self by Andrea Wulf 9781529392760
RRP: £12.99£8.83'A witty, gossipy, sparkling history, full of bright jewels of anecdote... Magnificent Rebels is a triumph' THE TIMES, Book of the Week'Extraordinary... A thrilling intellectual history that reads like a racy, intelligent novel, with a cast of... -
Literary Tourism, the Trossachs and Walter Scott by Nicola J. Watson
RRP: £19.95£15.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908980007Author Nicola J. WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Scottish Literature InternationalPublisher Association for Scottish Literary... -
Watching the English: The International Bestseller Revised and Updated by Kate Fox
RRP: £10.99£7.61In this completely revised and updated edition of international bestseller WATCHING THE ENGLISH, anthropologist Kate Fox takes a revealing look at the quirks, habits and foibles of the English people. Now with new survey data to add weight to her... -
The Chessmen by Peter May
RRP: £9.99£3.66THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ENZO FILES AND THE CHINA THRILLERSAWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021'One of the best regarded crime series of recent years.' Independent'No one can create a more eloquently written... -
Kings and Queens: 1200 Years of English and British Monarchs by Iain Dale 9781529379488
RRP: £25.00£17.03'We all know about Queen Victoria, Edward VIII and Queen Elizabeth II, but how much do we really know about other monarchs? Yes, we know William the Conqueror beat King Harold at the Battle of Hastings. We know George III was mad, but what else do we... -
John Knox by Jane Dawson
RRP: £16.99£14.83The definitive biography of John Knox, a leader of the Protestant Reformation in sixteenth-century Scotland"Never before has there been such a thoroughly and sympathetically critical treatment of the 16th-century Scottish reformer's thought and times. . ... -
The Thistle and The Rose by Linda Porter 9781801105781
RRP: £27.99£20.32Margaret Tudor, the elder sister of her more famous brother Henry VIII, is the single most important Tudor figure of this era that historians have consistently overlooked. Married at thirteen to the charismatic James IV of Scotland, a man more than twice... -
A-Z Liverpool Hidden Walks: Discover 20 routes in and around the city by Claire E Rider
RRP: £6.99£4.97Discover hidden gems around Liverpool, host of Eurovision 2023, with 20 walking routes. Featuring 20 walks in and around the city, including lesser-known circuits and details on popular walks. Accompanied by guided walking instructions and...