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Goodbye Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land by Jacob Mikanowski 9780861547326
RRP: £10.99£7.38An epic history of the 'other' Europe, a place of conflict and coexistence, of faith and folklore. 'Do not rush to bid farewell to eastern Europe until reading this book. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, this very personal story of the... -
Little Book of Chanel by Emma Baxter-Wright
RRP: £13.99£9.61Little Book of Chanel is the pocket-sized and beautifully illustrated story of the most celebrated fashion designer in history. Chronicling the life and legacy of Coco Chanel, one of fashion's most influential couturiers, this gorgeous book offers a... -
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life by Anna Funder 9780241482742
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Truly wonderful... Anna Funder has written another brilliant human portrait.' - Claire Tomalin A BLAZING, GENRE-BENDING MASTERPIECE FROM ONE OF THE MOST INVENTIVE WRITERS OF OUR TIMELooking for wonder and some reprieve from the everyday, Anna Funder... -
The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason by Douglas Murray 9780008492847
RRP: £10.99£7.25SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'The most important book of the year' Daily Mail The brilliant and provocative new book from one of the world's foremost political writers ... -
The Gaelic Otherworld: John Gregorson Campbell's Superstitions of the Highlands and the Islands of Scotland and Witchcraft and Second Sight in the Highlands and Islands by John Gregorson Campbell
RRP: £30.00£20.60John Gregorson Campbell (1834-91) was one of the most outstanding folklorists working in Scotland during the nineteenth century. Based on materials which he had gathered in the 1850s and 1860s, his Superstitions of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland... -
Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany by Harald Jähner 9780753559970
RRP: £16.99£13.58'This is one of the most gripping accounts of an era spanning war defeat, humiliation and failed revolution in 1918 to the violence, intimidation and propaganda of the Nazis' rise to power in 1933. It contains many lessons for the world now.' - John... -
The Essential Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler 9781732353268
RRP: £20.00£12.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732353268Author Adolf HitlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Clemens & Blair, LLCPublisher Clemens & Blair, LLCWeight(grams) 526gDimensions(mm)... -
Little Book of Dior by Karen Homer
RRP: £13.99£9.20Little 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... -
Legacy: Gangsters, Corruption and the London Olympics by Michael Gillard
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Reveals criminal corruption on a scale that the Kray twins would never have dreamt of' John Pearson, Profession of Violence, The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins 'Gillard's detailed investigation makes for a stunning and shocking read' Barry Keeffe,... -
Looshkin: The Maddest Cat in the World by Jamie Smart 9781788452557
RRP: £9.99£7.32The comics in this book were previously published as Looshkin and Looshkin: The Big Number 2. Looshkin might look like a cute blue cat, but you've never met a cat like Looshkin before. If you look away for just a moment, your house will be full of... -
Populus: Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din of Ancient Rome by Guy de la Bédoyère 9781408715154
RRP: £25.00£16.78A Time Travellers Guide to Ancient Rome - by one of the best historians of the ancient worldLiving in ancient Rome was superbly and vividly recorded by Rome's historians, philosophers, and poets who were acutely aware of the seething and voluptuous... -
Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story by Caroline Lucas 9781529153064
RRP: £22.00£15.62'A visionary book' Philip Pullman'Essential and magnificent' George Monbiot'Deft and wonderfully poetic' Grace BlakeleyThe right have hijacked Englishness. Can it be reclaimed?With the UK more divided than ever, England has re-emerged as a potent force... -
Rag and Bone: A History of What We've Thrown Away by Lisa Woollett
RRP: £10.99£3.51'Beautiful, like a muddy journey through time . . . a really important book' RAYNOR WINN, author of The Salt Path Lisa Woollett has spent her life combing beaches and mudlarking, collecting curious fragments of the past: from Roman tiles and Tudor... -
The Carnation Revolution: The Day Portugal's Dictatorship Fell by Alex Fernandes 9780861547548
RRP: £22.00£16.0225 April 1974, Lisbon. Over the course of a single day, Europe's oldest fascist regime falls. On its 50th anniversary, this is the story of the revolution that changed Portugal forever. 'A thrilling and inspiring page-turner.' Richard Zimler, author... -
The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor by Eddie Jaku
RRP: £10.99£7.12Holocaust 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... -
Genghis Khan: And the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609809648Author Jack WeatherfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 264g -
Besieged: Life Under Fire on a Sarajevo Street by Barbara Demick 9781847084118
RRP: £9.99£6.70For four centuries, Logavina Street was a quiet residential road in a city known for its ethnic tolerance and cosmopolitan charm. Muslims, Christians, Serbs and Croats lived easily together, sharing an identity as Bosnians. Then the war tore their lives... -
Still Life by Sarah Winman
RRP: £9.99£6.64THE 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 ... -
A Small Town in Ukraine: The place we came from, the place we went back to by Bernard Wasserstein 9781802061406
RRP: £12.99£9.09'A fine and deeply affecting work of history and memoir' Philippe SandsDecades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family originated: Krakowiec (Krah-KOV-yets). In... -
The Roads To Rome: A History by Catherine Fletcher 9781847928047
RRP: £16.99£13.34Brimming with life and drama, this is the first book to explore two thousand years of European history through one the greatest imperial networks ever built'A delightful, novel and authoritative history from the ground up' JUDITH HERRIN'Epic and witty ..... -
Safe Passage by Ida Cook
RRP: £10.99£6.35'A breathtaking story' Daily Mail 'Extraordinary' The Telegraph on the Cook sisters Desperate circumstances can cause ordinary women to achieve extraordinary things. No one would have predicted... -
The Real Odessa: How Nazi War Criminals Escaped Europe by Uki Goni
RRP: £14.99£9.80'Powerful and gripping... Goni [is] impressively relentless: leaving no discoverable stone unturned' Philippe Sands, author of The Ratline As Russian forces closed in on Berlin, and Hitler's regime drew to a close, many Nazi officials began to... -
Much Ado About Numbers by Rob Eastaway 9781805460275
RRP: £16.99£11.58"A spectacular journey... Highly recommended!" Dr Simon Smith, The Shakespeare Institute "A fascinating and hugely entertaining guide to Shakespearean mathematics." Prof Sarah Hart, author of Once Upon A Prime"A playful and engaging book ... bound to... -
The Witches' Ointment: The Secret History of Psychedelic Magic by Thomas Hatsis 9781620554739
RRP: £14.99£9.36In 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 Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World by Catherine Nixey
RRP: £10.99£7.51In The Darkening Age, Catherine Nixey tells the little-known - and deeply shocking - story of how a militant religion deliberately tried to extinguish the teachings of the Classical world, ushering in unquestioning adherence to the 'one true faith'.The... -
The Habsburgs: The Rise and Fall of a World Power by Martyn Rady
RRP: £12.99£9.09'This is probably the best book ever written on the Habsburgs in any language, certainly the best I have ever read ... Students, scholars and the general reader will never find a better guide to Habsburg history' Alan Sked, Times Literary SupplementIn... -
Little Book of Prada by Laia Farran Graves
RRP: £13.99£9.20Little Book of Prada is the pocket-sized and beautifully illustrated story of the legendary fashion house. Understated elegance and luxury, technologically advanced fabrics and sublime originality of design are all hallmarks of the House of Prada. In... -
Revolutionary Acts: Love & Brotherhood in Black Gay Britain by Jason Okundaye 9780571372218
RRP: £20.00£11.25Announcing the arrival of a major new talent, an astonishing work of social history which captures Black gay Britain as never before.'In this seminal book Okundaye gives us juicy dialogue, tears and laughter, and vivid landscapes of memory.'MENDEZ,... -
The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies by Mariana Mazzucato 9781802060263
RRP: £10.99£7.77There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today which must change.Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington show that our economies' reliance on companies such as McKinsey, Boston... -
The Abolition of Britain by Peter Hitchens
RRP: £16.99£10.21How do you tell that a country has died? In this devastating, pessimistic, though critically-timed revised edition of his classic book, Peter Hitchens describes and regrets the abolition of Britain. In the years since Peter Hitchens first wrote The... -
Young Queens: The gripping, intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots by Leah Redmond Chang 9781526613431
RRP: £12.99£8.78LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION WATERSTONES' BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: HISTORY The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots - three queens exercising power in a... -
Scotland's Forgotten Past: A History of the Mislaid, Misplaced and Misunderstood by Alistair Moffatt 9780500297803
RRP: £9.99£6.80A 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?... -
Caste: The International Bestseller by Isabel Wilkerson
RRP: £12.99£9.09THE TIME NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR | #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Powerful and timely ... I cannot recommend it strongly enough" - Barack ObamaBeyond race or class, our lives are defined by a powerful, unspoken system of divisions. In Caste, Pulitzer... -
Dweller in Shadows: A Life of Ivor Gurney by Kate Kennedy 9780691218557
RRP: £20.00£15.94The first comprehensive biography of an extraordinary English poet and composer whose life was haunted by fighting in the First World War and, later, confinement in a mental asylumIvor Gurney (1890-1937) wrote some of the most anthologized poems of the... -
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£6.70LONGLISTED 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... -
The Twins of Auschwitz: The inspiring true story of a young girl surviving Mengele's hell by Eva Mozes Kor
RRP: £8.99£6.20THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The Nazis spared their lives because they were twins.In the summer of 1944, Eva Mozes Kor and her family arrived at Auschwitz.Within thirty minutes, they were separated. Her parents and two older sisters were taken to the gas... -
England's Gardens: A Modern History by Stephen Parker
RRP: £25.00£17.38We may all feel we know what an "English" garden is, but do we really? England's Gardens offers a holistic, modern-day tour and an update on the history of some of the most iconic, enduring, and influential gardens across the country.A fresh take on a... -
London: A Guide for Curious Wanderers by Jack Chesher
RRP: £14.99£10.20See London in a completely new light in this guide to the city's hidden secrets, untold stories and special places laden with history which you can discover for yourself! London is famous for its museums, each one full of treasures and relics - but the... -
The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, its Regions and their Peoples by David Gilmour
RRP: £12.99£7.73The book that explains the whole extraordinary course of Italian history like no other in English The Pursuit of Italy traces the whole history of the Italian peninsula in a wonderfully readable style, full of well-chosen stories and observations from... -
Essex Dogs: The epic must-read historical fiction from the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author by Dan Jones
RRP: £9.99£5.46The BBC History 2022 Book of the Year and Richard & Judy Book Club Pick from Sunday Times bestselling author Dan Jones. July 1346. The Hundred Years' War has begun, and King Edward and his lords are on the march through France. But this war belongs...