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Orkneyinga Saga: The History of the Earls of Orkney by Hermann Palsson
RRP: $19.48$13.86Written 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... -
The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor by Eddie Jaku
RRP: $21.43$14.64Holocaust 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... -
Swimming in the Dark: ‘One of the most astonishing contemporary gay novels we have ever read … A masterpiece’ – Attitude by Tomasz Jedrowski 9781526604989
RRP: $19.48$13.40LONGLISTED 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 Department: How a Violent Government Bureaucracy Killed Hundreds and Hid the Evidence John Pring 9780745349893
RRP: $33.13$22.50In the early 2010s, reports began to emerge of deaths that were being linked to a government department. Suicide notes, coroners' reports, and investigations by public bodies pointed to failings within the Department for Work and Pensions—the DWP—the... -
The Malleus Maleficarum by P. G. Maxwell-Stuart
RRP: $29.23$21.68The 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 Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy by Tim Pat Coogan 9781137278838
RRP: $23.38$15.60During 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... -
Children of Ash and ELM: A History of the Vikings by Neil Price 9780465096985
RRP: $46.78$44.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780465096985Author Neil PriceFormat HardbackPage Count 624Imprint Basic Civitas BooksPublisher INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES USWeight(grams) 880gDimensions(mm)... -
Still Life by Sarah Winman 9780008666804
RRP: $19.48$12.71THE 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 ... -
Fall Out: A Year of Political Mayhem by Tim Shipman
RRP: $25.33$16.54The unmissable inside story of the most dramatic general election campaign in modern history and Theresa May's battle for a Brexit deal, the greatest challenge for a prime minister since the Second World War. ... -
Crown & Sceptre: 1000 Years of Kings and Queens by Tracy Borman
RRP: $29.23$19.11A 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... -
Unruly: The Number One Bestseller ‘Horrible Histories for grownups’ The Times by David Mitchell 9781405953191
RRP: $21.43$15.15THE 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 -... -
Populus: Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din of Ancient Rome by Guy de la Bédoyère 9781408715154
RRP: $48.75$32.72A 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... -
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by University Christopher Clark
RRP: $37.03$22.52Apologies 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 -
London's Lost Rivers: A Walker's Guide: Volume 2 by Tom Bolton
RRP: $27.28$16.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907222856Author Tom BoltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Strange Attractor PressPublisher Strange Attractor Press -
Echolands: A Journey in Search of Boudica by Duncan Mackay 9781399714143
RRP: $25.33$16.77'A masterly evocation of the bloodiest year in British history.' Alice Roberts'Evocative, authoritative . . . rich storytelling.' Cat Jarman'An engaged, informed companion for the armchair time traveller...captures the thrill and the difficulties of... -
Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story by Caroline Lucas 9781529153064
RRP: $42.90$30.46'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... -
The Searchers: Five Rebels, Their Dream of a Different Britain, and Their Many Enemies by Andy Beckett 9780241394229
RRP: $58.50$40.85From 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... -
Scotland's Forgotten Past: A History of the Mislaid, Misplaced and Misunderstood by Alistair Moffatt 9780500297803
RRP: $19.48$13.26A 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?... -
The Witches' Ointment: The Secret History of Psychedelic Magic by Thomas Hatsis 9781620554739
RRP: $29.23$18.25In 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... -
Inside the Gestapo: Hitler's Shadow Over the World by Hansjurgen Koehler
RRP: $38.98$22.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780930852399Author Hans Jurgen KoehlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 287Imprint Progressive PressPublisher Progressive PressWeight(grams) 442g -
The Real Odessa: How Nazi War Criminals Escaped Europe by Uki Goni
RRP: $29.23$19.11'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... -
Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle
RRP: $13.63$10.00Thomas Carlyle's Past and Present (1843) was a prophetic warning of impending disaster for mid-Victorian Britain that was delivered in what the author described as a 'miraculous thunder-voice, from out of the centre of the world.' The impact of Carlyle's... -
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: $58.50$40.17John 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... -
Rag and Bone: A History of What We've Thrown Away by Lisa Woollett
RRP: $25.33$6.84'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 Cambridge Five: The History and Legacy of the Notorious Soviet Spy Ring in Britain During World War II and the Cold War by Charles River Editors 9781983944260
RRP: $19.97$15.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781983944260Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen J. Greenblatt 9780393343403
RRP: $17.53$16.73In 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,... -
Malleus Maleficarum by Heinrich Kramer 9781960069382
RRP: $29.23$21.29Apologies 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)... -
The Appin Murder: The Killing That Shook a Nation by James Hunter
RRP: $25.33$16.69On 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... -
The Carnation Revolution: The Day Portugal's Dictatorship Fell by Alex Fernandes 9780861547548
RRP: $42.90$31.2425 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 Dragon with the Blazing Bottom by Beach
RRP: $13.63$9.05The hilariously anarchic and bestselling picture book about a dragon who has lost his flame - but may just find fire elsewhere . . . Perfect for fans of The Dinosaur That Pooped series. Sir Wayne's dragon has lost his flame. Are his teeth TOO clean?... -
The Chessmen by Peter May
RRP: $19.48$6.84THE 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: $48.75$32.72'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: $33.13$28.49The 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. . ... -
Field Men: The SS Officers Who Led the Einsatzkommand - the Nazi Mobile Killing Units by French Maclean
RRP: $107.23$69.44Two 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... -
Look Up London: Discover the details you have never noticed before in 10 walks by Katie Wignall
RRP: $25.33$16.77A refreshing guide to discovering the hidden details of London with 10 fully guided walking routes from London's leading tour guide Look Up London. Have you ever noticed London's tiniest public sculpture? Or wondered why there are strange cone-shaped... -
Literary Tourism, the Trossachs and Walter Scott by Nicola J. Watson
RRP: $38.90$29.66Apologies 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... -
A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution by Jeremy D. Popkin
RRP: $35.08$21.57The principles of the French Revolution remain the only possible basis for a just society -- even if, after more than two hundred years, they are more contested than ever before. In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the... -
Trautmann's Journey: From Hitler Youth to FA Cup Legend by Catrine Clay
RRP: $25.33$17.73SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEARHow did one man go from Nazi Youth indoctrination to English footballing icon?Bert Trautmann is a football legend. He is famed as the Manchester City goalkeeper who broke his neck in the 1956 FA Cup... -
In His Own Words: The Essential Speeches of Adolf Hitler by Adolf Hitler 9781956887129
RRP: $50.19$48.03Apologies 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)... -
Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass by Theodore Dalrymple
RRP: $25.33$18.51Here is a searing account-probably the best yet published-of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does. Theodore Dalrymple, a British psychiatrist who treats the poor in a slum hospital and a prison in England, has seemingly seen it all. ...