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The Origins of the British: The New Prehistory of Britain by Stephen Oppenheimer
RRP: $31.48$20.58'British prehistory will never look the same again.' Professor Colin Renfrew, University of CambridgeStephen Oppenheimer's extraordinary scientific detective story combining genetics, linguistics, archaeology and historical record shatters the myths we... -
King Charles III: 100 moments from his journey to the throne by Arthur Edwards 9780008629304
RRP: $31.48$20.37Stunning, photographic King Charles III memorabilia gift for royal fans As the nation celebrates the coronation of a new monarch, The Sun looks back on 100 moments in the life of the man who would be king. The longest heir apparent in British history,... -
Fighting for Life: The Twelve Battles that Made Our NHS, and the Struggle for Its Future by Isabel Hardman 9780241991862
RRP: $23.08$16.32'The book the NHS has always deserved' Andrew Marr'A sensational and much-needed book . . . thorough, scholarly and above all readable' Chris van Tulleken--------------------------------------------------How does our National Health Service really work,... -
Terror on the Tube: Behind the Veil of 7/7 -- An Investigation by Nick Kollerstrom 9781615777723
RRP: $52.48$34.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615777723Author Nick KollerstromFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Progressive PressPublisher Progressive PressWeight(grams) 584g -
The 1930s Home by Greg Stevenson
$11.66The 1930s home presented an exciting new way of living for the generation that moved out to the suburbs. Young couples who had previously rented accommodation in urban centres found themselves able to afford new-build homes with hot running water, a... -
Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth by John Garth
RRP: $23.08$15.23* TOLKIEN * Now a major motion picture Acclaimed as 'the best book about Tolkien', this award-winning biography explores J.R.R. Tolkien's wartime experiences and their impact on his life and his writing of The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings... -
Garibaldi: Invention of a Hero by Lucy Riall 9780300144239
RRP: $41.98$36.48The first sustained analysis of the cult of the legendary Italian hero Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Italian revolutionary leader and popular hero, was among the best-known figures of the nineteenth century. This book seeks to examine his life and the making... -
The Elder Edda: A Book of Viking Lore by Andy Orchard
RRP: $20.98$14.93Compiled by an unknown scribe in Iceland around 1270, and based on sources dating back centuries earlier, these mythological and heroic poems tell of gods and mortals from an ancient era: the giant-slaying Thor, the doomed Voelsung family, the Hel-ride... -
Manchester United on This Day: History, Facts & Figures from Every Day of the Year by Mike Donovan 9781908051783
RRP: $20.98$12.89Manchester United On This Day revisits all the most magical and memorable moments from the club's distinguished past, mixing in a maelstrom of quirky anecdotes and legendary characters to produce an irresistibly dippable diary of Red Devils history -... -
Portrait Of A Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson by Nigel Nicolson
RRP: $20.98$14.93The classic story of the relationship between Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, and a unique portrait of the Bloomsbury Group.'A brilliantly structured account of the dramas, infidelities and deep emotional attachments' GUARDIAN'An intimate and... -
Ireland's Ancient East by Neil Jackman
RRP: $31.48$28.58From medieval Carlingford in Louth to Blarney Castle in Cork, discover the top 100 places to visit in Ireland's Ancient East. Wander through time at sites such as Clonmacnoise, Newgrange and the Rock of Cashel, as well as at hidden gems like Athassel... -
Old English Lives of Saints, Volume III by Aelfric
RRP: $62.90$49.69Old English Lives of Saints, a series composed in the 990s by the Benedictine monk Aelfric in his distinctive alliterative prose, portrays an array of saints-including virgin martyrs, married virgins, aristocrats, kings, soldiers, and bishops-for a late... -
Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, the Berlin Wall and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth by Iain MacGregor
RRP: $23.08$15.54With a foreword by William Boyd'Gripping and revelatory' Tom Holland'As convoluted and deadly as the plot of a novel by John le Carre, but all too real' Daily Mail, Must Reads'With a gripping narrative and vivid interviews with those on all sides whose... -
A History of Norfolk in 100 Objects by John A. Davies 9780752461625
RRP: $31.48$24.26Compiled by two highly respected authors and museum curators, this richly illustrated book features 100 objects - ranging from a Viking Thor's Hammer and Lord Nelson's funeral drape, to the whistle used during the Christmas truce of 1914. Norfolk has... -
Behind the Curtain: Football in Eastern Europe by Jonathan Wilson
RRP: $23.08$15.54'Epic... Wilson writes captivatingly with humour...anyone with an interest in eastern European sport will be consulting this book for years to come' FINANCIAL TIMES'This fascinating and perceptive travelogue includes a fine collection of anecdotes too... -
Secret Parchment: Five Tibetan Initiation Techniques by Radu Cinamar 9781937859138
RRP: $65.08$34.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937859138Author Radu CinamarFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Sky BooksPublisher Sky BooksWeight(grams) 274g -
The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire by Susan Pedersen
RRP: $35.68$26.63The First World War threw the imperial order into crisis. New states emerged from the great European land empires, while Germany's African and Pacific colonies, and the Ottoman provinces in the Middle East fell into allied hands. Britain, France,... -
In the Shadow of St. Paul's Cathedral: The Churchyard that Shaped London by Margaret Willes 9780300273380
RRP: $23.08$19.68The extraordinary story of St. Paul's Churchyard-the area of London that was a center of social and intellectual life for more than a millennium St. Paul's Cathedral stands at the heart of London, an enduring symbol of the city. Less well known is the... -
A History of Crete by Chris Morris
RRP: $27.28$18.88Known by the Greeks as 'Megalonisos', the 'Great Island', Crete has been of paramount strategic importance for thousands of years thanks to its location close to the junction of three continents and the heart of the eastern Mediterranean. The island has... -
One Fine Day by Ian Marchant 9781914613555
RRP: $27.28$18.06A time-travelling, genealogical adventure, bringing pre-industrial, rural, eighteenth-century England vividly to life on the page. One day Ian Marchant decided, as all men of a certain age must, to have a dig around his family history. Surprisingly... -
The Curtain and the Wall: A Modern Journey Along Europe's Cold War Border by Timothy Phillips 9781783785780
RRP: $23.08$15.37An epic journey across 5,000 kilometres and through eight decades, to tell a new story about the old Cold War faultlines With the fall of the Berlin Wall, it seemed that the old divisions between East and West had been consigned to history. But with... -
The National Trust Miscellany: Secrets, Surprises & Strange Things Of All Kinds by Ian Allen
RRP: $18.88$12.43Staggering statistics, strange facts and all kinds of surprising stuff from the National Trust. Haunted houses, baffling objects, bizarre buildings and distinctly curious characters. * Who needs an upside-down lighthouse? * How... -
A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism by Caroline Moorehead
RRP: $20.98$14.93'Moorehead paints a wonderfully vivid and moving portrait of the women of the Italian Resistance' MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TIMESThe extraordinary story of the courageous women who spearheaded the Italian Resistance during the Second World WarIn the late... -
A New History of Ireland, Volume VI: Ireland Under the Union, II: 1870-1921 by W. E. Vaughan 9780199583744
$159.81A New History of Ireland is the largest scholarly project in modern Irish history. In 9 volumes, it provides a comprehensive new synthesis of modern scholarship on every aspect of Irish history and prehistory, from the earliest geological and... -
Dragon Lords: The History and Legends of Viking England by Eleanor Parker
RRP: $33.58$26.17Why did the Vikings sail to England? Were they indiscriminate raiders, motivated solely by bloodlust and plunder? One narrative, the stereotypical one, might have it so. But locked away in the buried history of the British Isles are other, far richer and... -
Squares of London by John Coulter
RRP: $105.00$82.66Its garden squares distinguish London most clearly from other great cities. All have their ceremonial and market squares, but none the quantity, quality, and variety of residential squares that sets London apart. The history of the London square begins... -
The Twilight Lords: Elizabeth I and the First Irish Holocaust by Richard J. Berleth 9781570983764
RRP: $31.48$24.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570983764Author Richard BerlethFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Roberts Rinehart PublishersPublisher Roberts Rinehart PublishersWeight(grams)... -
A Brief History of Life in the Middle Ages by Martyn Whittock
RRP: $27.28$7.37Using wide-ranging evidence, Martyn Whittock shines a light on Britain in the Middle Ages, bringing it vividly to life in this fascinating new portrait that brings together the everyday and the extraordinary.Thus we glimpse 11th-century rural society... -
The Penguin Book of Witches by Katherine Howe
RRP: $20.98$14.93A chilling, truly authoritative anthology of real-life accounts of witches, from medieval Europe through colonial AmericaFrom a manual for witch hunters written by King James himself in 1597, to court documents from the Salem witch trials of 1692, to... -
Napoleon Volume 2: The Spirit of the Age by Michael Broers
RRP: $35.68$24.32'Masterly.' Daily Mail 'Stunning.' History Today'Magnificent.' Literary ReviewNapoleon's life reached its most extraordinary stage between 1805 and 1810. At war with Britain, Russia, and Austria, he unleashed his magnificent Grande Armee. The first... -
The 1940s Home by Paul Evans
RRP: $14.68$12.33The history of the British home in the 1940s is dominated by the Second World War. In the first five years of the decade homes were adapted to better survive the affects of bombing. The 1930s home became the wartime home with the addition of anti-blast... -
Politics: Between the Extremes by Nick Clegg
RRP: $23.08$16.32'Compelling' Ian McEwan 'Engrossing' Alan Johnson 'Essential' Robert Peston *THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*Politics has changed. For decades Britain was divided between Left and Right but united in its belief in a two-party state. Now, with... -
The Edge of the World: How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are by Michael Pye
RRP: $31.48$23.00Featured in New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2015 Michael Pye's The Edge of the World is an epic adventure: from the Vikings to the Enlightenment, from barbaric outpost to global centre, it tells the amazing story of northern Europe's transformation... -
The House by the Lake by Thomas Harding
RRP: $23.08$16.32SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in, and lost, by five different families. A... -
Shakespeare’s Book: The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio by Chris Laoutaris
RRP: $52.50$35.34'A lively picture of multiple operators scrambling to steal a march on the competition . . . Lavishly detailed'FINANCIAL TIMES 'This is Shakespearean scholarship at its best, brilliantly researched yet... -
Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe by Gordon Corera
RRP: $23.08$15.23Gordon Corera uses declassified documents and extensive original research to tell the story of MI14(d) and the Secret Pigeon Service for the first time. 'This is an amazing story' Simon Mayo, BBC Radio 2 ... -
The Book of the Order of Chivalry by Ramon Llull
RRP: $52.48$43.89New English translation of Llull's classic and significant text, restoring the nuances of the original. Ramon Llull (1232-1316) composed The Book of the Order of Chivalry between 1274 and 1276 as both an instrument of reform and an agent for change... -
London Hidden Interiors by Philip Davies 9780956864246
RRP: $105.00$67.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956864246Author Philip DaviesFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Atlantic Publishing, Croxley GreenPublisher Atlantic Publishing, Croxley Green -
Wilson: The Origins of the Wilsons and Their Place in History by Iain Gray 9781852172053
RRP: $8.38$6.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781852172053Author Iain GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Lang Syne Publishers LtdPublisher Lang Syne Publishers Ltd -
Clanship to Crofters' War: The Social Transformation of the Scottish Highlands by T. Devine 9780719090769
RRP: $41.98$36.98Received to wide acclaim when first published in the 1990s, this absorbing book remains one of the most important, influential and widely read histories of the Scottish Highlands from the end of the Jacobite Risings to the great crofters' rebellion of...