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An Evening of Long Goodbyes by Paul Murray 9780241955895
RRP: $20.98$20.48The brilliant first novel by the author of The Bee StingAcclaimed as one of the funniest and most assured debuts of recent years, An Evening of Long Goodbyes is the story of Dubliner Charles Hythloday and the heroic squandering of the family inheritance... -
Celtic Scotland by Ian Armit
$40.36This authoritative and handsomely illustrated book is aimed at the general reader who wants to know about the mysteriouspeople who inhabited Scotland from the Bronze Age onwards. They created wonderful works of art in gold and silver and theirbrochs and... -
The Discourses by Niccolo Machiavelli
RRP: $27.28$19.09Few figures in intellectual history have proved as notorious and ambiguous as Niccolo Machiavelli. But while his treatise The Prince made his name synonymous with autocratic ruthlessness and cynical manipulation, The Discourses (c.1517) shows a radically... -
AQA GCSE History: Norman England, 1066-1100 by Helena Clarke
$43.76Exam Board: AQALevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2016First Exam: June 2018Create a stimulating, well-paced teaching route through the 2016 GCSE History specification using this tailor-made series that draws on a legacy of... -
I am Henry: A Compelling Novel of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII by Jan Hendrik Verstraten 9788412595345
RRP: $25.18$18.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788412595345Author Jan Hendrik VerstratenFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Madeglobal PublishingPublisher Madeglobal Publishing -
A History of the Crusades III: The Kingdom of Acre and the Later Crusades by Steven Runciman
RRP: $23.08$16.32The third volume of Steven Runciman's classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades'The whole tale is one of faith and folly, courage and greed, hope and disillusion'Steven Runciman's triumphant three-volume A History of the Crusades... -
Hope and Glory: Britain 1900-2000 by Peter Clarke
RRP: $27.28$19.09Peter Clarke brilliantly challenges the commonly held view of Britain in the twentieth century as a nation in decline. Adopting a wide perspective, he examines the political. social and economic changes that transformed Britain. He looks at how jobs and... -
A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy at Oxford 1900-60 by Nikhil Krishnan
RRP: $42.00$30.85A Telegraph Best Summer Book of 2023 A New York Times 'Critics' Pick' Book of 2023 What are the limits of language? How to bring philosophy closer to everyday life? What is a good human being? These were among the questions that philosophers... -
50 People Who Buggered Up Britain by Quentin Letts
RRP: $25.18$16.80From the Sunday Times bestselling authorWhich fifty people made Britain the wreck she is? From ludicrous propagandist Alastair Campbell to the Luftwaffe's allies, the modernist architects, it's time to name the guilty.Quentin Letts sharpens his nib and... -
The Path to Genocide: Essays on Launching the Final Solution by Christopher R. Browning 9780521558785
RRP: $33.58$29.19The Nazi Holocaust haunts the modern imagination as one of the most compelling examples of the human capacity for organised atrocity on a mass scale. This authoritative account of the evolution of Nazi Jewish policy from 1939 to 1942 seeks to answer some... -
Discovering Tudor London: A Journey Back in Time by Natalie Grueninger 9780750970150
RRP: $20.98$15.86This engaging and practical travel guide takes you on a journey through the best of Tudor London, to sites built and associated with this fascinating dynasty, and to the museums and galleries that house tantalising treasures from this rich period of... -
Promise of a Dream: Remembering the Sixties by Sheila Rowbotham
$35.97At the beginning of the decade renowned historian Sheila Rowbotham was a rebellious sixteen-year-old at a Methodist boarding school in the north-east of England, reading Sartre and dreaming of Paris. By the end of the sixties she was a seasoned political... -
Lady Katherine Grey: A Dynastic Tragedy by Conor Byrne
RRP: $42.00$31.58'I have always abhorred to draw in question the title of the crown, so many disputes have been already touching it in the mouths of men . . . so long as I live, I shall be queen of England; when I am dead, they shall succeed that has most right.' -... -
Francis I: The Maker of Modern France by Leonie Frieda
RRP: $27.28$18.06'A captivating biography ... This rollicking story is packed with anecdotes' The Times'I can't suppose that there has been a better English biography of Francis, or indeed is likely to be one' Catholic HeraldFrancis I was inconstant, amorous, hot-headed... -
Hawkwind: Days Of The Underground: Radical Escapism in the Age Of Paranoia by Joe Banks
RRP: $56.70$39.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907222849Author Joe BanksFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Strange Attractor PressPublisher Strange Attractor Press -
The Story of the Bayeux Tapestry: Unravelling the Norman Conquest by David Musgrove 9780500297650
RRP: $27.28$18.06The definitive guide to the Bayeux Tapestry and its legacy, exploring the rich narrative behind its stitches and the turbulent times in which it was created. Political intrigue and treachery, heroism and brutal violence, victory and defeat – all this is... -
The English Manor C.1200-C.1500 by Rosemary Horrox
RRP: $41.98$37.42Provides a comprehensive introduction and essential guide to one of the most important institutions in medieval England and to its substantial archive. This is the first book to offer a detailed explanation of the form, structure and evolution of the... -
Elli: Coming of Age in the Holocaust by Livia E. Bitton Jackson
RRP: $20.98$13.94'Among the most moving documents I have read in years ... You will not forget it' Elie Wiesel From her small, sunny hometown between the beautiful Carpathian Mountains and the blue Danube River, Elli Friedmann was taken - at a time when most... -
Gentry: Six Hundred Years of a Peculiarly English Class by Adam Nicolson
RRP: $27.28$17.81Adam Nicolson tells the story of England through the history of fourteen gentry families - from the 15th century to the present day. This sparkling work of history reads like a real-life Downton Abbey, as the loves, hatreds and many times of grief of his... -
Jacob's Ladder by Michael Ashcroft 9781785904875
RRP: $42.00$31.25Jacob Rees-Mogg is one of the most prominent and controversial figures in contemporary British politics. He is a man who divides opinion in his own party, in Parliament and across the country. An arch-Brexiteer with significant business interests and... -
The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social Democracy by Stein Ringen 9781474625197
RRP: $52.50$30.79In The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises, kings and queens, war, peace, language and culture. Scandinavian history has been one of dramatic discontinuities of... -
I Can Hear the Cuckoo: Life in the Wilds of Wales by Kiran Sidhu
RRP: $35.68$24.23'A beautiful and poetic meditation on loss, nature, and what matters in life.' - Nigel WarburtonFrom the BAFTA award-winning writer of The New Yorker short film, Heart ValleyKiran Sidhu never thought she could leave London, but when her mother passes... -
The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club by Christopher de Hamel 9780241304372
RRP: $84.00$57.86The illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among the greatest works of European art and literature. We are dazzled by them and recognize their crucial role in the transmission of knowledge. But we generally think much less about the countless men... -
Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s by Virginia Nicholson
RRP: $44.08$31.37In Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes, Virginia Nicholson tells the story of women in the 1950s: a time before the Pill, when divorce spelled scandal and two-piece swimsuits caused mass alarm.Turn the page back to the mid-twentieth century, and discover a... -
The Victorians: A Very Short Introduction by Professor Martin Hewitt 9780198736813
RRP: $18.88$13.55Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The Victorian period may have come to an end over 120 years ago, but the Victorians continue to be a vital presence in the modern world. Contemporary Britain is still in large part Victorian in... -
Made in Belfast by Vivienne Pollock
RRP: $27.28$20.20In 1900 Belfast had the world's biggest linen factories and its largest ropeworks. Its shipbuilding industry produced more tonnage than any other city's (Titanic and Olympic were both built here). But Belfast was also home to cycle-makers, printers,... -
Lost Ireland (Lost) by Orla Fitzpatrick
RRP: $37.78$27.49Pavilion's 20-title Lost series crosses the Atlantic to chronicle some of the precious losses from across the island of Ireland. Pavilion Books' Lost series traditionally looks at the cherished places of a city that time, progress and fashion... -
The Serpent Sword by Matthew Harffy
RRP: $20.98$14.93'HISTORICAL FICTION DOESN'T GET MUCH BETTER THAN THIS' ANGUS DONALD AD 633 Beobrand is a young man with a shadowy past. As an outsider in the kingdom of Bernicia, he is compelled to join his brother, Octa, as a warrior in the household of King... -
Scotland: A Concise History by Fitzroy Maclean
RRP: $23.08$14.70'The Scots', said a censorious English member of Parliament in 1607, 'have not suffered above two kings to die in their beds these two hundred years.' He may have exaggerated, but undeniably Scotland has had a rough and bloodstained history. It is a... -
Runes by Martin Findell
RRP: $20.98$14.28From late antiquity through to the early middle ages, people across north-western Europe were inscribing runes on a range of different objects. Once identified and interpreted by experts, runes provide us with invaluable evidence for the early 'Germanic'... -
London in Fragments: A Mudlark's Treasures by Ted Sandling
RRP: $37.80$24.97This is the fully-illustrated edition of LONDON IN FRAGMENTS. A new paperback edition is also available, published under the title A MUDLARK'S TREASURES: London in Fragments'A beautiful book.' Daily Mail'Exhilaratingly curious.' Evening... -
Cartier: The Story Behind the Style by Rachael Taylor
RRP: $27.28$18.33Cartier: The Story Behind the Style is a beautifully illustrated, handbag-sized visual history of one of the world's most iconic brands. From the brand's inception in Paris in 1847, Cartier has been the go-to jeweller for the world's most stylish set... -
The Hurlers: The First All-Ireland Championship and the Making of Modern Hurling by Paul Rouse
RRP: $23.08$16.32In 1882, a letter was published in the Irish Times, lamenting the decline of hurling. The game was now played only in a few isolated rural pockets, and according to no fixed set of rules. It would have been absurd to imagine that, within five years, an... -
Central Birmingham 1950-1980: Images of England by Martin Hampson 9780752433615
RRP: $31.48$24.26For Birmingham, whose motto is 'Forward', change has long been a fact of life. This pictorial history traces some of the dramatic developments that have taken place in the centre of Birmingham during three post-war decades. This collection of over 200... -
The Tunnel Through Time: A New Route for an Old London Journey by Gillian Tindall
RRP: $27.28$19.09Newly opened by Queen Elizabeth II herself, discover the history and secret stories of the people who've lived above London's newest trainline.Crossrail, or the 'Elizabeth' line, is just the latest way of traversing the very old east-west route through... -
In Europe's Shadow by Robert D. Kaplan
RRP: $31.48$20.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812986624Author Robert D. KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm)... -
Christendom Destroyed: Europe 1517-1648 by Mark Greengrass
RRP: $39.88$28.58Mark Greengrass's gripping, major, original account of Europe in an era of tumultuous changeSUNDAY TIMES and FINANCIAL TIMES Books of the Year 2014This addition to the landmark Penguin History of Europe series is a fascinating study of 16th and 17th... -
Northern Ireland: A Very Short Introduction by Marc Mulholland
RRP: $18.88$13.55From the Plantation of Ulster in the seventeenth century to the entry into peace talks in the late twentieth century the Northern Irish people have been engaged in conflict - Catholic against Protestant, Republican against Unionist. The traumas of... -
Windsor Spares: The Prince Harry and Prince Andrew Show! by Nigel Cawthorne 9781783342488
RRP: $20.98$17.16Dim and dimmer? You decide! Spares Prince Harry and Prince Andrew have rarely been out of the news since 2019. They both have proved to have a rare knack for creating a royal soap opera and turning their humdrum lives into a major embarrassment to their... -
Domination and Lordship: Scotland, 1070-1230 by Dr. Richard Oram
RRP: $54.58$45.07This volume centres upon the era conventionally labelled the 'Making of the kingdom', or the 'Anglo-Norman' era in Scottish history. It seeks a balance between traditional historiographical concentration on the 'feudalisation' of Scottish society as part...