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The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790 by Ritchie Robertson
RRP: $37.03$27.32'The best single-volume study of the Enlightenment that we have' Literary ReviewThe Enlightenment is one of the formative periods of Western history, yet more than 300 years after it began, it remains controversial. It is often seen as the fountainhead... -
The Knights Templar in Yorkshire by Diane Holloway
RRP: $35.08$26.60Where can you see an effigy of a Templar? What prompted King John to hand England over to an Italian? Who worked for the Templars in Yorkshire? The Knights Templar in Yorkshire answers all these questions and many more. This new book explores what... -
Memoirs Of Montparnasse by John Glassco
RRP: $33.13$22.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590171844Author John GlasscoFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Hybrid Hate: Jews, Blacks, and the Question of Race by Tudor Parfitt
RRP: $60.43$45.34Hybrid Hate is the first book to study the conflation of anti-Semitism and anti-Black racism. As objects of racism, Jews and Blacks have been linked together for centuries as peoples apart from the general run of humanity. In this book, Tudor Parfitt... -
Resources of Hope: Culture, Democracy, Socialism by Raymond Williams 9780860919438
RRP: $44.83$41.69Raymond Williams possessed unique authority as Britain's foremost cultural theorist and public intellectual. Informed by an unparalleled range of reference and the resources of deep personal experience, his life's work represents a patient, exemplary... -
Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women by Caroline Walker Bynum
RRP: $56.55$44.73In the period between 1200 and 1500 in western Europe, a number of religious women gained widespread veneration and even canonization as saints for their extraordinary devotion to the Christian eucharist, supernatural multiplications of food and drink,... -
My Revision Notes: OCR AS/A-level History: England 1547-1603: the Later Tudors by Nicholas Fellows
RRP: $20.48$18.76Exam board: OCRLevel: A-levelSubject: History First teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016Target success in OCR AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam... -
The Kings and Queens of England: Lives and Reigns from the House of Wessex to the House of Windsor by Peter Snow
RRP: $39.00$22.72Historians and broadcasters Peter Snow and Ann MacMillan tell the real stories of the most powerful men and women in British history.Kings & Queens explores the lives, loves, triumphs and disasters of a monarchy that is the envy of the world. Snow and... -
The Butchers by Ruth Gilligan
RRP: $17.53$11.86***WINNER of the 2021 RSL Ondaatje Prize***'I binged it like a Netflix show... It's stunning' Luke Kennard, author of The Transition______________________________A photograph is hung on a gallery wall for the very first time since it was taken two... -
Death's Other Kingdom by Gamel Woolsey 9780907871194
RRP: $25.33$16.77A heart-rending account of a Spanish village torn apart by the coming of the Civil War - A rare humanist and female voice on a war which has otherwise been colonised by political commentary and male voices. A balance to the cruelty of Orwell's Homage to... -
Prostitution in Victorian Colchester: Controlling the uncontrollable by Jane Pearson
RRP: $37.03$33.11The decision to build a new army camp in the small market town of Colchester in 1856 was well received and helped to stimulate the local economy after a prolonged period of economic stagnation. Before long the Colchester garrison was one of the largest... -
Medieval Arms and Armour - a Sourcebook. Volume I - The Fourteenth Century by Ralph Moffat 9781783276769
RRP: $126.75$118.13Authoritative reference guide, using the documents in which arms and armour first appeared to explain and define them. "A substantial and impressive piece of scholarship, one that will serve scholars and enthusiasts of medieval arms and armour very... -
The Kew Gardens Girls: An emotional and sweeping historical novel perfect for fans of Kate Morton by Posy Lovell
RRP: $19.48$13.26In official partnership with Kew GardensIt's 1916 and England is at war. Desperate to help in whatever way they can, Ivy and Louisa enlist as gardeners at Kew, taking on the jobs of the men who have gone to fight. Under their care, the gardens begin to... -
The Undiscovered Country by Aidan McQuade
RRP: $17.53$12.13'A smart and pacy debut' Irish Times'One is struck by its mordant wit and fierce intelligence' Martin W. Sandler, National Book Award-winning author and historian'A cracker read about morality and ethics in a time of conflict . . . A really accessible... -
From the Treaty of Versailles to the Treaty of Maastricht: Conflict, carnage and cooperation in Europe, 1918 - 1993 by Martin Holmes
RRP: $72.13$63.43This book examines European history and politics between two very well-known but flawed treaties: The Treaty of Versailles and the Treaty of Maastricht.Taking the Treaty of Versailles, signed following World War I, as a starting point, the volume argues... -
Street Without A Name: Childhood And Other Misadventures In Bulgaria by Kapka Kassabova 9781846271243
RRP: $21.43$14.27After years on the outside, Bulgaria has finally made it into the EU club in 2007, but beyond the cliches about undrinkable wine, cheap property and assassins with poison-tipped umbrellas, the country remains a largely unknown quantity. Born on the muddy... -
Edmund: In Search of England's Lost King by Francis Young
RRP: $31.18$24.30What buried secret lies beneath the stones of one of England's greatest former churches and shrines, the Benedictine Abbey of Bury St Edmunds? The search for the final resting place of King Edmund has led to this site, beneath which Francis Young argues... -
Elizabeth: The No 1 Sunday Times bestseller from the writer who knew her and her family for over fifty years by Gyles Brandreth 9780241674604
RRP: $48.75$35.14THE NO 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER NOW FEATURING EXCLUSIVE MATERIAL ABOUT CHARLES III's CORONATION WITH ADDED PHOTOGRAPHSA personal account of the life and character of Britain's longest-reigning monarch, from the writer who knew her family best'Compelling... -
The Gunpowder Plot: Terror And Faith In 1605 by Lady Antonia Fraser
RRP: $29.23$19.11Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ... With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... -
1923: The Crisis That Led to Hitler's Coup by Mark Jones 9781529360745
RRP: $29.23$16.65A BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Excellent' Richard Evans'A vivid, crisp, impressively sustained narrative' Financial Times'Riveting' Irish Independent'Refreshing and readable' Irish Times'Gripping . . . thoroughly researched and beautifully... -
Haunted Weymouth by Alex Woodward
RRP: $29.23$22.52Who is the unseen lady that makes her presence chillingly felt to those who fail to bid her 'Good Morning'? What was the featureless dark shadow that terrified a curious young boy exploring a disused fort? From heart-stopping encounters with a Roman... -
Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam by Raymond Ibrahim
RRP: $58.50$36.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642938203Author Raymond IbrahimFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Bombardier BooksPublisher Bombardier BooksWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 231mm *... -
The Little Book of Devon by John van der Kiste 9780752461670
RRP: $19.48$14.72Do you know? Which MP was the first woman to take her seat in parliament? Who was the man they could not hang? Which member of the Beatles lost his temper at a famous Devon landmark? A compendium of fascinating information about Devon past and present,... -
The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848-1918 by A. J. P. Taylor 9780198812708
RRP: $70.18$66.28The system of international repression ended with the fall of Metternich in 1848. The conflicting ideals of international revolution and collective security came into being with Lenin and Wilson in 1918. Nationalism, tempered by the Balance of Power,... -
The Big Book of Pain: Torture & Punishment through History by Mark P. Donnelly 9780752459479
RRP: $39.00$30.11For millennia, mankind has devised ingenious and diabolical means of inflicting pain on fellow human beings. This deplorable but seemingly universal trait has eaten away at mankind's very claim to civilisation. Despite how repugnant the practice of... -
The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End, 1917-1923 by Robert Gerwarth
RRP: $29.23$21.35'A breathtaking, magisterial panorama, telling the epic story of post-war anarchy, dying empires and rising nation states. It makes us rethink our understanding of Europe's twentieth century' David Motadel, The Times Literary SupplementFor the Western... -
Treachery at Hursley Park House: The intriguing new WWII mystery featuring wily heroine Josephine Fox by Claire Gradidge
RRP: $17.53$12.13From the winner of the Richard and Judy Search for a Bestseller competition comes another tantalising Golden Age wartime mystery.**DON'T MISS THE LASTEST JOSEPHINE FOX MYSTERY, A CONFLICT OF INTERESTS. OUT NOW!**PRAISE FOR THE JOSEPHINE FOX... -
The G.I. Bride: A heart-warming saga full of tears, friendship and hope by Eileen Ramsay
RRP: $19.48$13.36If you love Donna Douglas' Nightingale Girls and the nurses of Nadine Dorries' Lovely Lane, be prepared to fall in love with April, Eugenie, Bess and Nancy as they band together to support each other through love, loss and scandal. In wartime, can new... -
How England Made the English: From Why We Drive on the Left to Why We Don't Talk to Our Neighbours by Harry Mount
RRP: $25.33$17.73Harry Mount's How England Made the English: From Why We Drive on the Left to Why We Don't Talk to Our Neighbours is packed with astonishing facts and wonderful stories.Q. Why are English train seats so narrow?A. It's all the Romans' fault. The first... -
Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens
RRP: $23.38$16.44'When Dickens has described something you see it for the rest of your life' George OrwellIn 1844, Charles Dickens took a break from novel writing to travel through Italy for almost a year, and Pictures from Italy is an illuminating account of his... -
George I (Penguin Monarchs): The Lucky King by Tim Blanning
RRP: $9.73$7.41'One stroke of good fortune after another had taken him to be ... the sovereign of three kingdoms and thus ruler of what was rapidly becoming the most prosperous and powerful empire in the world'George I was probably the most important of the... -
The Lion House: The Rise of Suleyman the Magnificent by Christopher de Bellaigue
RRP: $21.43$15.15An immersive reconstruction of the life of the most feared and powerful man of the sixteenth century.'Wolf Hall for the Ottoman Empire ... History at its most gripping' Telegraph'A formidable book ... incredible' Rory StewartVenice, 1522. Intelligence... -
An Honourable Exit by Eric Vuillard
RRP: $29.23$20.65From the International Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Order of the Day and The War of the Poor comes a searing account of a conflict that dealt a fatal blow to French colonialism.A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2023'Excoriating and profound . . . A... -
Scandal at Dolphin Square: A Notorious History by Simon Danczuk 9781803993607
RRP: $31.18$23.89'Compelling, authoritative and as readable as the best airport thriller. It fizzes with crime, fame, power and illicit sex.' Jeremy Vine'A timely and important book. It's quite remarkable how one building has played host to such debauchery. If only the... -
NKJV, Personal Size Reference Bible, Sovereign Collection, Leathersoft, Purple, Red Letter, Thumb Indexed, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, New King James Version by Thomas Nelson
RRP: $87.75$63.98This elegant Bible edition honors the beauty and richness of the New King James Version in a convenient portable size with essential study tools and traditional red-letter text for the Words of Christ.The New King James Version in the Sovereign... -
The 'Hitler Myth': Image and Reality in the Third Reich by Ian Kershaw
RRP: $29.23$21.35Few twentieth-century political leaders enjoyed greated popularity among their own people than Hitler in the 1930s and 1940s. This remarkable study of the myth that sustained one of the most notorious dictators, and delves into Hitler's extraordinarily... -
Stephen (Penguin Monarchs): The Reign of Anarchy by Carl Watkins
RRP: $15.58$11.29'Stephen risked being seen as a man who never quite transcended the essential flawed-ness of his claim to be king. His actions betrayed uneasiness in his new skin' Remembered as a time in which 'Christ and his saints slept', Stephen's troubled reign... -
The Windsors at War: The Nazi Threat to the Crown by Alexander Larman 9781474623971
RRP: $21.43$14.43'This riotous and engaging biography has it all'GUARDIAN'As much fun to read as a good political thriller'WALL STREET JOURNALAt the outbreak of war, the British monarchy was in turmoil. Edward VIII had abdicated, leaving his brother Bertie to take on a... -
The War is Dead, Long Live the War: Bosnia: the Reckoning by Ed Vulliamy
RRP: $29.23$21.35Wars come and go across the headlines and television screens, but for those who survive them, scarred and scattered, they never end. This is a book about post-conflict irresolution, about the lives of those who survived the gulag of concentration camps... -
Forest of Foes by Matthew Harffy
RRP: $19.48$13.86In this action-packed new Bernicia Chronicles adventure from Matthew Harffy, Beobrand finds himself in a dangerous foreign land, caught between warring factions of royalty and the Church. AD 652. Beobrand has been ordered to lead a group of pilgrims...