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You’Re Nicked: Investigating British Television Police Series by Ben Lamb 9781526171955
RRP: £20.00£17.84You're nicked is the first comprehensive study of television police series in the UK. It reveals how British television's most popular genre has developed stylistically, politically and philosophically from 1955 to the present.Each chapter focuses on a... -
People of the Long Barrows: Life, Death and Burial in the Earlier Neolithic by Martin Smith 9780752447339
RRP: £25.00£18.54Human remains can answer all sorts of questions about our ancestors - what sort of diet they ate, what age they lived to, what sort of living conditions they experienced and how they died. The Neolithic is the earliest period from which significant... -
The British Prime Minister in an Age of Upheaval by Mark Garnett 9781509539369
RRP: £20.95£18.50In this timely book, Mark Garnett provides a bracing reassessment of the role of the British Prime Minister, from Margaret Thatcher's controversial tenure to Boris Johnson's attempt to confront a pandemic with a ministerial team created to face the very... -
Temptation's Darling by Johanna Lindsey
RRP: £10.99£7.40No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Johanna Lindsey blends passion and humour in a dazzling Regency-era novel in which a disastrous debutante becomes the toast of the town with a little help from a friend of the Prince Regent. Perfect for fans of... -
Edward VI by Jennifer Loach
RRP: £16.99£14.61Edward VI was the son of Henry VIII and his second wife, Jane Seymour. He ruled for only six years (1547-1553) and died at the age of sixteen. But these were years of fundamental importance in the history of the English state, and in particular of the... -
Kidnapping Ronnie: The Incredible Story Behind the Capture of One of the World's Most Wanted Criminals by Patrick King 9781739695828
RRP: £9.99£8.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739695828Author Patrick KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Highland ClassicsPublisher Highland Classics -
Crewe: The Twentieth Century: Britain in Old Photographs by Howard Curran 9780752464503
RRP: £14.99£11.55This is a fascinating collection of many unpublished photographs showing Crewe's development during the twentieth century. Illustrated with well over 200 old photographs and images, it traces changes and development, and highlights the architectural... -
A Century of Wolverhampton: Events, People and Places Over the 20th Century by Ned Williams
RRP: £14.99£11.55A Century of Wolverhampton offers an insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people and gives the reader glimpses and details of familiar places during a century of unprecedented change. Many aspects of Wolverhampton's recent history... -
Fighting Churchill, Appeasing Hitler: How a British Civil Servant Helped Cause the Second World War by Adrian Phillips 9781785904752
RRP: £20.00£14.88In Fighting Churchill, Appeasing Hitler Adrian Phillips presents a radical new view of the British policy of appeasement in the late 1930s. No one doubts that appeasement failed, but Phillips shows that it caused active harm - even sabotaging Britain's... -
The Land That Made Us: The Peak District farmer's story by Christine Gregory 9781912560325
RRP: £16.99£12.87The South West Peak is a lesser-known part of the Peak District stretching from Lyme Park in Cheshire in the north to Onecote in Staffordshire in the south, and from Macclesfield in the west to Buxton in the east. This landscape area includes tracts of... -
The Commotion Time: Tudor Rebellions of 1549 by E.T. Fox
RRP: £25.00£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913118792Author E.T. FoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Churchill and Ireland by Paul Bew 9780198755210
RRP: £11.99£8.64Winston Churchill spent his early childhood in Ireland, had close Irish relatives, and was himself much involved in Irish political issues for a large part of his career. He took Ireland very seriously - and not only because of its significance in the... -
The Prometheans: John Martin and the generation that stole the future by Max Adams
RRP: £12.99£8.60The richly varied lives of the Martin brothers reflected the many upheavals of Britain in the age of Industrial Revolution. Low-born and largely unschooled, they were part of a new generation of artists, scientists and inventors who witnessed the... -
Intimate Subjects: Touch and Tangibility in Britain's Cerebral Age by Simeon Koole 9780226834344
RRP: £28.00£27.39An insightful history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain told through a single sense: touch. When, where, and who gets to touch and be touched, and who decides? What do we learn through touch? How does touch bring us closer together or push... -
London Fog: The Biography by Christine L. Corton
RRP: £19.95£16.12A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Telegraph Editor's ChoiceAn Evening Standard "Best Books about London" SelectionIn popular imagination, London is a city of fog. The classic London fogs, the thick yellow "pea-soupers," were born in the... -
East End 1888 by William J. Fishman 9780907123859
£12.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907123859Author William J. FishmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 343Imprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications -
The Severn Tsunami?: The Story of Britain's Greatest Natural Disaster by Mike Hall 9780752470153
RRP: £14.99£11.55On 30 January 1607 a huge wave, over 7 meters high, swept up the River Severn, flooding the land on either side. The wall of water reached as far in land as Bristol and Cardiff. It swept away everything in its path, devastating communities and killing... -
Arthurian Legends by Rosalind Kerven
£17.54The definitive book of stories from Arthurian legend. Delve into the enchanted world of Arthurian legends where you will meet the Knights of the Round Table, Wizard Merlin, King Arthur and Queen Guinevere. With plots full of romance, adventure and... -
They Stole My Innocence: The shocking true story of a young girl abused in a Jersey care home by Madeleine Vibert
RRP: £16.99£12.28'Lying in the prison of my bed, his dark silhouette closes in, a pillow in his hands. My throat tightens in fear...'At the tender age of five, Madeleine was living a daily nightmare. In a dark, grey building on Jersey, she was just another orphan,... -
Scotland's Railways in the 1980s and 1990s: A Snapshot in Time by Peter J Green 9781526773548
RRP: £25.00£18.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Peasant Perceptions of Landscape: Ewelme Hundred, South Oxfordshire, 500-1650 by Stephen Mileson 9780192894892
RRP: £115.00£104.88Peasant Perceptions of Landscape marks a change in the discipline of landscape history, as well as making a major contribution to the history of everyday life. Until now, there has been no sustained analysis of how ordinary medieval and early modern... -
Churchill's Bomb: A hidden history of Britain's first nuclear weapons programme by Graham Farmelo
RRP: £14.99£9.80Churchill's Bomb - from the author of the Costa award-winning biography The Strangest Man - reveals a new aspect of Winston Churchill's life, so far completely neglected by historians: his relations with his nuclear scientists, and his management of... -
Realm of Darkness (Hugh Corbett 23) by Paul Doherty 9781472284792
RRP: £21.99£15.61Paul Doherty's twenty-third medieval mystery featuring Sir Hugh Corbett is a gripping and gruesome tale of murder and mayhem sure to appeal to fans of C. J. Sansom and Bernard Cornwell.Book InformationISBN 9781472284792Author Paul DohertyFormat... -
Lightnings to Spitfires: Memoirs of an RAF Fighter Pilot and Former Officer Commanding the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight by Clive Rowley
RRP: £25.00£17.62For forty-four years, Clive Rowley flew with the Royal Air Force and for thirty-one of those years he specialised as an air defence fighter pilot. Such was his love of fast fighter aircraft that, in order to stay flying, he transferred to Specialist... -
Strick: Tank Hero of Arras by Tim Strickland
RRP: £30.00£20.95Major-General Eugene Vincent Michael Strickland CMG, DSO, OBE, MM, CStJ, Star of Jordan - Strick - rose from penniless hardship to great military distinction. He was a tank man, a war hero who fought in France, North Africa and Italy during World War II,... -
Using Critical Theory: How to Read and Write About Literature by Lois Tyson
RRP: £35.99£32.09Explaining both why theory is important and how to use it, Lois Tyson introduces beginning students of literature to this often daunting field in a friendly and readable style. The new edition of this textbook is clearly structured with chapters based on... -
The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III by Andrew Roberts 9781984879288
RRP: £25.00£16.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984879288Author Andrew RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 743gDimensions(mm) 227mm * 151mm... -
To Fight Alongside Friends: The First World War Diary of Charlie May by Gerry Harrison 9780007558551
RRP: £10.99£8.29The First World War Diaries of Manchester Pals Captain Charlie May - written and kept in secret and published now for the first time. A born storyteller, Charlie May's vivid eye for detail and warm good humour brings his experience in the trenches (and... -
John Charles McQuaid: Ruler of Catholic Ireland by John Cooney 9780862788117
£28.78An in-depth study of the most significant Irish clergyman in the history of the state For three decades, 1940-72, as Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland, John Charles McQuaid imposed his iron will on Irish politicians and instilled fear among his... -
Britain by the Book: A Curious Tour of Our Literary Landscape by Oliver Tearle
RRP: £9.99£6.80What caused Dickens to leap out of bed one night and walk 30 miles from London to Kent?How did a small town on the Welsh borders become the second-hand bookshop capital of the world?Why did a jellyfish persuade Evelyn Waugh to abandon his suicide attempt... -
The Extraordinary Life of A A Milne by Nadia Cohen 9781526704467
RRP: £19.99£14.28VERY few authors can ever dream of coming close to the legacy left by AA Milne. He remains a household name in almost every corner of the globe thanks to a phenomenally popular collection of whimsical children s stories about a boy named Christopher... -
Sussex at War 1939 - 1945 by Clifford Mewett 9781473855595
RRP: £12.99£6.85From the Dunkirk evacuation, Sussex became a front-line County and a likely invasion area if the German's launched their feared attack. This book takes an in depth look at the fortification of the County, the plight of the evacuees who were hurriedly... -
Grandmama of Europe: The Crowned Descendants of Queen Victoria by Theo Aronson 9781839012587
RRP: £14.99£13.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839012587Author Theo AronsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint Lume BooksPublisher Lume BooksWeight(grams) 490gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 22mm -
Medway Tales: Life on the Dividing River by Wilf Lower 9780752453064
RRP: £14.99£11.55The River Medway has long sustained those who have lived along its banks. Collated by maritime journalist Wilf Lower, Medway Tales: Life on the Dividing River comprises a lively collection of feature articles detailing the people of the Medway and the... -
Columba: Politician, penitent and pilgrim by Ian Bradley
RRP: £11.99£8.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849527668Author Ian BradleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Wild Goose PublicationsPublisher Wild Goose PublicationsWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm)... -
From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow: Vol IV: 1917 Year of Crisis by Arthur Jacob Marder
RRP: £16.99£12.28The five volumes that constitute Arthur Marder's From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow represented arguably the finest contribution to the literature of naval history since Alfred Mahan. A J P Taylor wrote that 'his naval history has a unique fascination... -
The Stornoway Black Pudding Bible by Seumas MacInnes
£5.29Seumas MacInnes, one of Scotland's premier restaurateurs and owner of the iconic Cafe Gandolfi in Glasgow, is not afraid to take issue with the national bard over the sobriquet 'Great chieftain o' the puddin race'. Without slighting the qualities of... -
The Phoney Victory by Peter Hitchens 9781788313292
£35.53Was World War II really the `Good War'? In the years since the declaration of peace in 1945 many myths have sprung up around the conflict in the victorious nations. In this book, Peter Hitchens deconstructs the many fables which have become associated... -
No Free Parking: The Curious History of London's Monopoly Streets by Nicholas Boys Smith
RRP: £16.99£12.43From the medieval cobbles, through Dickensian iron and fog, to the neon lights and bustle of the twenty-first century, the ever-changing streets of London map out the vibrant stories, triumphs and struggles of everyone who ever called London home. ... -
The Lost Paths: A History of How We Walk From Here To There by Jack Cornish 9781405951289
RRP: £20.00£14.29Discover the rich history of Britain's millennia-old network of pathways, and it will be impossible to take an unremarkable walk again . . .'A nostalgic amble through the history of travel in England and Wales, and an examination of the routes that make...