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The Decade in Tory: The Sunday Times Bestseller: An Inventory of Idiocy from the Coalition to Covid Russell Jones 9781800181717
RRP: £25.00£16.47In 2020 the United Kingdom reached a bewildering milestone: ten successive years of Conservative rule. In that decade there were three prime ministers, each in turn described as the worst leader we ever had; ministerial resignations by the hundred; and... -
Lochaber and Glencoe: Landscapes in Stone by Alan McKirdy
RRP: £6.99£4.84The Lochaber and Glencoe area is rich in historical associations. It was at Glenfinnan that Bonnie Prince Charlie started his long march southwards to lay claim to the British throne, and Glencoe was the scene of one of the most vicious massacres in... -
St Aidan's Way of Mission: Celtic insights for a post-Christian world by Ray Simpson
RRP: £7.99£5.79Surveying the life and times of Aidan of Lindisfarne, this book draws insights into missional approaches to inspire both outreach and discipleship for today's Church. As in his previous BRF book, Hilda of Whitby, Ray Simpson shows that such figures from... -
Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition by Captain Robert Falcon Scott
RRP: £8.99£6.45'For God's sake look after our people' Captain Scott's harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. In his journals Scott records his party's optimistic departure from New Zealand, the hazardous voyage... -
Skye: The Island and Its Legends by Otta F. Swire 9781912476336
RRP: £8.99£6.34This is a fabulous treasury of legend and wonder; tales of monsters who dwell in lakes, of small people who trap humans in earthen mounds where time stands still; of dark, shape- shifting spirits whose cloak of human form is betrayed by the sand and... -
Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn by Gabriel Pogrund
RRP: £9.99£7.11'THE POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR' Tim ShipmanA blistering narrative expose of infighting, skulduggery and chaos in Corbyn's Labour party, now revised and updated.* A Times, Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times and i Newspaper Book of the Year *Left Out... -
A History of the Tudors in 100 Objects John Matusiak 9780750991254
RRP: £14.99£9.93This seminal period of British history is a far-off world in which poverty, violence and superstition went hand-in-hand with opulence, religious virtue and a thriving cultural landscape, at once familiar and alien to the modern reader. John Matusiak sets... -
Courtiers: The Sunday Times bestselling inside story of the power behind the crown Valentine Low 9781472290908
RRP: £20.00£14.69'Fascinating' The Times'Tantalising . . . Low's conclusion is a valuable one.' The TelegraphThe gripping account of how the Royal family really operates from the man who has spent years studying them in his role as Royal correspondent for The Times... -
OCR A Level History: Britain 1603-1760 Nicholas Fellows 9781471836701
£32.49Exam Board: OCRLevel: A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016This is an OCR endorsed resourceBuild strong subject knowledge and skills in A Level History using the in-depth analysis and structured support in this... -
The Discovery of Sussex by Peter Brandon
RRP: £25.00£15.42There is a greater difference between life in Sussex today and life one hundred years ago than there was between the times of our great-grandparents and of Queen Elizabeth, for in 1900 Sussex away from the seaside resorts had more in common with the... -
50 Things About Us: What We Really Need to Know About Britain Mark Thomas 9781912836550
RRP: £12.99£8.60In 50 Things About Us, Mark Thomas combines his trademark mix of storytelling, stand-up, mischief and really, really well-researched material to examine how we have come to inhabit this divided wasteland that some of us call the United Kingdom. Based on... -
Civil War: The History of England Volume III by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £16.99£11.87In Civil War, Peter Ackroyd continues his dazzling account of England's history, beginning with the progress south of the Scottish king, James VI, who on the death of Elizabeth I became the first Stuart king of England, and ends with the deposition and... -
Wounded: The Long Journey Home From the Great War by Emily Mayhew
RRP: £12.99£9.09This is the unforgettable story of the remarkable medical workers of World War One.A hundred years ago, the Armistice that ended the Great War was signed. The human cost was devastating: over 21 million military wounded, and nearly 10 million killed. The... -
Warwickshire Grazier and London Skinner 1532-1555: The account book of Peter Temple and Thomas Heritage by N. W. Alcock 9780197260081
£71.11A scholarly edition of the Account Book of Peter Temple and Thomas Heritage, a Warwickshire Grazier and a London Skinner. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.Book... -
Queen Victoria by Elizabeth Longford
RRP: £14.99£6.52'The truth was stranger than any of the fictions that have since been offered to explain her away'Drawing upon Queen Victoria's previously unpublished journals, Elizabeth Longford's classic biography recalls the contrasts and curiosities of an earlier... -
Gimson's Kings and Queens: Brief Lives of the Forty Monarchs since 1066 by Andrew Gimson
RRP: £14.99£10.95NEWLY REVISED AND UPDATEDA book for all lovers of history: the experienced and the novice, the serious and the silly.Gimson's Kings and Queens whirls us through the lives of our monarchs - from 1066 and William the Conqueror right up to Queen Elizabeth... -
Jane Austen Embroidery: Authentic embroidery projects for modern stitchers by Jennie Batchelor
RRP: £16.99£11.4815 beautiful embroidery projects from the era of Jane Austen. Jane Austen was as skilful with a needle as she was with a pen. This unique book from Jennie Batchelor and Alison Larkin showcases recently discovered 18th... -
English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (Excluding Drama) by C. S. Lewis
RRP: £30.00£19.93C. S. Lewis offers a magisterial take on the literature and poetry of one of the most consequential periods in world history, providing deep insight into some of the greatest writers of the age, including Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, William... -
The Nemesis File by Paul Bruce 9781843582731
RRP: £9.99£6.85Paul Bruce was a tough, idealistic young trooper in the SAS when he was dispatched to Northern Ireland at the height of the troubles. His top secret mission was to execute IRA suspects in cold blood. Bruce and his SAS comrades shot down one terrified... -
My Revision Notes: Edexcel AS/A-level History: Britain, 1625-1701: Conflict, revolution and settlement Dr David Farr 9781471876554
RRP: £10.50£9.62Exam Board: EdexcelLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Target success in Edexcel AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam... -
The Penguin History of Britain: The Struggle for Mastery: Britain 1066-1284 by David Carpenter
RRP: £16.99£12.28The two-and-a-half centuries after 1066 were momentous ones in the history of Britain. In 1066, England was conquered for the last time. The Anglo-Saxon ruling class was destroyed and and the English became a subject race, dominated by a Norman-French... -
The First Helicopter Boys: The Early Days of Helicopter Operations - The Malayan Emergency, 1947-1960 by David Taylor
RRP: £25.00£18.02The Indonesian Confrontation that raged from 1963 to 1966 stemmed from Indonesia's opposition to the creation of Malaysia. Fighting in the challenging jungle terrain of Borneo and in the countryside straddling the Malaysia/Indonesia border, where there... -
Handle With Care: Confessions of an NHS Health Visitor Rachael Hearson 9781913406035
RRP: £8.99£6.45'[It] manages to be funny, moving, activist, and challenging.' Harriet Minter, TalkRadio'I loved this book - I thought it was really interesting' Jane Garvey, BBC Radio 4 Woman's HourHealth Visiting is one of those professions that most people think is a... -
Elizabeth, the Queen by Alison Weir
RRP: £14.99£10.95Elizabeth the Queen begins as the young Elizabeth ascends the throne in the wake of her sister Mary's disastrous reign - both a woman and a queen, Elizabeth's story is an extraordinary phenomenon in a patriarchal age.From Elizabeth's intriguing,... -
National 5 History: Preparation and Support for SQA Exams (Leckie Complete Revision & Practice) by Denise Dunlop
RRP: £10.99£10.77Exam Board: SQA Level: National 5 Subject: History Two books in one! Combining a revision guide and a full set of practice test papers, this fantastic resource is... -
Casualty Evacuation for the Somme: British Ambulance Training, Provision and Operation 1914-16 Jeremy Higgins 9781913118600
RRP: £25.00£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913118600Author Jeremy HigginsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The King's Painter: The Life and Times of Hans Holbein by Franny Moyle
RRP: £12.00£8.44A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'A great, thrusting codpiece of a book. It is big, bombastic and richly brocaded... A jewel in its own right' The Times 'Evokes the painter and his world as vividly as a Holbein masterpiece. Beautifully written and... -
London's Strangest Tales: Extraordinary but true stories from over a thousand years of London's history by Tom Quinn
RRP: £9.99£6.64A quirky collection of stories from London's stranger side, featuring a tiny prison cell in Trafalgar Square, a train disguised as a ship, and a church that's completely the wrong way round. London's Strangest Tales takes a walk on London's... -
Curiocity: In Pursuit of London by Matt Lloyd-Rose
RRP: £22.00£17.22'The most ingenious, informative, inimitable, individual, innovative, insightful, inspiring, instructive, intelligible, intoxicating, intricate guide to the great city that I have ever seen. Bravo!' Philip Pullman'A glorious and delightful compendium and... -
Excellent Essex: In Praise of England's Most Misunderstood County Gillian Darley 9781913083021
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913083021Author Gillian DarleyFormat PaperbackImprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing -
The Last Viking: The True Story of King Harald Hardrada by Don Hollway
RRP: £10.99£7.77'The Last Viking reads like the sagas on which it is based. It's Beowulf on steroids, laced with purple prose...This book is great fun. '- Gerard DeGroot, The Times Harald Sigurdsson burst into history as a teenaged youth in a Viking battle from which... -
Wales's Best One Hundred Churches Timothy Hughes 9781854114273
RRP: £14.99£10.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854114273Author Timothy HughesFormat PaperbackImprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 610g -
Fall Out: A Year of Political Mayhem by Tim Shipman
RRP: £12.99£9.09The 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. ... -
Voices of the Dead by Ambrose Parry
RRP: £16.99£11.67A SCOTSMAN BOOK OF THE YEAREDINBURGH, 1853.In a city of science, discovery can be deadly . . .In a time of unprecedented scientific discovery, the public's appetite for wonder has seen a resurgence of interest in mesmerism, spiritualism and other... -
My Revision Notes: Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History: Early Elizabethan England, 1558-88 John Wright 9781510403246
£4.99Exam Board: Pearson EdexcelLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018Endorsed for EdexcelTarget success in Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision.Key content coverage... -
Cromwell, Our Chief Of Men by Lady Antonia Fraser
RRP: £16.99£11.94The bestselling historian's biography of a decisive figure in England's history.No Englishman has made more impact on the history of his nation than Oliver Cromwell; few have been so persistently maligned in the folklore of history. The central purpose... -
Thomas Cromwell: A Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch
RRP: £18.99£12.48A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN, BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR'This is the biography we have been awaiting for 400 years' Hilary Mantel'A masterpiece' Dan Jones, Sunday TimesThomas Cromwell is one of the... -
Harvest by Jim Crace
RRP: £10.99£7.51Winner of the 2015 International IMPAC Dublin Literary AwardWinner of the 2014 James Tait Black PrizeShortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker PrizeShortlisted for the 2013 Goldsmiths PrizeShortlisted for the 2014 Walter Scott Prize for Historical FictionAs... -
Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age by Stephen R. Platt
RRP: £14.99£10.20SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZEA Financial Times Book of the YearA Sunday Times Book of the Year ________________________________________'Entertaining and well-paced... Platt's compelling book is a sobering read that should focus the minds... -
The Cairngorms: A Secret History by Patrick Baker
RRP: £10.99£7.32Cairngorms: A Secret History is a series of journeys exploring barely known human and natural stories of the Cairngorm Mountains. It looks at a unique British landscape, its last great wilderness, with new eyes. History combines with travelogue in a...