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Darien Disaster by John Prebble
RRP: $19.34$14.13The word Darien is a scar on the memory of the Scots, and the hurt is still felt even where the cause of the wound is dimly understood. Three hundred years ago the Parliament of Scotland, in one of its last acts before the nation lost its political... -
Oh, What a Lovely Century: One man's marvellous adventures in love, war and high society by Roderic Fenwick Owen
RRP: $14.18$9.55'A completely extraordinary autobiography. One that reads like the most outlandish, beguiling fiction but that is - amazingly - all true' - William Boyd, Sunday Times bestselling author'Outrageous fun...my goodness there are knee-tremblers galore in this... -
Leeds Then and Now by Eric Musgrave
RRP: $19.34$13.80Using archive photos from the 1860s to the 1960 paired with a modern viewpoint, Leeds Then and Now shows how the great northern powerhouse has retained and adapted its classic Victorian buildings, such as Kirkgate Market, to a 21st-century economy. ... -
All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain's Political Class by Tim Shipman
$4.88 - $11.73SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2017 #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'The best political book of the year' Andrew Marr 'A superb work of storytelling and reporting. Sets new... -
The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain by Ronald Hutton
RRP: $19.34$14.47Comprehensive and engaging, this colourful study covers the whole sweep of ritual history from the earliest written records to the present day. From May Day revels and Midsummer fires, to Harvest Home and Hallowe'en, to the twelve days of Christmas,... -
Old Port Glasgow by Joy Monteith
$10.57 - $14.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840332506Author Joy MonteithFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 174mm * 234mm * 3mm -
A War of Empires: Japan, India, Burma & Britain: 1941–45 by Robert Lyman
RRP: $21.92$16.36SHORTLISTED FOR THE RUSI DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORY 2022 'This is a superb book.' - James Holland In 1941 and 1942 the British and Indian Armies were brutally defeated and Japan reigned supreme in its newly conquered territories... -
The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown
RRP: $14.18$10.02_____________________________________________The 20th Anniversary Edition of Tina Brown's definitive behind-the-scenes insight into the life of Diana Princess of Wales, as depicted in the hit Netflix series The Crown, with a brand new introduction by... -
The Devil's Slave: the highly-anticipated sequel to The King's Witch by Tracy Borman
$4.88 - $8.77'So vividly evoked that you are there, living the story'Alison Weir***Frances Gorges was accused of witchcraft - and she survived. But if her torturers at the court of King James discover she is pregnant with the child of Tom Wintour, her lover executed... -
Arnhem: Ten Days in the Cauldron by Iain Ballantyne
RRP: $16.76$10.55The account of the fateful bridge too far...'It was a bridge too far and perhaps the whole plan was doomed to failure from the start, but we had to try, didn't we?'17 September 1944: 30,000 airborne soldiers prepare to drop 64 miles behind enemy lines... -
Ireland: A History by Thomas Bartlett
RRP: $39.98$27.08Ireland has rarely been out of the news during the past thirty years. Whether as a war-zone in which Catholic nationalists and Protestant Unionists struggled for supremacy, a case study in conflict resolution or an economy that for a time promised to... -
The Churchill Girls: The Story of Winston's Daughters by Rachel Trethewey
RRP: $25.80$19.49Bright, attractive and well-connected, in any other family the Churchill sisters - Diana, Sarah, Marigold and Mary - would have shone. But they were not in any other family, they were Churchills and neither they nor anyone else could ever forget it. From... -
The Crew: The Story of a Lancaster Bomber Crew by David Price
RRP: $12.89$9.17A moving tribute to the sacrifice and bravery of the fliers of RAF Bomber Command. ****************************** The Crew, based on interviews with Ken Cook, the crew's sole surviving member, recounts the wartime exploits of the members of an Avro... -
Inventing the Victorians by Matthew Sweet
RRP: $14.18$9.44Suppose that everything we think we know about 'The Victorians' is wrong? That we have persistently misrepresented the culture of the Victorian era, perhaps to make ourselves feel more satisfyingly liberal and sophisticated? What if they were much more... -
The Dark Side of Samuel Pepys: Society's First Sex Offender by Geoffrey Pimm 9781526717290
$32.57Samuel Pepys is popularly known as the founder of the modern navy, a member of the Royal Society and most of all, as a unique and frank diarist. Less well known is the fact that he was a serial sexual offender by modern standards; a voyeur, a groper and... -
Garrison Life at Vindolanda: A Band of Brothers by Anthony Birley 9780752419503
RRP: $29.03$21.19The ink writing-tablets, first indentified at Roman Vindolanda, just south of Hadrian's Wall, in 1973, revealed a hitherto unknown papyrus-substitute, thin leaves of wood for day-to-day book-keeping and letters. Dating mostly from the years AD 90-125... -
The Voice by TBC Author
RRP: $25.80$18.43Launched at the 1982 Notting Hill Carnival, The Voice newspaper captured and addressed a generation figuring out what it meant to be Black and British. Written for and by Black people, the newspaper shone a light on systematic injustices as well as... -
The Bolter: Idina Sackville - The woman who scandalised 1920s Society and became White Mischief's infamous seductress by Frances Osborne
$3.77 - $9.55On Friday 25th May, 1934, a forty-one-year-old woman walked into the lobby of Claridge's Hotel to meet the nineteen-year-old son whose face she did not know. Fifteen years earlier, as the First World War ended, Idina Sackville shocked high society by... -
Bristol and the Civil War: For King and Parliament by John Lynch 9780752452142
RRP: $21.92$6.59In the seventeenth century Bristol was the second city of England. It was the main west coast port, an internationally important entrepot and rich trading centre. Industry flourished, too, with manufacturing and processing industries like soap making and... -
Reveal: Robbie Williams by Chris Heath 9781911274919
$4.37 - $8.13An intimate, funny and frank account of the moments behind the music, of the truth behind the headlines and of the fascinatingly complicated man behind the imperious entertainer, Reveal is Robbie Williams as you've never seen him before.More than twelve... -
Cursed Britain: A History of Witchcraft and Black Magic in Modern Times by Thomas Waters
RRP: $16.76$14.78The definitive history of how witchcraft and black magic have survived, through the modern era and into the present dayCursed Britain unveils the enduring power of witchcraft, curses and black magic in modern times. Few topics are so secretive or... -
The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment: 11th, 29th and 54th of Foot 1958 - 2007 by Pen & Sword Books
RRP: $32.25$24.02Since its formation on 17 May 1958, The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment has played an extremely full role in the British Army's order of battle, serving in Cyprus, British Guiana (Guyana), Northern Ireland, West Germany, Malta, British Honduras (Belize),... -
Cocoa at Midnight: The real life story of my time as a housekeeper by Tom Quinn
$4.13 - $8.77Kathleen Clifford was born in 1909. Her family lived in a tiny flat near Paddington Station and her earliest memories were of the smell of horses and the shrill whistle of steam trains. For a girl from the slums there was really only one option once... -
A Tudor Christmas by Alison Weir
RRP: $19.34$14.13Christmas in Tudor times was a period of feasting, revelry and merrymaking 'to drive the cold winter away'. A carnival atmosphere presided at court, with a twelve-day-long festival of entertainments, pageants, theatre productions and 'disguisings', when... -
Most Secret: The Hidden History of Orford Ness by Paddy Heazell
RRP: $16.76$12.09Orford Ness was, for most of the twentieth century, a military research station so secret that nobody knew what went on there, and so remote that even now most people have never heard of it. Yet the contribution of its scientists, service and civilian,... -
OCR GCSE History SHP: The Elizabethans, 1580-1603 by Jamie Byrom
$28.29Exam board: OCR (Specification B, SHP)Level: GCSE (9-1)Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018An OCR endorsed textbookLet SHP successfully steer you through the OCR B specification with an exciting, enquiry-based series,... -
The Master of Measham Hall by Anna Abney
RRP: $11.60$8.62Alethea Hawthorne will not allow Measham Hall to fall into the hands of lesser men... 1665. It is five years since King Charles II returned from exile, the scars of the English Civil Wars are yet to heal and now the Great Plague engulfs the land... -
A-Z Secret York Walks by A-Z maps
RRP: $9.02$6.19Discover hidden gems around York with 20 walking routes. Featuring 20 walks in and around the city, including lesser-known circuits and details on popular walks. Accompanied by guided walking instructions and written by a local expert, A-Z... -
In Search of Old Bill: The Life of Thomas Rafferty by John Belcher
RRP: $12.84$12.77'Old Bill' began as the cartoon creation of Captain Bruce Bairnsfather: born amidst the carnage of WWI 'Old Bill' lampooned life within the trenches and went on to become a beloved character within the play The Better 'Ole which filled the music halls of... -
Scotland's Stories: Historic Tales for Incredible Places by Graeme Johncock 9781803992662
RRP: $25.80$22.76Everybody loves stories and Scotland is full of them. Every town, village, glen, loch, nook and cranny has a tale to tell and it's these stories that bring those places to life. Scotland's Stories is the key to unlocking those legends and seeing these... -
Designing English: Early Literature on the Page by Daniel Wakelin
RRP: $38.70$33.35Early manuscripts in the English language include religious works, plays, romances, poetry and songs, as well as charms, notebooks, science and medieval medicine. How did scribes choose to arrange the words and images on the page in each manuscript? How... -
Memory Lane Leeds: Volume 1 by Yorkshire Evening Post 9781859839317
RRP: $16.76$11.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859839317Author Yorkshire Evening PostFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing -
Scottish History: Strange but True by John Hamilton
RRP: $16.76$10.54This book contains hundreds of 'strange but true' stories about Scottish history. Arranged into a miniature history of Scotland, and with bizarre and hilarious true tales for every era, it will delight anyone with an interest in Scotland's past.About the... -
The Housekeeper's Tale: The Women Who Really Ran the English Country House by Tessa Boase
RRP: $12.89$8.77'I read the book with enormous appreciation. Tessa Boase brings all these long-ago housekeepers so movingly to life and her excitement in the research is palpable.' Fay Weldon: Novelist, playwright - and housekeeper's daughter Revelatory, gripping and... -
Crime and Punishment in Tudor England: From Alchemists to Zealots by April Taylor 9781399071666
RRP: $28.38$22.73Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Secret SAS Missions in Africa: C Squadron's Counter-Terrorist Operations 1968-1980 by Michael Graham 9781526748447
RRP: $16.76$11.73This fascinating book is the first to cover the little known C Squadron of the Special Air Service. Operating in East Africa, the Squadron was involved in almost continuous counter communist terrorist operations over the period 1968 to 1980. In the... -
Battle of Britain The Movie: The Men and Machines of one of the Greatest War Films Ever Made by Dilip Sarkar MBE
RRP: $32.25$23.25Released in 1969, the film _Battle of Britain_ went on to become one of the most iconic war movies ever produced. The film drew many respected British actors to accept roles as key figures of the battle, including Sir Laurence Olivier as Hugh Dowding and... -
A Woman of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England by Vanessa Wilkie 9781982154288
RRP: $24.50$15.83This extraordinary true story transports us to Tudor and Stuart England as Alice Spencer, the daughter of an upstart sheep farmer, becomes one of the most powerful women in the country and establishes a powerful dynasty that endures to this day. Perfect... -
Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel, Victim: A 900-Year-Old Story Retold by John Guy
RRP: $16.76$11.73From Thomas Becket's early life as a merchant's son and his time as the Archbishop of Canterbury to his assassination in the Cathedral itself, this enlightening book brings to life a colossal figure of British history. 'Lively, effortlessly readable,... -
Fields of Deception by Colin Dobinson 9780413776327
RRP: $25.79$21.18During the Second World War, a secret department was formed at Britain's Air Ministry to co-ordinate a strategy to defeat German bombing by means of deception. With the help of leading technicians from the film industry, ingeniously designed decoy...