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Hidden Aberdeenshire: The Coast by Fiona-Jane Brown
RRP: €11.89€8.98Following on from the bestselling Hidden Aberdeen, Fiona-Jane Brown now presents a brand new volume, Hidden Aberdeenshire: The Coast, exploring the rich history and the most fascinating, quirky stories from the windswept lands beside the North Sea... -
The Devonshires: The Story of a Family and a Nation by Roy Hattersley 9780099554394 [USED COPY]
RRP: €20.22€3.15William Cavendish, the father of the first Earl, dissolved monasteries for Henry VIII. Bess, his second wife, was gaoler-companion to Mary Queen of Scots during her long imprisonment in England. Arbella Stuart, their granddaughter, was a heartbeat away... -
The Devonshires: The Story of a Family and a Nation by Roy Hattersley
RRP: €20.22€14.61William Cavendish, the father of the first Earl, dissolved monasteries for Henry VIII. Bess, his second wife, was gaoler-companion to Mary Queen of Scots during her long imprisonment in England. Arbella Stuart, their granddaughter, was a heartbeat away... -
The Lawn Road Flats - Spies, Writers and Artists by David Burke 9781783274703
RRP: €23.79€20.67The story of a modernist building with a significant place in the history of Soviet espionage in Britain, where communist spies rubbed shoulders with British artists, sculptors and writers The Isokon building, also know as Lawn Road Flats, in London... -
Queen Victoria and the Discovery of the Riviera by Michael Nelson
€19.18Queen Victoria fell in love with the Riviera when she discovered it on her first visit to Menton in 1882 and her enchantment with this 'paradise of nature' endured for almost twenty years. Victoria's visits helped to transform the French Riviera by... -
Tavistock: A History by Gerry Woodcock
RRP: €21.41€16.23Tavistock has cast its spell over generations of visitors. Attractively set between two significant natural barriers, the River Tamar to the west and Dartmoor to the east, residents and visitors today would still recognise the truth of what one impressed... -
The Long Eighteenth Century: British Political and Social History 1688-1832 by Frank O'Gorman
€50.41This long-awaited second edition sees this classic text by a leading scholar given a new lease of life. It comes complete with a wealth of original material on a range of topics and takes into account the vital research that has been undertaken in the... -
Pictorial History of Paisley by David Rowland 9781840334357
RRP: €26.12€22.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840334357Author David RowlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 274mm... -
Portmahomack: Monastery of the Picts by Martin Carver
RRP: €39.26€32.39This book deals with a key archaeology of one of the prime Pictish settlements in north east Scotland. This updated 2nd edition continues and develops the interpretation of a prime Pictish settlement site in north east Scotland, with new chapters... -
RAF Bomber Command Losses: v. 9: Roll of Honour, 1939-1947 by W R Chorley
RRP: €23.79€18.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857801958Author W. R ChorleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 504Imprint Midland PublishingPublisher Crecy PublishingDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 2mm -
'kill All The Gentlemen': Class struggle and change in the English countryside by Martin Empson 9781910885697
RRP: €17.84€11.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910885697Author Martin EmpsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks Publications -
The Culture of Sensibility: Sex and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain by G.J.Barker- Benfield 9780226037141
RRP: €57.12€55.20G. J. Barker-Benfield documents the emergence of the culture of sensibility that transformed British society of the eighteenth century. His account focuses on the rise of new moral and spiritual values and the struggle to redefine the group identities of... -
Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots: The Life of King Henry Viii's Sister by Beth-Sarah Watkins 9781785356766
RRP: €11.89€10.22Margaret Tudor was Henry VIII's older sister and became the Queen of Scotland after her marriage to James IV in 1503. Her life was troubled and fraught with tension. She was continually caught between her country of birth and the country she ruled. After... -
Percy Maylam's The Kent Hooden Horse by Richard Maylam 9780752449975
RRP: €17.84€13.74In 1909, Canterbury antiquarian Percy Maylam published his research and remarkable photographs of the fascinating Kent tradition of the hooden horse. He caught the custom in its last traditional phase, but his work inspired a revival after the Second... -
The History of the Communist Party of Great Britain: v.5: Cold War, Crisis and Conflict: The CPGB 1951-68 by John Callaghan 9780853159582
RRP: €21.42€20.73This is Volume Five of a comprehensive history of the British Communist Party in the twentieth century, and covers the period from 1951 to 1968. The cold war was at its most intense during this period, and it was also the time of the dramas of 1956 -... -
Elizabeth and Philip: A Story of Young Love, Marriage and Monarchy by Tessa Dunlop 9781035402465
RRP: €17.84€11.66'A riveting take on an extraordinary relationship' - Richard Eden, Daily Mail'A fresh and original approach' - Hugo Vickers, Royal BiographerShe was 'sugar pink' innocence; he was a handsome war hero. Both had royal blood coursing through their veins... -
Bloody British History: Leeds by Richard Smyth 9780752487373
RRP: €11.89€8.98Phantom in the library! The bizarre true story of a Victorian haunting revealed! King cholera! The day that death came to the Dock family! Exploding mummies! The weirdest events of the blitz examined! A Yorkshire tragedy: Fifteenth-century murder at... -
The First Afghan War 1839-42: Invasion, catastrophe and retreat by Richard Macrory
RRP: €19.03€15.86In 1839 forces of the British East India Company crossed the Indus to invade Afghanistan on the pretext of reinstating a former king Shah Soojah to his rightful throne. The reality was that this was another step in Britain's Great Game - Afghanistan... -
People of the Long Barrows: Life, Death and Burial in the Earlier Neolithic by Martin Smith 9780752447339
RRP: €29.75€22.06Human 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... -
Kidnapping Ronnie: The Incredible Story Behind the Capture of One of the World's Most Wanted Criminals by Patrick King 9781739695828
RRP: €11.89€10.33Apologies 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: €17.84€13.74This 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: €17.84€13.74A 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: €23.80€17.71In 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... -
Churchill and Ireland by Paul Bew 9780198755210
RRP: €14.27€10.28Winston 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 9781849161732 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46€3.15The 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... -
The Prometheans: John Martin and the generation that stole the future by Max Adams
RRP: €15.46€10.23The 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... -
London Fog: The Biography by Christine L. Corton
RRP: €23.74€19.18A 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
€15.45Apologies 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: €17.84€13.74On 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
€20.87The 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: €20.22€14.61'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,... -
Strick: Tank Hero of Arras by Tim Strickland
RRP: €35.70€24.93Major-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: €42.83€38.19Explaining 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: €29.75€20.05Apologies 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: €13.08€9.87The 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
€34.25An 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 9781473666030 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89€2.53What 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... -
Britain by the Book: A Curious Tour of Our Literary Landscape by Oliver Tearle
RRP: €11.89€8.09What 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: €23.79€16.99VERY 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: €15.46€8.15From 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...