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Web of Betrayal: Murder in Ireland’s brutal gangland Nicola Tallant 9781804185377
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.19'Nicola Tallant, not for the first time, demonstrates why she is the very best writer on crime. No novelist alive could ever imagine the very complex and very dark human dramas that she skilfully unravels, delivering page after page of truth-telling that... -
Inheritance: The Story of Knole and the Sackvilles Robert Sackville-West 9781408809686
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.42Since its purchase in 1604 by Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, the house at Knole, Kent, has been inhabited by thirteen generations of a single aristocratic family, the Sackvilles. Here, drawing on a wealth of unpublished letters, archives and... -
The Eagle and the Bear: A New History of Roman Scotland by John H. Reid
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £10.66For over three centuries, the inhabitants of North Britain faced the might of Rome, resulting in some of the most extraordinary archaeology of the ancient world. This richly illustrated new history of Roman Scotland explores the complex, often... -
The Princes in the Tower: Solving History's Greatest Cold Case by Philippa Langley 9781803995410
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £16.59'Philippa Langley has done it again.' - THE TIMESA HISTORY HIT BOOK OF THE MONTHHistory re-written: has the 540-year-old mystery been solved?'The totality of evidence revealed is astonishing. Following the discovery of King Richard III's grave in a car... -
We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958 by Fintan O'Toole
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The #1 Irish Times bestseller WINNER of the An Post Irish Book Awards 'A clear-eyed, myth-dispelling masterpiece' Marian Keyes 'Sweeping, authoritative and profoundly intelligent' Colm Toibin, Guardian 'With the pace and twists of an... -
Making Sense of the Troubles: A History of the Northern Ireland Conflict by David McKittrick
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.42COMPLETELY REVISED AND UPDATED EDITION -- THE ESSENTIAL HISTORY OF THE TROUBLES'Compellingly written and very even-handed. By far the clearest account of what happened in the Northern Ireland conflict and more importantly why it happened' Irish... -
A Treasury of British Folklore: Maypoles, Mandrakes and Mistletoe by Dee Dee Chainey
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.93An entertaining and engrossing collection of British customs, superstitions and legends from past and present. Did you know, in Cumbria it was believed a person lying on a pillow stuffed with pigeon's feathers could not die? Or that green is an... -
Voices from the Grave: Two Men's War in Ireland by Ed Moloney
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.25Ed Moloney's Voices from the Grave follows his highly acclaimed A Secret History of the IRA, the best-informed account yet written of the IRA's evolution from ruthless guerilla army into governmental party. But reconciliation between political figures... -
History of Britain and Ireland: The Definitive Visual Guide by DK 9780241666661
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.05Discover the pivotal political, military, and cultural events that have shaped British and Irish history - from the earliest Stone Age settlers to the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.This edition includes over 700 photographs, maps, and artworks with... -
Life of St Columba by Adomnan of Iona
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.14Founding father of the famous monastery on the island of Iona, a site of pilgrimage ever since his death in 597, St Columba was born into one of the ruling families in Ireland at a time of immense expansion for the Irish Church. This account of his life,... -
Death in the Fields: The IRA and East Tyrone by Jonathan Trigg
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785374432Author Jonathan TriggFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
Britain BC: Life in Britain and Ireland Before the Romans by Francis Pryor
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.15An authoritative and radical rethinking of the history of Ancient Britain and Ancient Ireland, based on remarkable new archaeological finds. British history is traditionally regarded as having started with the Roman Conquest. But this is to... -
Richard III and the Princes in the Tower by Alison Weir
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.54Includes a new foreword by the author The story of the death, in sinister circumstances, of the boy-king Edward V and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York, is one of the most fascinating murder mysteries in English history. It is a tale with... -
Stone Circles: A Field Guide Colin Richards 9780300235982
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.74The definitive guide to the stone circles of Britain and Ireland From Stonehenge and the Ring of Brogdar to the Rollright Stones and Avebury, the British and Irish Isles are scattered with the stone circles of our prehistoric ancestors. Although there... -
Listen to the Land Speak: A Journey into the wisdom of what lies beneath us by Manchan Magan
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £15.56Our ancestors developed a uniquely nature-focused society, centred on esteemed poets, seers, monks, healers and wise women who were deeply connected to the land. They used this connection to the cycles of the natural world - from which we are... -
Modern Ireland 1600-1972 by R. Foster
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.42Masterfully blending narrative and interpretation, and R.F. Foster's Modern Ireland: 1600-1972 looks at how key events in Irish history contributed to the creation of the 'Irish Nation'. 'The most brilliant and courageous Irish historian of his... -
Diaries Volume One: Prelude to Power by Alastair Campbell
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.08As Alastair Campbell said in the introduction to The Blair Years, it was always his intention to publish the full version, covering his time as spokesman and chief strategist to Tony Blair. Prelude to Power is the first of four volumes, and covers the... -
Double Agent: My Secret Life Undercover in the IRA by Kevin Fulton
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.44'"I am a British soldier," I told my reflection. "I am a British soldier and I'm saving lives. I'm saving lives. I'm a British soldier and I'm saving lives..."'Kevin Fulton was one of the British Army's most successful intelligence agents. Having been... -
A History of Ancient Britain Neil Oliver 9780753828861
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.85Who were the first Britons, and what sort of world did they occupy? In A History of Ancient Britain, much-loved historian Neil Oliver turns a spotlight on the very beginnings of the story of Britain; on the first people to occupy these islands and their... -
The Monk: The Life and Crimes of Ireland's Most Enigmatic Gang Boss by Paul Williams 9781805460312
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.32**THE EXPLOSIVE BESTSELLER, NOW UPDATED TO INCLUDE THE GANGLAND TRIAL OF THE CENTURY**On the streets of the tough Dublin inner-city neighbourhood where he grew up, Gerry Hutch was perceived as an ordinary decent criminal, a quintessential Robin Hood... -
Burned: The Inside Story of the `Cash-for-Ash' Scandal and Northern Ireland's Secretive New Elite by Sam McBride
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785372698Author Sam McBrideFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
Britain in the Middle Ages: An Archaeological History by Francis Pryor
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.77As in 'Britain B.C.' and 'Britain A.D.' (also accompanied by Channel 4 series), eminent archaeologist Francis Pryor challenges familiar historical views of the Middle Ages by examining fresh evidence from the ground. The term 'Middle Ages'... -
A History of Britain - Volume 2: The British Wars 1603-1776 Simon Schama, CBE 9781847920133
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.29Simon Schama explores the forces that tore Britain apart during two centuries of dynamic change - transforming outlooks, allegiances and boundaries.From the beginning of July 1637, battles raged on for 200 years - both at home and abroad, on sea and on... -
Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII by David Starkey 9780099437246
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.54Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survivedCATHERINE OF ARAGON: the pious Spanish Catholic who suffered years of miscarriages and failed to produce a male heir... ANNE BOLEYN: the pretty, clever, French-educated Protestant whose marriage to... -
Old Ireland in Colour by John Breslin 9781785374319
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Best Irish Published Book 2020 (Ireland).Book InformationISBN 9781785374319Author John BreslinFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion... -
Killing Rage by Eamon Collins
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.77This is an account of how an angry young man can cross the line that divides theoretical support for violence from a state of 'killing rage', in which the murder of neighbour becomes thinkable. Over 3000 people have died in Northern Ireland since 1969,... -
London Under by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.54London Under is an atmospheric, imaginative introduction to everything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheatres to Victorian sewers, gang hideouts and modern Underground stations. This book tunnels down through... -
The Troubles: Ireland's Ordeal 1966-1995 and the Search for Peace by Tim Pat Coogan
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.23This history of Ireland, written by one of Ireland's most controversial journalists, studies the period from 1968 to the present day. Tim Coogan is also the author of The IRA and two biographies - Michael Collins and De Valera.About the AuthorTim Pat... -
Undercover War by Harry McCallion
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.39When British troops first deployed to Northern Ireland in 1969 to keep apart rioting factions of loyalists and nationalists, they could not have known that they were being drawn into the longest campaign in the British Army's history, a battle against... -
A Secret History of the IRA by Ed Moloney
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.77For decades the British and Irish had 'got used to' a situation without parallel in Europe: a cold, ferocious, persistent campaign of bombing and terror of extraordinary duration and inventiveness. At the heart of that campaign lies one man: GerryAdams... -
Islands of the Evening: Journeys to the Hebrides by Alistair Moffat
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.77'[an] exploration of Scotland's past through the eyes of a scholarly hiker ... Magnificent' - New Statesman, Books of the Year Fourteen centuries ago, Irish saints journeyed to the Hebrides and Scotland's Atlantic shore. They sought spiritual solitude... -
The Town Below the Ground: Edinburgh's Legendary Undgerground City by Jan-Andrew Henderson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.22Below Scotland's capital, hidden for almost two centuries, is a metropolis whose very existence was all but forgotten. For almost 250 years, Edinburgh was surrounded by a giant defensive wall. Unable to expand the city's boundaries, the burgeoning... -
Britain's Wild Flowers: A Treasury of Traditions, Superstitions, Remedies and Literature by Rosamond Richardson 9781909881921
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A fascinating look at the myths, folklore and botany behind over 70 British wildflowers. A fascinating look at the myths, folklore and botany behind over 70 British wildflowers. ... -
One Week in April: The Scottish Radical Rising of 1820 by Maggie Craig 9781780276328
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £9.32In April 1820, a series of dramatic events exploded around Glasgow, central Scotland and Ayrshire. Demanding political reform and better living and working conditions, 60,000 weavers and other workers went on strike. Revolution was in the air. It was... -
Wild Atlantic Way: Where to Eat and Stay by John McKenna
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.99The ultimate guide to the wild atlantic way. A guide to the best places to enjoy the local Irish cuisine and where to rest for the night along the famous Wild Atlantic Way. Elemental, enchanting and inspiring, the Wild Atlantic Way is... -
The Turning Tide: A Biography of the Irish Sea Jon Gower 9780008532666
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.60An immersive history of a pivotal stretch of water 'Fascinating, spellbinding, erudite and great fun.' Roddy Doyle 'Remarkable. Lively ... Gower writes beautifully [and] the book... -
The Perfect King: The Life of Edward III, Father of the English Nation by Ian Mortimer
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.08From the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, comes the story of King Edward III, who - like Elizabeth and Victoria after him - embodied the values of his age, forged a nation out of war and re-made England.He ordered his... -
Family Britain, 1951-1957 by David Kynaston
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.07As in Austerity Britain, an astonishing array of vivid, intimate and unselfconscious voices drive this narrative. The keen-eyed Nella Last shops assiduously at Barrow Market as austerity and rationing gradually give way to relative abundance; housewife... -
How the Irish Became White by Noel Ignatiev
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £17.49'...from time to time a study comes along that truly can be called `path breaking,' `seminal,' `essential,' a `must read.' How the Irish Became White is such a study.' John Bracey, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of... -
The Antonine Wall by David Breeze
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.72As the most advanced frontier construction of its time, and as definitive evidence of the Romans' time in Scotland, the Antonine Wall is an invaluable and fascinating part of this country's varied and violent history. For a generation, from about AD 140...