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Story of the Titanic by DK
RRP: £9.99£7.76The true story of the world's most famous ship is retold in this beautiful book with stunning visuals and a gripping narrative. One fateful night in 1912 the so-called Ship of Dreams turned into a nightmare in the Atlantic Ocean after hitting an iceberg... -
Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles by Dominic Sandbrook
RRP: £18.99£12.52In 1956 the Suez Crisis finally shattered the old myths of the British Empire and paved the way for the tumultuous changes of the decades to come. In NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD, Dominic Sandbrook takes a fresh look at the dramatic story of affluence and... -
Settlement and Crusade in the Thirteenth Century: Multidisciplinary Studies of the Latin East by Gil Fishhof 9780367772451
RRP: £37.99£34.94Settlement and Crusade in the Thirteenth Century sheds new light on formerly less explored aspects of the crusading movement and the Latin East during the thirteenth century.In commemoration of the 800th anniversary of the construction of 'Atlit Castle,... -
Genius and Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947 by Norman Lebrecht
RRP: £11.99£8.68A unique chronicle of the hundred-year period when the Jewish people changed the world - and it changed them Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Bernhardt and Kafka. Between the middle of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a few dozen men and women... -
The Making Of The Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes 9781471111235
RRP: £16.99£12.08WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEThe Making of the Atomic Bomb is the seminal and complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan. Few... -
Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages by Jack Hartnell
RRP: £12.99£9.34A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A triumph' Guardian 'Glorious ... makes the past at once familiar, exotic and thrilling.' Dominic Sandbrook 'A brilliant book' Mail on Sunday Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing... -
The Mechanical Devil: Book 22 in the DI Wesley Peterson crime series by Kate Ellis
RRP: £9.99£6.73Secrets never stay buried for long . . . When archaeologist Neil Watson unearths a long-buried mechanical figure in a Dartmoor field, he is determined to discover the truth behind the bizarre find.Soon, however, the sleepy village becomes the focus of... -
The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs by Marc David Baer
RRP: £14.99£9.57Shortlisted for the Wolfson History PrizeA Sunday Times Paperback of the YearThe Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic-Asian antithesis of the Christian-European West. But the reality was starkly different: the Ottomans' multiethnic,... -
The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis by Maria Smilios 9780349009254
RRP: £25.00£15.95New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage.So begins the remarkable true story of the Black nurses who helped cure tuberculosis, one of the world's deadliest plagues, told alongside the often strange chronicle of the... -
An Orkney Tapestry by George Mackay Brown
RRP: £12.99£8.81First published in 1969, An Orkney Tapestry, George Mackay Brown's seminal work, is a unique look at Orkney through the eye of a poet. Originally commissioned by his publisher as an introduction to the Orkney Islands, Brown approached the writing from a... -
Ancestors: A prehistory of Britain in seven burials by Alice Roberts
RRP: £10.99£7.25An extraordinary exploration of the ancestry of Britain through seven burial sites. By using new advances in genetics and taking us through important archaeological discoveries, Professor Alice Roberts helps us better understand life today.'This is a... -
An Unconsidered People: The Irish in London - Updated Edition by Catherine Dunne
RRP: £12.99£9.34New updated edition of the seminal work by Catherine Dunne, which charted the multifarious lives of the London Irish, in all their variety and colour, now with a brand new foreword by Diarmaid Ferriter. Before the 'Ryanair Generation', leaving home... -
Britannia: 100 Documents that Shaped a Nation by Graham Stewart
RRP: £9.99£7.17In Britannia Graham Stewart traces two thousand years of an island's story - from Roman province to twenty-first century European nation-state - through one hundred historic documents. From the eighth-century Lindisfarne Gospels to the great testament of... -
Violent Politics: A History of Insurgency, Terrorism, and Guerrilla War, from the American Revolution to Iraq by William R Polk 9780061236204
RRP: £11.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061236204Author William R PolkFormat PaperbackImprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 231g -
Wanderers: A History of Women Walking by Kerri Andrews
RRP: £9.99£7.36Now in B-format paperback, this book describes ten women over the past three hundred years who have found walking essential to their sense of themselves, as people and as writers. Wanderers traces their footsteps, from eighteenth-century parson's... -
A Short History of the World According to Sheep by Sally Coulthard
RRP: £9.99£7.36'This book deserves a place in your bookcase next to Harari's Sapiens. It's every bit as fascinating and is surely destined to be just as successful' Julian Norton From the plains of ancient Mesopotamia to the vast sheep farms of modern-day Australia,... -
Nature's Palette: A colour reference system from the natural world by Patrick Baty
RRP: £35.00£22.71First published in 1814 and expanded in 1821 - long before the era of colour photography or print - Syme's edition of Werner's Nomenclature of Colours attempted to establish a universal colour reference system to help identify, classify and represent... -
The World of Yesterday: Memoirs of a European by Stefan Zweig
RRP: £12.99£9.34'The time provides the pictures, I merely speak the words to go with them, and it will not be so much my own story I tell as that of an entire generation - our unique generation, carrying a heavier burden of fate than almost any other in the course of... -
Memento Mori: The Dead Among Us by Paul Koudounaris
RRP: £25.00£16.87A macabre, spectacular and thought-provoking survey of human remains used in decorative, commemorative or devotional contexts across the world today, from the author of Heavenly Bodies and The Empire of Death. Memento Mori takes the reader on a... -
Slightly Dangerous: Number 8 in series by Mary Balogh
RRP: £9.99£6.73All of London is abuzz over the imminent arrival of Wulfric Bedwyn, the reclusive, cold-as-ice Duke of Bewcastle, at the most glittering social event of the season. Some whisper of a tragic love affair. Others say he is so aloof and passionless that not... -
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome by Emma Southon
RRP: £10.99£8.02'Those left cold by the sober tones of scholarship will find this voice liberating and intoxicating. Its energy is boundless and its range immense.' Wall Street Journal In Ancient Rome all the best stories have one thing in common - murder. Romulus... -
Everything And The Moon: Number 1 in series by Julia Quinn
RRP: £9.99£2.85Book One in the sparkling Lyndon Sisters duet, by the globally bestselling author of the Bridgerton seriesAbout the AuthorJulia Quinn started writing her first book one month after finishing university and has been tapping away at her keyboard ever since... -
Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind by Tom Holland
RRP: £12.99£4.45'If great books encourage you to look at the world in an entirely new way, then Dominion is a very great book indeed . . . Written with terrific learning, enthusiasm and good humour, Holland's book is not just supremely provocative, but often very funny'... -
From the Garden of Eden to Plymouth Rock: Chronicling the Journey of Mayflower? Family Forefathers Through History and Into New England by Theodore Parker Burbank 9781935616139
RRP: £15.97£14.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935616139Author Theodore Parker BurbankFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Parker Nelson PublishingPublisher Parker Nelson PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom by Tom Holland
RRP: £12.99£4.45Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared to the glittering empires of Byzantium or Islam, the splintered kingdoms on the edge of the Atlantic appeared... -
Persian Fire: The First World Empire, Battle for the West by Tom Holland
RRP: £12.99£5.52Tom Holland's bestselling account of the world's very first clash of civilisations between the Persians and the Greeks in 480BC'Magisterial... told with great authority and a novelistic colour and verve' Books of the Year, Independent'Holland has a rare... -
The Devil and the Dark Water: 'Exuberant ... wildly inventive' Sunday Times by Stuart Turton
RRP: £9.99£7.07**STU TURTON'S NEXT NOVEL, THE LAST MURDER AT THE END OF THE WORLD IS AVAILABLE TO PREORDER NOW** 'If you read one book this year, make sure it's this one' Daily Mail CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY MAIL,... -
Romancing Mr Bridgerton: Inspiration for the Netflix Original Series Bridgerton by Julia Quinn
RRP: £9.99£6.73The fourth book in Julia Quinn's globally bestselling, Regency-set, Bridgerton Family series. Witty, romantic, swoonworthy and now the inspiration for the Netflix series Bridgerton created by Shondaland. Welcome to Colin and Penelope's long-awaited story... -
When He Was Wicked: Inspiration for the Netflix Original Series Bridgerton by Julia Quinn
RRP: £9.99£6.73The sixth novel in Julia Quinn's globally beloved and bestselling Bridgerton Family series, set in Regency times and now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix. This is Francesca's story . . . About the AuthorJulia Quinn started writing her first... -
Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine And Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn
RRP: £10.99£7.30Medicine carries the burden of its own troubling history. Over centuries, women's bodies have been demonised and demeaned until we feared them, felt ashamed of them, were humiliated by them. But as doctors, researchers, campaigners and most of all as... -
It's In His Kiss: Inspiration for the Netflix Original Series Bridgerton by Julia Quinn
RRP: £9.99£6.73The seventh novel in Julia Quinn's globally beloved and bestselling Bridgerton Family series, set in Regency times and now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix. This is Hyacinth's story: she's all grown up and ready to cause havoc . . . About the... -
Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson
RRP: £14.00£10.77Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time A book about romantic love, Eros the Bittersweet is Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros" in both classical philosophy and literature. Beginning with, "It... -
Peterborough in 50 Buildings by Lorna Talbott 9781398113596
RRP: £15.99£10.85In the seventh century the Anglo-Saxons built an abbey dedicated to St Peter, where the Roman Ermine Street crossed the River Nene. The town around the abbey came to be known as St Peter's Burgh, and is dominated today by the cathedral on the site... -
Dragons, Heroes, Myths & Magic: The Medieval Art of Storytelling (Paperback Edition) by Chantry Westwell 9780712354141
RRP: £19.99£13.35Journey through magical fairy tales, chivalric adventures, mystical events and celebrated foundation myths. Trace how folk traditions and the manners of courtly love have developed through generations and across continents and how the most celebrated of... -
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple
RRP: £12.99£9.34THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019 A FINANCIAL TIMES, OBSERVER,... -
Burke and Wills: The Triumph and Tragedy of Australia's Most Famous Explorers by Peter FitzSimons
RRP: £19.99£13.09'They have left here today!' he calls to the others. When King puts his hand down above the ashes of the fire, it is to find it still hot. There is even a tiny flame flickering from the end of one log. They must have left just hours ago.'MELBOURNE, 20... -
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe 9781851685554
RRP: £12.99£9.34Renowned Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe's groundbreaking work on the formation of the State of Israel. 'Along with the late Edward Said, Ilan Pappe is the most eloquent writer of Palestinian history.' NEW STATESMAN Between 1947 and 1949, over 400... -
Sovietistan: A Journey Through Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan by Erika Fatland
RRP: £14.99£9.57"A mesmerising trip across Central Asia . . . A fascinating travelogue" Financial TimesSHORTLISTED FOR EDWARD STANFORD/LONELY PLANET DEBUT TRAVEL WRITER OF THE YEAR 2020An unforgettable journey through the former Soviet Republics, by a prizewinning... -
Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials by Marion Gibson 9781398508507
RRP: £20.00£12.86'These stories of witchcraft, true and vividly told, demonstrate the potent reality of belief in evil and how in any era or place fear can be weaponised and marginal people, mostly women, labelled as wicked and dangerous. Together they comprise not just... -
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
RRP: £11.99£9.08Mary Beard's new book Emperor of Rome is available now Ancient Rome matters. Its history of empire, conquest, cruelty and excess is something against which we still judge ourselves. Its myths and stories - from Romulus and Remus to the Rape of...