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The Truth About Love: Number 13 in series by Stephanie Laurens
RRP: £10.99£7.40One of the most eligible gentlemen in the ton, Gerrard Debbington is besieged by offers from London's most sought-after beauties, but as the ton's foremost artistic lion, there's only one offer he wants to accept - the chance to paint the fantastical but... -
Kent's Strangest Tales: Extraordinary but true stories from a very curious county by Martin Latham 9781910232972 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£3.54Kent's Strangest Tales is a book devoted to the weird and wonderful side of the Garden of England. Home to historically rich towns such as Canterbury, Margate and Ramsgate, Kent is a county with more strangeness than you can shake a... -
Kent's Strangest Tales: Extraordinary but true stories from a very curious county by Martin Latham
RRP: £9.99£6.64Kent's Strangest Tales is a book devoted to the weird and wonderful side of the Garden of England. Home to historically rich towns such as Canterbury, Margate and Ramsgate, Kent is a county with more strangeness than you can shake a... -
The History of Government from the Earliest Times: Volume III: Empires, Monarchies, and the Modern State by S. E. Finer 9780198207917
£98.82No one has hitherto had the breadth of imagination and intellectual boldness to describe and analyse government throughout recorded history and throughout the world. This unique study of government is the culmination of the work of the late S. E. Finer,... -
Wordsley Past & Present by Stan Hill
RRP: £14.99£11.55Wordsley, situated on the western fringe of the West Midlands conurbation and now part of Dudley, has a long and fascinating history. In the first century AD the Romans positioned their front line nearby before advancing towards Wales. Fifteen hundred... -
Epigrams: With parallel Latin text by Martial
RRP: £10.99£7.77'If you're one of those terribly serious readers, now is a good time to leave.' The poet we call Martial, Marcus Valerius Martialis, lived by his wits in first-century Rome. Pounding the mean streets of the Empire's capital, he takes apart the... -
Divided: Racism, Medicine and Why We Need to Decolonise Healthcare by Dr Annabel Sowemimo 9781788169219
RRP: £10.99£8.08A FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 INDIE CHAMPIONS AWARDS FOR NON-FICTION A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST SUMMER BOOK 2023 'Prepare to be blown away' CHIKWE IHEKWEAZU, Assistant Director General at WHO ... -
Adriatic: A Two Thousand-Year History of the Sea, Lands and Peoples by Caroline Boggis-Rolfe
RRP: £30.00£19.53Adriatic spans over two thousand years of history and the whole of the eastern Mediterranean region around the Adriatic sea and part of the neighbouring Ionian sea. Ever since the Romans, these lands and their peoples have experienced the coming and... -
Feminism for Women: The Real Route to Liberation by Julie Bindel 9781472132628
RRP: £9.99£6.80'Timely, necessary and important' J.K. Rowling'[This book is] guaranteed to remind us what we have still to fight for. I can't think of a single person who wouldn't benefit from reading it' Observer'Bindel is a rock star of second-wave feminism . . . an... -
The First World War by Sir Martin Gilbert
RRP: £19.99£14.35'One of the first books that anyone should read in beginning to try to understand this war and this century' New York Times Book ReviewIt was to be the war to end all wars, and it began at 11.15 on the morning of June 28, 1914, in an outpost of the... -
The Lost Daughter of Liverpool by Pam Howes
RRP: £8.99£5.45It's 1946 and the war is over. In Liverpool, the blackout blinds may be coming down, but one family is about to face devastating misfortune...Dora Evans is finally marrying the love of her life, Joe Rodgers, and her dreams of opening a dressmaking... -
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death by John Kelly 9780007150700 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£6.74A compelling history of the Black Death that scoured Europe in the mid 14th-century killing twenty-five million people. It was one of the worst human disasters in history. 'The bodies were sparsely covered that the dogs dragged them forth and... -
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death by John Kelly
RRP: £10.99£7.25A compelling history of the Black Death that scoured Europe in the mid 14th-century killing twenty-five million people. It was one of the worst human disasters in history. 'The bodies were sparsely covered that the dogs dragged them forth and... -
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... -
British Summer Time Begins: The School Summer Holidays 1930-1980 by Ysenda Maxtone Graham
RRP: £9.99£6.80British Summer Time Begins is about summer holidays of the mid-twentieth century and how they were spent, as recounted to Ysenda Maxtone-Graham in vividly remembered detail by people who were there. Through this prism, it paints a revealing portrait of... -
Haunted Sheffield by Darren Johnson-Smith 9780752441955
RRP: £14.99£11.55Everyone loves a good ghost story and the city of Sheffield seems to have plenty of them. The tales contained in this book are told by the Steel City Tours ghost walkers themselves, Mr and Mrs P. Dreadful, collected over the years and now brought... -
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Dr Kit Heyam
RRP: £12.99£8.60A History Today Book of the YearFinalist for the Lambda Literary Award'A beautiful, brilliant, lively book that weaves together fascinating and moving examples with thoughtful analysis. Both heartfelt and rigorous, entertaining and scholarly, Before We... -
Delta Force: A Memoir by the Founder of the U.S. Military's Most Secretive Special-Operations Unit by Charlie A. Beckwith
RRP: £9.99£6.64Wanted: Volunteers for Project Delta. Will guarantee you a medal. A body bag. Or both. When Charlie Beckwith issued this call to arms in Vietnam in 1965, he revolutionized American armed combat. This is the story of what would eventually come to be known... -
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... -
Mrs Budley Falls from Grace by M. C. Beaton
RRP: £8.99£6.20Another Poor Relation has to resort to genteel thievery to make end meet - but she gets much more than she bargains for!Cut off by her own relations, pretty, dainty widow Eliza Budley must visit some other family manor to purloin expensive baubles. ... -
Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World by Kate Mosse
RRP: £20.00£13.50Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries is a celebration of unheard and under-heard women's history.'Excellent . . . bursting with extraordinary women' - Anita Anand'Brilliant' - Daisy Buchanan"My hope is that this book will inspire as I have been... -
Write Cut Rewrite: The Cutting Room Floor of Modern Literature by Dirk Van Hulle 9781851246182
RRP: £40.00£30.67Imagine looking over the shoulder of your favourite author and witnessing the moment they begin writing the opening chapter of their best-loved novel. What you might see is that the author has to write, cut and rewrite their words, often many times, in... -
Martin Luther: Catholic Dissident by Peter Stanford
RRP: £12.99£9.09'A compelling biography of one of the greatest men of the modern age. Stanford is particularly brilliant on the tensions inside Luther's private and spiritual life. This is a very fine book, written with a flourish.' Melvyn BraggThe 31st of October 2017... -
Lords of the Desert: Britain's Struggle with America to Dominate the Middle East by James Barr 9781471139802
RRP: £9.99£6.41'Beautifully written and deeply researched' The Observer Upon victory in 1945, Britain still dominated the Middle East. But her motives for wanting to dominate this crossroads between Europe, Asia and Africa were changing. Where 'imperial security' -... -
Voices from the Workhouse by Peter Higginbotham 9780752467498
RRP: £14.99£11.55Voices from the Workhouse tells the real inside story of the workhouse - in the words of those who experienced the institution at first hand, either as inmates or through some other connection with the institution. Using a wide variety of sources -... -
Thames: Sacred River by Peter Ackroyd 9780099422556 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00£2.46Just as Peter Ackroyd's bestselling London is the biography of the city, Thames: Sacred River is the biography of the river, from sea to source. Exploring its history from prehistoric times to the present day, the reader is drawn into an extraordinary... -
Thames: Sacred River by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £25.00£18.02Just as Peter Ackroyd's bestselling London is the biography of the city, Thames: Sacred River is the biography of the river, from sea to source. Exploring its history from prehistoric times to the present day, the reader is drawn into an extraordinary... -
Churchill: The Power of Words by Winston Churchill
RRP: £14.99£10.95Winston Churchill understood and wielded the power of words throughout his six decades in the public eye. His wartime writings and speeches revealed both his vision for the future and his own personal feelings, fascinating generation after generation... -
Bloody Foreigners: The Story of Immigration to Britain by Robert Winder
RRP: £14.99£9.80The story of the way Britain has been settled and influenced by foreign people and ideas is as old as the land itself. In this original, important and inspiring book, Robert Winder tells of the remarkable migrations that have founded and defined a nation... -
All Around the Year by Michael Morpurgo 9781915068224
RRP: £16.00£11.62Originally published in 1979, All Around the Year is a diary following a year at Parsonage Farm, a mixed farm in Devon, close to Dartmoor. The book documented a way of life unchanged for centuries, but which was already remote to most people. In All... -
Pastoral Care in Medieval England: Interdisciplinary Approaches by Peter Clarke 9781032091150
RRP: £39.99£35.06Pastoral Care, the religious mission of the Church to minister to the laity and care for their spiritual welfare, has been a subject of growing interest in medieval studies. This volume breaks new ground with its broad chronological scope (from the early... -
Hiroshima Joe by Martin Booth 9780312268053
RRP: £21.00£13.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312268053Author Martin BoothFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
All the Countries We've Ever Invaded: And the Few We Never Got Round To by Stuart Laycock 9780750952125 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.09Out of 193 countries that are currently UN member states, we've invaded or fought conflicts in the territory of 171. That's not far off a massive, jaw-dropping 90 per cent. Not too many Britons know that we invaded Iran in the Second World War with the... -
All the Countries We've Ever Invaded: And the Few We Never Got Round To by Stuart Laycock
RRP: £9.99£7.55Out of 193 countries that are currently UN member states, we've invaded or fought conflicts in the territory of 171. That's not far off a massive, jaw-dropping 90 per cent. Not too many Britons know that we invaded Iran in the Second World War with the... -
Bradshaw's Handbook to London by George Bradshaw
RRP: £12.99£9.09A facsimile edition of Bradshaw's wonderfully illustrated guide to Victorian London, dating from 1862. Bradshaw's guide to London was published in a single volume as a handbook for visitors to the capital. It includes beautiful engravings of London... -
Born in the 50s by Jane Maple 9781782128854 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99£1.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782128854Author Jane MapleFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd -
White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in 18th-century India by William Dalrymple 9780006550969 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99£2.40From the author of the Samuel Johnson prize-shortlisted 'Return of a King', the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time. James Achilles... -
White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in 18th-century India by William Dalrymple
RRP: £18.99£13.33From the author of the Samuel Johnson prize-shortlisted 'Return of a King', the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time. James Achilles... -
The Tower of London: The Biography by Stephen Porter
RRP: £10.99£7.25The Tower of London is an icon of England's history. William the Conqueror built the White Tower after his invasion and conquest in 1066 to dominate London, and it has become infamous as a place of torture, execution and murder. The deaths of royals... -
The Ulster Grand Prix: 100 Years by Norman Windrum
RRP: £20.00£16.83From the first race in 1922, the Ulster Grand Prix has been one of the most thrilling events in the international motorcycling calendar, attracting enormous crowds of spectators to watch the world's great riders in action. Now, a century on, the UGP...