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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
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
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£2.29From 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... -
Engineers: From the Great Pyramids to Spacecraft by Adam Hart-Davis
RRP: £25.00£19.22Full of incredible tales of achievement and ingenuity, Engineers celebrates the greatest engineers that ever lived and the stamp they have left on our world. Learn all about how engineering projects have changed the course of history and added to human... -
The Wall: Rome's Greatest Frontier by Alistair Moffat 9781780274553
RRP: £12.99£11.01Hadrian's Wall is the largest, most spectacular and one of the most enigmatic historical monument in Britain. Nothing else approaches its vast scale: a land wall running 73 miles from east to west and a sea wall stretching at least 26 miles down the... -
Stratford-upon-Avon Murder & Crime by Nick Billingham 9780752451688
RRP: £14.99£11.55Celebrated for its most famous resident, William Shakespeare, Stratford-upon-Avon has a much darker past than many would suspect. This book explores the sinister criminal history of this picturesque Warwickshire town, including cases that made both local... -
The Age Of Revolution: 1789-1848 by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: £14.99£9.80Eric Hobsbawm traces with brilliant anlytical clarity the transformation brought about in evry sphere of European life by the Dual revolution - the 1789 French revolution and the Industrial Revolution that originated in Britain. This enthralling and... -
The White Man's Burden: Historical Origins of Racism in the United States by Winthrop D. Jordan 9780195017434
£13.32An abridgement of the acclaimed White Over Black, which won both the National Book Award and a Bancroft Prize. This study attempts to answer a simple question: What were the attitudes of white men toward Negroes during the first two centuries of European... -
The Godwins: The Rise and Fall of a Noble Dynasty by Frank Barlow
RRP: £135.00£117.28The family of Earl Godwin of Wessex stands among the most famous in English history, whose most famous son was King Harold.Frank Barlow charts the family through to Harold - the last Anglo-Saxon king - and finally the crowning of William the Conqueror... -
Terms & Conditions: Life in Girls' Boarding Schools, 1939-1979 by Ysenda Maxtone Graham 9780349143064
RRP: £9.99£6.80'Brilliant, hilarious... My book of the year' INDIA KNIGHT'A wonderful book' CRAIG BROWN, Mail on Sunday'Funny, bloodcurdling and moving' Daily MailThe cruel teachers. The pashes on other girls. The gossip. The giggles. The awful food. The homesickness... -
Crimea: The Great Crimean War 1854-1856 by Trevor Royle 9780349112848
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Crimea: The Great Crimean War 1854-1856 by Trevor Royle 9780349112848 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99£2.29Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Gorillas in the Mist by Dian Fossey
RRP: £10.99£7.40Dian Fossey's classic account of four gorilla families - one of the most important books ever written about our connection to the natural worldFor thirteen years Dian Fossey lived and worked with Uncle Bert, Flossie, Beethoven, Pantsy and Digit in the... -
Tracing Your Ancestors Using DNA: A Guide for Family Historians by Holton, Graham S 9781526733092
RRP: £15.99£12.01DNA research is one of the most important and rapidly advancing areas in modern science and the practical use of DNA testing in genealogy is one of its most exciting applications. Yet there is no recent British publication in this field. That is why this... -
Metropolitain: An Ode to the Paris Metro by Andrew Martin 9781472157881
RRP: £16.99£11.54'An utterly enjoyable voyage under Paris' - THE OLDIE'Delightful and diverting... Martin is the most unpretentious and companionable of guides; the book is great fun' - LITERARY REVIEW'An eclectic blend of engineering and travelogue, urban planning and... -
The Great God Pan by John Kruse 9781838132453
RRP: £12.99£9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838132453Author John KruseFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Green Magic PublishingPublisher Green Magic PublishingWeight(grams) 150g -
One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate by Tom Segev 9780349112862
RRP: £16.99£11.54Great Britain ruled Palestine from 1917 to 1948. The British presence replaced 500 years of Turkish control and led to the State of Israel, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1998. The British brought Palestine into the twentieth century. When... -
Smell of Summer Grass: Pursuing Happiness at Perch Hill by Adam Nicolson
RRP: £10.99£7.77The Smell of Summer Grass is the story of the years spent in finding and building a personal idyll, sometimes a dream, sometimes a nightmare, by writer Adam Nicolson and his wife, cook and gardener, Sarah Raven. Without knowing one end of a... -
Sea Wolves: The Extraordinary Story of Britain's WW2 Submarines by Tim Clayton
RRP: £12.99£8.60Sea Wolves is the story of the crews who bravely manned British submarines in the Second World War. This small band of highly trained and highly skilled individuals fought in the front line for six long years, undertaking some of the most dangerous... -
Family Britain, 1951-1957 by David Kynaston
RRP: £18.99£14.01As 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... -
Everything And The Moon: Number 1 in series by Julia Quinn
RRP: £9.99£3.51Book 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... -
The Perfect Heresy: The Life and Death of the Cathars by Stephen O'Shea
RRP: £11.99£8.43Eight hundred years ago, the Cathars, a group of heretical Christians from all walks of society, high and low, flourished in what is now the Languedoc in Southern France. Their subversive beliefs brought down on them the wrath of Popes and monarchs and... -
Escape from Earth: A Secret History of the Space Rocket by Fraser MacDonald
RRP: £9.99£7.11ESCAPE FROM EARTH is the untold story of the engineers, dreamers and rebels who started the American space programme. In particular, it is the story of Frank Malina, founder of what became Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the scientist who cracked... -
Tales From When I Were A Lad: More snapshots from a time that Health & Safety forgot by Andrew Davies
RRP: £9.99£6.64Take a nostalgic trip back to a time when children played on the street, the local bobby could clip your ear and anywhere beyond Bridlington was an exotic holiday. Awwww, the old days. A time when grime were fashionable, school sports a menace... -
Fermat's Last Theorem (Collins Modern Classics) by Simon Singh
RRP: £9.99£6.64Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. ...