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The Nether World by George Gissing
RRP: £10.99£7.99The Nether World (1889) is generally regarded as the finest of Gissing's early novels. A fast moving story of highly dramatic, sometimes violent scenes, it depicts life amongst the artisans, factory-girls, and slum-dwellers of Clerkenwell in the 1870s... -
A History of the World in 21 Women: A Personal Selection Jenni Murray 9781786076281
RRP: £9.99£6.61From the bestselling author of A History of Britain in 21 Women The history of the world is the history of great women. Marie Curie discovered radium and revolutionised medical science. Empress Cixi transformed China. Frida Kahlo turned an... -
Exploring History Student Book 1: Monarchs, Monks and Migrants Rosemary Rees 9781292218694
£23.70Content Covered: The Norman ConquestReligion in medieval England The CrusadesThe problems of medieval monarchsThe Black DeathMigrationBook InformationISBN 9781292218694Author Rosemary ReesFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Pearson Education... -
Rethinking History by Keith Jenkins 9780415304436 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.65History means many things to many people. But finding an answer to the question 'What is history?' is a task few feel equipped to answer. If you want to explore this tantalising subject, where do you start? What are the critical skills you need to begin... -
Rethinking History by Keith Jenkins
RRP: £12.99£11.94History means many things to many people. But finding an answer to the question 'What is history?' is a task few feel equipped to answer. If you want to explore this tantalising subject, where do you start? What are the critical skills you need to begin... -
The King in the North: The Pictish Realms of Fortriu and Ce by Gordon Noble
RRP: £18.99£13.79Some years ago a revolution took place in Early Medieval history in Scotland. The Pictish heartland of Fortriu, previously thought to be centred on Perthshire and the Tay found itself relocated through the forensic work of Alex Woolf to the shores of the... -
Muhammad: Biography of the Prophet Karen Armstrong 9781842126080
RRP: £9.99£7.00A life of the prophet Muhammad by bestselling religious writer Karen Armstrong.'Armstrong has a dazzling ability: she can take a long and complex subject and reduce it to its fundamentals, without over-simplifying' SUNDAY TIMES'One of our best living... -
Russia′s War by J McGlynn
RRP: £14.99£13.78In the early hours of 24 February 2022, Russian forces attacked Ukraine. The brutality of the Russian assault has horrified the world. But Russians themselves appear to be watching an entirely different war - one in which they are the courageous... -
The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe by Charles Nicholl
RRP: £14.99£10.95In 1593, the brilliant and controversial young playwright Christopher Marlowe was stabbed to death in a Deptford lodging house. The circumstances were shady, the official account - a violent quarrel over the bill, or 'recknynge' - long regarded as... -
Vespa and Lambretta Motor Scooters by Stuart Owen
RRP: £8.99£7.62Vespa and Lambretta remain the two most iconic motor scooter brands, even four decades after the latter's demise. But what made them such a European sensation in the postwar era? And why were they particularly popular in Britain in the 1950s and '60s?... -
The Great Cities in History by John Julius Norwich 9780500292518 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29A work of history, but also about art and architecture, trade and commerce, travel and exploration, economics and politics, this is above all a book about people and how, over the millennia, they have managed to live closely together. From the origins of... -
The Great Cities in History by John Julius Norwich
RRP: £12.99£8.83A work of history, but also about art and architecture, trade and commerce, travel and exploration, economics and politics, this is above all a book about people and how, over the millennia, they have managed to live closely together. From the origins of... -
The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World by Peter Frankopan
RRP: £20.00£14.51From the internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads: everything you need to know about the present and future of the world 'Masterly mapping out of a new world order' Evening Standard 'Frankopan is a brilliant guide to terra incognita' The... -
The Meaning of History: Reflections on Spenler, Toynby and Kant by Henry Kissinger
RRP: £20.00£13.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789189425866Author Henry KissingerFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Stolpe PublishingPublisher Stolpe PublishingWeight(grams) 930g -
Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages by Jack Hartnell
RRP: £14.99£11.11A 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... -
Born to be Wilde by Eloisa James
RRP: £9.99£7.00'Nothing gets me to a bookstore faster than Eloisa James' Julia QuinnEloisa James's dazzling new Georgian-set series continues . . . The richest bachelor in England plays matchmaker . . . for an heiress he wants for himself! For beautiful, witty Lavinia... -
The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness and Obsession David Grann 9781849830669
RRP: £9.99£8.86By the author of the international Number One bestsellers KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE WAGER As Sherlock Holmes once conceded to Dr. Watson, 'If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and... -
Tracing Your Ancestors Using DNA: A Guide for Family Historians by Holton, Graham S 9781526733092
RRP: £15.99£12.19DNA 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... -
Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 by Christopher Clark
RRP: £18.99£13.61Winner of the Wolfson History Prize, Christopher Clark's Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia 1600-1947 is a compelling account of a country that played a pivotal role in Europe's fortunes and fundamentally shaped our world. Prussia began as a... -
The Black Death by Sean Martin
RRP: £8.99£6.65The Black Death is the name most commonly given to the pandemic of bubonic plague that ravaged the medieval world in the late 1340s. From Central Asia the plague swept through Europe, leaving millions of dead in its wake. Between a quarter and a third of... -
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... -
Protestants: The Radicals Who Made the Modern World by Professor Alec Ryrie
RRP: £16.99£11.47On the 500th anniversary of Luther's rebellion, this spectacular global history traces the revolutionary faith that shaped the modern world. Five hundred years ago Protestant Christianity began with one stubborn monk... -
Brixham: Britain in Old Photographs by Ted Gosling
RRP: £12.99£9.87In its heyday, Brixham's fishermen were renowned for the vast number of fish they landed, the choir was one of the finest in the west of England, and it was a beautiful place to live. Today, it continues to be a picturesque place to live and visit, and... -
Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History Workbook: Crime and Punishment in Britain, c1000-present and Whitechapel, c1870-c1900 Zoe Howells 9781510419162
£7.48Exam board: EdexcelLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018Practise and perfect the knowledge and skills that students need to achieve their best grade in the Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History exams.Packed full of... -
Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice by Mark Singleton 9780195395341
RRP: £15.99£12.51Yoga is so prevalent in the modern world-practiced by pop stars, taught in schools, and offered in yoga centers, health clubs, and even shopping malls--that we take its presence, and its meaning, for granted. But how did the current yoga boom happen? And... -
Looking for Trouble by Virginia Cowles 9780571367542
RRP: £16.99£15.51This sensational 1941 memoir of life on wartime Europe's frontline by a trailblazing female reporter is an 'unforgettable' (The Times) rediscovered classic, introduced by Christina Lamb (who calls her 'the Forrest Gump of journalism').Paris as it fell to... -
Miracles of Our Own Making: A History of Paganism by Liz Williams
RRP: £11.99£8.53Miracles of Our Own Making is a historical overview of magic in the British Isles, from the ancient peoples of Britain to the rich and cosmopolitan landscape of contemporary paganism. We explore the beliefs of the Druids, the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings,... -
The Bletchley Girls: War, secrecy, love and loss: the women of Bletchley Park tell their story Tessa Dunlop 9781444795745
RRP: £12.99£9.19'Lively...in giving us the daily details of their lives in the women's own voices Dunlop does them and us a fine service' New Statesman'Dunlop is engaging in her personal approach. Her obvious feminine empathy with the venerable ladies she spoke to gives... -
Low Level Hell by Hugh Mills
RRP: £9.99£7.00'The best 'bird's eye view' of the helicopter war in Vietnam in print today ... Mills has captured the realities of a select group of aviators who shot craps with death on every mission' R.S. Maxham, Director, US Army Aviation MuseumThe aeroscouts of the... -
Haunted Nottingham by Andrew James Wright 9780752441948
RRP: £14.99£11.72Haunted Nottingham explores the supernatural side of the city and its surrounding areas and finds many reports of unexplained happenings, weird goings-on and ghostly appearances.About the AuthorThe author, Andrew James Wright, has been a ghost... -
Slightly Wicked: Number 4 in series Mary Balogh 9780749937546
RRP: £9.99£7.00Lord Rannulf Bedwyn is a hard man to resist. To Judith Law, Rannulf is simply a dream come true, a heroic stranger with whom she will allow herself one night of reckless passion before she must settle for the dreary life of companion to her wealthy aunt... -
Ipswich Pubs by Susan Gardiner
RRP: £14.99£9.96Ipswich is a brewery town. The administrative centre of the agricultural county of Suffolk, world famous for its barley and brewing, Ipswich was for decades the home of the Cobbold (later Tolly Cobbold) brewery, which was not only a prominent local... -
Forgotten Voices of the Falklands: The Real Story of the Falklands War by Hugh McManners 9780091908812 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99£2.29The Falklands War was a turning point in modern British history. On the one hand, it was what some considered to be the 'last of the great Elizabethan adventures', with the Royal Navy pulling off an incredible feat of maritime warfare, under the most... -
Forgotten Voices of the Falklands: The Real Story of the Falklands War Hugh McManners 9780091908812
RRP: £15.99£11.61The Falklands War was a turning point in modern British history. On the one hand, it was what some considered to be the 'last of the great Elizabethan adventures', with the Royal Navy pulling off an incredible feat of maritime warfare, under the most... -
Ten Men Dead by David Beresford
RRP: £14.99£11.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780586065334Author David BeresfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins PublishersWeight(grams) 230gDimensions(mm)... -
Gentleman Jack: A biography of Anne Lister, Regency Landowner, Seducer and Secret Diarist by Katy Derbyshire
RRP: £9.99£6.33Longlisted for the 2019 Portico Prize The extraordinary life of history's first modern lesbian who inspired the popular television series Gentleman Jack. Anne Lister's journals were so shocking that the first person to crack their secret code hid... -
Henry VIII by Lucy Wooding
RRP: £38.99£34.49This new edition of Lucy Wooding's Henry VIII is fully revised and updated to provide an insightful and original portrait of one of England's most unforgettable monarchs and the many paradoxes of his character and reign. Henry was a Renaissance prince... -
A Grim Almanac of Dorset by Nicola Sly 9780752458847
RRP: £14.99£11.55A Grim Almanac of Dorset is a day-by-day catalogue of 365 ghastly tales from around the county. Full of dreadful deeds, strange disappearances and a multitude of mysteries, this almanac explores the darker side of the Dorset's past. The wicked, the mad,... -
Faust's Metropolis: A History of Berlin by Alexandra Richie
RRP: £25.99£19.28'Beautifully conceived and marvellously researched. I haven't read a better book on Berlin.' Gordon A. Craig In Berlin, history is tangible. The sense of the past - of Europe, of Germany, and of the 20th-century's myths, depravities, idealism... -
Magical House Protection: The Archaeology of Counter-Witchcraft by Brian Hoggard
RRP: £23.95£19.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800730212Author Brian HoggardFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Berghahn BooksPublisher Berghahn Books