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Feminism for Women: The Real Route to Liberation by Julie Bindel
RRP: £16.99£9.58'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 New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World by Peter Frankopan
RRP: £20.00£14.29From 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 Making of Home: The 500-year story of how our houses became homes by Judith Flanders
RRP: £12.99£9.09The idea that 'home' is a special place, a separate place, a place where we can be our true selves, is so obvious to us today that we barely pause to think about it. But, as Judith Flanders shows in this revealing book, 'home' is a relatively new... -
Up and Down Stairs: The History of the Country House Servant by Jeremy Musson 9780719597305 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.29Country houses were reliant on an intricate hierarchy of servants, each of whom provided an essential skill. Up and Down Stairs brings to life this hierarchy and shows how large numbers of people lived together under strict segregation and how sometimes... -
Up and Down Stairs: The History of the Country House Servant by Jeremy Musson
RRP: £10.99£7.40Country houses were reliant on an intricate hierarchy of servants, each of whom provided an essential skill. Up and Down Stairs brings to life this hierarchy and shows how large numbers of people lived together under strict segregation and how sometimes... -
The Russian Revolution: A Beginner's Guide by Abraham Ascher
RRP: £9.99£7.551917: the year a series of rebellions toppled three centuries of autocratic rule and placed a group of political radicals in charge of a world power. Here, suddenly, was the first modern socialist state, "a kingdom more bright that any heaven had to... -
The Eighty Dollar Champion by Elizabeth Letts
RRP: £12.99£8.60Harry de Leyer first saw the horse he would name Snowman on a truck bound for the slaughterhouse. The recent Dutch immigrant recognized the spark in the eye of the beaten-up nag and bought him for eighty dollars. On Harry's modest farm on Long Island, he... -
Searching for Juliet: The Lives and Deaths of Shakespeare's First Tragic Heroine by Sophie Duncan
RRP: £25.00£16.38'Invigorating ... engaging ... thrilling' Samantha Ellis, GUARDIAN'An astonishing tour-de-force . . . Juliet has found the biographer she deserves' Marion TurnerA cultural, historical, and literary exploration of the birth, death, and legacy of the... -
Battle of Britain: A day-to-day chronicle, 10 July-31 October 1940 by Patrick Bishop 9781529409512
RRP: £12.99£8.60From the bestselling author of Fighter Boys and Bomber Boys, this is a magisterial chronicle of a defining episode in British history: the epic struggle of the Royal Air Force with the Luftwaffe. Patrick Bishop's Battle of Britain is a compelling account... -
The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit by George Smeaton 9781498294942
RRP: £36.00£27.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498294942Author George SmeatonFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)... -
Blood And Thunder: An Epic of the American West by Hampton Sides
RRP: £12.99£8.60Hampton Sides's extraordinary book brings the history of the American conquest of the West to ringing life. It is a tale with many heroes and villains, but at the centre of it all stands the remarkable figure of Kit Carson - the legendary trapper, scout... -
Unseen Hastings and St Leonards: Britain in Old Photographs by Frederick Crouch 9780750967488
RRP: £15.99£12.25Unseen Hastings and St Leonards features 250 views including previously unpublished photographs that will appeal to everyone with an interest in the history of Hastings and St Leonards-on-Sea. Accompanied by informative captions, many of these rare... -
Henry II by W. L. Warren 9780300084740
RRP: £22.00£19.56Henry II (1133-1189) was an enigma in his own time and has continued to excite widely divergent judgments ever since. His quarrel with Archbishop Becket, his troubled relationships with his sons and with his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and other dramatic... -
Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations by Mary Beard
RRP: £10.99£7.77Mary Beard is one of the world's best-known classicists - a brilliant academic, with a rare gift for communicating with a wide audience both though her TV presenting and her books. In a series of sparkling essays, she explores our rich classical... -
Frankfurt by Brian Melican 9781909930186
RRP: £12.99£11.95Frankfurt is a city that punches well above its weight. Despite its diminutive size--it has fewer than a million inhabitants--it is a financial centre of global importance, named alongside metropolises and capitals such as Tokyo, London, and New York... -
The Subterranean Railway: How the London Underground was Built and How it Changed the City Forever by Christian Wolmar 9780857890696
RRP: £11.99£7.93Reissued in a new paperback package to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the London Underground.'I can think of few better ways to while away those elastic periods awaiting the arrival of the next eastbound Circle Line train than by reading [this... -
The Shetland Bus: A WWII Epic Of Courage, Endurance, and Survival by David Howarth 9781493032945
RRP: £14.99£14.44From the author of We Die Alone, The Shetland Bus recounts the hundreds of crossings of small boats from the Shetland Islands to German-occupied Norway to supply arms to the Resistors and to rescue refugees-all under constant threat by German U-boats and... -
Secret Newcastle by Ken Hutchinson
RRP: £15.99£10.85Situated on the north bank of the River Tyne, at the lowest bridging point, Newcastle is generally regarded as the capital of the north-eastern region of the United Kingdom. Initially a Roman settlement, Pons Aellius, the city grew to become an important... -
A Brief History of Spain by Jeremy Black
RRP: £10.99£3.86Despite being relatively brief, this very readable history covers environmental, political, social, economic, cultural and artistic elements, and is very open to regional variations and to the extent that the history of the peninsula and of its political... -
Transcribing Oral History by Teresa Bergen
RRP: £37.99£33.38Transcribing Oral History offers a comprehensive guide to the transcription of qualitative interviews, an often richly debated practice within oral history. Beginning with an introduction to the field and an overview of the many disciplines that conduct... -
Born in the 60s by Tim Glynne-Jones 9781782128861 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99£1.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782128861Author Tim Glynne-JonesFormat HardbackImprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd -
The Parting Years: A British Family and the End of Empire by Sheila Bevan 9781860647345
£54.87How did the end of Empire affect a family steeped in British imperial traditions for more than four generations? Shiela Bevan's story begins when the British Empire still seemed in its heyday of world dominion, when the vast increase in territorial... -
David I: The King Who Made Scotland by Richard Oram
RRP: £12.99£9.62Few kings deserve more than David I the reputation as 'maker' of his kingdom. Although overshadowed in popular memory by his descendant, the later 'saviour' of Scotland, Robert Bruce, it was David who laid the foundations of the medieval Scottish... -
Travels into Bokhara by Sir Alexander Burnes 9781906011710
RRP: £14.99£9.80Alexander Burnes travelled up the Indus to Lahore and to the Khanates of Afghanistan and Central Asia in the 1830s, spying on behalf of the British Government in what was to become known as the 'Great Game'. His account of these travels was a bestseller... -
Money: The Unauthorised Biography by Felix Martin
RRP: £12.99£9.09What is money, and how does it work?The conventional answer is that people once used sugar in the West Indies, tobacco in Virginia, and dried cod in Newfoundland, and that today's financial universe evolved from barter. Unfortunately, there is a problem... -
Magna Carta: The True Story Behind the Charter by David Starkey
RRP: £12.99£8.60'A soaring account of the months that transformed a messy feudal squabble into Magna Carta...his crisp storytelling, based around short chapters and rolling rhetoric, is extremely entertaining.' Dan Jones, Mail on Sunday'I thoroughly enjoyed this book... -
The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World by Lincoln P. Paine
RRP: £30.00£20.70A monumental, wholly accessible work of scholarship that retells human history through the story of mankind's relationship with the sea. An accomplishment of both great sweep and illuminating detail, The Sea and Civilization is a stunning work of... -
Haunted Suffolk by Pete Jennings 9780752438443
RRP: £14.99£11.55From heart-stopping accounts of apparitions, manifestations and related supernatural phenomena to first-hand encounters with ghouls and spirits, this collection of stories contains a new and well-known spooky tales from around the county of Suffolk... -
The Mechanical Devil: Book 22 in the DI Wesley Peterson crime series by Kate Ellis
RRP: £9.99£6.80Secrets 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... -
Eggs or Anarchy: The remarkable story of the man tasked with the impossible: to feed a nation at war by William Sitwell 9781471151071
RRP: £9.99£7.11Eggs or Anarchy is one of the great, British stories of the Second World War yet to be told in full. It reveals the heroic tale of how Lord Woolton, Minister for Food, really fed Britain. As a nation at war, with supply routes under attack from the Axis... -
Lost Tramways of England: Bolton, SLT, Wigan and St Helens by Peter Waller
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802582253Author Peter WallerFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg Limited -
The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains by Thomas W. Laqueur 9780691180939
RRP: £25.00£20.59The meaning of our concern for mortal remains-from antiquity through the twentieth centuryThe Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone else care what... -
Burton Upon Trent Tales of the Town by Geoffrey Sowerby 9780752410975
RRP: £12.99£9.62Burton Upon Trent Tales of the TownBook InformationISBN 9780752410975Author Geoffrey SowerbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 310gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 172mm * 10mm -
A History of South Africa by Frank Welsh
RRP: £18.99£12.71'A remarkable feat of scholarship, fairness and readability, full of lively detail with a freshness of style which brings new life to the narrative' Anthony Sampson Throughout its turbulent history, South Africa has frequently been the focus... -
Ellesmere Port by Pat O'Brien
RRP: £14.99£11.55This fascinating selection of old photographs of Ellesmere Port shows the town in fine detail, and some of the major changes it has seen over the last hundred years. The once busy port with its warehouses and ships is portrayed in its heyday. We see the... -
The Twelve Caesars by Matthew Dennison 9781848876859 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29One of them was a military genius; one murdered his mother and fiddled while Rome burned. Six of their number were assassinated, two committed suicide, and five of them were elevated to the status of gods. They have come to be known as the 'twelve... -
The Twelve Caesars by Matthew Dennison
RRP: £12.99£8.56One of them was a military genius; one murdered his mother and fiddled while Rome burned. Six of their number were assassinated, two committed suicide, and five of them were elevated to the status of gods. They have come to be known as the 'twelve... -
Pabay: An Island Odyssey by Christopher Whatley
£22.87The tiny diamond-shaped island of Pabay lies in Skye's Inner Sound, just two and a half miles from the bustling village of Broadford. One of five Hebridean islands of that name, it derives from the Norse papa-ey, meaning 'island of the priest'. Many... -
The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho: Based on a true story, the utterly gripping and heartbreaking historical novel from the star of Vigil by Paterson Joseph
RRP: £16.99£9.98PICKED FOR THE TIMES BIGGEST BOOKS FOR AUTUMN 2022'An absolutely thrilling, throat-catching wonder of a historical novel. Told with dazzling energy and brilliant panache. Hugely recommended.' STEPHEN FRY'Phenomenal! Highly recommended' MALORIE BLACKMAN,... -
Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature by Margaret Atwood
RRP: £10.99£7.40Margaret Atwood's witty and informative book focuses on the imaginative mystique of the wilderness of the Canadian North. She discusses the 'Grey Owl Syndrome' of white writers going native; the folklore arising from the mysterious-- and disastrous --...