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Oedipus and the Devil: Witchcraft, Religion and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe by Lyndal Roper
RRP: £37.99£33.38This bold and imaginative book marks out a different route towards understanding the body, and its relationship to culture and subjectivity. Amongst other subjects, Lyndal Roper deals with the nature of masculinity and feminity. About the AuthorLyndal... -
Bygone Bridge of Don by A. Gordon Pirie 9781840338560
RRP: £11.95£11.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840338560Author A. Gordon PirieFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 175mm * 240mm * 4mm -
Haunted Gloucester by Eileen Fry 9780752433127
RRP: £14.99£11.72Gloucester's historic docks have some strange stories to tell and the city's twelfth-century cathedral also has its secrets. From a ghostly procession at Berkeley Castle to the Grey Lady at the old Theatre Royal, this new and fascinating collection of... -
The Origin of Empire: Rome from the Republic to Hadrian (264 BC - AD 138) by David Potter
RRP: £14.99£11.11In 264 BC, a Roman army was poised to cross from southern Italy into Sicily. They couldn't know that this crossing would be Rome's first step on its journey from local republic to vast and powerful empire. At the beginning of the three dramatic... -
Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours by Noga Arikha 9780060731175
RRP: £12.99£9.84Physicians in ancient Greece believed four humours flowed within the human body-blood, phlegm, black bile, and choler-determining a person's health, mood, and character. Not until the seventeenth century would a more complex view of the anatomy begin to... -
Gorillas in the Mist Dian Fossey 9780753811412
RRP: £10.99£7.61Dian 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... -
Companion to Historiography by Michael Bentley
RRP: £76.99£68.65The Companion to Historiography is an original analysis of the moods and trends in historical writing throughout its phases of development and explores the assumptions and procedures that have formed the creation of historical perspectives. Contributed... -
1913: The Year before the Storm by Florian Illies
RRP: £10.99£7.99A witty yet moving narrative worked up from sketched biographical fragments, 1913 is an intimate vision of a world that is about to change forever. The stuffy conventions of the nineteenth century are receding into the past, and 1913 heralds a new age... -
A Train of Powder by Rebecca West 9781566633192
RRP: £12.99£9.71Like most all of Rebecca West's reportage, A Train of Powder approaches great literature. Written between 1946 and 1954, these accounts of four controversial trials explore the nature of crime and punishment, innocence and guilt, retribution and... -
My Early Life: A Roving Commission by Winston Churchill 9780684823454
RRP: £14.00£11.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684823454Author Winston ChurchillFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 422g -
Manchester: Mapping the City by Terry Wyke
RRP: £30.00£21.62Manchester is one the world's most iconic cities. Not only was it the first industrial city, it can claim to be the first post-industrial city. This book uses historic maps and unpublished and original plans to chart the dramatic growth and... -
Journey into the Mind's Eye Lesley Blanch 9780907871545
RRP: £14.99£10.05Lesley Blanch was four when the mysterious Traveller first blew into her nursery, swathed in Siberian furs and full of the fairytales of Russia. She was twenty when he swept out of her life, leaving her love-lorn and in the grips of a passionate... -
Bute: A Guide David McDowall 9780952784777
RRP: £11.99£11.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780952784777Author David McDowallFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint David McDowallPublisher David McDowallDimensions(mm) 197mm * 129mm * 26mm -
Destiny in the Desert: The road to El Alamein - the Battle that Turned the Tide Jonathan Dimbleby 9781846684456
RRP: £14.99£11.51It was the British victory at the Battle of El Alamein in November 1942 that inspired one of Winston Churchill's most famous aphorisms: 'This is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end, but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning'. And yet... -
Medieval History For Dummies by Stephen Batchelor 9780470747834
RRP: £20.99£14.36Rattle through 1000 years of horrible history, from the fifth century to the sixteenth century Famine, plague and public execution - the medieval period wasn't the best time for some, but heroic rulers like Charlemagne, William the Conqueror and Henry V... -
Bizarre Scotland by David Long
RRP: £16.99£11.71From the world's oldest indoor loo to a theatre where spectators fill their pockets with poo, the definitive guide to the stranger side of Scotland shows there's a lot more to the place than tartan, haggis and tossing the caber. Inside you'll find: The... -
The Landmark Julius Caesar: The Complete Works: Gallic War, Civil War, Alexandrian War, African War, and Spanish War by Kurt A. Raaflaub
RRP: £30.00£20.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307455444Author Kurt A. RaaflaubFormat PaperbackPage Count 896Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf -
The Khalistan Conspiracy: A Former R&AW Officer Unravels the Path to 1984 by GBS Sidhu
£18.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356292130Author GBS SidhuFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm * 20mm -
The Secret History of Oxford by Paul Sullivan 9780752499567
RRP: £12.99£9.87The Secret History of Oxford offers the reader an off-the-beaten-track tour of the city's landmarks and streets. Filled with hundreds of facts and anecdotes, it reveals the amusing, unlikely and downright wonderful stories hidden beneath the surface... -
Oxford: A Potted History David Meara 9781398116801
RRP: £15.99£11.02Oxford’s history begins with the story of a king’s daughter, Frideswide, who founded a nunnery in the meadows where the River Thames and River Cherwell meet. A settlement grew up around her shrine, which was built on the site of the present cathedral and... -
The Year Of Liberty: The Great Irish Rebellion of 1789 Thomas Pakenham 9780349112527
RRP: £14.99£10.05This classic account of the great Irish rebellion of 1798 remains the only full-scale history of that tragic event. As relevant today as it was when first published in 1969, THE YEAR OF LIBERTY is now reissued with the addition of a chronology and a... -
The Year Of Liberty: The Great Irish Rebellion of 1789 by Thomas Pakenham 9780349112527 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.29This classic account of the great Irish rebellion of 1798 remains the only full-scale history of that tragic event. As relevant today as it was when first published in 1969, THE YEAR OF LIBERTY is now reissued with the addition of a chronology and a... -
The Motorbike Book: The Definitive Visual History by DK 9780241651421
RRP: £30.00£19.40Discover the gripping, action-packed history of the motorcycle, from the earliest petrol-powered two-wheelers to the blistering superbikes of today.Tracing the history and allure of the motorcycle, this book illustrates the diverse spectrum of bikes from... -
The Six Wives Of Henry VIII Lady Antonia Fraser 9781842126332
RRP: £16.99£11.71The six wives of Henry VIII- Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and catherine Parr- have become defined in popular sense not so much by their lives but by the the way their lives ended. But, as Antonia Fraser... -
Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: A History from the 1730s to the 1980s by David W. Bebbington
RRP: £39.99£35.06This major textbook is a newly researched historical study of Evangelical religion in its British cultural setting from its inception in the time of John Wesley to charismatic renewal today. The Church of England, the Church of Scotland and the variety... -
Mr Cavendish, I Presume: Number 2 in series by Julia Quinn
RRP: £8.99£4.21The second in a smart, witty duet of Dukes by Julia Quinn, the bestselling author of Bridgerton, now a series created for Netflix by ShondalandAbout the AuthorJulia Quinn started writing her first book one month after finishing university and has been... -
Richard II by Nigel Saul
RRP: £25.00£21.32Richard II is one of the most enigmatic of English kings. Shakespeare depicted him as a tragic figure, an irresponsible, cruel monarch who nevertheless rose in stature as the substance of power slipped from him. By later writers he has been variously... -
The Coffin Roads: Journeys to the West by Ian Bradley
RRP: £8.99£6.28'Coffin roads' along which bodies were carried for burial are a marked feature of the landscape of the Scottish Highlands and islands - many are now popular walking and cycling routes. This book journeys along eight coffin roads to discover and explore... -
Six Days: How the 1967 War Shaped the Middle East by Jeremy Bowen 9780743449694 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.65The Six-Day War was an extraordinary human drama. It swept up a generation of Israelis and Arabs whose children still cannot live peacefully in the world the war created. Today, Israel is the superpower of the region. It has nuclear weapons but has never... -
Six Days: How the 1967 War Shaped the Middle East Jeremy Bowen 9780743449694
RRP: £10.99£7.21The Six-Day War was an extraordinary human drama. It swept up a generation of Israelis and Arabs whose children still cannot live peacefully in the world the war created. Today, Israel is the superpower of the region. It has nuclear weapons but has never... -
Who Owns Ireland: The Hidden Truth of Land Ownership in Ireland by Kevin Cahill 9780750984454
RRP: £20.00£15.27It is the barbed wire entanglement that tortures yet frees in the long story of this small island on 'the dark edge of Europe'. It defined the national struggle for independence far more than any other single issue. The famine between 1845 and 1850... -
Staffordshire Unusual & Quirky by Andrew Beardmore 9780857042958
RRP: £19.99£17.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857042958Author Andrew BeardmoreFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove -
The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe Brian P. Levack 9781138808102
RRP: £39.99£38.84The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe, now in its fourth edition, is the perfect resource for both students and scholars of the witch-hunts written by one of the leading names in the field. For those starting out in their studies of witch-beliefs and... -
The Hemlock Cure by Joanne Burn
RRP: £14.99£10.45The entrancing historical read perfect for readers of Hamnet and The Manningtree Witches 'Vivid and poetic' JENNIFER SAINT 'Mesmerizing' ROSIE ANDREWS 'Page-turning' SUSAN STOKES-CHAPMAN 'Beautiful' ANNIE GARTHWAITE 'Exquisitely written' SONIA... -
Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music by Alex Ross
RRP: £16.99£12.47'An absolutely masterly work' Stephen Fry Alex Ross, renowned author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics-an aesthetic war zone where... -
Britain's Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya by Caroline Elkins
RRP: £16.99£12.68Only a few years after Britain defeated fascism came the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya - a mass armed rebellion by the Kikuyu people, demanding the return of their land and freedom. The draconian response of Britain's colonial government was to detain nearly... -
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War by Louis Menand 9780007126880
RRP: £14.99£9.96Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas,... -
Balfour's Shadow: A Century of British Support for Zionism and Israel by David Cronin
RRP: £19.99£13.35This is the controversial history of the British government's involvement in the Zionist project, from the Balfour Declaration in 1917 to the present day. Written by the British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour, the Declaration stated 'His... -
The Routledge Companion to Britain in the Nineteenth Century, 1815-1914 by Chris Cook 9780415359702
RRP: £29.99£26.64The Routledge Companion to Britain in the Nineteenth Century, 1815-1914 is an accessible and indispensable compendium of essential information on the Victorian and Edwardian eras.Using chronologies, maps, glossaries, an extensive bibliography, a wealth... -
The Alhambra by Robert Irwin
RRP: £9.99£7.32The Alhambra, the 'red fort' on its rocky hill above Granada, with its fountained courts and gardens, and intricate decoration, has long been a byword for exotic and melancholy beauty. In a stimulating new book in the 'Wonders of the World' series Robert...