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Space: A thrilling human history by Britain's beloved astronaut Tim Peake by Tim Peake 9781529913507
RRP: $46.20$33.64From bestselling author and British astronaut Tim Peake, an inspirational human history of space travel, from the Apollo missions to our future forays to Mars. The Right Stuff for a new generation.'This book is brilliant - once in a blue moon. A book for... -
A Night to Remember by Walter Lord 9780805077643
RRP: $39.88$23.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805077643Author Walter LordFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams)... -
Leftovers: A History of Food Waste and Preservation by Eleanor Barnett 9781803281575
RRP: $58.78$42.02A topical and richly entertaining history of food preservation and food waste in Britain from the sixteenth-century kitchen to the present day. In Leftovers, Eleanor Barnett explores the many ingenious ways in which our ancestors sought to extend the... -
When Time Began by Zecharia Sitchin 9780061379284
RRP: $18.88$11.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061379284Author Zecharia SitchinFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
RRP: $23.08$16.53The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre.Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost their... -
Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest by Carl Hoffman 9780062116161
$25.22On November 21, 1961, Michael C. Rockefeller, the twenty-three-year-old son of New York governor Nelson Rockefeller, vanished off the coast of southwest New Guinea when his boat capsized. He was on a collecting expedition for the Museum of Primitive Art,... -
Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee
RRP: $20.98$10.98The classic evocative tale of an idyllic childhood in the English countryside ... -
Hello, Stranger: How We Find Connection in a Disconnected World by Will Buckingham
RRP: $23.08$15.58What if meeting new people were a gift, not a burden? How might we transform our lives if we set aside our fear of outsiders? When Will Buckingham's partner died, the shock of his grief told him to withdraw. Instead, he sought solace in throwing... -
Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson
RRP: $29.40$19.19Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time A book about romantic love, Eros the Bittersweet is Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros" in both classical philosophy and literature. Beginning with, "It... -
Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland
RRP: $27.28$18.27'The book that really held me, in fact, obsessed me, was Rubicon . . . This is narrative history at its best. Bloody and labyrinthine political intrigue and struggle, brilliant oratory, amazing feats of conquest and cruelty' Ian McEwan, Books of the... -
A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the struggle that shaped the Middle East by James Barr 9781847394576
RRP: $23.08$15.14'The very grubby coalface of foreign policy ... I found the entire book most horribly addictive' Independent 'One of the unexpected responses to reading this masterful study is amazement at the efforts the British and French each put into undermining the... -
East West Street: Non-fiction Book of the Year 2017 by Philippe Sands
RRP: $23.08$15.75THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERWhen he receives an invitation to deliver a lecture in the Ukrainian city of Lviv, international lawyer Philippe Sands begins a journey on the trail of his family's... -
Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom by Tom Holland
RRP: $27.28$11.36Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared to the glittering empires of Byzantium or Islam, the splintered kingdoms on the edge of the Atlantic appeared... -
Emperor of Rome: The Sunday Times Bestseller Professor Mary Beard 9781846683787
RRP: $63.00$40.97THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER & BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 A BLOOMBERG BEST BOOK OF 2023 A PROSPECT BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 BLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR ... -
A Curious History of Sex by Kate Lister
RRP: $27.28$25.98An eye-opening exploration of the weird and wonderful things human beings have done in pursuit (and denial) of the mighty orgasm, based on the hit Twitter account @WhoresofYoreThis is not a comprehensive study of every sexual quirk, kink and ritual... -
Bohemian Grove:: Cult of Conspiracy by Mike Hanson
RRP: $62.90$40.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781930004696Author Mike HansonFormat PaperbackPage Count 447Imprint Rivercrest PublishingPublisher Rivercrest PublishingWeight(grams) 658g -
Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town by Mary Beard
RRP: $25.18$18.61WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2008 'The world's most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy' Laura Silverman, Daily Mail The ruins of Pompeii, buried by an... -
Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters by Dick Winters
RRP: $31.48$23.00On D-Day, Dick Winters took off with 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment and prepared to parachute into German-held north France. Ground troops landing on Utah beach were relying on Easy Company to secure one of the causeways that were vital if the troops... -
The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power behind Five English Thrones by Thomas Asbridge 9781471196447
RRP: $23.08$15.14'A rip-roaring new life of Marshal ... [a] splendid account of a great medieval life' Dan Jones, author of Crusaders'A thoroughly entertaining account of England's most colourful and courageous medieval knight' Sunday Times Drawing upon an array of... -
Shadowplay: Behind the Lines and Under Fire: The Inside Story of Europe's Last War by Tim Marshall
RRP: $20.98$14.60A gripping eyewitness account of a major 20th-century military conflict by the UK's most popular writer on geopolitics; The shattering of Yugoslavia in the 1990s showed that, after nearly 50 years of peace, war could return to Europe. It came to its... -
A Path To Freedom by Michael Collins 9781617430275
RRP: $18.67$16.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617430275Author Michael CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Greenbook Publications, LLCPublisher Greenbook Publications, LLCWeight(grams) 122g -
Marutas of Unit 731: Human Experimentation of the Forgotten Asian Auschwitz by Jenny Chan 9781947766327
RRP: $25.20$16.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947766327Author Jenny ChanFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Pacific Atrocities EducationPublisher Pacific Atrocities EducationWeight(grams)... -
Fingerprints Of The Gods by Graham Hancock
RRP: $48.28$36.81THE MULTI-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING SENSATION THAT TURNED HISTORY ON ITS HEAD, FROM THE CREATOR OF NETFLIX'S ANCIENT APOCALYPSE 'One of the intellectual landmarks of the decade' Literary Review'Readers will hugely enjoy their quest in these pages of... -
A 1940s Childhood: From Bomb Sites to Children's Hour by James Marsh 9780752499505
RRP: $20.98$16.07Do you remember collecting shrapnel and listening to Children's Hour? Carrying gas masks or sharing your school with evacuees from the city? The 1940s was a decade of great challenge for everyone who lived through it. The hardships and fear created by a... -
A 1970s Childhood: From Glam Rock to Happy Days by Derek Tait
RRP: $20.98$16.32Do you remember glam rock, flares, cheesecloth shirts and chopper bikes? Then it sounds like you were lucky enough to grow up during the 1970s. Who could forget all the glam rock bands of that era, like Slade, Wizard, Mud and Sweet, or singers like Alvin... -
Born in the 30s by Tim Glynne-Jones 9781784047399 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.68$3.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784047399Author Tim Glynne-JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd -
The Story of China: A portrait of a civilisation and its people by Michael Wood
RRP: $27.28$17.39'A learned, wise, wonderfully written single volume history of a civilisation that I knew I should know more about' Tom Holland'Masterful and engrossing...well-paced, eminently readable and well-timed. A must-read for those who want - and need - to know... -
The Making Of The Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes 9781471111235
RRP: $35.68$25.73WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEThe Making of the Atomic Bomb is the seminal and complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan. Few... -
Born in the 40s by Tim Glynne-Jones 9781782128847 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.68$4.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782128847Author Tim Glynne-JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd -
Persian Fire: The First World Empire, Battle for the West by Tom Holland 9780349117171 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$4.81Tom Holland's bestselling account of the world's very first clash of civilisations between the Persians and the Greeks in 480BC'Magisterial... told with great authority and a novelistic colour and verve' Books of the Year, Independent'Holland has a rare... -
Persian Fire: The First World Empire, Battle for the West by Tom Holland
RRP: $27.28$14.11Tom Holland's bestselling account of the world's very first clash of civilisations between the Persians and the Greeks in 480BC'Magisterial... told with great authority and a novelistic colour and verve' Books of the Year, Independent'Holland has a rare... -
The Pike: Gabriele d'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
RRP: $39.88$26.69THE TIMES BIOGRAPHY OF THE DECADE WINNER OF THE 2013 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION WINNER OF THE 2013 COSTA BOOK AWARDS BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR ... -
With the Old Breed: The World War Two Pacific Classic by Eugene B. Sledge
RRP: $31.48$23.00The inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFICThis was a brutish, primitive hatred, as characteristic of the horror of war in the Pacific as the palm trees and the islands...Landing on the beach at Peleliu in 1944 as a twenty-year-old new recruit to... -
A Village in the Third Reich: How Ordinary Lives Were Transformed By the Rise of Fascism by Julia Boyd
RRP: $23.08$16.15___________ A Waterstones Paperback of the Year 2022 A New Statesman Book of the Year 2022 'Fascinating... You'll learn more about the psychological workings of Nazism by reading this superbly researched chronicle... than you will by reading a... -
Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History by Giles Milton 9780340696767
RRP: $27.28$18.54THE 25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH A NEW FOREWORD FROM WILLIAM DALRYMPLE'A book to read, reread, then read again to your children' Independent on Sunday 'Once embarked upon the journey of the book, one is loath, sometimes unable to turn back' Sunday... -
Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History by Giles Milton 9780340696767 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$4.81THE 25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH A NEW FOREWORD FROM WILLIAM DALRYMPLE'A book to read, reread, then read again to your children' Independent on Sunday 'Once embarked upon the journey of the book, one is loath, sometimes unable to turn back' Sunday... -
Longitude by Dava Sobel
RRP: $20.98$14.11The tenth anniversary edition of the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution of how to calculate longitude and the unlikely triumph of an English genius. With a new Foreword by the celebrated astronaut Neil Armstrong... -
The Shortest History of Europe by John Hirst 9781910400807
RRP: $18.88$16.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910400807Author John HirstFormat PaperbackImprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street PublishingDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 16mm -
White Heat: A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties by Dominic Sandbrook
RRP: $35.68$25.07Harold Wilson's famous reference to 'white heat' captured the optimistic spirit of a society in the midst of breathtaking change. From the gaudy pleasures of Swinging London to the tragic bloodshed in Northern Ireland, from the intrigues of Westminster... -
Shadow of the Titanic: The Extraordinary Stories of Those Who Survived by Andrew Wilson 9781847398826
RRP: $23.08$15.16In the early hours of 15 April 1912, after the majestic liner Titanic had split apart and the 1,500 men, women and children struggled to stay alive in the freezing Atlantic, the sea was alive with the sound of screaming. Then, as the ship sank to the...