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London Underground Ghost Stories: Shiver Your Way from Station to Station by Jill Armitage
RRP: £4.99£3.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902674711Author Jill ArmitageFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Bradwell BooksPublisher Bradwell Books -
Dracula's Whitby by Ian Thompson
RRP: £15.99£11.79DRACULA is such an iconic figure that he has inspired hundreds of films and television programmes for over a century. He has appeared in over 215 films and, since its publication in 1897, Dracula has never been out of print. Most people have a very... -
The Day Of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy 1943-44 by Rick Atkinson
RRP: £16.99£11.94In An Army at Dawn - winner of the Pulitzer Prize - Rick Atkinson provided a dramatic and authoritative history of the Allied triumph in North Africa. Now, in The Day of the Battle, he follows the strengthening American and British armies as they invade... -
Mountain Days & Bothy Nights by Dave Brown
RRP: £7.50£5.78Acknowledged as a classic of mountain writing, this book takes you into the bothies, howffs and dosses on the Scottish hills as Fishgut Mac, Desperate Dan and Stumpy the Big Yin stalk hill and public house, evading gamekeepers and Royalty.About the... -
A Nation and not a Rabble: The Irish Revolution 1913-23 by Diarmaid Ferriter
RRP: £14.99£11.11Packed with violence, political drama and social and cultural upheaval, the years 1913-1923 saw the emergence in Ireland of the Ulster Volunteer Force to resist Irish home rule and in response, the Irish Volunteers, who would later evolve into the IRA... -
Captain Jack's Woman Stephanie Laurens 9780749940188
RRP: £9.99£7.00Bored by society's rules and strictures, Kathryn 'Kit' Cranmer yearns for adventure - and she finds it on Britain's rugged eastern coast, dressed as a boy at the head of a rag-tag band of smugglers. But there is another who rules the night: the notorious... -
Nottingham in the 1960s & 70s: Britain in Old Photographs by Douglas Whitworth 9780752448879
RRP: £15.99£12.43In the 1960s the citizens of Nottingham saw the greatest change in the city in the twentieth century. In the previous decade, the city planners envisaged a dual carriageway which would encircle the centre of Nottingham and they began by building a new... -
Haunted Black Country by Philip Solomon 9780752448824
RRP: £12.99£9.87From Brierley Hill to Walsall, Netherton to Darlaston and Dudley, this chilling collection of true-life tales covers the whole of the Black Country. Many of these tales have never before appeared in print. Compiled by the Wolverhampton Express &... -
Castle Cary, North Cadbury and Wincanton by Bridget Laver 9781845882587
RRP: £5.99£4.95Presents a pictorial history of Castle Cary, North Cadbury and Wincanton through a series of photographs and images. This work features historical captions.Book InformationISBN 9781845882587Author Sam MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Nonsuch... -
A Toast to the Old Stones: A Tale from Kinloch by Denzil Meyrick
RRP: £9.99£6.90'a wonderfully atmospheric tale ... offers a brief, magical escape to a kinder, simpler time' - Roger Cox, The Scotsman It's 1968, and the fishermen of Kinloch are preparing to celebrate the old New Year on the twelfth of January. The annual... -
Southend Pier by Martin Easdown 9780752442150
RRP: £12.99£9.87As Sir John Betjeman famously put it, 'The Pier is Southend, Southend is the Pier'. Southend-on-Sea's famous landmark is the longest seaside pleasure pier in the world and has given its town sterling service in times of war and peace. Loved by millions... -
looking back at... The 1966 World Cup: A dementia-friendly book by Matt Singleton 9781738459117
RRP: £14.99£13.60Relive the finest moment in English men's football to date in this wonderful 'Cognitive Book' that everyone can enjoy and is suitable for people living with dementia or other cognitive difficulties. In collaboration with Alzheimer's Society, there's a... -
Hadrian's Empire by Danny Danziger 9780340833612 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.65Hadrian's Wall is one of the world's best known legacies of the Roman Empire. It has stood for two thousand years as a moment to its creator, and yet he himself remains an enigmatic figure. Now bestselling author Danny Danziger and Nicholas Purcell... -
Hadrian's Empire by Danny Danziger
RRP: £12.99£8.83Hadrian's Wall is one of the world's best known legacies of the Roman Empire. It has stood for two thousand years as a moment to its creator, and yet he himself remains an enigmatic figure. Now bestselling author Danny Danziger and Nicholas Purcell... -
50 Gems of Lincolnshire: The History & Heritage of the Most Iconic Places by Michael Smith 9781398110694
RRP: £15.99£10.85Lincolnshire is a county of contrasts, ranging from the seaside resorts on the east coast to the rolling chalk hills of the Lincolnshire Wolds and the fenland area of the south-east. The area has been settled since prehistoric times, the Romans... -
Old Langholm and the Esk Valley by Alex Young 9781840332377
RRP: £7.50£6.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840332377Author Alex YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 175mm * 240mm * 4mm -
JERSEY: SECRETS OF THE SEA by Paul Darroch 9781912020935
£12.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912020935Author Paul DarrochFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Seaflower BooksPublisher Ex Libris Press -
Manchester: Something Rich and Strange by Paul Dobraszczyk
RRP: £12.99£9.89What is Manchester? Moving far from the glitzy shopping districts and architectural showpieces, away from cool city-centre living and modish cultural centres, this book shows us the unheralded, under-appreciated and overlooked parts of Greater Manchester... -
The Essential Guide to Writing History Essays by Katherine Pickering Antonova 9780190271169
£27.21The Essential Guide to Writing History Essays is a step-by-step guide to the typical assignments of any undergraduate or master's-level history program in North America. Effective writing is a process of discovery, achieved through the continual act of... -
Abandoned Palaces by Michael Kerrigan
RRP: £19.99£14.86Built to last, built to impress, built with style and grandeur - it is all the more remarkable when the most ostentatious of buildings fall into disrepair and become ruins. From imperial residences and aristocratic estates to hotels and urban mansions,... -
James Cook: The story of the man who mapped the world Peter FitzSimons 9781472131409
RRP: £20.00£13.95Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated. But who was the real James Cook?The name Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in... -
Mappa Mundi: Hereford's Curious Map by Sarah Arrowsmith
RRP: £10.00£8.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906663919Author Sarah ArrowsmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint Logaston PressPublisher Fircone Books Ltd -
Culloden Tales: Stories from Scotland's Most Famous Battlefield by Hugh G. Allison
RRP: £10.99£7.99Culloden was the last battle on British soil. It marked the end of clan culture and was the harbinger of the Highland Clearances. It ensured the inevitability of the American Revolution and increased the outpouring of Scots across the globe. It is the... -
Dublin Then and Now (R) by Lisa Marie Griffith
RRP: £16.99£12.65Dublin Then and Now matches archival images with contemporary views to reveal the past and present of this fascinating city.Dublin's rich architectural heritage ranges from medieval castles and cathedrals to a wealth of elegant Georgian townhouses... -
Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II by Evan Thomas 9781783967292
RRP: £20.00£13.86'Urgent, compulsively readable and powerfully resonant' Sinclair McKay You know Oppenheimer, the man who created the atomic bomb... Now meet the men who detonated it, and the extraordinary weight of their decisions... Road to Surrender by New... -
Chessington Remembered by Mark Hamilton Davison 9780953424016
£10.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953424016Author Mark Hamilton DavisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Mark DavisonPublisher Mark Davison -
Despotism, Social Evolution, and Differential Reproduction by Laura L. Betzig
RRP: £45.99£40.13"Much light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history," thus ended Darwin's Origin of Species. For many years, the book provoked a flood of argument, but yielded little evidence. In the first century after the book's publication, virtually no... -
1910s Scrapbook: the Decade of the Great War Robert Opie 9780954795474
RRP: £14.95£11.03Retrospectively, we see the time of the 1910s being invaded with the images of the First World War, and yet in the early years of that decade people were focussed on events at home, whether King George V's coronation or the women involved in the... -
Medieval York by Gareth Dean 9780752441160
RRP: £22.50£17.05York is one of the most visited cities in England - above all for its medieval heritage: the Minster, the city walls and the streets where many elements of the medieval city are still visible. Drawing on a mass of unpublished excavations over the last 35... -
The Elusive Bride: Number 2 in series by Stephanie Laurens
RRP: £9.99£7.00Gareth Hamilton is stunned when he recognizes Emily Ensworth on his ship. The veil she wears is not enough to disguise her from him - or from the man hired to kill her. Whisking Emily to safety, Gareth realizes that the Black Cobra is on to them. In... -
Bridge of Spies by Giles Whittell 9781849833271 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.65THE DRAMATIC EVENTS BEHIND THE FILM BRIDGE OF SPIES.'Riveting, meticulously researched and beautifully written, Bridge of Spies unlocks one of the most fascinating espionage mysteries of the Cold War' - Ben Macintyre, author of Agent Zigzag and SAS Rogue... -
Good Honest Tales: 150 Years of Batemans Brewery by Adam Cartwright 9781398117693
RRP: £16.99£11.47In 2024 the determinedly independent Lincolnshire brewing firm of Batemans will celebrate its 150th anniversary. Nestling beside the Steeping River in the little town of Wainfleet, Batemans' Salem Bridge Brewery forms a quintessential English scene -... -
Our Uninvited Guests: The Secret Life of Britain's Country Houses 1939-45 by Julie Summers 9781471152535
£9.56'Julie Summers has an amazing instinct for unearthing good stories and telling quotes.' Craig Brown, The Mail On Sunday. 'This is an enjoyable book, peppered with examples of under-reported wartime heroism.' Robert Leigh-Pemberton, The Daily Telegraph... -
Bismarck and the German Empire: 1871-1918 by Lynn Abrams
RRP: £36.99£32.53Updated and expanded, this second edition of Bismarck and the German Empire, 1871-1918 is an accessible introduction to this important period in German history. Providing both a narrative of events at the time and an analysis of social and cultural... -
Homecoming: The Scottish Years of Mary, Queen of Scots by Rosemary Goring
RRP: £22.00£15.11One of the most famous queens in history, Mary Stuart lived in her homeland for just twelve years: as a dauntless child who laughed at her friends' seasickness as they sailed to safety in France and later, on her return as a 18-year-old widow to take... -
Rifleman - New edition by Victor Gregg
RRP: £10.99£7.99'Victor Gregg is the most remarkable spokesman for the war generation' Dan Snow 'A classic' Mail on Sunday 'Astonishing' James Holland Born in 1919, Victor Gregg enlisted in the Rifle Brigade aged just eighteen and began a life of... -
My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past by Jennifer Teege
RRP: £10.99£7.61'A powerful account of Teege's struggle for resolution and redemption.' IndependentAn international bestseller, this is the extraordinary and moving memoir of a woman who learns that her grandfather was Amon Goeth, the brutal Nazi commandant depicted in... -
Russia and the USSR, 1855-1991: Autocracy and Dictatorship by Stephen J. Lee
RRP: £36.99£32.53From a renowned name in A Level history publishing, this is a Questions and Analysis title on a major period in Russian History. With all three exam boards offering modules on this popular subject at A Level, this book is an absolute must-have.Looking at... -
Medieval Pets Kathleen Walker-Meikle 9781783275694
RRP: £19.99£17.23An engaging and informative survey of medieval pet keeping which also examines their representation in art and literature. Animals in the Middle Ages have often been discussed - but usually only as a source of food, as beasts of burden, or as aids for... -
Going to the Wars: The Experience of the British Civil Wars 1638-1651 by Charles Carlton
RRP: £37.99£33.78First Published in 2004. During the 1640s, tens of thousands of young British men set off for the Civil Wars full of that innocent enthusiasm with which so many before and since have welcomed the prospect of battle. Few had much idea of the reality of...