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The Nether World by George Gissing
RRP: £10.99£7.77The 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... -
The King's Revenge: Charles II and the Greatest Manhunt in British History by Michael Walsh 9780349123769 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29When Charles I was executed, his son Charles II made it his role to search out retribution, producing the biggest manhunt Britain had ever seen, one that would span Europe and America and would last for thirty years.Men who had once been among the most... -
The King's Revenge: Charles II and the Greatest Manhunt in British History by Michael Walsh 9780349123769
RRP: £12.99£8.60When Charles I was executed, his son Charles II made it his role to search out retribution, producing the biggest manhunt Britain had ever seen, one that would span Europe and America and would last for thirty years.Men who had once been among the most... -
Ipswich Past & Present by Dave Kindred
RRP: £12.99£9.62This fascinating selection of photographs illustrates the changes which have occurred in Ipswich. The town has experiences an enormous amount of development to keep up with its growing population. Attractive buildings, some centuries old, were swept away... -
Custer's Fall: The Native American Side of the Story by David Miller
RRP: £18.00£11.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452010956Author David MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Kursk: The Greatest Battle by Lloyd Clark
RRP: £14.99£8.545th July 1943: the greatest land battle of all time began around the town of Kursk in Russia. This epic confrontation between German and Soviet forces was one of the most important military engagements in history and epitomised 'total war'.It was also... -
Oxfordshire Folk Tales by Kevan Manwaring
RRP: £12.99£9.62Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross and listen to the tales of this ancient county. Hear how a King and his knights were turned to stone at the mysterious Rollright Stones; how Dragon Hill got its name; take the Devil's Highway to the End of the World -... -
London Underground Ghost Stories: Shiver Your Way from Station to Station by Jill Armitage
RRP: £4.99£3.80Apologies 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 -
Vintage Crime: A Short History of Wine Fraud by Rebecca Gibb 9780520385931
RRP: £25.00£18.82"This slim yet insightful and entertaining volume documents the many instances where wine drinkers did not get what they paid for, sometimes with deadly consequences."-New York Times, Best Wine Books of 2023How fakes, fraudsters, and grape crusaders have... -
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... -
The Weaker Vessel by Lady Antonia Fraser
RRP: £16.99£11.94Antonia Fraser's bestselling account of the lives of women in seventeenth-century England.Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent... -
The Ukulele: A Hawaiian Guitar, And How To Play It: The World's First Ukulele Instruction Book by Ernest K Kaai 9780993688034
RRP: £10.99£9.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993688034Author Ernest K KaaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Blue Terrier PressPublisher Blue Terrier PressWeight(grams) 141g -
The Rootes Group: Humber, Hillman, Sunbeam, Singer, Commer, Karrier by Richard Loveys
RRP: £8.99£6.96The Rootes Group once dominated the British motor industry, and its legacy lives on in thousands of carefully maintained cars - most notably Hillmans, Humbers, Singers and Sunbeams. In this book, using beautiful images from the Rootes Archive Centre,... -
The Tudor Housewife by Alison Sim
RRP: £12.99£8.17The political and military history of the sixteenth century is well known, and much written about, but what of the thousands of women who have, for the most part, eluded the historian's pen? The Tudor Housewife aims to answer this question, providing a... -
Haunted Dover by Lorraine Sencicle 9780752448596
RRP: £12.99£9.62Featuring tales from the seventeenth century to the present day, this exhaustive A-Z guide reveals the mysterious side of historic Dover. Situated at the narrowest part of the English Channel, Dover has had its fair share of waifs and strays travelling... -
Eyam: Plague Village by David Paul
RRP: £16.99£11.47In September 1665, plague was inadvertently transported from London to Eyam in Derbyshire on a consignment of cloth. This small country village subsequently became famous for its decision to instate a 'cordon sanitaire', isolating itself to prevent the... -
Dragons, Heroes, Myths & Magic: The Medieval Art of Storytelling (Paperback Edition) by Chantry Westwell 9780712354141
RRP: £19.99£13.75Journey through magical fairy tales, chivalric adventures, mystical events and celebrated foundation myths. Trace how folk traditions and the manners of courtly love have developed through generations and across continents and how the most celebrated of... -
Nicholas II, The Last Tsar by Michael Paterson
RRP: £10.99£7.40The character of the last Tsar, Nicholas II (1868-1918) is crucial to understanding the overthrow of tsarist Russia, the most significant event in Russian history. Nicholas became Tsar at the age of 26. Though a conscientious man who was passionate in... -
Germany 1945: From War to Peace by Richard Bessel 9781416526193
RRP: £10.99£7.00In 1945, Germany experienced the greatest outburst of deadly violence that the world has ever seen. Germany 1945 examines the country's emergence from the most terrible catastrophe in modern history. When the Second World War ended, millions had been... -
The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination by Lamar Waldron 9781619024397
RRP: £15.99£15.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619024397Author Lamar WaldronFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 663gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 36mm -
A Grim Almanac of Lincolnshire by Neil Storey 9780752457680
RRP: £14.99£11.55A Grim Almanac of Lincolnshire is a day-by-day catalogue of 365 ghastly tales from around the county dating from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries. Full of dreadful deeds, macabre deaths, strange occurrences and heinous homicides, this almanac... -
Field of Shadows: The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937 by Dan Waddell
RRP: £10.99£7.77Adolf Hitler despised cricket, considering it un-German and decadent. And Berlin in 1937 was not a time to be going against the Fuhrer's wishes. But hot on the heels of the 1936 Olympics, an enterprising cricket fanatic of enormous bravery, Felix... -
South Wales Collieries Volume 5: Mardy Collieries by Owen David 9780752432519 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£4.42This is part of a series on South Wales Collieries, which illustrates the area's industrial history during the past 200 years, in text and photographs, and gives a glimpse of both working and village life in the valleys.Book InformationISBN... -
South Wales Collieries Volume 5: Mardy Collieries by Owen David 9780752432519
RRP: £12.99£9.62This is part of a series on South Wales Collieries, which illustrates the area's industrial history during the past 200 years, in text and photographs, and gives a glimpse of both working and village life in the valleys.Book InformationISBN... -
Our Woman in Havana: Reporting Castro's Cuba by Sarah Rainsford
RRP: £9.99£7.11Graham Greene saw the Castros rise; Sarah Rainsford watched them leave. From the street where Wormold, the hapless hero of Greene's Our Man in Havana, plied his trade, BBC foreign correspondent Rainsford reports on Fidel's reshaping of a nation, and... -
Observations & Correspondence of Rev.d James Bradley by Rev.d James Bradley 9780244474355
RRP: £16.95£15.09The publication of Bradley's observations was delayed by disputes about their ownership; but they were finally published in two folio volumes (1798, 1805). This book is volume one of a two book set. The. Rev.d James Bradley was an English astronomer and... -
The Mercenary River: Private Greed, Public Good: A History of London's Water by Nick Higham
RRP: £22.00£19.69Anyone interested in the real London needs to read this. - Andrew MarrNo city can survive without water, and lots of it. Today we take the stuff for granted: turn a tap and it gushes out. But it wasn't always so. For centuries London, one of the largest... -
Deception: Pakistan, The United States and the Global Nuclear Weapons Conspiracy by Adrian Levy 9781843545354
RRP: £30.00£22.55Deception reveals how Pakistan built a nuclear arsenal with US aid money and sold the technology to countries hostile to the West, while giving shelter to the resurgent Taliban and al-Qaeda. It also reveals the much larger deception: how every American... -
Faulks on Fiction by Sebastian Faulks 9781846079603 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99£2.65Ever since Robinson Crusoe in 1719, the novel has introduced British readers to truly unforgettable characters - people in whom we can find deeper understanding of our own lives. In this engaging and personal book, Sebastian Faulks examines and... -
Masters of War: A Visual History of Military Personnel from Commanders to Frontline Fighters by DK
RRP: £25.00£17.87Who were the men and women behind history's most fascinating and famous wars? This military history book reveals it all.Packed with profiles of influential leaders, famous wars and information on weapons and clothing, this military book captivates the... -
Viruses, Plagues, and History: Past, Present, and Future by Michael B. A. Oldstone
RRP: £17.99£13.33More people were killed by smallpox during the twentieth century--over 300 million--than by all of the wars of that period combined. In 1918 and 1919, influenza virus claimed over 50 million lives. A century later, influenza is poised to return, ongoing... -
Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age 1971-1984 by Van Burnham
RRP: £17.99£13.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262524209Author Van BurnhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 1973gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 254mm * 25mm -
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 Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage by S. L. MacGregor Mathers 9780486232119
RRP: £14.49£9.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486232119Author S. L. Macgregor MathersFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
White Rajah: A Biography of Sir James Brooke by Nigel Barley
RRP: £10.99£7.40Sir James Brooke was an extraordinary 'eminent' Victorian, whose life was the stuff of legend.His curious career began in 1841 when he was caught up in a war in Brunei which had started because a party of local Dayaks had refused to furl their umbrellas... -
The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone
RRP: £19.99£15.76**The New York Times bestseller****Updated to include Obama's second term, Trump's first year and a half, climate change, nuclear winter, Korea, Russia, Iran, China, Libya, ISIS, and Syria**'This is not history for history's sake, however - this is the... -
Tolworth Remembered by Mark Davison 9780953424023
RRP: £9.95£9.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953424023Author Mark DavisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Mark DavisonPublisher Mark Davison -
The Thousand Year Old Garden: Inside the Secret Garden at Lambeth Palace by Nick Stewart Smith
RRP: £16.99£12.94"A fascinating and intimate portrait of a garden over time ... Reading is like being given a rusty key to a beautiful secret garden." - Ben Dark, Author of The GroveHidden away behind high stone walls in the centre of London is Lambeth Palace Garden, a... -
Globe: Life in Shakespeare's London by Catharine Arnold 9781471125706 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.33The life of William Shakespeare, Britain's greatest dramatist, was inextricably linked with the history of London. Together, the great writer and the great city came of age and confronted triumph and tragedy. Triumph came when Shakespeare's company, the... -
Globe: Life in Shakespeare's London by Catharine Arnold
RRP: £10.99£7.00The life of William Shakespeare, Britain's greatest dramatist, was inextricably linked with the history of London. Together, the great writer and the great city came of age and confronted triumph and tragedy. Triumph came when Shakespeare's company, the...