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An Unconsidered People: The Irish in London - Updated Edition by Catherine Dunne
RRP: £12.99£9.09New updated edition of the seminal work by Catherine Dunne, which charted the multifarious lives of the London Irish, in all their variety and colour, now with a brand new foreword by Diarmaid Ferriter. Before the 'Ryanair Generation', leaving home... -
Concorde: The Rise and Fall of the Supersonic Airliner by Jonathan Glancey
RRP: £12.99£8.56In Concorde, Jonathan Glancey tells the story of this magnificent and hugely popular aircraft anew, taking the reader from the moment Captain Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in 1947 through to the last commercial flight of the supersonic... -
The Middle Ages: A Graphic History by Eleanor Janega
RRP: £14.99£11.54A unique, illustrated book that will change the way you see medieval historyThe Middle Ages: A Graphic History busts the myth of the 'Dark Ages', shedding light on the medieval period's present-day relevance in a unique illustrated style.This history... -
Queen of Codes: The Secret Life of Emily Anderson, Britain's Greatest Female Code Breaker by Dr Jackie Ui Chionna 9781472295507
RRP: £12.99£8.60'One of the greatest codebreakers of the twentieth century' Suzannah Lipscomb An astounding story of codebreaking, personal sacrifice and a life lived in the shadows. The history of British codebreaking is often considered a men-only preserve, ignoring... -
Poetics by Aristotle
RRP: £8.99£6.45'What is poetry, how many kinds of it are there, and what are their specific effects?' Aristotle's Poetics is the most influential book on poetry ever written. A founding text of European aesthetics and literary criticism, from it stems much of our... -
What Is History, Now? by Suzannah Lipscomb 9781474622479
RRP: £10.99£7.40This groundbreaking new collection addresses the burning issue of how we interpret history today. What stories are told, and by whom, who should be celebrated, and what rewritten, are questions that have been asked recently not just within the history... -
The Witch Hunts: A History of the Witch Persecutions in Europe and North America by Robert Thurston 9781405840835
RRP: £36.99£35.74Tens of thousands of people were persecuted and put to death as witches between 1400 and 1700 - the great age of witch hunts. Why did the witch hunts arise, flourish and decline during this period? What purpose did the persecutions serve? Who was... -
Brigid: Goddess, Druidess and Saint by Wright Brian 9780752448657
RRP: £20.00£15.04Brigid of Kildare, Ireland, is uniquely venerated as both a goddess and a saint throughout Ireland, Europe and the USA. Often referred to as Mary of the Gael and considered the second most important saint in Ireland after St Patrick, her widespread... -
Picts: Scourge of Rome, Rulers of the North by Gordon Noble
RRP: £22.00£15.71Shortlisted for the EAA Book Prize and the Current Archaeology Book of the Year Award The Picts have fascinated for centuries. They emerged c. ad 300 to defy the might of the Roman empire only to disappear at the end of the first millennium ad, yet... -
Edinburgh: The Classic Old Photographs by James McCarroll 9781905769513
RRP: £12.99£11.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905769513Author James McCarrollFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Fort Publishing LtdPublisher Fort Publishing Ltd -
The Last Emperor of Mexico: A Disaster in the New World by Edward Shawcross
RRP: £12.99£8.56'Hilarious, heartbreaking and utterly extraordinary.' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times Books of the Year'Superbly entertaining.' Financial Times'Jaw-dropping.' Sunday Times'Fascinating.' Guardian'Gripping.' The Times'Terrific . . . A page-turning history... -
Bloody British History: Lincoln by Douglas Wynn 9780752462899
RRP: £14.99£11.55Built by the Romans, looted by the Danes and conquered by King William I (who devastated the town to build a castle and a cathedral), the city of Lincoln has had a long and most dreadful history. Containing medieval child murder, vile sieges of (and... -
The Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen by Howard Carter 9780486235004
RRP: £16.99£11.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486235004Author Howard CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Unremembered Places: Exploring Scotland's Wild Histories by Patrick Baker
RRP: £9.99£6.70Shortlisted for the The Great Outdoors Awards - Outdoor Book of the Year 2020 Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature 2020 There are strange relics hidden across Scotland's landscape: forgotten places that are touchstones... -
The Meaning of History: Reflections on Spenler, Toynby and Kant by Henry Kissinger
RRP: £20.00£13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789189425866Author Henry KissingerFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Stolpe PublishingPublisher Stolpe PublishingWeight(grams) 930g -
David Stirling: The Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS by Gavin Mortimer 9781472134578
RRP: £12.99£7.51Aristocrat, gambler, innovator and special forces legend, the life of David Stirling should need no retelling. His formation of the Special Air Service in the summer of 1941 led to a new form of warfare and Stirling is remembered as the father of special... -
The Age Of Empire: 1875-1914 by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: £14.99£9.80The splendid finale to Eric Hobsbawm's study of the nineteenth century, THE AGE OF EMPIRE covers the area of Western Imperialism and examines the forces that swept the world to the outbreak of World War One- and shaped modern society.Hobsbawm's classic... -
Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700 by Diarmaid MacCulloch
RRP: £18.99£14.01'A masterpiece ... In its field it is the best book ever' GuardianWinner of the Wolfson Prize for history, Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700 charts a seismic shift in European culture that marked the beginning of the modern world. At a time... -
Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle by Clare Hunter
RRP: £10.99£7.78**SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** **RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK** **WATERSTONES SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE MONTH**'An astonishing feat'Christina Patterson, Sunday Times'An inspiring and moving sideways look at history'Eithne Farry, Sunday Express An eloquent blend of... -
Return of a King by William Dalrymple
RRP: £12.99£8.78SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2013 'As taut and richly embroidered as a great novel . . . a masterpiece' Sunday Telegraph 'Dazzling' Sunday Times | 'Magnificent' Guardian | 'Sparkling' Daily Telegraph A towering history of the first Afghan... -
Nottingham in the 1960s & 70s: Britain in Old Photographs by Douglas Whitworth 9780752448879
RRP: £15.99£12.25In 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... -
Norfolk Folk Tales by Hugh Lupton 9780752479422
RRP: £12.99£9.62Norfolk is steeped in story. Whether we are treading fields, fens, beaches or streets, the landscape is pregnant with secret histories. The collective imagination of countless generations has populated the county with ghosts, saints, witches, pharisees,... -
The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World by Peter Frankopan 9781526608246
RRP: £12.99£8.32From 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... -
Tarot and Divination Cards: A Visual Archive by Laetitia Barbier
RRP: £28.99£19.34Used for self-exploration or divination, Tarot has, for more than a 500 years, been the most popular and accessible of all esoteric tools, looming large in today's mainstream culture. Why? Because the cards are inexpensive and easy to carry-a perfect... -
Talleyrand by Duff Cooper
RRP: £12.99£9.09Duff Cooper's classic biography charts the remarkable progress of Talleyrand; a silver-tongued master diplomat, infamous turncoat, peacekeeper and libertine. Talleyrand held high office in five successive regimes from France's Ancient Regime, into the... -
Murder: The Biography by Kate Morgan 9780008407339 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.40THE CRIMES. THE STORIES. THE LAW 'Fascinating' - Sunday Times 'Masterful' - Judith Flanders 'A page-turning read' - Prof. David... -
Murder: The Biography by Kate Morgan 9780008407339
RRP: £16.99£13.65THE CRIMES. THE STORIES. THE LAW 'Fascinating' - Sunday Times 'Masterful' - Judith Flanders 'A page-turning read' - Prof. David... -
The Crusades: The War for the Holy Land by Thomas Asbridge 9781471196430
RRP: £12.99£8.58'Asbridge can't help but tell a ripping yarn, often breezily dramatic, whipping the narrative along' The TimesA superb and definitive one-volume account of the Crusades, the impact of which still resonates to this day. In the eleventh century, a vast... -
The Mountain Men: The Dramatic History And Lore Of The First Frontiersmen by George Laycock 9781493018826
RRP: £11.99£8.92To know how the West was really won, start with the exploits of these unsung mountain men who, like the legendary Jeremiah Johnson, were real buckskin survivalists. Preceded only by Lewis and Clark, beaver fur trappers roamed the river valleys and... -
The World by Simon Sebag Montefiore
RRP: £35.00£26.72From the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, told through the one thing all humans have in common: family. We begin with the footsteps of a family walking along a beach... -
Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire: Vols 1-3 by Edward Gibbon
RRP: £60.00£44.45Easily the most celebrated historical work in English, Gibbon's account of the Roman empire was in its time a landmark in classical and historical scholarship and remains a remarkable fresh and powerful contribution to the interpretation of Roman history... -
Underworld London: Crime and Punishment in the Capital City by Catharine Arnold 9781849832922 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.65Beginning with an atmospheric account of Tyburn, we are set up for a grisly excursion through London as a city of ne'er do wells, taking in beheadings and brutality at the Tower, Elizabethan street crime, cutpurses and con-men, through to the Gordon... -
Underworld London: Crime and Punishment in the Capital City by Catharine Arnold 9781849832922
RRP: £10.99£7.00Beginning with an atmospheric account of Tyburn, we are set up for a grisly excursion through London as a city of ne'er do wells, taking in beheadings and brutality at the Tower, Elizabethan street crime, cutpurses and con-men, through to the Gordon... -
The Pike: Gabriele d'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
RRP: £18.99£12.71THE 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 ... -
Hampstead Heath: The Walker's Guide by David McDowall 9781838198015
RRP: £11.99£11.66This is the third revised edition of the same title, by David McDowall & Deborah Wolton, originally approving in 1998. It contains ten walks which thoroughly explore all of Hampstead Heath, looking at the history and ecology of the landscape.About the... -
Remember This?: People, Things and Events from 1959 to the Present Day by Gilbert Moss 9781915154149 [USED COPY]
RRP: £5.99£5.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915154149Author Gilbert MossFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Milestone Memories PressPublisher Big Red Button Books -
Hanged at Gloucester by Jill Evans
RRP: £17.99£13.64This book gathers together the stories of the 123 prisoners who were executed at Gloucester between 1792, when the first prisoner was hanged on the roof over the entrance gate of the newly-built prison, and 1939, when the last convict was executed within... -
The Year 1000: An Englishman's Year by Robert Lacey 9780349113067 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.09THE YEAR 1000 is a vivid evocation of how English people lived a thousand years ago - no spinach, sugar or Caesarean operations in which the mother had any chance of survival, but a world that knew brain surgeons, property developers and, yes, even the... -
The Year 1000: An Englishman's Year by Robert Lacey
RRP: £10.99£7.40THE YEAR 1000 is a vivid evocation of how English people lived a thousand years ago - no spinach, sugar or Caesarean operations in which the mother had any chance of survival, but a world that knew brain surgeons, property developers and, yes, even the... -
Ceredigion Folk Tales by Peter Stevenson 9780752486444
RRP: £12.99£11.01Ceredigion is a land shaped by mythology, where mermaids and magic mix with humans and where ordinary people achieve extraordinary things. This is a captivating collection of traditional and modern stories, including the submerged city of Cantre'r...