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A Spy Among Friends: Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre
RRP: £10.99£7.51**NOW A MAJOR SIX-PART SERIES ON ITVX, STARRING DAMIAN LEWIS AND GUY PEARCE** A SUNDAY TIMES No. 1 BESTSELLER WITH AN AFTERWORD BY JOHN LE CARRE 'Riveting, astounding ... An unputdownable postwar thriller' Observer 'Irresistibly readable' Sunday... -
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... -
Blue Mauritius: The Hunt for the World's Most Valuable Stamps by Helen Morgan
RRP: £14.99£9.80In September 1847 coloured squares of paper were stuck to envelopes and used to send out admission cards to a fancy-dress ball on the tropical island of Mauritius. No-one at the party would have guessed that the envelopes bearing these stamps would one... -
Regimes of Memory by Katharine Hodgkin
RRP: £43.99£38.44The fields of literature, history, philosophy, anthropology and cultural studies have placed memory at the heart of recent interrogations of subjectivity, narrative, time and imaginationThis collection represents and explores these current developments... -
The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
RRP: £8.99£6.20As discussed in The Da Vinci Code... Long buried and suppressed, the Gnostic Gospels contain the secret writings attributed to the followers of Jesus.In 1945 fifty-two papyrus texts, including gospels and other secret documents, were found concealed in... -
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... -
Freedom at Midnight by Larry Collins
RRP: £16.99£11.47The electrifying story of India's struggle for independence, told in this classic account (first published in 1975) by two fine journalists who conducted hundreds of interviews with nearly all the surviving participants - from Mountbatten to the... -
Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek 9781848871571
RRP: £12.99£8.56In Babylon, Paul Kriwaczek tells the story of ancient Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements around 5400 BC, to the eclipse of Babylon by the Persians in the sixth century BC. He chronicles the rise and fall of dynastic power during this period; he... -
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... -
Urban Governance: Britain and Beyond Since 1750 by Professor Robert J. Morris
RRP: £135.00£117.28This is a coherent and integrated set of essays around the theme of governance addressing a wide range of questions on the organisation and legitimation of authority. At the heart of the book is a set of topics which have long attracted the attention of... -
Sir Christopher Wren by Paul Rabbitts
RRP: £9.99£7.67Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723) is now mostly remembered as a genius of architecture - but he was also an accomplished polymath, who only came to architecture quite late in life. Most famous as the mastermind behind the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral... -
Columbine by Dave Cullen
RRP: £16.99£11.54**THE GROUNDBREAKING BESTSELLER AND CLASSIC**'Excellent . . . amazing how much still comes as a surprise' New York Times Book Review'Like Capote's In Cold Blood, this tour de force gets below the who and the what of a horrifying incident to lay bare the... -
The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White 9780199591961
RRP: £14.99£11.53Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne (1789) reveals a world of wonders in nature. Over a period of twenty years White describes in minute detail the behaviour of animals through the changing seasons in the rural Hampshire parish of Selborne. He... -
Images of Glasgow: A Pictorial History of Clydeside's People and Places by Robert Jeffrey
RRP: £12.99£9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859836651Author Robert JeffreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Breedon Books Publishing Co LtdPublisher Breedon Books Publishing Co Ltd -
Born Survivors: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Wendy Holden
RRP: £9.99£4.11The Sunday Times bestseller now updated with a new forewordAmong millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each passed through its infamous gates with a secret. Strangers to each other, they were newly... -
The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America by Russell Shorto
RRP: £12.99£8.60When the British wrested New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664, the truth about its thriving, polyglot society began to disappear into myths about an island purchased for 24 dollars and a cartoonish peg-legged governor. But the story of the Dutch colony... -
The Black Death by Sean Martin
RRP: £8.99£6.45The Black Death is the name most commonly given to the pandemic of bubonic plague that ravaged the medieval world in the late 1340s. From Central Asia the plague swept through Europe, leaving millions of dead in its wake. Between a quarter and a third of... -
Number plates: A History of Vehicle Registration in Britain by Dave Moss 9780747805663
RRP: £6.99£5.87This title contains Ancient history: the prologue; The golden age of motoring; The post-war years: changing times, change, and change again: the arrival of computers; Modern times: a fresh start; Collectors' gold; Islands and Ireland; Curiosities and... -
In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story that Inspired `Moby Dick' by Nathaniel Philbrick 9780006531203 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£1.85The Number One best-selling, epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the 19th century, beautifully reissued alongside Philbrick's new paperback, Sea of Glory. The sinking of the whaleship Essex by an enraged... -
In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story that Inspired `Moby Dick' by Nathaniel Philbrick
RRP: £10.99£7.25The Number One best-selling, epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the 19th century, beautifully reissued alongside Philbrick's new paperback, Sea of Glory. The sinking of the whaleship Essex by an enraged... -
A Grim Almanac of Kent by W. H. Johnson
RRP: £14.99£11.55In A Grim Almanac of Kent, W.H. Johnson has discovered a sinister, macabre or horrifying occurrence for every day of the year, and presents his readers with 365 graphic, spine-tingling and dramatic events. The wicked, the mad, the foolish and the... -
Born in 1936. Birthday Nostalgia. by Kerry Butters 9781533532688
RRP: £6.99£6.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781533532688Author Kerry ButtersFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Rise And Fall Of The British Empire by Lawrence James 9780349106670
RRP: £16.99£12.68THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE covers the history of British expansion overseas from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Narrative and analysis are interwoven with revealing eyewitness quotation to provide keen insight into the minds of... -
Rise And Fall Of The British Empire by Lawrence James 9780349106670 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.29THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE covers the history of British expansion overseas from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Narrative and analysis are interwoven with revealing eyewitness quotation to provide keen insight into the minds of... -
The Age Of Capital: 1848-1875 by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: £14.99£5.92The first and best, major treatment of the crucial years 1848-1875, a penetrating analysis of the rise of capitalism throught the world.In the 1860s a new word entered the economic and political vocabulary of the world: 'capitalism'. The global triumph... -
The Gold of the Gods by Erich von Daniken 9781948803212
RRP: £22.00£19.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948803212Author Erich von DanikenFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Adventures Unlimited PressPublisher Adventures Unlimited PressWeight(grams) 1g -
The Ascent Of Man by Jacob Bronowski
RRP: £14.99£10.95Dr Jacob Bronowksi's The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through our understanding of science.First published in 1973 to accompany the groundbreaking BBC television series, it is considered one of the first works of 'popular... -
The Riviera Set by Mary S. Lovell 9780349139890 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.65'I loved every word' - Sarra Manning, Red'[A] blissful book - it's like basking in the warm Med' - Rachel Johnson, Mail on SundayThe Riviera Set is the story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped and politicked at the Chateau de l'Horizon... -
The Riviera Set by Mary S. Lovell
RRP: £10.99£7.40'I loved every word' - Sarra Manning, Red'[A] blissful book - it's like basking in the warm Med' - Rachel Johnson, Mail on SundayThe Riviera Set is the story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped and politicked at the Chateau de l'Horizon... -
Hastings: Wartime Memories and Photographs by Nathan Dylan Goodwin
RRP: £17.99£13.64Hastings: Wartime Memories and Photographs weaves the personal stories of 75 people who endured life in Hastings during the Home Front war years with more than 140 photographs, the majority of which have never been published before. It describes the... -
Gentleman Jack: A biography of Anne Lister, Regency Landowner, Seducer and Secret Diarist by Katy Derbyshire
RRP: £9.99£7.11Longlisted for the 2019 Portico Prize The extraordinary life of history's first modern lesbian who inspired the popular television series Gentleman Jack. Anne Lister's journals were so shocking that the first person to crack their secret code hid... -
Medieval Medicine: Its Mysteries and Science by Toni Mount
RRP: £10.99£7.25Conjuring up a time when butchers and executioners knew more about anatomy than university-trained physicians, the phrase 'medieval medicine' sounds horrific to those of us with modern ideas on hygiene, instant pain relief and effective treatments. In... -
Low Level Hell by Hugh Mills
RRP: £9.99£6.80'The best 'bird's eye view' of the helicopter war in Vietnam in print today ... Mills has captured the realities of a select group of aviators who shot craps with death on every mission' R.S. Maxham, Director, US Army Aviation MuseumThe aeroscouts of the... -
Witchfinders by Malcolm Gaskill
RRP: £12.99£8.60By the spring of 1645, civil war had exacted a terrible toll upon England. Disease was rife, apocalyptic omens appeared in the skies, and idolators detected in every shire. In a remote corner of Essex, two obscure gentlemen began interrogating women... -
The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson by Hugo Mercier
RRP: £19.99£14.68The starting point of Roger Knight's magnificent new biography is to explain how Nelson achieved such extraordinary success. Knight places him firmly in the context of the Royal Navy at the time. He analyses Nelson's more obvious qualities, his... -
Dinner in Rome: A History of the World in One Meal by Andreas Viestad
RRP: £20.00£14.29'There is more history in a bowl of pasta than in the Colosseum', writes Andreas Viestad in Dinner in Rome. From the table of a classic Roman restaurant, Viestad takes us on a fascinating culinary exploration of The Eternal City, and global civilization... -
Glasgow A History by Michael Meighan
RRP: £17.99£12.09Located on the banks of the River Clyde, Glasgow was once the second city of the Empire, producing ships, locomotives, cars and heavy engineering for the world. Its docks would see huge numbers of exports. But Glasgow is much more than this; it is a... -
The Discoverie of Witchcraft by Reginald Scot 9780486260303
RRP: £20.99£14.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486260303Author Philip HoferFormat PaperbackPage Count 283Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe by Caroline Dodds Pennock
RRP: £22.00£16.02A New Statesman Best Book of the Year 2023. A Waterstones Book of the Year 2023. An Economist Book of the Year. One of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best History Books of 2023. A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year 2023. One of History Workshop's 'Radical... -
Doves of War: Four Women of Spain by Paul Preston 9780006386940
RRP: £12.99£9.70Love, war, duty, faith, betrayal and belief - a revolutionary new view of the Spanish Civil War through the eyes and experiences of the women who endured it, by the greatest historian of Spain: 'Passionate and deeply moving... when Preston writes about...