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The World by Simon Sebag Montefiore
RRP: £35.00£26.64From 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... -
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations by Simon Schama 9781471169892
RRP: £30.00£18.85'This splendid and often moving work of history... Schama has a gift for combining novelistically colourful detail, serious analysis and wryly amusing asides' Daily Telegraph 'Superb' Observer 'Extraordinary... A meticulous retelling of a terrible... -
Old Rockcliffe, Colvend and Kippford by Bernard Byrom 9781840334944
RRP: £11.95£10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840334944Author Bernard ByromFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 174mm * 240mm * 4mm -
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination by Sandra M. Gilbert
RRP: £16.99£16.66"A feminist classic."-Judith Shulevitz, New York Times Book Review"A pivotal book, one of those after which we will never think the same again."-Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Washington Post Book World A pathbreaking book of literary criticism is now reissued... -
Missions to the Moon: The Story of Man's Greatest Adventure Brought to Life with Augmented Reality by Rod Pyle
RRP: £25.00£15.26Full of personal insights and accounts of the long journey to getting a man on the moon, Missions to the Moon is the perfect companion for anyone with a love of space travel, the moon landings, or NASA, CNSA, RFSA, and the rest of the world's space... -
The Walks Near Farnham: 45 Short Walks 4-6 Miles Linking Crondall Puttenham Hindhead Frensham Bentley by Bill Andrews 9780956060471
£8.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956060471Author Bill AndrewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Bill AndrewsPublisher Bill Andrews -
I Used to Know That: History by Emma Marriott 9781782434481 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99£1.87If your response to a mention of the Wars of the Roses, the Sumerians or the Reformation is, 'Hmm, I've heard of that - what was that again?', then this is the book for you. This entertaining yet informative book travels back through time to fill in... -
I Used to Know That: History by Emma Marriott
RRP: £7.99£5.60If your response to a mention of the Wars of the Roses, the Sumerians or the Reformation is, 'Hmm, I've heard of that - what was that again?', then this is the book for you. This entertaining yet informative book travels back through time to fill in... -
A History of Venice by John Julius Norwich
RRP: £16.99£12.28Renowned historian, and author of A Short History of Byzantium, John Julius Norwich's classic history of VeniceA History of Venice tells the story of this most remarkable of cities from its founding in the fifth century, through its unrivalled status for... -
Black Tudors: The Untold Story by Miranda Kaufmann
RRP: £10.99£7.00Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2018 A Book of the Year for the Evening Standard and the Observer A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in the hall of a Gloucestershire manor house. A Moroccan woman is baptised in a London... -
Witches: James I and the English Witch Hunts by Tracy Borman
RRP: £12.99£9.09September 1613.In Belvoir Castle, the heir of one of England's great noble families falls suddenly and dangerously ill. His body is 'tormented' with violent convulsions. Within a few short weeks he will suffer an excruciating death. Soon the whole family... -
Spitfire: A Very British Love Story by John Nichol 9781471159206 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.29THE SUNDAY TIMES NON FICTION BESTSELLERWHSmith NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018'The best book you will ever read about Britain's greatest warplane.' Patrick Bishop, bestselling author of Fighter Boys.'A rich and heartfelt tribute to this most iconic... -
Spitfire: A Very British Love Story by John Nichol
RRP: £20.00£14.69THE SUNDAY TIMES NON FICTION BESTSELLERWHSmith NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018'The best book you will ever read about Britain's greatest warplane.' Patrick Bishop, bestselling author of Fighter Boys.'A rich and heartfelt tribute to this most iconic... -
Haunted Cornwall by Paul Newman 9780752436685
RRP: £14.99£11.55Ghost stories from the most haunted county in Britain.ReviewsA highly readable, deeply intriguing work that skilfully traces the borderline where folklore melts into what may be termed the authentically supernatural. The variety of apparitions chronicled... -
Haunted Middlesbrough by Tina Lakin 9780752441931
RRP: £14.99£11.55This creepy collection of true-life tales takes the reader on a tour through the streets, cemeteries, alehouses and attics of Middlesbrough and surrounding towns including Redcar, Guisborough, Yarm and Great Ayton. Drawing on historical and contemporary... -
A History of the Middle East Since 1918 by TG Fraser 9781913368241
RRP: £20.00£14.29Until the First World War, the Ottoman Empire had dominated the Middle East for four centuries. But its collapse, coupled with the subsequent clash of European imperial policies, unleashed a surge in political feeling among the people as they vied for... -
Memphis 68: The Tragedy of Southern Soul by Stuart Cosgrove
RRP: £9.99£6.70WINNER OF THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE 2018 In the 1950s and 1960s, Memphis, Tennessee, was the launch pad of musical pioneers such as Aretha Franklin, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Al Green and Isaac Hayes, and by 1968 was a city synonymous with soul... -
North Cape 1943: The Sinking of the Scharnhorst by Angus Konstam
RRP: £15.99£11.61The German battleship Scharnhorst had a reputation for being a lucky ship. Early in the war she fought off a British battlecruiser and sunk a carrier, before carrying out two successful forays into the Atlantic. In the spring of 1943, the Scharnhorst was... -
Othello: No Fear Shakespeare Deluxe Student Edition by Sparknotes
RRP: £9.99£7.20Shakespeare everyone can understand-now in new DELUXE editions! Why fear Shakespeare? By placing the words of the original play next to line-by-line translations in plain English, these popular guides make Shakespeare accessible to everyone. They... -
The Race to the Future: The Adventure that Accelerated the Twentieth Century by Kassia St Clair 9781529386059
RRP: £20.00£13.35'An incredible and stirring story . . . a mix of competition, camaraderie as well as a larky sense of adventure . . . Down goes the flag. Smash goes the bottle. Shards of emerald glass and champagne spume catch the light. The race from Peking to Paris... -
Access to History: Germany: Democracy to Dictatorship c.1918-1945 for WJEC by Nicholas Fellows
£25.21Exam board: WJECLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level)Put your trust in the textbook series that has given thousands of A-level History students deeper knowledge and better... -
AD 381: Heretics, Pagans and the Christian State by Charles Freeman 9781845950071
RRP: £16.99£12.28In AD 381, Theodosius, emperor of the eastern Roman empire, issued a decree in which all his subjects were required to subscribe to a belief in the Trinity of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This edict defined Christian orthodoxy and brought to an end a... -
Splash!: 10,000 Years of Swimming by Howard Means
RRP: £9.99£6.70'This fascinating history of how, where and why humans swim...is perfect reading for those missing a splash-about during the lockdown.' GuardianFrom the first recorded dip into what's now the driest spot on earth to the recreational swimmers in your... -
The Normans in the South, 1016-1130: The Normans in Sicily Volume I by John Julius Norwich
RRP: £12.99£8.56Chronicling the 'other Norman invasion', The Normans in the South is the epic story of the House of Hauteville, and in particular Robert Guiscard, perhaps the most extraordinary European adventurer between the times of Caesar and Napoleon. In one year,... -
The Only Place For Us: An A-Z History of Elland Road, Home of Leeds United by Jon Howe
RRP: £19.99£16.62Leeds United's Elland Road home is full of intrigue, character and formidable acoustics, yet it started life as a barren and featureless patch of land surrounded by coalfields. The Only Place For Us is the fascinating history of the stadium and its... -
In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology and Myth by J. P. Mallory 9780500276167
RRP: £34.95£22.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780500276167Author J. P. MalloryFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Thames & Hudson LtdPublisher Thames & Hudson Ltd -
Parkland by Dave Cullen
RRP: £16.99£11.54The deeply moving account of the extraordinary teenage survivors of the Parkland shooting.Emma Gonzalez called BS. David Hogg called out Adult America. Cameron Kasky recruited a colorful band of teenagers. Four days after escaping Marjory Stoneman... -
Society of the Snow: The Definitive Account of the World’s Greatest Survival Story by Pablo Vierci
RRP: £25.00£16.53NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX FILMIt was 13 October 1972. Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, carrying a team of young rugby players, their families and friends, took off for the very last time. A deadly miscalculation saw F571 crash directly into the Andean mountains... -
David Lloyd George: The Great Outsider by Roy Hattersley
RRP: £16.99£11.54A Welshman among the English, a nonconformist among Anglicans and a self-made man in the patrician corridors of power, David Lloyd George, the last Liberal Prime Minister of Great Britain, was the founding father of the Welfare State and was as great a... -
The Great Hedge of India by Roy Moxham
RRP: £9.99£6.80This is the quest for a lost wonder of the world, in the author's words his 'ridiculous obsession', arose from the chance discovery of some dusty memoirs that told of a mighty hedge spanning the Indian subcontinent in the nineteenth century. The hedge... -
Boudica's Last Stand: Britain's Revolt against Rome AD 60-61 by John Waite 9780752459097
RRP: £11.99£8.93In 61 AD, Roman rule in Britain was threatened by a bloody revolt led by one of the most iconic figures in British history. Legend dictates that Boudica destroyed three Roman towns and thousands of lives in response to Roman cruelty and betrayal towards... -
Rituals & Myths in Nursing: A Social History by Claire Laurent
RRP: £12.99£9.09Nursing is a complex profession steeped in tradition and history. Tried and tested ways of working have been the mainstay of how and why nurses do what they do. Completing tasks in a certain way because Sister says so describes the custom and practice... -
Rail Railway Memories No.30 CHESTERFIELD, STAVELEY & the Hope Valley by Stephen Chapman 9781871233339
RRP: £17.99£15.94Follows the usual Railway Memories style illustrating the railways in the Chesterfield area of North Derbyshire as they used to be mainly in the 1950s and 1960s when the olde worlde market town of Chesterfield was surrounded by a tangled mass of... -
Story of Ireland by Neil Hegarty
RRP: £14.99£10.95Neil Hegarty's bestselling history of Ireland is a story crowded with the drama of complex characters, shifting allegiances and changing identities. Revisiting the major turning points in the Irish story, Hegarty looks not only at the dynamics of what... -
1000 Years of Annoying the French by Stephen Clarke
RRP: £10.99£7.77Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory?Non! William the Conqueror was Norman and hated the French.Were the Brits really responsible for the death of Joan of Arc?Non! The French sentenced her to death for wearing trousers.Was the guillotine a French... -
The Shadow Commander: Soleimani, the US, and Iran's Global Ambitions by Arash Azizi
RRP: £10.99£7.00'An excellent contribution to our knowledge of Iran and Soleimani.' Kim Ghattas, author of Black Wave When the US assassinated Qassem Soleimani, he was one of the most powerful men in Iran. Known as 'the shadow commander', he enacted the wishes of the... -
The Rations Challenge: Forty Days of Feasting in a Wartime Kitchen by Claud Fullwood
RRP: £13.99£9.75Food is always a hot topic - Food waste, food banks, food miles, local versus imported. As we all need food, we can't ignore it. But as some families struggle without enough food to live on, others are challenged to consider how much they throw away, or... -
The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580 by Eamon Duffy
RRP: £16.99£14.61This prize-winning account of the pre-Reformation church recreates lay people's experience of religion, showing that late-medieval Catholicism was neither decadent nor decayed, but a strong and vigorous tradition. For this edition, Duffy has written a... -
The Story of Exeter by Hazel Harvey 9780750966184
RRP: £20.00£15.44Exeter is one of the oldest cities in Britain. It was an inhabited place some two hundred years before the Romans came, and people have lived here without a break for more than two thousand years. The High Street has been in continuous use as a... -
Biracial Britain: A Different Way of Looking at Race by Remi Adekoya 9781472133441
RRP: £10.99£7.40'Barack Obama had a special talent for making different kinds of people feel comfortable around him because of his biracial life experience, says Adekoya. By the same token, Adekoya himself seems poised to become one of the most important and subtle new...