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Conan Doyle for the Defence: A Sensational Murder, the Quest for Justice and the World's Greatest Detective Writer Margalit Fox 9781781253571
RRP: $27.28$19.61Just before Christmas 1908, Marion Gilchrist, a wealthy 82-year-old spinster, was found bludgeoned to death in her Glasgow home. A valuable diamond brooch was missing, and police soon fastened on a suspect - Oscar Slater, a Jewish immigrant who was... -
Hope Bourne's Exmoor Village by Hope L. Bourne 9780857042569
RRP: $27.28$23.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857042569Author Hope L. BourneFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove -
Bolton Street Names: Their Meanings and Origins by Sara Vernon 9780752446523
RRP: $31.48$24.61Take a fascinating trip around Bolton with this comprehensive etymological guide to its highways and byways. Discover the origins of the peculiarly named 'Bowkers Row' and 'Thweat Street'. Delve into the lives of some of Bolton's famous residents who are... -
A Short History of South-East Asia Peter Church 9781119062493
RRP: $39.90$35.99Explore the fascinating history of south-east Asia A Short History of South-East Asia, Sixth Edition is the latest in a series of updated texts spotlighting this fascinating region. With revised chapters for all of the countries in this geographic area,... -
A World of Chess: Its Development and Variations through Centuries and Civilizations by Jean-Louis Cazaux 9780786494279
RRP: $75.58$62.16With more than 400 illustrations, and detailed maps, this immense and deeply researched account of the history of chess covers not only the Persian and Arab game familiar to most Westerners for the past 500 years, but also variants going back 1500 years... -
Argonauts of the Scottish Isles: Sea-kayaking Adventures by Robin Lloyd-Jones
RRP: $20.98$14.49Robin Lloyd-Jones has been exploring the west coast and islands of Scotland in his sea kayak for more than forty years. In this book he recalls many a memorable expedition to wild and beautiful shores. Amongst magnificent scenery and ever-changing seas,... -
The Adventures of Two Studley Lads: Growing up in Shakespeare's Warwickshire during the 1940s, 50s and 60s by Arthur Cooke
$27.91A collection of stories covering the early lives of two lads growing up in the Warwickshire village of Studley during the 1940s, 50s and 60s. Humorously they speak of their adventures and of other villagers, together with their school days and pastimes... -
Dunfermline: Britain in Old Photographs by Bruce Durie 9780752455730
RRP: $33.58$26.10This fascinating selection of photographs illustrates the extraordinary transformation that has taken place in Dunfermline over the past century. The book offers an insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people and gives the reader a... -
Inside the Illuminati: Evidence, Objectives, and Methods of Operation by Mark Dice 9780988726840
RRP: $33.83$30.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988726840Author Mark DiceFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Resistance ManifestoPublisher Resistance ManifestoWeight(grams) 372g -
Bloody British History: Warwick by Graham Sutherland 9780752491042
RRP: $20.98$16.32Castle of the Conqueror! 1,000 years of horrible events at Warwick Castle. King Charles ripped my flesh! The two-week siege that almost brought the town to its knees! Warwick is burning! Fires, disasters and riots galore! Hundreds of dark and scandalous... -
Godfrey of Bouillon: Duke of Lower Lotharingia, Ruler of Latin Jerusalem, c.1060-1100 by Simon John 9780367280291
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book offers a new appraisal of the ancestry and career of Godfrey of Bouillon (c.1060-1100), a leading participant in the First Crusade (1096-99), and the first ruler of Latin Jerusalem (1099-1100), the polity established by the crusaders after they... -
Swindon: A Sixth Selection by Swindon Society
RRP: $27.28$20.73Local history of SwindonBook InformationISBN 9780750916714Author The Swindon SocietyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 169mm * 10mm -
The Terrible Hours by Peter Maas 9780091879372 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.58$4.81On the eve of World War II, the Squalus, America's newest submarine, plunged to the bottom of the North Atlantic. Miraculously, thirty-three crew members still survived in the stricken vessel. While their loved ones waited in unbearable tension onshore,... -
Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History Foundation Anglo-Saxon and Norman England, c1060-88 Student book Rob Bircher 9781292350127
$39.52We've worked with teachers to develop versions of our core textbooks that feature reduced content and language level, providing greater support and enabling students of all abilities to progress. Now available for the seven most popular options, these... -
Cornish Witchcraft: The Confessions of a Westcountry Witch-Finder by William Henry Paynter 9780954683931
RRP: $23.08$20.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954683931Author William Henry PaynterFormat PaperbackPage Count 149Imprint Jason SemmensPublisher Jason Semmens -
The Homecoming: The Morland Dynasty, Book 24 Cynthia Harrod-Eagles 9780751525311
RRP: $23.08$15.98Freed from her miserable marriage by widowhood, Henrietta is at last able to marry her beloved Jerome Compton, but his divorced state means that they have to make their home away from Yorkshire. Settling in London Henrietta finds she takes to urban life... -
Bygone Maryhill by Guthrie Hutton 9781840333275
RRP: $25.10$23.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840333275Author Guthrie HuttonFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 174mm * 240mm * 4mm -
Tenby and Saundersfoot by Marion Davies 9781859376621 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.50$17.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859376621Author Marion DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Frith Book Company Ltd.Publisher Frith Book Company Ltd. -
Weevils in the Wheat: Interviews with Virginia Ex-slaves by Charles L. Perdue 9780813913704
$63.53For Henry Adams at the turn of the twentieth century, as for his successors in the twenty-first, the relation of mind to a world remade by technology and geopolitical conflict largely determined the destiny of civil life. Henry Adams and the Need to Know... -
Swanage: An Illustrated History Jason Tomes 9781838473525
RRP: $31.50$30.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838473525Author Jason TomesFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint The Dovecote PressPublisher The Dovecote PressWeight(grams) 220g -
No Peace, No War - An Anthropology of Contemporary Armed Conflicts by Paul Richards
RRP: $52.48$43.28The proliferation of 'new wars' since the end of the Cold War has forced scholars to re-open the debate about 'what is war?' For most commentators, 'new war' is 'mindless' mass action. It has become a behavioural problem. Like a disease, the risk of... -
Despite Destruction, Misery and Privations…: The Polish Army in Prussia During the War Against Sweden 1626-1629 by Michał Paradowski
RRP: $52.50$44.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913336455Author Michal ParadowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Majestic River: Mungo Park and the Exploration of the Niger by Charles W. J. Withers
RRP: $63.00$41.37One of the greatest stories of world exploration ever told. By the late eighteenth century, the river Niger was a 2,000-year-old two-part geographical problem. Solving it would advance European knowledge of Africa, provide a route to commercial... -
Old Ardnamurchan, Moidart, Sunart, Morvern and Ardgour by Guthrie Hutton 9781840336009
RRP: $25.10$23.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840336009Author Guthrie HuttonFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 174mm * 240mm * 4mm -
Old Bishopton, Erskine and Langbank by John Fyfe Anderson 9781840334791
RRP: $16.78$15.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840334791Author John Fyfe AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingWeight(grams) 135gDimensions(mm)... -
Ghost Riders: Operation Cowboy, the World War Two Mission to Save the World's Finest Horses by Mark Felton 9781785785092
RRP: $23.08$15.83April 1945. As Allied bombs rain down on Europe, a 400-year-old institution looks set to be wiped off the face of the Earth. The famous white Lipizzaner stallions of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, unique and precious animals representing centuries... -
Haunted Exeter by Susan Gardner 9780752456720
RRP: $27.28$20.73Carriages pulled by headless horses, a ghostly Viking longship poised to reinvade, modern-day people transported momentarily back to the brutal Middle Ages and spooky creatures so horrible that catching sight of them could kill - no wonder Exeter is... -
Rome and Persia at War: Imperial Competition and Contact, 193-363 CE by Peter Edwell
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book focuses on conflict, diplomacy and religion as factors in the relationship between Rome and Sasanian Persia in the third and fourth centuries AD. During this period, military conflict between Rome and Sasanian Persia was at a level and depth... -
The Dalry Raws: A History of Miners' Accommodation 1848-1955 Marie Shevlin 9781911043188
RRP: $31.50$26.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911043188Author Marie ShevlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Carn Publishing ltdPublisher Carn Publishing ltd -
Not a Guide to: Manchester by Ben McGarr 9780752471198
RRP: $14.68$11.87This is NOT a guide book. This little book brings together past and present to offer a taste of Manchester. Learn more about the movers and shakers who shaped this fantastic city. The great and the good; the bad and the ugly. Small wonders, tall stories,... -
History Beyond the Text: A Student's Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources by Sarah Barber
RRP: $83.98$73.63Historians are increasingly looking beyond the traditional, and turning to visual, oral, aural, and virtual sources to inform their work. The challenges these sources pose require new skills of interpretation and require historians to consider... -
Mary Queen of Scots and All That by Allan Burnett
$11.72Mary, Queen of Scots and All That is packed with historical facts about Scotland's headless heroine. Follow hot-blooded Mary's lifelong rivalry with her frosty cousin, Queen Elizabeth I of England - and discover why the Queen of Scots gets her head... -
A-Z of Evesham: Places-People-History by Stan Brotherton 9781398112216
RRP: $33.58$24.76Evesham grew up within a bend of the River Avon around its famous abbey, one of the largest in the country, and although the abbey was destroyed in the sixteenth century, the town remained one of the most important settlements in Worcestershire. It was... -
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law by Michael Gagarin
RRP: $79.78$69.24This Companion volume provides a comprehensive overview of the major themes and topics pertinent to ancient Greek law. A substantial introduction establishes the recent historiography on this topic and its development over the last 30 years. Many of the... -
Muslim Spain and Portugal: A Political History of al-Andalus by Hugh Kennedy 9780582495159
$96.56This is the first study in English of the political history of Muslim Spain and Portugal, based on Arab sources. It provides comprehensive coverage of events across the whole of the region from 711 to the fall of Granada in 1492. Up till now the history... -
Hull (West) 1890: Yorkshire Sheet 240.02 by Susan Neave 9781847844958
$8.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847844958Author Susan NeaveImprint Alan Godfrey MapsPublisher Alan Godfrey Maps -
Famous Women by Giovanni Boccaccio
RRP: $62.90$51.30After the composition of the Decameron, and under the influence of Petrarch's humanism, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) devoted the last decades of his life to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is Famous Women, the first collection of... -
Siegfried Sassoon: The Making of a War Poet by Jean Moorcroft Wilson
RRP: $52.50$37.23The definitive biography of one of the twentieth century's finest poets, Siegfried Sassoon combines material from The Making of a War Poet and The Journey from the Trenches, the two bestselling volumes on Sassoon from his biographer and foremost scholar,... -
William Marshal by David Crouch
RRP: $88.18$85.49David Crouch's William Marshal, now in its third edition, depicts this intriguing medieval figure as a ruthless opportunist, astute courtier, manipulative politician and a brutal but efficient soldier. Born the fourth son of a minor baron, he ended his... -
Dark Days of Georgian Britain: Rethinking the Regency by James R. Hobson
RRP: $31.48$23.00In Dark Days of Georgian Britain, James Hobson challenges the long established view of high society during the Regency, and instead details an account of a society in change. Often upheld as a period of elegance with many achievements in the fine arts...