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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... -
Voices from the Asylum: West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum by Mark Davis
RRP: £15.99£10.85Almost forgotten by time, tucked away beyond the sight of the passerby, there is a little piece of old England, which was for many years a forgotten wilderness. If it were not for a weather-beaten plaque on the gatepost few would realise that beyond the... -
Bagels & Bacon: The Post War East End by Jeff Rozelaar 9780752458700
RRP: £14.99£11.55Jeff Rozelaar was born into a Jewish family and raised in an East End bombarded by Hitler's V2s. Fortunate enough to be one of the lucky survivors of the Nazi menace, he was able to play in the streets among the resultant debris with his schoolmates... -
السودان: مهبط التوراة ومجمع البحرين by محمود عثمان رزق 9780464535218
RRP: £12.72£11.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780464535218Author محمود عثمان رزقFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 336g -
Korea 1950-53 Recounting REME Involvement by John Dutton 9780955675300
RRP: £16.75£14.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955675300Author John DuttonFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint Las Atalayas PublishingPublisher Las Atalayas PublishingWeight(grams) 504g -
Underworld London: Crime and Punishment in the Capital City by Catharine Arnold 9781849832922 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.29Beginning 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... -
I'm Black So You Don't Have to Be: A Memoir in Eight Lives by Colin Grant 9781529918366
RRP: £10.99£7.77A memoir told through a series of intimate portraits, which build into a poignant, insightful and unforgettable testimony of West Indian British experience.***A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023***'Grant is a natural storyteller... Compelling and... -
The Illuminated Window: Stories Across Time by Virginia Chieffo Raguin 9781789147933
RRP: £30.00£20.95The Illuminated Window is a unique journey through stained-glass installations that spans both time and place. Diverse in technique and style, these windows speak for the communities that created them. From the twelfth to the twenty-first century, we... -
Thomas Cromwell: The untold story of Henry VIII's most faithful servant by Tracy Borman
RRP: £12.99£8.60**Revised edition includes a new chapter on 'Thomas Cromwell's London'**'This deeply researched and grippingly written biography brings Cromwell to life and exposes the Henrician court in all its brutal, glittering splendour.' Kate Williams,... -
Standing in Line: A Memoir: 30 Years of Obsessive Queuing at Wimbledon by Benjamin Chatfield
RRP: £14.99£11.95Standing in Line is a humorous memoir, based on a variety of experiences in The Queue, one of sport's most fascinating traditions. Told through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy becoming a 39-year-old man, it is a love letter both to Wimbledon and to the... -
What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture by Ben Horowitz
RRP: £20.00£13.34Ben Horowitz, a leading venture capitalist, modern management expert, and New York Times bestselling author combines lessons both from history and modern organisational practice with practical and often surprising advice to help us build... -
The Beauty And The Sorrow: An intimate history of the First World War by Peter Englund 9781846683435 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29There are many books on the First World War, but award-winning and bestselling historian Peter Englund takes a daring and stunning new approach. Describing the experiences of twenty ordinary people from around the world, all now unknown, he explores the... -
The Beauty And The Sorrow: An intimate history of the First World War by Peter Englund
RRP: £12.99£9.49There are many books on the First World War, but award-winning and bestselling historian Peter Englund takes a daring and stunning new approach. Describing the experiences of twenty ordinary people from around the world, all now unknown, he explores the... -
Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England: How our ancestors lived two centuries ago by Roy A. Adkins
RRP: £12.99£8.60Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England explores the real England of Jane Austen's lifetime. It was a troubled period, with disturbing changes in industry and agriculture and a constant dread of invasion and revolution. The comfortable, tranquil country... -
Mid-Victorian Imperialists: British Gentlemen and the Empire of the Mind by Edward Beasley 9781138878150
RRP: £43.99£38.44Throughout the nineteenth century the British Empire was the subject of much writing; floods of articles, books and government reports were produced about the areas under British control and the policy of imperialism. Mid-Victorian Imperialists... -
Muhammad: Biography of the Prophet by Karen Armstrong 9781842126080 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.19A life of the prophet Muhammad by bestselling religious writer Karen Armstrong.'Armstrong has a dazzling ability: she can take a long and complex subject and reduce it to its fundamentals, without over-simplifying' SUNDAY TIMES'One of our best living... -
Muhammad: Biography of the Prophet by Karen Armstrong
RRP: £9.99£6.80A life of the prophet Muhammad by bestselling religious writer Karen Armstrong.'Armstrong has a dazzling ability: she can take a long and complex subject and reduce it to its fundamentals, without over-simplifying' SUNDAY TIMES'One of our best living... -
Real Port Talbot by Lynne Rees
RRP: £9.99£6.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781726525Author Lynne ReesFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press -
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson 9781782392026
£11.69The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War One was, in the words of T.E. Lawrence, 'a sideshow of a sideshow'. Amidst the slaughter in European trenches, the Western combatants paid scant attention to the Middle Eastern theatre. As a result, the... -
Six Days: How the 1967 War Shaped the Middle East by Jeremy Bowen 9780743449694 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.49The Six-Day War was an extraordinary human drama. It swept up a generation of Israelis and Arabs whose children still cannot live peacefully in the world the war created. Today, Israel is the superpower of the region. It has nuclear weapons but has never... -
Six Days: How the 1967 War Shaped the Middle East by Jeremy Bowen 9780743449694
RRP: £10.99£7.00The Six-Day War was an extraordinary human drama. It swept up a generation of Israelis and Arabs whose children still cannot live peacefully in the world the war created. Today, Israel is the superpower of the region. It has nuclear weapons but has never... -
Paranormal Stoke-on-Trent by Matt Hicks 9780752448855
RRP: £14.99£11.55This collection of strange events and mysterious sightings covers all types of paranormal activity witnessed over the years in Stoke-on-Trent. Drawing on historical and contemporary sources, this selection includes UFOs and black dogs, ghosts and... -
Coffee with Hitler: The British Amateurs Who Tried to Civilise the Nazis by Charles Spicer 9780861546176
RRP: £10.99£7.38How the British might have handled Hitler differently remains one of history's greatest 'what ifs'... A TELEGRAPH AND SPECTATOR HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR Coffee with Hitler tells the astounding true story of a handful of amateur British intelligence... -
Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire by Alex Von Tunzelmann 9781471166440
RRP: £9.99£6.80'This is history bursting at the seams with English eccentrics and Indian gentry...the charm of Tunzelmann's approach is to restore her cast to full and vital life' Observer'A compelling narrative, sometimes controversial, occasionally perverse, never... -
Remember This?: People, Things and Events from 1935 to the Present Day by Gilbert Moss 9781912883905 [USED COPY]
RRP: £5.99£2.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912883905Author Gilbert MossFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Milestone Memories PressPublisher Big Red Button Books -
The Forgotten Family of Liverpool by Pam Howes
RRP: £8.99£5.45It's 1951 and rationing is finally coming to an end. But while Liverpool is recovering from the ferocity of war, a family is about to be torn apart...Dora Rodgers is adjusting to a new life in Liverpool with her young daughters Carol and Jackie. After...