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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
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£2.65The 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... -
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... -
Orpheus: The Song of Life by Ann Wroe
RRP: £16.99£12.28For at least two and a half millennia, the figure of Orpheus has haunted humanity. Half-man, half-god, musician, magician, theologian, poet and lover, his story never leaves us. He may be myth, but his lyre still sounds, entrancing everything that hears... -
Foundations of Leninism by J V Stalin 9780359155934
RRP: £10.50£9.18The foundations of Leninism is a big subject. To exhaust it a whole volume would be required. Indeed, a whole number of volumes would be required. Naturally, therefore, my lectures cannot be an exhaustive exposition of Leninism; at best they can only... -
A New Green History Of The World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations by Clive Ponting
RRP: £12.99£9.09Like Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel, Clive Ponting's book studies the relationship between the environment and human history. It examines world civilisations from Sumeria to ancient Egypt, from Easter Island to the Roman Empire and it argues that... -
Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors by Lizzie Collingham
RRP: £12.99£9.09Curry tells the story of an array of familiar Indian dishes and the people who invented, discovered, cooked and ate them. Curry is vivid, entertaining and delicious.'Fascinating and meticulously researched...layers historical fact with mouth-watering... -
Chesterfield Picture the Past by Ann Krawszik 9780752435817
RRP: £12.99£9.62A history of Chesterfield.About the AuthorThe images were selected and annotated by Ann Krawszik, who has been the Local Studies Librarian at Chesterfield Library since July 2000.Book InformationISBN 9780752435817Author Ann KrawszikFormat PaperbackPage... -
Halifax Through Time by Stephen Gee
RRP: £15.99£10.85The town of Halifax is full of magnificent buildings designed by famous architects such as Sir Charles Barry, John Carr, Sir George Gilbert Scott and other buildings designed by the town's own talented architects. The town has altered quite dramatically... -
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner
RRP: £18.99£13.61All-powerful, brilliant, decisive, ruthlessly effective ... this is the image of the CIA as portrayed in countless films and novels. It is wrong.This shocking book, based on thousands of declassified documents and interviews with agents at all levels,... -
A History of the World in Numbers by Emma Marriott 9781782432173 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.29The history of our world can be told through numbers. Numbers can illuminate the broad sweep of history, from vast movements of populations and the expansion of empires to the effects of technological achievements or climatic change. They also allow us... -
Bess Of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth by Mary S. Lovell 9780349115894 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.29Bess of Hardwick was one of the most remarkable women of the Tudor era. Gently-born in reduced circumstances, she was married at 15, wedded at 16 and still a virgin. At 19 she married a man more than twice her age, Sir William Cavendish, a senior auditor... -
Bess Of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth by Mary S. Lovell
RRP: £14.99£9.80Bess of Hardwick was one of the most remarkable women of the Tudor era. Gently-born in reduced circumstances, she was married at 15, wedded at 16 and still a virgin. At 19 she married a man more than twice her age, Sir William Cavendish, a senior auditor... -
John Stonehouse, My Father: The True Story of the Runaway MP by Julia Stonehouse
RRP: £10.99£7.32'Clear, dispassionate and selfless' Spectator'Exhaustive in her research, tenacious in spotting errors, indignant in denouncing lies.' Guardian'A compelling account of an extraordinary political scandal, written from inside the Stonehouse family'. Martin... -
Our Glasgow: Memories of Life in Disappearing Britain by Piers Dudgeon
RRP: £10.99£6.47This oral history of Glasgow spans most of the last century - a time of economic downturn and eventual renewal, in which the many communities making up the city experienced upheavals that tore some apart and brought others closer together. It tells of... -
Three Whys Of Russian Revolution by Richard Pipes
RRP: £12.99£9.09It is my considered judgement that, had it not been for the Russian Revolution, there would very likely have been no National Socialism; probably no Second World War and no decolonization; and certainly no Cold War, which one dominated our lives. I will... -
A Ramble About Tallaght: History, People, Places by Albert Perris 9781788493369
RRP: £27.99£21.94A fascinating history of an ancient place. From its first mention in legend in the Book of Invasions, through early Christian monastic settlements, castles and grand residences, Fenian raids and the Battle of Tallaght, there has been huge change in... -
Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers by Filip Muller 9781566632713
RRP: £12.99£9.61Filip Muller came to Auschwitz with one of the earliest transports from Slovakia in April 1942 and began working in the gassing installations and crematoria in May. He was still alive when the gassings ceased in November 1944. He saw millions come and... -
The Golden Atlas: The Greatest Explorations, Quests and Discoveries on Maps by Edward Brooke-Hitching 9781471166822
RRP: £25.00£16.84'Stunning...divine' Stephen Fry 'A fabulous book, good enough to eat with a spoon! Marvellous' John Lloyd, creator of QI 'Perfect for the armchair adventurer historian, this is a rich visual exploration of some of the most beautiful charts ever created'...