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The Seeker: The Seeker 1 by S. G. MacLean
RRP: $14.18$9.09A bloody murder. An open and shut case? In Oliver Cromwell's London, nothing is as it seems - Captain Damian Seeker must battle to find justice, when an innocent man's life hangs in the balance.'Challenges CJ Sansom for dominion of historical crime'... -
The King's Grave: The Search for Richard III by Philippa Langley
RRP: $16.76$10.55Now with a new chapter.The official inside story of the life, death and remarkable discovery of history's most controversial monarch.On 22 August 1485 Richard III was killed at Bosworth Field, the last king of England to die in battle. His victorious... -
This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality by Peter Pomerantsev
RRP: $14.18$9.44**HOW TO WIN AN INFORMATION WAR: THE PROPAGANDIST WHO OUTWITTED HITLER AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW**WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2020A TIMES and GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR'Quietly frightening.' Guardian'Essential reading.' Irish Times'Consistently... -
Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends by Anne Applebaum
RRP: $14.18$10.02A FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'The most important non-fiction book of the year' David HareIn the years just before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, people from across the political spectrum in Europe and... -
Night by Elie Wiesel
RRP: $12.89$9.17Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This is his account of that atrocity: the ever-increasing horrors he endured, the loss of his family and his struggle to... -
From Russia with Blood: Putin's Ruthless Killing Campaign and Secret War on the West by Heidi Blake
RRP: $12.89$8.57'A real life thriller, packed with characters that even John le Carre couldn't dream of. If this doesn't scare you, then you're not paying attention.' Oliver Bullough They thought they would be safe in Britain. They were wrong. ... -
The Black Friar: The Seeker 2 by S. G. MacLean
RRP: $14.18$5.30Rebellion in the city, and a Royalist spy in his own ranks - Damian Seeker, Captain of Oliver Cromwell's guard, must eradicate both in this twisty, action-packed historical thriller for fans of CJ Sansom, Rory Clements and The Three Musketeers. 'MacLean... -
Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje 9781784877811
RRP: $14.18$10.02'During certain hours, at certain years in our lives, we see ourselves as remnants from the earlier generations that were destroyed... I think all of our lives have been terribly shaped by what went on before us.'Twenty-five years after leaving his... -
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker
RRP: $19.34$14.13THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Bristles with pure, crystalline intelligence, deep knowledge and human sympathy' Richard Dawkins Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible?If you... -
Edward VIII (Penguin Monarchs): The Uncrowned King by Dr. Piers Brendon
RRP: $6.44$4.90The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperback'After my death', George V said of his eldest son and heir, 'the boy will ruin himself in 12 months'. From the death of his father in 1936 to the... -
Young Bloomsbury: the generation that reimagined love, freedom and self-expression by Nino Strachey
RRP: $14.18$9.09'I wanted to climb inside this book and live there' PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE'This witty, fascinating book is a delight. Read it' MIRIAM MARGOLYES'Superb, sparky and reflective' The Spectator'Gender fluidity? Pansexuality? Throuples? Chosen families?... -
The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future by David Wallace-Wells
RRP: $14.18$10.02**SUNDAY TIMES AND THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**'An epoch-defining book' Matt Haig'If you read just one work of non-fiction this year, it should probably be this' David Sexton, Evening StandardSelected as a Book of the Year 2019 by the Sunday Times,... -
Bystander Society: Conformity and Complicity in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust by Mary Fulbrook 9780197691717
RRP: $34.82$24.95In this powerful and revelatory new work, historian Mary Fulbrook takes on one of the most fraught issues in modern times: the role of ordinary Germans in enabling the rise of Nazism and with it the exclusion, persecution, and then extermination of... -
The Yorkshire Coiners: The True Story of the Cragg Vale Gang by Steve Hartley
RRP: $21.92$14.80In late eighteenth-century Yorkshire a powerful gang of counterfeiters held the local community in its spell. In a remote valley near Halifax called Cragg Vale, gold coins of the realm were clipped and filed, then returned to circulation, while the extra... -
1964: Eyes of the Storm by Paul McCartney 9780241619711
RRP: $77.40$57.34Photographs and Reflections by Paul McCartney'Millions of eyes were suddenly upon us, creating a picture I will never forget for the rest of my life.'In 2020, an extraordinary trove of nearly a thousand photographs taken by Paul McCartney on a 35mm... -
Harrier 809: Britain's Legendary Jump Jet and the Untold Story of the Falklands War by Rowland White
RRP: $14.18$8.41'Utterly brilliant: a fantastically exciting book... This really does read like the best kind of thriller. His best book yet'James Holland, author of Normandy '44April 1982. Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.In response, Britain despatches a naval... -
Peaky Blinders - The Real Story of Birmingham's most notorious gangs: The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller by Carl Chinn
RRP: $11.60$6.82THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe Peaky Blinders as we know them, thanks to the hit TV series, are infused with drama and dread. Fashionably dressed, the charismatic but deeply flawed Shelby family blind enemies by slashing them with the disposable safety... -
Awesome Egyptians (newspaper edition) by Terry Deary 9780702322914
RRP: $9.02$5.99Discover all the foul facts about the Awesome Egyptians with history's most horrible headlines. All the foul facts about the Awesome Egyptians are ready to uncover, including: which king had... -
Free Market: The History of an Idea by Jacob Soll
RRP: $32.25$20.58After two government bailouts of the American economy in less than twenty years, free market thought is due for serious reappraisal. Free Market: The History of an Idea shows how the idea became so powerful, why it succeeded, and why it has failed so... -
The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination by Fiona MacCarthy
RRP: $32.25$22.69Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, this is the biography of celebrated nineteenth-century artist Edward Burne-Jones, who - with William Morris - connects Victorian and modern art.'A triumph of biographical art.' Independent'Magnificent.'... -
Ways of Life: Jim Ede and the Kettle's Yard Artists by Laura Freeman
RRP: $38.70$28.32This first biography of the Kettle's Yard artists reveals the life of a visionary who helped shape twentieth-century British art and explores a thrilling moment in the history of modernism'The beautiful, revelatory biography we have been waiting for. I... -
The Thirties: An Intimate History of Britain by Juliet Gardiner
RRP: $21.92$16.91As 'Wartime' did for the 1940s, this book will grasp the broad spectrum of events in the 1930s in the words of contemporary witnesses drawn from metropolitan and provincial letters and diaries, newspapers, periodicals, books and the range of rich... -
Hold On Edna!: The heartwarming true story of the first baby born on the NHS by Aneira Thomas
RRP: $11.60$8.32THIS HEARTBREAKING, HEARTWARMING, TRUE STORY FOLLOWING THE HISTORY OF A FAMILY IN WALES IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS EVER WRITTEN.'I am a proud supporter of our National Health Service which has shown yet again what an important and valued... -
The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz - Costa Book of the Year 2019 by Jack Fairweather
RRP: $16.76$11.73One of the Sunday Times paperbacks of the Year 2020One of the Financial Times best books of 2020 'Totally gripping'-- Simon Sebag Montefiore'Pilecki is perhaps one of the greatest unsung heroes of the second world war ... this insightful book is likely... -
1971 - Never a Dull Moment: Rock's Golden Year by David Hepworth
RRP: $14.18$10.02*THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER*As seen on Apple TV - 1971: The Year That Music Changed EverythingThe Sixties ended a year late - on New Year's Eve 1970, when Paul McCartney initiated proceedings to wind up The Beatles. Music would never be the same... -
Cameron at 10: The Verdict by Anthony Seldon
RRP: $21.92$15.31The most intimate account of a serving prime minister ever published, this is the gripping inside story of David Cameron's government as told by senior figures, including the Prime Minister, George Osborne and Boris Johnson. Spanning the early... -
My Revision Notes: OCR GCSE (9-1) History A: Explaining the Modern World, Second Edition by Aly Boniface
RRP: $14.84$14.81Updated Edition for students taking their exams in 2021 onwards.Exam board: OCRLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2019First exams: Summer 2021Target success in OCR GCSE (9-1) History A with this proven formula for effective, structured... -
The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches by Brian MacArthur
RRP: $19.34$14.13From Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama, discover the most significant speeches of the modern era!Whether it was Churchill rousing the British to take up arms or the dream of Martin Luther King, Fidel Castro inspiring the Cuban revolution or Barack Obama... -
To The Bitter End: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45 by Victor Klemperer
RRP: $19.34$12.02The international bestselling record of a German Jew in Nazi Germany.'Deserves to stand beside the diary of Anne Frank as a day-to-day description of the sufferings of the victims of Hitler's evil regime' EVENING STANDARD'Few English readers will fail to... -
Rasputin's Killer and his Romanov Princess by Coryne Hall
RRP: $29.66$20.10When the Tsar's eighteen-year-old niece Princess Irina Romanov announced her marriage to Prince Felix Youssoupov, heir to the richest fortune in Russia, the Imperial family were shocked. Prince Felix and his wife Princess Irina had it all. When they... -
My Friend Anne Frank by Hannah Pick-Goslar
RRP: $28.38$20.15THE LONG-AWAITED, MOVING MEMOIR OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR HANNAH PICK-GOSLAR.'Heartbreaking and life-affirming' - Edith Eger, bestselling author of The Choice'An extraordinary story of love, loss and the power of friendship in the darkest time.' - Jack... -
Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India by Shashi Tharoor 9780141987149
RRP: $14.18$10.02The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller on India's experience of British colonialism, by the internationally-acclaimed author and diplomat Shashi Tharoor'Tharoor's impassioned polemic slices straight to the heart of the darkness that drives all empires ..... -
Auschwitz by Laurence Rees
RRP: $16.76$11.73THE SUNDAY TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Superb' ANDREW ROBERTSIn this classic book, highly acclaimed author and broadcaster Laurence Rees tells the definitive history of the most notorious Nazi institution of them all. We discover how Auschwitz... -
British Rail by Christian Wolmar 9781405946278
RRP: $16.76$11.73The authoritative and fascinating history of the rise and fall of the state-owned British Rail'Wolmar's book is impeccably organised and makes a fast, enjoyable read' THE TIMES Literary Supplement________British Rail wasn't how we're asked to remember it... -
1983: The World at the Brink by Taylor Downing
RRP: $14.18$9.09'A carefully researched and hugely readable account of the build-up to war, the momentum inexorably growing as he assembles each part of the jigsaw. Indeed, his narrative is so persuasive that by the time you are about two- thirds through, it takes some... -
The Battered Body Beneath the Flagstones, and Other Victorian Scandals by Michelle Morgan
RRP: $24.50$16.15'Ghoulishly entertaining' Jacqueline Banerjee, Times Literary Supplement'This is a great book for dipping into . . . the cases themselves are written engagingly and with appealing dramatisation of key events.'Kim Fleet, Crime ReviewA grisly book... -
Decision Points by George W. Bush
RRP: $21.92$15.84Decision Points is the extraordinary memoir of America's 43rd president. Shattering the conventions of political autobiography, George W. Bush offers a strikingly candid journey through the defining decisions of his life. In gripping, never-before-heard... -
AQA GCSE History: Understanding the Modern World by David Ferriby
$39.27Exam Board: AQALevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2016First Exam: June 2018AQA approvedCreate a stimulating, well-paced teaching route through the 2016 GCSE History specification using this tailor-made series that draws on a legacy of... -
Enoch Powell: Politics and Ideas in Modern Britain by Paul Corthorn
RRP: $20.63$14.98Best known for his notorious 'Rivers of Blood' speech in 1968 and his outspoken opposition to immigration, Enoch Powell was one of the most controversial figures in British political life in the second half of the twentieth century and a formative... -
Peter Moro and Partners by Alistair Fair
RRP: $42.57$40.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800856516Author Alistair FairFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Historic EnglandPublisher Liverpool University Press