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The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia by Orlando Figes
RRP: £18.99£13.61Orlando Figes' The Whisperers is a groundbreaking account of daily life in the chaotic and paranoid atmosphere of Stalinist Russia. Exploring the inner life of a Russia where everyone was afraid to talk and society spoke in whispers, whether to protect... -
Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries (Volume 3): 1943-57 by Chips Channon
RRP: £35.00£25.29This third and final volume of the unexpurgated diaries of Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon begins as the Second World War is turning in the Allies' favour. It ends with Chips descending into poor health but still able to turn a pointed phrase about the... -
Letters of Note: Cats by Shaun Usher
RRP: £6.99£4.84In Letters of Note: Cats, Shaun Usher collects together the most engaging missives that celebrate, eulogise, rail against and analyse the idiosyncratic ways of our feline companions.Nikola Tesla, Elizabeth Taylor,Charles Dickens, Anne Frank,T.S. Eliot,... -
1940s Fashion by Fiona Kay
RRP: £8.99£6.02Despite - or perhaps because of - the privations of war, the 1940s was one of the greatest decades for fashion in Britain. The designs and fashions of the 1930s would linger on through the early years of the Second World War but with shortages and... -
London's Lost Rivers by Paul Talling
RRP: £14.99£10.95Packed with surprising and fascinating information, London's Lost Rivers uncovers a very different side to London - showing how waterways shaped our principal city and exploring the legacy they leave today. With individual maps to show the course of... -
The Story of Gardening: A cultural history of famous gardens from around the world by Penelope Hobhouse
RRP: £35.00£25.02A fully updated and revised edition of a gardening classic. From the cooling fountains of the Alhambra to the imposing palace grounds of Chinese emperors and the clean lines of the formal French parterre, this... -
Italy's Paradise: A History of Tuscany by Alistair Moffat 9781780278766
RRP: £10.99£7.32'A delicious trip through the geography, history and culture of the region' - Sunday Telegraph Ever since the days of the Grand Tour, Tuscany has cast its magic spell on foreign vistiors. Attracted by the perfect combination of history, art,... -
Sex and Sexuality in Ancient Rome by L J Trafford
RRP: £15.99£11.61From Emperors and empresses, poets and prostitutes, slaves and plebs, Ancient Rome was a wealth of different experiences and expectations. None more so than around the subject of sex and sexuality. The image of Ancient Rome that has come down to us is... -
The Making of Asian America: A History by Erika Lee
RRP: £16.99£11.08A "comprehensive...fascinating" (The New York Times Book Review) history of Asian Americans and their role in American life, by one of the nation's preeminent scholars on the subject, with a new afterword about the recent hate crimes against Asian... -
This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War by Samanth Subramanian
RRP: £12.99£8.56SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2015SHORTLISTED FOR RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2016In the summer of 2009, the leader of the dreaded Tamil Tiger guerrillas was killed, bringing to a bloody end the stubborn and complicated civil war in Sri Lanka. For... -
Arts and Crafts Tiles: Morris to Voysey by Rob Higgins
RRP: £15.99£10.85The Arts and Crafts Movement was a reaction to the brutality of working life and the sterility of industrial design in Victorian Britain. Although Arts and Crafts was initially a mediaeval revival, the movement was always about the artist craftsman and... -
Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream by David Leonhardt 9781529435429
RRP: £30.00£19.80'An important book' Martin Wolf, Financial Times (BOOK OF THE YEAR)The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American Dream, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist behind The New York Times's "The... -
Betrumped: The Surprising History of 3000 Long-Lost, Exotic and Endangered Words by Edward Allhusen 9781445678672
£16.49If you think that the English language stays still, carved in tablets of stone, think again. English is constantly on the move, enhancing its scope by gratefully accepting words from other languages. It tolerates changes to meanings, often with hilarious... -
Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography by Claire Harman 9780241964439
RRP: £15.99£11.61Winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 'One of the most shamefully under-read great British authors of the past 100 years' Sarah Waters The poet Sylvia Townsend Warner rose to sudden fame with the publication of her classic feminist novel Lolly... -
China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation by Xinran
RRP: £16.99£12.28China Witness is the personal testimony of a generation whose stories have not yet been told. Here the grandparents and great-grandparents of today sum up in their own words - for the first and perhaps the last time - the vast changes that have overtaken... -
A Force Like No Other: The Next Shift: More Real Stories from the Ruc Men and Women Who Policed the Troubles by Colin Breen
RRP: £9.99£8.17In this follow-up to his bestselling A Force Like No Other, Colin Breen brings together more compelling insider stories from RUC officers who served during the Troubles. Includes stories about the IRA border campaign (1958-62), the Shankill Butchers... -
Fire Woman: The Extraordinary Story of Britain's First Female Firefighter by Josephine Reynolds 9781782436997
RRP: £9.99£6.65The inspiring true story of Josephine Reynolds, Britain's first full-time female firefighter.When Josephine Reynolds signed up with the Norfolk Fire Service in July 1982 at just seventeen years old, there was no such thing as a firefighter - only fire... -
Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World by Mike Davis
RRP: £12.99£11.31Examining a series of El Nino-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined... -
The Carry On Girls by Gemma Ross 9781803993409
RRP: £25.00£18.15Whether it is the seaside postcard bubbly blondes of Barbara Windsor, the hysterically historical leading ladies of Joan Sims, the coquettish authoritarians of Hattie Jacques, or the statuesque confidence of Valerie Leon, the Carry On girls are stoic,... -
Abandoned Villages by Stephen Fisk
RRP: £8.99£6.02A lonely ruined church, mysterious bumps in a field, or stone walls visible on the shoreline of a reservoir in high summer: all these are signs of settlements abandoned over the years. Over the centuries many villages in Britain have been abandoned... -
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
RRP: £16.99£15.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Anisfield-Wolf Book Award 2011 and Anisfield-Wolf Book Award 2011 and Heartland Award 2011 and Hurston/Wright Legacy Award 2011 and Mark Lynton History Prize 2011... -
Working Class History: Everyday Acts of Resistance and Rebellion by Working Class Histor
RRP: £18.99£12.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629638232Author Working Class HistorFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
In a Manner of Speaking: The Story of Spoken English by Charlie Haylock
RRP: £16.99£11.87Why do we have so many dialects in England? Why do we not all speak in standard English? How has our history shaped and influenced the language we speak today? In a Manner of Speaking is a fun and fascinating exploration of spoken English that... -
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale
RRP: £10.99£7.51_______________ WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK _______________ 'A remarkable achievement' - Sunday Times 'A classic, to my mind, of the finest documentary... -
Innovation: The History of England Volume VI by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £16.99£11.87'Ackroyd makes history accessible to the layman' - Ian Thomson, Independent Innovation brings Peter Ackroyd's History of England to a triumphant close. In it, Ackroyd takes readers from the end of the Boer War and the accession of Edward VII to the end... -
The Tudors in Love: The Courtly Code Behind the Last Medieval Dynasty by Sarah Gristwood
RRP: £20.00£14.69A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year 'One of the most important books to be written about the Tudors in a generation.' Tracy Borman In this groundbreaking history, Sarah Gristwood reveals the way courtly love made and marred the Tudor dynasty... -
King's Mistress, Queen's Servant: The Life and Times of Henrietta Howard by Tracy Borman
RRP: £10.99£7.77Henrietta Howard, later Countess of Suffolk, was the long-term mistress and confidante of King George II. She was also, as Tracy Borman's wonderfully readable biography reveals, a dedicated patron of the arts; a lively and talented intellectual in her... -
A Short History of Drunkenness by Mark Forsyth
RRP: £10.99£7.77THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ANYONE WHO ENJOYS A TIPPLE . . . OR TWO . . . OR TEN! Almost every culture on earth has drink, and where there's drink there's drunkenness. But in every age and in every place drunkenness is a little bit different. Tracing... -
The Story of Yoga: From Ancient India to the Modern West by Alistair Shearer
RRP: £12.99£11.67How did a venerable Indian spiritual discipline turn into a GBP20 billion-a-year mainstay of the wellness industry? What happened along yoga's winding path from the caves and forests of the sages to the gyms, hospitals and village halls of the modern... -
Caste Matters by Suraj Yengde 9780670091225
RRP: £43.95£14.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670091225Author Suraj Milind YengdeFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin VikingPublisher Penguin Random House India -
The Bookseller of Florence: Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Manuscripts that Illuminated the Renaissance by Dr Ross King
RRP: £12.99£9.09'A marvel of storytelling and a masterclass in the history of the book' WALL STREET JOURNALThe Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings - the dazzling handiwork of the city's artists and architects. But equally... -
Child Migrant Voices in Modern Britain: Oral Histories 1930s-Present Day by Dr Eithne Nightingale 9781350332607
RRP: £17.99£16.05Almost half the people displaced worldwide are under 18, yet their voices are rarely heard. This book records the experiences of children arriving in Britain from Hitler's Europe in the 1930s to those escaping war in Ukraine in 2022. It follows the... -
Bobby Sands - New Edition: Nothing But an Unfinished Song by Denis O'Hearn
RRP: £18.99£12.75This is the best-selling biography of the IRA resistance fighter and hunger-striker, Bobby Sands. In this updated, new edition, Denis O'Hearn draws from a wealth of interviews with friends, comrades, fellow prisoners and prison wardens, to provide a... -
Pirate Enlightenment: Buccaneers, Women Traders and Mock Kingdoms in Eighteenth Century Madagascar by David Graeber
RRP: £18.99£13.93'A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the European Enlightenment. A brilliant companion volume to the best-selling Dawn of Everything' Amitav GhoshThe Enlightenment... -
Heiresses: The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies by Laura Thompson
RRP: £9.99£7.11Heiresses is a glorious book, endlessly entertaining and about much more than its stated subject. Thompson is a fabulous writer' Caroline O'Donoghue 'Witty, insightful, deliciously gossip-laden and slightly scandalous... Heiresses makes for an... -
Born in the GDR: Living in the Shadow of the Wall by Hester Vaizey
RRP: £13.99£9.75The changes that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 were particularly dramatic for East Germans. With the German Democratic Republic effectively taken over by West Germany in the reunification process, nothing in their lives was immune... -
1968: The Year that Rocked the World by Mark Kurlansky
RRP: £18.99£13.61'A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on today's political... -
The Complete and Essential Jack the Ripper by Paul Begg
RRP: £12.99£9.09Discover the truth behind the myth in The Complete Jack the Ripper by Paul Begg and John Bennett.Whitechapel, 1888: a spate of brutal murders becomes the most notorious criminal episode in London's history. The killer, chillingly nicknamed 'The... -
One on One by Craig Brown
RRP: £10.99£7.77101 chance meetings, juxtaposing the famous and the infamous, the artistic and the philistine, the pompous and the comical, the snobbish and the vulgar, told by Britain's funniest writer. Life is made up of humans meeting one another. They... -
One Nation Under Blackmail: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein by Whitney Alyse Webb
RRP: £21.95£15.94One Nation Under Blackmail is a damning indictment of the consequences resulting from the nearly century old relationship between both US and Israeli intelligence and the organized criminal network known as the National Crime Syndicate. This book...