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Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe: Male-Male Sexual Relations, 1400-1750 by Sir Noel Malcolm 9780198886334
RRP: £25.00£21.59A landmark study of the history of male-male sex in early modern Europe, including the European colonies and the Ottoman world. Until quite recently, the history of male-male sexual relations was a taboo topic. But when historians eventually explored... -
The Fran Lebowitz Reader by Fran Lebowitz 9780349015880
RRP: £18.99£13.15Acerbic, wisecracking and hilarious, this is the definitive essay collection from New York legend and satirist, Fran Lebowitz, star of Martin Scorsese's hit Netflix series, Pretend It's a City.'The gold standard for intelligence, efficiency and humour... -
Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood by Robyn Scott 9780747596561
RRP: £12.99£9.09When Robyn Scott was six years old her parents abruptly exchanged the tranquil pastures of New Zealand for a converted cowshed in the wilds of Botswana. Once there, Robyn and her siblings, mostly left to amuse themselves, grew up collecting snakes,... -
The Georgians: The Deeds and Misdeeds of 18th-Century Britain by Penelope J. Corfield
RRP: £12.99£11.46A comprehensive history of the Georgians, comparing past views of these exciting, turbulent, and controversial times with our attitudes today The Georgian era is often seen as a time of innovations. It saw the end of monarchical absolutism, global... -
The Time Traveler's Guide to Regency Britain: A Handbook for Visitors to 1789-1830 by Ian Mortimer 9781639363841
RRP: £19.95£13.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639363841Author Ian MortimerFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 148mm *... -
Whatever Happened to Tradition?: History, Belonging and the Future of the West by Tim Stanley
RRP: £20.00£15.24The West feels lost. Brexit, Trump, the coronavirus: we hurtle from one crisis to another, lacking definition, terrified that our best days are behind us. The central argument of this book is that we can only face the future with hope if we have a... -
Civilization or Barbarism by Diop
RRP: £17.95£14.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556520488Author Cheikh Anta DiopFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Lawrence Hill & Co.Publisher Lawrence Hill & Co.Weight(grams) 607g -
Cleopatra and the Undoing of Hollywood: How One Film Almost Sunk the Studios by Patrick Humphries
RRP: £20.00£15.85There had been stars before. There had been films prior to Cleopatra. But in all the cynical, greedy, magical, histrionic history of the movies, there had never been a combination like that of Elizabeth Taylor and Cleopatra.Other films may have taken... -
Lev's Violin: An Italian Adventure by Helena Attlee 9780141991078
RRP: £10.99£7.77*A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK*'Utterly enthralling - a beautifully-written voyage of discovery that takes us deep into the heart of music-making' Deborah MoggachFrom the moment she hears Lev's violin for the first time, Helena Attlee is captivated. She is... -
On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis by Walter D. Mignolo
RRP: £22.99£20.01In On Decoloniality Walter D. Mignolo and Catherine E. Walsh explore the hidden forces of the colonial matrix of power, its origination, transformation, and current presence, while asking the crucial questions of decoloniality's how, what, why, with... -
Women of the Durham Coalfield in the 20th Century: Hannah's Daughter by Margaret Hedley 9780750995047
RRP: £14.99£11.55Life in the early twentieth-century coalmining communities changed very little for the women who dedicated their lives to their miner husbands. The women's working days were much longer than the miners, who typically worked an 8-hour shift. Their living... -
To The City: Life and Death Along the Ancient Walls of Istanbul by Alexander Christie-Miller 9780008416041
RRP: £25.00£16.43'An enthralling guide to one of the world's great cities - that blends history and insights into the present day from one of the most astute commentators on the politics of Istanbul' PETER FRANKOPAN 'A... -
Loyalty and Identity: Jacobites at Home and Abroad by Paul Kleber Monod 9780230222571
RRP: £44.99£44.97This collection of essays provides a series of fresh approaches to a fascinating subject: Jacobitism. The contributors focus on issues of identity and memory among Jacobites in Scotland, Ireland, England and Europe. They examine Jacobitism as an integral... -
Thatcher's Secret War: Subversion, Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974-90 by Clive Bloom
RRP: £14.99£11.55'Scary but enlightening' - Christopher StoneMargaret Thatcher remains one of the United Kingdom's most polarising prime ministers. This provocative investigation sheds light on the secret, internal 'cold war' that she waged against 'the enemy within';... -
Mixed-race Superman by Will Harris 9781999922306
RRP: £6.00£4.40Mixed-Race Superman is a reflection on the lives of two very different supermen: Barack Obama and Keanu Reeves. In an era where a man endorsed by the Klu Klux Klan can sit in the White House, Will Harris argues that the mixed-race background of each gave... -
The Stepney Doorstep Society: The remarkable true story of the women who ruled the East End through war and peace Kate Thompson 9780718189860
RRP: £9.99£7.11The unsung and remarkable stories of the women who held London's East End together during not one, but two world wars.'Inspiring tales of courage in the face of hardship' Mail on Sunday'Inspiring . . . Takes you back to a time of community and helping... -
Art Deco by Oliver Green
RRP: £8.99£6.02Art deco refers to a striking range of decorative design styles that emerged in the early twentieth century and comes from the influential 1925 Paris International Exhibition of Decorative Arts. Spreading from Paris, it became particularly associated... -
Holy Food: How Cults, Communes, and Religious Movements Influenced What We Eat - An American History by Christina Ward 9781934170946
RRP: £31.99£20.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934170946Author Christina WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Process MediaPublisher Process Media -
Inheritance: The Lost History of Mary Davies: A Story of Property, Marriage and Madness by Leo Hollis 9781786079954
RRP: £20.00£13.50'Brilliant' Financial Times 'Hollis expertly weaves together the human tragedy and high politics behind the explosion of one of the world's greatest cities' Dan Snow The reclaimed history of a woman whose tragic life tells a story of madness,... -
Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Higher Social Rank Shapes Identity, Fosters Creativity, and Changes the World by W. David Marx
RRP: £26.99£17.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593296707Author W. David MarxFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Viking Press IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The Arms of the Infinite: Elizabeth Smart and George Barker by Christopher Barker 9781554582709
RRP: £27.95£18.51The Arms of the Infinite takes the reader inside the minds of author Christopher Barker's parents, writer Elizabeth Smart (By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept) and poet George Barker. From their first fateful meeting and subsequent elopement,... -
Generations by William Strauss 9780688119126
£14.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688119126Author William StraussFormat PaperbackPage Count 538Imprint William MorrowPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 771g -
Renoir's Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon by Catherine Hewitt
RRP: £25.00£16.99In the 1880s, Suzanne Valadon was considered the Impressionists' most beautiful model. But behind her captivating facade lay a closely-guarded secret. Born in poverty in rural France, as a teenager in Montmartre, Suzanne began posing for - and having... -
The Secret History of Georgian London: How the Wages of Sin Shaped the Capital by Dan Cruickshank
RRP: £16.99£12.28Georgian London evokes images of elegant buildings and fine art, but it was also a city where prostitution was rife, houses of ill repute widespread, and many tens of thousands of people dependent in some way or other on the wages of sin. The sex... -
Shake it Up, Baby: The Rise of Beatlemania and the Mayhem of 1963 by Ken McNab 9781846976346
RRP: £22.00£15.11When BEATLEMANIA seized the nation: Relive the Mayhem of 1963 The Beatles broke up more than half a century ago, yet millions around the globe are still drawn to the legacy of four lads from Liverpool. It really shouldn't be like this. But, from the... -
The Slave Trade Hugh Thomas 9780753820568
RRP: £20.00£14.35The rise and fall of the business of slave trading - by a bestselling historianThe Atlantic slave trade was one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures. Between 1492 and about 1870, ten million or more black slaves were carried... -
The Story of Afro Hair by K. N. Chimbiri 9780702307416
RRP: £9.99£6.41Explore the incredible history of Afro hair. The Story of Afro Hair celebrates the fashion and styles of Afro hair over the last 5,000 years. From plaits to the Gibson Girl, cornrows to dreadlocks, the hi-top fade to funki dreds, The Story of Afro Hair... -
Tastes of Honey: The Making of Shelagh Delaney and a Cultural Revolution by Professor Selina Todd
RRP: £9.99£7.11'A sympathetic and perceptive account of a fine writer at a critical moment in our cultural life' KEN LOACHOn 27 May 1958, A Taste of Honey opened in a small fringe theatre in London. Written by a nineteen-year-old bus driver's daughter from Salford, the... -
Untold Paris: The Secret History of the City of Light by John Baxter 9780711296589
RRP: £19.99£13.75Nobody knows the city of light like Paris resident and travel writer John Baxter - and nobody is able to write about its culture quite so intriguingly. Let him guide you around the Paris you've always wanted to know. How was Ernest Hemingway received by... -
Viking London by Thomas Williams 9780008299897
RRP: £8.99£6.02London was reborn in the fires of the Viking Age, transformed by immigrants and natives, kings and commoners, warriors and saints. In this short history, bestselling historian Thomas Williams explores the profound... -
On a Pedestal: A Trip around Britain's Statues Roger Lytollis 9781472146137
RRP: £20.00£13.35This is a book for people who are interested in statues . . . and for people who aren't. It explores those immortalised in marble and bronze - and what the rest of us think about them.As Roger Lytollis travels Britain he encounters a man at Liverpool's... -
Good As You: From Prejudice to Pride - 30 Years of Gay Britain by Paul Flynn
RRP: £16.99£12.28'One of the most important books about gay culture in recent times' The QuietusLong-listed for the Polari First Book PrizeIn 1984 the pulsing electronics and soft vocals of Smalltown Boy would become an anthem uniting gay men. A month later, an... -
Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight by Lyn Julius 9781910383667
RRP: £19.95£15.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910383667Author Lyn JuliusFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd -
Thucydides: The War of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians by Thucydides 9780521847742
RRP: £69.99£61.83Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Paris: The Secret History by Andrew Hussey 9780141011134
RRP: £16.99£12.28Paris is the city of light and the city of darkness - a place of ceaseless revolution and reinvention that for two thousand years has drawn those with the highest ideals and the lowest morals to its teeming streets. In Andrew Hussey's wonderful book we... -
My Disappearing Uncle: Europe, War and the Stories of a Scattered Family by Kathy Henderson
RRP: £20.00£15.04'That's what happens when you listen to the stories and they start to tell themselves all over again ... the more you hear, the more questions there are, answers unpeeling like the layers of an onion.'Memoir, detective work and political history come... -
Secrets of the Homefront Girls Kate Thompson 9781473698116
RRP: £8.99£6.20A new series from bestselling author Kate Thompson.'Kate Thompson's wartime novels always strike a chord and Secrets of the Homefront Girls is no exception. You can almost smell the Yardley violets drifting over the factory as the girls live lives... -
Goodbye, Dr Banda: Lessons for the West From a Small African Country by Alexander Chula 9781846976278
RRP: £17.99£12.20'You may never have been, may never go, may never even have heard of the place - but Malawi will repay your attention. It is one of the smallest, poorest countries in Africa, often overlooked; but its relationship with us in the West has been... -
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World by Simon Winchester
RRP: £9.99£6.64From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for it and gave it back. In 1889, thousands of hopeful people raced... -
Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England by Sarah Wise
RRP: £14.99£10.95This highly original book brilliantly exposes the phenomenon of false allegations of lunacy and the dark motives behind them in the Victorian period.Gaslight tales of rooftop escapes, men and women snatched in broad daylight, patients shut in coffins, a...