Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
The Industrial Revolution: A Very Short Introduction by Robert C. Allen
RRP: $18.88$13.55The 'Industrial Revolution' was a pivotal point in British history that occurred between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries and led to far reaching transformations of society. With the advent of revolutionary manufacturing technology... -
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
RRP: $27.28$17.98A New York Times Book of the Year, 2018A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICKA dazzling love letter to a beloved institution - our libraries.After moving to Los Angeles, Susan Orlean became fascinated by a mysterious local crime that has... -
Posh Boys: How English Public Schools Ruin Britain by Robert Verkaik 9781786073839
RRP: $35.68$19.47'The latest in the series of powerful books on the divisions in modern Britain, and will take its place on many bookshelves beside Reni Eddo-Lodge's Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race and Owen Jones's Chavs.' -Andrew Marr, Sunday... -
Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage by Jonny Steinberg
RRP: $52.50$34.71'Gripping and profoundly moving' DAMON GALGUT 'Deft and operatic' OBSERVER A TIMES BEST BIOGRAPHY OF 2023 From one of South... -
The Piano Shop On The Left Bank by T.E. Carhart
RRP: $20.98$14.93T. E. Carhart, an American living in Paris, is intrigued by a piano repair shop hidden down a street near his apartment. When he finally gains admittance to the secretive world of the atelier, he finds himself in an enormous glass-roofed workshop filled... -
Letters of Great Women: Extraordinary correspondence from history's remarkable women by Lucinda Hawksley
RRP: $52.50$32.05Over 2,000 years of history seen through the eyes of 50 extraordinary women. Was Jane Austen a fan of her own work? What did Harriet Tubman want to tell Abraham Lincoln? And how did Greta Thunberg respond to her critics? This carefully curated selection... -
Never Shaken, Never Stirred: The Story of Ann Fleming and Laura, Duchess of Marlborough by Christopher Reindorp
RRP: $48.28$36.79Glamorous, fun and packed with scandalous anecdotes and exclusive interviews, Never Shaken, Never Stirred tells the story of two extraordinary sisters, Ann and Laura Charteris, who made marrying well an art form.While Laura eventually became the Duchess... -
Here's the Story: A Memoir by Mary McAleese
RRP: $20.98$14.93The groundbreaking two-term President of Ireland tells the stories of her lifeWhen a young Mary McAleese told a priest that she planned to become a lawyer, the priest dismissed the idea: she knew no one in the law, and she was female. The reality of what... -
In Defence of Open Society: The Legendary Philanthropist Tackles the Dangers We Must Face for the Survival of Civilisation George Soros 9781529343502
RRP: $23.08$15.54George Soros is among the world's most prominent public figures. He is one of the history's most successful investors and his philanthropy, led by the Open Society Foundations, has donated over $14 billion to promote democracy and human rights in more... -
Editing Early Modern Texts: An Introduction to Principles and Practice by Michael Hunter 9780230574762
$192.19This book provides an approachable exposition of the rationale of textual editing with special reference to texts from between 1550-1800. The volume explains how manuscript and printed texts were produced, indicating the implications of this for their... -
The Illustrated Secret History of the World by Mark Booth 9781468315660
RRP: $73.50$52.86Since its first publication in 2008, The Secret History of the World has sold over 250,000 copies and established itself as the authoritative text on the subject of esoteric belief systems and secret societies. Now, with The Illustrated Secret History of... -
Daughter of Empire: Life as a Mountbatten by Pamela Hicks
RRP: $20.98$14.28A magical memoir about childhood in India by the daughter of Lord Louis and Edwina Mountbatten; a glimpse into the lives and loves of some of the 20th century's leading figures.Pamela Mountbatten was born at the end of the 1920s into one of Britain's... -
Young Romantics by Daisy Hay 9781408809723
RRP: $35.68$25.79'A most impressive achievement' Michael Holroyd 'Enthralling' Sunday Times 'Masterly' Telegraph _______________________ 'The web of our Life is of mingled Yarn' - John Keats In Young Romantics Daisy Hay shatters the myth of the Romantic poet as a... -
How to Behave Badly in Renaissance Britain by Ruth Goodman 9781789292664
RRP: $20.98$14.39From royalty to peasantry, every age has its bad eggs, those who break all the rules and rub everyone up the wrong way. But their niggling, anti-social and irritating ways not only tell us about what upset people, but also what mattered to them, how... -
After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made by Ben Rhodes 9781526642073
RRP: $20.98$14.93THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'A dystopian odyssey through the dark authoritarian landscape of the modern world' The Times To be born American in the late twentieth century was to take the fact of a particular kind of American... -
The House of Rothschild: The World's Banker 1849-1998 by Niall Ferguson
RRP: $46.20$33.64This second volume of Niall Ferguson's acclaimed, landmark history of the legendary Rothschild banking dynasty concludes his myth-breaking portrait of one of the most powerful and fascinating families of modern times. With all the depth, clarity and... -
Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher by Dr John Davis
RRP: $88.20$71.48A kaleidoscopic history of how the 1960s and 1970s changed London foreverWaterloo Sunrise is a panoramic and multifaceted account of modern London during the transformative years of the sixties and seventies, when a city still bearing the scars of war... -
Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe: Male-Male Sexual Relations, 1400-1750 by Sir Noel Malcolm 9780198886334
RRP: $52.50$45.34A 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 Pandemic Century: A History of Global Contagion from the Spanish Flu to Covid-19 by Mark Honigsbaum
RRP: $27.28$19.09A Financial Times Best Book of the Year The most timely and informative history book you will read this year, tracing a century of pandemics, with a new chapter on COVID-19.Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of... -
The Time Traveler's Guide to Regency Britain: A Handbook for Visitors to 1789-1830 by Ian Mortimer 9781639363841
RRP: $41.90$28.83Apologies 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: $42.00$32.00The 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: $37.70$30.11Apologies 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: $42.00$33.29There 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: $23.08$16.32*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... -
To The City: Life and Death Along the Ancient Walls of Istanbul by Alexander Christie-Miller 9780008416041
RRP: $52.50$34.50'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: $94.48$94.44This 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... -
Mixed-race Superman by Will Harris 9781999922306
RRP: $12.60$9.24Mixed-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 Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women?s Roles in Society by Eleanor Janega
RRP: $50.38$42.23What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love and be? In this vibrant, high-spirited history, medievalist Eleanor Janega turns to the Middle Ages, the era that bridged the ancient world and modern society, to unfurl its suppositions about... -
Koba The Dread by Martin Amis
RRP: $27.28$19.09Koba the Dread is the successor to Amis's celebrated memoir, Experience. It addresses itself to the central lacuna of twentieth-century thought: the indulgence of communism by Western intellectuals. In between the personal beginning and the personal... -
Tattoos: An Illustrated History by Tina Brown
RRP: $33.58$22.79The art of tattoos goes back hundreds, if not thousands, of years and today they are more popular than ever, but how many people really know the story behind tattoos? With a fascination for the Victorian tattoo craze, and the way the story behind these... -
Holy Food: How Cults, Communes, and Religious Movements Influenced What We Eat - An American History by Christina Ward 9781934170946
RRP: $67.18$43.28Apologies 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 -
China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed by Andrew G. Walder
RRP: $54.50$44.18China's Communist Party seized power in 1949 after a long period of guerrilla insurgency followed by full-scale war, but the Chinese revolution was just beginning. China Under Mao narrates the rise and fall of the Maoist revolutionary state from 1949 to... -
Cosmetics & Perfumes in the Roman World by Susie Stewart 9780752440989
RRP: $35.68$27.17Presents a survey of the perception and reality of the use of cosmetics and perfumes under the Roman Empire. This work, a companion to "Roman Clothing and Fashion" draws on literary, non-literary, visual and archaeological evidence to show, among other... -
The Arms of the Infinite: Elizabeth Smart and George Barker by Christopher Barker 9781554582709
RRP: $58.70$38.87The 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
$30.28Apologies 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 -
Sicily: culture and conquest Dirk Booms 9780714122892
RRP: $63.00$44.10Sicily's central location and natural resources have meant that various peoples have sought to conquer, control and settle on the island throughout its 3000-year history. Its Italian identity, with which we are familiar today, emerges only comparatively... -
The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself by Dr. Andrew Pettegree
RRP: $35.68$31.52The extraordinary history of news and its dissemination, from medieval pilgrim tales to the birth of the newspaper Long before the invention of printing, let alone the availability of a daily newspaper, people desired to be informed. In the... -
Who Are We Now?: Stories of Modern England by Jason Cowley
RRP: $23.08$15.77A Sunday Times Paperback of the Year 'I can't tell you how refreshing it is in these polarised times to read a book on politics that doesn't have an axe to grind . . . an essential read.' - The Sunday TimesJason Cowley, editor-in-chief of the New... -
In a Manner of Speaking: The Story of Spoken English by Charlie Haylock
RRP: $35.68$24.93Why 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... -
Renoir's Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon by Catherine Hewitt
RRP: $52.50$35.68In 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...