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When I Was a Nipper: The Way We Were in Disappearing Britain by Alan Titchmarsh
RRP: £14.99£10.95In When I Was a Nipper Alan Titchmarsh goes on a personal and nostalgic journey through post-War Britain in search of treasured values and traditions that were once the soul of society. With characteristic wit, warmth and humour he draws on the... -
A Cabinet of Rarities: Antiquarian Obsessions and the Spell of Death by Erik Desmazieres 9780500516348
RRP: £35.00£22.83Erik Desmazieres is acknowledged as a contemporary master of the art of etching. With breathtaking virtuosity, he recreates interiors, cityscapes, landscapes and fantastical compositions from a Piranesian world. Any new work Desmazieres produces is a... -
Koreans in Japan: Critical Voices from the Margin by Sonia Ryang 9780415379397
RRP: £39.99£35.06Koreans in Japan are a barely known minority, not only in the West but also within Japan itself. This pioneering study analyses these relations in the context of the particular conditions and constraints that Koreans face in Japanese society. The... -
Gutenberg's Europe: The Book and the Invention of Western Modernity by Frederic Barbier 9780745672588
RRP: £18.99£16.87Major transformations in society are always accompanied by parallel transformations in systems of social communication what we call the media. In this book, historian Frederic Barbier provides an important new economic, political and social analysis of... -
A History of Economic Thought: The LSE Lectures by Lionel Robbins
RRP: £45.00£40.81Lionel Robbins's now famous lectures on the history of economic thought comprise one of the greatest accounts since World War II of the evolution of economic ideas. This volume represents the first time those lectures have been published. Lord Robbins... -
SCOOTER MANIA!: Recollections of the Isle of Man International Scooter Rally by Steve Jackson
RRP: £15.99£11.42At last! A year-on-year account of the Isle of Man International Scooter Rally, the brainchild of WWI veteran-turned-politician, James Mylchreest Cain. Following a fact-finding mission to Dusseldorf, accompanied by Peter Agg from Lambretta, the second... -
Wind is My Mother by Bear Heart
£12.22With eloquent simplicity, Native American medicine man Bear Heart demonstrates how traditional tribal wisdom can help us maintain spiritual and physical health in today's world."As a child I was taught, 'Chebon, the way to attain the beauty in life is... -
An Orkney Tapestry by George Mackay Brown
RRP: £12.99£8.56First published in 1969, An Orkney Tapestry, George Mackay Brown's seminal work, is a unique look at Orkney through the eye of a poet. Originally commissioned by his publisher as an introduction to the Orkney Islands, Brown approached the writing from a... -
Glasgow: The Autobiography by Alan Taylor
RRP: £12.99£8.56Glasgow: The Autobiography tells the story of the fabled, former Second City of the British Empire from its origins as a bucolic village on the rivers Kelvin and Clyde, through the tumult of the Industrial Revolution to the third millennium. Including... -
A Million Years in a Day: A Curious History of Daily Life by Greg Jenner
RRP: £10.99£7.40'A wonderful idea, gloriously put into practice. Greg Jenner is as witty as he is knowledgeable' - Tom Holland'You will love Greg Jenner's jolly account of how we have more in common with our ancestors than we might think ... all human life is here, ... -
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
RRP: £12.99£8.56A 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... -
Re-Sisters: The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti by Cosey Fanni Tutti 9780571362196
RRP: £12.99£8.32From the acclaimed author of Art Sex Music comes a vital meditation on womanhood, creativity and self-expression, and a revelatory exploration into the lives of three visionary artists.'A fascinating tale of the interlinking lives of three legendary... -
The Illustrated Secret History of the World by Mark Booth 9781468315660
RRP: £35.00£24.70Since 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... -
The Oxford History of the World by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
RRP: £12.99£9.09Histories you can trust. Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it-with the kind of objectivity that we, who are enmeshed in our history, cant attain. The Oxford History of the World... -
Young Romantics by Daisy Hay 9781408809723
RRP: £16.99£12.28'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... -
Age of the City: Why our Future will be Won or Lost Together by Ian Goldin
RRP: £20.00£14.66One of the Financial Times' Best Economics Books of 2023 Visionary Oxford professor Ian Goldin and The Economist's Tom Lee-Devlin show why the city is where the battles of inequality, social division, pandemics and climate change must be faced. ... -
High Minds: The Victorians and the Birth of Modern Britain by Simon Heffer
RRP: £20.00£14.69Simon Heffer's new book forms an ambitious exploration of the making of the Victorian age and the Victorian mind.Britain in the 1840s was a country wracked by poverty, unrest and uncertainty, where there were attempts to assassinate the Queen and her... -
How to Behave Badly in Renaissance Britain by Ruth Goodman 9781789292664
RRP: £9.99£6.65From 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... -
Life in a Medieval Castle by Joseph Gies 9780062414793
RRP: £10.99£7.25"Some particular books I found useful for A Game of Thrones and its sequels deserve mention...Life in a Medieval Castle and Life in a Medieval City, both by Joseph and Frances Gies." -George R.R. Martin, author of the series A Song of Ice and... -
After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made by Ben Rhodes 9781526642073
RRP: £9.99£7.11THE 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... -
Assad: The Triumph of Tyranny by Con Coughlin
RRP: £25.00£16.13'Important, compelling, and detailed . . . a superb analysis of the West's policy missteps and the tragic consequences of them.' - General David PetraeusIn Assad: The Triumph of Tyranny, Con Coughlin, veteran commentator on war in the Middle East and... -
Muse: Uncovering the hidden figures behind art history's masterpieces by Ruth Millington
RRP: £14.99£9.53'Exhilarating and fascinating' KATY HESSEL | 'Rich and detailed' CHLOE ASHBY | 'Enlightening' TABISH KHAN | 'Sheds light on an uncharted area of art history' JENNY PERY | 'An essential read' EDWARD BROOKE-HITCHINGMeet the unexpected, overlooked and... -
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way by Bill Bryson 9780380715435
RRP: £17.99£10.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780380715435Author Bill BrysonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Avon BooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 198mm *... -
Meccano by Roger Marriott 9780747810568
RRP: £8.99£7.40It has now been over a century since Frank Hornby invented a toy to amuse his sons and called it Meccano, coining a word which has entered the dictionary as a term in common usage and is now known all over the world. Hornby's vision of an educational toy... -
Privacy: A Short History by David Vincent
RRP: £16.99£15.22Privacy: A Short History provides a vital historical account of an increasingly stressed sphere of human interaction. At a time when the death of privacy is widely proclaimed, distinguished historian, David Vincent, describes the evolution of the concept... -
Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised student edition by Thomas Hobbes
£18.49Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan is arguably the greatest piece of political philosophy written in the English language. Written in a time of great political turmoil (Hobbes' life spanned the reign of Charles I, the Civil Wars, the Commonwealth and the... -
The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: Volume 1: The Renaissance by Quentin Skinner
RRP: £26.99£22.63A two-volume study of political thought from the late thirteenth to the end of the sixteenth century, the decisive period of transition from medieval to modern political theory. The work is intended to be both an introduction to the period for students,... -
Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family's Story of Slavery by Alex Renton
RRP: £10.99£7.32LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE'An incredible work of scholarship' Sathnam SangheraThrough the story of his own family's history as slave and plantation owners, Alex Renton looks at how we owe it to the present to understand the legacy of the... -
The Times On This Day: Facts and trivia for every day of the year by James Owen
RRP: £7.99£5.31Delve into a wealth of famous events, significant sites and momentous births and deaths. Choose a day of the year and discover the fascinating array of people, places and happenings for which it is notable. This day-by-day compendium provides... -
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... -
The House of Rothschild: The World's Banker 1849-1998 by Niall Ferguson
RRP: £22.00£16.02This 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... -
Ernestine L. Rose: Agitate! by Joyce B Lazarus 9780761873426
RRP: £14.99£14.28Overlooked by historians for over half a century following her death, Ernestine L. Rose (1810 1892) was one of the foremost orators and social reformers of her era. A fearless human rights activist, she fought for racial equality, women's rights,... -
The Condition of the Working Class in England by Friedrich Engels 9780141191102
RRP: £12.99£9.09Written when Engels was only twenty-four, and inspired in particular by his time living amongst the poor in Manchester, this forceful polemic explores the staggering human cost of the Industrial Revolution in Victorian England. Engels paints an... -
Posh Boys: How English Public Schools Ruin Britain by Robert Verkaik 9781786073839
RRP: £16.99£9.03'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... -
Letters of Great Women: Extraordinary correspondence from history's remarkable women by Lucinda Hawksley
RRP: £25.00£17.38Over 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... -
Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West by Raymond Ibrahim
RRP: £13.99£13.19The West and Islam--the sword and the scimitar--have clashed since the mid-seventh century, when, according to Muslim tradition, the Byzantine emperor rejected Prophet Muhammad's order to abandon Christianity and convert to Islam, unleashing a... -
Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution by Priya Satia 9780715653050
RRP: £16.99£12.07Winner of the Jerry Bentley Prize in World History (American Historical Association). Award-winning historian Priya Satia presents a new history of the Industrial Revolution that positions war and the gun trade squarely at the heart of the rapid... -
In Defence of Open Society: The Legendary Philanthropist Tackles the Dangers We Must Face for the Survival of Civilisation by George Soros 9781529343502
RRP: £10.99£7.40George 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... -
A History of the Ostrogoths by Thomas S. Burns
RRP: £20.99£17.98"Thorough and convincing . . . likely to become the standard work on the subject." -Library Journal"Highly readable." -Medieval Literature"A major work of synthesis." -Walter E. Kaegi "Burns has achieved much for the modern study of Ostrogoths."... -
The Routledge Atlas of Jewish History by Martin Gilbert 9781032053806
RRP: £25.99£22.63This 9th edition of Martin Gilbert's Atlas of Jewish History spans over four thousand years of history in 196 maps, starting with the worldwide migration of the Jews from ancient Mesopotamia and coming up into the first decades of the twenty-first...