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The Descent of Man by Grayson Perry
RRP: $21.43$15.15'A breeze of a read, makes you see our male-manufactured world a little differently' Matt Haig'GRAYSON PERRY FOR KING AND QUEEN OF ENGLAND. Imagine how BRILLIANT our country would look if he was' Caitlin MoranGrayson Perry has been thinking about... -
Domesday Book: A Complete Translation by Geoffrey Martin
RRP: $78.00$57.31Domesday Book has been described as 'the most valuable piece of antiquity possessed by any nation.' (David Hume) But a complete translation has never been available before at an affordable price. Penguin's edition will change that. Compiled in a matter... -
Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History by Nur Masalha 9780755649426
RRP: $21.43$16.67This rich and magisterial work traces Palestine's millennia-old heritage, uncovering cultures and societies of astounding depth and complexity that stretch back to the very beginnings of recorded history. Starting with the earliest references in... -
The Performer: Art, Life, Politics by Richard Sennett 9780241637647
RRP: $48.75$35.14An exploration of public performance in everyday life, by the leading cultural and social thinkerThe Performer explores the relations between performing in art (particularly music), politics and everyday experience. It focuses on the bodily and physical... -
The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions by Jason Hickel
RRP: $21.43$15.15________________'There's no understanding global inequality without understanding its history. In The Divide, Jason Hickel brilliantly lays it out, layer upon layer, until you are left reeling with the outrage of it all.' - Kate Raworth, author of... -
Coal and Community in Wales: Images of the Miners' Strike: before, during and after by Richard Williams 9781800995031
RRP: $29.23$26.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800995031Author Richard WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaDimensions(mm) 210mm * 210mm * 10mm -
In Defence of Witches: Why women are still on trial by Mona Chollet
RRP: $21.43$14.64'Intriguing' - Sunday Times'A rousing read' - Irish Times'A bright light of Francophone feminism' - New York TimesRenowned journalist Mona Chollet recasts the witch as a powerful role model: an emblem of strength, free to exist beyond the narrow limits... -
The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff
RRP: $21.43$15.15'An oppressive, forensic, psychological thriller: J.K. Rowling meets Antony Beevor, Stephen King and Marina Warner ... Schiff's writing is to die for' THE TIMESIt began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's niece... -
A Cold Spell: A Human History of Ice by Max Leonard 9781526631190
RRP: $39.00$27.87Taking us from the beginning of our story to the present day, A Cold Spell examines how ice has shaped our thoughts, actions and societies - and what it means for us that it is rapidly disappearing from our planet 'A warm-hearted tale of the bizarre,... -
Women in Intelligence: The Hidden History of Two World Wars by Helen Fry 9780300260779
RRP: $48.75$40.79A groundbreaking history of women in British intelligence, revealing their pivotal role across the first half of the twentieth century From the twentieth century onward, women took on an extraordinary range of roles in intelligence, defying the... -
Shylock's Venice: The Remarkable History of Venice's Jews and the Ghetto by Harry Freedman 9781399407274
RRP: $39.00$27.87The thrilling story of the Jews in Venice - and the truth behind one of Shakespeare's most famous characters. Millions of visitors flood to Venice every year. Yet many are unaware of its history - one of dramatic expansion but also of rapid decline... -
Revolution In The Head: The Beatles Records and the Sixties by Ian MacDonald
RRP: $25.33$17.73As dazzling as the decade they dominated, The Beatles almost single-handedly created pop music as we know it. Today, their songs are cited as seminal influences by stars like Oasis and Blur. Eloquently giving voice to their time, The Beatles quite simply... -
From a Rock to a Hard Place: The 1984/85 Miners' Strike by Beverley Trounce 9781803994659
RRP: $25.33$18.27By the end of the notorious 1984/85 miners' strike many wanted to forget their painful experiences. Many years on people are ready to look back and talk about what happened in Britain during this defining moment of industrial action.In this new and... -
No One Taught Me To Tango by Trevor Grove
RRP: $39.00$25.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915406149Author Trevor GroveFormat HardbackPage Count 167Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear Publishing -
The Spinning House: How Cambridge University locked up women in its private prison by Caroline Biggs 9781803995700
RRP: $39.00$28.68"Biggs deftly blends historical research with creative retelling, bringing prison records to full and chilling life." - The New StatesmanCambridge University is renowned worldwide for its academic prowess, but below the surface lurks a murky past. During... -
London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: $58.50$42.41Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of the city. For him it is a living organism, with its own laws of growth and change, so London is a biography rather... -
Dominion: A History of England Volume V by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: $33.13$23.15'Ackroyd makes history accessible to the layman' - Ian Thomson, IndependentThe penultimate volume of Peter Ackroyd's masterful History of England series, Dominion begins in 1815 as national glory following the Battle of Waterloo gives way to post-war... -
Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City by Russell Shorto
RRP: $25.33$7.53Amsterdam is not just any city. Despite its relative size it has stood alongside its larger cousins - Paris, London, Berlin - and has influenced the modern world to a degree that few other cities have. Sweeping across the city's colourful thousand year... -
White Heat: A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties by Dominic Sandbrook
RRP: $33.13$23.28Harold Wilson's famous reference to 'white heat' captured the optimistic spirit of a society in the midst of breathtaking change. From the gaudy pleasures of Swinging London to the tragic bloodshed in Northern Ireland, from the intrigues of Westminster... -
Fake History: 101 Things that Never Happened by Jo Teeuwisse 9780753559673
RRP: $33.13$23.95**An International Bestseller**Fake news about the past is fake history.Did Hugo Boss design the Nazi uniforms?Did medieval people think the world was flat?Did Napoleon shoot the nose off the Sphinx?*Spoiler Alert* The answer to all those questions is no... -
God: An Anatomy - As heard on Radio 4 by Francesca Stavrakopoulou
RRP: $29.23$20.65Winner of The PEN Hessell-Tiltman PrizeShortlisted for The Wolfson History PrizeA The Times Books of the YearA fascinating, surprising and often controversial examination of the real God of the Bible, in all his bodily, uncensored, scandalous forms.'One... -
The Making of the English Working Class by E. P. Thompson
RRP: $39.00$28.65Fifty years since first publication, E. P. Thompson's revolutionary account of working-class culture and ideals is published in Penguin Modern Classics, with a new introduction by historian Michael KennyThis classic and imaginative account of... -
Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
RRP: $21.43$14.14The Top 10 Sunday Times Bestseller NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREOscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay Set amid the civil rights movement, the... -
Old Wives' Tales: The History of Remedies, Charms and Spells by Mary Chamberlain
RRP: $25.33$18.27A compendium of remedies and cures handed down from mother to daughter from the beginning of time, this work presents a challenge to orthodox medicine and a history of female wisdom which goes back to the earliest times. What are old wives' tales? Where... -
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955 by Harald Jahner 9780753557884
RRP: $27.28$19.01THE TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION******SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE******SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE***A Book of the YearThe Times * Sunday Times * Telegraph * New... -
Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler
RRP: $21.43$15.15THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'The most brilliant and fascinating book I have read in my entire life' Dan Snow'A huge contribution... remarkable' Antony Beevor, BBC RADIO 4'Extremely interesting ... a serious piece of scholarship, very well researched' Ian... -
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
RRP: $21.43$15.15A wonderful novel and perfect book club choice, The Right Stuff is a wildly vivid and entertaining chronicle of America's early space programme.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY US ASTRONAUT SCOTT KELLY'What is it,' asks Tom Wolfe, 'that makes a man willing to sit... -
On the Cusp: Days of '62 by David Kynaston
RRP: $19.48$13.86A TIMES BEST PAPERBACK OF 2022 ------------------ 'Glorious ... It's rare to read anything so teeming with life' SPECTATOR, Books of the Year 'This is Kynaston at his best ... A rich and vivid picture of a nation in all its human complexity' IAN... -
Fabulosa!: The Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language by Paul Baker
RRP: $23.38$16.44Polari is a language that was used chiefly by gay men in the first half of the twentieth century. At a time when being gay could result in criminal prosecution - or worse - Polari offered its speakers a degree of public camouflage, a way of expressing... -
The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia by Michael Booth
RRP: $21.43$15.15The Danes are the happiest people in the world, and pay the highest taxes.'Neutral' Sweden is one of the biggest arms manufacturers in the world.Finns have the largest per capita gun ownership after the US and Yemen.54 per cent of Icelanders believe in... -
The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity by Steven Pinker
RRP: $37.03$27.32'The most inspiring book I've ever read' Bill Gates, 2017'A brilliant, mind-altering book ... Everyone should read this astonishing book' Guardian'Will change the way you see the world' Daily MailShortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2012Wasn't the... -
The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich
RRP: $19.48$13.86'A must read' - Margaret Atwood'It would be hard to find a book that feels more important or original' - Viv Groskop, ObserverExtraordinary stories from Soviet women who fought in the Second World War - from the winner of the Nobel Prize in... -
Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World by Patrick Joyce 9780241543023
RRP: $48.75$34.36'A dozen pages in I realized that I had been waiting for much of my life to read this extraordinary book' Annie ProulxA way of life that once encompassed most of humanity is vanishing in one of the greatest transformations of our time: the eclipse of the... -
Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles by Dominic Sandbrook
RRP: $37.03$25.64In 1956 the Suez Crisis finally shattered the old myths of the British Empire and paved the way for the tumultuous changes of the decades to come. In NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD, Dominic Sandbrook takes a fresh look at the dramatic story of affluence and... -
How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS by David France
RRP: $29.23$21.18The riveting, powerful and profoundly moving story of the AIDS epidemic.Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionWinner of The Green Carnation Prize for LGBTQ literatureWinner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT non-fictionShortlisted for the... -
Kew - The Magic of Mushrooms: Fungi in folklore, science and the occult by Sandra Lawrence
RRP: $29.23$19.89Explore the wonderful world of some of the most incredible natural forms on our planet - fungi.At the centre of countless superstitions, folkloric tales and magical beliefs, as well as appearing in recipes and medicines both traditional and modern,... -
Scoff: A History of Food and Class in Britain by Pen Vogler
RRP: $21.43$12.71The brand new book by Pen Vogler, Stuffed, is available now***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***A Book of the Year in the Daily Mail, Independent, Spectator and The Times & Sunday Times Finalist for the Guild of Food Writers Food Book Award 2021'Sharp, rich... -
Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022 by Frank Trentmann 9780241303498
RRP: $78.00$56.14A Telegraph and Der Spiegel Book of the YearSueddeutsche Zeitung's Number One Most Important Political Book of 2023 Die Zeit, ZDF, Deutschlandfunk, taz Number One, Best Non-Fiction Books December 2023 and January 2024A groundbreaking new history of the... -
Veni, Vidi, Vici: Everything you ever wanted to know about the Romans but were afraid to ask by Peter Jones
RRP: $21.43$14.27The Romans left a long-lasting legacy and their influence can still be seen all around us - from our calendar and coins, to our language and laws - but how much do we really know about them? Help is at hand in the form of Veni, Vidi, Vici, which tells... -
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (10 Year Anniversary Edition) by Yuval Noah Harari 9781529913934
RRP: $48.75$32.23A beautiful new hardback anniversary edition of the multi-million copy sensationINCLUDES A NEW AFTERWORD FROM YUVAL NOAH HARARIWhat makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers,...