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Chanel's Riviera: Glamour, Decadence, and Survival in Peace and War, 1930-1944 by Anne De Courcy 9781250177087
RRP: $37.78$26.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250177087Author Anne De CourcyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 137g -
Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao's Great Famine by Jisheng Yang
RRP: $31.48$23.00Yang Jisheng's Tombstone is the book that broke the silence on of one of history's most terrible crimesMore people died in Mao's Great Famine than in the entire First World War, yet this story has remained largely untold, until now. Still banned in... -
Islamic Empires: Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization by Justin Marozzi
RRP: $31.48$23.00'Outstanding, illuminating, compelling ... a riveting read' Peter Frankopan, Sunday Times Islamic civilization was once the envy of the world. From a succession of glittering, cosmopolitan capitals, Islamic empires lorded it over the Middle East, North... -
Houses of the National Trust: New Edition by Lydia Greeves
RRP: $63.00$46.05Fully revised and updated edition of the classic, stunningly illustrated guide to the country houses in the care of the National Trust, encompassing both interior and exterior design. The National Trust cares for a wealth of houses and... -
Irwin Allen Collectibles by John Buss 9781398115316
RRP: $33.58$24.38What is the appeal to Irwin Allen's shows? Well, to a sixties TV audience used to a diet of westerns and hard-boiled detectives, they were new and exciting compared to what had appeared before. As for the appeal, much of this is down to the groups of... -
The Pet Shop Boys and the Political: Queerness, Culture, Identity and Society by Dr Bodie A. Ashton 9781350331563
RRP: $46.18$43.24The Pet Shop Boys came of age at a time of deep socio-political tension. From the rise of sexual politics and awareness to Thatcherite neoliberalism and the Cold War, this book explores the cultural and political impact of the band and offers a... -
Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918-1940 by D. J. Taylor
RRP: $27.28$19.09Bright Young People/ Making the most of our youth/ They talk in the Press of our social success/ But quite the reverse is the truth. [Noel Coward]The Bright Young People were one of the most extraordinary youth cults in British history. A... -
Outrageous!: The Story of Section 28 and Britain’s Battle for LGBT Education by Paul Baker
RRP: $23.08$16.32On 23 May 1988, Paul Baker sat down with his family to eat cake on his sixteenth birthday while The Six O'Clock News played in the background. But something was not quite right. There was muffled shouting - 'Stop Section 28!' - and a scuffle. The morning... -
White Girls by Hilton Als
RRP: $23.08$16.32'I defy you to read this book and come away with a mind unchanged' John Jeremiah Sullivan'Als has a serious claim to be regarded as the next James Baldwin' Observer'I see how we are all the same, that none of us are white women or black men; rather,... -
Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens: A History of Ancient Greece by Robin Waterfield
RRP: $26.23$23.25'WE GREEKS ARE ONE IN BLOOD AND ONE IN LANGUAGE; WE HAVE TEMPLES TO THE GODS AND RELIGIOUS RITES IN COMMON, AND A COMMON WAY OF LIFE.' So the fifth-century historian Herodotus has the Athenians declare, in explanation of why they would never betray... -
The Devil's Cup: Coffee, the Driving Force in History by Stewart Lee Allen
RRP: $23.08$15.37Can you handle mornings without a brew? No? Multiply that. Imagine an entire population under a cloud of lethargy, unable to kick start their days. Now introduce coffee. Bingo. The brain moves into over-drive and it's time for empire building.So goes... -
Scotland: A History from Earliest Times by Alistair Moffat
RRP: $31.48$22.16In this book, Alistair Moffat brings vividly to life the story of this great nation, from the dawn of prehistory through to the twenty-first century. Ambitious, richly detailed and highly readable, Scotland: A History From Earliest Times skilfully... -
Life in Early Medieval Wales by Prof Nancy Edwards 9780198733218
RRP: $210.00$190.05Research for and the writing of this book was funded by the award of a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship. The period c. AD300--1050, spanning the collapse of Roman rule to the coming of the Normans, was formative in the development of Wales... -
Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball by Luke Epplin
RRP: $39.88$30.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250266316Author Epplin LukeFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Flatiron BooksPublisher Flatiron BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm *... -
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software by Steven Johnson
RRP: $23.08$16.32Steven Johnson's Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software is a fascinating look at how self-organising systems are changing the world. Why do people cluster together in neighborhoods? How do internet communities spring up from... -
Collecting Activism, Archiving Occupy Wall Street by Kylie Message 9780367777814
RRP: $41.98$37.15Collecting Activism, Archiving Occupy Wall Street explores the material collections produced by participants of Occupy Wall Street in 2011 that bear witness to the experience and agency of 'the 99%'.Examining processes of collection development as a lens... -
Notes from the Cevennes: Half a Lifetime in Provincial France by Adam Thorpe
RRP: $20.98$15.65Adam Thorpe's home for the past 25 years has been an old house in the Cevennes, a wild range of mountains in southern France. Prior to this, in an ancient millhouse in the oxbow of a Cevenol river, he wrote the novel that would become the Booker... -
Letters of Note: Grief by Shaun Usher
RRP: $16.78$11.47In Letters of Note: Grief, Shaun Usher gathers together some of the most powerful messages about grief, from the heart-wrenching pain of losing a loved one to reliving fond memories of those who have passed on.Includes letters by:Audre Lorde, Robert... -
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... -
The Sami Peoples of the North: A Social and Cultural History by Neil Kent
RRP: $39.88$34.90The first comprehensive history of the Sami people of the Nordic countries and northwestern Russia. There is no single volume which encompasses an integrated social and cultural history of the Sami people from the Nordic countries and northwestern Russia... -
The Last Train To Key West by Chanel Cleeton
RRP: $27.28$18.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451490889Author Chanel CleetonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher by Dr John Davis
RRP: $88.20$65.31A 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... -
Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis
RRP: $39.88$29.42**Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Winner of Winners Award**A monumental work of history, biography and adventure - the First World War, Mallory and Mount Everest - now serialised in the BBC R4 documentary The Crowning of Everest.'The price of life is... -
King Richard: an American tragedy by Michael Dobbs
RRP: $39.88$26.94From an acclaimed British author, a sharply focused, riveting account - told from inside the White House - of the crucial days, hours, and moments when the Watergate conspiracy consumed, and ultimately toppled, a president. In January 1973, Richard... -
1820: Scottish Rebellion: Essays on a Nineteenth-Century Insurrection by Gerard Carruthers
RRP: $210.00$144.84The 1820 Scottish Rising has been increasingly studied in recent decades. This collection of essays looks especially at local players on the ground across multiple regional centres in the west of Scotland, as well as the wider political circumstances... -
Russian Thinkers by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: $23.08$16.32Few, if any, English-language critics have written as perceptively as Isaiah Berlin about Russian thought and culture. Russian Thinkers is his unique meditation on the impact that Russia's outstanding writers and philosophers had on its culture. In... -
A Small Town Near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust by Mary Fulbrook
RRP: $37.78$32.59The Silesian town of Bedzin lies a mere twenty-five miles from Auschwitz; through the linked ghettos of Bedzin and its neighbouring town, some 85,000 Jews passed on their way to slave labour or the gas chambers. The principal civilian administrator... -
Lancaster & District: Britain in Old Photographs by S. Ashworth 9780752449647
RRP: $31.48$23.69This portrait of a period at once familiar and remote includes views of the historic city of Lancaster, illustrates the development of Morecambe from a small fishing community to a thriving seaside resort, recaptures the wealth of Morecambe Bay's... -
Genghis Khan: The Man Who Conquered the World by Frank McLynn
RRP: $35.68$26.63Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever known, whose empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean to central Europe, including all of China, the Middle East and Russia. So how did an illiterate nomad rise to such colossal power,... -
Pubs in & Around York by Paul Chrystal 9781999717568
RRP: $20.98$13.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999717568Author Paul ChrystalFormat PaperbackImprint Destinworld Publishing LtdPublisher Destinworld Publishing Ltd -
The Class of '37: Telling Tales of Girlhood from Before the War by Claire Langhamer 9781789464054
RRP: $35.68$24.11'A moving microhistory of working-class girlhood' BBC History MagazineIt is 1937 in a northern mill-town and a class of twelve- and thirteen-year-old girls are writing about their lives, their world, and the things that matter to them. They tell of... -
The Memory Code: Unlocking the Secrets of the Lives of the Ancients and the Power of the Human Mind by Dr. Lynne Kelly
RRP: $42.00$30.85In ancient, pre-literate cultures across the globe, tribal elders had encyclopedic memories. They could name all the animals and plants across a landscape, identify the stars in the sky and recite the history of their people. Yet today, most of us... -
London Cemeteries: An Illustrated Guide and Gazetteer by Hugh Meller 9780750996532
RRP: $52.50$38.12London Cemeteries is a comprehensive guide to all cemeteries within Greater London. Listed alphabetically and with a map to help locate them, each entry includes the address, the date of foundation, the owner, the size, a note on its history, development... -
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 Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning by Jeremy Lent
RRP: $37.78$28.83Winner of the 2017 Nautilus Silver Award! This fresh perspective on crucial questions of history identifies the root metaphors that cultures have used to construct meaning in their world. It offers a glimpse into the minds of a vast range of different... -
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee 9781788169660
RRP: $20.98$14.93LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 'With intelligence and care (as well as with a trove of sometimes heartbreaking and sometimes heart-opening true stories) Heather McGhee shows us what racism has cost all of us' - Elizabeth Gilbert Picked for... -
Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House by Adrian Tinniswood
RRP: $63.00$46.10*A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year 2021**Longlisted for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History*'Preposterously entertaining' Observer'Brilliant' Daily Telegraph'Rollicking' Sunday TimesFrom the bestselling author of The Long Weekend: a... -
Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain by Clair Wills
RRP: $23.08$16.32SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017'Generous and empathetic ... opens up postwar migration in all its richness' Sukhdev Sandhu, Guardian'Groundbreaking, sophisticated, original, open-minded ... essential reading for anyone... -
We Are Everywhere: A Visual Guide to the History of Queer Liberation, So Far by Leighton Brown
RRP: $69.30$49.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399581816Author Leighton BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Ten Speed Press -
The Sugar Girls: Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle's East End by Duncan Barrett
RRP: $20.98$13.94Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle's East End Factories. The Sugar Girls went straight to No.10 in the Sunday Times Bestseller List, spending five weeks in the top ten. 'On an autumn day in 1944, Ethel Alleyne walked the...