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Marriages Are Made in Bond Street: True Stories from a 1940s Marriage Bureau by Penrose Halson
RRP: $20.98$15.27In the spring of 1939, with the Second World War looming, two determined twenty-four-year-olds, Heather Jenner and Mary Oliver, decided to open a marriage bureau. They found a tiny office on London's Bond Street and set about the delicate business of... -
Terroni: All That Has Been Done to Ensure That the Italians of the South Became Southerners by Pino Aprile 9781599540313
RRP: $29.93$23.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599540313Author Pino AprileFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Sport: A Very Short Introduction by Mike Cronin 9780199688340
RRP: $18.88$13.55Sport is big business; international in nature and the focus of much media and cultural attention. In this Very Short Introduction, Mike Cronin charts the history of sport, from its traditional origins in folk football and cock fighting to its position... -
Jam Butties and a Pan of Scouse Maggie Clarke 9781409166764
RRP: $18.88$13.02JAM BUTTIES AND A PAN OF SCOUSE is a gritty yet heart-warming memoir set against the backdrop of Liverpool's tightknit working-class docklands community. The story covers Maggie Clarke's upbringing in the tenements close to the docks, the River Mersey... -
1950s Childhood by Janet Shepherd
RRP: $16.78$13.13Children of the 1950s have much to look back on with fondness: Muffin the Mule, Andy Pandy, and Dennis the Menace became part of the family for many, while for others the freedom of the riverbank or railway platform was a haven away from the watchful... -
Everybody Wants to Rule the World: Britain, Sport and the 1980s by Roger Domeneghetti
RRP: $42.00$30.851980s Britain, told through the sport of the time.Travel back to the 1980s - to Botham's Ashes and the Brixton riots; the Moscow Olympics and the miners' strike; the Crucible Theatre and the Falklands - to explore how we got to where we are now. Discover... -
How Football Explains The World by Franklin Foer
RRP: $33.58$24.38What in the world has the power to liberate women in Iran while provoking antagonism between Catholics and Protestants in Scotland, to lure Nigerians to the cold of the Ukraine while heating up class warfare in the US heartlands, and both profit local... -
Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy David Fleming 9781603586467
RRP: $29.38$19.32Surviving the Future is a story drawn from the fertile ground of the late David Fleming's extraordinary Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It. That hardback consists of four hundred and four interlinked dictionary entries,... -
The Rise and Fall of Harland and Wolff by Tom McCluskie
RRP: $31.48$24.26Harland and Wolff, once acknowledged as the greatest and best-known shipbuilding company in the world, for many years enjoyed a mighty eminence before a gradual descent into near obscurity. This illustrated book, told from the unique perspective of... -
A History of Masculinity: From Patriarchy to Gender Justice by Ivan Jablonka 9780141993706
RRP: $27.28$19.09'Exhilarating . . . a work of scholarship, but also inspiration. . . Go and read Jablonka and change the world' Christina Patterson, Sunday Times'An unexpected bestseller in France. . . it has sparked conversations' ChallengesA highly acclaimed,... -
Imbibe! Updated and Revised Edition: From Absinthe Cocktail to Whiskey Smash, a Salute in Stories and Drinks to "professor" Jerry Thomas, Pioneer of the American Bar by David Wondrich
RRP: $60.90$36.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399172618Author David WondrichFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 217mm *... -
Churchyards by Roger Bowdler 9781445691114
RRP: $18.88$12.64Churchyards are everywhere, numbered in their thousands. Some have ancient yew trees while others have intriguing structures like parish stocks, charnel houses and medieval crosses. And beneath the grass lie untold generations of past parishioners, lying... -
unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation by Brooks Jackson
RRP: $41.98$29.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400065660Author Brooks JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)... -
A Revolution on Canvas: The Rise of Women Artists in Britain and France, 1760-1830 Paris Spies-Gans 9781913107291
RRP: $94.50$79.86The first collective, critical historical study of women artists in Britain and France during the Revolutionary era In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, hundreds of women in London and Paris became professional artists, exhibiting and... -
One Fine Day by Ian Marchant
RRP: $42.00$28.88A time-travelling, genealogical adventure, bringing pre-industrial, rural, eighteenth-century England vividly to life on the page. One day Ian Marchant, acclaimed author of books on music, railways and pubs, decided, as all men of a certain age must,... -
American Hardcore: A Tribal History by Steven Blush 9781932595895
RRP: $46.18$31.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932595895Author Steven BlushFormat PaperbackPage Count 410Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 824g -
Beatrice's Last Smile: A New History of the Middle Ages by Mark Gregory Pegg
RRP: $58.78$49.58Beatrice's Last Smile is a sweeping narrative history of the medieval west from the beginning of the third century to the beginning of the sixteenth. This book focuses on slow formation of Latin Christendom over a millennium in the aftermath of the... -
A Brief History of Life in the Middle Ages by Martyn Whittock
RRP: $27.28$7.37Using wide-ranging evidence, Martyn Whittock shines a light on Britain in the Middle Ages, bringing it vividly to life in this fascinating new portrait that brings together the everyday and the extraordinary.Thus we glimpse 11th-century rural society... -
The Murder of William of Norwich: The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe by E. M. Rose 9780190219628
RRP: $54.58$41.18In 1144, the mutilated body of William of Norwich, a young apprentice leatherworker, was found abandoned outside the city's walls. The boy bore disturbing signs of torture, and a story soon spread that it was a ritual murder, performed by Jews in... -
Paperboy by Christopher Fowler
RRP: $23.08$16.32Christopher Fowler's memoir captures life in suburban London as it has rarely been seen: through the eyes of a lonely boy who spends his days between the library and the cinema, devouring novels, comics, cereal packets - anything that might reveal a... -
Berlin. Portrait of a City by Unknown 9783822814451
RRP: $105.00$80.05Berlin has survived two world wars, was divided by a wall during the Cold War, and after the fall of the wall was reunited. The city emerged as a center of European power and culture. From 1860 to the present day, this book is the most comprehensive... -
Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship by Christopher Hitchens 9781838952310
RRP: $27.28$17.98Since the end of the Cold War so-called experts have been predicting the eclipse of America's "special relationship" with Britain. But as events have shown, especially in the wake of 9/11, the political and cultural ties between America and Britain... -
On This Day She: Putting Women Back Into History, One Day At A Time by Tania Hershman
RRP: $52.50$37.36'A joyous and celebratory tribute to all those who battled to be heard, who fought for their achievements to be recognised and honoured, who simply kept going' Kate MosseThe tried and tested 'On This Day in History' format has elevated the stories of... -
American Jesus: How The Son Of God Became A National Icon by Stephen Prothero 9780374529567
RRP: $42.00$27.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374529567Author Stephen ProtheroFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc -
The Butcher, The Tailor, The Picture-Frame Maker…: Stories of Middle Way by Gareth Winrow
RRP: $18.88$13.55As she awaits her execution at Oxford Castle, a newly wed woman from a God-fearing family, convicted for murdering her housemaid, is pardoned at the last minute by King George II. A butcher suddenly disappears and changes his identity after the tragic... -
In Bed with the Tudors: The Sex Lives of a Dynasty from Elizabeth of York to Elizabeth I Amy Licence 9781445614755
RRP: $25.18$16.51Learn what went on behind closed doors in the Tudor court. Illegitimate children, adulterous queens, impotent kings, and a whole dynasty resting on their shoulders. Sex and childbirth were quite literally a matter of life or death for the Tudors - ... -
Law's Strangest Cases: Extraordinary but true tales from over five centuries of legal history by Peter Seddon 9781911622352
RRP: $27.28$17.81A rollicking collection of barely believable stories from five centuries of legal history - you'll be gripped by these tales of murder, intrigue, crime, punishment and the pursuit of justice. Meet the only dead parrot ever to give evidence in a court of... -
Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised student edition by Thomas Hobbes
RRP: $37.78$34.31Thomas 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... -
Iga and Koka Ninja Skills: The Secret Shinobi Scrolls of Chikamatsu Shigenori by Antony Cummins
RRP: $31.48$24.26'A retainer of our domain, Renpeido Chikamatsu Hikonoshin Shigenori, each morning washed his face and hands, dressed himself in Hakama and prayed in front of the kamidana alter ... His prayer was thus: "Please afford me success in war." He kept to this... -
The British Market Hall: A Social and Architectural History by James Schmiechen 9780300060645
$179.24The story of Britain's market halls-built to replace traditional open-air markets throughout England, Wales, and Scotland-is a tale of exuberant architecture, civic pride, and attempts at social engineering. This book is the first history of the market... -
Birds Britannica Mark Cocker 9781784743789
RRP: $126.00$93.35The British love their birds, which are inextricably entwined with every aspect of their island life. British customs, more than 1,000 years of English literature, the very fabric of society, even the landscape itself, have all been enhanced by the... -
Behind the Mask: The Life of Vita Sackville-West by Matthew Dennison 9780007486984
RRP: $27.28$19.09Aristocrat, literary celebrity, 'Rose Queen', devoted wife, lesbian, recluse, iconoclast - Vita Sackville-West was many things, but she was never straightforward. Her life is re-told here in a dazzling new biography. Vita Sackville-West was a... -
Set Adrift Upon the World: The Sutherland Clearances by James Hunter 9781839830303
RRP: $31.48$22.62Winner of Saltire Scottish History Book of the Year They would be better dead, they said, than set adrift upon the world. But set adrift they were - thousands of them, their communities destroyed, their homes demolished and burned. Such were the... -
Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight by Lyn Julius 9781910383643
RRP: $63.00$47.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910383643Author Lyn JuliusFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd -
The Ahoms: A Reimagined History by Arup Kumar Dutta
$46.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356294141Author Arup Kumar DuttaFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaWeight(grams) 487gDimensions(mm)... -
The Picts: A History by Tim Clarkson
RRP: $23.08$15.37The Picts were an ancient nation who ruled most of northern and eastern Scotland during the Dark Ages. Despite their historical importance, they remain shrouded in myth and misconception. Absorbed by the kingdom of the Scots in the ninth century, they... -
The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York Anne de Courcy 9781474601450
RRP: $23.08$15.54Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel of power, privilege and breeding in which the titled, land-owning governing class had barricaded itself for so... -
Voice of the Past: Oral History by Paul Thompson 9780192893178
RRP: $68.23$56.39In this revised edition of Paul Thompson's successful book, he traces oral history through its own past and weighs up the recent achievements of this international movement. He challenges myths of historical scholarship and looks at the use of oral... -
Murder at No. 4 Euston Square: The Mystery of the Lady in the Cellar by Sinclair McKay
RRP: $20.98$14.93Someone must have known what happened to Matilda Hacker. For someone in that house had killed her.So how could the murderer prove so elusive? Standing four storeys tall in an elegant Bloomsbury terrace, No. 4, Euston Square was a well-kept, respectable... -
The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind by Ramachandra Guha
RRP: $20.98$13.94From one of India's finest writers, thinkers and commentators, a memoir of a love affair with cricket. As a fan, player, writer, scholar, controversialist and administrator, Ram Guha has spent a life with cricket. In this book, Guha...