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Vanity Fair 100 Years: From the Jazz Age to Our Age by Graydon Carter
RRP: $117.00$85.02Vanity Fair 100 Years showcases a century of personality and power, art and commerce, crisis and culture-both highbrow and low. In the sumptuous 384-page coffee table book, the editors of Vanity Fair have created the definitive history of the most... -
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... -
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
RRP: $21.43$17.06I looked around and people's faces were distorted...lights were flashing everywhere...the screen at the end of the room had three or four different films on it at once, and the strobe light was flashing faster than it had been...the band was playing but... -
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution - centenary edition with new introduction Orlando Figes 9781847924513
RRP: $48.75$37.48Unrivalled in scope and brimming with human drama, A People's Tragedy is the most vivid, moving and comprehensive history of the Russian Revolution available today.'A modern masterpiece' Andrew MarrOpening with a panorama of Russian society, from the... -
Republic of Shame: Stories from Ireland's Institutions for 'Fallen Women' by Caelainn Hogan
RRP: $21.43$15.15'At least in The Handmaid's Tale they value babies, mostly. Not so in the true stories here' Margaret Atwood '[A] furious, necessary book' Sinead GleesonUntil alarmingly recently, the Catholic Church, acting in concert with the Irish state, operated a... -
Call The Midwife: A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s by Jennifer Worth 9780753827871
RRP: $19.48$6.84Jennifer Worth's tales of being a midwife in 1950s London, now a major BBC TV series.Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a... -
A 1980s Childhood: From He-Man to Shell Suits by Michael A Johnson 9780752463377
RRP: $19.48$14.72Do you remember trying to solve the Rubik's cube whilst dressed in your He-Man picture pyjamas?Did you try to make 'cool' sound effects with your mouth like Jones from Police Academy?Or maybe you swooned over Scott and Charlene's (aka Jason and Kylie's)... -
1970s Scrapbook Robert Opie 9780954795405
RRP: $29.15$21.02Full of pop, punk and personalities, The 1970s Scrapbook sways through this energetic era on platform shoes to the beat of glam rock and disco mania. Teenyboppers screamed for their idols, whether David Cassidy, David Essex, The Osmonds, Bay City Rollers... -
Seasons in the Sun: The Battle for Britain, 1974-1979 by Dominic Sandbrook
RRP: $39.00$28.65Dominic Sandbrook's magnificent account of the late 1970s in Britain The late 1970s were Britain's years of strife and the good life. They saw inflation, riots, the peak of trade union power - and also the birth of home computers, the rise of the ready... -
The Discovery of France by Graham Robb
RRP: $25.33$18.06With an introduction by Colm Toibin.Ten years ago, I began to explore the country on which I was supposed to be an authority . . .France is a country famous for its intellectuals, its philosophers and writers, its fashion, food and wine. And yet the... -
Shadows Of The Workhouse: The Drama Of Life In Postwar London by Jennifer Worth
RRP: $19.48$13.26A fascinating slice of East End life, from the No.1 bestsellilng author of CALL THE MIDWIFE, soon to be a major BBC TV series.In this follow up to CALL THE MIDWIFE, Jennifer Worth, a midwife working in the docklands area of East London in the 1950s tells... -
At Home: A Short History of Private Life Bill Bryson 9781784161873
RRP: $21.43$15.15In At Home, Bill Bryson applies the same irrepressible curiosity, irresistible wit, stylish prose and masterful storytelling that made A Short History of Nearly Everything one of the most lauded books of the last decade, and delivers one of the most... -
The World According to Colour: A Cultural History by James Fox
RRP: $25.33$17.73'Extraordinary. An intellectual feast as well as a visual one'Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber EyesThe world comes to us in colour. But colour lives as much in our imaginations as it does in our surroundings, as this scintillating book... -
London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew 9781840226195
RRP: $9.73$6.75With an Introduction by Rosemary O'Day. London Labour and the London Poor is a masterpiece of personal inquiry and social observation. It is the classic account of life below the margins in the greatest Metropolis in the world and a compelling portrait... -
The 1950s Scrapbook Robert Opie 9780954795429
RRP: $29.15$21.02After 10 years of austerity, the 1950s saw rationing draw to an end. Gathered together in this colourful creation of over 1,000 products and images, The 1950s Scrapbook conjures up the life and times of the Coronation of Elizabeth II to the abundance of... -
The Invention of Essex: The Making of an English County by Tim Burrows 9781788166775
RRP: $21.43$15.15SHORTLISTED FOR THE EAST ANGLIAN BOOK AWARD 2023 'Exceptionally well-written and intelligent ... if you are interested in this remarkable microcosm of England, the book will grip you; if you aren't, it will make you realise that you jolly well should... -
Call The Midwife: A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s by Jennifer Worth 9780753823835
RRP: $17.53$6.84A fascinating slice of social history - Jennifer Worth's tales of being a midwife in 1950s London, now a major BBC TV series.Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which... -
The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England by Ian Mortimer
RRP: $25.33$16.22'A fresh and funny book that wears its learning lightly' IndependentDiscover the era of William Shakespeare and Elizabeth I through the sharp, informative and hilarious eyes of Ian Mortimer. We think of Queen Elizabeth I's reign (1558-1603) as a golden... -
Rural: The Lives of the Working Class Countryside by Rebecca Smith 9780008526276
RRP: $37.03$24.78‘A brilliant book about another side of working-class life, not a tower block in sight. Clever and honest, tackling slavery, loss and aspiration with humour and candour. I loved it’ KIT DE WAAL ‘A wonderful book, beautifully conceived’ ADAM NICOLSON... -
More Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience Shaun Usher 9781782114543
RRP: $58.50$41.54More Letters of Note is another rich and inspiring collection, which reminds us that much of what matters in our lives finds its way into our letters.These letters deliver the same mix of the heartfelt, the historically significant, the tragic, the comic... -
State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974 by Dominic Sandbrook
RRP: $37.03$26.54State of Emergency : Britain 1970-74 is a brilliant history of the gaudy, schizophrenic atmosphere of the early Seventies. The early 1970s were the age of gloom and glam. Under Edward Heath, the optimism of the Sixties had become a distant memory. Now... -
An Unconsidered People: The Irish in London - Updated Edition by Catherine Dunne
RRP: $25.33$17.73New updated edition of the seminal work by Catherine Dunne, which charted the multifarious lives of the London Irish, in all their variety and colour, now with a brand new foreword by Diarmaid Ferriter. Before the 'Ryanair Generation', leaving home... -
Made in Manchester: A people’s history of the city that shaped the modern world by Brian Groom 9780008608521
RRP: $42.90$28.43A rich and vivid history of Britain's second city through the people who have made it ‘What Manchester thinks today, England thinks tomorrow.’ Long before Manchester gave the world titans of industry, comedy, music and sport, it was the cosmopolitan... -
Queen of Codes: The Secret Life of Emily Anderson, Britain's Greatest Female Code Breaker by Dr Jackie Ui Chionna 9781472295507
RRP: $25.33$16.77'One of the greatest codebreakers of the twentieth century' Suzannah Lipscomb An astounding story of codebreaking, personal sacrifice and a life lived in the shadows. The history of British codebreaking is often considered a men-only preserve, ignoring... -
The Hong Kong Diaries by Chris Patten
RRP: $58.50$42.80The diaries of the last British Governor of Hong Kong, published on the 25th anniversary of the handoverIn June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to try to prepare it not (as other British colonies over the decades) for... -
The Art and Ideology of the Trade Union Emblem, 1850-1925 by Annie Ravenhill-Johnson 9781783083398
RRP: $48.75$46.37'The Art and Ideology of the Trade Union Emblem, 1850-1925' is a groundbreaking book that considers trade union emblems and banners as art objects in their own right. It studies their commissioning, their designers and the social conditions and gender... -
The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War by Greg Marinovich
RRP: $25.33$17.73The Bang-Bang Club was a group of four young war photographers, friends and colleagues: Ken Oosterbroek, Kevin Carter, Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva, war correspondants during the last years of apartheid, who took many of the photographs that... -
Island on the Edge of the World: The Story of St Kilda by Charles Maclean
RRP: $21.43$14.27For more than two thousand years the people of St Kilda remained remote from the world. Their society was viable, utopian even; but in the nineteenth century the islands were discovered by missionaries, do-gooders and tourists, who brought with them... -
The Witch Hunts: A History of the Witch Persecutions in Europe and North America Robert Thurston (Miami University, USA) 9781405840835
RRP: $72.13$69.69Tens of thousands of people were persecuted and put to death as witches between 1400 and 1700 - the great age of witch hunts. Why did the witch hunts arise, flourish and decline during this period? What purpose did the persecutions serve? Who was... -
PRIVATE EYE Dr Hammond's Covid Casebook: The collected pandemic columns of Private Eye's medical correspondent "MD": 2021 by Phil Hammond 9781901784718
RRP: $19.48$13.86Throughout the coronavirus crisis, the fortnightly columns of Private Eye's Medical Correspondent 'MD', aka NHS doctor Phil Hammond, have been required reading. Astute, compassionate and scientifically literate, 'MD' has guided Eye readers through each... -
Picts: Scourge of Rome, Rulers of the North by Gordon Noble
RRP: $42.90$30.63Shortlisted for the EAA Book Prize and the Current Archaeology Book of the Year Award The Picts have fascinated for centuries. They emerged c. ad 300 to defy the might of the Roman empire only to disappear at the end of the first millennium ad, yet... -
London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885-1914 by Matt Cook 9780521089807
RRP: $60.43$44.56London and the Culture of Homosexuality explores the relationship between London and male homosexuality from the criminalization of all 'acts of gross indecency' between men in 1885 to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 - years marked by an... -
The Prophets of Doom by Neema Parvini 9781788361118
RRP: $29.15$27.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788361118Author Neema ParviniFormat PaperbackImprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 250gDimensions(mm) 2100mm * 135mm * 13mm -
Ogilvy on Advertising by David Ogilvy
RRP: $25.33$16.77David Ogilvy is 'The Father of Advertising' and in this new format of his seminal classic, he teaches you how to sell anything.'The most sought-after wizard in the advertising business.' Times MagazineFrom the most successful advertising executive of all... -
In Her Nature: How Women Break Boundaries in the Great Outdoors by Rachel Hewitt 9781784742898
RRP: $48.75$34.36**An Economist Book of the Year**** A Critic Book of the Year**A trail-blazing book about women's fights to access the great outdoors - and a very personal book about how running through the landscape helped the author in her journey from bereavement... -
Wisdom of the Ancients: Life lessons from our distant past by Neil Oliver
RRP: $21.43$15.15THE PERFECT READ FOR TROUBLED TIMESFrom the bestselling author of The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places comes this inspiring and beautifully written meditation on the wisdom inherited from our ancestors.For all we have gained in the modern world,... -
Food Mobilities: Making World Cuisines by Daniel E. Bender 9781487526498
RRP: $31.18$28.55Bringing together multidisciplinary scholars from the growing discipline of food studies, Food Mobilities examines food provisioning and the food cultures of the world, historically and in contemporary times. The collection offers a range of fascinating... -
Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium by Lucy Inglis 9781447285762
RRP: $48.75$36.93'Lucy Inglis has done a wonderful job bringing together a wide range of sources to tell the history of the most exciting and dangerous plants in the world. Telling the story of opium tells us much about our faults and foibles as humans - our willingness... -
Himalaya: A Human History by Ed Douglas
RRP: $29.23$21.20'Magnificent ... this book is unlikely to be surpassed' TelegraphThis is the first major history of the Himalaya: an epic story of peoples, cultures and adventures among the world's highest mountains.SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 DUFF COOPER PRIZEAn epic... -
The Stasi Poetry Circle: The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War by Philip Oltermann
RRP: $21.43$14.27The extraordinary true story of the Stasi's poetry club: Stasiland and The Lives of Others crossed with Dead Poets Society.'Engrossing.' Observer'Remarkable.' The Times'Magnificent.' Phillipe Sands'Gripping.' Literary Review'A history so outlandish and...