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The Britannias: An Island Quest by Alice Albinia 9780241669631
RRP: €29.75€21.44SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR'A dazzlingly brilliant book' Hannah Dawson'Fascinating, often exhilarating ... Albinia is an intrepid, imaginative guide' TLSThe Britannias tells the story of Britain's islands and how they are... -
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution - centenary edition with new introduction by Orlando Figes
RRP: €29.75€22.87Unrivalled 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... -
Toxic by Sarah Ditum 9780349727134
RRP: €26.18€17.80'Brilliant . . . really made me realise how no one has pulled back and given an overall story to the last 20 years . . . It's clever because it makes me think about now' ADAM CURTIS, FILMMAKERBritney, Paris, Lindsay, Aaliyah, Janet, Amy, Kim, Chyna, Jen... -
Picts: Scourge of Rome, Rulers of the North by Gordon Noble
RRP: €26.18€18.69Shortlisted 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... -
The Button Box: The Story of Women in the 20th Century Told Through the Clothes They Wore by Lynn Knight
RRP: €13.08€9.25A wooden box holds the buttons of three generations of women in Lynn Knight's family - each one with its own tale to tell...Tracing the story of women at home and in work, from the jet buttons of Victorian mourning, to the short skirts of the 1960s,... -
Food Mobilities: Making World Cuisines by Daniel E. Bender 9781487526498
RRP: €20.22€18.02Bringing 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: €29.75€22.07'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... -
The Civilizing Process: Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations by Norbert Elias
RRP: €36.83€33.14The Civilizing Process stands out as Norbert Elias' greatest work, tracing the "civilizing" of manners and personality in Western Europe since the late Middle Ages by demonstrating how the formation of states and the monopolization of power within them... -
Maeve's Times by Maeve Binchy
RRP: €11.89€3.32'Maeve's Times is funny and clever and kind, which are excellent qualities in both books and people' Irish Times'As someone who fell off a chair not long ago trying to hear what they were saying at the next table in a restaurant, I suppose I am... -
The Book of Sea Shanties by Nathan Evans
RRP: €15.46€5.60An epic journey through sea shanties, high tides and seven seasFrom the international bestselling singer comes The Book of Sea Shanties.The world sang in harmony with Nathan Evans, the Glaswegian postie turned singer of sea shanties. Join him as he takes... -
Himalaya: A Human History by Ed Douglas
RRP: €17.84€12.69'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... -
In Her Nature: How Women Break Boundaries in the Great Outdoors by Rachel Hewitt 9781784742898
RRP: €29.75€20.97**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... -
Plato: A Very Short Introduction by Julia Annas
RRP: €10.70€7.68This lively and accessible introduction to Plato focuses on the philosophy and argument of his writings, drawing the reader into Plato's way of doing philosophy, and the general themes of his thinking. This is not a book to leave the reader standing in... -
The Invention of Essex: The Making of an English County by Tim Burrows 9781788166775
RRP: €13.08€9.25SHORTLISTED 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... -
Elizabethans: How Modern Britain Was Forged by Andrew Marr
RRP: €11.89€7.76The Sunday Times bestseller THE STORY OF BRITAIN during the long reign of Queen Elizabeth II. Find out how Britain changed in this entrancing, lively portrait of Britain's Elizabethan Age by bestselling writer and broadcaster Andrew Marr ... -
Chinese Thought: From Confucius to Cook Ding by Roel Sterckx
RRP: €15.46€10.82Shortlisted for the PEN Hessel-Tiltman Prize'A terrific book, rich and endlessly thought provoking. . . If you are looking for one book to understand the core ideas of Chinese civilisation, read this' - Michael WoodAn engrossing history of ancient... -
The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness by Paul Gilroy 9781839766121
RRP: €15.46€10.09In this ground-breaking work, Paul Gilroy proposes that the modern black experience can not be defined solely as African, American, Carribean or British alone, but can only be understand as a Black Atlantic culture that transcends ethnicity or... -
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman
RRP: €15.46€10.82WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE 2020 At the dawn of the twentieth century, black women in the US were carving out new ways of living. The first generations born after emancipation, their... -
Murder: The Biography by Kate Morgan 9780008407339
RRP: €20.22€15.87THE CRIMES. THE STORIES. THE LAW 'Fascinating' - Sunday Times 'Masterful' - Judith Flanders 'A page-turning read' - Prof. David... -
Dance Your Way Home: A Journey Through the Dancefloor by Emma Warren
RRP: €22.60€20.44This book is about the kind of ordinary dancing you and I might do in our kitchens when a favourite tune comes on. It's more than a social history: it's a set of interconnected histories of the overlooked places where dancing happens . . .Why do we dance... -
1970s Childhood by Liza Hollinghurst
RRP: €9.51€7.21A 1970s childhood was, for many, a life of happy-go-lucky freedom set against a soundtrack of pop music played on a transistor radio dangling from the handlebars of a Raleigh Chopper. It was a playground battlefield of Sindy versus Action Man or a... -
More Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience by Shaun Usher
RRP: €35.70€25.35More 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... -
The Radium Girls: They paid with their lives. Their final fight was for justice. by Kate Moore 9781471153884
RRP: €11.89€7.63Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf book club choiceNew York Times bestseller 'Fascinating.' Sunday Times 'Thrilling.' Mail on SundayAll they wanted was the chance to shine. Be careful what you wish for...'The first thing we asked was, "Does this stuff... -
Queen of Codes: The Secret Life of Emily Anderson, Britain's Greatest Female Code Breaker by Dr Jackie Ui Chionna 9781472295507
RRP: €15.46€10.23'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... -
Fire Island: A Queer History by Jack Parlett 9781783787029
RRP: €13.08€8.71"A beautiful, beguiling journey to the ultimate queer utopia" - Olivia Laing "Clued-up but insatiably thirsty, poignant, packed with literary intrigue, Fire Island is a beaming beach read" - Jeremy Atherton Lin --- Fire Island: a slim strip of... -
The Underground Sea by John Berger 9781805302995
RRP: €20.22€13.78The Underground Sea is a succinct, urgent collection of writing from John Berger's archive. It brings together for the first time his work on mineworkers and the miners' strikes and has been edited as a set of actions for today. Publication of The... -
Island on the Edge of the World: The Story of St Kilda by Charles Maclean
RRP: €11.89€7.97For 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... -
Lost Federations: The Unmade History of Star Trek by A. J. Black 9781915359117
RRP: €17.84€12.83SPACE. THE FINAL FRONTIER. THESE WERE ALMOST THE VOYAGES OF THE STARSHIP ENTERPRISE. We think we know the history of Star Trek. Born at the height of 1960s popular culture, the five-year mission of Captain James T. Kirk and his crew faced early... -
The Witch Hunts: A History of the Witch Persecutions in Europe and North America by Robert Thurston 9781405840835
RRP: €44.02€42.53Tens 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... -
Fashion City: How Jewish Londoners shaped global style by Bethan Bide 9781781301241
RRP: €23.80€17.83Discover the extraordinary stories of the Jewish people who designed, made and sold fashion in twentieth-century London, revealing their vital role in making it an iconic fashion city. While Jewish people have long been associated with making clothes,... -
The Prophets of Doom by Neema Parvini 9781788361118
RRP: €17.79€17.02Apologies 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 -
The Spirit of District Six by Cloete Breytenbach 9781485303060
RRP: €22.60€18.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781485303060Author Cloete BreytenbachFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Protea BoekhuisPublisher Protea BoekhuisWeight(grams) 445g -
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Jared Diamond
RRP: €17.84€13.03The no. 1 bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel explores the profound lessons that traditional societies offer us todayOver the past 500 years, the West achieved global dominance, but do Westerners necessarily have better ideas about... -
Ogilvy on Advertising by David Ogilvy
RRP: €13.08€10.23David 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... -
Underworld London: Crime and Punishment in the Capital City by Catharine Arnold 9781849832922
RRP: €13.08€8.33Beginning with an atmospheric account of Tyburn, we are set up for a grisly excursion through London as a city of ne'er do wells, taking in beheadings and brutality at the Tower, Elizabethan street crime, cutpurses and con-men, through to the Gordon... -
Wisdom of the Ancients: Life lessons from our distant past by Neil Oliver
RRP: €13.08€9.25THE 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,... -
McMafia: Seriously Organised Crime by Misha Glenny
RRP: €13.08€9.25The extraordinary real stories that inspired the major BBC series Have you ever illegally downloaded a DVD? Taken drugs? Fallen for a phishing scam?Organised crime is part of all our worlds - often without us even knowing. McMafia is a journey through... -
Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference - New Edition by Dipesh Chakrabarty
RRP: €35.70€27.16First published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential Provincializing Europe addresses the mythical figure of Europe that is often taken to be the original site of modernity in many histories of capitalist transition in non-Western countries. This... -
English Journey by J. B. Priestley
RRP: €11.89€7.90'The finest book ever written about England and the English' Stuart Maconie 'J. B. Priestley is one of our literary icons of the 20th Century and it is time that we all became re-acquainted with his... -
Frostquake: The frozen winter of 1962 and how Britain emerged a different country by Juliet Nicolson
RRP: €13.08€9.25** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER **'This book is a must' Peter HennessyOn Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not stop for ten weeks.The threat of nuclear war had reached its terrifying height with the...