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The Tangier Diaries by John Hopkins
RRP: £14.99£11.75John Hopkins brings back to life all the decadence and flamboyance of Tangier in the 1960s and 1970s. Tangier in the 1960s and '70s was a fabled place. This edge city, the 'Interzone', became muse and escapist's dream for artists, writers,... -
Revolt Of The Cochroach People by Oscar Zeta Acosta 9780679722120
RRP: £13.99£10.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679722120Author Oscar Zeta AcostaFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century by Tony Judt 9780099532330
RRP: £16.99£12.28In Reappraisals award-winning historian Tony Judt argues that we have entered an 'age of forgetting', where we have set aside our immediate past before we could even begin to make sense of it. We have lost touch with generations of international policy... -
Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece Robin Waterfield (Writer and translator) 9780199656462
RRP: £22.99£16.68The Romans first set military foot on Greek soil in 229 BCE; only sixty or so years later it was all over, and shortly thereafter Greece became one of the first provinces of the emerging Roman Empire. It was an incredible journey - a swift, brutal, and... -
American Slavery: 1619-1877 by Peter Kolchin
RRP: £12.99£9.49Beginning with the Colonial period, progressing through the Revolution and the Antebellum period, the book chronologically documents the historical evolution of slavery in the USAAbout the AuthorPeter Kolchin is Professor of History at the University of... -
The Birth of The Chocolate City: Life in Georgian York Summer Strevens 9781445633466
RRP: £15.99£10.85One of the great names in chocolate history, Rowntree's, evolved from the humble retail beginnings of Mary Tuke, eighteenth-century mother of York's chocolate industry. This book explores how she was formative in shaping modern York as a city of... -
A History of Shropshire - Volume VIII by A.T. Gaydon 9780197227312
RRP: £75.00£73.53This volume contains the histories of twenty-two parishes in central Shropshire, stretching from the Severn valley up into the northern fringes of the south Shropshire hills. Much new evidence is brought forward on landscape history and on the evolution... -
Wartime Housewife: A No-Nonsense Handbook for Modern Families by Biff Raven-Hill 9780752491097
RRP: £9.99£7.55The Wartime Housewife will bring old fashioned values and skills to our very modern world! In this book, she shares recipes and tips on budgeting, repairing things, mending and scavenging; ideas for the school holidays, outings, gardening, DIY, sewing... -
The Experts Speak: A Definitive Compendium by C. Cerf 9780679778066
RRP: £23.00£17.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679778066Author Victor S NavaskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Villard BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Shadow of the Mine: Coal and the End of Industrial Britain by Ray Hudson 9781839767982
RRP: £14.99£12.55The Shadow of the Mine tells the story of King Coal in its heyday, the heroics and betrayals of the Miners' Strike, and what happened to mining communities after the last pits closed.No one personified the age of industry more than the miners. Coal was... -
Witness To The Revolution by Clara Bingham 9780812983265
RRP: £20.00£15.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812983265Author Clara BinghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 776gDimensions(mm)... -
Bicycle: The History by David V. Herlihy 9780300120479
£27.93The first comprehensive history of the bicycle-lavishly illustrated with images spanning two centuries During the nineteenth century, the bicycle evoked an exciting new world in which even a poor person could travel afar and at will. But was the... -
In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology by Lucy Moore
RRP: £17.99£12.60***A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick***The story of the pioneering anthropologists and their adventures among civilisations that were first thought of as being primitive and savage. What they discovered, however, would change the way we think about... -
Myth and Materiality in a Woman's World: Shetland 1800-2000 by Lynn Abrams 9780719065934
RRP: £19.99£17.61The place of women in Shetland society is unique. In this isolated island group off the north of Scotland, women dominated the family, economy and the cultural imagination for 200 years. Here, women were numerically preponderant and economically vital... -
The Harlem Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction by Cheryl A. Wall 9780199335558
RRP: £8.99£6.45The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural awakening among African Americans between the two world wars. It was the cultural phase of the "New Negro" movement, a social and political phenomenon that promoted a proud racial identity, economic independence, and... -
Past Imperfect: French Intellectuals, 1944-1956 by Tony Judt
RRP: £23.99£21.24Tony Judt provides a sharp and intellectual ideological description of mid-twentieth century French intellectuals "Past Imperfect is a forthright and uncommonly damning study of those intellectually volatile years [1944-1956]. Mr. Judt...does more than... -
The Diamond Queen: The Last Great Monarch? by Andrew Marr
RRP: £10.99£7.51Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller, fully revised and updated with a new chapter.'Absorbing . . . particularly acute on the political aspects of constitutional monarchy, but he also writes perceptively about individual members of the Royal Family.' Daily... -
South Wales Collieries Volume 6: Mining Disasters by Owen David
RRP: £14.99£11.55The story of mining in South Wales has been one of the people who extracted the black gold from the hillsides and valleys of the area. Their hard work has often been accompanied by danger and countless thousands have lost their lives in the valleys of... -
The Roots of Radicalism: Tradition, the Public Sphere, and Early Nineteenth-Century Social Movements by Craig Calhoun
RRP: £28.00£27.79The story of the rise of radicalism in the early nineteenth century has often been simplified into a fable about progressive social change. The diverse social movements of the era - religious, political, regional, national, antislavery, and protemperance... -
Britain’s Most Prolific Burglar: Flannelfoot and the Scotland Yard Men Who Hunted Him by Martyn R Beardsley 9781399054836
RRP: £22.00£15.62Harry Edward Vickers, aka Flannelfoot, was possibly Britain’s most successful ever burglar. Not financially - he stole cash and low-value items (even, bizarrely, false teeth!). The success was in his hundreds of burglaries spread over many years without... -
Building Britannia: A History of Britain in Twenty-Five Buildings by Steven Parissien 9781801108751
RRP: £35.00£22.20An ambitious history of Britain told through the stories of twenty-five notable structures, from the Iron Age fortification of Maiden Castle in Dorset to the Gherkin. Building Britannia is a chronicle of social, political and economic change seen... -
Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and the Solent: A Cultural History by Mark Bardell 9781908493071
RRP: £15.00£13.65The Isle of Wight is England's largest island, but its diamond-shape is at most 23 miles long and 13 miles wide. Anchored close to the Hampshire coast, its location has created a sheltered waterway, the Solent, with its own local roadsteads and a unique... -
Lives of Houses by Hermione Lee 9780691193663
RRP: £20.00£16.29A group of notable writers-including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow-celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers, and politicians of the past What can a... -
Elegant Etiquette in the Nineteenth Century by James Mallory 9781526705204
RRP: £12.99£9.09Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to live in the nineteenth century? How would you have got a partner in a ballroom? What would you have done with a letter of introduction? And where would you have sat in a carriage? Covering all... -
Jews of Lithuania: A History of a Remarkable Community 1316-1945 by Masha Greenbaum 9789652291325
RRP: £30.99£18.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652291325Author Masha GreenbaumFormat HardbackPage Count 405Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 808g -
Power and the Idealists: Or, the Passion of Joschka Fischer and Its Aftermath by Paul Berman 9780393330212
RRP: £21.00£16.68The student uprisings of 1968 erupted not only in America but also across Europe, expressing a distinct generational attitude about politics, the corrupt nature of democratic capitalism, and the evil of military interventions. Yet, decades later, many in... -
The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa's Racial Reckoning by Eve Fairbanks
RRP: £19.99£12.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476725277Author Eve FairbanksFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Talk on the Wild Side: Why Language Won't Do As It's Told by Lane Greene
RRP: £10.99£7.77Language is a wild animal: rough, ambiguous, inconsistent in countless ways. But that just makes it all the more tempting to tame it. Many have tried, from sticklers for supposedly correct grammar to inventors of supposedly perfect languages; from... -
Some Sunny Day: A Nurse. A Soldier. A Wartime Love Story. by Madge Lambert
RRP: £7.99£5.94A moving true story of love on the front lines.It was July 1944 when Madge stepped onto a troopship that was to carry her thousands of miles away from home. Only twenty years old and not long qualified as a nurse, she had signed up to serve in the Burma... -
Emil Cioran: The Criticism of the Idea of Historical Progress by Daniel Branco 9780648499626
RRP: £14.95£13.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648499626Author Daniel BrancoFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Manticore PressPublisher Manticore PressWeight(grams) 218g -
The Oxford Companion to Family and Local History by David Hey
RRP: £16.99£13.94The Oxford Companion to Family and Local History is the most authoritative guide available to all things associated with the family and local history of the British Isles. It provides practical and contextual information for anyone enquiring into their... -
Ireland'S Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of Containment by James M. Smith 9780719078880
RRP: £19.99£18.22Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of Containment connects Ireland's Magdalen laundries and the nation-state's nativist politics in the post-independence era, while critically evaluating cultural representations of the Magdalen... -
Constant: Political Writings by Benjamin Constant 9780521316323
RRP: £32.99£28.38This 1988 book is an English translation of the major political works of Benjamin Constant, one of the most important of modern French political theorists and writers. A Swiss protestant by birth, Constant was a prominent figure in French political life... -
Juvenescence: A Cultural History of Our Age by Robert Pogue Harrison
RRP: £17.00£14.62How old are you? The more thought you bring to bear on the question, the harder it is to answer. For we age simultaneously in different ways: biologically, psychologically, socially. And we age within the larger framework of a culture, in the midst of a... -
Growing Up: Sex in the 1960s by Peter Doggett
RRP: £10.99£7.77Were the 1960s really a great time of liberation and joyful experimentation? Growing Up takes an unflinching look at the dark underbelly of the sexual revolution.No era in recent history has been both more celebrated and vilified than the 1960s. And at... -
Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age by Ann M. Blair
RRP: £22.00£21.22The flood of information brought to us by advancing technology is often accompanied by a distressing sense of "information overload," yet this experience is not unique to modern times. In fact, says Ann M. Blair in this intriguing book, the... -
The North Wales Quarrymen, 1874-1922 by R. Merfyn Jones 9781783161751
RRP: £14.99£11.66On a Saturday morning in November 1865, between 1,200 and 1,500 men gathered above the small town of Bethesda, to launch a society which they called the United Society of Welsh Quarrymen. Although there had been earlier revolts of quarrymen, this was the... -
Rome: The Biography of a City by Christopher Hibbert
RRP: £22.00£16.62This beautifully written, informative study is a portrait, a history and a superb guide book, capturing fully the seductive beauty and the many layered past of the Eternal City. It covers 3,000 years of history from the city's quasi-mythical origins,... -
Ancient Philosophy: A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 1 by Anthony Kenny
RRP: £13.99£10.15Sir Anthony Kenny tells the fascinating story of the birth of philosophy and its remarkable flourishing in the ancient Mediterranean world. This is the first of four volumes in which he unfolds a magisterial new history of Western philosophy. Specially... -
Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World by Danielle Friedman 9781785788093
RRP: £16.99£11.58A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2022'Well-researched and readable' - Financial Times'An absorbing, pacy read' - New Statesman'The story of lycra-clad feminism' Stylist'Canny and informative' - The New YorkerThe untold history of women's exercise culture, from...