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More Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience by Shaun Usher
RRP: £30.00£21.30More 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... -
Fire Island: A Queer History by Jack Parlett 9781783787029
RRP: £10.99£7.32"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: £16.99£11.58The 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: £9.99£6.70For 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: £14.99£10.78SPACE. 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... -
Fashion City: How Jewish Londoners shaped global style by Bethan Bide 9781781301241
RRP: £20.00£14.98Discover 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: £14.95£14.30Apologies 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: £18.99£15.31Apologies 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: £14.99£10.95The 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: £10.99£7.77David 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... -
Underworld London: Crime and Punishment in the Capital City by Catharine Arnold 9781849832922
RRP: £10.99£7.00Beginning 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: £10.99£7.77THE 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,... -
Ideas: A History by Peter Watson
RRP: £18.99£13.12A highly ambitious and lucid history of ideas from the very earliest times to the present day.'A masterpiece' NEW STATESMAN'An extraordinary new book ... This is the history of "ideas" as it has never presented before' SUNDAY TELEGRAPHIn this hugely... -
McMafia: Seriously Organised Crime by Misha Glenny
RRP: £10.99£7.77The 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: £30.00£22.82First 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: £9.99£6.64'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: £10.99£7.77** 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... -
Oral History Theory by Lynn Abrams
RRP: £39.99£36.71Oral history is increasingly acknowledged as a key tool for anyone studying the history of the recent past, and Oral History Theory provides a comprehensive, systematic and accessible overview of this important field. Combining the study of theories... -
The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began by Stephen Greenblatt
RRP: £14.99£10.95WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2012Almost six hundred years ago, a short, genial man took a very old manuscript off a library shelf. With excitement, he saw what he had discovered and ordered it copied. The book was a miraculously surviving... -
Stirring Up Sheffield: An Insider's Account of the Battle to Build the Crucible Theatre by Colin George 9781838403621
RRP: £30.00£21.71WINNER: 2022 THEATRE BOOK PRIZE Written by the Crucible Theatre's first Artistic Director, Colin George, and his son, Tedd, 'Stirring Up Sheffield' is the extraordinary story of a group of visionaries who came together to build a revolutionary thrust... -
This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History by Esther Rutter
RRP: £10.99£7.32'A compelling literary journey through the social history of wool in the British Isles' Karen Lloyd, author of The Gathering Tide Travel the length of the British Isles with Esther Rutter, as she tells the story of wool's long and tangled history... -
Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World by Ha-Joon Chang
RRP: £20.00£14.29RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK Economic thinking - about globalisation, climate change, immigration, austerity, automation and much more - in its most digestible formFor decades, a single free market philosophy has dominated global economics. But this is bland... -
Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship by Robert Baden-Powell 9780192802460
RRP: £9.99£7.11'A trained scout will see little signs and tracks, he puts them together in his mind and quickly reads a meaning from them such as an untrained man would never arrive at.' A startling amalgam of Zulu war-cry and imperial and urban myth, of borrowed... -
Peace! Books! Freedom! The Secret History of a Radical London Building by Rosa Schling 9780852832851
RRP: £10.00£9.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780852832851Author Rosa SchlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Housmans BookshopPublisher Housmans BookshopWeight(grams) 480gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
The Riviera Set by Mary S. Lovell
RRP: £10.99£7.05'I loved every word' - Sarra Manning, Red'[A] blissful book - it's like basking in the warm Med' - Rachel Johnson, Mail on SundayThe Riviera Set is the story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped and politicked at the Chateau de l'Horizon... -
Eyeliner: A Cultural History by Zahra Hankir 9781787303300
RRP: £18.99£13.61A dazzling exploration of the intersections of beauty and power around the globe, told through the lens of an iconic cosmetic'Fascinating' Nigella Lawson'Awe-inspiring' Funmi Fetto'A treat to read' Kassia St ClairA Sunday Times Style Barometer and New... -
Viking Britain: A History by Thomas Williams
RRP: £9.99£6.64A new narrative history of the Viking Age, interwoven with exploration of the physical remains and landscapes that the Vikings fashioned and walked: their rune-stones and ship burials, settlements and battlefields. To... -
Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer's Guide by Cecily Wong
RRP: £35.00£22.26A New York Times, USA Today, and national indie bestseller.A Feast of Wonder! Created by the ever-curious minds behind Atlas Obscura, this breath-taking guide transforms our sense of what people around the world eat and drink. Covering all seven... -
Pride: The Inspiring True Story Behind the Hit Film by Tim Tate 9781786062918
RRP: £10.99£7.77In 1984, a small group of metropolitan homosexual men and lesbian women stepped away from the vibrant culture and hedonism of London's defiant gay scene to befriend and support the beleaguered villages of a very traditional mining community in the remote... -
A Force Like No Other: The Real Stories of the Ruc Men and Women Who Policed the Troubles by Colin Breen 9780856409721
RRP: £9.99£8.17In 1983, Interpol named Northern Ireland the most dangerous place in the world to be a police officer. In 1968, the RUC was catapulted into the Troubles. Bombs, death threats and murder became a regular part of the day job. Working right at the heart... -
Letters for the Ages: The Private and Personal Letters of Sir Winston Churchill by Sir Sir Winston S. Churchill
RRP: £20.00£14.29Here are some of the best of Churchill's letters, many of a more personal nature, written to a wide range of people, including his schoolmaster, his American grandmother and former President Eisenhower. Letters for the Ages concentrates on the more... -
This Is Your Mind On Plants: Opium-Caffeine-Mescaline by Michael Pollan
RRP: £10.99£7.12THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR NEW NETFLIX SERIES, HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND'It's a trip - engrossing, eye-opening, mind altering' New Statesman 'Fascinating. Pollan is the perfect guide ... curious, careful, open minded' The Guardian Of all the many... -
The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj by Anne De Courcy
RRP: £9.99£6.48The adventurous young women who sailed to India during the Raj in search of husbands.From the late 19th century, when the Raj was at its height, many of Britain's best and brightest young men went out to India to work as administrators, soldiers and... -
Tudor England: A History by Lucy Wooding 9780300273328
RRP: £14.99£12.92A compelling, authoritative account of the brilliant, conflicted, visionary world of Tudor England When Henry VII landed in a secluded bay in a far corner of Wales, it seemed inconceivable that this outsider could ever be king of England. Yet he and... -
Middlesbrough - A Colourful Past by Paul Menzies 9781838008680
RRP: £20.00£13.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838008680Author Paul MenziesFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Destinworld Publishing LtdPublisher Destinworld Publishing Ltd -
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
RRP: £32.00£15.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Dayton Literary Peace Prize 2022 and Kirkus Prize 2022 and National Book Critics Circle Awards 2022 and PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction... -
Mary Churchill's War: The Wartime Diaries of Churchill's Youngest Daughter by Emma Soames 9781529341508
RRP: £20.00£12.59'A daily love letter from a brave young woman to her adored father . . . immensely evocative of wartime Britain, extremely well edited, and occasionally powerfully moving' ANDREW ROBERTS, TLS'It wasn't easy being a Churchill child - and only Mary managed... -
A Galaxy of Her Own: Amazing Stories of Women in Space by Libby Jackson
RRP: £16.99£12.68From small steps to giant leaps, A Galaxy of Her Own tells fifty stories of inspirational women who have been fundamental to the story of humans in space, from scientists to astronauts to some surprising roles in between.From Ada Lovelace in the... -
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
RRP: £10.99£7.25THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Every time Churchill took to the airwaves it was as if he were injecting adrenaline-soaked courage directly into the British people ... Larson tells the story of how that feat was accomplished ..... -
The Local: A History of the English Pub by Paul Jennings
RRP: £12.99£9.37Paul Jennings traces the history of the British pub, and looks at how it evolved from the eighteenth century's coaching inns and humble alehouses, back-street beer houses and 'fine, flaring' gin palaces to the drinking establishments of the twenty-first...