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Secret Rochester by Philip MacDougall
RRP: £15.99£10.85Rochester in Kent has long been a strategically important town, guarding the lowest crossing of the River Medway. The diocese of Rochester dates back to the early seventh century and the Normans built both an imposing castle and a cathedral in the town... -
Otley Through Time by Otley Museum & Archive Trust
RRP: £15.99£10.85From its beginnings as an Anglo-Saxon settlement, through its development as an agricultural centre with all its related trades and services, the market town of Otley has seen many changes. The invention of Otley's world-famous Wharfedale printing... -
Marilyn Monroe: Metamorphosis by David Wills 9780062036193
£31.65There have been many Marilyn photo books - but nothing like this. Australian-born curator and preservationist David Wills has accrued one of the world's largest independent archives of original Marilyn Monroe photographs. Now, in "Marilyn Monroe:... -
Newcastle in Photographs by Simon McCabe
RRP: £17.99£12.09Newcastle, which lies on the north bank of the River Tyne, has been a major city in the north-east of England since the Middle Ages. The stone castle, from which it derives its name, still stands, and the city first became prosperous because of its coal... -
A-Z of Plymouth: Places-People-History by Derek Tait
RRP: £15.99£10.85Plymouth is steeped in history, from the prehistoric remains discovered at Cattedown, the Bronze Age trading settlement at Mount Batten and the Roman burial grounds at Stonehouse to the Pilgrim Fathers' departure from the Mayflower Steps, the hard-fought... -
West Highland Line Great Railway Journeys Through Time by John McGregor
RRP: £15.99£10.85Twice voted the top railway journey in the world, the West Highland route to Mallaig (like the Dingwall & Skye and the Callander & Oban) accessed the remote and mountainous west coast of Scotland. The original West Highland line, described here, links... -
Ealing in 50 Buildings by Paul Howard Lang
RRP: £15.99£10.85Known as the 'Queen of the Suburbs', Ealing is best known as being home to the world-famous Ealing Studios, the oldest film studios still in operation. However, there's much more to Ealing's historical and architectural heritage than this. Ealing in... -
Beckenham Through Time by David R. Johnson
RRP: £15.99£10.85For a London suburb, Beckenham is surprisingly leafy, forming part of the South East London Green Chain. Originally a Kent village, it remained a rural farming area interspersed with large, gracious estates until the mid-nineteenth century, when the... -
Ateliers of Europe: An Atlas of Decorative Arts Workshops by John Whelan
RRP: £45.00£33.41This visually stunning love letter to the art of craft takes readers inside Europe's most illustrious-and in many cases endangered-decorative arts workshops to profile how artisans continue to maintain the highest centuries-old standards of workmanship... -
Tipton Through Time by Keith Hodgkins 9781848681460
RRP: £15.99£10.85Tipton has been described as the quintessence of the Black Country. In the early nineteenth century its coal mines were said to be 'inexhaustible' and its ironworks 'on a most extensive scale', all served by a dense network of canals. By the end of the... -
East Neuk of Fife Through Time by Jack Gillon
RRP: £15.99£10.85Neuk is the Scots word for nook or corner, and the delightful East Neuk, with its string of picturesque fishing and farming villages, is one of the most attractive parts of the country to investigate. Few regions present a greater number of attractions... -
Whitehaven in 50 Buildings by Pat Dargan
RRP: £15.99£10.85Whitehaven was just a fishing village on the Cumbrian coast until the port was developed by the Lowther family in the seventeenth century to export coal from the Cumberland coalfield. In the next century it benefitted from the trade in tobacco, sugar and... -
The World by Michael Poliza 9783961712762
RRP: £50.00£34.75"...Immerse yourself in this selection of spellbinding shots from his latest book, The World." -Food & Travel Michael Poliza is more than a seasoned globetrotter who has travelled through almost 170 countries. He is also a collector of the world,... -
Secret Barry Island by Mark Lambert
RRP: £15.99£10.85Secret Barry Island offers a unique insight into this fascinating seaside resort in the Vale of Glamorgan, delving into its lesser-known past. Thoroughly researched, within these pages local authors and lifelong residents of the area Mark and Jonathan... -
North Dublin: Ireland in Old Photographs by Derek Stanley 9781845887742
RRP: £16.99£12.94North Dublin is vibrant, lively and always changing, a place where people live against the backdrop of some of the city's most renowned landmarks and beautiful buildings. In this book, the author captures the history of North Dublin before the... -
Mysterious Wales by Chris Barber
RRP: £16.99£11.47Wales is a land haunted by its own past, with a treasure trove of beautiful and magical places - some rarely visited. Chris Barber guides explorers to prehistoric megaliths, remote stone circles, burial chambers, secret caves, lonely lakes and... -
Stoke Through Time by Mervyn Edwards
RRP: £15.99£10.85Stoke-upon-Trent, described as a village in 1795, grew rapidly from the 1820s and 1830s, by which time a new Anglican church had been built as well as new streets. Noted in a trade directory of 1829 as having 'many handsome houses, wharves, warehouses... -
Surrey in Photographs by John Miller
RRP: £17.99£12.09Although within close proximity to London, the county of Surrey is blessed with green open spaces, including the North Downs, the Weald and the Surrey Hills, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. All these make it a welcome escape from the frenetic pace... -
Royal Coloring Book: Adult Teen Colouring Pages Fun Stress Relief Relaxation and Escape by Aryla Publishing 9781912675920
RRP: £6.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912675920Author Aryla PublishingFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Aryla PublishingPublisher Aryla PublishingWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 279mm *... -
Carlo Scarpa: Beyond Matter by Patrizia Piccinini
RRP: £44.00£37.71Carlo Scarpa was one of the great masters of postwar Italian architecture. This book proposes a photographic itinerary that unfurls through Venice, Treviso, Verona and Bologna, before reaching the Dolomites. His most significant projects have been... -
Halifax Pubs: Britain in Old Photographs by Stephen Gee 9780752448114
RRP: £14.99£11.55Steve Gee takes the reader on a delightful tour of the most interesting pubs, inns and taverns of Halifax and provides a fascinating insight into the changing history of Halifax's pubs over the last 200 years. Illustrated with over 100 images, this book... -
Haunted Places by Robert Grenville
RRP: £19.99£14.65The strange cries heard at night in a dilapidated penitentiary, the glimpse of a 'White Lady' floating through a graveyard, the face at the window in a room that has been locked for decades - stories of hauntings never cease to intrigue us. From palaces... -
Clouds over Paris: The Wartime Notebooks of Felix Hartlaub by Felix Hartlaub 9781782278443
RRP: £14.99£10.95The writer Felix Hartlaub died in obscurity at just 31, vanishing from Berlin in 1945. He left behind a small oeuvre of private writings from the Second World War: fragments and observations of life from the midst of catastrophe that, with their... -
Harpenden Through Time by John Cooper
RRP: £15.99£10.85Harpenden is a small picturesque town situated on the A1081 midway between St Albans and Luton and 25 miles north-west of London. Arguably one of the most attractive areas in the wooded county of Hertfordshire, the town has charm and character all of its... -
Darlington in 50 Buildings by Chris Lloyd
RRP: £15.99£10.85From its early fame as the terminus of the Stockton to Darlington Railway, the world's first passenger rail line, to its Victorian heyday as an important centre of railway manufacturing and bridge building, the County Durham town of Darlington has a... -
Bournville Through Time by The Bournville Society
RRP: £15.99£10.85Just 4 miles from the centre of Britain's second city, Bournville remains a quiet testimony to the vision of George Cadbury. Much of the history of Bournville is well-documented and, compared with the City of Birmingham, little has changed. The... -
Twilight Together: Portraits of Ireland at Home by Ruth Medjber 9781781620571
£38.35'A moving and uplifting record of our nation's lockdown' Sunday IndependentThe essential book for 2020, capturing the heart-breaking and uplifting stories that made it a year we will never forgetIn March 2020, the arrival of Coronavirus in Ireland saw... -
Blackpool Through Time A Second Selection by Allan W. Wood
RRP: £15.99£10.85Few towns conjure up such stirring impressions as Blackpool. Cheerfully unpretentious and brash with all the trimmings one would expect of a traditional seaside resort, Blackpool remains the iconic resort town, but there is more to its richly coloured... -
Doncaster's Collieries by Peter Tuffrey
RRP: £18.99£13.61Born in Doncaster in the 1950s, Peter Tuffrey grew up with the collieries around him: Yorkshire Main at Edlington, Denaby, Cadeby, Rossington and Askern. Although it might have seemed that things would never change, they did, and Peter has now compiled... -
50 Gems of Oxfordshire: The History & Heritage of the Most Iconic Places by David Meara
RRP: £15.99£10.85Oxfordshire is rich in many things: fine agricultural land and areas of dense woodland; delightful towns like Burford, Woodstock, Dorchester and Henley; the stately River Thames that bisects the county; the ironstone villages of the northern border; the... -
The Isle of Thanet: From Prehistory to the Norman Conquest by Gerald Moody 9780752446899
RRP: £17.99£13.64The Isle of Thanet is located at the eastern tip of Kent and was once separated from the East Kent mainland by the Wantsum channel. With its unique position which made it part of a key trade route in the Romano-British period, the island has a long and... -
Secret Skipton by Margaret Brecknell 9781445696096
RRP: £15.99£9.53The picturesque market town of Skipton in North Yorkshire regularly features in newspaper polls as one of the best places to live in the UK. With its ancient castle, scenic towpath beside the Leeds & Liverpool Canal and beautiful surrounding countryside,... -
Baobab by Beth Moon
RRP: £35.99£24.63"...Moon pays tribute to these endangered succulents, with dozens of breathtaking duotone portraits of some of the oldest baobab trees in Madagascar, Botswana, South Africa, and Senegal." - Architectural Digest "Baobab is photographer Beth Moon's... -
Harrogate History Tour by Paul Chrystal
RRP: £8.99£6.02Harrogate History Tour is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this famous Yorkshire spa town. This new book guides us through the streets and alleyways, showing how its famous landmarks used to look and how they've changed over the years, as... -
ViewPoint: Human stories through the smartphone lens by Jo Bradford 9781781578827
RRP: £30.00£17.86International in scope and full of beautiful and impactful imagery that highlights the immediacy of the genre, View/Point is a book of human experience stories as told through the medium of phone photography. Featuring more than 50 contributors from... -
Secret St Andrews by Gregor Stewart
RRP: £15.99£10.85Although known worldwide as the 'Home of Golf', St Andrews was also the ecclesiastical powerhouse in Scotland for centuries prior to the Reformation. Author Gregor Stewart takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the town's past, unearthing... -
Norwich in the 1960s: Ten Years That Altered a City by Pete Goodrum
RRP: £15.99£10.85Changed by the 1950s, Norwich was to alter even more during the 1960s. Increased traffic would be met with widened roads and a new flyover, while London Street became pedestrians only. After centuries of trading there the cattle market would move out of... -
The Times Second World War: The history of the global conflict from 1939 to 1945 by Peter Chasseaud
£28.34The perfect gift for history fans. Follow the conflict of World War 2 from 1939 to 1945 through a unique collection of historical maps, expert commentary and photographs. Published in association and including material from the archives of the... -
Tenby & Saundersfoot Through Time by Mark Davis 9781445607153
RRP: £15.99£10.85Situated in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park on the western shore of Carmarthen Bay, Tenby and Saundersfoot share a singular beauty. They are both surrounded by striking scenery that casts a spell over visitors and entices them back year after year... -
Warwickshire in Photographs by Dave Jennings
RRP: £16.99£11.47Warwickshire, lying in the heart of England, is an attractive county renowned as the birthplace of William Shakespeare. His home town of Stratford-upon-Avon is justly famous for its beautiful half-timbered houses, but the county also includes the county...