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Front-Line Kent by Michael Foley
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.84Kent has been on England's first line of defence. In all major conflicts many people in the county have lived closer to the enemy in Europe than they did to London. Much of the county's coastline has... -
The British Presidency by Michael Foley 9780719050169
Booksplease Price: €28.37Makes a compelling argument about the increrased importance of political leaders and the changing style of leadership in Britain and the US. Introduces new concepts and backs them up with a... -
Ilford Through Time by Michael Foley
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.40The municipal borough of Ilford, in north-east London, grew from a sleepy Essex backwater in the seventeenth century to become a major coaching town, thanks to its strategic position on the... -
Hornchurch History Tour by Michael Foley
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.87Hornchurch History Tour is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this suburban town in the London Borough of Havering. This new book guides us through its streets and alleyways, showing... -
London's Docklands Through Time by Michael Foley
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.90London's Docklands have a rich and varied history. Dating from the Middle Ages, they developed into one of the biggest docks in the world. The riches of Britain's Empire found its way into the... -
Romford History Tour Michael Foley 9781445677286
RRP: €8.32Booksplease Price: €6.35Romford History Tour is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this east London town, its well-known streets and famous places, and explains what they meant to local people throughout the... -
The Politics of the British Constitution Michael Foley 9780719045523
Booksplease Price: €22.88This work on the British constitution assesses the properties, dynamics and implications of political exchange. It investigates the methods employed to mobilise and resist the pressure for... -
Barking & Dagenham History Tour by Michael Foley
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.87Barking & Dagenham History Tour is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this famous old port. This new book guides us through the streets and alleyways, showing how its famous landmarks... -
Life Lessons from Bergson by Michael Foley 9781447245612
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.78The School of Life offers radical ways to help us raid the treasure trove of human knowledge' Independent on Sunday Henri Bergson was a French professor and philosopher. Born in Paris in 1859 to a... -
Britain's Railways in the First World War by Michael Foley
Booksplease Price: €32.19It is easy to believe that the only part that Britain's railways played in the First World War was to carry the soldiers to the ships that would take them to France. This couldn't be further from the... -
Britain's Railways in the Second World War Michael Foley 9781399003247
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.66The outbreak of the Second World War had an enormous effect on the railway system in Britain. Keeping the trains running through times of conflict was not such a distant memory for the railway... -
London's East End Through Time by Michael Foley 9781445605135
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.90The East End of London has always been looked down on by those who live in the rest of the capital. Jack London's People Of the Abyss is just one of the many books written about the poverty, crime... -
Britain's Railways in the Second World War by Michael Foley 9781526772282
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €22.88The outbreak of the Second World War had an enormous effect on the railway system in Britain. Keeping the trains running through times of conflict was not such a distant memory for the railway... -
Home Fronts: A Wartime America Reader by Michael Foley 9781595580146
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €23.81The US has been at war for 70 of the past 100 years. This startling collection of wartime letters, songs, poems, editorial cartoons, newspaper articles and government documents reveals the profound... -
The Children of Croke Park: Bloody Sunday 1920 by Michael Foley 9781788493840
Booksplease Price: €11.52Dublin 1920 'Above the noise of the crowd, I could hear men shouting. I looked back and saw them - a line of trucks, and men with guns starting to run towards the field. That's when it happened.' ... -
Embracing the Ordinary: Lessons From the Champions of Everyday Life by Michael Foley 9781849839136
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81It has always been difficult to appreciate everyday life, often devalued as dreary, banal and burdensome, and never more so than in a culture besotted with fantasy, celebrity and glamour. Yet many... -
The Silence of Constitutions: Gaps, 'abeyances' and political temperament in the maintenance of government by Michael Foley
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23First published in 1989, Michael's Foley's book deals with the 'abeyances' present in both written and unwritten constitutions, arguing that these gaps in the explicitness of a constitution, and the... -
The Bloodied Field: Croke Park. Sunday 21 November 1920 by Michael Foley
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.90On the morning of 21 November 1920, Jane Boyle walked to Sunday Mass in the church where she would be married five days later. That afternoon she went with her fiance to watch Tipperary and Dublin... -
Isn't This Fun?: Investigating the Serious Business of Enjoying Ourselves by Michael Foley 9781471154829
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81Michael Foley, the author of bestselling The Age of Absurdity, wants to understand why he doesn't appear to be experiencing as much 'fun' as everyone else . . . And so, with characteristic wit and... -
Farming for the Long Haul: Resilience and the Lost Art of Agricultural Inventiveness Michael Foley 9781603588003
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.66It's all but certain that the next fifty years will bring enormous, not to say cataclysmic, disruptions to our present way of life. World oil reserves will be exhausted within that time frame, as... -
The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy by Michael Foley 9781847396273
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.90Like Alain de Botton crossed with Charlie Brooker, Foley succeeds in educating and enlightening us in this wry take on the existential dilemmas of modern life. 'Fascinating . . . the quest for... -
Historic England: City of London: Unique Images from the Archives of Historic England by Michael Foley
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.40This illustrated history of the City of London provides a nostalgic look at the Square Mile's past and highlights the special character of some of its most important historic sites. The... -
Laws, Men and Machines: Modern American Government and the Appeal of Newtonian Mechanics by Michael Foley 9780415616652
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €34.08First published in 1990, Laws, Men and Machines is an original interpretation of the lasting influence that Newtonian mechanics has had on the design and operation of the American political system... -
Laws, Men and Machines: Modern American Government and the Appeal of Newtonian Mechanics by Michael Foley 9780415616645
RRP: €118.99Booksplease Price: €107.91First published in 1990, Laws, Men and Machines is an original interpretation of the lasting influence that Newtonian mechanics has had on the design and operation of the American political system... -
Russian Civil War: Red Terror, White Terror, 1917-1922 by Michael Foley 9781526728616
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.64The Russian Revolution is remembered as the catalyst for the bloody conflict between the Reds and the Whites as each side tried to gain control of the country. But it was far from being so simple... -
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RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €2.98'In recession-chastened, soddenly staycationing Britain, Foley may well have devised a new bestseller format: a how-to book offering a way of escape ... [a] lovely book' Guardian It has always been... -
The Dragons of Darmoore by Michaela Foley 9780359076536
RRP: €9.73Booksplease Price: €9.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780359076536Author Michaela FoleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint -
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RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €2.74Like Alain de Botton crossed with Charlie Brooker, Foley succeeds in educating and enlightening us in this wry take on the existential dilemmas of modern life. 'Fascinating . . . the quest for... -
Historic England: London's East End: Unique Images from the Archives of Historic England by Michael Foley
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.90This illustrated history portrays one of London's most fascinating areas. It provides a nostalgic look at the East End's past and highlights the special character of some of its most important... -
Dining with the Saints: The Sinner's Guide to a Righteous Feast by Father Leo Patalinghug
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €29.05Michael Foley's fans have been devoutly drinking with the saints for years. Now it's time for dinner! The inimitable theologian and mixologist teams up with the priest and TV chef Leo Patalinghug in... -
Drinking with the Saints: The Sinner's Guide to a Holy Happy Hour by Michael P. Foley 9781621573265
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €27.37Pub crawl your way through the sacred seasons with this entertaining and useful collection of cocktail recipes, distilled spirits, beer, and wine for virtually every occasion on the Catholic... -
Abstaining with the Saints: No and Low Alcoholic Beverages for Sober Souls Michael P. Foley 9781510783744
RRP: €38.07Booksplease Price: €26.89Mocktails for every feast day! Finally, a pious bartender's guide that won't give you a hangover. Mike Foley is the author who brought you Drinking with the Saints and Dinning with the Saints. Now,... -
Here Comes the Fun: A Year of Making Merry by Ben Aitken
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.34ARE YOU GETTING ENOUGH?Ben Aitken wasn't. Increasingly flat and decreasingly zen, he knew that something had to change. So he joined a lawn bowls club. About a week later, he continued his assault on... -
Drinking with the Saints (Deluxe): The Sinner's Guide to a Holy Happy Hour by Michael P. Foley 9781684512553
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €33.87Raise Your Spirits and Toast the Saints! It's the full-color edition of Drinking with the Saints! Recipe for a liturgically correct cocktail: mix Bartender's Guide and Lives of the Saints, shake... -
Here Comes the Fun: A Journey Into the Serious Business of Having a Laugh Ben Aitken 9781837730063
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46'What Aitken writes about fun is worth reading' Mail on Sunday'Irresistible' Christopher Somerville, author of The January Man and Walking the Bones of Britain'A great book' Simon Rimmer, Sunday... -
Governing America: The Politics of a Divided Democracy by Robert Singh 9780199250493
Booksplease Price: €81.72Governing America is an innovative edited textbook, designed for first-time students of American politics. Written by an international team of experts, this volume offers an accessible and... -
Drinking with Saint Nick: Christmas Cocktails for Sinners and Saints by Michael P. Foley 9781621577324
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €18.14Raise your spirits and toast Saint Nick! Hot gin toddies. Smoking rosemary old fashioneds. A "wet" Advent calendar. Now you can experience Christmas the way it was meant to be celebrated: with... -
Ever Ancient, Ever New: Ruminations on the City, the Soul, and the Church by Ernest L. Fortin 9780742559202
Booksplease Price: €78.85More than any other thinker in the twentieth century, Ernest L. Fortin, A.A. (1923-2002) resuscitated the study of political philosophy for Catholic theology. Fortin's interests and accomplishments... -
The Fourth Estate: Journalism in Twentieth-Century Ireland by Mark O'Brien
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €89.49This book examines the history of journalists and journalism in twentieth-century Ireland. While many media institutions have been subjected to historical scrutiny, the professional and... -
Confronting the War Machine: Draft Resistance during the Vietnam War by Michael S. Foley 9780807854365
Booksplease Price: €49.79Shedding light on a misunderstood form of opposition to the Vietnam War, Michael Foley tells the story of draft resistance, the cutting edge of the antiwar movement at the height of the war's...