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Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $30.83'A Napoleonic triumph of a book, irresistibly galloping with the momentum of a cavalry charge' Simon Sebag Montefiore'Simply dynamite' Bernard CornwellFrom Andrew Roberts, author of the... -
Normal Women: Making history for 900 years Philippa Gregory 9780008725075
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.39The bestselling, critically acclaimed women's history from blockbuster author Philippa Gregory - adapted for teen readers! Today, when we think of women of the... -
Normal Women: Making history for 900 years Philippa Gregory 9780008622985
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.81The bestselling, critically acclaimed women's history from blockbuster author Philippa Gregory - adapted for teen readers! Today, when we think of women of the... -
The Wolf Den: Dyslexia-friendly Edition Elodie Harper 9781035920341
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $26.82*ELODIE HARPER'S FIRST STANDALONE NOVEL, BOUDICCA'S DAUGHTER, COMING AUGUST 2025 – PRE-ORDER NOW*Shortlisted for Pageturner of the Year at the British Book AwardsA Waterstones Book of the MonthWinner... -
Hell's Half Acre by Susan Jonusas
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54A suspense filled tale of murder on the American frontier-shedding new light on a family of serial killers in Kansas, whose horrifying crimes gripped the attention of a nation still reeling from war... -
Young and Damned and Fair: The Life and Tragedy of Catherine Howard at the Court of Henry VIII by Gareth Russell
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.86SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2017 Born into nobility and married into the royal family, Catherine Howard was attended every waking hour - secrets were... -
Hell's Half Acre by Susan Jonusas 9781471190308
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.00A suspense filled tale of murder on the American frontier-shedding new light on a family of serial killers in Kansas, whose horrifying crimes gripped the attention of a nation still reeling from war... -
Rule, Nostalgia: A Backwards History of Britain by Hannah Rose Woods
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.50** A FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN AND GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR **'A must read' - Janina Ramirez, bestselling author of Femina'An eye-opening history of Britain's enduring fixation with its own... -
The House of Dudley: A New History of Tudor England. A TIMES Book of the Year 2022 by Dr Joanne Paul
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Told for the very first time, this is the shocking and extraordinary story of the most-conniving and manipulative Tudor family you've never heard of . . . The perfect gift for every history lover... -
Dead of Night: The chilling new World War 2 Berlin thriller from the bestselling author by Simon Scarrow 9781472258601
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54BERLIN. JANUARY 1940.'A seriously gripping story - an outsider hero in jeopardy, a world of brooding danger, and an entirely, terrifyingly believable denouement' Owen MatthewsGermany has conquered... -
Crécy: Battle of Five Kings by Dr Michael Livingston 9781472847065
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.74'Like Crecy itself, this book is a triumph and the tale it tells gives an old story new life.' BERNARD CORNWELL, bestselling author of The Last Kingdom series The battle of Crecy in 1346 is one of... -
Lean TPM: A Blueprint for Change by Dennis McCarthy 9780750658577
RRP: $132.28Booksplease Price: $120.92Merging the benefits of two well-known methodolgies, Lean Thinking and Total Productive Maintenance, Lean TPM shows how to secure increased manufacturing efficiency.Based on their experienc of... -
Now is the Time Melvyn Bragg 9781473614550
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84In this gripping novel, Melvyn Bragg brings an extraordinary episode in English history to fresh, urgent life.At the end of May 1381, the fourteen-year-old King of England had reason to be fearful:... -
The Moor's Last Stand: How Seven Centuries of Muslim Rule in Spain Came to an End by Elizabeth Drayson
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.12In 1482, Abu Abdallah Muhammad XI became the twenty-third Muslim King of Granada. He would be the last. This is the first history of the ruler, known as Boabdil, whose disastrous reign and bitter... -
Boleyn Traitor by Philippa Gregory 9780008744991
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $29.36Sister. Liar. Witness. Spy. Traitor? Her secrets shaped a kingdom . Her loyalty was deadly. Jane Boleyn watches from the shadows of the Tudor court. Where nothing is more... -
Boleyn Traitor Philippa Gregory 9780008744984
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $38.43Sister. Liar. Witness. Spy. Traitor? Her secrets shaped a kingdom . Her loyalty was deadly. Jane Boleyn watches from the shadows of the Tudor court. Where nothing is more... -
Middle ages by Johannes Fried
RRP: $48.20Booksplease Price: $44.06Since the fifteenth century, when humanist writers began to speak of a "middle" period in history linking their time to the ancient world, the nature of the Middle Ages has been widely debated... -
The Seven Secrets of the Eucharist by Pope Benedict 9781884479311
Booksplease Price: $16.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884479311Author Pope BenedictFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint -
Empire of the Deep: The Rise and Fall of the British Navy Ben Wilson 9780753829202
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $21.80The bestselling complete history of the British Navy - our national story through a different prism.The story of our navy is nothing less than the story of Britain, our culture and our empire. Much... -
The Norman Conquest by Marc Morris
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87'I loved it. A suitably epic account of one of the most seismic and far-reaching events in British history' Dan SnowAn upstart French duke who sets out to conquer the most powerful and unified... -
England, Arise: The People, the King and the Great Revolt of 1381 by Juliet Barker
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05The dramatic and shocking events of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 are to be the backdrop to Juliet Barker's latest book: a snapshot of what everyday life was like for ordinary people living in the... -
God's Wolf: The Life of the Most Notorious of all Crusaders, Scourge of Saladin by Jeffrey Lee 9780393609691
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $40.93In a 2010 terrorist plot, Al-Qaeda hid a bomb in a FedEx shipment addressed to a man who had been dead for 800 years. Born in twelfth-century France and bred for violence, Reynald de Chatillon was a... -
When They Go Low, We Go High: Speeches that shape the world - and why we need them by Philip Collins 9780008235680
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.74A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'For all those who believe in the politics of principle and hope this a wonderful reminder that they do not always lose... -
The Origins of Creativity by Edward O. Wilson 9780141986340
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'An intellectual hero ... A superb celebrator of science in all its manifestations' Ian McEwan'Darwin's great successor' Jeffrey SachsThe legendary biologist Edward O. Wilson offers his most... -
Leftovers: A History of Food Waste and Preservation by Eleanor Barnett 9781803281575
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $34.80A topical and richly entertaining history of food preservation and food waste in Britain from the sixteenth-century kitchen to the present day. In Leftovers, Eleanor Barnett explores the many... -
King Arthur: The Making of the Legend by Nicholas J. Higham
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.83A prominent scholar explores King Arthur's historical development, proposing that he began as a fictional character developed in the ninth century According to legend, King Arthur saved Britain from... -
Never Greater Slaughter: Brunanburh and the Birth of England by Dr Michael Livingston
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.68'No one has done more than Michael Livingston to revive memories of the battle, and you could not hope for a better guide.' BERNARD CORNWELL Bestselling author of The Last Kingdom series Late in... -
The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de' Medici by Catherine Fletcher
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87'A spectacular, elegant, brilliant portrait of skulduggery, murder and sex in Renaissance Florence' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard, Books of the Year 1531 - after years of brutal war and... -
Mrs Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady Kate Summerscale 9781408831243
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.80When the married Isabella Robinson was introduced to the dashing Edward Lane at a party in 1850, she was utterly enchanted. He was 'fascinating', she told her diary, before chastising herself for... -
1795: The Order of the Furies Niklas Natt och Dag 9781529304701
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84'Niklas Natt och Dag takes the contemporary Scandinavian crime story and gives it a startlingly gruesome historical twist' GuardianIt is 1795 and evil lurks in the winding alleys of Stockholm. Tycho... -
The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens Nicola Clark 9781474622226
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45Every Tudor Queen had ladies-in-waiting. They were her confidantes and her chaperones. Only the Queen's ladies had the right to enter her most private chambers, spending hours helping her to get... -
Leftovers: A History of Food Waste and Preservation Eleanor Barnett 9781803281582
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.12A topical and richly entertaining history of food preservation and food waste in Britain from the sixteenth-century kitchen to the present day.'Bingeable' - The Telegraph'A book for our time' - The... -
The Wolf and the Watchman: The latest Scandi sensation by Niklas Natt och Dag
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.84'A remarkable debut novel' Sunday Times'The best historical thriller I've read in twenty years' A.J. Finn'A thrilling, unnerving, clever and beautiful story. Reading it is like giving a little gift... -
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $27.28A genius of literary suspense, known to millions as the author of the "The Lottery", Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) plumbed the cultural anxiety of postwar America better than anyone. Based on a wealth... -
Thorns, Lust and Glory: The betrayal of Anne Boleyn by Estelle Paranque 9781529149562
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $40.38A queen on the edge.Anne Boleyn has mesmerised the English public for centuries. Her tragic execution, orchestrated by her own husband, never ceases to intrigue. How did this courtier's daughter... -
Mrs Kauffman and Madame Le Brun: The Entwined and Extraordinary Lives of Two Eighteenth-Century Painters Franny Moyle 9781801107440
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $56.53In the late autumn of 1789, two of Europe's most celebrated painters met in Rome. One, Angelica Kauffman, was a Swiss-born prodigy who had conquered the art scenes of London and Italy. The other,... -
Falling Upwards: Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture The Aeronauts by Richard Holmes
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.68NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING EDDIE REDMAYNE AND FELICITY JONES A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ... -
The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of History at Hampton Court by Gareth Russell 9780008437015
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.39'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500 years of Hampton Court history: royal residents, common visitors, thieves,... -
The Secret Lives of Elephants: Birth, Death and Family in the World of the Giants by Hannah Mumby
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.02Elephants are as unique as people. They can be clever and curious or headstrong and impulsive, shy or sociable. Learn to know them as individuals as well as a species in this evocative account of... -
Catullus' Bedspread: The Life of Rome's Most Erotic Poet by Daisy Dunn
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $18.80A biography of Gaius Valerius Catullus, Rome's first great poet, a dandy who fell in love with another man's wife and made it known to the world through his verse. ...