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Guernica: Painting the End of the World by James Attlee
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11A brilliant, concise account of the painting often described as the most important work of art produced in the twentieth century, as part of the stunning Landmark Library series. Pablo Picasso had... -
People of Abandoned Character by Clare Whitfield 9781838932756
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.58What if you thought your husband was Jack the Ripper? London, 1888. Susannah rushes into marriage to a young and wealthy surgeon. After a passionate honeymoon, she returns home with her new husband... -
Global TV: New Media and the Cold War, 1946-69 by James Schwoch 9780252033742 [USED COPY]
RRP: $117.92Booksplease Price: $11.79James Schwoch presents a unique retelling of the Cold War period by examining the relationship of global television, diplomacy, and new electronic communications media. Beginning with the Allied... -
Trains, Planes, Ships and Cars by James Hamilton-Paterson
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $16.98A lavishly illustrated celebration of the golden age of aircraft, cars, ships and locomotives from 1900 to 1941 by the author of the bestselling Empire of the Clouds. This dazzling book describes... -
The Po: An Elegy for Italy's Longest River by Tobias Jones
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11A captivating journey along the iconic River Po and through Italian history, society and culture. 'Delightful... A wonderful cornucopia of history' TLS 'Uncovers the Po's fascinating history'... -
The Weimar Years: Rise and Fall 1918–1933 Frank McDonough 9781803284798
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68A DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE WEEKA SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEARA DAILY TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023ASPECTS OF HISTORY BOOKS OF THE YEARA GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023A DAILY MAIL BEST CHRISTMAS... -
The Burgundians: A Vanished Empire by Bart Van Loo
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.82A masterful history of the great dynasty of the Netherlands' Middle Ages. 'A sumptuous feast of a book' The Times, Books of the Year 'Thrillingly colourful and entertaining' Sunday Times 'A... -
The Gardens of Mars: Madagascar, an Island Story John Gimlette 9781788544733
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28A journey - both historical and contemporary - among the fantastical landscapes, resourceful inhabitants and isolated tribes of the world's fourth-largest island of enduring fascination for its rich... -
Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans: The British Occupation of Germany, 1945-49 by Daniel Cowling 9781800243507
RRP: $37.51Booksplease Price: $22.20Germany, spring 1945. Hitler is dead and his armies crushed. Across the conquered Reich, cities lie devastated by Allied saturation bombing; their traumatised populations, exhausted and embittered by... -
Medea: A Life by Edith Hall 9780300270723
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $24.12The story of Medea, a maligned and misunderstood woman of Greek mythology, from one of Britain's foremost classicistsMothers who kill their children are universally abhorred but perennially... -
Robot, Take the Wheel: The Road to Autonomous Cars and the Lost Art of Driving by Jason Torchinsky 9781948062268
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $20.22From the star of the YouTube sensation Jason Drives, the senior editor of the acclaimed website Jalopnik, and a producer of Jay Leno's Garage comes the wittiest and most insightful guide yet to... -
Moonshot: A NASA Astronaut's Guide to Achieving the Impossible by Mike Massimino 9780349438832
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59Learn the NASA Astronaut mindset to solve problems, provide leadership in the face of adversity and never give up when pursuing your wildest ambitions. Mike Massimino achieved his dream of exploring... -
Henry V: The Astonishing Rise of England's Greatest Warrior King Dan Jones 9781804541937
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $24.12The instant Sunday Times bestsellerThe UK's bestselling medieval historian brings unforgettably to life the astonishing rise of Henry V, who survived rebellion, a near-fatal arrow wound and a lengthy... -
Peter the Great by Robert K. Massie
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.89The Pulitzer prizewinning biography of Peter the Great, the ruler who brought Russia from darkness into light. Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and... -
The Heath: My Year on Hampstead Heath by Hunter Davies
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92An engaging portrait of Hampstead Heath - a place rich not just in natural wonders but in history and monuments, emotions and memories, people and places. 'I enjoyed every inch of the way, from... -
God's Bits of Wood by Sembène Ousmane 9781035900848
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63It is 1947 and the workers on the Dakar-Niger Railway have come out on strike. Sembene Ousmane, in this vivid and moving novel, evokes all of the colour, passion and tragedy of those decisive years... -
The Bride Stone by Sally Gardner 9781804541845
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.00The spellbinding new historical novel from multi-award-winning author Sally Gardner.It is 1796. Duval Harlington, recently released from a French prison, is on his way home. He must reach his late... -
A Fire in My Head by Ben Okri 9781803281285
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.45A powerful collection of new and recently completed poems by Ben Okri covering topics of the day, such as the refugee crisis, racism, Obama, the Grenfell Tower fire, and the Corona outbreak. In... -
Wild by Ben Okri 9781800244306
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.45Poems of living and loving from Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri. Freedom is the most precious commodity in the world. In this powerful collection, the celebrated novelist, essayist, dramatist... -
Astonishing the Gods by Ben Okri 9781035930920
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28Explore the extraordinary imagination of Booker Prize-winner and visionary author Ben Okri - one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary literature.'The hero of this novel finds what he did... -
The NASA Archives. 40th Ed. by Piers Bizony
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $31.46On October 1, 1958, the world's first civilian space agency opened for business as an emergency response to the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik a year earlier. Within a decade, the National... -
The Wolf Den by Elodie Harper
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.15Shortlisted for Pageturner of the Year at the British Book Awards A Waterstones Book of the Month Winner of the 2022 Glass Bell Award 'Vivid, wise and unflinching, this is a triumph' The Times ... -
Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Put Astronauts on the Moon by Helaine Becker
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09Meet Katherine Johnson, the mathematical genius who helped make the historic Apollo 11 moon landings possible and made sure that Apollo 13 returned home safely when the mission was in critical danger... -
The Romanovs: The Final Chapter by Robert K. Massie
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11The compelling quest to solve a great mystery of the twentieth century: the ultimate fate of Russia's last tsar and his family. In July 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow grave near... -
Diamonds Everywhere: Awe-inspiring astronomy discoveries by Tom Kerss 9780008636968
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $14.79Answers to the mysteries of the cosmos for inquiring minds. Explore the entire cosmos in 101 fascinating topics - from mind-blowing numbers, astonishing sights, to strange-but-true... -
Mental Fight by Ben Okri
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.54An epic poem touching on issues of racism, intolerance and environmental destructions from Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri. There is much to celebrate in the human journey so far - art in... -
When Christians Face Persecution: Theological Perspectives from the New Testament by Dr Chee-Chiew Lee
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $17.42What does the bible say about persecution of Christians? Many New Testament studies focus on persevering in faith to the end and responding even to perpetrators of persecution with love and... -
Astonishing the Gods by Ben Okri
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $8.46Selected as one of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'. From Booker Prize winner Ben Okri, a deceptively simple modern fable with an ancient origin. A young man finds himself living... -
A Fire in My Head by Ben Okri 9781035930968
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Explore the extraordinary imagination of Booker Prize-winner and visionary author Ben Okri - one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary literature.In our times of crisisThe mind has its... -
Unity and Struggle by Amílcar Cabral 9781035906093
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92One of the world's greatest revolutionary leaders, Amilcar Cabral's long and arduous campaign for the liberation of Portuguese-dominated Africa is explored in this vivid compilation of his most... -
A Question of History: Why did the ancient Greeks ride elephants into battle? And other questions about ancient Greece Tim Cooke 9781526315359
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09Discover the weird and wacky world of the ancient Greeks!Why did Minoans have strong ankles? How did an owl inspire a city? And why on Earth did the ancient Greeks exercise NAKED?With an engaging... -
Everything is Not Enough: Discover the must-read book club novel for 2023 by Lola Akinmade Akerstrom 9781804548141
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36The brilliant second novel from the acclaimed author of In Every Mirror She's Black follows three women as they try to navigate life, love, prejudice and privilege in Stockholm.Yasmiin cannot... -
Harlemworld: Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black America by John L. Jackson Jr. 9780226389981
Booksplease Price: $48.19Harlem is the historical centre of black culture and one of the most famous neighbourhoods in the world. Just the mention of its name brings to mind images of Langston Hughes, Billie Holiday, Duke... -
Heritage: A History of How We Conserve Our Past by James Stourton 9781838933173
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79What is heritage? When was it invented? What is its place in the world today? What is its place tomorrow? Heritage is all around us: millions belong to its organisations, tens of thousands... -
Temple of Dreams: A Novel of Now and Then Carolyn Mathews 9781789042009
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $10.79Homeless and jobless following the death of his adoptive parents, Sebastian enrols at a college of natural medicine which boasts a sanctuary modelled on an ancient Greek healing centre. After a night... -
We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958 by Fintan O'Toole
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68The #1 Irish Times bestseller WINNER of the An Post Irish Book Awards 'A clear-eyed, myth-dispelling masterpiece' Marian Keyes 'Sweeping, authoritative and profoundly intelligent' Colm... -
The Vanished Collection: Stolen masterpieces, family secrets and one woman's quest for the truth Pauline Baer de Perignon 9781803280912
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28A charming and heartfelt story about war, art, and the lengths a woman will go to find the truth about her family. 'As devourable as a thriller... Incredibly moving' Elle 'Pauline Baer de... -
The Crew: The Story of a Lancaster Bomber Crew by David Price
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04A moving tribute to the sacrifice and bravery of the fliers of RAF Bomber Command. ****************************** The Crew, based on interviews with Ken Cook, the crew's sole surviving member,... -
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages by Dan Jones 9781789543544
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68The instant Sunday Times bestseller A Times, New Statesman and Spectator Book of the Year 'Simply the best popular history of the Middle Ages there is' Sunday Times 'A great achievement,... -
Hitler's Secret Bankers: How Switzerland Profited from Nazi Genocide by Adam LeBor 9781035903399
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11There were no death certificates issued at Auschwitz. Nevertheless, Swiss banks still demand them before handing over the assets of account holders killed in the Holocaust to their surviving...