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The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914 by Simon Heffer
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.47'A riveting account of the pre-First World War years . . . The Age of Decadence is an enormously impressive and enjoyable read.' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times'A magnificent account of a less than... -
The Changing Faces of Jesus by Geza Vermes
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.96During his life Jesus did not view himself as divine, nor did his disciples. In THE CHANGING FACES OF JESUS the great scholar Vermes works back through successively earlier accounts of the life of... -
Georgian London: Into the Streets by Lucy Inglis
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08In Georgian London: Into the Streets, Lucy Inglis takes readers on a tour of London's most formative age - the age of love, sex, intellect, art, great ambition and fantastic ruin. Travel back to the... -
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Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin 9780670917679 [USED COPY]
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $3.51Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, but most of all a great... -
More From Unmitigated England by Peter Ashley 9781841592749
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.26More from Unmitigated England is just that. Even more from the pen and camera of Peter Ashley, whose bestselling Unmitigated England prompted A. N. Wilson in his Daily Telegraph column to call it 'an... -
The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave-Robbery in 1830s London Sarah Wise 9781844133307
Booksplease Price: $17.63Towards the end of 1831, the authorities unearthed a series of crimes at Number 3, Nova Scotia Gardens in East London that appeared to echo the notorious Burke and Hare killings in Edinburgh three... -
The Philosopher's Pupil by Iris Murdoch
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.68In the English town of Ennistone, hot springs bubble up from deep beneath the earth. In these healing waters the townspeople seek health and regeneration, rightousness and ritual cleansing. To this... -
Eva Trout by Elizabeth Bowen
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.92WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY TESSA HADLEYImposing, rich, unloved and with a genius for unreality; Eva Trout has a 'capacity for making trouble, attracting trouble, strewing trouble around her' that is... -
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The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One by Miranda Carter 9780141019987 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $3.38Discover the juicy, funny story of the three dysfunctional rulers of Germany, Russia and Great Britain at the turn of the last century, combined with a study of the larger forces around them.Three... -
The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One by Miranda Carter
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Discover the juicy, funny story of the three dysfunctional rulers of Germany, Russia and Great Britain at the turn of the last century, combined with a study of the larger forces around them.Three... -
100 Places That Made Britain by Dave Musgrove 9781785944086
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63Get to know Britain through 100 special places In 100, carefully selected places, BBC History Magazine editor Dave Musgrove takes us on an unforgettable historical tour through British history, from... -
The Political Animal by Jeremy Paxman
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Jeremy Paxman knows every maneouvre a politician will make to avoid answering a difficult question, but in The Political Animal he seeks an answer to just one: What makes politicians tick? Embarking... -
Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert and the Death That Changed the Monarchy by Helen Rappaport
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68'Rappaport uses new sources to give a vivid account of Albert's death . . . a valuable and insightful book which will change our view of Queen Victoria.' Spectator When Queen Victoria's husband,... -
The Twilight Of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World by Alister McGrath 9781844131556
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Atheism is one of the most important movements in modern Western culture. For the last two hundred years, it seemed to be on the verge of eliminating religion as an outmoded and dangerous... -
The Lais of Marie De France: With Two Further Lais in the Original Old French by Marie France
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.65Marie de France (fl. late twelfth century) is the earliest known French woman poet and her lais - stories in verse based on Breton tales of chivalry and romance - are among the finest of the genre. ... -
Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties by Lucy Moore
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Bracketed by the catastrophes of the Great War and the Wall Street Crash, 1920s America was a place of drama, tension and hedonism. It glittered and seduced: jazz, flappers, wild all-night parties,... -
Music & Silence by Rose Tremain
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92'The best thing from Denmark since Hamlet.' John Julius NorwichIn the year 1629, a young English lutenist named Peter Claire arrives at the Danish Court to join King Christian IV's Royal Orchestra... -
Murder by the Book: A Sensational Chapter in Victorian Crime by Claire Harman 9780241346945
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $14.02*Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2019* 'A fascinating portrait of Victorian London' Observer'I devoured it in one sitting' Alison Weir 'Excellent' Dan Snow Early on the morning... -
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Sorry for the Dead by Nicola Upson 9780571337378 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $3.11** Longlisted for the CWA Sapere Books Historial Dagger 2020 **'Haunting . . . Superlative.' Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month'A terrific novel.' A. N. WilsonSummer, 1915: a young woman falls to... -
Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin 9780141036939
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Charles Dickens is the acclaimed definitive biography by bestselling author Claire Tomalin Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless... -
Sorry for the Dead by Nicola Upson
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.94** Longlisted for the CWA Sapere Books Historial Dagger 2020 **'Haunting . . . Superlative.' Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month'A terrific novel.' A. N. WilsonSummer, 1915: a young woman falls to... -
My Name Is Legion by A.N. Wilson 9780099457947
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63The Daily Legion is a tabloid that peddles celebrity gossip and denounces asylum seekers. However, its financial survival depends on the support of a brutal African government. Recklessly defending... -
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Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin 9780141036939 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $3.22Charles Dickens is the acclaimed definitive biography by bestselling author Claire Tomalin Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless... -
Jesus: Nativity - Passion - Resurrection by Geza Vermes
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.99The Nativity, Passion and Resurrection are the three defining episodes in the life of Jesus, forming the foundations of the Christian tradition. But what is the truth behind these epoch-making... -
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A Secret Life by Christobel Kent 9780751568844 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $2.64A girls' night out.A bad decision.A life, unravellingWhen Georgie is persuaded to join two old friends for Ladies' Night, she intends to have fun, to behave like the Georgie she was before marriage... -
A Secret Life by Christobel Kent
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $6.61A girls' night out.A bad decision.A life, unravellingWhen Georgie is persuaded to join two old friends for Ladies' Night, she intends to have fun, to behave like the Georgie she was before marriage... -
Ekaterinburg: The Last Days of the Romanovs by Helen Rappaport 9780099520092
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92A vivid and compelling account of the final thirteen days of the Romanovs, counting down to the last, tense hours of their lives.On 4 July 1918, a new commandant took control of a closely guarded... -
Remembrance of Things Past: Volume 2 by Marcel Proust 9780241719695
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $22.07One of the greatest translations of all time: Scott Moncrieff's classic version of Proust, published in three stunning clothbound volumes designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith.Proust's masterpiece is... -
Memories of the Ford Administration by John Updike
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37When a history professor - Alfred Clayton, the hero of John Updike's fifteenth novel - is asked to record his impressions of the Ford Administration, he recalls a turbulent piece of personal history... -
Remembrance of Things Past: Volume 2 by Marcel Proust
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.49One of the greatest translations of all time: Scott Moncrieff's classic version of Proust, published in three volumes. This second volume includes The Guermantes Way and Cities of the Plain.Proust's... -
Traitor King: The Duke and Duchess of Windsor in Exile by Andrew Lownie
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $26.17THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Daily Mail Royal Book of the Year, 2021'Darkly compelling...hundreds of eye-popping details...Gripping ... damning portrait of the Windsors' Daily Mail 'Book of the... -
Dante: The Story of His Life by Marco Santagata
RRP: $24.05Booksplease Price: $21.49A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year A Marginal Revolution Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year A Seminary Co-op Notable Book of the Year A Times Higher Education Book of the WeekA Choice... -
The Rise and Fall of the British Empire by Lawrence James 9780316851473 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $3.78Great Britain's geopolitical role in the global scheme of things has undergone many radical changes over the last four centuries. Once a maritime superpower and ruler of half the world, Britain's... -
L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Mysterious Death of the 'Female Byron' by Lucasta Miller
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.22A famous poet, a mysterious death and a story stranger than fiction. - this is the lost life and mytserious death of the 'Female Byron' On 15 October 1838, the body of a thirty-six-year-old woman was... -
Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER by Andrew Lownie
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.93THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERUPDATED PAPERBACK FEATURING NEW CONTENTA Daily Mail Royal Book of the Year, 2021A Spectator Book of the Year, 2021'Briskly written and compulsively readable' - A.N. Wilson,... -
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Music & Silence by Rose Tremain 9780099268550 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $3.22In 1629, young English lutenist Peter Claire arrives at the Danish court believing music will secure his future. Instead, he enters a world shaped by suspicion, rivalry and royal power. Set in... -
Dog Loves Drawing by Louise Yates
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.27Dog loves books, but one day he receives a strange one in the post - it's blank! Soon, Dog realises that this book is not for reading, but for drawing, and before long Dog is doodling and drawing... -
Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives!'Banished from England for seeking to marry against his father's wishes, Ivanhoe joins Richard... -
St Pancras Station Simon Bradley 9781846684609
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92Simon Bradley traces the history of the station, introducing us to the men behind the architecture and looks at its new international status. This fine new edition includes a fascinating chapter on... -
When Courage Calls: Josephine Butler and the Radical Pursuit of Justice for Women by Sarah C. Williams 9781399803748
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Millicent Fawcett once described Josephine Butler as 'the most distinguished English woman of the nineteenth century'. Among the first feminist activists, Butler raised public awareness of the plight...