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Black Hills by Dan Simmons
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'I am in awe of Dan Simmons' STEPHEN KINGPaha Sapa, 'Black Hills', is an American Indian shaman who, as a young boy at the Battle of Little Bighorn, believes that he has taken the ghost of the dying... -
Flashback by Dan Simmons
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'I am in awe of Dan Simmons' STEPHEN KINGAmerica, 2036. A wasteland in ruin.Terrorism and ultra-violence plague a once powerful society, whose only escape is to numb itself on flashback: a euphoric... -
Northeaster: A Story of Courage and Survival in the Blizzard of 1952 by Cathie Pelletier
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.50A vivid and gripping story of an epic Maine snowstorm that tested the very limits of human endurance. For many, the past few years have been defined by climate disaster. Stories about... -
Drood Dan Simmons 9781847249326
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.20'I am in awe of Dan Simmons' Stephen KingThis story shall be about my friend (as at least about the man who was once my friend) Charles Dickens and about the accident that took away his peace of... -
Murder Aboard: The Herbert Fuller Tragedy and the Ordeal of Thomas Bram by C. Michael Hiam 9781493041312
Booksplease Price: £20.18"An utterly original and gripping story of murder on the high seas." - Sebastian Junger From an author praised by the Wall Street Journal for his "eye for a good story" comes an account of Herbert... -
Madman in the Woods: A View of the Unabomber through the Eyes of a Child by Jamie Gehring
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £15.50A haunting account of the sixteen years when a young Jamie Gehring and her family lived closer than anyone to Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber As a child in Lincoln, Montana, Jamie Gehring and her family... -
Triflers Need Not Apply: Be frightened of her. Secretly root for her. And watch history's original female serial killer find her next victim. by Camilla Bruce 9781405945455 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £3.21You've never met a woman as dangerous as Bella Sorensen . . .THE FASCINATING REIMAGINING OF THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HISTORY'S ORIGINAL FEMALE SERIAL KILLER'Extraordinary. Bruce does a marvellous job of... -
The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For by David McCullough 9781501174193
Booksplease Price: £11.16A New York Times Bestseller A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States-winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the... -
Triflers Need Not Apply: Be frightened of her. Secretly root for her. And watch history's original female serial killer find her next victim. by Camilla Bruce
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.73You've never met a woman as dangerous as Bella Sorensen . . .THE FASCINATING REIMAGINING OF THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HISTORY'S ORIGINAL FEMALE SERIAL KILLER'Extraordinary. Bruce does a marvellous job of... -
Ship of Lost Souls: The Tragic Wreck of the Steamship Valencia Rod Scher 9781493081356
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.63Of all the ships lost in what has come to be called the "Graveyard of the Pacific," the story of the steamship Valencia is among the saddest. In January 1906, the Valencia set out from San Francisco,... -
The Dark Side of the Sky by Francesco Dimitri 9781803362786
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.25A page-turning literary fantasy filled with terror and wonder, set in a sun-baked Southern Italy, for fans of The Girls by Emma Cline, The Magus by John Fowles and The Great Believers by Rebecca... -
The Veiled Prophet: White Supremacy, and the Struggle for St. Louis by Devin Thomas O'Shea 9798888905791
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.38A provocative look at the secret society that has controlled St. Louis for over a century, revealing how shadowy elites organize themselves against working-class power. Every December in downtown... -
All The Blood We Share: The dark and gripping new historical crime based on a twisted true story by Camilla Bruce 9781405945479
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.12Discover the darkly addictive new historical crime based on a twisted true story, from the author of Triflers Need Not Apply'Creepy and compelling' THE TIMES CRIME CLUB'Atmospheric and addictive'... -
Reggie Kray's East End Stories: The lost memoirs of the gangland legend by Reg Kray
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The name Reggie Kray remains synonymous with London's East End to this day, and yet although much is known about Reg and his brother Ronnie's life of crime in the '50s and '60s, to date precious... -
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.262018 Edgar Award Finalist-Best Fact Crime"A thoroughly readable, thoroughly chilling account of a brilliant con man and his all-too vulnerable prey" (The Boston Globe)-the definitive story of... -
JFK: Volume 1: 1917-1956 by Fredrik Logevall
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.99'The most compelling biography I have read in years . . . There has been a host of JFK biographies, but this one excels for its narrative drive, fine judgments and meticulous research . . . makes the... -
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.53The celebrated Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of America. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life, he carries the reader through Washington's... -
Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis by Ian Kershaw
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.68Winner of the Wolfson Prize for History, Ian Kershaw's Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis is the concluding second volume of one of the greatest biographies of modern times. No figure in twentieth century... -
Thunder Over Normandy: How Allied Airmen Helped Liberate France from D-Day to Paris and Beyond Joseph T Molyson Jr 9780811777780
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.65They dropped from the skies, roared over the hedgerows, and turned the tide of history-this is the untold story of the airmen who helped liberate France.By June 1944, Allied air forces were ready to... -
The Intersection of Rights and Regulation: New Directions in Sociolegal Scholarship by Bronwen Morgan
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.54Policy makers and social actors increasingly face inter-related and inter-penetrated levels and realms of governance. The effect is that some of the intuitive contrasts between rights and regulation... -
The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South by Chip Jones
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982107536Author Chip JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint -
His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine by S C Gwynne 9781982168308
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982168308Author S C GwynneFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man by Lynn Vincent
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501135958Author Lynn VincentFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint < -
The Scoundrel Harry Larkyns and his Pitiless Killing by the Photographer Eadweard Muybridge Rebecca Gowers 9781474606424
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.54For over a century, a mysterious figure from 1870s California, going by the name of Major Harry Larkyns, has been written off as little more than a liar, seducer and cheat. And he is only remembered... -
The Scoundrel Harry Larkyns and his Pitiless Killing by the Photographer Eadweard Muybridge by Rebecca Gowers
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWNDiamond thief, guerrilla fighter, spy, decorated hero, bohemian rogue and lover of several notorious women - all describe Major Harry Larkyns. Yet he has long... -
Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman's March and the Story of America's Largest Emancipation by Bennett Parten 9781668034682
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £18.95A groundbreaking account of Sherman's March to the Sea-the critical Civil War campaign that destroyed the Confederacy-told for the first time from the perspective of the tens of thousands of enslaved... -
A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape from the Nazis by Francoise Frenkel
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £10.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501199851Author Francoise FrenkelFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint -
H. H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil by Adam Selzer
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.55First time in paperback The first biography of the serial killer featured in Devil in the White CityReviews"Adam Selzer's masterful sleuthing, proves to us, `the Devil IS in the details." Impeccably... -
Flinders: The fascinating life, loves & great adventures of the man who put Australia on the map from the award winning author of BANJO, BANKS, THE REMARKABLE MRS REIBEY AND HUDSON FYSH by Grantlee Kieza 9780733341564
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £20.24The extraordinary life, loves and voyages of the man who put Australia on the map, now with a foreword from Flinders' great-great-great-grand-daughters on the 250th anniversary of his birth In 1810,... -
Mary Penfold: The true story of the great Australian winemaker, from the bestselling award-winning author of SISTER VIV and MR AND MRS GOULD by Grantlee Kieza 9780733343278
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £20.80The inspiring story of Mary Penfold, the mother of the Australian wine industry - a self-taught vintner and business genius who emigrated to a frontier settlement and built her family's small... -
Remember Us: American Sacrifice, Dutch Freedom, and A Forever Promise Forged in War by Robert M. Edsel 9781400337811
Booksplease Price: £24.86"An intimate, moving look at the war that extracts deep meaning from the carnage and loss." - Publishers WeeklyWhat happens when you lose your freedom and the people who eventually get it back for... -
Ghosts of Sicily: Charles “Lucky” Luciano, US Naval intelligence, and the Cloak of Secrecy that Forever Changed the Military, the Mafia, and the Course of War Mark Harmon 9781400252985
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £17.35From the New York Times bestselling authors of Ghosts of Honolulu comes their most harrowing true story yet.It's 1942, and New York City is at war. German U-boats are sinking ships just miles... -
The Death of Trotsky: The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin’s Greatest Enemy by Josh Ireland 9781399827294
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.68THE PULSE-POUNDING TRUE STORY BEHIND THE ASSASSINATION THAT CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY'Elegant, unshowy and gripping in the manner of a dependable le Carre' THE TIMES'The page-turning pace of a... -
The Last Emperor of China: Twilight of the Forbidden City Paul French 9781783968626
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.62* Step into the otherworldly splendour of the Forbidden City, its red walls and golden rooftops shimmering at the heart of Peking... In the early 1920s, China's boy ruler Puyi and his child bride... -
Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Brotherhood and Sacrifice by Adam Makos
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.87***NOW A MAJOR FILM, STARRING JONATHAN MAJORS AND GLEN POWELL***'This is aerial drama at its best. Fast, powerful, and moving.' Erik LarsonDevotion tells the gripping story of the US Navy's most... -
The Law and Society Reader II by Erik W. Larson 9780814770610
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.12Law and society scholars challenge the common belief that law is simply a neutral tool by which society sets standards and resolves disputes. Decades of research shows how much the nature of ... -
The Law and Society Reader II by Erik W. Larson 9780814770818
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £58.16Law and society scholars challenge the common belief that law is simply a neutral tool by which society sets standards and resolves disputes. Decades of research shows how much the nature of... -
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
Booksplease Price: £10.71In Bonk, the best-selling author of Stiff turns her outrageous curiosity and insight on the most alluring scientific subject of all: sex. Can a person think herself to orgasm? Why doesn't Viagra help... -
The Fifth Floor: Reissued by Michael Harvey 9781408819685
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.14When Michael Kelly agrees to track the movements of an abusive husband, little does he know he is about to become embroiled in a murder investigation and a plot to re-write history. What Kelly thinks... -
Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague by David K. Randall 9780393609455
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £19.10The death of a Chinese immigrant, Wong Chut King, in San Francisco in 1900 would have been unremarkable if a swollen black lymph node-a sign of bubonic plague-hadn't been noticed on his groin...