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Ships Of Heaven: The Private Life of Britain's Cathedrals by Christopher Somerville
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41'Somerville is one of our finest gazetteers of the British countryside. He brings his formidable knowledge to bear on his personal quest to explore the cathedrals in this entrancing book'The... -
God's War: A New History of the Crusades by Christopher Tyerman
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.97The story of how a group of warriors, driven by faith, greed and wanderlust, carved out new Christian-ruled states in the Middle East is one of the most extraordinary of all epics. The crusaders'... -
Early Irish Myths and Sagas by Jeffrey Gantz
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.81First written down in the eighth century AD, these early Irish stories depict a far older world - part myth, part legend and part history. Rich with magic and achingly beautiful, they speak of a land... -
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William Wallace: Brave Heart by James A. Mackay 9781851588237 [USED COPY]
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £2.34Sir William Wallace of Ellerslie is one of history's greatest heroes, but also one of its greatest enigmas - a shadowy figure whose edges have been blurred by myth and legend. Even the date and place... -
To the Ends of the Earth: Scotland's Global Diaspora, 1750-2010 by T. M. Devine
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Part of his trilogy on Scottish history, T. M. Devine's To the Ends of the Earth is a compelling account of the Scots as a 'global people', charting their forgotten role in the building of the modern... -
Coast: Our Island Story: A Journey of Discovery Around Britain's Coastline by Nicholas Crane 9781849904346
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.44Along our shores, towering cliffs from the age of the dinosaurs rise beside wide estuaries teeming with wildlife, while Victorian ports share waterfronts with imposing fortifications.And the people... -
For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies by Robert Irwin
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Robert Irwin's history of Orientalism leads from Ancient Greece to the present. He shows that, whether making philological comparisons between Arabic and Hebrew, cataloguing the coins of Fatimid... -
Lochs and Legends: A Scotsman's Guide to the Heart of Scotland Andy the Highlander 9780008653200
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** A Scotsman's guide to the extraordinary tapestry of the land, history, folklore and stories of his homeland. ... -
William Wallace: Brave Heart by James A. Mackay 9781851588237
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81Sir William Wallace of Ellerslie is one of history's greatest heroes, but also one of its greatest enigmas - a shadowy figure whose edges have been blurred by myth and legend. Even the date and place... -
Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe by Norman Davies
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73From Norman Davies, the acclaimed author of Europe: A History, comes the magical history of Europe's lost realms, selected as a Book of the Year by the Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman,... -
Britain After Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400 to 1070 by Robin Fleming
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51The enormous hoard of beautiful gold military objects found in a field in Staffordshire has focused huge attention on the mysterious world of 7th and 8th century Britain. Clearly the product of a... -
Religion and Magic in Ancient Egypt by Rosalie David
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16The ancient Egyptians believed that the Nile - their life source - was a divine gift. Religion and magic permeated their civilization, and this book provides a unique insight into their religious... -
The Domesday Quest: In search of the Roots of England by Michael Wood
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.68In 1086, Domesday Book, perhaps the most remarkable historical document in existence, was compiled. This tremendous story of England and its people was made at the behest of the Norman king William... -
Into the Black: The electrifying true story of how the first flight of the Space Shuttle nearly ended in disaster by Rowland White 9780552160223
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46On 12th April 1981 a revolutionary new spacecraft blasted off from Florida on her maiden flight. NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia was the most advanced flying machine ever built - the high watermark of... -
The Real Gorbals Story: True Tales from Glasgow's Meanest Streets by Colin MacFarlane
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Colin MacFarlane was born in the Gorbals in the 1950s, 20 years after the publication of No Mean City, the classic novel about pre-war life in what was once Glasgow's most deprived district. He lived... -
Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science by Jim Al-Khalili
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51In Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science, Jim al-Khalili celebrates the forgotten pioneers who helped shape our understanding of the world. For over 700 years the international language of... -
The Unsettling of Europe: The Great Migration, 1945 to the Present by Peter Gatrell
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43WINNER OF THE LAURA SHANNON PRIZE 2021 AND ITALY'S CHERASCO HISTORY PRIZE 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE 2020A TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019Migrants have stood at the... -
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The Anglo-Saxons by James Campbell 9780140143959 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £2.57This survey, an introduction to the history of Anglo-Saxon England looks at political history, and religious, cultural, social, legal and economic themes are woven in. Throughout the book the authors... -
The Hammer and the Cross: A New History of the Vikings by Robert Ferguson
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43For those living outside Scandinavia, the Viking Age effectively began in 793 with an attack on the monastery at Lindisfarne, a characteristically violent harbinger of what was in store for Britain... -
Ecclesiastical History of the English People: With Bede's Letter to Egbert and Cuthbert's Letter on the Death of Bede by the Venerable Saint Bede 9780140445657
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Written in AD 731, Bede's work opens with a background sketch of Roman Britain's geography and history. It goes on to tell of the kings and bishops, monks and nuns who helped to develop Anglo-Saxon... -
The Making of the British Landscape: How We Have Transformed the Land, from Prehistory to Today by Francis Pryor
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.67From our suburban streets which still trace the boundaries of long vanished farms to the Norfolk Broads, formed when medieval peat pits flooded - evidence of man's effect on Britain is everywhere... -
Europe: The First 100 Million Years by Tim Flannery
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Vivid, thrilling, a delight ... Tim Flannery is a palaeontologist and ecologist of global standing, and this is a compelling and authoritative narrative of the evolution of Europe's flora and... -
The Art of Innovation: From Enlightenment to Dark Matter, as featured on Radio 4 by Ian Blatchford
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.37Based on the landmark Radio 4 series, this beautifully illustrated modern history of the connections between science and art offers a new perspective on what that relationship has contributed to... -
Culloden John Prebble 9780712668200
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41This is the story of ordinary men and women involved in the Rebellion, who were described on the gaol registers and regimental rosters of the time as 'Common Men'. There is little in this book about... -
The Journey Through Wales and the Description of Wales by Gerald of Wales
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Scholar, churchman, diplomat and theologian, Gerald of Wales was one of the most fascinating figures of the Middle Ages and The Journey Through Wales describes his eventful tour of the country as a... -
The Anglo-Saxons by James Campbell
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.68This survey, an introduction to the history of Anglo-Saxon England looks at political history, and religious, cultural, social, legal and economic themes are woven in. Throughout the book the authors... -
Story of Ireland by Neil Hegarty
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.62Neil Hegarty's bestselling history of Ireland is a story crowded with the drama of complex characters, shifting allegiances and changing identities. Revisiting the major turning points in the Irish... -
The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present by Chris Gosden
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99A Telegraph Book of the Year A remarkable, unprecedented account of the role of magic in cultures both ancient and modern -- from the first known horoscope to the power of tattoos.'Fascinating,... -
The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life by Ryszard Kapuscinski
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as a geographical term, Africa doesn't exist'. Ryszard Kapuscinski has been writing... -
Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources by Asser
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Asser's Life of King Alfred, written in 893, is a revealing account of one of the greatest of medieval kings. Composed by a monk of St David's in Wales who became Bishop of Sherborne in Alfred's... -
Built on a Lie: The Rise and Fall of Neil Woodford and the Fate of Middle England’s Money by Owen Walker
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'This is a must read!' Vince Cable, former leader of the Liberal Democrats'Reads like a rip roaring tale of a corporate high wire act' John McDonnell, former Shadow Chancellor 'Should be sold with a... -
The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs by Julia Bishop
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51The definitive collection of folk music - one of the great English popular art formsOne of the great English popular art forms, the folk song can be painful, satirical, erotic, dramatic, rueful or... -
Lawrence of Arabia: The definitive 21st-century biography of a 20th-century soldier, adventurer and leader Ranulph Fiennes 9781405945974
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Discover the authoritative, illuminating biography of T. E. Lawrence - the man who inspired the iconic film Lawrence of Arabia - from The World's Greatest Living Explorer Ranulph Fiennes'An excellent... -
Ships Of Heaven: The Private Life of Britain's Cathedrals by Christopher Somerville 9780857523648
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £26.88_________________'Something close to divine inspiration' - The TimesWhen Christopher Somerville, author of the The January Man ('a truly wonderful, uplifting book, bursting with life' - Nicholas... -
The Hidden Ways: Scotland's Forgotten Roads by Alistair Moffat
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing AwardsIn The Hidden Ways, Alistair Moffat traverses the lost paths of Scotland - its Roman roads tramped by armies, its byways and pilgrim routes,... -
A State of Fear: How the UK government weaponised fear during the Covid-19 pandemic Laura Dodsworth 9781780667201
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.01This is a book about fear. Fear of a virus. Fear of death. Fear of losing our jobs, our democracy, our human connections, our health and our minds. It's also about how the government weaponised our... -
The Ice Twins by S. K. Tremayne
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99One of Sarah's daughters died. But can she be sure which one? *THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING NOVEL* A terrifying psychological thriller perfect for fans of THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN... -
The Glorious Life of the Oak by John Lewis-Stempel
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £7.37AS FEATURED ON 'BBC RADIO 4 'GOOD READS'.Woodlands Awards 2019: Woodland Books of the Year'The oak is the wooden tie between heaven and earth. It is the lynch pin of the British landscape.' The oak... -
Make It Count: An extraordinary 100-year-old man's 9 lessons for living a life to be proud of by Benjamin Ferencz
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'I don't know where to stop praising Benny and this amazing book...' - HEATHER MORRIS, The Tattooist of Auschwitz 'This book...is the stuff folk tales are made of. How wonderful that sometimes they... -
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The Ice Twins by S. K. Tremayne 9780007563036 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: £2.57One of Sarah's daughters died. But can she be sure which one? *THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING NOVEL* A terrifying psychological thriller perfect for fans of THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN...