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The Crimes of Charlotte Bronte: The Secret History of the Mysterious Events at Haworth by James Tully 9781841191317
Booksplease Price: $38.18Noted criminologist James Tully became fascinated by inconsistencies he found in the accounts of the lives and deaths of the Brontes. So dark and unexpected were the results of his searches, he... -
A Brief History of Circumnavigators by Derek Wilson 9781841197098
Booksplease Price: $38.18"Going round the world" is an idea that has excited people ever since it was realized that the earth was a sphere. The appeal has something to do with encompassing all the known environment and... -
Power and Greed: A Short History of the World by Philippe Gigantes 9781841196893
Booksplease Price: $34.04This lively and fascinating book by a professor of history deals with human greed and power and how these determine world events. Gigantes takes the reader on a hair-raising journey through time,... -
Churchill at War: 1940-45 by Baron Charles McMoran Wilson Moran 9781841196084
Booksplease Price: $49.69This new edition of extracts from the extremely candid diaries of Churchill's doctor Lord Moran, his devoted friend and confidant, contains material not previously revealed. It sheds a new light on... -
A Brief History of Globalization: The Untold Story of our Incredible Shrinking Planet by Alex MacGillivray 9781845291860
Booksplease Price: $43.47Globalization is fast becoming the most over-used and least-understood word in the world. For Tony Blair it is 'inevitable and irresistible'. To deny it, says Nelson Mandela, is 'like saying I do not... -
Our Lady of Pain M.C. Beaton 9781849012928
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.84Lady Rose Summer prides herself on not being a jealous woman - and she knows her engagement to Captain Harry Cathcart is only a ruse to keep her parents from shipping her off to India to find a... -
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Ten Thoughts About Time (New Edition) by Bodil Jonsson 9781845290504 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $5.38Ever since the equation Time = Money came into use, Western society has bought the notion of 'saving time' and, by implication, money. Living in a world ruled by the clock, and living longer, with a... -
Maria Fitzherbert: The Secret Wife of George IV by James Munson 9781841196169
Booksplease Price: $38.18The affair of George IV and Maria Fitzherbert is notorious. A young Catholic widow became the secret wife of the heir to the throne because she had refused to become his mistress.Munson reveals a... -
Napoleon Bonaparte: England's Prisoner by Frank Giles 9781841195995
Booksplease Price: $38.18On 13 July 1815, after Waterloo, Napoleon dictated his famous letter to the Prince Regent. Avoiding any hint of surrender, still less responsibility for the defeat, he said he came 'like Themistocles... -
An Irish Childhood by Peter Somerville-Large 9781841197081
Booksplease Price: $38.18Peter Somerville-Large grew up with his brother Phil in a nursery world at the top of a smart house in Dublin from which they could watch Fitzwilliam Place far below, with the horse drawn delivery... -
Bloody Mary's Martyrs: The story of England's Terror by Jasper Ridley 9781841195353
Booksplease Price: $43.47Mary was crowned queen in 1553. In the space of just five years, her brutal methods earned her the macabre nickname she has carried ever since. Men such as Nicholas Ridley and Thomas Cranmer,... -
Death on the Holy Mountain by David Dickinson 9781845298760
Booksplease Price: $43.47The year is 1905 and Powerscourt is sent to Ireland to investigate a series of art thefts from stately houses. Motive troubles Powerscourt; were these robberies merely for gain? A number of Old... -
Death in a Scarlet Coat by David Dickinson 9781780331584
Booksplease Price: $43.47Master of the Hunt, the fifteenth Earl of Candlesby, has come to lead his riders once again. But this time he comes as a corpse, wrapped in blankets across his horse, a corner of his scarlet coat... -
A Brief History of the Cold War by John Hughes-Wilson 9781845292584
Booksplease Price: $49.69The Cold War was an undeclared war, fought silently and carefully between ideological opponents armed with the most fearsome weapons mankind has ever seen. Hughes-Wilson takes a cool look at this... -
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Snobbery with Violence by M. C. Beaton 9781849012898 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $5.04After a brief and ill-advised dalliance with the Suffragette movement, Lady Rose Summers' debut season in London society turns out to be a complete disaster. Rose's father suspects that her fiance,... -
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Rattle his Bones by Carola Dunn 9781849015189 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $4.14As a grey drizzle descends upon the damp errand boys and busy omnibuses of London, Daisy Dalrymple is feeling rather cheerful and excited to be showing her nephew and future stepdaughter the glories... -
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The Bloody Tower by Carola Dunn 9781849017114 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $4.10Daisy discovers fresh blood in a tower infamous through history for dark deeds...Now the mother of two-month-old twins, Daisy decides to resume her journalistic career by writing a piece for a new... -
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The Skeleton in the Closet by M. C. Beaton 9781849016087 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $4.16Ignorance is bliss... especially when it comes to murder!Ever since the death of his father, Fellworth Dolphin has slaved away as a waiter to support his miserly, cold-hearted mother. So when she... -
A Brief History of Fighting Ships by David Tudor Davies 9781841194691
RRP: $12.58Booksplease Price: $9.72This introduction to the years of the Napoleonic wars (1793 to 1815) tells the story of one of the keys to that great conflict, the Ship of the Line - the deadly battleships that played such a vital... -
Gone West Carola Dunn 9781780331393
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.84Daisy's hot on the trail of a murdered writer!September 1926, and Daisy's in Derbyshire, visiting an old school friend who's currently employed by a novelist as his personal secretary. Sylvia... -
The Secret History of Lucifer (New Edition) by Lynn Picknett
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45In her new account of an old religion, Lynn Picknett explains that Lucifer means 'the light bringer' and was a personification of the Morning Star, the planet Venus and its goddess. 'He' was... -
The Burry Man's Day Catriona McPherson 9781845295929
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54The second classic whodunnit starring Dandy Gilver.Summer 1923, and as the village of Queensferry prepares for the annual Ferry Fair and the walk of the Burry Man, feelings are running high. With his... -
Winter Garden Mystery by Carola Dunn
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.84So who put the body in with the spring bulbs?The merest hint of spring has arrived in Cheshire, and so has young reporter Daisy Dalrymple. The feisty flapper's visit is a breath of fresh air for... -
Children of the Storm Elizabeth Peters 9781845295622
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.84The fifteenth adventure for Amelia, Emerson and the whole Peabody-Emerson clan!At last the Great War is over. Amelia, her distinguished Egyptologist husband Emerson and their extended family are... -
The Mammoth Book of Short Erotic Novels Maxim Jakubowski (Bookseller/Editor) 9781841190785
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84Some of the most popular and innovative writers of erotic literature today have contributed to these twelve short novels which explore everything from love and longing to the darker emotions of pain,... -
The Mammoth Book of Modern Battles by Jon E. Lewis
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $8.42From the start of the 20th century to the most recent major offensives, here are fifty accounts of the battles that made the modern world, described in superb detail by historians and writers... -
Curse of the Pharaohs: second vol in series Elizabeth Peters 9781845293871
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.84Join our plucky Victorian Egyptologist , together with her devastatingly handsome and brilliant husband Radcliffe, in another exciting escapadeWhen Lady Baskerville's husband Sir Henry dies after... -
A Brief History of British Kings & Queens Mike Ashley 9781841195513
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05Here is the whole of recorded British royal history, from the legendary King Alfred the Great onwards, including the monarchies of England, Scotland, Wales and the United Kingdom for over a thousand... -
To Davy Jones Below Carola Dunn 9781849015196
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $13.36With the peal of wedding bells still ringing in their ears, Daisy Dalrymple and her new husband, Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher, take an ocean trip to America. On board they are joined by a... -
The Skeleton in the Closet M.C. Beaton 9781849016087
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.84Ignorance is bliss... especially when it comes to murder!Ever since the death of his father, Fellworth Dolphin has slaved away as a waiter to support his miserly, cold-hearted mother. So when she... -
A Brief History of Christianity by Bamber Gascoigne
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.24This volume tells the story of Christianity through the individual men and women who shaped it. It is a story of colossal undertakings and spectacular successes as well as ferocious intolerance,... -
Sick of Shadows by M. C. Beaton
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.84It would seem that even a pretend engagement cannot keep Lady Rose Summer from trouble. Bored with endless parties, teas and balls, she befriends Dolly Tremaine, a beautiful young girl newly arrived... -
Lion in the Valley by Elizabeth Peters
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.84The 1985-96 season promises to be an exceptional one for Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, her dashing husband Emerson and their precocious eight-year-old son Rameses. The much-coveted burial chamber in... -
Thunder in the Sky Elizabeth Peters 9781845295592
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.84It is 1914 and Amelia Peabody and her husband Emerson are back in Egypt for another season of archaeological excavation. But this year a new menace hangs over the dig: rumblings of war abound in... -
Rubicon Steven Saylor 9781849016148
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.84A story of murder and duplicity during the Roman civil war featuring Gordianus the Finder.Caesar and his troops have crossed teh Rubicon and ar marching on Rome. Pompey his rival, is preparing to... -
Deeds of the Disturber by Elizabeth Peters 9781845293901
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.84Join our plucky Victorian Egyptologist, together with her devastatingly handsome and brilliant husband Radcliffe, in another exciting escapadeSwapping the stifling heat and dust of Egypt for the... -
The Bristol Approach to Living with Cancer: New Edition by Rosy Daniel 9781841196800
Booksplease Price: $43.47Since 1980 the Bristol Cancer Centre has offered new hope to tens of thousands of people diagnosed with cancer. At Bristol treatment is based on the restoration of calm and in adopting a lifestyle to... -
The Shortest Way to Hades: Number 2 in Series by Sarah Caudwell 9781780339269
Booksplease Price: $38.18Everyone in the family had decided that changing the trust arrangement seemed the perfect way to avoid three million in taxes. However, when dreary cousin Deirdre has a mysterious accident after... -
The Sirens Sang of Murder: Number 3 in Series by Sarah Caudwell 9781780339283
Booksplease Price: $38.18Whilst on a trip to the sunny Channel Islands to find the heir to a lucrative tax law case, young barrister Michael Cantrip finds himself in over his head. Peculiar things begin to occur on the... -
Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders by John Gierach 9781841194769
Booksplease Price: $53.82This is the first anthology of Gierach's work, and is sure to please his many fans, who include Eric Clapton, Jeremy Paxman and George Melly. To enter Gierach's world is to experience the daily...