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Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline Paul Cooper 9780715655481
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Based on the hit podcast with over 100 million downloads, Fall of Civilizations brilliantly explores how a range of ancient societies rose to power and sophistication, and how they tipped over into... -
Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline Paul Cooper 9780715655009
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $19.29Based on the hit podcast with over 100 million downloads, Fall of Civilizations brilliantly explores how a range of ancient societies rose to power and sophistication, and how they tipped over into... -
What Might Have Been?: Leading Historians on Twelve 'What Ifs' of History by Dr. Andrew Roberts
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55A dozen star historians on what might have happened at history's turning points if the dice had fallen differently.'Stimulating, provocative and playful' Literary ReviewThroughout history, great and... -
Peter the Great by Robert K. Massie
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $19.14The 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 Catholics: The Church and its People in Britain and Ireland, from the Reformation to the Present Day by Roy Hattersley
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.43The story of Catholicism in Britain from the Reformation to the present day, from a master of popular history - 'A first-class storyteller' The TimesThroughout the three hundred years that followed... -
The Russian Revolution by Victor Sebestyen
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $27.46An illustrated account of one of the most pivotal events in modern history - the Russian revolution of 1917. In the early years of the twentieth century, Imperial Russia was an ethnically diverse... -
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages by Dan Jones 9781789543544
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20The 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,... -
Israelophobia: The Newest Version of the Oldest Hatred and What To Do About It Jake Wallis Simons 9781408719282
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95'This is an important and necessary book by a superb and subtle writer. There's no one more qualified to write it than Jake Wallis Simons, both as ground-breaking Middle East security correspondent... -
Herzl: Theodor Herzl and the Foundation of the Jewish State by Shlomo Avineri
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35The first biography in more than a generation of the father of modern political Zionism and in effect the state of Israel.Drawing extensively on his diaries as well as his published works, this... -
Land Between the Rivers: A 5000-Year History of Iraq Bartle Bull 9781838957872
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.03'Elegant, erudite, ambitious, inventive - a remarkable blend of research, imagination and first-hand experience.' Rory Stewart'A sweeping and superbly written epic' Wall Street Journal 'A work of... -
Frederick the Great: King of Prussia by Tim Blanning
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.94'Highly readable and deeply researched' - Andrew Roberts 'Masterful ... brilliantly brings to life one of the most complex characters of modern European history' - Sunday Telegraph'It is sure to be... -
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations by Simon Schama 9781471169892
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $27.54'This splendid and often moving work of history... Schama has a gift for combining novelistically colourful detail, serious analysis and wryly amusing asides' Daily Telegraph 'Superb' Observer ... -
Stalin, Vol. II: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 by Stephen Kotkin
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.10A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017'A brilliant, compelling, propulsively written, magnificent tour de force' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard'The second volume of what will surely... -
The Last Emperor of Mexico: A Disaster in the New World by Edward Shawcross
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91'Hilarious, heartbreaking and utterly extraordinary.' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times Books of the Year'Superbly entertaining.' Financial Times'Jaw-dropping.' Sunday Times'Fascinating.'... -
Foreign Bodies: The Terror of Contagion, the Ingenuity of Science by Simon Schama 9781471169922
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95'This splendid and often moving work of history... Schama has a gift for combining novelistically colourful detail, serious analysis and wryly amusing asides' Daily Telegraph 'Superb' Observer ... -
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S. C. Gwynne
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $6.79In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West,... -
The Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton: A 19th Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women Lady Antonia Fraser 9781474610933
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35'Before biography was fashionable, Antonia Fraser made the past popular' Guardian'As a pure storyteller, Antonia Fraser has few equals' Sunday TimesCAROLINE NORTON, a nineteenth-century heroine who... -
Genghis Khan: The Man Who Conquered the World Frank McLynn 9781784703509
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.82Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever known, whose empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean to central Europe, including all of China, the Middle East and Russia. So how... -
The Duchess Countess by Catherine Ostler 9781471172588
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEARA TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR A VOGUE BOOK OF THE YEAR'A rollicking read... [Ostler] tells Elizabeth's story with admirable style and gusto' Sunday... -
The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book by Peter Finn 9780099581345
Booksplease Price: $14.18The story of a forbidden book that became a symbol of freedom and rebellion in the battle between East and West.1956. Boris Pasternak presses a manuscript into the hands of an Italian publishing...Qty in Cart: 0Price:Booksplease Price: $14.18Subtotal: -
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers Loung Ung 9781840185195
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.36Soon to be a major film, co-written and directed by Angelina Jolie PittUntil the age of five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official. She was a... -
1939: Countdown to War by Richard Overy
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91'A gripping analysis of the final days of peace ... indispensable' M. R. D. Foot, The TimesRichard Overy's 1939: Countdown to War re-creates hour-by-hour the last desperate attempts to salvage peace... -
The Duchess Countess Catherine Ostler 9781471172564
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.94A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEARA TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR A VOGUE BOOK OF THE YEAR'A rollicking read... [Ostler] tells Elizabeth's story with admirable style and gusto' Sunday... -
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.58The fascinating true story behind HBO's Catherine the Great starring Dame Helen Mirren as Catherine the Great. Born into a minor noble family, Catherine transformed herself into empress of Russia... -
The Glamour Boys: The Secret Story of the Rebels who Fought for Britain to Defeat Hitler by Chris Bryant
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97A STORY OF UNSUNG BRAVERY AT A DEFINING MOMENT IN BRITAIN'S HISTORY 'Superb' Stephen Fry 'Thrillingly told' Dan Jones 'Fascinating' Neil MacGregor 'Astonishing' Peter Frankopan We like to... -
Young Hitler: The Making of the Fuhrer by Paul Ham
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $10.84'A concise study of one of the most fascinating and evil men in history... Essential for anyone interested in military history' - SoldierMillions of words have been spent and misspent on Adolf Hitler... -
A Training School for Elephants Sophy Roberts 9780857528377
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $21.44'A modern-day Freya Stark' - Tatler'Roberts' writing is beguiling' - The i'Roberts is a wonderfully lyrical writer' - Observer'An author of courage, patience, erudition, and a sympathetic imagination... -
First They Killed My Father: Film tie-in by Loung Ung
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $8.60A major film, co-written and directed by Angelina Jolie Until the age of five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official. She was a precocious child... -
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A Tale Of Love And Darkness by Amos Oz 9780099450030 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $6.71Discover Amos Oz's most iconic work in this extraordinary memoir that is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation*OVER 2 MILLION COPIES... -
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Man of Bones: From the author of The Times 'Thriller of the Year' by Ben Creed 9781802793123 [USED COPY]
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $5.56** LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER **'Conjures up Stalinist Russia with evocative detail and the dread and menace that permeate everyday life' Financial Times'Utterly compelling, both in its... -
Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800-1906 by Mr David Cannadine
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $14.18SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2018 'This is stupendous. The British nineteenth century, in all its complexity, all its horror, all its energy, all its hopes is laid bare. This is the... -
St Petersburg: Three Centuries of Murderous Desire by Jonathan Miles
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.11'This extraordinary book brings to life an astonishing place. Beautiful prose renders brutality vivid' The Times - BOOK OF THE WEEK From Peter the Great to Putin, this is the unforgettable story of... -
Man of Bones: From the author of The Times 'Thriller of the Year' Ben Creed 9781802793130
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.11THE TIMES 'THRILLER OF THE YEAR' AND CWA GOLD DAGGER SHORTLISTED AUTHOR RETURNS!'Conjures up Stalinist Russia with evocative detail and the dread and menace that permeate everyday life' Financial... -
Man of Bones: From the author of The Times 'Thriller of the Year' by Ben Creed 9781802793123
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $21.44** LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER **'Conjures up Stalinist Russia with evocative detail and the dread and menace that permeate everyday life' Financial Times'Utterly compelling, both in its... -
The Noise of Time Julian Barnes 9781784703325
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66'BARNES'S MASTERPIECE' - OBSERVERIn May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House... -
The First Crusade: The Call from the East by Peter Frankopan
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SILK ROADS 'Filled with Byzantine intrigue, in every sense this book is important, compellingly revisionist and impressive in its scholarly use of... -
A Writer At War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945 by Vasily Grossman
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20In the summer of 1941, as the Germans invade Russia, newspaper reporter Vasily Grossman is swept to the frontlines, witnessing some of the most savage atrocities in Russian history. As Grossman... -
The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family by Helen Rappaport
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51Shortlisted for the HWA Sharpe Books Non-Fiction Crown AwardA work of investigative history that will completely change the way in which we see the Romanov story. Finally, here is the truth about the... -
Amazons: The Real Warrior Women of the Ancient World by John Man
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51Since the time of the ancient Greeks we have been fascinated by accounts of the Amazons, an elusive tribe of hard-fighting, horse-riding female warriors. Equal to men in battle, legends claimed they... -
Ottoman Odyssey: Travels through a Lost Empire: Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award by Alev Scott
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95**SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR**Alev Scott's odyssey began when she looked beyond Turkey's borders for contemporary traces of the Ottoman Empire. Their 800-year rule...