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The Beastly Battles Of Old England: The misguided manoeuvres of the British at war by Nigel Cawthorne
RRP: £3.99Booksplease Price: £3.39Throughout history the English have been a warlike lot. Often we fight among ourselves - there have been a good few civil wars - and when we were not slaughtering each other, we practiced on our... -
The Last London: True Fictions from an Unreal City by Iain Sinclair
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74A New Statesman Book of the Year London. A city apart. Inimitable. Or so it once seemed. Spiralling from the outer limits of the Overground to the pinnacle of the Shard, Iain Sinclair... -
Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now - As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It and Long for It by Craig Taylor 9781847083296
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The ground-breaking and bestselling group portrait of London today: a book as rich, dynamic, lively, and diverse as the city itself 'Epic' David Nicholls 'Electrifying' The Times 'This is a... -
The Spirit of London by Boris Johnson 9780007511174
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24First published as Johnson's Life of London, now released with new material following Jubilee and Olympic celebrations in 2012. This updated history of London shows that the ingenuity, diversity,... -
Patriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh by Anna Beer 9781786076700
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year A writer, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer, Sir Walter Ralegh lived more lives than most in his own time, in any time. The fifth son of a... -
Psychogeography by Merlin Coverley
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.00Psychogeography. In recent years this term has been used to illustrate a bewildering array of ideas from ley lines and the occult, to urban walking and political radicalism. But where does it come... -
Wiffle Lever to Full! Bob Fischer 9781473680951
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Personal and engaging . . . anyone who agrees that Star Wars was a defining moment of our collective childhood will love this book' - The Times'Funny and affectionate' - Time Out'Will have you... -
The Hundred Years War Vol 5: Triumph and Illusion Jonathan Sumption 9780571274598
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.38'Sumption is that rare and precious thing: a serious, decent, honest thinker . . . and one of our finest historians.' Dan Jones, Sunday Times'Gripping and eminently readable . . . a compelling... -
Tales of the Suburbs: LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains John Grindrod 9780571382866
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73Throughout LGBTQ+ history, suburbia has been seen as somewhere to escape from: a place where heterosexuality rules; where difference will not be tolerated; where you'll never find a soulmate. But for... -
Brit Noir: The Pocket Essential Guide to British Crime Fiction, Film & TV by Barry Forshaw
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Barry Forshaw is acknowledged as a leading expert on crime fiction from European countries, but his principal area of expertise is in the British crime arena. After the success of earlier entries in... -
Ideaflow: Why Creative Businesses Win by Jeremy Utley
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41'A game-changer' | 'A must-read' | 'Simple yet powerful'The single best way to have a great idea is to produce lots of ideas.The number of new ideas your organization can produce is a metric for its... -
Big Week: The Biggest Air Battle of World War Two by James Holland
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'James Holland is a master' BBC HistoryIt was to be the battle to end the air war once and for all.During the third week of February 1944, the combined Allied air forces launched their first-ever... -
The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Gaudy, wild, raw, amusing, rollicking and ragged, boiling with life, on intimate terms with death and evil - but in the end, contrite and fully tired of a world wasting itself in blood, pillage and... -
Dante in Love by A. N. Wilson
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31With a biographer's eye for detail and a novelist's comprehension of the creative process, A. N. Wilson paints a masterful portrait of Dante Alighieri and unlocks one of the seminal works of... -
The Catholics: The Church and its People in Britain and Ireland, from the Reformation to the Present Day by Roy Hattersley
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74The 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... -
Straight Acting: The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare Will Tosh 9781529390513
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Fluent and witty . . . confident . . . highly readable'Kathryn Hughes, GUARDIAN'Lively and accomplished'Sophie Duncan, LITERARY REVIEW'Engaging, enthusiastic and informative'Philip Hensher,... -
The Diary of Samuel Pepys: A Selection by Samuel Pepys
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.68Previously published as The Shorter Pepys, Samuel Pepys' The Diary of Samuel Pepys: A Selection is a collection of scintillating first-hand accounts of Restoration England, from the most tumultuous... -
The Last Emperor of Mexico: A Disaster in the New World by Edward Shawcross
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Hilarious, heartbreaking and utterly extraordinary.' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times Books of the Year'Superbly entertaining.' Financial Times'Jaw-dropping.' Sunday Times'Fascinating.'... -
The British Imagination: A History of Ideas from Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II Peter Watson 9781398513914
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.06'Extensive and intelligent . . . a guide to the nature of British intellectual curiosity' SpectatorThe reign of Queen Elizabeth I ushered in an unprecedented age of exploration and discovery. Over... -
Straight Acting: The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare by Will Tosh 9781529390476
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.62'Fluent and witty . . . confident . . . highly readable'Kathryn Hughes, GUARDIAN'Brilliant - so vivid and so sharp, fantastically clever and consistently fascinating'KATHERINE RUNDELL, author of... -
London's Lost Rivers: a beautifully illustrated guide to London's secret rivers Paul Talling 9781847945976
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41Packed with surprising and fascinating information, London's Lost Rivers uncovers a very different side to London - showing how waterways shaped our principal city and exploring the legacy they leave... -
Against The Law Peter Wildeblood 9781474612524
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99'This right which I claim for myself and for all those like me is the right to choose the person whom I love' Peter WildebloodIn March 1954 Peter Wildeblood, a London journalist, was one of five men... -
London's Triumph: Merchant Adventurers and the Tudor City by Stephen Alford
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Consistently illuminating ... Like all the best stories, it is about the timeless tides of power and influence ... trade deals can sometimes be sexy, thrilling and epic' Sinclair McKay,... -
Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet by Chris Dixon 9781529925623
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.80THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A compelling vision of where the internet should go and how to get there.' Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI_A potent exploration of the power of blockchains to reshape... -
London Clay: Journeys in the Deep City by Tom Chivers
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81'A lyrical meditation on landscapes and cities, vivid reportage and a memoir. And also a beautifully realised and moving read.' Financial Times'A beguiling mix of history, geology, folklore and... -
Conversations with Jay Parini by Professor Michael Lackey 9781628460254
Booksplease Price: £88.60Jay Parini (b. 1948) is best known for his novel about Leo Tolstoy's last year, The Last Station, which has been translated into more than twenty-five languages and made into a Hollywood film. But he... -
Conversations with Jay Parini by Michael Lackey 9781496830784
Booksplease Price: £24.63Jay Parini (b. 1948) is best known for his novel about Leo Tolstoy's last year, The Last Station, which has been translated into more than twenty-five languages and made into a Hollywood film. But he... -
Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and His Scandalous Duchess by Alison Weir
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74'Weir combines high drama with high passion while involving us in the domestic life of a most remarkable woman in an equally remarkable book' Scotland on Sunday The first full-length biography of an... -
The City of Today is a Dying Thing: In Search of the Cities of Tomorrow by Des Fitzgerald 9780571362219
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.84'Counterintuitive, funny and provocative . . . We could all use a little more of Fitzgerald's scepticism.' Edwin Heathcote, Financial Times'Like Jon Ronson on town planners . . . Endlessly funny and... -
Writing on the Wall: Graffiti, Rebellion and the Making of Eighteenth-Century Britain Madeleine Pelling 9781800812000
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'Fascinating ... not only a history of graffiti, but also a history of the 18th century through lost voices of the people who lived through it.' The Times What if walls could talk? For historian... -
Holacracy: The Revolutionary Management System that Abolishes Hierarchy by Brian J. Robertson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95In Holacracy, Brian J Robertson outlines a ground-breaking approach to organisation: no managers, only roles'Holacracy is the opposite of the cliche way to run a start-up. It creates clarity: who is... -
Writing on the Wall: Graffiti, Rebellion and the Making of Eighteenth-Century Britain by Madeleine Pelling 9781800811997
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53'Fascinating ... not only a history of graffiti, but also a history of the 18th century through lost voices of the people who lived through it.' The Times What if walls could talk? For historian... -
The City of Today is a Dying Thing: In Search of the Cities of Tomorrow Des Fitzgerald 9780571362226
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Cities are bad for us: polluted, noisy and fundamentally unnatural. We need green space, not concrete. Trees, not tower blocks.So goes the argument. But is it true? What would the city of the future... -
The Subterranean Railway: How the London Underground Was Built and How It Changed the City Forever by Christian Wolmar
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Revised and updated edition of Christian Wolmar's classic history of the London Underground, with a new chapter on Crossrail.'I can think of few better ways to while away those elastic periods... -
The Bookshop, The Draper, The Candlestick Maker: A History of the High Street Annie Gray 9781800812246
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.92'A rich, lively and nostalgia-provoking sensory experience ... this is history in its messiest, most bustling human essence' THE TIMES 'Like being in the company of a chatty, trusted friend' LUCY... -
Shakespeare for Grown-ups: Everything you Need to Know about the Bard by Elizabeth Foley
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'Rather jolly and very helpful' The TimesNeed to swot up on your Shakespeare? The ultimate guide to the Bard, perfect for the Shakespeare aficionado and general reader alike. ... -
Quantum Body: The New Science of Living a Longer, Healthier, More Vital Life by Dr Deepak Chopra 9781846047701
Booksplease Price: £13.19A visionary collaboration from three of today's most powerful minds.Coming together in an unprecedented collaboration, international bestselling author Deepak Chopra, physicist Jack Tuszynski, and... -
In Search Of The Trojan War by Michael Wood
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.25For thousands of years we have been enthralled by tales of Troy and its heroes. Achilles and Hector, Paris and the famed beauty Helen remain some of the most enduring figures in art and literature... -
User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design are Changing the Way We Live, Work & Play Cliff Kuang 9780753556658
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41AMAZON BEST BOOKS OF 2019 PICKFORTUNE WRITERS AND EDITORS' RECOMMENDED BOOKS OF 2019 PICK'A tour de force, an engrossing fusion of scholarly research, professional experience and revelations from... -
Fire Island: A Queer History Jack Parlett 9781783787029
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74"A beautiful, beguiling journey to the ultimate queer utopia" - Olivia Laing "Clued-up but insatiably thirsty, poignant, packed with literary intrigue, Fire Island is a beaming beach read" -...