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Assholes: A Theory Aaron James 9781857886108
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'A wonderful book. If you come across it, you must read it.' - John CleeseWhat does it mean for someone to be an a**hole? The answer is not obvious, despite the fact that we are often personally... -
Travels in West Africa by Mary Kingsley
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51A remarkable account by a pioneering woman explorer who was described by Rudyard Kipling as 'the bravest woman of all my knowledge'.Until 1893, Mary Kingsley lived the typical life of a single... -
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Escape Artist: The Nine Lives of Harry Perry Robinson by Joseph McAleer (Independent Historian) 9780198794943 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £5.46The life of Sir Harry Perry Robinson (1859-1930) unfolds like a Boy's Own adventure. Born in India and educated at Oxford, Harry fled to the United States to make his name and fortune. After a stint... -
The Searchers: The Quest for the Lost of the First World War Robert Sackville-West 9781526613141
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78SHORTLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITERS' ASSOCIATION CROWN AWARDS 2022 'Compelling and often horrifying' THE TIMES Best Paperbacks of 2022 The epic, moving stories of Britain's search to... -
Scribners: Five Generations in Publishing by Charles Scribner III 9781493079971
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.44Scribners tells the inside story of five generations--over 150 years--at the legendary publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons, beginning with its founding in an unused chapel in downtown New... -
Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism, 1830-1914 by Patrick Brantlinger 9780801497674
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24A major contribution to the cultural and literary history of the Victorian age, Rule of Darkness maps the complex relationship between Victorian literary forms, genres, and theories and imperialist,... -
The Spark of Modernism: Twenty Speculative Stories and Writings That Defined an Era, 1886-1939 by William Gillard, 9781476691091
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.89Between the years of 1886 and 1939, the world saw the first automobiles, rapid urbanization, the decay of empires, vast economic inequality, the first airplanes and the terrifying secrets of the atom... -
Before the Raj: Writing Early Anglophone India by James Mulholland
RRP: £37.95Booksplease Price: £35.22Anglo-India's regional literature was both a practical and imaginative response to a pivotal period in the early colonialism of South Asia.Awarded as Honorable Mention of the Louis Gottschalk Prize... -
Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India by Gyan Prakash
Booksplease Price: £44.25Another Reason is a bold and innovative study of the intimate relationship between science, colonialism, and the modern nation. Gyan Prakash, one of the most influential historians of India writing... -
The Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction by Sandra Kemp 9780198605348
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £24.44'This oozing, bulging wealth of the English upper and upper-middle classes.' This was how George Orwell saw the Edwardian period. What images do we see when we think of that era? Ladies munching... -
Classic Ghost Stories: Spooky Tales from Charles Dickens, H.G. Wells, M.R. James and many more by Various
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.99As the winter nights draw in and you settle in front of a cosy fire, it's the perfect time for a dash of the supernatural...embrace the gloom with spine-chillers from Charles Dickens, H.G. Wells,... -
The Craft: How the Freemasons Made the Modern World John Dickie 9781473658226
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.20'Convincingly researched and thoroughly entertaining' - Wall Street JournalTHE TIMES BEST BOOKS OF 2020'This book shows that, despite rumours of demon dwarfs, piano-playing crocodiles and world... -
Shadowing the White Man's Burden: U.S. Imperialism and the Problem of the Color Line by Gretchen Murphy
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82During the height of 19th century imperialism, Rudyard Kipling published his famous poem "The White Man's Burden." While some of his American readers argued that the poem served as justification for... -
The Oxford Book of Garden Verse by John Dixon Hunt 9780192141965
Booksplease Price: £72.05There have been poems about gardens for as long as there have been gardens. Gardens have been all things to all men and women: paradoxical sites of pleasure and pain, of safety and danger, art and... -
Popular Children's Literature in Britain Julia Briggs 9781138276710
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £50.19The astonishing success of J.K. Rowling and other contemporary children's authors has demonstrated how passionately children can commit to the books they love. But this kind of devotion is not new... -
God's Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898 - 1902 by Susan K. Harris
RRP: £31.49Booksplease Price: £25.12When the U.S. liberated the Philippines from Spanish rule in 1898, the exploit was hailed at home as a great moral victory, an instance of Uncle Sam freeing an oppressed country from colonial tyranny... -
War Stories: Reporting in the tTime of Conflict from The Crimea to Iraq by Harold Evans 9781593730055
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £9.40The war correspondent trails clouds of glory. The names of the pioneers of the trade are stardust: Ernest Hemingway, Alexander Dumas, Henry Villard, Winston Churchill, Stephen Crane, John Reed,... -
Teaching Kids to Think Critically: Effective Problem-Solving and Better Decisions by Clifton B. Chadwick 9781475810660
Booksplease Price: £41.78This book is based on a simple series of psychological concepts. While ability to think has always been important, the knowledge economy significantly increases the demand for higher order thinking... -
Teaching Kids to Think Critically: Effective Problem-Solving and Better Decisions by Clifton B. Chadwick 9781475810653
Booksplease Price: £76.51This book is based on a simple series of psychological concepts. While ability to think has always been important, the knowledge economy significantly increases the demand for higher order thinking... -
Mark Twain's Homes and Literary Tourism: Volume 1 Hilary Iris Lowe 9780826223333
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £18.91A century after Samuel Clemens's death, Mark Twain thrives. One way fans still celebrate the first true American writer and his work is by visiting any number of Mark Twain destinations. They... -
The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Ted Jones
Booksplease Price: £12.81A reader's journey along the French Riviera, from Hyeres and Saint-Tropez to the Italian border, introducing the lives and work of writers who passed this way. The sunlight and calm of the French... -
Both Not Half: 'Few people write about identity with such fluency and sincerity' SATHNAM SANGHERA by Jassa Ahluwalia 9781788708319
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.17'Full of warmth, humour, optimism and sometimes painful honesty' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE'Anyone who's ever struggled to make sense of who they are and where they belong should read this book' NADIA... -
How the Snake Lost its Legs: Curious Tales from the Frontier of Evo-Devo by Lewis I. Held, Jr. 9781107621398
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £35.77How did the zebra really get its stripes, and the giraffe its long neck? What is the science behind camel humps, leopard spots, and other animal oddities? Such questions have fascinated us for... -
The Selected Letters of Theodore Roosevelt by H. W. Brands 9780742550490
Booksplease Price: £15.32Theodore Roosevelt (1857-1919) was the most literary of American Presidents, writing scores of books, including Through the Brazilian Wilderness and African Game Trails. He was also the most active... -
The Great Convergence: Asia, the West, and the Logic of One World by Kishore Mahbubani
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £10.42In this visionary roadmap to the twenty-first-century, Kishore Mahbubani prescribes solutions for improving global institutional order. He diagnoses seven geopolitical fault lines most in need of... -
East Asia Before the West: Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute by David C. Kang 9780231153195
Booksplease Price: £21.40From the founding of the Ming dynasty in 1368 to the start of the Opium Wars in 1841, China has engaged in only two large-scale conflicts with its principal neighbors, Korea, Vietnam, and Japan... -
Guru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language by Srinivas Aravamudan 9780691118284
Booksplease Price: £32.82Guru English is a bold reconceptualization of the scope and meaning of cosmopolitanism, examining the language of South Asian religiosity as it has flourished both inside and outside of its original... -
East Asia Before the West: Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute by David C. Kang 9780231153188
Booksplease Price: £78.51From the founding of the Ming dynasty in 1368 to the start of the Opium Wars in 1841, China has engaged in only two large-scale conflicts with its principal neighbors, Korea, Vietnam, and Japan... -
The Marches by Rory Stewart
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Rory Stewart explores his love for the UK in this account of history, memory and landscape as he traverses the the borderlands between England and Scotland.'This beautifully written book is a... -
Gunpowder and Glory: The Explosive Life of Frank Brock OBE by Harry Smee
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53Picture a daredevil combatant, secret agent and brilliant inventor all rolled into one. Such a man was pyrotechnical genius Frank Brock, a scion of the famous firework family and one of Britain's... -
Fox & Son Tailers by Paddy Donnelly 9781788494410
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95FOX & SONS - Makers of the Finest Traditional Tails for All Animals and Every Occasion! Rory's dad, Fox, is a tailer. The BEST in the business! Animals come from all over to have their tails made...