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All Things Made New: Writings on the Reformation by Diarmaid MacCulloch
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £7.53The Reformation which engulfed England and Europe in the sixteenth century was one of the most highly-charged, bloody and transformative periods in their history, and has remained one of the most... -
The Girl with the Widow's Peak: The Memoirs by Lady Ursula D'Abo 9781907991097
RRP: £12.50Booksplease Price: £11.50Born in November 1916 to the Marquess and Marchioness of Granby, Lady Ursula was a sprightly and charming lady whose memoirs of her uniquely glamorous life make riveting reading. Describing herself... -
Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds Lyndall Gordon 9781844084548
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Emily Dickinson is regarded as one of the greatest poets of all time, but she has come to us as an odd and helpless woman living a life of self imposed seclusion. Lyndall Gordon sees instead a... -
The Mask of Command: A Study of Generalship John Keegan 9781844137381
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16The Mask of Command is about generals: who they are, what they do and how they affect the world we live in. Through portraits of four generals - archetypal hero Alexander the Great, anti-hero... -
The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution by Robert Service
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50'A timely and important book . . . he brings to it rare clarity and common sense. His book is a fast-paced account of the last sixteen months of the tsar's life; brief, sharp, but laced with... -
Roald Dahl Collected Stories by Roald Dahl
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05Many of these stores are now so famous from film and television adaptations that they need no introduction. Roald Dahl is well known as a master of the macabre and the unexpected in the tradition of... -
The Enemy: A Biography of Wyndham Lewis by Jeffrey Meyers
RRP: £91.99Booksplease Price: £90.68Originally published in 1980 and nominated for the Duff Cooper Prize, this was the first biography of Wyndham Lewis and was based on extensive archival research and interviews. It narrates Lewis'... -
Capital of the Mind: How Edinburgh Changed the World James Buchan 9781839830907
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60In the early 18th century, Edinburgh was a filthy backwater town synonymous with poverty and disease. Yet by century's end, it had become the marvel of modern Europe, home to the finest minds of the... -
History's People: Personalities and the Past by Professor Margaret MacMillan
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73What difference do individuals make to history? Are we all swept up in the great forces like industrialisation or globalisation, or is the world we inhabit shaped just as much by real people -... -
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The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes 9780224094153 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.92Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together,... -
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022 by Katherine Rundell
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23**A Sunday Times top ten bestseller****Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2023****Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize for Non-Fiction 2023****Shortlisted for the... -
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56 by Anne Applebaum
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73Chosen 16 times as a 'Book of the Year' - the top non-fiction pick of 2012'The best work of modern history I have ever read' A. N. Wilson, Financial TimesAt the end of the Second World War, the... -
Matisse: The Life by Hilary Spurling
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43'Inspired, innovative, remarkable' Independent 'Spurling has done better than anyone else at uncovering intimate information about Matisse' GuardianThe abridged, one-volume edition of Hilary... -
Mr Briggs' Hat: A Sensational Account of Britain's First Railway Murder by Kate Colquhoun
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26THE THRILLING TRUE STORY OF BRITAIN'S FIRST EVER RAILWAY MURDER 'A fascinatingly quirky portrait of the underside of Victorian London . . . unputdownable' Daily Telegraph'A cunning and suspenseful... -
The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.33The Water-Babies (1863) is one of the strangest and most powerful children's books ever published. Written by an Anglican clergyman with an insatiable love of science, the story combines an uplifting... -
A History Of Warfare John Keegan 9781844137497
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.07The definitive history of warfare told by Britain's foremost military historian.John Keegan's masterpiece is a work of breath-taking scope that not only chronicles the history of warfare, but... -
The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and The Secret History of Wonderland by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDThis is the secret history of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage. But beneath the fairy tale lies the complex... -
On Antisemitism: A Word in History by Mark Mazower 9780241722909
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.61What do we mean when we talk about antisemitism? A thoughtful, vital new intervention from the award-winning historianFor most of history, antisemitism has been understood as a menace from Europe's... -
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White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in 18th-century India by William Dalrymple 9780006550969 [USED COPY]
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £2.40From the author of the Samuel Johnson prize-shortlisted 'Return of a King', the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that transcended all the cultural, religious and... -
Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814 by Dominic Lieven
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43'A compulsive page-turner ... a triumph of brilliant storytelling ... an instant classic that is an awesome, remarkable and exuberant achievement' Simon Sebag Montefiore Winner of the Wolfson History... -
The Common Thread by John Sulston 9780552159609
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47John Sulston was director of the Sanger Centre in Cambridge from 1993 to 2000. There he led the British arm of the international team selected to map the entire human DNA sequence, a feat that was... -
Mad, Bad And Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present Lisa Appignanesi 9781844082346
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Mad, bad and sad. From the depression suffered by Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath to the mental anguish and addictions of iconic beauties Zelda Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe. From Freud and Jung and... -
Coleridge: Early Visions by Richard Holmes 9780007204571
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.22Winner of the 1989 Whitbread Prize for Book of the Year, this is the first volume of Holmes's seminal two-part examination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of Britain's greatest poets. ... -
Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company by William Dalrymple
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.82Published to coincide with the first UK exhibition of these masterworks at The Wallace Collection, Forgotten Masters celebrates the work of a series of extraordinary Indian artists. As the East... -
The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century, Fifth Edition by Robert Service
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73Robert Service's The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century provides a superb panorama of Russia in the modern age. Russia's recent past has encompassed... -
The Turning Point: A Year that Changed Dickens and the World by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.42A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR The year is 1851. It's a time of radical change in Britain, when industrial miracles and artistic innovations rub shoulders with political unrest, poverty and disease. It's... -
Sicilian Carousel by Lawrence Durrell
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Lose yourself in this vivid travelogue evoking the historic Mediterranean island of Sicily by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu. 'A magician.' The Times ... -
White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in 18th-century India by William Dalrymple
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.74From the author of the Samuel Johnson prize-shortlisted 'Return of a King', the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that transcended all the cultural, religious and... -
The Book in the Cathedral: The Last Relic of Thomas Becket Christopher de Hamel 9780141994246
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.01From the bestselling author of Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts, a captivating account of the last surviving relic of Thomas BecketThe assassination of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral on 29... -
The Rising Down by Alexandra Harris 9780571350520
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £13.80'Remarkable.' THE TIMES'Wonderful.' GUARDIAN'Fascinating.' TELEGRAPH'As a portrait of a place, it's hard to better.' COUNTRY LIFE'A thrill akin to discovering buried treasure.' RICHARD MABEY'Humane,... -
A Nasty Little War: The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution Anna Reid 9781529326789
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Chillingly original' Max Hastings'Brilliantly depicts a disastrous failure' Antony Beevor'Witty and elegant . . . Excellent background to today's events' Anne Applebaum'Britain's most forgotten war,... -
The Migrants: A Memoir with Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel 9780241670125
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.94A brilliant memoir from the bestselling author of Meetings With Remarkable ManuscriptsChristopher de Hamel is one of the world's best-known scholars and writers on illuminated manuscripts. He was... -
The Man in the Red Coat by Julian Barnes
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15*SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2020*'A bravura performance, highly entertaining' Evening StandardThe Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty tour of... -
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Spike Milligan by Humphrey Carpenter 9780340826119 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £2.58Spike Milligan was one of Britain's best-loved comics as well as one of the most original. In this reassessment of Spike's life and career, biographer Humphrey Carpenter has - through copious... -
Caesar's Vast Ghost by Lawrence Durrell
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Lose yourself in this classic travelogue evoking the idyllic South of France by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu. 'Full of stories, landscapes, comedy,... -
The Dark Labyrinth by Lawrence Durrell
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Lose yourself in bestselling author Lawrence Durrell's sublime novel about a group of English tourists trapped in the minotaur's labyrinth on Crete ... 'Spellbinding ... A fine storyteller.'... -
The Peregrine: 50th Anniversary Edition: Afterword by Robert Macfarlane by J. A. Baker
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.86Reissue of J. A. Baker's extraordinary classic of British nature writing, with an exclusive new afterword by Robert Macfarlane. J. A. Baker's extraordinary classic of British nature... -
The Word: On the Translation of the Bible by Dr John Barton 9780141993041
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23From the Sunday Times bestselling author of A History of the Bible, this is the story of how the Bible has been translated, and why it mattersThe Bible is held to be both universal and specific, the... -
Goodbye Christopher Robin: A. A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh by Ann Thwaite 9781509852000
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Goodbye Christopher Robin: A.A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh is drawn from Ann Thwaite's acclaimed biography of A. A. Milne, one of the most successful English writers ever, and the... -
The War that Ended Peace: How Europe abandoned peace for the First World War by Professor Margaret MacMillan
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.71WINNER of the International Affairs Book of the Year at the Political Book Awards 2014Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2013 The First World War followed a period of sustained peace in Europe...