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The Chalice Nancy Bilyeau 9781398718319
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55A CURSE TO KILL A KING. A FIGHT TO SAVE A NATION. England, 1538. The nation is reeling after the ruthless dissolution of the monasteries by King Henry VIII. Cast out of Dartford Priory, Joanna... -
Company of Liars by Karen Maitland
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26The year is 1348 and the first plague victim has reached English shores. Panic erupts around the country and a small band of travellers comes together to outrun the deadly disease, unaware that... -
Thomas Cromwell: A Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $16.76A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN, BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR'This is the biography we have been awaiting for 400 years' Hilary Mantel'A masterpiece'... -
Murder Most Royal: (Tudor Saga) by Jean Plaidy
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $17.87If you like Philippa Gregory, you will love this dazzlingly vivid historical novel from multi-million copy and international bestselling author Jean Plaidy. Two Queens at the mercy of a capricious... -
The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $11.46Does America's pro-Israel lobby wield inappropriate control over US foreign policy? This book has created a storm of controversy by bringing out into the open America's relationship with the Israel... -
Tatty by Christine Dwyer Hickey
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.19Hailed by the critics as a masterpiece, Tatty is a devastating, yet hilarious, depiction of a troubled Dublin family told through the lively, charismatic voice of a little girl.With brutal honesty,... -
Merivel: A Man of His Time by Rose Tremain
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66'One of the great imaginative creations in English literature' Daily TelegraphA dazzling novel of loyalty and dreams set in Restoration England.The gaudy years of the Restoration are long gone and... -
The Safeguard of the Sea: A Naval History of Britain 660-1649 by N. A. M. Rodger
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.55Throughout Britain's history, one factor above all others has determined the fate of the nation: its navy. N. A. M. Rodger's definitive account reveals how the political and social progress of... -
Fire Queen: Shakespeare's Ophelia as you've never seen her before . . . by Joanna Courtney 9780349419534
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $5.69Lover or leader? Weakling or warrior? Madwoman or misfit?Escape into the untold story of Shakespeare's Ophelia . . . As a young girl, Ofelia stood frozen as her mother threw herself on her father's... -
Henrietta Maria: Conspirator, Warrior, and Phoenix Queen – the true story of Charles I’s wife by Leanda de Lisle 9781529111040
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20A myth-busting biography of Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I, which retells the dramatic story of the civil war from her perspectiveA TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD... -
All His Spies: The Secret World of Robert Cecil Stephen Alford 9780141991832
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56Robert Cecil, statesman and spymaster, lived through an astonishingly threatening period in English history. Queen Elizabeth had no clear successor and enemies both external and internal threatened... -
William Wallace: Brave Heart by James A. Mackay 9781851588237
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.36Sir William Wallace of Ellerslie is one of history's greatest heroes, but also one of its greatest enigmas - a shadowy figure whose edges have been blurred by myth and legend. Even the date and place... -
White King: Charles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr by Leanda de Lisle
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.42The subject of a BBC TV series on Charles I The prize-winning biography of Charles I * Winner of the HWA Crown for Best Work of Historical Non-Fiction 2018 ** Times Book of the Year ** Shortlisted... -
The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World by Avi Shlaim
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.94Avi Shlaim's The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World is the outstanding book on Israeli foreign policy, now thoroughly updated with a new preface and chapters on Israel's most recent leadersIn the... -
George IV (Penguin Monarchs): King in Waiting by Stella Tillyard
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91George IV spent most of his life waiting to become king: as a pleasure-loving and rebellious Prince of Wales during the sixty-year reign of his father, George III, and for ten years as Prince... -
Richard III: Brother, Protector, King by Chris Skidmore
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.20'Fresh, gripping and vivid' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'Majestically narrated' Dan Jones 'A portrait that chills you to the bone' Leanda de Lisle, The TimesA dedicated brother and loyal stalwart to the... -
World Without End: The Global Empire of Philip II by Hugh Thomas
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.03Following Rivers of Gold and The Golden Age, World Without End is the conclusion of a magisterial three-volume history of the Spanish Empire by Hugh Thomas, its foremost worldwide authorityWorld... -
King and Collector: Henry VIII and the Art of Kingship by Siobhan Clarke
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.57'Packed with absorbing detail and brilliant insights ... I was gripped from the first paragraph.' - Alison Weir No English king is as well-known to us as Henry VIII - famous for his six marriages,... -
The Heart of the Lion: (Plantagenet Saga) by Jean Plaidy
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.22At the age of thirty-two, Richard the Lionheart has finally succeeded Henry II to the English throne. And, against his father's wishes, he intends to make Berengaria, daughter of the King of Navarre,... -
The Owl Killers by Karen Maitland 9780141031897
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $17.87Another sensational slice of Dark Ages Gothic from the author of the triumphant seller Company of LiarsEngland, 1321Welcome to the Dark AgesIn the heart of the countryside lies an isolated village,... -
Restoration by Rose Tremain
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66The bestselling classic from a 'magnificent story-teller' (Independent on Sunday). Journey to the glittering seventeenth-century court, and witness the rise and fall of young, charming Robert Merivel... -
Henrietta Maria: Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen by Leanda de Lisle
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $25.19***A Best Book of 2022, The Times******Book of the Year, Spectator***A myth-busting biography of Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I, which retells the dramatic story of the civil war from her... -
The Hammer of the Scots: (Plantagenet Saga) by Jean Plaidy
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.98Readers of Philippa Gregory will love this gripping account of Edward I and his private and political battles by multi-million copy and international bestselling author Jean Plaidy. 'Outstanding' --... -
John (Penguin Monarchs): An Evil King? by Nicholas Vincent 9780141977690
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56King John ruled England for seventeen and a half years, yet his entire reign is usually reduced to one image: of the villainous monarch outmanoeuvred by rebellious barons into agreeing to Magna Carta... -
In The Footsteps Of Alexander The Great by Michael Wood 9780563521938
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.19Michael Wood retraces Alexander the Greats amazing journey from Greece to India, searching for the truth behind the legend and experiencing the tremendous scale of his achievements. Using the... -
The History of the Franks by Gregory of Tours
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56Written following the collapse of Rome's secular control over western Europe, the History of Gregory (c. AD 539-594) is a fascinating exploration of the events that shaped sixth-century France. This... -
House of Lilies: The Dynasty that Made Medieval France Justine Firnhaber-Baker 9780141999241
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91One of the great epics of Europe's history, the story of the rise and rise of the Capetian dynasty dominates the Middle Ages. Starting in the tenth century from an insecure foothold around Paris, the... -
How to be a Princess: Real-Life Fairy Tales for Modern Heroines – No Fairy Godmothers Required by Katy Birchall 9781529909692
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $10.90As Meghan Markle once said: 'With fame comes opportunity, but it also includes responsibility - to advocate and share, to focus less on the glass slipper and more on pushing through glass ceilings... -
A History of the World in Twelve Maps by Jerry Brotton
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it. But far from being purely scientific objects, maps of the world are unavoidably ideological and... -
William IV (Penguin Monarchs): A King at Sea by Roger Knight
RRP: $6.44Booksplease Price: $5.30'He had brought nothing but trouble to the navy: how would he fare as King?'Known as the 'Sailor King', William IV was sent to join the navy by his father to discipline him, but instead became... -
The Penguin History of Britain: New Worlds, Lost Worlds:The Rule of the Tudors 1485-1630 by Susan Brigden
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.03No period in British history today retains more resonance and mystery than the sixteenth century. The leading figures of the time have become almost mythical, and the terrors and grandeurs of Tudor... -
Fire Queen: Shakespeare's Ophelia as you've never seen her before . . . by Joanna Courtney
RRP: $5.15Booksplease Price: $4.37Lover or leader? Weakling or warrior? Madwoman or Misfit?Escape into the untold story of Shakespeare's Ophelia . . . As a young girl, Ofelia stood frozen as her mother threw herself on her father's... -
Viking Age Iceland by Jesse L. Byock
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56Medieval Iceland was unique amongst Western Europe, with no foreign policy, no defence forces, no king, no lords, no peasants and few battles. It should have been a utopia yet its literature is... -
A Sister's Secret: A heart-warming and uplifting Regency romance from bestseller Mary Jane Staples by Mary Jane Staples
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.11Perfect for fans of Georgette Heyer and Netflix hit Bridgerton, a dashing Regency romance from multi-million copy seller Mary Jane Staples. READERS ARE LOVING A SISTER'S SECRET! "Mary Jane Staples is... -
The Crown Nancy Bilyeau 9781398718302
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55A thrilling, darkly delicious Tudor novel - 'A stunning debut. One of the best historical novels I have ever read' Alison WeirFOR SECRETS THIS DEADLY, BLOOD WILL DYE THE THRONE OF A NATION..... -
The Witchfinder's Sister: The captivating Richard & Judy Book Club historical thriller 2018 by Beth Underdown 9780241978054
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.73'The number of women my brother Matthew killed, so far as I can reckon it, is one hundred and six . . .'THE PAGE-TURNING RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB BESTSELLER'A compelling debut from a gifted... -
Sir Francis Drake by John Sugden
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20How well do you know the life of one of Britain's great maritime heroes? Discover the truth behind a man who remains a legendary figure of history more than four hundred years after his death.Sir... -
The Game Of Kings: The Lymond Chronicles Book One by Dorothy Dunnett
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Discover the compelling and addictive adventure from one of the nation's favourite historical writers, perfect for fans of Game of Thrones 'A brilliant storyteller, The Lymond Chronicles will keep... -
The Revolt of the Eaglets: (Plantagenet Saga) by Jean Plaidy
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $15.93Power struggles threaten the throne and family harmony in this captivating historical page-turner from multi-million copy and international bestselling author Jean Plaidy. Perfect for readers of... -
The First Bohemians: Life and Art in London's Golden Age by Vic Gatrell
Booksplease Price: $22.92The colourful, salacious and sumptuously illustrated story of Covent Garden - the creative heart of Georgian London - from Wolfson Prize-winning author Vic GatrellSHORT-LISTED FOR THE HESSELL TILTMAN...