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Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.40'This is tragedy naked, godless and unredeemed' Kenneth TynanAn embittered Roman general returns from war, having captured the Queen of the Goths and her three sons. Sacrificing the eldest in memory... -
Roman Conquests: Britain Simon Elliott 9781526765680
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.81The Roman Conquests series seeks to explain when and how the Romans were able to conquer a vast empire stretching from the foothills of the Scottish Highlands to the Sahara Desert, from the Atlantic... -
Shakespeare's Freedom by Stephen Greenblatt 9780226306674
Booksplease Price: $22.45Shakespeare lived in a world of absolutes - the absolute authority claimed for God over the world, for the holy scriptures over the faithful, monarchs over subjects, fathers over wives and children,... -
The Little Book of Roman Emperors Dorian Bond 9781837052554
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.20Augustus and Tiberius; Caligula, Claudius and Nero - we can all name a Roman emperor or two.But what about the philosopher Marcus Aurelius musing in his favourite villa on the Danube in Austria?How... -
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Thames: Sacred River by Peter Ackroyd 9780701172848 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $4.73"Thames: Sacred River" is about the river from source to sea. It covers history from prehistoric times to the present, the flora and fauna of the river, paintings and photographs inspired by the... -
![The Shakespeare Timeline Wallbook by Christopher Lloyd 9780995482029 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5746020/5823089/9780995482029__86780.1726283526.jpg?c=1 "The Shakespeare Timeline Wallbook by Christopher Lloyd 9780995482029 [USED COPY]")
The Shakespeare Timeline Wallbook by Christopher Lloyd 9780995482029 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $6.93Experience the most amazing moments in Shakespeare's life in this fascinating, over-sized timeline reference. Developed in association with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, the timeline is uniquely... -
![Farewell Britannia: A Family Saga Of Roman Britain by Simon Young 9780753823705 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9714044/10730721/9780753823705__71574.1781375295.jpg?c=1 "Farewell Britannia: A Family Saga Of Roman Britain by Simon Young 9780753823705 [USED COPY]")
Farewell Britannia: A Family Saga Of Roman Britain by Simon Young 9780753823705 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $3.55'Hugely entertaining . . . What a joy to be able to recommend a book about misery, bloodshed and grisly superstition for being funny, compassionate and clear-eyed' Independent on SundayThe story of... -
The World Crisis 1911-1918 by Winston Churchill
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.67Winston Churchill's superlative account of the prelude to and events of the First World War is a defining work of twentieth-century history. With dramatic narrative power Churchill reconstructs the... -
Clash of Iron by Angus Watson
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75LEADERS ARE FORGED IN THE FIRES OF WAR Iron Age warriors Dug and Lowa captured Maidun castle and freed its slaves. But now they have conquered it, they must defend it. A Roman invasion is coming from... -
Cymbeline by John Pitcher
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.80One of Shakespeare's late, fantastical plays, Cymbeline considers human love and art through the thrilling wonder of the Renaissance theatre. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited with an... -
Henry IV Part One by William Shakespeare
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $9.80'The finest, most representative instance of what Shakespeare can do' Harold BloomPrince Hal, the son of King Henry IV, spends his time in idle pleasure with dissolute friends, among them the roguish... -
The Story of the Amulet Edith Nesbit 9780241735855
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorEdith Nesbit was a mischievous child who grew up into an unconventional adult. With her husband, Hubert... -
Henry VI Part Three by William Shakespeare
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.80The culminating drama of the Wars of the Roses, Henry VI Part Three plays out the final breakdown of political and family affiliations. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited by Norman Sanders... -
![The Rest is History: The official book from the makers of the hit podcast by Goalhanger Podcasts 9781526667731 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/6238192/6315138/9781526667731__57793.1736826933.jpg?c=1 "The Rest is History: The official book from the makers of the hit podcast by Goalhanger Podcasts 9781526667731 [USED COPY]")
The Rest is History: The official book from the makers of the hit podcast by Goalhanger Podcasts 9781526667731 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $7.38THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*Now with a fun pub quiz*'An idiosyncratic ride through history' Independent 'Holland and Sandbrook have pretty much reinvented popular history for the modern age' The... -
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.54'We go to Shakespeare to find out about ourselves' Jeanette WintersonBeatrice and Benedick both claim they are determined never to marry. But when their friends trick them into believing that each... -
Greek Tragedy by Aeschylus
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war to be murdered by his treacherous wife Clytemnestra. In Sophocles'... -
The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80William Shakespeare's comic encore for one of his best-loved characters - the rascally Falstaff from Henry IV and Henry V - The Merry Wives of Windsor is edited by G.R. Hibbard with an introduction... -
The Legacy of Rome: How the Roman Empire Shaped the Modern World by Simon Elliott
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.08The world of the Roman Republic and Empire is still very much with us, alive and a key companion as we negotiate the trials and tribulations of modern life. We don't just walk in the footsteps of... -
Caesar's Spy Max Von Fafner 9781787746978
RRP: $29.47Booksplease Price: $21.15Ancient Rome has never been so visceral! Experience the ruthlessness of the coliseum in this revenge plot between a warrior and a king.From famed French writer Jean-Pierre Pecau and iconic Savage... -
Agrippa by Robert Harris 9781529154429
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.48**PRE-ORDER NOW to secure the special Collector's Edition - available only while stock lasts and exclusive to the first print run**A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, BBC CULTURE,... -
The Rise of Rome by Plutarch
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $16.88The biographies collected in this volume bring together Plutarch's Lives of those great men who established the city of Rome and consolidated its supremacy, and his Comparisons with their notable... -
Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $9.80William Shakespeare's comedy Love's Labours Lost is edited with an introduction by John Kerrigan in Penguin Shakespeare.'What fool is not so wiseTo lose an oath to win a paradise?'Ferdinand, King of... -
Reign of Iron by Angus Watson
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75THE ACTION-PACKED FINAL VOLUME IN THE EPIC TRILOGY THAT FANTASY FANS EVERYWHERE ARE TALKING ABOUT 'Unflinchingly bloodthirsty and outrageously entertaining' Christopher Brookmyre 'It simply grabbed... -
Asterix: Asterix and the Griffin: Album 39 by Jean-Yves Ferri
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09Be the first to read the next action-packed adventure from the indomitable Gauls by pre-ordering now!Follow Asterix and Obelix as they set out on their 39th adventure on a long journey in search of a... -
Prometheus Bound and Other Plays by Aeschylus
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. In Prometheus Bound the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally... -
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Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire by Simon Baker 9781846072840 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $3.39This is the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known. Simon Baker charts the rise and fall of the world's first superpower, focusing on six momentous turning points that shaped Roman... -
The Twelve Caesars by Robert Graves
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.37'Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tempted creatures, whose great moral task is to hold in balance the angel and the... -
The History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey Monmouth
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Completed in 1136, The History of the Kings of Britain traces the story of the realm from its supposed foundation by Brutus to the coming of the Saxons some two thousand years later. Vividly... -
The Oresteian Trilogy by Aeschylus
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37Aeschylus (525-c.456 bc) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy, when King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts the hero's discovery that his... -
The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare 9780141396286
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.94'After God, Shakespeare has created most' Alexandre DumasTwo sets of identical twins, separated at sea as babies, find themselves in the same city for the first time as adults. Soon, their friends... -
The Birds and Other Plays by Aristophanes
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Offering a window into the world of ordinary Athenians, Aristophanes' The Birds and Other Plays is a timeless set of comedies, combining witty satire and raucous slapstick to wonderful effect. This... -
Murder by Numbers: Fascinating Figures Behind the World's Worst Crimes by James Moore 9780750992077
Booksplease Price: $21.29What is the connection between the number 13 and Jack the Ripper? Why was the number 18 crucial in catching Acid Bath murderer John George Haigh? And what is so puzzling about the number 340 in the... -
Phaedra and Other Plays by Seneca
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Living in Rome under Caligula and later a tutor to Nero, Seneca witnessed the extremes of human behaviour. His shocking and bloodthirsty plays not only reflect a brutal period of history but also... -
Annals by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37A compelling new translation of Tacitus' Annals, one of the greatest accounts of ancient Rome, by Cynthia Damon.Tacitus' Annals recounts the major historical events from the years shortly before the... -
Henry VI Part One by William Shakespeare
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.80The first of Shakespeare's four plays about the Wars of the Roses, dramatizing the rivalry between power-hungry noble houses, divided by grievances inherited from the past. This Penguin Shakespeare... -
London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd 9780099422587
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $30.47Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of the city. For him it is a living organism, with its own laws... -
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 9781857150551
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.85Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (a.d. 121 180) succeeded his adoptive father as emperor of Rome in a.d. 161 and Meditations remains one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical reflection ever... -
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The Road to Rome: (The Forgotten Legion Chronicles No. 3) by Ben Kane 9781848090156 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: $3.55Having survived the perils of a journey across half the world, Romulus and Tarquinius are press-ganged into the legions, which are under imminent threat of annihilation by the Egyptians. Meanwhile in... -
The Annals of Imperial Rome by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37His last work, regarded by many as the greatest work of contemporary scholarship, Tacitus' The Annals of Imperial Rome recount with depth and insight the history of the Roman Empire during the first... -
Count Belisarius by Robert Graves
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.37The sixth century was not a peaceful time for the Roman empire. Invaders threatened on all fronties, but they grew to respect and fear the name of Belisarius, the Emperor Justinian's greatest general...