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The Nuclear Age: An Epic Race for Arms, Power and Survival by Serhii Plokhy 9781802060607
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $21.11On 16 July 1945, the Nuclear Age began with the explosion of the first atomic bomb and the words of J. Robert Oppenheimer: 'Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds.'While the threat of... -
Darkest Hour: Official Tie-In for the Oscar-Winning Film Starring Gary Oldman by Anthony McCarten 9780241340936 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $4.14THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER AND OFFICIAL TIE-IN TO THE AWARD-WINNING MOTION PICTURE STARRING GARY OLDMAN, WHO TOOK HOME BEST ACTOR AT THE OSCARS FOR HIS SUBLIME TURN AS WINSTON CHURCHILL... -
The First World War: An Illustrated History by A. J. P. Taylor
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.07A. J. P. Taylor was one of the most acclaimed and uncompromising historians of the twentieth century. In this clear, lively and now-classic account of the First World War, he tells the story of the... -
Common People: The History of An English Family by Alison Light 9780141039862 [USED COPY]
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $5.67Shortlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize'Part detective story, part Dickensian saga, part labour history. A thrilling and unnerving read' Observer 'Mesmeric and deeply moving' Daily Telegraph... -
The Royal Rabbits of London: Escape From the Tower by Santa Montefiore
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.94'Packed with fun, fantasy and the sort of adventure guaranteed to have sticky little fingers hungrily turning the pages' The Mail on Sunday 'The Royal Rabbits is sweet, funny and beautifully... -
Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past by Richard Cohen 9781474615792
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $25.58'A huge, fizzing omnium-gatherum of a book . . . marvellous' Daily Telegraph'Witty, wise and elegant . . . a classic of history itself' The Spectator'Grave and witty, suave yet pointed . . . full of... -
Berlin: Imagine a City by Rory MacLean 9781780224589 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $5.06The first single-volume biography of Berlin, one of the world's great cities - told via twenty-one portraits, from medieval times to the twenty-first century.A city devastated by Allied bombs,... -
Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History by Nur Masalha 9780755649426
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $21.63This rich and magisterial work traces Palestine's millennia-old heritage, uncovering cultures and societies of astounding depth and complexity that stretch back to the very beginnings of recorded... -
Nothing For Tears by Lali Horstmann
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.45The true story of one family's struggle in the chaos of Germany's defeat in 1945'Outstanding' The Times'The most interesting personal document which has come out of Germany since the war' Philip... -
London: A Short History A N Wilson 9780753820278
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.45'Engaging ... As each era superimposes itself on the ones before, he conjures up the vanished human history, hidden like the rivers flowing beneath, that is so much part of London's atmosphere' IRISH... -
My Dear Ones: One Family and the Holocaust - A Story of Enduring Hope and Love by Jonathan Wittenberg
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.68'Moving - at times almost unbearably so - and fascinating' Antonia Fraser A family's story of human tenacity, faith and a race for survival in the face of unspeakable horror... -
Berlin: Imagine a City Rory MacLean 9781780224589
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.48The first single-volume biography of Berlin, one of the world's great cities - told via twenty-one portraits, from medieval times to the twenty-first century.A city devastated by Allied bombs,... -
The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin by Jonathan Phillips
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.12'Superbly researched and enormously entertaining... One of the outstanding books of the year' The TimesAn epic story of empire-building and bloody conflict, this ground-breaking biography of one of... -
Constable: A Portrait by James Hamilton
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45ONE OF THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES' BEST BOOKS FOR 2022SHORTLISTED FOR THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2023'Eye-opening and full of surprises . . . A treasure' Sunday Times'A biography as rich with... -
The Royal Rabbits Of London by Santa Montefiore
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $11.17The perfect Easter gift for readers age 7+!The adventure begins for brave little Shylo and his Royal Rabbit friends in this charming series from bestselling authors Santa Montefiore and Simon Sebag... -
Royal Rabbits of London: The Great Diamond Chase by Santa Montefiore
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.94'Packed with fun, fantasy and the sort of adventure guaranteed to have sticky little fingers hungrily turning the pages' The Mail on Sunday 'The Royal Rabbits is sweet, funny and beautifully... -
Venus and Aphrodite by Bettany Hughes
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45'Lively' THE TIMES'Engrossing' THE SPECTATOR'Stunning' WOMAN & HOME'Marvellous' BBC HISTORY MAGAZINEThrough ancient art, evocative myth, intriguing archaeological discoveries and philosophical... -
Royal Rabbits of London: The Hunt for the Golden Carrot by Santa Montefiore
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.94'Packed with fun, fantasy and the sort of adventure guaranteed to have sticky little fingers hungrily turning the pages' The Mail on Sunday 'The Royal Rabbits of London is sweet, funny and... -
Ethel Rosenberg: The Short Life and Great Betrayal of an American Wife and Mother Anne Sebba 9781780226620
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84'A heart-piercingly brilliant book about a woman whose personal life put her in the cross-hairs of history' HADLEY FREEMAN'Totally riveting. I couldn't put it down' VICTORIA HISLOP'Ethel sings out... -
Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 by Antony Beevor 9781474610162
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45'A masterpiece of history'DAILY TELEGRAPHBetween 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage civil war as the most... -
The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia by Orlando Figes
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $28.83Orlando Figes' The Whisperers is a groundbreaking account of daily life in the chaotic and paranoid atmosphere of Stalinist Russia. Exploring the inner life of a Russia where everyone was afraid to... -
Saga Land: The Island Stories at the Edge of the World by Richard Fidler
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $23.44'I adored this book - a wondrous compendium of Iceland's best sagas' - Hannah Kent A new friendship. An unforgettable journey. A beautiful and bloody history.This is Iceland as you've never read it... -
How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth by Michelle Robinson 9780857075802
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $10.48Does your woolly mammoth need a wash? It's not a very easy thing to do... Find out exactly how to wash your mammoth in this hilarious instruction manual - just remember don't get any soap in its eyes... -
The Lost Boys: A Family Ripped Apart by War by Catherine Bailey 9780241257814 [USED COPY]
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $5.40'To say that Catherine Bailey makes history come alive is such a cliche and yet it's so true, she is absolutely one of my favourite writers' Kate Atkinson'A brilliant analysis of senseless cruelty,... -
Duet in Beirut Mishka Ben-David 9781905559589
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.24Expelled Mossad agent, Ronen, has disappeared following a failed assassination attempt on the life of the Hezbollah operative responsible for suicide bombings in Israel. Feared to be on an... -
Marcel's Parcels by Kate Hindley 9781471173318
RRP: $14.68Booksplease Price: $11.63Treacle Street is a new lift-the-flap board book series that's perfect for fans of Acorn Wood and Pip and Posy! It's a bright sunny morning on Treacle Street, and Marcel the postman's trolley is FULL... -
The Angel Of Grozny: Life Inside Chechnya - from the bestselling author of The Bookseller of Kabul Asne Seierstad 9781844083961
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45'The best book in English about one of the world's most brutal and under-reported conflicts ... fascinating' Christina Lamb, Sunday TimesIn the early hours of New Year's Eve 1994, Russian troops... -
Henry IV by Chris Given-Wilson
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $39.88This definitive biography of England's Henry IV reassesses the adversities of his reign, his ruthlessness and extravagance, and his previously unrecognized successes"This wonderful biography of the... -
Prima's Missing Bunnies by Kate Hindley 9781471173325
RRP: $14.68Booksplease Price: $11.93Treacle Street is a new lift-the-flap board book series that's perfect for fans of Acorn Wood and Pip and Posy! It's a special, sparkly evening on Treacle Street - the opening night of the Dance... -
Where's William's Washing? by Kate Hindley
RRP: $14.68Booksplease Price: $11.63Treacle Street is a new lift-the-flap board book series that's perfect for fans of Acorn Wood and Pip and Posy! William Tripehound is hanging out his washing when - whoosh! - a gust of wind blows his... -
A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia by Alexander N. Yakovlev 9780300103229
Booksplease Price: $62.35The main architect of the concept of perestroika under Gorbachev, Alexander N. Yakovlev played a unique role in the transformation of the Soviet Union. Now, drawing on his own experiences and on his... -
Horace: Poet on a Volcano Peter Stothard 9780300256581
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $36.54A biography of Horace, one of the most popular poets from antiquity, revealing the little-known man behind his famous lines Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 BCE) wrote some of ancient Rome's greatest... -
The War of the World: History's Age of Hatred by Niall Ferguson
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $30.83The beginning of the twentieth century saw human civilization at its most enlightened, well-educated, globalized and wealthy. What turned it into a bloodbath?Niall Ferguson re-tells the story of... -
Palace Walk: From the Nobel Prizewinning author by Naguib Mahfouz
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73THE ACCLAIMED INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER BY THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR.'A masterpiece' - The Times'The Arab Tolstoy' - Simon Sebag Montefiore'Shamelessly entertaining' - Guardian'Luminous' - New... -
Eastern Approaches by Fitzroy Maclean
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.3870th Anniversary Edition with a New Foreword by Sunday Times Bestselling Author Simon Sebag Montefiore'A classic' Observer | 'A legend' Washington Post | 'The best book you will read this year'... -
They Made Great Britain: The Men and Women Who Shaped the Modern World by Adrian Sykes 9780956238733
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.43From the end of the last Ice Age (10,000 years ago) to the death of Winston Churchill in 1965, Adrian Sykes narrates the history and achievements of these islands,their inhabitants and their... -
The Kiss: Quick Reads 2022 by Santa Montefiore 9781398505544 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: $3.97Sometimes your biggest mistake can also be a blessing . . .Madison has always known she had a different father to her siblings. But it wasn't until she turned eighteen that she learned his name. And... -
Toot, Toot, Hettie! by Kate Hindley
RRP: $14.68Booksplease Price: $11.63It's a very busy morning on Treacle Street, and Hettie is waiting at the bus stop on the way to her Invention Workshop. Hettie really hopes that the bus won't be late today - she MUST make it to the... -
Sugar Street: Nobel Prize Winner by Naguib Mahfouz
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $14.24THE ACCLAIMED INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER BY THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR.'A masterpiece' - The Times'The Arab Tolstoy' - Simon Sebag MontefioreSugar Street, the climactic final book in the classic... -
The Death of Trotsky: The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin’s Greatest Enemy by Josh Ireland 9781399827294
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $37.13THE PULSE-POUNDING TRUE STORY BEHIND THE ASSASSINATION THAT CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY'Elegant, unshowy and gripping in the manner of a dependable le Carre' THE TIMES'The page-turning pace of a...