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Born to be a Baggie: A West Bromwich Albion Supporter's 50-Year Odyssey by Dean Walton 9781445658575
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.89'What is a club in any case? Not the buildings or the directors or the people who are paid to represent it. It's not the television contracts, get-out clauses, marketing departments or executive... -
Oscar's Ghost: The Battle for Oscar Wilde's Legacy by Laura Lee 9781445662589
Booksplease Price: $29.63'In all his life [Oscar] has never written me a letter that was unkind or at least unloving and to see anything terrible in his handwriting written directly to me would almost kill me.' This was... -
Proud to be a Baggie: A Pictorial History of West Bromwich Albion Fans by Dean Walton 9781445681276
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.14Players come and players go, managers and staff regularly change. The one consistent thing about any football club is the fans. They follow their team home and away through good times and bad times... -
RAF Training Command: A Pictorial History by Keith Wilson
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07When the expansion of the RAF began in 1934, Air Commodore Tedder observed that the established order of school training not only failed to produce operational competence, but left so much to be done... -
Jigsaw Puzzles: Tactical Intelligence in the Falklands Campaign by Giles Orpen-Smellie
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.66On 2 April 1982, Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands. The British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, was determined that Argentina's seizure of British sovereign territory would not stand. A Task... -
Oscar's Ghost: The Battle for Oscar Wilde's Legacy by Laura Lee
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.17'In all his life [Oscar] has never written me a letter that was unkind or at least unloving and to see anything terrible in his handwriting written directly to me would almost kill me.' This was... -
The Thread of Identity by Ronald Ram 9781848682641
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $24.01This is a book to set you thinking about how we live our lives. Starting in the fourteenth century, it tells the story of a 'middling' family over the course of 600 years, set in its work-a-day local... -
A-Z of The Wirral: Places-People-History by Les Jones
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07Bounded by the River Dee and Wales on one side and the River Mersey and Liverpool on the other, the Wirral Peninsula has its own special history. The major towns on the Mersey - Birkenhead and... -
Secret York by Paul Chrystal
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07Home to the largest medieval gothic cathedral north of the Alps, York is one of Europe's most historically interesting cities. However, there is still more to be discovered - much that is shrouded in... -
Historic England: London's East End: Unique Images from the Archives of Historic England by Michael Foley
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07This illustrated history portrays one of London's most fascinating areas. It provides a nostalgic look at the East End's past and highlights the special character of some of its most important... -
50 Gems of Monmouthshire: The History & Heritage of the Most Iconic Places by Tim Butters
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $13.20For centuries visitors to Monmouthshire have been seduced by its picturesque landscape and breathtaking beauty. Poets, princes, priests, peasants, painters, politicians, and even pirates have all... -
Going Underground: Birmingham by Anthony Poulton-Smith
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.31Beneath the surface of the country's second largest city lies a little-known world that encompasses the history of Birmingham. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Birmingham profited from its... -
Going Underground: Bury St Edmunds by Martyn Taylor
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07At the heart of the historic Suffolk market town of Bury St Edmunds is the ruined eleventh-century abbey. The magnificent abbey church, once one of the richest and most powerful Benedictine... -
Secret Cirencester by David Elder
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07Cirencester is one of the most remarkable towns in Britain. From its Roman beginnings around AD 75, when it was classed second only in importance to London, to its current status as the 'Capital of... -
Hants & Dorset: A National Bus Company by Michael Hitchen
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07As part of the National Bus Company, Hants & Dorset Motor Service once served a large diverse area, stretching from the remote chalk uplands of North Hampshire, across Salisbury Plain through rural... -
Secret Eyam: Plague Village by Jill Armitage
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07Eyam (pronounced Eem), given the Saxon name Eaham, meaning a well-watered hamlet, is a secluded Peak District village hemmed in by green slopes and majestic hills. Within 1/4 mile, the busy world... -
Secret Bude by Dawn G. Robinson
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $13.20The third book about Bude by Dawn Robinson is a little different to the first two. Certainly, it contains historical and contemporary images; however, its focus is very much on the facts, fiction,... -
Peebles Through Time by Liz Hanson
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20Peeblesshire and its attractive county town are situated in Upper Tweeddale, an area of great beauty and tranquillity. Tucked into the Borders Hills, with the River Tweed at its heart, Peebles has... -
East Lothian Through Time by Liz Hanson
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07East Lothian, previously known as Haddingtonshire, has both benefitted and suffered from its strategic location between Scotland's capital city and England's northernmost county. Prior to 1707, the... -
Woolwich Through Time by Kristina Bedford
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07Woolwich is unique for its succession of iconic identities, which no longer exist, yet have not been lost to living memory - Woolwich Dockyard, founded by King Henry VIII in 1512 and closed in... -
Northampton Through Time by David Humphreys
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07Northampton was nationally important in medieval times but most traces of the period were destroyed by the Great Fire of 1675. The rebuilt town centre, the development of the shoe trade in the... -
Nairn Through Time by Alan Barron
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07The picturesque seaside town of Nairn enjoys a prime location on the Moray Firth coast; in fact, it claims to be the driest and sunniest place in the whole of Scotland. In the nineteenth century, the... -
Llandudno History Tour by John Lawson-Reay
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.53Llandudno is famed as being the 'Queen of the Welsh Resorts' and is now the largest seaside resort in Wales, lying on a flat isthmus of sand between the Welsh mainland and the Great Orme. The town,... -
Edinburgh History Tour by Liz Hanson
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.53The profile of Edinburgh was born of a marriage between nature's sculpture and man's architecture. The epicentre is Castle Rock - a volcanic plug - which constantly draws the eye from all parts of... -
A-Z of Cardiff: Places-People-History by Dic Mortimer
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07From its birth as a settlement at the lowest crossing point of the River Taff, via periods a Roman garrison, Anglo-Norman fortress, feudal lordship, booming coal port and post-industrial invalid,... -
Shaftesbury Through Time by Roger Guttridge
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07The Dorset town of Shaftesbury is beautifully sited on a hill overlooking the Blackmore Vale, on the edge of Cranborne Chase. The town grew up around its abbey, which was founded in c. 888 by King... -
Hornchurch History Tour by Michael Foley
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.53Hornchurch History Tour is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this suburban town in the London Borough of Havering. This new book guides us through its streets and alleyways, showing... -
Restoring a Bus by Kenny Barclay
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.44In the late 1980s, when he first took an interest in the buses he was travelling on, Kenny Barclay wouldn't have imagined in his wildest dreams that he would ever own one. Now he has four. Purchasing... -
Leith History Tour by Jack Gillon
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.53The first reference to the historic port of Leith dates from 1140, and the town constantly features in the power struggles that took place in Scotland. In the 1960s the face of Leith changed forever:... -
Secret Hereford by David Phelps
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07The history of Hereford began with the establishment of the Saxon St Guthlac's Monastery on the site of what is now Castle Green. Slightly later came the building of the cathedral, around AD 680. The... -
Secret Northallerton by Andrew Graham Stables
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $13.20Northallerton is the county town of North Yorkshire, and its location - situated in James Herriot Country and between the two national parks of the North Yorkshire Moors and the Yorkshire Dales -... -
St Andrews Through Time by Helen Cook
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07St Andrews in the 'Kingdom of Fife' in its beautiful setting of St Andrews Bay with the Angus hills to the north and Grampians in the far distance, has been known to Helen Cook since childhood. St... -
Camberwell Through Time by John D. Beasley
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.31Camberwell was included in the Domesday Book and was the birthplace of the poet Robert Browning, and the politician Joseph Chamberlain. It was also home to authors John Ruskin and Muriel Spark... -
Kidderminster Through Time by Ray Jones
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07Kidderminster Through Time is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this part of the country. Reproduced in full colour, this is an exciting examination of Kidderminster, the famous... -
Secret Isle of Wight by Andy Bull
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.31The Isle of Wight, lying off the south coast of England, has been a popular tourist destination for 200 years but has played an important role in the history of Britain for centuries. It was settled... -
Celebrating Southampton by Martin Brisland
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07Southampton has been a major port on the south coast of England since the Middle Ages. As a gateway to the country, over the centuries Southampton has welcomed people from all over the world, as well... -
Secret Norwich by Elizabeth Walne
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07The 'fine city' of Norwich has a long and intriguing history. Famous for its Norman cathedral built across an ancient crossroads and its imposing castle dominating the skyline, Norwich can... -
AEC Lorries by Bill Reid
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09AEC Lorries explores the story of lorry use in the last fifty years, showing the diverse use of the vehicles and their configurations for many different types of work, with a focus on one of the... -
Hexham Through Time by Stan Beckensall
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07The importance of the attractive town of Hexham began when St Wifrid built his great monastery there in the 7th Century, of which only the unique crypt remains beneath the Priory church. It was... -
Liverpool City Centre History Tour by Ian Collard
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.53Liverpool City Centre History Tour is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this famous old port city. Local author Ian Collard guides us through the streets and alleyways, showing how its...