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The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox by Alison Weir
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41'Alison Weir's sound scholarship and storyteller's gift for rich, telling detail constantly engages and enthrals the reader' The TimesThe captivating life of Margaret Douglas - a life of scandal,... -
The Safeguard of the Sea: A Naval History of Britain 660-1649 by N. A. M. Rodger
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38Throughout 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... -
Drone Theory by Gregoire Chamayou
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Drone Theory is Gregoire Chamayou's poignant and sharply argued polemic against US drone warfare.In 2011 alone, the US deployed one drone strike every four days in Pakistan. Drone Theory is a... -
Henrietta Maria: Conspirator, Warrior, and Phoenix Queen – the true story of Charles I’s wife by Leanda de Lisle 9781529111040
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46A 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... -
Time and Chance by Sharon Penman 9780140270778
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16TIME AND CHANCE, the second part of the trilogy about Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, opens during the glory years of their reign. While Henry redefined the role of medieval kingship, Eleanor gave... -
William Wallace: Brave Heart by James A. Mackay 9781851588237
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81Sir 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... -
![The Reckoning by Sharon Penman 9780140113259 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9646822/10663542/9780140113259__42481.1781270221.jpg?c=1 "The Reckoning by Sharon Penman 9780140113259 [USED COPY]")
The Reckoning by Sharon Penman 9780140113259 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.40This book completes the splendid sequence of novels on the struggle between the independent Welsh Princes and the growing English strength which began with Here be Dragons, continued with Falls the... -
Elizabeth, the Queen by Alison Weir
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41Elizabeth the Queen begins as the young Elizabeth ascends the throne in the wake of her sister Mary's disastrous reign - both a woman and a queen, Elizabeth's story is an extraordinary phenomenon in... -
Messengers: Who We Listen To, Who We Don't, And Why by Stephen Martin
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81____________________________Why can some people effortlessly command the attention of everyone in the room?What makes some individuals seem immediately credible and others appear inherently... -
The Fall of Yugoslavia by Misha Glenny 9780140261011
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Misha Glenny's acclaimed account of the war in former Yugoslavia contains substantial new material that discusses the end of the five-year conflict and looks ahead to an uneasy future in this... -
House of Lilies: The Dynasty that Made Medieval France Justine Firnhaber-Baker 9780141999241
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.51One 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... -
![Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox 1740 - 1832 by Stella Tillyard 9780099477112 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9654035/10670755/9780099477112__85531.1781277323.jpg?c=1 "Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox 1740 - 1832 by Stella Tillyard 9780099477112 [USED COPY]")
Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox 1740 - 1832 by Stella Tillyard 9780099477112 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.34A fascinating insight into 18th century aristocratic life through the lives of the four Lennox sisters, the great grandchildren of Charles II, whose extraordinary lives spanned the period 1740-1832... -
![White King: Charles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr by Leanda de Lisle 9780099555278 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9679936/10696656/9780099555278__47977.1781301753.jpg?c=1 "White King: Charles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr by Leanda de Lisle 9780099555278 [USED COPY]")
White King: Charles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr by Leanda de Lisle 9780099555278 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £4.63The 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... -
![La Vie en bleu: France and the French since 1900 by Rod Kedward 9780140130959 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9701782/10718486/9780140130959__71903.1781356556.jpg?c=1 "La Vie en bleu: France and the French since 1900 by Rod Kedward 9780140130959 [USED COPY]")
La Vie en bleu: France and the French since 1900 by Rod Kedward 9780140130959 [USED COPY]
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £2.41Rod Kedward brings to life the great, and often terrible, dramas of modern France - the two cataclysmic wars, the Algerian disaster, the student and worker revolt of 1968 - but also explores the... -
The Third Reich in Power, 1933 - 1939: How the Nazis Won Over the Hearts and Minds of a Nation by Richard J. Evans
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £11.52The second book in his acclaimed trilogy on the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, Richard J. Evans' The Third Reich in Power: How the Nazis Won Over the Hearts and Minds of a Nation explores how Hitler... -
Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe by Norman Davies
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73From Norman Davies, the acclaimed author of Europe: A History, comes the magical history of Europe's lost realms, selected as a Book of the Year by the Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman,... -
Epitaph for a Spy by Eric Ambler
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.23Josef Vadassy, a Hungarian refugee and language teacher living in France, is enjoying his first break for years in a small hotel on the Riviera. But when he takes his holiday photographs to be... -
The Death of Yugoslavia by Allan Little
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.26The Death of Yugoslavia is a survey of the pressures and events that contributed to the break-up of former Yugoslavia, considered from a historical rather than a political or sociological point of... -
The Atlantis Code by Charles Brokaw
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.44Discover the action-packed adventure thriller, perfect for fans of The Da Vinci Code, Indiana Jones and C. J. SansomHidden away in a dusty antiquities shop in Egypt, an ancient artefact is discovered... -
The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One by Miranda Carter
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Discover the juicy, funny story of the three dysfunctional rulers of Germany, Russia and Great Britain at the turn of the last century, combined with a study of the larger forces around them.Three... -
The English Civil War At First Hand by Tristram Hunt
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Almost a quarter of a million lives were lost as King and Parliament battled for their religious and political ideals in the English Civil War. England was divided between Cavaliers and Roundheads... -
The Domesday Quest: In search of the Roots of England by Michael Wood
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.68In 1086, Domesday Book, perhaps the most remarkable historical document in existence, was compiled. This tremendous story of England and its people was made at the behest of the Norman king William... -
The Forsyte Saga: Volume 1 by John Galsworthy
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.81The Forsyte Saga is the first part of John Galsworthy's magnificent, well-loved Forsyte Chronicles, which trace the changing fortunes of the wealthy Forsyte dynasty through fifty years of material... -
![Tudor: The Family Story by Leanda de Lisle 9780099555285 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9663700/10680420/9780099555285__55764.1781286881.jpg?c=1 "Tudor: The Family Story by Leanda de Lisle 9780099555285 [USED COPY]")
Tudor: The Family Story by Leanda de Lisle 9780099555285 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.41*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*Tudor tells a family story like no other.The Tudors are a national obsession, undoubtedly British history's most notorious family. But beyond the well-worn headlines is a... -
![Secrets of the Dead by Tom Harper 9780099547853 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9701506/10718210/9780099547853__30091.1781356181.jpg?c=1 "Secrets of the Dead by Tom Harper 9780099547853 [USED COPY]")
Secrets of the Dead by Tom Harper 9780099547853 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.34Fans of Dan Brown, Clive Cussler and Scott Mariani will love this high-octane, edge-of-your-seat international thriller from the pen of prizewinning author Tom Harper. It has everything you could... -
![The Lady In The Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn (Queen of England Series) by Alison Weir 9780712640176 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9711015/10727694/9780712640176__78080.1781370813.jpg?c=1 "The Lady In The Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn (Queen of England Series) by Alison Weir 9780712640176 [USED COPY]")
The Lady In The Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn (Queen of England Series) by Alison Weir 9780712640176 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.56Never before has there been a book devoted entirely to Anne Boleyn's fall. Now, Alison Weir's richly researched and impressively detailed portrait gives us the compelling story of the last days of... -
![Life Of Thomas More: Book Club Edition by Peter Ackroyd 9780749386405 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9713044/10729721/9780749386405__56293.1781373954.jpg?c=1 "Life Of Thomas More: Book Club Edition by Peter Ackroyd 9780749386405 [USED COPY]")
Life Of Thomas More: Book Club Edition by Peter Ackroyd 9780749386405 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.41'Masterly' Observer'Brilliant' Independent on Sunday'Sparks of life' Daily MailThomas More is one of the great figures in English history. Pre-eminent as a courtier and as a humanist, a friend to... -
The Inheritance of Rome: A History of Europe from 400 to 1000 by Chris Wickham
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.03'The Penguin History of Europe series ... is one of contemporary publishing's great projects' New StatesmanThe world known as the 'Dark Ages', often seen as a time of barbarism, was in fact the... -
Story of Ireland by Neil Hegarty
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.62Neil Hegarty's bestselling history of Ireland is a story crowded with the drama of complex characters, shifting allegiances and changing identities. Revisiting the major turning points in the Irish... -
Uncommon Danger by Eric Ambler
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.47Kenton's career as a journalist depends on his facility with languages, his knowledge of European politics and his quick judgement. Where his judgement sometimes fails him, however, is in his... -
Lancaster And York: The Wars of the Roses by Alison Weir
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41A lucid, gripping account of the human side of one of the bloodiest chapters of British history. The war between the houses of Lancaster and York for the throne of England was characterised by... -
Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived without Men After the First World War by Virginia Nicholson
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54Virginia Nicholson's Singled Out is the touching and beautifully told story of the women who were left alone after World War I - a remarkable generation of women who were changed by war; and in their... -
The Hinge of Fate: The Second World War by Winston Churchill
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.03Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep and for... -
America, Empire of Liberty: A New History by David Reynolds
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73It was Thomas Jefferson who envisioned the United States as a great 'empire of liberty.' In the first new one-volume history in two decades, David Reynolds takes Jefferson's phrase as a key to the... -
The Force of Destiny: A History of Italy Since 1796 by Christopher Duggan
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73The greatness of Italy's culture and way of life have had a powerful attraction for many generations of visitors. This has created an overwhelming sense that Italy is a fundamentally benign and easy... -
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty by Daron Acemoglu
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23One of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2019 One of Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2019 Shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize'As enjoyable as it is thought-provoking' Jared DiamondBy the authors... -
George VI (Penguin Monarchs): The Dutiful King by Philip Ziegler
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.11The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackIf Ethelred was notoriously 'Unready' and Alfred 'Great', King George VI should bear the... -
Victoria's Wars: The Rise of Empire by Saul David 9780141005553
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £8.99In Victoria's Wars: The Rise of Empire Saul David explores the early part of Queen Victoria's reign,when the British Empire was well on the way to becoming the greatest empire the world had ever seen... -
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Victoria's Wars: The Rise of Empire by Saul David 9780141005553 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.40In Victoria's Wars: The Rise of Empire Saul David explores the early part of Queen Victoria's reign,when the British Empire was well on the way to becoming the greatest empire the world had ever seen... -
![The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox by Alison Weir 9780224089807 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9951750/10968228/9780224089807__76396.1786535699.jpg?c=1 "The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox by Alison Weir 9780224089807 [USED COPY]")
The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox by Alison Weir 9780224089807 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £2.99Royal Tudor blood ran in her veins. Her mother was a queen, her father an earl, and she herself was the granddaughter, niece, cousin and grandmother of monarchs. Some thought she should be queen of...