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Alison Light Inside History: From Popular Fiction to Life-Writing by Alison Light
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $25.50A collection of thought-provoking essays spanning thirty-five years of Alison Light's work Provides a historicising collection of essays, by a major critic, exemplifying and opening up feminist... -
Mrs Woolf and the Servants by Alison Light
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Virginia Woolf was a feminist and a bohemian but without her servants - cooking, cleaning and keeping house - she might never have managed to write.Mrs Woolf and The Servants explores the hidden... -
Common People: The History of An English Family by Alison Light
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $14.02Shortlisted 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... -
Common People: In Pursuit of My Ancestors by Alison Light 9780226330945
Booksplease Price: $42.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226330945Author Alison LightFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint -
Red, Red Robin: A History of Myself by Alison Light 9781474619912
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $20.77'Joins the very front rank of memoirs of post-war Britain' DAVID KYNASTON'A winning blend of personal memories, evoked with startling clarity, and fascinating social history' CLARE CHAMBERSIn Red,... -
A Radical Romance: A Memoir of Love, Grief and Consolation by Alison Light 9780241975350
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71WINNER OF THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE'The greatest memoirs offer all the complex shades and colours that we expect in fiction. A Radical Romance is more than just some summing-up: it is a work of art'... -
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Common People: The History of An English Family by Alison Light 9780141039862 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $3.62Shortlisted 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 Home Child: from the Forward Prize-winning author of Black Country by Liz Berry 9781529937817
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04*WINNER OF THE WRITERS' PRIZE - BOOK OF THE YEAR*Inspired by a true story, The Home Child is a beautiful novel-in-verse about a child far from home'Ground-breaking' Benjamin Zephaniah'Beautifully... -
The Apprentice of Split Crow Lane: The Story of the Carr's Hill Murder by Jane Housham
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.20A Victorian Murder. A Victorian Madman. A Modern Judgement.Gateshead, April 1866The Apprentice of Split Crow Lane takes the forgotten case of a child murder in 1866 as a springboard to delve deeply... -
London: A Social History by Roy Porter
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.66'Roy Porter, a historian of formidable range, turns to urban history in this marvellously lucid, informative and passionate book... Porter's facts are always at the service of the narrative, which... -
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London: A Social History by Roy Porter 9780140105933 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $3.59'Roy Porter, a historian of formidable range, turns to urban history in this marvellously lucid, informative and passionate book... Porter's facts are always at the service of the narrative, which... -
The Rebecca Notebook: and other memories Daphne Du Maurier 9781844080908
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA INTRODUCED BY ALISON LIGHT'The genuine, thoughtful voice of a woman whose works have been loved by millions' NEW YORK TIMES'Daphne du Maurier has no equal' SUNDAY... -
Chosen: Lost and Found between Christianity and Judaism by Giles Fraser
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28'Absorbing, fascinating, arresting' The Observer 'Intensely moving, luminous and rather magnificent' The TimesIt was one of the most startling moments in the history of the City of London. In 2011,... -
Emancipation and the Remaking of the British Imperial World by Catherine Hall 9780719091834
RRP: $120.60Booksplease Price: $87.25Slavery and the slavery business have cast a long shadow over British history. In 1833, abolition was heralded as evidence of Britain's claim to be the modern global power. Yet much is still unknown... -
Theatres of Memory: v. 2: Island Stories - Unravelling Britain by Raphael Samuel 9781859841907
Booksplease Price: $37.36A luminous sequel to the highly acclaimed first volume of Theatres of Memory, Island Stories is an engrossing journey of discovery into the multiple meanings of national myths, their anchorage in... -
Knowing Their Place: Domestic service in twentieth-century Britain by Lucy Delap 9780198718246
RRP: $50.24Booksplease Price: $47.13Historians have traditionally seen domestic service as an obsolete or redundant sector from the middle of the twentieth century. Knowing Their Place challenges this by linking the early... -
Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood by Helen McCarthy
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.18SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2021 Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2021 Longlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown 2021 'Fabulous' - The Times 'A milestone in women's... -
Bloomsbury Ballerina: Lydia Lopokova, Imperial Dancer and Mrs John Maynard Keynes Judith Mackrell 9780753825785
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.07'Mackrell's enthralling biography restores Lydia Lopokova to her rightful position centre-stage' DAILY MAIL'Superb ... Mackrell, with her insider's knowledge of ballet and theatre, lovingly recreates... -
Accidental Gods: On Race, Empire and Men Unwittingly Made Divine by Anna Della Subin 9781783785025
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.37A provocative history of race, empire and myth, told through the stories of men who have been worshipped as gods - from Columbus to Prince Philip. Spanning the globe and five centuries, Accidental... -
The Bookseller's Tale by Martin Latham
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65A SPECTATOR AND EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'A joy. Each chapter instantly became my favourite' David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas'Wonderful' Lucy Mangan'The right book has a... -
For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain: Winner of the Scottish National First Book Awards 2023 by Victoria MacKenzie 9781526647931
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.15WINNER OF THE SCOTTISH BOOK AWARDS - FIRST BOOK OF THE YEAR A SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, SCOTSMAN AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A beautiful book ... It warmed my heart' MAX PORTER 'Electrifying... -
Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto by Aaron Bastani 9781786632623
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $22.23The first decade of the twenty-first century marked the demise of the current world order. Despite widespread acknowledgement of these disruptive crises, the proposed response from the mainstream... -
A Notable Woman: The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt by Jean Lucey Pratt
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37'Timeless, funny and utterly absorbing' HILARY MANTELIn April 1925 at the age of fifteen, Jean Lucey Pratt started a journal that she kept until just a few days before her death in 1986, producing... -
The Chosen: who pays the price of a writer's fame? by Elizabeth Lowry
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75'A delicate novel, finely judged and full of insight' Hilary MantelSHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA GOLD CROWN AWARD 2023One Wednesday morning... -
Six Tudor Queens: Anne Boleyn, A King's Obsession: Six Tudor Queens 2 Alison Weir 9781472227669
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Weir is excellent on the little details that bring a world to life' GuardianAnne Boleyn: A King's Obsession by bestselling historian Alison Weir, author of Katherine of... -
The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains by Thomas W. Laqueur 9780691157788
RRP: $50.92Booksplease Price: $45.05The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone else care what became of his corpse? In The Work of...