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The Scottish Cook Book by Amberley Publishing
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24Scotland, with its temperate climate and abundance of game, has provided a cornucopia of food for its inhabitants for millennia. The wealth of seafood available on and off the coasts provided... -
The Welsh Cook Book by Amberley Publishing 9781445643397
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.61Welsh cooking traditions go back centuries. Beef and dairy cattle are raised widely. Sheep farming is extensive in the country and lamb is the meat traditionally associated with Welsh cooking,... -
Tank Manual: Normandy 1944 by Amberley Publishing
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24How do you aim a tank gun? What are the best tactics on the battlefield? How cramped was it inside a Second World War tank? How did it feel to take a hit from enemy fire? Allied victory in the... -
Eyewitness Accounts Diary of a Nursing Sister by Amberley Publishing
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £8.84By the time of the First World War, nursing had become vital. The quality of medical care available to British soldiers had improved immeasurably since the days of Florence Nightingale. This classic... -
Testament of War: Literature, Art and the First World War by A. D. Harvey
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32Testament of War compares the English-language poetry and fiction of the First World War with that written in German, French, Italian and - to a lesser extent -Danish, Flemish, Hungarian, Portuguese... -
Preserved Pre-1948 Railway Carriages by Royston Morris
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.23Preserved (or heritage) railways have, in the majority of cases, at least one working steam locomotive and either a diesel unit or a diesel locomotive. However, the main thing these railways need to... -
A-Z of Stratford-upon-Avon: Places-People-History by Will Adams
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Famous as the birthplace of William Shakespeare, the Warwickshire market town of Stratford-upon-Avon has attracted visitors to its streets and ancient buildings for centuries. Its status as a market... -
Going Underground: Edinburgh by Jan-Andrew Henderson
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Edinburgh isn't like other cities. Certainly, it has underground rail tunnels and hidden passageways - but also a legend of an 'Underground City' - many parts of which are on display to the public... -
The Forth Bridges Through Time by Michael Meighan
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68The River Forth is one of Scotland's great waterways. It has a majestic history and heritage, part of which is the Forth bridges. Of these, the most iconic is the Forth Rail Bridge, which opened in... -
Merseyside Traction by Doug Birmingham
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42When thinking of railways in Merseyside, some people will think of the extensive third-rail Merseyrail commuter system. Although prominent in the whole county and beyond, the area is regularly served... -
Chancers: Scandal, Blackmail, and the Enigma Code by Barbara Jeffery
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24Monty Newton and Rodolphe Lemoine must be two of the most outrageous conmen in history. When the Rajah Sir Hari Singh of Kashmir came to London in 1919, his first time in Europe, between visits to... -
Land Rover: Series I, II, III & Defender John Christopher 9781445640365
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.87Infinitely flexible, they have appeared in short, medium and long wheelbase variants, with a host of body styles and conversions for everything from sixwheeled fire engines to motor homes. It is more... -
Bradshaw's Guide London to Birmingham: On Stephenson's Tracks - Volume 9 by John Christopher
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42The London & Birmingham Railway was the first major line in Britain and it was the greatest achievement of its engineer, Robert Stephenson, the man who, together with his father George, had set... -
Celebrating Wakefield by Paul L. Dawson
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Wakefield was an important market town in the Middle Ages, as well as an inland port on the River Calder. It prospered through trade and industry in textiles, coal mining, tanning and grain, becoming... -
Chester at War by Mike Royden 9781445675244
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68The historic city of Chester in Cheshire, in the northwest of England, experienced the tragedies and hardships of war at first hand during the two world wars. In the First World War many young men... -
A-Z of Abergavenny: Places-People-History by Tim Butters 9781445682945
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68What can you write about Abergavenny that hasn't already been written? Quite a lot, as local author Tim Butters poignantly proves in A-Z of Abergavenny. The shadows surrounding local legends are... -
Farina MG and Riley Saloons by Neil Cairns 9781398115743
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Based on the BMC Morris Oxford body, the Farina and Riley MG saloons were successors to the successful MG Magnette ZA and ZB. Introduced in November 1958, the MKIII was a combination of different... -
Bristol Six-Cylinder Cars by Christopher Balfour 9781398119741
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Bristol Cars began as the motoring arm of the Bristol Aeroplane Company, one of the world’s most successful aircraft companies of the 1920s and 1930s. In this revealing book, Bristol Cars expert... -
Railroads around Chicago by Mike Danneman 9781398103214
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68In his 1914 ode to Chicago, Carl Sandburg referred to the city as the ‘Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation’. What was true... -
Line by Line: Cumbria by Neil Gibson 9781398104860
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Line by Line: Cumbria is a pictorial guide to the county’s railway, showcasing a collection of images captured over several decades. A celebration of both beautiful scenery and elegant engineering,... -
The Hot Trod: A History of the Anglo-Scottish Border by John Sadler 9781398119628
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.51The 2014 Scottish independence debate and the re-ignition of the SNP’s call for a second vote in the wake of Brexit ‒ and indeed Brexit itself ‒ begs a reappraisal of what nationality and borderer... -
Honoured by Edinburgh: Beneficiaries of the Freedom of Edinburgh since 1459 Barclay Price 9781398118010
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68For more than 500 years the civic authorities of Edinburgh have awarded the Freedom of the City to prominent and influential individuals with a connection to Edinburgh or who have deserved... -
Buses of Devon and Cornwall: Past and Present Richard Stubbings 9781398117426
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68In this series, Richard Stubbings traces the changing, ever-evolving nature of bus scenes around south-west and south-east England. This book, comprising previously unpublished photographs, offers a... -
The Life and Death of Mary, Queen of Scots Jan-Marie Knights 9781398117655
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £16.46Queen of Scots at six days old; married at fifteen in Paris to the Dauphin of France; Queen of France at sixteen; widowed at eighteen; dead at forty-four. Mary Stuart’s tumultuous life and tragic... -
English Culture: From the 18th Century to the Present Day Jeremy Black 9781398118492
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £16.46Culture. What is it? Paintings or television? The National Gallery or Harry Styles? There is of course no one answer, no agreement. But what is clear is that culture, however defined, plays a key... -
Churches of Newcastle and North Tyneside Alan Millin 9781398125797
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68The city of Newcastle upon Tyne and the towns and villages of North Tyneside, including Wallsend, North Shields, Killingworth, Tynemouth and Whitley Bay, were important settlements in the medieval... -
Coventry's Military Heritage by David McGrory
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Coventry's military heritage goes back to the Middle Ages. Coventry Castle was built by the Earl of Chester in the early twelfth century, fought over during the civil war in King Stephen's reign, and... -
Minchinhampton Memories by Maureen Reader
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.01Countless members of this valued community have been questioned, and everyone from the butcher at Taylors to the Parish Councillor have added their piece to the rich tapestry of Minchinhampton's... -
Kilmarnock Through Time by Frank Beattie
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68For centuries Kilmarnock was little more than a large village, a market town for a large rural area. It was an area rich in resources and the enterprising people of the town made the best of what... -
London Terminal Stations in the 1960s by David Christie
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42In September 1962, the author started revisiting his boyhood trainspotting haunts at the London terminals - this time armed with a newly purchased camera loaded with colour slide film. A few days... -
Joanna of Flanders: Heroine and Exile by Julie Sarpy
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £22.48The new research in this biography solves the riddle of the disappearance of Joanna of Flanders early in the Hundred Years’ War, a leader described by David Hume as ‘the most extraordinary woman of... -
Hartlepool Through The Ages by Paul Chrystal
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Hartlepool Through The Ages is a sister volume to Paul Chrystal's Hartlepool Through Time, produced this time with Stan Laundon. Stan not only provides many of the old images but has taken care of... -
Northern Counties Buses During and After Deregulation by Howard Wilde 9781445695242
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42From its formation in 1919 in Wigan, Lancashire, Northern Counties Motor & Engineering Company Limited grew to become one of Britain's most prominent bus builders. From independent operators... -
River Thames Shipping Since 2000: Passenger Ships, Ferries, Heritage Shipping and More by Malcolm Batten 9781445690711
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Take a look at the River Thames in East London now and you would think that it is commercially dead. Where once the banks of the river were lined with riverside wharves, these have been replaced by... -
Christchurch Through Time by Sue Newman 9781848683587
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Christchurch 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 Christchurch, the famous streets... -
Finis Britanniae: A Military History of Late Roman Britain and the Saxon Conquest by Murray Dahm 9781398118270
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £16.46The end of Roman Britain and the arrival of the invading Saxons forms part of the most disruptive period in Britain’s history. Centuries of relative stability as a Roman province gave way to an age... -
Victorian Epic: The Lucknow Campaigns 1857-58 by William Wright 9781445684697
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.50In May 1857, with the Indian Mutiny reaching boiling point, Sir Henry Lawrence summoned from their homes two sets of pensioners, one of sepoys and one of artillerymen, to defend the Lucknow British... -
First West Yorkshire Buses by Scott Poole 9781445697260
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68The merging of Bristol-based Badgerline and Scottish-based GRT Holding saw the creation of FirstBus in West Yorkshire. After the corporate logo was introduced, local liveries arrived. However, by... -
Gods of Ancient Rome: Contracts with the Divine by Lynda Telford 9781398111646
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £16.46Roman religion was certainly a contract with the Gods, offering devotion and the blood sacrifices which ‘nourished’ them in exchange for their continued protection and for Rome’s security and... -
Paranormal Burton upon Trent by Richard O'Connor 9781398114272
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Anyone familiar with the town of Burton upon Trent may associate it with one thing above all else – brewing. Hardly surprising when you consider that at its peak, around a quarter of all of the beer...