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Elizabeth by David Starkey
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29'The best account in English of the early years of Elizabeth' Evening Standard A woman in a man's world, Queen Elizabeth I was to become England's most successful ruler. Confident in her destiny,... -
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Elizabeth by David Starkey 9780099286578 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $3.22'The best account in English of the early years of Elizabeth' Evening Standard A woman in a man's world, Queen Elizabeth I was to become England's most successful ruler. Confident in her destiny,... -
Henry: Virtuous Prince by David Starkey 9780007247721
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.01Bestselling royal historian David Starkey's captivating biography is a radical re-evaluation of Henry VIII, the British monarchy's most enduring icon. Larger than life in every sense,... -
Living Blue in the Red States by David Starkey 9780803260085
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.92Political pundits never tire of reminding us of the great cultural divide between conservative "red" states and liberal "blue" ones. But common sense tells us that not all people in these states can... -
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Henry: Virtuous Prince by David Starkey 9780007247721 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $3.22Bestselling royal historian David Starkey's captivating biography is a radical re-evaluation of Henry VIII, the British monarchy's most enduring icon. Larger than life in every sense,... -
Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII by David Starkey 9780099437246
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.26Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survivedCATHERINE OF ARAGON: the pious Spanish Catholic who suffered years of miscarriages and failed to produce a male heir... ANNE BOLEYN: the pretty,... -
Magna Carta: The True Story Behind the Charter David Starkey 9781473610071
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'A soaring account of the months that transformed a messy feudal squabble into Magna Carta...his crisp storytelling, based around short chapters and rolling rhetoric, is extremely entertaining.' Dan... -
Crown and Country: A History of England through the Monarchy by David Starkey 9780007307722
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.55An exploration of the British monarchy from the retreat of the Romans up until the modern day. This compendium volume of two earlier books is fully revised and updated. The monarchy is one... -
Talking Heads On Track: Every Album, Every Song David Starkey 9781789523539
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63Few artists can legitimately claim to have created truly groundbreaking popular music, but Talking Heads is one of them. Like Elvis, the Beatles, Bob Dylan and Radiohead (who took their name from... -
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Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII by David Starkey 9780099437246 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $3.23Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survivedCATHERINE OF ARAGON: the pious Spanish Catholic who suffered years of miscarriages and failed to produce a male heir... ANNE BOLEYN: the pretty,... -
Bruce Springsteen 1973 - 1987 On Track: Every Album, Every Song David Starkey 9781789524710
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63One of rock and roll's iconic figures, Bruce Springsteen produced his most influential, and many would argue his greatest body of work from 1973 to 1987. During that time, he released eight studio... -
Cavalier: The Story Of A 17th Century Playboy by Lucy Worsley
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08William Cavendish, courageous, cultured and passionate about women, embodies the popular image of a cavalier. Famously defeated at the Battle of Marston Moor in 1644, he went into a long and... -
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Civilization: The Six Killer Apps of Western Power by Niall Ferguson 9780141044583 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $3.36In 1412, Europe was a miserable backwater ravaged by plague, bad sanitation and incessant war, while the Orient was home to dazzling civilizations. Yet, somehow, the West came to dominate the Rest... -
The Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England by Dan Jones 9780007213948
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.84This brilliant new book explores the lives of eight generations of the greatest kings and queens that this country has ever seen, and the worst. The Plantagenets - their story is the story of Britain... -
Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince by Lisa Hilton
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41A definitive portrait of one of the most compelling monarchs England has ever had: Elizabeth I.'We are a prince from a line of princes.'Lisa Hilton's majestic biography of Elizabeth I, 'The Virgin... -
The Six Wives Of Henry VIII Lady Antonia Fraser 9781842126332
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59The six wives of Henry VIII- Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and catherine Parr- have become defined in popular sense not so much by their lives but... -
Magna Carta by David Carpenter
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.08'David Carpenter deserves to replace Sir James Holt as the standard authority, and an unfailingly readable one too.' Ferdinand Mount, TLS 'An invaluable new commentary' Jill Leopore, New Yorker With... -
King's Mistress, Queen's Servant: The Life and Times of Henrietta Howard by Tracy Borman
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.68Henrietta Howard, later Countess of Suffolk, was the long-term mistress and confidante of King George II. She was also, as Tracy Borman's wonderfully readable biography reveals, a dedicated patron of... -
A Brief History of the British Monarchy: From the Iron Age to King Charles III Jeremy Black 9781472147905
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.32The British monarchy is at a turning point. Concise and engaging, this book charts the very beginnings of British reign through to the longest serving monarch, Queen Elizabeth II - and looks forward... -
The Catholics: The Church and its People in Britain and Ireland, from the Reformation to the Present Day by Roy Hattersley
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.07The story of Catholicism in Britain from the Reformation to the present day, from a master of popular history - 'A first-class storyteller' The TimesThroughout the three hundred years that followed... -
King John: Treachery, Tyranny and the Road to Magna Carta by Marc Morris
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.73The brilliantly compelling new biography of the treacherous and tyrannical King John, published to coincide with the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta.King John is familiar to everyone as the villain... -
The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change 950 - 1350 by Robert Bartlett
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37A wave of internal conquest, settlement and economic growth took place in Europe during the High Middle Ages, which transformed it from a world of small separate communities into a network of... -
1066: The Year of The Three Battles Frank McLynn 9780712666725
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.07Everyone knows what William the Conqueror won the Battle of Hastings in 1066, but in recent years is has become customary to assume that the victory was virtually inevitable, given the alleged... -
Perkin by Ann Wroe 9780099449966
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $18.56The story of Perkin Warbeck is one of the most compelling mysteries of English history. A young man suddenly emerged claiming to be Richard of York, the younger of the Princes in the Tower. As such,... -
Lady Katherine Grey: A Dynastic Tragedy by Conor Byrne
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.43'I have always abhorred to draw in question the title of the crown, so many disputes have been already touching it in the mouths of men . . . so long as I live, I shall be queen of England; when I am... -
The Safeguard of the Sea: A Naval History of Britain 660-1649 by N. A. M. Rodger
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.27Throughout 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... -
Edward III and the Triumph of England: The Battle of Crecy and the Company of the Garter by Richard Barber
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.40The destruction of the French army at Crecy in 1346 and the subsequent siege and capture of Calais marked a new era in European history. The most powerful, glamorous and respected of all western... -
Penguin's Poems for Weddings by Laura Barber 9780141394701
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Now in paperback, a wonderful anthology of wedding poems, filled with surprising, curious, unorthodox and charming poems about love and the public commitment to love.For the many thousands of readers... -
Matilda: Wife of the Conqueror, First Queen of England by Tracy Borman
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29Read the thrilling, tempestuous story of the 'first' Queen of England. Matilda, wife of William the Conqueror, was the first woman to be crowned Queen of England and formally recognised as such by... -
Elizabeth's Women: The Hidden Story of the Virgin Queen by Tracy Borman
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $15.66'History as it should be written' Alison Weir, bestselling author of the Six Tudor Queens seriesA groundbreaking and fascinating biography of England's most famous queen, viewed through the women who... -
Nikolai Gogol by Vladimir Nabokov
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65Nikolai Gogol was one of the great geniuses of nineteenth century Russian literature, with a command of the irrational unmatched by any writer before or since. His strange tales, though often read as... -
Devices and Desires: Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England by Kate Hubbard
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11'The definitive biography' Roy StrongThe remarkable story of Bess of Hardwick, her ascent through Elizabethan society and the houses she built that shaped British architectural history.Born in 1521,... -
White King: Charles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr by Leanda de Lisle
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.86The 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... -
The Penguin History of Britain: New Worlds, Lost Worlds:The Rule of the Tudors 1485-1630 by Susan Brigden
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66No period in British history today retains more resonance and mystery than the sixteenth century. The leading figures of the time have become almost mythical, and the terrors and grandeurs of Tudor... -
Richard III: Brother, Protector, King by Chris Skidmore
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.71'Fresh, gripping and vivid' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'Majestically narrated' Dan Jones 'A portrait that chills you to the bone' Leanda de Lisle, The TimesA dedicated brother and loyal stalwart to the... -
The Story of Britain: From the Romans to the Present Sir Roy Strong 9781474607063
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59'A triumph' INDEPENDENT'A thought-provoking and indispensable book' DAILY MAIL'An instant classic ... I have been reading it with unalloyed admiration and delight' EVENING STANDARDRoy Strong has... -
The Four Voyages of Christopher Columbus by Christopher Columbus 9780140442175
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65No gamble in history has been more momentous than the landfall of Columbus's ship the Santa Maria in the Americas in 1492 - an event that paved the way for the conquest of a 'New World'. The accounts... -
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Life Of Thomas More: Book Club Edition by Peter Ackroyd 9780749386405 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $3.23'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 Death of King Arthur: The Immortal Legend by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.07A gripping retelling of the timeless epic of romance, enchantment and adventure, Peter Ackroyd's The Death of King Arthur recasts Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur in clear, compelling modern... -
The Age of Alexander by Plutarch
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $12.72The Parallel Lives of Plutarch are cornerstones of Western literature, and have exerted a profound influence on writers and statesmen since the Renaissance, most notably Shakespeare. This selection...