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Celestine by Gillian Tindall 9780749320256
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71When Gillian Tindall discovered a cache of tightly folded letters in a deserted house in central France, recently emptied of 150 years of a family's possessions, she uncovered the obscure and moving... -
The Fields Beneath Gillian Tindall 9781906011482
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.83A masterpiece of local history, by the Queen of the genre; Gillian Tindall has acquired a devoted readership through her lovingly researched works, such as the prize-winning "The House" by the Thames... -
The Man Who Drew London by Gillian Tindall 9780712667579
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.41The seventeenth-century London Wenceslaus Hollar knew is now largely destroyed or buried. Yet its populous river, its timbered streets, fashionable ladies, old St Paul's, the devestation of the Fire,... -
Three Houses, Many Lives by Gillian Tindall 9780099547037
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63'A major achievement' Ronald Blythe, author of AkenfieldA Cotswold vicarage.A former girls' boarding school in Surrey.A Jacobean house now buried in inner London.Three Houses, Many Lives tells the... -
The House By The Thames: And The People Who Lived There by Gillian Tindall 9781844130948
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68Just across the River Thames from St Paul's Cathedral stands an old and elegant house. Over the course of almost 450 years the dwelling on this site has witnessed many changes. From its windows,... -
The Pulse Glass: And the beat of other hearts by Gillian Tindall 9781529111088
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63*As read on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week*'A genius for a certain kind of social history that, in shining a light on one small place, illuminates a huge amount' Sunday TelegraphA toy train. A stack... -
The Tunnel Through Time: A New Route for an Old London Journey by Gillian Tindall 9780099587798
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63Newly opened by Queen Elizabeth II herself, discover the history and secret stories of the people who've lived above London's newest trainline.Crossrail, or the 'Elizabeth' line, is just the latest... -
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The Tunnel Through Time: A New Route for an Old London Journey by Gillian Tindall 9780701188658 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $4.22Crossrail, the `Elizabeth' line, with its spacious, light-filled stations, is simply the latest way of traversing a very old east-west route through what was once countryside to the old City core and... -
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My Life in Houses by Margaret Forster 9780099593973 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $2.91'I was born on 25th May, 1938, in the front bedroom of a house in Orton Road, a house on the outer edges of Raffles, a council estate. I was a lucky girl.' So begins Margaret Forster's journey... -
My Life in Houses by Margaret Forster
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68'I was born on 25th May, 1938, in the front bedroom of a house in Orton Road, a house on the outer edges of Raffles, a council estate. I was a lucky girl.' So begins Margaret Forster's journey... -
London's Lost Rivers: a beautifully illustrated guide to London's secret rivers Paul Talling 9781847945976
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29Packed with surprising and fascinating information, London's Lost Rivers uncovers a very different side to London - showing how waterways shaped our principal city and exploring the legacy they leave... -
Journals and Letters by Peter Sabor 9780140436242
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.42Novelist and playwright Frances (Fanny) Burney, 1752-1840, was also a prolific writer of journals and letters, beginning with the diary she started at fifteen and continuing until the end of her... -
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... -
Dreamstreets: A Journey Through Britain's Village Utopias by Jacqueline Yallop
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28Twenty years ago, Jacqueline Yallop was leading guided walks at Nenthead, one of a network of 'model' villages which sprang up across Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A... -
Pepys's London: Everyday Life in London 1650-1703 by Stephen Porter
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.56Samuel Pepys's London was a turbulent, boisterous city, enduring the strains caused by foreign wars, the Great Plague and the Great Fire, yet growing and prospering. The Restoration in 1660 brought... -
Shakespeare's London: Everyday Life in London 1580-1616 by Stephen Porter
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.26Everyday life in the teeming metropolis during William Shakespeare's time in the city. Shakespeare's London was a bustling, teeming metropolis that was growing so rapidly that the government took... -
Thames: Sacred River by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $24.62Just as Peter Ackroyd's bestselling London is the biography of the city, Thames: Sacred River is the biography of the river, from sea to source. Exploring its history from prehistoric times to the... -
The King's Henchman: Henry Jermyn by Anthony Adolph 9781908096654
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.40Charles II's succession to the throne came at a time of national turbulence: his father had been beheaded, Oliver Cromwell had usurped his right to reign. England was at sea among Europe's constantly... -
Other People's Countries: A Journey into Memory by Patrick McGuinness 9780099587033
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Winner of the 2014 Duff Cooper PrizeWinner of the 2015 Welsh Book of the Year AwardShortlisted for the 2015 James Tait Black Memorial PrizeShortlisted for the 2015 PEN Ackerley prize Longlisted for... -
Map Of A Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey by Rachel Hewitt
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37'A gripping story about the personalities who initiated the mapping of Britain and their extraordinary skill and endurance' Max Hastings, Sunday Times The Ordnance Survey is a much beloved...