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The Albigensian Crusade by Jonathan Sumption
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $23.62In twelfth century Languedoc a subversive heresy of Eastern origin flourished to an extraordinary degree. The Albingenses believed that the world was created by an evil spirit, and that all worldly... -
Bill of Rights: The Origin of Britain's Democracy by Jonathan Sumption
RRP: $15.18Booksplease Price: $13.55In 2017, the Government's attempt to trigger Article 50 and so leave the European Union resulted in a judgement by the Supreme Court, which stated that the Government was unentitled to do so without... -
Edward III (Penguin Monarchs): A Heroic Failure by Jonathan Sumption
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $12.67The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackEdward III ruled England for fifty years. He was a paragon of kingship in the eyes of his... -
Hundred Years War Vol 2: Trial By Fire by Jonathan Sumption
RRP: $57.00Booksplease Price: $34.58In the second volume of his celebrated history of the Hundred Years War, Jonathan Sumption examines the middle years of the fourteenth century and the succession of crises that threatened French... -
Hundred Years War Vol 4: Cursed Kings by Jonathan Sumption
RRP: $57.00Booksplease Price: $34.58Cursed Kings tells the story of the destruction of France by the madness of its king and the greed and violence of his family. In the early fifteenth century, France had gone from being the... -
Hundred Years War Vol 3: Divided Houses by Jonathan Sumption
RRP: $57.00Booksplease Price: $42.14Divided Houses is a tale of contrasting fortunes. In the last decade of his reign Edward III, a senile, pathetic symbol of England's past conquests, was condemned to see them overrun by the armies of... -
Hundred Years War: Trial by Battle: Vol 1: Trial by Battle by Jonathan Sumption 9780571200955
RRP: $57.00Booksplease Price: $41.19'Compulsively readable' (History), this is the first volume in a series that details the long and violent endeavour of the English to dismember Europe's strongest state, a succession of wars that is... -
Overruled: Confronting Our Vanishing Democracy in 8 Cases Sam Fowles 9780861542475
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $30.57'A fascinating insider account' Grace Blakeley British democracy is on trial. We can no longer hold our leaders to account; the state has too much power; and the truth doesn't matter at all. Those... -
A Brief History of the Hundred Years War: The English in France, 1337-1453 Desmond Seward 9781841196787
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $17.59For over a hundred years England repeatedly invaded France on the pretext that her kings had a right to the French throne. France was a large, unwieldy kingdom, England was small and poor, but for... -
Notes From the Languedoc by Rupert Wright 9780091905637
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $21.34It is easy to get to the Languedoc. Follow the Rhone south through France, then once you hit the Mediterranean coast, turn right. The mystery is that for generations, people have been getting to the... -
The Penguin History of Britain: The Struggle for Mastery: Britain 1066-1284 by David Carpenter
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $23.62The two-and-a-half centuries after 1066 were momentous ones in the history of Britain. In 1066, England was conquered for the last time. The Anglo-Saxon ruling class was destroyed and and the English... -
Chronicles by Jean Froissart
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $19.97The Chronicles of Froissart (1337-1410) are one of the greatest contemporary records of fourteenth-century England and France. Depicting the great age of Anglo-French rivalry from the deposition of... -
Chronicles of the Crusades by sire de Jean Joinville
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54The Conquest of Constantinople by Geoffrey of Villehardouin and The Life of Saint Louis by John of Joinville are eye-witness accounts of going to war in the service of God. In the first years of the... -
The Yellow Cross: The Story of the Last Cathars 1290-1329 by Rene Weis 9780140276695
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $25.00In the 13th century, a group of heretics in southwest France, the Cathars, became a serious threat to the Catholic church. In several waves of repression, thousands of Cathars were killed. Yet so... -
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The Yellow Cross: The Story of the Last Cathars 1290-1329 by Rene Weis 9780140276695 [USED COPY]
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $4.58In the 13th century, a group of heretics in southwest France, the Cathars, became a serious threat to the Catholic church. In several waves of repression, thousands of Cathars were killed. Yet so... -
Remarkable Minds: A Celebration of the Reith Lectures BBC Radio 4 9781472262295
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.59IDEAS THAT HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE THE WORLDThe best of an extraordinary 70 year archive, gathered in one volume for the first time. The prestigious BBC Reith Lectures have been enriching the world... -
Georgian London: Into the Streets by Lucy Inglis
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $19.97In Georgian London: Into the Streets, Lucy Inglis takes readers on a tour of London's most formative age - the age of love, sex, intellect, art, great ambition and fantastic ruin. Travel back to the... -
The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V by Hugh Thomas 9780141034492
RRP: $37.98Booksplease Price: $27.30Moving between Spanish conquest abroad and the court of the astute Charles V, Hugh Thomas's The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V is the second volume in a planned trilogy on the Spanish... -
The Clicking Of Cuthbert P.G. Wodehouse 9781841591124
RRP: $28.50Booksplease Price: $21.72Who but P.G. Wodehouse could have extraced high comedy from the most noble and ancient game of golf? And who else could have combined this comedy with a real appreciation of the game, drawn from... -
The Rule of Law by Tom Bingham
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54'A gem of a book ... Inspiring and timely. Everyone should read it' Independent'The Rule of Law' is a phrase much used but little examined. The idea of the rule of law as the foundation of modern... -
Double Down by John Heilemann 9780753555576
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $25.00'What am I supposed to do when he starts spewing his bullshit?' Barack Obama preparing for his first debate with Mitt Romney In their runaway bestseller Game Change / Race of a Lifetime, Mark... -
Montaillou: Cathars and Catholics in a French Village 1294-1324 by Emmanuel le Roy Ladurie
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54An enthralling account of day-to-day life in a medieval French village. Using records gathered by the Catholic Church in its pursuit of heretics, the book recreates the lives of a rich cast of... -
Forgotten Wars: The End of Britain's Asian Empire by Christopher Bayly 9780141017389
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $23.37This extraordinary book is a vivid, highly original account of the creation of a new Asia after the Second World War - an unstoppable wave of nationalism that swept the British Empire aside. It... -
Castlereagh John Bew 9780857388407
RRP: $37.98Booksplease Price: $27.08The best political biography of the year' Jonathan Sumption, Spectator 'Wonderful . . . A Life so nearly complete it need never be written again' Ferdinand Mount, Times Literary Supplement By the... -
How to Plan a Crusade: Reason and Religious War in the High Middle Ages by Christopher Tyerman
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54'Wonderfully written and characteristically brilliant' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Elegant, readable ... an impressive synthesis ... Not many historians could have done it' - Jonathan... -
Henry III: Reform, Rebellion, Civil War, Settlement, 1258-1272 David Carpenter 9780300279337
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $28.86"There are few historians working today who know so much and write so well. Taken together, the two volumes of Henry III . . . set a gold standard for medieval royal biography."-Dan Jones, Times (UK)... -
The Penguin History of the World: 6th edition J M Roberts 9781846144431
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $28.84The completely updated edition of J. M. Roberts and Odd Arne Westad's widely acclaimed, landmark bestseller The Penguin History of the WorldFor generations of readers The Penguin History of the World... -
The Great Commanders of the Medieval World 454-1582AD Andrew Roberts 9780857385895
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.77What qualities made Attila the Hun a strategist of genius? How did Henry V of England achieve victory at Agincourt for the loss of a few hundred of his men, when the mounted French knights suffered... -
Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality by Theodore Dalrymple 9781906142254
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $21.95In Spoilt Rotten, social commentator Theodore Dalrymple (Our Culture or What is Left of It, 2009) grinds his axe at our sentimentality-centric culture where feelings have become the yardstick of... -
The Inheritance of Rome: A History of Europe from 400 to 1000 by Chris Wickham
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $26.66'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... -
The Persecution of the Templars: Scandal, Torture, Trial by Alain Demurger
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.59The trial of the Knights Templar is one of the most infamous in history. Accused of heresy by the king of France, the Templars were arrested and imprisoned, had their goods seized and their... -
Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper by Helen Parr
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $17.54WINNER OF THE LONGMAN-HISTORY TODAY BOOK PRIZE 2019 WINNER OF THE TEMPLER MEDAL BOOK PRIZE 2019 WINNER OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORY 2019LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR... -
The World of the Crusades by Christopher Tyerman 9780300274219
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $29.55A lively reimagining of how the distant medieval world of war functioned, drawing on the objects used and made by crusaders Throughout the Middle Ages crusading was justified by religious ideology,... -
Empress: Queen Victoria and India by Miles Taylor 9780300118094
Booksplease Price: $55.80An entirely original account of Victoria's relationship with the Raj, which shows how India was central to the Victorian monarchy from as early as 1837"A widely and deeply researched, elegantly... -
Edward III and the Triumph of England: The Battle of Crecy and the Company of the Garter by Richard Barber
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $26.09The 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... -
Against Decolonisation: Campus Culture Wars and the Decline of the West by Doug Stokes
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $22.52Following the killing of George Floyd in 2020, a moral panic gripped the US and UK. To atone for an alleged history of racism, statues were torn down and symbols of national identity attacked. Across... -
The Brexit Effect, 2016–2026 by Anthony Seldon 9781009749626
Booksplease Price: $32.41Britain's decision to leave the European Union was perhaps the most divisive and consequential event of modern British politics. To assess its impact on the tenth anniversary of the referendum,... -
The Mandela Brief: Sydney Kentridge and the Trials of Apartheid by Thomas Grant
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.59'A forensic, riveting account of a wondrous and principled advocate' Philippe Sands'Well-written, deeply researched and wholly gripping' The Spectator'Meticulously researched' The Times'Kentridge is... -
Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World by Justin Marozzi
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $20.63A powerful account of the life of Tamerlane the Great (1336-1405), the last master nomadic power, one of history's most extreme tyrants, and the subject of Marlowe's famous play. Marozzi travelled in... -
The Mandela Brief: Sydney Kentridge and the Trials of Apartheid Thomas Grant 9781529372861
RRP: $47.50Booksplease Price: $34.01'Well-written, deeply researched and wholly gripping' The Spectator'Kentridge is one of many lawyers to whom I will forever be in debt, and whose everyday fights against injustice should inspire us...