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Servants by Lucy Lethbridge
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.36'Hugely enjoyable' - Kathryn Hughes, Guardian Glorious ... Full of eyebrow-raising and laughter-inducing vignettes' - Daily Telegraph Servants is the social history of the last century through... -
Florence Nightingale by Lucy Lethbridge
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.21The remarkable story of Florence Nightingale, from her privileged childhood to the horrors of her work in the Crimea and as a hospital reformer. Retold in a lively, vivid style with evocative, full... -
Annie Oakley Lucy Lethbridge 9781904095606
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.30Annie was seven years old when her mother sent her away to work. They were just to poor to keep her at home. But this little girl had a very special talent. She could shoot better than anyone. By... -
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Napoleon by Lucy Lethbridge 9780746064245 [USED COPY]
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £2.51Sent to a military school at nine, Napoleon rapidly rose through the ranks of the French Army. But a brilliant military career wasn't enough. Soon, he had seized control of France - and then he... -
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Florence Nightingale by Lucy Lethbridge 9780746063279 [USED COPY]
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £2.09The remarkable story of Florence Nightingale, from her privileged childhood to the horrors of her work in the Crimea and as a hospital reformer. Retold in a lively, vivid style with evocative, full... -
Tourists: How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves by Lucy Lethbridge 9781408856291
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
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Servants: A Downstairs History of Britain from the Nineteenth Century to Modern Times by Lucy Lethbridge 9780393241099 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £2.85From the immense staff running a lavish Edwardian estate and the lonely maid-of-all-work cooking in a cramped middle-class house to the poor child doing chores in a slightly less poor household,... -
The Book of London Place Names by Caroline Taggart
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.23Ever wondered if Cheapside really is cheap, what you do in Threadneedle Street, or who the knights of Knightsbridge were?Did you know that Piccadilly is actually an insult? And that Euston Road was... -
Aprons and Silver Spoons: The heartwarming memoirs of a 1930s scullery maid Mollie Moran 9780718159993
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'IF YOU LOVE DOWNTON, THIS IS RIGHT UP YOUR STREET! CloserIf you liked Downton Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs, it's time to discover the true story in Mollie Moran's Sunday Times charming bestselling... -
Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend: 200th Anniversary Edition by Mark Bostridge
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Winner of the Elizabeth Longford prize for Historical Biography 'Engrossing' Claire Tomalin / 'Superb' Sunday Times / 'A triumph' Daily Mail Whether honoured and admired or criticized and... -
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Aprons and Silver Spoons: The heartwarming memoirs of a 1930s scullery maid by Mollie Moran 9780718159993 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.32'IF YOU LOVE DOWNTON, THIS IS RIGHT UP YOUR STREET! CloserIf you liked Downton Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs, it's time to discover the true story in Mollie Moran's Sunday Times charming bestselling... -
Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat by Bee Wilson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74Bee Wilson is the food writer and historian who writes as the 'Kitchen Thinker' in the Sunday Telegraph, and is the author of Swindled!. Her charming and original new book, Consider the Fork,... -
Dreamstreets: A Journey Through Britain's Village Utopias by Jacqueline Yallop
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Twenty 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... -
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The Devonshires: The Story of a Family and a Nation by Roy Hattersley 9780099554394 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.41William Cavendish, the father of the first Earl, dissolved monasteries for Henry VIII. Bess, his second wife, was gaoler-companion to Mary Queen of Scots during her long imprisonment in England... -
Hero of the Empire: The Making of Winston Churchill by Candice Millard
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'Thrilling, tremendously enjoyable' The New York Times'A nail-biting escape story' Financial TimesAt the age of twenty-four, Winston Churchill already believed he was destined for greatness. This is... -
The Devonshires: The Story of a Family and a Nation by Roy Hattersley
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74William Cavendish, the father of the first Earl, dissolved monasteries for Henry VIII. Bess, his second wife, was gaoler-companion to Mary Queen of Scots during her long imprisonment in England... -
Jane Austen: A Brief Life by Fiona Stafford
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.25An elegant and accessible introduction to the life and works of one of England's greatest and most popular novelists"I want to salute Fiona Stafford's brilliant [book]. . . . It tells one all one... -
The Disinherited: A Story of Family, Love and Betrayal by Robert Sackville-West
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78In the small hours of the morning of 3 June 1914, a woman and her husband were found dead in a sparsely furnished apartment in Paris. It was only when the identity of the couple was revealed in... -
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The Disinherited: A Story of Family, Love and Betrayal by Robert Sackville-West 9781408843406 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £1.98In the small hours of the morning of 3 June 1914, a woman and her husband were found dead in a sparsely furnished apartment in Paris. It was only when the identity of the couple was revealed in... -
100 Poets: A Little Anthology by John Carey
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86A wonderfully readable anthology of our greatest poetry, chosen by the author of A Little History of Poetry "Does anyone know more about poetry than John Carey? Almost certainly not."-The Times A... -
100 Poets: A Little Anthology by John Carey 9780300258011
Booksplease Price: £17.35A wonderfully readable anthology of our greatest poetry, chosen by the author of A Little History of Poetry "Does anyone know more about poetry than John Carey? Almost certainly not."-The Times A... -
Hearts And Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote by Jane Robinson
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73_______'A history book that should be read by all' - Stylist. Set against the background of the campaign for women to win the vote, this is a story of the ordinary people effecting extraordinary... -
Rustication: A Novel by Charles Palliser 9780393349818
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.10Christmas 1863. Seventeen-year-old Richard Shenstone has been sent down from Cambridge under a cloud of suspicion. Addicted to opium and tormented by disturbing sexual desires, he finds temporary... -
Rustication: A Novel by Charles Palliser 9780393348231
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30Charles Palliser's work has been hailed as "so compulsively absorbing that reality disappears" (New York Times). Since his extraordinary debut, The Quincunx, his works have sold over one million... -
The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves by Stephen Grosz
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46**SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLER**This book is about learning to live.Echoing Socrates' statement that the unexamined life not worth living, psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz draws on his twenty-five years of work... -
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Hearts And Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote by Jane Robinson 9781784161620 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.29_______'A history book that should be read by all' - Stylist. Set against the background of the campaign for women to win the vote, this is a story of the ordinary people effecting extraordinary... -
Cassandra Darke by Posy Simmonds 9780224089098
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.59***WINNER OF THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT PRIZE 2020***'Simmonds is a copper-bottomed genius... she is as brilliant a writer as Britain has' Jenny Colgan, Mail OnlineCassandra Darke is an art dealer,... -
A Shellshocked Nation: Britain Between The Wars Alwyn Turner 9781805221876
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.68'Britain in the 1920s and 1930s pops to life in this often very witty chronicle of that jittery time' The Times 'Alwyn Turner is the master of funny, engaging social history' Sunday Times After... -
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On Chapel Sands: My mother and other missing persons by Laura Cumming 9781784742478 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.53**Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2019****SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**'A modern masterpiece' GuardianUncovering the mystery of her mother's disappearance as a child: Laura Cumming,... -
Jobs for the Girls: How We Set Out to Work in the Typewriter Age by Ysenda Maxtone Graham
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.01A unique take on women's history from the bestselling author of British Summer Time Begins'Witty, clever and warm-hearted' The Times'Maxtone Graham [has a] unique blend of high comedy and shrewd... -
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The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves by Stephen Grosz 9780099549031 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £4.63**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**This book is about learning to live.Echoing Socrates' statement that the unexamined life not worth living, psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz draws on his twenty-five years of... -
The Making of Home: The 500-year story of how our houses became homes by Judith Flanders
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51The idea that 'home' is a special place, a separate place, a place where we can be our true selves, is so obvious to us today that we barely pause to think about it. But, as Judith Flanders shows... -
The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House Between the Wars by Adrian Tinniswood
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.55'A masterpiece of social history' Daily MailThere is nothing quite as beautiful as an English country house in summer. And there has never been a summer quite like that Indian summer between the two... -
The Valley: A Hundred Years in the Life of a Yorkshire Family by Richard Benson 9781408831632
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.16'Wonderfully evocative ... Not for a heartbeat is there a false or faltering note as various life stories unfurl and conflate, invariably amid hardship and leading to heartbreak' The TimesThe... -
The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound Wendy Moore 9781474602310
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.49Medicine, in the early 1800s, was a brutal business. Operations were performed without anaesthesia while conventional treatment relied on leeches, cupping and toxic potions. The most surgeons could... -
The Secret Life of the Hotel: Sex, Crime and Protest in British Guesthouses Since 1918 Dr Eloise Moss 9781350535701
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.78Ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes in hotels? Hotels represent nations, hosting visiting monarchs, politicians, and diplomats. Hotels underpin global networks of travel and communication,... -
The Fairest of Them All: Snow White and 21 Tales of Mothers and Daughters by Maria Tatar
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £14.96"With her trademark brio and deep-tissue understanding, Maria Tatar opens the glass casket on this undying story, which retains its power to charm twenty-one times, and counting."-Gregory Maguire,... -
The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound by Wendy Moore 9781474602297
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.26Medicine, in the early 1800s, was a brutal business. Operations were performed without anaesthesia while conventional treatment relied on leeches, cupping and toxic potions. The most surgeons could... -
Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World Patrick Joyce 9780141998732
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorPatrick Joyce is Emeritus Professor of History at Manchester University, and one of the leading social... -
The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound by Wendy Moore 9781474602303
RRP: £3.99Booksplease Price: £3.39Medicine, in the early 1800s, was a brutal business. Operations were performed without anaesthesia while conventional treatment relied on leeches, cupping and toxic potions. The most surgeons could...