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The Parthenon by Mary Beard 9781846683497
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78An updated edition of the Sunday Times Bestseller Britain's best-known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit, she revisits the gender agenda and shows how... -
Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town by Mary Beard
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £6.00WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2008 'The world's most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy' Laura... -
Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard 9781631494758
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.81At long last, Mary Beard addresses in one brave book the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly attack and demean women the world over, including, very often, Mary herself. In Women & Power, she... -
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.56Mary Beard's new book Emperor of Rome is available now Ancient Rome matters. Its history of empire, conquest, cruelty and excess is something against which we still judge ourselves. Its myths... -
Classical Art: From Greece to Rome by Mary Beard
RRP: £24.49Booksplease Price: £18.89The stunning masterpieces of Ancient Greece and Rome are fundamental to the story of art in Western culture and to the origins of art history. The expanding Greek world of Alexander the Great had an... -
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard 9780871404237
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £28.27Ancient Rome was an imposing city even by modern standards, a sprawling imperial metropolis of more than a million inhabitants, a "mixture of luxury and filth, liberty and exploitation, civic pride... -
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard 9781631492228
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.51In SPQR, an instant classic, Mary Beard narrates the history of Rome "with passion and without technical jargon" and demonstrates how "a slightly shabby Iron Age village" rose to become the... -
Religions of Rome: Volume 1: A History by Mary Beard 9780521316828
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £30.00This book offers a radical new survey of more than a thousand years of religious life at Rome. It sets religion in its full cultural context, between the primitive hamlet of the eighth century BC and... -
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found by Mary Beard 9780674045866
Booksplease Price: £17.66Pompeii is the most famous archaeological site in the world, visited by more than two million people each year. Yet it is also one of the most puzzling, with an intriguing and sometimes violent... -
Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old Professor Mary Beard 9781805220312
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF EMPEROR OF ROME AND SPQR 'The rock star scholar of Ancient Rome' FINANCIAL TIMES 'The reigning Queen of Classics' SPECTATOR What's exciting about a piece of... -
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient World by Mary Beard 9781324095606
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.90In her international bestseller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome, from its slightly shabby Iron Age origins to its reign as the undisputed hegemon of the Mediterranean... -
Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town Professor Mary Beard 9781861975966
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £7.04WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2008 'The world's most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy' Laura... -
The Twelve Caesars by Matthew Dennison
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23One of them was a military genius; one murdered his mother and fiddled while Rome burned. Six of their number were assassinated, two committed suicide, and five of them were elevated to the status of... -
Emperor of Rome: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Professor Mary Beard 9781846683794
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Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations Professor Mary Beard 9781781250495
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.64Mary Beard is one of the world's best-known classicists - a brilliant academic, with a rare gift for communicating with a wide audience both though her TV presenting and her books. In a series... -
Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern by Mary Beard
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.01From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than... -
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022 by Katherine Rundell
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.74**A Sunday Times top ten bestseller****Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2023****Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize for Non-Fiction 2023****Shortlisted for the... -
Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World by Tim Whitmarsh
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23How new is atheism?Long before the Enlightenment sowed seeds of disbelief in a deeply Christian Europe, atheism was a matter of serious public debate in the Greek world. But history is written by... -
She Speaks: Women's Speeches That Changed the World, from Boudica to Greta by Yvette Cooper
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Fully updated with new preface and five new speeches for paperback edition.A Guardian Book of the Year.Looking at lists of the greatest speeches of all time, you might think that powerful oratory is... -
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She Speaks: Women's Speeches That Changed the World, from Boudica to Greta by Yvette Cooper 9781786499929 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £2.02A powerful celebration of brilliant speeches by women throughout the ages, from Boudica to Greta Thunberg.'A treasure trove of trailblazers...' Cathy NewmanLooking at lists of the greatest speeches... -
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She Speaks: Women's Speeches That Changed the World, from Boudica to Greta by Yvette Cooper 9781786499943 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £3.05Fully updated with new preface and five new speeches for paperback edition.A Guardian Book of the Year.Looking at lists of the greatest speeches of all time, you might think that powerful oratory is... -
Deeds Not Words: The Story of Women's Rights - Then and Now Helen Pankhurst 9781473646872
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.79'An uplifting record of progress and strength... You'll lay the book down feeling not only informed, but galvanised to take action yourself.' Independent'An incredible book . . . with the potential... -
Classics: Why It Matters by Neville Morley 9781509517930
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.75For generations, the study of Greek and Latin was used to train the elites of the western world. Knowledge of classical culture, it was believed, produced more cultivated, creative individuals;... -
A Brief History of the Amazons: Women Warriors in Myth and History Lyn Webster Wilde 9781472136770
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Golden-shielded, silver-sworded, man-loving, male-child slaughtering Amazons,' is how the fifth-century Greek historian Hellanicus described the Amazons, and they have fascinated humanity ever since... -
John Coates: The Man Who Built the Snowman by Marie Beardmore 9780861966820
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861966820Author Marie BeardmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint -
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Woman's Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan by Amy Stanley
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2020, a vivid work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman in Edo - now known as Tokyo - and a portrait of a great city on the brink of... -
Socrates in Love by Armand D'Angour
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78An innovative and insightful exploration of the passionate early life of Socrates and the influences that led him to become the first and greatest of philosophers Socrates: the philosopher whose... -
The Woman Who Would be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt by Kara Cooney 9781780747668
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99Hatshepsut, the daughter of a general who took Egypt's throne without status as a king's son and a mother with ties to the previous dynasty, was born into a privileged position of the royal household... -
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Rome: A History in Seven Sackings by Matthew Kneale 9781786492364 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.48A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWaterstone's Book of the Month, 2018Nominated for the 2017 Pen Hessell-TiltmanMail on Sunday's the Best Paperback, 2018A sweeping history of the city of Rome, seen through... -
Rome: A History in Seven Sackings by Matthew Kneale
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.50A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWaterstone's Book of the Month, 2018Nominated for the 2017 Pen Hessell-TiltmanMail on Sunday's the Best Paperback, 2018A sweeping history of the city of Rome, seen through... -
For The Most Beautiful by Emily Hauser
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.35If you've been gripped by Pat Barker's The Women of Troy and The Silence of the Girls, then For the Most Beautiful is a must-read for you . . .Three thousand years ago a war took place that gave... -
A Love Letter to Europe: An outpouring of sadness and hope - Mary Beard, Shami Chakrabati, Sebastian Faulks, Neil Gaiman, Ruth Jones, J.K. Rowling, Sandi Toksvig and others by Frank Cottrell Boyce
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02How are great turning points in history experienced by individuals?As Britain pulls away from Europe great British writers come together to give voice to their innermost feelings. These writers... -
The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome Harry Sidebottom 9780861546855
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.46What happens when you put the Roman Empire in the hands of a teenage boy? Discover the scandalous life and times of Rome's worst emperor. 'Buy the book; it's very entertaining.' David... -
Born Lippy: How to Do Female Jo Brand 9781473687738
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A RADIO 4 'BOOK OF THE WEEK'Sometimes it's hard to be a woman and sometimes it's time to be a hard woman . . . This is a book for all those times.Once upon a (very very) long time ago Jo Brand was... -
The Celts by Dr. Alice Roberts
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.41TV tie-in to major new BBC series revealing a new history of the Celts and their international legacy today.About the AuthorAlice Roberts is an anatomist, archaeologist, anthropologist, historian,... -
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome by Emma Southon
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74'Those left cold by the sober tones of scholarship will find this voice liberating and intoxicating. Its energy is boundless and its range immense.' Wall Street Journal In Ancient Rome all the... -
The Ancient Greeks: Ten Ways They Shaped the Modern World by Edith Hall
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.95They gave us democracy, philosophy, poetry, rational science, the joke. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. They wrote the timeless myths of Odysseus and Oedipus, and the... -
Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood by Helen McCarthy
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.58SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2021 Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2021 Longlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown 2021 'Fabulous' - The Times 'A milestone in women's... -
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A History of Britain in 21 Women: A Personal Selection by Jenni Murray 9781780749907 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.77From the bestselling author of A History of the World in 21 Women They were famous queens, unrecognised visionaries, great artists and trailblazing politicians. They all pushed back boundaries and...