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Master of Shadows by Neil Oliver
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41In fifteenth-century Constantinople, Prince Constantine saves the life of a broken-hearted girl. But the price of his valour is high.John Grant is a young man on the edge of the world. His unique... -
Vikings Neil Oliver 9781780222820
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41The Vikings famously took no prisoners, relished cruel retribution, and prided themselves on their blood-thirsty skills as warriors. But their prowess in battle is only a small part of their story,... -
A History Of Scotland Neil Oliver 9780753826638
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41The dramatic story of Scotland - by charismatic television historian, Neil Oliver.Scotland is one of the oldest countries in the world with a vivid and diverse past. Yet the stories and figures that... -
A History of Ancient Britain Neil Oliver 9780753828861
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41Who were the first Britons, and what sort of world did they occupy? In A History of Ancient Britain, much-loved historian Neil Oliver turns a spotlight on the very beginnings of the story of Britain;... -
Vikings by Neil Oliver 9781780222820 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $1.76The Vikings famously took no prisoners, relished cruel retribution, and prided themselves on their blood-thirsty skills as warriors. But their prowess in battle is only a small part of their story,... -
A History Of Scotland by Neil Oliver 9780753826638 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.39Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Coast From the Air by Neil Oliver 9781846072666 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $3.62Viewed from the air, even the most familiar landscapes take on a startling new life. The countryside becomes a pattern; the coast becomes an edge. Humanity recedes and the land itself takes centre... -
A History of Ancient Britain by Neil Oliver 9780753828861 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $3.24Who were the first Britons, and what sort of world did they occupy? In A History of Ancient Britain, much-loved historian Neil Oliver turns a spotlight on the very beginnings of the story of Britain;... -
Amazing Tales for Making Men out of Boys by Neil Oliver
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Discover inspiring stories of heroism, adventure, endurance and survival from throughout history. Captain Robert Falcon Scott didn't start out life as a hero. In fact, as a boy he was considered... -
Not Forgotten: The Great War and Our Modern Memory by Neil Oliver
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41There are 37,780 First World War memorials in Britain, listing names from all walks of life - estates, villages, places of work. They stand as landmarks to a defining period in British history - and... -
The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places Neil Oliver (Author) 9781784165352
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.81"Everyone should have two copies - one for the car and one for the house to plan journeys. . . a reminder to think more about the places you pass and less about your route, because every British... -
The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places by Neil Oliver 9781784165352 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $3.14Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Wisdom of the Ancients: Life lessons from our distant past by Neil Oliver
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92THE PERFECT READ FOR TROUBLED TIMESFrom the bestselling author of The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places comes this inspiring and beautifully written meditation on the wisdom inherited from our... -
Amazing Tales for Making Men out of Boys by Neil Oliver 9780141035598 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.10Discover inspiring stories of heroism, adventure, endurance and survival from throughout history. Captain Robert Falcon Scott didn't start out life as a hero. In fact, as a boy he was considered... -
Early Humans (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 134) by Nicholas Ashton
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $33.97Our understanding of the British Palaeolithic and Mesolithic has changed dramatically over the last three decades, and yet not since H. J. Fleure's A Natural History of Man in Britain... -
Early Humans (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 134) by Nicholas Ashton 9780008150334
RRP: $80.40Booksplease Price: $56.41Our understanding of the British Palaeolithic and Mesolithic has changed dramatically over the last three decades, and yet not since H. J. Fleure's A Natural History of Man in Britain... -
Two Lives of Charlemagne by Einhard
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Einhard's Life of Charlemagne is an absorbing chronicle of one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers, written by a close friend and adviser. In elegant prose it describes... -
Echolands: A Journey in Search of Boudica by Duncan Mackay 9781399714143
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'A masterly evocation of the bloodiest year in British history.' Alice Roberts'Evocative, authoritative . . . rich storytelling.' Cat Jarman'An engaged, informed companion for the armchair time... -
In Search Of The Trojan War by Michael Wood
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.07For thousands of years we have been enthralled by tales of Troy and its heroes. Achilles and Hector, Paris and the famed beauty Helen remain some of the most enduring figures in art and literature... -
The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Egypt by Bill Manley
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $15.81From its humble origins as a cluster of rival chiefdoms along the banks of the Nile, ancient Egypt rose to become one of the most advanced civilizations of its time. This atlas traces its turbulent... -
The Making Of The British Landscape: From the Ice Age to the Present Nicholas Crane 9780753826676
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36How much do we really know about the place we call 'home'? In this sweeping, timely book, Nicholas Crane tells the story of Britain.Over the course of 12,000 years of continuous human occupation, the... -
The Making Of The British Landscape: From the Ice Age to the Present by Nicholas Crane 9780297856665 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $3.40How much do we really know about the place we call 'home'? In this sweeping, timely book, Nicholas Crane tells the story of Britain.The British landscape has been continuously occupied by humans for... -
The Making Of The British Landscape: From the Ice Age to the Present by Nicholas Crane 9780753826676 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $3.23How much do we really know about the place we call 'home'? In this sweeping, timely book, Nicholas Crane tells the story of Britain.Over the course of 12,000 years of continuous human occupation, the... -
Glencoe: The Story of the Massacre by John Prebble
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37'You are hereby ordered to fall upon the rebels, the MacDonalds of Glencoe, and to put all to the sword under seventy.' This was the treacherous and cold-blooded order ruthlessly carried out on 13... -
The Lords Of Avaris by David Rohl
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.07The Lords of Avaris is one man's journey in search of the legendary origins of the Western World. Our story begins in a small rock-cut tomb below the desolate ruin-mound of Jericho in the Jordan... -
Scotland's Empire: The Origins of the Global Diaspora by T. M. Devine
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08In Scotland's Empire, T.M Devine tells the compelling story of Scotland's role in forging and expanding the British Empire, from the Americas to Australia, India to the Caribbean. By 1820 Britain... -
Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English by Jonathan Ree
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37'Astonishing ... enjoy its riches slowly, and savour every generous, erudite and undogmatic page' Boyd Tonkin, Financial Times'We English men have wits,' wrote the clergyman Ralph Lever in 1573, and,... -
Rome in Crisis by Plutarch 9780140449167
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.22Bringing together nine biographies from Plutarch's Parallel Lives series, this edition examines the lives of major figures in Roman history, from Lucullus (118-57 BC), an aristocratic politician and... -
Coast: Our Island Story: A Journey of Discovery Around Britain's Coastline by Nicholas Crane 9781849904346
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.69Along our shores, towering cliffs from the age of the dinosaurs rise beside wide estuaries teeming with wildlife, while Victorian ports share waterfronts with imposing fortifications.And the people... -
William Wallace: Brave Heart by James A. Mackay 9781851588237
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $15.29Sir William Wallace of Ellerslie is one of history's greatest heroes, but also one of its greatest enigmas - a shadowy figure whose edges have been blurred by myth and legend. Even the date and place... -
To the Ends of the Earth: Scotland's Global Diaspora, 1750-2010 by T. M. Devine
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Part of his trilogy on Scottish history, T. M. Devine's To the Ends of the Earth is a compelling account of the Scots as a 'global people', charting their forgotten role in the building of the modern... -
The Highland Clearances by John Prebble
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37In the terrible aftermath of the moorland battle of Culloden, the Highlanders suffered at the hands of their own clan chiefs. Following his magnificent reconstruction of Culloden, John Prebble... -
The Age of Bede by Bede
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37This selection of writings from the sixth and seventh century AD provides a powerful insight into the early history of the Christian Church in England and Ireland. From Bede's Life of Cuthbert and... -
Ships Of Heaven: The Private Life of Britain's Cathedrals by Christopher Somerville
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29'Somerville is one of our finest gazetteers of the British countryside. He brings his formidable knowledge to bear on his personal quest to explore the cathedrals in this entrancing book'The... -
For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies by Robert Irwin
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Robert Irwin's history of Orientalism leads from Ancient Greece to the present. He shows that, whether making philological comparisons between Arabic and Hebrew, cataloguing the coins of Fatimid... -
God's War: A New History of the Crusades by Christopher Tyerman
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $21.40The story of how a group of warriors, driven by faith, greed and wanderlust, carved out new Christian-ruled states in the Middle East is one of the most extraordinary of all epics. The crusaders'... -
Early Irish Myths and Sagas by Jeffrey Gantz
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.68First written down in the eighth century AD, these early Irish stories depict a far older world - part myth, part legend and part history. Rich with magic and achingly beautiful, they speak of a land... -
William Wallace: Brave Heart by James A. Mackay 9781851588237 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $3.14Sir William Wallace of Ellerslie is one of history's greatest heroes, but also one of its greatest enigmas - a shadowy figure whose edges have been blurred by myth and legend. Even the date and place... -
Coast: Our Island Story: A Journey of Discovery Around Britain's Coastline by Nicholas Crane 9781849904346 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $2.64Along our shores, towering cliffs from the age of the dinosaurs rise beside wide estuaries teeming with wildlife, while Victorian ports share waterfronts with imposing fortifications.And the people... -
The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life by Ryszard Kapuscinski 9780140292626 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $6.00'Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as a geographical term, Africa doesn't exist'. Ryszard Kapuscinski has been writing...