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Carver's Quest by Nick Rennison
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £9.80It is 1870. When amateur archaeologist Adam Carver and his loyal but obdurate retainer Quint are visited in their lodgings in London's Doughty Street by an attractive young woman, their landlady is... -
Contemporary British Novelists by Nick Rennison
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £111.35Featuring a broad range of contemporary British novelists from Iain Banks to Jeanette Winterson, Louis de Bernieres to Irvine Welsh and Salman Rushdie, this book offers an excellent introductory... -
American Sherlocks by Nick Rennison 9780857304391
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Sherlock Holmes is the most famous of all fictional detectives but, across the Atlantic, he had plenty of rivals. Between 1890 and 1920, American writers created dozens and dozens of crime-solvers... -
Robin Hood by Nick Rennison 9781842432471
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56Robin Hood is England's greatest folk hero. Everyone knows the story of the outlaw who robbed from the rich and gave to the poor. Nick Rennison's highly entertaining book begins with the search for... -
The Rivals Of Sherlock Holmes by Nick Rennison 9781843447375
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43Sherlock Holmes is the most famous fictional detective ever created. The supremely rational sleuth and his dependable companion, Dr Watson, will forever be associated with the gaslit and smog-filled... -
Victorian Tales of the Weird Nick Rennison 9781835010662
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781835010662Author Nick RennisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Bedford Square... -
A Short History Of Polar Exploration by Nick Rennison 9781843440901
RRP: £2.99Booksplease Price: £2.77According to Apsley Cherry-Garrard, one of the men who went to Antarctica with Captain Scott, 'Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time that has ever been... -
More Rivals Of Sherlock Holmes by Nick Rennison 9780857302601
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857302601Author Nick RennisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint No Exit PressPublisher... -
1974: Scenes from a Year of Crisis by Nick Rennison 9780857305824
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.501974 WAS A YEAR OF MAJOR CHANGE AROUND THE WORLD. Presidents resigned, emperors were deposed, and new governments came to power. On both sides of the Atlantic, major political figures left the scene,... -
1922: Scenes from a Turbulent Year Nick Rennison 9780857305015
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.781922 was a year of great turbulence and upheaval. Its events reverberated throughout the rest of the twentieth century and still affect us today, 100 years later. Empires fell. The Ottoman Empire... -
1974: Scenes from a Year of Crisis by Nick Rennison 9780857305817
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.021974 WAS A YEAR OF MAJOR CHANGE AROUND THE WORLD. Presidents resigned, emperors were deposed, and new governments came to power. On both sides of the Atlantic, major political figures left the scene,... -
1922: Scenes from a Turbulent Year by Nick Rennison 9780857304674
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £14.311922 was a year of great turbulence and upheaval. The world had just emerged from a war that had killed millions of people and a global pandemic that had ended the lives of tens of millions more. Its... -
The London Blue Plaque Guide: Fifth Edition Nick Rennison 9781803997704
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.88Connecting people with places, London's distinctive Blue Plaque scheme highlights the buildings where some of the most remarkable men and women in our history and culture have lived and worked. From... -
100 Must-read Life-changing Books by Nick Rennison 9780713688726
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.13Novels which transform our ideas about human possibilities, biographies which celebrate the achievements of extraordinary individuals, polemical works of non-fiction which oblige us to alter our... -
Short History Of Robin Hood: A Pocket Essential by Nick Rennison 9780857303264
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.01Robin Hood is England's greatest folk hero. Everyone knows the story of the outlaw who robbed from the rich and gave to the poor. Nick Rennison's highly entertaining book begins with the search for... -
Riots and Rebels: A Pocket Essential History of Popular Protest in Britain Nick Rennison 9780857306197
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40The only power otherwise powerless people possess lies in their numbers. Riots and Rebels is an examination of how they have exercised that power over the centuries and how governments have reacted... -
Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide: Discover Your Next Great Read by Nick Rennison 9781408113950
Booksplease Price: £17.37"The essential guide to the wild uncharted world of contemporary and 20th century writing." Robert McCrum, The Observer Deciding what to read next when you've just finished an unputdownable novel can... -
Riots and Rebels: Popular Protest in Britain from the Peasants' Revolt to Extinction Rebellion Nick Rennison 9780857306074
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56In 1381, a large army of people marched through the south-east of England to London, demanding an end to unfair taxation and threatening the rule of the boy-king, Richard II. During the eighteenth... -
Clash of Empires: The Great Siege William Napier 9781409102830
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A brutal combat. A test of courage. A battle that will change history.1565: a small island in the middle of the Mediterranean stands gatekeeper between East and West. It is about to become the scene... -
A Splendid Little War Derek Robinson 9781780878096
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The war to end all wars, people said in 1918. Not for long. By 1919, White Russians were fighting Bolshevik Reds for control of their country, and Winston Churchill (then Secretary of State for War)... -
Terracotta Warriors: History, Mystery and the Latest Discoveries Edward Burman 9781474606103
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Terracotta Warriors provides an intriguing, original and up-to-date account of one of the wonders of the ancient world. Illustrated with a wealth of original photographs, this is the first book... -
The King and the Slave Tim Leach 9780857899231
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Ten years after the fall of Babylon, Cyrus's army is on the march again. His slave Croesus, no longer a young man, accompanies him as always, as does the king's son and heir Cambyses, who has... -
The Quick Lauren Owen 9780099569978
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42You are about to discover the secrets of The Quick -But first, reader, you must travel to Victorian England, and there, in the wilds of Yorkshire, meet a brother and sister alone in the world, a pair... -
The Lady From Zagreb: Bernie Gunther Thriller 10 Philip Kerr 9781782065845
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILDSummer 1942. When Bernie Gunther is ordered to speak at an international police conference, an old acquaintance has a favour to ask. Little... -
The First Day of the Blitz: September 7, 1940 by Peter Stansky 9780300143355
Booksplease Price: £12.05In the first terrifying hours of the London Blitz, when the skies rained bombs from hundreds of German planes, the British people were galvanized and the nation's future was changed On September 7,... -
First Class Comrades: The Stasi in the Cold War, 1945-1961 J. Boulter 9780857306098
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £20.97After the Second World War, divided Germany was saturated with spies. Among them were the 'first class comrades' of the Stasi - the East German Ministry for State Security. The early Cold War saw the... -
Titanic: The Last Night of a Small Town by John Welshman 9780198786498
RRP: £15.49Booksplease Price: £12.74In his famous book A Night to Remember, historian Walter Lord described the sinking of the Titanic as 'the last night of a small town'. Now, a hundred years after her sinking, John Welshman... -
Alexander's Legacy: To The Strongest by Robert Fabbri 9781786497987
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.15'An excellent new series by the consistently brilliant Robert Fabbri' Sunday Sport_____________________________Babylon, 323 BC: Alexander the Great is dead, leaving behind him the largest, and most... -
Monsieur Ka Vesna Goldsworthy 9781784704520
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'A beautiful haunting novel... looking at a familiar London through a frosty, snowy lens. Wonderful' Caryl PhillipsThe London winter of 1947 is as cold as St Petersburg during the Revolution... -
Sea Change by Alix Nathan
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £5.56'Unsettling and strange, Sea Change, cements Nathan's reputation as one of our most interesting historical novelists.' The Times AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 'I'll be back soon, my love. Tonight, I... -
South Merlin Coverley 9781843447252
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.05Artists and writers from the colder climes of northern Europe have long felt the lure of the South of the continent. Goethe was revitalised by his encounters with Mediterranean culture on his journey... -
For The Most Beautiful by Emily Hauser
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.65If 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... -
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RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £2.34If 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... -
To The Strongest: 'Terrific series' Conn Iggulden by Robert Fabbri
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £14.18'I loved to the strongest' CONN IGGULDEN, bestselling author of Protector'An excellent new series by the consistently brilliant Robert Fabbri' Sunday SportLet the battles begin... 'I foresee great... -
Pale Horse Riding by Chris Petit 9781471148477
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.40'No denying the book's power' Nick Rennison, Sunday Times 'The real skill of this rigorous, disturbing novel lies in the way Petit steadily and unsensationally allows his protagonists to discover the... -
South by Merlin Coverley 9780857301390
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.01Artists and writers from the colder climes of northern Europe have long felt the lure of the South of the continent. Goethe was revitalised by his encounters with Mediterranean culture on his journey... -
After the Bombing Clare Morrall 9781444736465
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Alma Braithwaite was a teenager in Exeter when her boarding school was bombed in 1942. Twenty-one years later, she remains alone in the house where she grew up, teaching music at her old school,... -
The Pages by Murray Bail 9780099524281
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.14What are The Pages?On a family sheep station in the interior of Australia, a brother and sister work the property while their reclusive brother, Wesley Antill, spends years toiling away in one of the... -
Kingdom of Twilight Steven Uhly 9780857056467
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH - THE TIMESOne night in autumn 1944, a gunshot echoes through the alleyways of a small town in occupied Poland. An S.S. officer is shot dead by a young Polish... -
Paris In The Dark by Robert Olen Butler 9781843448938
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Nominated for the 2019 Hammett Prize Autumn 1915. The First World War is raging across Europe. Woodrow Wilson has kept Americans out of the trenches, although that hasn't stopped young men and women...