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Carver's Quest by Nick Rennison
Booksplease Price: $18.92It 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... -
Carver's Truth by Nick Rennison
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $4.86London, 1871. Traveller, photographer and sometime intelligencer Adam Carver is asked by a friend from the Foreign Office to find Dolly Delaney, a West End dancing girl who has been involved with a... -
Robin Hood by Nick Rennison 9781842432471
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $23.86Robin 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... -
A Short History Of Polar Exploration by Nick Rennison 9781843440901
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $5.26According 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... -
1974: Scenes from a Year of Crisis by Nick Rennison 9780857305817
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $13.951974 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: $18.98Booksplease Price: $12.081922 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... -
1922: Scenes from a Turbulent Year by Nick Rennison 9780857304674
Booksplease Price: $27.281922 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... -
1974: Scenes from a Year of Crisis by Nick Rennison 9780857305824
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $17.231974 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,... -
Short History Of Robin Hood: A Pocket Essential by Nick Rennison 9780857303264
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $7.62Robin 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 London Blue Plaque Guide: Fifth Edition Nick Rennison 9781803997704
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $23.81Connecting 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... -
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The London Blue Plaque Guide by Nick Rennison 9780750933889 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $4.90London's distinctive blue plaques commemorate remarkable men and women who have lived in the capital. This guide describes the careers of nearly 800 individuals; well-known names such as Charles... -
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100 Must-read Classic Novels by Nick Rennison 9780713675832 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.58Booksplease Price: $3.74Want to become a classic novel buff, or expand your reading of some of the finest novels ever published? With 100 of the best titles fully reviewed and a further 500 recommended, you'll quickly set... -
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1922: Scenes from a Turbulent Year by Nick Rennison 9780857305015 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $4.071922 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... -
Riots and Rebels: A Pocket Essential History of Popular Protest in Britain Nick Rennison 9780857306197
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.06The 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... -
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The London Blue Plaque Guide: Third Edition by Nick Rennison 9780752450506 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $5.36A guide to London's distinctive Blue Plaques - commemorating the remarkable men and women, who have lived in the capital. Its biographical portraits, listed in alphabetical order, provide informative... -
Clash of Empires: The Great Siege William Napier 9781409102830
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.24A 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: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.59The 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)... -
The Lady From Zagreb: Bernie Gunther Thriller 10 Philip Kerr 9781782065845
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.59'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 King and the Slave Tim Leach 9780857899231
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $12.67Ten 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 Night in Venice: An irresistible historical novel – The Talented Mr Ripley meets A Room with a View by A.J. Martin 9781399608039
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.24'A MASTER OF HISTORICAL CRIME FICTION' GUARDIANThe Talented Mr Ripley meets A Room with a View in this dark and irresistible historical novel featuring Monica: a fourteen-year-old girl with a... -
The First Day of the Blitz: September 7, 1940 by Peter Stansky 9780300143355
Booksplease Price: $26.45In 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,... -
My Driver by Maggie Gee 9781846590795
RRP: $15.18Booksplease Price: $11.70Vanessa Henman, a plucky but accident-prone white writer, flies out to Uganda for an African writers' conference. She also means to visit her former cleaner, Ugandan Mary Tendo, now the successful... -
Almost a Ghost Story by Emily Bullock 9781911427544
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $16.51Marin, Ronan, Hollis, and Jay - each tethered to grief, guilt, or unfinished love - meet onboard an Isle of Wight Ferry, but is it for the first time? And who of them are alive? Only those with a... -
Titanic: The Last Night of a Small Town by John Welshman 9780198786498
RRP: $29.43Booksplease Price: $25.27In 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... -
Butterfly's Shadow by Lee Langley 9780099542179
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $23.69Lee Langley's bewitching story of lost hope and thwarted love opens where Puccini's opera ends; with Madame Butterfly - Cho-Cho-San - handing over her beloved son to his American father before... -
Alexander's Legacy: To The Strongest by Robert Fabbri 9781786497987
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $13.59'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: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.23'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... -
South Merlin Coverley 9781843447252
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $15.30Artists 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: $17.08Booksplease Price: $12.88Alma 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,... -
Sea Change by Alix Nathan
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $12.16'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... -
For The Most Beautiful by Emily Hauser
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $17.77If 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... -
Pale Horse Riding by Chris Petit 9781471148477
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $12.88'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: $18.98Booksplease Price: $7.62Artists 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... -
Monsieur Ka by Vesna Goldsworthy 9781784704520 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $3.80'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... -
To The Strongest: 'Terrific series' Conn Iggulden by Robert Fabbri
Booksplease Price: $27.04'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... -
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After the Bombing by Clare Morrall 9781444736465 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $3.91Alma 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,... -
Death to the Emperor: The thrilling new Eagles of the Empire novel - Macro and Cato return! by Simon Scarrow
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.24AD 60. Britannia. The Boudica Revolt begins . . .Macro and Cato - heroes of the Roman Empire - face a ruthless enemy set on revenge The Roman Empire's hold on the province of Britannia is fragile... -
Kingdom of Twilight Steven Uhly 9780857056467
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.06HISTORICAL 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... -
Conquest: The English Kingdom of France 1417-1450 by Juliet Barker 9780349122021
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $19.95Author of the best-selling AGINCOURT, Juliet Barker now tells the equally remarkable, but largely forgotten, story of the dramatic years when England ruled France at the point of a sword.Henry V's... -
Bloody Victory: The Sacrifice on the Somme and the Making of the Twentieth Century by William Philpott 9780349120041 [USED COPY]
RRP: $66.50Booksplease Price: $4.431 July 1916: the first day of the Battle of the Somme. The hot, hellish day in the fields of northern France that has dominated our perception of the First World War for just shy of a century. The...