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Scipio by Ross Leckie
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Yes, we have achieved much. Have we destroyed even more?In the name of Rome, Scipio Africanus systematically destroyed the hard-won empires of Hannibal and Alexander the Great. With breathtaking... -
Hannibal by Ross Leckie
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73A battle is like lust. The frenzy passes. Consequence remains.Hannibal is an epic vision of one of history's greatest adventurers, the almost mythical man who most famously led his soldiers on... -
Carthage Ross Leckie 9781847671011
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31I fought the Romans once. It no longer seems a prudent thing to do.Carthage concludes the internationally acclaimed trilogy that began with Hannibal and continued with Scipio. Here, Ross Leckie tells... -
Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada by Ross Leckie 9780864923134
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.53Atlantic Canada is enjoying a renaissance unknown since the days of Alden Nowlan, Milton Acorn, and John Thompson. Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada features work by 60 of the region's finest... -
The Uncaged Voice: Stories by Writers in Exile by Keith Ross Leckie 9781770867116
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.84Freedom, truth, and justice are taken for granted in some countries. In others, they are aspirational. And yet in others, they are deemed justification for persecution, punishment, and silence. ... -
Cursed! Blood of the Donnellys: A Novel Based on a True Story Keith Ross Leckie 9781771622394
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771622394Author Keith Ross LeckieFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint -
Alexander The Great And The Hellenistic Age Prof Peter Green 9780753824139
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A masterly narrative survey of three centuries, from Alexander's conquest and empire to the triumph of Rome.The book begins with the personality and achievements of Alexander the Great, and continues... -
Madness: A Brief History Roy Porter (, Former Professor of the Social History of Medicine, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London) 9780192802675
RRP: £14.49Booksplease Price: £9.21This fascinating story of madness reveals the radically different perceptions of madness and approaches to its treatment, from antiquity to the present day. Roy Porter explores what we really... -
Alexander At The World's End by Tom Holt 9780349113159
Booksplease Price: £23.66'Wry and droll, fascinating and funny, by bringing us Alexander's nether parts this novel gives momentous matters unforgettable life' - Ross Leckie'Witty, ironic ... and achieves a deeply felt... -
Free Lunch: Easily Digestible Economics - revised 2022 edition David Smith 9781788168977
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.81'Free of jargon, obfuscation and interminable subordinate clauses, his prose is just the job' The Times A fully updated and revised edition of the classic guide. The economy has never been so... -
The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body Prof Steven Mithen 9780753820513
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50A fascinating and incisive examination of our language instinct from award-winning science writer Steven Mithen.Along with the concepts of consciousness and intelligence, our capacity for language... -
Law of Douglas Van Yssen by Paul Nel 9780980260984
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.99An innocent train journey to the graduation ceremony of their brilliant son, Douglas, forever changes the lives of a middle aged couple when they hesitatingly engage in an intimate experiment... -
What You Used to Wear by Charmaine Cadeau 9780864924100
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.56Charmaine Cadeau's intensely imagined poems captivate everyone who experiences them. Delving beneath the gleaming surfaces of satellite dishes, wagon-wheels, rain-barrel planters, and suburban... -
Conan Doyle: The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes Andrew Lycett 9780753824283
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.78Ground-breaking biography of the creator of fiction's best loved detectiveThough Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's name is recognised the world over, for decades he was overshadowed by his creation, Sherlock... -
The Accidental Angler by Charles Rangeley-Wilson
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Fishing can take you to the heart of a landscape in a way few other forms of travel can match. Whether in the world's most outlandish and awe-inspiring places or just at the end of your road, fishing... -
The Afterlife of Trees by Brian Bartlett 9780773519107
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56From "The Afterlife of Trees" /Neither sheep nor cows crisscross our lives as much./Trees dangle apples and nuts for the hungry, throw/shade down for lovers, mark sites for the lost,/and first and... -
Almost Beauty: New and Selected Poems by Sue Sinclair
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.99Winner, New Brunswick Book Award (Poetry) and Alcuin Society Book Design Awards Third Prize (Poetry) Finalist, Derek Walcott Prize for PoetrySue Sinclair has been praised for her "crisp, lyrical... -
The Memorial to the Missing of the Somme Gavin Stamp 9781781255063
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Edwin Lutyens' Memorial to the Missing of the Somme at Thiepval in Northern France, visited annually by tens of thousands of tourists, is arguably the finest structure erected by any British... -
Oracle Bones Peter Hessler 9780719564413
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Peter Hessler's previous book River Town was a prize-winning, poignant and deeply compelling portrait of China. Now, in Oracle Bones, Hessler returns to the country, excavating its long history and... -
Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town by Mary Beard
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64WINNER 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... -
Sylvia, Queen Of The Headhunters: An Outrageous Englishwoman And Her Lost Kingdom Philip Eade 9780753823811
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The biography of the last Ranee of Sarawak, born into the aristocracy as Sylvia Brett in 1885 and destined to become 'Queen of the Headhunters'.'Jaw-dropping ... If you thought White Mischief the... -
twofold by Edward Carson 9780228020097
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.37The poet Charles Simic wrote, "Short poems: be brief and tell us everything."Edward Carson's extraordinary new work gathers concise diptych - or twofold - poems exploring themes of love,... -
The House Divided: Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East Barnaby Rogerson 9781781257265
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'A masterly engagement with the most delicate and important of subjects - filled with gentle empathy, learning and rare balance' Rory Stewart 'Rogerson is an original - eloquent and always... -
The House Divided: Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East by Barnaby Rogerson 9781781257258
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.37Recommended on The Rest is Politics and Empire 'A masterly engagement with the most delicate and important of subjects - filled with gentle empathy, learning and rare balance' Rory Stewart ... -
The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities by Violet Moller
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'A lovely debut from a gifted young author. Violet Moller brings to life the ways in which knowledge reached us from antiquity to the present day in a book that is as delightful as it is readable.'... -
Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town Professor Mary Beard 9781861975966
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64WINNER 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... -
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Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama 9781847670946 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.54The son of a black African father and a white American mother, Obama was only two years old when his father walked out on the family. Many years later, Obama receives a phone call from Nairobi: his... -
The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England by Graham Robb
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'A book worth reading' Andrew Marr, Sunday TimesThe Debatable Land was an independent territory which used to exist between Scotland and England. At the height of its notoriety, it was the bloodiest... -
Swindled: The Dark History of Food Fraud, from Poisoned Candy to Counterfeit Coffee by Bee Wilson 9780691138206
Booksplease Price: £33.93Bad food has a history. "Swindled" tells it. Through a fascinating mixture of cultural and scientific history, food politics, and culinary detective work, Bee Wilson uncovers the many ways swindlers...