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Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $24.21Cleopatra's palace shimmered with onyx and gold but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world... -
Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
RRP: $41.78Booksplease Price: $27.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316001946Author Stacy SchiffFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint < -
The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.58'An oppressive, forensic, psychological thriller: J.K. Rowling meets Antony Beevor, Stephen King and Marina Warner ... Schiff's writing is to die for' THE TIMESIt began in 1692, over an exceptionally... -
The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams by Stacy Schiff 9780316441094
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $23.86Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, "Samuel Adams was the man." With high-minded ideals and bare-knuckle tactics, Adams led what could be called the greatest... -
The Revolutionary Samuel Adams by Stacy Schiff 9780316441117
RRP: $57.00Booksplease Price: $41.04A Top 10 Best Books of the Year (Wall Street Journal), Top 10 Best Nonfiction (Time), Top 5 Nonfiction (LA Times), Top 10 Books of 2022 (Fresh Air), and One of Oprah Daily's Favourite Books of 2022:... -
A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America by Stacy Schiff
RRP: $43.68Booksplease Price: $27.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805080094Author Stacy SchiffFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint < -
The Witches: Suspicion, Betrayal, and Hysteria in 1692 Salem by Stacy Schiff 9780316200592
RRP: $41.78Booksplease Price: $25.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316200592Author Stacy SchiffFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint < -
This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark by Craig Fehrman 9781982174248
RRP: $66.50Booksplease Price: $42.54NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A major revisionist history of the Lewis and Clark expedition: For the first time in a generation, This Vast Enterprise offers a fresh and more accurate account of one of... -
Benjamin Franklin in London: The British Life of America's Founding Father George Goodwin 9781780227351
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.24'Sensitive, moving and finely textured' Guardian'Fantastic' Dan SnowFor the great majority of his long life, Benjamin Franklin was a loyal British royalist. In 1757, having made his fortune in... -
Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder by Matthew Pearl 9780063338074
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.73INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the bestselling author of The Taking of Jemima Boone, the unbelievable true story of a real-life Swiss Family Robinson (and their dog) who faced sharks, shipwreck, and... -
Rachel to the Rescue Elinor Lipman 9781785632556
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $13.40Rachel Klein is sacked from her job at the White House after she sends an email criticising Donald Trump. As she is escorted off the premises she is hit by a speeding car, driven by what the press... -
We Are As Gods: Back to the Land in the 1970s on the Quest for a New America by Kate Daloz
RRP: $47.50Booksplease Price: $35.57At the dawn of the 1970s, waves of hopeful idealists abandoned the city and headed for the country, convinced that a better life awaited. They were full of dreams, mostly lacking in practical skills,... -
Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature by Elizabeth Winkler 9781982171278
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.24An "extraordinarily brilliant" and "pleasurably naughty" (Andre Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became... -
The Men Who United the States by Simon Winchester 9780007532407
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $20.63From bestselling author Simon Winchester, the extraordinary story of how America was united into a single nation. For more than two centuries, E pluribus unum - out of many, one - has been... -
Truevine: An Extraordinary True Story of Two Brothers and a Mother's Love by Beth Macy 9781447278092 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $6.63In Truevine, Virginia, in 1899 everyone the Muse brothers knew was either a former slave, or a child or grandchild of slaves. George and Willie Muse were just six and nine years old, but they worked... -
Truevine: An Extraordinary True Story of Two Brothers and a Mother's Love by Beth Macy
Booksplease Price: $17.59In Truevine, Virginia, in 1899 everyone the Muse brothers knew was either a former slave, or a child or grandchild of slaves. George and Willie Muse were just six and nine years old, but they worked... -
When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-44 Ronald Rosbottom 9781848547391
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.77In May and June 1940 almost four million people fled Paris and its suburbs in anticipation of a German invasion. On June 14, the German Army tentatively entered the silent and eerily empty French... -
Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II by Evan Thomas 9781783967292
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $28.03'Urgent, compulsively readable and powerfully resonant' Sinclair McKay You know Oppenheimer, the man who created the atomic bomb... Now meet the men who detonated it, and the extraordinary... -
The Woman Who Would be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt by Kara Cooney 9781780747668
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.08Hatshepsut, 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... -
Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring by Brad Gooch 9780062698261
RRP: $57.00Booksplease Price: $36.39"It's all here: the grade school Walt Disney and Dr. Seuss; the adolescent acid trips; the fondness for Post-it notes and flying saucers; the long tails of Dubuffet and Burroughs; the encounters with... -
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night by Julian Sancton
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $18.05'An epic of survival' -- MICHAEL PALIN'A "grade-A classic"' -- SUNDAY TIMES'Utterly enthralling' -- GEOFF DYER, GUARDIAN'Deeply engrossing' -- NEW YORK TIMESLISTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES,... -
Rumi's Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love by Brad Gooch 9780061999154
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.20The ecstatic love poems of Rumi, a Persian poet and Sufi mystic born more than eight centuries ago, are beloved by millions of readers in America as well as around the world. Rumi has been compared... -
A Guardian and a Thief: The sensational new novel from the author of A Burning Megha Majumdar 9781398551640
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $23.52NAMED A NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, NEW YORKER, WASHINGTON POST, NPR, ATLANTIC, TIME, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, NEW YORK MAGAZINE, ELLE, KIRKUS, BOOKPAGEOPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK< -
Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers Jean Strouse 9781526188564
RRP: $47.50Booksplease Price: $37.70A glittering account of John Singer Sargent's relationship with an eminent Edwardian family. In Family Romance, Jean Strouse tells the story of John Singer Sargent and his relationship with the... -
Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years by John Guy
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54History has pictured Elizabeth I as Gloriana, an icon of strength and power -- and has focused on the early years of her reign. But in 1583, when Elizabeth is fifty, there is relentless plotting... -
The Barbizon: The New York Hotel That Set Women Free by Paulina Bren
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $17.59AS HEARD ON RADIO 4 WOMAN'S HOUR'Captivating . . . a brilliant many-layered social history of women's ambition and a rapidly changing New York' Observer'A fascinating look at a piece of forgotten... -
In the Garden of the Righteous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust Richard Hurowitz 9780063037243
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $20.63"In the Garden of the Righteous brilliantly describes how in the midst of the brutality of the Holocaust and the collaboration, acquiescence and passivity of millions, there were people who risked... -
Books for Living: a reader's guide to life by Will Schwalbe
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.24From the author of the international bestseller The End of Your Life Book Club, an inspiring and magical exploration of the enduring power of books - a must for all passionate book lovers, exploring...