Our newsletters
Sign up to our newsletters and be the first to hear about new books and special offers! Find out more.
Enter our competitions
Enter one of our competitions and you could walk away with a fantastic prize! Find out more.
About us
The Guardian Bookshop makes over 180,000 books available with up to 40% discount, as well as highlighting some of our favourite publications in each genre.
Find out more.
Ancient history
Britain Begins
By Barry Cunliffe
Hardback
Published 25-Oct-2012
| RRP: | £30.00 |
| Our price: | £24.00 |
| You save: | £6.00 |
Impressive in every way this hugely ambitious and assured book takes as its subject the entire history of the British Isles from their physical emergence as islands at the end of the last Ice Age all the way down to the Norman Conquest.
In stock, usually despatched within 24 hours.
Confronting the Classics
By Mary Beard
Hardback
Published 07-Mar-2013
| RRP: | £25.00 |
| Our price: | £20.00 |
| You save: | £5.00 |
Mary Bear explores our rich classical heritage in a series of essays - from Greek drama to Roman jokes, introducing some larger-than-life characters of classical history, such as Alexander the Great, Nero and Boudicca.
In stock, usually despatched within 24 hours.
Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon
By Stephanie Dalley
Hardback
Published 23-May-2013
| RRP: | £25.00 |
| Our price: | £20.00 |
| You save: | £5.00 |
Where was the Hanging Garden of Babylon and what did it look? Why did the ancient Greeks and Romans consider it to be one of the Seven Wonders of the World? Renowned Babylonian expert Stephanie Dalley delves into the legends filled with myth and mystery to piece together the enigmatic history of this elusive world wonder.
In stock, usually despatched within 24 hours.
Invisible Romans
By Robert Knapp
Paperback
Published 07-Feb-2013
| RRP: | £9.99 |
| Our price: | £7.99 |
| You save: | £2.00 |
Shows how everyday Romans sought to survive and thrive under the afflictions of disease, war, and violence, and to control their fates under powers that both oppressed and ignored them. In this book, the author seeks out the ordinary people who formed the fabric of everyday life in ancient Rome and the outlaws and pirates who lay beyond it.
In stock, usually despatched within 24 hours.
London: A History in Maps
By Peter Barber
Hardback
Published 18-Sep-2012
| RRP: | £30.00 |
| Our price: | £24.00 |
| You save: | £6.00 |
Over the past 2000 years London has developed from a small town, fitting snugly within its walls, into one of the world's largest and most dynamic cities. This book illustrates and helps to explain the transformation.
In stock, usually despatched within 24 hours.
Swerve
By Stephen Greenblatt
Paperback
Published 06-Sep-2012
| RRP: | £10.99 |
| Our price: | £8.79 |
| You save: | £2.20 |
Almost six hundred years ago, a short, genial man took a very old manuscript off a library shelf. With excitement, he saw what he had discovered and ordered it copied. This book details how one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, made possible the world as we know it.
In stock, usually despatched within 24 hours.
Plantagenets
By Dan Jones
Hardback
Published 10-May-2012
| RRP: | £25.00 |
| Our price: | £20.00 |
| You save: | £5.00 |
Eight generations of the greatest and worst kings and queens that this country has ever seen - from the White Ship to the Lionheart, bad King John to the Black Prince and John of Gaunt - this is the dynasty that invented England as we still know it today - great history to appeal to readers of Ken Follet, Bernard Cornwell, Tom Holland
In stock, usually despatched within 24 hours.
Winter King
By Thomas Penn
Paperback
Published 01-Mar-2012
| RRP: | £8.99 |
| Our price: | £7.19 |
| You save: | £1.80 |
Recreates the dark and turbulent reign of Henry VII. In this title, the author traces the transformation of a young, vulnerable boy, Prince Henry, into the aggressive teenager who would become Henry VIII, and of Catherine of Aragon, his future queen.
In stock, usually despatched within 24 hours.
War on Heresy
By R I Moore Moore R I
Hardback
Published 15-Mar-2012
| RRP: | £25.00 |
| Our price: | £20.00 |
| You save: | £5.00 |
The great war on heresy obsessed medieval Europe in the centuries after the first millennium. This title focuses on the motives and anxieties of those who declared and conducted the war: what were the beliefs and practices they saw as heretical? How might such beliefs have arisen? And why were they such a threat?
In stock, usually despatched within 24 hours.
In the Shadow of the Sword
By Tom Holland
Paperback
Published 04-Apr-2013
| RRP: | £10.99 |
| Our price: | £8.79 |
| You save: | £2.20 |
In stock, usually despatched within 24 hours.
