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Books, Baguettes and Bedbugs: Enchanting memoir of a struggling writer and an eccentric Paris bookshop Jeremy Mercer 9780753820582
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $22.04Enchanting memoir of a struggling writer living and working in the eccentric Parisian bookshop, 'Shakespeare and Company''Completely riveting ...a vivid picture of modern Paris' OBSERVER'Shakespeare... -
The Nemesis File by Paul Bruce 9781843582731
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $19.09Paul Bruce was a tough, idealistic young trooper in the SAS when he was dispatched to Northern Ireland at the height of the troubles. His top secret mission was to execute IRA suspects in cold blood... -
The Little Book of Cumbria by David Ramshaw 9780750984799
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.23This is a fact-packed compendium of snippets from the past and present, including historical tales, legends and myths of the Lake District and the rest of the region from Barrow to Carlisle. The... -
Whitley Bay: Past and Present by John Alexander 9781780914459
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780914459Author John AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint -
Heaven and Hell by Jon Kalman Stefansson
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $19.09"The first of an extraordinary trilogy" DANIEL MASON, author of North WoodsIn a remote part of Iceland, a boy and his friend Bardur join a boat to fish for cod. A winter storm surprises them out at... -
Different Class: The Untold Story of English Cricket Duncan Stone 9781913462802
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $22.04In 1963, the West Indian Marxist C.L.R. James posed the deceptively benign question: "What do they know of cricket, who only cricket know?" A challenge to the public to re-consider cricket and... -
Pre-Industrial Societies: Anatomy of the Pre-Modern World by Patricia Crone 9781780747415
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $31.82Eminent historian Patricia Crone defines the common features of a wide range of pre-industrial societies, from locations as seemingly disparate as the Mongol Empire and pre-Columbian America, to... -
In The Footsteps Of Alexander The Great by Michael Wood 9780563521938
RRP: $38.06Booksplease Price: $29.87Michael Wood retraces Alexander the Greats amazing journey from Greece to India, searching for the truth behind the legend and experiencing the tremendous scale of his achievements. Using the... -
Lives of the Eminent Philosophers: Compact Edition by Diogenes Laertius
RRP: $39.25Booksplease Price: $37.15Everyone wants to live a meaningful life. Long before our own day of self-help books offering twelve-step programs and other guides to attain happiness, the philosophers of ancient Greece explored... -
The Regency Revolution: Jane Austen, Napoleon, Lord Byron and the Making of the Modern World by Robert Morrison
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97Shortlisted for the HWA Non-fiction Crown Award 2020'Superb' The Economist'Elegant, entertaining and frequently surprising' New York TimesThe fascinating story of the Regency period in Britain - an... -
Diary of an Invasion Andrey Kurkov 9781914495847
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $29.89'Uplifting and utterly defiant' Matt Nixson, Daily Express 'Immediate and important ... This is an insider's account of how an ordinary life became extraordinary' Helen Davies, The TimesThis journal... -
The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976 Frank Dikoetter 9781408856529
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.16Acclaimed by the Daily Mail as 'definitive and harrowing', this is the final volume of 'The People's Trilogy', begun by the Samuel Johnson prize-winning Mao's Great Famine. 'The seminal English... -
London's 100 Strangest Places by David Long
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $22.16The bustling metropolis of London is home to scores of unusual and unique places and spaces. In this feast of peculiarities, author David Long guides you off the beaten path and allows you under the... -
Escaping Hitler: Heroic True Stories of Great Escapes in Nazi Europe Monty Halls 9781509866014
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $8.71'I was on a train, and a German soldier began shouting at me and poking me in the ribs with his machine gun. I just thought that was it, the game was up . . .'Downed airman Bob Frost faced danger at... -
American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History's Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers by Marc Hartzman
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $33.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585425303Author Marc HartzmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint -
1493: How Europe's Discovery of the Americas Revolutionized Trade, Ecology and Life on Earth by Charles C. Mann
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.01Two hundred million years ago the earth consisted of a single vast continent, Pangea, surrounded by a great planetary sea. Continental drift tore apart Pangaea, and for millennia the hemispheres were... -
Portraiture by Shearer West
RRP: $58.29Booksplease Price: $44.36This fascinating new book explores the world of portraiture from a number of vantage points, and asks key questions about its nature. How has portraiture changed over the centuries? How have... -
Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe
RRP: $47.58Booksplease Price: $34.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914198144Author Christina SharpeFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint
The Albigensian Crusade by Jonathan Sumption
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $29.58In twelfth century Languedoc a subversive heresy of Eastern origin flourished to an extraordinary degree. The Albingenses believed that the world was created by an evil spirit, and that all worldly...
Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State Jeff Halper 9780745343396
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $29.82'Extremely convincing' - Electronic Intifada For decades we have spoken of the 'Israel-Palestine conflict', but what if our understanding of the issue has been wrong all along? This book explores...
Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain by Len Deighton
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.42'The most honest attempt yet to tell how the Battle of Britain really was' Andrew Wilson, ObserverHistory is swamped by patriotic myths about the aerial combat fought between the RAF and the...
Young Romantics by Daisy Hay 9781408809723
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $30.92'A most impressive achievement' Michael Holroyd 'Enthralling' Sunday Times 'Masterly' Telegraph _______________________ 'The web of our Life is of mingled Yarn' - John Keats In Young...
The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House by Kate Andersen Brower 9780062305206
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $23.28Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.
The Challenger Expedition: Exploring the Ocean's Depths by Erika Jones 9781906367978
RRP: $59.50Booksplease Price: $44.89On 21 December 1872, HMS Challenger set sail from Portsmouth, England, to begin a global voyage of deep-sea exploration, unique for the scale of its ambition and scope. Made possible by technological...
Kneelers: The Unsung Folk Art of England and Wales by Elizabeth Bingham
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $36.58A charming and witty history of the quirky - but surprisingly widespread - craft of embroidering kneeler cushions. The perfect gift book this Christmas, for those who love kneelers and those who...
The Summer Isles: A Voyage of the Imagination Philip Marsden 9781783783007
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40In an old wooden sloop, Philip Marsden plots a course north from his home in Cornwall. He is sailing for the Summer Isles, a small archipelago near the top of Scotland that holds for him a deep and...
Hell's Half Acre by Susan Jonusas
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.61A suspense filled tale of murder on the American frontier-shedding new light on a family of serial killers in Kansas, whose horrifying crimes gripped the attention of a nation still reeling from war...
Richard III by David Baldwin
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $19.92Not many people would claim to be saints, or alternatively, consider themselves entirely without redeeming qualities. Some are unquestionably worse than others, but few have been held in greater...
Revolutions: How Women Changed the World on Two Wheels by Hannah Ross 9781474611381
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $17.97'Eye-opening and inspirational . . . An utterly fascinating and gloriously fiery read' FELICITY CLOAKE 'A barnstorming book' GUARDIAN 'Fascinating . . . full of inspirational tales' OBSERVER Simone...
The Rise of Rome by Plutarch
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $34.61The biographies collected in this volume bring together Plutarch's Lives of those great men who established the city of Rome and consolidated its supremacy, and his Comparisons with their notable...
Red Valkyries: The Revolutionary Women of Eastern Europe by 9781839766602
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $24.80Through a series of lively and accessible biographical essays, Red Valkyries explores the history of socialist feminism century Eastern Europe. By examining the revolutionary careers of five...
The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean by John Julius Norwich
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $30.32An electrifying narrative history of the Mediterranean from Ancient Egypt to 1919, from the bestselling author of The Popes and Sicily: A Short HistoryThe Mediterranean has nurtured three of the most...
Scotland's Stories: Historic Tales for Incredible Places by Graeme Johncock 9781803992662
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $33.13Everybody loves stories and Scotland is full of them. Every town, village, glen, loch, nook and cranny has a tale to tell and it's these stories that bring those places to life. Scotland's Stories is...
A Brief History of the Druids Peter Ellis 9781841194684
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $22.04A history of the cult of the ancient Druids, exploring who they really were and what role they played in the Celtic world. The author's interpretation of the facts is based on both archaeological and...
Forgotten Armour: Tank Warfare in Burma by Jack Bowsher 9781916556386
RRP: $52.36Booksplease Price: $41.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916556386Author Jack BowsherFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint
Farewell To The East End by Jennifer Worth
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.09The third and final book in the bestselling CALL THE MIDWIFE series, the basis of the major BBC TV series.This final book in Jennifer Worth's memories of her time as a midwife in London's East end...
Commando Medics in the Falkland War by Malcolm Hazell 9781915338570
Booksplease Price: $21.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915338570Author Malcolm HazellFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint
Besieged: Life Under Fire on a Sarajevo Street by Barbara Demick 9781847084118
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97For four centuries, Logavina Street was a quiet residential road in a city known for its ethnic tolerance and cosmopolitan charm. Muslims, Christians, Serbs and Croats lived easily together, sharing...
Lonely Courage: The true story of the SOE heroines who fought to free Nazi-occupied France by Rick Stroud 9781471155666
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $14.45'A fascinating, superbly researched and revelatory book - told with tremendous pace and excitement' William Boyd'Rick Stroud writes brilliantly about war ... an astonishing book ... a wonderful...
British Frigates and Escort Destroyers 1939–45 by Angus Konstam
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $23.28A history of the small, mass-produced warships that defended the Atlantic convoys from U-boats and secured Britain's lifeline to the United States. As the Battle of the Atlantic grew fiercer,...