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My Name is River by Emma Rea 9781913102142
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.13Dylan's mum thinks he's on the school Geography trip. Dylan's teacher thinks he's at home with the flu. In fact he's 30,000 feet up in th air on the way to Brazil. When Dylans' farm is snatched... -
The Complete MAUS by Art Spiegelman
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $13.90The first and only graphic novel to win the Pulitzer Prize, MAUS is a brutally moving work of art about a Holocaust survivor -- and the son who survives him 'The first masterpiece in comic book... -
Laughing Shall I Die: Lives and Deaths of the Great Vikings by Tom Shippey
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79In this robust new account of the Vikings, Tom Shippey explores their mindset, and in particular their fascination with scenes of heroic death. The book recounts many of the great bravura scenes of... -
Shrinking Violets: The Secret Life of Shyness by Joe Moran
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Our success as a species is built on sociability, so shyness in humans should be an anomaly. But it's actually remarkably common - we all know what it's like to cringe in embarrassment, stand... -
Aircraft, Tanks and Artillery of the Ukraine War by Martin J Dougherty 9781838863500
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $17.41Illustrated with accurate artworks of aircraft, armoured fighting vehicles, artillery and missiles, Aircraft, Tanks & Artillery of the Ukraine War is a detailed guide to all the weaponry currently... -
Red Star Over China: The Classic Account of the Birth of Chinese Communism by Edgar Snow
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.55The first Westerner to meet Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936, Edgar Snow came away with the first authorised account of Mao's life, as well as a history of the famous Long March... -
Sex and Sexuality in Ancient Rome by L J Trafford
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71From Emperors and empresses, poets and prostitutes, slaves and plebs, Ancient Rome was a wealth of different experiences and expectations. None more so than around the subject of sex and sexuality... -
My Revision Notes: Edexcel AS/A-level History: The rise and fall of Fascism in Italy c1911-46 Sarah Ward 9781471876523
Booksplease Price: $15.41Exam Board: EdexcelLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Target success in Edexcel AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured... -
The Histories by Herodotus 9780140455397
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $10.53Tom Holland's 'stirring new translation' (Telegraph) of Herodotus' Histories, one of the great books in Western history - now in paperbackThe Histories of Herodotus, completed in the second half of... -
Thin Places by Kerri ni Dochartaigh
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING - HIGHLY COMMENDED'Remarkable' Robert Macfarlane'Beautiful' Amy Liptrot'Powerful, unflinching . . . Part hymn to nature, part Troubles memoir'... -
Family Cars of the 1970s by James Taylor
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.57The 1970s was a critical decade for the British motor industry. A downward spiral in industrial relations led to crippling strikes, two major oil crises made thirsty older designs virtually... -
In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story that Inspired `Moby Dick' by Nathaniel Philbrick 9780006531203
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.05The Number One best-selling, epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the 19th century, beautifully reissued alongside Philbrick's new paperback, Sea of Glory. ... -
The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets 1798-1848 by Niall Ferguson
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $21.00In his rich and nuanced portrait of the remarkable, elusive Rothschild family, Oxford scholar and bestselling author Niall Ferguson uncovers the secrets behind the family's phenomenal economic... -
Illustrated Tales of Cornwall by John Husband 9781398113275
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.40Cornwall's landscape is intertwined with the county's folklore and legends. In Illustrated Tales of Cornwall, author John Husband explores a multitude of mysterious happenings, haunted places and... -
Pillboxes and Tank Traps by Bernard Lowry
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.22A concise, illustrated guide to these Second World War defences scattered across the British landscape. With invasion a very real threat, in 1940 Great Britain began a huge military construction... -
1776: America and Britain at War by David McCullough
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66America's most acclaimed historian presents the intricate story of the year of the birth of the United States of America. 1776 tells two gripping stories: how a group of squabbling, disparate... -
Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy, JFK's Forgotten Sister and the Heir to Chatsworth by Paula Byrne 9780007548149
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. ... -
The Apocryphal Gospels Simon Gathercole 9780241340554
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37A new translation of the oldest non-canonical Christian gospels In the early years of Christianity, several groups produced 'hidden' or 'apocryphal' gospels, alternative versions of the story of... -
The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time by Will Durant 9780743235532
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $11.95In this remarkable little book, Will Durant answers the questions that most people would have wanted to ask him - what are the conclusions he drew from the experience of a long lifetime; what eras,... -
The Last Viking: The True Story of King Harald Hardrada by Don Hollway
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28'The Last Viking reads like the sagas on which it is based. It's Beowulf on steroids, laced with purple prose...This book is great fun. '- Gerard DeGroot, The Times Harald Sigurdsson burst into... -
Waffen-SS Soldier vs Soviet Rifleman: Rostov-on-Don and Kharkov 1942–43 by Chris McNab
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.07Fully illustrated, this study assesses the Soviet and Waffen-SS troops who contested the cities of Kharkov and Rostov-on-Don on the Eastern Front during 1942-43. As the Axis invasion of the... -
Spitfire!: The Experiences of a Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot by Brian Lane
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.70The remarkable Battle of Britain experiences of Spitfire pilot Brian Lane, DFC. Brian Lane was only 23 when he when he wrote his dramatic account of life as a Spitfire pilot during the Battle of... -
Alexander the Great: The Anabasis and the Indica by Arrian
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $10.24'He was a man like no other man has ever been' So Arrian sums up the career of Alexander the Great of Macedon (356-323 BC), who in twelve years that changed the world led his army in conquest of a... -
Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth by Adam Zamoyski
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.14'Napoleon is an out-and-out masterpiece and a joy to read' Sir Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad A landmark new biography that presents the man behind the many myths. The... -
Two Girls, One on Each Knee: The Puzzling, Playful World of the Crossword by Alan Connor
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37In the century since its birth, the crossword has evolved into the world's most popular intellectual pastime: a unique form of wordplay, the codes and conventions of which are open to anyone... -
The Portable Hannah Arendt by Hannah Arendt
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66Although Hannah Arendt is considered one of the major contributors to social and political thought in the twentieth century, this is the first general anthology of her writings. This volume includes... -
A People's History of Football Mickael Correia 9780745346861
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.70'A fascinating journey through the game's history [as] a vehicle of change' Shaka Hislop 'Correia takes us around the world to examine how football has produced the kind of political energy that... -
Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.08Winner of the Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize 2013In 1412, Europe was a miserable backwater ravaged by plague, bad sanitation and incessant war, while the Orient was home to dazzling... -
Monuments of Orkney: A Visitor's Guide by Caroline Wickham-Jones
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $9.93From the Early Neolithic farm at Knap of Howar to the flamboyant chapel built by Italian prisoners of war in the 1940s, the Orkney Islands are amazingly rich in historic and prehistoric sites. At... -
Ardor by Roberto Calasso
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11In this revelatory volume, Roberto Calasso, whom the Paris Review has called 'a literary institution', explores the ancient texts known as the Vedas. Little is known about the Vedic people who lived... -
Born Survivors: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Wendy Holden
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.13The Sunday Times bestseller now updated with a new forewordAmong millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each passed through its infamous gates... -
Ovid Fasti: A Selection by Dr Robert Cromarty
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.46This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Ovid, Fasti 2.533-616, 687-852, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary, with a detailed introduction... -
Aristotle's Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life by Edith Hall
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.57'Wonderful and timely ... Hugely recommended' STEPHEN FRYWhat do you and an ancient philosopher have in common? It turns out much more than you might think... Aristotle was an extraordinary thinker... -
This Boy by Alan Johnson
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68'The best memoir by a politician you will ever read' Philip Collins, The TimesSchool on the Kings Road, Chelsea in the Swinging 60s, the rock-and-roll years, the race riots; this boy has seen it all... -
Metropolis: A History of Humankind's Greatest Invention by Ben Wilson
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68From the Sunday Times bestselling author, a dazzling, globe-spanning history of humankind's greatest invention: the city.'Brilliant...enchanting' Evening Standard 'Exhilarating' New York TimesThe... -
Four Weeks in May: A Captain's Story of War at Sea by David Hart-Dyke 9781843545910
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.11Reissued for the 40th anniversary of the Falklands War.A Sunday Times Bestseller'Electric... Outstanding.' GuardianIn March 1982 the guided-missile destroyer HMS Coventry was one of a small squadron... -
The Mammoth Book of Native Americans Jon E. Lewis 9781841195933
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07Native Americans make up less than one per cent of the total US population but represent half the nation's languages and cultures. Here, in one grand sweep, is the full story of Native American... -
A Dictionary of RAF Slang Eric Partridge 9781405930598
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80The perfect stocking filler for anyone who imagines themselves flying a spitfire . . . Drop your visiting cards, put aside your beer-lever, stop being a half-pint hero and discover the gloriously... -
The Home Front in World War Two by Neil R. Storey
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.86When the Second World War broke out in September 1939, everybody in Britain knew that the civilian population would be affected far more than they had been in the First World War. As aircraft got... -
A Bridge Too Far: The true story of the Battle of Arnhem by Cornelius Ryan
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.24Arnhem 1944: the airborne strike for the bridges over the Rhine.The true story of the greatest battle of World War II and the basis of the 1977 film of the same name, directed by Richard Attenborough...