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The Cranes That Build The Cranes by Jeremy Dyson 9780349120966
Booksplease Price: $21.90Jeremy Dyson is a master of the macabre, of stories brimming with black humour and the promise of something sinister just around the corner. In his new collection he explores the dark depths of the... -
The Siege Of Derry: A History by Carlo Gebler 9780349115559
Booksplease Price: $26.70THE SIEGE OF DERRY is one of the key flash points in the troubled history of Ireland and Britain. In 1688 William of Orange had claimed the English throne, forcing the catholic James II to flee to... -
Aristocrats: Power, grace and decadence - Britain's great ruling classes from 1066 to the present by Lawrence James 9780349119571
Booksplease Price: $30.52For nine hundred years the British aristocracy has considered itself ideally qualified to rule others, make laws and guide the fortunes of the nation. Tracing the history of this remarkable... -
C S Lewis: The Boy Who Chronicled Narnia by Michael White 9780349120683
Booksplease Price: $23.45In 1997, THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE was voted the most influential book of the twentieth century by teachers, librarians and parents in the UK. The last six US Presidents have all claimed C... -
Father And I: A Memoir by Carlo Gebler 9780349112930
Booksplease Price: $27.98The story spans nearly a hundred years. In Carlo Gebler's early childhood, his relationship with his father, Ernest, was a disaster. A man of the left, Ernest's politics had been 'hammered out in the... -
The Horses Of St Marks: A Story of Triumph in Byzantium, Paris and Venice by Charles Freeman 9780349115450
Booksplease Price: $26.70In July 1798, a triumphant procession made its way through the streets of Paris. Echoing the parades of Roman emperors many years before, Napoleon Bonaparte was proudly displaying the spoils of his... -
The Forsaken: From the Great Depression to the Gulags: Hope and Betrayal in Stalin's Russia by Tim Tzouliadis 9780349117539
Booksplease Price: $30.52Of all the great movements of population to and from the United States, the least heralded is the migration, in the depths of the Depression of the nineteen-thirties, of thousands of men, women and... -
Duluth by Gore Vidal 9780349103624
Booksplease Price: $26.70When two women tragically perish in a Duluth snowdrift, the one called Edna is reborn in 'Duluth', the popular television series and the one called Beryl finds herself in a 'Hyatt Regency' romantic... -
The People You Are by Rita Carter 9780349139968
Booksplease Price: $23.45In THE PEOPLE YOU ARE, Rita Carter - award-winning science writer and international speaker - offers a new and vital understanding of personality. Rita explains that nearly every one of us is a team... -
The Satisfaction Cafe Kathy Wang 9780349147253
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.38'Vivid and precise, deliciously cool-eyed, immensely readable' Jonathan Franzen'Evokes the narrative power of classic Anne Tyler' Janice Y.K. Lee, author of The Piano TeacherJoan Liang's life is a... -
America's Secret War: Inside the Hidden Worldwide Struggle Between the United States and its Enemies by George Friedman 9780349118925 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $3.25George Friedman's company, STRATFOR (Strategic Forecasting), has received incredible accolades for working ahead of the news media and being right on the pulse of political and military action as it... -
Cuba: The Land Of Miracles: A Journey Through Modern Cuba by Stephen Smith 9780349119670 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $2.41For a growing number of British holidaymakers, Cuba is a Caribbean paradise, but it is also a land of cutbacks and economic instability. Stephen Smith comes to live on the island, and his search for... -
How to Leave the House by Nathan Newman 9780349145655
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780349145655Author Nathan NewmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
The Return of Dr von Igelfeld by Alexander McCall Smith 9780349147666
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780349147666Author Alexander McCall SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 240 -
Familiaris by David Wroblewski 9780349147093
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $10.87'Impossibly wise, impossibly ambitious, impossibly beautiful' Richard Russo Spring 1919, and John Sawtelle's imagination has got him into trouble...again. Now John and his newlywed wife, Mary, along... -
The American No by Rupert Everett 9780349144726
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35'A supremely gifted writer' The TimesEight stories of love and loss, drama and glamour, hope and rejection, from a writer at the height of his powers. In Rupert Everett's first, glorious collection... -
A Piece of Work: Playing Shakespeare and Other Stories by Simon Russell Beale 9780751534610
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780751534610Author Simon Russell BealeFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Impr -
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil 9780349108803
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55What Britain refined, America defined. Assembled by two key figures at the heart of the movement and told through the voices o musicians, artists, iconoclastic reporters and entrepreneurial groupies,... -
Empty Pockets, Wide Eyes by Sajid Javid 9780349147628
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.70'One of the best political memoirs I've read in years' The Times'Gripping... enjoyable' Amol Rajan, BBC Today Programme'Recalls the boisterous fiction of Hanif Kureishi' The Telegraph'A remarkable... -
The Page Turner by David Leavitt 9780349109527
Booksplease Price: $23.45At eighteen, Paul Porterfield aspires to play the piano at the world's great concert halls. So far the closest he has come has been to turn pages of sheet music for his idol, the dashing,... -
Second Life: 'Unexpected, funny, beautiful' Claire Dederer, author of Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Amanda Hess 9780349145525
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95'Acutely empathetic, thoroughly researched, funny, irreverent and moving' Observer'What a book!' Marianne Levy, author of Don't Forget to Scream'I loved it' Lucy Jones, author of Matrescence In... -
Under An English Heaven by Robert Radcliffe 9780351320804 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $3.101943. The sleepy Suffolk village of Bedenham is jerked into the twentieth century and the harsh realities of war by the arrival on its doorstep of an American bomber base and its three thousand... -
Scott And Amundsen: The Last Place on Earth by Roland Huntford 9780349113951 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $3.11At the beginning of the twentieth century, the South Pole was the most coveted prize in the fiercely nationalistic modern age of exploration. In the brilliant dual biography, the award-winning... -
Nam: The Vietnam War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Fought There by Mark Baker 9780349102399 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $2.54Even now something is missing from the history of Vietnam. Behind the burning sense of horror and betrayal the personal stories remain untold. No one has bothered to talk to the men and women who... -
Shackleton by Roland Huntford 9780349107448 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $3.10Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own... -
The Good German Of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe by John Rabe 9780349111414 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $3.25In 1937, as the invading Japanese Army closed on Nanking, then the capital of China, all foreigners were ordered to evacuate. One man, a mild 55-year-old German named John Rabe who ran the local... -
Indian Summer by Will Randall 9780349116785 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $2.50While attempting to teach at an inner London comprehensive Will Randall is taken up by an elderly German woman who asks him to accompany her to India. Nothing ventured, he agrees and so begins a... -
The Writing On The Wall: China And The West In The 21St Century by Will Hutton 9780349118826 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $2.99China constitutes a fifth of the world's population. Over the last twenty years its economy has doubled to make it the fifth largest economy in the world; if the pace is repeated over the next twenty... -
Supreme Courage: Heroic stories from 150 Years of the Victoria Cross by Peter de la Billiere 9780349118987 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $3.01Since 1854 the Victoria Cross has been the highest award for gallantry in the British Armed Forces. It bears the simple legend 'For Valour', but behind it are thrilling and ultimately humbling tales... -
The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East by Alistair Urquhart 9780349122571 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $5.38Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He not only survived working on the notorious Bridge on the River Kwai , but he was subsequently taken... -
Sea Wolves: The Extraordinary Story of Britain's WW2 Submarines by Tim Clayton 9780349122892 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $3.11Sea Wolves is the story of the crews who bravely manned British submarines in the Second World War. This small band of highly trained and highly skilled individuals fought in the front line for six... -
The King's Bed: Sex, Power and the Court of Charles II by Don Jordan 9781408704905 [USED COPY]
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $3.11To refer to the private life of Charles II is to abuse the adjective. His personal life was anything but private. His amorous liaisons were largely conducted in royal palaces surrounded by friends,... -
Blackbird: A Childhood Lost by Jennifer Lauck 9780349114774 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $3.29The house on Mary Street, Carson City, Nevada is the only place five-year-old Jennifer Lauck will ever call home. It's where the sky is deep blue, forever blue, and there are almost never any clouds... -
Across The Blood-Red Skies by Robert Radcliffe 9780349122267 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $3.24Spring 1917. The average survival time of a First World War reconnaissance pilot is eighteen hours. After weeks in the thick of it, George Duckwell, reluctant novice-hero of the Royal Flying Corps,... -
Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England: How our ancestors lived two centuries ago by Roy A. Adkins 9780349138602 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $3.11Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England explores the real England of Jane Austen's lifetime. It was a troubled period, with disturbing changes in industry and agriculture and a constant dread of... -
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela 9780349139623 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: $3.32The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, Long Walk to Freedom brilliantly re-creates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. ... -
Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India by Lawrence James 9780349110127 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $3.10This is the brilliantly told story of one of the wonders of the modern world - how in less than a hundred years the British made themselves masters of India. They ruled it for another hundred,... -
The Age Of Capital: 1848-1875 by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $11.26The first and best, major treatment of the crucial years 1848-1875, a penetrating analysis of the rise of capitalism throught the world.In the 1860s a new word entered the economic and political... -
Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles by Dominic Sandbrook
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.05In 1956 the Suez Crisis finally shattered the old myths of the British Empire and paved the way for the tumultuous changes of the decades to come. In NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD, Dominic Sandbrook takes a... -
Civil War: The War of the Three Kingdoms 1638-1660 by Trevor Royle
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $13.39One late summer's day in 1642 two rival armies faced each other across the rolling Warwickshire countryside at Edgehill. There, Royalists faithful to King Charles I engaged in a battle with the...