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The Betrayal by L. P. Hartley 9781848548640
Booksplease Price: $30.52In The Betrayal, the sequel to The Brickfield, Richard Mardick, now an ageing novelist, is forced by circumstances to look back on the days of his boyhood and confesses to Denys Aspin, his young... -
Broken Country: AMAZON'S BOOK OF THE YEAR - THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER by Clare Leslie Hall 9781399820431
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35*****AMAZON'S BOOK OF THE YEAR*****INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERREESE WITHERSPOON'S BOOK CLUB PICK FEARNE COTTON'S HAPPY PLACE BOOK CLUB PICK'An unforgettable story of love,... -
Young Once: A Life Less Heavy by Nigel Planer 9781399826730
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95Aged twenty-five, dressed as Che Guevara, Nigel Planer answers an ad for a room and his life changes for ever.Both a memoir and a love story, Young Once follows his journey, from bell-ringer to... -
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 9781399837781
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JOANNE HARRISAmid a raging snowstorm on the wild Yorkshire moors, a man seeks shelter at an foreboding house called Wuthering Heights. The house's secrets do not stay... -
Oldenland: A Journey in Search of the Good Last Years by Roger Clough 9781399822718
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95'Discover the secret to thriving in old age' Telegraph'In front of me is an adventure with old age as my companion, my shadow and confederate, maybe my friend.'Old age is a country, and we need to... -
Lancaster: The Second World War's Greatest Bomber by Leo McKinstry 9780719523632 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $3.10The Spitfire and the Lancaster were the two RAF weapons of victory in the Second World War, but the glamour of the fighter has tended to overshadow the performance of the heavy bomber. Yet without... -
Running for the Hills: A Family Story by Horatio Clare 9780719565397 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $5.71When Jenny and Robert fall in love in the late 1960s they decide to build a new future together, away from the city. They escape to an isolated sheep farm nestled on a mountainside. It has no running... -
Through Siberia by Accident by Dervla Murphy 9780719566646 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $2.98Through Siberia by Accident is a book about a journey that didn't happen - and what happened instead.Dervla Murphy never had any intention of spending three months in the vast territories of Siberia... -
The Hitler Book by Henrik Eberle 9780719554995 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $3.87On breaking open the Berlin Bunker on 2 May 1945, Soviet troops captured two of Adolf Hitler's closest associates: his personal valet, Heinz Linge, and his SS adjutant, Otto Guensche. The two men had... -
Jennie Churchill by Anne Sebba 9780719565731 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $3.42After a three-day romance Brooklyn-born Jennie Jerome married into the British aristocracy, becoming Lady Randolph Churchill. At a time when women were afforded few freedoms, she was a... -
Diplomatic Baggage by Brigid Keenan 9780719567261 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $3.74When Sunday Times fashion journalist Brigid Keenan married the love of her life in the late Sixties, little idea did she have of the rollercoaster journey they would make around the world together -... -
Cityboy: Beer and Loathing in the Square Mile by Geraint Anderson
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.75CITYBOY is Geraint Anderson's bestselling expose of life in the City of London.In this no-holds-barred, warts-and-all account of life in London's financial heartland, Cityboy breaks the Square Mile's... -
Relic Tom Egeland 9780719521737
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35A golden relic, containing an ancient manuscript that could change the course of history, has been hidden in a monastery. But nobody knows where.One determined man sets out to find this sensational... -
Up and Down Stairs: The History of the Country House Servant Jeremy Musson 9780719597305
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95Country houses were reliant on an intricate hierarchy of servants, each of whom provided an essential skill. Up and Down Stairs brings to life this hierarchy and shows how large numbers of people... -
The Power of Ideas: Words of Faith and Wisdom Jonathan Sacks 9781399800020
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95Britain's most authentically prophetic voice - Daily Telegraph'The choice with which humankind is faced is between the idea of power and the power of ideas.'From his appointment as Chief Rabbi in... -
Love Among The Artists by George Bernard Shaw 9781848547315
Booksplease Price: $30.52With his inimitable wit and sparkle, George Bernard Shaw brings us the character of Owen Jack, a salty non-conformist composer said to have been suggested by Beethoven. The relations between Jack and... -
The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown by George Mackay Brown
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.77George Mackay Brown is recognised as one of Scotland's greatest twentieth-century lyric poets. His work is integral to the flowering of Scottish literature over the last fifty years. Admired by many... -
The Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett Compton Mackenzie 9781848547681
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95With the spirited and unforgettable Sylvia Scarlett, a character acclaimed as being 'one of the few really great women in fiction', Compton Mackenzie brings us his very own Becky Sharp. Originally... -
What I Did by Christopher Wakling 9780719569098
Booksplease Price: $23.45A boy runs across a busy road. His father catches him and smacks him. A passer-by looks on. This is what happens next.The story of a father accused of child abuse, seen through the eyes of his... -
Cashel Byron`s Profession George Bernard Shaw 9781848547476
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35After poleaxing his mathematics master with a perfect right, Cashel Byron, the unloved son of a successful actress, runs away to Australia. He returns to England and becomes the most famous... -
Benjamin Disraeli and John Murray: The Politician, The Publisher and The Representative by Regina Akel 9781781383070
Booksplease Price: $154.45This book tells the story of an early nineteenth-century London newspaper, the Representative, more important for the people who took part in its inception than for its journalistic merits. The... -
An Unsocial Socialist George Bernard Shaw 9781848547292
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95Sidney Trefusis is a proselytizing socialist. Armed with irony and paradox, he is determined to overthrow a society riddled with class and sexual exploitation.Henrietta, his adoring wife, 'loves'... -
The Brickfield by L. P. Hartley
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35A lonely boy living on his uncle's farm in the Lincolnshire Fens, Richard Mardick's solitary existence is interrupted by a chance meeting, and idyllic love affair, with Lucy. A disused brickfield is... -
Katerina: The new novel from the author of the bestselling A Million Little Pieces by James Frey 9781848543225 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $2.94A kiss, a touch. A smile and a beating heart. Love and sex and dreams, art and drugs and the madness of youth. Betrayal and heartbreak, regret and pain, the melancholy of age. Katerina, James Frey's... -
Spitfire: Portrait of a Legend Leo McKinstry 9780719568756
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.75In June 1940, the German Army had brought the rest of Europe to its knees. 'Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be... -
The Gaol Kelly Grovier 9780719561337
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95For over 800 years Newgate was the grimy axle around which British society slowly twisted. This is where such legendary outlaws as Robin Hood and Captain Kidd met their fates, where the... -
Simplexity Jeffrey Kluger 9780719568138
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.95Why does kicking the TV work? What can the US military learn from the lowly bacterium? Why are the instruction manuals for cell phones incomprehensible? How does a spark of a single virus trigger an... -
Katerina: The new novel from the author of the bestselling A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.00A kiss, a touch. A smile and a beating heart. Love and sex and dreams, art and drugs and the madness of youth. Betrayal and heartbreak, regret and pain, the melancholy of age. Katerina, James Frey's... -
Satisfaction by Gillian Greenwood 9780719568701 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $3.19Amy Marsham visits a Harley Street psychologist claiming to suffer from an 'excess of happiness'. But if she is telling the truth, this happiness has been hard-earned. Over three life-changing... -
What I Did by Christopher Wakling 9780719569098 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $1.61A boy runs across a busy road. His father catches him and smacks him. A passer-by looks on. This is what happens next.The story of a father accused of child abuse, seen through the eyes of his... -
Diaries, 1942-1954 James Lees-Milne 9780719566813
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55James Lees-Milne (1908-97) made his name as the country house expert of the National Trust and for being a versatile author. But he is now best known for the remarkable diary he kept for most of his... -
The Greek For Love: Life, Love and Loss in Corfu by James Chatto
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.64The two-line ad in the Sunday Times advertising Villa Parginos in Corfu conjured an image of long afternoons drinking wine on a marble patio shaded by a grape arbour, looking out over an impossibly... -
A History of England in 100 Places: From Stonehenge to the Gherkin John Julius Norwich 9781848546097
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.75From battlefield to sacred building, from castle to cottage, from the Bridgwater Canal to Blackpool Pier, acclaimed historian John Julius Norwich tells the political, cultural, social, religious and... -
Woman On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown Lorna Martin 9781848540118
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $12.75Lorna Martin's life is in chaos and she needs to make some big changes. After all, there must be a reason she keeps chasing after the wrong men, making toe-curling blunders at work and generally... -
John Betjeman: The Biography by Bevis Hillier
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55This biography takes the reader from Betjeman's troubled childhood in north London, through his blossoming at Oxford; a gay fling with W. H. Auden; a clandestine marriage to a field marshal's... -
David and Winston: How a Friendship Changed History Robert Lloyd George 9780719566608
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55Although from different backgrounds, David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill forged a close friendship, delighting in each other's wit, oratory and unconventionality. Both were outsiders. Neither... -
Spitfire: Portrait of a Legend by Leo McKinstry 9780719568756 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $3.10In June 1940, the German Army had brought the rest of Europe to its knees. 'Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be... -
The Hive Bee Wilson 9780719565984
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.84Ever since men first hunted for honeycomb in rocks and daubed pictures of it on cave walls, the honeybee has been seen as one of the wonders of nature: social, industrious, beautiful, terrifying. No... -
English for the Natives: Discover the Grammar You Don't Know You Know Harry Ritchie 9781848548398
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $10.31'My first English lesson was grammar with the terrifying Mrs Petrie. She spent the entire time marching up and down the classroom, thwacking various items of school furniture with a ruler while she... -
Time and Tide: The Long, Long Life of Landscape by Fiona Stafford 9781473686328
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.64'Poetic and profound, Time and Tide is wise, considered and full of surprises' Observer'Poignant and touching' Mail on Sunday'Miraculous' ScotsmanA village waits at the bottom of a reservoir. A...