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Words for Life: To Boost Every Day of the Year by Susie Dent 9781399820653
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $13.25Whatever you need, Susie Dent has a word for it. Do you know the name for someone who loves reading in bed, or what a binfluencer does? How about the medieval invention of Lubberland as a place for... -
Never Stop Holding Hands: and other tips for the adventure of marriage by Shara Grylls 9781399827522
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95Romantic, uplifting and never too serious, this is the perfect Valentine's Day gift.Ideal for those just beginning, and for those with many years together. A collection that will inspire, amuse and... -
Gulf by Mo Ogrodnik 9781399815291
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35'INSTANTLY GRIPPING' JENNIFER EGANThe lives of five women collide in the Arabian Gulf as each looks for a way to rewrite their future. Dounia, a young Saudi finds herself alienated and alone as she... -
Good Faith by Angela Tilby 9781399801638
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.42Bede was the first historian to speak of the 'English' and to see their conversion as within the providence of God. English language, English culture, values and institutions have all been shaped by... -
NIV Pocket Olive Green Bible with Gold Zip by New International Version 9781399832847
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $19.65This elegant NIV pocket edition Bible has an eye catching gold zip, perfect for taking with you everywhere and reading the Word in style!This Bible includes:· Clear, readable 6.75pt British text· Zip... -
The Tree of Life: Solving Science's Greatest Puzzle by Max Telford 9781399806398
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95'A DELIGHT' HENRY GEE'BEAUTIFUL' THOMAS HALLIDAYWhere do we come from and how did we get here?Come time-travelling through the history of every species that has ever lived with Professor Max Telford... -
Beginners' Hebrew: Learn faster. Remember more. by Shula Gilboa 9781399825160
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55Learn to speak, read, write and understand Hebrew!Love, Travel, Study, Work, Friendship-whatever your reason for wanting to learn, Beginners' Hebrew will help you to:- Communicate naturally in... -
Empty Vessel: The Story of the Global Economy in One Ship by Ian Kumekawa 9781399816243
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95'Thrilling, meticulous and wondrously original' PHILIPPE SANDSA jaw-dropping microhistory of the global economy over the last fifty years told through the many lives of a single ship.At 94 meters... -
Blaise Pascal: The Man Who Made the Modern World by Graham Tomlin 9781399807654
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55'Readable and expert - a brilliant guide to the life and thought of 17th century Europe's supreme polymath'Tom Holland'A richly detailed account of Pascal's life and times, which displays an... -
![The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville by Giles Milton 9780340819456 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9647565/10664285/9780340819456__36016.1781270834.jpg?c=1 "The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville by Giles Milton 9780340819456 [USED COPY]")
The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville by Giles Milton 9780340819456 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $2.54In 1322 Sir John Mandeville left England on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Thirty-four years later, he returned, claiming to have visited not only Jerusalem, but India, China, Java, Sumatra and Borneo as... -
![In Praise of Churches by John Betjeman 9780719555626 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9659932/10676652/9780719555626__24654.1781283393.jpg?c=1 "In Praise of Churches by John Betjeman 9780719555626 [USED COPY]")
In Praise of Churches by John Betjeman 9780719555626 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $3.32This work brings together John Betjeman's poems and prose and Paul Hogarth's paintings about the Church. Together, they demonstrate Betjeman's intimate knowledge of and love for the Church, both High... -
![Sleeping Around: Secrets of a Sexual Adventuress by Catherine Townsend 9780719563515 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9667305/10684025/9780719563515__29432.1781290193.jpg?c=1 "Sleeping Around: Secrets of a Sexual Adventuress by Catherine Townsend 9780719563515 [USED COPY]")
Sleeping Around: Secrets of a Sexual Adventuress by Catherine Townsend 9780719563515 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $2.58'I relish every second of my sexual encounters: the good, the bad, the bizarre. Most of my serious relationships have started out as one-night stands.' Catherine Townsend describes herself as 'part... -
![Joyce Grenfell: A Biography by Janie Hampton 9780719561436 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9711612/10728291/9780719561436__61503.1781371597.jpg?c=1 "Joyce Grenfell: A Biography by Janie Hampton 9780719561436 [USED COPY]")
Joyce Grenfell: A Biography by Janie Hampton 9780719561436 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $4.21Joyce Grenfell (1910-1979) was a British institution and one of the country's best-loved entertainers, immortalized in roles such as the gym mistress, Miss Gossage (Call me Sausage), in The Happiest... -
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: $12.89Booksplease 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]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5007487/5006704/9781848543225__02336.1722771601.jpg?c=1 "Katerina: The new novel from the author of the bestselling A Million Little Pieces by James Frey 9781848543225 [USED COPY]")
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... -
Cashel Byron`s Profession George Bernard Shaw 9781848547476
RRP: $12.89Booksplease 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... -
Relic Tom Egeland 9780719521737
RRP: $12.89Booksplease 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: $14.18Booksplease 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... -
Secrets of Being Confident: 50 Techniques to Shine by Richard Nugent 9781399825894
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55THESE ARE THE REAL INSIGHTS YOU NEED TO BUILD SELF-CONFIDENCEWHAT WOULD A LITTLE EXTRA CONFIDENCE MEAN TO YOU? Confidence can help you do better at work, feel more comfortable in social situations,... -
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... -
Spitfire: Portrait of a Legend Leo McKinstry 9780719568756
RRP: $16.76Booksplease 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... -
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham by Selina Hastings
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.20For nearly sixty years Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was one of the most famous writers in the world. An enormously successful playwright and the author of over a hundred short stories and twenty-one... -
Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs by Dr Michael Osterholm
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55The USA Today Bestseller 'The infectious disease expert who predicted the spread of coronavirus' - Daily Mail'Osterholm has produced a sharp, persuasive and urgent manifesto for how the world needs... -
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... -
The Secret Life of Words Henry Hitchings 9780719564550
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.17Communication is essential to our lives, but how often do we stop to think about where the words we use have come from? Have you ever thought about which words in English have been borrowed from... -
Sectioned by John O'Donoghue
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.95'I'd been in Claybury for four months before I was given ECT. I was sixteen. The day I went down for it I was wearing a striped hospital dressing gown and yellow pyjamas. I'd been given the Last... -
Salaam Brick Lane Tarquin Hall 9780719565564
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.86After ten years living abroad, Tarquin Hall wanted to return to his native London. Lured by his nostalgia for a leafy suburban childhood spent in south-west London, he returned with his Indian-born,... -
James Lees-Milne Michael Bloch 9780719565502
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55James Lees-Milne (1908-97) - known to friends as Jim - is remembered for his work for the National Trust, rescuing some of England's greatest architectural treasures, and for the vivid and... -
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Shane Warne by Simon Wilde 9780719569418 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $3.32Shane Warne was the most glamorous and, arguably the best cricketer in the world for over ten years. He won a generation of followers by showing the fun to be had in bamboozling opponents. From the... -
Dr Johnson's Dictionary: The Book that Defined the World Henry Hitchings 9780719566325
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.95By 1700, France and Italy already had dictionaries of their own, and it became a matter of national pride that England should rival them. Dr Johnson rose to the challenge, turning over the garret of... -
People of the Book Zachary Karabell 9780719567551
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.95We live in a world polarized by the ongoing conflict between Muslims, Christians and Jews, but - in an extraordinary narrative spanning fourteen centuries - Zachary Karabell argues that the... -
The Hair of the Dog: And Other Scientific Surprises Karl Sabbagh 9781848540897
Booksplease Price: $26.70Science is full of surprises: the peculiar peepshow beginnings of baby incubators; the unexpected positive fallout from the H-bomb; the dinosaurs that caused sonic booms; the irrational nature of the... -
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...