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The Zimmermann Telegram: The Astounding Espionage Operation That Propelled America into the First World War by Barbara W. Tuchman
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95ONE OF THE GREATEST SPY STORIES OF ALL TIME Nothing can stop an enemy from picking wireless messages out of the free air - and nothing did. In England, Room 40 was born . . .In January 1917, with the... -
Conspiracy, Revolution, and Terrorism from Victorian Fiction to the Modern Novel by Adrian Wisnicki 9780415875806
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £46.08Drawing on critical and theoretical work by Miller, Boone, Foucault, Jameson, and others, as well as cultural history, affect theory, and contemporary psychiatric literature, the author defines and... -
What She Saw Last Night Mason Cross 9781409172475
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78No one will believe ... WHAT SHE SAW LAST NIGHT.Jenny Bowen is going home. Boarding the Caledonian Sleeper, all she wants to do is forget about her upcoming divorce and relax on the ten-hour journey... -
A Museum at War: Snapshots of life at the Natural History Museum during World War One by Karolyn Shindler 9780565094614
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38In autumn 1914, as Europe's military `doomsday machine' creaks into gear, the war effort at the Natural History Museum is about to spring into life. The grounds become an ad hoc military barracks,... -
Introducing Clubfoot by Valentine Williams 9789357312189
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88World war I spy classicsThe Man with the Clubfoot sees British master spy Desmond Okewood, take on his formidable counterpart German master spy Dr Adolph Grundt, a.k.a. Clubfoot as he searches for... -
Fatherland by Robert Harris
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.99PRE-ORDER PRECIPICE, THE THRILLING NEW NOVEL FROM ROBERT HARRIS, NOW - PUBLISHING AUGUST 2024'A writer who handles suspense like a literary Alfred Hitchcock' Nelson MandelaApril, 1964. The naked body... -
Travel Writing 1700-1830: An Anthology by Elizabeth A. Bohls
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78'How is the mind agitated and bewildered, at being thus, as it were, placed on the borders of a new world!' - William Bartram 'Thus you see, dear sister, the manners of mankind do not differ so... -
Precious Bane by Mary Webb 9780268015381
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37Born at the time of Waterloo in the wild country of Shropshire, Prudence Sarn is a wild, passionate girl, cursed with a hare lip -- her 'precious bane'. Cursed for it, too, by the superstitious... -
Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Race for Lhasa by Peter Hopkirk
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26No other land has captured man's imagination quite like Tibet. Hidden away behind the highest mountains on earth, and ruled over by a mysterious God-king, it was for centuries a land forbidden to all... -
Declarations of War by Len Deighton
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.81'Deighton really is something special' Sunday TimesLen Deighton's only collection of short stories explores the devastating experiences of ordinary soldiers across over two thousand years of war... -
Moonlighting: Beethoven and Literary Modernism by Nathan Waddell
RRP: £91.00Booksplease Price: £87.92How and why did the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) matter to experimental writers in the early twentieth century? Previous answers to this question have tended to focus on... -
Yesterday's Spy by Len Deighton
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.47'Deighton at his best' Evening StandardSteve Champion - flamboyant businessman, former leader of an anti-Nazi network in the Second World War - is a man surrounded by mysteries. There are rumours he... -
Dead Spy Running by Jon Stock 9780007350179
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.52Re-inventing the spy story for the 21st century. John Le Carre meets Jason Bourne! Suspended MI6 agent Daniel Marchant is running out of time. He's alongside a man strapped with... -
Lost Gay Novels: A Reference Guide to Fifty Works from the First Half of the Twentieth Century by Anthony Slide
Booksplease Price: £54.03Searching for an introduction to the shadowy, intriguing world of early 20th century gay-themed fiction? In Lost Gay Novels, respected pop culture historian Anthony Slide resurrects fifty early 20th... -
Dirty Little Secret by Jon Stock 9780007300778
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.35For fans of Bond and Bourne, the third instalment of the pulse-pounding Daniel Marchant spy series. The special relationship between London and Washington is in tatters. Salim Dhar, the... -
Violent Ward by Len Deighton
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'Superbly edgy. Entertaining, full of good one-liners' Sunday TimesDowntown LA. Streetwise lawyer Mickey Murphy has a shabby office in a low-rent district, an ex who bleeds him dry and the kind of... -
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy by Len Deighton
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'The master at his peak' Daily TelegraphA Russian scientist is defecting to the West, in order to realize his dreams of contacting extra-terrestrial life among the stars. But when an insubordinate... -
Badlands Deirdre Chapman 9781913212407
RRP: £12.50Booksplease Price: £11.46Badlands opens with the horror of a man gradually waking to find himself fully and sharply dressed on a hotel bed in the Highlands with no memory of who he is or how he got there. And he is not... -
Beyond Gold and Diamonds: Genre, the Authorial Informant, and the British South African Novel by Melissa Free 9781438481531
RRP: £72.50Booksplease Price: £69.61The first book to examine and establish characteristics of the British South African novel.Beyond Gold and Diamonds demonstrates the importance of southern Africa to British literature from the 1880s... -
Three Classic Novels: Ossian's Ride, October the First Is Too Late, Fifth Planet by Fred Hoyle
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50In addition to being the man who coined the term 'the Big Bang', world-renowned astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle also produced a fine body of science fiction. This omnibus contains three of his SF novels:... -
Close-Up by Len Deighton
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'Stylish and stimulating' The TimesAgeing Hollywood star Marshall Stone is scared. Scared that the parts are drying up. Scared of being forgotten. So when he hears an eminent author is writing his... -
Only When I Larf by Len Deighton
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'Dazzling ingenuity and cleverness' IndependentThree con artists are on the make, and making millions. There's Silas, the leader, slick and self-assured; Liz, his glamorous lover; and Bob, the young... -
An Expensive Place to Die by Len Deighton
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.47'For sheer readability he has no peer' Evening StandardParis in the 1960's caters for every taste, and nowhere more than at the private 'clinic' run by the enigmatic Monsieur Datt on Avenue Foch,... -
XPD by Len Deighton
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.79'A stunning spy story ... incomparable' GuardianIt is the most dangerous secret of the Second World War, one that could destroy Britain's reputation forever. In 1940, a clandestine meeting took place... -
Billion-Dollar Brain by Len Deighton
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.39'Dazzlingly intelligent and subtle' Sunday Times'Worth of Raymond Chandler ... intelligent, inventive, constantly entertaining' Sunday TelegraphTexan billionaire General Midwinter will stop at... -
The Last Highlander: Scotland's Most Notorious Clan Chief, Rebel & Double Agent by Sarah Fraser 9780007229505
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER PERFECT FOR FANS OF OUTLANDER The true story of one of Scotland's most notorious and romantic heroes. He was a spy, a clan-chief, a traitor. A... -
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RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.75***OUT NOW, PRECIPICE, THE THRILLING NEW NOVEL FROM ROBERT HARRIS***'A writer who handles suspense like a literary Alfred Hitchcock' Nelson MandelaApril, 1964. The naked body of an old man floats in... -
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Dead Girl Walking by Chris Brookmyre 9781408705599 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £5.06Life is dangerous when you have everything to lose. Famous, beautiful and talented, Heike Gunn has the world at her feet. Then, one day, she simply vanishes. Jack Parlabane has lost everything: his... -
Spy Story by Len Deighton
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.47'Len Deighton's spy novels are so good they make me sad the Cold War is over' Malcolm GladwellAfter six weeks in a nuclear submarine gathering computer data on Soviet activity, the mysterious,... -
Spy Sinker by Len Deighton
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.47'Dazzling ingenuity and cleverness' Independent'Chilling ... the writing is crisp and brutal' Daily TelegraphOf all the mysteries Bernard Samson has encountered, the greatest is his wife Fiona... -
Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War Two by Len Deighton
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.81'Every page of Deighton's work glows with the excitement of discovery ... wonderful' Geoff Dyer, GuardianThis unflinching history of the darkest days of the Second World War covers the entire world... -
SS-GB by Len Deighton
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.47'Deighton's best book ... an absorbingly exciting spy story that is also a fascinating exercise in might-have-been speculation' The New York Times Book ReviewIt is 1941 and Germany has won the war... -
The Andromeda Anthology: Containing A For Andromeda and Andromeda Breakthrough by Fred Hoyle
Booksplease Price: £6.90In addition to being the man who coined the term 'the Big Bang', world-renowned astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle also produced a fine body of science fiction. The Andromeda Anthology contains the acclaimed... -
Ruritania: A Cultural History, from The Prisoner of Zenda to the Princess Diaries by Nicholas Daly
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.94This is a book about the long cultural shadow cast by a single bestselling novel, Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda (1894), which introduced Ruritania, a colourful pocket kingdom. In this... -
Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk by Len Deighton
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £6.63'Deighton has a desire, unobtrusive but inflexible, to see the truth ... Blitzkrieg is full of insights' Financial TimesThis is the story of the Nazi conquest of western Europe, from Hitler's rise to... -
Dead Girl Walking by Chris Brookmyre
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Life is dangerous when you have everything to lose. Famous, beautiful and talented, Heike Gunn has the world at her feet. Then, one day, she simply vanishes. Jack Parlabane has lost everything: his... -
Spy Line by Len Deighton
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.47'This is vintage Deighton' Sunday Times'Spy Line is vigorous and sleazy, psychologically complex and action-packed. And it is always exciting' Daily MailBernard Samson is a spy on the run. But in the... -
A Clergyman's Daughter by George Orwell 9780198848424
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'The face was quite unfamiliar to her, and yet not strange. She had not known till this moment what face to expect'. A Clergyman's Daughter is George Orwell's least well-known, most unappreciated... -
Winter by Len Deighton
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28'A monumental work ... brilliantly executed' Daily Telegraph'The pace and tension leave one almost breathless. A frightening yet compelling novel' Sunday TelegraphPeter and Paul, the two sons of... -
Goodbye Mickey Mouse by Len Deighton
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'The sheer charge of the writing swept me into another world' The TimesDecember 1943. A group of US fighter pilots is camped at a windswept air base in Norfolk. Their job is to escort bombers over...