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And Did Those Feet: Walking Through 2000 Years of British and Irish History by Charlie Connelly 9780349120881
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06The landscape of the British Isles is filled with history, much of which we miss as it flashes past the car window. Do we even realise that we're following the same path as the Tolpuddle Martyrs, or... -
Shackleton by Roland Huntford 9780349107448
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.73Ernest 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 Disappeared by Kim Echlin 9780349122410
Booksplease Price: $40.37After more than 30 years Anne Greves feels compelled to break her silence about her first lover, and a treacherous pursuit across Cambodia's killing fields.Once she was a motherless girl from... -
Adenauer: The Father of the New Germany by Charles Williams 9780349113692
Booksplease Price: $48.75After the Second World War Germany lay in ruins. To Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967) belongs much of the credit for raising West Germany to a position of economic prosperity and making it a respected... -
The Afterlife: After Death by Donald Antrim 9780349118703
Booksplease Price: $31.61Donald Antrim's mother Louanne was a difficult woman: an operatically suicidal, chainsmoking, delusional alcoholic who even when sober believed that her cat Merlin was a descendant of the Arthurian... -
The Brontes by Juliet Barker 9780349122427
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $28.76The story of the tragic Bronte family is familiar to everyone: we all know about the half-mad, repressive father, the drunken, drug-addicted wastrel of a brother, wild romantic Emily, unrequited Anne... -
The Confessions of Samuel Pepys by Guy de la Bédoyère 9780349147406
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $34.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780349147406Author Guy de la BédoyèreFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint -
Blood and Treasure: The Economics of Conflict from the Vikings to Ukraine by Duncan Weldon 9780349145419
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06Blood and Treasure is the story of the economics of conflict from the Viking Age to the war in Ukraine.'Absolutely fascinating and totally absorbing' JAMES HOLLAND'A brilliant book' MARTIN WOLF,... -
Mother Tongue: A Memoir of Family, Deafness and Identity by Sara Novic 9781408714928
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $26.58In this emotionally rich first memoir, the New York Times bestselling author of True Biz retraces her path out of the hearing world and into the deaf community - and seeks to understand the journeys... -
A History In Fragments: Europe in the Twentieth Century by Richard Vinen 9780349112695 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $4.68The problem with the history of twentieth-century Europe is that everyone thinks they know it. The great stories of the century - the two world wars, the rise and fall of Nazism and communism, female... -
Underground London: Travels Beneath the City Streets by Stephen Smith 9780349115658 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $4.52What is visible to the naked eye has been exhaustively raked over; in UNDERGROUND LONDON, acclaimed travel writer Stephen Smith provides an alternative guide and history of the capital. It's a... -
Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre 9780349108858 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $4.27This is story of murder, corruption and sin. And that's just the hero.Every great story begins with something unspeakable . . . the first Jack Parlabane thriller, from multi-award-winning author... -
The Glass Room: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize by Simon Mawer 9780349121321 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $4.68SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZEThe inspiration for the major motion picture The Affair, now available on demand.Cool. Balanced. Modern. The precisions of science, the wild variance of lust, the... -
The Bridge by Iain Banks 9780349102153 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $5.30The man who wakes up in the extraordinary world of a bridge has amnesia, and his doctor doesn't seem to want to cure him. Does it matter? Exploring the bridge occupies most of his days. But at night... -
Jack Tar: Life in Nelson's Navy by Roy A. Adkins 9780349120348 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $4.68The Royal Navy to which Admiral Lord Nelson sacrificed his life depended on thousands of sailors and marines to man the great wind-powered wooden warships. Drawn from all over Britain and beyond,... -
Where The Bodies Are Buried by Chris Brookmyre 9780349123356 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $4.68Detective Catherine McLeod was always taught that in Glasgow, they don't do whodunit. They do score-settling, vendettas and petty revenge. And however she looks at it, the discovery of a dead... -
Achtung Schweinehund!: A Boy's Own Story of Imaginary Combat by Harry Pearson 9780349115689 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $4.41This is a book about men and war. Not real conflict but war as it has filtered down to generations of boys and men through toys, comics, games and movies. Harry Pearson belongs to the great battalion... -
Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them by Philippe Legrain 9780349119748 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $4.68Immigration divides our globalising world like no other issue. We are swamped by bogus asylum-seekers and infiltrated by terrorists, our jobs stolen, our benefit system abused, our way of life... -
The Abacus Prize by Arlene Kay 9781629670072
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $18.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629670072Author Arlene KayFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint -
The ABACUS Protocol by Thea Gregory 9780987734778
Booksplease Price: $25.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987734778Author Thea GregoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint < -
Memory's Abacus by Anna Lewis 9781951319014
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $26.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951319014Author Anna LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint -
Germany: Jekyll And Hyde: A Contemporary Account of Nazi Germany by Sebastian Haffner
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06A few years ago, Sebastian Haffner's DEFYING HITLER, a memoir about growing up in interwar Germany, sold over forty thousand copies. After he moved to Britain in the 1930s Haffner became so shocked... -
Great Tales From English History: Cheddar Man to DNA by Robert Lacey
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48From ancient times to the present day, the story of England has been laced with drama, intrigue, courage and passion - a rich and vibrant narrative of heroes and villains, kings and rebels, artists... -
Wonderland Avenue: Tales of Glamour and Excess by Danny Sugerman
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48At the age of thirteen, Danny Sugerman- the already wayward product of Beverley Hills wealth and privilege- went to his first Doors concert. He never looked back. He became Jim Morrison's protege... -
Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Goldhagen
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48Daniel Goldhagen re-visits a question which history has treated as settled, and his research leads him to the inescapble conclusion that none of the answers holds true. That question is: How could... -
KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.08Winner of the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize and the Wolfson History PrizeIn March of 1933, a disused factory surrounded by barbed wire held 223 prisoners in the town of Dachau. By the end... -
Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making by David J. Rothkopf
Booksplease Price: $42.30The Superclass - politicians, military leaders, finance gurus, energy barons, media moguls and thought leaders - is the small group that currently plays the greatest role in shaping the progress of... -
Crazy River: A Plunge into Africa by Richard Grant
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $14.90No-one travels like the renowned writer-adventurer Richard Grant and, really, no-one should. Having narrowly escaped death at the hands of Mexican drug barons in Bandit Roads, he now plunges with his... -
A Tall Man In A Low Land: Some Time Among the Belgians by Harry Pearson
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06Most British travel writers head south for a destination that is hot, exotic, dangerous or all three. Harry Pearson chose to head in the opposite direction for a country which is damp, safe and of... -
The Wars Of The Roses: England's First Civil War by Trevor Royle
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48THE WARS OF THE ROSES is the definitive account of one of the bloodiest episodes in British history - wars between the houses of York and Lancaster. Trevor Royle provides a military history of the... -
The Rise And Fall Of Modern Medicine by James Le Fanu
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48The medical achievements of the post-war years rank as one of the supreme epochs of human endeavour. Advances in surgical technique, new ideas about the nature of disease and huge innovations in drug... -
Where The Bodies Are Buried by Chris Brookmyre
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64Detective Catherine McLeod was always taught that in Glasgow, they don't do whodunit. They do score-settling, vendettas and petty revenge. And however she looks at it, the discovery of a dead... -
Greenwich: The Place Where Days Begin and End Charles Jennings 9780349112305
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.06There is probably not a London suburb with more intense historical connections, more diversity and more astonishing buildings and artefacts than Greenwich. There are sections on MARITIME GREENWICH -... -
Foolish Lessons In Life And Love by Penny Rudge
RRP: $5.83Booksplease Price: $5.40Taras clutched her hand and planted kisses all over it. 'Katya, I'll do anything. Anything at all, if you'll just give me another chance.' But can the hapless Taras win Katya's stubborn Russian... -
The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48The dew breaker is a quiet man, a husband and father, a hard-working barber, a kindly landlord to the men living in a basement apartment in his home. He is a fixture in his Brooklyn neighbourhood,... -
Cafe Europa: Life After Communism by Slavenka Drakulic
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.06Europe is still a divided continent. In the place of a fallen Berlin wall, there is a chasm between the East and the West. Are these differences a communist legacy, or do they run even deeper? What... -
The Oxford Murders by Guillermo Martinez
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.41On a balmy summer's day in Oxford an old lady who once helped decipher the Enigma Code is killed. After receiving a cryptic anonymous note containing only the address and the symbol of a circle,... -
In His Own Words: From Freedom to the Future by Nelson Mandela
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48IN HIS OWN WORDS is a selection of Nelson Mandela's speeches, providing a lively, memorable profile of his lifelong commitment to freedom and reconciliation, democracy, and the flourishing of all the... -
How To Drive A Tank: And other everyday tips for the modern gentleman by Frank Coles
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.27Call yourself a man? You do? Do you even know what a real man is? Are you a six foot one Adonis who wears all the latest fashions, moisturises regularly, visits spas for pleasure and never does... -
Homer And Langley by E. L. Doctorow
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.64Brilliant brothers Langley and Homer Collyer are born into bourgeois New York comfort, their home a mansion on upper Fifth Avenue, their future rosy. But before he is out of his teens Homer begins to...