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1848: Year Of Revolution by Mike Rapport
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07In 1848, Europe was engulfed in a firestorm of revolution. The streets of cities from Paris to Bucharest and from Berlin to Palermo were barricaded and flooded by armed insurgents proclaiming... -
Cuba: The Land Of Miracles: A Journey Through Modern Cuba by Stephen Smith
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41For 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... -
Agincourt: The King, the Campaign, the Battle by Juliet Barker
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07Agincourt took place on 25 October 1415 and was a turning-point not only in the Hundred Years War between England and France but also in the history of weaponry. Azincourt (as it is now) is in the... -
Queen Of Dreams by Chitra Divakaruni
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75In QUEEN OF DREAMS, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni once more spins a fresh, spellbinding story of transformation. Rakhi, a young artist and divorced mother living in Berkeley, California, is struggling... -
Playing Cards In Cairo: Mint Tea, Tarneeb and Tales of the City by Hugh Miles
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41PLAYING CARDS IN CAIRO is a fly-on-the-wall account - like THE BOOKSELLER OF KABUL - of life (for western readers) in a strange and exotic environment. Hugh Miles lives in Cairo and is engaged to an... -
The Music Of The Spheres: Music, Science and the Natural Order of the Universe by Jamie James
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41From the 5th century BC, when Pythagoras first composed his laws of Western music and science, until the flowering of Romanticism over 2000 years later, scientists and philosophers perceived the... -
Achtung Schweinehund!: A Boy's Own Story of Imaginary Combat by Harry Pearson
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75This 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... -
The Terror: Civil War in the French Revolution by David Andress
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.24The French Revolution marks the foundation of the modern political world. It was in the crucible of the Revolution that the political forces of conservatism, liberalism and socialism began to find... -
Deliver Us From Evil by Tom Holland
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Wiltshire, during the dying days of Oliver Cromwell's Republic. Robert Vaughan is the son of a Parliamentarian officer who is investigating a series of grisly murders which suggest a link with... -
Does Santa Exist? by Eric Kaplan
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Metaphysics isn't ordinarily much of a laughing matter. But in the hands of acclaimed comedy writer and scholar Eric Kaplan, a search for the truth about old St. Nick becomes a deeply insightful,... -
A Home From Home: From Immigrant Boy to English Man by George Alagiah
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41When George Alagiah was dropped off at a Hampshire boarding school as a child back in 1967 he was confronted with an extreme version of the private struggle faced by all immigrants - the battle to... -
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge Professor Edward O. Wilson 9780349111124
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41In this groundbreaking new book, one of the world's greatest living scientists argues for the fundamental unity of all knowledge and the need to search for what he calls consilience, the composition... -
The War The Infantry Knew: 1914-1919 by J.C. Dunn
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.83Sometimes, through word of mouth and shared enthusiasm, a secret book becomes famous. The War the Infantry Knew is one of them. Published privately in a limited edition of five hundred copies in... -
To Be Sung Underwater by Tom McNeal
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75For you, I was a chapter-a good chapter maybe, or even your favorite chapter, but, still, just a chapter-and for me, you were the book.' Judith Whitman believes in the sort of love that 'picks you... -
The Mould In Dr Florey's Coat: The Remarkable True Story of the Penicillin Miracle by Eric Lax
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Many people know that in 1928 Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin's antibiotic potential while examining a stray mould that had bloomed in a dish of bacteria in his London laboratory. But few... -
Freedom In Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama of Tibet His Holiness The Dalai Lama 9780349111117
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41The autobiography of the Dalai Lama of Tibet, a fascinating insight into the mind of one of the greatest contemporary spiritual leaders'An extraordinary story' Daily Mail'Compelling, fascinating,... -
Trafalgar: The Biography of a Battle by Roy A. Adkins 9780349116327
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.24This is the true story of the Battle of Trafalgar, Britain's most significant sea battle, as seen through the smoke-hazed gunports of the fighting ships. In an atmosphere of choking fumes from cannon... -
Underground London: Travels Beneath the City Streets by Stephen Smith 9780349115658
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.24What 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... -
![America's Secret War: Inside the Hidden Worldwide Struggle Between the United States and its Enemies by George Friedman 9780349118925 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/6277533/6354479/9780349118925__45096.1737086304.jpg?c=1 "America's Secret War: Inside the Hidden Worldwide Struggle Between the United States and its Enemies by George Friedman 9780349118925 [USED COPY]")
America's Secret War: Inside the Hidden Worldwide Struggle Between the United States and its Enemies by George Friedman 9780349118925 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.38George 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... -
The Serpent's Promise: The Bible Retold as Science by Professor Steve Jones 9780349123486
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07The Bible was the first scientific textbook of all; and it got some things right (and plenty more wrong). Steve Jones' new book rewrites it in the light of modern science. Are we all descended from a... -
![The Wisdom Of Crowds: Why the Many are Smarter than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economics, Society and Nations by James Surowiecki 9780349116051 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9647618/10664338/9780349116051__00024.1781270878.jpg?c=1 "The Wisdom Of Crowds: Why the Many are Smarter than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economics, Society and Nations by James Surowiecki 9780349116051 [USED COPY]")
The Wisdom Of Crowds: Why the Many are Smarter than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economics, Society and Nations by James Surowiecki 9780349116051 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $2.75In this landmark work, NEW YORKER columnist James Surowiecki explores a seemingly counter-intuitive idea that has profound implications. Decisions taken by a large group, even if the individuals... -
![The Age Of Extremes: 1914-1991 by Eric Hobsbawm 9780349106717 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9665840/10682560/9780349106717__57145.1781288628.jpg?c=1 "The Age Of Extremes: 1914-1991 by Eric Hobsbawm 9780349106717 [USED COPY]")
The Age Of Extremes: 1914-1991 by Eric Hobsbawm 9780349106717 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $3.23THE AGE OF EXTREMES is eminent historian Eric Hobsbawm's personal vision of the twentieth century. Remarkable in its scope, and breathtaking in its depth of knowledge, this immensely rewarding book... -
![Shackleton by Roland Huntford 9780349107448 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9665846/10682566/9780349107448__81299.1781288633.jpg?c=1 "Shackleton by Roland Huntford 9780349107448 [USED COPY]")
Shackleton by Roland Huntford 9780349107448 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $3.22Ernest 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... -
![Silver Linings: Travels Around Northern Ireland by Martin Fletcher 9780349112510 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9665865/10682585/9780349112510__10569.1781288648.jpg?c=1 "Silver Linings: Travels Around Northern Ireland by Martin Fletcher 9780349112510 [USED COPY]")
Silver Linings: Travels Around Northern Ireland by Martin Fletcher 9780349112510 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $2.64Northern Ireland has made headlines around the world for three decades. The province has become synonymous with conflict, terrorism and tortuous efforts to forge peace. But what is life there... -
![Botswana Time by Will Randall 9780349117782 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9665930/10682650/9780349117782__49603.1781288700.jpg?c=1 "Botswana Time by Will Randall 9780349117782 [USED COPY]")
Botswana Time by Will Randall 9780349117782 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $2.56Will Randall travels with a purpose, as well as an outrageous sense of fortune. In INDIAN SUMMER he found himself, by chance, having the extraordinary experience of helping slum schoolchildren put on... -
![Supreme Courage: Heroic stories from 150 Years of the Victoria Cross by Peter de la Billiere 9780349118987 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9665945/10682665/9780349118987__54367.1781288712.jpg?c=1 "Supreme Courage: Heroic stories from 150 Years of the Victoria Cross by Peter de la Billiere 9780349118987 [USED COPY]")
Supreme Courage: Heroic stories from 150 Years of the Victoria Cross by Peter de la Billiere 9780349118987 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $3.12Since 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... -
![How To Lose Friends & Alienate People by Toby Young 9780349114859 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9706892/10723588/9780349114859__86157.1781364402.jpg?c=1 "How To Lose Friends & Alienate People by Toby Young 9780349114859 [USED COPY]")
How To Lose Friends & Alienate People by Toby Young 9780349114859 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $4.09In 1995, high-flying British journalist Toby Young left London for New York to become a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Other Brits had taken Manhattan - Alistair Cooke, Tina Brown, Anna Wintour... -
![Continental Drifter: Taking the Low Road with the First Grand Tourist by Tim Moore 9780349114194 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9788977/10805550/9780349114194__53927.1782280895.jpg?c=1 "Continental Drifter: Taking the Low Road with the First Grand Tourist by Tim Moore 9780349114194 [USED COPY]")
Continental Drifter: Taking the Low Road with the First Grand Tourist by Tim Moore 9780349114194 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.23They stuck their coaches on ride-on, ride off ferries, whisked through France and Italy moaning about garlic and rudeness, then bored the neighbours to death by having them all round to look at their... -
Day For Night by Frederick Reiken 9780349122847
RRP: $4.01Booksplease Price: $3.71A boy lies in a coma in Utah, brought home from Israel after a near-death motorcycle accident. A child who escaped certain death in Poland in 1941 swims with manatees in Florida many years later on... -
Germany: Jekyll And Hyde: A Contemporary Account of Nazi Germany by Sebastian Haffner
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.28A 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... -
The Evolution Of God: The origins of our beliefs by Robert Wright
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07In The Evolution of God, Robert Wright, award-winning author of the bestselling books Nonzero and The Moral Animal, takes us on a sweeping journey through religious history, from the Stone Age to the... -
KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.23Winner 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... -
Green Was The Earth On The Seventh Day by Thor Heyerdahl
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41In the late 1930s, Thor Heyerdahl left his home in Norway and set off with his new wife for paradise. Fulfilling a long-held ambition to return to nature, the couple sought, and to a degree found, a... -
Sale Of The Century: The Inside Story of the Second Russian Revolution by Chrystia Freeland
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07This is the first account of Russia's second revolution - the country's dramatic, wrenching transition from communist central planning to a market economy. Written by one of the finest writers on... -
This Is Paradise!: My North Korean Childhood by Hyok Kang
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41Hyok Kang was eighteen when he escaped from North Korea, a country locked away from the outside world. This personal, illustrated account of school days in a rigidly communist institution and... -
Foolish Lessons In Life And Love by Penny Rudge
RRP: $4.01Booksplease Price: $3.71Taras 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... -
Cafe Europa: Life After Communism by Slavenka Drakulic
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41Europe 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... -
In His Own Words: From Freedom to the Future by Nelson Mandela
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07IN 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: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.24Call 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... -
Attrition: Fighting the First World War by William Philpott
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.24The First World War was too big to be grasped by its participants. In the retelling of their war in the competing memories of leaders and commanders, and the anguished fiction of its combatants, any...