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Traitors: History's Greatest Turncoats, From Judas Iscariot to the Men Who Plotted to Kill Hitler Ian Crofton 9781529440010
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'If I had to choose between betraying my friend and betraying my country, I hope I should have the courage to betray my country.' E. M. FORSTERPeople have betrayed their country, or their friends,... -
Echolands: A Journey in Search of Boudica by Duncan Mackay 9781399714143
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'A masterly evocation of the bloodiest year in British history.' Alice Roberts'Evocative, authoritative . . . rich storytelling.' Cat Jarman'An engaged, informed companion for the armchair time... -
Christian Beginnings: From Nazareth to Nicaea, AD 30-325 by Geza Vermes
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Geza Vermes, translator and editor of The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls and worldwide expert on the life and times of Jesus, tells the enthralling story of early Christianity and the origins of a... -
Life Finds a Way: What Evolution Teaches Us About Creativity by Andreas Wagner 9781786077738
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74How can new insights into evolution help us solve problems in life, art, business and science? 'A wonderful, mind-expanding book. Prepare to be surprised, enlightened and awed.' Alice Roberts,... -
Where Are You Really From?: Our amazing evolution, what race really is and what makes us human by Adam Rutherford 9781526364241
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'Laugh out loud funny - and you'll learn lots too!' - Adam Kay, author of Kay's Anatomy and Kay's Incredible Inventions.'If I had had such a book when I was 10 or 11, I might well have set my sights... -
British Television Intellectuals: Unusual Kinds of Star John Tulloch 9781835952153
RRP: £89.95Booksplease Price: £79.77This book explores for the first time the rise of one of Britain's least-recognised but most significant television genres. Working within the frame of public intellectual theory, it tells the story... -
Charles Darwin: Voyaging: Volume 1 of a biography by Janet Browne
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £21.59Few lives of great men offer so much interest - and so many mysteries - as the life of Charles Darwin, the greatest figure of nineteenth-century science, whose ideas are still inspiring discoveries... -
The Dance of Life: Symmetry, Cells and How We Become Human by Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41'Quite simply the best book about science and life that I have ever read' - Alice Roberts How does life begin? What drives a newly fertilized egg to keep dividing and growing until it becomes 40... -
In Search Of The Trojan War by Michael Wood
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74For thousands of years we have been enthralled by tales of Troy and its heroes. Achilles and Hector, Paris and the famed beauty Helen remain some of the most enduring figures in art and literature... -
The Year of Living Biblically by A. J. Jacobs
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Avoiding shellfish was easy. The stoning of adulterers proved a little more difficult - and potentially controversial. Was it enough to walk up to an adulterer and gently touch them with a stone?... -
![Farewell Britannia: A Family Saga Of Roman Britain by Simon Young 9780753823705 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9714044/10730721/9780753823705__71574.1781375295.jpg?c=1 "Farewell Britannia: A Family Saga Of Roman Britain by Simon Young 9780753823705 [USED COPY]")
Farewell Britannia: A Family Saga Of Roman Britain by Simon Young 9780753823705 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.70'Hugely entertaining . . . What a joy to be able to recommend a book about misery, bloodshed and grisly superstition for being funny, compassionate and clear-eyed' Independent on SundayThe story of... -
The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity by Steven Pinker
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.68'The most inspiring book I've ever read' Bill Gates, 2017'A brilliant, mind-altering book ... Everyone should read this astonishing book' Guardian'Will change the way you see the world' Daily... -
The Language Game: How improvisation created language and changed the world by Morten H. Christiansen
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'Marvellously clear... playfully persuasive' Richard Dawkins'Full of Fascinating details. A delight to read.' Tim Harford'Highly original and convincing ... a delight to read!' - Daniel EverettWhat... -
FLICK: A history of female pleasure by Kate Lister 9780857506443
Booksplease Price: £15.07FLICK is a rousing history of women enjoying sex: sex with themselves, sex with each other, and occasionally sex with men as well.Meet the women throughout history who, quite literally, came before... -
When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals by Jeffrey Masson
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47For more than 100 years, scientists have denied that animals experience emotions, yet this remarkable and groundbreaking book proves what animal-lovers have known to be true: wolves, tigers,... -
The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World by Nichola Raihani
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'A phenomenally important book' Lewis Dartnell, author of OriginsWhy do we live in families?Why do we help complete strangers?Why do we compare ourselves to others?Why do we cooperate?The science of... -
On the Good Life by Cicero
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23For the great Roman orator and statesman Cicero, 'the good life' was at once a life of contentment and one of moral virtue - and the two were inescapably intertwined. This volume brings together a... -
Girl Decoded: My Quest to Make Technology Emotionally Intelligent - and Change the Way We Interact Forever by Rana el Kaliouby
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Bold, inspired and hopeful' Arianna Huffington, founder and CEO of Thrive Global'Lucid and captivating' Max Tegmark, professor of physics at MIT and author of Life 3.0A captivating memoir that... -
Gandhi and Churchill: The Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age by Arthur Herman
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41Mohandas Gandhi and Winston Churchill: India's moral leader and Great Britain's greatest Prime Minister. Born five years and seven thousand miles apart, they became embodiments of the nations they... -
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When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals by Jeffrey Masson 9780099478911 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £1.97For more than 100 years, scientists have denied that animals experience emotions, yet this remarkable and groundbreaking book proves what animal-lovers have known to be true: wolves, tigers,... -
Your Inner Fish: The amazing discovery of our 375-million-year-old ancestor by Neil Shubin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Neil Shubin's Your Inner Fish is the unexpected story of how one creature's journey out of the water made the human body what it is today - and one man's voyage of discovery in search of our origins... -
The Pity of it All: A Portrait of Jews in Germany 1743-1933 by Amos Elon
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51The Pity of It All is a passionate and poignant history of German Jews, tracing the journey of a people and their culture from the mid eighteenth century to the eve of the Third Reich.As it is... -
Early Irish Myths and Sagas by Jeffrey Gantz
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.81First written down in the eighth century AD, these early Irish stories depict a far older world - part myth, part legend and part history. Rich with magic and achingly beautiful, they speak of a land... -
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Elizabeth, the Queen by Alison Weir 9780099524250 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.49Elizabeth the Queen begins as the young Elizabeth ascends the throne in the wake of her sister Mary's disastrous reign - both a woman and a queen, Elizabeth's story is an extraordinary phenomenon in... -
The Saga of the Volsungs: The Norse Epic of Sigurd the Dragon Slayer by Jesse Byock
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.81The epic Viking Age stories that inspired J. R. R. Tolkien and Wagner's Ring cycleWritten in thirteenth-century Iceland but based on ancient Norse poetry cycles, The Saga of the Volsungs combines... -
The Species That Changed Itself: How Prosperity Reshaped Humanity by Edwin Gale
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23An inquisitive, expansive and fascinating exploration of humans as creatures of our own makingOther species adapt to their environments; we alone create ours. Over generations, we have remade the... -
![Bad Ideas?: An arresting history of our inventions by Robert Winston 9780553819557 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9666825/10683545/9780553819557__47023.1781289811.jpg?c=1 "Bad Ideas?: An arresting history of our inventions by Robert Winston 9780553819557 [USED COPY]")
Bad Ideas?: An arresting history of our inventions by Robert Winston 9780553819557 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £2.34We are born with the instinct to create and invent. Indeed, our ability to do so is what separates us from the rest of the animal world. But have our creative ideas always produced desirable results?... -
Lewis Carroll in Numberland: His Fantastical Mathematical Logical Life by Robin Wilson
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Lewis Carroll's books have delighted children and adults for generations, but behind their exuberant fantasy and delightful nonsense was the mind of a brilliant mathematician. Now his forgotten... -
![Homo Britannicus: The Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain by Chris Stringer 9780141018133 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9702082/10718786/9780141018133__73530.1781356966.jpg?c=1 "Homo Britannicus: The Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain by Chris Stringer 9780141018133 [USED COPY]")
Homo Britannicus: The Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain by Chris Stringer 9780141018133 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.35Chris Stringer's Homo Britannicus is the epic history of life in Britain, from man's very first footsteps through to the present day. When did the first people arrive here? What did they look like?... -
Elizabeth, the Queen by Alison Weir
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41Elizabeth the Queen begins as the young Elizabeth ascends the throne in the wake of her sister Mary's disastrous reign - both a woman and a queen, Elizabeth's story is an extraordinary phenomenon in... -
Africa: A Biography of the Continent by John Reader
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73Drawing on many years of African experience, John Reader has written a book of startling grandeur and scope that recreates the great panorama of African history, from the primeval cataclysms that... -
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La Vie en bleu: France and the French since 1900 by Rod Kedward 9780140130959 [USED COPY]
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £2.41Rod Kedward brings to life the great, and often terrible, dramas of modern France - the two cataclysmic wars, the Algerian disaster, the student and worker revolt of 1968 - but also explores the... -
Footmarks: A Journey Into our Restless Past by Jim Leary
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £11.37'Lucid, poetic and fascinating' ALICE ROBERTS'Engaging, authoritative and full of fascinating stories of the past' RAY MEARS'A gentle, personal and very readable book' JULIA BLACKBURN AUTHOR OF TIME... -
Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins 9780141026176
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23***20th Anniversary Edition - With a New Introduction***Cover note: Each copy of the anniversary edition of Climbing Mount Improbable features a unique shell. No two covers are exactly alike.How... -
Girl Decoded: My Quest to Make Technology Emotionally Intelligent - and Change the Way We Interact Forever by Rana el Kaliouby 9780241451564
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.23'Rana el Kaliouby's vision for how technology should work in parallel with empathy is bold, inspired and hopeful' Arianna Huffington, founder and CEO of Thrive Global'This lucid and captivating book... -
In The Footsteps Of Alexander The Great by Michael Wood 9780563521938
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.55Michael Wood retraces Alexander the Greats amazing journey from Greece to India, searching for the truth behind the legend and experiencing the tremendous scale of his achievements. Using the... -
Notes from Walnut Tree Farm by Roger Deakin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Calming, thought-provoking, poetic and honest, Notes from Walnut Tree Farm is a collection of writing and musing by documentary-maker, environmentalist and author of Waterlog, Roger Deakin. 'Gentle,... -
A History of Ancient Egypt: From the First Farmers to the Great Pyramid by John Romer
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'A stunning, clear-sighted history of ancient Egypt' Sunday TimesThe extraordinary history of Ancient Egyptian civilization - from its earliest origins to the creation of its greatest monument - from... -
The Lady In The Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn (Queen of England Series) by Alison Weir
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41Never before has there been a book devoted entirely to Anne Boleyn's fall. Now, Alison Weir's richly researched and impressively detailed portrait gives us the compelling story of the last days of... -
Homo Britannicus: The Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain by Chris Stringer
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Chris Stringer's Homo Britannicus is the epic history of life in Britain, from man's very first footsteps through to the present day. When did the first people arrive here? What did they look like?...