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Hands Up!: A Year in the Life of an Inner City School Teacher Oenone Crossley-Holland 9780719521270
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.88Dear Ms Crossley=Holland,I didn't Oink at you yesterday but I do admitt I did oink it was a private joke between me and Billie.Know I do Admitt I should not of been making noises so I am sorry for... -
Hurricane: Victor of the Battle of Britain Leo McKinstry 9781848543416
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11In the summer of 1940 the fate of Europe hung in the balance. Victory in the forthcoming air battle would mean national survival; defeat would establish German tyranny.The Luftwaffe greatly... -
The Retreat Michael Jones 9780719569722
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11The thrilling history of the turning point of the Second World War, when Hitler's armies were halted on the Eastern FrontAt the moment of crisis in 1941 on the Eastern front, with the forces of... -
The Magnificent Spilsbury and the Case of the Brides in the Bath by Jane Robins
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.11Bessie Mundy, Alice Burnham and Margaret Lofty are three women with one thing in common. They are spinsters and are desperate to marry. Each woman meets a smooth-talking stranger who promises her a... -
The Best of Betjeman John Betjeman 9780719568329
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.11John Betjeman, appointed Poet Laureate in 1972, is celebrated as the best loved poet of the twentieth century. His subtle blend of wit and melancholia, affection and criticism continues to attract an... -
Wolfram: The Boy Who Went to War by Giles Milton
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.11The Aichele family were decent, cultured, peace-loving Germans trying their hardest not to get swept up in the madness of Hitler's Third Reich. But by the time war came, for civilians on all sides,... -
Things I Wish My Mother Had Told Me: Lessons in Grace and Elegance Lucia Van Der Post 9780719566691
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.86Packed full of golden rules from one of Britain's most stylish women, Things I Wish My Mother Had Told Me is a woman's companion for life. Lucia van der Post reveals the secrets of dressing stylishly... -
Osman's Dream by Caroline Finkel
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €15.07The Ottoman chronicles recount that the first sultan, Osman, dreamt of the dynasty he would found - a tree, fully-formed, emerged from his navel, symbolising the vigour of his successors and the... -
Bringing the House Down David Profumo 9780719566097
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.11David Profumo was just seven when his father, who had been Secretary of State for War, resigned from the Macmillan government. Despite the furore and humiliation that followed, his parents famously... -
Why French Children Don't Talk Back Catherine Crawford 9781848547148
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.11Catherine Crawford, a mother of two young daughters, is tired of the indulgent brand of parenting so popular in her trendy Brooklyn neighbourhood. All of the negotiating and bargaining has done... -
Somme Martin Gilbert 9780719568909
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11The Battle of the Somme, fought between July and November 1916, was among the bloodiest conflicts of all time. The aim was to end the stalemate on the Western Front - the result was carnage. In a... -
Oh Miriam!: Stories from an Extraordinary Life Miriam Margolyes 9781399803373
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €9.66'Oh Miriam! risks the curse of the sequel, and pulls it off . . . A force of nature, a tour de farce. Bold, brave and bright, but also revealing, shocking and touching. Miriam is an icon, a... -
Peacemakers Six Months that Changed The World by Margaret MacMillan 9780719562372 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €4.56Between January and July 1919, after the war to end all wars, men and women from all over the world converged on Paris for the Peace Conference. At its heart were the leaders of the three great... -
Rocket Men by Craig Nelson 9780719569586 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €3.19On 20 July 1969, man set foot on the moon. Motivated by politics, faith, science and wonder, the Apollo 11 mission was the greatest technical achievement of all time. It was the culmination of over a... -
Cairo in the War: 1939-45 by 9781848548848
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.60For troops in the desert, Cairo meant fleshpots or brass hats. For well-connected officers, it meant polo at the Gezira Club and drinks at Shepheard's. For the irregular warriors, Cairo was a city to... -
The Road to Wisdom: On Truth, Science, Faith and Trust by Francis S. Collins 9781399822336
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399822336Author Francis S. CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprin -
Maybe I'm Amazed: A Story of Love and Connection in Ten Songs: A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK by John Harris 9781399814058
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11???A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK???'BRILLIANT' ADRIAN CHILES'THIS BOOK CONTAINS MAGIC' CAITLIN MORAN'ENTRANCING, HEARTBREAKING, UPLIFTING' MARINA HYDEIn this extraordinary memoir, a father tells the... -
Oldenland: A Journey in Search of the Good Last Years by Roger Clough 9781399822718
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11'Discover the secret to thriving in old age' Telegraph'In front of me is an adventure with old age as my companion, my shadow and confederate, maybe my friend.'Old age is a country, and we need to... -
Lancaster: The Second World War's Greatest Bomber by Leo McKinstry 9780719523632 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €2.88The Spitfire and the Lancaster were the two RAF weapons of victory in the Second World War, but the glamour of the fighter has tended to overshadow the performance of the heavy bomber. Yet without... -
Samurai William: The Adventurer Who Unlocked Japan by Giles Milton 9780340794685 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €2.89In 1611 an astonishing letter arrived at the East India Trading Company in London after a tortuous seven-year journey. Englishman William Adams was one of only twenty-four survivors of a fleet of... -
My Friend Leonard by James Frey 9780719561177 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €2.89While in rehab, James Frey finds a father figure in a shady mafia boss called Leonard. When Leonard returns to his dubious, prosperous life in the criminal underworld of Las Vegas, he promises James... -
A Lovely Way to Burn: Plague Times Trilogy 1 by Louise Welsh 9781529386851 [USED COPY]
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €2.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorLouise Welsh is the author of eight novels including The Cutting Room, A Lovely Way to Burn and Death is a... -
London Under London: A Subterranean Guide by Richard Trench 9780719552885 [USED COPY]
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €3.19One of the most popular books on London (it has reprinted six times since it was first published in 1984) London under London has now been updated to take into account the latest subterranean... -
Gospel Integrity: Moving Your Heart from Duty to Beauty by Eddie Byun 9781399830799
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €12.60When spiritual growth is stagnant, beloved leaders fail, and friends and family trickle away from church, it's easy to feel disappointed in a faith that seemed to promise so much more. Remember what... -
Ataturk Andrew Mango 9780719565922
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €10.84This biography of Ataturk aims to strip away the myth to show the complexities of the man beneath. Born plain Mustafa in Ottoman Salonica in 1881, he trained as an army officer but was virtually... -
A Time to Keep Silence by Patrick Leigh Fermor
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.11From the French Abbey of St Wandrille to the abandoned and awesome Rock Monasteries of Cappadocia in Turkey, the celebrated travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor studies the rigorous contemplative lives... -
The Captain's Wife by Kirsten McKenzie
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €3.321762. Mary is desperate to escape her embittered mother. So when her marriage to a prosperous sea captain is arranged, she embraces the damp salt air, cramped conditions and bad food. She sets sail... -
The Art of Conversation: How Talking Improves Lives by Catherine Blyth
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.11Every day we use our mobiles and computers to communicate, but ironically we are losing touch with face-to-face talk. Catherine Blyth reveals the endless possibilities of conversation and shows that... -
Danger Close: The True Story of Helmand from the Leader of 3 PARA Stuart Tootal 9781848542587
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.60Colonel Stuart Tootal is the first senior commander to provide an account of the fighting in Afghanistan. A gritty portrayal of unforgiving conflict, Danger Close captures the essence of combat, the... -
Trains and Buttered Toast John Betjeman 9780719561276
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.29Eccentric, sentimental and homespun, John Betjeman's passions were mostly self-taught. He saw his country being devastated by war and progress and he waged a private war to save it. His only weapons... -
The Interesting Bits Justin Pollard 9781848541009
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.11Did you give school history lessons your undivided attention? Even if you did, youre probably none the wiser as to how exactly Henry II of France came to have a two-foot splinter in his head or why... -
Hall of a Thousand Columns Tim Mackintosh-Smith 9780719565878
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11All the best armchair travellers are sceptics. Those of the fourteenth century were no exception: for them, there were lies, damned lies, and Ibn Battutah's India.Born in 1304, Ibn Battutah left his... -
Three Letters from the Andes Patrick Leigh Fermor 9780719566851
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €11.11In 1971 the celebrated traveller Patrick Leigh Fermor accompanied five friends on a remarkable journey into the high Andes of Peru. His adventure took him from Cuzco to Urubamba, on to Puno and Juli... -
Landfalls: On the Edge of Islam from Zanzibar to the Alhambra Tim Mackintosh-Smith 9780719567780
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11For Ibn Batuttah of Tangier, being medieval didn't mean sitting at home waiting for renaissances, enlightenments and easyJet. It meant travelling the known world to its limits. Seven centuries on,... -
Truant by Horatio Clare
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €11.11At thirteen Horatio Clare was a boarder at a boy's public school, a privileged member of an apparently blessed generation. A rebel - one of those who detested the system, who thought it not just fun... -
Total War Michael Jones 9781848542310
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11In February 1943, German forces surrendered to the Red Army at Stalingrad and the tide of war turned. By May 1945 Soviet soldiers had stormed Berlin and brought down Hitler's regime. Total War... -
Belonging by Sameem Ali
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.76Abandoned by her parents, Sameem Ali spent six and a half years growing up in a children's home. When she was told that her family wanted to take her back she couldn't wait to start her new life with... -
Boss of Bosses: How One Man Saved the Sicilian Mafia Clare Longrigg 9780719568596
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.11Bernado Provenzano, head of the Sicilian mafia, is Italy's most notorious criminal. But despite apparent sightings all over Europe, for 43 years he eluded the police, until, on 11 April 2006, a crack... -
Tintin: Herge and His Creation Harry Thompson 9781848546721
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.11The little black-and-white cartoon figure of Tintin first appeared in Belgium in 1929 in a Catholic newspaper where his creator, Herge, worked. Harry Thompson looks at the story of Herge, of Tintin... -
How To Be Cool: My Journey from Loser to Schmoozer Will Smith 9780719520013
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.62How can you be cool at work, or in bed, or in a bar, or in a restaurant? What is cool when it comes to dating? Calling? Not calling? Standing in their garden with a placard and a megaphone? Coolness...