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Running for the Hills: A Family Story Horatio Clare 9780719565397
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.31When Jenny and Robert fall in love in the late 1960s they decide to build a new future together, away from the city. They escape to an isolated sheep farm nestled on a mountainside. It has no running... -
Sleeping Around: Secrets of a Sexual Adventuress Catherine Townsend 9780719563515
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41'I relish every second of my sexual encounters: the good, the bad, the bizarre. Most of my serious relationships have started out as one-night stands.' Catherine Townsend describes herself as 'part... -
Through Siberia by Accident by Dervla Murphy
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41Through Siberia by Accident is a book about a journey that didn't happen - and what happened instead.Dervla Murphy never had any intention of spending three months in the vast territories of Siberia... -
The Curious Habits of Dr Adams: A 1950s Murder Mystery Jane Robins 9781848544727
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41'Was rich Mrs Gertrude Hullett murdered at her luxurious 15-room home on Beachy Head? Detectives are tonight trying to establish the cause of the 50-year-old widow's sudden death . . . ' Daily Mail,... -
Mama Tina: The Christina Noble Story Continues Christina Noble 9781848548428
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41In 1989, driven by a dream and the memory of her own past, Christina Noble travelled 6,000 miles to Vietnam, a country of great beauty where the terrible legacy of war is still being felt. Against... -
The Manner of Men: 9 PARA's Heroic D-Day Mission Stuart Tootal 9781848546790
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41In June 1944, an elite unit of British paratroopers was sent on a daring and highly risky behind-the-lines mission, which was deemed vital to the success of D-Day. Dropping ahead of the main Allied... -
Lesley Blanch: Inner Landscapes, Wilder Shores Anne Boston 9780719565472
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92Lesley Blanch, writer, artist and adventuress, called herself a romantic traveller; her appetite for the exotic colours all her books. The first, The Wilder Shores of Love, became a worldwide... -
Boffinology Justin Pollard 9781848542013
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41The history of science is often seen as a story of advancement but nothing could be further from the truth. Science, it is true, has progressed, but rarely in the direction intended and seldom for... -
Betjeman's England by John Betjeman
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41For more than half a century, Betjeman's writings have awakened readers to the intimacy of English places - from the smell of gaslight in suburban churches, to the hissing of backwash on a shingle... -
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.41When the Taliban took control of Kabul, Kamila Sidiqi and all the women of Kabul saw their lives transformed. Overnight, they were banned from schools and offices and even forbidden from leaving... -
Roumeli Patrick Leigh Fermor 9780719566929
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41Patrick Leigh Fermor's Mani compellingly revealed a hidden world of Southern Greece and its past. Its northern counterpart takes the reader among Sarakatsan shepherds, the monasteries of Meteora and... -
Silverland Dervla Murphy 9780719568299
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41Silverland charts Dervla Murphy's extraordinary expedition through the snowscapes of Far Eastern Russia. No stranger to adventure, the intrepid septuagenarian's mid-winter journey takes her beyond... -
Through Khiva to Golden Samarkand: JM Journeys by Caroline Eden
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41INTRODUCED BY CAROLINE EDEN, award-winning author of Black Sea, Red Sands and Samarkand'Medieval pomp, splendour, and picturesqueness... a life that one can hardly even realize.'In 1912, Ella R... -
The Seven Lives of John Murray: The Story of a Publishing Dynasty Humphrey Carpenter 9780719565335
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41From the burning of Byron's memoirs, Jane Austen's clipped businesslike manner, and the lucrative controversy caused by the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species, through to the discovery of the... -
The Aunt Who Wouldn't Die Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay 9781529391022
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09At eighteen, Somlata married into the Mitras: a once noble Bengali household whose descendants have taken to pawning off the family gold to keep up appearances. When Pishima, the embittered... -
People Who Like Dogs Like People Who Like Dogs: Extraordinary encounters in an ordinary park Nick Duerden 9781399818988
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07'Anyone who has ever walked a dog and found themselves falling into conversation with others doing the same will love this funny, charming and touching book' RORY CELLAN-JONESOstensibly, Nick Duerden... -
Blythe Spirit: The Remarkable Life of Ronald Blythe Ian Collins 9781399819060
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.69'An intimate and insightful portrait of the peerless observer of rural life' RICHARD MABEY'Moving, candid, vivid, it is all that we could hope for in a memoir of this unique and treasured writer'... -
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Mister Pip (SS) by Lloyd Jones 9781848548237 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $1.68'You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a... -
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Spies Beneath Berlin by David Stafford 9780719565601 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $3.81Operation Stopwatch/Gold, said CIA chief Alan Dulles, was one of the most valuable and daring projects ever undertaken. In 1955 it ran a tunnel 800 metres under the Russian sector of Cold War Berlin,... -
Intelligence: All That Matters by Stuart Ritchie 9781444791877
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92There is a strange disconnect between the scientific consensus and the public mind on intelligence testing. Just mention IQ testing in polite company, and you'll sternly be informed that IQ tests... -
The Flower Bearers by Rachel Eliza Griffiths 9781399813952
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $18.20'A beautiful and immensely powerful book about love, grief and finding a way to be in a forever altered world' Julia Samuel'The Flower Bearers goes to some dark places, but there is joy, too . . ... -
The Undisputed King of Selston: ‘Captivating and deeply moving’ Richard Coles by Danny Scott 9781399816809
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'Captivating and deeply moving.' Richard Coles'Evocative, beautifully written . . . conjures locations and feelings almost magically.' Jeremy Vine'My brain has made the decision . . . I am going to... -
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Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure by Artemis Cooper 9780719565496 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $3.22Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was a war hero whose exploits in Crete are legendary, and above all he is widely acclaimed as the greatest travel writer of our times, notably for his books about his... -
Four Terrible Parents by Calla Henkel 9781399829601
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.20What happens when the dream of starting your own family turns into a nightmare?Valentine and Raul have been touring in their indie-sleaze band SEZME since their college days, but as they enter their... -
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Albert: Uncrowned King by Stanley Weintraub 9780719557569 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: $3.52Offering a biography of Albert, this work examines how the Prince Consort was plucked from obscurity from a tiny German principality to sire the succession in the most powerful empire in the world... -
Short Stories in Ukrainian for Beginners: Read for pleasure at your level, expand your vocabulary and learn Ukrainian the fun way! by Olly Richards 9781399823524
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners of Ukrainian. "Olly's top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best... -
NIV Pocket Mulberry Bible with Gold Zip by New International Version 9781399832830
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.41This elegant NIV pocket edition Bible has an eye catching gold zip, perfect for taking with you everywhere and reading the Word in style!This Bible includes:· Clear, readable 6.75pt British text· Zip... -
Ataturk Andrew Mango 9780719565922
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $12.10This 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: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41From 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... -
White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's One Million European Slaves by Giles Milton
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11This is the forgotten story of the million white Europeans, snatched from their homes and taken in chains to the great slave markets of North Africa to be sold to the highest bidder. Ignored by their... -
The Captain's Wife by Kirsten McKenzie
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $3.711762. 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: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41Every 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: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07Colonel 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: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.37Eccentric, 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: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41Did 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: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41All 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: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.41In 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: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41For 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: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.41At 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: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41In 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...