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April Blood by Lauro Martines 9780712667876
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $25.00In April 1478, a plot to murder the two heads of the powerful Medici family dramatically miscarried. The younger of the two brothers was killed, but Lorenzo the Magnificent, the brilliant poet and... -
Gwen Raverat: Friends, Family and Affections by Frances Spalding 9781845952501
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $25.00'The best of these Darwins is that they are cut out of rock - three taps is enough to convince one how immense is their solidarity.' So wrote Virginia Woolf affectionately of Gwen Raverat, the... -
Michelangelo And The Pope's Ceiling by Ross King
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $24.21In 1508, Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The thirty-three-year-old Michelangelo had very little experience of the physically and technically... -
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shlaes
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $28.20Challenging conventional history, Amity Shlaes offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression that devastated America in the early part of the twentieth century. She shows how both... -
Pendulum Of War: Three Battles at El Alamein by Niall Barr
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $21.68In late June 1942, the dispirited and defeated British Eighth Army was pouring back towards the tiny railway halt of El Alamein in the western desert of Egypt. Tobruk had fallen and Eighth Army had... -
A History Of Warfare John Keegan 9781844137497
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $26.73The definitive history of warfare told by Britain's foremost military historian.John Keegan's masterpiece is a work of breath-taking scope that not only chronicles the history of warfare, but... -
Jesus by A. N. Wilson 9780712606974
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $27.63The Jesus of Faith and the Jesus of History are two different beings, with two different stories. In this brilliant and bestselling biography, A. N. Wilson reappraises our readings of the Gospels... -
Iron, Steam & Money: The Making of the Industrial Revolution by Roger Osborne
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $26.73In late eighteenth-century Britain a handful of men brought about the greatest transformation in human history. Inventors, industrialists and entrepreneurs ushered in the age of powered machinery and... -
Virginia Woolf: A Biography by Quentin Bell
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $28.60As the nephew of Virginia Woolf, Quentin Bell enjoyed an initimacy with his subject granted to few biographers. Originally published in two volumes in 1972, his acclaimed biography describes Virginia... -
Sketches In Pen And Ink: A Bloomsbury Notebook by Vanessa Bell 9780712666039
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $23.69Vanessa Bell, artist, sister of Virginia Woolf, wife of Clive Bell and lover of Duncan Grant, is one of the most fascinating and modern figures of the Bloomsbury set, but unlike most of them she... -
Horses Talking: How to share healing messages with the horses in your life Margrit Coates 9781844131099
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $25.00Following the success of 'Healing for Horses', in this book, Margrit Coates explains how readers can learn to interact with equines on a deep level. She gives practical advice on how to tune into... -
Downing Street Diary: With Harold Wilson in No. 10 by Bernard Donoughue 9781845952334
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $29.53Early in 1974, Bernard Donoughue, a young academic at the London School of Economics, was invited by Harold Wilson first to help fight the General Election and then to found and run the Policy Unit... -
Mary Magdalen: Truth and Myth by Susan Haskins 9781845950040
RRP: $34.18Booksplease Price: $26.32A dramatic, thought-provoking portrait of one of the most compelling figures in early Christianity which explores two thousand years of history, art, and literature to provide a close-up look at Mary... -
The Pursuit Of The Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages by Norman Cohn
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $28.03The Middle Ages inherited from Antiquity a tradition of prophesy and gave it fresh and exuberant life. This tradition foretold a Millennium in which humanity would enjoy a new Paradise on earth, free... -
Rumi's Daughter by Muriel Maufroy
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $21.68Rumi is now acknowledged as one of the great mystical poets of the Western world, with huge sales of the many collections of his poetry. Not much is known about his life except that he lived in... -
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Humanity: the Recent Moral History by Jonathan Glover 9780712665414 [USED COPY]
RRP: $45.60Booksplease Price: $4.58This book is about history and morality in the twentieth century. It is about the psychology which made possible Hiroshima, the Nazi genocide, the Gulag, the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Pol Pot's... -
The Man Who Drew London by Gillian Tindall 9780712667579
RRP: $37.98Booksplease Price: $28.94The seventeenth-century London Wenceslaus Hollar knew is now largely destroyed or buried. Yet its populous river, its timbered streets, fashionable ladies, old St Paul's, the devestation of the Fire,... -
Sacred Space: Enhancing the Energy of Your Home and Office by Denise Linn
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $21.68'Our homes are mirrors of ourselves. Through them we can interface with the universe.'Everything in the universe is composed of constantly changing energy, including our homes and their contents. ... -
Blood Of Spain: An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War by Ronald Fraser 9780712660143
RRP: $34.18Booksplease Price: $26.89We discover what civil war, revolution and counter-revolution actually felt like from inside both camps. The contours of the war take shape through the words of the eyewitnesses. The atmosphere of... -
Loving Garbo: The Story of Greta Garbo,Cecil Beaton and Mercedes De Acosta by Hugo Vickers 9780712659499
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $24.74Greta Garbo's enduring legend derives from her incandescent performances as a woman in love in such classics as Camille, Queen Christina and Grand Hotel. For half a century her apparently reclusive... -
Francis Of Assisi by Adrian House 9780712668149
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $28.96Francis of Assisi (1182-1226) was the least dogmatic of saints, seeing himself as God's troubadour or fool. His life was rich in its succession of dramas. After his debauchery as a young playboy,... -
The Devil's Disciples Anthony Read 9780712664165
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $29.53The Nazi regime was essentially a religious cult, relying on the hypnotic personality of one man, Adolf Hitler, and it was fated to die with him. But while it lasted, his closest lieutenants competed... -
The Roots Of Romanticism by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $26.73The Roots of Romanticism is the long-awaited text of Isaiah Berlin's most celebrated set of lectures, the Mellon Lectures, delivered in Washington in 1965 and heard since by a much wider audience on... -
White Eagle, Red Star: The Polish-Soviet War 1919-20 Norman Davies 9780712606943
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $26.73Surprisingly little known, the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-20 was to change the course of twentieth-century history. In White Eagle, Red Star, Norman Davies gives a full account of the War, with its... -
Maeve Brennan: Wit, Style and Tragedy: An Irish Writer in New York by Angela Bourke
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.58Born in Dublin in 1917 to politically active parents, Maeve Brennan's childhood in Ireland was moulded by the cultural ideologies of nationalism and lit by the creative energy of the Abbey and Gate... -
Napoleon's Master: A Life of Prince Talleyrand by David Lawday 9781844137428
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $28.96He took on Napoleon with a set of weapons that seemed unsuited to the task: flattery, courtesy and an alarmingly straight face. And he won. Quite as much as the Duke of Wellington it was the... -
The Power Of Ideas by Isaiah Berlin 9780712665544
RRP: $37.98Booksplease Price: $28.94'Over a hundred years ago, the German poet Heine warned the French not to underestimate the power of ideas: philosophical concepts nurtured in the stillness of a professor's study could destroy a... -
Beating Anger: The eight-point plan for coping with rage Mike Fisher 9781844135646
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $22.78We all feel angry at times. It can be an uncomfortable emotion, yet it is almost a taboo subject. We get very little guidance in our culture on how to deal with it, and the guilt or violence that may... -
The Mercurial Emperor: The Magic Circle of Rudolf II in Renaissance Prague by Peter Marshall
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $24.21In the late 16th century the greatest philosophers, alchemists, astronomers, painters, and mathematicians of the day flocked to Prague to work under the patronage of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II,... -
By Permission Of Heaven: The Story of the Great Fire of London by Adrian Tinniswood 9780712668477
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $25.00There had, of course, been other fires, Four Hundred and fifty years before, the city had almost burned to the ground. Yet the signs from the heavens in 1666 were ominous: comets, pyramids of flame,... -
The Judgement of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism by Ross King
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $24.21In 1863, the French painter Ernest Meissonier was one of the most famous artists in the world and the darling of the 'Salon' - that all important public art exhibition held biannually in Paris. ... -
The Elizabethan World Picture by E. M. W. Tillyard 9780712666060
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.58The Elizabethans took from the Middle Ages the modified view of the universe which, Platonic and biblical in origin, radically differed from our own. For them all creation was ranged in an... -
Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore Bettany Hughes 9781845952143
RRP: $47.50Booksplease Price: $34.90As soon as men began to write, they made Helen of Troy their subject; for nearly three thousand years she has been both the embodiment of absolute female beauty and a reminder of the terrible power... -
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A Conspiracy Of Friends by Alexander McCall Smith 9780349123851 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $3.74Corduroy Mansions, Pimlico is an oasis of old-fashioned civilisation, its inhabitants considerate and peace-loving. But beneath the polite exterior seismic change is stirring. Barbara Ragg makes an... -
Cutting Edge: Modernist British Printmaking by Gordon Samuel
RRP: $47.50Booksplease Price: $40.83A vividly illustrated catalogue of linocuts by the Modern British printmakers of the Grosvenor School of Art. The Grosvenor School of Modern Art was founded by the influential teacher, painter and... -
The Buddha, Geoff and Me: A Modern Story Edward Canfor-Dumas 9781844135684
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $21.68Ed is having a hard time - at work, in his love life and, well, generally. Then he meets an unlikely Buddhist - who drinks and smokes and talks his kind of language. Bit by bit, things begin to... -
Wilfred Owen by Jon Stallworthy 9781845952044
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $27.63Of all the poets of the First World War, Wilfred Owen most fires the imagination today - this is the comprehensive literary biography of the greatest WW1 poetWilfred Owen tragically died in battle... -
Broken Open: How difficult times can help us grow Elizabeth Lesser 9781844135615
RRP: $37.98Booksplease Price: $27.99'And the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom' Anais NinElizabeth Lesser shows how it is possible to deal with fearful change or a... -
A Search In Secret India: The classic work on seeking a guru by Paul Brunton 9781844130436
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $22.25'He found many marvelous things...But now and then a man of real spirituality set his feet on the way that finally led him to what he had looked and hoped for.' New York Times Book Review The late... -
The Light Beyond: The extraordinary sequel to the classic Life After Life by Raymond A. Moody
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.58'The Light Beyond' is based on more than a thousand case studies of adults and children who clinically reached the point of death and survived, as well as amazing new research. It shows the many...