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The Amur River: Between Russia and China by Colin Thubron
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.22In his eightieth year, Colin Thubron takes a dramatic and often treacherous journey from the Amur's secret source to its giant mouth, covering almost 3,000 miles.'Thubron on top form. Richly... -
Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78A journey along the greatest land route on earth, from the master of travel writing Colin Thubron On buses, donkey carts, trains, jeeps and camels, Colin Thubron traces the drifts of the first great... -
The Death of Stalin by Fabien Nury
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £16.39Fear, corruption and treachery abound in this political satire set in the aftermath of Stalin's death in the Soviet Union in 1953. When the leader of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, has a stroke -... -
The Death of Stalin Movie Edition by Fabien Nury
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.44Fear, corruption and treachery abound in this political satire set in the aftermath of Stalin's death in the Soviet Union in 1953. When the leader of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, has a stroke... -
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Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution by Ruth Scurr 9780099458982 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £3.91'A truly remarkable writer, one of the most gifted non-fiction authors alive' Simon Schama, Financial TimesRobespierre was only thirty-six when he died, sent to the guillotine where he had sent... -
The Timbuktu School for Nomads: Lessons from the People of the Desert Nicholas Jubber 9781473655447
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The Sahara: a dream-like, far away landscape of Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, The English Patient and Star Wars, and home to nomadic communities whose ways of life stretch back millennia... -
Sixty Stories by David Gates
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78This excellent collection of Donald Barthelme's literary output during the 1960s and 1970s covers the period when the writer came to prominence--producing the stories, satires, parodies, and other... -
The Terror: the novel that inspired the chilling BBC series by Dan Simmons 9781804997482
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.67Hailed by STEPHEN KING as 'a brilliant, massive combination of history and supernatural horror'.And made into an acclaimed, chilling 10-part Ridley Scott-produced BBC TV series Hailed as the most... -
The Lost Heart Of Asia by Colin Thubron
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Discover Colin Thubron's journey through central asia in the wake of the fall of the iron curtain.Thubron travelled throughout Central Asia in the wake of the break-up of the Soviet Union and... -
The Ottoman Secret by Raymond Khoury
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95'The best what if thriller for a long, long time' LEE CHILDPARIS, 2017. 300 YEARS AFTER ALL OF EUROPE FELL TO THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE . . .Kamal Agha is a special investigator for the state police, forced... -
Endeavour: The Sunday Times bestselling biography of Captain Cook's recently discovered ship Peter Moore 9781784703929
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.49**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**An inventive biography of one of the most famous ships of all time - recently discovered off the coast of America- Endeavour is an alluring combination of history,... -
Poems and Letters: Selections, with the 1550 Vasari Life by Michelangelo 9780140449563
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) is universally celebrated as one of the greatest artists of all time, yet iconic Renaissance creator was also a prolific and gifted poet. The verses collected here... -
Slow Trains Around Spain: A 3,000-Mile Adventure on 52 Rides by Tom Chesshyre
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Between soaring mountains, across arid deserts, parched plains and valleys of fruit orchards and olive groves, down glittering coastlines and along viaducts towering above plunging ravines... there... -
In Patagonia: (Vintage Voyages) by Bruce Chatwin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.42Chatwin's brilliantly unique record of his adventures in Patagonia and the fascinating people he meets along the way. Beautifully written and full of wonderful descriptions and intriguing tales, In... -
Butterfly Brain by Barry Cryer 9781409119944
Booksplease Price: £15.23Barry Cryer is one of the great comedians of the last 50 years. This is a sparkling series of hilarious and true anecdotes, almost all of which have never been told before!Barry Cryer has... -
Among The Russians by Colin Thubron
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'A magnificent achievement' Nikolai Tolstoy, The TimesAmong the Russians is a marvellous account of a solitary journey by car from St. Petersburg and the Baltic States south to Georgia and Armenia. A... -
To a Mountain in Tibet by Colin Thubron
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.59**TOP TEN BESTSELLER**'I would rather read Colin Thubron than any other travel writer alive' John Simpson Mount Kailas is the most sacred of the world's mountains - holy to one fifth of humanity... -
Behind The Wall by Colin Thubron
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42A powerful unforgettable journey through China with one of our greatest travel writers.'An achievement of great and lasting brilliance' Patrick Leigh FermorHaving learned Mandarin, and travelling... -
Troublesome Words by Bill Bryson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42What is the difference between mean and median, blatant and flagrant, flout and flaunt? Is it whodunnit or whodunit? Do you know? Are you sure?With Troublesome Words, journalist and bestselling... -
Seriously British: A Frenchman’s love letter to Britain Fred Sirieix 9781526679192
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'This book is my love letter to the UK, and a celebration of all of the things that I have come to adore, from its food and wine to its history and villages. Vive les Anglais!'This is what (a lot of)... -
More Fool Me by Stephen Fry
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Stephen Fry invites readers to take a glimpse at his life story in the unputdownable More Fool Me.'Oh dear I am an arse. I expect there'll be what I believe is called an "intervention" soon. I keep... -
Business for Bohemians: Live Well, Make Money by Tom Hodgkinson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Everyone should work for themselves. But don't cashflow forecasts, tax returns and P&Ls all sound a bit of a faff? Fear not: help is at hand. In Business for Bohemians, Tom Hodgkinson combines... -
Interviews with an Ape by Felice Fallon 9781529135343
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78'I will remember the story of Einstein for the rest of my life ... This book should be read by everyone.' VIRGINIA MCKENNA'An unusually powerful book - and a timely one too.' MICHAEL PALIN'Revealing,... -
Headlines and Hedgerows: A Memoir by John Craven 9781405932691
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Take a trip down memory lane with the memoir from national TV treasure John Craven, as he recounts both the highs and lows of one of the longest entertaining careers in history, and the people and... -
Puckoon by Spike Milligan
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.24DISCOVER PUCKOON, SPIKE MILLIGAN'S CLASSIC SLAPSTICK NOVEL'Pops with the erratic brilliance of a careless match in a box of fireworks' Daily MailIn 1924 the Boundary Commission is tasked with... -
And It's Goodnight from Him . . .: The Autobiography of the Two Ronnies by Ronnie Corbett
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Double acts don't come any closer than the The Two Ronnies. Messrs Barker and Corbett kept a nation laughing for two decades, and yet despite the rigorous work that went into writing, rehearsing and... -
Journey Without Maps by Graham Greene
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.42The iconic writer's travel log from the uncharted shores of West Africa. Leaving Europe for the first time in his life, Graham Greene set out in 1935 to discover Liberia, then a virtually unmapped... -
Connemara: A Little Gaelic Kingdom Tim Robinson 9780141049595
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78The triumphant conclusion to Tim Robinson's extraordinary Connemara trilogy, which Robert Macfarlane has called 'one of the most remarkable non-fiction projects undertaken in English'. Robinson... -
In Siberia by Colin Thubron 9780099459262
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78'One of the finest books about contemporary Russia' ObserverThis is the account of Thubron's 15,000-mile journey through an astonishing country - one twelfth of the land surface of the whole earth... -
Beyond the Known: How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars by Andrew Rader
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.01From brilliant young polymath Andrew Rader - an MIT-credentialled scientist, popular podcast host and SpaceX mission manager - an illuminating chronicle of exploration that spotlights humans'... -
Like Streams to the Ocean: Notes on Ego, Love, and the Things That Make Us Who We Are by Jedidiah Jenkins
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA soul-searching meditation on the foundations that shape us, Like Streams to the Ocean is an essential guide for the crossroads of life. In the busyness of the... -
The Last Englishmen: Love, War and the End of Empire by Deborah Baker
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Winner of the Kekoo Naoroji Award for Mountain Literature 2019An engrossing story of passion and exploration that traces the end of empire and the stirring of a new world order.John Auden was a... -
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling 9780140447408
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.35The Strange Tales of Pu Songling (1640-1715) are exquisite and amusing miniatures that are regarded as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fiction. With their elegant prose, witty wordplay and subtle... -
The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 by Martin Amis 9780099422228
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £8.99Like John Updike, Martin Amis is the pre-eminent novelist-critic of his generation. The War Against Cliche is a selection of his reviews and essays over the past quarter-century. It contains pieces... -
Neptune’s Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire by Julian Sancton 9780753560693
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.41'full of heroism, greed, piracy, sunken treasure and adventure on the high seas... it's even more remarkable because it's true' ERIC SCHLOSSER New York Times bestselling author of Command and Control... -
Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall by Spike Milligan
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.04Volume one of Spike Milligan's legendary memoirs is a hilarious, subversive first-hand account of WW2'The most irreverent, hilarious book about the war that I have ever read' Sunday Express'Close in... -
Himalaya: A Human History by Ed Douglas
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.97'Magnificent ... this book is unlikely to be surpassed' TelegraphThis is the first major history of the Himalaya: an epic story of peoples, cultures and adventures among the world's highest mountains... -
A New Voyage Round the World by William Dampier
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78'A roaring tale ... remains as vivid and exciting today as it was on publication in 1697' GuardianThe pirate and adventurer William Dampier circumnavigated the globe three times, and took notes... -
Interviews with an Ape by Felice Fallon
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'I will remember the story of Einstein for the rest of my life ... This book should be read by everyone.' VIRGINIA MCKENNA'An unusually powerful book - and a timely one too.' MICHAEL PALIN'Revealing,... -
Headlines and Hedgerows: A Memoir John Craven 9780718187972
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.53Take a trip down memory lane with the memoir from national TV treasure John Craven, as he recounts both the highs and lows of one of the longest entertaining careers in history, and the people and...