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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... -
The Siege Of Venice by Jonathan Keates 9780712673693
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $25.00The siege of Venice in 1848 is one of history's most thrilling and tragic episodes. After half a century of Habsburg imperial rule, the Venetians drove out the occupying army and established their... -
The Grit in the Pearl: The Scandalous Life of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll by Lyndsy Spence
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $14.76The shocking true story behind A Very British Scandal, starring Claire Foy and Paul Bettany Margaret, Duchess of Argyll's life was one of complexity and controversy. Born Ethel Margaret Whigham, the... -
Darien Disaster John Prebble 9780712668538
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $21.68The word Darien is a scar on the memory of the Scots, and the hurt is still felt even where the cause of the wound is dimly understood. Three hundred years ago the Parliament of Scotland, in one of... -
Under Two Dictators: Prisoner of Stalin and Hitler: With an introduction by Nikolaus Wachsmann by Margarete Buber-Neumann
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $27.63This book is a unique account by a survivor of both the Soviet and Nazi concentration camps: its author, Margarete Buber-Neumann, was a loyal member of the German Communist party. From 1935 she and... -
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... -
Dogs: Homoeopathic Remedies by George Macleod
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $26.73This book is written to satisfy the needs of the increasing numbers of dog lovers who are interested in alternative methods to treat their pets. This comprehensive guide introduces the principles of... -
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... -
Behind The Lines: The Oral History of Special Operations in World War II by Russell Miller 9781845952280
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $23.69Compiled from interviews, diaries, letters and contemporaneous first-person accounts - many never before published - this oral history follows the adventures of the courageous men and women who... -
Julian Fellowes's Belgravia: Now a major TV series, from the creator of DOWNTON ABBEY by Julian Fellowes 9781474603546 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $4.56FROM THE CREATOR OF DOWNTON ABBEY and THE GILDED AGE'A modern classic that will fill any Downton-shaped hole' Daily Express It is the evening of 15 June 1815, and the Duchess of Richmond has thrown... -
The Natural Death Handbook by Stephanie Wienrich 9781844132263 [USED COPY]
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $4.67More and more people today want to organise at least part of a funeral for themselves, without depending on funeral directors. The Natural Death Handbook shows you how to do everything from ordering... -
The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe by Andrew Wheatcroft 9781844137411
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $28.96In 1683, two empires - the Ottoman, based in Constantinople, and the Habsburg dynasty in Vienna - came face to face in the culmination of a 250-year power struggle: the Great Siege of Vienna. Within... -
God Has A Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Times by Archbishop Desmond Tutu
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.58God Has A Dream is an extremely personal and liberating message of hope and light in dark times. In it, the Archbishop shows how important it is that, even as we face the harsh realities of our... -
After Daybreak: The Liberation of Belsen, 1945 by Ben Shephard
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $25.00When British troops entered Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945, they uncovered scenes of horror and depravity that shocked the world. But they also confronted a terrible challenge -... -
Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky by Patrick Hamilton
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.59The Midnight Bell, a pub on the Euston Road, is the pulse of this brilliant and compassionate trilogy. It is here where the barman, Bob, falls in love with Jenny, a West End prostitute who comes in... -
The Natural Death Handbook by Stephanie Wienrich 9781844132263
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $23.69More and more people today want to organise at least part of a funeral for themselves, without depending on funeral directors. The Natural Death Handbook shows you how to do everything from ordering... -
Corduroy Mansions by Alexander McCall Smith 9780349122397 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $3.74Welcome to Corduroy Mansions in Pimlico: a temple of Arts and Crafts architecture, with comforting, weathered brickwork and frankly frivolous dormer windows, it is home to a delightfully eccentric... -
The Closing Of The Western Mind by Charles Freeman 9780712664981
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $29.53The conversion of the emperor Constantine to Christianity in 368 AD brought a transformation to Christianity and to western civilization, the effects of which we still feel today. Previously, the... -
Days In The Life by Jonathon Green 9780712666657
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $25.57Jonothan Green offers a time trip from lat-fifties CND, beatniks and bop to the threshold of our own decade's designer revolutionaries and style warriors. . . His chosen form is the oral history... -
Separation: Anxiety and anger: Attachment and loss Volume 2 by Dr. E. J. M. Bowlby
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $24.78Separation, the second volume of Attachment and Loss, continues John Bowlby's influential work on the importance of the parental relationship to mental health. Here he considers separation and the... -
Children Who Have Lived Before: Reincarnation today by Trutz Hardo
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $24.21In this book, children from all around the world remember their past lives, and eminent scientists explain how many of these children's stories have been followed up to verify whether their... -
Attachment: Volume One of the Attachment and Loss Trilogy by Dr. E. J. M. Bowlby
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $24.78In this classic work of psychology John Bowlby examines the processes that take place in attachment and separation and shows how experimental studies of children provide us with a recognizable... -
Magical Beginnings, Enchanted Lives: How to use meditation, yoga and other techniques to give your child the perfect start in life, from conception to early by Deepak Chopra 9781844135783
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $25.00Using exercises and techniques developed over ten years of teaching a popular series of workshops at the Chopra Center for Well Being, Dr Deepak Chopra shows readers how to see parenthood from a very... -
Saving The Sun by Gillian Tett 9781844136124
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $23.69For more than a decade, Japan's dismal economy - which has bounced from deflationary collapse to fitful recovery and back to collapse - has been the biggest obstacle to economic growth. Why has the... -
The Second World War by John Keegan 9780712673488 [USED COPY]
RRP: $57.00Booksplease Price: $4.58In this comprehensive history, John Keegan explores both the technical and the human impact of the greatest war of all time. He focuses on five crucial battles and offers new insights into the... -
1066: The Year of The Three Battles Frank McLynn 9780712666725
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $24.21Everyone knows what William the Conqueror won the Battle of Hastings in 1066, but in recent years is has become customary to assume that the victory was virtually inevitable, given the alleged... -
Corduroy Mansions by Alexander McCall Smith
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $15.24Welcome to Corduroy Mansions in Pimlico: a temple of Arts and Crafts architecture, with comforting, weathered brickwork and frankly frivolous dormer windows, it is home to a delightfully eccentric... -
Loss - Sadness and Depression: Attachment and Loss Volume 3 by Dr. E. J. M. Bowlby 9780712666268
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $24.21In this third and final volume John Bowlby completes the trilogy Attachment and Loss, his much acclaimed work on the importance of the parental relationship to mental health. Here he examines the... -
A Conspiracy Of Friends by Alexander McCall Smith
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.24Corduroy 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... -
AD 381: Heretics, Pagans and the Christian State by Charles Freeman 9781845950071
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $22.42In AD 381, Theodosius, emperor of the eastern Roman empire, issued a decree in which all his subjects were required to subscribe to a belief in the Trinity of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This... -
Advice On Dying: And living well by taming the mind by Dalai Lama
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $23.85In this ground-breaking book, the Dalai Lama advises us to gain familiarity with the process and practices of death so that, when we are physically weak, our minds can still be focussed in the right... -
Ring Resounding: The Recording of Der Ring Des Nibelungen by John Culshaw 9781845951948
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $25.00Nothing in the history of recording approaches Decca's mammoth venture in producing Wagner's Ring complete for the first time. It was eight years in the making and this book tells the story of how it... -
The Donkeys by Alan Clark 9780712650359 [USED COPY]
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $3.78The landmark expose of incompetent leadership on the Western Front - why the British troops were lions led by donkeys On 26 September 1915, twelve British battalions - a strength of almost 10,000 men... -
I Was a Stranger by Sir John Hackett 9780712665629
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $23.69Badly wounded at the battle of Arnhem, and then spirited from his hospital bed by the Dutch Resistance, Brigadier John Hackett spent the winter of 1944 in Nazi-occupied Holland, hidden by a Dutch... -
The Grit in the Pearl: The Scandalous Life of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll by Lyndsy Spence 9780750993258 [USED COPY]
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $4.56The shocking true story behind A Very British Scandal, starring Claire Foy and Paul Bettany Margaret, Duchess of Argyll's life was one of complexity and controversy. Born Ethel Margaret Whigham, the... -
The Donkeys by Alan Clark 9780712650359
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $22.38The landmark expose of incompetent leadership on the Western Front - why the British troops were lions led by donkeys On 26 September 1915, twelve British battalions - a strength of almost 10,000 men... -
The Floating Egg: Episodes in the Making of Geology by Roger Osborne
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $26.73The Floating Egg begins with the search for an alchemist's secret, and ends with the re-imagination of a past world. Each chapter is connected to a particular corner of north-east England, and each... -
The Lion and the Unicorn: Gladstone vs Disraeli by Richard Aldous 9781844133123
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $26.73'Engaging and highly entertaining' Sunday Times The dramatic confrontation between the two 'mighty opposites' of the Victorian age, brilliantly recreated by a talented young historian. Gladstone and... -
Essential English for Journalists, Editors and Writers by Sir Harold Evans 9780712664479 [USED COPY]
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $4.41Essential English is an indispensable guide to the use of words as tools of communication. It is written primarily for journalists, yet its lessons are of immense value to all who face the problem of... -
The Fred Factor by Mark Sanborn
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.23Mark Sanborn met his postman, Fred, just after he moved to Denver. Fred knocked on his door, introduced himself and welcomed him to the neighbourhood. He also asked Sanborn about himself and how he...