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How We Lived Then: History of Everyday Life During the Second World War, A by Norman Longmate
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $38.64Although nearly 90% of the population of Great Britain remained civilians throughout the war, or for a large part of it, their story has so far largely gone untold. In contrast with the thousands of... -
Cutting Edge: Modernist British Printmaking by Gordon Samuel
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $44.77A 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 Grit in the Pearl: The Scandalous Life of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll by Lyndsy Spence
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $16.78The 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... -
I Was a Stranger by Sir John Hackett 9780712665629
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $26.19Badly 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... -
Contesting Neoliberal Education: Public Resistance and Collective Advance Dave Hill 9780415507103
RRP: $104.98Booksplease Price: $94.98Neoliberal education policies have privatised, marketised, decentralized, controlled and surveilled, managed according to the business and control principles of new public managerialism, attacked the... -
God Has A Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Times by Archbishop Desmond Tutu
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.54God 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... -
Handel: The Man & His Music by Jonathan Keates 9781845951153
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $32.63Jonathan Keates original biography of Handel was hailed as a masterpiece on its publication in 1985. This fully revised and updated new edition - published to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the... -
Separation: Anxiety and anger: Attachment and loss Volume 2 by Dr. E. J. M. Bowlby
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.38Separation, 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... -
Attachment: Volume One of the Attachment and Loss Trilogy by Dr. E. J. M. Bowlby
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.38In 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... -
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The Natural Death Handbook by Stephanie Wienrich 9781844132263 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $5.17More 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... -
Dogs: Homoeopathic Remedies by George Macleod
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $29.55This 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... -
Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky by Patrick Hamilton
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45The 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... -
Children Who Have Lived Before: Reincarnation today by Trutz Hardo
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.75In 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... -
Julian Fellowes's Belgravia: Now a major TV series, from the creator of DOWNTON ABBEY by Julian Fellowes
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.49FROM 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... -
Darien Disaster John Prebble 9780712668538
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $23.96The 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... -
The Dog Who Came In From The Cold by Alexander McCall Smith
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.84In the genteel environs of Corduroy Mansions, Pimlico, strange doings are afoot, mostly in the name of love. Lonely William French and his faithful canine Freddie are recruited to the service of MI6... -
The Mapmakers by John Noble Wilford
RRP: $50.40Booksplease Price: $38.41An updated edition of the classic, much praised history of cartography. It traces the adventures, discoveries, and feats of technical ingenuity by which mapmakers, over the centuries, have succeeded... -
Loss - Sadness and Depression: Attachment and Loss Volume 3 by Dr. E. J. M. Bowlby 9780712666268
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.75In 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... -
The Fred Factor by Mark Sanborn
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73Mark 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... -
Alfred Russel Wallace Peter Raby 9780712665773
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $26.59In 1858, aged thirty-five, weak with malaria, isolated in the remote Spice Islands, Alfred Russel Wallace wrote to Charles Darwin: he had, he said excitedly, worked out a theory of natural selection... -
Showstopper: Detective Peter Diamond Book 21 Peter Lovesey 9781408727560
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $32.99Bath's top detective, Peter Diamond, doesn't believe in jinxes. So when he's asked to investigate a top TV show plagued by a series of misfortunes, Diamond is unmoved. He's no fan of the show - which... -
Kinsey: A Biography by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy 9781844138364
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.34Alfred Kinsey was the twentieth century's first scientifically reputable and most influential researcher into sex. His Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male (The Kinsey Report), published in 1948, was... -
Advice On Dying: And living well by taming the mind by Dalai Lama
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $25.37In 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... -
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: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.64Using 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: $33.58Booksplease Price: $26.19For 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... -
Modern Philosophy: An Introduction and Survey Roger Scruton 9781844131068
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $45.34Roger Scruton is one of the most widely respected philosophers of our time, whose often provocative views never fail to stimulate debate. In Modern Philosophy he turns his attention to the whole of... -
Ring Resounding: The Recording of Der Ring Des Nibelungen by John Culshaw 9781845951948
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.91Nothing 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... -
Corduroy Mansions by Alexander McCall Smith
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.84Welcome 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 Book Of Secrets: Who am I? Where did I come from? Why am I here? by Deepak Chopra
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $30.35Crafted with all the skills that have made his previous books bestsellers, The Book of Secrets will be essential reading for Deepak Chopra's huge number of followers worldwide, and also appeal to... -
1066: The Year of The Three Battles Frank McLynn 9780712666725
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.75Everyone 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... -
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Napoleon by Frank McLynn 9780712662475 [USED COPY]
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $5.02Napoleon Bonaparte's character and achievements have always divided critics and commentators. In this compelling new biography Frank McLynn draws on the most recent scholarship and throws a brilliant... -
Centuries Of Childhood by Philippe Aries
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.64In this pioneering and important book, Philippe Aries surveys children and their place in family life from the Middle Ages to the end of the eighteenth century. The first section of the book explores... -
Shackleton's Forgotten Men: The Untold Tale of an Antarctic Tragedy by Lennard Bickel
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.64When Ernest Shackleton resolved to cross Antarctica in 1915, he knew the task would require two parties of men. Shackleton and his crew aimed to cross the continent - but were to meet with disaster... -
Firestorm: The Bombing of Dresden 1945 by Jeremy A. Crang
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $26.19On the night of 13 and 14 February 1945 the RAF bombed the city of Dresden, causing devastating fires which obliterated the historic city centre and killed many thousands of people. Sixty years later... -
Hell With A Capital H: A New Polar Hero by Katherine Lambert 9780712679954
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.75On 29 March 1912, as Scott and his two companions lay dying in their tent, elsewhere on the polar ice-cap six members of his ill-fated expedition were fighting for their lives. This was the... -
The Bard by Robert Crawford
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $30.18No writer is more charismatic than Robert Burns and no biographer has captured his energy, brilliance and radicalism as well as Robert Crawford does in The Bard. To his international admirers Burns... -
Europe's Inner Demons: The Demonization of Christians In Medieval Christendom by Norman Cohn
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $23.96In this ground-breaking book, Professor Norman Cohn traces popular beliefs about witches to their origins. He examines the fantasies that inspired the great European witch-hunt of the 16th and 17th... -
Lucky Or Smart? by Bo Peabody 9781844136919
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.54Is entrepreneurial success atrributed to intelligence or is it just sheer luck? How do you manage the creative people you depend on in your team? A 33-year-old entrepreneur who has made over $580... -
The Crooked Timber Of Humanity by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $30.98'Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.' Immanuel KantIsaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century - an activist of the intellect... -
Essential English for Journalists, Editors and Writers by Sir Harold Evans
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.75Essential 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...