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Lone Voyager: The Extraordinary Adventures Of Howard Blackburn Hero Fisherman Of Gloucester by Joseph E. Garland 9780684872636
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.47Lone Voyager is a fascinating story of sailing and adventure and a heart-felt celebration of a man who remains an iconic figure among all sailors who take to the sea alone. Howard Blackburn set sail... -
Out There: The Wildest Stories from Outside Magazine by The Editors of Outside Magazine 9781493048519
Booksplease Price: £16.23Longtime readers have come to understand that Outside's true gift is in chronicling misadventure. That's the common thread among the stories found in Out There-those memorable tales that begin with... -
A Voyage For Madmen: Nine men set out to race each other around the world. Only one made it back ... by Peter Nichols
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £7.99Published to coincide with the Golden Globe Race's 50th Anniversary It lay like a gauntlet thrown down; to sail around the world alone and non-stop. No one had ever done it, no one knew if it... -
Out There: The Wildest Stories from Outside Magazine by The Editors of Outside Magazine 9781493030811
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.29Longtime readers have come to understand that Outside's true gift is in chronicling misadventure. That's the common thread among the stories found in Out There-those memorable tales that begin with... -
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A Voyage For Madmen: Nine men set out to race each other around the world. Only one made it back ... by Peter Nichols 9781846684432 [USED COPY]
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £2.61Published to coincide with the Golden Globe Race's 50th Anniversary It lay like a gauntlet thrown down; to sail around the world alone and non-stop. No one had ever done it, no one knew if it... -
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed by John Vaillant 9780393328646
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.20When a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Northwest, they reignite a mystery surrounding a shocking act of protest. Five months earlier,... -
My Friend The Mercenary James Brabazon 9781847674418
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23He wanted a war. And, for his sins, he got one. James Brabazon was an ambitious young war reporter when he entered the chaos of the Liberian Civil War in 2002. Running with the infamous LURD rebels,... -
Pill City: How Two Teenagers Foiled the Feds and Built a Drug Empire by Kevin Deutsch
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Meet Brick and Wax, two bright eighteen-year-olds looking for a route out of poverty. When Baltimore was engulfed in riots in 2015 they helped loot pharmacies, stealing over $100 million worth of... -
Mapping the Deep: The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science by Robert Kunzig 9780393320633
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £20.34The sea covers seven-tenths of the Earth, but we have mapped only a small percentage of it. The sea contains millions of species of animals and plants, but we have identified only a few thousand of... -
Swordfish: A Biography of the Ocean Gladiator by Richard Ellis
Booksplease Price: £23.87A perfect fish in the evolutionary sense, the broadbill swordfish derives its name from its distinctive bill - much longer and wider than the bill of any other billfish - which is flattened into the... -
Hotels, Hospitals and Jails by Anthony Swofford
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £22.56Following the success of Jarhead, Anthony Swofford assumed he had exorcised his military demons -- but as every veteran knows, that isn't exactly how it works. In these searing, courageous pages,... -
What It Is Like To Go To War Karl Marlantes 9780857893802
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In 1968, at the age of 22, Karl Marlantes abandoned his Oxford University scholarship to sign up for active service with the US Marine Corps in Vietnam. Pitched into a war that had no defined... -
American Spartan: The Promise, the Mission, and the Betrayal of Special Forces Major Jim Gant by Ann Scott Tyson 9780062114990
Booksplease Price: £12.52Lawrence of Arabia meets Sebastian Junger's War in this unique, incendiary, and dramatic true story of heroism and heartbreak in Afghanistan written by a Pulitzer Prize-nominated war correspondent. ... -
Reversing the Rivers: A Memoir of History, Hope, and Human Rights by William F. Schulz 9781512824032
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40From 1994 to 2006, William F. Schulz headed Amnesty International USA. During this time, he and the organization confronted some of the greatest challenges to human rights, including genocides in... -
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The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz 9781845296445 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £4.85'I hope The Long Walk will remain as a memorial to all those who live and die for freedom, and for all those who for many reasons could not speak for themselves'Slavomir RawiczSlavomir Rawicz was a... -
The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz 9781845296445
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'I hope The Long Walk will remain as a memorial to all those who live and die for freedom, and for all those who for many reasons could not speak for themselves'Slavomir RawiczSlavomir Rawicz was a... -
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A Long Way Gone: The True Story of a Child Soldier by Ishmael Beah 9780007247097 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.26The first-person account of a 26-year-old who fought in the war in Sierra Leone as a 12-year-old boy. 'My new friends have begun to suspect that I haven't told them the full story of my... -
We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of An Unlikely Friendship by Will Schwalbe
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38From the best-selling author of The End of Your Life Book Club comes a warm, funny, irresistible book that follows an improbable and life-changing friendship over the course of forty years'Moving'... -
The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan and the Climbing Life by Mark Synnott
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Shortlisted for Biography of the Year at the Telegraph Sports Book Awards 2020Shortlisted for Adventure Travel Book of the Year at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2020On June 3rd 2017,... -
A Long Way Gone: The True Story of a Child Soldier by Ishmael Beah
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28The first-person account of a 26-year-old who fought in the war in Sierra Leone as a 12-year-old boy. 'My new friends have begun to suspect that I haven't told them the full story of my... -
Love, Africa: A Memoir of Romance, War, and Survival by Jeffrey Gettleman 9780062284099
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.37From Jeffrey Gettleman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist, comes a passionate, revealing story about finding love and finding a calling, set against one of the most turbulent regions... -
![The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz - Costa Book of the Year 2019 by Jack Fairweather 9780753545188 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9683611/10700331/9780753545188__89806.1781305180.jpg?c=1 "The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz - Costa Book of the Year 2019 by Jack Fairweather 9780753545188 [USED COPY]")
The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz - Costa Book of the Year 2019 by Jack Fairweather 9780753545188 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.40One of the Sunday Times paperbacks of the Year 2020One of the Financial Times best books of 2020 'Totally gripping'-- Simon Sebag Montefiore'Pilecki is perhaps one of the greatest unsung heroes of... -
The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz - Costa Book of the Year 2019 Jack Fairweather 9780753545188
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46One of the Sunday Times paperbacks of the Year 2020One of the Financial Times best books of 2020 'Totally gripping'-- Simon Sebag Montefiore'Pilecki is perhaps one of the greatest unsung heroes of... -
Love, Africa: A Memoir of Romance, War, and Survival by Jeffrey Gettleman 9780062284105
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42From Jeffrey Gettleman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist, comes a passionate, revealing story about finding love and finding a calling, set against one of the most turbulent regions... -
Arkhangel by James Brabazon 9781405937023
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02The brutally authentic, tense and terrifying thriller from bestselling author and frontline journalist James Brabazon'Totally James Bond' THE TIMES'Escape into a world of black ops, spies and... -
The Devil's Drug: The Global Emergence of Crystal Meth Teun Voeten 9781538198612
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.29Methamphetamine, commonly referred to as crystal meth, is one of the most addictive drugs in the world. Heavy users will destroy themselves in a few months. Originally it was given by the Nazis to... -
Midnights: A Year with the Wellfleet Police by Alec Wilkinson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.84"Midnights is both a comedy of errors and an affectionate portrait of small-town police, those beleaguered souls charged with the task of keeping their neighbors in line....A reminder that those... -
Two Hours: The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon by Ed Caesar
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16WINNER OF THE CROSS SPORTS BOOK AWARD FOR NEW WRITER OF THE YEAR'Lyrical and passionate ... a celebration of the human spirit and what it can achieve' ObserverTwo hours to cover twenty-six miles and... -
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Two Hours: The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon by Ed Caesar 9780670921904 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £1.97WINNER OF THE CROSS SPORTS BOOK AWARD FOR NEW WRITER OF THE YEAR'Lyrical and passionate ... a celebration of the human spirit and what it can achieve' ObserverTwo hours to cover twenty-six miles and... -
The One and the Ninety-Nine: How to Break Free from the Tribe by Luke Burgis 9781035097753
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.50'Burgis shows you how to be authentically yourself' - Kim Scott, bestselling author of Radical Candor'A compelling exploration of how to develop a healthier sense of self . . . timely and... -
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson 9781782392026
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.73The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War One was, in the words of T.E. Lawrence, 'a sideshow of a sideshow'. Amidst the slaughter in European trenches, the Western combatants paid scant... -
Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War by S. C. Gwynne 9781501116223
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £21.81From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell comes "a masterwork of history" (Lawrence Wright, author of God Save Texas), the spellbinding,... -
The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald by John U. Bacon 9781324094647
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £22.64For three decades following World War II, the Great Lakes overtook Europe as the epicenter of global economic strength. The region was the beating heart of the world economy, possessing all the power... -
The Society of Timid Souls: Or, How to be Brave by Polly Morland
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.35This book is a modern investigation of an ancient virtue, inspired by a group for stage-frightened musicians in 1940s Manhattan. Coinciding with the terrifying height of World War Two, it was called... -
The Break Line James Brabazon 9780718189556
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Fans of Andy McNab, Orphan X and Frederick Forsyth, will love this unputdownable and action-packed debut thriller. 'BREATHLESS, COMPLEX AND SERIOUSLY HARDCORE' LEE CHILDOfficially Max McLean doesn't... -
Connected Soldiers: Life, Leadership, and Social Connections in Modern War by John Spencer 9781640125124
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Gold Medal for the 2023 Military Writers Society Award John Spencer was a new second lieutenant in 2003 when he parachuted into Iraq leading a platoon of infantry soldiers into battle. During that... -
Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World David Epstein 9781035053049
Booksplease Price: £7.24'A goldmine of surprising insights. Makes you smarter with every page' - James Clear, author of Atomic HabitsThe Instant Sunday Times Bestseller. As featured on Diary of a CEO.The essential guide to... -
Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War by S. C. Gwynne
Booksplease Price: £16.76From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell comes "a masterwork of history" (Lawrence Wright, author of God Save Texas), the spellbinding,... -
The Vanishing: The Twilight of Christianity in the Middle East by Janine di Giovanni 9781526625854
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.58**Longlisted Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing** 'A tragic portrait of a disappearing world, created with passion and literary grace' SALMAN RUSHDIE 'Janine di Giovanni is a humane and... -
Taliban: The Power of Militant Islam in Afghanistan and Beyond Ahmed Rashid 9780755647101
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.14A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Following the U.S-Taliban peace deal of February 2020 - and the U.S's promised withdrawal from Afghanistan - the Taliban began terrorizing Afghan security forces,...