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Leonardo: The First Scientist by Michael White
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45This book is both a revelatory biography and an accessible study of Leonardo's life and multi-faceted work as a scientist and engineer. It covers all aspects of the man's life but is also a... -
Shameless by Paul Burston
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84Martin is kind, decent and good-looking. And look where it's got him. His boyfriend of four years has run off with a male prostitute. His friends John and Caroline are no help - John prefers infamy... -
The War The Infantry Knew: 1914-1919 by J.C. Dunn
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.38Sometimes, through word of mouth and shared enthusiasm, a secret book becomes famous. The War the Infantry Knew is one of them. Published privately in a limited edition of five hundred copies in... -
A History In Fragments: Europe in the Twentieth Century by Richard Vinen
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.38The problem with the history of twentieth-century Europe is that everyone thinks they know it. The great stories of the century - the two world wars, the rise and fall of Nazism and communism, female... -
War Child: A Boy Soldier's Story by Emmanuel Jal
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45Emmanuel Jal was seven years old when he became a soldier and went into battle with the rebel army in Sudan's bloody civil war. Believing he was being sent to school, Emmanuel trekked his way to a... -
Still a Bit of Snap in the Celery: or K.B.O. *Keep Buggering On Marcus Berkmann 9780349145495
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84From the bestselling author of A Shed of One's Own, a very funny memoir about being 60.Marcus Berkmann's funny, instantly recognisable description of middle-age in A Shed of One's Own struck a chord... -
Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium by His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso the Dalai Lama 9780349112541
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.45At a time and in a culture where science and technology have taken over from religious belief, when ethics are understood primarily in terms of aesthetic choice or legality, how are we to formulate... -
The Mouthless Dead Anthony Quinn 9780349146928
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $29.93A powerful and gripping crime novel based on the Wallace Murder, a national cause celebre of the 1930s and still unsolved today, by the author of Curtain Call and Our Friends in BerlinOne night in... -
Supreme Courage: Heroic stories from 150 Years of the Victoria Cross by Peter de la Billiere 9780349118987
Booksplease Price: $45.55Since 1854 the Victoria Cross has been the highest award for gallantry in the British Armed Forces. It bears the simple legend 'For Valour', but behind it are thrilling and ultimately humbling tales... -
The Single Helix: A Turn Around the World of Science by Professor Steve Jones 9780349119403
Booksplease Price: $43.47THE SINGLE HELIX is a miscellany of a hundred easy pieces about science. It brings to life a vast diversity of subjects, united under the banner of scientific truth - the universal solvent that... -
Winter Garden by Beryl Bainbridge 9780349116099
Booksplease Price: $31.98Quiet and reliable, Douglas Ashburner has never been much of a womaniser. So when he begins an extra-marital affair with Nina, a bossy, temperamental artist with a penchant for risky sex, he finds... -
Trafalgar: The Biography of a Battle by Roy A. Adkins 9780349116327
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.75This is the true story of the Battle of Trafalgar, Britain's most significant sea battle, as seen through the smoke-hazed gunports of the fighting ships. In an atmosphere of choking fumes from cannon... -
Underground London: Travels Beneath the City Streets by Stephen Smith 9780349115658
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $20.75What is visible to the naked eye has been exhaustively raked over; in UNDERGROUND LONDON, acclaimed travel writer Stephen Smith provides an alternative guide and history of the capital. It's a... -
Far from Eutopia Ross Clark 9780349146966
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $32.49In 2020, after three and a half years of bitter negotiations, Britain left the European Union. For some it was a day of freedom, for others a tragedy which would leave Britain isolated and poorer... -
A Corkscrew Is Most Useful: The Travellers of Empire by Nicholas Murray 9780349119267
Booksplease Price: $53.82In the early 19th century there was a huge surge forward in travel of all kinds. Queen Victoria's accession in 1837 came barely a year after John Murray's first guidebook was published. Then in 1838... -
Mr Wroe's Virgins by Jane Rogers 9780349120522
Booksplease Price: $38.18In 1830, as the end of the world approached, the charismatic, hunchbacked prophet of a religious sect settled in Lancashire heeds the biblical injunction and chooses seven virgins 'for comfort and... -
A Serpent In Eden: 'The greatest murder mystery of all time' by James Owen 9780349115412
Booksplease Price: $43.47Night comes quickly to the Bahamas. That of 7 July 1943 was unpleasantly close and humid, for though the rains were nearing their end, the air was heavy with an approaching storm. It struck Nassau... -
Sex In History by Reay Tannahill 9780349104867
Booksplease Price: $49.69SEX IN HISTORY chronicles the pleasures- and perils- of the flesh from the time of mankind's distant ancestors to the modern day; from a sexual act which was bried, crude and purposeful, to the... -
Superstrings: And the Search for the Theory of Everything by F. David Peat 9780349104874
Booksplease Price: $43.47Since Einstein, physicists have been pursuing a holy grail - a single theory that would order all the subatomic particles in the universe and unify the forces of nature. Such a theory would answer... -
The Walled Orchard by Tom Holt 9780349114521
Booksplease Price: $58.38'Read THE WALLED ORCHARD so you can tell your descendants, 'I was there when the historical novel started holding its head up with the rest of literature''. - WASHINGTON POST'This book is a hilarious... -
The Rise And Fall Of Napoleon Vol 1: The Rise by Robert B. Asprey 9780349112886
Booksplease Price: $55.88Since his untimely death aged fifty-one in 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte has been too often the victim of biographical revisionism that treats him either as a demi-god or as devil incarnate. In the first... -
The Trundlers by Harry Pearson 9780349138688
Booksplease Price: $38.18Some men are born medium-paced, some achieve medium-pace, and some have medium-pace thrust upon them.Bowlers who take wickets not with pace or spin, but - at speeds between 65 and 85mph - by nagging... -
The Mirror Maker by Primo Levi 9780349138664
Booksplease Price: $34.04I hope the reader will be indulgent toward the extreme dispersion of themes, tones, and angles of approach that he will find in this collection. My justification is: the 'pieces' are situated in an... -
Crimea: The Great Crimean War 1854-1856 by Trevor Royle 9780349112848
RRP: $50.40Booksplease Price: $44.10The Crimean War is one of the most compelling subjects in British history. Everyone knows about the Charge of the Light Brigade and men like Raglan and Cardigan, have become household names. The... -
The Fast Set: Three Extraordinary Men and Their Race for the Land Speed Record by Charles Jennings 9780349115962
Booksplease Price: $43.47The remarkable story of the Speed Kings, a group of men who achieved international notoriety as they pursued their common goal: to travel faster than anyone had ever done and claim the coveted Land... -
Point To Point Navigation: A Memoir by Gore Vidal 9780349139104
Booksplease Price: $38.18POINT TO POINT NAVIGATION refers to a form of navigation Gore Vidal resorted to as a first mate in the navy during World War II. As he says, 'As I was writing this account of my life and times since... -
The Serpent's Promise: The Bible Retold as Science by Professor Steve Jones 9780349123486
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05The Bible was the first scientific textbook of all; and it got some things right (and plenty more wrong). Steve Jones' new book rewrites it in the light of modern science. Are we all descended from a... -
Breakdown: The Crisis of Shell Shock on the Somme by Taylor Downing 9780349141015
Booksplease Price: $45.55Paralysis. Stuttering. The 'shakes'. Inability to stand or walk. Temporary blindness or deafness.When strange symptoms like these began appearing in men at Casualty Clearing Stations in 1915, a... -
The Decisive Duel: Spitfire vs 109 by David Isby 9780349123653
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05London, 15 September 1940. The air battle over Britain on that day saw two of the most advanced fighter planes, the British Supermarine Spitfire and the German Messerschmitt Bf 109, battle for... -
The Lost Language of Oysters by Alexander McCall Smith 9780349147680
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84The latest book in Alexander McCall Smith's entertaining and hilarious Professor von Igelfeld series'It's impossible not to root for von Igelfeld' Scotsman'A charming tale of academic rivalry and... -
The Subtle Pleasures of Indiscretion by Alexander McCall Smith 9780349148885
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $29.93The latest book in the beloved Isabel Dalhousie seriesThe surface of Isabel Dalhousie's life is usually a tranquil one. From her house in Edinburgh she edits a philosophical journal. In the... -
![The Wisdom Of Crowds: Why the Many are Smarter than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economics, Society and Nations by James Surowiecki 9780349116051 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9647618/10664338/9780349116051__00024.1781270878.jpg?c=1 "The Wisdom Of Crowds: Why the Many are Smarter than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economics, Society and Nations by James Surowiecki 9780349116051 [USED COPY]")
The Wisdom Of Crowds: Why the Many are Smarter than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economics, Society and Nations by James Surowiecki 9780349116051 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $4.31In this landmark work, NEW YORKER columnist James Surowiecki explores a seemingly counter-intuitive idea that has profound implications. Decisions taken by a large group, even if the individuals... -
![Trafalgar: The Biography of a Battle by Roy A. Adkins 9780349116327 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9665905/10682625/9780349116327__03066.1781288679.jpg?c=1 "Trafalgar: The Biography of a Battle by Roy A. Adkins 9780349116327 [USED COPY]")
Trafalgar: The Biography of a Battle by Roy A. Adkins 9780349116327 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $5.06This is the true story of the Battle of Trafalgar, Britain's most significant sea battle, as seen through the smoke-hazed gunports of the fighting ships. In an atmosphere of choking fumes from cannon... -
![Botswana Time by Will Randall 9780349117782 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9665930/10682650/9780349117782__49603.1781288700.jpg?c=1 "Botswana Time by Will Randall 9780349117782 [USED COPY]")
Botswana Time by Will Randall 9780349117782 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $4.01Will Randall travels with a purpose, as well as an outrageous sense of fortune. In INDIAN SUMMER he found himself, by chance, having the extraordinary experience of helping slum schoolchildren put on... -
![Surviving The Sword: Prisoners of the Japanese 1942-45 by Brian MacArthur 9780349119373 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9665950/10682670/9780349119373__41809.1781288716.jpg?c=1 "Surviving The Sword: Prisoners of the Japanese 1942-45 by Brian MacArthur 9780349119373 [USED COPY]")
Surviving The Sword: Prisoners of the Japanese 1942-45 by Brian MacArthur 9780349119373 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $5.06Many of the prisoners held by the Japanese during the WWII were so scarred by their experiences that they could not discuss them even with their families. They believed that their brutal treatment... -
![Nab End And Beyond by William Woodruff 9780349119878 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9706902/10723598/9780349119878__67071.1781364416.jpg?c=1 "Nab End And Beyond by William Woodruff 9780349119878 [USED COPY]")
Nab End And Beyond by William Woodruff 9780349119878 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $5.31William Woodruff had the sort of childhood satirised in the famous Monty Python Yorkshireman sketch. The son of a weaver, he was born on a pallet of straw at the back of the mill and two days later... -
The Attraction Abacus: Dating With A Difference. 9781068200441
Booksplease Price: $20.33For fans of the enemies-to-lovers trope, a romantic comedy where love must triumph over adversity and total incompetence.Evelyn Foster, a philosophy graduate, is working in a dead-end job at a hotel... -
A User's Guide To The Brain by Dr. John J. Ratey
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.75Bringing order and relevance to the cascade of recent brain findings, Dr John Ratey explains the brain's most important systems, the role they play in determining how we interact with the world and... -
Task Force Black: The explosive true story of the SAS and the secret war in Iraq by Mark Urban
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45The book the MoD doesn't want you to read' Daily MailSoon after British and American forces invaded Iraq they faced an insurgency that was almost impossible to understand, let alone reverse.Facing... -
Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City by Russell Shorto
Booksplease Price: $14.15Amsterdam is not just any city. Despite its relative size it has stood alongside its larger cousins - Paris, London, Berlin - and has influenced the modern world to a degree that few other cities...