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Cuba: The Land Of Miracles: A Journey Through Modern Cuba by Stephen Smith
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $15.85For a growing number of British holidaymakers, Cuba is a Caribbean paradise, but it is also a land of cutbacks and economic instability. Stephen Smith comes to live on the island, and his search for... -
Sea Wolves: The Extraordinary Story of Britain's WW2 Submarines by Tim Clayton
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.27Sea Wolves is the story of the crews who bravely manned British submarines in the Second World War. This small band of highly trained and highly skilled individuals fought in the front line for six... -
The Churchill Secret KBO by Jonathan Smith
RRP: $7.78Booksplease Price: $6.61Nineteen-fifty-three is synonymous in the British memory with the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on 2 June. But less well known is what happened in 10 Downing Street on 23 June. With Anthony Eden... -
The Vintage Springtime Club by Beatrice Meier
RRP: $7.78Booksplease Price: $6.61Perfect for fans of A MAN CALLED OVE, THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL and THE LITTLE PARIS BOOKSHOP Newly retired Philip returns home to Cologne and is thrown into emotional turmoil upon bumping into... -
Sea Glass by Anita Shreve
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $13.61The year is 1929 and Honora Beecher and her husband, Sexton, are just settling into a new marriage and a cottage on the coast of New Hampshire. While Honora fixes up the derelict house and searches... -
Agincourt: The King, the Campaign, the Battle by Juliet Barker
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48Agincourt took place on 25 October 1415 and was a turning-point not only in the Hundred Years War between England and France but also in the history of weaponry. Azincourt (as it is now) is in the... -
Chile: Travels In A Thin Country by Sara Wheeler
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06Squeezed in between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2,600 miles long and never more than 110 miles wide - not a country which lends itself to maps, as Sara Wheeler... -
How To Lose Friends & Alienate People by Toby Young
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06In 1995, high-flying British journalist Toby Young left London for New York to become a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Other Brits had taken Manhattan - Alistair Cooke, Tina Brown, Anna Wintour... -
Called to Account: How Corporate Bad Behaviour and Government Waste Combine to Cost us Millions. by Margaret Hodge
RRP: $9.73Booksplease Price: $7.82In a recent study of 61 hospitals, it was found that they bought 21 different types of A4 paper, 652 different kinds of surgical gloves and 1751 different cannulas.Police forces could cut the cost of... -
The Music Of The Spheres: Music, Science and the Natural Order of the Universe by Jamie James
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06From the 5th century BC, when Pythagoras first composed his laws of Western music and science, until the flowering of Romanticism over 2000 years later, scientists and philosophers perceived the... -
Frost On My Moustache: The Arctic Exploits of a Lord and a Loafer Tim Moore 9780349111407
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06Inspired by the swashbuckling travelogues of Victorian diplomat Lord Dufferin, frail surburbanite Tim Moore sets out to prove his physical and spiritual worth before his sceptical Nordic in-laws by... -
Under An English Heaven by Robert Radcliffe
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.641943. The sleepy Suffolk village of Bedenham is jerked into the twentieth century and the harsh realities of war by the arrival on its doorstep of an American bomber base and its three thousand... -
Becoming A Man: Half a Life Story by Paul Monette
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $17.28He grew up in a small town in New England in the 1950's, watching lassie, going to church, getting straight A's at school, a scholar destined for success. But he already had a secret, and his public... -
Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64From the acclaimed author of Orange Prize winning PROPERTY comes a fresh twist on the classic Jekyll and Hyde story, a novel told from the perspective of Mary Reilly, Dr. Jekyll's dutiful and... -
Cancel The Apocalypse: The New Path To Prosperity Andrew Simms 9780349122922
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48Ever get the feeling that things are falling apart? You're not alone. From bad banks to global warming it can all look hopeless, but what if everything could turn out, well, even better than before? ... -
In Spite Of The Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India by Edward Luce
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.27India is poised to become one of the world's three largest economies in the next generation and to overtake China as the world's most populous country by 2032. Well before then India's incipient... -
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge Professor Edward O. Wilson 9780349111124
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06In this groundbreaking new book, one of the world's greatest living scientists argues for the fundamental unity of all knowledge and the need to search for what he calls consilience, the composition... -
The Good German Of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe by John Rabe
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.27In 1937, as the invading Japanese Army closed on Nanking, then the capital of China, all foreigners were ordered to evacuate. One man, a mild 55-year-old German named John Rabe who ran the local... -
George Orwell by Gordon Bowker
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48'Adds enormously to our understanding of the man' Evening Standard George Orwell was one of the greatest writers England produced in the last century. He left an enduring mark on our language and... -
The Old Straight Track: The classic book on ley lines by Alfred Watkins 9780349137070
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $30.48First published in 1925 THE OLD STRAIGHT TRACK remains the most important source for the study of ancient tracks or leys that criss-cross the British Isles- a fascinating system which was old when... -
The First Psychic: The Peculiar Mystery of a Victorian Wizard by Peter Lamont 9780349118253
Booksplease Price: $40.37He was simply the greatest psychic of all time. He was also the first - before him, the word 'psychic' did not even exist. The feats he performed were so extraordinary that Victorian scientists had... -
Unspeak: Words Are Weapons by Steven Poole 9780349119243
Booksplease Price: $40.37Unspeak is language as a weapon. Every day, we are bombarded with those apparently simple words or phrases that actually conceal darker meanings. 'Climate change' is less threatening than 'global... -
Eight Men And A Duck: An Improbable Voyage by Reed Boat to Easter Island by Nick J. Thorpe 9780349114545
Booksplease Price: $40.37Nick Thorpe was innocently travelling around South America with his wife, Ali, when he came across an American adventurer planning to sail from Chile to Easter Island on a Bolivian boat made of reeds... -
Indian Summer by Will Randall 9780349116785
Booksplease Price: $35.45While attempting to teach at an inner London comprehensive Will Randall is taken up by an elderly German woman who asks him to accompany her to India. Nothing ventured, he agrees and so begins a... -
Isadora: A Sensational Life by Peter Kurth 9780349116198
Booksplease Price: $71.66Known by many as the greatest dancer of her time, Isadora Duncan was the matriarch of creative self-expression. A pioneer in the dance world and the women's movement, her name is synonymous with... -
Rise And Fall Of The British Empire by Lawrence James 9780349106670
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.49THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE covers the history of British expansion overseas from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Narrative and analysis are interwoven with revealing... -
Memoirs by Rt. Hon Lord Douglas Hurd 9780349118284
Booksplease Price: $48.75Douglas Hurd retired as Foreign Secretary in 1995 after a distinguished career in Government spanning 16 years. As Secretary of State for Ireland, Home Secretary and then six years in the Foreign... -
Where The Serpent Lives by Ruth Padel 9780349122328
Booksplease Price: $40.37A family in crisis - and the wider world of wildlife in crisis too. Rosamund, unable to communicate with her philandering husband or teenage son, alienated from her zoologist father, feels cut off... -
The Good Psychologist by Noam Shpancer 9780349123257
Booksplease Price: $35.45The good psychologist teaches the principles of control and objectivity, strategies by which we evade pain, memory and lies. Meanwhile in the Center for Anxiety Disorders he dispenses wisdom, and... -
Danger Uxb: The Heroic Story of the WWII Bomb Disposal Teams by James Owen 9780349122373
Booksplease Price: $40.37Autumn 1940: the Front Line is now Britain itself. Cities are blitzed night after night and even after the bombers have turned for home, a deadly menace remains: thousands upon thousands of UXBs... -
The Day of the Lie by William Brodrick 9780349122663
Booksplease Price: $40.37They came for me in November nineteen fifty-one and took me to Mokotow prison.Cambridge, the present day. And out of the past, a cry for help: Father Anselm, the brilliant Benedictine, receives a... -
The Cranes That Build The Cranes by Jeremy Dyson 9780349120966
Booksplease Price: $33.11Jeremy Dyson is a master of the macabre, of stories brimming with black humour and the promise of something sinister just around the corner. In his new collection he explores the dark depths of the... -
The Siege Of Derry: A History by Carlo Gebler 9780349115559
Booksplease Price: $40.37THE SIEGE OF DERRY is one of the key flash points in the troubled history of Ireland and Britain. In 1688 William of Orange had claimed the English throne, forcing the catholic James II to flee to... -
Aristocrats: Power, grace and decadence - Britain's great ruling classes from 1066 to the present by Lawrence James 9780349119571
Booksplease Price: $46.14For nine hundred years the British aristocracy has considered itself ideally qualified to rule others, make laws and guide the fortunes of the nation. Tracing the history of this remarkable... -
C S Lewis: The Boy Who Chronicled Narnia by Michael White 9780349120683
Booksplease Price: $35.45In 1997, THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE was voted the most influential book of the twentieth century by teachers, librarians and parents in the UK. The last six US Presidents have all claimed C... -
Father And I: A Memoir by Carlo Gebler 9780349112930
Booksplease Price: $42.30The story spans nearly a hundred years. In Carlo Gebler's early childhood, his relationship with his father, Ernest, was a disaster. A man of the left, Ernest's politics had been 'hammered out in the... -
The Horses Of St Marks: A Story of Triumph in Byzantium, Paris and Venice by Charles Freeman 9780349115450
Booksplease Price: $40.37In July 1798, a triumphant procession made its way through the streets of Paris. Echoing the parades of Roman emperors many years before, Napoleon Bonaparte was proudly displaying the spoils of his... -
The Forsaken: From the Great Depression to the Gulags: Hope and Betrayal in Stalin's Russia by Tim Tzouliadis 9780349117539
Booksplease Price: $46.14Of all the great movements of population to and from the United States, the least heralded is the migration, in the depths of the Depression of the nineteen-thirties, of thousands of men, women and... -
Duluth by Gore Vidal 9780349103624
Booksplease Price: $40.37When two women tragically perish in a Duluth snowdrift, the one called Edna is reborn in 'Duluth', the popular television series and the one called Beryl finds herself in a 'Hyatt Regency' romantic... -
The People You Are by Rita Carter 9780349139968
Booksplease Price: $35.45In THE PEOPLE YOU ARE, Rita Carter - award-winning science writer and international speaker - offers a new and vital understanding of personality. Rita explains that nearly every one of us is a team...