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The Lion and the Unicorn: Gladstone vs Disraeli by Richard Aldous 9781844133123
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.07'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... -
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Essential English for Journalists, Editors and Writers by Sir Harold Evans 9780712664479 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.32Essential 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... -
Separation: Anxiety and anger: Attachment and loss Volume 2 by Dr. E. J. M. Bowlby
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.04Separation, 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... -
Julian Fellowes's Belgravia: Now a major TV series, from the creator of DOWNTON ABBEY by Julian Fellowes
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02FROM 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 Dog Who Came In From The Cold by Alexander McCall Smith
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In 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... -
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The Dog Who Came In From The Cold by Alexander McCall Smith 9780349123219 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.97In 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... -
Testimony Of Light: An extraordinary message of life after death by Helen Greaves
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41When Frances Banks died her friend Helen Greaves was by her side. Then, one evening, some three weeks after Frances' death, Helen sensed her presence. This extraordinary encounter marked the... -
The Napoleonic Wars 1803-1815 by David Gates
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.23Known collectively as the 'Great War', for over a decade the Napoleonic Wars engulfed not only a whole continent but also the overseas possessions of the leading European states. A war of... -
London At War by Philip Ziegler 9780712698719
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.46In 1939 London was not merely the greatest city in the world, it was the most tempting and vulnerable target for aerial attack. For six years it was the frontline of the free world's battle against... -
![Riding The Retreat: Mons to the Marne 1914 Revisited by Richard Holmes 9781845951092 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9733646/10750279/9781845951092__76606.1781405274.jpg?c=1 "Riding The Retreat: Mons to the Marne 1914 Revisited by Richard Holmes 9781845951092 [USED COPY]")
Riding The Retreat: Mons to the Marne 1914 Revisited by Richard Holmes 9781845951092 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £2.65The retreat of the British Expeditionary Force from Mons in the early months of the First World War is one of the great dramas of European history. Blending his recreation of the military campaign... -
Body Parts: Essays on Life-Writing by Hermione Lee 9781844137466
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47As readers, we seem to be increasingly fascinated by studies of individual lives. In this timely, unusual and exhilarating collection Hermione Lee is concerned in different ways with approaches to... -
On The Psychology Of Military Incompetence by M. Dixon
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74This unique and penetrating book surveys 100 years of military inefficiency from the Crimean War, through the Boer conflict, to the disasterous campaigns of the First World War and the calamities of... -
Built To Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by James Collins
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £18.05The concept behind this book is simple and brilliant: find out what makes companies that outperform their peers for decades enjoy that success - and then apply those lessons yourself. Written by... -
Hell With A Capital H: A New Polar Hero by Katherine Lambert 9780712679954
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74On 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 Crooked Timber Of Humanity by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.75'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: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74Essential 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... -
Showstopper: Detective Peter Diamond Book 21 Peter Lovesey 9781408727560
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £15.71Bath'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... -
Eden: The Life and Times of Anthony Eden First Earl of Avon, 1897-1977 by D R Thorpe 9780712665056
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.84Anthony Eden, who served as both Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister, was one of the central political figures of the twentieth century. He had good looks, charm, a Military Cross from the Great... -
Edwin Lutyens: His Life, His Wife, His Work by Jane Ridley 9780712668224
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £24.48The work of Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944) includes the Cenotaph in Whitehall, much of Imperial New Delhi and especially his masterpiece, Viceroy's House (now Rashtrapati Bhavan), Queen Mary's dolls'... -
Harold Nicolson by Norman Rose 9780712668453
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Harold Nicolson was a man of extraordinary gifts. A renowned politician, historian, biographer, diarist, novelist, lecturer, journalist, broadcaster and gardener, his position in society and politics... -
The Song Of The Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions David Quammen 9780712673334
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.54Why have island ecosystems always suffered such high rates of extinction? In our age, with all the world's landscapes, from Tasmania to the Amazon to Yellowstone, now being carved into island-like... -
Lucky Or Smart? by Bo Peabody 9781844136919
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Is 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... -
Alfred Russel Wallace Peter Raby 9780712665773
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.66In 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... -
Kinsey: A Biography by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy 9781844138364
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83Alfred 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... -
![How To Read A Church by Professor Richard Taylor 9781844130535 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9677269/10693989/9781844130535__90419.1781299178.jpg?c=1 "How To Read A Church by Professor Richard Taylor 9781844130535 [USED COPY]")
How To Read A Church by Professor Richard Taylor 9781844130535 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £2.41'[a] gem of a book' SpectatorChurches and cathedrals were originally built to be read. They are alive with images and symbols. But today few people, including regular visitors, truly understand the... -
Growing Up In A War by Bryan Magee 9781845951399
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47This utterely compelling memoir opens with a sceptical nine-year-old Bryan Magee being taught the facts of life. It goes on to tell the story of the Second World War as seen through a child's eyes... -
Across The Great Divide by Barney Hoskyns
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.57Starting out as a backing group for Ronnie Hawkins, before being propelled on to the world stage by Bob Dylan, The Band literally changed the course of music with their first two albums. Retreating... -
Soul Coaching: 28 Days to Discover the Real You by Denise Linn
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.66Soul Coaching is a 28-day programme in which each week deals with a different aspect of your life: mental, emotional, physical and spiritual. Through the use of the Native American Medicine Wheel, a... -
Clouds Of Glory: A Childhood in Hoxton by Bryan Magee 9780712635608
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Hoxton today is one of the most fashionable parts of inner London, yet before the Blitz, it was the capital's most notorious slum area. It was London's busiest market for stolen goods, the centre of... -
![Shackleton's Boat Journey by F. A. Worsley 9780712665742 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9655872/10672592/9780712665742__11835.1781279405.jpg?c=1 "Shackleton's Boat Journey by F. A. Worsley 9780712665742 [USED COPY]")
Shackleton's Boat Journey by F. A. Worsley 9780712665742 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.12Frank A. Worsley was the Captain of the H. M. S. Endurance, the ship used by the legendary explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton in his 1914-16 expedition to the Antarctic. On its way to the Antarctic... -
The Fred Factor by Mark Sanborn
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Mark 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... -
Within Reason: A Life of Spinoza by Margaret Gullan-Whur 9780712666527
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16The seventeenth-century philosopher Spinoza was expelled from the Jewish community of Amsterdam the age of twenty-four for 'horrendous heresies', and was eventually reviled by all religious... -
The Book Of Secrets: Who am I? Where did I come from? Why am I here? by Deepak Chopra
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.75Crafted 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... -
Synchrodestiny: Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence to Create Miracles by Deepak Chopra
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74Dr Deepak Chopra, the bestselling pioneer in mind/body medicine, shows how coincidences are messages about the miraculous potential of each moment. He reveals how, through understanding the forces... -
The Mottled Lizard by Elspeth Huxley
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47In this sequel to The Flame of Thika, Elspeth Huxley takes up her story after the family returns to Kenya after the First World War. Her family and friends, their home and their travels, the glorious... -
The Berlin Diaries 1940-45 Marie Vassiltchikov 9780712665803
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.23Marie `Missie' Vassiltchikov as a White Russian emigree caught with her family in Hitler`s Germany at the outbreak of the war. She was a Bright Young Thing, part of the cosmopolitan set who managed... -
Crusoe: Daniel Defoe, Robert Knox And The Creation Of A Myth by Katherine Frank 9781844135332
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74It is January 1719 and Daniel Defoe, almost sixty, sits at a table, writing. He is troubled with gout and debt, but for now is preoccupied with a younger man on a barren shore - Robinson Crusoe, for... -
The Auden Generation by Samuel Hynes 9780712652506
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.46This is a study of a literary generation writing in a period of expanding fears and ever more urgent political and social crises. The pace of the time itself, the sense of time passing and an end... -
Travelling With Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary by Alberto Granado 9781844134267
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16In 1952 Alberto Granado, a young doctor, and his friend Ernesto Guevara, a 23-year-old medical student from a distinguished Buenos Aires family decided to explore their continent. They set off from... -
How War Came by Donald Cameron Watt 9781845951726
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24Panoramic in scope, flawless in presentation, this book is a monument of international history. Having amassed all that is known of the kaleidoscopic blunders, deceptions and fateful games of secret...