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![Essential English for Journalists, Editors and Writers by Sir Harold Evans 9780712664479 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9907682/10924213/9780712664479__92196.1786474706.jpg?c=1 "Essential English for Journalists, Editors and Writers by Sir Harold Evans 9780712664479 [USED COPY]")
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... -
I Was a Stranger by Sir John Hackett 9780712665629
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Badly 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... -
![The Grit in the Pearl: The Scandalous Life of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll by Lyndsy Spence 9780750993258 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9683318/10700038/9780750993258__62599.1781304936.jpg?c=1 "The Grit in the Pearl: The Scandalous Life of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll by Lyndsy Spence 9780750993258 [USED COPY]")
The Grit in the Pearl: The Scandalous Life of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll by Lyndsy Spence 9780750993258 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.40The 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... -
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... -
Centuries Of Childhood by Philippe Aries
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16In 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: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16When 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: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47On 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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
![The Dog Who Came In From The Cold by Alexander McCall Smith 9780349123219 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9681139/10697859/9780349123219__42235.1781302738.jpg?c=1 "The Dog Who Came In From The Cold by Alexander McCall Smith 9780349123219 [USED COPY]")
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... -
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... -
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... -
Europe's Inner Demons: The Demonization of Christians In Medieval Christendom by Norman Cohn
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41In 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... -
Microcosm: A Portrait of a Central European City by Norman Davies
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05The story of Central Europe is anything but simple. As the region located between East and West, it has always been endowed with a rich variety of migrants, and has repeatedly been the scene of... -
![Secrets Of The People Whisperer: Using the art of communication to enhance your own life, and the lives of others by Perry Wood 9781844135639 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9658930/10675650/9781844135639__76452.1781282521.jpg?c=1 "Secrets Of The People Whisperer: Using the art of communication to enhance your own life, and the lives of others by Perry Wood 9781844135639 [USED COPY]")
Secrets Of The People Whisperer: Using the art of communication to enhance your own life, and the lives of others by Perry Wood 9781844135639 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.55In 1990 Perry Wood shelved his music career to breed, break in and train horses. 'All my work with horses,' he says, 'has been about exploring deeper communication, learning to understand and... -
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... -
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... -
Frontiers Of Health: How to Heal the Whole Person by Christine Page 9781844131075
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Frontiers of Health is an essential guide to healing, combining medical expertise with unique insights into the human condition. Dr Christine Page illuminates our understanding of disease and its... -
Golf For Enlightenment: The Seven Lessons for the Game of Life Dr Deepak Chopra 9781844135813
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.73Golf for Enlightenment is the fable of Adam Seaver, an ordinary person, with a terrible game. Adam meets a mysterious young teaching pro named Wendy who, in seven crisp, short yet profound lessons,... -
The Washing Of The Spears: The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation Under Shaka and its Fall in the Zulu War of 1879 Donald R Morris 9780712661058
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.37In 1879, armed only with their spears, their rawhide shields, and their incredible courage, the Zulus challenged the might of Victorian England and, initially, inflicted on the British the worst... -
The King's Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of Thomas Wolsey by Peter J. Gwyn 9780712651226
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.34Proud, greedy, corrupt and driven by overwhelming personal ambition. Such is the traditional image of Thomas Wolsey, Lord Chancellor, Archbishop of York, Bishop of Winchester, Abbot of St. Albans,...