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The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death by John Kelly
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28A compelling history of the Black Death that scoured Europe in the mid 14th-century killing twenty-five million people. It was one of the worst human disasters in history. 'The bodies were... -
This America: The Case for the Nation Jill Lepore 9781529386110
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Jill Lepore is that rare combination in modern life of intellect, originality and style' Amanda Foreman'A thoughtful and passionate defence of her vision of American patriotism' New York TimesFrom... -
Theo Gray's Mad Science: Experiments You Can do at Home - But Probably Shouldn't by Theodore Gray 9781579127916
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.51Author of the best-selling book The Elements Theodore Gray demonstrates essential scientific principles through thrilling daredevil experiments. 'What a magnificent book. It's gorgeous, playful, and... -
The World of Gerard Mercator: The Mapmaker Who Revolutionised Geography by Andrew Taylor 9780007100811
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22The true story of Gerard Mercator, the greatest map-maker of all time, who was condemned to death as a heretic. 'Geographie and Chronologie I may... -
Vulcan 607 by Rowland White
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46It was to be one of the most ambitious operations since 617 Squadron bounced their revolutionary bombs into the dams of the Ruhr Valley in 1943 . . . April 1982. Argentine forces had invaded the... -
Wittgenstein's Poker by David Edmonds 9780571227358
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23On 25 October 1946, in a crowded room in Cambridge, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper came face to face for the first and only time. The encounter lasted only ten minutes, and did not go well... -
Theo Gray's Mad Science: Experiments You Can do at Home - But Probably Shouldn't by Theodore Gray
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.36Author of the best-selling book The Elements Theodore Gray demonstrates essential scientific principles through thrilling daredevil experiments. 'What a magnificent book. It's gorgeous, playful, and... -
Sextant: A Voyage Guided by the Stars and the Men Who Mapped the World's Oceans by David Barrie
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58In the tradition of Dava Sobel's 'Longitude' comes sailing expert David Barrie's compelling and dramatic tale of invention and discovery - an eloquent elegy to one of the most important navigational... -
Endeavour: The Sunday Times bestselling biography of Captain Cook's recently discovered ship Peter Moore 9781784703929
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**An inventive biography of one of the most famous ships of all time - recently discovered off the coast of America- Endeavour is an alluring combination of history,... -
Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight by Paul Hoffman 9781841153698
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68From the author of The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, winner of the prestigious Rhone-Poulenc science award: the history of aviation told through the extraordinary story of Alberto Santos-Dumont, the... -
The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him by Eric Blehm 9780062971401
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.62"Eric Blehm offers an insightful perspective on how Craig Kelly became the effortless icon that we all revered as well as sobering details of how his heroic journey tragically ended. The Darkest... -
Kansai Cool: A Journey into the Cultural Heartland of Japan Christal Whelan 9780804850551
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.85In Kansai Cool anthropologist, writer and filmmaker Christal Whelan offers profound insights in the only collection of essays to focus on Kansai, Japan's ancient heartland. Kansai ; the region in... -
Oracle Bones Peter Hessler 9780719564413
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Peter Hessler's previous book River Town was a prize-winning, poignant and deeply compelling portrait of China. Now, in Oracle Bones, Hessler returns to the country, excavating its long history and... -
A Brief History of Geology by Kieran D. O'Hara
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £25.73Geology as a science has a fascinating and controversial history. Kieran D. O'Hara's book provides a brief and accessible account of the major events in the history of geology over the last two... -
The Best Travel Writing: True Stories from Around the World by James O'Reilly 9781609520571
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50This is our annual collection of the best travel writing of the year, much of it never published before, from big names in travel literature and emerging new writers. The "Best Travel Writing" Volume... -
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The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty by Caroline Alexander 9780006532460 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £3.32The bestselling author of The Endurance reveals the startling truth behind the legend of the Mutiny on the Bounty - the most famous sea story of all time. More than two centuries have... -
Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus by 9780199829927
Booksplease Price: £31.97Much more than a word list, the Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus is a browsable source of inspiration as well as an authoritative guide to selecting and using vocabulary. This essential guide for... -
Molecules: The Elements and the Architecture of Everything by Nick Mann 9780316480581
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.29In his highly anticipated sequel to The Elements, Theodore Gray demonstrates how the elements of the periodic table combine to form the molecules that make up our world.Everything physical is made up... -
When God Spoke English: The Making of the King James Bible by Adam Nicolson 9780007431007
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28A fascinating, lively account of the making of the King James Bible. James VI of Scotland - now James I of England - came into his new kingdom in 1603. Trained almost from birth to manage... -
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When God Spoke English: The Making of the King James Bible by Adam Nicolson 9780007431007 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.20A fascinating, lively account of the making of the King James Bible. James VI of Scotland - now James I of England - came into his new kingdom in 1603. Trained almost from birth to manage... -
The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him by Eric Blehm 9780062971418
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.86"Eric Blehm offers an insightful perspective on how Craig Kelly became the effortless icon that we all revered as well as sobering details of how his heroic journey tragically ended. The Darkest... -
The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World by Michael Ignatieff 9780674237490
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £15.74Winner of the Zocalo Book PrizeA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice"Combines powerful moral arguments with superb storytelling."-New StatesmanWhat moral values do we hold in common? As... -
Ocean: A History of the Atlantic Before Columbus John Haywood 9781801109918
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41'A superb account of early Atlantic history that richly rewards the reader'Jeremy Black, author of A Brief History of the Atlantic'Haywood is a gifted storyteller'History Today'Eminently readable'TLS... -
The Levelling Sea: The Story of a Cornish Haven and the Age of Sail by Philip Marsden
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.74The story of Britain's colourful maritime past seen through the changing fortunes of the Cornish port of Falmouth. Within the space of few years, during the 1560s and 1570s, a maritime... -
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Vulcan 607 by Rowland White 9780552152297 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.34It was to be one of the most ambitious operations since 617 Squadron bounced their revolutionary bombs into the dams of the Ruhr Valley in 1943 . . . April 1982. Argentine forces had invaded the... -
The Violins of Saint-Jacques Patrick Leigh Fermor 9780719555299
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02On an Aegean island one summer, an English traveller meets an enigmatic elderly Frenchwoman. He is captivated by a painting she owns of a busy Caribbean port overlooked by a volcano and, in time, she... -
The Draughtsman by Robert Lautner
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Speak out for the fate of millions or turn a blind eye? We all have choices. 'Absolutely exceptional. So beautifully written, with precision and wisdom and real emotional acuity ... A... -
The Flower of Empire: The Amazon's Largest Water Lily, the Quest to Make it Bloom, and the World it Helped Create by Tatiana Holway 9780195373899
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.33In 1837, a German naturalist named Robert Schomburgk was charting the South American terrirtory of Guiana on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society. Guiana, only recently joined to the British... -
Sea People: In Search of the Ancient Navigators of the Pacific by Christina Thompson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58Winner of the 2020 Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award for nonfiction and the 2019 NSW Premier's History Awards for general history 'Wonderfully researched and... -
Falling Upwards: Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture The Aeronauts by Richard Holmes
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.99NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING EDDIE REDMAYNE AND FELICITY JONES A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ... -
Trilobite! by Richard A. Fortey
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28'In Richard Fortey's capable hands the humble grey trilobite has been transformed into the E.T. of the Lower Palaeozoic - a remarkable and fascinating book.' SIMON WINCHESTER Richard... -
Pinpoint: How GPS is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds by Greg Milner
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.42Pinpoint tells the fascinating story of a hidden system that touches nearly every aspect of modern life. Tracking the development of GPS from its origins as a bomb guidance system to its present... -
Possessions: Indigenous Art / Colonial Culture / Decolonization by Nicholas Thomas
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.98A timely re-examination of European engagements with indigenous art and the presence of indigenous art in the contemporary art world. The arts of Africa, Oceania and native America famously... -
The Measure of Manhattan: The Tumultuous Career and Surprising Legacy of John Randel, Jr., Cartographer, Surveyor, Inventor by Marguerite Holloway 9780393347906
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30John Randel Jr. (1787-1865) was an eccentric and flamboyant surveyor. Renowned for his inventiveness as well as for his bombast and irascibility, Randel was central to Manhattan's development but... -
The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea by Jack E. Davis 9781631494024
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.92Hailed as a "nonfiction epic . . . in the tradition of Jared Diamond's best-seller Collapse, and Simon Winchester's Atlantic" (Dallas Morning News), Jack E. Davis's The Gulf is "by turns informative,... -
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX by Eric Berger
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28'Just read it.' Elon Musk The dramatic inside story of the first four historic flights that launched SpaceX-and Elon Musk-from a shaky startup into the world's... -
The Way of Wanderlust: The Best Travel Writing of Don George by Don George 9781609521059
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42As a professional travel writer and editor for the past 40 years, Don George has been paid to explore the world. Through the decades, his articles have been published in magazines, newspapers, and... -
Ice Ages: Their Social and Natural History by Allan Mazur
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £20.41What causes Ice Ages? How did we learn about them? What were their affects on the social history of humanity? Allan Mazur's book tells the appealing history of the scientific 'discovery' of Ice Ages... -
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Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air by Richard Holmes 9780007386925 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £3.00Falling Upwards tells the story of the enigmatic group of men and women who first risked their lives to take to the air, and so discovered a new dimension of human experience. Why they did it, what... -
The Word Detective: A Life in Words: From Serendipity to Selfie by John Simpson
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.01Language is always changing. No one knows where it is going but the best way to future-cast is to look at the past. John Simpson animates for us a tradition of researching and editing, showing us...