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Lonely Courage: The true story of the SOE heroines who fought to free Nazi-occupied France by Rick Stroud 9781471155666
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £5.81'A fascinating, superbly researched and revelatory book - told with tremendous pace and excitement' William Boyd'Rick Stroud writes brilliantly about war ... an astonishing book ... a wonderful... -
The Escape by Clare Harvey 9781471161896
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16A compelling wartime drama for fans of Lucinda Riley and Dilly Court 'Yet another gripping, moving and impeccably researched read' Jill Mansell, author of This Could Change Everything One winter... -
The English Agent by Clare Harvey 9781471150579 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £2.22From the bestselling author of The Gunner Girl - how far will two women go to survive WWII? Having suffered a traumatic experience in the Blitz, Edie feels utterly disillusioned with life in wartime... -
The Escape by Clare Harvey 9781471161896 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £2.19A compelling wartime drama for fans of Lucinda Riley and Dilly Court 'Yet another gripping, moving and impeccably researched read' Jill Mansell, author of This Could Change Everything One winter... -
The English Agent by Clare Harvey 9781471150579
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £3.39From the bestselling author of The Gunner Girl - how far will two women go to survive WWII? Having suffered a traumatic experience in the Blitz, Edie feels utterly disillusioned with life in wartime... -
Girl At The Lion d'Or by Sebastian Faulks 9780099774907 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.87A haunting historical novel set in France between the two world wars about love and desireFROM THE AUTHOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER BIRDSONGMid-1930s, Northern France. A mysterious young girl... -
The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part II vol 9 by Joanne Shattock 9781138111561
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.74Features Elizabeth Gaskell's work. This work brings together her journalism, her shorter fiction, which was published in various collections during her lifetime, her early personal writing, including... -
Taking on the World by Ellen MacArthur 9780141006970
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43When Ellen finished the Vendee Globe, yachting's toughest race aged just 24 the nation took her to it's heart. The depth of the affection for Ellen is extraordinary - she makes people feel like they... -
Taking on the World by Ellen MacArthur 9780141006970 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.40When Ellen finished the Vendee Globe, yachting's toughest race aged just 24 the nation took her to it's heart. The depth of the affection for Ellen is extraordinary - she makes people feel like they... -
Elizabeth Gaskell Angus Easson 9781138651852
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.28First published in 1979, this book looks at every aspect of the life and work of Elizabeth Gaskell, including her lesser known novels and writings - especially those concerning life in the industrial... -
Blackout Yann Chateigné Tytelman 9781068300158
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50'It all started with a letter to my father. It had been about ten years since his death, and I suddenly felt like writing to him about the silence, his silence, the silence between us. It started in... -
Atlantic Theory: On the Vicissitudes of Relation John E. Drabinski 9781399549271
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £78.68This largely new collection of essays explores how the history of empire has impacted the intellectual life of the Atlantic world through treatments of key figures in Atlantic theory, including... -
Five Days of Fog: Peaky Blinders with a feminist twist Anna Freeman 9781780227979
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Think Patrick Hamilton meets Peaky Blinders with a feminist twist' Metro'Utterly transporting, read and lose yourself completely' Stylist'A cinematic, rogueish, and utterly entertaining page-turner... -
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks 9780099387916 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £4.59Set before and during the great war, Birdsong captures the drama of that era on both a national and a personal scale. It is the story of Stephen, a young Englishman, who arrives in Amiens in 1910... -
Contemporary British Novelists by Nick Rennison
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £111.35Featuring a broad range of contemporary British novelists from Iain Banks to Jeanette Winterson, Louis de Bernieres to Irvine Welsh and Salman Rushdie, this book offers an excellent introductory... -
If Success Is A Game, These Are The Rules by Cherie Carter-Scott 9780091934804
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Bestselling author, Cherie Carter-Scott gives vital, real-world advice to help you create the level of personal success that we all desire.If Succcess is a Game, These are the Rules outlines Cherie's... -
Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves by Rachel Malik 9780241976098
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.50**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 2018**'A surprisingly touching account of hidden lives forced out of the shadows' Sunday TimesOne day in 1940 Rene Hargreaves walks out on her family and the... -
Engleby by Sebastian Faulks 9780099458272 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.97'His most brilliant novel yet' Daily TelegraphMike Engleby has a secret...This is the story of Mike Engleby, a working-class boy in the seventies who wins a place at an esteemed English university. A... -
A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'One of the best books I've ever read' Richard Osman'Tender and elegant' Guardian'Unlike anything else in modern English literature' D.J. Taylor, SpectatorA damaged survivor of the First World War,... -
Ness by Robert Macfarlane
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.24Eerie, unsettling and hauntingly beautiful - a new collaboration from the bestselling creators of Holloway, Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood 'Ness goes beyond what we expect books to do. Beyond... -
Girl At The Lion d'Or by Sebastian Faulks 9781804944158
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'Beautifully written and extraordinarily moving' SUNDAY TIMES 'A powerful story of love, conscience, will and desire' OBSERVER 'A poised and well-judged work' FINANCIAL TIMES Anne Louvet needs to... -
Bad Island by Stanley Donwood
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.81'Bad Island is an extraordinary, unsettling document: a silent species-history in eighty frames, a mute future archive. I can imagine it discovered in the remnants of a civilisation; a set of runes... -
The Age of Alexander by Plutarch
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43The Parallel Lives of Plutarch are cornerstones of Western literature, and have exerted a profound influence on writers and statesmen since the Renaissance, most notably Shakespeare. This selection... -
Life Class by Pat Barker
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls The first novel in Pat Barker's acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - an unforgettable story of art and war,... -
The Way Back by Erich Maria Remarque
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49The sequel to All Quiet on the Western Front, one of the most powerful novels of the First World War and a twentieth-century classic. After four gruelling years the survivors of the Great War finally... -
Key Issues in Hunter-Gatherer Research Linda J. Ellanna 9780854963768
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.67Hunter-gatherer research has experienced enormous expansion over the past three decades. In the late 1950s less than a score of anthropologists were actively engaged in issue-oriented studies of... -
Jail Journeys: The English Prison Experience Since 1918 Philip Priestley 9781032563312
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £27.79Originally published in 1989, Jail Journeys was a contemporary history of the English prison system in the words of those who had endured it as prisoners or who had worked within it. More than 1000... -
The First Poems in English by Michael Alexander
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.89This selection of the earliest poems in English comprises works from an age in which verse was not written down, but recited aloud and remembered. Heroic poems celebrate courage, loyalty and... -
Life Class by Pat Barker 9780141019475
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls The first novel in Pat Barker's acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - an unforgettable story of art and war,... -
Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada 9780141189383
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.73THE ACCLAIMED INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'One of the most extraordinary and compelling novels written about World War II. Ever' Alan Furst Inspired by a true story, Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin is a... -
Life Class by Pat Barker 9780141019475 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.95From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls The first novel in Pat Barker's acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - an unforgettable story of art and war,... -
City of Spies: Shortlisted for the Specsavers Debut Crime Novel Award by Mara Timon 9781838770709
Booksplease Price: £14.92'De Mornay is a welcome recruit to the ranks of female spies' The TimesSHORTLISTED FOR THE SPECSAVERS DEBUT CRIME NOVEL AWARDLISBON, 1943: When her cover is blown, SOE agent Elisabeth de Mornay flees... -
Free Speech and Koch Money: Manufacturing a Campus Culture War Ralph Wilson 9780745343013
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.24In recent years hundreds of high-profile 'free speech' incidents have rocked US college campuses. Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, Ann Coulter and other right-wing speakers have faced considerable... -
A Like Vision: The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson by Ian Dejardin 9781773102054
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £35.51Winner, Canadian Museums Association's Outstanding Achievement in Research Award and IPPY Awards Silver Medal (Fine Art)A Toronto Star Holiday Gift Guide SelectionA Like Vision is a lavish... -
The Sound of the Hours Karen Campbell 9781408857373
Booksplease Price: £15.17'Moving, complex, romantic, and beautifully written, Karen Campbell's saga ... is a triumph' Allan Massie, Scotsman Divided by loyalties, brought together by war September, 1943. Tuscany, Italy... -
Philosophy of Sculpture: Historical Problems, Contemporary Approaches by Kristin Gjesdal
RRP: £130.00Booksplease Price: £114.69Sculpture has been a central aspect of almost every art culture, contemporary or historical. This volume comprises ten essays at the cutting edge of thinking about sculpture in philosophical terms,... -
The Sound of the Hours by Karen Campbell
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £5.83'Moving, complex, romantic, and beautifully written, Karen Campbell's saga ... is a triumph' Allan Massie, Scotsman Divided by loyalties, brought together by war September, 1943. Tuscany, Italy... -
Martha's Vineyard Tales: From Pirates on Lake Tashmoo to Baxter's Saloon by Chris Baer 9781493034697
Booksplease Price: £17.10Have you met the Vineyard Tinman? Who even knew there were pirates on Lake Tashmoo? Step back in island time into a time-capsule of Martha's Vineyard history-the quirky, the gritty, the... -
Philosophy of Sculpture: Historical Problems, Contemporary Approaches by 9780367550349
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80Sculpture has been a central aspect of almost every art culture, contemporary or historical. This volume comprises ten essays at the cutting edge of thinking about sculpture in philosophical terms,... -
For Better, For Worse: Marriage in Victorian Novels by Women Carolyn Lambert (University of Brighton, UK) 9780367886042
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80This interdisciplinary volume explores the fictional portrayal of marriage by women novelists between 1800 and 1900. It investigates the ways in which these novelists used the cultural form of the...