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Roads to Berlin Laura Watkinson 9781848662919
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.45Roads to Berlin maps the changing landscape of Germany, from the period before the fall of the Wall to the present. Written and updated over the course of several decades, an eyewitness account of... -
Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Istanbul, through the mind of its most celebrated writer. ** PRE-ORDER NIGHTS OF PLAGUE, THE NEW NOVEL FROM ORHAN PAMUK **Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature'A declaration of love.' Sunday... -
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Golden Hill by Francis Spufford 9780571225200 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $4.62** Cahokia Jazz, the new novel from Francis Spufford, is available for preorder now. ** 'Best book of the century.' Richard Osman'Just wonderful.' Jan Morris'A marvel.' Zadie Smith 'Every bit as... -
Propitious Esculent: The Potato in World History by John Reader 9780434018369
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $26.19Baked, Roast, Boiled, Mashed, Steamed, French-Fried... We've probably all tried one or other type, and some of us eat them every day. The potato is one of the most familiar and ubiquitous foods, and... -
Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35** Cahokia Jazz, the new novel from Francis Spufford, is available for preorder now. ** 'Best book of the century.' Richard Osman'Just wonderful.' Jan Morris'A marvel.' Zadie Smith 'Every bit as... -
Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower and the Extraordinary Passions it Aroused Mike Dash 9780753827994
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $23.92'A fascinating exploration of human greed and self-delusion and also a tribute to our ageless search for beauty' DEBORAH MOGGACH.In 1630s' Holland thousands of people, from the wealthiest merchants... -
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Great Harry's Navy: How Henry VIII Gave England Sea Power by Geoffrey Moorhouse 9780753820995 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $3.70Ground-breaking history of how King Henry VIII created England's navyIt was Henry VIII who began the process of making England a first-rate sea-power. He inherited no more than seven warships from... -
Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart by Scott Anderson 9781509852963
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.94In 2011, a series of anti-government uprisings shook the Middle East and North Africa in what would become known as the Arab Spring. Few could predict that these convulsions, initially hailed in the... -
Hell's Foundations: A Town, Its Myths and Gallipoli by Geoffrey Moorhouse 9780571243532
Booksplease Price: $34.06There is no shortage of books on the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign of 1915 but this one stands out. In it Geoffrey Moorhouse moves the focus from the more familar aspects to concentrate on one small... -
The Great Cities in History by John Julius Norwich
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45A work of history, but also about art and architecture, trade and commerce, travel and exploration, economics and politics, this is above all a book about people and how, over the millennia, they... -
Mirror To Damascus: 50th Anniversary Edition by Colin Thubron
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87A 50th anniversary edition of Colin Thubron's celebrated first book, a portrait of Syria's capital city, with a new introduction by the author.Described by the author as simply 'a work of love',... -
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The Lost City by Henry Shukman 9780349119908 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $6.17Invalided out of the army at barely twenty, Jackson Small returns to England traumatised by the violent death of his fellow soldier and blood-brother Connolly. Unable to settle and incapacitated by... -
The Great Game by Peter Hopkirk
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth, Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia, fought a secret war in the lonely passes and deserts of Central Asia. Those engaged in this shadowy... -
Great Harry's Navy: How Henry VIII Gave England Sea Power Geoffrey Moorhouse 9780753820995
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.08Ground-breaking history of how King Henry VIII created England's navyIt was Henry VIII who began the process of making England a first-rate sea-power. He inherited no more than seven warships from... -
Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews by Mark Mazower
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.86The history of a bewilderingly exotic city, rarely written about: five hundred years of clashing cultures and peoples, from the glories of Suleiman the Magnificent to its nadir under Nazi occupation... -
In Search of London by H. V. Morton 9780413777119
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $20.20Here H. V.Morton begins his wandering in the City, where Roman London began, and follows, westwards, the course of London's seventeenth and eighteenth-century expansion. Here is a lasting memento for... -
Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip by Peter Hessler
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.74After living in China for five years, and learning the language, Peter Hessler decided to undertake an even more complicated endeavor: he acquired his Chinese driving licence. An eye-opening... -
The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.02Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It is March 1913, and the grand old city of Moscow is stirring herself to meet the beginning of spring. Change is in the air, and nowhere more so than at... -
Rise And Fall Of The British Empire by Lawrence James 9780349106670
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.38THE 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... -
The World of Gerard Mercator: The Mapmaker Who Revolutionised Geography by Andrew Taylor 9780007100811
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $17.26The 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... -
A History of Venice by John Julius Norwich
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $28.83Renowned historian, and author of A Short History of Byzantium, John Julius Norwich's classic history of VeniceA History of Venice tells the story of this most remarkable of cities from its founding... -
A Beginner's Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations by Pico Iyer
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.68Winner of the Edward Stanford Travel Memoir of the Year 2020 How does a sushi bar explain a Japanese poem? Why do Japanese couples plan matching outfits for their honeymoon? Why are so many... -
Paris After the Liberation: 1944 - 1949 by Antony Beevor
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38A remarkable historical account of the chaos and uncertainty that followed the liberation of Paris in August, 1944'A beautifully written book about a vast tapestry of military, political and social... -
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Rise And Fall Of The British Empire by Lawrence James 9780349106670 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $5.27THE 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... -
The Greek Islands by Lawrence Durrell
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70Lose yourself in this dazzling travelogue of the idyllic Greek Islands by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu. 'Incandescent.' Andre Aciman'A magician.'... -
The Paris Review Interviews: Vol. 3 by Philip Gourevitch
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.07Since The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest writers of our age, vivid self-portraits that are themselves works of finely-crafted literature... -
A Time of Gifts: A John Murray Journey Patrick Leigh Fermor 9781529369526
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45INTRODUCED BY JAN MORRIS'[This] gloriously ornate account of that epic journey is a classic' ROBERT MACFARLANE'The feeling of being lost in time and geography with months and years hazily sparkling... -
Pretenders to the Throne of God Adrian Tchaikovsky 9781035914975
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $35.53Arthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller returns to a world steeped in magic - and the Tyrant Philosophers' campaign to bring reason, logic and 'perfection' to it.As the Palleseen's... -
The Sea Inside by Philip Hoare
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $20.12A startling book, his most personal to date, from Philip Hoare, co-curator of the Moby-Dick Big Read and winner of the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for 'Leviathan'. The sea surrounds us. It... -
Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.48Lose yourself in the thrilling political intrigue and tangled love affairs of wartime Egypt: Durrell's epic modern classic, introduced by Alaa Al Aswany (bestselling author of The Yacoubian Building)... -
One Moonlit Night by Caradog Prichard
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35WINNER OF THE GREATEST WELSH NOVELThis outstanding novel tells of one boy's journey into the grown-up world. By the light of a full moon our narrator and his friends Huw and Moi witness a side to... -
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A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube by Patrick Leigh Fermor 9780719566950 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $7.20In 1933, at the age of 18, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on an extraordinary journey by foot - from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the first volume in a trilogy recounting... -
The Wine-Dark Sea by Patrick O'Brian
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $17.39There is a fine line between privateer and pirate, between friend and foe. With a beleaguered Britain already facing war on two fronts - against Napoleon's armies in Europe but also... -
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OxTravels: Meetings with remarkable travel writers by Michael Palin 9781846684968 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $5.52You have to go back to the 1980s and Granta's bestselling travel issue to find a book that compares to OxTravels. Introduced by Michael Palin, OxTravels features original stories from twenty-five top... -
Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates Patrick Leigh Fermor 9780719566967
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $18.54The acclaimed travel writer's youthful journey - as an 18-year-old - across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts, which covered the author's exacting journey from the Lowlands as far as... -
Pipers at the Gates of Dawn: The Wisdom of Children's Literature by Jonathan Cott 9781517909321
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $30.91Jonathan Cott's reflections and conversations with six celebrated children's authors-now in a new edition Pipers at the Gates of Dawn is a unique ensemble bringing together Jonathan Cott's... -
The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea by Lawrence Durrell
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.73Rediscover one of the twentieth century's greatest romances in Lawrence Durrell's seductive tale of four tangled lovers in wartime Egypt that is 'stunning' (Andre Aciman) and 'wonderful' (Elif... -
Red Smoking Mirror: 'The love child of JG Ballard and Ursula K Le Guin’ Joanna Pocock by Nick Hunt 9781800753235
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35'With Red Smoking Mirror, Nick Hunt has created the love child of JG Ballard and Ursula K Le Guin' - Joanna Pocock, author of Surrender Shortlisted in the 2024 Edward Stanford Awards for the Viking... -
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Restoration London: Everyday Life in the 1660s by Liza Picard 9781842127308 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $4.89How did you clean your teeth in the 1660s? What make-up did you wear? What pets did you keep?Making use of every possible contemporary source, Liza Picard presents an engrossing picture of how life... -
![New York Stories: The Best of the City Section of the New York Times by Constance Rosenblum 9780814775721 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5901631/5978672/9780814775721__48707.1729302510.jpg?c=1 "New York Stories: The Best of the City Section of the New York Times by Constance Rosenblum 9780814775721 [USED COPY]")
New York Stories: The Best of the City Section of the New York Times by Constance Rosenblum 9780814775721 [USED COPY]
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $5.94A charmed collection of some of the best essays from the widely-known "City" section of the New York Times "There are eight million stories in the Naked City." This famous line from the 1948 film...