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A Matter of Honor: Pearl Harbor: Betrayal, Blame, and a Family's Quest for Justice by Anthony Summers 9780062405524
Booksplease Price: £14.30On the seventy-fifth anniversary, the authors of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Eleventh Day unravel the mysteries of Pearl Harbor to expose the scapegoating of the admiral who was in command the day... -
Indonesia Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation by Elizabeth Pisani 9781847086556
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95In 1945, Indonesia's declaration of independence promised: 'the details of the transfer of power etc. will be worked out as soon as possible.' Still working on the 'etc.' seven decades later, the... -
Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air by Richard Holmes 9780007476510
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42'Nominally a history of the hot air balloon, 'Falling Upwards' is really a history of hope and fantasy - and the quixotic characters who disobeyed that most fundamental laws of physics and gave... -
Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder by Matthew Pearl 9780063338067
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.89From the bestselling author of The Taking of Jemima Boone, the unbelievable true story of a real-life Swiss Family Robinson (and their dog) who faced sharks, shipwreck, and betrayal. On December 10,... -
Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric by Ward Farnsworth 9781567923858
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.42This title presents an enlightening overview and analysis of the uses of rhetoric in the English language. The way we use our language to convince and cajole is based on timeless principles - on... -
Rescue at Los Baños: The Most Daring Prison Camp Raid of World War II by Bruce Henderson 9780062325075
Booksplease Price: £10.02From the bestselling author of Hero Found comes the incredible true story of one of the greatest military rescues of all time, the 1945 World War II prison camp raid at Los Banos in the Philippines-a... -
The Tiger by John Vaillant 9780340962589
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26**From the author of the 2023 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction winning Fire Weather**'An unbelievable tale, expertly told' Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain'A superb book ' Daily... -
Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World by Victoria Finlay
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.03'Subtle, compendious and rich' - James McConnachie, The Sunday Times 'Dazzling ... Finlay's adventures, vividly recounted, make enthralling reading ... This book is equally an inspiration and an... -
About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks by David Rooney
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.20For thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome to the medieval water clocks of imperial China, hourglasses fomenting revolution in... -
These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £25.83The American experiment rests on three ideas-"these truths", Jefferson called them-political equality, natural rights and the sovereignty of the people. And it rests, too, "on a dedication to... -
What's Gotten into You: The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner by Dan Levitt 9780063251205
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.00For readers of Bill Bryson, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Siddhartha Mukherjee, a wondrous, wildly ambitious, and vastly entertaining work of popular science that tells the awe-inspiring story of the... -
Deep Sea and Foreign Going: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry that Brings You 90% of Everything Rose George (Y) 9781846272998
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95An award-winning investigation into the strange and secretive world of international shipping 'Arresting, sharply observed, deeply researched and compelling... Plenty of books promise to reveal... -
The Last Volcano: A Man, a Romance, and the Quest to Understand Nature's Most Magnificent Fury by John Dvorak 9781681772981
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £20.77Volcanoes have fascinated-and terrified-people for ages. They have destroyed cities and ended civilizations. John Dvorak, the acclaimed author of Earthquake Storms, looks into the early scientific... -
A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World by Erika Rappaport 9780691167114
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £37.43How the global tea industry influenced the international economy and the rise of mass consumerism Tea has been one of the most popular commodities in the world. Over centuries, profits from its... -
Pessoa: A Biography by Richard Zenith 9781324092391
Booksplease Price: £24.21Nearly a century after his wrenching death, the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) remains one of our most enigmatic writers. Believing he could do "more in dreams than Napoleon," yet... -
About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks by David Rooney 9780241370513
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'An utterly dazzling book, the best piece of history I have read for a long time' Jerry Brotton, author of A History of the World in Twelve Maps'Not merely an horologist's delight, but an ingenious... -
The Better Angel: Walt Whitman in the Civil War by Roy Morris 9780195147094
Booksplease Price: £24.66On May 26, 1863, Walt Whitman wrote to his mother: "O the sad, sad things I see--the noble young men with legs and arms taken off--the deaths--the sick weakness, sicker than death, that some endure,... -
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson 9780062060877
Booksplease Price: £22.40A blend of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester's Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of... -
Kingdom of Characters: A Tale of Language, Obsession, and Genius in Modern China by Jing Tsu
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A PULITZER PRIZE FINALISTA riveting, masterfully researched account of the bold innovators who adapted the Chinese language to the modern world, transforming China into a superpower in the... -
Pachinko: The New York Times Bestseller by Min Jin Lee
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.41* The million-copy bestseller* * National Book Award finalist * * An instant New York Times Bestseller and one of their 10 Best Books of 2017 * * Selected for Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf... -
Deep Water: The World in the Ocean by James Bradley 9780063390171
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.23"Deep Water is a major achievement....Bradley's skills both as novelist and essayist converge here to create this wise, compassionate and urgent book, characterized throughout by a clarity of prose... -
Aloha Rodeo: Three Hawaiian Cowboys, the World's Greatest Rodeo, and a Hidden History of the American West by David Wolman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.82The triumphant true story of the native Hawaiian cowboys who crossed the Pacific to shock America at the 1908 world rodeo championshipsOregon Book Award winner * An NPR Best Book of the Year *... -
Richter's Scale: Measure of an Earthquake, Measure of a Man by Susan Elizabeth Hough
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.87By developing the scale that bears his name, Charles Richter not only invented the concept of magnitude as a measure of earthquake size, he turned himself into nothing less than a household word. He... -
The Creative Spark: How musicians, writers, explorers, and other artists found their inner fire and followed their dreams Michael Shapiro 9781609521769
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88"Knowledgeable, probing, and thoughtful." -Foreword Reviews Smokey Robinson * Barbara Kingsolver * Francis Ford Coppola * David Sedaris * Jane Goodall and other luminaries reveal the secrets to... -
The Socratic Method: A Practitioner's Handbook by Ward Farnsworth
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £12.48A thinking person's guide to a better life. Ward Farnsworth explains what the Socratic method is, how it works, and why it matters more than ever in our time. Easy to grasp yet challenging to master,... -
Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World by Gillen D’Arcy Wood 9780691283999
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.49A global history of the climate catastrophe caused by the Tambora eruptionWhen Indonesia's Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, it unleashed the most destructive wave of extreme weather the world has... -
Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World by Gillen D'Arcy Wood
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.19When Indonesia's Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, it unleashed the most destructive wave of extreme weather the world has witnessed in thousands of years. The volcano's massive sulfate dust cloud... -
The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen by Stephen Bown
Booksplease Price: £14.21The Last Viking unravels the life of the man who stands head and shoulders above all those who raced to map the last corners of the world. In 1900, the four great geographical mysteries- the... -
Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume V: Sl-Z by Joan Houston Hall
RRP: £108.95Booksplease Price: £89.30With this fifth volume of the Dictionary of American Regional English, readers now have the full panoply of American regional vocabulary, from Adam's housecat to Zydeco. Like the first four volumes,...