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This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer by Richard Holmes
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £3.10'A masterly performance by the greatest literary biographer of his generation' Oldie In this kaleidoscope of stories spanning art, science and poetry, award-winning writer Richard Holmes... -
Blood Feather by Patrick McGuinness
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82In this intimate, confiding poetry collection, McGuinness shows how identity is layered, permeable, always in motion - how we are always actor and audience to ourselves'This is McGuinness's best... -
Victor Hugo by Graham Robb 9780330371452
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.51Victor Hugo was the most important writer of the nineteenth century in France: leader of the Romantic movement, Revolutionary playwright, poet, epic novelist, author of the last universally... -
Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark Frances Wilson 9781526663030
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53*A 2025 HIGHLIGHT FOR: Telegraph, Financial Times, Guardian, Observer and Scotsman*'Frances Wilson writes books that blow your hair back' KATHERINE RUNDELL'Miraculous . . . It is hard to imagine a... -
Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation by Roderick Beaton
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020 AND THE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2021A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'The best history of Greece around... Beautifully written and packed with insights about... -
Napoleon: A Life in Gardens and Shadows by Ruth Scurr
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'Glorious... Scurr is one of the most gifted non-fiction writers alive' Simon Schama, Financial TimesA revelatory portrait of Napoleon written for our own time, exploring his love of nature and the... -
A Nasty Little War: The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution by Anna Reid 9781529326765
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.68A BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Chillingly original' Max Hastings'A vivid and sparkling account, full of colour and dark drama' Observer'Brilliantly depicts a disastrous failure' Antony... -
Blood on the Snow: The Russian Revolution 1914-1924 by Robert Service 9781529065824
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.35'A terrific book about a terrifying subject by the best historian of Russia working today' - Michael Burleigh, author of The Third Reich'This work of a lifetime presents high-octane, high-politcal... -
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 ... -
The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 2: From Colette to Marie NDiaye by Patrick McGuinness 9780241462065
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74'Beautiful and deep ... a sumptuous treat for any book lover' The Independent'Food for short story lovers everywhere' Irish Times*A major celebration of the French short story and Spectator Book of... -
Throw Me to the Wolves by Patrick McGuinness 9781529110609
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16**WINNER OF THE ENCORE AWARD 2020** 'This is literary fiction as it should be: in stylish, surprising, lyrical sentences we are forced to confront the hidden power structures, public and private,... -
At The Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails by Sarah Bakewell
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman PrizeParis, near the turn of 1932-3. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are Jean-Paul Sartre,... -
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE AND THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION'Endlessly fascinating and enjoyable' Neil MacGregor'A marvellous book' David Attenborough'Full of delights' Tom... -
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Monsters by Simon Sebag Montefiore 9781847245014 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £2.58Some devised methods of torture cruel beyond belief, some Killed members of their own families, others ordered the murders of millions of innocents; some were admired statesmen, some were maniacs -... -
Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream by Sue Prideaux
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.99Who was the man behind The Scream, the iconic painting that so acutely expresses the anguish of the twentieth century? Edvard Munch (1863 - 1944) was twenty-eight when he embarked on a lifelong... -
Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.52A darkly comic and moving reflection on what it means to be human in a world where nothing is certain, from the award-winning Oxford professor'The best book about multiple sclerosis'THE TIMES'An... -
Bismarck: A Life by Jonathan Steinberg 9780199642427
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £24.25This is the life story of one of the most interesting human beings who ever lived. A political genius who remade Europe and united Germany between 1862 and 1890 by the sheer power of his great... -
The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea by Lawrence Durrell
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.73Rediscover 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... -
Fabulous by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.50Not since Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber have old stories been made to feel so electrically new. Not since Wim Winders' Wings of Desire have the... -
The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 1: From Marguerite de Navarre to Marcel Proust by Patrick McGuinness 9780241462003
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'Beautiful and deep ... a sumptuous treat for any book lover' The Independent'Food for short story lovers everywhere' Irish Times*A major celebration of the French short story and Spectator Book of... -
The Last Royal Rebel: The Life and Death of James, Duke of Monmouth by Anna Keay
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78'A superb biography, which paints a vivid picture of the times and of her subject' Daily Telegraph 'Fascinating, compelling, outrageous and ultimately tragic' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'It is the best... -
Justine: Rediscover One of the Century's Greatest Romances This Summer by Lawrence Durrell
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Rediscover one of the twentieth century's greatest romances: this seductive tale of four tangled lovers in wartime Egypt, introduced by Andre Aciman (Call Me By Your Name and Find Me), is 'wonderful'... -
The End of the Cold War: 1985 - 1991 by Robert Service 9780330517294
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.22The Cold War had seemed like a permanent fixture in global politics, and until its denouement, no Western or Soviet politician foresaw that the stand-off between the two superpowers - after decades... -
Liberty's Exiles: The Loss of America and the Remaking of the British Empire. by Maya Jasanoff 9780007180103
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.49'More than just a work of first-class scholarship, Liberty's Exiles is a deeply moving masterpiece that fulfils the historian's most challenging ambition: to revivify past experience.' Niall Ferguson... -
The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian and Quinx by Lawrence Durrell
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.18The Avignon Quintet gathers Lawrence Durrell's five kaleidoscopic, Booker Prize-nominated novels - orbiting around the South of France in World War II - into one epic modern classic, one of 'the... -
Governing the World: The History of an Idea by Mark Mazower
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51The compelling and provocative history of world government, from acclaimed author Mark MazowerShortlisted for the RUSI 2013 Duke of Wellington Medal for Military LiteratureIn 1815 the shocked and... -
Peculiar Ground by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.99'One of the best novels of the year so far' The Times A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Unlike anything I've read. Haunting and huge, and... -
The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy: Brothers in Arms by Kai Bird 9780684856445
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £21.19From the Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthor of American Prometheus-this biography of the Bundy Brothers inspired the Academy Award-winning film Oppenheimer.In this definitive biography of McGeorge Bundy... -
Poetry and Radical Politics in fin de siecle France: From Anarchism to Action francaise by Patrick McGuinness
Booksplease Price: £39.56Poetry and Radical Politics in fin de siecle France explores the relations between poetry and politics in France in the last decade of the nineteenth century. The period covers the most important... -
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The End of the Cold War: 1985 - 1991 by Robert Service 9780330517294 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £2.34The Cold War had seemed like a permanent fixture in global politics, and until its denouement, no Western or Soviet politician foresaw that the stand-off between the two superpowers - after decades... -
De Gaulle by Julian Jackson 9780674241459
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £17.26Winner of the Duff Cooper PrizeWinner of the Elizabeth Longford PrizeA New Yorker, Financial Times, Spectator, Times, and Telegraph Book of the YearIn this definitive biography of the mythic general... -
The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One by Miranda Carter
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Discover the juicy, funny story of the three dysfunctional rulers of Germany, Russia and Great Britain at the turn of the last century, combined with a study of the larger forces around them.Three... -
Young Tennyson and the Kraken Richard Holmes 9780007386932
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.30*LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE* A dazzling new biography of young Tennyson by the prize-winning, bestselling author of The Age of Wonder... -
A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths by Dr John Barton
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43WINNER OF THE 2019 DUFF COOPER PRIZEA SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'With emotional and psychological insight, Barton unlocks this sleeping giant of our culture. In the process, he has produced a... -
Clea by Lawrence Durrell
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Lose yourself in the thrilling political intrigue and tangled love affairs of wartime Egypt in Durrell's epic modern classic, introduced by bestselling author Elif Shafak (The Forty Rules of Love).An... -
Someone Else's Life by Kapka Kassabova 9781852246174
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Kapka Kassabova is a young Bulgarian emigre poet who writes in English but with a European imagination. In Someone else's life, her first poetry collection to be published in the UK, she explores the... -
Thomas Cromwell: A Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £11.09A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN, BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR'This is the biography we have been awaiting for 400 years' Hilary Mantel'A masterpiece'... -
Allies at War: The Rivals Who Defeated Hitler by Tim Bouverie 9781529967074
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.05The Sunday Times bestselling, prize-winning history of the alliance that won the war and made the peace - from the author of the acclaimed Appeasing Hitler'Brilliant' ANTONY BEEVOR'Superb' JAMES... -
Geography for the Lost by Kapka Kassabova 9781852247652
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Kapka Kassabova is a young Bulgarian emigre poet who writes in English but with a European imagination. Her well-travelled poems speak from different parts of the world and different moments of... -
Look Closer: How to Get More Out of Reading by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst 9781911717317
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.75A TIMES and SPECTATOR Book of the Year 'The best book about reading I have read for a very long time' STEPHEN FRY'A glittering gem of a book' NATALIE HAYNESA joyful and enlightening masterclass in...