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John Betjeman: The Biography by Bevis Hillier
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $24.99This biography takes the reader from Betjeman's troubled childhood in north London, through his blossoming at Oxford; a gay fling with W. H. Auden; a clandestine marriage to a field marshal's... -
Spitfire: Portrait of a Legend by Leo McKinstry 9780719568756 [USED COPY]
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $5.71In June 1940, the German Army had brought the rest of Europe to its knees. 'Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be... -
Sectioned by John O'Donoghue
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $22.04'I'd been in Claybury for four months before I was given ECT. I was sixteen. The day I went down for it I was wearing a striped hospital dressing gown and yellow pyjamas. I'd been given the Last... -
James Lees-Milne Michael Bloch 9780719565502
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $24.99James Lees-Milne (1908-97) - known to friends as Jim - is remembered for his work for the National Trust, rescuing some of England's greatest architectural treasures, and for the vivid and... -
Diaries, 1942-1954 James Lees-Milne 9780719566813
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $24.99James Lees-Milne (1908-97) made his name as the country house expert of the National Trust and for being a versatile author. But he is now best known for the remarkable diary he kept for most of his... -
The Greek For Love: Life, Love and Loss in Corfu by James Chatto
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $22.04The two-line ad in the Sunday Times advertising Villa Parginos in Corfu conjured an image of long afternoons drinking wine on a marble patio shaded by a grape arbour, looking out over an impossibly... -
Woman On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown Lorna Martin 9781848540118
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $23.51Lorna Martin's life is in chaos and she needs to make some big changes. After all, there must be a reason she keeps chasing after the wrong men, making toe-curling blunders at work and generally... -
Who Runs This Place? by Anthony Sampson 9780719565663 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $6.95These familiar questions are now far more topical and urgent. The peaks of both government and finance have become far more concentrated and isolated; checks and balances have become much weaker; the... -
The Hive Bee Wilson 9780719565984
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $21.85Ever since men first hunted for honeycomb in rocks and daubed pictures of it on cave walls, the honeybee has been seen as one of the wonders of nature: social, industrious, beautiful, terrifying. No... -
Time and Tide: The Long, Long Life of Landscape by Fiona Stafford 9781473686328
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $34.39'Poetic and profound, Time and Tide is wise, considered and full of surprises' Observer'Poignant and touching' Mail on Sunday'Miraculous' ScotsmanA village waits at the bottom of a reservoir. A... -
Relic Tom Egeland 9780719521737
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $19.09A golden relic, containing an ancient manuscript that could change the course of history, has been hidden in a monastery. But nobody knows where.One determined man sets out to find this sensational... -
The Secret Life of Words Henry Hitchings 9780719564550
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $23.51Communication is essential to our lives, but how often do we stop to think about where the words we use have come from? Have you ever thought about which words in English have been borrowed from... -
Simplexity Jeffrey Kluger 9780719568138
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $22.04Why does kicking the TV work? What can the US military learn from the lowly bacterium? Why are the instruction manuals for cell phones incomprehensible? How does a spark of a single virus trigger an... -
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham by Selina Hastings
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $29.46For nearly sixty years Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was one of the most famous writers in the world. An enormously successful playwright and the author of over a hundred short stories and twenty-one... -
Say Goodbye to the Cuckoo Michael McCarthy 9781848540620
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $22.04If we could see it as a whole, if they all arrived in a single flock, say, we would be truly amazed: sixteen million birds. Swallows, martins, swifts, warblers, wagtails, wheatears, cuckoos, chats,... -
English for the Natives: Discover the Grammar You Don't Know You Know Harry Ritchie 9781848548398
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $22.04'My first English lesson was grammar with the terrifying Mrs Petrie. She spent the entire time marching up and down the classroom, thwacking various items of school furniture with a ruler while she... -
Michel Thomas: The Learning Revolution Dr Jonathan Solity 9781529344301
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $22.04The publication of the Michel Thomas ground-breaking, all-audio language learning materials has been a publishing phenomenon. Sales of over one million units in just eight years and the universal... -
Falling Short: The fresh, funny and life-affirming debut novel Lex Coulton 9781473669611
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $16.14'Funny, engaging and beautifully written' M. L. StedmanSometimes getting it wrong is the only way to get it right . . . Frances Pilgrim's father went missing when she was five, and ever since all... -
Room At The Top by John Braine
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.83The Angry Young Men movement, featuring such stars as Kingsley Amis, is perfectly illustrated through the iconic figure of Joe Lampton. The ruthlessly ambitious Joe Lampton rises swiftly from the... -
Dr Johnson's Dictionary: The Book that Defined the World Henry Hitchings 9780719566325
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $22.04By 1700, France and Italy already had dictionaries of their own, and it became a matter of national pride that England should rival them. Dr Johnson rose to the challenge, turning over the garret of... -
Seven Types of Atheism by John Gray
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.92SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE CATHOLIC HERALD BOOK AWARD FOR RELIGION AND THEOLOGYA NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019'Wonderful ... one of the few books that I started to reread a couple of... -
Philip's Moon Map by Dr John Murray
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $17.95The essential map for all Moon watchers.The awesome beauty of the Moon is brought to life in this practical map for Moon watchers which locates, describes and indexes more than 500 physical features... -
The Gospel of John Craig S. Keener 9780801046759
RRP: $142.78Booksplease Price: $110.36Christianity Today 2004 Award of Merit (Biblical Studies) Keener's commentary explores the Jewish and Greco-Roman settings of John more deeply than previous works, paying special attention to... -
7 Lessons in Customer Care: Master Customer Care Basics in 7 Steps by Di McLanachan 9781399830539
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.09A SHORT COURSE IN CUSTOMER CARE BASICS.7 Lessons in Customer Care is a quick course in looking after people, giving you everything you need to know in just seven short chapters. From interacting with... -
The Detachment Barry Eisler 9781612181554
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $15.99John Rain is back. And "the most charismatic assassin since James Bond" (San Francisco Chronicle) is up against his most formidable enemy yet: the nexus of political, military, media, and corporate... -
A Lonely Resurrection by Barry Eisler 9781477820810
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $17.14Previously published as Hard Rain and Blood from Blood All John Rain wants is to get out of the killing business. But with his discretion, his reliability, and his unique talent for death by... -
Extremis by Barry Eisler 9781477820841
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $17.14Previously published as The Last Assassin Even for an average citizen, a love triangle is dangerous business. For assassin John Rain-"one of the most compelling lead characters in the genre" (USA... -
The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest Mark Mackenzie 9780719524929
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $22.04Everest was, to George Mallory, 'the wildest dream'. This gentleman adventurer was obsessed with taming the unconquered peak. But in 1924 he and climbing partner Sandy Irvine disappeared forever into... -
Hashim & Family Shahnaz Ahsan 9781473665224
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.70An Observer Best Book of 2020'A story of quiet striving and determination, of love and friendship' GuardianIt is New Year's Eve, 1960. Hashim has left behind his homeland and his bride, Munira, to... -
The Great Return Jamie Franklin 9781399814928
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $33.92Nominal Christianity is not enough. We can't sustain the ethics and norms we take for granted in societies that have been formed through a Christian worldview, for the long term, without Christianity... -
7 Lessons in Managing Difficult People: Master Problem People Basics in 7 Steps by David Cotton 9781399830652
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $20.04A SHORT COURSE IN BETTER PEOPLE MANAGEMENT.7 Lessons in Managing Difficult People is a quick course in people management, giving you everything you need to know in just seven short chapters. From... -
The Split: Finding the Opportunities in China's Economy in the New World Order Shaun Rein 9781399816397
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $32.44China dominates manufacturing and is the world's largest retail market, but for companies outside of China, finding ways to do business in the country is increasingly uncertain in the face of rising... -
The Detachment by Barry Eisler 9781612181554 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $7.12John Rain is back. And "the most charismatic assassin since James Bond" (San Francisco Chronicle) is up against his most formidable enemy yet: the nexus of political, military, media, and corporate... -
The Lost Time Accidents by John Wray
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $15.87The Lost Time Accidents is a bold and epic saga set against the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century.Haunted by a failed love affair and the darkest of family secrets, Waldemar 'Waldy'... -
Advanced Aviation Modelling by John McIllmurray
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $31.44The techniques described in this book will enable the modeller to improve detail, create versions of a type not offered by the kit manufacturer, recreate realistic weathering, even battle damage, and... -
Lowboy John Wray 9781847671523
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.92Underground, in the tunnels beneath New York, a young man is missing.Above ground, Ali Lateef of the NYPD is assigned the case. The boy's mother is reluctant to help and Emily, his girlfriend and... -
The Power of Personality: How Introverts and Extroverts Can Combine to Amazing Effect by Sylvia Loehken
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $22.04Management writers have come up with many tools for explaining how different types of personalities can work best together. But they have ignored the most important personality difference of all -... -
David and Winston: How a Friendship Changed History Robert Lloyd George 9780719566608
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.61Although from different backgrounds, David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill forged a close friendship, delighting in each other's wit, oratory and unconventionality. Both were outsiders. Neither... -
Redemption Games by Barry Eisler 9781477820858
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $17.14Previously published as Killing Rain and One Last Kill After nearly dying while taking out a target in Hong Kong, Rain has a new employer, The Mossad, which wants him to fix a "problem" in Manila... -
Acts of Omission by Terry Stiastny 9781444794311 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $4.69Winner of the Paddy Power Political Novel of the Year1998: foreign minister Mark Lucas is in a dilemma. A disk containing the names of British informants to the Stasi has ended up in the hands of the...