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Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World by Justin Marozzi 9780141997650
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.43**SHORTLISTED FOR 2025 THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION**A startling exploration of slavery in the Islamic world from the 7th century to the presentSlavery in the Islamic world has a long,... -
Pravda Ha Ha: Truth, Lies and the End of Europe by Rory MacLean 9781408896518
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award 'A gem of a book, informative, companionable, sometimes funny, and wholly original. MacLean must surely be the outstanding, and... -
Epic Continent: Adventures in the Great Stories of Europe Nicholas Jubber 9781473665804
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2020'A thought-provoking treatise interwoven with blistered-feet-on-the-ground accounts of spots both pretty and gritty' National... -
The Hanged Man: A Story of Miracle, Memory, and Colonialism in the Middle Ages by Robert Bartlett 9780691126043
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.16Seven hundred years ago, executioners led a Welsh rebel named William Cragh to a wintry hill to be hanged. They placed a noose around his neck, dropped him from the gallows, and later pronounced him... -
The Evolution of the Grand Tour: Anglo-Italian Cultural Relations since the Renaissance Edward Chaney 9780714644745
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £61.24The Grand Tour has become a subject of major interest to scholars and general readers interested in exploring the historic connections between nations and their intellectual and artistic production... -
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... -
Berlin: Imagine a City Rory MacLean 9781780224589
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.80The first single-volume biography of Berlin, one of the world's great cities - told via twenty-one portraits, from medieval times to the twenty-first century.A city devastated by Allied bombs,... -
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Berlin: Imagine a City by Rory MacLean 9781780224589 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.41The first single-volume biography of Berlin, one of the world's great cities - told via twenty-one portraits, from medieval times to the twenty-first century.A city devastated by Allied bombs,... -
Shannon Country Paul Clements 9781843517832
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £11.18In August 1939 the Irish travel writer Richard Hayward set out on a road trip to explore the Shannon region just two weeks before the Second World War broke out. His evocative account of that trip,... -
A Place For Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order by Judith Flanders 9781509881581
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.45'A delightfully quirky sturdy . . . [Flanders] is a meticulour historian with a taste for the offbeat; the story of the alphabet suits her well . . . Fascinating.' Sunday TimesOnce we've learned it... -
The Hotel Years: Wanderings in Europe between the Wars Joseph Roth 9781783788477
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12'A hugely significant and wonderfully haunting collection' William Boyd In the 1920s and 1930s, Joseph Roth travelled extensively in Europe, living in hotels and writing about the towns through... -
Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure Artemis Cooper 9780719565496
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was a war hero whose exploits in Crete are legendary, and above all he is widely acclaimed as the greatest travel writer of our times, notably for his books about his... -
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Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure by Artemis Cooper 9780719565496 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.40Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was a war hero whose exploits in Crete are legendary, and above all he is widely acclaimed as the greatest travel writer of our times, notably for his books about his... -
True Stories: And Other Essays by Francis Spufford
Booksplease Price: £17.67An irresistible collection of favorite writings from an author celebrated for his bravura style and sheer unpredictability Francis Spufford's welcome first volume of collected essays gathers an array... -
Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World by Justin Marozzi 9780241522158
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.42A startling exploration of slavery in the Islamic world from the 7th century to the presentSlavery in the Islamic world has a long, diverse and controversial history. Captives and Companions is a... -
Victorian London: The Life of a City 1840-1870 Liza Picard 9780753820902
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50From rag-gatherers to royalty, from fish knives to Freemasons: everyday life in Victorian London.Like its acclaimed companion volumes, Elizabeth's London, Restoration London and Dr Johnson's London,... -
Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete Patrick Leigh Fermor 9781444796605
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A daring behind-enemy-lines mission from the author of A Time of Gifts and The Broken Road, who was once described by the BBC as 'a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene'... -
Everything is Happening: Journey into a Painting by Michael Jacobs 9781847088086
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Michael Jacobs was haunted by Velazquez's enigmatic masterpiece Las Meninas from first encountering it in the Prado as a teenager. In Everything is Happening Jacobs searches for the ultimate... -
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson 9781782392026
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.73The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War One was, in the words of T.E. Lawrence, 'a sideshow of a sideshow'. Amidst the slaughter in European trenches, the Western combatants paid scant... -
The Naked Shore: Of the North Sea Tom Blass 9781408834039
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Saturnine and quick-tempered, the formidable North Sea is often overlooked - even by those living within a stone's throw of its steel-grey waters. But as playground, theatre of war and cultural... -
Where the Hornbeam Grows: A Journey in Search of a Garden by Beth Lynch 9781474606882
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.26What do you do when you find yourself living as a stranger? When Beth Lynch moved to Switzerland, she quickly realised that the sheer will to connect with people would not guarantee a happy... -
A Thing of Beauty: Travels in Mythical and Modern Greece by Peter Fiennes 9780861544356
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE ANGLO-HELLENIC LEAGUE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2022 'Peter Fiennes's road trip around Greece [is] engagingly described' Mary Beard, TLS 'Fiennes is a... -
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The Naked Shore: Of the North Sea by Tom Blass 9781408834039 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.12Saturnine and quick-tempered, the formidable North Sea is often overlooked - even by those living within a stone's throw of its steel-grey waters. But as playground, theatre of war and cultural... -
Where the Hornbeam Grows: A Journey in Search of a Garden Beth Lynch 9781474606905
Booksplease Price: £18.18'Beth Lynch's subtle and moving book is about the heart-work of finding and making a place for oneself in the world; the effort of putting down roots, the pain of tearing them up again, and how one... -
Imagine a City: A Pilot's Love Letter to the World's Greatest Cities Mark Vanhoenacker 9781529112023
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15A pilot's love letter to the world's greatest cities from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Skyfaring'A journey around both the author's mind and the planet's great cities that leaves us... -
Map Of A Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey by Rachel Hewitt
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'A gripping story about the personalities who initiated the mapping of Britain and their extraordinary skill and endurance' Max Hastings, Sunday Times The Ordnance Survey is a much beloved... -
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Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place by Philip Marsden 9781847086303 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.62When Philip Marsden moved to a remote, creekside farmhouse in Cornwall, the intensity of his response took him aback. It led him to wonder why we react so strongly to certain places and set him off... -
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi Geoff Dyer 9781782115144
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Jeff Atman, a journalist, is in Venice to cover the opening of the Biennale. He's expecting to see a load of art, go to a lot of parties and drink too many bellinis. He's not expecting to meet the... -
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World Professor Peter Frankopan 9781408839973
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £27.12The No. 1 Sunday Times and international bestseller - a major reassessment of world history in light of the economic and political renaissance in the re-emerging east For centuries, fame and... -
The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos by 9781848547544
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The long-awaited final volume of the trilogy by Patrick Leigh Fermor. A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water were the first two volumes in a projected trilogy that would describe the...