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Swindled: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee - The Dark History of the Food Cheats Bee Wilson 9780719567766
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Salmonella . . . toxins . . . additives . . . food scares . . . Have you ever wondered how our food has become so untrustworthy? Have we ever been able to trust what we eat? Via a fascinating mix of... -
The Book of Fame by Lloyd Jones
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In August 1905 a party of young men set sail for England. Amongst them were ordinary farmers and bootmakers, a miner and a bank clerk. Together they made up the All Blacks, an unknown rugby team... -
Our Kind of People: Thoughts on the HIV/AIDS epidemic Uzodinma Iweala 9780719523601
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.26HIV/AIDS has profoundly affected life in sub-Saharan Africa. It has been reported as one of the most destructive diseases in recent memory - tearing apart communities and ostracising the afflicted... -
Metrostop Paris Gregor Dallas 9780719560637
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73The name of every Parisian metro station tells a story. In Metrostop Paris Gregor Dallas recounts a series of extraordinary but true tales about the city as he leads his readers around the metro... -
The Buddha and the Sahibs Charles Allen 9780719554285
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Today there are many Buddhists in the West, but for 2000 years the Buddha's teachings were unknown outside Asia. It was not until the late 18th century, when Sir William Oriental Jones, a British... -
Past the Shallows Favel Parrett 9781848547506
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Shortlisted for the 2012 Miles Franklin Award, PAST THE SHALLOWS is a powerful and hauntingly beautiful novel from an extraordinary new Australian writer who is compared with Cormac McCarthy and Tim... -
Kenneth Williams: Born Brilliant: The Life of Kenneth Williams by Christopher Stevens
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Kenneth Williams was the stand-out comic actor of his generation. Beloved as the manic star of Carry On films and as a peerless raconteur on TV chat shows, he was also acclaimed for serious stage... -
Carnival by Compton Mackenzie
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Jenny Pearl, a dancer, falls in love with Maurice Avery, a young dilettante who leaves her when she refuses to become his mistress. Despairingly, she falls into a loveless marriage with Trewhella, a... -
Together: How small groups achieve big things Henry Hemming 9781848540569
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Together is about the extraordinary revival of small groups in Britain today. What happens when a room full of people decide to work towards the same dream? Why is it that when we come together in... -
Lancaster: The Second World War's Greatest Bomber Leo McKinstry 9780719523632
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.88The Spitfire and the Lancaster were the two RAF weapons of victory in the Second World War, but the glamour of the fighter has tended to overshadow the performance of the heavy bomber. Yet without... -
The Slave Ship by Marcus Rediker
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.88The slave ship was the instrument of history's greatest forced migration and a key to the origins and growth of global capitalism, yet much of its history remains unknown. Marcus Rediker uncovers the... -
Desperate Romantics by Franny Moyle
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Their Bohemian lifestyle and intertwined love affairs shockingly broke 19th Century class barriers and bent the rules that governed the roles of the sexes. They became defined by love triangles,... -
City of Lost Girls by Declan Hughes
Booksplease Price: £20.70In LA there's a killer on the loose. He kills young and rootless girls and he always kills in threes. Back in Dublin, Ed Loy, happy in a new relationship, is reunited with Jack Donovan, a film... -
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.88When Peter Hessler went to China in the late 1990s, he expected to spend a couple of peaceful years teaching English in the town of Fuling on the Yangtze River. But what he experienced - the natural... -
Diaries, 1984-1997 James Lees-Milne 9780719568398
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Despite advancing years, James Lees-Milne's descriptions of the people he meets, the houses he visits and country life on the Duke of Beaufort's Badminton estate are sharper than ever.He continues to... -
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... -
Prisoner of Tehran: One Woman's Story of Survival Inside a Torture Jail Marina Nemat 9780719562525
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.19Brought up as a Christian, Marina Nemat's peaceful childhood in Tehran was shattered when the Iranian Revolution of 1979 ushered in a new era of Islamic rule. After complaining to her teachers about... -
The Wonderful Weekend Book: Reclaiming Life's Simple Pleasures Elspeth Thompson 9781848540538
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26For too many of us the weekend has become just another overcrowded couple of days dominated by duties, traffic jams, hassle and expense as we dash from supermarket to superstore catching up with the... -
Bridge Across My Sorrows: The Christina Noble Story by Christina Noble
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Christina Noble's story is one of bravery and resilience in the face of deprivation and abuse on a scale that most would find unimaginable. Her childhood in the Dublin slums barely merits the name:... -
Sunbirds Penelope Slocombe 9781399817240
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.63In 1997 Anne's eighteen-year-old son Torran walked out of his hotel in the notorious Himalayan town of Manali - and disappeared. Seven years later Anne is still searching, haunted by the idea that... -
Style and Substance: Why What We Wear Matters Bay Garnett 9781399812450
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'A compelling new encyclopaedia of style' Harper's Bazaar'In a world of fleeting trends, Bay Garnett has created an accessory to treasure, earning Style and Substance an enduring place in the canon... -
Praying by Heart: The Lord's Prayer for Everyone Stephen Cottrell 9781399805308
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.20Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell argues that the first two words of Christianity's most famous prayer - the Lord's Prayer - encapsulate the radical heart of the Christian faith: that we belong to... -
The Benedict Option Rod Dreher 9781399807890
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Our churches are beset by challenges. From the outside, they are beset by a rapidly secularizing culture. From the inside, they're being hollowed out by the departure of young people and a... -
Succeed at Psychometric Testing: Practice Tests for Diagrammatic and Abstract Reasoning by Peter Rhodes 9780340972281
Booksplease Price: £13.99Are you about to attend an interview or assessment centre for a new job, or are you being considered for promotion or training? If that means the daunting prospect of sitting psychometric tests then... -
The Warden and the Wolf King: (Wingfeather Series 4) Andrew Peterson 9781399825399
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78All winter long, people in the Green Hollows have prepared for a final battle with Gnag the Nameless and the Fangs of Dang. Janner, Kalmar, and Leeli are ready and willing to fight alongside the... -
Uncommon People: Britpop and Beyond in 20 Songs Miranda Sawyer 9781399816915
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorMiranda Sawyer has written about pop music since 1988, beginning on Smash Hits before moving to Select, The... -
Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit by Eric Schmidt, III 9781399819121
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399819121Author Eric Schmidt, IIIFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
The Keys to a Happy and Healthy Marriage by Joyce Meyer 9781399831062
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Whether you've been married for thirty days or thirty years, you want a marriage that outlasts difficult times, grows in love and intimacy, and matches God's perfect plan for relationships. But our... -
Black Box Thinking: Growth Mindset and the Secrets of High Performance by Matthew Syed 9781399830379
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.2610th ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER'Will transform your entire perspective' THE TIMES'A stirring call to revolutionise how we think about success' DANIEL PINK, author of... -
Pol Pot: The History of a Nightmare by Philip Short 9780719565694
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Pol Pot was an idealistic, reclusive figure with great charisma and personal charm. He initiated a revolution whose radical egalitarianism exceeded any other in history. But in the process, Cambodia... -
The Elsie Drake Letters (aged 104) by Robert Popper 9781399817882
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.13Friday Night Dinner and Timewaster Letters creator Robert Popper's new book of brilliantly funny letters, from Britain's oldest letter writer.'Ridiculous, hilarious and sweet' GREG DAVIES'One of... -
Crystal’s Curiosity Cabinet: An English Language Miscellany by David Crystal 9781399823890
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26What do a comic alphabet, a glorious lipogram and a wellerism have in common? Or, an audit of accountants, an illusion of magicians, and an intrusion of spammers? And do you know how Shakespeare... -
The Word Week by Week: Discover the Rhythm and Tradition of the Worldwide Church by Lee Gatiss 9781399820974
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.12The early church used patterns of set readings to guide Christians through scripture. Over the centuries, these readings developed into full Lectionaries to guide communities through the Bible, week... -
Reflections on the Sunday Gospel (YEAR A): How to More Fully Live Out Your Relationship with God by Pope Francis 9781399803472
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02We live in an unprecedented time that has threatened to upend our daily rhythms, our work, our homes - even our faith. More than ever, we need books like Reflections on the Sunday Gospel to stir us... -
Our Story by Colin Butfield 9781399835008
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.51It's easy to question our significance...What is our place in all of this?What is our purpose?What is our story?Our Story is both an awe-inspiring celebration of the natural world, and a journey... -
Waste Wars: Dirty Deals, International Rivalries and the Scandalous Afterlife of Rubbish by Alexander Clapp 9781399803120
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Jaw-dropping' The Economist'A mind-altering and unforgettable read' Adam Tooze'If you wish to know how the world really works, read this book' Misha GlennyA globe-trotting investigation into the... -
The Warrior: Rafael Nadal and His Kingdom of Clay by Christopher Clarey 9781399811521
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEARA SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARFrom the bestselling author of The Master, longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year.An intimate,... -
The Next Fix: The Winners and Losers in the Future of Drugs by Kojo Koram 9781399807715
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.50The future of drugs is here, and it's dangerously unequal.Over the last decade, the status quo around drugs has collapsed. Drugs once sold as safe cures have been revealed as ineffective or... -
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The Victorian Underworld by Donald Thomas 9780719563423 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.57Here, through the eyes of its inhabitants, Donald Thomas portrays the nineteenth-century underworld - one of 'night houses' and cigar divans, of street people and entertainers. The underworld was... -
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Bright Shiny Morning by James Frey 9781848540439 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.43Welcome to LA. City of contradictions. It is home to movie stars and down-and-outs. Palm-lined beaches and gridlock. Shopping sprees and gun sprees. Bright Shiny Morning takes a wild ride through the...