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The Fact of a Body: A Gripping True Crime Murder Investigation by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64'Part memoir, part true crime, wholly brilliant.' - Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train.When law student Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich is asked to work on a death-row hearing for convicted... -
Rousseau's Platonic Enlightenment by David Lay Williams 9780271029986
Booksplease Price: $64.27Although many commentators on Rousseau's philosophy have noted its affinities with Platonism and acknowledged the debt that Rousseau himself expressed to Plato on numerous occasions, David Williams... -
Joan: Beauty, Rebel, Muse: The Remarkable Life of Joan Leigh Fermor by Simon Fenwick
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $38.08Volumes have been written by and about Patrick Leigh Fermor, but his wife Joan is almost entirely absent from their pages. Now Simon Fenwick, the first archivist to see the Leigh Fermor papers,... -
Glorious Gloucestershire Mark Cummings 9781803997537
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.43'Uniquely well-informed, all-encompassing and loving.' - Pam Ayres, poet'Amazing revelations about my home county.' - Adam Henson, Countryfile presenterDid you know that Sir Peter Scott was named... -
The Interior Silence: 10 Lessons from Monastic Life Sarah Sands 9781780725437
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $13.08"Inspirational" - The Daily Mail"Sarah Sands has written about stillness with an eloquence that fizzes with vitality and wit. This wonderful book charts a journey to some of the most beautiful and... -
The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean by John Julius Norwich
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $22.31An electrifying narrative history of the Mediterranean from Ancient Egypt to 1919, from the bestselling author of The Popes and Sicily: A Short HistoryThe Mediterranean has nurtured three of the most... -
Blue River, Black Sea by Andrew Eames
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.25The Danube is Europe's Amazon. It flows through more countries than any other river on Earth - from the Black Forest in Germany to Europe's farthest fringes, where it joins the Black Sea in Romania... -
Dear Mr Murray: Letters to a Gentleman Publisher David McClay 9781473662704
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $19.07The publishing house of John Murray was founded in Fleet Street in 1768 and remained a family business over seven generations. Intended both to entertain and inspire, Dear Mr Murray is a collection... -
Jackson's Wars: A.Y. Jackson, the Birth of the Group of Seven, and the Great War by Douglas Hunter 9780228010760
RRP: $101.40Booksplease Price: $83.66A captivating account of the formative years of one of Canada's best-known artists, Jackson's Wars follows A.Y. Jackson's education and progress as a painter before he was a well-known artist and his... -
Where the Flaming Hell Are We?: The story of young Australians and New Zealanders fighting the Nazis in Greece and Crete by Craig Collie 9781760879198
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $27.96We used our knees and our rifle butts and our blades. For a while we stopped being ordinary blokes and became blood-lusted creatures.March, 1941: 40,000 Australian and New Zealand troops are rushed... -
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Darling Monster: The Letters of Lady Diana Cooper to Her Son John Julius Norwich 1939-1952 by Diana Cooper 9780701187798 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: $5.03**** As read on BBC Radio 4 ****Lady Diana Cooper was an aristocrat, society darling, an actress of stage and early screen. When she married rising political star Duff Cooper, they became the golden... -
The Durrells: The Story of a Family Richard Bradford 9781448218097
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $38.08A variously tragic tale of escapism and assimilation, Richard Bradford's The Durrells explores the truth behind the image. The Durrells are probably the most celebrated literary family of the 20th... -
Four French Holidays: Daphne Du Maurier, Stella Gibbons, Rumer Godden, Margery Sharp and their novels inspired by France by Anne Hall
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $36.09Four popular novelists of the same generation each wrote a novel inspired by a holiday that the author spent in France. In the nineteen-fifties, Rumer Godden based The Greengage Summer on her... -
Arrow in the Blue by Arthur Koestler
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.25The first volume of the remarkable autobiography of Arthur Koestler, author of Darkness at Noon.In 1931, Arthur Koestler joined the Communist Party, an event he felt to be second only in importance... -
The Amur River: Between Russia and China by Colin Thubron
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.33In his eightieth year, Colin Thubron takes a dramatic and often treacherous journey from the Amur's secret source to its giant mouth, covering almost 3,000 miles.'Thubron on top form. Richly... -
Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45A journey along the greatest land route on earth, from the master of travel writing Colin Thubron On buses, donkey carts, trains, jeeps and camels, Colin Thubron traces the drifts of the first great... -
Modelling and Painting Science Fiction Miniatures by Paul Stanley 9781785008269
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $28.41Aimed at modellers of all abilities, this lavishly illustrated book presents a step-by-step guide to figure painting and modelling using traditional techniques. From the multipart hard-plastic 28mm... -
Millions for Defense: The Subscription Warships of 1798 by Frederick C. Leiner 9781612514932
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $30.79The title of this book comes from a toast popular with Americans in the late 1790s-"millions for defense, not a cent for tribute." Americans were incensed by demands for bribes from French diplomats... -
The Great Canadian Art Fraud Case: The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson Forgeries Jon S. Dellandrea 9781773102535
RRP: $72.13Booksplease Price: $48.89In May 2016, Jon S. Dellandrea came into possession of a box of the last effects of an obscure artist, William Firth MacGregor. The contents of the box chronicled a major, and long forgotten, trial... -
Poems and Letters: Selections, with the 1550 Vasari Life by Michelangelo 9780140449563
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) is universally celebrated as one of the greatest artists of all time, yet iconic Renaissance creator was also a prolific and gifted poet. The verses collected here... -
1971: A Year in the Life of Color by Darby English
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $62.17Art historian Darby English is celebrated for working against the grain and plumbing gaps in historical narratives. In this book, he explores the year 1971, when two exhibitions opened that brought... -
Among The Russians by Colin Thubron
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.89'A magnificent achievement' Nikolai Tolstoy, The TimesAmong the Russians is a marvellous account of a solitary journey by car from St. Petersburg and the Baltic States south to Georgia and Armenia. A... -
To the Lake: A Journey of War and Peace by Kapka Kassabova
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Lake Ohrid and Lake Prespa. Two vast lakes joined by underground rivers. Two lakes that have played a central role in Kapka Kassabova's maternal family. As she... -
Mediterranean Travels: Writing Self and Other from the Ancient World to the Contemporary by Noreen Humble
Booksplease Price: $162.51This book analyzes the notion of travel writing as a genre, while tracing significant examples of Mediterranean travel writing that return us to Ancient Greece, to French artistic journeys in North... -
The Lost Heart Of Asia by Colin Thubron
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45Discover Colin Thubron's journey through central asia in the wake of the fall of the iron curtain.Thubron travelled throughout Central Asia in the wake of the break-up of the Soviet Union and... -
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by Samuel Johnson
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Book by Samuel Johnson, published in 1775. The Journey was the result of a three-month trip to Scotland that Johnson took with James Boswell in 1773. It contains Johnson's descriptions of the... -
Magic Kitten: A Puzzle of Paws by Sue Bentley
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $17.75Rosie is devastated when her mum and dad tell her that when they move to their new, smaller house that there won't be any room for her new pets. She's going to have to re-house them all! Then Rosie... -
Pioneering Places of British Aviation by Bruce Hales-Dutton 9781399021265
RRP: $58.40Booksplease Price: $39.66From as early as the beginning of the nineteenth century, Britain was at the forefront of powered flight. Across the country many places became centres of innovation and experimentation, as... -
In Siberia by Colin Thubron 9780099459262
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45'One of the finest books about contemporary Russia' ObserverThis is the account of Thubron's 15,000-mile journey through an astonishing country - one twelfth of the land surface of the whole earth... -
Duende: A Journey In Search Of Flamenco by Jason Webster
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45Having pursued a conventional enough path through school and university, Jason Webster was all set to enter the world of academe as a profession. But when his aloof Florentine girlfriend of some... -
The Game That Saved the NHL: The Broad Street Bullies, the Soviet Red Machine, and Super Series '76 by Ed Gruver 9781493074976
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $42.90In late 1975 and early 1976, at the height of the Cold War, two of the Soviet Union's long-dominant national hockey teams traveled to North America to play an eight-game series against the best teams... -
Wales: Epic Views of a Small Country by Jan Morris 9780140274844
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $27.01Jan Morris's magnificent book celebrates Wales and all things Welsh. Written as a deeply personal study, it reflects the rich bilingual literature and folklore of Wales, the buildings and wonderfully... -
Rural Rides by William Cobbett
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Travelling on horseback through southern England in the early 19th century, William Cobbett provides evocative and accurate descriptions of the countryside, colourful accounts of his encounters with... -
Tristes Tropiques by Claude Levi-Strauss
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00'One of the great books of our century . . . It speaks with a human voice' Susan SontagTristes Tropiques begins with the line 'I hate travelling and explorers', yet during his life Claude... -
The Tao of Travel by Paul Theroux
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50A compendium of travel writing from a master travellerPaul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe by collecting the best writing on travel from the books that shaped him, as a reader... -
To a Mountain in Tibet by Colin Thubron
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45**TOP TEN BESTSELLER**'I would rather read Colin Thubron than any other travel writer alive' John Simpson Mount Kailas is the most sacred of the world's mountains - holy to one fifth of humanity... -
Behind The Wall by Colin Thubron
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.89A powerful unforgettable journey through China with one of our greatest travel writers.'An achievement of great and lasting brilliance' Patrick Leigh FermorHaving learned Mandarin, and travelling... -
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise by Peter Abelard
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00The story of Abelard and Heloise remains one of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairs. Through their letters, we follow the path of their romance from its reckless and ecstatic... -
Going Solo by Roald Dahl 9780241955796
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50In Going Solo, the world's favourite storyteller, Roald Dahl, tells of life as a fighter pilot in Africa.'They did not think for one moment that they would find anything but a burnt-out fuselage... -
Red Sky at Sunrise: Cider with Rosie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, A Moment of War by Laurie Lee
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.24A beautiful new edition of Laurie Lee's celebrated autobiographical trilogy: Cider with Rosie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning and A Moment of War'I was set down from the carrier's cart at the...