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Samurai William: The Adventurer Who Unlocked Japan by Giles Milton 9780340794685 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.41In 1611 an astonishing letter arrived at the East India Trading Company in London after a tortuous seven-year journey. Englishman William Adams was one of only twenty-four survivors of a fleet of... -
My Friend Leonard by James Frey 9780719561177 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £5.06While in rehab, James Frey finds a father figure in a shady mafia boss called Leonard. When Leonard returns to his dubious, prosperous life in the criminal underworld of Las Vegas, he promises James... -
Hall of a Thousand Columns by Tim Mackintosh-Smith 9780719565878 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £1.97All the best armchair travellers are sceptics. Those of the fourteenth century were no exception: for them, there were lies, damned lies, and Ibn Battutah's India.Born in 1304, Ibn Battutah left his... -
Hurricane: Victor of the Battle of Britain by Leo McKinstry 9781848543416 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.40In the summer of 1940 the fate of Europe hung in the balance. Victory in the forthcoming air battle would mean national survival; defeat would establish German tyranny.The Luftwaffe greatly... -
A Lovely Way to Burn: Plague Times Trilogy 1 by Louise Welsh 9781529386851 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorLouise Welsh is the author of eight novels including The Cutting Room, A Lovely Way to Burn and Death is a... -
Signalman's Nightmare by Adrian Vaughan 9780719542855 [USED COPY]
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £3.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780719542855Author Adrian VaughanFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint John Murray Publishers... -
Katerina: The new novel from the author of the bestselling A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.75A kiss, a touch. A smile and a beating heart. Love and sex and dreams, art and drugs and the madness of youth. Betrayal and heartbreak, regret and pain, the melancholy of age. Katerina, James Frey's... -
Satisfaction by Gillian Greenwood 9780719568701 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.47Amy Marsham visits a Harley Street psychologist claiming to suffer from an 'excess of happiness'. But if she is telling the truth, this happiness has been hard-earned. Over three life-changing... -
What I Did by Christopher Wakling 9780719569098 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.25A boy runs across a busy road. His father catches him and smacks him. A passer-by looks on. This is what happens next.The story of a father accused of child abuse, seen through the eyes of his... -
Cashel Byron`s Profession George Bernard Shaw 9781848547476
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02After poleaxing his mathematics master with a perfect right, Cashel Byron, the unloved son of a successful actress, runs away to Australia. He returns to England and becomes the most famous... -
My Friend Leonard James Frey 9780719561177
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.26While in rehab, James Frey finds a father figure in a shady mafia boss called Leonard. When Leonard returns to his dubious, prosperous life in the criminal underworld of Las Vegas, he promises James... -
To War with Wellington: From the Peninsula to Waterloo Peter Snow 9781848541047
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50The seven-year campaign that saved Europe from Napoleon told by those who were there.What made Arthur Duke of Wellington the military genius who was never defeated in battle? In the vivid narrative... -
Falling Short: The fresh, funny and life-affirming debut novel Lex Coulton 9781473669581
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £5.49'Vastly enjoyable' Daily Mail Frances Pilgrim's father went missing when she was five, and ever since all sorts of things have been going astray: car keys, promotions, a series of underwhelming and... -
The Chapel at the Edge of the World Kirsten Mckenzie 9781848541504
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Emilio and Rosa are childhood sweethearts, engaged to be married. But it is 1942 and the war has taken Emilio far from Italy, to a tiny Orkney island where he is a POW. Rosa must wait for him to... -
Alfred the Great by Justin Pollard
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Alfred is the only English king ever to be called 'Great'. It was not a title given by political supporters, not the sycophantic gift of an official biographer, nor a self-styled title. It was the... -
The Longest Winter: Scott's Other Heroes Meredith Hooper 9780719595905
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Scott's 'Northern Party' played an important role in his iconic last expedition, but how did they survive? Their tents were torn, their food was nearly finished and the ship had failed to pick them... -
When Britain Burned the White House: The 1814 Invasion of Washington by Peter Snow
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26As heard on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week.Shortlisted for the Paddy Power Political History Book of the Year Award 2014.In August 1814 the United States' army is defeated in battle by an invading... -
The English Marriage Maureen Waller 9781848544017
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.88The story of the English marriage is unique and eccentric. Long after the rest of Europe and neighbouring Scotland had reformed their marriage laws, England clung to the chaotic and contradictory... -
You Deserve Nothing Alexander Maksik 9781848545724
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Set in an international high school in Paris, YOU DESERVE NOTHING is told in three voices: that of Will, a charismatic young teacher who brings ideas alive in the classroom in a way that profoundly... -
The Story of San Michele by Axel Munthe
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.90This 'dream-laden and spooked' (Marina Warner, London Review of Books) story is to many one of the best-loved books of the twentieth century.Munthe spent many years working as a doctor in Southern... -
Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean by Philip Mansel
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Levant is a book of cities. It describes Smyrna, Alexandria and Beirut when they were windows on the world, escapes from nationality and tradition, centres of wealth, pleasure and freedom. Using... -
The Crock of Gold by James Stephens
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'In the centre of the pine wood called Coilla Doraca there lived not long ago two Philosophers. They were wiser than anything else in the world except the Salmon who lies in the pool of Glyn Cagny... -
The Final Testament by James Frey
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02James Frey isn't like other writers. He's been called a liar. A cheat. A con man. He's been called a saviour. A revolutionary. A genius. He's been sued by readers. Dropped by publishers because of... -
Dallas: 1963: The Road to the Kennedy Assassination Bill Minutaglio 9781848547780
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26In November 1963 President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. His death remains a defining moment for millions of people but few understand the unstoppable forces that were building... -
Bad Dates Sam Jordison 9780719522024
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16From the man who had information about his underpants emailed to his entire office, to the girl who ruptured her stomach when over-indulging at an all-you-can-eat restaurant, Bad Dates lays bare (in... -
In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor by Patrick Leigh Fermor 9780719568572
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.88In spring 1956, Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire - youngest of the six legendary Mitford sisters - invited the writer and war hero Patrick Leigh Fermor to visit Lismore Castle, the Devonshires' house... -
In This Way I Was Saved Brian Deleeuw 9781848541610
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26I pounded myself against the inside of his head, but it was useless. He couldn't hear me; I was trapped. So, like any other prisoner, I waited. I bided my time.Luke is six. He is a lonely child, but... -
Beijing Rules: China's Quest for Global Influence by Bethany Allen 9781529367812
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.43LONGLISTED FOR FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDA FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR'Excellent . . . reveals an insidious matrix of spying, deception, censorship... -
The Orchid Outlaw: On a Mission to Save Our Rarest Flowers by Ben Jacob 9781399802284
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.06LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE & SHORTLISTED FOR THE RICHARD JEFFERIES AWARD'One man's fascinating mission to save the great British orchid' Mail on Sunday'Noble work in a time of great change'... -
Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles by Samuel Graydon 9781529372502
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.64'Fascinating and vivid' CARLO ROVELLIDROPOUT, PACIFIST, PHYSICIST, CASANOVA, REFUGEE, GENIUS . . . WHO WAS ALBERT EINSTEIN?The Nobel Prize-winning physicist who discovered relativity, black holes and... -
Sleepless: Discovering the Power of the Night Self Annabel Abbs 9781529366495
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.66'Sleepless has changed how I feel about sleep . . . I was captivated' The Times, Book of the Week'This book will inspire you to get up, light a candle, and experience your own Night Self' Financial... -
A Gift of Joy and Hope Pope Francis 9781399802857
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'This is Christian hope: the certainty of walking towards something that exists, not something I hope might be there.' In response to the devastating loss the world faced during the pandemic,... -
The World According to Cunk Philomena Cunk 9781399819381
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.49Romans! Madrigals! The Dark Ages! Revolutions! Trumpets! The Oranges of The First World War! All of this (except trumpets) and more, is covered in this definitive, easy-clean history of all world... -
Magic Enuff by Tara M Stringfellow 9781399818377
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50"God can stay asleep / these women in my life are magic enuff"An electrifying collection of poems that tells a universal tale of survival and revolution through the lens of Black femininity. Tara... -
I Want You to be Happy Pope Francis 9781399811989
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £9.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorThe first Pope of the Americas, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, hails from Argentina. The 76-year-old Jesuit... -
Second Act: What Late Bloomers Can Tell You About Success and Reinventing Your Life by Henry Oliver 9781399813327
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399813327Author Henry OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint John Murray Publishers... -
Wankernomics: A Deep-Dive Into Workplace Bullsh*ttery by James Schloeffel 9781399828482
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.56THE HILARIOUS, MUST-HAVE HANDBOOK FOR ANYONE WHO HAS HAD TO ENDURE THE BULLSH*T OF THE MODERN WORKING WORLD. Are you a total failure at work? Do you struggle with simple tasks like using the phrase... -
Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala 9781399827140
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY KATIE KITAMURA'A work of visceral urgency and power' AMITAV GHOSH'Totally and shockingly alive from its very first paragraph' ALI SMITH, GUARDIAN'An extraordinary book' SUNDAY... -
Elmet by Fiona Mozley 9781399827478
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY DONAL RYAN'A quiet explosion of a book, exquisite and unforgettable' The Economist'A cleverly constructed rural Gothic fable . . . Elmet is a marvellous achievement' TLS'Hansel... -
Interrupted Journeys: The Lives and Death of Three Large Mammals by Adrian Potter 9781399822404
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.20Retiring early from a life of teaching at a primary school in West Yorkshire, where he never missed a day, Adrian Potter is determined on two clear objectives: to be active in conservation and to...