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Abacus by Mary Karr
RRP: $35.60Booksplease Price: $22.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887484698Author Mary KarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint -
Great Tales From English History: Cheddar Man to DNA by Robert Lacey
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05From ancient times to the present day, the story of England has been laced with drama, intrigue, courage and passion - a rich and vibrant narrative of heroes and villains, kings and rebels, artists... -
The Age Of Empire: 1875-1914 by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05The splendid finale to Eric Hobsbawm's study of the nineteenth century, THE AGE OF EMPIRE covers the area of Western Imperialism and examines the forces that swept the world to the outbreak of World... -
Brothers by Bernice Rubens
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45This immensely powerful novel follows four generations of the Bindel family as they fight for survivial in a hostile world. From imperial Russia in 1825 they head towards Western Europe, returning... -
The Saffron Kitchen by Yasmin Crowther
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.84On an autumn day in London, the dark secrets and troubled past of Maryam Mazar surface violently with tragic consequences for her pregnant daughter, Sara, and her newly orphaned nephew, Saeed. Racked... -
Kings Of The Water by Mark Behr
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $8.42When Michiel Steyn returns to the family farmstead in South Africa for his mother's funeral, he has spent close to half his lifetime abroad. But even after fifteen years' absence, neither Michiel nor... -
Playing Hard Ball: County Cricket and Big League Baseball by E.T. Smith
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.45PLAYING HARD BALL is a unique sports book, a cultural comparison of two national games - cricket, English in origin and American baseball - written from the viewpoint of a top-class practitioner of... -
1848: Year Of Revolution by Mike Rapport
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05In 1848, Europe was engulfed in a firestorm of revolution. The streets of cities from Paris to Bucharest and from Berlin to Palermo were barricaded and flooded by armed insurgents proclaiming... -
Cuba: The Land Of Miracles: A Journey Through Modern Cuba by Stephen Smith
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45For a growing number of British holidaymakers, Cuba is a Caribbean paradise, but it is also a land of cutbacks and economic instability. Stephen Smith comes to live on the island, and his search for... -
Agincourt: The King, the Campaign, the Battle by Juliet Barker
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05Agincourt took place on 25 October 1415 and was a turning-point not only in the Hundred Years War between England and France but also in the history of weaponry. Azincourt (as it is now) is in the... -
Queen Of Dreams by Chitra Divakaruni
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.84In QUEEN OF DREAMS, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni once more spins a fresh, spellbinding story of transformation. Rakhi, a young artist and divorced mother living in Berkeley, California, is struggling... -
Playing Cards In Cairo: Mint Tea, Tarneeb and Tales of the City by Hugh Miles
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45PLAYING CARDS IN CAIRO is a fly-on-the-wall account - like THE BOOKSELLER OF KABUL - of life (for western readers) in a strange and exotic environment. Hugh Miles lives in Cairo and is engaged to an... -
The Music Of The Spheres: Music, Science and the Natural Order of the Universe by Jamie James
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45From the 5th century BC, when Pythagoras first composed his laws of Western music and science, until the flowering of Romanticism over 2000 years later, scientists and philosophers perceived the... -
Achtung Schweinehund!: A Boy's Own Story of Imaginary Combat by Harry Pearson
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84This is a book about men and war. Not real conflict but war as it has filtered down to generations of boys and men through toys, comics, games and movies. Harry Pearson belongs to the great battalion... -
The Terror: Civil War in the French Revolution by David Andress
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $21.97The French Revolution marks the foundation of the modern political world. It was in the crucible of the Revolution that the political forces of conservatism, liberalism and socialism began to find... -
Deliver Us From Evil by Tom Holland
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45Wiltshire, during the dying days of Oliver Cromwell's Republic. Robert Vaughan is the son of a Parliamentarian officer who is investigating a series of grisly murders which suggest a link with... -
Does Santa Exist? by Eric Kaplan
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45Metaphysics isn't ordinarily much of a laughing matter. But in the hands of acclaimed comedy writer and scholar Eric Kaplan, a search for the truth about old St. Nick becomes a deeply insightful,... -
A Home From Home: From Immigrant Boy to English Man by George Alagiah
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45When George Alagiah was dropped off at a Hampshire boarding school as a child back in 1967 he was confronted with an extreme version of the private struggle faced by all immigrants - the battle to... -
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge Professor Edward O. Wilson 9780349111124
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45In this groundbreaking new book, one of the world's greatest living scientists argues for the fundamental unity of all knowledge and the need to search for what he calls consilience, the composition... -
The War The Infantry Knew: 1914-1919 by J.C. Dunn
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.38Sometimes, through word of mouth and shared enthusiasm, a secret book becomes famous. The War the Infantry Knew is one of them. Published privately in a limited edition of five hundred copies in... -
To Be Sung Underwater by Tom McNeal
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84For you, I was a chapter-a good chapter maybe, or even your favorite chapter, but, still, just a chapter-and for me, you were the book.' Judith Whitman believes in the sort of love that 'picks you... -
The Mould In Dr Florey's Coat: The Remarkable True Story of the Penicillin Miracle by Eric Lax
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45Many people know that in 1928 Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin's antibiotic potential while examining a stray mould that had bloomed in a dish of bacteria in his London laboratory. But few... -
Freedom In Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama of Tibet His Holiness The Dalai Lama 9780349111117
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45The autobiography of the Dalai Lama of Tibet, a fascinating insight into the mind of one of the greatest contemporary spiritual leaders'An extraordinary story' Daily Mail'Compelling, fascinating,... -
Trafalgar: The Biography of a Battle by Roy A. Adkins 9780349116327
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.75This is the true story of the Battle of Trafalgar, Britain's most significant sea battle, as seen through the smoke-hazed gunports of the fighting ships. In an atmosphere of choking fumes from cannon... -
Underground London: Travels Beneath the City Streets by Stephen Smith 9780349115658
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.75What is visible to the naked eye has been exhaustively raked over; in UNDERGROUND LONDON, acclaimed travel writer Stephen Smith provides an alternative guide and history of the capital. It's a... -
![America's Secret War: Inside the Hidden Worldwide Struggle Between the United States and its Enemies by George Friedman 9780349118925 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/6277533/6354479/9780349118925__45096.1737086304.jpg?c=1 "America's Secret War: Inside the Hidden Worldwide Struggle Between the United States and its Enemies by George Friedman 9780349118925 [USED COPY]")
America's Secret War: Inside the Hidden Worldwide Struggle Between the United States and its Enemies by George Friedman 9780349118925 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $5.29George Friedman's company, STRATFOR (Strategic Forecasting), has received incredible accolades for working ahead of the news media and being right on the pulse of political and military action as it... -
The Serpent's Promise: The Bible Retold as Science by Professor Steve Jones 9780349123486
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05The Bible was the first scientific textbook of all; and it got some things right (and plenty more wrong). Steve Jones' new book rewrites it in the light of modern science. Are we all descended from a... -
Breakdown: The Crisis of Shell Shock on the Somme by Taylor Downing 9780349141015
Booksplease Price: $45.55Paralysis. Stuttering. The 'shakes'. Inability to stand or walk. Temporary blindness or deafness.When strange symptoms like these began appearing in men at Casualty Clearing Stations in 1915, a... -
![The Wisdom Of Crowds: Why the Many are Smarter than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economics, Society and Nations by James Surowiecki 9780349116051 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9647618/10664338/9780349116051__00024.1781270878.jpg?c=1 "The Wisdom Of Crowds: Why the Many are Smarter than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economics, Society and Nations by James Surowiecki 9780349116051 [USED COPY]")
The Wisdom Of Crowds: Why the Many are Smarter than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economics, Society and Nations by James Surowiecki 9780349116051 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $4.31In this landmark work, NEW YORKER columnist James Surowiecki explores a seemingly counter-intuitive idea that has profound implications. Decisions taken by a large group, even if the individuals... -
![The Age Of Extremes: 1914-1991 by Eric Hobsbawm 9780349106717 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9665840/10682560/9780349106717__57145.1781288628.jpg?c=1 "The Age Of Extremes: 1914-1991 by Eric Hobsbawm 9780349106717 [USED COPY]")
The Age Of Extremes: 1914-1991 by Eric Hobsbawm 9780349106717 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $5.06THE AGE OF EXTREMES is eminent historian Eric Hobsbawm's personal vision of the twentieth century. Remarkable in its scope, and breathtaking in its depth of knowledge, this immensely rewarding book... -
![Shackleton by Roland Huntford 9780349107448 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9665846/10682566/9780349107448__81299.1781288633.jpg?c=1 "Shackleton by Roland Huntford 9780349107448 [USED COPY]")
Shackleton by Roland Huntford 9780349107448 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $5.04Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own... -
![Silver Linings: Travels Around Northern Ireland by Martin Fletcher 9780349112510 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9665865/10682585/9780349112510__10569.1781288648.jpg?c=1 "Silver Linings: Travels Around Northern Ireland by Martin Fletcher 9780349112510 [USED COPY]")
Silver Linings: Travels Around Northern Ireland by Martin Fletcher 9780349112510 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $4.14Northern Ireland has made headlines around the world for three decades. The province has become synonymous with conflict, terrorism and tortuous efforts to forge peace. But what is life there... -
![Botswana Time by Will Randall 9780349117782 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9665930/10682650/9780349117782__49603.1781288700.jpg?c=1 "Botswana Time by Will Randall 9780349117782 [USED COPY]")
Botswana Time by Will Randall 9780349117782 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $4.01Will Randall travels with a purpose, as well as an outrageous sense of fortune. In INDIAN SUMMER he found himself, by chance, having the extraordinary experience of helping slum schoolchildren put on... -
![Supreme Courage: Heroic stories from 150 Years of the Victoria Cross by Peter de la Billiere 9780349118987 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9665945/10682665/9780349118987__54367.1781288712.jpg?c=1 "Supreme Courage: Heroic stories from 150 Years of the Victoria Cross by Peter de la Billiere 9780349118987 [USED COPY]")
Supreme Courage: Heroic stories from 150 Years of the Victoria Cross by Peter de la Billiere 9780349118987 [USED COPY]
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $4.89Since 1854 the Victoria Cross has been the highest award for gallantry in the British Armed Forces. It bears the simple legend 'For Valour', but behind it are thrilling and ultimately humbling tales... -
![Continental Drifter: Taking the Low Road with the First Grand Tourist by Tim Moore 9780349114194 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9788977/10805550/9780349114194__53927.1782280895.jpg?c=1 "Continental Drifter: Taking the Low Road with the First Grand Tourist by Tim Moore 9780349114194 [USED COPY]")
Continental Drifter: Taking the Low Road with the First Grand Tourist by Tim Moore 9780349114194 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $5.06They stuck their coaches on ride-on, ride off ferries, whisked through France and Italy moaning about garlic and rudeness, then bored the neighbours to death by having them all round to look at their... -
Day For Night by Frederick Reiken 9780349122847
RRP: $6.28Booksplease Price: $5.82A boy lies in a coma in Utah, brought home from Israel after a near-death motorcycle accident. A child who escaped certain death in Poland in 1941 swims with manatees in Florida many years later on... -
Continental Drifter: Taking the Low Road with the First Grand Tourist by Tim Moore
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45They stuck their coaches on ride-on, ride off ferries, whisked through France and Italy moaning about garlic and rudeness, then bored the neighbours to death by having them all round to look at their... -
Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Harford
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45Everything we know about solving the world's problems is wrong. Out: Plans, experts and above all, leaders. In: Adapting - improvise rather than plan; fail, learn, and try againIn this groundbreaking... -
Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Goldhagen
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05Daniel Goldhagen re-visits a question which history has treated as settled, and his research leads him to the inescapble conclusion that none of the answers holds true. That question is: How could... -
England, Arise: The People, the King and the Great Revolt of 1381 by Juliet Barker
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05The dramatic and shocking events of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 are to be the backdrop to Juliet Barker's latest book: a snapshot of what everyday life was like for ordinary people living in the...