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Abacus by Mary Karr
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $14.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887484698Author Mary KarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint -
Continental Drifter: Taking the Low Road with the First Grand Tourist by Tim Moore
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41They 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: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Everything 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: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07Daniel 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: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07The 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... -
A Tall Man In A Low Land: Some Time Among the Belgians by Harry Pearson
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41Most British travel writers head south for a destination that is hot, exotic, dangerous or all three. Harry Pearson chose to head in the opposite direction for a country which is damp, safe and of... -
Where The Bodies Are Buried by Chris Brookmyre
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Detective Catherine McLeod was always taught that in Glasgow, they don't do whodunit. They do score-settling, vendettas and petty revenge. And however she looks at it, the discovery of a dead... -
Underneath the Lemon Tree: A Memoir of Depression and Recovery by Mark Rice-Oxley
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41On paper, things looked good for Mark Rice-Oxley: wife, children, fulfilling job. But then, at his 40th birthday party, his whole world crumbled as he succumbed to depression...How many men do you... -
The Writing On The Wall: China And The West In The 21St Century by Will Hutton
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $4.54China constitutes a fifth of the world's population. Over the last twenty years its economy has doubled to make it the fifth largest economy in the world; if the pace is repeated over the next twenty... -
Homer And Langley by E. L. Doctorow
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75Brilliant brothers Langley and Homer Collyer are born into bourgeois New York comfort, their home a mansion on upper Fifth Avenue, their future rosy. But before he is out of his teens Homer begins to... -
Sea Wolves: The Extraordinary Story of Britain's WW2 Submarines by Tim Clayton
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.24Sea Wolves is the story of the crews who bravely manned British submarines in the Second World War. This small band of highly trained and highly skilled individuals fought in the front line for six... -
I Hid My Voice Parinoush Saniee 9781408707500
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75This is the story, based on fact, of a boy who couldn't speak until the age of seven. Now twenty, he describes the events of his life.Four-year-old Shahaab has not started talking. The family doctor... -
The Vintage Springtime Club by Beatrice Meier
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $4.54Perfect for fans of A MAN CALLED OVE, THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL and THE LITTLE PARIS BOOKSHOP Newly retired Philip returns home to Cologne and is thrown into emotional turmoil upon bumping into... -
Silver Linings: Travels Around Northern Ireland Martin Fletcher 9780349112510
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Northern 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... -
Darwin's Island: The Galapagos in the Garden of England by Professor Steve Jones
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41The Origin of Species may be the most famous book in science but its stature tends to obscure much of Charles Darwin's other works. His visit to the Galapagos lasted just five weeks and on his return... -
The Tiananmen Papers: The Chinese Leadership's Decision to Use Force Against Their Own People - In Their Own Words by Andrew Nathan
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.14THE TIANANMEN PAPERS, which contains documents unearthed from the guarded core of the Chinese Politburo, is the most important book on China published in decades. It reveals the highest-level... -
Under An English Heaven by Robert Radcliffe
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.751943. The sleepy Suffolk village of Bedenham is jerked into the twentieth century and the harsh realities of war by the arrival on its doorstep of an American bomber base and its three thousand... -
The New Primal Scream: Primal Therapy Twenty Years On by Arthur Janov
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07When THE PRIMAL SCREAM was published in 1970 it caused an international sensation. In introduced a revolutionary new approach to psychological thinking- Primal Therapy, which encourages patients to... -
Breathing On Glass Jennifer Cryer 9780349000084
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09Rhea - dark, intense and brilliant - and her golden, voluptuous sister Amber are not alike, but they are bound tighter than most: by love, by the loss of their father, and by the man who stands... -
The Good German Of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe by John Rabe
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.24In 1937, as the invading Japanese Army closed on Nanking, then the capital of China, all foreigners were ordered to evacuate. One man, a mild 55-year-old German named John Rabe who ran the local... -
A History In Fragments: Europe in the Twentieth Century by Richard Vinen
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.83The problem with the history of twentieth-century Europe is that everyone thinks they know it. The great stories of the century - the two world wars, the rise and fall of Nazism and communism, female... -
George Orwell by Gordon Bowker
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07'Adds enormously to our understanding of the man' Evening Standard George Orwell was one of the greatest writers England produced in the last century. He left an enduring mark on our language and... -
The Old Straight Track: The classic book on ley lines by Alfred Watkins 9780349137070
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $21.63First published in 1925 THE OLD STRAIGHT TRACK remains the most important source for the study of ancient tracks or leys that criss-cross the British Isles- a fascinating system which was old when... -
The Prophet Muhammad: A Biography by Barnaby Rogerson 9780349115863
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41The Prophet Muhammad is a hero for all mankind. In his lifetime he established a new religion, Islam; a new state, the first united Arabia; and a new literary language, the classical Arabic of the... -
Rise And Fall Of The British Empire by Lawrence James 9780349106670
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.83THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE covers the history of British expansion overseas from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Narrative and analysis are interwoven with revealing... -
The Decisive Duel: Spitfire vs 109 by David Isby 9780349123653
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07London, 15 September 1940. The air battle over Britain on that day saw two of the most advanced fighter planes, the British Supermarine Spitfire and the German Messerschmitt Bf 109, battle for... -
![Under An English Heaven by Robert Radcliffe 9780351320804 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9645653/10662373/9780351320804__79361.1781269216.jpg?c=1 "Under An English Heaven by Robert Radcliffe 9780351320804 [USED COPY]")
Under An English Heaven by Robert Radcliffe 9780351320804 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $3.221943. The sleepy Suffolk village of Bedenham is jerked into the twentieth century and the harsh realities of war by the arrival on its doorstep of an American bomber base and its three thousand... -
![Rosebud: The Story Of Orson Welles by David Thomson 9780349109091 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9665856/10682576/9780349109091__47626.1781288641.jpg?c=1 "Rosebud: The Story Of Orson Welles by David Thomson 9780349109091 [USED COPY]")
Rosebud: The Story Of Orson Welles by David Thomson 9780349109091 [USED COPY]
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $3.64Rosebud is a riveting and powerful portrait of the rise and fall of one of Hollywood's greatest innovators - the man who brought us Citizen Kane and then lost himself to obesity, small talk and... -
![The Good German Of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe by John Rabe 9780349111414 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9665860/10682580/9780349111414__70213.1781288644.jpg?c=1 "The Good German Of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe by John Rabe 9780349111414 [USED COPY]")
The Good German Of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe by John Rabe 9780349111414 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.38In 1937, as the invading Japanese Army closed on Nanking, then the capital of China, all foreigners were ordered to evacuate. One man, a mild 55-year-old German named John Rabe who ran the local... -
![Playing Hard Ball: County Cricket and Big League Baseball by E.T. Smith 9780349116662 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9665910/10682630/9780349116662__31780.1781288684.jpg?c=1 "Playing Hard Ball: County Cricket and Big League Baseball by E.T. Smith 9780349116662 [USED COPY]")
Playing Hard Ball: County Cricket and Big League Baseball by E.T. Smith 9780349116662 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $2.80PLAYING 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... -
![The King's Bed: Sex, Power and the Court of Charles II by Don Jordan 9781408704905 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9670832/10687552/9781408704905__40376.1781293528.jpg?c=1 "The King's Bed: Sex, Power and the Court of Charles II by Don Jordan 9781408704905 [USED COPY]")
The King's Bed: Sex, Power and the Court of Charles II by Don Jordan 9781408704905 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $3.23To refer to the private life of Charles II is to abuse the adjective. His personal life was anything but private. His amorous liaisons were largely conducted in royal palaces surrounded by friends,... -
![Nab End And Beyond by William Woodruff 9780349119878 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9706902/10723598/9780349119878__67071.1781364416.jpg?c=1 "Nab End And Beyond by William Woodruff 9780349119878 [USED COPY]")
Nab End And Beyond by William Woodruff 9780349119878 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $3.94William Woodruff had the sort of childhood satirised in the famous Monty Python Yorkshireman sketch. The son of a weaver, he was born on a pallet of straw at the back of the mill and two days later... -
![Across The Blood-Red Skies by Robert Radcliffe 9780349122267 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9706905/10723601/9780349122267__21263.1781364418.jpg?c=1 "Across The Blood-Red Skies by Robert Radcliffe 9780349122267 [USED COPY]")
Across The Blood-Red Skies by Robert Radcliffe 9780349122267 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $3.36Spring 1917. The average survival time of a First World War reconnaissance pilot is eighteen hours. After weeks in the thick of it, George Duckwell, reluctant novice-hero of the Royal Flying Corps,... -
![Attrition: Fighting the First World War by William Philpott 9780349000077 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/10117102/11133437/9780349000077__06173.1788934590.jpg?c=1 "Attrition: Fighting the First World War by William Philpott 9780349000077 [USED COPY]")
Attrition: Fighting the First World War by William Philpott 9780349000077 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.11The First World War was too big to be grasped by its participants. In the retelling of their war in the competing memories of leaders and commanders, and the anguished fiction of its combatants, any... -
![The Far Corner: A Mazy Dribble Through North-East Football by Harry Pearson 9780349108377 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/10117109/11133444/9780349108377__99846.1788934595.jpg?c=1 "The Far Corner: A Mazy Dribble Through North-East Football by Harry Pearson 9780349108377 [USED COPY]")
The Far Corner: A Mazy Dribble Through North-East Football by Harry Pearson 9780349108377 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $2.87A book in which Wilf Mannion rubs shoulders with The Sunderland Skinhead: recollections of Len Shakleton blight the lives of village shoppers: and the appointment of Kevin Keegan as manager of... -
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Summer In February by Jonathan Smith 9780349107462 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $2.80Sir Alfred Munnings, retiring President of the Royal Academy, chooses the 1949 Annual Banquet to launch a savage attack on Modern Art. The effect of his diatribe is doubly shocking, leaving not only... -
Task Force Black: The explosive true story of the SAS and the secret war in Iraq by Mark Urban
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41The book the MoD doesn't want you to read' Daily MailSoon after British and American forces invaded Iraq they faced an insurgency that was almost impossible to understand, let alone reverse.Facing... -
Slipless In Settle: A Slow Turn Around Northern Cricket by Harry Pearson
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41Slipless in Settle is a sentimental journey around club cricket in the north of England, a world far removed from the cliched lengthening-shadows-on-the-village-green image of the summer game. This... -
The Far Corner: A Mazy Dribble Through North-East Football by Harry Pearson
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41A book in which Wilf Mannion rubs shoulders with The Sunderland Skinhead: recollections of Len Shakleton blight the lives of village shoppers: and the appointment of Kevin Keegan as manager of... -
The Moral Animal: Why We Are The Way We Are by Robert Wright
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07THE MORAL ANIMAL examines the significance of this extraordinary shift in our perception of morality and what it means to be human.Taking the life of Charles Darwin as his context, Robert Wright...