Filter By
Books (1453)
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Abacus by Mary Karr
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £10.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887484698Author Mary KarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Carnegie-Mellon University... -
Alexander At The World's End by Tom Holt 9780349113159
Booksplease Price: £23.66'Wry and droll, fascinating and funny, by bringing us Alexander's nether parts this novel gives momentous matters unforgettable life' - Ross Leckie'Witty, ironic ... and achieves a deeply felt... -
Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Harford
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Everything 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... -
The Age Of Empire: 1875-1914 by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50The 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... -
England, Arise: The People, the King and the Great Revolt of 1381 by Juliet Barker
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50The 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... -
Brothers by Bernice Rubens
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26This 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... -
Green Was The Earth On The Seventh Day by Thor Heyerdahl
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26In the late 1930s, Thor Heyerdahl left his home in Norway and set off with his new wife for paradise. Fulfilling a long-held ambition to return to nature, the couple sought, and to a degree found, a... -
Kings Of The Water by Mark Behr
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £4.01When 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26PLAYING 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... -
A Passage To Africa by George Alagiah
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'One of Britain's most respected television journalists, with a reputation built up over many years of covering world events' Guardian'Tributes will rightly be paid to a fantastic journalist and... -
Spies In The Sky: The Secret Battle for Aerial Intelligence during World War II by Taylor Downing
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88SPIES IN THE SKY is the thrilling, little-known story of the partner organisation to the famous code-breaking centre at Bletchley Park. It is the story of the daring reconnaissance pilots who took... -
Sale Of The Century: The Inside Story of the Second Russian Revolution by Chrystia Freeland
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50This is the first account of Russia's second revolution - the country's dramatic, wrenching transition from communist central planning to a market economy. Written by one of the finest writers on... -
In The Footsteps Of Adam by Thor Heyerdahl
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Thor Heyerdahl is one of the greatest explorers of our day. At the age of 84 he has chosen to take a journey through his memories. This is not a chronological autobiography but rather an epic... -
This Is Paradise!: My North Korean Childhood by Hyok Kang
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Hyok Kang was eighteen when he escaped from North Korea, a country locked away from the outside world. This personal, illustrated account of school days in a rigidly communist institution and... -
Say You're One Of Them by Uwem Akpan
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Nothing interests Maman today, not even Jean, her favorite child ... She acts dumb, bewitched, like a goat that the neighborhood children have fed sorghum beer.'These extraordinary stories centre on... -
The Writing On The Wall: China And The West In The 21St Century by Will Hutton
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £3.39China 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... -
Book Of Fire: William Tyndale, Thomas More and the Bloody Birth of the English Bible by Brian Moynahan
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50The great echoing phrases of the King James Bible that have boomed through the English-speaking mind for 400 years - an eye for an eye . . . eat, drink and be merry . . . . death, where is thy sting?... -
Altered Pasts: Counterfactuals in History by Sir Richard J. Evans
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A bullet misses its target in Sarajevo, a would-be Austrian painter gets into the Viennese academy, Lord Halifax becomes British prime minister in 1940: seemingly minor twists of fate on which... -
The Farming Of Bones Edwidge Danticat 9780349111636
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64It is 1937, and Amabelle Desir is a young Haitian woman working as a maid for a wealthy family in the Dominican Republic, across the border from her homeland. The Republic, under the iron rule of the... -
The Nazi Officer's Wife: How one Jewish woman survived the holocaust by Edith Hahn Beer
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Edith Hahn was a young law student in Vienna when Hitler absorbed Austria in 1938. Madly in love with a young man called Pepi who was half-Jewish, she was separated from him and sent to a forced... -
Bomber Crew: Taking On the Reich by John Sweetman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26During the Second World War aeronautical technology gathered rapid pace. By 1945, bombers had not only greatly increased in engine power and range, but the bombs which they carried rose from 250lbs... -
Silver Linings: Travels Around Northern Ireland Martin Fletcher 9780349112510
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Northern 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... -
Queen Of Dreams by Chitra Divakaruni
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26PLAYING 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... -
On History by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88In these essays, about a quarter of them previously unpublished, Eric Hobsbawm reflects upon the theory, practice and development of history and its relevance to the modern world. These wide-ranging... -
The Tiananmen Papers: The Chinese Leadership's Decision to Use Force Against Their Own People - In Their Own Words by Andrew Nathan
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.30THE 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... -
Achtung Schweinehund!: A Boy's Own Story of Imaginary Combat by Harry Pearson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02This 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... -
Does Santa Exist? by Eric Kaplan
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Metaphysics 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,... -
Facing The Congo by Jeffrey Tayler
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26At thirty-three one's direction in life should be clear, and mine was not.' In search of some direction, or at least a new challenge, Jeffrey Tayler gave up his day job of opening rejection letters... -
Capote: A Biography by Gerald Clarke
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50The authoritative biography of Truman Capote, a bestseller when originally published on both sides of the Atlantic.* A fascinating exploration of the troubled life of one of America's greatest... -
Nansen: The Explorer as Hero by Roland Huntford
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them... -
A Home From Home: From Immigrant Boy to English Man by George Alagiah
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26When 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... -
Aldous Huxley: An English Intellectual by Nicholas Murray
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38The grandson of biologist T. H. Huxley, Aldous Huxley had a privileged background and was educated at Eton and Oxford despite an eye infection that left him nearly blind. Having learned braille his... -
Open World: The Truth about Globalisation by Philippe Legrain
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Globalisation is one of the most controversial issues in the world today. While protestors take to the streets at international summits, it is becoming conventional wisdom that companies are taking... -
Otis Lee Crenshaw: I Blame Society by Rich Hall
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The memoir of Otis Lee Crenshaw, Rich Hall's Perrier Award-winning alter ego'My Old Man's name was Jack Daniels Crenshaw. No surprise what he liked to drink. As a very small child I remember teething... -
To Be Sung Underwater by Tom McNeal
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02For 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Many 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... -
Big Deal: One Year as a Professional Poker Player by Anthony Holden 9780349115191
Booksplease Price: £20.70BIG DEAL is the mesmerising story of a year spent by bestselling biographer Anthony Holden in the tough world of the professional poker player. He spent days and nights in the poker paradise of Las... -
Long Walk To Freedom: 'Essential reading' Barack Obama by Nelson Mandela 9780349146287
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £6.50'Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand history - and then go out and change it' Barack Obama'The authentic voice of Mandela shines through this book' The Times'Burns with the... -
Freedom In Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama of Tibet His Holiness The Dalai Lama 9780349111117
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The 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,...