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Abacus by Mary Karr
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £10.82Apologies 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... -
Continental Drifter: Taking the Low Road with the First Grand Tourist by Tim Moore
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26They 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... -
The Evolution Of God: The origins of our beliefs by Robert Wright
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50In The Evolution of God, Robert Wright, award-winning author of the bestselling books Nonzero and The Moral Animal, takes us on a sweeping journey through religious history, from the Stone Age to the... -
White Rajah: A Biography of Sir James Brooke by Nigel Barley
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Sir James Brooke was an extraordinary 'eminent' Victorian, whose life was the stuff of legend.His curious career began in 1841 when he was caught up in a war in Brunei which had started because a... -
The Saffron Kitchen by Yasmin Crowther
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02On 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... -
God's Terrorists: The Wahhabi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad by Charles Allen
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.13The brutal assasination of Commissioner Frederick Mackeson on British India's North-West Frontier in 1853 was a bloody and public declaration of a conflict that was to stretch well into the next one... -
One Fifth Avenue by Candace Bushnell
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.59One Fifth Avenue, the Art Deco beauty towering over Manhattan's hippest neighbourhood, is a one-of-a-kind address, the sort of building you have to earn your way into - one way or another. For the... -
Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life by J. Craig Venter
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26In 2010, scientists led by J. Craig Venter became the first to successfully create 'synthetic life' -- putting humankind at the threshold of the most important and exciting phase of biological... -
Viva la Revolucion: Hobsbawm on Latin America by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.26Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) wrote that Latin America was the only region of the world outside Europe which he felt he knew well and where he felt entirely at home. He claimed this was because it was... -
Plain Tales From The Raj: Images of British India in the 20th Century by Charles Allen
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The Raj was, for two hundred years, the jewel in the British imperial crown. Although founded on military expansionism and undoubted exploitation, it developed over the centuries into what has been... -
Rolling Through The Isles: A Journey Back Down the Roads that led to Jupiter by Ted Simon
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26From the bestselling author of Jupiter's Travels and Dreaming of Jupiter comes an entertaining and inspiring new journey round Britain.Having crisscrossed the globe twice, Ted returns to the British... -
Underneath the Lemon Tree: A Memoir of Depression and Recovery by Mark Rice-Oxley
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26On 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... -
1848: Year Of Revolution by Mike Rapport
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50In 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.13For 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... -
Sea Wolves: The Extraordinary Story of Britain's WW2 Submarines by Tim Clayton
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Sea 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... -
The Churchill Secret KBO by Jonathan Smith
RRP: £3.99Booksplease Price: £3.39Nineteen-fifty-three is synonymous in the British memory with the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on 2 June. But less well known is what happened in 10 Downing Street on 23 June. With Anthony Eden... -
The Vintage Springtime Club by Beatrice Meier
RRP: £3.99Booksplease Price: £3.39Perfect 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... -
Sea Glass by Anita Shreve
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The year is 1929 and Honora Beecher and her husband, Sexton, are just settling into a new marriage and a cottage on the coast of New Hampshire. While Honora fixes up the derelict house and searches... -
Agincourt: The King, the Campaign, the Battle by Juliet Barker
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Agincourt 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... -
Chile: Travels In A Thin Country by Sara Wheeler
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Squeezed in between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2,600 miles long and never more than 110 miles wide - not a country which lends itself to maps, as Sara Wheeler... -
How To Lose Friends & Alienate People by Toby Young
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26In 1995, high-flying British journalist Toby Young left London for New York to become a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Other Brits had taken Manhattan - Alistair Cooke, Tina Brown, Anna Wintour... -
Called to Account: How Corporate Bad Behaviour and Government Waste Combine to Cost us Millions. by Margaret Hodge
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.01In a recent study of 61 hospitals, it was found that they bought 21 different types of A4 paper, 652 different kinds of surgical gloves and 1751 different cannulas.Police forces could cut the cost of... -
The Music Of The Spheres: Music, Science and the Natural Order of the Universe by Jamie James
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26From 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... -
Frost On My Moustache: The Arctic Exploits of a Lord and a Loafer Tim Moore 9780349111407
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Inspired by the swashbuckling travelogues of Victorian diplomat Lord Dufferin, frail surburbanite Tim Moore sets out to prove his physical and spiritual worth before his sceptical Nordic in-laws by... -
Under An English Heaven by Robert Radcliffe
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.021943. 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... -
Becoming A Man: Half a Life Story by Paul Monette
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.86He grew up in a small town in New England in the 1950's, watching lassie, going to church, getting straight A's at school, a scholar destined for success. But he already had a secret, and his public... -
Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02From the acclaimed author of Orange Prize winning PROPERTY comes a fresh twist on the classic Jekyll and Hyde story, a novel told from the perspective of Mary Reilly, Dr. Jekyll's dutiful and... -
Cancel The Apocalypse: The New Path To Prosperity Andrew Simms 9780349122922
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Ever get the feeling that things are falling apart? You're not alone. From bad banks to global warming it can all look hopeless, but what if everything could turn out, well, even better than before? ... -
In Spite Of The Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India by Edward Luce
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.88India is poised to become one of the world's three largest economies in the next generation and to overtake China as the world's most populous country by 2032. Well before then India's incipient... -
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge Professor Edward O. Wilson 9780349111124
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26In 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 Good German Of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe by John Rabe
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.88In 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... -
George Orwell by Gordon Bowker
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50'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: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.63First 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 First Psychic: The Peculiar Mystery of a Victorian Wizard by Peter Lamont 9780349118253
Booksplease Price: £18.99He was simply the greatest psychic of all time. He was also the first - before him, the word 'psychic' did not even exist. The feats he performed were so extraordinary that Victorian scientists had... -
Unspeak: Words Are Weapons by Steven Poole 9780349119243
Booksplease Price: £20.70Unspeak is language as a weapon. Every day, we are bombarded with those apparently simple words or phrases that actually conceal darker meanings. 'Climate change' is less threatening than 'global... -
Eight Men And A Duck: An Improbable Voyage by Reed Boat to Easter Island by Nick J. Thorpe 9780349114545
Booksplease Price: £20.70Nick Thorpe was innocently travelling around South America with his wife, Ali, when he came across an American adventurer planning to sail from Chile to Easter Island on a Bolivian boat made of reeds... -
Indian Summer by Will Randall 9780349116785
Booksplease Price: £18.18While attempting to teach at an inner London comprehensive Will Randall is taken up by an elderly German woman who asks him to accompany her to India. Nothing ventured, he agrees and so begins a... -
Isadora: A Sensational Life by Peter Kurth 9780349116198
Booksplease Price: £36.75Known by many as the greatest dancer of her time, Isadora Duncan was the matriarch of creative self-expression. A pioneer in the dance world and the women's movement, her name is synonymous with... -
Rise And Fall Of The British Empire by Lawrence James 9780349106670
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56THE 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...