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Abacus by Mary Karr
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £10.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887484698Author Mary KarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint -
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... -
A User's Guide To The Brain by Dr. John J. Ratey
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Bringing order and relevance to the cascade of recent brain findings, Dr John Ratey explains the brain's most important systems, the role they play in determining how we interact with the world and... -
Task Force Black: The explosive true story of the SAS and the secret war in Iraq by Mark Urban
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The 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... -
Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City by Russell Shorto
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £4.21Amsterdam is not just any city. Despite its relative size it has stood alongside its larger cousins - Paris, London, Berlin - and has influenced the modern world to a degree that few other cities... -
Slipless In Settle: A Slow Turn Around Northern Cricket by Harry Pearson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Slipless 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A 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... -
Nam: The Vietnam War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Fought There by Mark Baker
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Even now something is missing from the history of Vietnam. Behind the burning sense of horror and betrayal the personal stories remain untold. No one has bothered to talk to the men and women who... -
Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics by James Gleick
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Richard Feynman was the most brilliant and influential physicist of our time. Architect of quantum theories, enfant terrible of the atomic bomb project, caustic inquisitor on the space shuttle... -
The Age Of Extremes: 1914-1991 by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38THE 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... -
Cosmos: The Story of Cosmic Evolution, Science and Civilisation by Carl Sagan
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.99* Spacecraft missions to nearby planets* The Library of ancient Alexandria* The human brain* Egyptian hieroglyphics* The origin of life* The death of the sun* The evolution of galaxies* The origins... -
The Moral Animal: Why We Are The Way We Are by Robert Wright
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50THE 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... -
The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.82Who makes most money from the demand for cappuccinos early in the morning at Waterloo Station? Why is it impossible to get a foot on the property ladder? How does the Mafia make money from laundries... -
If This Is A Woman: Inside Ravensbruck: Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women by Sarah Helm
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.68Winner of the Longman-History Today Book Prize 2016 On a sunny morning in May 1939 a phalanx of 800 women - housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes - were marched through the... -
Full Hearts And Empty Bellies: A 1920s Childhood from the Forest of Dean to the Streets of London by Winifred Foley
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Winifred Foley grew up in the 1920s, a bright, determined miner's daughter - in a world of unspoilt beauty and desperate hardship, in which women were widowed at thirty and children died of... -
The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East by Alistair Urquhart
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He not only survived working on the notorious Bridge on the River Kwai , but he was subsequently taken... -
Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century by Orville Schell
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50By now everyone knows the basic facts of China's rise to pre-eminence over the past three decades. But how did this erstwhile sleeping giant finally manage to arrive at its current phase of dynamic... -
The King's Bed: Sex, Power and the Court of Charles II by Don Jordan
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £4.01To 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,... -
The Irish R M by E.OE. Somerville
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Major Sinclair Yeates leaves England to work as an Irish Resident Magistrate convinced that two and two make four. But as he passes judgement on a range of cases and characters that would have driven... -
Life Among the Pirates: The Romance and the Reality by David Cordingly
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26What were pirates really like? How much, if any, of the piratical stereotype - of a dashingly handsome man with an eye-patch, peg-leg and a parrot on his shoulder - is based on the documented fact.In... -
The Voyage Home Jane Rogers 9780349117294
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02When Anne Harrington decides to return from her father's burial by boat, she is advised strongly against it. The journey from Nigeria back to England is too long, she is warned: far better to return... -
Forgotten Fitzgerald: Echoes of a Lost America by F. Scott Fitzgerald
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02While F. Scott Fitzgerald was writing the novels we remember him for today, he was also publishing short stories in popular magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post and Esquire. Although many of... -
The Naked Scientist: Everyday Life Under the Microscope by Chris Smith
Booksplease Price: £20.70Why use expensive beauty products when you can moisturise with jellyfish? Have you ever suspected pollution was to blame for your children's plummeting IQ? Ready to take a sea change . . . on Mars?... -
Now And Then by William Corlett
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Now. Christopher Metcalfe returns to his family home in Kent after the death of his father. Sorting through a box of memorabilia from his days at public school, Chris is suddenly confronted by the... -
The Athenian Murders by Jose Carlos Somoza
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02THE ATHENIAN MURDERS is a brilliant, very entertaining and absolutely original literary mystery, revolving round two intertwined riddles. In classical Athens, one of the pupils of Plato's Academy is... -
Adrift In Caledonia: Boat-Hitching for the Unenlightened by Nick J. Thorpe
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26One clear morning in May, Nick Thorpe left his Edinburgh flat, ducked off the commuter route and hitched a ride aboard a little white canal boat, heading west towards the sea. It was the first... -
Black Watch: Liberating Europe and catching Himmler - my extraordinary WW2 with the Highland Division by Tom Renouf
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26As a 19-year old Black Watch conscript Tom Renouf's war began with some of the most vicious fighting of the conflict - against Himmler's fanatical 'Hitler Youth' SS Division. It ended with the... -
The Unfinished Revolution: How New Labour Changed British Politics Forever by Philip Gould
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.86The Unfinished Revolution is the definitive story of New Labour from its genesis to its election defeat 2010 - covering over 25 years and six general elections of strategy, rebuilding and reinvention... -
Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England: How our ancestors lived two centuries ago by Roy A. Adkins
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England explores the real England of Jane Austen's lifetime. It was a troubled period, with disturbing changes in industry and agriculture and a constant dread of... -
A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination by Philip Shenon
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56The questions have haunted our nation for half a century: Was the President killed by a single gunman? Was Lee Harvey Oswald part of a conspiracy? Did the Warren Commission discover the whole truth... -
The Glorious Revolution: 1688 - Britain's Fight for Liberty by Edward Vallance
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26In 1688, a group of leading politicians invited the Dutch prince William of Orange over to England to challenge the rule of the catholic James II. When James's army deserted him he fled to France,... -
The Future Of Life by Edward O. Wilson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Our world is far richer than previously conceived, yet so ravaged by human activity that half its species could be gone by the end of the present century. These two contrasting themes--unexpected... -
Beating Napoleon: How Britain Faced Down Her Greatest Challenge by David Andress
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £3.39'If it had not been for you English, I should have been Emperor of the East; but wherever there is water to float a ship, we are sure to find you in our way.' Emperor NapoleonBut just thirty-five... -
The Learning Game: A Teacher's Inspirational Story by Jonathan Smith
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26We are all caught up in our children's lives. We all remember our own schooldays and, as parents, we watch anxiously as our children go through it. As we look at the world of teaching from the... -
Encyclopedia Of Unusual Sex Practices by Brenda Love
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Filled with more astonishing facts than most people could ever have imagined, the ENCYCLOPEDIA OF UNUSUAL SEX PRACTICES presents a unique guide to human sexual expression, from the mildly kinky to... -
Urban Worrier: Adventures in the Lost Art of Letting Go by Nick J. Thorpe
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Hunched exhausted at his computer one ordinary Monday morning, world-class workaholic Nick Thorpe has reached the end of his tether. Fearing for his health and family life, he knows something has to... -
The War For All The Oceans: From Nelson at the Nile to Napoleon at Waterloo by Roy A. Adkins
Booksplease Price: £25.63As France emerged from revolution, a young general named Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Egypt, hoping next to march overland to India. It would not happen. Britain swung her forces into action to battle... -
The Art Of Choosing: The Decisions We Make Everyday of our Lives, What They Say About Us and How We Can Improve Them by Sheena Iyengar
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Every day we make choices. Coke or Pepsi? Save or spend? Stay or go?Whether mundane or life-altering, these choices define us and shape our lives. Sheena Iyengar asks the difficult questions about... -
Made In Britain: How the nation earns its living by Evan Davis
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26What are countries famous for making? For Japan, the answer might be electronic goods. For Germany, automobiles. For France, perhaps a Louis Vuitton bag. But what about Britain?Here, Evan Davis sets... -
Surviving The Sword: Prisoners of the Japanese 1942-45 by Brian MacArthur
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Many of the prisoners held by the Japanese during the WWII were so scarred by their experiences that they could not discuss them even with their families. They believed that their brutal treatment...