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Rudyard Kipling Andrew Lycett 9781474602983
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €16.94Paragon of English virtues or racist imperialist? Andrew Lycett (acclaimed biographer of Ian Fleming) has returned to primary sources to tell the intricate story of a misunderstood genius who became... -
Dylan Thomas: A New Life by Andrew Lycett
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €15.07The definitive biography of the poet who was almost as notorious for his 'rock 'n' roll' lifestyle as his artistic workDylan Thomas was a romantic and controversial figure; a poet who lived to excess... -
Conan Doyle: The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes Andrew Lycett 9780753824283
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €15.34Ground-breaking biography of the creator of fiction's best loved detectiveThough Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's name is recognised the world over, for decades he was overshadowed by his creation, Sherlock... -
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Dylan Thomas: Everyman Poetry by Dylan Thomas 9780460878319 [USED COPY]
RRP: €9.59Booksplease Price: €2.34Praised for his verbal inventiveness, image-making power and almost pagan metaphysics, Dylan Thomas's poems are visions of creation and morality.A collection of Dylan Thomas's most beloved poems... -
Dylan Thomas: Everyman Poetry by Dylan Thomas
RRP: €9.59Booksplease Price: €8.88Praised for his verbal inventiveness, image-making power and almost pagan metaphysics, Dylan Thomas's poems are visions of creation and morality.A collection of Dylan Thomas's most beloved poems... -
Too Close To The Sun: The Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton by Sara Wheeler
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.35Conservationist, scholar, soldier, white hunter and fabled lover - Denys Finch Hatton was an aristocrat of leonine nonchalance. After a dazzling career at Eton and Oxford, he sailed in 1910 for... -
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The English Ghost: Spectres Through Time by Peter Ackroyd 9780099287575 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €2.94The English see more ghosts than any other nation. From medieval times to the present day, stories have been told about ghosts who avenge injustice, souls who long for peace and spooks who just want... -
The English Ghost: Spectres Through Time by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.35The English see more ghosts than any other nation. From medieval times to the present day, stories have been told about ghosts who avenge injustice, souls who long for peace and spooks who just want... -
Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York Andrew Lownie 9780008775452
RRP: €26.40Booksplease Price: €19.62Entitled is the first joint biography of Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson by renowned royal biographer and literary agent, Andrew Lownie. Packed full... -
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The Edwardians by Roy Hattersley 9780349116624 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €2.88Edwardian Britain is the quintessential age of nostalgia, often seen as the last long summer afternoon before the cataclysmic changes of the twentieth century began to take form. The class system... -
Lives Between The Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant Michael Vatikiotis 9781474613217
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.88In Lives Between the Lines, Michael Vatikiotis traces the journey of his Greek and Italian forebears from Tuscany, Crete, Hydra and Rhodes, as they made their way to Egypt and the coast of Palestine... -
Autumn in Venice: Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse by Andrea di Robilant
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08National Geographic Traveller's the best books on European cities, 2019In the autumn of 1948 Hemingway was approaching fifty and hadn't published a novel in nearly a decade. He travelled for the... -
The Chief: The Life of Lord Northcliffe by Andrew Roberts 9781398508699
RRP: €30.00Booksplease Price: €21.22'Superb...his pages fizz with character and colour' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times 'Scholarly and very readable' Andrew Lycett, Spectator 'Energetic and hugely entertaining' A.N.Wilson, TLSThe... -
India: A History by John Keay
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €13.03The most authoritative and highly regarded single-volume history of India - from ancient time to the modern day. Five millennia of the sub-continent's social, economic, political and cultural history... -
A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré 1945-2020 by John le Carré 9780241994559
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.97John le Carre was a defining writer of his time. This enthralling collection letters - written to readers, publishers, film-makers and actors, politicians and public figures - reveals the playfully... -
Uncle Bill: The Authorised Biography of Field Marshal Viscount Slim by Russell Miller
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.60Masterly biography of the 'greatest commander of the 20th century'.Field Marshal Slim is less well known than other Second World War generals, but is now widely regarded as the best. To the men under... -
The Zanzibar Chest: A Memoir of Love and War by Aidan Hartley 9780006531210
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.50A deeply affecting memoir of a childhood in Africa and the continent's horrendous wars, which Hartley witnessed at first hand as a journalist in the 1990s. Shortlisted for the prestigious Samuel... -
The Restaurant: A History of Eating Out by William Sitwell
RRP: €24.00Booksplease Price: €17.46AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK. The fascinating story of how we have gone out to eat, from the ancient Romans in Pompeii to the luxurious Michelin-starred restaurants of today. Tracing its... -
The Visitors' Book: In Francis Bacon's Shadow: The Lives of Richard Chopping and Denis Wirth-Miller Jon Lys-Turner 9781472121677
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11Denis Wirth-Miller and Dicky Chopping were a couple at the heart of the mid-twentieth century art world, with the visitors' book of the Essex townhouse they shared from 1945 until 2008 painting them... -
This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World Andrea di Robilant 9780857891808
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €17.17'A dazzling tale, brilliantly told' Peter Frankopan'A wonderful book' Sunday Telegraph, 5*'Triumphant' Literary ReviewDURING THE AGE OF DISCOVERY, in the autumn of 1550, an anonymously authored... -
Heyday: The 1850s and the Dawn of the Global Age Ben Wilson 9780753829219
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €4.90'Excellent . . . This is narrative history of the highest quality' Andrew Lycett, Sunday Telegraph'Wonderfully engrossing and intelligent . . . clever and entertaining' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday... -
The Golden Throne: The Story of Suleyman the Magnificent by Christopher de Bellaigue 9781529967050
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €12.06'Wolf Hall for the Ottoman Empire . . . History at its most gripping' Daily Telegraph on The Lion HouseA ground-breaking, present-tense reconstruction of the life and world of one of the most... -
Amritsar 1919: An Empire of Fear and the Making of a Massacre by Kim Wagner
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €14.34A powerful reassessment of a seminal moment in the history of India and the British Empire: the Amritsar Massacre"Amritsar 1919 chronicles the run up to Jallianwala Bagh with spellbinding, almost... -
The House of Silk: The Bestselling Sherlock Holmes Novel Anthony Horowitz 9781409182771
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €7.69'Horowitz has captured Holmes Heaven' THE TIMES THE HOUSE OF SILK was the first official new Sherlock Holmes mystery and a SUNDAY TIMES bestseller from the author of MAGPIE MURDERSTHE GAME'S AFOOT . ... -
Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind by Tom Holland
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €11.51'If great books encourage you to look at the world in an entirely new way, then Dominion is a very great book indeed . . . Written with terrific learning, enthusiasm and good humour, Holland's book... -
A Scheme of Heaven: Astrology and the Birth of Science by Alexander Boxer
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11Despite a resurgence in popularity, horoscopes are generally considered to be pseudoscience today - but they were once a cutting-edge scientific tool. In this ingenious work of history, data... -
Palaces of Pleasure: From Music Halls to the Seaside to Football, How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment by Lee Jackson 9780300254785
RRP: €14.39Booksplease Price: €13.03An energetic and exhilarating account of the Victorian entertainment industry, its extraordinary success and enduring impact The Victorians invented mass entertainment. As the nineteenth century's... -
The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing Thomas Harding 9781474621106
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €9.76After arriving in London just before the Second World War as a penniless and friendless Austrian-Jewish refugee, George Weidenfeld went on to transform not only the world of publishing but the... -
Left Bank: Art, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940-1950 by Agnes Poirier
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €13.40'Rich and funny' Julian Barnes, Guardian 'Poirier's hugely enjoyable, quick-witted and richly anecdotal book is magnifique' The Times A captivating portrait of those who lived, loved, fought,... -
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John le Carre: The Biography by Adam Sisman 9781408849460 [USED COPY]
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €2.88The definitive biography of the undisputed giant of English literature, a man whose own true history has long been hidden behind the fictional world of his books'Compendious and compelling ... it is... -
John le Carre: The Biography by Adam Sisman
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €14.39The definitive biography of the undisputed giant of English literature, a man whose own true history has long been hidden behind the fictional world of his books 'Compendious and compelling ... it... -
Featherhood: 'The best piece of nature writing since H is for Hawk, and the most powerful work of biography I have read in years' Neil Gaiman by Charlie Gilmour
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €5.56'The best piece of nature writing since H is for Hawk, and the most powerful work of biography I have read in years' Neil Gaiman'Wonderful - I can't recommend it too highly' Helen Macdonald'One of... -
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Featherhood: 'The best piece of nature writing since H is for Hawk, and the most powerful work of biography I have read in years' Neil Gaiman by Charlie Gilmour 9781474609487 [USED COPY]
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €2.64'INCREDIBLY MOVING' ELTON JOHN'A SOARING DEBUT' SUNDAY TIMES'WONDERFUL' HELEN MACDONALD'DAZZLING' TELEGRAPH This is a story about birds and fathers. About the young magpie that fell from its nest in... -
Chasing Shadows: A true story of drugs, war and the secret world of international crime by Miles Johnson 9780349128641
RRP: €30.00Booksplease Price: €21.48LONGLISTED FOR THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION 2024 ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR BEST NEW AUTHOR AT THE 2024 TRUE CRIME AWARDS'Read this powerful book by Miles Johnson right now. It... -
Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER by Andrew Lownie
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €10.68THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERUPDATED PAPERBACK FEATURING NEW CONTENTA Daily Mail Royal Book of the Year, 2021A Spectator Book of the Year, 2021'Briskly written and compulsively readable' - A.N. Wilson,... -
Traitor King: The Duke and Duchess of Windsor in Exile by Andrew Lownie
RRP: €30.00Booksplease Price: €23.44THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Daily Mail Royal Book of the Year, 2021'Darkly compelling...hundreds of eye-popping details...Gripping ... damning portrait of the Windsors' Daily Mail 'Book of the... -
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Heyday: Britain and the Birth of the Modern World by Ben Wilson 9780297864103 [USED COPY]
RRP: €30.00Booksplease Price: €3.05HEYDAY brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods in modern history. Over the course of the 1850s, the world was reshaped by technology, trade, mass migration and war. The global economy... -
On Conan Doyle: Or, The Whole Art of Storytelling by Michael Dirda 9780691164120
RRP: €16.79Booksplease Price: €14.95A passionate lifelong fan of the Sherlock Holmes adventures, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda is a member of The Baker Street Irregulars--the most famous and romantic of all Sherlockian...