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Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure Artemis Cooper 9780719565496
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $24.99Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was a war hero whose exploits in Crete are legendary, and above all he is widely acclaimed as the greatest travel writer of our times, notably for his books about his... -
Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure by Artemis Cooper 9780719565496 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $5.71Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was a war hero whose exploits in Crete are legendary, and above all he is widely acclaimed as the greatest travel writer of our times, notably for his books about his... -
Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor by Patrick Leigh Fermor
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $23.51A revelatory collection of letters written by the author of The Broken Road.Handsome, spirited and erudite, Patrick Leigh Fermor was a war hero and one of the greatest travel writers of his... -
Tangled Souls: Love and Scandal Among the Victorian Aristocracy by Jane Dismore
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $35.70Outrageously handsome, witty and clever, Harry Cust was reputed to be one of the great womanisers of the late Victorian era. In 1893, while a Member of Parliament, he caused public scandal by his... -
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce Colm Toibin 9780241354421
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $20.44An intimate study of three of Ireland's greatest writers from one of its best-loved contemporary voices, Colm Toibin__________________In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin takes three of... -
The Ariadne Objective: Patrick Leigh Fermor and the Underground War to Rescue Crete from the Nazis by Wes Davis
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $22.51In the bleakest years of the Second World War when it appeared that nothing could slow the advance of the German army, Hitler set his sights on the Mediterranean island of Crete, the ideal staging... -
Red Sky at Sunrise: Cider with Rosie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, A Moment of War by Laurie Lee
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $29.58A beautiful new edition of Laurie Lee's celebrated autobiographical trilogy: Cider with Rosie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning and A Moment of War'I was set down from the carrier's cart at the... -
Where the Wild Winds Are: Walking Europe's Winds from the Pennines to Provence Nick Hunt 9781473665750
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $22.04SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDA Financial Times Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the YearA Daily Telegraph Book of the Year'Travel writing in excelsis' -Jan... -
Paris After the Liberation: 1944 - 1949 by Antony Beevor
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97A remarkable historical account of the chaos and uncertainty that followed the liberation of Paris in August, 1944'A beautifully written book about a vast tapestry of military, political and social... -
Monica Jones, Philip Larkin and Me: Her Life and Long Loves by John Sutherland
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.09'A brilliant biography - John Sutherland has brought Monica Jones to life as she deserves.' Claire Tomalin'Eye-opening... in this account [Monica Jones] comes alive.' The Sunday TimesMonica Jones was... -
Cairo in the War: 1939-45 by 9781848548848
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.04For troops in the desert, Cairo meant fleshpots or brass hats. For well-connected officers, it meant polo at the Gezira Club and drinks at Shepheard's. For the irregular warriors, Cairo was a city to... -
The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos by 9781848547544
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $22.04The long-awaited final volume of the trilogy by Patrick Leigh Fermor. A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water were the first two volumes in a projected trilogy that would describe the... -
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux 9781324134237
Booksplease Price: $39.70Paul Gauguin’s legend as a transgressive genius arises as much from his biography as his aesthetically daring Polynesian paintings. Gauguin is chiefly known for his pictures that eschewed convention,... -
The Ultimate Christmas Cracker John Julius Norwich 9781529324938
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.61In 1969, John Julius Norwich, the legendary popular historian, gathered together the favourite things he'd come across in the last 365 days into one short charming pamphlet. Initially just a treat... -
Millions Like Us: Women's Lives in the Second World War by Virginia Nicholson
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.01In Millions Like Us Virginia Nicholson tells the story of the women's Second World War, through a host of individual women's experiences. We tend to see the Second World War as a man's war, featuring... -
A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube by Patrick Leigh Fermor 9781399836852
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $22.04WITH A FOREWORD BY JAN MORRIS'A treasure chest' Spectator'A masterpiece' William Dalrymple, Financial TimesIn 1933, aged eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on his 'great trudge', a year-long... -
Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors by Jenny Nimmo
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $15.09Classic magic and mystery from one of Britain's best-loved authors of fantasy adventure. Perfect for fans of Harry Potter, Eva Ibbotson, Cornelia Funke's Inkheart and Shane Hegarty's Darkmouth. ... -
Charlie Bone and the Red Knight by Jenny Nimmo
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $15.09Classic magic and mystery from one of Britain's best-loved authors of fantasy adventure. Perfect for fans of Harry Potter, Eva Ibbotson, Cornelia Funke's Inkheart and Shane Hegarty's Darkmouth. ... -
Victoire: A True Story of Espionage, Resistance and Survival in World War Two by Roland Philipps
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.40'The wartime spy career of Mathilde Carre - aka "the Cat" and "Agent Victoire" - is so extraordinary it almost defies belief' The TimesAn exhilarating true story of espionage, resistance, and one of... -
Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors by Jenny Nimmo 9781405280952 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $4.45Classic magic and mystery from one of Britain's best-loved authors of fantasy adventure. Perfect for fans of Harry Potter, Eva Ibbotson, Cornelia Funke's Inkheart and Shane Hegarty's Darkmouth. ... -
Victoire: A True Story of Espionage, Resistance and Survival in World War Two by Roland Philipps 9781529111293 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $9.71'The wartime spy career of Mathilde Carre - aka "the Cat" and "Agent Victoire" - is so extraordinary it almost defies belief' The TimesAn exhilarating true story of espionage, resistance, and one of... -
Charlie Bone and the Hidden King (Charlie Bone) by Jenny Nimmo
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $15.09Classic magic and mystery from one of Britain's best-loved authors of fantasy adventure. Perfect for fans of Harry Potter, Eva Ibbotson, Cornelia Funke's Inkheart and Shane Hegarty's Darkmouth. ... -
Why The West Rules - For Now: The Patterns of History and what they reveal about the Future Ian Morris 9781846682087
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.70In the middle of the eighteenth century, British entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal and the world changed forever. Factories, railways and gunboats then propelled the... -
John Betjeman: The Biography by Bevis Hillier
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $24.99This biography takes the reader from Betjeman's troubled childhood in north London, through his blossoming at Oxford; a gay fling with W. H. Auden; a clandestine marriage to a field marshal's... -
Why The West Rules - For Now: The Patterns of History and what they reveal about the Future by Ian Morris 9781846682087 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $5.74In the middle of the eighteenth century, British entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal and the world changed forever. Factories, railways and gunboats then propelled the... -
A Time of Gifts: A John Murray Journey Patrick Leigh Fermor 9781529369526
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $22.04INTRODUCED BY JAN MORRIS'[This] gloriously ornate account of that epic journey is a classic' ROBERT MACFARLANE'The feeling of being lost in time and geography with months and years hazily sparkling... -
Luca Antara Martin Edmond 9781842433195
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.61'Luca Antara is a book-lover's book, a graceful and mesmerizing blend of history, autobiography, travel and romance.' - JM Coetzee Part memoir, travelogue, history and part detective story, Luca... -
A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube by Patrick Leigh Fermor 9780719566950 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $8.16In 1933, at the age of 18, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on an extraordinary journey by foot - from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the first volume in a trilogy recounting... -
Charlie Bone and the Time Twister by Jenny Nimmo 9781405280938 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.64Booksplease Price: $4.74Classic magic and mystery from one of Britain's best-loved authors of fantasy adventure. Perfect for fans of Harry Potter, Eva Ibbotson, Cornelia Funke's Inkheart and Shane Hegarty's Darkmouth. ... -
Charlie Bone and the Wilderness Wolf (Charlie Bone) by Jenny Nimmo 9781405280976 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $4.69Classic magic and mystery from one of Britain's best-loved authors of fantasy adventure. Perfect for fans of Harry Potter, Eva Ibbotson, Cornelia Funke's Inkheart and Shane Hegarty's Darkmouth. ... -
Charlie Bone and the Blue Boa by Jenny Nimmo 9781405225458 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.64Booksplease Price: $6.14Classic magic and mystery from one of Britain's best-loved authors of fantasy adventure. Perfect for fans of Harry Potter, Eva Ibbotson, Cornelia Funke's Inkheart and Shane Hegarty's Darkmouth. An... -
Words of Mercury by Patrick Leigh Fermor 9780719561061 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $4.69Patrick Leigh Fermor was only 18 when he set off to walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople, described many years later in A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. It was during... -
Words of Mercury Patrick Leigh Fermor 9780719561061
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $22.04Patrick Leigh Fermor was only 18 when he set off to walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople, described many years later in A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. It was during... -
Charlie Bone and the Wilderness Wolf (Charlie Bone) by Jenny Nimmo
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $15.09Classic magic and mystery from one of Britain's best-loved authors of fantasy adventure. Perfect for fans of Harry Potter, Eva Ibbotson, Cornelia Funke's Inkheart and Shane Hegarty's Darkmouth. ... -
Miss Austen: the #1 bestseller and one of the best novels of the year according to the Times and Observer by Gill Hornby
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.83The Sunday Times bestselling novel, set to be a major TV drama series.'You can't help feeling that Jane would have approved.' OBSERVER'So good, so intelligent, so clever, so entertaining - I adored... -
Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates Patrick Leigh Fermor 9780719566967
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $21.02The acclaimed travel writer's youthful journey - as an 18-year-old - across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts, which covered the author's exacting journey from the Lowlands as far as... -
Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates by Patrick Leigh Fermor 9780719566967 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $4.97The acclaimed travel writer's youthful journey - as an 18-year-old - across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts, which covered the author's exacting journey from the Lowlands as far as... -
Charlie Bone and the Shadow of Badlock by Jenny Nimmo
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $8.97Classic magic and mystery from one of Britain's best-loved authors of fantasy adventure. Perfect for fans of Harry Potter, Eva Ibbotson, Cornelia Funke's Inkheart and Shane Hegarty's Darkmouth. ... -
Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors by Jenny Nimmo 9781405224659 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.64Booksplease Price: $6.07Classic magic and mystery from one of Britain's best-loved authors of fantasy adventure. Perfect for fans of Harry Potter, Eva Ibbotson, Cornelia Funke's Inkheart and Shane Hegarty's Darkmouth. An... -
Midnight for Charlie Bone by Jenny Nimmo 9781405225434 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.64Booksplease Price: $5.88Classic magic and mystery from one of Britain's best-loved authors of fantasy adventure. Perfect for fans of Harry Potter, Eva Ibbotson, Cornelia Funke's Inkheart and Shane Hegarty's Darkmouth. An...