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The Lighthouse Stevensons by Bella Bathurst
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.05An exciting new edition of Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. 'Whenever I smell... -
The Lighthouse Stevensons by Bella Bathurst 9780007204434 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.07An exciting new edition of Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. 'Whenever I smell... -
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin 9780099769910
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68Bruce Chatwin provides a fascinating background to indigenous Australian life.The songlines are the invisible pathways that criss-cross Australia, tracks connecting communities and following ancient... -
A Secret Country by John Pilger
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29Expatriate journalist and film-maker John Pilger writes about his homeland with life-long affection and a passionately critical eye. In this fully updated edition of A Secret Country, he pays tribute... -
The Woolgrower's Companion Joy Rhoades 9781784705022
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04'A heart-breaking love story from a great new voice' SagaAustralia 1945. Until now Kate Dowd has led a sheltered life on her family's sprawling sheep station but, with her father's health in decline,... -
In Tasmania: Adventures at the End of the World by Nicholas Shakespeare 9780099466086
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71In this fascinating history of two turbulent centuries in an apparently idyllic place, Shakespeare effortlessly weaves the history of this unique island with a kaleidoscope of stories featuring a... -
Island by Alistair MacLeod
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92These slow, beautiful stories - resolute and resonant - are small masterpieces: apparently simple but actually crafted with enormous skill and precision. Set against the unforgiving landscape of Cape... -
Rooted: Stories of Life, Land and a Farming Revolution by Sarah Langford
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING'An honest look at the farming life today. Raw, earthy and inspiring' - Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment'A beautifully written,... -
Paying the Land by Joe Sacco 9781910702581
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $23.49In his first full-length work of journalism in a decade, the 'heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman' (Economist) brings his comics mastery to a story of indigenous North America, resource extraction,... -
Stargazing: Memoirs of a Young Lighthouse Keeper Peter Hill 9781841954998
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65When Peter Hill, a student at Dundee College of Art, answered an advert in The Scotsman seeking lighthouse keepers, little did he imagine that within a month he would be living with three men he... -
The Weekenders: Adventures in Calcutta by Andrew O'Hagan 9780091895785
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71In 2001 a group of authors including Andrew O'Hagan, Tony Hawks and Irvine Welsh were given the opportunity to visit Sudan, one of the world's most inaccessible countries. The resulting book: The... -
Country Matters: A Countryside Companion: 74 tips, tales and talking points by Meg Clothier
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $17.07Everything you wanted to know about the countryside, but were too afraid to ask 'A joyful companion with surprises and delights on every page' Tristan Gooley, author of The Walker's Guide to... -
Witches: James I and the English Witch Hunts by Tracy Borman
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.26September 1613.In Belvoir Castle, the heir of one of England's great noble families falls suddenly and dangerously ill. His body is 'tormented' with violent convulsions. Within a few short weeks he... -
The Oxford Book of Scottish Short Stories by Douglas Dunn 9780199556540
RRP: $20.76Booksplease Price: $16.71From tales of the supernatural to pungent social realism, and from the humorous to the disturbing, whether rural or urban, this anthology shows the vitality of the Scottish short story. Douglas... -
Boxer Handsome by Anna Whitwham 9780099584452
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11'A genuinely impressive debut. Boxer Handsome does everything great fiction should... revealing a world that most people will never even think about. If you can't see what it is that people need from... -
The Levelling Sea: The Story of a Cornish Haven and the Age of Sail by Philip Marsden
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $10.37The story of Britain's colourful maritime past seen through the changing fortunes of the Cornish port of Falmouth. Within the space of few years, during the 1560s and 1570s, a maritime... -
The Sea Inside by Philip Hoare
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.84A startling book, his most personal to date, from Philip Hoare, co-curator of the Moby-Dick Big Read and winner of the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for 'Leviathan'. The sea surrounds us. It... -
Seashaken Houses: A Lighthouse History from Eddystone to Fastnet by Tom Nancollas
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.37'A thrilling celebration of lighthouses' i newspaperAn enthralling history of Britain's rock lighthouses, and the people who built and inhabited themLighthouses are enduring monuments to our... -
In Defence of Dogs: Why Dogs Need Our Understanding by John Bradshaw 9780141046495 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $2.39What would dogs ask for, if they knew how? In the Sunday Times bestseller In Defence of Dogs John Bradshaw, an anthropologist at Bristol University who has been at the centre of the latest research... -
In Defence of Dogs: Why Dogs Need Our Understanding by John Bradshaw
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37What would dogs ask for, if they knew how? In the Sunday Times bestseller In Defence of Dogs John Bradshaw, an anthropologist at Bristol University who has been at the centre of the latest research... -
The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st-Century Bestiary by Caspar Henderson 9781847082442 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $6.75From Axolotl to Zebrafish, discover a host of barely imagined beings: real creatures that are often more astonishing than anything dreamt in the pages of a medieval bestiary. Ranging from the depths... -
Tubes: Behind the Scenes at the Internet by Andrew Blum
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Tubes: Behind the Scenes at the Internet by Andrew Blum is...'Utterly engrossing. The year's most original and stimulating 'travel' book. Even the most geek-wary of readers will enjoy' ... -
The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj by Anne De Courcy 9780297863823 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $3.40The untold stories of the young women who went out to India during the Raj in search of husbands.From the late 19th century, when the Raj was at its height, many of Britain's best and brightest young... -
Weeds: The Story of Outlaw Plants by Richard Mabey
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.58Ever since the first human settlements 10,000 years ago, weeds have dogged our footsteps. They are there as the punishment of 'thorns and thistles' in Genesis and , two millennia later, as a symbol... -
How to Create the Perfect Wife: The True Story of One Gentleman, Two Orphans and an Experiment to Create the Ideal Woman Wendy Moore 9780753828953
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41From the No.1 bestselling author of WEDLOCK. The Georgian scandal of one gentleman, two orphans and an experiment to create the ideal wife.This is the story of how Thomas Day, a young man of means,...