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An Orderly Man: A Memoir by Dirk Bogarde
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.55________________ 'Absorbing... his gift for dialogue is exceptional' - The Observer ________________ First published in 1983, An Orderly Man is volume three of Dirk Bogarde's best-selling... -
Campbell's Kingdom by Hammond Innes
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDY MCNABHe was a man without hope, until a lawyer and a crazy inheritance spurred him to one last desperate roll of the dice.The old man was convinced, against all evidence,... -
Fifty Years Of Carry On by Richard Webber
Booksplease Price: $18.40In August 1958, the opening scenes of a low-budget black and white film flickered onto cinema screens up and down the country. No one could have foreseen what impact Carry on Sergeant would have then... -
Laid Bare by Gail Porter 9780091920401 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: $3.91Gail Porter burst on to our TV screens in the late 90s presenting The Movie Chart Show, Alive and Kicking and Top of the Pops. Bright, sparky and beautiful she soon attracted an entirely different... -
Dating Game: an epic summer read from the Sunday Times bestseller by Danielle Steel 9780552149907 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $3.36Paris Armstrong never saw it coming. With two grown children and a lovely home in Connecticut, Paris was happy with her marriage, her family, her life. So when her husband of twenty-four years said... -
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi 9780241956816
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'So it happens, therefore, that every element says something to someone'Inspired by the rhythms of the Periodic Table, Primo Levi assesses his life in terms of the chemical elements he associates... -
Just For The Record by Geri Halliwell 9780091888046 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $3.56In 2002, Just For The Record was the book that everyone was talking about. Then in 2003, repackaged in a new, compact mass-market format, Just For The Record did it all over again being one of the... -
Something Like Fire by Lin Cook 9780099460350 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $2.51An intimate and entertaining portrait of one of comedy's greatest geniuses by those who knew Peter Cook best and can write abut his rare talent. The contributors include Clive Anderson, Alan Bennett,... -
Victim by John Coldstream 9781844574278
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.16Victim (1961) was a landmark in the history both of the cinema and of British society. This modest black-and-white thriller, produced by Michael Relph and directed by Basil Dearden, tackled... -
Arnhem by Christopher Hibbert
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41The vivid account of how a brilliant plan turned into an epic tragedy - made into the BAFTA award-winning film A BRIDGE TOO FAR'Alive with the detail that evokes the smoking background' DAILY... -
Toujours Provence by Peter Mayle
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65A second idyllic helping of rural life in France from the bestselling author of the classic A YEAR IN PROVENCE. Skulking through customs with a suitcase full of truffles, toads singing the... -
Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Jane Austen is the definitive biography of one of Britain's best-loved novelists, from the acclaimed author of Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, Charles Dickens: A Life and The Invisible Woman'As... -
The Faber Book of London by A. N. Wilson
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08From the Great Fire of 1666 to the Blitz of the Second World War, from the building of the Tower of London to the building of Canary Wharf, London has always been much more than just a capital city... -
Close up by J Fraser 9781840025040
Booksplease Price: $29.05In this acclaimed autobiography, John Fraser takes us from the council estates of prewar Glasgow to the glamour of 1960 s Hollywood and beyond. Funny, honest and acutely observant about himself, his... -
Crumpled Trumpet Anthony Cherry 9781836285519
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63Anthony Cherry's career with the BBC has spanned more than forty years. He began as a clerk in the library before becoming a sound engineer and then producer. 'Crumpled Trumpet' takes us from his... -
A House in Flanders by Michael Jenkins
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41In 1951 Michael Jenkins, then 14 years old, spent the summer with 'the aunts in Flanders'. His 'aunts' were a group of elderly women whose connection to his family had never been explained but they... -
Glasgow: The Autobiography by Alan Taylor
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Glasgow: The Autobiography tells the story of the fabled, former Second City of the British Empire from its origins as a bucolic village on the rivers Kelvin and Clyde, through the tumult of the... -
The Servant by Amy Sargeant
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.16Amy Sargeant's compelling and meticulous study of Joseph Losey's The Servant (1963) sets the film in the context of a long tradition of fictional depictions of the master-servant relationship, from... -
Death In Venice And Other Stories by Thomas Mann 9780099541561
RRP: $4.69Booksplease Price: $4.15Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful ageing writer, travels to Venice for a holiday. One day, at dinner in his hotel, Aschenbach notices an exceptionally beautiful young boy. Soon his days begin to... -
Great Harry's Navy: How Henry VIII Gave England Sea Power Geoffrey Moorhouse 9780753820995
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.81Ground-breaking history of how King Henry VIII created England's navyIt was Henry VIII who began the process of making England a first-rate sea-power. He inherited no more than seven warships from... -
Great Harry's Navy: How Henry VIII Gave England Sea Power by Geoffrey Moorhouse 9780753820995 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $2.36Ground-breaking history of how King Henry VIII created England's navyIt was Henry VIII who began the process of making England a first-rate sea-power. He inherited no more than seven warships from... -
Paris After the Liberation: 1944 - 1949 by Antony Beevor
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37A 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... -
Dear Tom by Tom Courtenay 9780552999267 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $3.22'I suppose my luck is You, Ann and Dad and more so if I could really write.' Annie Eliza CourtenayTom Courtenay was born in Hull in 1937 and brought up near the fish dock where his father worked... -
Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor by Patrick Leigh Fermor
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.24A 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... -
Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete Patrick Leigh Fermor 9781444796605
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41A daring behind-enemy-lines mission from the author of A Time of Gifts and The Broken Road, who was once described by the BBC as 'a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene'... -
A Voyage Around the Queen Craig Brown 9780008557492
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $25.19From one of the funniest writers of our time, the award-winning author of One Two Three Four and Ma'am Darling turns his attention to Queen Elizabeth II in an unforgettable and...