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The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War and Everest by Ed Caesar
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.92WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH BEST SPORTS WRITING AWARD 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2021'One of the best books ever written about the early attempts to conquer Everest. A fine, fine slice... -
Two Hours: The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon by Ed Caesar 9780670921904 [USED COPY]
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $4.69WINNER OF THE CROSS SPORTS BOOK AWARD FOR NEW WRITER OF THE YEAR'Lyrical and passionate ... a celebration of the human spirit and what it can achieve' ObserverTwo hours to cover twenty-six miles and... -
Two Hours: The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon by Ed Caesar 9780670921898 [USED COPY]
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $6.26WINNER OF THE CROSS SPORTS BOOK AWARD FOR NEW WRITER OF THE YEAR 2016 Two Hours by Ed Caesar - the quest to run the impossible marathon 'The marathon tethers runners to their own personal... -
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night by Julian Sancton
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $22.61'An epic of survival' -- MICHAEL PALIN'A "grade-A classic"' -- SUNDAY TIMES'Utterly enthralling' -- GEOFF DYER, GUARDIAN'Deeply engrossing' -- NEW YORK TIMESLISTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES,... -
No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 by Graham Bowley
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $20.44THE GRIPPING, TERRIFYING STORY OF A BRUTAL STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL ON THE UPPER SLOPES OF THE HIMALAYAN K2, THE WORLD'S MOST HOSTILE TERRAIN. 'Unputdownable. A portrait of extreme courage, folly and... -
No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 by Graham Bowley 9780141044064 [USED COPY]
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $4.69THE GRIPPING, TERRIFYING STORY OF A BRUTAL STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL ON THE UPPER SLOPES OF THE HIMALAYAN K2, THE WORLD'S MOST HOSTILE TERRAIN. 'Unputdownable. A portrait of extreme courage, folly and... -
The Racket: On Tour with Tennis’s Golden Generation – and the other 99% Conor Niland 9780241998076
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.92THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER'Well worth a read if you want the inside track on life on the lower rungs of the tennis circuit. Warts and all.' Judy Murray'As elegant and powerful as a Federer backhand ..... -
Inside The Centre: The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk 9780099433538
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $38.58J. Robert Oppenheimer is among the most contentious and important figures of the twentieth century. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis to develop... -
The Perfect Kill: A Personal History of Modern Assassination by Robert Baer 9781780228396
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $22.04What is the definition of assassination? Robert Baer's boss at the CIA once told him, 'It's a bullet with a man's name on it.' Sometimes assassination is the senseless act of a psychotic, a... -
Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961 by Paul Hendrickson 9780099565994 [USED COPY]
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $5.71THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'She'd been intimately his, and he hers, for twenty-seven years - which were his final twenty-seven years. She'd lasted through three wives, the Nobel Prize, and all his... -
The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime Bradley Hope 9781399806190
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.35'Propulsive . . . Deeply reported and novelistic. I flew through it' Ed Caesar'Jaw dropping even for North Korea . . . A terrific piece of up-close reportage that reads like a spy thriller but is all... -
The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime by Bradley Hope
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $34.39'Propulsive . . . Deeply reported and novelistic. I flew through it' Ed Caesar'Jaw dropping even for North Korea . . . A terrific piece of up-close reportage that reads like a spy thriller but is all... -
Kurt Vonnegut: Letters by Kurt Vonnegut
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.16This collection of Vonnegut's letters is the autobiography he never wrote - from the letter he posted home upon being freed from a German POW camp, to notes of advice to his children: 'Don't let... -
American Desperado: My life as a Cocaine Cowboy by Jon Roberts
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $30.32'The best crime book since Wiseguy' - Rich CohenA real-life Scarface, Jon was born into the Gambino Mafia family and witnessed his first murder aged seven. He joined a US Army assassination squad in... -
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97*WINNER OF THE 2017 PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION* 'Beautifully written, thought-provoking, and unforgettable ... If you want a good understanding of how the issues that cause poverty are... -
Out of Thin Air: Running Wisdom and Magic from Above the Clouds in Ethiopia by Michael Crawley
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $20.04'Full of wonderful insights and lessons from a world where the ability to run is viewed as something almost mysterious and magical.' - Adharanand Finn, author of Running with the Kenyans What we... -
I Want To Go Home But I'm Already There Róisín Lanigan 9780241668535
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $31.32Renting is a nightmare...Aine should be feeling happy with her life. She's just moved in with Elliot. Their new flat is in an affluent neighbourhood, surrounded by bakeries, yoga studios and organic... -
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham 9780241994269
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $20.44'Gripping' ED CAESAR * 'Masterly' GEOFF DYER * 'Incredible' TIM HARFORD * 'A universal story that transcends time' NEW YORK TIMES * 'Superb' DAILY TELEGRAPH * 'We know what's going to happen, but... -
The Savage Landscape by Cal Flyn 9780008686536
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $33.32'The best non-fiction writer of her generation' THE TIMES 'When I read Flyn's writing I would often exhale with a sense of wonder' GUARDIAN 'Fascinating and... -
I Want To Go Home But I'm Already There by Róisín Lanigan 9780241756324
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $32.11Renting is a nightmare...Aine should be feeling happy with her life. She's just moved in with Elliot. Their new flat is in an affluent neighbourhood, surrounded by bakeries, yoga studios and organic... -
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $15.78'A SUPERB ACHIEVEMENT' IAN MCEWAN* * * * *What is it like to be a brain surgeon?How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cut through the stuff that creates thought, feeling and... -
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh 9781780225920 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $5.21'A SUPERB ACHIEVEMENT' IAN MCEWAN* * * * *What is it like to be a brain surgeon?How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cut through the stuff that creates thought, feeling and... -
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $20.87Winner of the Pulitzer Price and William Hill Sports Book of the Year: Barbarian Days is a deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer looking for transcendence 'that recalls early James... -
A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder by Mark O'Connell 9781783787715
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40In 1982 Malcolm Macarthur, the wealthy heir to a small estate, found himself suddenly without money. The solution, he decided, was to rob a bank. To do this, he would need a gun and a car. In the... -
English Pastoral: An Inheritance - The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of The Shepherd's Life by James Rebanks
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.40THE SUNDAY TIMES NATURE BOOK OF THE YEARThe new bestseller from the author of The Shepherd's Life'A beautifully written story of a family, a home and a changing landscape' Nigel Slater As a boy,...