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![Cables from Kabul: The Inside Story of the West’s Afghanistan Campaign by Sherard Cowper-Coles 9780007432042 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9699111/10715823/9780007432042__37934.1781352491.jpg?c=1 "Cables from Kabul: The Inside Story of the West’s Afghanistan Campaign by Sherard Cowper-Coles 9780007432042 [USED COPY]")
Cables from Kabul: The Inside Story of the West’s Afghanistan Campaign by Sherard Cowper-Coles 9780007432042 [USED COPY]
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £2.58A frank and honest memoir by Britain's former ambassador to Kabul which provides a unique, high-level insight into Western policy in Afghanistan. The West's mission in Afghanistan has... -
The Life and Death of St. Kilda: The moving story of a vanished island community by Tom Steel 9780007438006
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58The extraordinary story of the UK's most gruelling and spectacularly beautiful islands. Tom Steel's acclaimed portrait of the St Kildan's lives is now updated in this reissued edition. ... -
The Levelling Sea: The Story of a Cornish Haven and the Age of Sail by Philip Marsden
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.74The 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 Birth of Modern Britain: A Journey Through Britain's Remarkable Recent Archaeology by Francis Pryor 9780007299119
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95From the author of 'Britain BC', 'Britain AD' and 'Britain in the Middle Ages' comes the fourth and final part in a critically acclaimed series on Britain's hidden past The relevance of... -
On the Shores of the Mediterranean by Eric Newby 9780007367917
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52With his trademark charm and sharp wit, Newby leaves no stone unturned in his quest for wonderfully detailed and quirky knowledge to share with his reader. Insightful, hilarious and sheer fun, this... -
All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945 by Sir Max Hastings
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.16A magisterial history of the greatest and most terrible event in history, from one of the finest historians of the Second World War. A book which shows the impact of war upon hundreds of millions of... -
Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin by Nicholas Ostler 9780007343065
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58An in-depth biography of the Latin language from its very beginnings to the present day from the widely acclaimed author of 'Empires of the Word'. The Latin language has been a constant in... -
Curfewed Night: A Frontline Memoir of Life, Love and War in Kashmir by Basharat Peer 9780007350711
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.99Longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and Winner of the Crossword Prize for Non-fiction '"Curfewed Night" is a passionate and important book - a brave and brilliant report from a... -
Atlantic: A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.79The definitive biography of the world's most important body of water - the Atlantic. One hundred and ninety million years ago, the shifting of two of the world's tectonic plates led to the... -
![Storyteller: The Life of Roald Dahl by Donald Sturrock 9780007254767 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9698694/10715406/9780007254767__20233.1781351918.jpg?c=1 "Storyteller: The Life of Roald Dahl by Donald Sturrock 9780007254767 [USED COPY]")
Storyteller: The Life of Roald Dahl by Donald Sturrock 9780007254767 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £2.65The authorised biography of one of the greatest storytellers of all time."Irresistible. I thought I knew quite a lot about Roald Dahl, but now I know much much more. Donald Sturrock's book lucidly... -
Spitfire Women of World War II by Giles Whittell
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95The story of the unsung heroines who flew the newest, fastest, aeroplanes in World War II - mostly in southern England where the RAF was desperately short of pilots. Why would the... -
The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime by Judith Flanders 9780007248896
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58'We are a trading community, a commercial people. Murder is doubtless a very shocking offence, nevertheless as what is done is not to be undone, let us make our money out of it.' Punch ... -
The Art of Rhetoric (Collins Classics) by Aristotle
RRP: £3.99Booksplease Price: £2.93HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics... Despite dating from the 4th century BC, The Art of Rhetoric continues to be regarded by many as... -
Chopin by Adam Zamoyski 9780007341856
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.99A new edition of Adam Zamoyski's definitive biography of Chopin, first published in 1979 and unavailable in English for many years. Few composers elicit such strong emotions as Chopin. Few... -
Mandela: The Authorised Biography by Anthony Sampson
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.09Widely considered to be the most important biography of Nelson Mandela, Antony Sampson's remarkable book has been updated with an afterword by acclaimed South African journalist, John Battersby. ... -
Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead by Paula Byrne
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58A terrifically engaging and original biography about one of England's greatest novelists, and the glamorous, eccentric, debauched and ultimately tragic family that provided him with the most... -
The Blitz: The British Under Attack by Juliet Gardiner 9780007386611
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.86From the author of 'Wartime' comes an outstanding history of the most sustained onslaught ever endured by Britain's civilian population - the Blitz. September 1940 marked the beginning of... -
On the Spartacus Road: A Spectacular Journey through Ancient Italy by Peter Stothard
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22In this inspiring and original book, former editor of The Times, Sir Peter Stothard, re-traces the journey taken by Spartacus and his army of rebels. In the final century of the first... -
![On the Spartacus Road: A Spectacular Journey through Ancient Italy by Peter Stothard 9780007340804 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/4898947/4898170/9780007340804__23143.1722382867.jpg?c=1 "On the Spartacus Road: A Spectacular Journey through Ancient Italy by Peter Stothard 9780007340804 [USED COPY]")
On the Spartacus Road: A Spectacular Journey through Ancient Italy by Peter Stothard 9780007340804 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.25In this inspiring and original book, former editor of The Times, Sir Peter Stothard, re-traces the journey taken by Spartacus and his army of rebels. In the final century of the first... -
Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History by Adam Nicolson
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.86A fascinating account from award-winning author Adam Nicolson of the history of Nicolson's own national treasure, his family home: Sissinghurst. Sissinghurst is world-famous as a place of... -
Selling Your Father’s Bones: One Tribe's Flight through the Great American West by Brian Schofield 9780007243952
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52Shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2008. Part historical narrative, part travelogue through the wilds of the West and part environmental polemic, 'Selling Your Father's Bones'... -
![When God Spoke English: The Making of the King James Bible by Adam Nicolson 9780007431007 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9910771/10927302/9780007431007__82251.1786477576.jpg?c=1 "When God Spoke English: The Making of the King James Bible by Adam Nicolson 9780007431007 [USED COPY]")
When God Spoke English: The Making of the King James Bible by Adam Nicolson 9780007431007 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.20A fascinating, lively account of the making of the King James Bible. James VI of Scotland - now James I of England - came into his new kingdom in 1603. Trained almost from birth to manage... -
When God Spoke English: The Making of the King James Bible by Adam Nicolson 9780007431007
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28A fascinating, lively account of the making of the King James Bible. James VI of Scotland - now James I of England - came into his new kingdom in 1603. Trained almost from birth to manage... -
Italy's Sorrow: A Year of War 1944-45 by James Holland 9780007176441
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.79Today Italy is a land of beauty and prosperity but in 1944-45 it had become a place of nightmares, a land of violence, war, and destruction. James Holland's ground-breaking account expertly documents... -
![Back from the Brink: The Extraordinary Fall and Rise of the Conservative Party by Peter Snowdon 9780007308842 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9660735/10677455/9780007308842__98103.1781284074.jpg?c=1 "Back from the Brink: The Extraordinary Fall and Rise of the Conservative Party by Peter Snowdon 9780007308842 [USED COPY]")
Back from the Brink: The Extraordinary Fall and Rise of the Conservative Party by Peter Snowdon 9780007308842 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.49Lifting the lid on the most captivating story in British politics today, 'Back from the Brink' charts the Conservative Party's remarkable journey from the political wilderness to the threshold of... -
![Americans in Paris: Life and Death under Nazi Occupation 1940-44 by Charles Glass 9780007228522 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9788772/10805345/9780007228522__70070.1782280734.jpg?c=1 "Americans in Paris: Life and Death under Nazi Occupation 1940-44 by Charles Glass 9780007228522 [USED COPY]")
Americans in Paris: Life and Death under Nazi Occupation 1940-44 by Charles Glass 9780007228522 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.46An elegantly written and highly informative account of a group of Americans living in Paris when the city fell to the Nazis in June 1940. In the early hours of 14 June 1940, Nazi troops... -
![The Downing Street Years by Margaret Thatcher 9780007456635 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9699164/10715876/9780007456635__77420.1781352566.jpg?c=1 "The Downing Street Years by Margaret Thatcher 9780007456635 [USED COPY]")
The Downing Street Years by Margaret Thatcher 9780007456635 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £2.53This first volume of Margaret Thatcher's memoirs, which encompasses the entirety of her career as Prime Minister. Margaret Thatcher was the towering figure of late-twentieth-century... -
Scott of the Antarctic: The Definitive Biography by David Crane
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52David Crane has given us a magisterial portrait of one of Britain's greatest heroes and explorers, acclaimed as the 'masterpiece' on the subject. Reissued for the 100th anniversary of Scott's doomed... -
The Thirties: An Intimate History of Britain by Juliet Gardiner
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.39As 'Wartime' did for the 1940s, this book will grasp the broad spectrum of events in the 1930s in the words of contemporary witnesses drawn from metropolitan and provincial letters and diaries,... -
![Ground Truth: 3 Para Return to Afghanistan by Patrick Bishop 9780007296651 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9791168/10807741/9780007296651__38319.1782284022.jpg?c=1 "Ground Truth: 3 Para Return to Afghanistan by Patrick Bishop 9780007296651 [USED COPY]")
Ground Truth: 3 Para Return to Afghanistan by Patrick Bishop 9780007296651 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £3.75Afghanistan, 2008. After their eighteen-month epic tour of Helmand Province, the troops of 3 Para are back. This time, the weight of experience weighs heavily on their shoulders. In April... -
King Edward VIII by Philip Ziegler 9780007481019
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.09The authorised life story of the king who gave up his throne for love, by one of our most distinguished biographers. In this masterly authorized biography, Philip Ziegler reveals the... -
The Downing Street Years by Margaret Thatcher 9780007456635
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.85This first volume of Margaret Thatcher's memoirs, which encompasses the entirety of her career as Prime Minister. Margaret Thatcher was the towering figure of late-twentieth-century... -
Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940-45 by Sir Max Hastings
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.79'I would choose this account over and above the rest. It is a fabulous book: full of perceptive insight that conveys all the tragedy, triumph, humour and intense drama of Churchill's... -
![Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World by Simon Callow 9780007445301 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9893658/10910147/9780007445301__99115.1783667131.jpg?c=1 "Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World by Simon Callow 9780007445301 [USED COPY]")
Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World by Simon Callow 9780007445301 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £3.67An entertaining biography of Charles Dickens by one of our finest actors Acclaimed actor and writer Simon Callow captures the essence of Charles Dickens in a sparkling biography that... -
Selected Essays (Collins Classics) by George Orwell
RRP: £3.99Booksplease Price: £2.93HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'When I was about sixteen I suddenly discovered the joy of mere words' Best known for his... -
Ground Truth: 3 Para Return to Afghanistan by Patrick Bishop 9780007296651
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Afghanistan, 2008. After their eighteen-month epic tour of Helmand Province, the troops of 3 Para are back. This time, the weight of experience weighs heavily on their shoulders. In April... -
Selected Essays (Collins Classics) by George Orwell 9780008699437
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.99HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'When I was about sixteen I suddenly discovered the joy of mere words' Best known for his... -
How the Girl Guides Won the War Janie Hampton 9780007356324
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58A completely original history of one of the most extraordinary movements in the world - the Girl Guides - and how they helped win the war. Mention Girl Guides to any woman and the reaction... -
![Young Prince Philip: His Turbulent Early Life by Philip Eade 9780007305360 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/10119896/11136226/9780007305360__31145.1788940367.jpg?c=1 "Young Prince Philip: His Turbulent Early Life by Philip Eade 9780007305360 [USED COPY]")
Young Prince Philip: His Turbulent Early Life by Philip Eade 9780007305360 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £2.78A gripping biography of the early life of Prince Philip, published to coincide with his 90th birthday Married for more than sixty years to the most famous woman in the world, Prince Philip... -
Road of Bones: The Epic Siege of Kohima 1944 by Fergal Keane 9780007132416
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.86Winner of the British Army Military Book of the Year 2011 The story of one of the most brutal battles in modern history - fought at a major turning point of the Second World War. ...