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![Beethoven: The Universal Composer (Eminent Lives) by Edmund Morris 9780007213702 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5995266/6072283/9780007213702__58645.1730954374.jpg?c=1 "Beethoven: The Universal Composer (Eminent Lives) by Edmund Morris 9780007213702 [USED COPY]")
Beethoven: The Universal Composer (Eminent Lives) by Edmund Morris 9780007213702 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.54Pulitzer-prize winning biographer Edmund Morris interweaves the personal history of the world's most famous composer with an insightful exploration of the way Beethoven's life was reflected and... -
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... -
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. ... -
![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: £3.03A 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... -
A Merry Dance Around the World by Eric Newby 9780007413546
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95A collection of writing from Britain's best-loved travel writer, 'A Merry Dance around the World' is the culmination of a lifetime of adventure. Covering everything from the birth of Eric... -
![The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne 9780007358328 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9699015/10715727/9780007358328__73417.1781352361.jpg?c=1 "The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne 9780007358328 [USED COPY]")
The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne 9780007358328 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £2.99THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'It is good to meet the real Jane Austen at last' Independent on Sunday ... -
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: £10.42A 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... -
Talking to Terrorists: Face to Face with the Enemy by Peter Taylor 9780007325535
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.99A controversial and important book by BBC reporter and terrorism expert Peter Taylor. Newly updated to mark the tenth anniversary of 9/11 and to include the death of Osama Bin Laden. ... -
![Chocolate Wars: From Cadbury to Kraft: 200 years of Sweet Success and Bitter Rivalry by Deborah Cadbury 9780007325573 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9660765/10677485/9780007325573__02445.1781284097.jpg?c=1 "Chocolate Wars: From Cadbury to Kraft: 200 years of Sweet Success and Bitter Rivalry by Deborah Cadbury 9780007325573 [USED COPY]")
Chocolate Wars: From Cadbury to Kraft: 200 years of Sweet Success and Bitter Rivalry by Deborah Cadbury 9780007325573 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.19The delicious true story of the early chocolate pioneers by the award-winning writer, and direct descendant of the famous chocolate dynasty, Deborah Cadbury In 'Chocolate Wars' bestselling... -
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... -
Departures and Arrivals by Eric Newby 9780007413539
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22'Whatever else we remember of our travels, we remember our departures and arrivals. Often they are the most enduring of all our memories of them.' From one of Britain's best-loved travel... -
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... -
Moral Combat: A History of World War II by Michael Burleigh 9780007195770
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.73A clear, chronological narrative exploring many of the ethical dilemmas posed for real people during and after the Second World War. Literature on the Second World War is voluminous. In... -
![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: £3.05The 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... -
A Traveller's Life by Eric Newby 9780007367870
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42A chronicle of travels, some homely some exotic, from the man who can make a schoolboy holiday in Swanage as colourful as a walk in the Hindu Kush. Eric Newby's life of travel began in... -
Chopin by Adam Zamoyski 9780007341856
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £8.91A 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... -
Lost in Shangri-La: Escape from a Hidden World - A True Story by Mitchell Zuckoff 9780007410958
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68An utterly gripping nonfiction adventure narrative, Lost in Shangri-La is an untold true story of war, survival, discovery, heroism, and a near-impossible rescue mission. Three months... -
The Art of Rhetoric (Collins Classics) by Aristotle
RRP: £3.99Booksplease Price: £2.77HarperCollins 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... -
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. ... -
The Corner Office: How Top CEOs Made It and How You Can Too by Adam Bryant 9780007432073
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Aspirational business book based on interviews with over 75 leading American CEOs. What does it take to succeed in business and to inspire others? Adam Bryant of The New York Times sat... -
Liberty's Exiles: The Loss of America and the Remaking of the British Empire. by Maya Jasanoff 9780007180103
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.49'More than just a work of first-class scholarship, Liberty's Exiles is a deeply moving masterpiece that fulfils the historian's most challenging ambition: to revivify past experience.' Niall Ferguson... -
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 ... -
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: £9.58From 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... -
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... -
![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... -
Edward Heath: The Authorised Biography by Philip Ziegler 9780007247417
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.51The magisterial official life of Britain's complex and misunderstood former prime minister, which offers a fundamental reassessment of his reputation. Edward Heath arguably changed the... -
Small Wars Permitting: Dispatches from Foreign Lands by Christina Lamb 9780007256891
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42An extraordinary collection of reportage that tells the story of some of the most important world events of the past 16 years, from one of the most talented and intrepid female journalists at work... -
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... -
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'... -
Americans in Paris: Life and Death under Nazi Occupation 1940-44 by Charles Glass 9780007228522
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42An 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 King's List by Peter Ransley 9780007312429
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68What price betrayal? The bloody saga of revolution and republicanism reaches its climax in the final instalment of the Tom Neave trilogy. 1659. Tom Neave, now Lord Stonehouse and feared... -
The Bitter Sea: The Brutal World War II Fight for the Mediterranean by Simon Ball 9780007203055
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42A gripping history of the Mediterranean campaigns from the first rumblings of conflict through the Second World War and into the uneasy peace of the late 1940s. The Mediterranean Sea lies... -
![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... -
One Hundred Days by Sandy Woodward
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.79Updated for the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War, this is the bestselling, highly-acclaimed and most famous account of the conflict, written by the commander of the British Task Force. ... -
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... -
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...