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Gerontius by James Hamilton-Paterson
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54Nearing the end of his career, an impulsive Sir Edward Elgar decides to travel by ship to Brazil, where he encounters a woman from his past. Based on true events, Gerontius is a modern classic, and... -
Trains, Planes, Ships and Cars by James Hamilton-Paterson
RRP: €36.00Booksplease Price: €15.20A lavishly illustrated celebration of the golden age of aircraft, cars, ships and locomotives from 1900 to 1941 by the author of the bestselling Empire of the Clouds. This dazzling book describes... -
Seven-Tenths: The Sea and its Thresholds by James Hamilton-Paterson
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.74Seven-Tenths is James Hamilton-Paterson's classic exploration of the sea. A beautifully-written blend of literature and science, it is here brought back into print in a revised and updated edition... -
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Rancid Pansies by James Hamilton-Paterson 9780571238477 [USED COPY]
RRP: €9.59Booksplease Price: €3.16Gerald Samper is not a lucky man. Ghost writer of terrible celebrity memoirs and lethally bad cook, he now watches as his beloved house falls off a hill in Tuscany. But he and his guests have been... -
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Marked for Death by James Hamilton-Paterson 9781784970390 [USED COPY]
RRP: €24.00Booksplease Price: €3.55A compelling and fascinating account of aerial combat in World War I, revealing the terrible risks run by the men who fought and died in the world's first air war. Little more than ten years after... -
What We Have Lost: The Dismantling of Great Britain James Hamilton-Paterson 9781784972363
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €10.10'Exquisitely written and ripe with detail' Sunday Times. 'An engaging book... He knows his British stuff' The Times. 'One of England's most skilled and alluring prose writers in or out of... -
Stuck Monkey: The Deadly Planetary Cost of the Things We Love by James Hamilton-Paterson
RRP: €24.00Booksplease Price: €18.29People hunting monkeys in the jungle once devised a simple yet effective trap: When the creature found a banana in a large jar with a narrow neck, it would plunge its paw in to retrieve it. But it... -
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Empire of the Clouds: When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World by James Hamilton-Paterson 9780571247943 [USED COPY]
RRP: €24.00Booksplease Price: €3.18In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner... -
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Empire of the Clouds: When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World by James Hamilton-Paterson 9780571247950 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €1.50In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner... -
Hullo Russia, Goodbye England by Derek Robinson
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11Flight Lieutenant Silk, a twice-decorated Lancaster pilot in WW II, rejoins the R.A.F. and qualifies to fly the Vulcan bomber. Piloting a Vulcan is an unforgettable experience: no other aircraft... -
H. M. S. Surprise by Patrick O'Brian 9780393307610
Booksplease Price: €17.94Third in the series of Aubrey-Maturin adventures, this book is set among the strange sights and smells of the Indian subcontinent, and in the distant waters ploughed by the ships of the East India... -
The Ionian Mission by Patrick O'Brian 9780393881745
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €12.14Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But Jack is now a senior captain commanding a line-of-battle ship in the Royal Navy's blockade... -
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H. M. S. Surprise by Patrick O'Brian 9780393307610 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €3.01Third in the series of Aubrey-Maturin adventures, this book is set among the strange sights and smells of the Indian subcontinent, and in the distant waters ploughed by the ships of the East India... -
Jet Man: The Making and Breaking of Frank Whittle, Genius of the Jet Revolution Duncan Campbell-Smith 9781788544702
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €8.76The story of Frank Whittle - RAF pilot, mathematician of genius, inventor of the jet engine and British hero. 'Wonderful' David Edgerton, TLS 'A fascinating account' Aeroplane Monthly 'Casts... -
Men-of-War: Life in Nelson’s Navy by Patrick O’Brian 9780008355999
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.16Out of print for many years, this is a brand new edition of the definitive companion to the acclaimed Aubrey-Maturin series of novels, written by the author himself. ... -
Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination and the Birth of a World by Oliver Morton 9781841156699
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.94A narrative history of the men and women who have explored Mars and mapped its surface from afar, and in so doing conditioned our understanding of our nearest planetary neighbour. The maps... -
A Monstrous Commotion: The Mysteries of Loch Ness Gareth Williams 9781409158745
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.60The Loch Ness Monster: a creature that should have died out with the dinosaurs, or a legend built on hoaxes and wishful thinking?Sir Peter Scott, internationally renowned naturalist and president of... -
The Wet And The Dry: A Drinker's Journey by Lawrence Osborne 9781846554629
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €15.79'I am taking a few months off to travel and wander, drinking my way across the Islamic world to see whether I can dry myself out, cure myself of a bout of alcoholic excess. It is a personal crisis, a... -
The Letter of Marque by Patrick O'Brian
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.54Thrown out of the navy for a crime he did not commit, Jack Aubrey has lost everything he held most dear. In command of his beloved Surprise, but in a civilian capacity, Jack Aubrey must... -
The Levelling Sea: The Story of a Cornish Haven and the Age of Sail by Philip Marsden
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €9.29The 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... -
Blue at the Mizzen by Patrick O'Brian 9781324035275
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.96Napoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, and the ensuing peace brings with it both the desertion of nearly half of Captain Aubrey's crew and the sudden dimming of Aubrey's career prospects in a... -
The Age of Islands: In Search of New and Disappearing Islands by Alastair Bonnett 9781786498120
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.77'Extraordinary... A fascinating and intelligent book.' Sunday TimesNew islands are being built at an unprecedented rate whether for tourism or territorial ambition, while many islands are... -
The Hundred Days by Patrick O'Brian 9781324021711
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €12.14Napoleon, escaped from Elba, pursues his enemies across Europe like a vengeful phoenix. If he can corner the British and Prussians before their Russian and Austrian allies arrive, his genius will... -
The Commodore by Patrick O'Brian 9781324021551
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.96Having survived a long and desperate adventure in the Great South Sea, Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin return to England to very different circumstances. For Jack it is a happy homecoming, at... -
The Wine-Dark Sea by Patrick O'Brian 9781324021544
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.96At the outset of this adventure filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue an American privateer through the Great South Sea. The strange color of the ocean reminds... -
The New Granta Book of Travel Liz Jobey 9781847083302
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €14.14Granta has long been known for the quality of its travel writing. The 1980s were the culmination of a golden age, when writers including Paul Theroux and Bruce Chatwin, James Hamilton-Paterson and... -
The Yellow Admiral by Patrick O'Brian 9781324021704
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.93Life ashore may once again be the undoing of Jack Aubrey in The Yellow Admiral, Patrick O'Brian's best-selling novel and eighteenth volume in the Aubrey/Maturin series. Aubrey, now a considerable...