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Gerontius by James Hamilton-Paterson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Nearing 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... -
Marked for Death by James Hamilton-Paterson
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73A 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... -
Blackbird by James Hamilton-Paterson 9781639366217
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £17.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639366217Author James Hamilton-PatersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Pegasus... -
Trains, Planes, Ships and Cars by James Hamilton-Paterson
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.66A 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Seven-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... -
Playing With Water: Alone on a Philippine Island by James Hamilton-Paterson 9780571313990
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'One June day in 1953 aged twelve I sat in a classroom and drew a map.' The map that the young Hamilton-Paterson drew was of a tropical island, and it prefigured with uncanny accuracy the... -
Beethoven's Eroica: The First Great Romantic Symphony by James Hamilton-Paterson 9781541697362
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.22An ode to Beethoven's revolutionary masterpiece, his Third Symphony In 1805, the world of music was startled by an avant-garde and explosive new work. Intellectually and emotionally, Beethoven's... -
Empire of the Clouds: When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World by James Hamilton-Paterson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31In 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... -
What We Have Lost: The Dismantling of Great Britain James Hamilton-Paterson 9781784972363
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'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: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24People 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... -
Stuck Monkey: The Deadly Planetary Cost of the Things We Love by James Hamilton-Paterson 9781803285535
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49People 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 9780571247950 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.25In 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Flight 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... -
Granta 61: The Sea - Voyages, Mysteries, Discoveries, Disasters : How Much Do We Know? by Ian Jack 9780903141161
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £16.39In this issue of Granta Magazine, the theme is the sea and our relationship with it. It includes pieces by: James Hamilton-Paterson, on a lonely death in the Pacific; Julia Blackburn, on the lure of... -
Granta 87: Jublilee by Ian Jack
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £16.69A celebration of Granta's first quarter century with new writing from the writers who made its reputation, including Martin Amis, Paul Auster, William Boyd, Amit Chaudhul, Richard Ford, James... -
Granta 98: The Deep End by Ian Jack 9780903141949
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £16.34Struggling maybe, but waving not drowning. This issue of "Granta" contains writing from people whose experience of life suggests they have something to tell us about survival.This work... -
Granta 67: Women And Children First by Ian Jack
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £16.14This issue reflects a variety of the extreme individual experience provided by the 20th century. James Hamilton-Paterson recounts his rape by five men in the Libyan desert; Joy Williams decides that... -
The Ionian Mission by Patrick O'Brian 9780393881745
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.97Jack 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... -
Jet Man: The Making and Breaking of Frank Whittle, Genius of the Jet Revolution Duncan Campbell-Smith 9781788544702
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42The 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... -
Granta 90: Country Life - Dispatches From What's Left Of It by Ian Jack 9780903141789
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £16.58Country Life: how it is lived, how it has changed, and how the changes are far from over. An issue that ranges from English fox-hunters to the rice-planters of the Ganges delta. Featuring Tim Adams... -
Granta 91: Wish You Were Here by Ian Jack 9780903141802
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £16.29LAST GASPS Thoughts about Alan while waiting for Harold, by Simon Gray The author of the celebrated and widely-acclaimed The Smoking Diaries returns to print with a tender, affecting, and of course... -
'A New Type of History': Fictional Proposals for dealing with the Past by Beverley Southgate 9780367738266
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80Linking fiction with history and historical theory, 'A New Type of History': Fictional Proposals for dealing with the Past focuses on a selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century novelists -... -
Before Dark: Collected Poems by Martin Anderson 9781848619609
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £18.95Before Dark reflects Martin Anderson's peripatetic lifestyle of three decades. During a weekend in Paris in 1971, whilst teaching at the University of Grenoble, he met T.T. Wong, a young Chinese... -
Men-of-War: Life in Nelson’s Navy by Patrick O’Brian 9780008355999
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24Out 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. ... -
Granta 75: Brief Encounters by Ian Jack 9780903141468
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £16.34'I was approached by a courteous young man who handed me a visiting card engraved with his name, Joseph, and his profession: Senior Officers' Pimp.' Norman Lewis embarks on his career as a British... -
Granta 83: This Overheating World by Ian Jack 9780903141628
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £16.29Not so much the state we're in as the mess we're getting into. The world we were born into has gone. We shall never completely recapture its climate, its seasons, the way its plants grew and its... -
The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific by Gananath Obeyesekere
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.55Here Gananath Obeyesekere debunks one of the most enduring myths of imperialism, civilization, and conquest: the notion that the Western civilizer is a god to savages. Using shipboard journals and... -
Treason's Harbour by Patrick O'Brian 9780393037098
RRP: £41.50Booksplease Price: £35.22All Patrick O'Brian's strengths are on parade in this novel of action and intrigue, set partly in Malta, partly in the treacherous, pirate-infested waters of the Red Sea. While Captain Aubrey worries... -
The Wet And The Dry: A Drinker's Journey by Lawrence Osborne 9781846554629
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16'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... -
A Monstrous Commotion: The Mysteries of Loch Ness Gareth Williams 9781409158745
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50The 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 Letter of Marque by Patrick O'Brian
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24Thrown 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: £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... -
Blue at the Mizzen by Patrick O'Brian 9781324035275
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.87Napoleon 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'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 Far Side of the World by Patrick O'Brian 9780393308624
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.55The war of 1812 continues, and Jack Aubrey sets course for Cape Horn on a mission after his own heart: intercepting a powerful American frigate outward bound to play havoc with the British whaling... -
The Guru, the Bagman and the Sceptic: A story of science, sex and psychoanalysis by Seamus O'Mahony 9781803285665
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15A brilliantly witty book about the intertwined lives of psychoanalyst Ernest Jones, surgeon Wilfred Trotter and the guru of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud. Welsh-born psychoanalyst Ernest Jones was... -
The Commodore by Patrick O'Brian 9781324021551
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.87Having 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.87At 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: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Granta 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.37Life 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...