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Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles by Samuel Graydon 9781529372496
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.69DROPOUT. PACIFIST. PHYSICIST. CASANOVA. REFUGEE. REBEL. GENIUS.THINK YOU KNOW EINSTEIN? THINK AGAINHis face is instantly recognisable. His name is shorthand for genius. Today, he's a figurehead as... -
Black Liturgies: Prayers, poems and meditations for staying human Cole Arthur Riley 9781399815000
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.34In the summer of 2020, Cole Arthur Riley was desperate for a spirituality she could trust. Amidst ongoing national racial violence, the isolation of the pandemic, and a surge of anti-Black rhetoric... -
The Lord's Prayer for Beginners Stephen Cottrell 9781399819428
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399819428Author Stephen CottrellFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint John Murray Publishers... -
P is for Pilgrim Stephen Cottrell 9781399805292
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399805292Author Stephen CottrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint John Murray Publishers... -
Blaise Pascal Graham Tomlin 9781399807647
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25He lived for just 39 years, yet Blaise Pascal was one of the most remarkable and creative figures of the seventeenth century. He is known for his famous argument 'the wager', but there's so much more... -
Death is a Welcome Guest: Plague Times Trilogy 2 by Louise Welsh 9781529386868
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £3.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorLouise Welsh is the author of eight novels including The Cutting Room, A Lovely Way to Burn and Death is a... -
A Lovely Way to Burn: Plague Times Trilogy 1 Louise Welsh 9781529386851
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £3.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorLouise Welsh is the author of eight novels including The Cutting Room, A Lovely Way to Burn and Death is a... -
Big Chief Elizabeth: How England's Adventurers Gambled and Won the New World by Giles Milton
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.83In April 1586, Queen Elizabeth I acquired a new and exotic title. A tribe of North American Indians had made her their weroanza - 'big chief'.The news was received with great joy, both by the Queen... -
Lance Armstrong John Wilcockson 9781848544697
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.00Few champions have astonished the world as much as Lance Armstrong. A cancer survivor who went on to win the Tour de France an unprecedented seven times, he is an inspiration to millions. Now the... -
In Search of the English Eccentric Henry Hemming 9780719522222
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.83The English eccentric is under threat. In our increasingly homogenised society, these celebrated parts of our national identity are anomalies that may soon no longer fit. Or so it seems. On his... -
Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924 by Philip Mansel
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.71Philip Mansel's highly acclaimed history of Constantinople (formerly known as Byzantium) absorbingly charts the interaction between the vibrantly cosmopolitan capital - the city of the world's desire... -
The Turks Today Andrew Mango 9780719565953
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.05Eighty years have passed since Mustafa Kemal Ataturk founded the Turkish Republic out of the ruins of the Ottoman Empire and set it on the path of modernisation. He was determined that his country... -
The Making of Music James Naughtie 9780719562556
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.83The making of Music is the story of our musical history, its origins and how it has shaped us. We have all grown up with a common background noise, whether we realise it or not. The tradition of... -
Yemen Tim Mackintosh-Smith 9780719597404
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.83Our ideas of the Arabian Peninusula have been hijacked: by images of the desert, by oil, by the Gulf War. But there is another Arabia.For the classical geographers Yemen was a fabulous land where... -
Words of Mercury Patrick Leigh Fermor 9780719561061
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Patrick Leigh Fermor was only 18 when he set off to walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople, described many years later in A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. It was during... -
Oracle Bones Peter Hessler 9780719564413
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.83Peter Hessler's previous book River Town was a prize-winning, poignant and deeply compelling portrait of China. Now, in Oracle Bones, Hessler returns to the country, excavating its long history and... -
Desert Soul: JM Journeys by Isabelle Eberhardt
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.70INTRODUCED BY WILLIAM ATKINS, author of The Immeasurable World 'I am merely an eccentric, a dreamer who wishes to live far from the civilized world, as a free nomad.'Isabelle Eberhardt's writing... -
Daily Devotions from the Psalms Joyce Meyer 9781399802208
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Discover a powerful and positive mindset each day of the year with uplifting insights and motivational Bible verses provided by #1 New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer.The Book of Psalms... -
The Girl on the Stairs: A Masterful Psychological Thriller Louise Welsh 9781848546509
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.00Jane and Petra have been together for six years and after deciding to have a child, they move to Petra's hometown, Berlin. But things do not quite go according to plan. Jane, at six months pregnant,... -
Build for Tomorrow: An Action Plan for Embracing Change, Adapting Fast, and Future-Proofing Your Career Jason Feifer 9781399804585
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.72The moments of greatest change can also be the moments of greatest opportunity. Adapt more quickly and use the power of change to your advantage with this guide from the editor in chief of... -
A Long Lunch: My Stories and I'm Sticking to Them Simon Hoggart 9781848543980
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.00Simon Hoggart has long been admired as one of our leading commentators on modern life. His memoirs encompass his radio career, most notably as chair of the News Quiz, his life as a journalist and as... -
Understand the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Teach Yourself Stewart Ross 9781399818339
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.05This book is the essential guide to the extraordinarily complicated and developing situation in Israel/Palestine. Fully updated to reflect the tense and troubling changes in the region since 7... -
The Accidental Artist Billy Connolly 9781399820936
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £17.77***PRE-ORDER now to secure your special edition with Billy's signature sprayed edge - available only while stock lasts and EXCLUSIVE to the first print run***'My drawings started by accident. I was... -
Words of Mercury by Patrick Leigh Fermor 9780719561054 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £2.29Patrick Leigh Fermor was only 18 when he set off to walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople, described many years later in "A Time of Gifts" and "Between the Woods and the Water". It was... -
Peacemonger by Marrack Goulding 9780719555404 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £3.21Marrack Goulding joined the United Nations as the Under-Secretary-General in charge of peacekeeping operations in 1986, at a time of intense optimism. With the thawing of the Cold War it seemed that... -
The Traitors: A True Story of Blood, Betrayal and Deceit by Josh Ireland 9781473620322 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £2.65'An epic tale of love, dishonour, bravery, cowardice, betrayal and high-treason. Beautifully written. A stunning debut' Damien Lewis Playboy. Fascist. Strongman. Thief. Traitors. September 1939. For... -
How to Be Human: The Ultimate Guide to Your Amazing Existence by New Scientist 9781473629288 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £2.29If you thought you knew who you were, THINK AGAIN. Did you know that half your DNA isn't human? That somebody, somewhere has exactly the same face? Or that most of your memories are fiction? What... -
The Curious Habits of Dr Adams: A 1950s Murder Mystery by Jane Robins 9781848544727 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.54'Was rich Mrs Gertrude Hullett murdered at her luxurious 15-room home on Beachy Head? Detectives are tonight trying to establish the cause of the 50-year-old widow's sudden death . . . ' Daily Mail,... -
Hurricane: Victor of the Battle of Britain by Leo McKinstry 9781848543416 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.54In the summer of 1940 the fate of Europe hung in the balance. Victory in the forthcoming air battle would mean national survival; defeat would establish German tyranny.The Luftwaffe greatly... -
The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite by Beatrice Colin 9781848540316 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £2.54As the clock chimed the turn of the twentieth century, Lilly Nelly Aphrodite took her first breath. Born to a cabaret dancer and soon orphaned in a scandalous double murder, Lilly finds refuge at a... -
Florentine Renaissance Sculpture by Charles Avery 9780719519321 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £2.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780719519321Author Charles AveryFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint John Murray Publishers... -
Young Betjeman by Bevis Hillier 9780719545313 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £2.48Young Betjeman opens Bevis Hillier's biographical trilogy of John Betjeman. It was first published in 1988 and has been reissued to accompany John Betjeman: New Fame, New Love, which deals with the... -
The Longest Winter: Scott's Other Heroes by Meredith Hooper 9780719595905 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.65Scott's 'Northern Party' played an important role in his iconic last expedition, but how did they survive? Their tents were torn, their food was nearly finished and the ship had failed to pick them... -
Sovereign Ladies by Maureen Waller 9780719567148 [USED COPY]
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £2.29In the last millennium there have been only six female sovereigns: Mary I and Elizabeth I, Mary II and Anne, Victoria and Elizabeth II, who celebrated her eightieth birthday in 2006. With the... -
The Children who Fought Hitler by James G. Fox 9781848540873 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.29Few people know that Ypres, centre of First World War remembrance, was once home to a thriving British community that played a heroic role in the Second World War. This expatriate outpost grew around... -
All in One Basket: Nest Eggs by by Deborah Devonshire 9781848545939 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £1.87Entertaining, instructive, thought-provoking and hilarious, the unmistakeable voice of Deborah Devonshire rings out of this volume which combines her two collections of 'occasional' writings - Home... -
The Retreat by Michael Jones 9780719569722 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.52The thrilling history of the turning point of the Second World War, when Hitler's armies were halted on the Eastern FrontAt the moment of crisis in 1941 on the Eastern front, with the forces of... -
Sleeping Around: Secrets of a Sexual Adventuress by Catherine Townsend 9780719563515 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.54'I relish every second of my sexual encounters: the good, the bad, the bizarre. Most of my serious relationships have started out as one-night stands.' Catherine Townsend describes herself as 'part... -
Jeremy Hutchinson's Case Histories: From Lady Chatterley's Lover to Howard Marks by Thomas Grant 9781444799736 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £2.29THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA NON-FICTION DAGGER 'Thomas Grant has brought together Hutchinson's greatest legal hits, producing a fascinating episodic cultural history of... -
When We Were Fifty by Christopher Matthew 9780719568855 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.13These days we feel almost as young at fifty as we did at thirty - give or take the odd twinge. However, we are also becoming increasingly aware that the cradle is a lot further off than the grave. Is...