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Ahead of the Class: How an Inspiring Headmistress Gave Children Back Their Future by Marie Stubbs 9780719563355 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.54This is the heartening account of how Marie Stubbs and her team transformed St George's School - made notorious by the murder of its headteacher Philip Lawrence into a school praised by Ofsted... -
The Lyttelton Hart-Davis Letters: Correspondence of George Lyttelton and Rupert Hart-Davis: v.1-2 in 1v. by George Lyttelton 9780719542466 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £2.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780719542466Author George LytteltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint John Murray Publishers... -
The First Emperor: Caesar Augustus and the Triumph of Rome by Anthony Everitt 9780719554940 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £2.29Caesar Augustus is one of the most fascinating figures in history. Plucked as teenager from provincial obscurity by his great-uncle Julius Caesar, who adopted him posthumously in his will, Augustus... -
Who Runs This Place?: The Anatomy of Britain in the 21st Century by Anthony Sampson 9780719565649 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £2.65Government power: Attorney-general and Blair crony, Lord Goldsmith, confirms the legality of war in Iraq in the face of convincing counter-arguments. Media power: Politicians resign regularly to... -
A Puppy Called Aero: An Inspirational Story by Liam Creed 9780719523335 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £1.98Liam Creed seemed like a lost cause. He was excluded from school more times than he can remember, his outbursts got him into trouble, he faced a constant struggle with medication, and his family were... -
Home to Roost: And Other Peckings by Deborah Devonshire 9781848541894 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £1.98'My father would not have wasted time reading - a trait I have inherited from him.' The unmistakeable voice of Deborah Devonshire, the youngest of the Mitford sisters, rings out of this second volume... -
The Creator's Map by Emilio Calderón 9780719596506 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £3.97Rome, October 1952. The architect Jose Maria Hurtado and his wife Montserrat open their newspaper to find that their friend Prince Junio Vivarini, Fascist and Nazi-sympathizer, has been found dead,... -
Tennis Whites and Teacakes by John Betjeman 9780719569043 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.29Tennis Whites and Teacakes brings together the best of Betjeman's poetry, private letters, journalism and musings to present a fully rounded picture of what he stood for. From his arguments for new... -
In Praise of Churches by John Betjeman 9780719555626 [USED COPY]
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £1.98This work brings together John Betjeman's poems and prose and Paul Hogarth's paintings about the Church. Together, they demonstrate Betjeman's intimate knowledge of and love for the Church, both High... -
Liars and Saints by Maile Meloy 9780719566448 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.48Liars And Saints is an utterly compelling portrait of a family, the twists and turns of their lives unravelled with extraordinary sensitivity and understanding. By turns laugh aloud funny and... -
Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean by Philip Mansel
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.05Levant is a book of cities. It describes Smyrna, Alexandria and Beirut when they were windows on the world, escapes from nationality and tradition, centres of wealth, pleasure and freedom. Using... -
The Story of San Michele by Axel Munthe
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.65This 'dream-laden and spooked' (Marina Warner, London Review of Books) story is to many one of the best-loved books of the twentieth century.Munthe spent many years working as a doctor in Southern... -
In This Way I Was Saved Brian Deleeuw 9781848541610
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.85I pounded myself against the inside of his head, but it was useless. He couldn't hear me; I was trapped. So, like any other prisoner, I waited. I bided my time.Luke is six. He is a lonely child, but... -
A Gift of Joy and Hope Pope Francis 9781399802857
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.65'This is Christian hope: the certainty of walking towards something that exists, not something I hope might be there.' In response to the devastating loss the world faced during the pandemic,... -
Bad Dates Sam Jordison 9780719522024
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.85From the man who had information about his underpants emailed to his entire office, to the girl who ruptured her stomach when over-indulging at an all-you-can-eat restaurant, Bad Dates lays bare (in... -
You Deserve Nothing Alexander Maksik 9781848545724
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.05Set in an international high school in Paris, YOU DESERVE NOTHING is told in three voices: that of Will, a charismatic young teacher who brings ideas alive in the classroom in a way that profoundly... -
All the Dead Voices by Declan Hughes
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.67Ed Loy has made some changes. He has moved into an apartment in Dublin's city centre, leaving behind his family home: he wants to break free of the ghosts of his own past, to live in the teeming... -
The Longest Winter: Scott's Other Heroes Meredith Hooper 9780719595905
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.85Scott'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... -
When Britain Burned the White House: The 1814 Invasion of Washington by Peter Snow
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.29As heard on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week.Shortlisted for the Paddy Power Political History Book of the Year Award 2014.In August 1814 the United States' army is defeated in battle by an invading... -
Magic Enuff by Tara M Stringfellow 9781399818377
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.05"God can stay asleep / these women in my life are magic enuff"An electrifying collection of poems that tells a universal tale of survival and revolution through the lens of Black femininity. Tara... -
Dallas: 1963: The Road to the Kennedy Assassination Bill Minutaglio 9781848547780
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.85In November 1963 President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. His death remains a defining moment for millions of people but few understand the unstoppable forces that were building... -
Beijing Rules: China's Quest for Global Influence by Bethany Allen 9781529367812
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.65LONGLISTED FOR FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDA FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR'Excellent . . . reveals an insidious matrix of spying, deception, censorship... -
After the Reich: From the Liberation of Vienna to the Berlin Airlift Giles Macdonogh 9780719567667
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.85In 1945 Germany was a nation in tatters. Swathes of its population were despairing, homeless, bombed-out and on the move. Refugees streamed towards the West and soldiers made their way home, often... -
To War with Wellington: From the Peninsula to Waterloo Peter Snow 9781848541047
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.05The seven-year campaign that saved Europe from Napoleon told by those who were there.What made Arthur Duke of Wellington the military genius who was never defeated in battle? In the vivid narrative... -
Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles by Samuel Graydon 9781529372502
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.85'Fascinating and vivid' CARLO ROVELLIDROPOUT, PACIFIST, PHYSICIST, CASANOVA, REFUGEE, GENIUS . . . WHO WAS ALBERT EINSTEIN?The Nobel Prize-winning physicist who discovered relativity, black holes and... -
In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor by Patrick Leigh Fermor 9780719568572
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.85In spring 1956, Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire - youngest of the six legendary Mitford sisters - invited the writer and war hero Patrick Leigh Fermor to visit Lismore Castle, the Devonshires' house... -
The Orchid Outlaw: On a Mission to Save Our Rarest Flowers by Ben Jacob 9781399802284
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.65LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE & SHORTLISTED FOR THE RICHARD JEFFERIES AWARD'One man's fascinating mission to save the great British orchid' Mail on Sunday'Noble work in a time of great change'... -
Falling Short: The fresh, funny and life-affirming debut novel Lex Coulton 9781473669581
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £8.73'Vastly enjoyable' Daily Mail Frances Pilgrim's father went missing when she was five, and ever since all sorts of things have been going astray: car keys, promotions, a series of underwhelming and... -
The English Marriage Maureen Waller 9781848544017
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.65The story of the English marriage is unique and eccentric. Long after the rest of Europe and neighbouring Scotland had reformed their marriage laws, England clung to the chaotic and contradictory... -
My Friend Leonard James Frey 9780719561177
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.05While in rehab, James Frey finds a father figure in a shady mafia boss called Leonard. When Leonard returns to his dubious, prosperous life in the criminal underworld of Las Vegas, he promises James... -
Trains and Buttered Toast by John Betjeman 9780719561276 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.48Eccentric, sentimental and homespun, John Betjeman's passions were mostly self-taught. He saw his country being devastated by war and progress and he waged a private war to save it. His only weapons... -
The Language Wars by Henry Hitchings 9781848542099 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.54The English language is a battlefield. Since the age of Shakespeare, arguments over correct usage have been acrimonious, and those involved have always really been contesting values - to do with... -
Tao Te Ching by Lao zi 9780719551932 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780719551932Author Lao ziFormat HardbackPage Count 172Imprint John Murray Publishers LtdPublisher... -
Sleepless: Discovering the Power of the Night Self Annabel Abbs 9781529366495
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.65'Sleepless has changed how I feel about sleep . . . I was captivated' The Times, Book of the Week'This book will inspire you to get up, light a candle, and experience your own Night Self' Financial... -
The Final Testament by James Frey
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.00James Frey isn't like other writers. He's been called a liar. A cheat. A con man. He's been called a saviour. A revolutionary. A genius. He's been sued by readers. Dropped by publishers because of... -
I Want You to be Happy Pope Francis 9781399811989
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorThe first Pope of the Americas, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, hails from Argentina. The 76-year-old Jesuit... -
Smoke And Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh 9781529349252
Booksplease Price: £13.07When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels the Ibis Trilogy, he was startled to find how the lives of the 19th century sailors and soldiers he wrote of were dictated not... -
The Crock of Gold by James Stephens
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.97'In the centre of the pine wood called Coilla Doraca there lived not long ago two Philosophers. They were wiser than anything else in the world except the Salmon who lies in the pool of Glyn Cagny... -
Instant Manager: Effective Presenting by Brian Salter 9780340985182
Booksplease Price: £14.23Whether you are finding your way as a manager or you want to enhance the skills you already have, the Instant Manager series is exactly what you need! Written by leading experts, they are... -
Alfred the Great by Justin Pollard
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.27Alfred is the only English king ever to be called 'Great'. It was not a title given by political supporters, not the sycophantic gift of an official biographer, nor a self-styled title. It was the...