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Ataturk Andrew Mango 9780719565922
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $18.96This biography of Ataturk aims to strip away the myth to show the complexities of the man beneath. Born plain Mustafa in Ottoman Salonica in 1881, he trained as an army officer but was virtually... -
Eight Feet in the Andes: Travels with a Mule in Unknown Peru Dervla Murphy 9780719565168
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.45The eight feet belong to Dervla Murphy, her nine-year-old daughter Rachel and Juana, an elegant mule, who together clambered the length of Peru, from Cajamarca near the border with Ecuador, to Cuzco,... -
The Traveller's Tree: A Journey through the Caribbean Islands Patrick Leigh Fermor 9780719566844
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.75In this, his first book, Patrick Leigh Fermor recounts his tales of a personal odyssey to the lands of the Traveller's Tree - a tall, straight-trunked tree whose sheath-like leaves collect copious... -
Sleeping Around: Secrets of a Sexual Adventuress Catherine Townsend 9780719563515
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.45'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... -
Paradise Lost: The Destruction of Islam's City of Tolerance Giles Milton 9780340837870
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.75On Saturday 9th September, 1922, the victorious Turkish cavalry rode into Smyrna, the richest and most cosmopolitan city in the Ottoman Empire. What happened over the next two weeks must rank as one... -
Mama Tina: The Christina Noble Story Continues Christina Noble 9781848548428
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45In 1989, driven by a dream and the memory of her own past, Christina Noble travelled 6,000 miles to Vietnam, a country of great beauty where the terrible legacy of war is still being felt. Against... -
The Art of Conversation: How Talking Improves Lives by Catherine Blyth
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.45Every day we use our mobiles and computers to communicate, but ironically we are losing touch with face-to-face talk. Catherine Blyth reveals the endless possibilities of conversation and shows that... -
Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah Tim Mackintosh-Smith 9781848546752
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45Ibn Battutah set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on the pilgrimage to Mecca. By the time he returned twenty-nine years later, he had visited most of the known world, travelling three times the... -
Days of God: The Revolution in Iran and Its Consequences James Buchan 9781848540675
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $20.75The Iranian Revolution of 1979 was a turning-point in modern history. The destruction of the Iranian monarchy not only upset the political order in the Middle East and brought on a quarter-century of... -
Smashing Physics Jon Butterworth 9781472210333
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45The discovery of the Higgs boson made headlines around the world. Two scientists, Peter Higgs and Francois Englert, whose theories predicted its existence, shared a Nobel Prize. The discovery was the... -
Wolfram: The Boy Who Went to War by Giles Milton
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.45The Aichele family were decent, cultured, peace-loving Germans trying their hardest not to get swept up in the madness of Hitler's Third Reich. But by the time war came, for civilians on all sides,... -
Things I Wish My Mother Had Told Me: Lessons in Grace and Elegance Lucia Van Der Post 9780719566691
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.75Packed full of golden rules from one of Britain's most stylish women, Things I Wish My Mother Had Told Me is a woman's companion for life. Lucia van der Post reveals the secrets of dressing stylishly... -
Osman's Dream by Caroline Finkel
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.38The Ottoman chronicles recount that the first sultan, Osman, dreamt of the dynasty he would found - a tree, fully-formed, emerged from his navel, symbolising the vigour of his successors and the... -
Danger Close: The True Story of Helmand from the Leader of 3 PARA Stuart Tootal 9781848542587
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05Colonel Stuart Tootal is the first senior commander to provide an account of the fighting in Afghanistan. A gritty portrayal of unforgiving conflict, Danger Close captures the essence of combat, the... -
Bringing the House Down David Profumo 9780719566097
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.45David Profumo was just seven when his father, who had been Secretary of State for War, resigned from the Macmillan government. Despite the furore and humiliation that followed, his parents famously... -
Trains and Buttered Toast John Betjeman 9780719561276
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.25Eccentric, 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 Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville by Giles Milton
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.25In 1322 Sir John Mandeville left England on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Thirty-four years later, he returned, claiming to have visited not only Jerusalem, but India, China, Java, Sumatra and Borneo as... -
Betjeman's England by John Betjeman
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45For more than half a century, Betjeman's writings have awakened readers to the intimacy of English places - from the smell of gaslight in suburban churches, to the hissing of backwash on a shingle... -
Silverland Dervla Murphy 9780719568299
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45Silverland charts Dervla Murphy's extraordinary expedition through the snowscapes of Far Eastern Russia. No stranger to adventure, the intrepid septuagenarian's mid-winter journey takes her beyond... -
Samurai William: The Adventurer Who Unlocked Japan by Giles Milton
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.75In 1611 an astonishing letter arrived at the East India Trading Company in London after a tortuous seven-year journey. Englishman William Adams was one of only twenty-four survivors of a fleet of... -
Belonging by Sameem Ali
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $16.78Abandoned by her parents, Sameem Ali spent six and a half years growing up in a children's home. When she was told that her family wanted to take her back she couldn't wait to start her new life with... -
Boss of Bosses: How One Man Saved the Sicilian Mafia Clare Longrigg 9780719568596
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.45Bernado Provenzano, head of the Sicilian mafia, is Italy's most notorious criminal. But despite apparent sightings all over Europe, for 43 years he eluded the police, until, on 11 April 2006, a crack... -
Tintin: Herge and His Creation Harry Thompson 9781848546721
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.45The little black-and-white cartoon figure of Tintin first appeared in Belgium in 1929 in a Catholic newspaper where his creator, Herge, worked. Harry Thompson looks at the story of Herge, of Tintin... -
Beyond Bias: How to Fix the System, Not the Symptoms, of Gender Inequality at Work by Andrea S. Kramer 9781399801485
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $30.35Despite extensive and costly diversity initiatives, little progress has been made in recent years in ending workplace gender inequality. Beyond Bias presents a compelling explanation of the reasons... -
Gone Away: A John Murray Journey by Dom Moraes 9781399810920
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $17.07Introduced by Jeet Thayli, author of Booker Prize shortlisted novel Narcopolis.At the age of 20, Dom Moraes - already a celebrated poet who would go on to be regarded as one of India's finest writers... -
More Than a Game: A History of How Sport Made Britain by David Horspool 9781529363272
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $40.38'Superb . . . Deserves to become a classic of sporting literature' DAVID KYNASTON'Absolutely fascinating and completely eye-opening - every page contains a gem' MARINA HYDE'A sparkling history'... -
Committed: A Memoir of Finding Meaning in Madness by Suzanne Scanlon 9781399804806
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $29.02'Visceral, raw and tender, this candid and timely memoir is, at heart, a love-letter to the profound and redemptive power of literature' Annabel Abbs'Among the very finest and most intelligent... -
Oh Miriam!: Stories from an Extraordinary Life Miriam Margolyes 9781399803373
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45'Oh Miriam! risks the curse of the sequel, and pulls it off . . . A force of nature, a tour de farce. Bold, brave and bright, but also revealing, shocking and touching. Miriam is an icon, a... -
Creation: The True Story of Charles Darwin Randal Keynes 9781848542020
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $19.45Annie was Charles and Emma Darwin's adored first daughter. Her death at the age of ten broke their hearts. At the time, Darwin was working secretly on his theory of evolution and the pain of his... -
The Meaning of Night Michael Cox 9780719568374
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award'A novel of fate and free will, forensic detection and blind love, crime and its justifications . . . finely tuned yet extravagantly complex' Evening... -
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RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $2.63'You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a... -
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A Puppy Called Aero: How a Labrador Saved a Boy with ADHD by Liam Creed 9781848540484 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $3.15Liam 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... -
Succeed at Psychometric Testing: Practice Tests for Verbal Reasoning Intermediate 2nd Edition by Simbo Nuga 9780340969243
Booksplease Price: $38.18Are you about to attend an interview or assessment centre for a new job, or are you being considered for promotion or training? If that means the daunting prospect of sitting psychometric tests then... -
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Peacemakers Six Months that Changed The World by Margaret MacMillan 9780719562372 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $5.57Between January and July 1919, after the war to end all wars, men and women from all over the world converged on Paris for the Peace Conference. At its heart were the leaders of the three great... -
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Rocket Men by Craig Nelson 9780719569586 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $5.59On 20 July 1969, man set foot on the moon. Motivated by politics, faith, science and wonder, the Apollo 11 mission was the greatest technical achievement of all time. It was the culmination of over a... -
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Deception in War by Jon Latimer 9780719556050 [USED COPY]
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $5.73Deception has been an integral part of warfare since Troy accepted a wooden horse from the Acheans, but it has generally been looked on as the ruses de guerre of cunning individuals rather then an... -
The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance that Won the War by Giles Milton 9781529398557
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45'Page-turning . . . a sizzling high-stakes tale' JAMES HOLLAND'This book might read like the screenplay of a gripping movie, yet every word is accurate and verified' ANDREW ROBERTS'Giles Milton is a... -
The Hodder Bible Commentary: James by Daniel K. Eng 9781399821780
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $26.2550 volumes. 4 million words. Global representation.Engage with the latest theological thinking in this new, readable exposition of the Bible in 50 volumes. Covering all books of the Bible and... -
Emma by Jane Austen 9781399827591
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY GILL HORNBYHandsome, clever and rich, Emma Woodhouse has no desire to fall in love or be married. Playing Cupid for her peers is far more appealing. But when Emma's... -
The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney 9781399827157
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY KEVIN BARRYWINNER OF THE BAILEYS' WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOT PRIZE 2016We all do stupid things when we're kids.Ryan Cusack's grown up faster...