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The Templars Piers Paul Read 9780753810873
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75The dramatic, ultimately tragic history of the Knights Templar, the largest and most powerful military order of the Crusades.Sifting myth from history, Piers Paul Read reveals the Templars - the... -
The Train Robbers: Their Story by Piers Paul Read 9780753541760
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71On Thursday August 8, 1963, fifteen masked men stopped the night train from Glasgow to London and robbed it of GBP2,500,000 (the equivalent of GBP41 million today). It was called the crime of the... -
Alive: The True Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Read
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92LOST1972. A plane has crashed in the Andes mountains. The passengers are hopelessly lost in one of the most isolated places on earth.ABANDONEDAlmost three months later, two of the survivors,... -
The Wisdom of Solomon by Piers Paul Read 9780862419806 [USED COPY]
RRP: $5.36Booksplease Price: $2.55Traditionally believed to be written by King Solomon himself, though later attributed to his friends and followers, the author of the Greek text is well versed in the popular philosophical,... -
The Dreyfus Affair: The Story of the Most Infamous Miscarriage of Justice in French History by Piers Paul Read
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.09Intelligent, ambitious and a rising star in the French artillery, Captain Alfred Dreyfus appeared to have everything: family, money, and the prospect of a post on the General Staff. But his rapid... -
Viven! El Triunfo del Espiritu Humano / Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Read 9788490702369
Booksplease Price: $21.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788490702369Author Piers Paul ReadFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint -
Miracle In The Andes: The True Story of Surviving 72 Days on the Mountain Against All Odds Nando Parrado 9781474608732
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41The true story of the 1972 Andes plane crash and rescue dramatised in Netflix's Society of the SnowIn October 1972, Nando Parrado and his rugby club teammates were on a flight from Uruguay to Chile... -
The Great Train Robbery: Crime of the Century: The Definitive Account Nick Russell-Pavier 9780753829264
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Definitive account of the famous 1963 Great Train Robbery - and its aftermath. In the early hours of Thursday 8th August 1963 at rural Cheddington in Buckinghamshire, GBP2.6 million (GBP50 million... -
Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes by Eamon Duffy
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $20.09This engrossing book encompasses the extraordinary history of the papacy, from its beginnings to the present day. This new edition covers the unprecedented resignation of Benedict XVI and the... -
A History of the Popes: Saints and Sinners by Eamon Duffy 9780300303698
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.65This engrossing book encompasses the extraordinary history of the papacy, from its beginnings to the present day. This new edition covers the unprecedented resignation of Benedict XVI and the... -
In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers by William Palmer 9781472145000
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79'Wise, witty and empathetic . . . outstanding'JIM CRACE'A fascinating treatment of the age-old problem of writers and drink which displays the same subtle qualities as William Palmer's own... -
In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers William Palmer 9781472144997
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36'Sympathetic and wonderfully perceptive . . . a heartbreaking read'NICK COHEN, Critic'Wise, witty and empathetic . . . outstanding'JIM CRACE'A fascinating treatment of the age-old problem of writers... -
Beside the Syrian Sea by James Wolff
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09Jonas is a British spy out in the cold. When his father, an elderly clergyman, is kidnapped and held for ransom by ISIS in Syria, he takes matters into his own hands and begins to steal the only... -
Paris After the Liberation: 1944 - 1949 by Antony Beevor
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37A remarkable historical account of the chaos and uncertainty that followed the liberation of Paris in August, 1944'A beautifully written book about a vast tapestry of military, political and social... -
Beside the Syrian Sea by James Wolff 9781912242139
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $13.24Jonas thought about what it would mean to cross a border in a place like this. He might have followed a trail laid down by others, but this time there would be no searchlights, no sirens, no soldiers... -
Ten Weeks in Africa by J. M. Shaw
RRP: $4.01Booksplease Price: $3.71A vivid, gripping novel about corruption, integrity and good intentions gone wrong, set in an African country on the brink of civil war, for fans of John le Carre, Graham Greene and William Boyd.What... -
Newman on Vatican II by Ian Ker
Booksplease Price: $39.54John Henry Newman is often described as 'the Father of the Second Vatican Council'. He anticipated most of the Council's major documents, as well as being an inspiration to the theologians who were... -
Selfies by Sylvie Weil
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $11.58Taking selfies is not the exclusive preserve of millennials. In Selfies, the niece of French philosopher Simone Weil, also daughter of one of the most brilliant mathematicians of the 20th c., gives a... -
Snake Dance: Journeys Beneath a Nuclear Sky by Patrick Marnham 9780099542247
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63The terrifying first use of nuclear weapons over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 was the most controversial act of warfare in history, dramatically ending the Second World War but ushering in... -
Trump and the Puritans by James Roberts 9781785905087
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $9.39The year 2020 is a hugely significant one for the United States of America, marking as it does the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the Mayflower Pilgrims to the New World and their establishment... -
Putney Ms Sofka Zinovieff 9781408895740
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11A bold, thought-provoking novel that will compel and disquiet in equal measure, about the moral lines we tread, the stories we tell ourselves and the secrets we bury; 'the best novel of 2018, by far'... -
Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940s by Anne Sebba 9781780226613 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.23WINNER OF THE FRANCO-BRITISH SOCIETY BOOK PRIZE 2016June, 1940. German troops enter Paris and hoist the swastika over the Arc de Triomphe. The dark days of Occupation begin. How would you have...