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The Survivor by Simon Conway
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25'One of the best thriller writers working today. The conclusion to one of the most exciting espionage trilogies this century. THE best villain in modern spy fiction' - Tim Shipman, Chief Political... -
The Saboteur by Simon Conway
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A stunning, apocalyptic standalone sequel to The Stranger.The Terrorist Guy Fowle, known as the Stranger, escapes from prison. A mysterious Russian hacker is murdered in London and his thumb cut off... -
Damaged Simon Conway 9781444727746
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In a North Sea storm a drilling rig sinks, taking with it the ten kilos of hashish that Calum Bean has hidden in its superstructure. When the bankrollers decide that Cal's kneecaps are a reasonable... -
The Saboteur by Simon Conway 9781529334296
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £7.98A stunning, apocalyptic standalone sequel to The Stranger.'There's a healthy crop of younger spy writers just now, and Simon Conway is among the pick of the bunch. His military background renders the... -
A Loyal Spy by Simon Conway
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02WINNER OF THE IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER AWARD 2010 FOR BEST THRILLER OF THE YEAR!The last time Jonah saw Nor ed-Din, he was lying face down in a pool of black water in the Khyber Pass. For many years,... -
Rock Creek Park by Simon Conway
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02As science develops more and more sophisticated military hardware, inevitably it has also turned to the genetic 'enhancement' of military personnel.Scottish former police protection officer Harriet... -
The Survivor: A Sunday Times Thriller of the Month by Simon Conway
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Jude Lyon of MI6 has narrowly foiled the traitor Fowle's plot to level London, but the public are demanding answers.Answers the government doesn't have. As the country reels, a new populist... -
The Stranger: The Times Thriller of the Year 2020 Simon Conway 9781529324327
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78'Conway . . . has devised one of the greatest villains in 21st Century spy literature' Sunday Times'A brilliant and unpredictable climax' Times thriller of the year 2020'Top echelon,... -
Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe by Simon Conway Morris
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £28.11The assassin's bullet misses, the Archduke's carriage moves forward, and a catastrophic war is avoided. So too with the history of life. Re-run the tape of life, as Stephen J. Gould claimed, and the... -
Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe by Simon Conway Morris 9780521827041
Booksplease Price: £105.49The assassin's bullet misses, the Archduke's carriage moves forward, and a catastrophic war is avoided. So too with the history of life. Re-run the tape of life, as Stephen J. Gould claimed, and the... -
The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals by Simon Conway Morris 9780192862020
Booksplease Price: £33.88'tells a great story and manages to be informative at all levels. Conway Morris has a collector's eye for the sort of entertaining yet informative snippets that keep readers on their toes.' New... -
Unwinding the Maze: Six Myths to Challenge the Paradoxes of Evolution by Simon Conway Morris
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £23.20In this learned romp of science writing, Cambridge professor Simon Conway Morris cheerfully challenges six assumptions-what he calls 'myths'-that too often pass as unquestioned truths amongst the... -
The Runes of Evolution: How the Universe Became Self-Aware by Simon Conway Morris 9781599475011
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £28.13How did human beings acquire imaginations that can conjure up untrue possibilities? How did the Universe become self-aware? In The Runes of Evolution, Simon Conway Morris revitalizes the study of... -
The Deep Structure of Biology: Is Convergence Sufficiently Ubiquitous to Give a Directional Signal by Simon Conway Morris 9781599471389
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £30.31Twelve renowned scientists and theologians offer penetrating insights into the evolution dialogue in The Deep Structure of Biology. Each considers whether the orthodox evolution model is sufficient... -
The Great Fossil Enigma: The Search for the Conodont Animal by Simon J. Knell
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £30.50Stephen Jay Gould borrowed from Winston Churchill when he described the conodont animal as a "riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." This animal confounded science for more than a century... -
Science and the Self: Animals, Evolution, and Ethics: Essays in Honour of Mary Midgley by Ian James Kidd
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.51Mary Midgley is one of the most important moral philosophers working today. Over the last thirty years, her writings have informed debates concerning animals, the environment and evolutionary theory... -
Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth - Updated Edition by Andrew H. Knoll 9780691165530
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £12.17Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites--such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms. But in the full history of life, ancient animals, even the trilobites, form... -
Cambridge Minds by Richard Mason 9780521456258
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £40.49This collection of essays by a group of leading authorities is addressed primarily to a non-specialist readership, with the aim of introducing people and achievements associated with the University... -
Belief and Metaphysics by Conor Cunningham 9780334041375
RRP: £60.99Booksplease Price: £38.56The Veritas Series brings to market original volumes all engaging in critical questions of pressing concern to both philosophers, theologians, biologists, economists and more. This volume of essays... -
Shaking the Tree: Readings from Nature in the History of Life by Henry Gee
Booksplease Price: £32.60"Nature" has published news about the history of life ever since its first issue in 1869, in which T.H. Huxley ("Darwin's bulldog") wrote about Triassic dinosaurs. In recent years, the field has... -
Legal Education and Legal Traditions: Selected Essays by Myint Zan 9783030509026
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book deals with aspects of legal education and legal traditions. Part I includes chapters on teaching Law of the Sea, legal ethics and educating lawyers as ‘transaction cost engineers’ as well... -
Martian Linguistics by Timothy Jenkins 9781803741734
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.25«Jenkins weaves astrobiology, philosophy and theology into a rich tapestry that will be our vade-mecum for extra-terrestrial contact. The stakes are high, poised between being welcomed into the... -
Wonders of the Living World (Text Only Edition): Curiosity, Awe, and the Meaning of Life by Ruth Bancewicz
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The living world is beautiful, intricate, and highly ordered. Organisms flourish across virtually every location on earth, and biological scientists are constantly discovering more about them. These... -
Wonders of the Living World: Curiosity, awe, and the meaning of life by Ruth Bancewicz
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £15.08The living world is beautiful, intricate, and highly ordered. Organisms flourish across virtually every location on earth, and biological scientists are constantly discovering more about them. These... -
Fitness of the Cosmos for Life: Biochemistry and Fine-Tuning by John D. Barrow 9780521871020
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £110.95This highly interdisciplinary 2007 book highlights many of the ways in which chemistry plays a crucial role in making life an evolutionary possibility in the universe. Cosmologists and particle... -
The Russian Doll: The most gripping, addictive and twisty thriller of the year so far by Marina Palmer
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'Fast-paced and clever, with a pleasing blend of political intrigue and romantic suspense as well as a whodunnit, this is perfect entertainment for a winter's evening' - Guardian'Elena is a delicious... -
Palaeobiology II Derek E. G. Briggs (Yale University) 9780632051496
RRP: £112.95Booksplease Price: £100.87Palaeobiology: A Synthesis was widely acclaimed both for its content and production quality. Ten years on, Derek Briggs and Peter Crowther have once again brought together over 150 leading... -
101 Great Big Questions about God and Science Lizzie Henderson 9780745978369
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Have you ever wondered how the universe began, what the point of life might be, or whether God likes science? Then this is the book for you! 101 Great Big Questions asked by children with fascinating... -
The Emerald Planet: How plants changed Earth's history by David Beerling 9780192806024
Booksplease Price: £46.10Plants have profoundly moulded the Earth's climate and the evolutionary trajectory of life. Far from being 'silent witnesses to the passage of time', plants are dynamic components of our world,... -
Here Be Dragons: The Scientific Quest for Extraterrestrial Life by David W. Koerner 9780195146004
Booksplease Price: £14.25The discovery of life on other planets would be perhaps the most momentous revelation in human history, more disorienting and more profound than either the Copernican or Darwinian revolutions, which... -
Brotherhood: When West Point Rugby Went to War by Martin Pengelly 9781567927115
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £16.09"We're better off for having these men among us."-Wall Street JournalBefore 9/11, the rugby team at West Point learned to bond on a sports field. This is what happened when those 15 young men became... -
Reframing Providence: New Perspectives from Aquinas on the Divine Action Debate by Simon Maria Kopf 9780192874986
RRP: £102.50Booksplease Price: £93.41The doctrine of providence, which states that God guides his creation, has been widely conceived in action terms in recent theological scholarship. A telling example is the so-called divine action... -
Water and Life: The Unique Properties of H2O Ruth M. Lynden-Bell 9781032920610
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94Reflecting a rich technical and interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, Water and Life: The Unique Properties of H20 focuses on the properties of water and its interaction with life. The book develops a... -
Water and Life: The Unique Properties of H2O Ruth M. Lynden-Bell 9781439803561
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £110.70Reflecting a rich technical and interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, Water and Life: The Unique Properties of H20 focuses on the properties of water and its interaction with life. The book develops a... -
The Privileged Planet (20th Anniversary Edition): How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery Guillermo Gonzalez 9781684517022
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £22.66The Provocative Classic The Privileged Planet in a Fully Revised, 20th Anniversary Edition! Are we just an accident of cosmic evolution? Is Earth a "lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark"... -
One: The breathtakingly tense, emotive new speculative thriller from the bestselling author of The Waiting Rooms by Eve Smith 9781914585746
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.50In a world ravaged by climate change, a young woman's job of enforcing Britain's one-child policy is compromised when she discovers an illegal sibling on the ministry hit list, and that sibling is... -
The End of the Game: a 'fierce, obsessive and brilliant' heroine for our times by Holly Watt 9781526625632
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83'SUPERB' TELEGRAPH 'YOU EITHER GOT IT OR YOU DON'T ... WATT ABSOLUTELY HAS' THE TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH 'THE FINAL CHASE SCENE ... IS ONE OF THE BEST I'VE READ' OBSERVER THRILLER OF THE MONTH ... -
Caves, Coprolites and Catastrophes: The Story of Pioneering Geologist and Fossil-Hunter William Buckland by Dr Allan Chapman
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £14.79'An irresistible biography of one of Oxford's most colourful characters.' John Hedley Brooke In 1824, William Buckland stood in front of the Royal Geological Society and told them about the bones... -
The Emerald Planet: How plants changed Earth's history by David Beerling
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.46Plants have profoundly moulded the Earth's climate and the evolutionary trajectory of life. Far from being 'silent witnesses to the passage of time', plants are dynamic components of our world,... -
Soul Making: The Realization of the Mystical Life Douglas M. Gillette 9781644118955
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.53A profound guide to embracing your Divine nature* Explains how to embrace the paradox of the spiritual path-that we are already reflections of the Divine-and manifest our soul's transcendent nature...