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Mendel's Dwarf by Simon Mawer
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.06Like his great-great-great uncle, the early geneticist Gregor Mendel, Dr Benedict Lambert is struggling to unlock the secrets of heredity. But for Benedict the mission is particularly urgent and... -
Tightrope by Simon Mawer
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Marian Sutro has survived Ravensbruck and is back in dreary 1950s London trying to pick up the pieces of her pre-war life. Returned to an England she barely knows and a post-war world she doesn't... -
Prague Spring by Simon Mawer
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Prague Spring is a wonderfully atmospheric portrait of the city as well as a political and historical thriller with dashes of espionage. It is as brilliant as anything he has written, which is... -
The Fall by Simon Mawer 9780316735599
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316735599Author Simon MawerFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher... -
Ancestry: A Novel by Simon Mawer
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £8.10LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION'Utterly absorbing, cleverly constructed and beautifully written' The Times'Moving and exhilarating' Spectator'Evokes the messiness and... -
Swimming To Ithaca by Simon Mawer
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02On her deathbed, Dee Denham, at one time the toast of colonial Cyprus, tells her son Thomas that her illness is a punishment. Compelled by grief and a confused childhood memory of betrayal, Thomas... -
The Fall by Simon Mawer 9780349116525
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Rob and Jamie are great friends from childhood. They have grown up together and become top climbers, but have since become estranged. Rob is nevertheless amazed and grief-stricken when he hears of... -
The Gospel Of Judas by Simon Mawer
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Amongst the ancient papyri of the Dead Sea, a remarkable scroll is discovered. Written in the first century AD, it purports to be the true account of the life of Jesus, as told by Youdas the... -
The Girl Who Fell From The Sky by Simon Mawer
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.71An 'utterly gripping' tale of love and espionage in Occupied France by the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Glass Room (Daily Mail)Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat,... -
Gospel of Judas by Simon Mawer 9780316973748
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £16.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316973748Author Simon MawerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher... -
Trapeze: A Novel by Simon Mawer 9781635425079
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635425079Author Simon MawerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other... -
The Glass Room: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize by Simon Mawer
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.10SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZEThe inspiration for the major motion picture The Affair, now available on demand.Cool. Balanced. Modern. The precisions of science, the wild variance of lust, the... -
Ancestry: Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction by Simon Mawer
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION'Utterly absorbing, cleverly constructed and beautifully written' The Times'Moving and exhilarating' Spectator 'Evokes the messiness and... -
Of Spaces and Ideas: The Novels of Jim Crace and Simon Mawer Petr Chalupský 9788024658070
Booksplease Price: £21.20Explores how physical space is represented and affects the work of two British novelists.Of Spaces and Ideas provides a deeper insight into the work of two contemporary British novelists, Jim Crace... -
Fair Helen by Andrew Greig
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2014. 'One of the best historical novels of recent years, Greig dusts off the past and presents it with tremendous skill' - Literary... -
The Small Back Room by Nigel Balchin
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78A true modern classic, THE SMALL BACK ROOM is a towering novel of the Second World War.Sammy Rice is a weapons scientist, one of the 'back room boys' of the Second World War. A crippling disability... -
Darkness Falls from the Air Nigel Balchin 9781474601184
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78The classic novel of the London Blitz, DARKNESS FALLS FROM THE AIR captures the chaos, absurdity and ultimately the tragedy of life during the bombardment.Featured on BACKLISTED podcastBill Sarratt... -
A Way Through the Wood Nigel Balchin 9781474601207
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40A psychological study of marriage, loyalty and justice, A WAY THROUGH THE WOOD is a remarkable post-war novel.'A superb storyteller' SUNDAY TIMES 'I'd place him up there with Graham Greene' Philippa... -
Strictly English: The correct way to write ... and why it matters by Simon Heffer
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41"Be in no doubt: the beer was drunk but the man drank the beer.""We must avoid vulgarities like 'front up'. If someone is 'fronting up' a television show, then he is presenting it."Simon Heffer's... -
Pistache by Sebastian Faulks
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49pistache (pis-tash): a friendly spoof or parody of another's work. [Deriv uncertain. Possibly a cross between pastiche and p**stake.] From Thomas Hardy's football report to Dan Brown's visit to the... -
All That I Am by Anna Funder
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Anna Funder, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize and author of Stasiland, offers a thrilling tale and powerful love story that tells the heroic and tragic true story of the German resistance in World... -
The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers 9780349010410
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.20'At once a suspenseful manhunt story and a knowing portrait of the perils of ordinary life in Hitler's Germany, The Seventh Cross is not only an important novel, but an important historical document... -
The See-Through House: My Father in Full Colour by Shelley Klein
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'A charming account of a daughter, a house and a fastidious dad' Sunday TimesShelley Klein grew up in the Scottish Borders, in a house designed on a modernist open-plan grid. With colourful glass... -
The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers 9780349010670
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.01A rediscovered German classic novel from 1942, The Seventh Cross is both a gripping escape story and a powerful novel of resistance. 'At once a suspenseful manhunt story and a knowing portrait of the... -
Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada 9780141189383
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73THE ACCLAIMED INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'One of the most extraordinary and compelling novels written about World War II. Ever' Alan Furst Inspired by a true story, Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin is a... -
City of Spies: Shortlisted for the Specsavers Debut Crime Novel Award by Mara Timon 9781838770709
Booksplease Price: £14.92'De Mornay is a welcome recruit to the ranks of female spies' The TimesSHORTLISTED FOR THE SPECSAVERS DEBUT CRIME NOVEL AWARDLISBON, 1943: When her cover is blown, SOE agent Elisabeth de Mornay flees... -
The Tristan Chord by Glenn Skwerer
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.442019 Walter Scott Prize Academy recommendation 'Succeeds brilliantly ... a gripping and disturbing portrait of the young Hitler' Simon Mawer, author of the Man Booker-shortlisted The Glass House ... -
Behind the Glass: The Villa Tugendhat and Its Family by Michael Lambek
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.56The Villa Tugendhat, designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1928, is an icon of architectural modernism and a UNESCO World Heritage site. Behind the Glass tells the true story of the large family connected... -
Healthcare by Design: A User's Guide to Healthcare Improvement Barry Katz 9781487550066
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Healthcare by Design presents a practical, step-by-step guide for healthcare professionals seeking to address challenges such as regulation, safety, complexity, and culture, which affect patients and... -
Sleep in Peace Tonight by James MacManus
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67January, 1941. The Blitz is devastating England. Food supplies are low and tube stations have become bomb shelters. As the U.S. maintains its sceptical isolationist position, Winston Churchill knows... -
The Cellist of Dachau by Martin Goodman 9781909954885
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.37"Music transcends war trauma in this important, aching, artful Holocaust novel." - The Toronto StarOtto, a young cello student in Vienna, is snatched from his home and sent to the concentration camp... -
The Boy on the Train by Martin Goodman 9781917352079
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.52Silently, digitally, a boy takes apart your family Tom's a regular teenager - sullen, anxious, super-smart, feeling safe within his bedroom and wedded to his screen. On a packed train, a London... -
Acts of Omission by Terry Stiastny
RRP: £3.99Booksplease Price: £3.39Winner of the Paddy Power Political Novel of the Year1998: foreign minister Mark Lucas is in a dilemma. A disk containing the names of British informants to the Stasi has ended up in the hands of the... -
Night Falls On The City: The Lost Masterpiece of Wartime Vienna by Sarah Gainham
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Vienna, 1938. Beautiful actress Julia Homburg and her politician husband Franz Wedeker embody all the enlightened brilliance of their native city. But Wedeker is Jewish, and just across the border... -
The Spy Who Loved: the secrets and lives of one of Britain's bravest wartime heroines by Clare Mulley
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'Compulsively readable . . . thrilling' - Sunday Telegraph'Brings alive a glamorous, swashbuckling heroine' - Sunday TimesIn June 1952, a woman was murdered by an obsessive colleague in a hotel in...