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The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing by Thomas Harding 9781474621090
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $11.55Born into a Jewish family in Vienna in 1919, George Weidenfeld fled to England in 1938 to escape the Nazi regime. There he began a career in publishing that would make him one of the most influential... -
The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing Thomas Harding 9781474621106
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $10.89After arriving in London just before the Second World War as a penniless and friendless Austrian-Jewish refugee, George Weidenfeld went on to transform not only the world of publishing but the... -
Dark Pasts, Golden Futures: Children of the Third Reich by Catrine Clay 9781474622592
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474622592Author Catrine ClayFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint < -
Genocide by David Bischoff 9781857982251 [USED COPY]
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $3.55Another science fiction adventure from the popular "Aliens" series.Book InformationISBN 9781857982251Author David BischoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint -
The Man with Many Names by Georgi Gospodinov 9781399623162
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399623162Author Georgi GospodinovFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint < -
Napoleon: The Final Verdict by Philip J. Haythornthwaite 9781854093424 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $3.66This text presents a combination of assessments, by international Napoleonic experts, of Bonaparte's military career, character, leadership and performance. The result of the analysis is a volume... -
Britain in the Wild by Jim Hallett 9780297834526
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $5.37Captures Britain's countryside together with its flora and fauna. Encompassing ancient woodlands, fenlands, moorlands, mountain peaks, boglands and estuaries, Hallett's photographs include red... -
Victorian Flower Gardens by Andrew Clayton-Payne 9780297830177 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $4.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780297830177Author Andrew Clayton-PayneFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imp -
Ancient Egypt: A History in Seven Treasures by Bettany Hughes 9781399642422
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07Bestselling historian Bettany Hughes unearths the stories of a civilisation through seven of its most precious treasures, revealing the people, power and beliefs that shaped the Nile's enduring world... -
Dry Rot and Daffodils: Life in a National Trust House by Mary Mackie 9780575059344 [USED COPY]
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $3.35Sequel to "Cobwebs and Cream Teas", this volume continues the often amusing story of life behind the scenes at a National Trust house, describing the pleasures and pains - dry rot, blocked drains and... -
Plague, Pox and Pestilence: Disease in History by Kenneth F. Kiple 9780297822547 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $4.33Covering some of humankind's most notorious diseases, this book describes, with individual examples, the changing historical relationships between humans and their diseases, many of which they have... -
Eco-friendly Houseplants: 50 Indoor Plants That Purify the Air by B.C. Wolverton 9780297834847
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $5.61This text explains why we experience indoor air pollution problems (such as Sick Building Syndrome) and how houseplants can help combat specific pollutants, including how and why they do it, and how... -
Mrs.Beeton's Christmas Menus by Mrs. Beeton 9780706374735 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $3.89This cookery book presents a variety of festive menus for both formal and informal occasions, from a traditional Sunday roast to a vegetarian Christmas dinner. It includes advice on preparing food,... -
Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo by Ntozake Shange 9781399639668
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Having gone north to college, Sassafrass, a weaver, is now living with other artists in Los Angeles. Cypress, a dancer, is leaving home to find new ways of moving in the world. Meanwhile Indigo, a... -
Parting by Sebastian Haffner 9781399638944
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.80Parting is a lighthearted yet melancholic love story of the last precious hours before exile, fascism and war.The young legal trainee Raimund travels from Berlin to Paris to visit his girlfriend, the... -
Eyes Guts Throat Bones by Moïra Fowley 9781399600521
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92'GAVE ME SERIOUS WRITER ENVY' KIRSTY LOGAN'ONE OF MY FAVOURITE STORYTELLERS' KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE'AN INCREDIBLE AND UNIQUE IMAGINATION' IRISH TIMES'I WAS DELICIOUSLY HORRIFIED' JENN ASHWORTHThe... -
The Great Philosophers: Voltaire John Gray 9781399612302
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $6.59'Judge a man by his questions, rather than by his answers.' VoltaireVoltaire was one of the first philosophers to be commercially successful internationally. Famous for his strong views on the... -
The Meaning Of Hitler by Sebastian Haffner 9781399638111
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'Among the best studies of the Nazi era' MAX HASTINGS'Mr Haffner . . . has exposed better, and more briefly, than anyone else the clockwork of that infernal machine' SUNDAY TELEGRAPHIn The Meaning of... -
He Said, She Said: Truth, Trauma and the Struggle for Justice in Family Court by Dr Charlotte Proudman 9781399612456
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'Required reading' CATHY NEWMAN'Inspiring and uplifting' VICTORIA DERBYSHIRE'A rallying cry and a beacon of hope' LUCIA OSBORNE-CROWLEYIf you and your family needed help, could you trust the law to... -
Make Strange by Niamh Campbell 9781399631808
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.90It begins on an orange afternoon, cool but ruminant, close to Halloween. Sunny, only four years old, looks up from the terrarium-sized tub of toys in the living room and asks, 'Mama, do you remember... -
The Love Letters of Dylan Thomas by Dylan Thomas 9781399637879
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75'I wanted this to be a letter full of news, but there isn't any yet. It's just a letter full of what I think about you and me...' Dylan Thomas's letters to the women in his life are among the most... -
The Great Philosophers: Aristotle by Kenneth Mcleish 9781399612326
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $6.59'Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all' Aristotle'Knowing yourself is the mark of all wisdom''You will never do anything in this world without courage'Aristotle was... -
The Great Philosophers: Hegel Raymond Plant 9781399614177
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $6.59'What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it''What and how much I possess is a matter of... -
The Late Life by Prof Bernhard Schlink 9781399627559
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.95'Treading carefully on thin ice, that was the only way . . . 'At seventy-six, Martin is devoted to his family life with his young wife and six-year-old son when he suddenly learns that he has only a... -
This House of Grief by Helen Garner 9781399606806
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY'This House of Grief, in its restraint and control, bears comparison with In Cold Blood' KATE ATKINSON 'It grabbed me by the throat in the... -
Halfway To Hollywood: Diaries 1980-1988 (Volume Two) Michael Palin 9781474625852
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $9.54The second volume of diaries from one of Britain's best-loved national treasures. After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, The Pythons made their last performance together in 1983 in the... -
War and Punishment: The Story of Russian Oppression and Ukrainian Resistance Mikhail Zygar 9781399609029
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75'History is made up of myths,' writes the renowned Russian dissident journalist Mikhail Zygar. 'Alas, our myths led us to the fascism of 2022. It is time to expose them.' Drawing from his perilous... -
Disclosure: Unravelling the Spycops Files by Kate Wilson 9781399614313
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'It was exciting when it started, then comfortable and domestic, and over time we grew apart. If it had been real, our relationship wouldn't have made a chapter in a memoir. But Mark was a fictional... -
The Path More Travelled: The Secret History of Britain's Footpaths by Nicholas Crane 9781399605816
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.69'Absorbing and exhilarating . . . This book will literally expand your horizons' MICHAEL PALIN Walking defines us as human beings. But how much do we know about the paths that we walk? Why do they... -
In Praise of Famous Horses: An A-Z of the Most Celebrated in History and Culture, Myth and Sport Sean Magee 9781474619110
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75In Praise of Famous Horses is an A-Z companion to perhaps the most loved of all domesticated animals. From D.H. Lawrence's horse Aaron, whose hide was posthumously made into a duffel-bag, to Zippy... -
A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again by Joanna Biggs 9781474621243
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75'A beautiful, deeply philosophical book about reading as a form of existential consolation' Literary Review'Acute and tender . . . alive with discovery and desire' Observer'A meditation, by turns... -
The English Civil Wars: 1640-1660 Blair Worden 9780753826911
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $8.82A brilliant appraisal of the Civil War and its long-term consequences, by an acclaimed historian. The political upheaval of the mid-seventeenth century has no parallel in English history. Other... -
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing 9781399642736
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men set sail for the South Atlantic on board a ship called the Endurance. The object of the expedition was to cross the Antarctic overland. In October... -
More Than Likely: A Memoir by Dick Clement
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41'Fabulous memoirs from the two great writers . . . I loved every second of it' Eric IdleDick Clement and Ian La Frenais's unique writing partnership has lasted over fifty years. After creating the... -
For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide / When The Rainbow is Enuf: With an introduction by Bernardine Evaristo by Ntozake Shange 9781474621984
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'Inspiring. Emotionally charged. Ground-breaking' BERNARDINE EVARISTO'A revelation. I am so thankful to Ntozake Shange for seeing us, reflecting us and showing us how beautiful we can be' JESMYN... -
SolidGoldMagikarp: Adventures in the AI Underworld by Matthew Watkins 9781399635899
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.38A GLITCHING AI. A MYSTERIOUS NAME. A DISCOVERY TOO STRANGE TO IGNORE. When mathematician Matthew Watkins signed on to test an early version of ChatGPT, he expected dry technical work. Instead, he... -
Dogs of Summer by Andrea Abreu 9781474624084
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92Translated by Julia Sanches.It is June and Shit is sad. Clouds like the bottom of a donkey's belly will hover all summer over her town, high among the volcanoes of northern Tenerife. She knows she... -
House of Treason: The Rise and Fall of a Tudor Dynasty by Robert Hutchinson
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $6.95King-makers - Conspirators - Criminals - Nobles - Seducers The Howard family - the Dukes of Norfolk - were the wealthiest and most powerful aristocrats in Tudor England, regarding themselves as the... -
Motherwell: The moving memoir of growing up in 60s and 70s working class Scotland by Deborah Orr
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $8.76THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKSHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE'A fitting legacy left by a blazing talent' Observer'A masterpiece' Andrew O'Hagan, Guardian'Completely... -
Operation Valkyrie: The Plot To Kill Hitler Philipp von Boeselager 9781399621304
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75The last member of Operation Valkyrie - the daring plot to assassinate Hitler - tells his remarkable story.'Astonishing' Daily Telegraph'The last of its kind ... celebrates a long-since vanished...