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The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories by Arthur Machen 9780198813163
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.06Something pushed out from the body there on the floor, and stretched forth a slimy, wavering tentacle... Perhaps no figure better embodies the transition from the Gothic tradition to modern horror... -
Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean by Douglas Wolk 9780306816161
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.00Suddenly, comics are everywhere: a newly matured art form, filling bookshelves with brilliant, innovative work and shaping the ideas and images of the rest of contemporary culture. In Reading Comics... -
The Cloven: Book Three in the Vorrh Trilogy by Brian Catling
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The Cloven is the epic climax to B. Catling's beloved genre-busting Vorrh Trilogy. In the stunning conclusion to Brian Catling's Vorrh trilogy, the colonial city of Essenwald gives up all its... -
Will Eisner: Champion of the Graphic Novel by Paul Levitz
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.83Will Eisner (1917-2005) is universally considered the master of comics storytelling and is best known for his iconic comic strip The Spirit and for his seminal work A Contract With God. Considered... -
README.txt: A memoir from one of the world’s most famous whistleblowers by Chelsea Manning 9781529110623
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15An extraordinarily brave and moving memoir from one of the world's most famous whistle-blowers, activists and trans women.In 2013, Chelsea Manning was sentenced to thirty-five years in military... -
After Silence by Jessica Gregson 9781838498795
Booksplease Price: £24.63"A symphonic masterpiece...Wringing a glorious & painful chorus of human voices from the mute facts of history - this is what fiction is for." - Alan Moore, author of Watchmen and V for Vendetta "An... -
Bizarre Romance by Audrey Niffenegger
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.89Internationally bestselling author Audrey Niffenegger and her husband, graphic artist Eddie Campbell, collaborate on this quirky, irreverent collection that celebrates and satirises love of all kinds... -
A Practical Guide to SysML: The Systems Modeling Language by Sanford Friedenthal 9780128002025
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.98A Practical Guide to SysML, Third Edition, fully updated for SysML version 1.4, provides a comprehensive and practical guide for modeling systems with SysML. With their unique perspective as leading... -
Collectivism after Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination after 1945 by Blake Stimson 9780816644629
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.66"Don't start an art collective until you read this book." -Guerrilla Girls "Ever since Web 2.0 with its wikis, blogs and social networks the art of collaboration is back on the agenda. Collectivism... -
London Overground: A Day's Walk Around the Ginger Line by Iain Sinclair
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Iain Sinclair explores modern London through a day's hike around the London Overground route.The completion of the full circle of London Overground provides Iain Sinclair with a new path to walk the... -
Long Road from Jarrow: A journey through Britain then and now by Stuart Maconie
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41The Sunday Times Bestseller'A tribute and a rallying call' - GuardianThree and half weeks. Three hundred miles. I saw roaring arterial highway and silent lanes, candlelit cathedrals and angry men in... -
The British Superhero by Chris Murray 9781496807373
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14Chris Murray reveals the largely unknown and rather surprising history of the British superhero. It is often thought that Britain did not have its own superheroes, yet Murray demonstrates that there... -
Gulliver’s Afterlives: 300 Years of Transmedia Adaptation Dr Daniel Cook 9781350464377
Booksplease Price: £65.97The first deep dive into the cultural afterlives of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, this book explores how the strange adventures of the 18th-century voyager have persisted over the past 300... -
The British Superhero by Chris Murray 9781496820266
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Chris Murray reveals the largely unknown and rather surprising history of the British superhero. It is often thought that Britain did not have its own superheroes, yet Murray demonstrates that there... -
After Silence by Jessica Gregson 9781838498764
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.47"A symphonic masterpiece...Wringing a glorious & painful chorus of human voices from the mute facts of history - this is what fiction is for." - Alan Moore, author of Watchmen and V for Vendetta "An... -
Slaine - The Definitive Edition, volume 3: Volume 3 Pat Mills 9781837867530
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £22.96The Definitive line continues with the highly regarded fantasy saga Slaine. This reimagining of Celtic mythology mixed with sword-and-sorcery tropes stood out in the predominantly science fiction... -
Judge Dredd: Complete Case Files: v. 17 by John Wagner
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.07For almost thirty years, Judge Dredd has dominated the British comic scene. Now you can re-discover the roots of this legendary character in this vast and Thrill-packed series of graphic novels... -
Comics and the City: Urban Space in Print, Picture and Sequence Jorn Ahrens 9780826440198
Booksplease Price: £36.04"Comics and the City" deals with possibly the most important aspect of the aesthetics and narratives of comics - urban topography and environment. This collection of essays covers a variety of... -
A Once Crowded Sky: A Novel by Tom King 9781451652017
Booksplease Price: £14.00This critically acclaimed and inspired debut novel brings to life a universe of superheroes stripped of their powers and forced to confront danger in a world without heroes-save one.A tour de force... -
Gulliver’s Afterlives: 300 Years of Transmedia Adaptation Dr Daniel Cook 9781350464384
Booksplease Price: £25.66The first deep dive into the cultural afterlives of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, this book explores how the strange adventures of the 18th-century voyager have persisted over the past 300... -
The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper Stories: 40 dark new tales by Martin Edwards, Michael Gregorio, Alex Howard, Barbara Nadel, Steve Rasnic Tem and many more by Maxim Jakubowski
Booksplease Price: £25.63Maxim Jakubowski, together with Nathan Braund, edited the bestselling Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper (1999), which has reprinted several times and was reissued in 2008 in a revised and expanded... -
JUDGE DREDD COMP CASE FILE 8 by John Wagner
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.07The global best-selling graphic novel series - over half a million copies sold! Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files collects the adventures of the iconic British character, presented in... -
Breaking the Frames: Populism and Prestige in Comics Studies by Marc Singer
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2019Comics studies has reached a crossroads. Graphic novels have never received more attention and legitimation from scholars, but new canons and new critical... -
W. E. B. Du Bois Souls of Black Folk: A Graphic Interpretation by W. E. B. Du Bois 9781978824669
Booksplease Price: £51.79"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." These were the prescient words of W. E. B. Du Bois's influential 1903 book The Souls of Black Folk. The preeminent Black... -
Sometimes They Even Shook Your Hand: Portraits of Champions Who Walked Among Us by John Schulian 9780803237766
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.28John Schulian, a much-honored sportswriter for nearly forty years, takes us back to a time when our greatest athletes stood before us as human beings, not remote gods. In this compelling collection,... -
Carrion Crow by Heather Parry 9781804995488
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.99'A gruesome, provocative, stylish fairytale' Kaliane Bradley, internationally bestselling author of The Ministry of Time'Magnificent and devastating' Alan Moore, author of Watchman'As mesmerizing as... -
King Sorrow: the epic new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author by Joe Hill 9781035434299
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.83SOME PROMISES SHOULD NEVER BE MADE...***A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK***'With King Sorrow, Joe Hill gloriously resurrects the doorstop horror blockbuster for a startling new century.' ALAN MOORE'A... -
Faceache: The First Hundred Scrunges by Ken Reid
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.13Hilarious face-changing adventures by one of the greats of British comics!Ken Reid is consistently name-checked by the greats of comics - from Alan Moore to Kevin O'Neill, John Wagner to Pat Mills -... -
Essential Rogue Trooper: Genetic Infantryman by Gerry Finley-Day 9781837861088
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £15.29The first of a new series in the Essential line featuring 2000 AD's legendary war machine, Rogue Trooper! Rogue Trooper is the last of the G.I.s - genetically-engineered infantrymen designed to... -
The John Lardner Reader: A Press Box Legend's Classic Sportswriting by John Lardner 9780803230477
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37This collection marks the return to print of John Lardner, one of America's press box giants, a classic stylist whose wry humor and tireless reporting helped elevate sportswriting to art. The... -
The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel by Jan Baetens 9781316622209
Booksplease Price: £32.74The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel provides the complete history of the graphic novel from its origins in the nineteenth century to its rise and startling success in the twentieth and... -
W. E. B. Du Bois Souls of Black Folk: A Graphic Interpretation by W. E. B. Du Bois
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." These were the prescient words of W. E. B. Du Bois's influential 1903 book The Souls of Black Folk. The preeminent Black... -
The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell's 1984 by Dorian Lynskey 9781509890736
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.99Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionLonglisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing'If you have even the slightest interest in Orwell or in the development of our culture,... -
Huck Out West: A Novel by Robert Coover 9780393355499
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.76At the end of Huckleberry Finn, on the eve of the Civil War, Huck and Tom Sawyer decide to escape "sivilization" and "light out for the Territory." In Robert Coover's vision of their Western... -
Sl�ine - The Definitive Edition, Volume 1 Pat Mills 9781837864638
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.69Slaine Mac Roth of the Sessair tribe is known as the Warped Warrior - a mighty barbarian who can master the 'warp-spasm', harnessing the power of the Earth to transform into a monstrous creature... -
Royal Treatment: Jackie Robinson, Montreal, and the Breaking of Baseball's Color Barrier Sean J. McLaughlin 9781496244314
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £23.41The story of Jackie Robinson's prodigious talent, his courageous journey, and his influence on both the game of baseball and American society writ large has been told well and often. What hasn't been... -
Some Rise By Sin by Sion Scott-Wilson 9781838498719
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.77"I felt I was eavesdropping on genuine 19th-century grave robbers . . . the author's skilled prose . . . convinced me. I felt I was there in the rough and tumble streets of 1830s London. Grotesque... -
May Contain Graphic Material: Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Film Prof. M. Keith Booker 9780275993863
Booksplease Price: £48.40Since the first Superman film came to the screen in 1978, films adapted from comics have become increasingly important as a film form. But 1978 was also important because it was the year of release... -
The Incal: Psychoverse by Mark Russell
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.60Prepare to enter...the Psychovesre! In a shocking and explosive prequel to the legendary and best-selling saga, The Incal which is soon to be a major motion picture from Academy Award-winning... -
The Rhythm Boys of Omaha Central: High School Basketball at the '68 Racial Divide by Steve Marantz 9780803234345
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91In the spring of 1968, the Omaha Central High School basketball team made history with its first all-black starting lineup. Their nickname, the Rhythm Boys, captured who they were and what they did...