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The Mistress of Paris: The 19th-Century Courtesan Who Built an Empire on a Secret by Catherine Hewitt 9781848319264
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.68Valtesse de la Bigne was a celebrated nineteenth-century Parisian courtesan. She was painted by Manet and inspired Emile Zola, who immortalised her in his scandalous novel Nana. Her rumoured affairs... -
Rope: How a Bundle of Twisted Fibres Became the Backbone of Civilization Tim Queeney 9781837733316
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.68A unique and compelling adventure through the history of rope and its impact on civilisation, in the vein of single-subject bestsellers like Salt and Cod.Tim Queeney is a sailor who knows more about... -
The Vagina Business: The Innovative Breakthroughs that Could Change Everything in Women's Health Marina Gerner 9781837732012
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.59WINNER OF THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARDThis tech could change everything for women - here's how.From periods and childbirth to menopause, female pain has been normalized, as society shrugs and... -
Kidnapped by the Junta: Inside Argentina's Wars with Britain and Itself by Julian Manyon
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38'Fascinating ... if this gripping account teaches anything, it is the folly of tyrannical regimes believing they can act with the same violence and impunity abroad as they do at home' THE... -
Introducing Sartre: A Graphic Guide by Philip Thody 9781848312111
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.75INTRODUCING guide to the father of existentialism and one of 20th century philosophy's most famous characters. Jean-Paul Sartre was once described as being, next to Charles de Gaulle, the most famous... -
Introducing Wagner: A Graphic Guide by Michael White 9781848315099
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.15Wagner's operatic works rank with the supreme achievements of western culture. But acceptance of Wagner's musical genius is tempered by feelings of misgiving and many believe the composer's... -
Seven Pillars of Science: The Incredible Lightness of Ice, and Other Scientific Surprises by John Gribbin
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67John Gribbin, author of Six Impossible Things, shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize, presents a tour of seven fundamental scientific truths that underpin our very... -
The Gran Tour: Travels with my Elders Ben Aitken 9781785787041
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.59'Both moving and hilarious' Spectator, Books of the Year'A tale of gloriously eccentric British pensioners. Aitken rivals Alan Bennett in the ear he has for an eavesdropped remark ... boy, can he... -
Bible Stories: Fact, Fiction and Fantasy in Scripture Gavin Evans 9781837732326
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38Beginning with the rise of modern Pentecostalism before tracking back 2,500 years, author and academic Gavin Evans traces the history of the Abrahamic faiths, Christianity, Judaism and Islam. In this... -
Introducing Kant: A Graphic Guide by Christopher Kul-Want 9781848312098
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.15Immanuel Kant laid the foundations of modern Western thought. Every subsequent major philosopher owes a profound debt to Kant's attempts to delimit human reason as an appropriate object of... -
The Gran Tour: Travels with my Elders Ben Aitken 9781785786488
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'Both moving and hilarious' Spectator, Books of the Year'A tale of gloriously eccentric British pensioners. Aitken rivals Alan Bennett in the ear he has for an eavesdropped remark ... boy, can he... -
Places I Stopped on the Way Home: A Memoir of Chaos and Grace by Meg Fee
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'Fee writes with stunning honesty ... utterly breathtaking' - BustleA beautiful memoir from an exciting young writer, Meg Fee, on finding her way in New York City. Full of the dramas and quiet... -
A Practical Guide to Philosophy for Everyday Life: See the Bigger Picture by Trevor Curnow
Booksplease Price: £9.21Improve your thinking to improve the quality of your life.Develop awareness of what you think and why, take charge of your own ideas, and see the bigger picture.Learn how to bring philosophy into the... -
Operation Swallow: American Soldiers' Remarkable Escape From Berga Concentration Camp by Mark Felton 9781785785771
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.23Operation Swallow is the true story of how a small group of American soldiers, inspired by a charismatic but reluctant leader named Hans Kasten, worked to save hundreds of fellow servicemen from a... -
Pregnancy and Birth: A Graphic Guide Laura Godfrey-Isaacs 9781837731336
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.18'A must-read for anyone navigating pregnancy and parenthood'Sandra Igwe, founder of The Motherhood Group and author of My Black Motherhood: Mental Health, Stigma, Racism and the System'Truly... -
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How to be a Productivity Ninja: Worry Less, Achieve More and Love What You Do by Graham Allcott 9781848316836 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £3.00In the age of information overload, traditional time management techniques simply don't cut it when it comes to overflowing inboxes, ever-expanding to-do lists and endless, pointless meetings... -
Introducing Psychotherapy: A Graphic Guide by Nigel Benson
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.57What is psychotherapy? How can we choose wisely from so much on offer?This book provides a valuable summary of the main therapies: the "talking cures" of psychoanalysis, behavioral and cognitive... -
Roots of Brazil by Sergio Buarque De Holanda
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.45Sergio Buarque de Holanda's Roots of Brazil is one of the iconic books on Brazilian history, society, and culture. Originally published in 1936, it appears here for the first time in an English... -
What's in a Doughnut Hole?: And Other Philosophical Food for Thought Suki Finn 9781785787911
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.43Does a doughnut hole exist? What makes a sandwich a sandwich? Can the baker, who only bakes for those who don't bake for themselves, bake for herself?Using food to explore classic philosophical... -
Liquid Gold: Bees and the Pursuit of Midlife Honey by Roger Morgan-Grenville
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'This delightful memoir is an inspiring account of changing direction in mid-life, and a passionate plea on behalf of the honeybee.' Daily Mail'A light-hearted account of midlife, a yearning for... -
Introducing Barthes: A Graphic Guide by Philip Thody
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.48INTRODUCING guide to the cult author, semiologist and analyzer of advertising, Roland Barthes. Roland Barthes is best known as a semiologist, a student of the science of signs. This sees human beings... -
Hacking the Code of Life: How gene editing will rewrite our futures by Nessa Carey
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £4.01'An excellent, brisk guide to what is likely to happen as opposed to the fantastically remote.' - Los Angeles Review of BooksIn 2018 the world woke up to gene editing with a storm of controversy over... -
Introducing Fascism: A Graphic Guide by Stuart Hood
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.42Did Fascism end with the Allied victory over the Axis powers in 1945, or has it been lying dormant and is now re-awakening as we move into the 21st century? Introducing Fascism trace the origins of... -
Game Theory: Understanding the Mathematics of Life by Brian Clegg
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Brian Clegg was always fascinated by Isaac Asimov's classic Foundation series of books, in which the future is predicted using sophisticated mathematical modelling of human psychology and behaviour... -
The First Time: True Tales of Virginity Lost and Found (Including My Own) by Kate Monro
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.59A groundbreaking and very personal insight into modern sexuality. Losing our virginity - it happens to all of us. How did it happen for you? What do other people think and feel about it? In February... -
The Kremlin's Noose: Vladimir Putin’s Bitter Feud with the Oligarch Who Made Him Ruler of Russia by Amy Knight 9781837732203
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.61A Guardian Book of the Day'By telling the story of Putin and Berezovsky - a sort of modern reincarnation of Stalin and Trotsky - Knight shines a penetrating light on post-communist Russia'In The... -
The Multiverse: When One Universe Isn't Enough Brian Clegg 9781837732357
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The universe was supposed to be all there was - the whole of existence. For centuries the size of the universe and whether or not it is finite fascinated scientists and philosophers.But however big... -
Flight of the Diamond Smugglers: A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession and Greed along Coastal South Africa by Matthew Gavin Frank 9781785787430
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.23'Ghost towns, corporate cruelty, the centuries-old relationship between humans and a species almost magical in its abilities ... fabulous.' The New York Times'Eye-opening' Geographical 'A beautifully... -
The Restless Coast: A Journey around the Edge of Britain by Roger Morgan-Grenville 9781837731442
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £16.31The island of Britain has over 10,000 miles of coastline, steeped in history and constantly shifting, changing, adapting and providing. The Restless Coast is a moving and beautiful account of a... -
How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island by Egill Bjarnason
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'A joyously peculiar book' - The New York Times'A fascinating insight into Icelandic culture and a fresh perspective on her global influence. Warning: may well make readers wish they were Icelandic,... -
Introducing Walter Benjamin: A Graphic Guide by Howard Caygill 9781848316928
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Walter Benjamin is often considered the key modern philosopher and critic of modern art.Tracing his influence on modern aesthetics and cultural history, Introducing Walter Benjamin highlights his... -
A Practical Guide to Treating Eating Disorders: Overcome Problem Eating by Patricia Furness-Smith
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02From comfort eating and skipping meals to anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, disordered eating comes in many forms. With expert advice from an experienced psychologist, this book will help you get... -
30-Second Twentieth Century: The 50 most significant ideas and events, each explained in half a minute by Jonathan T. Reynolds
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31You probably know, or think you know, quite a bit about what happened in the 20th century - chances are, if you're reading this, you lived through at least some of it - and you may have referenced... -
Impossible, Possible, and Improbable: Science Stranger Than Fiction by John Gribbin
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.61'Gribbin has inspired generations with his popular science writing' Jim Al-KhaliliA scintillating collection of short essays that really does cover 'life, the Universe, and everything'.From the... -
A Practical Guide to Ethics for Everyday Life: Be a Good Person by Dave Robinson
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Live the good life and be a better person.Moral philosophy has a long and distinguished history, but what use is it to your everyday life? Why might you even want to be a good person?This Practical... -
Introducing Machiavelli: A Graphic Guide by Patrick Curry 9781848311756
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £4.41Illustrated guide to the crucial Italian philosopher and author of The Prince. 'Machiavellian' is a popular byword for treachery and opportunism. Machiavelli's classic book on statecraft, The Prince,... -
The Restless Coast: A Journey around the Edge of Britain Roger Morgan-Grenville 9781837731459
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The island of Britain has over 10,000 miles of coastline, steeped in history and constantly shifting, changing, adapting and providing. The Restless Coast is a moving and beautiful account of a... -
Introducing Levi-Strauss: A Graphic Guide by Boris Wiseman
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.07Introducing Levi-Strauss is a guide to the work of the great French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss (1908-2009). The book brilliantly traces the development and influence of Levi-Strauss' thought,... -
Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space, Exploration and Life on Earth by Kate Greene
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Filled with wonderment and awe ... Greene's eloquent memoir is equal parts escape and comfort.' Publishers WeeklyA powerful reflection on life in isolation, in pursuit of the dream of Mars.In 2013... -
Introducing Jesus: A Graphic Guide by Anthony O'Hear
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.48Christianity depends on the belief that the Jesus of history is identical with the Christ of faith, and that God in the person of Jesus intervened finally and decisively in human history. But is the...