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Overruled: Confronting Our Vanishing Democracy in 8 Cases Sam Fowles 9780861542475
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €19.15'A fascinating insider account' Grace Blakeley British democracy is on trial. We can no longer hold our leaders to account; the state has too much power; and the truth doesn't matter at all. Those... -
The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman by Denis Theriault
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.56*Selected for Simon Mayo's BBC Radio 2 Book Club* 'Quirky and charming' Guardian For readers of The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly and The Guest Cat comes this passionate, bittersweet love... -
Ghosts of K2: The Race for the Summit of the World's Most Deadly Mountain by Mick Conefrey
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.08K2 is almost 800ft shorter than Everest, yet it's a far harder climb. Many great mountaineers became obsessed with reaching its summit, not all of them lived to tell of their adventures. Capturing... -
The Five Percenters: Islam, Hip-hop and the Gods of New York Michael Muhammad Knight 9781851686155
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.17With a cast of characters ranging from Malcolm X to 50 Cent, Knight's compelling work is the first detailed account of the movement inextricably linked with black empowerment, Islam, New York, and... -
Overruled: Confronting Our Vanishing Democracy in 8 Cases by Sam Fowles
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.21'A fascinating insider account' Grace Blakeley British democracy is on trial. We can no longer hold our leaders to account; the state has too much power; and the truth doesn't matter at all. Those... -
In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power by Alfred W. McCoy
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.21For a decade America's share of the global economy has been in decline. Its diplomatic alliances are under immense strain, and any claim of moral leadership has been abandoned. America is still a... -
Sudan: Race, Religion and Violence by Jok Madut Jok
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.70Sudan has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. After decades of civil war, rebel uprisings and power struggles, in 2011 it gave birth to the world's newest country - South Sudan. But... -
Lucien J. R. Thornton 9781836432579
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.47His greatest gift was the art of deceit... When Christopher "Atlas" Novotny arrives at Harvard, he is completely unprepared for the privileged world that awaits him. There he meets his roommate,... -
Why Him? Why Her?: How to Find and Keep Lasting Love by Helen Fisher 9781851687923
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.21Are you looking for The One? Well, according to Dr Helen Fisher, biological anthropologist and relationship expert, you don't have to look any further for the way to find that special someone than... -
The Baghdad Clock: Winner of the Edinburgh First Book Award Shahad Al Rawi 9781786073242
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.70Shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2018 This number one best-selling title in Iraq, Dubai, and the UAE is a heart-rending tale of two girls growing up in war-torn... -
It's All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World's Family Tree by A.J. Jacobs 9781786073754 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €4.15A.J. Jacobs has received some strange emails over the years, but this note was perhaps the strangest: "You don't know me, but I'm your eighth cousin. And we have over 80,000 relatives of yours in our... -
Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and our Future Neil Shubin 9780861542864
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €18.16Frigid, remote and inhospitable - the polar regions seem far removed from everyday lives. But these seemingly isolated ice realms shape life on our planet far more than we realise, influencing... -
In Time With You Kristin Dwyer 9781836432074
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.62Can she get it right the second time(line) around? Nieve Monroe is devastated. Her boyfriend Carter died trying to saving her from drowning. She blames herself - and so does his best friend, Max,... -
Orchid & the Wasp by Caoilinn Hughes
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.74'A gem of a novel' Elle 'A winning debut' The New Yorker 'Caoilinn Hughes is a massive talent.' Anthony Doerr, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of All the Light We Cannot See WINNER OF THE... -
America in Retreat: The Decline of US Leadership from WW2 to Covid-19 by Michael Pembroke
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.03The story of how America turned its back on the world... In the heady days after 1945, the authority of the United States was unrivalled and, with the founding of the UN, a new era of... -
Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and our Future Neil Shubin 9781836432029
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.21Meet the scientists uncovering the secrets of Earth's harshest environments - the polar regions SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2025 AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR ... -
Lala by Jacek Dehnel
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.47A lyrical and moving Polish family saga set against the turbulent backdrop of twentieth-century Europe Lala has lived a dazzling life. Born in Poland just after the First World War and... -
Mary, Founder of Christianity by Chris Maunder
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €15.91A radical reassessment of the role of Mary the mother of Jesus and other women in the early Church Despite the commonly held assumption that the Bible says little about the mother of Jesus, there... -
The Mindspan Diet: Reduce Alzheimer's Risk, and Keep Your Brain Young by Preston W. Estep 9781786071774
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.47Dementia is now the primary cause of death in many developed nations. While the search for an effective treatment continues, the question is: can anything be done to protect ourselves from... -
Inheritance: The Lost History of Mary Davies: A Story of Property, Marriage and Madness by Leo Hollis 9781786079954
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €13.45'Brilliant' Financial Times 'Hollis expertly weaves together the human tragedy and high politics behind the explosion of one of the world's greatest cities' Dan Snow The reclaimed history of a... -
Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe by Sarah Gristwood
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.70A BBC History magazine Book of the Year and an amazon.com Best Book of the Month As religion divided sixteenth-century Europe, an extraordinary group of women rose to power. They governed nations... -
For The People: Fighting Authoritarianism, Saving Democracy A. C. Grayling 9781836431442
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.70Around the world the foundations of democracy, freedom, civil liberties are being eroded - what can be done? Are we living through the end of the democratic moment? While democracy once seemed the... -
Laurus: The International Bestseller Eugene Vodolazkin 9781780748719
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.70WINNER OF THE BIG BOOK AWARD, THE LEO TOLSTOY YASNAYA POLYANA AWARD & THE READ RUSSIA AWARD 'THE MOST IMPORTANT LIVING RUSSIAN WRITER' New Yorker *A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016* ... -
The Particle at the End of the Universe: The Hunt for the Higgs and the Discovery of a New World by Sean Carroll
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €9.96Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books A Best Science Book of the Year for the Guardian, Financial Times, and New Scientist It was the universe's most elusive particle, the... -
Positivity: Groundbreaking Research to Release Your Inner Optimist and Thrive by Barbara Fredrickson 9781851687909
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.21One of the leading members of the positive psychology movement draws on cutting-edge research and lab-tested tools to explain: * Why positivity is more important than happiness * How it... -
Anxious: The Modern Mind in the Age of Anxiety by Joseph E. LeDoux
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.27Anxiety is the most prevalent psychiatric problem of our time. Decades of research have gone into probing its mysteries and developing treatments. But what if we've been thinking about fear and... -
Notre-Dame: The Soul of France by Agnes Poirier 9781786079916
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €8.77WINNER OF THE 2022 FRENCH HERITAGE SOCIETY BOOK AWARD The profound emotion felt around the world upon seeing images of Notre-Dame in flames opens up a series of questions: Why was everyone so... -
Herring Girl by Debbie Taylor 9781780744186
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.74Set in a Tyneside fishing village, Herring Girl moves effortlessly between 1898 and 2007 as twelve-year-old Ben finds himself the unlikely conduit for Annie, a herring girl who lived - and died - a... -
Dictator Literature: A History of Bad Books by Terrible People by Daniel Kalder
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.21A Book of the Year for The Times and the Sunday Times 'The writer is the engineer of the human soul,' claimed Stalin. Although one wonders how many found nourishment in Turkmenbashi's Book of the... -
This World Does Not Belong to Us by Natalia Garcia Freire
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.70SHORTLISTED FOR THE TA FIRST TRANSLATION PRIZE * SHORTLISTED FOR THE PREMIO VALLE INCLAN SECRETS AND REVENGE CONVERGE IN THIS CHILLING TALE FROM A BREAKOUT NEW LATIN AMERICAN VOICE 'A... -
The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.77'I liked The Unit very much... I know you will be riveted, as I was.' Margaret Atwood 'Echoing work by Marge Piercy and Margaret Atwood, The Unit is as thought-provoking as it is compulsively... -
Is Capitalism Broken? by Yanis Varoufakis
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.00'We need to organise politically to defend the weak, empower the many and prepare the ground for reversing the absurdities of capitalism.' - Yanis Varoufakis 'Capitalism over the past... -
Social Warming: The Dangerous and Polarising Effects of Social Media by Charles Arthur 9780861543175
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.21'Witty, rigorous, and as urgent as a fire alarm' Dorian Lynskey 'Cooly prosecutorial' Guardian Nobody meant for this to happen. Facebook didn't mean to facilitate a genocide. Twitter... -
The Last Death Poet Stephen Daly 9781836431350
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.74'I know about the visions. I have your camera. Call me. Please.' When Michael is uprooted to his mum's hometown of Belfast, he isn't just hoping for a fresh start. He's determined to discover the... -
The Last London: True Fictions from an Unreal City by Iain Sinclair
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.21A New Statesman Book of the Year London. A city apart. Inimitable. Or so it once seemed. Spiralling from the outer limits of the Overground to the pinnacle of the Shard, Iain Sinclair... -
The Twelve Quizzes of Christmas Frank Paul 9780861543960
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €9.13What do these people share in common, Anne Boleyn, Harry Bailey, Ira Gershwin and Peppa Pig? Legendary quizmaster Frank Paul invites us into our favourite Christmas stories - with a twist. Try... -
The Woman Who Would be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt by Kara Cooney 9781780747668
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.70Hatshepsut, the daughter of a general who took Egypt's throne without status as a king's son and a mother with ties to the previous dynasty, was born into a privileged position of the royal household... -
Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes by Barnaby Phillips 9780861543137
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.21A Prospect Best Book of 2021 'A fascinating and timely book.' William Boyd 'Gripping...a must read.' FT 'Compelling...humane, reasonable, and ultimately optimistic.' Evening Standard '[A]... -
Weird Maths: At the Edge of Infinity and Beyond David Darling 9781786074850
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €9.96Is anything truly random? Does infinity actually exist? Could we ever see into other dimensions? In this delightful journey of discovery, David Darling and extraordinary child prodigy Agnijo... -
To Steal a Throne Gabi Burton 9781836432371
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.06Her magic feeds on lies. His magic could destroy her. Mira Kyler runs the court of Virdei from the shadows. Ever since she helped her half-brother Luc take the throne, she's used her lie-powered...