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Trouble in Mind: An Autobiography by Bernard O'Mahoney 9781845967789
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $24.32Trouble in Mind is bernard o'mahoney's unblinkingly honest account of his eventful life so far. Growing up in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, O'Mahoney regularly bore the brunt of his father's psychotic... -
Bearing Witness: Prison Stories from a Woman's Fight Against Fascism Mercedes Núñez Targa 9780745349084
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $31.18'Thanks to this superb translation, English-language readers finally have access to a classic work of prison literature that has played a major role in keeping alive the memory of the crimes of... -
The Auden Generation by Samuel Hynes 9780712652506
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $26.25This is a study of a literary generation writing in a period of expanding fears and ever more urgent political and social crises. The pace of the time itself, the sense of time passing and an end... -
Picasso, Toros y Toreros by Luis-Miguel Dominguin 9782702212127
RRP: $117.00Booksplease Price: $102.14With Toros y Toreros, Pablo Picasso presents a singular work, published by Editions Cercle d'Art. This book is not merely about bullfighting; it represents a rare meeting between a painter and a... -
The Scandal of the Century: and Other Writings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50A new collection of journalism from one of the great titans of 20th century literature"I don't want to be remembered for One Hundred Years of Solitude or for the Nobel Prize but rather for my... -
Stop The Ride, I Want To Get Off: The Autobiography of Dave Courtney by Dave Courtney 9780753504628 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $4.80Dave Courtney - the original behind Vinnie Jones's character in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels - tells all in his no-holds-barred bestselling autobiography.From the streets of southeast London... -
Powder Wars: The Supergrass who Brought Down Britain's Biggest Drug Dealers by Graham Johnson 9781840189254 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $4.70'An astonishing story' - Sunday Mirror'The best gangster book of modern times' - Donal MacIntyreGangster Paul Grimes was a one-man crimewave with a breathtaking capacity to steal. Any villains who... -
Native Gardens by Karen Zacarias
Booksplease Price: $26.19Pablo a high-powered lawyer and doctoral candidate Tania his very pregnant wife are realizing the American dream when they purchase a house next door to community stalwarts Virginia and Frank... -
The Mafia: The Inside Story of Organised Crime by George Carpozi Jr.
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $27.44How did the Mob evolve from a disorganised gang of uncouth killers into the deadly 'international corporation' it is today?Tracing its beginnings as an underground society which sprang up in Sicily,... -
Gotti: The Rise and Fall by Jerry Capeci
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.84John Gotti: Gangster, killer, celebrity.From the tough streets of Queens to the heights of the American Mafia, John Gotti thought he was invincible. Ruthless, brutal and always immaculately dressed,... -
The Penguin Book Of Spanish Verse by J M Cohen
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $28.76'You have dark eyes. Gleams there that promise darkness'. Spanish poetry is astonishing in its richness and variety. This anthology covers the two great flowerings of Spanish verse: the first, ... -
Kilo: Life and Death Inside the Secret World of the Cocaine Cartels by Toby Muse
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45Join the deadly journey of cocaine, from farmer to kingpin.Meet Maria. Maria doesn't see herself as a criminal. She's just a farmhand picking the crops that never lose money: coca.This is Cachote. He... -
A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende 9781526627605
RRP: $13.63Booksplease Price: $13.30_______________ THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER _______________ 'A powerful love story spanning generations... Full of ambition and humanity' - Sunday Times 'One... -
The Savage Sword Of Conan: The Original Comics Omnibus Vol.9 Don Kraar 9781787740976
RRP: $243.75Booksplease Price: $164.07Unfettered by the Comics Code, experience Conan at his most visceral in the original epic comic magazine The Savage Sword of Conan! The dark and gritty tales within are perfect for Conan fans looking... -
The Informer by Sean O'Callaghan 9780552146074 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $3.88In 1988 IRA terrorist Sean O'Callaghan walked into a Tunbridge Wells police station and gave himself up. Two years later, in a Belfast courtroom, he pleaded guilty to all charges of which he was... -
Love Letters by Peter Washington 9781857157260
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $17.76Here are 200 irresistible love letters from over the centuries, love letters both historic and fictional, love letters by poets and by princes, love letters enchanting, tragic, comic, superbly... -
Little Ghost! Little Ghost! What Can You See? Pintachan 9781801048279
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $11.29Little Ghost! Little Ghost! What can you see? Under the hat, who could it be? Lift the flaps to help Little Ghost discover who is hiding underneath. With a mirror under the final flap, this... -
A Long Petal of the Sea: 'Allende's finest book yet' - now a Sunday Times bestseller by Isabel Allende
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61_______________ THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER _______________ 'A powerful love story spanning generations... Full of ambition and humanity' - Sunday Times 'One... -
The Informer by Sean O'Callaghan
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45In 1988 IRA terrorist Sean O'Callaghan walked into a Tunbridge Wells police station and gave himself up. Two years later, in a Belfast courtroom, he pleaded guilty to all charges of which he was... -
Mad Frank's Diary: The Confessions of Britain's Most Notorious Villain by Frankie Fraser
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45'They say I've killed 40 people and who am I to disagree? I've always liked even numbers.'Branded the dentist for using pliers to extract the teeth of those who owed money to his boss Charlie... -
A Theory of Craft: Function and Aesthetic Expression by Howard Risatti 9781469600901
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $51.32What is craft? How is it different from fine art or design? In A Theory of Craft, Howard Risatti examines these issues by comparing handmade ceramics, glass, metalwork, weaving, and furniture to... -
The Mafia: The First 100 Years George Carpozi Jr. 9780753518205
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $29.70Tracing its beginnings as an underground society which sprang up in Sicily, to the Mob which went on to run organised crime throughout Italy and America, The Mafia: The First 100 Years tells the... -
The Selected Poems of Cavafy by C. P. Cavafy
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $17.92C. P. Cavafy is one of the most singular and poignant voices of twentieth-century European poetry, conjuring a magical interior world through lyrical evocations of remembered passions, imagined... -
The Cocaine Diaries: A Venezuelan Prison Nightmare by Jeff Farrell
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $17.18'It won't happen to me. That's what I thought when I got on the plane to Venezuela. But it did - I got caught.'Caught smuggling half a million euros' worth of cocaine, Paul Keany was sexually... -
The Green Fool by Patrick Kavanagh
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00My part of Ireland had a poet at one time, a poor ragged fellow whom no respectable person whom no respectable person would be seen talking to, but he left doors open as he passed. A delightful... -
Songs of Mihyar the Damascene by Adonis
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25'The greatest living poet of the Arab world' GuardianCloud, mirror, stone, thunder, eyelid, desert, sea. Through a dead or dying land, Mihyar walks: a figure of heroic individualism and dissent,... -
No Modernism Without Lesbians by Diana Souhami
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.42A Sunday Times Book of the Year Winner of the Polari Prize 'A book about love, identity, acceptance and the freedom to write, paint, compose and wear corduroy breeches with gaiters. To swear,... -
Complete Poems by Dorothy Parker
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Best remembered as a member of the Algonquin Round Table, the fabled Jazz Age literay coterie, Dorothy Parker built a reputations as one of the era's most beloved poets. Parker's satirical wit and... -
Howard Marks' Book Of Dope Stories by Howard Marks
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $27.01Since the Stone Age, drugs have been sniffed to induce sleep, mixed to cure ills, swallowed to stimulate creativity, snorted to increase sexuality, popped for the hell of it and smoked to see God. ... -
The Thefts of the Mona Lisa: The Complete Story of the World's Most Famous Artwork by Noah Charney 9781538181362
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $38.98If you read one book on the Mona Lisa, let this be it. From the artwork to its theft and role in popular culture, The Thefts of the Mona Lisa provides the complete story, as written by a... -
The Last Narco: Hunting El Chapo, The World's Most-Wanted Drug Lord by Malcolm Beith 9780141048390 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $4.08Mexico, April 2009. The bodies of pair of undercover military intelligence agents, disguised as campesinos (farmers), are dumped by the side of the road. Beside the corpses is a message on a scrap of... -
Betrayed: The incredible untold inside story of the two most unlikely drug-running grannies in Australian history by Sandi Logan
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $28.18WINNER OF THE NED KELLY AWARD FOR BEST TRUE CRIME 2023A relentlessly fascinating and often jaw-dropping true story of two American women who unwittingly became Australia's 'Drug Grannies'In 1977,... -
The Mastermind: The hunt for the World's most prolific criminal by Evan Ratliff
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45'Meth, murder and pirates: the coder who became a crime boss. A world that lurks just outside of our everyday perception, in the dark corners of the internet we never visit' - WiredThe Mastermind... -
The Art of the Cocktail: From the Dali Wallbanger to the Stinger Sargent, cocktails with an artistic twist by 9781781576564
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06Discover 50 cocktails inspired by famous artists, their art and their favourite tipples. Shake up delicious art-inspired drinks, from the absinthe-fuelled Pablo Pisco Sour to the verdant Henry... -
Permanent Record by Mary H. K. Choi
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.64A New York Times bestseller!----------------------------------------------------------On paper, college dropout Pablo Rind doesn't have a whole lot going for him. His graveyard shift at a... -
Cumbia!: Scenes of a Migrant Latin American Music Genre by Hector D. Fernandez l'Hoeste
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.26Cumbia is a musical form that originated in northern Colombia and then spread throughout Latin America and wherever Latin Americans travel and settle. It has become one of the most popular musical... -
Handsome Johnny: The Criminal Life of Johnny Rosselli, The Mob's Man in Hollywood by Lee Server
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.25'A smile can get you far, but a smile with a gun can get you further.' - Al CaponeFeatured in ViceA man of singular influence in the American underworld, Johnny Rosselli's career flourished for half... -
American Desperado: My life as a Cocaine Cowboy by Jon Roberts
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.84'The best crime book since Wiseguy' - Rich CohenA real-life Scarface, Jon was born into the Gambino Mafia family and witnessed his first murder aged seven. He joined a US Army assassination squad in... -
The Godfather: The Lost Years by Mark Winegardner
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.25Brought to you by Penguin.'The bloody victory of the Corleone Family was not complete,' begins the final chapter of Mario Puzo's The Godfather, 'until a year of delicate manoeuvring established... -
The Winter of Frankie Machine by Don Winslow
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.89Frank Machianno is the guy, a late-middle-aged ex-surf bum who runs a bait shack on the San Diego waterfront. That's when he's not juggling any of his other three part-time jobs or trying to get a...