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Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife Bart D. Ehrman 9780861541201
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.53Where did the ideas of heaven and hell come from? As strange as it may seem to us now, there was a time when no one thought they would go to heaven or hell after they died. In fact, there is no... -
Energy: A Beginner's Guide by Vaclav Smil
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.47With one famous equation, E=mc2, Einstein proved all matter can be described as energy. It is everywhere and it is everything. In this newly updated and engaging introduction, renowned scientist... -
If God Is the Answer, What Is the Question? Christopher Insole 9781836432159
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.21You can argue about God forever, and not change your mind. Believers and non-believers often talk at cross purposes, both failing to grasp what is really going on when we argue about God. So where do... -
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome by Emma Southon
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.21'Those left cold by the sober tones of scholarship will find this voice liberating and intoxicating. Its energy is boundless and its range immense.' Wall Street Journal In Ancient Rome all the... -
Sweetbitter: Now a major TV series by Stephanie Danler
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.77'A fantastic read - think Girls meets Kitchen Confidential' Stylist 'An adrenalised love song' Mail on Sunday 'A stunning debut novel' Jay McInerney, author of Bright Lights, Big City *AN... -
The Ocean and the Bones Genevieve Carver 9781836431190
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.00'A rich and heart-warming adventure steeped in Stone Age history.' Hannah Gold 'This book transported me headlong into the Stone Age and returned me home with a bigger, warmer, wilder heart.'... -
A History of Britain in 21 Women: A Personal Selection Jenni Murray 9781786071583
Booksplease Price: €6.94From the bestselling author of A History of the World in 21 Women They were famous queens, unrecognised visionaries, great artists and trailblazing politicians. They all pushed back boundaries and... -
Wake Me Up at Nine in the Morning by A Yi
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.17A thrilling journey through China's dark criminal underworld, from a celebrated voice in Chinese literature When Hongyang is found dead after a night of debauched drinking, it looks as if his... -
Aquinas: A Beginner's Guide by Edward Feser 9781851686902
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.21One of the most influential philosophers and theologians in the history of Western thought, St Thomas Aquinas established the foundations for much of modern philosophy of religion, and is infamous... -
Freethinking: Protecting Freedom of Thought Amidst the New Battle for the Mind by Simon McCarthy-Jones 9780861544578
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €15.91For humanity to survive there must always be people performing the minute-to-minute miracle of thought. 'Excellent and beyond timely.' A. C. Grayling Scientific advances and new technologies... -
Think Yourself Happy: The Simple 6-Step Programme to Change Your Life from Within by Rick Norris 9781851687770
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €19.30Stress, anxiety, and depression are more common than ever before. When the 21st-century dream is to have it all - high-powered jobs, happy families, exotic holidays, a beautiful body, and the ideal... -
Homesick: The End of London Peter Apps 9781836430360
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €16.47From the author of the Orwell Prize-winner SHOW ME THE BODIES: HOW WE LET GRENFELL HAPPEN, the gripping story of how housing defines a city's past, present and future 'Apps set the gold standard... -
Weirdest Maths: At the Frontiers of Reason by David Darling
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.47Maths is everywhere, in everything. It's in the finest margins of modern sport. It's in the electrical pulses of our hearts and the flight of every bird. It is our key to secret messages, lost... -
The Grey Men: Pursuing the Stasi into the Present by Ralph Hope 9781786079619
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.21'Fascinating and powerful.' Sunday Times What do you do with a hundred thousand idle spies? By 1990 the Berlin Wall had fallen and the East German state security service folded. For forty... -
Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time by Jeremy Dronfield 9781786071194
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.70A Sunday Times Book of the Year As featured on the BBC Radio 2 Book Club Dr James Barry: Inspector General of Hospitals, army surgeon, duellist, reformer, ladykiller, eccentric. He performed... -
The Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money by Frederik Obermaier
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.53From the winners of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting 11.5 million documents sent through encrypted channels. The secret records of 214,000 offshore companies. The largest data... -
Into the Abyss: A neuropsychiatrist's notes on troubled minds by Prof. Anthony David 9781786079312
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.47'Highly eloquent, fascinating and deeply compassionate' Henry Marsh, author of Do No Harm We cannot know how to fix a problem until we understand its causes. But even for some of the most common... -
Data-ism: Inside the Big Data Revolution by Steve Lohr
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.47Data is the vital raw material in our modern information economy. There is already an incredible amount of digital data in the world, and it's doubling every two years. Business decisions used to be... -
Marriageology: The Art and Science of Staying Together Belinda Luscombe 9781786073198
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €9.96The fault lines that can fracture a marriage are all contained in these six words: FAMILIARITY, FIGHTING, FAMILY, FINANCES, FOOLING AROUND AND FINDING HELP. It's time to get to know your F words. ... -
Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.47'I'm in story heaven with this book.' Cecelia Ahern, author of P.S. I Love You A charming tale of friendship, love and loneliness in contemporary Japan Sentaro has failed. He has a... -
How We Disappeared by Jing-Jing Lee
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.47A beautiful tale of endurance, identity, and memory in WWII Singapore, for fans of Min Jin Lee's Pachinko and Nguyen Phan Que Mai's The Mountains Sing Singapore, 1942. As Japanese troops... -
Travels with Epicurus: Meditations from a Greek Island on the Pleasures of Old Age by Daniel Klein 9781780744124
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.77Our society worships at the fountain of youth. Each year, we try to delay the arrival of old age, using everything at our disposal, from extreme exercise and botox to pilates and cosmetic dentistry... -
Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead? by Steven Pinker 9781786070760
Booksplease Price: €14.91'It's just a brute fact that we don't throw virgins into volcanoes any more. We don't execute people for shoplifting a cabbage. And we used to.' -Steven Pinker 'The idea that because things... -
Posh Boys: How English Public Schools Ruin Britain Robert Verkaik 9781786076120
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.21'The latest in the series of powerful books on the divisions in modern Britain, and will take its place on many bookshelves beside Reni Eddo-Lodge's Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About... -
The Diary of Mary Berg: Growing Up in the Warsaw Ghetto - 75th Anniversary Edition by Mary Berg
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.21Mary Berg was fifteen when the German army poured into Poland in 1939. She survived four years of Nazi terror, and managed to keep a diary throughout. This astonishing, vivid portrayal of life... -
Solved: How other countries cracked the world's biggest problems (and we can too) by Andrew Wear
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.41Denmark is set to achieve 100 per cent renewable energy by 2030.Iceland has topped the gender equality rankings for a decade and counting.South Korea's average life expectancy will soon reach ninety... -
Humanism: A Beginner's Guide (updated edition) by Peter Cave
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.47Life does not become empty and meaningless in a godless universe. This is the contention at the heart of humanism, the philosophy concerned with making sense of the world through reason,... -
Breakthrough: The Quest for Life-Changing Medicines Dr William Pao 9780861547340
Booksplease Price: €22.66Meet the doctors, scientists, patients and campaigners tackling the world's worst diseases We often hear about the dark side of the pharmaceutical industry - from extortionate pricing to the... -
Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family by Anne-Marie Slaughter 9781780748702
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.70Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Books 2016 Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2015 When Anne-Marie Slaughter's Atlantic article, "Why Women... -
Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.21'Ugandan literature can boast of an international superstar in Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi' Economist An award-winning debut that vividly reimagines Uganda's troubled history through the... -
The Challenge of the Future: As We Rush into Tomorrow, What Should We Keep from Yesterday? A. C. Grayling 9781836433071
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.52In an era of instability, how do we build a better future? We live in a time of unprecedented technological change and uncertainty, from AI to transhumanism. Humankind is faced with the question... -
All the Tomorrows After Joanne Yi 9781836431107
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.74Winter Moon dreams of escape. She works every shift she can get, longing for the day she can finally take flight. But when her money is stolen, Winter makes a deal with the last person she wants to... -
Entanglement: The Secret Lives of Hair by Emma Tarlo
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.21Winner of the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing 2017 Journeying around the globe, through past and present, Emma Tarlo unravels the intriguing story of human hair and what it tells us... -
The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship Between British and American English by Lynne Murphy
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.01'The first and perhaps only book on the relative merits of American and British English that is dominated by facts and analysis rather than nationalistic prejudice. For all its scholarship, this is... -
Behavioural Economics Saved My Dog: Life Advice For The Imperfect Human Dan Ariely 9781780748177
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.21Internationally bestselling author Dan Ariely brings his unique perspective to bear on a maelstrom of life's problems - from how to deal with a Christmas card list that's fast becoming unmanageable... -
The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii Plokhy 9781780746463
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.70BY THE AUTHOR OF CHERNOBYL: HISTORY OF A TRAGEDY, WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2018 WINNER OF THE PUSHKIN HOUSE RUSSIAN BOOK PRIZE 2015 On Christmas Day 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigned... -
Them and Us: How immigrants and locals can thrive together by Philippe Legrain 9780861542222
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.21Winner of the Diversity, Inclusion and Equality Award at the Business Book Awards 2021 'Underpinned by scholarship...entertaining...Legrain's book fizzes with practical ideas.' The Economist ... -
Better off Dead Tess James-Mackey 9781836430919
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.18Just how many deaths does it take to close a holiday park? All Lacy wants is to escape to Paris and be with her older sister. But she needs to make some money first, so she takes a summer job at a... -
Professor Povey's Perplexing Problems: Pre-University Physics and Maths Puzzles with Solutions by Thomas Povey
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €15.91In Professor Povey's Perplexing Problems, Thomas Povey shares 109 of his favourite problems in physics and maths. A tour de force of imagination and exposition, he takes us by the hand and guides us... -
Beyond the Sea by Paul Lynch 9781786077608
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.77Chosen as a Book of the Year by Sebastian Barry, Martina Devlin and Peter Cunningham Winner of the Prix Gens de Mer, 2022 Hector and Bolivar set sail from their South American fishing...