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On Television by Stuart Hood 9780745311111
Booksplease Price: £26.60On Television has long been regarded as one of the best critiques of television ever published, offering a lucid, jargon-free and impressively concise analysis of every aspect of the television... -
Walter Benjamin: Or, Towards a Revolutionary Criticism Terry Eagleton 9781804296165
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42This momentous study of Benjamin's critical practice marks a sea change in Eagleton's thought. Its goal is not merely to contemplate Benjamin's approach to language, history, and art but to chart a... -
The Early Christian Fathers: A Selection from the Writings of the Fathers from St Clement of Rome to St Athanasius by Henry Bettenson 9780192830098
RRP: £35.49Booksplease Price: £27.95There is now a wide and growing appreciation of the value and relevance of the writings of the Fathers of the early Church, even for non-academic readers, and particularly for all who wish to... -
The Lost Cities of Africa by Basil Davidson 9780852557976
Booksplease Price: £38.83Africa and Africans south of the Sahara in the 1500 years or so before the colonial period began. The aim of this book is to present what is now known and what seems reasonable to believe about... -
The True Lives of My Chemical Romance: The Definitive Biography by Tom Bryant 9781447253570
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.78My Chemical Romance are the most significant band in alternative rock for the last decade, selling 5 million albums and selling out arenas worldwide until their split after twelve years together... -
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Viking by DK 9781405373302 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £2.09Make way for the Vikings! These legendary explorers and warriors return to life in this leading title from the best-selling Eyewitness series of reference titles for children.Known for their fearsome... -
Moominvalley in November by Tove Jansson
Booksplease Price: £10.35In her last, most profound and poignant Moomin story, Jansson explores themes of loss, legacy and hope. The Moomins have left their beloved Moominvalley but as winter draws near Snufkin, Mymble, Toft... -
The Cellar by Minette Walters
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49The terrifying Hammer novella by Minette Walters, bestselling author of The Sculptress and The Scold's BridleMuna's bedroom is a dark windowless cellar and her activities are confined to cooking and... -
Kneehigh Anthology: Volume 1: Tristan & Yseult; The Bacchae; The Wooden Frock; The Red Shoes by Kneehigh Theatre Company
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.23Kneehigh now finds itself celebrated as one of the UK's most exciting theatre companies. This collection contains the performance texts of four of their highly acclaimed shows: Tristan & Yseult, The... -
Book of Circles by Manuel Lima
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £19.32In The Book of Circles, his companion volume to the popular Book of Trees, Manuel Lima takes us on a lively tour through millenia of information design. Three hundred detailed and colourful... -
Life is a Dream (Drama Classics) by Pedro CalderoN
RRP: £4.50Booksplease Price: £3.99Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price A masterpiece of the Spanish Golden Age. It is foretold that Prince Sigismund will become a tyrant. Alarmed, his father, the... -
The Daughters: A Novel by Adrienne Celt 9781631491948
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.68When Lulu was a child, her grandmother Ada filled her head with fables of the family's enchanted history in the Polish countryside. Each mother in their family has been given a daughter but each... -
The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry 9781805302117
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43A GUARDIAN BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024A NEW STATESMAN FICTION HIGLIGHT OF 2024AN OBSERVER FICTION TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024AN IRISH TIMES FICTION TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024'An absolute belter of a book'... -
The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes by John Gross 9780199543410
RRP: £15.49Booksplease Price: £13.30An unrivalled collection of literary gossip and intimate sidelights on the lives of the authors. The dictionary defines an anecdote as 'a short account of an entertaining or interesting incident',... -
Philosophy and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Nicholas Joll 9780230291126
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £26.60The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy provides an excellent way of looking at some intriguing issues in philosophy, from vegetarianism and Artificial Intelligence to God, space and time. This is an... -
![Valle-Inclan Plays: "Divine Words", "Bohemian Lights", "Silver Face" by Ramon del Valle-Inclan 9780413670908](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5434225/5511483/9780413670908__14714.1725324633.jpg?c=1 "Valle-Inclan Plays: "Divine Words", "Bohemian Lights", "Silver Face" by Ramon del Valle-Inclan 9780413670908")
Valle-Inclan Plays: "Divine Words", "Bohemian Lights", "Silver Face" by Ramon del Valle-Inclan 9780413670908
Booksplease Price: £25.91One of the most significant playwrights and novelists of the early twentieth century This volume of translations contains Divine Words, a play that draws on pagan, Celtic traditions of the... -
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A Dark Redemption by Stav Sherez 9780571244843 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.41A Dark Redemption introduces DI Jack Carrigan and DS Geneva Miller as they investigate the brutal rape and murder of a young Ugandan student. Plunged into an underworld of illegal immigrant... -
Vampire Movies (Close-Ups, Book 2) by Charles Bramesco
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.63The indispensable, illustrated pocket guide to the world of vampire movies, from Nosferatu to A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night. ALSO AVAILABLE: ... -
Always by Morris Gleitzman
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Keynote:The much-anticipated final journey in the story of Felix, hero of Morris Gleitzman's multi-award-winning Once, Then, After, Soon, Maybe and Now.It's fifteen years since readers were first... -
Daft Wee Stories by Limmy
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15DAFT WEE STORIES is Limmy's first book.It is a collection of stories.There are short stories. There are longer stories. There are stupid stories. There are thoughtful stories. There are upside-down... -
Something Else by Kathryn Cave
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02A simple story, about a small creature who does his best to join in with the others. But he's different. No matter how he tries, he just doesn't belong. Then Something turns up and wants to be... -
Rip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 by Simon Reynolds
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51In this, the first book to take a big-picture view of the entire post punk period, acclaimed author and music journalist Simon Reynolds recreates a time of tremendous urgency and idealism in pop... -
Ballet Bunnies: Millie's Birthday by Swapna Reddy
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.39It's Millie's birthday, and the Ballet Bunnies are coming to stay at her house! She's going to have a ballet-themed party with all of her friends-all she's got to do is keep the Ballet Bunnies hidden... -
Unexplained: Based on the 'world's spookiest podcast' Richard MacLean Smith 9781473671164
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'A grisly treat' Financial Times on the podcast Based on the 'world's spookiest podcast' of the same name comes Unexplained: a book of ten real-life mysteries which might be best left unexplained. . ... -
Pizza Cake by Morris Gleitzman
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02STORIES WITH THE LOT!Save ten lives with a paperclip, discover how a big banana can ruin your sister's holiday, make a new friend with a garbage bin, develop a taste for sheep's spleen and chips,... -
Elizabeth I (Penguin Monarchs): A Study in Insecurity by Helen Castor
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67'The experience of insecurity, it turned out, would shape one of the most remarkable monarchs in England's history' In the popular imagination, as in her portraits, Elizabeth I is the image of... -
The Big Man by William McIlvanney
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31AS SEEN IN THE BIG MAN STARRING LIAM NEESONThe big man is Dan Scoular, a legend of physical prowess in a decaying Ayrshire mining community. When a bare-knuckle fight offers both money and a purpose,... -
This May Hurt A Bit by Stella Feehily
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.85A witty, tender, and occasionally surreal exploration of one family's experience of the NHS. A month after stating "we will stop the top-down reorganisation of the NHS that has got in the way of... -
Highly Discriminating: Why the City Isn't Fair and Diversity Doesn't Work Louise Ashley (Royal Holloway University of London) 9781529227673
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.23Why does the City of London, despite an apparent commitment to recruitment and progression based on objective merit within its hiring practices, continue to reproduce the status quo? Written by a... -
The Hare and the Tortoise by Brian Wildsmith
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37'I am sure to win, but we will race if you like.' So laughs the hare when a slow tortoise challenges him to run all the way to the old cart. His speed is never in doubt but perhaps it is the hare's... -
Gin of Thrones: Cocktails & drinking games inspired by the World of Westeros Daniel Bettridge 9781911610281
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40"Everything's better with some wine in the belly." - Tyrion Lannister, the self-proclaimed "God of Tits and Wine". You're not likely to sit on the Iron Throne or ride a dragon into battle against... -
New and Selected Poems by Dennis O'Driscoll 9780856463730
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60Dennis O'Driscoll is among the finest and most popular poets of his generation. "New and Selected Poems" shows him to be a poet of humanity and wit whose observant, rhythmically supple poetry is... -
The Return of the Political by Chantal Mouffe 9781788738569
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24Chantal Mouffe is one of the most influential political theorists at work today. Her work has influenced political parties across Europe and continues to inform the direction of left politics. In... -
Move: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead by Rosabeth Moss Kanter 9780393246803
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.80America is stuck: just look at the crumbling roads and bridges, mismanaged railways, old-fashioned and easily overloaded air traffic control system, and perpetual lack of political will to do... -
All the Good Things You Deserve by Elaine Feeney 9781787304529
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46How do we love, trust and create in the aftermath of trauma? How do we name and speak that love?In this powerful new collection from acclaimed poet and novelist Elaine Feeney, images andmemory circle... -
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Godber Plays: v. 3: "April in Paris","Up 'n' Under","Perfect Pitch" by John Godber 9780413773043
Booksplease Price: £25.29A third collection of plays by one of Britain's most popular and widely performed playwrights UP'N'UNDER (winner of the Laurence Olivier Comedy of the Year Award 1984): Five unfit lads strive for... -
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Storey Plays: v. 3: "Changing Room"; "Cromwel"L; "Life Class" by David Storey 9780413723505
Booksplease Price: £24.92The latest collection of David Storey's plays; including the newly revised and revived The Changing Room. Introduced by the author This third volume of David Storey's plays contains The Changing Room... -
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 9780571387076
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43Beautifully illustrated by Alice Tye, this is cornerstone of modernist fiction and an incisive critique of wealth, class and the inescapable heartache of lost love.In his blue gardens men and girls... -
Hockey for Schools J. T. Hankinson 9781041022749
Booksplease Price: £108.12Originally published in 1947, this book, the third of the series, deals with hockey coaching and practice in schools. It was produced in a School, and once again the action photographs are of boys... -
Inspector French: Sudden Death by Freeman Wills Crofts 9780008393120
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28To mark the publishing centenary of Freeman Wills Crofts, 'The King of Detective Story Writers', this is one of six classic crime novels being issued in 2020 featuring Inspector French, coming soon...