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Paul Robeson: A Song for Freedom by Andrew Norman 9781912587650
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $32.18The great singer, Paul Robeson was born in Princeton, New Jersey, USA on 9 April 1898. His father, William was a Presbyterian minister and a former slave; his mother, Maria was also descended from... -
Trees of North America by 9780789212764
RRP: $70.18Booksplease Price: $60.55A remarkable selection of American forest trees surveyed by Francois-Andre Michaux and Thomas Nuttall from The North American Sylva, held in the LuEsther T. Mertz Library of The New York Botanical... -
Behind the Mask: The Life of Vita Sackville-West by Matthew Dennison 9780007486984
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07Aristocrat, literary celebrity, 'Rose Queen', devoted wife, lesbian, recluse, iconoclast - Vita Sackville-West was many things, but she was never straightforward. Her life is re-told here in a... -
Cowboys at the Ballet: The Story of Choreographer Agnes de Mille Claire Wrenn Bobrow 9781665957878
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $17.24A spirited picture book about the epic struggle and dramatic breakthrough of Agnes de Mille, the legendary choreographer of Oklahoma! and Carousel whose work changed the course of Broadway history... -
Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50'Wonderful. A manifesto of horticultural delight' Literary Review 'Beautiful. Perfect for literary garden lovers' Good Housekeeping'Rich and unusual, a book to treasure. Few recent gardening books... -
Feeling Like a Kid: Childhood and Children's Literature by Jerry Griswold
RRP: $31.20Booksplease Price: $24.86A lively and illustrated inquiry of how children's literature reflects the curious mind of a child-now available in paperback.Outstanding Academic Title for 2007, Choice MagazineIn this engaging... -
Secret Voices: A Year of Women’s Diaries by Sarah Gristwood 9781849948159
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $35.28'Totally addictive.'- Alice Loxton, The Daily Telegraph'An intriguing, highly snackable guide to women's experiences.' - Independent'A modern classic.' - Alison Weir, author and historian'The sort of... -
Jim's Spectacular Christmas Emma Thompson 9780241488904
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.01A new Christmas classic from a magical pairing: Dame Emma Thompson and Axel Scheffler.The story of Jim: a very lucky, very special, very grubby dog, who lives, improbably, in the Victoria and Albert... -
The First Iron Lady: A Life of Caroline of Ansbach by Matthew Dennison 9780008122027
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $20.32'A brilliant study of a brilliant woman' LUCY WORSLEY History has forgotten Caroline of Ansbach, yet in her lifetime she was compared frequently to... -
HerStory: 50 Women and Girls Who Shook the World by Katherine Halligan
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $28.51One of The Guardian's Best New Children's Books for Summer 2018.Longlisted for the North Somerset Teachers' Book Award.Instead of just studying history, let's think about HerStory too! In this... -
Jim's Spectacular Christmas by Emma Thompson
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $25.70A new Christmas classic from a magical pairing: Dame Emma Thompson and Axel Scheffler.The story of Jim: a very lucky, very special, very grubby dog, who lives, improbably, in the Victoria and Albert... -
The First Iron Lady: A Life of Caroline of Ansbach by Matthew Dennison 9780008121990 [USED COPY]
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $5.27'A brilliant study of a brilliant woman' LUCY WORSLEY History has forgotten Caroline of Ansbach, yet in her lifetime she was compared frequently to... -
A Thank You Letter to My Teacher by Deb Adamson 9781464235627
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $18.76I am thankful to my teacher for helping me be the best I can be!In this heartwarming picture book, children thank their teachers for laugh-out-loud days and trail-blazing subjects. They're thankful... -
Keepers of the Reef by Sharon Wismer
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $24.82Sharon Wismer-reef ecologist and mom-is the best tour guide a kid could have for a visit to the underwater world of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Alice Wong's richly detailed, accurate watercolors... -
Phenomenology of the Object and Human Positioning: Human, Non-Human and Posthuman by Calley A. Hornbuckle 9783030664398
RRP: $194.98Booksplease Price: $192.48This edited volume explores the intersections of the human, nonhuman, transhuman, and posthuman from a phenomenological perspective. Representing perspectives from several disciplines, these... -
The Best Is Yet To Come Jessica Redland 9781835182888
RRP: $50.68Booksplease Price: $40.81Escape to the Lakes with MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER Jessica Redland.Emma is having a fresh start.After a successful teaching career, an exciting new chapter awaits Emma – helping her fiancé Grayson run... -
The Heath: My Year on Hampstead Heath by Hunter Davies
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.89An engaging portrait of Hampstead Heath - a place rich not just in natural wonders but in history and monuments, emotions and memories, people and places. 'I enjoyed every inch of the way, from... -
More Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience by Shaun Usher 9781786891693
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $35.90FOLLOW-UP TO THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERINCLUDING LETTERS FROM:Jane Austen, Richard Burton, Helen Keller, Alan Turing, Albus Dumbledore, Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry James, Sylvia Plath, John... -
36 Islands: In Search of the Hidden Wonders of the Lake District and a Few Other Things Too by Robert Twigger
Booksplease Price: $52.40'A Swallows and Amazons adventure for the modern day by one of the most interesting travel writers working today' Bijan Omrani, author of Caesar's Footprints'A headlong plunge into the deep, dark... -
Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time by Clive James
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $23.38With fascinating essays on artists from Louis Armstrong to Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud to Franz Kafka and Beatrix Potter to Marcel Proust, Cultural Amnesia is one of the crowning achievements in... -
Umpteen Pockets by Adrian Mitchell
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $21.06Lavish, gift collection of children's poems by the late, eminent Adrian Mitchell.About the AuthorAdrian Mitchell was born in London and studied at Oxford University where he passed most of his time... -
The Best Is Yet To Come Jessica Redland 9781835182871
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $35.92Escape to the Lakes with MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER Jessica Redland.Emma is having a fresh start.After a successful teaching career, an exciting new chapter awaits Emma - helping her fiance Grayson run... -
The Best Is Yet To Come Jessica Redland 9781835182925
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.88Escape to the Lakes with MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER Jessica Redland.Emma is having a fresh start.After a successful teaching career, an exciting new chapter awaits Emma - helping her fiance Grayson run... -
More Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience Shaun Usher 9781782114543
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $44.81More Letters of Note is another rich and inspiring collection, which reminds us that much of what matters in our lives finds its way into our letters.These letters deliver the same mix of the... -
The Shadow Sister by Lucinda Riley
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $9.03Following on from the bestselling The Seven Sisters and The Storm Sister, The Shadow Sister is the third book in Lucinda Riley's spellbinding series of love and loss, inspired by the mythology of the... -
The Shadow Sister by Lucinda Riley 9781035088720
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43Following on from the bestselling The Seven Sisters and The Storm Sister, The Shadow Sister is the third book in Lucinda Riley's spellbinding series of love and loss, inspired by the mythology of the... -
Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca by Ferdinand Mount 9781472991980
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $13.07'Grimly funny and superbly written, with a twist on every page' - Hilary Mantel 'Delightfully compulsive and unforgettably original' - Hadley Freeman 'Wonderful, funny and wise' - Kate... -
36 Islands: In Search of the Hidden Wonders of the Lake District and a Few Other Things Too by Robert Twigger 9781474621632
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.06'A Swallows and Amazons adventure for the modern day by one of the most interesting travel writers working today' Bijan Omrani, author of Caesar's Footprints'A headlong plunge into the deep, dark... -
The ABC of It: Why Children's Books Matter by Leonard Marcus
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $51.32Original artwork and materials explore children's literature and its impact in society and culture over time A favorite childhood book can leave a lasting impression, but as adults we tend to shelve... -
Tales of Tommy Twitchnose by Terry Waite
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.22Meet Tommy Twitchnose, who lives with his wife and two children in a cosy little house under the floorboards in a converted barnhouse. Tommy and his family have a happy life, foraging for scraps of... -
A Green Equinox by Elizabeth Mavor 9780349018393
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43While I waited for sleep I retraced the road which brought me to you. Unbelievably it only took six months, equinox to equinox. This dazzling rediscovered classic, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in... -
American Trickster: Trauma, Tradition and Brer Rabbit by Emily Zobel Marshall 9781783481095
Booksplease Price: $220.56Our fascination with the trickster figure, whose presence is global, stems from our desire to break free from the tightly regimented structures of our societies. Condemned to conform to laws and... -
Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms: Forays with Fungi across Hemispheres by Alison Pouliot 9780226829630
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $34.94A whirlwind journey through fungus frontiers that underscores how appreciating fungi is key to understanding our planet's power and fragility. What can we learn from the lives of fungi? Splitting... -
American Trickster: Trauma, Tradition and Brer Rabbit by Emily Zobel Marshall 9781783481101
Booksplease Price: $73.73Our fascination with the trickster figure, whose presence is global, stems from our desire to break free from the tightly regimented structures of our societies. Condemned to conform to laws and... -
Fungipedia: A Brief Compendium of Mushroom Lore by Lawrence Millman 9780691194721
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.48"This little book is big fun."-Michael PollanAn illustrated mini-encyclopedia of fungal lore, from John Cage and Terence McKenna to mushroom sex and fairy ringsFungipedia presents a delightful A-Z...