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On Marriage by Devorah Baum 9780241998021
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ACCORDING TO THE NEW YORKER AND KIRKUS 'Devorah Baum is a visionary writer. Her intellectual depth, her emotional precision and her searing insight can only be gathered under an... -
Tears Over Russia: A Search for Family and the Legacy of Ukraine's Pogroms by Lisa Brahin
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £14.99A sweeping saga of a Jewish family and community fighting for survival against the ravages of history.Set between events depicted in Fiddler on the Roof and Schindler's List, Lisa Brahin's Tears over... -
On Marriage by Devorah Baum
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ACCORDING TO THE NEW YORKER AND KIRKUS 'Devorah Baum is a visionary writer. Her intellectual depth, her emotional precision and her searing insight can only be gathered under an... -
The Italian Girl by Iris Murdoch
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Edmund has escaped from his family into a lonely life. Returning for his mother's funeral he finds himself involved in the old, awful problems, together with some new ones. One by one his relatives... -
Stories for Lovers 9780712355537
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Fall head over heels with this collection of unconventional and heartfelt romances that will leave you longing for more. From icons of feminist literature to forgotten Chinese modernists, these... -
A Little More About Me by Pam Houston 9780393343465
Booksplease Price: £20.50Renowned author Pam Houston treats us to a celebration of real-life adventures in this rich collection of essays. Ranging over five years and five continents, A Little More About Me introduces us to... -
Streamlined ID: A Practical Guide to Instructional Design Miriam B. Larson 9780815366706
RRP: £73.99Booksplease Price: £65.99Streamlined ID presents a focused and generalizable approach to instructional design and development - one that addresses the needs of ID novices as well as practitioners in a variety of career... -
Paris, 7 A.M. by Liza Wieland
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £10.84"A marvel of lost innocence" (O, The Oprah Magazine) that reimagines three life-changing weeks poet Elizabeth Bishop spent in Paris amidst the imminent threat of World War II. June 1937. Elizabeth... -
The Good Parts: The Best Erotic Writing in Modern Fiction 9780425172254
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.10They imbued their art with the truth about love and sex and seduction. They pushed erotic writing to the center stage of American fiction. They took risks, fed our imaginations, and explored our... -
Bloody Minded: War, womanhood and finding my voice Susie Ferguson 9781775542407
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32A powerful memoir on womanhood by RNZ presenter Susie Ferguson Early in her radio career Susie Ferguson became a war correspondent. The only woman among hundreds of soldiers, in a helmet and flak... -
Illuminating Fiction Sherry Ellis 9781636281926
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £25.62Illuminating Fiction contains nineteen interviews with fiction-writing luminaries including Edward P. Jones, Julia Glass, Amy Bloom, Jill McCorkle, Margot Livesy, Ron Carlson and Steve Almond. The... -
Life As We Know It: A Collection of Personal Essays from Salon.com by Jennifer Foote Sweeney 9780743476867
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.47"...these essays are jewels of the unexpected, and in introducing them, I don't want to steal any of their surprise. Suffice it to say that family life...is alive and well, but it is not like... -
![Born to Buy: A Groundbreaking Expose of a Marketing Culture That Makes Children "Believe They Are What They Own." (USA Today) by Juliet B. Schor 9780684870564](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/2634717/2634057/9780684870564__72608.1714508964.jpg?c=1 "Born to Buy: A Groundbreaking Expose of a Marketing Culture That Makes Children "Believe They Are What They Own." (USA Today) by Juliet B. Schor 9780684870564")
Born to Buy: A Groundbreaking Expose of a Marketing Culture That Makes Children "Believe They Are What They Own." (USA Today) by Juliet B. Schor 9780684870564
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.81Ads targeted at kids are virtually everywhere - in classrooms and textbooks, on the Internet, even at Girl Scout meetings, slumber parties, and the playground. Product placement and other innovations... -
O's Little Book of Love and Friendship by The Editors of O the Oprah Magazine
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40The editors of O, The Oprah Magazine have combed through the publication's extensive archives to create O's Little Book of Love and Friendship, featuring the very best writing on those topics from... -
Raising Demons by Shirley Jackson 9780241473009
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'Hilarious, subversive, sharp without being lethal, and loving without an ounce of sentiment, Shirley Jackson's more-or-less autobiographical account of life as a mother of four and faculty wife... -
Badass Advice: Love, Life and Being True to Yourself by Becca Anderson 9781684811021
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.44Sass, Wise Words, and Advice from Empowering Women"...a book for and about women (no men allowed!). ―Heck of a Bunch BlogBecca Anderson is back with another inspiring book packed with everything you... -
Wife by Charlotte Mendelson 9781529052831
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'Crackles with female fire and fury' - The Guardian'A bravura portrait of a marriage in meltdown' - The Observer'Fast and furious' - The Sunday TimesWife, the gripping novel from the prize-winning... -
The Smash-Up: a delicious satire from a breakout voice in literary fiction Ali Benjamin 9781529409314
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £7.80AN OF-THE-MOMENT NOVEL FOR READERS OF FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE'Timely, risky and dazzling' Polly Clark, author of Tiger'Sharply funny, perceptive, and surprising at every turn, The Smash-Up is a story... -
The Smash-Up: a delicious satire from a breakout voice in literary fiction by Ali Benjamin
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78AN OF-THE-MOMENT NOVEL FOR READERS OF FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE'Timely, risky and dazzling' Polly Clark, author of Tiger'Sharply funny, perceptive, and surprising at every turn, The Smash-Up is a story... -
Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary by Brown 9780299189709
Booksplease Price: £17.19Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary is an intimate, exquisite, and true account of what it is to help a parent die. After her mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer, former home care worker... -
The Woman I Was Not Born To Be: A Transsexual Journey by Aleshia Brevard
RRP: £73.00Booksplease Price: £68.67Told with humor and flair, this is the autobiography of one transsexual's wild ride from boyhood as Alfred Brevard ("Buddy") Crenshaw in rural Tennessee to voluptuous female entertainer in Hollywood... -
Woman I Was Not Born To Be: A Transsexual Journey by Aleshia Brevard
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89Told with humor and flair, this is the autobiography of one transsexual's wild ride from boyhood as Alfred Brevard ("Buddy") Crenshaw in rural Tennessee to voluptuous female entertainer in Hollywood... -
Sugarless: A Novel by James Magruder
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.17Things look bad for Rick Lahrem, a high school sophomore in a cookie-cutter Chicago suburb in 1976. His mother's second husband is a licensed psychologist who eats like an ape, his stepsister is a... -
A View of the Empire at Sunset by Caryl Phillips
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Award-winning writer Caryl Phillips presents a beautiful, heart-breaking novel of the life of Jean Rhys, author of Wide Sargasso Sea.'[A] remarkable novel... The story of a troubled young woman... -
The Rules Do Not Apply Ariel Levy 9780349005324
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'Every deep feeling a human is capable of will be shaken loose by this short, but profound book' David Sedaris'I wanted what we all want: everything. We want a mate who feels like family and a lover... -
Voices of the Lost: Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2019 by Hoda Barakat
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99'Barakat isn't writing about 'the immigrant'. She's writing about the human.' Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind Shortlisted for the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic... -
Some Other Town: A Novel by Elizabeth Collison 9780062348821
Booksplease Price: £10.42Channeling the emotional intensity of Susan Minot and Amy Bloom-and infused with a witty, dream-like surrealism reminiscent of Margaret Atwood-this mesmerizing debut takes us inside the unsettling... -
Badass Women Give the Best Advice: Everything You Need to Know About Love and Life by Becca Anderson 9781633536937
Booksplease Price: £12.27Sass, Sarcasm, and Sizzle from Badass Women "Throughout this collected work she shares lessons from so many diverse women that no matter what is going on in your life right now you will find the... -
Square Inch Hours: Poems by Sherod Santos 9780393254983
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.80In the manner of a poetic meditation, Square Inch Hours draws on elements from fiction, memoir, daybook, and reverie, piecing together moments that follow in the aftermath of a breakdown. Writing... -
The Course of Love by Alain de Botton
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.17SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERFrom one of our great thinkers on modern life and the human condition - an unforgettable story of love and marriage from the author of bestselling novel Essays in Love... -
Paris, He Said by Christine Sneed
Booksplease Price: £10.51Jayne Marks is questioning the choices she has made in the years since college she is struggling to pay her bills in Manhattan when she is given the opportunity to move to Paris with her wealthy... -
The Glassmaker Tracy Chevalier 9780008153892
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24'Ingenious' THE TIMES, Book of the Month 'Sparkling'OBSERVER 'A triumph... beyond admiration' PHILIP PULLMAN 'Spellbinding.... Chevalier at her fabulous best' ELIF... -
Raising Demons by Shirley Jackson
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £19.00In the uproarious sequel to Life Among the Savages, the author of The Haunting of Hill House confronts the most vexing demons yet: her childrenIn the long out-of-print sequel to Life Among the... -
The Glassmaker Tracy Chevalier 9780008153861
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.54'Ingenious' THE TIMES, Book of the Month 'Sparkling'OBSERVER 'A triumph... beyond admiration' PHILIP PULLMAN 'Spellbinding.... Chevalier at her fabulous best' ELIF... -
All The Broken Places: The Sequel to The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne 9781529176131
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £5.87'Beautifully told and gripping from first page to last' Sunday Express'An incredible feat of storytelling... and an old-fashioned page-turner' Donal Ryan'Gripping and well-honed...consummately... -
The Vagrants by Yiyun Li 9780007196654
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88The much-anticipated first novel from the Guardian First Book Award-winning Chinese writer. In the provincial town of Muddy Waters in China, a young woman named Gu Shan is sentenced to... -
All The Broken Places: the sequel to the global bestseller The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
Booksplease Price: £14.00'Beautifully told and gripping from first page to last' Sunday Express'An incredible feat of storytelling... and an old-fashioned page-turner' Donal Ryan'Gripping and well-honed...consummately... -
The Glassmaker Tracy Chevalier 9780008153878
Booksplease Price: £16.07'Ingenious' THE TIMES, Book of the Month 'Sparkling'OBSERVER 'A triumph... beyond admiration' PHILIP PULLMAN 'Spellbinding.... Chevalier at her fabulous best' ELIF... -
The Middle of Everything: Memoirs of Motherhood by Michelle Herman 9780803248311
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37When she was three months old, Michelle Herman's daughter, Grace, went on a hunger strike. At six, she suffered what can only be described, in the old-fashioned way, as a breakdown. And at the ripe... -
The Play's the Thing: Fifty Years of Yale Repertory Theatre (1966-2016) James Magruder 9780300215007
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £44.49An insider's spirited history of Yale Repertory Theatre In this serious and entertaining chronicle of the first fifty years of Yale Repertory Theatre, award-winning dramaturg James Magruder shows...