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The Officer's Daughter by Zina Rohan 9781846270680
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.77The Officer's Daughter is an epic wartime romance that sees a headstrong young woman face hardship, danger and dilemma as the forces of history sweep her across continents, while two men compete to... -
The Sun And Moon Corrupted by Philip Ball 9781846271090
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60What if you had developed a machine that generated energy for free and no one believed you? That is the lot of Kurt Neder, once Einstein's accomplice and the brightest young physicist of his... -
The Emperor of Paris by C. S. Richardson 9781846271137
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.77Like his father before him, Octavio runs the Notre Dame bakery and knows the secret recipe for the perfect Parisian baguette. But, also like his father, Octavio has never mastered the art of reading... -
The Memory Palace: A Book of Lost Interiors by Edward Hollis 9781846273261
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43The rooms we live in are always more than just four walls. As we decorate these spaces and fill them with objects and friends, they shape our lives and become the backdrop to our sense of self. One... -
Ghosts of Afghanistan: The Haunted Battleground by Jonathan Steele 9781846274312
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Yes, there are dozens of books on the Afghan wars. Most of them are all about firefights and heroics. But this is the first to take the events of the war Bush and Blair started and put them in the... -
Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Mysterious, Miraculous World of Blood by Rose George 9781846276149
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $9.51Most humans contain between nine and twelve pints of blood. Here Rose George, who probably contains nine pints, tells nine different stories about the liquid that sustains us, discovering what it... -
King Kong - Our Knot of Time and Music: A personal memoir of South Africa's legendary musical by Pat Williams 9781846276538
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43On 2 February 1959, a musical about the life and times of heavyweight boxing star Ezekiel Dhlamini (known as 'King Kong') opened in Johannesburg to a packed audience that included Nelson Mandela... -
All Made Up by Janice Galloway 9781847083272
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43In the second volume of her memoirs, the prize-winning author Janice Galloway reveals how the child introduced in This is Not About Me evolved through her teenage years. When she started secondary... -
The Sandglass by Romesh Gunesekera 9781847084194
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.77The Sandglass tells the story of two feuding families whose lives are interlinked by the changing fortunes of postcolonial Sri Lanka. Moving back and forth between London and Sri Lanka, the novel... -
How to Drink at Christmas: Winter Warmers, Party Drinks and Festive Cocktails Victoria Moore 9781847084712
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Which champagne should you pour at your Christmas party? How do you make a Sidecar or a Clementine Campari? Which will warm you up best after a frosty walk: spiced apple juice, spiced coffee, or hot... -
The Virtues of the Table: How to Eat and Think by Julian Baggini 9781847087157
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43How we eat, farm and shop for food is not only a matter of taste. Our choices regarding what we eat involve every essential aspect of our human nature: the animal, the sensuous, the social, the... -
The Banner of the Passing Clouds Anthea Nicholson 9781847087430
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60Iosif Dzhugashvili is born on the day Stalin dies and is given his name by a zealous hospital official. Young Iosif grows up haunted by his great namesake, convinced that the dictator has found a new... -
Indonesia Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation by Elizabeth Pisani 9781847086556
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26In 1945, Indonesia's declaration of independence promised: 'the details of the transfer of power etc. will be worked out as soon as possible.' Still working on the 'etc.' seven decades later, the... -
A Gesture Life by Chang-rae Lee 9781862074019
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.09Franklin Hata, Korean by birth but raised in Japan, is an outsider in American society, but he embodies the values of the town he calls his own - he is polite and keeps himself to himself. Franklin... -
Beautiful Trauma: The Story of a Life-Changing Accident by Rebecca Fogg 9781783785926
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26Late one night, Rebecca Fogg's hand is partially amputated in an explosion in her flat. Quick thinking saves her life, but the journey to recovery is a slow one. As the doctors rebuild her hand,... -
Granta 80: The Group by Ian Jack 9780903141567
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $20.98Everybody has been a reluctant or willing member of one: the family, the school, the football side, the quiz team, the once-faithful friends who met in a bar every Friday at five. Group photographs... -
Granta 90: Country Life - Dispatches From What's Left Of It by Ian Jack 9780903141789
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $21.14Country Life: how it is lived, how it has changed, and how the changes are far from over. An issue that ranges from English fox-hunters to the rice-planters of the Ganges delta. Featuring Tim Adams... -
The Torch In My Ear Elias Canetti 9781847083579
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43In The Torch in My Ear Elias Canetti, Nobel Prize winner, towering intellectual figure and polymath, gives us his second volume of autobiography. Using as a framework his admiration for his first... -
Granta 10: Travel Writing by William Boyd 9780140070521
Booksplease Price: $26.86Travel writing is undergoing a revival: not since the 1920s and '30s has it been so popular or so important. What accounts for its sudden appeal? A need for escape? Nostalgia for an experience that... -
My Golden Trades Ivan Klima 9781862071032
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.13One of the last artistic expressions of life under communism, this novel captures the atmosphere in Prague between 1983 and 1987, where a dance could be broken up by the secret police, a traffic... -
Tarabas: A Guest On Earth by Joseph Roth 9781862075672
Booksplease Price: $15.83Set in the early days of the Russian Revolution, Tarabas tells the story of Nicholas Tarabas, a young revolutionary, shamefully dispatched from St Petersburg to New York by his outraged family... -
Yesterday Morning: A Very English Childhood by Diana Athill 9781783788163
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43A remarkable, truthful and vivid recollection of childhood, from the author of Stet, After a Funeral, Don''t Look at Me Like That and Instead of a Letter. Here Athill goes back to the beginning in a... -
Diamond Star Halo by Tiffany Murray 9781846272080
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Growing up in a rural recording studio, Halo Llewellyn is rarely star-struck, but when one of the visiting singers gives birth to Fred, she knows right away that he's special. As the golden child... -
The Antarctic: An Anthology by Francis Spufford 9781847080288
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56The Antarctic: An Anthology features an international mix of classic first-person accounts of exploration, literary travelogues and works of cultural history, natural science and fiction about the... -
Granta 51: Big Men (And L.A. Women) 9780140141108
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $20.65This edition of the literary magazine contains contributions from Gitta Sereny, John Sweeney, Caroline Alexander, Blake Morrison, Douglas Brooker, Lindsey Hilsun, Edward Blishen, Claire Messud, Clive... -
Granta 32: History 9780140138573
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.77Granta's 'History' is devoted to history of the most old-fashioned kind: historia in its original Greek sense. A chronicle of events with a beginning, a middle and an end. 'History' is also about... -
Granta 46: Crime 9780140140668
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.54Crime - why does it fascinate us so? It is both our greatest possible horror and our greatest possible entertainment. We fear it - it threatens our families, our privacy, our peace - and are... -
Granta 22: With Your Tongue Down My Throat 9780140086027
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.70What is Nadia - living over there in Pakistan - really like? A girl of bangles and perfume and lots of money, forever sitting under a palm tree, drinking yogurt? And what is Nina - living over there... -
The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st-Century Bestiary by Caspar Henderson 9781847082442
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.62From Axolotl to Zebrafish, discover a host of barely imagined beings: real creatures that are often more astonishing than anything dreamt in the pages of a medieval bestiary. Ranging from the depths... -
The Möbius Book by Catherine Lacey 9781803511498
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26The sudden, devastating breakup of a relationship in the winter of 2021 left Catherine Lacey depressed and adrift. She began cataloguing the wreckage of her life and the beauty of her friendships, a... -
Men Explain Things to Me: And Other Essays Rebecca Solnit (Y) 9781783780792
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.26A landmark, incendiary collection from one of the leading essayists working today. Inspiring everyone from radical activists to Beyonce Knowles, Rebecca Solnit's essay 'Men Explain Things to Me'... -
Granta 81: Best Of Young British Novelists 3 Granta 9780903141581
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.29As with the first two Young British Novelists issues, Granta's 2003 list was compelling and prescient. The issue introduced readers to fiction by Zadie Smith, David Mitchell and Monica Ali. From Ben... -
Rodinsky's Room by Iain Sinclair
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.60Rodinsky's world was that of the East European Jewry, cabbalistic speculation, an obsession with language as code and terrible loss. He touched the imagination of artist Rachel Lichtenstein, whose... -
Where The God Of Love Hangs Out by Amy Bloom
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.77A young woman struggles to come to terms with her friend's murder; a man and his daughter-in-law confess their sins in the most unlikely of places; a daughter returns to her hated father's house to... -
U & I: A True Story by Nicholson Baker
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60When Nicholson Baker, one of the most linguistically talented writers in America, set out to write a book about John Updike, the result was no ordinary biography. Instead Baker's account of his... -
Granta 84: Over There: How America Sees The Rest Of The World by Ian Jack
Booksplease Price: $21.76Granta magazine's 71st issue, "What We Think of America", published in April 2002, was a prescient reflection of the USA's deepening political unpopularity among people outside its own borders. But... -
Real England: The Battle Against The Bland by Paul Kingsnorth
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26We see the signs around us every day: the chain cafes and mobile phone outlets that dominate our high streets; the disappearance of knobbly carrots from our supermarket shelves; and the headlines... -
The Appointment by Herta Muller
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.51'I've been summoned, Thursday, ten sharp.' So begins one day in the life of a young clothing-factory worker during Ceausescu's totalitarian regime. She has been questioned before, but this time she... -
Heresies: Against Progress And Other Illusions by John Gray
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43By the author of the best-selling Straw Dogs, this book is a characteristically trenchant and unflinchingly clear-sighted collection of reflections on our contemporary lot. Whether writing about the... -
Nothing Like A Dame: The Scandals Of Shirley Porter by Andrew Hosken
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Homes for Votes, three cemeteries at five pence apiece, the missing Tesco millions and a gold toilet seat - plus a procession of camels, pay-as-you-go toilets and a large plastic bin called Mr...