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Seneca's Characters: Fictional Identities and Implied Human Selves by Erica M. Bexley 9781108725774
Booksplease Price: £45.31Seneca's Characters addresses one of the most enduring and least theorised elements of literature: fictional character and its relationship to actual, human selfhood. Where does the boundary between... -
Before Billy the Kid: The Boy Behind the Legendary Outlaw by Melody Groves
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.55Many stories have been written about the exploits of Billy the Kid, the charismatic outlaw of the Old West. Some have been pure fiction, designed to entertain and excite. Purple prose writers began... -
The Biographer and the Subject - A Study on Biographical Distance by Rana Tekcan
RRP: £22.90Booksplease Price: £16.96A good biography is a well-staged illusion. It creates - on paper - a vivid, rounded, and immediate sense of lived life. In contrast to purely fictional forms, biography writing does not allow total... -
The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness by Kenn Kaufman 9781668007594
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.38Renowned naturalist Kenn Kaufman examines the scientific discoveries of John James Audubon and his artistic and ornithologist peers to show how what they saw (and what they missed) reflects how we... -
Rivers of London: The Fey and the Furious by Ben Aaronovitch
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.27Ben Aaronovitch's 'Rivers of London' Set For Adaptation By See-Saw, Pure Fiction Television Detective Inspector Peter Grant is back in an all-new comic miniseries from author Ben Aaronovitch!... -
Ineffective Habits of Financial Advisors (and the Disciplines to Break Them): A Framework for Avoiding the Mistakes Everyone Else Makes by Steve Moore
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £21.20A how to guide to avoiding the mistakes ineffective financial advisors most often make Based on a 15-year consulting program that author Steve Moore has led for financial advisors, Ineffective... -
Rivers of London Volume 3: Black Mould by Ben Aaronovitch
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.27Ben Aaronovitch's 'Rivers of London' Set For Adaptation By See-Saw, Pure Fiction Television CSI meets Harry Potter in this fantastic new graphic novel from Ben Aaronovitch, writer of the... -
Rivers of London Vol. 9: Monday, Monday by Ben Aaronovitch
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.27Ben Aaronovitch's 'Rivers of London' Set For Adaptation By See-Saw, Pure Fiction Television CSI meets Harry Potter in this graphic novel from Ben Aaronovitch, writer of the bestselling Rivers of... -
Nuff Sed by G. P. E. Spiers 9781803816562
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.08This is a fictionalised social history starting in Victorian dockland London. A lighterman, Frederick Horsfall, who worked the docks from his barge, unloading ships of every sort of cargo coming into... -
Docu-Fictions of War: U.S. Interventionism in Film and Literature by Tatiana Prorokova
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12Historical writing and fiction are not the same thing, though historians often creatively manipulate material in imposing plot structures, selecting starting and ending points, and fashioning... -
The Criminalisation of Fantasy Material: Law and Sexually Explicit Representations of Fictional Children Hadeel Al-Alosi 9780367589004
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book addresses the criminalisation of sexually explicit material depicting or describing fictitious characters who appear to be children. It is the first book of its kind to specifically examine... -
Westward the Women by Nancy Wilson Ross 9781943328345
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £20.45WESTWARD THE WOMEN is a book about women of every kind and sort, from nuns to prostitutes, who participated in the greatest American adventure-pioneering across the continent. Not only does the... -
The Poor Indians: British Missionaries, Native Americans, and Colonial Sensibility by Laura M. Stevens
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Between the English Civil War of 1642 and the American Revolution, countless British missionaries announced their intention to "spread the gospel" among the native North American population. Despite... -
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Don't Stop for Anything... by Tony Irwin 9781803811178 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.50Booksplease Price: £2.55In his late twenties, Allan - divorced with two young children to support - decides, after a failed business venture, to return to the Middle East where he previously worked. However, all was not as... -
The 3-Point Therapist by Hilary A. Davies
Booksplease Price: £20.99An ambitious trainee therapist, determined to make her mark in the therapy world, seeks supervision and guidance. In her meetings with the 3-Point Therapist she gains much more than she had bargained... -
Westward the Women by Nancy Wilson Ross 9781943328086
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.78WESTWARD THE WOMEN is a book about women of every kind and sort, from nuns to prostitutes, who participated in the greatest American adventure-pioneering across the continent. Not only does the... -
American Presidents and Oliver Stone: Kennedy, Nixon, and Bush between History and Cinema by Carl Freedman 9781789382624
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £20.92Perhaps no current filmmaker has made more provocative films about American history than Oliver Stone. In this book, Carl Freedman gives a detailed and nuanced account of the presidencies of John F... -
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Un-Discovered Islands: An Archipelago of Myths and Mysteries, Phantoms and Fates by Malachy Tallack 9781846973505 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.19Journey through the imagined islands of history. Gathered in this book are over twenty islands that have decidedly human origins, whether they are the products of imagination, deception or simply... -
A Tale of Two Systems: Lean and Agile Software Development for Business Leaders by Michael K. Levine
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £46.79This business parable reviews two different systems development projects. One project was an abject, expensive failure, while the other succeeded in creating a major new revenue stream, bringing in... -
Masters of the Universe: Conversations with Cosmologists of the Past by Helge Kragh
Booksplease Price: £45.03How did our modern picture of the universe come into being? Masters of the Universe tells this fascinating story in an unusual format that blends factual and fictional elements. It is based on a... -
Death Rays, Jet Packs, Stunts, and Supercars: The Fantastic Physics of Film's Most Celebrated Secret Agent by Barry Parker 9780801882487
Booksplease Price: £25.83James Bond would have died a thousand deaths if not for Q, the genius behind the pen grenades and weaponized sports cars that have helped Britain's most famous secret agent cheat death in twenty... -
Rivers of London Volume 7: Action at a Distance by Ben Aaronovitch
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.27Ben Aaronovitch's 'Rivers of London' Set For Adaptation By See-Saw, Pure Fiction Television The bestselling cops and wizards series from chart-topping author (and comics writer) Ben Aaronovitch... -
Things that Didn`t Happen - Writing, Politics and the Counterhistorical, 1678-1743 by John McTague
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38An innovative exploration of fake news and alternative reality in late Stuart and early Hanoverian political and literary culture, from the Popish Plot and the South Sea Bubble to the Dunciad. ... -
Rivers of London: 4-6 Boxed Set by Ben Aaronovitch
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £26.22Ben Aaronovitch's 'Rivers of London' Set For Adaptation By See-Saw, Pure Fiction Television CSI meets Harry Potter in this graphic novel from Ben Aaronovitch, writer of the bestselling Rivers of... -
Reef Road: A Novel by Deborah Goodrich Royce 9798888452110
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A Publishers Weekly Bestseller Named one of Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2023 When a severed hand washes ashore in the wealthy enclave of Palm Beach, Florida, the lives of two women-a lonely writer... -
Blood Torment by T. F. Muir
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02When a three-year old girl is reported missing, DCI Andy Gilchrist is assigned the case. But Gilchrist soon suspects that the child's mother - Andrea Davis - may be responsible for her daughter's... -
Rivers Of London: Deadly Ever After by Ben Aaronovitch
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.27Ben Aaronovitch's 'Rivers of London' Set For Adaptation By See-Saw, Pure Fiction Television CSI meets Harry Potter in this graphic novel from Ben Aaronovitch - writer of the bestselling Rivers of... -
Anyone for Edmund?: A canonical comedy featuring a medieval patron saint, a tennis court and a Westminster spin-doctor by Simon Edge
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Under tennis courts in the ruins of a great abbey, archaeologists find the remains of St Edmund, once venerated as England's patron saint, but lost for half a millennium. Culture Secretary Marina... -
Songs for the Flames by Juan Gabriel Vasquez 9781529405477
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05"Like Bolano, Vasquez is a master stylist and a virtuoso of patient pacing and intricate structure" LEV GROSSMAN, Time Magazine"Juan Gabriel Vasquez . . . has succeeded Garcia Marquez as the literary... -
State of Siege by Juan Goytisolo 9780872864061
Booksplease Price: £10.95A traveler looks out his hotel window on a war-torn city. A mortar explodes in his room and, when the police arrive, the corpse has disappeared and only a notebook of apocryphal writings and poems is... -
Zephyr’s War: Decades Before Russia Invaded Ukraine, Moscow’s Mafia Targeted Kyiv’s Foremost Capitalist by Dr. James R. Gregory 9781636983653
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £9.86Zephyr's War is a gripping tale of ambition, temptation, and the precarious nature of wealth's pursuit. Zep Zephyr cultivated sunflowers in the shadow of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant, yearning... -
Reef Road: A Novel by Deborah Goodrich Royce
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25A Publishers Weekly Bestseller Named one of Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2023 When a severed hand washes ashore in the wealthy enclave of Palm Beach, Florida, the lives of two women-a lonely writer... -
The Man Who Put a Curse on Muhammad Ali: The Downright Crazy Story of Richard Dunn's World Title Challenge by Norman Giller
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.45It was the funniest fight build-up of Muhammad Ali's career - and publicist and writer Norman Giller saw it all. British bulldog Richard Dunn was challenging Ali for the world heavyweight crown in... -
Loch Ness Uncovered: How Fake News Fueled the Greatest Monster Hoax of All Time by Rebecca Siegel 9781662620232
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.97In 1934, a man was walking by a lake in the Scottish Highlands when he saw a long-necked creature swimming in the water. He grabbed his camera and snapped a photo. When the photo landed on the front... -
Military High Schools in America by William B. Trousdale
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £52.74Once considered a bastion of learning, leadership, and disciplined lifestyle, today's private military academies are often regarded as expensive holding facilities for unwanted, incorrigible boys who... -
Unauthorized Love: Mixed-Citizenship Couples Negotiating Intimacy, Immigration, and the State by Jane Lilly Lopez
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46A rich, narrative exploration of the ways love defies, survives, thrives, and dies as lovers contend with US immigration policy. For mixed-citizenship couples, getting married is the easy part. The... -
Psychosocial Aspects of Disability: Insider Perspectives and Strategies for Counselors by Irmo Marini
RRP: £74.99Booksplease Price: £62.26Praise for the First Edition: ""This is an excellent book, but the best parts are the stories of the disabled, which give readers insights into their struggles and triumphs."" - Score: 94, 4 Stars -... -
More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns by David Calonne
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.78"He loads his head full of coal and diamonds shoot out of his finger tips. What a trick. The mole genius has left us with another digest. It's a full house--read 'em and weep."--Tom Waits After... -
The 12th Man: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance by Astrid Karlsen Scott
Booksplease Price: £13.82A stunning story of heroism and survival during World War II. The book that inspired the international film of the same name. "A must-read .... Intrigue, suspense, and adventure."-The Norwegian... -
Rivers of London: Volumes 1-3 Boxed Set Edition by Ben Aaronovitch
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £27.35Ben Aaronovitch's 'Rivers of London' Set For Adaptation By See-Saw, Pure Fiction Television Peter Grant, having become the first English apprentice wizard in fifty years, must immediately deal...