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U.S.a. by John Dos Passos
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $17.74'My literary hero is John Dos Passos' - Adam Curtis (filmmaker) 'Wonderful and extraordinary'Robert McCrum, Observer'No novelist in America has written more sombrely of the dangers to individual... -
![The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett 9781846680496 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9734093/10750726/9781846680496__17097.1781405858.jpg?c=1 "The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett 9781846680496 [USED COPY]")
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett 9781846680496 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $3.44'Oh Norman,' said the Queen, 'the prime minister doesn't seem to have read any Hardy. Perhaps you could find him one of our old paperbacks on his way out.' Had the dogs not taken exception to the... -
Gilead: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction by Marilynne Robinson
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $7.37WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDAN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICKIn 1956, towards the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son:... -
![English as a Global Language by David Crystal 9780521530323 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9708565/10725253/9780521530323__82134.1781367115.jpg?c=1 "English as a Global Language by David Crystal 9780521530323 [USED COPY]")
English as a Global Language by David Crystal 9780521530323 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $3.40David Crystal, world authority on the English language, presents a lively and factual account of the rise of English as a global language and explores the whys and wherefores of the history, current... -
Sir Walter Ralegh: The Renaissance Man and His Roles by Stephen Greenblatt 9781324106371
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $19.75Exposing the tensions and contradictions of Renaissance England, Stephen Greenblatt presents Sir Walter Ralegh as a symbol of his age-focusing on his lifelong attempt to fashion his own identity as a... -
The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and The Secret History of Wonderland by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDThis is the secret history of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage. But beneath the fairy tale lies the complex... -
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92_________________________________The classic novel that inspired 'the greatest crime film of all time'Tyrant, blackmailer, racketeer, murderer - his influence reaches every level of American society... -
The Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide to World Fiction: Discover Your Next Great Read by Nik Kalinowski 9780713679991
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.17Reading, like travelling, takes you on a journey of discovery into new places, cultures and ways of living. This book brings those two worlds together. It is a literary exploration of global... -
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92Complete and unabridged.Three Men in a Boat remains one of the best-loved and most entertaining comic novels. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, unabridged,... -
The Life of Slang by Julie Coleman 9780199679171
RRP: $18.08Booksplease Price: $14.02This book traces the development of English slang from the earliest records to the latest tweet. It explores why and how slang is used, and traces the development of slang in English-speaking nations... -
![Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane 9780099744412 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9701670/10718374/9780099744412__95571.1781356405.jpg?c=1 "Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane 9780099744412 [USED COPY]")
Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane 9780099744412 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $3.40A haunted childhood, lived out in two dimensions. One is legendary: the Sun-fort of Grianan, home of the warrior Fianna; the Field of the Disappeared, over which no gulls fly; the house in Donegal... -
The Last Days of Hitler: The Classic Account of Hitler's Fall From Power by Hugh Trevor-Roper
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.28Listed as one of the Guardian's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time. In September 1945 the fate of Adolf Hitler was a complete mystery. He had simply disappeared, and had been missing for four... -
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations by Susan Ratcliffe
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $14.36Based on the highly acclaimed seventh edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, this new edition maintains its extensive coverage of literary and historical quotations, and contains completely... -
![Modern Times, Modern Places: Life and Art in the 20th Century by Peter Conrad 9780500281512 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5839180/5916248/9780500281512__27134.1727419265.jpg?c=1 "Modern Times, Modern Places: Life and Art in the 20th Century by Peter Conrad 9780500281512 [USED COPY]")
Modern Times, Modern Places: Life and Art in the 20th Century by Peter Conrad 9780500281512 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.73Booksplease Price: $3.50The world changed faster during the 20th century than ever before. All our previous assumptions about God, our social, economic and political structures, science and technology, and - by extension -... -
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville 9781509826643
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.44Complete and unabridged.Teeming with ideas and imagery, and with its extraordinary intensity sustained by mischievous irony and moments of exquisite beauty, Moby-Dick is both a great American epic... -
The Last Lingua Franca: The Rise and Fall of World Languages by Nicholas Ostler
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65A revelatory and exhilarating tour de force, Nicholas Ostler's The Last Lingua Franca: The Rise and Fall of World Languages explores the rise of a linguistic diversity we could never before have... -
Blood And Thunder: An Epic of the American West by Hampton Sides
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07Hampton Sides's extraordinary book brings the history of the American conquest of the West to ringing life. It is a tale with many heroes and villains, but at the centre of it all stands the... -
Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby Sarah Churchwell 9781844087686
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $10.71Since its publication in 1925, The Great Gatsby has become one of the world's best-loved books. Careless People tells the true story behind F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, exploring in newly rich... -
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell 9781529032727
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.03The Road to Wigan Pier is a book in two parts: the first half is Orwell's description of working-class life in industrial communities of the north of England, the second examines his own political... -
![Flash Boys by Michael Lewis 9780141981031 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9646990/10663710/9780141981031__62540.1781270358.jpg?c=1 "Flash Boys by Michael Lewis 9780141981031 [USED COPY]")
Flash Boys by Michael Lewis 9780141981031 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $3.07'The greatest story of our age ... Be very afraid' John Arlidge, Sunday TimesMichael Lewis's epic bestseller tells the outrageous story of the multi-millionaires and whizz kids who scammed the... -
The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown by George Mackay Brown
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.50George Mackay Brown is recognised as one of Scotland's greatest twentieth-century lyric poets. His work is integral to the flowering of Scottish literature over the last fifty years. Admired by many... -
The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.22'Locked-in syndrome: paralysed from head to toe, the patient, his mind intact, is imprisoned inside his own body, unable to speak or move. In my case, blinking my left eyelid is my only means of... -
![The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby 9780007139842 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9698316/10715028/9780007139842__86765.1781351410.jpg?c=1 "The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby 9780007139842 [USED COPY]")
The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby 9780007139842 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $2.63'Locked-in syndrome: paralysed from head to toe, the patient, his mind intact, is imprisoned inside his own body, unable to speak or move. In my case, blinking my left eyelid is my only means of... -
![Dark Heart: The Story of a Journey into an Undiscovered Britain by Nick Davies 9780099583011 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9645954/10662674/9780099583011__38381.1781269488.jpg?c=1 "Dark Heart: The Story of a Journey into an Undiscovered Britain by Nick Davies 9780099583011 [USED COPY]")
Dark Heart: The Story of a Journey into an Undiscovered Britain by Nick Davies 9780099583011 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $3.22'This all began quite unexpectedly one rainy autumn evening a couple of years ago in a fairground near to the centre of Nottingham...' In amongst the bright lights and bumper cars, Nick Davies... -
![Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies: The Life of Gore Vidal by Jay Parini 9780349139401 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9666034/10682754/9780349139401__80199.1781288785.jpg?c=1 "Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies: The Life of Gore Vidal by Jay Parini 9780349139401 [USED COPY]")
Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies: The Life of Gore Vidal by Jay Parini 9780349139401 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $3.39An intimate yet frank biography of Gore Vidal, one of the most accomplished, visible and controversial American novelists and cultural figures of the past century. The product of thirty years of... -
The Canterbury Tales: A retelling by Peter Ackroyd by Geoffrey Chaucer
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.37Making a major part of England's literary heritage accessible to a new audience, Peter Ackroyd's The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling renders Geoffrey Chaucer's timeless tales in lucid, compelling... -
Inferno by Dante Alighieri 9781631491078
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.06The most captivating part of perhaps the greatest epic poem ever written, Dante's Inferno still holds the power to thrill and inspire. The medieval equivalent of a thriller, Inferno follows Dante and... -
Q & A: The International Bestseller Filmed as Slumdog Millionaire by Vikas Swarup
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92The bestselling book behind the Oscar-winning film SLUMDOG MILLLIONAIRE directed by Danny Boyle'An absorbing and richly entertaining read' TimesFormer tiffinboy Ram Mohammad Thomas has just got... -
Smell of Summer Grass: Pursuing Happiness at Perch Hill by Adam Nicolson
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.84The Smell of Summer Grass is the story of the years spent in finding and building a personal idyll, sometimes a dream, sometimes a nightmare, by writer Adam Nicolson and his wife, cook and gardener,... -
Sidetracks by Richard Holmes 9780007204540
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.96In this classic work, the author of 'Footsteps' collects the biographical stories that have captured his fancy in the course of researching his books on the romantic poets, creating a captivating... -
The Happy Hoofer by Celia Imrie 9781444709292
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'I've always been wilful... I've always been stubborn and always determined'One of our best-loved actresses, Celia Imrie would rather have been a dancer. As a child she planned to join the Royal... -
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton 9781509890033
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.03Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Age of Innocence, is both a poignant story of frustrated love and an extraordinarily vivid, delightfully satirical record of a vanished world - the... -
![Q & A: The International Bestseller Filmed as Slumdog Millionaire by Vikas Swarup 9780552772501 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9666736/10683456/9780552772501__59974.1781289743.jpg?c=1 "Q & A: The International Bestseller Filmed as Slumdog Millionaire by Vikas Swarup 9780552772501 [USED COPY]")
Q & A: The International Bestseller Filmed as Slumdog Millionaire by Vikas Swarup 9780552772501 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $3.23The bestselling book behind the Oscar-winning film SLUMDOG MILLLIONAIRE directed by Danny Boyle'An absorbing and richly entertaining read' TimesFormer tiffinboy Ram Mohammad Thomas has just got... -
![Agent Running in the Field by John le Carre 9780241401231 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9704854/10721550/9780241401231__98189.1781361618.jpg?c=1 "Agent Running in the Field by John le Carre 9780241401231 [USED COPY]")
Agent Running in the Field by John le Carre 9780241401231 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $10.43THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Le Carre delivers a tale for our times . . . a demonstration of the British spy thriller at its unputdownable best' Robert McCrum,... -
Young Eliot: From St Louis to The Waste Land by Robert Crawford 9780099554950
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63Published simultaneously in Britain and America to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of T. S. Eliot, this major biography traces the life of the twentieth century's most important poet from... -
Edge of Empire: Conquest and Collecting in the East 1750-1850 by Maya Jasanoff
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.84Talented historian Maya Jasanoff offers an alternative history of the British Empire. It is not about conquest - but rather a collection of startling and fascinating personal accounts of... -
Loving, Living, Party Going Henry Green 9780099481478
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SEBASTIAN FAULKSHenry Green, whom W. H. Auden called 'the finest living English novelist', is the most neglected writer of the last century and the one most deserving of... -
The Deposition of Father McGreevy Brian O'Doherty 9781900850681
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09"It should have won all the prizes" DORIS LESSING"Enthralling, chilling and memorable" Sunday Telegraph"So original that the text is illuminating" The Times"Remarkable and haunting" Guardian In a... -
The Love-charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War by Lara Feigel
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.55When the first bombs fell on London in August 1940, the city was transformed overnight into a battlefront. For most Londoners, the sirens, guns, planes and bombs heralded gruelling nights of... -
The Pike: Gabriele d'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.88THE TIMES BIOGRAPHY OF THE DECADE WINNER OF THE 2013 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION WINNER OF THE 2013...