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A Guide for the Perplexed: A Novel by Dara Horn 9780393348880
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.18Software prodigy Josie Ashkenazi has invented an application that records everything its users do. When she visits the Library of Alexandria as a tech consultant, she is abducted in Egypt's... -
Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of America's Fugitive Slaves by Eric Foner 9780198737902
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £18.72When slavery was a routine part of life in America's South, a secret network of activists and escape routes enabled slaves to make their way to freedom in what is now Canada. The 'underground... -
Brave Companions: Portraits in History by David McCullough 9781668003541
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £17.55Master historian David McCullough's classic book about some of history's most daring and accomplished figures from Alexander von Humboldt to Charles and Anne Lindbergh.Pulitzer Prize-winning author... -
Going Home To Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969 by David Eisenhower 9781439190913
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.26When President Dwight Eisenhower left Washington, D.C., at the end of his second term, he retired to a farm in historic Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, that he had bought a decade earlier. Living on the... -
The Blue Touch Paper: A Memoir by David Hare 9780393353457
RRP: £21.50Booksplease Price: £20.18David Hare has long been one of Britain's best-known screenwriters and dramatists. He's the author of more than thirty acclaimed plays that have appeared on Broadway, in the West End, and at the... -
Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome by Douglas Boin
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.97In the conventional story of Rome's collapse, violent "barbarians" destroy "civilisation". Yet from a different point of view, those stale generalities become a history shockingly alive and relevant... -
Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism by Sven Beckert
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51WINNER OF THE 2015 BANCROFT PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2015 PHILIP TAFT PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR HISTORYSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 CUNDHILL PRIZE IN HISTORICAL LITERATUREEconomist BOOKS... -
Stork Mountain by Miroslav Penkov
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In his mesmerising first novel, the internationally celebrated short-story writer Miroslav Penkov spins the intriguing tale of an American student who returns to Bulgaria, the country he left as a... -
Elgar Introduction to Organizational Paradox Theory by Marco Berti
Booksplease Price: £91.11This insightful Elgar Introduction comprises the first effort to provide a succinct overview of the field of organizational paradox theory, exploring contradictions and tensions in organizational... -
Paradises by Beth Fowler 9781908276247
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.62Paradises might be a reimagining of Camus' Outsider - but in female form and living in 21st-century Buenos Aires. Our narrator allows the hazards of death and chance encounters to lead her through... -
Shakespeare Up Close: Reading Early Modern Texts by Russ McDonald 9781408158784
Booksplease Price: £34.47This landmark collection of newly-commissioned essays by leading international scholars, offers expert close readings of Shakespeare and other early modern authors. The book is an intervention into... -
American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street by Paula Rabinowitz 9780691173382
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.57"There is real hope for a culture that makes it as easy to buy a book as it does a pack of cigarettes."--a civic leader quoted in a New American Library ad (1951) American Pulp tells the story of... -
Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation Emily Van Duyne 9781324110361
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.87Sylvia Plath is an object of enduring cultural fascination-the troubled patron saint of confessional poetry, a writer whose genius is buried under the weight of her status as the quintessential... -
Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad by Eric Foner
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.17More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian once again... -
Supreme City: How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America by Donald L. Miller 9781416550204
Booksplease Price: £27.15"Supreme City captures a vanished Gotham in all its bustle, gristle, and glory" (Vanity Fair). In the 1920s midtown Manhattan became the center of New York City, and the cultural and commercial... -
Playground: A Novel Richard Powers 9781324086031
Booksplease Price: £21.20Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie... -
Playground: A Novel by Richard Powers 9781324123736
Booksplease Price: £9.83Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie... -
Roadshow!: The Fall of Film Musicals in the 1960s by Matthew Kennedy 9780190262440
Booksplease Price: £30.91Full-page newspaper ads announced the date. Reserved seats went on sale at premium prices. Audience members dressed up and arrived early to peruse the program during the overture that preceded the... -
American Follies by Norman Lock 9781942658481
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.87A young woman joins Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Barnum's circus to rescue her infant from the KKKIn the seventh stand-alone book of The American Novels series, Ellen Finch, former... -
This Other Eden: A Novel by Paul Harding 9781324074526
Booksplease Price: £9.73In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discover an island where they can make a life together. Over a century later, the Honeys' descendants and a diverse group of... -
Eden's Clock by Norman Lock 9781954276383
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A disabled Civil War veteran makes an epic, westward journey toward a fateful encounter with author Jack London, only hours before the 1906 San Francisco earthquakeRendered mute at the Battle of... -
Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh by John Lahr 9780393351651
Booksplease Price: £33.50John Lahr has produced a theater biography like no other. Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh gives intimate access to the mind of one of the most brilliant dramatists of his century,... -
The Caricaturist by Norman Lock 9781954276277
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A young artist meets Stephen Crane as America's hunger for empire draws them both into warOliver Fischer, a self-styled bohemian, boardwalk caricaturist, and student at the Pennsylvania Academy of... -
The Dustbin of History by Greil Marcus 9780674218581
Booksplease Price: £25.18"How much history can be communicated by pressure on a guitar string?" Robert Palmer wondered in Deep Blues. Greil Marcus answers here: more than we will ever know. It is the history in the riff, in... -
Blue Skies: A Novel by T. C. Boyle 9781324095187
Booksplease Price: £8.73Denied a dog, a baby, and even a faithful fiance, Cat suddenly craves a snake: a glistening, writhing creature that can be worn like "jewelry, living jewelry" to match her black jeans. But when the... -
Disaster Insurance Reimagined: Protection in a Time of Increasing Risk by Paula Jarzabkowski 9780192865168
RRP: £36.49Booksplease Price: £33.78This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open... -
Memories of the Future by Siri Hustvedt
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED'Few contemporary writers are as satisfying and stimulating to read as Siri Hustvedt' Washington Post'A 21st-century Virginia Woolf'... -
Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life by Stephen Parker
Booksplease Price: £31.34This first English language biography of Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) in two decades paints a strikingly new picture of one of the twentieth century's most controversial cultural icons. First published... -
Positive Organizational Behaviour: A Reflective Approach Miguel Pina e Cunha 9781138293090
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.79Positive Organizational Behaviour: A Reflective Approach introduces the most recent theoretical and empirical insights on positive organizational practices, addressing emerging topics such as...