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Machine Made: Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American Politics by Terry Golway 9781631490033
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.93History casts Tammany Hall as shorthand for the worst of urban politics: graft and patronage personified by notoriously crooked characters. In his groundbreaking work Machine Made, journalist and... -
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque 9781324097792
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.93An immediate sensation when it was published in 1929, Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front has sold more than twenty million copies worldwide since then, making it the best-selling... -
The Red and the Black by Stendhal 9780871401489
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.35A brilliant portrait of one of the most ruthlessly charming heroes in literature, The Red and the Black chronicles the rise and fall of Julian Sorel. Born into the peasantry, Sorel connives his way... -
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.97Widely heralded as a "masterful" (The Washington Post) and "essential" (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law offers "the most forceful argument ever... -
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Women at the Graveside, Orestes in Athens by Aeschylus
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.86One of the foundational texts of Western literature, the Oresteia trilogy is about cycles of deception and brutality within the ruling family of Argos. In Agamemnon, queen Clytemnestra awaits her... -
Collected Poems by Robert Hayden
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.25Robert Hayden was one of the most important American poets of the twentieth century. He left behind an exquisite body of work, collected in this definitive edition, including A Ballad of Remembrance,... -
Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women's Movements by Dorothy Sue Cobble
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.20Eschewing the conventional wisdom that places the origins of the American women's movement in the nostalgic glow of the late 1960s, Feminism Unfinished traces the beginnings of this seminal American... -
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.99A genius of literary suspense, known to millions as the author of the "The Lottery", Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) plumbed the cultural anxiety of postwar America better than anyone. Based on a wealth... -
The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft by H. P. Lovecraft
Booksplease Price: £42.43"Howard Phillips Lovecraft is beginning to emerge as one of that tumultuous period's most critically fascinating and yet enigmatic figures", writes Alan Moore. But at the time of his death, Lovecraft... -
Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn't Count by David Daley
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.92With Barack Obama's historic election in 2008, pundits proclaimed the Republicans as dead as the Whigs of yesteryear. Yet even as Democrats swooned, a small cadre of Republican operatives began... -
Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula David J. Skal 9781631493867
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.06Bram Stoker, despite having a name nearly as famous as Count Dracula, has remained an enigma. David J. Skal, in a psychological and cultural portrait, exhumes the inner world and strange genius of... -
The River in the Sky: A Poem by Clive James
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.80"Few people read Poetry any more, but I still wish to write its seedlings down, if only for the lull of gathering: no less a harvest season for being the last time," writes Clive James in his epic... -
Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life by Edward O. Wilson 9781631490828
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £14.48History is not a prerogative of the human species, Edward O. Wilson declares in Half-Earth. Demonstrating that we blindly ignore the histories of millions of other species, Wilson warns us that a... -
73 Poems E. E. Cummings 9780871401830
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.25Four months after Cummings's death in September 1962, his widow, the photographer Marion Morehouse, collected the typescripts of 29 new poems. These poems, as well as uncollected poems published only... -
The Drought by J G Ballard 9780871404015
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £10.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871404015Author J G BallardFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Liveright Publishing... -
Black Dahlia, Red Rose: The Crime, Corruption, and Cover-Up of America's Greatest Unsolved Murder by Piu Eatwell 9781631494932
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.06The gruesome 1947 murder of hopeful starlet Elizabeth Short holds a permanent place in American lore as one of our most inscrutable true-crime mysteries. In a groundbreaking feat of detection hailed... -
Jerusalem by Alan Moore 9781631492433
Booksplease Price: £32.06In the half a square mile of decay and demolition that was England's Saxon capital, eternity is loitering between the firetrap housing projects. Embedded in the grubby amber of the district's... -
Farewell to the Horse: A Cultural History by Ulrich Raulff 9781631494321
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £24.51Horses and humans share an ancient, profoundly complex relationship. Once our most indispensable companions, horses were for millennia essential in helping build our cities, farms, and industries... -
Rashomon and Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa 9780871401731
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.14Writing at the beginning of the twentieth century, Ryunosuke Akutagawa created disturbing stories out of Japan's cultural upheaval. Whether his fictions are set centuries past or close to the... -
When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail Eric Jay Dolin 9780871404336
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.59Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back to its roots: the unforgiving... -
The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics William J. Cooper (Louisiana State University) 9780871404350
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.64Overshadowed by both his brilliant father and the brash and bold Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams has long been dismissed as hyper-intellectual. Viciously assailed by Jackson and his populist mobs... -
The Last Days of California: A Novel Mary Miller 9780871405883
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.22Fifteen-year-old Jess is on a road trip to the end of the world. Her evangelical father has packed up the family and left their Montgomery, Alabama, home behind to drive west in anticipation of the... -
Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History Yunte Huang (University of California, Santa Barbara) 9780871404473
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.53Twins Chang and Eng Bunker (1811-1874), conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, were "discovered" in Siam by a British merchant in 1824. Yunte Huang depicts the twins,... -
The Myth of America's Decline: Politics, Economics, and a Half Century of False Prophecies by Josef Joffe 9780871404497
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £19.33Once every decade, it is "decline time" in America. In recent years, it has been the unstoppable rise of China that has spelled "finis America." What the Chinese juggernaut is today, the Soviet Union... -
God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215 by David Levering Lewis 9781631494307
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.36Resonating as profoundly today as when it was first published to widespread critical acclaim a decade ago, God's Crucible is a bold portrait of Islamic Spain and the birth of modern Europe from one... -
The Animals: A Novel Christian Kiefer 9781631491498
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30Bill Reed manages a wildlife sanctuary in rural Idaho, caring for injured animals unable to survive in the wild-raptors, a wolf and his beloved bear, Majer, among them. He hopes to marry the local... -
El Paso: A Novel Winston Groom 9781631492242
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.71Long fascinated with the Mexican Revolution and the vicious border wars of the early twentieth century, Winston Groom brings to life this period of history in a saga of heroism, injustice and love... -
Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three Acts Davis Miller 9781631491153
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.17In 1988, then struggling writer Davis Miller drove to Muhammad Ali's mother's modest Louisville house, knocked on the door and introduced himself to his childhood idol. Nearly thirty years later, the... -
The Seasons Alter: How to Save Our Planet in Six Acts by Philip Kitcher 9781631492839
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.99In November 2015, the world powers came together in Paris with the hope of reaching an agreement on the most urgent issue of our time: climate change. While it was an historic moment that brought... -
Rushing to Paradise by J G Ballard 9780871403377
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £10.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871403377Author J G BallardFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Liveright Publishing... -
American Cuisine: And How It Got This Way by Paul Freedman 9781631498169
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.27Hailed as a “grand theory of the American appetite” (Rien Fertel, Wall Street Journal), food historian Paul Freedman’s American Cuisine demonstrates that there is an exuberant, diverse, if not always... -
Yankee Miracles: Life with the Boss and the Bronx Bombers by Ray Negron 9780871404619
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.80If it was not all so true, you'd think it was a fairy tale. A seventeen-year-old from Queens spray paints graffiti on Yankee Stadium and gets nabbed by George Steinbrenner himself. Contrary to his... -
Hold Still: A Novel by Lynn Steger Strong 9781631491689
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.77Maya Taylor, an intense, gifted English professor, has a tendency to retreat when she is needed most, escaping on long morning runs or finding comfort in the well-thumbed novels in her library. But... -
Ordinary People: A Novel by Diana Evans 9781631494819
Booksplease Price: £23.05Hailed as "one of the most thrilling writers at work today" (Huffington Post), Diana Evans reaches new heights with her searing depiction of two couples struggling through a year of marital crisis... -
The Late Parade: Poems by Adam Fitzgerald 9780871406743
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.69Aswirl with waking dreams and phantom memories, The Late Parade is a triumph of poetic imagination. To write about one thing, you must first write about another. In Adam Fitzgerald's debut... -
Erotic Poems by E. E. Cummings
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.33Many years ago the prodigious and famously prolific E. E. Cummings sat in his study writing and thinking about sex. His private brooding gave way to poems and drawings of sexual and romantic love... -
Prophecies on World Events by Nostradamus 9780871401823
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.24Over the past four centuries, Nostradamus's predictions have proven startlingly accurate. Long before their actual invention, mechanical devices such as the periscope, the submarine, and the airplane... -
Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found by Frances Larson 9780871404541
Booksplease Price: £19.54The human head is exceptional. It accommodates four of our five senses, encases the brain, and boasts the most expressive set of muscles in the body. It is our most distinctive attribute and connects... -
The Day of Creation by J G Ballard 9780871404046
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £10.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871404046Author J G BallardFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Liveright Publishing... -
Millennium People by J G Ballard 9780871404053
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £10.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871404053Author J G BallardFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Liveright Publishing...