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The Surrogate Lynn C. Miller 9780299356644
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58Alex Ross, a thirty-year-old psychologist, enjoys the benefits of a close-knit family: her mother and aunt are twins married to two close friends, and Alex and her cousins, Rolf and Stephen, grew up... -
Batman/Superman: World's Finest Vol. 1: The Devil Nezha by Mark Waid 9781779524706
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.95The Dark Knight. The Man of Steel. They are the two finest superheroes that the world has ever known...and they re together again in an epic new series from the legendary talents of Mark Waid and Dan... -
DC Finest: Harley Quinn: Birth of the Mirth Various 9781799500483
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £25.42Harley Quinn s earliest comic book appearances are collected in a massive collection, showcasing the now-iconic antihero s evolution! DC Finest presents comprehensive collections of the most... -
The Princeton Reader: Contemporary Essays by Writers and Journalists at Princeton University by John McPhee 9780691143088
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £39.23From a Swedish hotel made of ice to the enigma of UFOs, from a tragedy on Lake Minnetonka to the gold mine of cyberpornography, The Princeton Reader brings together more than 90 favorite essays by 75... -
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The "DC Comics" Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Characters of the DC Universe by Daniel Wallace 9781405328913 [USED COPY]
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £1.92For comic-book fans everywhere - an updated edition of the A-Z reference of the DC universe New and expanded this one-volume encyclopedia of more than 1,200 of the classic characters created by... -
Culture in Nazi Germany by Michael H. Kater
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30A fresh and insightful history of how the German arts-and-letters scene was transformed under the Nazis Culture was integral to the smooth running of the Third Reich. In the years preceding WWII, a... -
Enchanted: A History of Fantasy Illustration by ,Stephanie,Haboush Plunkett
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £23.90For hundreds of years, artists have been inspired by the imaginative potential of fantasy. Unlike science fiction, which is based on fact, fantasy presents an impossible reality - a universe... -
Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York that Changed Music Forever by Will Hermes 9780241003756
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Love Goes to Buildings on Fire by Will Hermes - Five Years in New York that Changed Music Forever'A must-read for any music fan' (Boston Globe)Crime was everywhere, the government was broke and the... -
The Supervillain Book: The Evil Side of Comics and Hollywood by Gina Misiroglu 9781578591787
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £33.46Everything you ever wanted to know about the bad guys in comics, film, and television! A must-read for anyone who was ever enthralled with mythic wickedness, The Supervillain Book: The Evil Side... -
The Best of Technology Writing by Brendan I. Koerner 9780472031955
Booksplease Price: £21.85"The essays collected in this book are sparkling, imaginative pieces of journalism that just happen to be about technology. People steeped in the world of AJAX or Massively Mulitplayer Online Games... -
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Who Reads Poetry: 50 Views from "Poetry" Magazine by Fred Sasaki
Booksplease Price: £21.99Who reads poetry? We know that poets do, but what about the rest of us? When and why do we turn to verse? Seeking the answer, Poetry magazine since 2005 has published a column called "The View From... -
Richard Wagner's Political Ecology Kirsten S. Paige 9780226843537
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorKirsten S. Paige is an associate teaching professor of musicology at North Carolina State University. From... -
Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning by Philip Kennicott
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.97As his mother was dying, Philip Kennicott began to listen to the music of Bach obsessively. It was the only music that didn't seem trivial or irrelevant, and it enabled him to both experience her... -
The Death of Franz Liszt Based on the Unpublished Diary of His Pupil Lina Schmalhausen by Alan Walker 9780801440762
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £20.50"If only I do not die here." After falling ill during a visit to Bayreuth, Franz Liszt uttered this melancholy refrain throughout his final days, which were spent in rented rooms in a house opposite... -
Batman: The Arkham Saga Omnibus (New Edition) Peter J. Tomasi 9781779529503
RRP: £136.00Booksplease Price: £87.22Batman: The Arkham Saga Omnibus is the ultimate companion to the best-selling Batman: Arkham series of video games! This volume collects all the games' action-packed backstories, from the volatile... -
Beethoven, A Life by Jan Caeyers
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.70The authoritative Beethoven biography, endorsed by and produced in close collaboration with the Beethoven-Haus Bonn, is timed for the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth. With unprecedented access... -
Beethoven, A Life by Jan Caeyers 9780520343542
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.01The authoritative Beethoven biography, endorsed by and produced in close collaboration with the Beethoven-Haus Bonn, is timed for the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth. With unprecedented access... -
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Fugitive 13 by Rob Sinclair 9781409175964 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £1.97The explosive second book in the SLEEPER 13 thriller series by Rob Sinclair - for fans of Orphan X, I Am Pilgrim and Nomad.Aydin Torkal - aka Sleeper 13 - is on the run.Hunted not only by the world's... -
DUNE: The Graphic Novel, Book 2: Muad'Dib by Frank Herbert
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.90In DUNE: The Graphic Novel, Book 2: Muad'Dib, the second of three volumes adapting Frank Herbert's Dune, young Paul Atreides and his mother, the lady Jessica, find themselves stranded in the deep... -
The Death of Democracy by Benjamin Carter Hett
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15*A TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR*WHAT CAUSED THE FALL OF THE MOST PROGRESSIVE GOVERNMENT IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY EUROPE, AND THE RISE OF THE MOST TERRIFYING?In the 1930s, Germany was at a turning... -
Fugitive 13 by Rob Sinclair 9781409175957
Booksplease Price: £16.95The explosive, gripping new thriller from bestselling author Rob Sinclair - for fans of Orphan X, I Am Pilgrim and Nomad.Aydin Torkal - aka Sleeper 13 - is on the run.Hunted not only by the world's... -
Fugitive 13: The second action-packed, thrilling instalment of the best-selling, gripping series Rob Sinclair 9781409175964
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16The explosive second book in the SLEEPER 13 thriller series by Rob Sinclair - for fans of Orphan X, I Am Pilgrim and Nomad.Aydin Torkal - aka Sleeper 13 - is on the run.Hunted not only by the world's... -
Gyoergy Kurtag - Three Interviews and Ligeti Homages by Balint Andras Varga 9781580463287
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £36.45Uniquely revealing interviews with one of the world's greatest living composers. Gyoergy Kurtag (b. 1926) is widely regarded as one of the foremost composers in the second half of the twentieth... -
Dylan's Visions of Sin Christopher Ricks 9780857862013
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.55'I consider myself a poet first and a musician second''It ain't the melodies that're important man, it's the words'There is no shortage of books about Bob Dylan. This one, however, is unique in its... -
I Sang the Unsingable: My Life in Twentieth-Century Music Bethany Beardslee 9781580469005
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £35.10Memoir of Bethany Beardslee, the iconic American soprano known as the "composer's singer." American soprano Bethany Beardslee rose to prominence in the postwar years when the modernist... -
The Don Giovanni Moment: Essays on the Legacy of an Opera by Lydia Goehr
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69Mozart's Don Giovanni is an operatic masterpiece full of iconic and mythical tensions that still resonate today. The work redefines the terms of power, seduction, and morality, and the resulting... -
Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres by Kelefa Sanneh
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51From his allegiance to punk rock in his adolescence to becoming an essential voice on music and culture, Kelefa Sanneh makes a deep study of how popular music unites and divides us. Distilling a... -
Mozart by Julian Rushton 9780195388251
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.25Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the great icons of Western music. An amazing prodigy who toured the capitals of Europe as a child, astonishing royalty and professional musicians with his precocious... -
The Mind in Exile: Thomas Mann in Princeton by Stanley Corngold
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02A unique look at Thomas Mann's intellectual and political transformation during the crucial years of his exile in the United StatesIn September 1938, Thomas Mann, the Nobel Prize-winning author of... -
For the End of Time: The Story of the Messiaen Quartet by Rebecca Rischin 9780801472978
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.19The clarinetist Rebecca Rischin has written a captivating book.... Her research dispels several long-cherished myths about the 1941 premiere.... Rischin lovingly brings to life the other... -
Norman Rockwell: Drawings, 1911-1976 Stephanie Haboush Plunkett 9780789214102
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £21.23Before Norman Rockwell put paintbrush to canvas, he had a precise idea of what he wanted to create. A perfectionist and analytical thinker, Rockwell completed numerous preparatory drawings in the... -
Leviathan by Philip Hoare 9780007230143
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42The story of a man's obsession with whales, which takes him on a personal, historical and biographical journey - from his childhood to his fascination with Moby-Dick and his excursions whale-watching... -
Rethinking Reich by Sumanth Gopinath 9780190605285
Booksplease Price: £103.75Described by music critic Alex Ross as "the most original musical thinker of our time" and having received innumerable accolades in a career spanning over fifty years, composer Steve Reich is... -
Rethinking Reich by Sumanth Gopinath 9780190605292
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £27.88Described by music critic Alex Ross as "the most original musical thinker of our time" and having received innumerable accolades in a career spanning over fifty years, composer Steve Reich is... -
Leonard Bernstein by Humphrey Burton
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.68A new edition of Humphrey Burton's celebrated biography of Leonard Bernstein, published to coincide with the centenary of his birth. With a new introduction by the author.'Humphrey Burton's biography... -
Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres Kelefa Sanneh 9781838855932
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.25From his own adolescence, when his allegiance was to punk rock, to his work as one of the essential voices of our time on music and culture at the New York Times and the New Yorker, Kelefa Sanneh has... -
Lou Harrison: American Musical Maverick by Bill Alves
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £35.21American composer Lou Harrison (1917-2003) is perhaps best known for challenging the traditional musical establishment along with his contemporaries and close colleagues: composers John Cage, Aaron... -
Listen: On Music, Sound and Us by Michel Faber 9781838858407
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £12.09'I'm not here to change your mind about Dusty Springfield or Shostakovich or Tupac Shakur or synthpop. I'm here to change your mind about your mind.' There are countless books on music with much... -
Where Sight Meets Sound: The Poetics of Late-Medieval Music Writing by Emily Zazulia
RRP: £43.99Booksplease Price: £42.15The main function of western musical notation is incidental: it prescribes and records sound. But during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, notation began to take on an aesthetic life all its... -
Lou Harrison: American Musical Maverick by Bill Alves 9780253025616
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £78.19American composer Lou Harrison (1917-2003) is perhaps best known for challenging the traditional musical establishment along with his contemporaries and close colleagues: composers John Cage, Aaron...