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Graphic Satire in the Soviet Union: Krokodil's Political Cartoons by John Etty 9781496820525
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £70.50After the death of Joseph Stalin, Soviet-era Russia experienced a flourishing artistic movement due to relaxed censorship and new economic growth. In this new atmosphere of freedom, Russia's... -
Sports and The Global South: Work, Play and Resistance In Sri Lanka by S. Janaka Biyanwila 9783319685014
Booksplease Price: £90.86This book reimagines the pleasures of sports and provides a critical perspective from the Global South. Analysing the spread of sports markets in Sri Lanka along with a range of struggles, the book... -
Esther Regina: A Bakhtinian Reading by Andre LaCocque 9780810124592
Booksplease Price: £23.38Readers and scholars often question the inclusion of the ""Book of Esther"" in the canon. Where, they wonder, do the book's flagrant displays of hatred, deceit, violence, and the antidotal... -
Masked: Anonymity, Empowerment, and Identity in Fashion and Popular Culture Laini Burton 9781350236165
Booksplease Price: £92.62What is a mask? A disguise or a means of protection? Laini Burton's comprehensive examination of masking in Western culture explores the mask as an enduring tool of personal, political and social... -
The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans by Lawrence N. Powell
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £17.43This is the story of a city that shouldn't exist. In the seventeenth century, what is now America's most beguiling metropolis was nothing more than a swamp: prone to flooding, infested with snakes,... -
The Gurkha's Daughter: shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas prize Prajwal Parajuly 9781780872964
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A pioneering collection describing and dramatizing the Nepalese diaspora - the displacement and exile of the Nepali-speaking world*SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE*A disfigured servant girl... -
The King of Christmas by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £4.85On a frosty winter evening, the Baron watches the snow fall. He is bored and worried. It will soon be Christmas and everything is too quiet. What can he do to bring excitement to the Manor?His wife,... -
Land Where I Flee Prajwal Parajuly 9781780873008
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40To commemorate Chitralekha Nepauney's Chaurasi - her landmark 84th birthday - three of Chitralekha's grandchildren are travelling to Gangtok, Sikkim, to pay their respects. Agastaya is flying in from... -
Mardi Gras Indians by Nikesha Williams 9780807178706
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.69Mardi Gras Indians explores how sacred and secular expressions of Carnival throughout the African diaspora came together in a gumbo-sized melting pot to birth one of the most unique traditions... -
Darwin's Fox and My Coyote by Holly Menino 9780813926759
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £30.79A rare fox in the South American cordillera. A disappearing fox on an island off California. A common coyote in the Albany suburbs. How do these wild carnivores live? And what is it about the places... -
Dominican Republic - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture Ginnie Bedggood 9781787023697
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Don't just see the sights get to know the people.If you are looking for a country where everything works like clockwork, now might be a good time to turn back. If you can relax and go with the... -
The World of Animals 9788000074665
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.74Wild Adventures Await! Explore 11 Unique Animal Scenes in this Fun and Educational Deluxe Sticker Book Featuring Over 340 Stickers! Dive into the amazing world of animals with The World of Animals... -
The Lotterys More or Less by Emma Donoghue
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16The Lotterys More or Less is bestselling author Emma Donoghue's warm, funny and compelling novel about a thoroughly modern family, illustrated by Caroline Hadilaksono.Sumac Lottery is the fifth of... -
Mister Good Times by Norman Jay
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £5.19THE LIFE STORY OF THE LEGENDARY BRITISH DJ, NORMAN JAY MBE 'Full of the heart and spirit Norman Jay brings to his music, but it also offers a salutary account of growing up as part of the Windrush... -
Mammals of North America: Second Edition by Roland W. Kays 9780691140926
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.92The best-selling field guide that "sets new standards" (New Scientist) and "makes all other field guides for mammals of the United States...and Canada obsolete" (Journal of Mammalogy) is now even... -
Canids of the World: Wolves, Wild Dogs, Foxes, Jackals, Coyotes, and Their Relatives by Dr. Jose R. Castello 9780691176857
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.90The most complete and user-friendly photographic field guide to the world's canidsThis stunningly illustrated and easy-to-use field guide covers every species of the world's canids, from the Gray... -
Windrush: 75 Years of Modern Britain by Trevor Phillips 9780008609702
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58The oral history of Britain's first West Indian immigrants and their descendants In 1948 the former troop ship Windrush made the 30-day journey across the... -
When the Last Lion Roars: The Rise and Fall of the King of the Beasts Sara Evans 9781472916136
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.00The illegal killing of Cecil - a famous and magnificent black-maned Zimbabwean lion - by an American big-game hunter in 2015 sparked international outrage. More significantly, it drew the world's... -
Lotteva Wagner Davis: Hand Tattooist & Artist of the American West Alan Govenar 9780764369834
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £20.82The true story of a strong, successful, and independent woman tattooist and artist through her own words and art; the third book in a series about the Wagner tattooist family. Lotteva Wagner... -
Gigantosaurus – Giganto Games by Cyber Group Studios 9781800785076
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.45Let the annual Giganto Games begin in this epic sporting adventure based on the Gigantosaurus TV series and characters by Jonny Duddle.Join Bill, Mazu, Tiny and Rocky as they race, climb and compete... -
Angelica, Paintress of Minds by Miranda Miller 9781909954410
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Angelica Kaufman is so successful that when she comes to England as a young woman in 1766 a word is coined: Angelicamad.'Miller's intricate fictions are lit by the dark flicker of a strong and... -
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury 9781473230583
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02It's All Hallow's Eve, and Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to town.Hear the music, see the lights, shrug off life's worries and enter a place where dreams are not dreams, and... -
A Sojourn in Paradise: Jack Robinson in 1950s New Orleans by Howard Philips Smith 9781496827524
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £35.70Jack Robinson made his name as a much-sought-after fashion and celebrity photographer during the 1960s and early 1970s, and his work is well documented in hundreds of pages of Vogue, Harper' Bazaar,... -
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Booksplease Price: £6.52It's the week before Hallowe'en, and Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois. The siren song of the calliope entices all with promises of youth regained and dreams... -
Charcuteria: The Soul of Spain by Jeffrey Weiss
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £22.032015 James Beard Award nominee 2015 Gourmand World Cookbook Award nominee An updated and redesigned edition of Charcuteria: The Soul of Spain, the first and best book to introduce authentic... -
Play in Renaissance Italy by Peter Burke 9781509543427
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80From comic verse to practical jokes, pornography to satire, acting to acrobatics, the Renaissance witnessed the flowering of play in all its forms. In the first wide-ranging and accessible... -
Sound System: The Political Power of Music by Dave Randall
Booksplease Price: £21.68Musicians have often wanted to change the world. From underground innovators to pop icons many have believed in the political power of music. Rulers recognise it too. Music has been used to challenge... -
Luna Luna: The Art Amusement Park by Andre Heller
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £25.91A landmark book documenting the first-ever art amusement park - launched in 1987 in Hamburg, Germany - in anticipation of its global reintroduction In the late 1980s, more than 30 of the era's most... -
Gendering the Fair: Histories of Women and Gender at World's Fairs by Tracey Jean Boisseau 9780252077494
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36This field-defining work opens the study of world's fairs to women's and gender history, exploring the intersections of masculinity, femininity, exoticism, display, and performance at these... -
Book vs. Shark: the new series from the creators of Supertato! by Paul Linnet
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.54Welcome back to I Spy Island . . . the unmissable new series from multi-million copy bestsellers Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet, creators of Supertato!In the middle of the ocean, miles from anywhere,... -
The Surface Trials H.M. Waugh 9781761181788
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.79'It's like an interplanetary version of Survivor meets The Amazing Race, but with way more death vines and alien venom.' Better Reading Three days, three clues, one hungry planet. Constant... -
Tricksters and Pranksters: Roguery in French and German Literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance by Alison Williams 9789042015128
Booksplease Price: £67.35This volume represents a contribution to comparative scholarship in Medieval and Renaissance studies in its investigation of the ingenious diversity of roguish practices found in Medieval and... -
Play in Renaissance Italy Peter Burke (Emmanuel College, Cambridge) 9781509543434
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.34From comic verse to practical jokes, pornography to satire, acting to acrobatics, the Renaissance witnessed the flowering of play in all its forms. In the first wide-ranging and accessible... -
South African Horror Cinema Calum Waddell 9781501385063
Booksplease Price: £90.57This is the first study to explore South Africa both in horror cinema and as a formidable producer of celluloid scares. From framing the notorious apartheid system as a mental asylum in the... -
The Kingdon Pocket Guide to African Mammals by Jonathan Kingdon
Booksplease Price: £15.74The essential mammal guide to take on safari, covering every African land mammal. Originally published in 2004, the Kingdon Pocket Guide to African Mammals quickly became the field guide of choice... -
On Meat: Modern Recipes for the Home Kitchen Jeremy Fox 9781837290864
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £24.31Acclaimed American chef Jeremy Fox's eagerly awaited sequel to the global bestseller On Vegetables, featuring more than 160 recipes for the home cook and creative carnivore It was tasting his Jewish... -
Animals of Africa: Cheetahs by Mary Meinking 9781635173253
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.62Introduces readers to the life, diet, habitat, behavior, and physical description of cheetahs. Colorful spreads, fun facts, diagrams, a range map, and a special reading feature make this an exciting... -
Haki the Shetland Pony by Kathleen Fidler 9781782504931
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.06Adam and his Shetland pony Haki have been inseparable. Haki is clever and brave and Adam soon trains him to do things other Shetland ponies can't -- to act, to dance and to follow the sound of Adam's... -
The Hottentot Venus: The Life and Death of Sarah Baartman by Rachel Holmes
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.01The acclaimed biography of Sarah Baartman, once a slave and later a showgirl 'A significant and timely book ... Holmes has produced a laceratingly powerful story' Frances Wilson, Literary Review ... -
Wild Cats of the World by Luke Hunter
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.11Wild Cats of the World provides detailed accounts for all 38 species of wild cat accompanied by magnificent artwork and stunning photography. From the rabbit-sized Black-footed Cat of southern...