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2020 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology, The: A Selection of the Shortlist Hoa Nguyen 9781487007317
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50The prestigious and highly anticipated annual anthology of the best Canadian and international poetry from the shortlist of the 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize.Each year, the best books of poetry published... -
The Outdoors Fix: Stories to inspire you to make the outdoors a bigger part of your life by Liv Bolton
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.50Do you wish you could make the outdoors a bigger part of your life? Liv Bolton, host of the chart-topping podcast The Outdoors Fix, presents an inspiring collection of stories about ordinary people... -
Old Crimes: and Other Stories by Jill McCorkle 9781616209735
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.71McCorkle, author of the New York Times bestselling Life After Life and the widely acclaimed Hieroglyphics ("One of our wryest, warmest, wisest storytellers" -Rebecca Makkai), brings us a... -
Truly Peculiar: Fantastic Facts That Are Stranger Than Fiction by Tom Standage
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83Our extraordinary world makes more (and sometimes less) sense when you wonder: What's driving the international turkey-meat boom? How does a cannonball determine a maritime boundary? Where... -
Artifact by Arlene Heyman
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05'A wise, intimate tale that is by turns joyful, sorrowful and explicit' Observer 'The author delves deep into Lottie's psyche, shying away from nothing, to create a rounded and gripping portrait of... -
Stickler's Guide to Science in the Age of Misinformation: The Real Science Behind Hacky Headlines, Crappy Clickbait and Suspect Sources by R Philip Bouchard
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56The perfect remedy for our culture of fake news, bad science, and propaganda. We have more scientific information at our fingertips today than ever before. And more disinformation too. Online, on... -
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.68After doubts are raised concerning the trustworthiness of Magua, Cora and Alice Munro's Native American guide, the warrior slips away into the wilderness, and the vulnerable sisters turn to the scout... -
The Physics of Everyday Things: The Extraordinary Science Behind an Ordinary Day James Kakalios 9781472141514
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56Most of us are clueless when it comes to the physics that makes our modern world so convenient. What's the simple science behind motion sensors, touch screens and toasters? How do we enter our... -
The Science of Spin: The Force Behind Everything – From Falling Cats to Jet Engines by Roland Ennos 9780861546718
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.76Why exactly is the Earth round? How is it that boomerangs can turn in mid-air? And why do cats always land on their feet? It's time to stop thinking in straight lines... 'A wonderfully... -
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50 Best Routes on Scottish Mountains by Ralph Storer 9780715302590 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.49Since Sir Hugh Munro published his first catalogue of Scottish peaks over 3000 feet, "Munro-bagging" has become widespread and in some cases obsessive - leading, perhaps, to a neglect of the lower... -
The 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology by Ian Williams
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50The highly anticipated annual anthology of the best Canadian and international poetry, edited by Ian Williams, Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Griffin Poetry Prize finalist. Each year, the best books... -
Science(ish): The Peculiar Science Behind the Movies by Rick Edwards
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99A Sunday Times Book of the YearA New Scientist Gift Pick"Bright, nerdy and funny! Of course I loved it." Dara O BriainCan we resurrect dinosaurs? Is a Martian holiday good for your health? Can we... -
The Periodic Table: A Field Guide to the Elements by Dr. Paul Parsons
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.08The Periodic Table is one of the most recognizable images in science - and in our culture. Its 118 elements make up everything on our planet and in the entire universe. But how many of us actually... -
The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong: As Featured on Radio 4 by Raymond Hull
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'The Peter Principle has cosmic implications.' - New York Times 'The classic book which warns of the dangers of over-promotion' The Times In a hierarchy, every employee rises to the level of... -
The World to Come: Stories Jim Shepard 9781786485069
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A fantastic writer - compassionate, funny and fearless' George Saunders'One of the US's finest writers' according to Joshua Ferris, Jim Shepard now delivers a new collection that spans borders and... -
Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.60Mary Gaitskill's tales of desire and dislocation in 1980s New York caused a sensation with their frank, caustic portrayals of men and women's inner lives. As her characters have sex, try and fail... -
The 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology: A Selection of the Shortlist by Kim Maltman
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50The prestigious and highly anticipated annual anthology of the best Canadian and international poetry from the shortlist of the 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize. Each year, the best books of poetry... -
Heart Residence: Collected Poems 1967-2017 Dennis Lee 9781487001490
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £16.43A landmark collection from one of Canada's literary icons, and the founder of House of Anansi Press, Heart Residence collects for the first time work from all corners of Dennis Lee's extraordinary... -
Furious Ed 2 by Erin Moure
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Reissued for the first time in a handsome A List edition, the Governor General's Literary Award-winning collection from one of Canada's most profoundly inventive and eminent poets, featuring an... -
Canadian Literary Fare by Nathalie Cooke 9780228016632
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £24.76When writers place food in front of their characters - who after all do not need sustenance - they are asking readers to be alert to the meaning and implication of food choices. As readers begin to... -
Small Circle of Beings: From the Booker prize-winning author of The Promise Damon Galgut 9781529198164
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49The first collection of extraordinary stories from one of the greatest writers of our time. With astonishing clarity, Booker Prize winner Galgut explores both the intimacies and violence of family... -
Dinner at the Centre of the Earth by Nathan Englander
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £3.39'One of our most consistently brilliant, bold and funny writers' Dave Eggers'His writing is liberal in every good sense of the word' Jonathan FranzenA spellbinding thriller. A spy novel. A love story... -
That Was a Shiver, and Other Stories Mr James Kelman 9781786890924
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31SHORTLISTED FOR SALTIRE FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR, 2017LONGLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL PRIZE, 2018A local tries to sell his sister to a trucker as he passes through town; a couple put their children to... -
Feminism, Dramaturgy, and the Contemporary British History Play Rebecca Benzie 9781350191266
Booksplease Price: £90.57When we think of the contemporary British history play, why might we automatically think of playwrights such as David Hare, Howard Brenton, Peter Gill and Edward Bond? Because for decades the writing... -
Feminism, Dramaturgy, and the Contemporary British History Play Rebecca Benzie 9781350191310
Booksplease Price: £30.54When we think of the contemporary British history play, why might we automatically think of playwrights such as David Hare, Howard Brenton, Peter Gill and Edward Bond? Because for decades the writing... -
Do You Mr Jones?: Bob Dylan with the Poets and Professors by Neil Corcoran 9781784706807
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49In 2016, Bob Dylan received the Nobel Prize in Literature 'for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition'. This collection of essays by leading poets and critics... -
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman 9780753559710
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.23Revised Edition with New Afterword from the Author Time #1 Nonfiction Book of the YearFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Over 3 million copies sold in 35 Languages"On the day after... -
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How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog by Chad Orzel 9781851687794 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.36The international bestseller from the author of Breakfast with Einstein 'Elegantly approachable descriptions... with a refreshing emphasis on recent research. Highly satisfying.' Guardian Emmy... -
Imperial Style of Inquiry in Twentieth-century China: The Emergence of New Approaches 9780892641208
Booksplease Price: £57.24How have traditional Chinese ways of thinking affected problem solving in this century? The traditional, imperial style of inquiry is associated with the belief that the universe is a coherent,... -
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe 1: Space, Time and Motion by Sean Carroll 9780861546145
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.62THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Sean Carroll has achieved something I thought impossible: a bridge between popular science and the mathematical universe of working physicists. Magnificent!' ... -
Explosives: History with a Bang by G. I. Brown 9780752456966
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.37This entertaining and informative book tells the dramatic tale of explosives from gunpowder to the H-bomb. Laying the emphasis on the lives of the people involved, on the diverse uses of explosives... -
Ka-boom!: The Science of Extremes by David Darling 9780861548033
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.53What's the brightest light on Earth? The coldest corner of the universe? The blackest material ever made? The most poisonous substance in nature? 'You will learn something new in every chapter, on... -
Mothers and Other Fictional Characters: A Memoir in Essays by Nicole Graev Lipson 9781797228563
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £12.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781797228563Author Nicole Graev LipsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Chronicle BooksPublisher... -
Pocket Guide to Planetary Peril: An A to Z Jakob Thomä 9780753561300
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74'An indispensable guide to the existential risks facing humanity' Ben Caldecott | 'FASCINATING' Howard DaviesAn A to Z of the calamities and catastrophes that could end life as we know it - and a... -
Weird to Exist: Simple Comics for Complex Feelings by Alison Zai
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.03A vibrantly coloured yet darkly humorous comic collection about the absurdity and beauty of being alive.We've all felt the pain that comes from realising a beautiful moment will soon become a distant... -
The Paris Review Interviews by Philip Gourevitch 9780312363147
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312363147Author Philip GourevitchFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Picador USAPublisher... -
Red at the Bone: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020 Jacqueline Woodson 9781474616454
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02THE TIMES '100 BEST SUMMER READS'NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2020'Sublime' Candice Carty-Williams'An epic in miniature' Tayari Jones 'A banger' Ta-Nehisi... -
Barrelling Forward: Stories by Eva Crocker 9781487001438
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.98Winner of the Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction and the CAA Emerging Writer Award, Barrelling Forward is a brilliantly crafted debut collection from one contemporary fiction's newest literary... -
Darke Rick Gekoski 9781782119395
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE McKITTERICK PRIZEDr James Darke has expelled himself from the world. He writes compulsively in his 'coming of old age'... -
Thunderstruck & Other Stories by Elizabeth McCracken
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.66From the author of the beloved novel The Giant's House - finalist for the National Book Award - comes a beautiful new story collection, her first in twenty years. Laced through with humour, empathy,...