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On the Crofter's Trail by Craig David
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $24.41In the Clearances of the 19th century, crofts - once the mainstay of Highland life in Scotland - were swept away as the land was put over to sheep grazing. Many of the people of the Highlands and... -
Enchanted Objects: Visual Art in Contemporary Fiction by Allan Hepburn 9781487550363
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $42.74Enchanted Objects investigates the relationship between visual art and contemporary fiction, addressing the problems that arise when paintings, deluxe books, porcelains, or statues are represented in... -
The Last Unicorn: A Search for One of Earth's Rarest Creatures by William DeBuys 9780316232876
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $30.17In 1992, in a remote mountain range, a team of scientists discovered the remains of an unusual animal with beautiful long horns. It turned out to be a living species new to western science -- a... -
The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History (Unabridged Edition, Volume 1) by Ibn Khaldûn 9780691281919
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $52.85Volume one of the classic Islamic history of the world, now available to a new generation of readers in a fully unabridged editionWritten by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldun, The... -
Civilisation of Perpetual Movement: Nomads in the Modern World by Nick McDonnell
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $38.61From the Chinese Emperors to the Romans and the Byzantines, from British Foreign Office agents in the Great Game to today's hippies, backpackers and aid workers, a long line of 'civilized', sedentary... -
Notes from the Sick Room by Steve Finbow
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43Notes from the Sick Room takes place in an imaginary hospital that bends the rules of time and space. Within its wards and departments we meet artists, musicians and writers who have suffered from... -
Popularizing Anthropology by Jeremy McClancy 9780415136136
RRP: $93.58Booksplease Price: $84.84Anthropology written for a popular audience is the most neglected branch of the discipline. In the 1980s postmodernist anthropologists began to explore the literary and reflective aspects of their... -
Neatness Counts: Essays on the Writer's Desk by Kevin Kopelson 9780816644025
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.90In Neatness Counts, Kevin Kopelson reflects on the poetics of the desk-rolltop or bureau-plat, cluttered or bare, the nestlike desk, the schematic desk, the dramatic desk, the dramatic lack of any... -
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates by Tom Robbins 9781842430286
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.43Switters is a contradiction for all seasons: an anarchist who works for the government, a pacifist who carries a gun, a vegetarian who sops up ham gravy. Yet there is nothing limp about Switters. He... -
Twins and Recursion in Digital, Literary and Visual Cultures by Dr Edward King 9781350169159
Booksplease Price: $187.88The tale of twins being reunited after a long separation is a trope that has been endlessly repeated and reworked across different cultures and throughout history, with each moment adapting the twin... -
Journey to Armenia by Osip Mandelstam
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $24.86Osip Mandelstam visited Armenia in 1930, and during the eight months of his stay he rediscovered his poetic voice and was inspired to write an experimental meditation on the country and its ancient... -
The Scientific Origins of National Socialism Daniel Gasman 9780765805812
RRP: $99.43Booksplease Price: $89.86Many studies of the origins of National Socialism claim that the vo;lkisch and proto-Nazi movement arose largely as a reaction to the materialistic ideas of nineteenth-century science and especially... -
Prague Stories by Richard Bassett
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $22.29The Golden City of Prague has long been an intellectual centre of the western world. The writers collected here range from the early nineteenth century to the present and include both Prague natives... -
Never Shaken, Never Stirred: The Story of Ann Fleming and Laura, Duchess of Marlborough by Christopher Reindorp
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $28.28Glamorous, fun and packed with scandalous anecdotes and exclusive interviews, Never Shaken, Never Stirred tells the story of two extraordinary sisters, Ann and Laura Charteris, who made marrying well... -
Aldous Huxley: An English Intellectual by Nicholas Murray
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.14The grandson of biologist T. H. Huxley, Aldous Huxley had a privileged background and was educated at Eton and Oxford despite an eye infection that left him nearly blind. Having learned braille his... -
In Byron's Footsteps by Tessa de Loo 9781906598778
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25When Tessa de Loo saw Albania for the first time, no foreigners were allowed to enter. Filled with a great curiosity, longing, and a sense of wonderment by this isolated land, de Loo gazed toward the... -
The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950 by Carmen Callil 9781849016766
Booksplease Price: $40.37For Colm Toibin and Carmen Callil there is no difference between literary and commercial writing - there is only the good novel: engrossing, inspirational, compelling. In their selection of the best... -
Every Object Tells a Story by Oliver Hoare 9781843681458
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $62.28What is assembled here might look like a modern 'Cabinet of Curiosities', an assemblage of the exotic and curious from the four quarters of the world. There is an intention behind it, however, that... -
Never Shaken, Never Stirred: The Story of Ann Fleming and Laura, Duchess of Marlborough Christopher Reindorp 9781837051229
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.67'Reindorp has done a stellar job of balancing their privilege and pathos.' - The Lady'Everyone in this book seems to be awash with booze.' - The TelegraphGlamorous, fun and packed with scandalous... -
Where the Strange Roads Go Down by Mary Del Villar 9780816535736
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $35.12"Strange Roads is a small gem of travel literature in the tradition of works by John Van Dyke, Carl Lumholtz, Charles Lummus, Mary Austin, Edward Hoagland, and Bruce Chatwin. But for all its... -
Why Travel Matters: A Guide to the Life-Changing Effects of Travel Craig Storti 9781529345575
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43Why Travel Matters explores the profound life lessons that await anyone who wishes to learn what travel has to teach. With engaging prose, delightful wit and a distinctive style, Craig Storti... -
Why Travel Matters: A Guide to the Life-Changing Effects of Travel Craig Storti 9781473670280
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $26.95Why Travel Matters explores the profound life lessons that await anyone who wishes to learn what travel has to teach. With engaging prose, delightful wit and a distinctive style, Craig Storti... -
Twins and Recursion in Digital, Literary and Visual Cultures by Dr Edward King 9781350323070
Booksplease Price: $62.13The tale of twins being reunited after a long separation is a trope that has been endlessly repeated and reworked across different cultures and throughout history, with each moment adapting the twin... -
On Bended Knees by Martin Goodman 9781909954502
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.37Though Tomas is half-German, he is taught by English war veterans. He walks the ruins of Coventry with his English Gran, still crumbling from the blitz. Later, when Tomas nears adulthood, he goes to... -
Short Walks from Bogota: Journeys in the new Colombia by Tom Feiling
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00For decades, Colombia was the 'narcostate'. Now it's seen as one of the rising stars of the global economy. Where does the truth lie? How did a land likened to paradise by the first conquistadores... -
The Classic Fairytales 2: Retold for the Stage by Charles Way 9780955156670
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $19.71Following the success of Classic Fairytales: retold for the stage which has seen productions of the plays performed internationally, the volume features another three sparkling adaptations of... -
Fires by Raymond Carver
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45Fires is the best introduction to the full range and humanity of Carver's writing. It contains four essays, including a moving memoir od his father's working life in the saw-mills of the Pacific... -
Exterminate All The Brutes by Sven Lindqvist 9781847081988
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50The classic investigation - inspiration for a major HBO series - revealing the true horror of Europe's racist colonial past in Africa. Over a quarter of a century ago historian Sven Lindqvist set... -
Invented Eden: The Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday by Robin Hemley 9780803273634
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $32.70In 1971 Manual Elizalde, a Philippine government minister with a dubious background, discovered a band of twenty-six "Stone Age" rain-forest dwellers living in total isolation. The tribe was soon... -
Dreaming Of Jupiter by Ted Simon
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48Ted Simon is the author of the classic travel book JUPITER'S TRAVELS. It documents his four-year journey round the world by motorbike, travelling through Europe, Africa, South and North America, and... -
The Dutiful Daughter by Charles Way 9780954691264
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $13.92Bi-lingual English and Mandarin Edition Mandarin translation by Yang Lijun A group of troublesome actors arrive in a modern city. They tell the story of Ke Xin, princess of the Isle of Joy, who... -
Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All by Christina Thompson 9780747596707
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.19Come On Shore and We Will Kill And Eat You All is a sensitive and vibrant portrayal of the cultural collision between Westerners and Maoris, from Abel Tasman's discovery of New Zealand in 1642 to the... -
First Russia, Then Tibet: Travels Through a Changing World by Robert Byron 9781848854246
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.66Over the course of several months during 1931 and 1932, Robert Byron journeyed to three countries teetering on the brink of change. In Russia, which was stricken by famine, Lenin had just died,... -
The Bedside Book of Birds by Graeme Gibson 9781526633675
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $64.95WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY MARGARET ATWOOD Featured in the vast majority of mythologies and religions, birds are generally associated with creativity and the human spirit. From the Christian dove... -
Tourists with Typewriters: Critical Reflections on Contemporary Travel Writing by Patrick Holland 9780472087068
RRP: $48.65Booksplease Price: $47.07The first extensive survey of contemporary travel writing, Tourists with Typewriters offers a series of challenging and provocative critical insights into a wide range of travel narratives written in... -
The Global Politics of Contemporary Travel Writing by Debbie Lisle 9781107405837
Booksplease Price: $62.63To what extent do best-selling travel books, such as those by Paul Theroux, Bill Bryson, Bruce Chatwin and Michael Palin, tell us as much about world politics as newspaper articles, policy documents... -
A Greater Monster by Adam Patric Miller 9781932870923
RRP: $33.15Booksplease Price: $26.44Miller'sdebut essay collection follows his insightful perspectives on various facets of life as he paints a portrait of the man he has grown to become.About the AuthorAdam Patric Miller is the author... -
The Remembered Dead: Poetry, Memory and the First World War by Sally Minogue 9781108428675
RRP: $175.50Booksplease Price: $167.97The Remembered Dead explores the ways poets of the First World War - and later poets writing in the memory of that war - address the difficult question of how to remember, and commemorate, those... -
The Remembered Dead: Poetry, Memory and the First World War by Dr. Sally Minogue 9781108450874
Booksplease Price: $62.63The Remembered Dead explores the ways poets of the First World War - and later poets writing in the memory of that war - address the difficult question of how to remember, and commemorate, those... -
Alone in Japan: A Journey to the Future by Tom Feiling 9780241640913
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $37.50From the acclaimed writer and journalist, a vivid and wide-ranging portrait of love, sex and loneliness in contemporary JapanNo sex. No kids. No future?When Tom Feiling moved to Tokyo as a student in...