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London Orbital by Iain Sinclair
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23London Orbital is Iain Sinclair's exceptional voyage of discovery into the unloved outskirts of the city'My book of the year. Sentence for sentence, there is no more interesting writer at work in... -
The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World by Maya Jasanoff 9780007553723
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58CUNDILL PRIZE 2018 WINNER SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018 'Enlightening, compassionate, superb' John le Carre ... -
The Bathysphere Book: Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths by Brad Fox
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.56'Hypnotic... raises questions of exploration and wonder, of nature and humanity' New York Times Book Review 'Exquisite and shocking... just as any exploration of the deep should be' Helen Scales,... -
The Bathysphere Book: Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths Brad Fox 9781911590873
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Hypnotic... raises questions of exploration and wonder, of nature and humanity' New York Times Book Review'Exquisite and shocking... just as any exploration of the deep should be' Helen Scales,... -
The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey by Spencer Wells 9780691176017
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.35Around 200,000 years ago, a man--identical to us in all important respects--lived in Africa. Every person alive today is descended from him. How did this real-life Adam wind up father of us all? What... -
Exiles: Three Island Journeys by William Atkins 9780571352999
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A luminous exploration of exile - the people who have experienced it, and the places they inhabit - from the award-winning travel writer and author of The Immeasurable World and The Moor. ... -
Granta 21: The Storyteller by Bill Buford 9780140085990
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.25What does 'story-teller' suggest? Folk-tales, myths, sea voyages, a cartoon campfire: in short, a way of writing that is distinctly unmodern. Granta 21 presents the work of three authors who are,... -
The New Granta Book of Travel Liz Jobey 9781847083302
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Granta has long been known for the quality of its travel writing. The 1980s were the culmination of a golden age, when writers including Paul Theroux and Bruce Chatwin, James Hamilton-Paterson and... -
The Light Garden of the Angel King Peter Levi 9781906011550
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.10From time immemorial Afghanistan has been both a fortress of faith and a mountainous crossroads. Through its high valleys merchants traded Chinese porcelains, bundles of indigo cloth, sacks of lapis... -
Songlines and Fault Lines: Epic Walks of the Red Centre by Glenn Morrison 9780522870985
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £11.81Visitors to the Red Centre come looking for the real Australia. What they find is both beautiful and disturbing: wilderness, desire, an ancient philosophy of home, and the confusing countenance of... -
Theme Parks, Rainforests and Sprouting Wastelands: European essays on theory and performance in contemporary British fiction by Richard Todd 9789042005020
Booksplease Price: £53.97This lively and fascinating new collection of European essays on contemporary Anglophone fiction has arisen out of the ESSE/3 Conference, which was held in Glasgow in September 1995. The contributors... -
On the Crofter's Trail by Craig David
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51In 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: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.92Enchanted 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 Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History (Unabridged Edition, Volume 1) by Ibn Khaldûn 9780691281902
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £49.59Volume 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... -
The Last Unicorn: A Search for One of Earth's Rarest Creatures by William DeBuys 9780316232876
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.47In 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 2) by Ibn Khaldûn 9780691281957
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £49.59Volume two 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... -
The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History (Unabridged Edition, Volume 1) by Ibn Khaldûn 9780691281919
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Volume 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... -
The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History (Unabridged Edition, Volume 3) by Ibn Khaldûn 9780691281988
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £49.59Volume three 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,... -
Civilisation of Perpetual Movement: Nomads in the Modern World by Nick McDonnell
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.80From 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Notes 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: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Anthropology 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: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.77In 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: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.37Switters 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... -
The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950 by Carmen Callil 9781849016766
Booksplease Price: £20.70For 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... -
The Scientific Origins of National Socialism Daniel Gasman 9780765805812
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18Many 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: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.43The 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: £22.99Booksplease Price: £13.99Glamorous, 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: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38The 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31When 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... -
Every Object Tells a Story by Oliver Hoare 9781843681458
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £29.70What 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: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.60'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: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01"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... -
Twins and Recursion in Digital, Literary and Visual Cultures by Dr Edward King 9781350169159
Booksplease Price: £95.49The 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... -
Why Travel Matters: A Guide to the Life-Changing Effects of Travel Craig Storti 9781529345575
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Why 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: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.82Why 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: £31.86The 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Though 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23For 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: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.11Following 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... -
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The Snow Geese by William Fiennes 9780330375795 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.53WINNER OF THE HAWTHORNDEN PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR One winter, after an enforced period of quiet, William Fiennes finds himself restless...