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Waking Up: Searching for Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.30'An extraordinary book . . . It will shake up your most fundamental beliefs about everyday experience, and it just might change your life.' Paul Bloom___For the millions of people who want... -
Pedro and Ricky Come Again: Selected Writing 1988-2020 by Jonathan Meades 9781783529506
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.73'Ought to become a classic. It is an enshrinement of [Meades's] intense baroque and catholic cleverness' Roger Lewis, The Times'One of the foremost prose stylists of his age in any register . . ... -
Religion for Atheists: A non-believer's guide to the uses of religion by Alain de Botton
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERNUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom one of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love, The Consolations of Philosophy, The Art of Travel... -
The Way We Read James Dickey: Critical Approaches for the Twenty-first Century by William B. Thesing 9781570038037
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.65This book offers original inroads to understanding the life and works of the celebrated novelist and poet. In ""The Way We Read James Dickey"" editors William B. Thesing and Theda Wrede have... -
Pedro and Ricky Come Again: Selected Writing 1988-2020 Jonathan Meades 9781800181427
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.75'Ought to become a classic. It is an enshrinement of [Meades's] intense baroque and catholic cleverness' Roger Lewis, The Times'One of the foremost prose stylists of his age in any register . . ... -
When Atheism Becomes Religion: America's New Fundamentalists by Chris Hedges 9781416570783
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416570783Author Chris HedgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria Books -
The Best of A. A. Gill Adrian Gill 9781474607759
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42For over twenty years, people turned to A. A. Gill's columns every Sunday - for his fearlessness, his perception, and the laughter-and-tear-provoking one-liners - but mostly because he was the best... -
Why We Believe: Understanding Ourselves in a Complex World Prof. Alister McGrath 9780861549214
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.37Belief: surely it's a relic from the past, a hangover from a superstitious age that is totally out of sync with today's rational, science-led culture. The dominant narratives of our age dismiss any... -
Making Sense: Conversations on Consciousness, Morality and the Future of Humanity by Sam Harris
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42"Civilization rests on a series of successful conversations." Sam HarrisNeuroscientist, philosopher, podcaster and bestselling author Sam Harris, has been exploring some of the greatest questions... -
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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... -
Why We Believe: Finding Meaning in Uncertain Times Prof. Alister McGrath 9780861549221
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.37Belief: surely it's a relic from the past, a hangover from a superstitious age that is totally out of sync with today's rational, science-led culture? 'A timely, often bracing and always highly... -
Against Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan Sontag
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78A series of provocative discussions on everything from individual authors to contemporary religious thinking, Against Interpretation and Other Essays is the definitive collection of Susan Sontag's... -
Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492-1900 by Simon Schama
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.46A passionate history of Judaism; a world unfolding across many continents and five centuries by one of our greatest and internationally bestselling historians.Belonging is a magnificent cultural... -
Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder by Richard Dawkins
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78A dazzling, passionate polemic against anti-science movements of all kindsCover note: Each copy of the new edition of Unweaving the Rainbow features a unique wavelength pattern. No two covers are... -
The Best Catholics in the World: The Irish, the Church and the End of a Special Relationship by Derek Scally
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73The Number One BestsellerShortlisted for the Irish Book Awards 2021'A great achievement . . . Brilliant, engaging and essential' Colm Toibin'At once intimate and epic, this is a landmark book' Fintan... -
Churchill's Shadow: An Astonishing Life and a Dangerous Legacy by Geoffrey Wheatcroft
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78'Stimulating, erudite and above all entertaining...For any reader tired of the seemlingly endless round of Churchill-worship' Robert HarrisA radical biography for a new generationIn A.J.P. Taylor's... -
The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1994-2016 by Martin Amis
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction - his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed. The Rub of Time... -
The Templar Revelation: Secret Guardians Of The True Identity Of Christ by Clive Prince
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78In the course of their investigations into Leonardo da Vinci and the Turin Shroud, Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince found clues in the work of the great Renaissance artist that pointed to the existence... -
Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies by David Bentley Hart 9780300164299
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.99Among all the great transitions that have marked Western history, only one-the triumph of Christianity-can be called in the fullest sense a "revolution" "Hart has the gifts of a good advocate. He... -
Angels and Demons: A Radical Anthology of Political Lives Tony McKenna 9781789040203
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56A Marxist analysis of key political and historical figures including Hugo Chavez and Jeremy Corbyn, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Angels and Demons offers a series of profiles of historical... -
The Four Horsemen: The Discussion that Sparked an Atheist Revolution Foreword by Stephen Fry by Richard Dawkins
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.15_________________Includes a foreword by STEPHEN FRY'A classic for our time...And all time.' - Michael Shermer'The words of Hitchens, Dawkins, Harris and Dennett are needed more than ever. These are... -
The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins 9780141026169
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.68***30th Anniversary Edition***Acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution written in the last hundred years, The Blind Watchmaker offers an inspiring and accessible introduction to one of the... -
Why I Write by George Orwell
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.83Whether puncturing the lies of politicians, wittily dissecting the English character or telling unpalatable truths about war, Orwell's timeless, uncompromising essays are more relevant,... -
A Call for Revolution by The Dalai Lama
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.00A RALLYING CRY FOR THE WHOLE WORLD, BY ONE OF THE MOST RESPECTED LEADERS OF OUR TROUBLED TIMES. This eloquent, impassioned manifesto is possibly the most important message The Dalai Lama can give us... -
The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Charles Highway is every mother's worst nightmare. Precociously intelligent, mercilessly manipulative and highly sexed, Charles devotes the last of his teenage years to bedding girls and evading the... -
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir 9781857151374
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.75THE SECOND SEX is a hymn to human freedom and a classic of the existentialist movement. It also has claims to be the most important s ingle book in the history of feminism. In the forty years since... -
Into the Heart of Borneo by Redmond O'Hanlon
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10'We've left a lot of men in Borneo - know what I mean?' With their SAS trainer's warnings ringing in their ears, the naturalist, Redmond O'Hanlon, and the poet, James Fenton, set out to rediscover... -
Year Zero: A History of 1945 by Ian Buruma
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Many books have been written, and continue to be written, about the Second World War: military histories, histories of the Holocaust, the war in Asia, or collaboration and resistance in Europe. Few... -
Half a Lifelong Romance by Eileen Chang
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78From one of twentieth-century China's greatest writers and the author of Lust, Caution, this is an unforgettable story of a love affair set in 1930s Shanghai. Manzhen is a young worker in a Shanghai... -
A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century by John Burrow
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.30This unprecedented book, by one of Britain's leading intellectual historians, describes the intellectual impact that the study and consideration of the past has had in the western world over the past... -
The Price of Water in Finistere by Bodil Malmsten
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47'In the same way as there's a partner for every person, there's a place. All you have to do is find the one that's yours among the billions that belong to someone else, you have to be awake, you have... -
Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore 9780141192970
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37Tagore was a fierce opponent of British rule in India. In this work he discusses the resurgence of the East and the challenge it poses to Western supremacy, calling for a future beyond nationalism,... -
Every Day Is an Atheist Holiday!: More Magical Tales from the Bestselling Author of God, No! by Penn Jillette 9780142180273
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £15.45Let's be honest - nobody has more fun than atheists. Don't believe it? Well, consider this: For non-believers, every day you're alive is a day to celebrate! And no one celebrates life to the fullest... -
Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century England by Keith Thomas
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.75Witchcraft, astrology, divination and every kind of popular magic flourished in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the belief that a blessed amulet could prevent the... -
One-Way Street and Other Writings by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Walter Benjamin - philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist - was one of the most original writers and thinkers of the twentieth century. This new selection brings together Benjamin's... -
A Simple Path: The bestselling classic on how to help others and find peace by Mother Teresa
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42In A Simple Path, Saint Teresa, senior members of the Missionaries of Charity and volunteers at their homes around the world offer their advice and long experience of how we can practise a fuller... -
Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation and Time Travel by Michio Kaku
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95From cyborgs, starships, UFOs, aliens and antimatter to telepathy, invisibility, psychokinesis and precognition, Michio Kaku's Physics of the Impossible is an exciting look at how science fiction... -
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by John Mandeville
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Ostensibly written by an English knight, the Travels purport to relate his experiences in the Holy Land, Egypt, India and China. Mandeville claims to have served in the Great Khan's army, and to have... -
Plays, Prose Writings And Poems by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.08Effortlessly achieved, each revealing a different aspect of his brilliance, all of the plays, prose writings, and poems gathered here support Wilde's belief that entertainment provides the best kind... -
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins 9781804997123
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42THE FOUR MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe brilliantly argued and impassioned classic polemic from the world's best-known atheist. Sensationally incisive and perennially timely, this is...