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Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In Purgatorio Dante, having described his journey into Hell, narrates his ascent of Mount Purgatory with Virgil, as he encounters penitents who toil through physical agonies, starvation and flames to... -
The Bone Collection: Four Novellas Kathy Reichs 9781784755898
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49A collection of chilling tales featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan - including the untold story of her first case.No matter where she goes, Tempe's cases make for the most gripping... -
On Murder, Mourning and Melancholia by Sigmund Freud
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23These works were written against a background of war and racism. Freud sought the sources of conflict in the deepest memories of humankind, finding clear continuities between our 'primitive' past and... -
Deadly Decisions: (Temperance Brennan 3) by Kathy Reichs
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15___________________________________The third gripping Temperance Brennan novel from world-class forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs, the international no. 1 bestselling crime thriller writer and the... -
Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic by Alexander Stille 9780099594918
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54Excellent Cadavers (a term used in Sicily to distinguish the assassination of prominent government officials from the hundreds of common criminals killed in the course of routine mafia business)... -
A Tranquil Star: Unpublished Stories by Primo Levi
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century. This landmark selection of his short stories opens up a world of wonder, love, cruelty and curious twists of... -
New Science by Giambattista Vico
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Barely acknowledged in his lifetime, the New Science of Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) is an astonishingly perceptive and ambitious attempt to decipher the history, mythology and laws of the ancient... -
Said And Done Roger McGough 9780099478751
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.81Roger McGough is one of Britain's best-loved poets, and something of a national institution. His name is ubiquitous with matter-of-fact Scouse humour, easy-going charm, and perfect observations of... -
Canzoniere by Francesco Petrarca
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78The 'Canzoniere', a sequence of sonnets and other verse forms, were written over a period of about 40 years. They describe Petrarch's intense love for Laura, whom he first met in Avignon in 1327, and... -
Grave Secrets: (Temperance Brennan 5) by Kathy Reichs
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49___________________________________The gripping Temperance Brennan novel from world-class forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs, the international #1 bestselling crime thriller writer and the... -
Selected Poems by Michael Rosen 9780141024554
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Michael Rosen's Selected Poems is a wonderfully moving sequence of prose poems extracted from his acclaimed autobiographical triptych, Carrying the Elephant, This is Not My Nose and In the Colonie... -
Line of Fire: (Nick Stone Thriller 19) by Andy McNab
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83'Like the best action films in book form' FHMNick Stone is back in London but if he thought he was home for a break, he's very, very wrong.Backed into a corner by a man he knows he cannot trust,... -
Bones to Ashes: (Temperance Brennan 10) by Kathy Reichs
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49___________________________________ A gripping Temperance Brennan novel from world-class forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs, the international no. 1 bestselling crime thriller writer and the... -
The Aeneid by Virgil 9780140440515
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Aeneas the True - son of Venus and of a mortal father - escapes from Troy after it is sacked by the conquering Greeks. He undergoes many trials and adventures on a long sea journey, from a doomed... -
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Telling Tales by Alan Bennett 9781846072604 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £3.00"To be brought up in Leeds in the forties was to learn early on the quite useful lesson that life is generally something that happens elsewhere." In this delightful collection of reminiscences... -
Classical Literary Criticism by Penelope Murray
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The works collected in this volume have profoundly shaped the history of criticism in the Western world: they created much of the terminology still in use today and formulated enduring questions... -
'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy': On Where Eagles Dare by Geoff Dyer
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02A Telegraph, Evening Standard and Daily Mail Book of the YearFrom the acclaimed writer and critic Geoff Dyer, an extremely funny scene-by-scene analysis of Where Eagles Dare - published as the film... -
Orlando Furioso: Part One by Barbara Reynolds
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.75One of the greatest epic poems of the Italian Renaissance, Orlando Furioso is an intricate tale of love and enchantment set at the time of the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne's conflict with the Moors... -
The Laws of Manu by Wendy Doniger 9780140445404
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78The Laws of Manu form a towering work of Hindu philosophy. Composed by many Brahmin priests, this is an extraordinary, encyclopaedic representation of human life in the world, and how it should be... -
The Mersey Sound: Restored 50th Anniversary Edition by Adrian Henri
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'I wanted your soft vergesBut you gave me the hard shoulder'The Mersey Sound brought poetry down from the shelf and on to the street, capturing the mood of the Sixties and speaking to real lives with... -
The English Language: A Guided Tour of the Language by David Crystal
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95This is the definitive survey of the English language - in all its forms. Crystal writes accessibly about the structure of the language, the uses of English throughout the world and finally he gives... -
I'm Chevy Chase ... and You're Not by Rena Fruchter 9780753518052
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.02Chevy Chase is a much-loved Hollywood star. His success as a writer and actor on Saturday Night Live in the 70s made him a household name. It had been a long, hard route to the top for Chevy. Behind... -
The Rig Veda by Wendy Doniger
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The earliest of the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and the first extensive composition to survive in any Indo-European language, the Rig Veda (c. 1200-900 BC) is a collection of... -
Brideshead Abbreviated: The Digested Read of the Twentieth Century by John Crace
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15John Crace's 'Digested Read' column in the Guardian has rightly acquired a cult following. Each week fans avidly devour his latest razor-sharp literary assassination, while authors turn tremblingly... -
The Vagrant Mood by W. Somerset Maugham
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78"The Vagrant Mood" is a brilliantly varied and colourful collection of essays. From Kant to Raymond Chandler; from the legend of Zurbaran to the art of the detective story; and, from Burke to... -
Death Du Jour: (Temperance Brennan 2) by Kathy Reichs
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49___________________________________ A gripping Temperance Brennan novel from world-class forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs, the international no. 1 bestselling crime thriller writer and the... -
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Eyes of a Child by Richard North Patterson 9780099527114 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £2.51Chris Paget's well ordered world is blown apart by his love for his assistant, Terri, in the sequel to Degree of Guilt. Terri's ex husband, Ricky, is determined to destroy them both and instigates a... -
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Library of the Dead by Glenn Cooper 9780099534457 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.48The most shocking secret in the history of mankind is about to be revealed ...A murderer is on the loose on the streets of New York City: nicknamed the Doomsday Killer, he's claimed six victims in... -
For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.51The global turmoil of the late 1980s and early 1990s severely tested every analyst and commentator. Few wrote with such insight as Christopher Hitchens about the large events - or with such... -
No One Left to Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton by Christopher Hitchens 9781838952280
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95In No One Left to Lie To, Christopher Hitchens portrays President Bill Clinton as one of the most ideologically skewed and morally negligent politicians of recent times. In a blistering polemic which... -
Chaos with Ed Miliband by Milligan
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.24'Uncannily accurate ... a total page-turner.' ED MILIBAND 3 May 2015: 'Britain faces a simple and inescapable choice - stability and strong government with me, or chaos with Ed Miliband' David... -
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Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren by Alan Coren 9781847673206 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: £3.94Edited by his children, Giles and Victoria, Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks is an anthology of humorous writing from the former editor of Punch and Radio 4 national treasure Alan Coren, who died in... -
This Is This Country: The official book of the BAFTA award-winning show by Kerry Mucklowe
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.51Listen up chumps, basically the Vicar asked us to edit the parish newsletter this month, we weren't gonna do it at first cos the vicar said 'I want you to channel your energy into doing something... -
Are We There Yet?: To indignity . . . and beyond! by Emily Atack
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Warm, charming and remarkably honest - GraziaThe highs, the lows, the hangovers, the relationships, the lucky breaks (and the breaks I worked my arse off for) that have got me to the here and now... -
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Are We There Yet?: To indignity . . . and beyond! by Emily Atack 9781841883687 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.42Warm, charming and remarkably honest - GraziaThe highs, the lows, the hangovers, the relationships, the lucky breaks (and the breaks I worked my arse off for) that have got me to the here and now... -
Supernatural Love by Gjertrud Schnackenburg 9781852245610
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.50Gjertrud Schnackenberg is a major voice in American poetry. Supernatural Love shows the sensuous richness of her imaginatively daring poetry of ideas, and traces the evolution of this remarkable... -
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The Oxford Book of Essays by John Gross 9780192829702 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £3.24The essay is one of the richest of all literary forms and it is used for poetry, satire, fantasy, and sustained argument. Containing 140 essays by 120 British and American writers, this collection... -
Gene Eating: The Story of Human Appetite Dr Giles Yeo 9781841882932
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.33AS HEARD ON THE DIARY OF A CEO PODCAST'It is rare to find a book, written by a world-class scientist, that is both informative and entertaining. Giles not only delves into the science of obesity but,... -
Rumpole of the Bailey by John Mortimer
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Rumpole, like Jeeves and Sherlock Holmes, is immortal' P. D. JamesHorace Rumpole - dishevelled barrister at law, drinker of claret and smoker of cigars, inveterate quoter of Wordsworth and eternal... -
So Brightly at the Last by Ian Shircore
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.21Jimi Hendrix, Princess Diana and Syria's Asma Al-Assad rub shoulders with Auden, Eliot and Shelley - and with the Trouser Thief Clive met during ten long weeks locked up in a closed psychiatric ward...