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Canvas Pocket Reference by David Flanagan 9781449396800
RRP: $14.07Booksplease Price: $10.71Canvas is clearly the most exciting feature of HTML5's graphics revolution, and this pocket reference provides the essentials you need to put this element to work. If you have a working knowledge of... -
Tono-Bungay by H. G. Wells
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Presented as a miraculous cure-all, Tono-Bungay is in fact nothing other than a pleasant-tasting liquid with no positive effects. Nonetheless, when the young George Ponderevo is employed by his Uncle... -
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India in Slow Motion by Mark Tully 9780140282085 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $3.46Mark Tully is incomparable. No one has a greater understanding of the passions, the contradictions, the humour, the tragedy and the staggering resilience that constitute India. In his long awaited... -
50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know Joanne Baker 9781529425123
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92In a series of 50 accessible essays, Joanne Baker introduces and explains the fundamental physical concepts and laws that govern the inners workings of our universe.From Newton's law of gravitation... -
The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04Charles 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... -
Mademoiselle de Maupin by Theophile Gautier
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Chevalier d'Albert fantasizes about his ideal lover, yet every woman he meets falls short of his exacting standards of female perfection. Embarking on an affair with the lovely Rosette to ease his... -
Beautiful Antonio by Vitaliano Brancati
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Having spent some time in Rome, Antonio - the handsomest young man in Catania - returns to his native town with the reputation of being a playboy and with a long list of amorous adventures behind him... -
Hellhound on his Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin Hampton Sides 9780718192068
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Hellhound on His Trail is the story of two very different men whose lives catastrophically interweaved over the course of some nine months in the late 1960s: one was a thief and con man called James... -
Dance With A Poor Man's Daughter by Pamela Jooste 9780552997577
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71'My name is Lily Daniels and I live in The Valley, in an old house at the top of a hill with a loquat tree in the garden. We are all women in our house. My grandmother, my Aunt Stella with her... -
Solar by Ian McEwan
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different: his wife is having... -
Two Girls, One on Each Knee: The Puzzling, Playful World of the Crossword by Alan Connor
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37In the century since its birth, the crossword has evolved into the world's most popular intellectual pastime: a unique form of wordplay, the codes and conventions of which are open to anyone... -
50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know Joanne Baker 9781848667068
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $13.25We encounter physics before we've even left the house in the morning; an alarm clock tracks time, a mirror reflects light waves and our mobile phones rely on satellites held in their orbit by gravity... -
Baudolino by Umberto Eco
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68An extraordinary epic, brilliantly-imagined, new novel from a world-class writer and author of The Name of the Rose. Discover the Middle Ages with Baudolino - a wondrous, dazzling, beguiling tale of... -
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Solar by Ian McEwan 9780099549024 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $2.64Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different: his wife is having... -
Wuthering Heights: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition by Emily Bronte
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08'May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then'Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at... -
Why the Universe Exists: How particle physics unlocks the secrets of everything New Scientist 9781473629684
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07As you read this, billions of neutrinos from the sun are passing through your body, antimatter is sprouting from your dinner and the core of your being is a chaotic mess of particles known only as... -
The Family by Mario Puzo
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92_____________________________________From the legendary author of THE GODFATHER comes a novel of the original Italian crime familyFifteenth-century Italy. The Renaissance is in full swing, heralding... -
Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $18.56Beijing intellectual Chen Zhen volunteers to live in a remote settlement on the border of Inner and Outer Mongolia, where he discovers life of apparent idyllic simplicity amongst the nomads and the... -
A Spy In The House Of Love by Anais Nin
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Beautiful, bored and bourgeoise, Sabina leads a double life inspired by her relentless desire for brief encounters with near-strangers. Fired into faithlessness by a desperate longing for sexual... -
India in Slow Motion by Mark Tully 9780140282085
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Mark Tully is incomparable. No one has a greater understanding of the passions, the contradictions, the humour, the tragedy and the staggering resilience that constitute India. In his long awaited... -
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Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan 9780224097376 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $4.01Serena Frome, the beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, has a brief affair with an older man during her final year at Cambridge, and finds herself being groomed for the intelligence services. The... -
Shaken and Stirred: Intoxicating Stories by Diana Secker Tesdell
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92In this lively collection, wine snobs receive their comeuppance at the hands of Roald Dahl and Edgar Allan Poe; innocents over-imbibe in tales by Jack London and Alice Munro; riotous partying exacts... -
Babette's Feast and Other Stories by Isak Dinesen
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65These five rich, witty and magical stories from the author of Out of Africa include one of her most well known tales, 'Babette's Feast', which was made into the classic film. It tells the story of a... -
Dog Years by Mark Doty
Booksplease Price: $17.63Why do dogs speak so profoundly to our inner lives? When Mark Doty decides to adopt a dog as a companion for his dying partner, he finds himself bringing home Beau, a large golden retriever,... -
Dreamers Of The Day by Mary Doria Russell 9780552774857
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71'I am sure of this much: my little story has become your history. You won't really understand your times until you understand mine...'Reeling from the aftermath of the twin tragedies of the Great War... -
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Dance With A Poor Man's Daughter by Pamela Jooste 9780552997577 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $3.24'My name is Lily Daniels and I live in The Valley, in an old house at the top of a hill with a loquat tree in the garden. We are all women in our house. My grandmother, my Aunt Stella with her... -
Allen Ginsberg: Beat Poet by Barry Miles
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $18.56Allen Ginsberg occupies a significant and enduring position in American literature. Following Ginsberg's death in 1997, Barry Miles has drawn on both his long friendship with the poet and on... -
Yellow Dog by Martin Amis
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.92'Martin Amis at his best... Wonderful... Extravagantly funny' GuardianWhen 'dream husband' Xan Meo is vengefully assaulted in the garden of a London pub, he suffers head-injury, and... -
All That is Solid Melts into Air by Darragh McKeon 9780241964675
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.45All That is Solid Melts into Air is an exceptionally moving novel of interwoven lives, set amidst one of the most iconic disasters in living memory: Chernobyl. 'Daring, ambitious, epic, moving' Colm... -
The Moronic Inferno: And Other Visits to America by Martin Amis 9780099461869
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.62At the age of ten, when Martin Amis spent a year in Princeton, New Jersey, he was excited and frightened by America. As an adult he has approached that confusing country from many arresting angles,... -
The Go-between by L. P. Hartley
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.80The moving exploration of a young boy's loss of innocence'The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there...'When one long, hot summer, young Leo is staying with a school-friend at... -
Music in the Castle of Heaven: A Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach by John Eliot Gardiner
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.40Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who seems so ordinary, so opaque - and occasionally so... -
Remote People by Evelyn Waugh
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Perhaps the funniest travel book ever written, Remote People begins with a vivid account of the coronation of Emperor Ras Tafari - Haile Selassie I, King of Kings - an event covered by Evelyn Waugh... -
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Where Did It All Go Right?: Growing Up Normal in the 70s by Andrew Collins 9780091894368 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $3.40Andrew Collins was born 37 years ago in Northampton. His parents never split up, in fact they rarely exchanged a cross word. No-one abused him. Nobody died. He got on well with his brother and sister... -
The Ruby Programming Language Davd Flanagan 9780596516178
RRP: $53.59Booksplease Price: $35.22The Ruby Programming Language is the authoritative guide to Ruby and provides comprehensive coverage of versions 1.8 and 1.9 of the language. It was written (and illustrated!) by an all-star team: *... -
The Eye by Vladimir Nabokov
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Smurov, a fussily self-conscious Russian tutor, shoots himself after a humiliating beating by his mistress' husband. Unsure whether his suicide has been successful or not, Smurov drifts around... -
The Unseen World by Liz Moore
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04'A staggeringly beautiful meditation on love, legacy and the emotional necessities that make life worth living.' Tea Obreht, author of The Tiger's WifeBOSTON, 1980Ada Sibelius is twelve years old and... -
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9780140282559
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80New Penguin Essentials edition of the heartbreaking classic of the roaring twenties, Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald.'I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember... -
'Rock and Roll is Life': The True Story of the Helium Kids by One Who Was There: A Novel by D. J. Taylor 9781472128843
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.11'Taylor's magnificent new novel is Spinal Tap for literary types . . . thoroughly entertaining, knowledgeable romp through the fear and loathing of rock's golden age. Beautifully written and... -
Cambridge by Caryl Phillips
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04Cambridge is a powerful and haunting novel set in that uneasy time between the abolition of the slave trade and the emancipation of the slaves. It is the story of Emily Cartwright, a young woman sent...