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Manchester United Ruined My Life Colin Shindler 9780755363889
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95Colin Shindler was dealt a cruel hand by Fate when he became a passionate Manchester City supporter. In this brilliant sporting autobiography he recalls the great characters of his youth, like his... -
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My Dear Bessie: A Love Story in Letters by Chris Barker 9781782115670 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $3.11AS HEARD ON RADIO 4'Utterly wonderful' NINA STIBBE, author of Love, NinaTwenty hours have gone since I last wrote. I have been thinking of you. I shall think of you until I post this, and until you... -
The Babel Message: A Love Letter to Language by Keith Kahn-Harris
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86'Quite simply, and quite ridiculously, one of the funniest and most illuminating books I have ever read. I thought I was obsessive, but Keith Kahn-Harris is playing a very different sport. He really... -
Letters of Note: Grief by Shaun Usher
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.22In Letters of Note: Grief, Shaun Usher gathers together some of the most powerful messages about grief, from the heart-wrenching pain of losing a loved one to reliving fond memories of those who have... -
Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of 'Housewife, 49' Richard Broad 9781846680007
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.67In September 1939, housewife and mother Nella Last began a diary whose entries, in their regularity, length and quality, have created a record of the Second World War which is powerful, fascinating... -
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Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of 'Housewife, 49' by Richard Broad 9781846680007 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $2.83In September 1939, housewife and mother Nella Last began a diary whose entries, in their regularity, length and quality, have created a record of the Second World War which is powerful, fascinating... -
Letters of Note: Cats by Shaun Usher
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $6.95In Letters of Note: Cats, Shaun Usher collects together the most engaging missives that celebrate, eulogise, rail against and analyse the idiosyncratic ways of our feline companions.Nikola Tesla,... -
The Babel Message: A Love Letter to Language by Keith Kahn-Harris 9781785787379
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91'Quite simply, and quite ridiculously, one of the funniest and most illuminating books I have ever read. I thought I was obsessive, but Keith Kahn-Harris is playing a very different sport. He really... -
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth and Power by Deirdre Mask
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86Longlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2021 A TIME Magazine Must-Read Book of 2020 Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Award 2020 'Deirdre Mask's book was just up my Strasse, alley, avenue and... -
1939: Countdown to War by Richard Overy
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.91'A gripping analysis of the final days of peace ... indispensable' M. R. D. Foot, The TimesRichard Overy's 1939: Countdown to War re-creates hour-by-hour the last desperate attempts to salvage peace... -
Letters of Note: New York by Shaun Usher
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.77In Letters of Note: New York, Shaun Usher curates a collection of extraordinary written exchanges about the Big Apple, from the marvelling of wide-eyed newcomers and the devoted outpourings of native... -
Letters of Note: Love by Shaun Usher
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $6.95In Letters of Note: Love, Shaun Usher gathers together some of the most powerful messages about love ever composed, whether inspired by love's first blush or the recriminations at its ending, the... -
Letters of Note: War by Shaun Usher
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $6.95In Letters of Note: War, Shaun Usher brings together some of the most remarkable letters that encapsulate the human experience of war, from unimaginable feats of courage and compassion, to... -
Letters of Note: Fathers by Shaun Usher
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.77In Letters of Note: Fathers, Shaun Usher collects together remarkable correspondence by and about fathers, including proud parental words of love, advice from experienced dads to new ones, as well as... -
Letters of Note: Art Shaun Usher 9781838851460
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $6.95In Letters of Note: Art, Shaun Usher celebrates extraordinary correspondence about art, from missives on the agony of being overlooked, the ecstasy of producing work that excites, to surprising... -
Jill by Philip Larkin
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Michaelmas term, 1940. 18-year-old John Kemp has come down from Lancashire to Oxford University to begin his scholarship studying English. But when he invents an imaginary sister to win the attention... -
Letters of Note: Dogs by Shaun Usher
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.77In Letters of Note: Dogs, Shaun Usher brings together a delightful collection of correspondence about our canine friends, featuring affectionate accounts of pups' playful misdemeanours, heartfelt... -
A Girl in Winter by Philip Larkin
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Lose yourself in this tale of young love by the 'best-loved English poet of the past 100 years.' (Sunday Times)Katherine Lind is a refugee who has become a librarian in a wartime Northern town. One... -
Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective J. Samuel Walker 9780520239401
RRP: $52.89Booksplease Price: $49.63Twenty-five years ago, Hollywood released "The China Syndrome", featuring Jane Fonda and Michael Douglas as a TVnews crew who witness what appears to be a serious accident at a nuclear power plant... -
Letters of Note: Space by Shaun Usher
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.77In Letters of Note: Space, Shaun Usher brings together fascinating correspondence about the universe beyond our planet, containing hopeful thoughts about the future of space travel, awestruck... -
Laughing Gas by P. G. Wodehouse 9780099514121
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66'A lifelong treat' Simon Garfield, EsquireA P.G. Wodehouse novelJoey Cooley is a golden-curled child film star, the idol of American motherhood. Reginald, Third Earl of Havershot, is a boxing blue on... -
A Cheesemonger’s Tour de France Ned Palmer 9781788166942
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.74Winner of the John Avery Award at the Andre Simon Awards 2024 In A Cheesemonger's Tour de France, Ned Palmer wends his way around the country's regions, meeting the remarkable cheesemongers who... -
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Laughing Gas by P. G. Wodehouse 9780099514121 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $3.07'A lifelong treat' Simon Garfield, EsquireA P.G. Wodehouse novelJoey Cooley is a golden-curled child film star, the idol of American motherhood. Reginald, Third Earl of Havershot, is a boxing blue on... -
Anglo-English Attitudes by Geoff Dyer
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Anglo-English Attitudes brings together Geoff Dyer's best journalism and other writing from 1984-99. There are studied meditations on photographers (Robert Capa, William Gedney, Cartier-Bresson),... -
The Secret Lives of Colour by Kassia St. Clair 9781473630833
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $10.97THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A mind-expanding tour of the world without leaving your paintbox. Every colour has a story, and here are some of the most alluring, alarming, and thought-provoking. Very... -
Secret Lives of Colour: New edition with 25 new colours by Kassia St Clair 9781399823586
RRP: $33.54Booksplease Price: $24.69'A mind-expanding tour of the world without leaving your paintbox. Every colour has a story, and here are some of the most alluring, alarming, and thought-provoking. Very hard painting the hallway... -
Class of '37: Voices from Working-class Girlhood by Hester Barron
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.39LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE___'A moving microhistory of working-class girlhood' BBC History Magazine___It is 1937 in a northern mill-town and a class of twelve- and thirteen-year-old girls... -
Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective by J. Samuel Walker 9780520246836
RRP: $29.67Booksplease Price: $28.15Twenty-five years ago, Hollywood released "The China Syndrome", featuring Jane Fonda and Michael Douglas as a TV news crew who witness what appears to be a serious accident at a nuclear power plant... -
A History of the World in Twelve Maps by Jerry Brotton
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it. But far from being purely scientific objects, maps of the world are unavoidably ideological and... -
The Colour Code: A Compendium by Paul Simpson
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $11.46How is The Colour Code different to other books on colour? Well, the short answer is that it is a whole lot more fun - not least because it is extensively illustrated. We don't just get a story about... -
Untitled Memoir Miriam Gold 9781787335226
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $25.14A heartfelt graphic memoir of love, family and fearless womenLives were bent in the furnaces of the twentieth century, but Granny was unbroken. With a stethoscope, a jar of herring and a hearing aid... -
The Golden Thread: The Story of Writing by Ewan Clayton
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56The Golden Thread is an enthralling and accessible history of the cultural miracle that is the written word. It is an invention that has been used to share ideas in every field of human endeavour,... -
Letters of Note: Music by Shaun Usher
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $6.95In Letters of Note: Music, Shaun Usher brings together a riveting collection of letters by and about some of the musicians and music that enrich our lives. It is a wonderfully wide-ranging and... -
The Foot of Clive by John Berger 9781838859589
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Introduced by Benjamin MyersIn the centre of a 1960s hospital ward sits a curtained-off bed, guarded by a policeman. In it lies a murderer, hidden from view and likely to die before he can be hanged... -
That's Not English: Britishisms, Americanisms and What Our English Says About Us by Erin Moore 9781784701918
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20In this brilliant transatlantic survival guide, Erin Moore examines the key differences between the British and the Americans through their language. You'll discover why Americans give - and take -... -
Brainwashed: A New History of Thought Control Daniel Pick 9781781257906
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20'A frankly brilliant book' - GUARDIAN 'An absorbing exploration ... Pick does not stumble' - TORTOISE 'An extraordinarily engrossing and wide-ranging analysis of a word and a concept. I fell... -
Manchester City Ruined My Life Colin Shindler 9780755363612
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.95Colin Shindler first wrote of his deep love for Manchester City in Manchester United Ruined My Life. Now he tells the story of his sorrowful disenchantment with his home town club as, on the... -
Revolutionary Acts: Love & Brotherhood in Black Gay Britain by Jason Okundaye 9780571372218
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.55Announcing the arrival of a major new talent, an astonishing work of social history which captures Black gay Britain as never before.'In this seminal book Okundaye gives us juicy dialogue, tears and... -
Heatwave: The Summer of 1976 – Britain at Boiling Point by John L Williams 9781800961739
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'A teeming chronicle of those scorching months. Superbly researched.' THE TIMES'Scorching, animated and essential reading. Superb.' THE MAIL ON SUNDAY'Grippingly... -
Never Enough: A Way Through Addiction by Barney Hoskyns
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $3.29'This book could save your life' John Crace'An unblinking account of living with - and more importantly, beyond - addiction. Brave, clear-eyed and inspiring' John Niven'A rich, uplifting memoir:...