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Muhammad 'Abduh: Modern Islam and the Culture of Ambiguity by Oliver Scharbrodt 9781838607302
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £89.85Muhammad 'Abduh (1849-1905) was one of the most influential Muslim modernist reformers of the 19th century. The book provides the complete intellectual biography of Muhammad 'Abduh. It delineates his... -
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport by Mark Jonathan Harris 9780747552697 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £1.99In November 1938, international public opinion was shocked by the news of Kristallnacht - the anti-Jewish pogrom that led to the burning of synagogues and the first mass arrests of Jewish men. Twelve... -
Five Pubs, Two Bars and a Nightclub by John Williams 9780747545132 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £1.98'John Williams could form of literary triumvirate with Bateman and Welsh...This is as world of dope, docks and prostitution, a culture tha is part-Cardiff, part-Caribbeean. FIVE PUBS is everything... -
The Selected Essays of John Berger by John Berger 9780747554196
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.79Booker wining novelist, playwright, essayist, poet and critic - even admirers rarely know John Berger in all his literary incarnations. This collection of essays will, for the first time, take a... -
About Looking John Berger 9780747599579
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.99As a novelist, essayist, and cultural historian, John Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence and arresting insight whose work amounts to a subtle, powerful critique of the canons of our... -
Hollywood Bliss - My Life So Far by Chloe Rayban 9780747583943 [USED COPY]
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £1.98Having fought attempts to turn her into a mini-me popstarlett in book 1, Holly finds herself subjected to her mother's egomaniac schemes once again. Plucked from life and friends in London, Holly is... -
Look at ME, Look at ME! by Dom Joly 9780747577607 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.29For the first time, Dom Joly reveals how he murdered his Armenian nanny before his second birthday, how as a student he inadvertently gave Kurt Cobain the inspiration for 'Smells like Teen Spirit',... -
Milk by Mark Kurlansky
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.27Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic and culinary story of milk and all things dairy - with recipes throughout While... -
Gangster Warlords: Drug Dollars, Killing Fields, and the New Politics of Latin America Ioan Grillo 9781408845912
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.30In a ranch south of Texas, the man known as The Executioner dumps five hundred body parts in metal barrels. In Brazil's biggest city, a mysterious prisoner orders hit-men to gun down forty-one police... -
Madame Pamplemousse and Her Incredible Edibles by Rupert Kingfisher
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.99Madame Pamplemousse is the story of Madeleine, forced to work in her unpleasant uncle's horrible restaurant, The Squealing Pig. By chance she comes across the most marvellous shop, run by Madame... -
Umbrella by Will Self 9781408831670 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.37SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2012 For half a century Audrey Death has been in a state of semi-consciousness. Severed from the world of the living after falling victim to Encephalitis... -
The End of Oil: The Decline of the Petroleum Economy and the Rise of a New Energy Order by Paul Roberts 9780747570813 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.37Billions of people around the world enjoy an unprecedented standard of living based on one thing: oil. And each year we demand more. We produce and consume energy not simply to heat, feed, move or... -
Troublesome Young Men: The Churchill Conspiracy of 1940 by Lynne Olson 9780747585480 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £2.37In May 1940, Britain was at war with Germany and Neville Chamberlain was Prime Minister, struggling with a poorly prepared defence against Hitler. But waiting in the wings was a group of Tory rebels... -
Our Lady of the Forest by David Guterson 9780747568216 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £1.98Ann Holmes seems an unlikely candidate for revelation. A sixteen-year-old runaway, she is an itinerant mushroom picker who lives in a tent. Her past has been hardscrabble. Then one November... -
Married: A Fine Predicament by Anne Richardson Roiphe 9780747568513
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.18We live in a world where the concept of marriage is an unfashionable one. Where individuals protest their independence, their inability to commit or their lack of faith in the institution, against a... -
China 1949: Year of Revolution by Graham Hutchings 9780755607334
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.79"Excellent." The Economist "A gripping account." South China Morning Post "Well worth reading." The Morning Star "A persuasive and readable narrative." History Today "Elegantly written." The... -
Dragon Flight by Jessica Day George 9781599903590
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599903590Author Jessica Day GeorgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing... -
Antarctica by Gabrielle Walker
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.99There have been many books about Antarctica in the past, but all have focused on only one aspect of the continent - its science, its wildlife, the heroic age of exploration, personal experiences or... -
The Wonderful Mr Willughby by Tim Birkhead
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.00'Birkhead has combined ingenuity and perseverance to produce an evocative portrait of a great pioneer in the scientific study of birds' Literary Review Francis Willughby lived and thrived in the... -
The New Middle East: The World After the Arab Spring by Paul Danahar
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.99The Arab revolts changed the Middle East forever. A movement for democratic change has dissolved into chaos and bloodshed. States are collapsing. Out of a wave of sectarian fervour unleashed by these... -
Truffle Hound: On the Trail of the World's Most Seductive Scent, with Dreamers, Schemers, and Some Extraordinary Dogs by Rowan Jacobsen
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.24LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDRE SIMON AWARD 2021 'Truffle Hound, like a truffle, charms by seducing us' Mark Kurlansky A captivating exploration into the secretive and sensuous world of truffles,... -
No Time to Wave Goodbye by Ben Wicks 9780747500834 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: £2.37Within hours of the German invasion of Poland in 1939, children were being evacuated out of the cities into the countryside in a carefully planned operation. For all these children, evacuation was an... -
Jonathan Unleashed by Meg Rosoff 9781408870792 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £2.13Jonathan Trefoil's boss is unhinged, his relationship baffling and his apartment just the wrong side of legal. His girlfriend wants to marry someone just like him - only richer and more organised... -
Schott's Almanac: 2011 by Ben Schott 9780747599517 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: £2.37"Schott's Almanac" is designed to be a practical and entertaining annual volume that tells the real stories of the year. Section headings are: Chronicle; World; Society & Health; Sci,... -
Home Cooking by Linda McCartney 9780747502241 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: £2.37A collection of over 200 vegetarian recipes, tried and tested by the author. They range from starters and snacks such as "Mrs Mac's Thick Pea Soup" and "Paul's Bread" to main... -
Still Bitter, More Baggage: Going for the Bronze by Sloane Tanen 9780747581567
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.87Sloane Tanen's irresistible chickens are back. Join these fluffy, yellow, surprisingly human chicks - who made their first appearance in Tanen's hit, "Bitter with Baggage Seeks Same" - as they tell a... -
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert 9781408809365 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £2.37It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it. A divorce and a... -
Here is Where We Meet by John Berger
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.34No one appreciates the detail of being alive more than the dead. In Lisbon, a man encounters his mother sitting on a park bench who laughs with the impudence of a schoolgirl. She has been dead for... -
A Life of Colette: Secrets of the Flesh by Judith Thurman 9780747548430 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.37Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette was this century's first modern woman. She arrived in Paris around 1900 as the provincial child bride of a notorious rake and brilliant literary impressario, Willy, who... -
Shanghai Girls Lisa See 9781408801123
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.96Shanghai, 1937. Pearl and May are two sisters from a bourgeois family. Though their personalities are very different - Pearl is a Dragon sign, strong and stubborn, while May is a true Sheep, adorable... -
Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth Margaret Atwood 9780747598718
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.18In this wide-ranging history of debt Margaret Atwood investigates its many meanings through the ages, from ancient times to the current global financial meltdown. Many of us wonder: how could we have... -
Ajax, Barcelona, Cruyff Frits Barend 9780747543053
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.90Between 1974 and 1997 Frits Barend and Henk van Dorp have conducted numerous interviews with Johan Cruyff, one of the greatest footballers the world has ever seen. In these extraordinarily candid... -
Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe 9780747546818 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.25Best known now as a fiction writer, Edgar Allan Poe's poetic works were popular at the time of writing. Born in 1809, Poe was orphaned in early childhood. He became a journalist after joining the... -
The Storm Keepers' Battle by Catherine Doyle
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781547602759Author Catherine DoyleFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing... -
She Wanted to Be Haunted by Marcus Ewert 9781681197913
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681197913Author Marcus EwertFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLCPublisher... -
Hot Like Fire Bind-up by Valerie Bloom 9780747599739 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £1.98When de July sun hot like fire, Den I have jus' one desire, To run down to de shop an' buy a Kisko pop. The World Is Sweet and Hot Like Fire published in one volume for the first time. Valerie... -
Antonio Gramsci: A Biography by Andrew Pearmain 9781838601614
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.83A historical biography of the Italian philosopher/politician Antonio Gramsci (1891-1973), considered one of the most important Marxist philosophers of the twentieth-century. As part of the Communist... -
Talk Talk by T. C. Boyle
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.30There's more than one to way to take a life in this masterful thriller from one of the greatest voices in American contemporary fiction Dana sits in a courtroom with her legs shackled as a long... -
Sex and Stravinsky by Barbara Trapido
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.41The time is 1995, but everybody has a past. Brilliant Australian Caroline can command everyone except her own ghoulish mother, which means that things aren't easy for Josh and Zoe, her husband with... -
The Pretender by Jo Harkin 9781526678348
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.86Wolf Hall meets Demon Copperhead in a sharply ambitious, brilliantly imagined and hugely entertaining story of intrigue, deceit, revenge and ambition'The Pretender has everything: history richly...