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Writings from the Zen Masters by Various
RRP: $15.18Booksplease Price: $11.44These are unique stories of timeless wisdom and understanding from the Zen Masters. With rich and fascinating tales of swords, tigers, tea, flowers and dogs, the writings of the Masters challenge... -
The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.60Recommended by The Observer . . . 'One doesn't so much read it, as one is bewitched by it. Epic, gorgeous, haunting' HANYA YANAGIHARA, author of A Little LifeWhen it begins, it begins as an opera... -
Getting To Know The General by Graham Greene
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $23.69'In August 1981 my bag was packed for my fifth visit to Panama when the news came to me over the telephone of the death of General Omar Torrijos Herrera, my friend and host. . . At that moment the... -
The Healing Self: Supercharge your immune system and stay well for life by Deepak Chopra
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $24.21Heal yourself from the inside outOur immune systems can no longer be taken for granted. Current trends in public healthcare are disturbing: our increased air travel allows newly mutated bacteria and... -
The Day Of The Scorpion by Paul Scott 9780099478829
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.23BOOK TWO OF THE RAJ QUARTET India, August 9th 1942. The morning brings raids and the arrest by British police of Congress Party members. Amongst the prisoners is the distinguished ex-Chief Minister... -
To the Best Teacher by 9781529148077
RRP: $13.28Booksplease Price: $9.99'Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world' Nelson Mandela A card isn't quite enough - how can you say 'thank you' to some of the unsung heroes of our time? A good... -
Extreme Rambling: Walking Israel's Separation Barrier. For Fun. by Mark Thomas 9780091927813 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $3.76'Good fences make good neighbours, but what about bad ones?'The Israeli separation barrier is probably the most iconic divider of land since the Berlin Wall. It has been declared illegal under... -
The Pier Falls by Mark Haddon 9781910702185 [USED COPY]
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $4.81'He writes with the craft of Julian Barnes or, even, Truman Capote.' The TimesA Spectator Book of the YearAn expedition to Mars goes terribly wrong. A seaside pier collapses. A thirty-stone man is... -
The Assassin's Way by JM Kearl 9781911751922
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $28.94Never go out at night. Lock the doors. Ignore the screams.Those are the rules Aesira lives by to survive the monsters that stalk her village. But everything changes when it's revealed she's been born... -
Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller 9780141029061 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $5.59Film tie-in edition of Zoe Heller's darkly compelling Booker shortlisted novel. The film of Notes on a Scandal received four Oscar nominations and stars Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench. From the... -
Educated: The Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling memoir by Tara Westover
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.90THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLERA BETWEEN THE COVERS PICKSelected as a book of the year by AMAZON, THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, NEW YORK TIMES, ECONOMIST, NEW STATESMAN, VOGUE, IRISH TIMES,... -
Think Like an Anthropologist by Matthew Engelke
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $17.54'Subtle and self-reflexive. . . an excellent overview of the debates and issues that have shaped this hugely influential social science' - GuardianHow does anthropology help us understand who we... -
House Of God by Samuel Shem
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.49As in all hospitals, the medical hierarchy of The House of God was a pyramid - a lot at the bottom and one at the top.Put another way it was like an ice-cream cone...you had to lick your way up!Roy... -
The Poison Maiden (Mathilde of Westminster Trilogy, Book 2): Deceit, deception and death in the court of Edward II Paul Doherty 9780755328789
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $15.24It's 1308 and England hovers on the brink of civil war. Edward II, his wife Isabella and the royal favourite Peter Gaveston Earl of Cornwall, have been forced to retreat to the King's folly. Just an... -
The Spring of the Ram: The House of Niccolo 2 by Dorothy Dunnett
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $19.97The exquisitely-researched standalone prequel series to Dorothy Dunnett's revered Lymond Chronicles, following the ancestors of Francis Crawford of Lymond in Continental Europe.Spring of the Ram is... -
B is for Bauhaus: An A-Z of the Modern World by Deyan Sudjic
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $19.97This an essential tool kit for understanding the world around us. It's about our obsession with collecting, the quest for authenticity and the creation of national identities. It's about Hitchcock's... -
The Giant's House by Elizabeth McCracken
Booksplease Price: $25.00'Every so often a novel comes along which transcends whimsy with the beauty of its writing. Elizabeth McCracken's small masterpiece is one of these' GuardianA powerful and unique story about... -
On Photography by Susan Sontag 9780141035789
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.11Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject.Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues... -
A Widow For One Year by John Irving 9780552997966
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.97'One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole awoke to the sound of lovemaking - it was coming from her parents' bedroom.'This is the story of Ruth Cole. It... -
Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens 9781857152968
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $27.30The first of Dickens's historical novels, Barnaby Rudge, written in 1841, is set at the time of the anti-Catholic riots of 1780, with the real Lord George Gordon, leader of the riots, appearing in... -
A Widow For One Year by John Irving 9780552997966 [USED COPY]
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $4.56'One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole awoke to the sound of lovemaking - it was coming from her parents' bedroom.'This is the story of Ruth Cole. It... -
The Poison Maiden (Mathilde of Westminster Trilogy, Book 2): Deceit, deception and death in the court of Edward II by Paul Doherty 9780755328789 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $4.81It's 1308 and England hovers on the brink of civil war. Edward II, his wife Isabella and the royal favourite Peter Gaveston Earl of Cornwall, have been forced to retreat to the King's folly. Just an... -
The Service Of Clouds by Susan Hill 9780099274629
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $25.00At the far end of the long white gallery is a painting of a woman, in pale flowing clothes and lying on a sofa beside an open window. The muslin curtains billow out towards her like clouds. There is... -
Gridlock by Ben Elton 9780552773560 [USED COPY]
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $4.64Gridlock is when a city dies. Killed in the name of freedom. Killed in the name of oil and steel. Choked on carbon monoxide and strangled with a pair of fluffy dice. How did it come to this? How did... -
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis 9780141182599 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $4.58'A brilliantly and preposterously funny book' Guardian'A flawless comic novel ... I loved it then, as I do now. It has always made me laugh out loud' Helen Dunmore, The TimesJim Dixon has... -
Body Happy Kids: How to help children and teens love the skin they're in Molly Forbes 9781785043581
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $24.21We are not born hating our bodies. Make sure your kids never do.No parent wants their child to grow up with anything less than wholehearted confidence in themselves. Sadly research shows that... -
The Darkening Glass (Mathilde of Westminster Trilogy, Book 3): Murder, mystery and mayhem in the court of Edward II Paul Doherty 9780755338535
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $15.24Mathilde of Westminster must face a dangerous foe in the third novel in Paul Doherty's acclaimed series. March 1312 and England is divided. Edward II is in conflict with his barons over royal... -
The Waxman Murders (Hugh Corbett Mysteries, Book 15): Murder, espionage and treason in medieval England by Paul Doherty
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $15.24In 1300, an English privateer named 'The Waxman' was trapped and overrun by two powerful war cogs flying the streamers of the powerful Hanseatic League of North Germany. The ship was carrying a... -
The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $27.30'Her gallery of personages is huge, her scene painting superb, her pathos controlled, her humour quiet and civilised' Anthony Burgess'So glittering is the overall parade - and so entertaining the... -
The Great Fortune: The Balkan Trilogy 1 Olivia Manning 9781786091130
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.23WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RACHEL CUSK'A fantastically tart and readable account of life in eastern Europe at the start of the war' Sarah Waters'Wonderfully entertaining' ObserverAutumn, 1939... -
The Little Stranger: shortlisted for the Booker Prize by Sarah Waters 9780349011431
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.24Now a major motion picture starring Domhnall Gleeson, Ruth Wilson, Will Poulter and Charlotte Rampling, and directed by Lenny Abrahamson.Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize'Sarah Waters's masterly... -
The Healing Self: Supercharge your immune system and stay well for life by Dr Deepak Chopra 9781846045714
Booksplease Price: $23.79Heal yourself from the inside outOur immune systems can no longer be taken for granted. Current trends in public healthcare are disturbing: our increased air travel allows newly mutated bacteria and... -
The Murder of King Tut by James Patterson 9780099527237
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $23.69Thrust onto Egypt's throne when just nine years old, King Tut's reign was fiercely debated from the outset. After nine years in power, Tut suddenly perished and his name was purged from Egyptian... -
Educated: The Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling memoir by Tara Westover 9780099511021 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $6.19THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLERA BETWEEN THE COVERS PICKSelected as a book of the year by AMAZON, THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, NEW YORK TIMES, ECONOMIST, NEW STATESMAN, VOGUE, IRISH TIMES,... -
The Spring of the Ram: The House of Niccolo 2 by Dorothy Dunnett 9780140113594 [USED COPY]
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $4.81The exquisitely-researched standalone prequel series to Dorothy Dunnett's revered Lymond Chronicles, following the ancestors of Francis Crawford of Lymond in Continental Europe.Spring of the Ram is... -
Leonardo Da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind by Charles Nicholl 9780140296815 [USED COPY]
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $4.45Leonardo da Vinci is the most mysterious of all the great artists, continuing to inspire and intrigue centuries after his death. Who lies behind the legend of the 'Renaissance genius'? What is the... -
The Pier Falls by Mark Haddon 9781784701963 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $4.45The first collection of stories from the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and The Porpoise.'Terrifically compelling' GuardianA seaside pier collapses. An expedition to Mars... -
Not In Your Genes: The real reasons children are like their parents by Oliver James 9780091947682 [USED COPY]
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $4.56Professor Robert Plomin, the world's leading geneticist, said in 2014 of his search for genes that explain differences in our psychology: 'I have been looking for these genes for fifteen years. I... -
Offshore, Human Voices, The Beginning Of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald 9781857152692
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $27.87Sixty-one when she published her first novel, Penelope Fitzgerald based many subsequent books on the experiences of a long and varied life.Offshore, which won the Booker Prize in 1979, explores her... -
The Matchmaker Of Perigord by Julia Stuart 9780552777247
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $23.69A perpetual breeze blows through Amour-sur-Belle, a village so ugly that even the English refuse to live there. Guillaume Ladoucette, the barber, is forced to give up his business as the advancing...