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Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination Webb Keane 9780241613207
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.98'The book I didn't know I'd been waiting for - a fascinating trip through time and space, likening the uncanniness of A.I. not to science fiction but to religious mysteries and the near-humanness of... -
The Machine Age: An Idea, a History, a Warning Robert Skidelsky 9780241244616
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £15.18A sweeping history of and meditation on humanity's relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens nextFaith in technological fixes for our problems is waning. Automation, which... -
Autocracy, Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World Anne Applebaum 9780241627891
Booksplease Price: £17.55**A Sunday Times Bestseller**The celebrated historian and journalist uncovers the networks trying to destroy the democratic worldAll of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic... -
The Britannias: An Island Quest by Alice Albinia 9780241669631
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £16.61SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR'A dazzlingly brilliant book' Hannah Dawson'Fascinating, often exhilarating ... Albinia is an intrepid, imaginative guide' TLSThe Britannias... -
Edward VII (Penguin Monarchs): The Cosmopolitan King by Richard Davenport-Hines 9780241014806
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £15.45Like his mother Queen Victoria, Edward VII defined an era. Both reflected the personalities of their central figures: hers grand, imperial and pretty stiff; his no less grand, but much more relaxed... -
The Light of Asia: A History of Western Fascination with the East by Christopher Harding 9780241434444
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £35.74This rich and enjoyable book by the acclaimed author of Japan Story explores the many ways in which Asia has influenced Europe and North America over centuries of tangled, dynamic encountersFrom the... -
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Maths Behind Modern AI by Anil Ananthaswamy 9780241586488
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.96'An invaluable companion for anyone who wants a deep understanding of what's under the hood of often inscrutable machines' Melanie Mitchell A rich, narrative explanation of the mathematics that has... -
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RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.74'One of the best narrative histories I've read' Wall Street Journal From the bestselling author of Too Big to Fail, "the definitive history of the 2008 banking crisis,"* comes a spellbinding... -
From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia by Pankaj Mishra 9780241954669
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Pankaj Mishra's provocative account of how China, India and the Muslim World are remaking the world in their own image - shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2013SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE... -
The Interpretation of Cats: And Their Owners Claude Béata 9780241681237
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24'A guide to being the best humans we can be for our cats' Focus'Fascinating. A must for every cat owner' Philippa Perry A trail-blazing guide to feline mental health from a leading veterinary... -
The Black Death: A Global History by Thomas Asbridge 9780241399408
Booksplease Price: £30.38Thomas Asbridge's remarkable new book reveals the global impact of humanity's greatest natural disaster, and the terrible human cost of this calamity.'An up-to-the-hour work of scholarship that is at... -
Allergic: How Our Immune System Reacts to a Changing World by Theresa MacPhail 9780241638163
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23An eye-opening investigation - combining reporting, history and cutting-edge science - into allergies and their rise in recent decadesHay fever. Peanut allergies. Eczema. Billions of people worldwide... -
Rousseau by Nicholas Dent
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.81In this superb introduction, Nicholas Dent covers the whole of Rousseau's thought. Beginning with a helpful overview of Rousseau's life and works, he introduces and assesses Rousseau's central ideas... -
The Library of Ancient Wisdom Selena Wisnom 9780241519639
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.98The story of the ancient world's most spectacular library, and the civilization that created itWhen a team of Victorian archaeologists dug into a grassy hill in Iraq, they chanced upon one of the... -
Themes in Modern European History, 1890-1945 Nicholas Atkin (University of Reading, UK) 9780415391849
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £46.94Themes in Modern European History, 1890-1945 brings together an international team of scholars to address an eclectic range of developments and issues in European history in the period between 1890... -
Nature's Memory: Behind the Scenes at the World’s Natural History Museums by Jack Ashby 9780241656884
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23A behind-the-scenes tour through the world's greatest natural history museums, revealing how their hidden secrets can help us in the fight against climate changeZoologist Jack Ashby spends his life... -
The Women Who Invented Twentieth-Century Children’s Literature: Only the Best by Elizabeth West 9781032308289
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Publishing for children between 1930 and 1960 has been denigrated as a relatively fallow period for creativity and quality, certainly in comparison with the 'golden ages' of children's literature... -
Translation and Adaptation in Theatre and Film Katja Krebs 9781032926711
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This book provides a pioneering and provocative exploration of the rich synergies between adaptation studies and translation studies and is the first genuine attempt to discuss the rather loose usage... -
Into the Clear Blue Sky: The Path to Restoring Our Atmosphere Rob Jackson 9780241505656
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £15.70'Argues persuasively . . . nothing less than eye-opening' Financial TimesCan we really restore the earth's atmosphere within our lifetime?Whether through sustainable technologies such as fossil-free... -
The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People's History of Afghanistan by Lyse Doucet 9780735243415
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £18.11INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe story of a hotel. The story of a nation.When the Inter-Continental Kabul opened in 1969, Afghanistan's first luxury hotel symbolised a dream of a modernising... -
Capitalism: A Global History by Sven Beckert 9780241269053
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £37.13A brilliant global narrative that unravels the defining story of the past thousand years 'Capitalism is a learned, formidable and vivid story... Beckert has now proved once and for all the necessity... -
The Searchers: Five Rebels, Their Dream of a Different Britain, and Their Many Enemies by Andy Beckett 9780241394229
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.40From the acclaimed author of Promised You a Miracle and When the Lights Went Out, the untold story of British politics in modern times, through the triumphs and disasters of its five most radical... -
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the United States and the Middle East, 1979-2003 by Steve Coll 9780241686652
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £19.34From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Ghost Wars, the inside story of America's long and ruinous relationship with Saddam HusseinThe Achilles Trap masterfully untangles the people,... -
The Great Global Transformation: National Market Liberalism in a Multipolar World by Branko Milanovic 9780241678930
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53An FT Book of the Year'Simultaneously panoramic and telescopic' Daniel Markovitz'A penetrating analysis from the world's foremost authority on economic inequality' Peter Turchin'More than anyone... -
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt 9780241647660
Booksplease Price: £32.26THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Jonathan Haidt is a modern-day prophet, disguised as a psychologist . . . He points the way forward to a brighter, stronger future for us all' Susan... -
Possessed: Why We Want More Than We Need by Bruce Hood 9780241409954
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.23'Beautifully written and brilliantly argued, Possessed is one of the few things you really need to own' Daniel GilbertHow ownership came to own us - and what we can do about itOur love affair with... -
Every Cripple a Superhero by Christoph Keller
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16'Fascinating ... compelling ... very funny' Sunday Times'A defiant call to arms ... affecting ... lingers long in the memory after its final page' Morning Star'A skilful act of literary witness,... -
A History of England in 25 Poems by Catherine Clarke 9780241765982
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53A delightful, thoughtful and original new way to understand England's historyA Times Best Book of the Year 2025 A History Extra History Book of the Year 2025 'This is a marvellous idea, quite... -
Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy by Adam Tooze 9780241485873
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.44FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021'A complex story, which Tooze tells with clarity and verve... The world is unlikely to be treated to a better... -
Fire and Flood: A People's History of Climate Change, from 1979 to the Present by Eugene Linden 9780241565551
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.23The definitive history of the modern climate change era, from an award-winning writer who has been at the centre of the fight for more than thirty yearsIn 1979, President Jimmy Carter was presented... -
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference: Illustrated Edition Greta Thunberg 9780241453445
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.91A new expanded and illustrated edition of the history-making speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young activist who has become the voice of a generation'We are the change and change is coming' In August... -
The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters by Benjamin Moser 9780241586457
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.98The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer turns his eye to the seventeenth-century Dutch Golden Age Twenty years ago, Benjamin Moser followed a love affair to an ancient Dutch town. In order to make... -
Human Rights: The Case for the Defence by Shami Chakrabarti 9780241588819
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.23A powerful and urgent explanation and vindication of our human rights and freedomsAfter the devastation of World War Two, the international community came together to enshrine fundamental rights to... -
Tigers Between Empires: The Journey to Save the Siberian Tiger from Extinction by Jonathan C. Slaght 9780241633458
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.98A TELEGRAPH BEST NATURE BOOK 2025The remarkable conservation story of one of the world's most iconic animalsDeep in the snowy forests of Northeast Asia roams the majestic and revered Amur tigers,... -
Europe: A New History by Roderick Beaton 9780241624500
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.98A new history of the idea of Europe from Ancient Greece to the present'A magisterial history, written with great panache, that is both enlightening and deeply readable. A true tour de force - Peter... -
George III (Penguin Monarchs): Madness and Majesty by Jeremy Black
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.08King of Britain for sixty years and the last king of what would become the United States, George III inspired both hatred and loyalty and is now best known for two reasons: as a villainous tyrant for... -
Crossing Continents: A History of Standard Chartered Bank by Duncan Campbell-Smith
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £30.36For almost a hundred years from the 1860s, the City of London's overseas banks financed the global trade that lay at the core of the British Empire. Foremost among them from the beginning were two... -
Anaximander: And the Nature of Science by Carlo Rovelli 9780241635049
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.12A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Anaximander is a delight and so is this book' -- James McConnachie, Sunday TimesNow widely available in English for the first time, this is Carlo Rovelli's first book: the... -
Sparks: China's Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future by Ian Johnson 9780241524947
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53A FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST, NEW YORKER AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023'An indelible feat of reporting and an urgent read ... It's a privilege to read books like these' Te-Ping Chen, author... -
The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the Present by Oswyn Murray 9780241360576
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.98How the modern world has understood the ancient Greeks and why they matter todayThe study of ancient Greek history has been central to the western conception of history since the Renaissance. The...