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The Last Temptation by Nikos Kazantzakis
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Kazantzakis's classic novel, blacklisted by the Vatican, filmed by Scorsese, has been labelled heretical, blasphemous, and also a masterpiece. His Christ is an epic conception, wholly original.'When... -
Soldier of Change: From the Closet to the Forefront of the Gay Rights Movement by Stephen Snyder-Hill 9781612348162
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37When the U.S. military repealed "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," its official policy on homosexuality in the services, Capt. Stephen Snyder-Hill was serving in Iraq. After years enduring the culture of fear... -
Dreamers Of The Day by Mary Doria Russell 9780552774857
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47'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... -
Memento Mori: What the Romans Can Tell Us About Old Age and Death by Peter Jones 9781786494825
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95In this revealing and entertaining guide to how the Romans confronted their own mortality, Peter Jones shows us that all the problems associated with old age and death that so transfix us today were... -
Journey into Fear by Eric Ambler
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.47It is 1940 and Mr Graham, a quietly-spoken engineer and arms expert, has just finished high-level talks with the Turkish government. And now somebody wants him dead. The previous night three shots... -
Soldier of Change: From the Closet to the Forefront of the Gay Rights Movement by Stephen Snyder-Hill 9781612346977
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.90When the U.S. military repealed "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," its official policy on homosexuality in the services, Capt. Stephen Snyder-Hill was serving in Iraq. After years enduring the culture of fear... -
Araki. 40th Ed. by Nobuyoshi Araki
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.28Decades' worth of images have been distilled down to 512 pages of photographs in this ultimate retrospective collection of Nobuyoshi Araki's work, selected by the artist himself. First published as... -
Perla by Frederic Brun 9781496201027
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58Perla is the story of a woman who lived through the horrors of the Holocaust and would ultimately die unable to extricate herself from its corrosive memory. It is told from the point of view of her... -
Latin: or, the Empire of a Sign by Françoise Waquet
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.53Though not without its rivals, Latin stood at the apex of Western culture from the Renaissance until relatively recently. Francoise Waquet offers an enthralling, original history of the language's... -
Return of the Dambusters: What 617 Squadron Did Next by John Nichol
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58(Previously published as 'After the Flood') Former RAF Tornado Navigator and Gulf War veteran John Nichol sets out on a personal journey to discover what happened to 617 Squadron after the... -
Train Teasers: A Quiz Book for the Cultured Trainspotter by Andrew Martin
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.37When was smoking banned on trains? Which actor restored kippers to the menu of the Brighton Belle? What regular lineside event did Dickens describe as 'a shave in the air'? Perfect for a... -
Notes from Walnut Tree Farm by Roger Deakin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Calming, thought-provoking, poetic and honest, Notes from Walnut Tree Farm is a collection of writing and musing by documentary-maker, environmentalist and author of Waterlog, Roger Deakin. 'Gentle,... -
Do What You Want: The Story of Bad Religion by Bad Religion 9780306922220
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.63Do What You Want: The Story of Bad Religion reveals the ups and downs of the band's forty-year career. From their beginnings as teenagers jamming in a San Fernando Valley garage dubbed "The Hell... -
The Big Sleep and Other Novels by Raymond Chandler 9780141182612
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since' Paul Auster, author of The New... -
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Train Teasers: A Quiz Book for the Cultured Trainspotter by Andrew Martin 9781788163941 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.40When was smoking banned on trains? Which actor restored kippers to the menu of the Brighton Belle? What regular lineside event did Dickens describe as 'a shave in the air'? Perfect for a... -
Do What You Want: The Story of Bad Religion by Bad Religion
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.93DO WHAT YOU WANT: The Story of Bad Religion reveals the ups and downs of the band's 40-year career. From their beginnings as teenagers jamming in a San Fernando Valley garage dubbed "The Hell Hole"... -
'Dearest Squirrel...': The Intimate Letters of John Osborne and Pamela Lane by John Osborne 9781786823922
Booksplease Price: £29.92A completely fresh insight into the mind of one of the UK's greatest playwrights, the letters between John Osborne and his first wife, actressPamela Lane, are also a love letter to a now defunct... -
The Mask of Dimitrios by Eric Ambler
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.47'Not Le Carre, not Deighton, not Ludlum have surpassed the intelligence, authenticity or engrossing storytelling that established The Mask of Dimitrios as the best of its kind' The TimesEnglish crime... -
Cause for Alarm by Eric Ambler 9780141190327
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.47Nicky Marlow needs a job. He's engaged to be married and the employment market in Britain in 1937 is pretty slim. So when his fiancee points out the position with an English armaments manufacturer in... -
The Emperor by Ryszard Kapuscinski
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The Penguin Modern Classics edition of Ryszard Kapuscinski's The Emperor is translated by William R. Brand and Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand, with an introduction by Neal Ascherton.After the deposition... -
Touch of Evil by Richard Deming
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.72Orson Welles' classic 1958 noir movie Touch of Evil, the story of a corrupt police chief in a small town on the Mexican-American border, starring Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh and Marlene Dietrich, is... -
Hidden Powers: Lise Meitner's Call to Science Jeannine Atkins 9781665902519
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78From the acclaimed author of Finding Wonders and Grasping Mysteries comes a gorgeously written biography in "deliberate, delicate verse" (Kirkus Reviews) about the pioneering Jewish woman physicist... -
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A Spot of Folly: Ten Tales of Murder and Mayhem by Ruth Rendell 9781788160148 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.53New and uncollected tales of murder, mischief, magic and madness. Ruth Rendell was an acknowledged master of psychological suspense: these are ten (and a quarter) of her most chillingly... -
The Essential Spike Milligan by Alexander Games 9780007155118
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58A Spike Milligan opus, containing everything from classics to hidden gems, with a foreword by Eddie Izzard. This stunning anthology of Spike Milligan's work comprises of favourites from... -
Tallis by Kerry McCarthy
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £34.72The composer Thomas Tallis (c. 1505 - November 1585) lived and worked through much of the turbulent Tudor period in England. Unlike many of his contemporaries, he did not just react to radical... -
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Not a Proper Journalist by Bob Humphrys 9780224082754 [USED COPY]
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £2.55Bob Humphrys is one of the most famous names in sports journalism. As sports correspondent of BBC Wales's flagship news programme Wales Today, he was at the centre of every major story of the past... -
A Spot of Folly: Ten Tales of Murder and Mayhem by Ruth Rendell
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40New and uncollected tales of murder, mischief, magic and madness. Ruth Rendell was an acknowledged master of psychological suspense: these are ten (and a quarter) of her most chillingly... -
Everybody's Jonesin' for Something by Indigo Moor 9781496222701
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.41Turning an unflinching spotlight on the American Dream, Indigo Moor plunges headfirst into national-and personal-laments and desires. From Emmett Till to the fall of the Twin Towers and through the... -
Alms For Oblivion Vol II by Simon Raven
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41'Each of the novels in Alms for Oblivion is an elegant morality tale, beautifully composed, sparkling with appreciation of the sheer limitless variety of human wickedness' TLSSimon Raven's sequence... -
Private Peaceful Simon Reade (Author) 9781350306455
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86Private Peaceful relives the life of Private Tommo Peaceful, a young First World War soldier awaiting the firing squad at dawn. During the night he looks back at his short but joyful past growing up... -
A C. H. Sisson Reader by Charlie Louth 9781847772657
Booksplease Price: £24.56The great English, Anglican and modernist poet and writer C.H. Sisson was born in Bristol a hundred years ago. This Reader draws on his poetry, fiction, translations, and his literary, political and... -
T.S. Eliot - A Short Biography by John Worthen 9781906598860
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Biographical writing about Eliot is in a more confused and contested state than is the case with any other major twentieth-century writer. No major biography has been released since the publication... -
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The Essential Spike Milligan by Alexander Games 9780007155118 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £1.98A Spike Milligan opus, containing everything from classics to hidden gems, with a foreword by Eddie Izzard. This stunning anthology of Spike Milligan's work comprises of favourites from... -
The Last Days of Detroit: Motor Cars, Motown and the Collapse of an Industrial Giant by Mark Binelli
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Once America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the furthest. The city of Henry Ford,... -
The King's Midwife: A History and Mystery of Madame du Coudray by Nina Rattner Gelbart 9780520221574
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £26.98This unorthodox biography explores the life of an extraordinary Enlightenment woman who, by sheer force of character, parlayed a skill in midwifery into a national institution. In 1759, in an effort... -
The Posthumous Memoirs of Br s Cubas by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.97A revelatory new translation of the playful, incomparable masterpiece of one of the greatest Black authors in the AmericasMachado de Assis is not only Brazil's most celebrated writer but also a... -
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Sentimental Collaborations: Mourning and Middle-Class Identity in Nineteenth-Century America by Mary Louise Kete 9780822324355 [USED COPY]
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £7.50During the 1992 Democratic Convention and again while delivering Harvard University's commencement address two years later, Vice President Al Gore shared with his audience a story that showed the... -
Alms For Oblivion Vol III by Simon Raven
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'Brisk, bawdy and reckless' Evening Standard'A freak writer, he defies classification. In wilder moments he suggests a loose, lunatic collaboration of Trollope, Ouida and Waugh' ObserverThe Alms for... -
The Devil's Grinder, Moara Dracilor: Poems of Hope and Despair From the Forced Labor Camps of Post-WWII Communist Romania by Mircea Ionescu-Quintus 9781930972810
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.42This collection of Poems-offered as a dual-language English-Romanian edition-together with a critical Expose by the translators, a Preface by the author, a Chronicle and Biography, conveys to the... -
South Riding by Winifred Holtby 9780860689690
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.78NOW A BRITISH DRAMA FILM AND A MAJOR BBC TELEVISION ADAPTATION. A preface by Shirley Williams, an introduction by Marion Shaw and an epitaph by Vera Brittain.'Rich in humour and worldly insight'...