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Notes from Walnut Tree Farm by Roger Deakin
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.08Calming, 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: €24.00Booksplease Price: €20.64Do 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... -
Cause for Alarm by Eric Ambler 9780141190327
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €10.16Nicky 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 Mask of Dimitrios by Eric Ambler
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €10.16'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... -
The Cowboy's Cookbook: Recipes and Tales from Campfires, Cookouts, and Chuck Wagons by Sherry Monahan 9781493010677
Booksplease Price: €14.76From chuckwagon recipes to dutch-oven favorites for your own campfire, The Cowboy's Cookbook features recipes, photos, and lore celebrating the cowboy's role in the shaping of the American West. From... -
Alms For Oblivion Vol II by Simon Raven
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €13.69'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: €14.39Booksplease Price: €13.03Private 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: €29.48The 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: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.61Biographical 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... -
The Essential Spike Milligan by Alexander Games 9780007155118 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €2.38A 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... -
Ancient Greece: Social and Historical Documents from Archaic Times to the Death of Alexander the Great by Matthew Dillon 9780415473293
RRP: €168.00Booksplease Price: €155.02In this revised edition, Matthew Dillon and Lynda Garland have expanded the chronological range of Ancient Greece to include the Greek world of the fourth century. The sourcebook now ranges from the...Qty in Cart: 0Price:RRP: €168.00Booksplease Price: €155.02Subtotal: -
Catalogue of Etruscan Objects in World Museum, Liverpool by Jeann MacIntosh Turfa 9781784916381
Booksplease Price: €67.14One of the finest collections of Etruscan artifacts outside of Italy was begun in the 19th century by Joseph Mayer, goldsmith, of Liverpool. His donation of the collection became the core of... -
A Spot of Folly: Ten Tales of Murder and Mayhem by Ruth Rendell 9781788160148 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €3.04New 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: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.50A 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 Emperor by Ryszard Kapuscinski
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.54The 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... -
Everybody's Jonesin' for Something by Indigo Moor 9781496222701
RRP: €14.39Booksplease Price: €12.49Turning 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... -
Touch of Evil by Richard Deming
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €12.86Orson 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: €10.79Booksplease Price: €8.14From 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... -
William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked by Paul Mariani 9781595347640
RRP: €29.99Booksplease Price: €21.82William Carlos Williams (1883--1963) emerged alongside Pound, Eliot, Stevens, Frost, and Yeats as one of the foremost poets of the 20th century. Paterson, Williams's epic masterpiece, raised everyday... -
Tallis by Kerry McCarthy
RRP: €44.39Booksplease Price: €41.66The 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... -
Not a Proper Journalist by Bob Humphrys 9780224082754 [USED COPY]
RRP: €21.59Booksplease Price: €3.06Bob 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... -
Alms For Oblivion Vol III by Simon Raven
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.35'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: €23.99Booksplease Price: €19.46This 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: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.74NOW 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'... -
A Spot of Folly: Ten Tales of Murder and Mayhem by Ruth Rendell
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.88New 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 Last Days of Detroit: Motor Cars, Motown and the Collapse of an Industrial Giant by Mark Binelli
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €15.79Once 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,... -
Sentimental Collaborations: Mourning and Middle-Class Identity in Nineteenth-Century America by Mary Louise Kete 9780822324355 [USED COPY]
RRP: €112.80Booksplease Price: €9.00During 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... -
The King's Midwife: A History and Mystery of Madame du Coudray by Nina Rattner Gelbart 9780520221574
RRP: €34.80Booksplease Price: €32.38This 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... -
After the Black Death: Plague and Commemoration Among Iberian Jews by Susan L. Einbinder 9780812250312
RRP: €96.00Booksplease Price: €92.04The Black Death of 1348-50 devastated Europe. With mortality estimates ranging from thirty to sixty percent of the population, it was arguably the most significant event of the fourteenth century... -
The Posthumous Memoirs of Br s Cubas by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.61A 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... -
Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation, Silence, Shame, and the Resilience of a Family Farm by David Mas Masumoto 9781636280776
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €16.36I discover a "lost" aunt, separated from our family due to racism and discrimination against the disabled. She had a mental disability due to childhood meningitis. She was taken away in 1942 when... -
Graceland Cemetery: Chicago Stories, Symbols, and Secrets by Adam Selzer
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €16.63Chosen for the 2024 Illinois Reads Program by the Illinois Reading Council One of Chicago's landmark attractions, Graceland Cemetery chronicles the city's sprawling history through the stories of its... -
Gweilo: Memories Of A Hong Kong Childhood by Martin Booth 9780553816723
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €10.57Martin Booth died in February 2004, shortly after finishing the book that would be his epitaph - this wonderfully remembered, beautifully told memoir of a childhood lived to the full in a far-flung... -
The Mountains Next Door by Janice Emily Bowers 9780816546992
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €17.89The Rincon Mountains east of Tucson are a small and seemingly undistinguished range; rounded and arid, they are more a site for foothill walks than serious exploring. Yet, upon close inspection,... -
Butler Plays 2: Airbag; I'll Be the Devil; Faces in the Crowd; Juicy Fruits; 69; Do It! by Leo Butler 9781350006294
RRP: €108.00Booksplease Price: €107.23Butler Plays: Two brings together a selection of Leo Butler's work, currently both published and previously unpublished, covering the years 2007 to 2013. It showcases his incredible variety in style... -
Liars! Cheaters! Evildoers!: Demonization and the End of Civil Debate in American Politics by Tom De Luca 9780814719749 [USED COPY]
RRP: €81.60Booksplease Price: €12.54The level of vitriol in American politics has been rising with no end in sight. Terms like "evildoer," "war on terror," and "axis of evil" have become commonplace in our discussion of international... -
Liars! Cheaters! Evildoers!: Demonization and the End of Civil Debate in American Politics by Tom De Luca 9780814719756
RRP: €31.19Booksplease Price: €26.93The level of vitriol in American politics has been rising with no end in sight. Terms like "evildoer," "war on terror," and "axis of evil" have become commonplace in our discussion of international... -
Gulliver's Travels: and Alexander Pope's Verses on Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €8.20'Among the six indispensable books in world literature' George Orwell ... -
O Brother by John Niven 9781805303343
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZELONGLISTED FOR SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL BOOK AWARDA GUARDIAN BEST MEMOIR OF 2023A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023John Niven's little... -
Trim, The Cartographer's Cat by Matthew Flinders 9781472967220
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €14.96Not many ships' cats have even one memorial statue, let alone six. But Trim does, including one outside Euston Station in London, proudly unveiled by Prince William on the bicentenary of Matthew...