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Island Dreams: Mapping an Obsession by Gavin Francis
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.68SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARIn Island Dreams, Gavin Francis examines our collective fascination with islands. He blends stories of his own travels with psychology, philosophy and... -
The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum Sarah Wise 9781844133314
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'An excellent and intelligent investigation of the realities of urban living that respond to no design or directive... This is a book about the nature of London itself' Peter Ackroyd, The TimesA... -
Let Me Not Be Mad: A Story of Unravelling Minds by A K Benjamin
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Let Me Not Be Mad is an immersive, virtuosic and provocative investigation of madness, love and self-destruction that defies categorisation. 'Exhilarating ... dazzling ... a miraculous feat'... -
The Undiscovered Country: Journeys Among the Dead by Carl Watkins 9780099548584
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47'This is a wonderful book: curious and insightful' Ian Mortimer, author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval EnglandWe know what happens to the body when we die, but what happens to the soul?... -
The Case for Love: Reflections on a Medical Career by A K Benjamin
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.11An exhilarating journey into the unfathomable depths of the human mind, from the acclaimed author of Let Me Not Be Mad.What does it take to care for a stranger? Really care.The Case for Love is a... -
The Unrecovered: A richly atmospheric gothic tale of madness, war and all-encompassing obsession set in Scotland Richard Strachan 9781526670557
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.97Shortlisted for the Bloody Scotland Debut prize 'Beautifully written' Michelle Paver'I devoured this' Rebecca Netley'A rare gem of gothic literature' A. M. ShineAt a Scottish manor house... -
The Secret Lore of London: The city's forgotten stories and mythology by 9781473620247
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.68With a foreword by Iain Sinclair. London is an ancient city, whose foundation dates back literally thousands of years into the legendary prehistory of these islands. Not surprisingly it has... -
Invisible Lines: Boundaries and Belts That Define the World by Maxim Samson 9781800814998
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.56'An illuminating glimpse of the chain reactions of human and physical geography.' Financial Times 'A truly original adventure into new ways of exploring what we mean by a sense of place.' Simon... -
The Unrecovered by Richard Strachan 9781526670540
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.38'Beautifully written' Michelle Paver 'Stunning' Rebecca Netley'Eerie' Naomi Kelsey 'Compulsive' Martin MacInnesWhat the years have buried, is about to be exposed...The gloomy fortress of Gallondean... -
Sun Country: Writing My Way Home Howard Cunnell 9781526691606
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.84'One of Britain's most distinctive and trustworthy voices ... A beautiful book' TIM WINTON'A book to lose yourself inside, and emerge from with enhanced clarity and wisdom' FRANCES WILSON'Tender and... -
Watling Street: Travels Through Britain and Its Ever-Present Past by John Higgs
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A journey along one of Britain's oldest roads, from Dover to Anglesey, in search of the hidden history that makes us who we are today.'A bravura piece of writing - Bill Bryson on acid' Tom... -
Rombo by Esther Kinsky
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In May and September 1976, two earthquakes ripped through north-eastern Italy, causing severe damage to the landscape and its population. About a thousand people died under the rubble, tens of... -
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Watling Street: Travels Through Britain and Its Ever-Present Past by John Higgs 9781474603485 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.26A journey along one of Britain's oldest roads, from Dover to Anglesey, in search of the hidden history that makes us who we are today.'A bravura piece of writing - Bill Bryson on acid' Tom... -
Strandings: Confessions of a Whale Scavenger by Peter Riley
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.04'Wild and wonderful ... I doubt anyone will ever match Strandings for its sheer bravura, its wry insight, and its absolute, engulfing, and brilliantly enlivening whaleheadedness' PHILIP HOARE,... -
Speak, Silence: In Search of W. G. Sebald by Carole Angier 9781526634795
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.12A SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'The best biography I have read in years' Philippe Sands 'Spectacular' Observer 'A remarkable portrait' Guardian W. G. Sebald was one... -
Speak, Silence: In Search of W. G. Sebald by Carole Angier
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16A SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'The best biography I have read in years' Philippe Sands 'Spectacular' Observer 'A remarkable portrait' Guardian W. G. Sebald was one... -
The Mercenary River: Private Greed, Public Good: A History of London's Water Nick Higham 9781472283863
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Anyone interested in the real London needs to read this. - Andrew MarrNo city can survive without water, and lots of it. Today we take the stuff for granted: turn a tap and it gushes out. But it... -
Climbers: With an introduction by Robert Macfarlane by M. John Harrison
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'No one alive can write sentences like he can. He's the missing evolutionary link between William Burroughs and Virginia Woolf' Olivia Laing'Among the most brilliant novelists writing today' Robert... -
William Blake vs the World by John Higgs
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Fascinating' The Times'Blakeian in its singularity' New Statesman'A wonderful adventure' Irish Times'Rich, complex and original' Tom Holland'A crisp, ambitious and thoroughly contemporary...