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The Perfect Fool by Stewart Lee
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.39"The Perfect Fool" charts the progress of a collection of misfits, spread across the wide open spaces of Arizona and the narrow streets of South London, all unwittingly caught up in a quest for the... -
Tunnel Visions: Journeys of an Underground Philosopher by Christopher Ross 9781841155678
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $17.26When Christopher Ross put on a hi-visibility vest and joined London Underground as a station assistant, he discovered a Plato's cave of reflection and human comedy, populated by streakers, buskers,... -
Connemara: Listening to the Wind Tim Robinson 9781844880669
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38The first volume in Tim Robinson's phenomenal Connemara Trilogy - which Robert Macfarlane has called 'One of the most remarkable non-fiction projects undertaken in English'. In its landscape, history... -
Invisible Lines: Boundaries and Belts That Define the World Maxim Samson 9781800815001
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.50'A triumph, a volume of great good sense and imagination which brims with fascinations' SPECTATOR 'A truly original adventure into new ways of exploring what we mean by a sense of place' SIMON... -
Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now - As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It and Long for It by Craig Taylor 9781847083296 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $5.06The ground-breaking and bestselling group portrait of London today: a book as rich, dynamic, lively, and diverse as the city itself 'Epic' David Nicholls 'Electrifying' The Times 'This is a... -
Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now - As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It and Long for It by Craig Taylor 9781847083296
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70The ground-breaking and bestselling group portrait of London today: a book as rich, dynamic, lively, and diverse as the city itself 'Epic' David Nicholls 'Electrifying' The Times 'This is a... -
Ludluda: The Second Chronicle of Ludwich Jeff Noon 9781915998316
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54Concluding the epic two-book series from the highly celebrated and award-winning authors Jeff Noon and Steve Beard.Ludluda, the sequel to Gogmagog, takes us on a haunting and delightfully witty... -
The Great When: A Long London Novel Alan Moore 9781526643230
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.14A dark and beguiling tour through the streets of a magical London by the Sunday Times bestselling master of modern fantasy, Alan Moore The year is 1949, the city London. Dennis Knuckleyard is a... -
Estuary: Out from London to the Sea by Rachel Lichtenstein
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2017A hauntingly beautiful social history of the Thames Estuary, from the author of On Brick LaneOut at the eastern edge of England, between land and ocean, you... -
Gogmagog by Jeff Noon 9781915202826
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54Gogmagog tells the story of an epic journey through the sixty-mile long ghost of a dragon. We travel by boat, a rickety steam launch captained by Cady Meade, a veteran taxi pilot on the river Nysis... -
Explore Everything: Place-Hacking the City by Bradley Garrett 9781781685570
Booksplease Price: $60.54What does it feel like to find the city's edge, to explore its forgotten tunnels and scale unfinished skyscrapers high above the metropolis? Explore Everything reclaims the city, recasting it as a... -
The Complete Short Stories: Volume 1 by J. G. Ballard
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $30.53First in a two volume collection of short stories by the acclaimed author of 'Empire of the Sun', 'Crash' and 'Super-Cannes'. The new edition is introduced by Adam Thirwell. With eighteen... -
Modernity and Metropolis: Writing, Film and Urban Formations by Peter Brooker 9780333801680
Booksplease Price: $190.18A study of urban identity and community looks at selected twentieth century literary and film texts in the context of theorizations of modernism, postmodernism, postcoloniality and globalization... -
Mount London: Ascents in the Vertical City by 9781908058188
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.20Did you know that an invisible mountain is rising above the streets of the capital - and, at over 1,400 metres, it is Britain's highest peak? This ingenious new book is an account of the ascent of... -
The Day of Creation by J. G. Ballard 9780007227891
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.39'Classic Ballard. Mesmerising. No one writes with such haunting impact' William Boyd In parched, war-torn central Africa, Dr Mallory watches his clinic fail and dreams of discovering a... -
The Girl at the Door by Veronica Raimo 9780008326364
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $17.26A tense, provocative and nuanced novel about a rape accusation in an idyllic commune I was in my sixth month when the girl came knocking. The girl came... -
The Kindness of Women by J. G. Ballard 9780006547013
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.39'This is autobiography taken to the highest reaches of fiction, another wonderful novel of scorching power, shot through with honesty and lyricism' Observer The Kindness of Women continues... -
Extreme Metaphors by J. G. Ballard
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.81A startling and at times unsettlingly prescient collection of J. G. Ballard's greatest interviews. J.G. Ballard was a literary giant. Best known for his controversial bestseller 'Crash'... -
The Complete Short Stories: Volume 2 by J. G. Ballard 9780007245765
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $30.22The second in a two volume collection of short stories by the acclaimed author of 'Empire of the Sun', 'Crash' and 'Super-Cannes'. The new edition is introduced by Adam Thirwell. With... -
For Emma Ewan Morrison 9781914090967
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $18.50A Silicon Valley prodigy dies in a secret AI brain chip experiment.Her voice haunts her father and helps him plan the killing of the Big Tech CEO who destroyed her.For Emma is a ghost-in-the machine... -
Looking to Sea: Britain Through the Eyes of its Artists Lily Le Brun 9781529309218
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $33.33*One of The Times Best Art Books of the Year*'Looking to Sea is a remarkable and compelling book... I loved it.' Edmund de Waal'In her first, transporting book, Lily Le Brun sweeps the beaches of... -
Hollow by Brian Catling
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.84___________________________________________________________________________________"Brilliantly wrought... Wonderful... Catling's expertise, imagination and linguistic flair are well matched by his... -
Footnotes: How Running Makes Us Human by Vybarr Cregan-Reid
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $23.96Running is not just a sport. It reconnects us to our bodies and the places in which we live, breaking down our increasingly structured and demanding lives. It allows us to feel the world beneath our... -
Jumpin' Jack Flash: David Litvinoff and the Rock'n'Roll Underworld by Keiron Pim
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87'REVELATORY' - DAILY TELEGRAPH *****'FASCINATING' - OBSERVER'ENGROSSING' - DAILY MAIL'You'll worry at your hunger to keep on reading, but you won't be able to stop' - GUARDIAN, Book of the Year David... -
The Atrocity Exhibition by J. G. Ballard
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.05A prophetic and experimental masterpiece by J. G. Ballard, the acclaimed author of 'Crash' and 'Super-Cannes'. This edition includes explanatory notes from the author. The irrational,... -
All The Devils Are Here by David Seabrook 9781783784332
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70Twenty years ago, in a series of mysterious, incandescent writings, David Seabrook told of the places he knew best: the declining resort towns of the Kent coast. The pieces were no advert for the... -
Nights Out: Life in Cosmopolitan London by Judith R. Walkowitz 9780300151947
Booksplease Price: $74.38London's Soho district underwent a spectacular transformation between the late Victorian era and the end of the Second World War: its old buildings and dark streets infamous for sex, crime, political... -
Grove by Esther Kinsky 9781913097288
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38An unnamed narrator, recently bereaved, travels to Olevano, a small village south-east of Rome. It is winter, and from her temporary residence on a hill between village and cemetery, she embarks on... -
The Great When: A Long London Novel Alan Moore 9781526643247
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $17.30'I was in the wrong London. It was horrible. I'd fallen in by accident, and it was all alive and trying to eat me.' The year 1949, the city London.Hapless second-hand bookseller Dennis stumbles... -
Earth Shapers: How Humans Mastered Geography and Remade the World Maxim Samson 9781800815230
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $34.38Mountains, meridians, rivers and borders; these are some of the features that carve up the world on our maps and in our minds. But geography is far less set in stone than we might believe and, over... -
London: A History of 300 Years in 25 Buildings Paul Knox 9780300284249
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $21.17A lively new history of London told through twenty-five buildings, from iconic Georgian townhouses to the Shard A walk along any London street takes you past a wealth of seemingly ordinary... -
Scarp by Nick Papadimitriou
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.30AN INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR An extraordinary book by a man with a unique and inspiring perspective, SCARP will change the way you view the places and spaces around you, and reveal a forgotten... -
BOWIELAND: Walking In The Footsteps Of David Peter Carpenter 9781800961548
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $33.18BOWIE IS STILL OUT THERE...Following open heart surgery, poet and writer Peter Carpenter was given one instruction - 'Walk, if you want to stay on this planet'. And so when his hero and inspiration... -
High-Rise by J. G. Ballard
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.02From the author of 'Crash' and 'Cocaine Nights' comes an unnerving tale of life in a modern tower block running out of control. Within the concealing walls of an elegant forty-storey tower... -
Under the Hornbeams: A true story of life in the open by Emma Tarlo 9780571379804
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $25.18'Reading it feels like slowing down to take a breath' - EVENING STANDARD'Open-air theatre between two covers, powered by strength of character and beautiful writing.' - NICHOLAS CRANE'A stunning book... -
Reports from the Deep End Maxim Jakubowski 9781803363196
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.23A fascinating and unsettling anthology of 32 science fiction short stories in tribute to the prophetic dystopias of New Wave sci-fi pioneer, and literary titan of the twentieth century, J. G... -
Warrant Error by Robert Sheppard 9781848610187
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $26.50Warrant Error is not just a book about the war on terror, yet neither does it seek to evade it, but to exceed it. Each sonnet in the four sets of 24 (plus 4 other poems, making a hundred) evokes a... -
The Unlimited Dream Company by J. G. Ballard
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.02With a new introduction by John Gray and striking new cover from the artist Stanley Donwood, the author of 'Cocaine Nights' brings you the story of suburban London transformed into an exotic... -
The Cloven: Book Three in the Vorrh Trilogy by Brian Catling
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.84The Cloven is the epic climax to B. Catling's beloved genre-busting Vorrh Trilogy. In the stunning conclusion to Brian Catling's Vorrh trilogy, the colonial city of Essenwald gives up all its... -
New Collected Poems by Lee Harwood 9781848618558
RRP: $57.75Booksplease Price: $53.95Lee Harwood's work defines the poetry of an era that saw poetry itself at its most exciting, expansive and innovative. His achievement runs through the very core of these qualities and has enriched...