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The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in 18 Remarkable Lives by Adam Smyth 9781529932669
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.97A celebration of the printed book, told through the lives of 18 people who took it in radical new directions.* AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 * A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE SUMMER 2024 *'This... -
China's War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival by Rana Mitter
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $20.88Winner of the Duke of Westminster Medal for Military Literature Different countries give different opening dates for the period of the Second World War, but perhaps the most compelling is 1937, when... -
The Light that Failed: A Reckoning by Ivan Krastev
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $17.71*Winner of the 2020 Lionel Gelber Prize*FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST, PROSPECT and EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR PICKA landmark book that completely transforms our understanding of the crisis of... -
My Country by Mr Kassem Eid 9781408895139
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $16.40_______________ 'Powerful ... A humbling and important first-hand account of a brutal civil war in which as many as 500,000 people have died' - Guardian 'A memoir of resistance and survival... -
The Siege of Loyalty House: A new history of the English Civil War by Jessie Childs
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.97**A TIMES, GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, THE CRITIC, MAIL ON SUNDAY, ECONOMIST AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR**'A gifted narrative historian, eloquent, graceful and witty; the stories she tells are... -
Control+Alt+Chaos by Joe Tidy 9781783968763
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $24.34* 'An illuminating and often scary book' The Daily Telegraph 'Joe has a gift for uncovering stories others can't and turning them into something unforgettable. This book doesn't just tell a... -
Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism by Alison Piepmeier 9780814767528
RRP: $51.28Booksplease Price: $44.10The first book-length exploration of the quirky feminist booklets With names like The East Village Inky, Mend My Dress, Dear Stepdad, and I'm So Fucking Beautiful, zines created by girls and women... -
Politics On the Edge: The instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller from the host of hit podcast The Rest Is Politics by Rory Stewart 9781529922868 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $8.15The searing inside story of our broken politics from the former Cabinet minister and co-host of The Rest Is Politics. 'The most exceptional political memoir I've ever read' ALAN JOHNSON 'An instant... -
Politics On the Edge: The instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller from the host of hit podcast The Rest Is Politics by Rory Stewart 9781529922868
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.49The searing inside story of our broken politics from the former Cabinet minister and co-host of The Rest Is Politics. 'The most exceptional political memoir I've ever read' ALAN JOHNSON 'An instant... -
Float Up, Sing Down Laird Hunt 9781529434507
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $27.63From National Book Award Finalist Laird Hunt, a masterful collection of interwoven stories capturing one summer's day in Reagan-era Indiana.Candy Wilson has forgotten to buy the paprika. Turner Davis... -
Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book by Emma Smith
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $30.23Celebrating the 400th Anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare's First Folio This is the biography of a book: the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays printed in 1623 and known as... -
Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism by Mariana Mazzucato
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $17.54'One of the most influential economists in the world' WiredEven before the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, capitalism was stuck. It had no answers to a host of problems, including disease, inequality, the... -
Small Worlds: THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER by Caleb Azumah Nelson 9780241996041
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.11THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING NOVELWINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2024Dancing is the one thing that can solve Stephen's problems.At Church with his family, the shimmer of Black hands raised... -
A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind by Siri Hustvedt
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $17.59'A great mind that is constantly exploring, searching, "becoming" . . . an impressive collection' Elif Shafak, Observer'A phenomenal book' Claire Kohda Hazelton, Guardian'We are fortunate to have... -
Life and Afterlife in Ancient China by Jessica Rawson
RRP: $76.00Booksplease Price: $53.01A Prospect Book of the YearAn epic new history of Ancient China told through the prism of a dozen extraordinary tombsThe three millennia up to the establishment of the first imperial Qin dynasty in... -
Democracy and Equality: The Enduring Constitutional Vision of the Warren Court by Geoffrey R. Stone 9780190938208
RRP: $55.08Booksplease Price: $43.83From 1953 to 1969, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren brought about many of the proudest achievements of American constitutional law. The Warren declared racial segregation and laws... -
Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality by David Edmonds
RRP: $53.20Booksplease Price: $45.58From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein's Poker, an entertaining and illuminating biography of a brilliant philosopher who tried to rescue morality from nihilismDerek Parfit (1942-2017) is the... -
Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality David Edmonds 9780691225241
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $22.67From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein's Poker, an entertaining and illuminating biography of a brilliant philosopher who tried to rescue morality from nihilismDerek Parfit (1942-2017) is the... -
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer 9781529039313
RRP: $41.80Booksplease Price: $30.02LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZEA NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2024SELECTED FOR BARACK OBAMA'S READING LIST 2024'Urgent, extraordinary . . . a tribute to the astonishing indomitability of the... -
The Story of a Heart: From the author of Breathtaking, now a major ITV drama by Rachel Clarke 9780349145617
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.24WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN, NEW SCIENTIST, AND PROSPECT'What a book... -
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein 9781802061956
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54*THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION**A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE TIMES, NEW YORK TIMES, GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, AND PROSPECT*'If I had to name a... -
The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century by Jamie Susskind 9781526625298
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.58A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK TO READ _______________ 'One of the foremost thinkers on the transformative impact of the technology revolution' - TONY BLAIR 'Original and hopeful . . . a unique guide to... -
The New Middle East: The World After the Arab Spring by Paul Danahar
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $22.78The Arab revolts changed the Middle East forever. A movement for democratic change has dissolved into chaos and bloodshed. States are collapsing. Out of a wave of sectarian fervour unleashed by these... -
Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech by Jamie Susskind
RRP: $23.73Booksplease Price: $16.70Politics in the Twentieth Century was dominated by a single question: how much of our collective life should be determined by the state, and what should be left to the market and civil society? ... -
The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality by Andy Clark 9780141990583
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $17.54A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build our worlds'One of the most important books yet published this century' SpectatorFor as long as we've studied the mind, we've... -
Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion by Nicholas Spencer 9780861547302
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $15.90Most things you 'know' about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widespread today. 'A deeply researched history of the... -
The Story of a Heart: 'Profoundly moving and at the same time wildly inspiring' Rob Delaney Rachel Clarke 9780349145600
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $29.89SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN, NEW SCIENTIST, AND PROSPECTFROM... -
Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain by Sathnam Sanghera
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $13.26WINNER OF THE 2022 BRITISH BOOK AWARD FOR NARRATIVE NONFICTION***THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE CHANNEL 4 DOCUMENTARY 'EMPIRE STATE OF MIND'***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'The real remedy is education of... -
Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech by Jamie Susskind 9780198825616 [USED COPY]
RRP: $45.58Booksplease Price: $4.56Future Politics confronts one of the most important questions of our time: how will digital technology transform politics and society? The great political debate of the last century was about how... -
Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech Jamie Susskind (Barrister, Barrister, Littleton Chambers) 9780198825616
RRP: $45.58Booksplease Price: $37.98Future Politics confronts one of the most important questions of our time: how will digital technology transform politics and society? The great political debate of the last century was about how... -
The Story of a Heart: 'Profoundly moving and at the same time wildly inspiring' Rob Delaney Rachel Clarke 9780349145594
RRP: $41.80Booksplease Price: $26.56SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN, NEW SCIENTIST, AND PROSPECTFROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER DEAR LIFE AND... -
Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide by Tahir Hamut Izgil 9781787334014
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $27.63A Uyghur poet's piercing memoir of life under the most coercive surveillance regime in history***LITHUB'S #1 BEST-REVIEWED NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023*****A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR... -
It's Terrible The Things I Have to Do To Be Me: On Femininity and Fame by Philippa Snow 9780349017716
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $23.75'A brutal and brilliant study of female celebrity ... a joy to read, fizzing with intelligence' Megan Nolan, Telegraph'Wildly entertaining' Dazed'Snow's prose is beautiful, white-hot and breathless,... -
After the Romanovs: the extraordinary lives of Russian exiles in Paris between the wars by Helen Rappaport 9781914484766 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $14.54A TLS AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR The scintillating story of the Russian aristocrats, artists, and intellectuals who sought refuge in interwar Paris. The fall of the Romanov dynasty in 1917... -
The Changing of the Guard: the British army since 9/11 by Simon Akam
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $22.78A TLS and a Prospect Book of the Year A revelatory, explosive new analysis of the military today. Over the first two decades of the twenty-first century the British Army fought in Iraq and... -
The Poison Line: The shocking true story of how a miracle cure became a deadly poison by Cara McGoogan 9780241627501
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $23.64The shocking true story of the infected blood scandal, the worst treatment disaster in NHS history, which saw people infected with HIV by their own medical treatment, and a cover-up from governments... -
How to Love a Jamaican by Alexia Arthurs
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $19.95'In this thrilling debut collection Alexia Arthurs is all too easy to love.' Zadie Smith'Impressive' Observer'A summer must-read' StylistOne of Oprah Magazine's 15 Favourite Books of 2018.'There is a... -
The Poison Line: Life and Death in the Infected Blood Scandal by Cara McGoogan 9780241998397
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.11The shocking true story of the infected blood scandal: the worst treatment disaster in NHS history, which saw people infected with HIV by a revolutionary medical treatment and a cover-up from... -
The Vulnerables: 'Beautiful and profound' Meg Mason by Sigrid Nunez 9780349018119
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $23.52'A sharp-eyed and tender novel about human connection' (PAULA HAWKINS) from the bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend'Layered and thoughtful ... it's plainly written, but has... -
The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics by Benjamin J. Bruxvoort Lipscomb 9780197689967
RRP: $29.43Booksplease Price: $28.86The story of four remarkable women who shaped the intellectual history of the 20th century: Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch. On the cusp of the Second World War,...