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How to Grow a Human: Adventures in Who We Are and How We Are Made by Philip Ball
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12A cutting-edge examination of what it means to be human and to have a 'self' in the face of new scientific developments in genetic editing, cloning and neural downloading. After seeing his... -
Sylvia, Queen Of The Headhunters: An Outrageous Englishwoman And Her Lost Kingdom Philip Eade 9780753823811
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The biography of the last Ranee of Sarawak, born into the aristocracy as Sylvia Brett in 1885 and destined to become 'Queen of the Headhunters'.'Jaw-dropping ... If you thought White Mischief the... -
The Coming Wave: The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the ultimate AI insider Mustafa Suleyman 9781529923834
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15*An Economist, Financial Times, Guardian, Prospect and Sunday Times Book of the Year*Shortlisted for the FT and Schroders Business Book of the YearThis is the only book you need to understand our new... -
Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics by Matthew Goodwin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**A Financial Times 2023 book to watch*'Forceful ... The fundamental thrust of Goodwin's argument is right ... a new centre ground of British politics is being formed -... -
Gun Island: A spellbinding, globe-trotting novel by the bestselling author of the Ibis trilogy Amitav Ghosh 9781473686687
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Bundook. Gun. A common word, but one which turns Deen Datta's world upside down.A dealer of rare books, Deen is used to a quiet life spent indoors, but as his once-solid beliefs begin to shift, he is... -
Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon 9781529156171
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024FOYLE'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023LONGLISTED FOR BLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023ONE OF THE... -
China's War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival by Rana Mitter
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.99Winner 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.44*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... -
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Bread for All: The Origins of the Welfare State by Chris Renwick 9780241186688 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £2.58SHORTLISTED FOR THE LONGMAN-HISTORY TODAY PRIZE 2018LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 'Makes a gripping human story out of the wisest and most progressive policy achievement of any government in... -
The Siege of Loyalty House: A new history of the English Civil War by Jessie Childs
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46**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: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.81* '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... -
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: £10.99Booksplease 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... -
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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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £4.29The 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... -
Common Writing: Essays on Literary Culture and Public Debate by Stefan Collini 9780198813118
Booksplease Price: £31.27In a series of penetrating and attractively readable essays, Stefan Collini explores aspects of the literary and intellectual culture of Britain from the early twentieth century to the present... -
My Country by Mr Kassem Eid 9781408895139
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.63_______________ '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... -
Float Up, Sing Down Laird Hunt 9781529434507
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54From 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... -
Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism by Mariana Mazzucato
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.73THE 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'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... -
Rise Up Women!: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes by Diane Atkinson
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.99A Telegraph Book of 2018 An Observer Pick of 2018 A New Statesman Book of 2018 A definitive history and anarchic celebration of the fight for women's right to vote; 'A huge achievement' Rachel... -
Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book by Emma Smith
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £15.91Celebrating 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... -
Life and Afterlife in Ancient China by Jessica Rawson
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £27.90A 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... -
The North Will Rise Again: In Search of the Future in Northern Heartlands by Alex Niven 9781399414012
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78"Incorporating sharp questions and big ideas, Niven shifts deftly between history, politics, culture and literature to offer a fascinating and provocative analysis of the marginalisation of the North... -
Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe by Roger Penrose
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.81What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? Surely, theoretical physicists are immune to mere trends, dogmatic... -
Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality David Edmonds 9780691225241
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.99From 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... -
The Story of a Heart: From the author of Breathtaking, now a major ITV drama by Rachel Clarke 9780349145617
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02WINNER 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... -
Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality by David Edmonds
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.99From 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... -
Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion by Nicholas Spencer 9780861547302
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.37Most 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... -
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein 9781802061956
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23*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 Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality by Andy Clark 9780141990583
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A 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... -
The New Middle East: The World After the Arab Spring by Paul Danahar
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.99The 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: £12.49Booksplease Price: £8.53Politics 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 Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century by Jamie Susskind 9781526625298
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78A 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... -
Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain by Sathnam Sanghera
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.42WINNER 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... -
The Story of a Heart: 'Profoundly moving and at the same time wildly inspiring' Rob Delaney Rachel Clarke 9780349145594
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £13.60SHORTLISTED 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... -
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Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech by Jamie Susskind 9780198825616 [USED COPY]
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £2.40Future 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: £23.99Booksplease Price: £19.99Future 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 9780349145600
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.20SHORTLISTED 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... -
The Changing of the Guard: the British army since 9/11 by Simon Akam
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.99A 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... -
It's Terrible The Things I Have to Do To Be Me: On Femininity and Fame by Philippa Snow 9780349017716
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £12.50'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,...