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'Have You Seen...?': a Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films including masterpieces, oddities and guilty pleasures (with just a few disasters) by David Thomson 9780141020754
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $20.27David Thomson's 'Have You Seen?' - A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films is a quirky, idiosyncratic and hugely entertaining look at a century of cinema. This is veteran film writer David Thomson's... -
The Racket: On Tour with Tennis’s Golden Generation – and the other 99% Conor Niland 9780241998076
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER'Well worth a read if you want the inside track on life on the lower rungs of the tennis circuit. Warts and all.' Judy Murray'As elegant and powerful as a Federer backhand ..... -
The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World by Lewis Hyde
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91The Gift brilliantly argues for the importance of creativity in our increasingly money-driven society. Reaching deep into literature, anthropology and psychology Lewis Hyde's modern masterpiece has... -
Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle Ben Macintyre 9780241408520
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $25.19THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A master at setting the pulse racing' Daily Mail'A fine feat of storytelling . . . will surely become the last word on the subject'... -
The Deepest South of All: True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi by Richard Grant
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62Bestselling travel writer Richard Grant "sensitively probes the complex and troubled history of the oldest city on the Mississippi River through the eyes of a cast of eccentric and unexpected... -
The Marriage Plot Jeffrey Eugenides 9780007441303
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.80The new novel from the bestselling author of Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides. Brown University, 1982. Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English student and incurable romantic, is writing her... -
Television: A Biography by David Thomson 9780500519165
Booksplease Price: $34.78In just a few years, what used to be an immobile piece of living room furniture, which one had to sit in front of at appointed times in order to watch sponsored programming on a finite number of... -
The Known World by Edward P. Jones 9780007195305
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $10.68Masterful, Pulitzer-prize winning literary epic about the painful and complex realities of slave life on a Southern plantation. An utterly original exploration of race, trust and the cruel truths of... -
Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle by Ben MacIntyre 9780241986974
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $8.51THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - AND PERFECT GIFT FOR HISTORY BUFFS!'A master at setting the pulse racing' Daily Mail'A fine feat of storytelling . . . will surely become the last word on the... -
Ranger Games: A Story of Soldiers, Family and an Inexplicable Crime by Ben Blum
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.28A tense and layered true-crime story about an all-American soldier boy turned bank robber Alex Blum was a clean-cut all-American kid with one unshakeable goal in life: to serve his country... -
An-My Le: Events Ashore by 9781597112994
RRP: $77.40Booksplease Price: $56.15An-My Le's first publication, Small Wars, brought together three bodies of black-and-white work (Vietnam, Small Wars, and 29 Palms), offering a trilogy of tautly rendered examinations of the... -
In Writing: Conversations on Inspiration, Perspiration and Creative Desperation Hattie Crisell 9781803510637
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.03The must-have companion for any writer, based on Hattie Crisell's hit podcast. Hattie Crisell invites some of our most-read authors, poets, journalists and screenwriters to share their secrets, as... -
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-ravaged Hospital Sheri Fink 9781782393757
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56In the tradition of the best writing on human behaviour and moral choices in the face of disaster, physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstructs five days at New Orleans' Memorial Medical Center... -
D. H. Lawrence: Dying Game 1922-1930: The Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence by David Ellis 9781107402997
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $60.75Originally published in 1998, the final volume of the Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence chronicles his progress from leaving Europe in 1922 to his death in Venice in 1930. Based on much... -
The Correspondence J. D. Daniels 9781910702369
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51'What a nutjob!' - Geoff Dyer'Questions that occurred to me as I read this brilliant, baffling book: What the hell is this? Who the hell is this? Is this poetry?' - Tom BissellCan civilization save... -
Cheri by Jo Ann Beard 9781800817852
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $8.09An Irish Times Book of the Year 2023 'An extraordinary achievement' Mary Gaitskill 'In the hands of a maestro, less can be so much more' Independent Cheri has been living with cancer for... -
Brazil: A Biography by Heloisa M. Starling
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.55Shortlisted for the Jabuti Prize for the Best Brazilian Book Published Abroad'Engrossing ... eye-opening ... an enormously refreshing treat' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday TimesSince Europeans first... -
The Country and the City by Raymond Williams
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20Taking inspiration from classic authors from Jane Austen to Thomas Hardy, Williams shines a light on our society's changing views of the rural and industrial landscapes in which we work and live.Our... -
Short Life in a Strange World: Birth to Death in 42 Panels by Toby Ferris
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.77Sure to be hailed alongside H is for Hawk and The Hare with Amber Eyes, an exceptional work that is at once an astonishing journey across countries and continents, an immersive... -
Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial by Janet Malcolm
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.86Prizewinning journalist Janet Malcolm discovers the elements of Greek tragedy in a sensational New York City murder trial"Astringent and absorbing. . . . Iphigenia in Forest Hills casts, from its... -
Thomas Bernhard's Afterlives by Professor Olaf Berwald 9781501369261
Booksplease Price: $43.65In his prose fiction, memoirs, poetry, and drama, Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989)--one of the 20th century's most uniquely gifted writers--created a new and radical style, seemingly out of thin air. His... -
The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald 9780811226158
Booksplease Price: $15.29The Rings of Saturn-with its curious archive of photographs-records a walking tour of the eastern coast of England. A few of the things which cross the path and mind of its narrator (who both is and... -
Stoner: A Novel by John Williams
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $8.31Read the greatest rediscovered classic of recent years ... -
Underworld by Don DeLillo 9781529092097
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.08Underworld opens - famously - at the Dodgers-Giants 1951 National League final, where Bobby Thomson hits The Shot Heard Round the World and wins the pennant race for the Giants. But on the other side... -
Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner 9781847086914
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43'The sharpest and funniest novel I read this year' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday A hilarious, intelligent cult classic, from one of the most celebrated contemporary novelists. Adam Gordon is a... -
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95Winner of the Pulitzer Price and William Hill Sports Book of the Year: Barbarian Days is a deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer looking for transcendence 'that recalls early James... -
Burning Man: The Ascent of DH Lawrence by Frances Wilson
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62**LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2021** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2021** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE** **FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PLUTARCH... -
Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner 9781803510040
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43'The sharpest and funniest novel I read this year' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday A hilarious, intelligent cult classic, from one of the most celebrated contemporary novelists. Adam Gordon is a... -
Unfinished Business by Michael Bracewell
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $11.25UNFINISHED BUSINESS focuses on an ordinary suburban office worker, fundamentally weak but always keeping his eyes fixed on some horizon where a heightened, romantic, better world must surely exist. ... -
We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver 9781846687341
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.27WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2010 ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD Eva never really wanted to be a mother; certainly not the mother of a boy named Kevin who murdered seven of his fellow high... -
Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories by Svetlana Alexievich
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26Selected as a Book of the Year 2019 by The Times and Telegraph'Astonishing. . . Like the great Russian novels, these testimonials ring with emotional truth' - Caroline Moorehead,... -
We Need To Talk About Kevin Lionel Shriver 9781781255674
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2010 ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD Eva never really wanted to be a mother; certainly not the mother of a boy named Kevin who murdered seven of his fellow high... -
William Blake and The Sea Monsters of Love Philip Hoare 9780008534387
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.80Named a BOOK OF THE YEAR by The Times and Sunday Times, New Statesman, Spectator, Prospect, and New Yorker. 'Undoubtedly Hoare's masterpiece' Olivia Laing ... -
A Time of Youth: San Francisco, 1966–1967 by William Gedney
RRP: $46.44Booksplease Price: $39.77A year before 1967's famed Summer of Love, documentary photographer William Gedney set out for San Francisco on a Guggenheim Fellowship to record "aspects of our culture which I believe significant... -
The Emigrants by W. G. Sebald 9780811226141
Booksplease Price: $13.42The four long narratives in The Emigrants appear at first to be the straightforward biographies of four Germans in exile. Sebald reconstructs the lives of a painter, a doctor, an elementary-school... -
In Writing: Conversations on Inspiration, Perspiration and Creative Desperation Hattie Crisell 9781803510651
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26In these intimate and frank conversations with some of our best-loved writers, Hattie Crisell uncovers the mysteries of the creative process, asking: Where do ideas come from? How do stories find... -
Isolarion: A Different Oxford Journey by James Attlee 9781911508908
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.82Can you be a pilgrim without leaving your life behind? How does it feel to approach everyday places with the same reverence as grand cathedrals? And how are we changed by even the smallest of... -
Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR CRITICISM 2019From the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Changing My Mind and Swing Time - discover a second unmissable... -
Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot by Mark Vanhoenacker
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20**Sunday Times Bestseller****Book of the Week on Radio 4**'A beautiful book about a part of the modern world which remains genuinely magical' Mark Haddon'One of the most constantly fascinating, but... -
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives David Eagleman 9781847674272
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43In the afterlife you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. Or you may find the afterlife contains only those people whom you remember. In some afterlives you are...