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Let Not the Waves of the Sea by Simon Stephenson
Booksplease Price: $26.70LET NOT THE WAVES OF THE SEA is Simon Stephenson's account of his journey following the loss of his brother in the Indian Ocean tsunami. If it is a story of grief, it is also a story of hope and of... -
First Confession: A Sort of Memoir by Chris Patten
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Most politicians write autobiographies to 'set the record straight'. This is a different sort of memoir. Following his life as a self-confessed 'wet European' from parliament to Hong Kong and beyond,... -
From The Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey by Pascal Khoo Thwe
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.55The astonishing story of a young man's upbringing in a remote tribal village in Burma and his journey from his strife-torn country to the tranquil quads of Cambridge. In lyrical prose,... -
Cause for Alarm by Eric Ambler 9780141190327
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.62Nicky Marlow needs a job. He's engaged to be married and the employment market in Britain in 1937 is pretty slim. So when his fiancee points out the position with an English armaments manufacturer in... -
Monsieur X: The incredible story of the most audacious gambler in history by Jamie Reid 9781472942302
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.13SHORTLISTED FOR THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR AWARD 2019 Monsieur X is a dazzling tale of glamour, riches, violence and ultimately tragedy. Patrice des Moutis was a handsome,... -
A Research Agenda for Transport Policy John Stanley 9781800881358
RRP: $41.22Booksplease Price: $39.46Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of... -
Wittgenstein and Scientism by Jonathan Beale 9780367871703
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $55.57Wittgenstein criticised prevailing attitudes toward the sciences. The target of his criticisms was 'scientism': what he described as 'the overestimation of science'. This collection is the first... -
Great Books, Bad Arguments: Republic, Leviathan, and The Communist Manifesto by W. G. Runciman 9780691144764
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.52Plato's Republic, Hobbes's Leviathan, and Marx's Communist Manifesto are universally acknowledged classics of Western political thought. But how strong are the core arguments on which they base their... -
Agent Sonya: Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy by Ben MacIntyre
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.08THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERDiscover the incredible true story of WW2's most extraordinary spy - from the bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor. 'His best book yet' The... -
Gloucester Crescent: Me, My Dad and Other Grown-Ups William Miller 9781788160377
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $8.45Shortlisted for the 2019 PEN Ackerley Prize Gloucester Crescent is a curving, leafy street, tucked between Camden Town and Primrose Hill. It's unremarkable in many ways, unless you notice the lady... -
Fin by James Delingpole 9781447261469
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.15Save Our Sharks says the new kiddie-friendly cartoon propaganda poster in the atrium of my local swimming pool. And I'm thinking: "Fuck. Is nothing sacred?" I mean, whatever next? Save Our Cancerous... -
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben MacIntyre
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.08THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER An exciting Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians and the ultimate gift for anyone who loves a good spy thriller!'The best... -
Normativity, Meaning and Philosophy: Essays on Wittgenstein by Hans-Johann Glock 9781839983467
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $99.45This is a collection of essays on Wittgenstein and Wittgensteinian themes that appeared between 1996 and 2019. It is divided into three parts, with a common trajectory laid out in a substantial... -
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Swimming with My Father by Tim Jeal 9780571221011 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $2.48'Exquisitely written and wonderfully readable - There are tears, laughter and filial tenderness on every page of Tim Jeal's perfect gem of a book.' Val Hennessy, Daily MailAn exquisite and moving... -
Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979-1982 by Dominic Sandbrook
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.94SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 BY THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, LONDON EVENING STANDARD, DAILY MAIL AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE'Magisterial ... If anyone wants to know what has been happening to... -
My Former Heart by Cressida Connolly 9780007356355
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.66'Unusual and brilliant ... It has similarities to Alan Hollinghurst's The Stranger's Child.' Deborah Orr, Guardian A beautifully written novel, which tells a story of love and loss through... -
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One More Kilometre and We’re in the Showers by Tim Hilton 9780006532286 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $3.29An entertaining social and cultural history of cycling in post-war Europe seen through the eyes of a veteran racing cyclist. Written with great literary and historical relish, One More... -
Dylan's Visions of Sin Christopher Ricks 9780857862013
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.19'I consider myself a poet first and a musician second''It ain't the melodies that're important man, it's the words'There is no shortage of books about Bob Dylan. This one, however, is unique in its... -
Broken Archangel: The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement Roland Philipps 9781529931532
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20Pioneering human rights campaigner, patriot, romantic, traitor, LGBTQ+ martyr: this is the story of Roger Casement, one of the 20th century's most complex and compelling figures.'A book of met... -
Whistling in the Dark Richard Mabey 9781836005711
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.33Eminent and highly respected nature writer Richard Mabey regards Whistling in the Dark as one of his Top Ten most significant books. After being exceptionally well-received on publication, it remains... -
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My Former Heart by Cressida Connolly 9780007356355 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $2.93'Unusual and brilliant ... It has similarities to Alan Hollinghurst's The Stranger's Child.' Deborah Orr, Guardian A beautifully written novel, which tells a story of love and loss through... -
Elucidating the Tractatus: Wittgenstein's Early Philosophy of Logic and Language by Marie McGinn 9780199244447
Booksplease Price: $89.07Discussion of Wittgenstein's Tractatus is currently dominated by two opposing interpretations of the work: a metaphysical or realist reading and the 'resolute' reading of Diamond and Conant. Marie... -
The Final Testimony of Raphael Ignatius Phoenix: clever, captivating, and idiosyncratic. You won’t forget this novel by Paul Sussman 9780552779678
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.98'My name is Raphael Ignatius Phoenix and I am a hundred years old - or will be in ten days' time, in the early hours of January 1st, 2000, when I kill myself...'Raphael Ignatius Phoenix has had... -
Film Freak by Christopher Fowler
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.94It's the late 1970s and 20-something Christopher Fowler is a film freak, obsessively watching lousy films in run-down fleapit cinemas. He longs to be a famous screenwriter and put his dreams on the... -
Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First by Frank Trentmann
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.94In this monumental study, acclaimed historian Frank Trentmann unfolds the extraordinary history that has shaped our material world, from late Ming China, Renaissance Italy and the British Empire to... -
Elite Universities and the Making of Privilege: Exploring Race and Class in Global Educational Economies by Kalwant Bhopal
RRP: $49.01Booksplease Price: $46.80Providing an extraordinary picture of the inner workings of elite universities, Elite Universities and the Making of Privilege draws on current debates on education and inequality and considers the... -
Brainstorm: Detective Stories From the World of Neurology by Dr. Suzanne O'Sullivan
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51'I loved it. She is in my view the best science writer around - a true descendant of Oliver Sacks' Sathnam Sanghera, author of The Boy with the TopknotThe brain is the most complex structure in the... -
Wait For Me!: Memoirs of the Youngest Mitford Sister Deborah Devonshire 9781848541917
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95Deborah Devonshire is a natural writer with a knack for the telling phrase and for hitting the nail on the head. She tells the story of her upbringing, lovingly and wittily describing her parents (so... -
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Wait For Me!: Memoirs of the Youngest Mitford Sister by Deborah Devonshire 9781848541917 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $2.99Deborah Devonshire is a natural writer with a knack for the telling phrase and for hitting the nail on the head. She tells the story of her upbringing, lovingly and wittily describing her parents (so... -
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First Confession: A Sort of Memoir by Chris Patten 9780241275597 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $3.33NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017Most politicians write autobiographies to 'set the record straight' and provide retrospective justification for their careers. That is not the case with this book... -
Critical Pedagogy: An Exploration of Contemporary Themes and Issues Tomas Boronski 9781138105423
RRP: $39.98Booksplease Price: $39.14This accessible text provides a clear overview of the contemporary themes and challenges within critical pedagogy, and suggests a path towards a more conscientious world for all through education... -
The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate The World by Evgeny Morozov
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86In The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World Evgeny Morozov argues that our utopian, internet-centric thinking holds devastating consequences for the future of democracy. We were promised that... -
Disaster Anarchy: Mutual Aid and Radical Action by Rhiannon Firth 9780745340456
Booksplease Price: $110.49'Commendable - a book that prepares us to think about and react to system failures' - Peter Gelderloos Anarchists have been central in helping communities ravaged by disasters, stepping in when... -
My Bonnie: How dementia stole the love of my life by John Suchet 9780007328413
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.55After a whirlwind romance and a marriage that spanned decades, former face of ITV news, John Suchet, revealed on breakfast television that his beloved wife Bonnie was suffering with dementia,... -
Disaster Anarchy: Mutual Aid and Radical Action by Rhiannon Firth 9780745340463
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $27.14'Commendable - a book that prepares us to think about and react to system failures' - Peter Gelderloos Anarchists have been central in helping communities ravaged by disasters, stepping in when... -
The Inalienable Right Adam Macqueen 9781785634055
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97In the age of AIDS and Section 28: a secret that could change political historyIt is 1987, and Tommy Wildeblood has put his days as a Piccadilly Circus rent-boy long behind him. Slightly to his own... -
The Poison Line: The shocking true story of how a miracle cure became a deadly poison by Cara McGoogan 9780241627501
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $16.05The 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... -
Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal by Tristram Stuart 9780393349566
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $31.23With shortages, volatile prices and nearly one billion people hungry, the world has a food problem-or thinks it does. Farmers, manufacturers, supermarkets and consumers in North America and Europe... -
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The Labyrinth of Osiris by Paul Sussman 9780553818741 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $3.10AN ANCIENT MYSTERY HAS ALREADY TAKEN TWO LIVES... HOW MANY MORE WILL IT CLAIM?The bestselling, pulse-poundingarchaeological thriller by bestselling author Paul Sussman is a must-read for fans of Dan... -
The Siege: The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Drama by Ben Macintyre 9781405961745
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'Unforgettable' Independent'Fresh and gripping' TelegraphTHE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLEROn April 30, 1980, six heavily armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy on Princes Gate, overlooking...