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Generative AI in Higher Education: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Kätlin Pulk 9781035326013
Booksplease Price: £87.30This insightful book provides a much-needed exploration into how the rapid expansion of generative AI over the last few years has impacted higher education. Addressing the good, the bad, and the ugly... -
The Great British Dream Factory: The Strange History of Our National Imagination by Dominic Sandbrook
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.99'Delightfully good ... an exuberant and learned celebration of British culture ... full of love for and fascination with everything from the origins of heavy metal in the metal-bashing industries of... -
Language, Mind, and Value: Essays on Wittgenstein by Severin Schroeder 9781839990229
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09This book is a collection of 15 essays on important themes in Wittgenstein's philosophy, divided into three sections. The first section is about philosophy of language, in particular Wittgenstein's... -
From The Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey by Pascal Khoo Thwe
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95The 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.23Nicky 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.63SHORTLISTED 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,... -
Let Not the Waves of the Sea by Simon Stephenson
Booksplease Price: £20.70LET 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Most 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,... -
A Research Agenda for Transport Policy John Stanley 9781800881358
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £30.59Elgar 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: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Wittgenstein 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: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Plato'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... -
Fin by James Delingpole 9781447261469
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52Save 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... -
Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979-1982 by Dominic Sandbrook
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.68SELECTED 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... -
Agent Sonya: Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy by Ben MacIntyre
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.59THE 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.55Shortlisted 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... -
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben MacIntyre
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £6.98THE 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: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09This 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: £7.99Booksplease Price: £1.92'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... -
My Former Heart by Cressida Connolly 9780007356355
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'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: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.55An 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: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.55'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... -
Whistling in the Dark Richard Mabey 9781836005711
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.56Eminent 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... -
Elucidating the Tractatus: Wittgenstein's Early Philosophy of Logic and Language by Marie McGinn 9780199244447
Booksplease Price: £69.05Discussion 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: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16'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... -
Broken Archangel: The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement Roland Philipps 9781529931532
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Pioneering 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... -
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My Former Heart by Cressida Connolly 9780007356355 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.27'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... -
Film Freak by Christopher Fowler
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.03It'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: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.68In 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... -
Wait For Me!: Memoirs of the Youngest Mitford Sister Deborah Devonshire 9781848541917
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Deborah 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... -
Elite Universities and the Making of Privilege: Exploring Race and Class in Global Educational Economies by Kalwant Bhopal
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £36.28Providing 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'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... -
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Wait For Me!: Memoirs of the Youngest Mitford Sister by Deborah Devonshire 9781848541917 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.32Deborah 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: £20.00Booksplease Price: £2.58NEW 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: £30.99Booksplease Price: £30.34This 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42In 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... -
The Poison Line: The shocking true story of how a miracle cure became a deadly poison by Cara McGoogan 9780241627501
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £12.44The 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... -
Disaster Anarchy: Mutual Aid and Radical Action by Rhiannon Firth 9780745340456
Booksplease Price: £85.65'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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95After 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,... -
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My Bonnie: How dementia stole the love of my life by John Suchet 9780007328413 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.32After 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: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.04'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...