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Nineties Spirit: Music Caught on Camera Paul Bergen 9783961714124
RRP: £49.95Booksplease Price: £35.93"Nineties Spirit is comprehensive, compelling and at times emotional. It's a must-have for any fan of music." - Amateur Photographer "As a time capsule of the music industry in the 1990s... Nineties... -
Book of Mercy by Leonard Cohen
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The poems in Book of Mercy brim with praise, despair, anger, doubt and trust. Speaking from the heart of the modern world, yet in tones that resonate with an older devotional tradition, these verses... -
LOW: Bowie's Berlin Years Reinhard Kleist 9781914224287
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.95LOW traces the aftermath of David Bowie's ground-breaking tour of America, and the iconic "Berlin years" that followed. Hot on the platform heels of Starman: Bowie's Stardust Years (SelfMadeHero,... -
Let Us Compare Mythologies by Leonard Cohen
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31First published in 1956 when he was twenty-two years old, Let Us Compare Mythologies is Leonard Cohen's first collection of poetry. It is an accomplished and passionate collection which demonstrates... -
Speeches of Note: A celebration of the old, new and unspoken by Shaun Usher
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.67______________________A richly illustrated and wonderfully eclectic collection of THE WORLD'S GREATEST SPEECHES - THE OLD, THE NEW AND THE UNSPOKEN - from the author of the international bestseller,... -
Essentials by David Whyte
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £8.88'Great poems,' David Whyte has said, 'are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body.' Essentials is a collection of his own best poems, each in their way about capturing... -
Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words by David Whyte
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.78In Consolations David Whyte unpacks aspects of being human that many of us spend our lives trying vainly to avoid - loss, heartbreak, vulnerability, fear - boldly reinterpreting them, fully embracing... -
Do Not Go Gentle: The Case Against Assisted Death by Kathleen Stock 9780349136646
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.50"Do Not Go Gentle is a bracing, often chilling wrestle with the ethical dilemmas surrounding the assisted death service - a deeply unsettling read, clear and powerful. Kathleen Stock remains... -
The Spirit of Hope Byung-Chul Han 9781509565191
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.60A spectre is haunting us: fear. We are constantly confronted with apocalyptic scenarios: pandemics, world war, the climate catastrophe. Images of the end of the world and the end of human... -
Pop Stars on Film: Popular Culture in a Global Market Dr. Kirsty Fairclough 9781501372551
Booksplease Price: £32.95Pop stars have provided audiences with performative moments that have become ingrained in popular consciousness. They are a lens through which deeper understandings about race, gender, politics,... -
SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.98"Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the... -
Pop Stars on Film: Popular Culture in a Global Market by Dr. Kirsty Fairclough 9781501372513
Booksplease Price: £105.96Pop stars have provided audiences with performative moments that have become ingrained in popular consciousness. They are a lens through which deeper understandings about race, gender, politics,... -
Creative and Aesthetic Ways of Grief: "All Things Reimagined" Mórna O’Connor 9781041046516
Booksplease Price: £37.58Inspired by the grief of Australian musician Nick Cave, this edited anthology presents a host of creative and aesthetic ways of living with grief. In doing so, it challenges persistent attempts to... -
Letters of Note: Music by Shaun Usher
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.39In Letters of Note: Music, Shaun Usher brings together a riveting collection of letters by and about some of the musicians and music that enrich our lives. It is a wonderfully wide-ranging and... -
Forever Words: The Unknown Poems by Johnny Cash
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Since his first recordings in 1955, Johnny Cash has been an icon in the music world. In his newly discovered poems and song lyrics, we see the world through his eyes. The poetry reveals his depth of... -
Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer: The Guitarist Who Changed the Sound of American Music by Philip Watson
Booksplease Price: £21.95The definitive biography of guitar icon and Grammy Award-winning artist Bill Frisell.FEATURING EXCLUSIVE LISTENING SESSIONS WITH: Paul Simon; Justin Vernon of Bon Iver; Gus Van Sant; Rhiannon... -
In Her Place: Nashville Artists in the Twenty-First Century by Kathryn E. Delmez 9780826508348
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £31.45In Her Place charts a network of artists working at a high caliber with deceptively specific criteria-they are all women, and they all work in Nashville, Tennessee. The plurality of styles, subjects,... -
Forever Words: The Unknown Poems by Johnny Cash 9781838857943
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Since his first recordings in 1955, Johnny Cash has been an icon in the music world. In his newly discovered poems and song lyrics, we see the world through his eyes. The poetry reveals his depth of... -
Iconic Artists: A Celebration of the World's Extraordinary Artists David Lee Csicsko 9781951963217
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.00Iconic Artists highlights the origin and contributions of some of the world's most remarkable and gifted artists throughout history. Bold, whimsical illustrations by David Lee Csicsko along with... -
Depeche Mode by Anton Corbijn by Reuel Golden 9783836597999
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.79In November 2020, Depeche Mode were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and Dave Gahan, accepting the honour, said: "I'd like to thank Anton Corbijn who thank God came in at the right... -
Berlin Calling: A Story of Anarchy, Music, the Wall, and the Birth of the New Berlin by Paul Hockenos 9781620978849
Booksplease Price: £18.81An exhilarating journey through the subcultures, the occupied squats, and late-night scenes in the anarchic first few years of Berlin after the fall of the Wall Berlin Calling is a... -
Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words That Move Them by Holden 9781471134906 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.40'The best leave you with a renewed sense of how extraordinary it is that poetry can, over the course of one sentence, flood your circuit board with loss, or anger, or love' Independent From J.J... -
Consolations II David Whyte 9781837263486
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73David Whyte's Consolations use everyday words to present us with a prism through which to better understand ourselves and the lives we walk through. At the request of readers globally, Whyte returns... -
Rayne and Delilah's Midnite Matinee by Jeff Zentner 9781783447992
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37Josie and Delia are best friends and co-hosts on their own public access TV show, Midnite Matinee. They dress as vampires Rayne and Delilah, perform daft skits involving skeleton raves and dog... -
Goth: Undead Subculture by Michael Bibby
Booksplease Price: £39.78Since it first emerged from Britain's punk-rock scene in the late 1970s, goth subculture has haunted postmodern culture and society, reinventing itself inside and against the mainstream. Goth: Undead... -
Exploring U2: Is This Rock 'n' Roll?: Essays on the Music, Work, and Influence of U2 by Scott D. Calhoun 9781442243538
Booksplease Price: £38.80Exploring U2: Is This Rock 'n' Roll? features new writing in the growing field of U2 studies. Edited by Scott Calhoun, with a foreword by Anthony DeCurtis, Exploring U2 contains selections from the... -
An Incomplete Archive of Activist Art: The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation by Sara Reisman
Booksplease Price: £48.55The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation: A Collective Legacy is a two-volume book documenting the Rubin Foundation's art and social justice mission. Conceived as a critical and educational resource for... -
Madness One Step Beyond by Terry Edwards
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.54Through extensive interviews with the band, as well as producers Clive Langer & Alan Winstanley, Terry Edwards tells the inside story of how Madness rose to be the most successful singles band of the... -
Gun Love by Jennifer Clement 9781784706760
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49**Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction 2018** ... -
Goth: Undead Subculture by Michael Bibby 9780822339083
RRP: £128.00Booksplease Price: £102.70Since it first emerged from Britain's punk-rock scene in the late 1970s, goth subculture has haunted postmodern culture and society, reinventing itself inside and against the mainstream. Goth: Undead... -
I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home by Jami Attenberg
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12'I was so captivated by this book, so utterly drawn in and overwhelmed by the emotional force of it, that it stayed in my bloodstream, it felt, long after I'd finished it.' Nigella Lawson 'Sharp... -
On Mysticism: The Experience of Ecstasy Simon Critchley 9781800816947
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81'A significant and courageous invitation to think again about the kinds of thinking that matter; the kinds of thinking that keep us awake' Rowan Williams Mysticism has been called 'experience at... -
I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home Jami Attenberg 9781788169820
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.15A TIMES LITERARY NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 A TIME MAGAZINE MUST-READ BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 'I was so captivated by this book, so utterly drawn in and overwhelmed by the emotional force of... -
36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le 9781805300762
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23An explosive, devastating debut poetry book from the winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem is an urgent, unsettling reckoning with identity - and the violence of... -
Finding Duende: Duende: Play and Theory | Imagination, Inspiration, Evasion by Federico García Lorca 9781736189375
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £18.00A new translation of Federico Garcia Lorca's captivating lecture on duende. For years, Federico Garcia Lorca's lecture on duende has been a source of insight for writers and performers, including Ted... -
Various Artists' I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen by Ray Padgett
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.54When I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen hit stores in 1991, Leonard Cohen's career had plummeted from its revered 1960s high. Cohen's record label had refused to release his 1984 album Various... -
The Lula Cafe Cookbook: Collected Recipes and Stories by Jason Hammel 9781838667535
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £24.31'A colorful, conversational, idea-pricking cookbook is always a welcome host gift, and this on - hits all the right notes.' - Vanity Fair The debut cookbook from Jason Hammel, showcasing the all-day... -
The Heavenly Table by Donald Ray Pollock 9781784703240
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Cane, Cob and Chimney Jewett are young Georgia sharecroppers held under the thumb of their God-fearing father, Pearl. When he dies unexpectedly, they set out on horseback for Canada, robbing and... -
Sympathy for the Drummer: Why Charlie Watts Matters by Mike Edison
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.74Sympathy for the Drummer: Why Charlie Watts Matters is both a gonzo rush capturing the bristling energy of the Rolling Stones and the times in which they lived and a wide-eyed reflection on why the... -
Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting Sarah Howgate 9781855148154
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £28.10Drawing into Painting reveals Lucian Freud's lifelong focus on the human face and form, tracing the intimate dialogue between his sketches and paintings from the 1930s to the early 21st century...