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An American Dream by Norman Mailer
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95As Stephen Rojack, a decorated war hero and former congressman who murders his wife in a fashionable New York City high-rise, runs amok through the city in which he was once a privileged citizen,... -
Moments of Reprieve by Primo Levi
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century: a man who survived one of the ugliest times in history, yet who was able to describe his own Auschwitz... -
In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences by Truman Capote 9780141043081
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Controversial and compelling, In Cold Blood reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and children. Truman Capote's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation... -
Rich People Problems: The outrageously funny summer read Kevin Kwan 9781786091086
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.15THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERPRE-ORDER THE NEWEST NOVEL BY KEVIN KWAN, LIES AND WEDDINGS: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lies-Weddings-Kevin-Kwan/dp/1529152844'Flashy, funny ... Delicious ... A memorable,... -
In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences by Truman Capote
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The chilling true crime 'non-fiction novel' that made Truman Capote's name, In Cold Blood is a seminal work of modern prose, a remarkable synthesis of journalistic skill and powerfully evocative... -
A Tranquil Star: Unpublished Stories by Primo Levi
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century. This landmark selection of his short stories opens up a world of wonder, love, cruelty and curious twists of... -
The Proud Highway by Hunter S. Thompson 9781408822937
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54_____________ 'Brilliant' - Observer 'Vivid, hyperactive, combative, ferociously intelligent and iconoclastic' - Guardian 'Splendidly corrosive' - Independent _____________ The Proud... -
Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49THE ICONIC AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING PHENOMENON CRAZY RICH ASIANS RETURNS WITH THE GLITTERING TALE OF A YOUNG WOMAN WHO FINDS HERSELF TORN BETWEEN TWO MEN.'Your perfect summer read' Daily... -
The Naked and the Dead Norman Mailer 9780241340493
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Based on Mailer's own experience of military service in the Philippines during World War Two, The Naked and the Dead' is a graphically truthful and shattering portrayal of ordinary men in battle... -
Lake Success by Gary Shteyngart
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95*Over 50 Best of 2018 listings worldwide* 'Gary Shteyngart hears America perfectly; its fatuity, its poignant lament, its boisterous self-loathing. Its heartbeat. Reading him sometimes makes me want... -
In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences by Truman Capote 9780241956830
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Considered by many to be the first work of the true crime genre, this ground-breaking book reconstructs the murder of the Clutter family from information provided by newspaper articles and interviews... -
Will by Will Self 9780141046402
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.99'Darkly angelic prose... a joy to read, with the final part in particular recalling David Foster Wallace at his best' Alex Preston, Observer ________________________________ Will's mother's hokey... -
On the Road by Jack Kerouac 9780241951538
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.25On the Road by Jack Kerouac is the exhilarating novel that defined the Beat Generation and is a 2012 major motion picture starring Kristen Stewart, Kirsten Dunst and Sam Riley, beautifully repackaged... -
Ascent: From the creator of Bodyguard and Line of Duty by Jed Mercurio 9780099468523
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A truly stunning novel of one man's dangerous obsession with immortality, from the BAFTA award-winning creator of Bodyguard and Line of Duty and co-creator of the graphic novel Sleeper.ONE OF THE... -
Out of Uniform, Second Edition: Your Guide to a Successful Military-to-Civilian Career Transition by Thomas Wolfe 9781640120006
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46After completing military service, veterans can have a difficult time finding employment when returning to civilian life. Out of Uniform, Second Edition is designed to help all transitioning military... -
The Affluent Society: Updated with a New Introduction by the Author by John Kenneth Galbraith
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23John Kenneth Galbraith's international bestseller The Affluent Society is a witty, graceful and devastating attack on some of our most cherished economic myths. As relevant today as when it was... -
The Bogey Man: A Month on the PGA Tour by George Plimpton
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46From the author of Paper Lion What happens when a weekend athlete - of average skill at best - joins the professional golf circuit? George Plimpton spent a month of self-imposed torture on the PGA... -
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Social Creature: 'A Ripleyesque exploration of female insecurity set among the socialites of Manhattan' (Guardian) by Tara Isabella Burton 9781408896075 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £2.08'A Ripleyesque exploration of female insecurity set among the socialites of Manhattan' Guardian, Books of the Year 'An irresistible novel about a toxic friendship taken to the extreme' Elle ... -
The Plato Cult: and Other Philosophical Follies David Stove 9780631177098
RRP: £36.95Booksplease Price: £35.41This is a book of philosophy, written by a philosopher and intended for anyone who knows enough philosophy to have been seriously injured, antagonised, mystified or intoxicated by it. Stove is... -
Social Creature: 'A Ripleyesque exploration of female insecurity set among the socialites of Manhattan' (Guardian) Tara Isabella Burton 9781408896075
Booksplease Price: £9.78'A Ripleyesque exploration of female insecurity set among the socialites of Manhattan' Guardian, Books of the Year 'An irresistible novel about a toxic friendship taken to the extreme' Elle ... -
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Edie: An American Biography by Jean Stein 9781845950637 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £6.25Born into a wealthy New England family, Edie Sedgwick became, in the 1960s, both an emblem of, and a memorial to, the doomed world spawned by Andy Warhol. Edie was outrageous, vulnerable and... -
The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.19THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom one of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love, The Consolations of Philosophy and The School of Life, The Architecture of... -
The Unfolding by A.M. Homes
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.61The dazzling new state-of-the-nation novel from one of America's most significant contemporary writers and winner of the Women's Prize for May We Be Forgiven, which explores the makings of our... -
Edie: An American Biography by Jean Stein
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46A brilliant and unique biography of Andy Warhol's tragic muse, the 60s icon Edie Sedgwick'Exceptionally seductive... You can't put it down' LA TimesOutrageous, vulnerable and strikingly beautiful -... -
The Unfolding by A.M. Homes 9781783785353
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.81The Big Guy loves his family, money and democracy. Undone by the results of the 2008 Presidential election, he taps a group of like-minded men to reclaim their version of America. As they build a... -
Double Indemnity by James M. Cain
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A true crime masterpiece, and highly acclaimed 1940s movie'DOUBLE INDEMNITY is among the finest of all American novels, regardless of genre or style' LA TIMES'Cain is the master' Tom WolfeDOUBLE... -
Gonzo Way by Anita Thompson 9781555916220
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £10.46In The Gonzo Way, Anita Thompson pays tribute to her late husband as a writer and as a citizen, through her own words and through interviews with those who knew him best, including Tom Wolfe, George... -
American Kingpin: Catching the Billion-Dollar Baron of the Dark Web by Nick Bilton
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedroom - and almost got away with it.In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old... -
Subject to Change: Guerrilla Television Revisited by Deirdre Boyle 9780195110548
Booksplease Price: £55.70This is a history of "guerilla television", a form of TV that was part of the larger alternative media tide which swept across the USA in the 1960s. Inspired by the fracturing issues of that decade,... -
The Art of Fact: Contemporary Artists of Nonfiction by Barbara Lounsberry 9780313268939
Booksplease Price: £75.81The artistry of nonfiction is the great unexplored territory of contemporary criticism. Although the American book clubs now emphasize nonfiction and The New York Times Book Review publishes almost... -
Art of Living: The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness by Epictetus
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.28"An immense dose of Epictetus would do us all a great deal of good, and I am grateful (beyond irony) to Tom Wolfe for reviving Epictetus" - Harold Bloom. So what makes the writings of this former... -
Quotes for Conservatives: Wit, Wisdom, and Insight from Conservatives throughout History by Garry Apgar
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26This extraordinary collection of quotes drawn from history's timeless conservative thinkers is the perfect gift and resource for students, speech-makers, politicians and anyone else looking for... -
Black Mountain Chamberlain: John Chamberlain's Writings at Black Mountain College, 1955 by John Chamberlain 9780691204482
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £34.64The first publication of the unknown poetry of a major twentieth-century sculptorIn 1955, long before he became famous for his abstract metal sculptures, John Chamberlain lived at Black Mountain... -
The Brazil Chronicles Stephen G. Bloom 9780826223159
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £21.83As a young journalist at the Brazil Herald from 1979-81, Stephen G. Bloom spent his formative years working in Rio's seedy Lapa district, surrounded by expatriates, drug runners, and pornographers... -
Lectures on Dostoevsky by Joseph Frank 9780691178967
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.55From the author of the definitive biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky, never-before-published lectures that provide an accessible introduction to the Russian writer's major worksJoseph Frank (1918-2013)... -
Lectures on Dostoevsky by Joseph Frank
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.28From the author of the definitive biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky, never-before-published lectures that provide an accessible introduction to the Russian writer's major worksJoseph Frank (1918-2013)... -
This Is Your Mind On Plants: Opium-Caffeine-Mescaline by Michael Pollan
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR NEW NETFLIX SERIES, HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND'It's a trip - engrossing, eye-opening, mind altering' New Statesman 'Fascinating. Pollan is the perfect guide ... curious,... -
The First Pop Age: Painting and Subjectivity in the Art of Hamilton, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Richter, and Ruscha by Hal Foster 9780691160986
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £24.51Who branded painting in the Pop age more brazenly than Richard Hamilton, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and Ed Ruscha? And who probed the Pop revolution in image and identity more... -
Thoreau's Reading: A Study in Intellectual History with Bibliographical Catalogue by Robert Sattelmeyer 9780691601816
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £44.55Thoreau's Reading charts Henry Thoreau's intellectual growth and its relation to his literary career from 1833, when he entered Harvard College, to his death in 1862. It also furnishes a catalogue of... -
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Hunter S. Thompson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28'We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like, "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive ..."' ...