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The Better Half: On the Genetic Superiority of Women by Sharon Dr. Moalem 9780241396889
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.45From an award-winning medic and scientist, the game-changing case that genetic females have greater resilience, immunity, endurance and more, compared with males'A powerful antidote to the myth of a... -
1964: Eyes of the Storm by Paul McCartney 9780241619711
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £45.74Photographs and Reflections by Paul McCartney'Millions of eyes were suddenly upon us, creating a picture I will never forget for the rest of my life.'In 2020, an extraordinary trove of nearly a... -
Diary of an Apprentice Astronaut by Samantha Cristoforetti 9780241371381
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £20.13'An incredible odyssey' Financial Times'Today I woke up on Earth. And I will fall asleep in space'In space the sun rises and sets 16 times a day. You fly over every sea, every mountain and desert,... -
Indignity: A Life Reimagined by Lea Ypi 9780241785379
Booksplease Price: £14.37'Beguiling and moving... a clever hybrid, happily exploiting all the many possibilities of telling a life story. Not only is the life of an individual described and plotted with great success, but... -
I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu AnYan 9780241733820
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.45A Book of the Year in the Guardian, Sunday Times, Economist and the Financial TimesHu Anyan has held nineteen different jobs since he graduated. He's been a convenience store clerk, a bicycle... -
Happy Ever After: Escaping The Myth of The Perfect Life by Paul Dolan 9780241284445
RRP: £37.95Booksplease Price: £24.15'Smart, engaging and funny. It will make you question everything you think you know about what you want' Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible WomenPaul Dolan, the bestselling author of... -
Henry VII (Penguin Monarchs): Treason and Trust Sean Cunningham 9780141977768
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Part of the Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers in a collectible format Henry VII was one of England's unlikeliest monarchs. An exile and outsider with barely a... -
Nobody Can Give You Freedom: The Real Mission of Malcolm X by Kehinde Andrews 9780241681176
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23The real political mission of Malcolm X, and why it needs resurrecting now - 100 years after his birth Malcolm X is a titanic figure in political history, but he is also one of the most... -
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.00The #1 Sunday Times and International Bestseller from 'the most influential public intellectual in the Western world right now' (New York Times)What are the most valuable things that everyone should... -
The Hohenzollerns and the Nazis: A History of Collaboration Stephan Malinowski 9780241596180
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £30.36**AWARDED THE GERMAN NON-FICTION PRIZE 2022**'Stephan Malinowski's brilliant book strikes a balance between the forensic analysis of individual behaviour and a new understanding of how the toxic... -
Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Histories by Diarmuid Hester 9780241528457
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.44'With originality and subtlety, Diarmuid Hester examines how the gay imagination deals with place and with displacement, allowing for mystery and a kind of magic' Colm Toibin'Hester is a fizzingly... -
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics: Anniversary Edition by Carlo Rovelli 9780241737675
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42The anniversary edition of the international phenomenon'One of the best books of the 21st century' (Guardian) These seven short lessons guide us, with simplicity and clarity, through the scientific... -
Alien Earths: Planet Hunting in the Cosmos by Lisa Kaltenegger 9780241680988
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £14.87'Lisa Kaltenegger offers first-hand access to her expertise on the search for planets in the universe, and the life they may contain. Along the way, Lisa's breezy narrative style invites you to... -
The Shame Machine by Cathy O'Neil
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.23A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR Shame is being weaponized by governments and corporations to attack the most vulnerable. It's time to fight backShame is a powerful and sometimes useful tool. When we... -
Democracy on the Road by Ruchir Sharma 9780241388075
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.92On the eve of a landmark general election, Ruchir Sharma offers an unrivalled portrait of how India and its democracy work, drawn from his two decades on the road chasing election campaigns across... -
Reassessing Nikolaus Pevsner by Peter Draper 9781138258648
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £50.37Nikolaus Pevsner was one of the most important and influential art historians of the twentieth century. He opened up new areas of enquiry in the history of art, revolutionising architectural studies... -
Immigrant Publishers: The Impact of Expatriate Publishers in Britain and America in the 20th Century Richard Abel 9781138510814
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37In the first third of the twentieth century, the publishing industry in the United Kingdom and the United States was marked by well-established and comfortable traditions pursued by family-dominated... -
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson 9780241407622
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.63A #1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestsellerThe long-awaited sequel to 12 RULES FOR LIFE, which has sold over 5 million copies around the worldIn 12 Rules for Life, acclaimed public thinker and... -
The Case for Impeachment by Allan J. Lichtman 9780008292676
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Professor Allan J. Lichtman, who has correctly forecasted thirty years of presidential elections, makes the case for impeaching the 45th president of the United States, Donald J. Trump... -
The Total Library: Non-Fiction 1922-1986 by Jorge Luis Borges
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Though best known in the English speaking world for his short fictions and poems, Borges is revered in Latin America equally as an immensely prolific and beguiling writer of non-fiction prose. In... -
The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon: The New Penguin History of France by Colin Jones 9780140130935
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24There can be few more mesmerising historical narratives than the story of how the dazzlingly confident and secure monarchy Louis XIV, 'the Sun King', left to his successors in 1715 became the... -
London: A Social History by Roy Porter
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78'Roy Porter, a historian of formidable range, turns to urban history in this marvellously lucid, informative and passionate book... Porter's facts are always at the service of the narrative, which... -
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The 24-Hour Wine Expert by Jancis Robinson 9780141981819 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £2.07From the world's most respected wine critic, the essential guide to wine in 100 pagesWine is now one of the most popular drinks in the world. Many wine drinkers wish they knew more about it without... -
The 24-Hour Wine Expert by Jancis Robinson
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.88From the world's most respected wine critic, the essential guide to wine in 100 pagesWine is now one of the most popular drinks in the world. Many wine drinkers wish they knew more about it without... -
William IV (Penguin Monarchs): A King at Sea by Roger Knight
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.32'He had brought nothing but trouble to the navy: how would he fare as King?'Known as the 'Sailor King', William IV was sent to join the navy by his father to discipline him, but instead became... -
Remind Me Who I Am, Again Linda Grant 9781847082695
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67At the beginning of the 1990s, Linda Grant's mother, Rose, was diagnosed with Dementia. In Remind Me Who I Am, Again Linda Grant tells the story of Rose's illness and tries to reconstruct the history... -
Britain Against Napoleon: The Organization of Victory, 1793-1815 by Roger Knight
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £12.73From Roger Knight, established by the multi-award winning The Pursuit of Victory as 'an authority ... none of his rivals can match' (N.A.M. Rodger), Britain Against Napoleon is the first book to... -
The Iliad by Homer 9780141394657
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.99A stunning Penguin clothbound edition of Homer's great epic, in E. V. Rieu's classic translation.The Iliad is the first and the greatest literary achievement of Greek civilization - an epic poem... -
Making Medieval Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.85Many beautiful illuminated manuscripts survive from the Middle Ages and can be seen in libraries and museums throughout Europe. But who were the skilled craftsmen who made these exquisite books? What... -
The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson by Hugo Mercier
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.29The starting point of Roger Knight's magnificent new biography is to explain how Nelson achieved such extraordinary success. Knight places him firmly in the context of the Royal Navy at the time. ... -
The Foreign Office's War, 1939-41: British Strategic Foreign Policy and the Major Neutral Powers Keith Neilson (Person) 9781783277056
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £111.98Provides a forceful corrective to the idea that Britain 'stood alone' until the invasion of the Soviet Union and the attack on Pearl Harbor brought about 'the Grand Alliance'. Based on extensive... -
Discordant Notes, Volume 1: The Voice of Dissent in the Last Court of Last Resort by Rohinton Fali Nariman 9780670094394
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £18.53A dissenting judgment, as ordinarily understood, is a judgment or an opinion of a judge, sitting as part of a larger bench, who 'dissents' (i.e. disagrees) with the opinion or judgment of the... -
The 24-Hour Wine Expert by Jancis Robinson 9781419722660
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £10.10Many wine drinkers wish they knew more without having to understand every nuance or go to expensive wine tastings. In her new book, Jancis Robinson, the leading international authority on wine,... -
British Nuclear Mobilisation Since 1945: Social and Cultural Histories by Jonathan Hogg 9780367743154
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This book explores aspects of the social and cultural history of nuclear Britain in the Cold War era (1945-1991) and contributes to a more multivalent exploration of the consequences of nuclear... -
Discordant Notes, Volume 2: The Voice of Dissent in the Last Court of Last Resort by Rohinton Fali Nariman
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £19.16A dissenting judgment, as ordinarily understood, is a judgment or an opinion of a judge, sitting as part of a larger bench, who 'dissents' (i.e. disagrees) with the opinion or judgment of the... -
Orestes and Other Plays by Euripides
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.55Ion Orestes The Phoenician Women The Suppliant Women In these four plays Euripides explores ethical and political themes,contrasting the claims of patriotism with family loyalty, pragmatism and... -
The Safeguard of the Sea: A Naval History of Britain 660-1649 by N. A. M. Rodger
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.45Throughout Britain's history, one factor above all others has determined the fate of the nation: its navy. N. A. M. Rodger's definitive account reveals how the political and social progress of... -
Of Sea by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett 9781908058829
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61A remarkable new book in praise of marine fauna. Of Sea takes the form of a poetic bestiary of creatures living beneath, beside and above the water: in wetlands, salt marshes and the intertidal... -
The Fall of Public Man by Richard Sennett 9780141007571
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.77Richard Sennett's The Fall of Public Man examines the growing imbalance between private and public experience, and asks what can bring us to reconnect with our communities. Are we now so... -
An Improbable War?: The Outbreak of World War I and European Political Culture before 1914 by Holger Afflerbach
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £21.46...outstanding scholarly analyses...These essays comprise a valuable addition to the never-ending debate on the causes of the Great War. Stand To! The Journal of the Western Front Association .....