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London: A Travel Guide Through Time by Matthew Green
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Step back in time and discover the sights, sounds and smells of London through the ages in this enthralling journey into the capital's rich, teeming and occasionally hazardous past.Let time traveller... -
Roule Britannia: Great Britain and the Tour de France by William Fotheringham 9780224092104
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.63How did Great Britain conquer the Tour de France?In 2012 Bradley Wiggins made history by becoming the first Briton ever to win the Tour de France. His compatriot Chris Froome came second while fellow... -
Boulting's Velosaurus: A Linguistic Tour de France by Ned Boulting 9780224100649 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.19Find yourself confused, nodding along when a rouleur relates how le biscuit was effrite (crumbled)? How today they're feeling Angers (past caring)? Fear no more, for Boulting's Velosaurus will... -
Born to Ride: The Autobiography of Stephen Roche by Stephen Roche
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78In 1987, Irish cycling legend Stephen Roche had an extraordinary year - the year to end all years.June 1987: Winner of the Giro d'Italia July 1987: Secured the yellow jersey at the Tour De... -
The King Is Always Above the People by Daniel Alarcon
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction An unforgettable collection of stories from Daniel Alarcon, one of the New Yorker's 20 best writers under 40, and one of... -
Land of Second Chances: The Impossible Rise of Rwanda's Cycling Team by Tim Lewis
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78** Winner of the British Sports Book Awards 2014 New Writer of the Year **Where there is hope there can be redemption. Meet Adrien Niyonshuti, a member of the Rwandan cycling team. Adrien was seven... -
How I Won the Yellow Jumper: Dispatches from the Tour de France by Ned Boulting 9780224083362
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78'Paris, 4 July 2003: My first Tour de France. I had never seen a bike race. I had only vaguely heard of Lance Armstrong. I had no idea what I was doing there. Yet, that day I was broadcasting live on... -
Full Gas: How to Win a Bike Race - Tactics from Inside the Peloton by Peter Cossins
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42** WINNER OF THE CYCLING BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE 2019 TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS**So how do you win a bike race?Riding as fast as you could for as long as you could was the main tactic... -
It's Not About The Bike: My Journey Back to Life by Lance Armstrong
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78It's Not About the Bike was first published in 2000. Detailing Lance Armstrong's battle with life-threatening testicular cancer and his return to professional cycling, it became a huge bestseller,... -
Indurain by Alasdair Fotheringham
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.24Miguel Indurain is Spain's greatest cyclist of all time and one of the best Tour racers in history. He is the only bike rider to have won five successive Tours de France, as well as holding the title... -
Rocket Men by Ron Haslam
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78'Rocket' Ron Haslam started racing on the professional circuit in 1972 at the age of 15 and developed into one of the finest, and fastest, racers the UK has ever seen. Winner of three World titles... -
The Man and His Bike: Musings on life and the art of cycling by Wilfried de Jong
Booksplease Price: £8.73The world as seen from a bike'Understated, comic and melancholic... It'll inspire you to get back on your bike.' Martin Love, The Guardian'One of the most entertaining sports books I have ever read'... -
The Spanish Civil War by Hugh Thomas
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.92Since its first publication, Hugh Thomas's The Spanish Civil War has become established as the definitive one-volume history of a conflict that continues to provoke intense controversy today. What... -
My World by Peter Sagan
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42From 2015 to 2017, Peter Sagan achieved the seemingly impossible: he won three road race World Championships in a row, ensuring his entry into the history books as one of the greatest riders of all... -
Spanish Steps by Tim Moore
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Ludicrous, heart-warming and improbably inspirational, Spanish Steps is the story of what happens when a rather silly man tries to walk all the way across a very large country, with a very large... -
Put Me Back on My Bike: In Search of Tom Simpson by William Fotheringham 9780224080187
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Discover the story of Britain's ultimate cyclist and his ill-fated race during the 1967 Tour de France, from the bestselling author of Half Man Half BikeTom Simpson was an Olympic medallist, world... -
Extra Virgin by Annie Hawes
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78A small stone house deep among the olive groves of Liguria, going for the price of a dodgy second-hand car. Annie Hawes and her sister, on the spot by chance, have no plans whatsoever to move to the... -
The Cycling Anthology: Volume One (1/5) by Lionel Birnie
Booksplease Price: £13.83THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO CYCLING IN FIVE VOLUMESVolume One of The Cycling Anthology, a collection of the best writing on cycling by some of the sport's leading writers. Between them, they've covered... -
French Revolutions: Cycling the Tour de France by Tim Moore
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78'Bill Bryson on two wheels' IndependentSelf-confessed loafer Tim Moore, seduced by the speed and glamour of the biggest annual sporting event in the world, sets out to cycle the Tour de France. All... -
One Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels Jonathan Vaughters 9781787477513
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26ONE WAY TICKET is the story of a man and modern cycling.Jonathan Vaughters is one of the leading figures in world cycling, a record-breaking mountain climber, Tour de France stage winner and former... -
Democracy as Public Deliberation by Maurizio Passerin d'Entreves
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37One of the most remarkable developments in the last twenty years has been the revival of the idea of deliberative democracy. Set against aggregative models of democracy derived from economics, such... -
The Chester Cycle in Context, 1555-1575: Religion, Drama, and the Impact of Change Jessica Dell 9781138108868
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.23The Chester Cycle in Context, 1555-1575 considers the implications of recent archival research which has profoundly changed our view of the continuation of performances of Chester's civic biblical... -
The Chester Mystery Cycle: A Casebook by Kevin J. Harty
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.80First published in 1993. Part of a series on medieval casebooks, this volume six looks at the Chester Mystery Cycle Play manuscripts and comparisons of the York and Chester Cycle. Theologically a... -
National Rights, International Obligations by Simon Caney
Booksplease Price: £43.94Nationalism is once again rising and spreading. Nationlist movements are active throughout the world, demanding political recognition of their nations' identity. Yet the current revival of... -
Bounded Knowledge: Doctoral Studies in Egypt by Daniele Cantini 9789774169861
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.17Much scholarship has been devoted to debates around how global inequalities of knowledge production arise from asymmetric power relations and disparities in access to material resources, as well as... -
Political Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century: Essential Essays Steven M. Cahn 9780813346908
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37Moving beyond the work of Rawls and his critics, this concise collection contains critical essays in contemporary political philosophy. All have been chosen for their importance and accessibility,... -
A Conceptual Investigation of Justice by Kyle Johannsen 9780367372064
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £46.08Conceptual analysis has fallen out of favor in political philosophy. The influence of figures like John Rawls and Ronald Dworkin has led political philosophy to focus on questions about what should... -
Justice and the Meritocratic State by Thomas Mulligan
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.51Like American politics, the academic debate over justice is polarized, with almost all theories of justice falling within one of two traditions: egalitarianism and libertarianism. This book provides... -
Creating the Coding Generation in Primary Schools: A Practical Guide for Cross-Curricular Teaching Steve Humble (Newcastle University, UK) 9781138681194
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.38Creating the Coding Generation in Primary Schools sets out the what, why and how of coding. Written by industry innovators and experts, it shows how you can bring the world of coding to your primary... -
The Tour According to G: My Journey to the Yellow Jersey Geraint Thomas 9781787479050
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.36The inspirational inside story from the 2018 Tour de France and Sports Personality of the Year winner"This year G was the strongest rider, and he finally had Lady Luck on his side. An unstoppable... -
Tour de Force: My history-making Tour de France Mark Cavendish 9781529149487
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.99'I pulled off my glasses and wiped my eyes. "That was perhaps the last race of my career..."'Deep down, Mark Cavendish thought he was finished. After illness, setbacks and clinical depression, the... -
Place Matters: Critical Topographies in Word and Image by Jonathan Bordo 9780228013914
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £34.85A place comes into existence through the depth of relationships that underwrite a physical location with layers of sedimented names. In Place Matters scholars and artists conduct varied forms of... -
The Green Bullet: The rise, fall and resurrection of Alejandro Valverde and Spanish cycling’s corruption Matt Rendell 9781474609753
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26*Shortlisted for Cycling Book of the Year at the Sports Book Awards 2024*New from award-winning author Matt Rendell, an examination of the phenomenal success of Alejandro Valverde and the moral decay... -
The Green Bullet: The rise, fall and resurrection of Alejandro Valverde and Spanish cycling’s corruption by Matt Rendell 9781474609746
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.62New from award-winning author Matt Rendell, an examination of the phenomenal success of Alejandro Valverde and the moral decay at the heart of Spanish cycling.'A study of a dominant force, a true... -
Studies in Medievalism VII - Medievalism in England II by Leslie J. Workman
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.99Twelve essays discuss how the middle ages are reflected in English culture from the sixteenth century to the present day. Eleven essays, by scholars from America, Australia and the United Kingdom,... -
All Human Wisdom by Pierre Lemaitre
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02"Terrific . . . Easily the most purely entertaining novel I have read so far this year" David Mills, The Sunday Times"A really excellent suspense novelist" Stephen KingThe second volume of Pierre... -
The Explosion Chronicles Yan Lianke 9781784701925
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL 2017 With the Yi River on one side and the Balou Mountains on the other, the village of Explosion was founded a thousand years ago by refugees fleeing a... -
Up Close and Personal: On Peripheral Perspectives and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge by Cris Shore 9780857458469
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £85.16"A stimulating collection of interviews...Its value is in the biographical glimpses, intellectual perspectives and methodological insights each offer into their work. The dialogical approach... -
Eyes of the Rigel Roy Jacobsen 9780857058898
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78The third novel in a historical trilogy that began with the International Booker shortlisted The Unseen "Taken together, Jacobsen has given us an epic of Norway's experience of the first half of the... -
All Human Wisdom Pierre Lemaitre 9780857058997
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.84"Terrific . . . Easily the most purely entertaining novel I have read so far this year" David Mills, The Sunday Times"A really excellent suspense novelist" Stephen KingThe second volume of Pierre...