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Jonah, Tobit, Judith by Irene Nowell, OSB
Booksplease Price: £9.71These three colorful books offer gripping stories of how God shows his mercy and accomplishes his will through human actions. Jonah is a reluctant prophet who must be swallowed by a whale before he... -
Mastering America: Southern Slaveholders and the Crisis of American Nationhood by Robert E Bonner 9780521541770
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £29.61Mastering America recounts efforts of 'proslavery nationalists' to navigate the nineteenth-century geopolitics of imperialism, federalism, and nationalism and to articulate themes of American mission... -
The Invention of Hebrew by Seth L. Sanders 9780252032844
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.44The Invention of Hebrew is the first book to approach the Bible in light of recent epigraphic discoveries on the extreme antiquity of the alphabet and its use as a deliberate and meaningful choice... -
Communism on Tomorrow Street: Mass Housing and Everyday Life after Stalin by Steven E. Harris 9781421405667
Booksplease Price: £57.51This fascinating and deeply researched book examines how, beginning under Khrushchev in 1953, a generation of Soviet citizens moved from the overcrowded communal dwellings of the Stalin era to modern... -
Lincoln and Emancipation by Edna Greene Medford 9780809337965
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.ReviewsTo revisit the proclamation after reading Edna Greene Medford's Lincoln and Emancipation is also a remarkable... -
Psalms and Practice: Worship, Virtue, and Authority by Stephen Breck Reid 9780814650806
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.86The essays in Psalms and Practice explore how the notion of practice helps contemporary readers understand psalms in a new way. Practice, according to the authors, happens as faith seeks... -
The Invention of Hebrew by Seth L. Sanders 9780252078354
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.26The Invention of Hebrew is the first book to approach the Bible in light of recent epigraphic discoveries on the extreme antiquity of the alphabet and its use as a deliberate and meaningful choice... -
God's Word to Israel: New and Augmented Edition by Joseph Jensen 9780814688175
Booksplease Price: £33.49While many Christians recognize the abiding value of the Old Testament as God's Word they stay away from studying it because they see it as a difficult and forbidding subject. In this completely... -
Crime Plus Music: Twenty Stories of Music-Themed Noir by Jim Fusilli 9781941110454
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52CRIME + MUSIC: The Sounds of Noir, collects twenty darkly intense, music-related noir stories by world-renowned mystery authors including David Corbett, Tyler Dilts, Brendan DuBois, Bill Fitzhugh,... -
Stalin's Citizens: Everyday Politics in the Wake of Total War by Serhy Yekelchyk 9780199378449
Booksplease Price: £90.16The first study of the everydayness of political life under Stalin, this book examines Soviet citizenship through common practices of expressing Soviet identity in the public space. The Stalinist... -
After the Flare: A Novel by Deji Bryce Olukotun 9781944700188
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64After a solar flare upended the world order, Kwesi Brackett's life disintegrated. His wife took up with a millionaire in the heavily armed Silicon territories and his daughter's university, Yale,... -
Hurricane Katrina and the Forgotten Coast of Mississippi by Susan L. Cutter 9781107023949
RRP: £114.00Booksplease Price: £110.45Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast in August 2005 with devastating consequences. Almost all analyses of the disaster have been dedicated to the way the hurricane affected New Orleans. This... -
The Origin and Character of God: Ancient Israelite Religion through the Lens of Divinity by Theodore J. Lewis
RRP: £107.50Booksplease Price: £105.75Few topics are as broad or as daunting as the God of Israel, that deity of the world's three monotheistic religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, who has been worshiped over millennia. In the... -
Home: A one-more-page, read-in-one-sitting thriller that you'll remember for ever by Karen Dionne 9780751567410
Booksplease Price: £20.70'If you only read one thriller this year, make it this' CLARE MACKINTOSH, number one bestselling author of I Let You Go'Emotionally and intellectually thrilling, tremendously exciting' SUNDAY... -
Home: A one-more-page, read-in-one-sitting thriller that you'll remember for ever by Karen Dionne 9780751567410 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £1.99'If you only read one thriller this year, make it this' CLARE MACKINTOSH, number one bestselling author of I Let You Go'Emotionally and intellectually thrilling, tremendously exciting' SUNDAY... -
The War Was You and Me: Civilians in the American Civil War by Joan E. Cashin 9780691091747
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.23Though civilians constituted the majority of the nation's population and were intimately involved with almost every aspect of the war, we know little about the civilian experience of the Civil War... -
Diva: Feminism and Fierceness from Pop to Hip-Hop Kirsty Fairclough 9781501369667
Booksplease Price: £30.54The diva - a central figure in the landscape of contemporary popular culture: gossip-generating, scandal-courting, paparazzi-stalked. And yet the diva is at the epicentre of creative endeavours that... -
Diva: Feminism and Fierceness from Pop to Hip-Hop by Dr. Kirsty Fairclough 9781501368257
Booksplease Price: £95.49The diva - a central figure in the landscape of contemporary popular culture: gossip-generating, scandal-courting, paparazzi-stalked. And yet the diva is at the epicentre of creative endeavours that... -
The Great Eastern by Howard A Rodman 9781644285541
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.51From the shipyards of London to the ports of New York, from the undersea abyss to the halls of empire, The Great Eastern is a sweeping tale of invention, rebellion, and the war between creation and... -
Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century by Tera W. Hunter 9780674237452
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £17.29Winner of the Stone Book Award, Museum of African American HistoryWinner of the Joan Kelly Memorial PrizeWinner of the Littleton-Griswold PrizeWinner of the Mary Nickliss PrizeWinner of the Willie... -
The Origin and Character of God by Theodore J. Lewis 9780197687543
Booksplease Price: £65.54Few topics are as broad or as daunting as the God of Israel, that deity of the world's three monotheistic religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, who has been worshiped over millennia. In the... -
The Prophetic Body: Embodiment and Mediation in Biblical Prophetic Literature by Anathea E. Portier-Young 9780197604960
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £75.44Biblical prophecy involves more than words: it is always also embodied. After assessing the prevalence, implications, and origins of a logocentric model of biblical prophecy, Anathea E. Portier-Young... -
Paper Cuts: How I Destroyed the British Music Press and Other Misadventures by Ted Kessler
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.37'A great writer' Paul Weller'A music journalist of integrity' Billy Childish'There's only one Ted Kessler!' Liam GallagherPAPER CUTS is the inside story of the slow death of the British music press... -
Hubbub: Filth, Noise, and Stench in England, 1600-1770 by Emily Cockayne
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.95A not-for-the-squeamish journey back through the centuries to urban England, where the streets are crowded, noisy, filthy, and reeking of smoke and decay Modern city-dwellers suffer their share of... -
Paper Cuts: How I Destroyed the British Music Press and Other Misadventures Ted Kessler 9781474625548
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'A great writer' 'A music journalist of integrity' 'There's only one Ted Kessler!'Paul Weller ... -
The Art Of Character: Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film and TV by David Corbett
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Former private investigator and New York Times notable author David Corbett offers a unique and indispensable toolkit for creating characters that come vividly to life on the page and linger in... -
Living the Revolution: Urban Communes & Soviet Socialism, 1917-1932 by Andy Willimott
RRP: £33.49Booksplease Price: £33.22Living the Revolution offers a pioneering insight into the world of the early Soviet activist. At the heart of this book are a cast of fiery-eyed, bed-headed youths determined to be the change they... -
Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta by Richard Grant
Booksplease Price: £10.33Adventure writer Richard Grant takes on "the most American place on Earth" the enigmatic, beautiful, often derided Mississippi Delta. Richard Grant and his girlfriend were living in a shoebox... -
The Woodchip Handbook: A Complete Guide for Farmers, Gardeners and Landscapers Ben Raskin 9781645020486
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.20Ben Raskin's wide-ranging work in varied locations makes The Woodchip Handbook a really useful overview of the possibilities afforded by woodchip. Charles Dowding, author of Charles Dowding's No Dig... -
I Wanna Be Yours by John Cooper Clarke
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02This is a memoir as wry, funny, moving and vivid as its inimitable subject himself. A joy for both lifelong fans and for a whole new generation.'One of Britain's outstanding poets' - Sir Paul... -
Surviving the 21st Century: Humanity's Ten Great Challenges and How We Can Overcome Them by Julian Cribb 9783319412696
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.11The book explores the central question facing humanity today: how can we best survive the ten great existential challenges that are now coming together to confront us? Besides describing these... -
River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom by Walter Johnson
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £20.34Winner of the SHEAR Book PrizeHonorable Mention, Avery O. Craven Award"Few books have captured the lived experience of slavery as powerfully."-Ari Kelman, Times Literary Supplement"[One] of the most...