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Black American Cinema Manthia Diawara 9780415903974
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.94This is the first major collection of criticism on Black American cinema. From the pioneering work of Oscar Micheaux and Wallace Thurman to the Hollywood success of Spike Lee, Black American... -
Facts and Fiction by Michael Holroyd
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.63'As deft and devastating as a piece of non-fiction writing in miniature as you're ever likely to read ... A collection to be savoured, its urbanity, wisdom and humorous probing best digested at... -
The Three Musketeers: A Comedy Adventure by John Nicholson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.17'My name is D'Artagnan, musketeer to King Louis the Thirteenth, defender of the Queen's diamonds, and the man you tried to poison in that bar.' When the young and naive D'Artagnan sets out on his... -
The Last Expedition by Captain Robert Falcon Scott
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SIR RANULPH FIENNESThe Last Expedition is Captain Scott's gripping account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12. It was meant to be a voyage of scientific discovery... -
A Summer Bird-Cage by Margaret Drabble
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31In her witty, masterful debut novel, Margaret Drabble conjures a gripping story of sibling rivalry. Louise, beautiful and sophisticated, marries wealthy novelist Stephen Fairfax. Sarah, recently... -
Horrid Henry's Cracking Christmas by Francesca Simon
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Count down to Christmas Horrid Henry-style with this totally awesome and great value festive gift book, packed with six favourite festive Horrid Henry stories, a Christmas survival guide and a... -
The Earth: An Intimate History by Richard A. Fortey
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.86The paperback of the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals how the earth became the shape it is today. This book will change the way you see the world - permanently. The face of the earth,... -
The Foot Book by Dr. Seuss
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £4.63Wet foot. Dry foot. Low foot. High foot! Early readers will enjoy marching in time to the beat of many, many feet with Dr. Seuss's fun exploration of opposites. Left foot, right foot, feet... -
Space Tortoise by Ross Montgomery
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02A beautiful, moving and heartwarming tale about bravery, kindness and welcoming strangers, from the team behind The Building Boy.Once, in an old rusty bin in an old rusty playground in an old empty... -
So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighbourhood by Patrick Modiano
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Jean Daragane, writer and recluse, has purposely built a life of seclusion away from the Parisian bustle. He doesn't see many people, he rarely goes out: he spends his life in a solitary world of his... -
Magnificence by Howard Brenton
Booksplease Price: £14.82I loathe us, I loathe our stupid puerile view of the world ... That we have only to do it, that we have only to go puff, and the monster buildings will go splat ... London, the early 70s. Poverty,... -
The Bright Field by Margaret Reynolds
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.11'Exquisite... a deeply insightful memoir which charts our fundamental longings for place and identity, and ultimately our yearnings for love.' Helena Kennedy'Extremely moving...an unusually... -
Winter of the Wolves: The Anglo-Saxon Age is Dawning by Tony Bradman
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.99The history and partnership of the Angles and Saxons are explored in this thrilling adventure about the trials and tribulations of their settlement in Britain. Written by bestselling author Tony... -
The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View by Ellen Meiksins Wood
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.88In The Origin of Capitalism, a now-classic work of history, Ellen Meiksins Wood offers readers a clear and accessible introduction to the theories and debates concerning the birth of capitalism,... -
Ladybird by Vassily Sigarev
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.10A tough but tender portrait of urban squalor, from the award-winning Siberian-born author of Plasticine. Dima, 19, lives with his alcoholic father. The night before he leaves for the war in... -
The Commonwealth of Thieves: The Story of the Founding of Australia by Thomas Keneally
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46The story of modern Australia begins in eighteenth-century Britain, where people were hanged for petty offences but crime was rife, and the gaols were bursting. From this situation was born the... -
Macbeth: A Bloomsbury Reader by Tony Bradman
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.84Book Band: Dark Blue - Ideal for ages 9+ An atmospheric retelling of the story of Macbeth, perfect for fans of Viking Boy and Janina Ramirez. One dark and stormy night, two men come across... -
Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change, 1970-2000 by R. F. Foster
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23R.F. Foster's Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change, 1970-2000 examines how the country has weathered thirty years of rapid transformation, and what these changes may mean in the long run. ... -
Job by Joseph Roth
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67'Many years ago there lived in Zuchnow, in Russia, a man named Mendel Signer. He was pious, God-fearing and ordinary, an entirely commonplace Jew...' So Roth begins his novel about the loss of... -
Sunset Oasis by Bahaa Taher
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02As the 19th century draws to a close, the politically disgraced Mahmoud Abd El Zahir takes up his post as District Commissioner of the remote and dangerous Egyptian oasis of Siwa, knowing he has no... -
Oh, The Thinks You Can Think! (Dr. Seuss) by Dr. Seuss
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.70Join Dr. Seuss and let your imagination run wild in this classic story to encourage the most out-there thinkers! Think left and think right, think low and think high! Learn to explore the... -
Sacred Nature: How we can recover our bond with the natural world by Karen Armstrong 9781529114799
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74'A rich and subtle exploration of the sacredness of nature, filled with a timeless wisdom and deep humanity' Guardian In this hugely powerful book, Karen Armstrong argues that it isn't enough to... -
Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism: Ethics and Liberal Democracy by Professor Seumas Miller 9781405139427
RRP: £72.95Booksplease Price: £66.01Undoubtedly, the events of September 11, 2001 served as a wake-up call to the scourge of global terrorism facing twenty-first century societies. But was the attack on the World Trade Center a crime... -
Writers and Their Mothers by Dale Salwak 9783319683478
RRP: £19.50Booksplease Price: £13.75Ian McEwan, Margaret Drabble, Martin Amis, Rita Dove, Andrew Motion and Anthony Thwaite are among the twenty-two distinguished contributors of original essays to this landmark volume on the profound... -
Why Wellness Sells: Natural Health in a Pharmaceutical Culture by Colleen Derkatch 9781421445281
Booksplease Price: £40.39How and why the idea of wellness holds such rhetorical-and harmful-power.In Why Wellness Sells, Colleen Derkatch examines why the concept of wellness holds such rhetorical power in contemporary... -
The Chief Shepherdess: Lessons in Life, Love and Farming by Zoe Colville 9781529176100
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'Funny, gutsy and heartfelt.' Daily MailZoe Colville spent years in a fancy hair salon with a long list of clients, living on cigarettes, croissants, and a shoestring. It was everything she'd ever... -
Post Keynesian Theory and Policy: A Realistic Analysis of the Market Oriented Capitalist Economy Paul Davidson 9781784718268
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £26.18How did economic ''experts'' worldwide fail to predict the financial crisis of 2007-2008? Eminent economist Paul Davidson discusses how mainstream economic theory may not be applicable to the world... -
Frantz Fanon: A Biography by David Macey 9781844677733
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £26.80Born in Martinique, Frantz Fanon (1925-61) trained as a psychiatrist in Lyon before taking up a post in colonial Algeria. He had already experienced racism as a volunteer in the Free French Army, in... -
I is for Infidel: From Holy War to Holy Terror in Afghanistan by Kathy Gannon 9781586484521
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.52In early 1986 Kathy Gannon sold pretty much everything she owned (which wasn't much) to pursue her dream of becoming a foreign correspondent. She had the world to choose from: she chose Afghanistan... -
Friend or Foe Michael Morpurgo 9780008641160
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.34Friend or Foe is a gripping World War II story from War Horse author and former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo. Evacuated from London, David and Tucky feel like the war is a long way... -
Send for Paul Temple Again! (A Paul Temple Mystery) by Francis Durbridge 9780008125646
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Actress Norma Rice is found dead on a train, and the letters REX are scrawled in red chalk on her compartment window. It is the third death to occur in a mysterious string of murders and Scotland... -
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Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom by Sean B. Carroll 9781849160483 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £5.84Sean Carroll explores how evolution has shaped nature's wondrous complexity and diversity, from insects to octopuses, from mice to men.We not only share nearly 99% of our genes with chimps, we also... -
My Child by Mike Bartlett 9780713688047
Booksplease Price: £14.75A real man is strong. A real man is driven. A real man provides. A father finds himself being phased out of his son's life. Denied access to his only child, he goes to extraordinary lengths to hold... -
Consumed: How We Buy Class in Modern Britain by Harry Wallop 9780007457106
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Does what we consume define who we are? Harry Wallop takes a fresh look at society and shows you to your place in today's modern consumer world. Are you an Asda Mum, Wood Burning Stover or... -
The Wind in the Wall Sally Gardner 9781471418822
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67'I have no idea how long I have been incarcerated in these ancient walls . . . Let me explain how I find myself in this predicament . . .'Set in the hot houses of a stately home in eighteenth century... -
Dead Funny by Terry Johnson 9781350032255
Booksplease Price: £14.82In spite of my desperation I have been patient, in spite of my bewilderment I have been understanding, in spite of my feeling of utter abandonment ... I've been hanging on in there. Trying to help... -
The Spire by Richard North Patterson 9781509824144
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.30'A must read' Former President Bill Clinton 'Patterson has the rare gift of enthralling as he informs' Mark Lawson, GuardianMark Darrow grows up to become a superb trial lawyer - thanks to the... -
British Crime Film: Subverting the Social Order by Barry Forshaw 9781137005038
Booksplease Price: £49.59Presenting a social history of British crime film, this book focuses on the strategies used in order to address more radical notions surrounding class, politics, sex, delinquency, violence and... -
Everything Evolves: Why Evolution Explains More than We Think, from Proteins to Politics by Mark Vellend 9780691253404
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40How the science of evolution explains how everything came to be, from bacteria and blue whales to cell phones, cities, and artificial intelligenceEverything Evolves reveals how evolutionary dynamics... -
The Day Aberystwyth Stood Still by Malcolm Pryce 9781408821954
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78It's May in Aberystwyth and the mayoral election campaign is underway. Private detective Louie Knight has just received a visit from a mysterious stranger called Raspiwtin asking him to track down a...