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August 1914 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €17.10'One word of truth shall outweigh the whole world' Aleksandr SolzhenitsynIn the first month of the First World War the Russian campaign against the Germans creaks into gear. Crippled by weak,... -
The Knowledge: How To Rebuild Our World After An Apocalypse by Lewis Dartnell
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.26If the world as we know it ended tomorrow, how would you survive?A nuclear war, viral pandemic or asteroid strike. The world as we know it has ended. You and the other survivors must start again... -
All That Man Is: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016 by David Szalay
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 MAN BOOKER PRIZEWINNER OF THE EDGE HILL READER'S CHOICE AWARDNine men. Each of them at a different stage of life, each of them away from home, and each of them striving - in... -
Phoenix by S. F. Said
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.89A BOY WITH THE POWER OF A STAR . . . Lucky thinks he's an ordinary Human boy. But one night, he dreams that the stars are singing to him, and wakes to find an uncontrollable power rising inside him... -
This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality by Peter Pomerantsev
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.95**HOW TO WIN AN INFORMATION WAR: THE PROPAGANDIST WHO OUTWITTED HITLER AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW**WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2020A TIMES and GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR'Quietly frightening.'... -
Apt Pupil by Stephen King
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54The No. 1 bestselling author Stephen King's memorable story Apt Pupil - published in his 1982 story collection Different Seasons and made into a movie starring Ian McKellan and Brad Renfro - is now... -
Horrid Henry Early Reader: Horrid Henry's Stinkbomb: Book 35 Francesca Simon 9781444016048
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €6.51Early Readers are stepping stones from picture books to reading books. A blue Early Reader is perfect for sharing and reading together. A red Early Reader is the next step on your reading journey... -
Poppy + George by Diane Samuels
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.64A romantic drama with music inspired by the days of music hall and beyond, from the author of the modern classic Kindertransport. It is 1919. The Great War is over and Poppy Wright arrives in... -
The Constants Of Nature by John D. Barrow
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.66The constants of nature are the numbers that define the essence of the Universe. They tell us how strong its forces are, and what its fundamental laws can do: the strength of gravity, of magnetism,... -
Black American Cinema Manthia Diawara 9780415903974
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €54.67This 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: €11.89Booksplease Price: €10.27'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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.10'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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.26WITH 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: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70In 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: €9.51Booksplease Price: €8.07Count 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: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.92The 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: €8.32Booksplease Price: €5.51Wet 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: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.16A 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: €10.70Booksplease Price: €9.54Jean 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: €17.64I 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: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.41'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: €9.51Booksplease Price: €8.32The 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: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.38In 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: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.64A 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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.26The 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: €8.32Booksplease Price: €8.14Book 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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98R.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: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.94'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: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.54As 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: €8.32Booksplease Price: €6.78Join 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: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.21'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: €86.81Booksplease Price: €78.55Undoubtedly, 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: €23.21Booksplease Price: €16.36Ian 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: €48.06How 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: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70'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: €32.07Booksplease Price: €31.15How 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: €44.02Booksplease Price: €29.90Born 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: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.90In 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: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.54Friend 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: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.65Actress 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...