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Urban Marginalisation in South Asia: Waste Pickers in Calcutta by Nandini Sen
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24The community of waste pickers in Calcutta stands on its own against the hostile outside which comprises the state, elites and mainstream society. The residents of this unique world continuously try... -
Local Consequences of the Global Cold War by Jeffrey Engel 9780804759472
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £52.69Up to now the study of cold war history has been fully engaged in stressing the international character and broad themes of the story. This volume turns such diplomatic history upside down by... -
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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews 9781760290450 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.97**Soon to be a major motion picture**It is a universally acknowledged truth that high school sucks. But on the first day of his senior year, Greg Gaines thinks he's figured it out. The answer to the... -
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31**Soon to be a major motion picture**It is a universally acknowledged truth that high school sucks. But on the first day of his senior year, Greg Gaines thinks he's figured it out. The answer to the... -
The Politics of Frenchness in Colonial Algeria, 1930-1954 by Jonathan Gosnell
Booksplease Price: £96.11In recent years, a multicultural society and changing conceptions of French identity have been the source of considerable debate in scholarship, literature and the media in France. This book examines... -
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. 2 by Hayao Miyazaki
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40In a long-ago war, humankind set off a devastating ecological disaster. Thriving industrial societies disappeared. The earth is slowly submerging beneath the expanding Sea of Corruption, an enormous... -
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds On Track: Every Album, Every Song by Dominic Sanderson 9781789522402
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.45Not many artists can boast a career like Nick Cave, which has gone from strength to strength since the debut album from his band The Bad Seeds in 1984. Most musicians in their 60s are relegated to... -
The Geopolitics of Sovereignty: International Law and Labour Struggles in Independent Iraq Ali Hammoudi 9781509952878
Booksplease Price: £90.87This book delves into the legal and labour history of the Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq to explore the role international law and its institutions played in Iraq's state formation.Focusing on a turbulent... -
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Another World Was Possible: A Century of Movements by Duane J. Corpis 9780822366386 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.78Another World Was Possible modifies the slogan of the World Social Forum-an annual meeting formed as an alternative to the more elite World Economic Forum-"Another world is possible!" The change from... -
Showfolk: An Oral History of a Fairground Dynasty by Frank Bruce
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Travelling showfolk have been entertaining Scots for centuries and a visit to 'the shows' was a highlight of the year until recent memory. The Codonas are one of the longest and most established show... -
Lamp of the Goddess by Rae Beth
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.89At the dawn of a new era we are drawn to modern Goddess spirituality. Rae Beth feels the world can change by sharing our personal spiritual experiences with each other. She has gone within herself... -
Because of Nothing at All by Paul Sunga 9781773102467
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.76Near the Kenya-Sudan border, a team of international health program evaluators are abducted and force marched under a desert moon. Their pasts and presents - and those of their abductors - unravel... -
The Fall of the House of Tatterly Shanna Miles 9781454949329
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.54A captivating story about a young boy with a unique gift, perfect for fans of The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste or Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes. Twelve-year-old Theo Tatterly's ability to see... -
In a Language That You Know by Len Verwey 9780803290983
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.41South Africa is a complicated, contradictory, and haunted place. Len Verwey captures the trajectory of life in such a place, dealing with childhood, war, marriage, divorce, and death. He explores the... -
Old Istanbul & Other Essays: 2021 by Gerard McCarthy 9781838201807
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £14.13This is the first book of essays by a major new Irish non-fiction writer from the West of Ireland, comparable to the celebrated Kilkenny essayist Hubert Butler first published by The Lilliput Press... -
Exteriors by Annie Ernaux 9781913097684
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Taking the form of random journal entries over the course of seven years, Exteriors concentrates on the ephemeral encounters that take place just on the periphery of a person's lived environment... -
Wounded by God's People: Discovering How God's Love Heals Our Hearts Anne Graham Lotz 9781444783285
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'I believe there are many of us who have been wounded by God's people. And I believe there are those of you who have been so wounded, that you have confused God's people with God, and so have run... -
The Extraordinary Life of Juana Catarina Romero: Gender and Power in Nineteenth-Century Mexico Francie R. Chassen-López 9781496247209
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.32The construction of the nation-state, the development of capitalism, and the modernization of society have historically been defined as masculine endeavors, with women on the sidelines. This... -
The Second Sword: A Tale from the Merry Month of May, and My Day in the Other Land: A Tale of Demons: Two Novellas by Peter Handke 9780374601447
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.72The Second Sword and My Day in the Other Land are two new novellas by the 2019 Nobel laureate Peter Handke. The first picks up the story where Handke's last work of fiction, The Fruit Thief... -
Christianity: A Historical Atlas by Alec Ryrie
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £26.40The dramatic story of Christianity from its origins to the present day, told through more than one hundred stunning color maps.With over two billion practicing believers today, Christianity has taken... -
Towns and Commerce in Viking-Age Scandinavia by Sven Kalmring 9781009298056
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £67.55The Viking Age, from c.750 to 1050 CE, was an era of major social change in Scandinavia. By the end of this period of sweeping transformation, Scandinavia, once a pagan periphery, had been firmly... -
Towns and Commerce in Viking-Age Scandinavia by Sven Kalmring 9781009298094
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £22.09The Viking Age, from c.750 to 1050 CE, was an era of major social change in Scandinavia. By the end of this period of sweeping transformation, Scandinavia, once a pagan periphery, had been firmly... -
Traces of the Unseen Volume 43: Photography, Violence, and Modernization in Early Twentieth-Century Latin America by Carolina Sa Carvalho Pereira 9780810145412
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.32A richly illustrated examination of photography as a technology for documenting, creating, and understanding the processes of modernization in turn-of-the-century Brazil and the Amazon Photography at... -
The Collected Short Stories by Jean Rhys
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23New to Penguin Classics, the remarkable, devastating collected stories by the author of Wide Sargasso Sea.Some of Jean Rhys's most powerful writing is to be found in this rich, dark collection of her... -
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Nothing Untoward: Stories from "The Pumpkin Pie Show" by Clay McLeod Chapman 9781495061042
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.81In ERest AreaE Clay McLeod Chapman offered a view into the lives of Southern Gothic monstrosities. Now the 40 tales of ENothing UntowardE delve into the depraved minds of those madmen and women who... -
Lessons and Legacies XV: The Holocaust; Global Perspectives, National Narratives, Local Contexts by Erin McGlothlin 9780810147058
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £36.78The contributions to this volume not only indicate the intellectual vibrancy and diversity of cutting-edge research in Holocaust studies but also reflect multiple approaches to the necessary work of... -
Minoan Kingship and the Solar Goddess: A Near Eastern Koine by Nanno Marinatos 9780252079672
Booksplease Price: £23.99Ancient Minoan culture has been typically viewed as an ancestor of classical Greek civilization, but this book shows that Minoan Crete was on the periphery of a powerfully dynamic cultural... -
The Sleuth Investor by Avner Mandelman 9780071481854
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £35.24To make real money in the stock market you have to act like a sleuth.It's not enough to rely on SEC files, annual reports, and press releases. To uncover the most lucrative investments, you must dig... -
Infrastructure of Transit: Practices of Afghan and Pakistani Recycling Workers in Istanbul within a Transnational Migration and Border Regime by Philipp Ratfisch 9783658522490
RRP: £119.99Booksplease Price: £102.27When walking through Istanbul, one almost inevitably encounters informal waste pickers who clean up the city with their large, heavily loaded hand trucks. Many of them are male undocumented recycling... -
Lagos Noir by Chris Abani 9781911115731
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.37An anthology of noir stories set in the tumultuous metropolis, Lagos. Edited by Chris Abani, this collection brings together brand new stories from some of Nigeria's best loved writers. From the... -
The African-British Long Eighteenth Century: An Analysis of African-British Treaties, Colonial Economics, and Anthropological Discourse by Tcho Mbaimba Caulker 9780739127438
Booksplease Price: £95.49Tracing the development of British colonial administration in West Africa over the course of the long eighteenth century, Caulker illuminates the solidification of the administration as it goes... -
The Moss Lisa Leuddecke 9781916747296
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.53There are two things seventeen-year-old Emma Carver is known for: the fact that she grew up beside a sprawling bog, and that her sister went missing over a year ago. No leads, no clues, no trace... -
Asian Place, Filipino Nation: A Global Intellectual History of the Philippine Revolution, 1887-1912 by Nicole Cuunjieng Aboitiz
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21The Philippine Revolution of 1896-1905, which began against Spain and continued against the United States, took place in the context of imperial subjugation and local resistance across Southeast Asia... -
Letters to a Writer of Colour by Deepa Anappara
Booksplease Price: £15.23Filled with empathy and wisdom, personal experiences and creative inspiration, this is a vital collection of essays on the power of literature and the craft of writing from an international array of... -
Modernism and the Avant-garde Body in Spain and Italy by Nicolas Fernandez-Medina
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.04This interdisciplinary volume interrogates bodily thinking in avant-garde texts from Spain and Italy during the early twentieth century and their relevance to larger modernist preoccupations with... -
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews 9781419719608
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £8.93The book that inspired the hit film! Sundance U.S. Dramatic Audience Award Sundance Grand Jury Prize This is the funniest book you&;ll ever read about death. It is a universally... -
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The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake: The heartwarming Richard and Judy Book Club favourite by Aimee Bender 9780099538271 [USED COPY]
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £2.54On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents' attention, bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake... -
The Land of the Green Man: A Journey through the Supernatural Landscapes of the British Isles by Carolyne Larrington
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.27Beyond its housing estates and identikit high streets there is another Britain. This is the Britain of mist-drenched forests and unpredictable sea-frets: of wraith-like fog banks, druidic mistletoe... -
State Formation in Early Modern Alsace, 1648-1789 by Stephen A. Lazer
Booksplease Price: £109.03A richly documented study of early modern state formation, sovereignty, legitimacy, and comparative political culture in Alsace between the Peace of Westphalia and the French Revolution Alsace, a... -
On Art, Artists, Latin America, and Other Utopias by Luis Camnitzer 9780292760905
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Artist, educator, curator, and critic Luis Camnitzer has been writing about contemporary art ever since he left his native Uruguay in 1964 for a fellowship in New York City. As a transplant from the...