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My Side of the Diamond by Sally Gardner 9781471406812
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $11.82Nominated for the CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019. An extraordinary tale about the search for love from the acclaimed Costa and Carnegie winning novelist Sally Gardner.Jazmin has been shunned ever since... -
Orientalist Lives: Western Artists in the Middle East, 1830-1920 by James Parry 9789774168352
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $77.20In one of the most remarkable artistic pilgrimages in history, the nineteenth century saw scores of Western artists heading to the Middle East. Inspired by the allure of the exotic Orient, they went... -
Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters by James M. Tabor 9780393331967
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $27.14In 1967, seven young men, members of a twelve-man expedition led by twenty-four-year-old Joe Wilcox, were stranded at 20,000 feet on Alaska's Mount McKinley in a vicious Arctic storm. Ten days passed... -
When a Star Falls Helen Mortimer 9781408364970
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.01Will I fall? asked the snowflake.Yes, but you will cover the world in soft, white wonder.Will I fall? asked the raindrop.Yes, but you will fill streams and ponds with freshness and life.Will I fall?... -
The Master Bedroom by Tessa Hadley
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $12.07LONGLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTIONKate Flynn has always been a clever girl, brought up to believe in herself as something special. Now Kate is forty-three and has given up her university... -
Motives for Murder Various 9780751566154
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43*WINNER OF THE CWA SHORT STORY DAGGER WITH THE TRIALS OF MARGARET BY L. C. TYLER*In honour of multi award-winning author Peter Lovesey, the members of the Detection Club have written twenty-two... -
Becoming a Successful Illustrator by Derek Brazell
RRP: $62.38Booksplease Price: $52.63Get ready to enter the working world of illustration with this freshly updated second edition of Brazell and Davies's Becoming a Successful Illustrator. This edition features even more 'Spotlight... -
Art and Identity in Spain, 1833–1956: The Orient Within Claudia Hopkins 9781350428539
Booksplease Price: $207.21Richly illustrated, this is the first study in English to explore the longevity of Orientalist art in Spain over a period of 120 years.It highlights how artists in Spain shaped perceptions of... -
Witch in Training by Michelle Robinson
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.09Think that being a witch is all about pointy hats, waving wands and gathering around the cauldron singing spooky songs? Well, think again.Betty's potion-making starts tonight! And potions need... -
The Bolds Go Wild by Julian Clary
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $9.48The Bolds are visited by Fred's mother, Granny Imamu. She's travelled all the way from the Serengeti, she does not approve of what she finds: hyenas, living as people! Granny Imamu starts to stir up... -
Space Pirate Bears by Alastair Chisholm 9781529507256
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.09In the darkest depths of outer space, Princess Leona's STAR DEFENDERS protect the galaxy from danger!Jamie and Abby are bored, and bored. Dad, trying to work from his dining table office, has no... -
The Wind in the Wall Sally Gardner 9781471418822
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.01'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... -
Ada Twist and the Disappearing Dogs: The Questioneers Book #5 Andrea Beaty 9781419743535
RRP: $11.68Booksplease Price: $9.46The fifth story in the New York Times bestselling Questioneers chapter book series following Ada Twist, Scientist and friends Blue River Creek has a problem: there's a pet thief on the loose! Or at... -
Aaron Slater and the Sneaky Snake: The Questioneers Book #6 Andrea Beaty 9781419753992
RRP: $11.68Booksplease Price: $9.46From the New York Times bestselling Questioneers series, a chapter book adventure starring Aaron Slater, Illustrator and friends Zookeeper Fred loves all snakes, but his favorite is a tiny green... -
The Climbers by Jim Herrington 9781680510836
Booksplease Price: $82.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorJim Herrington began taking pictures as a teenager in his native North Carolina. Over the past forty years... -
Contemporary Raku by Stephen Murfitt 9781785009938
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $28.41Contemporary Raku is a complete guide to this exciting, dramatic and beautiful art form. It explains the making, glazing and firing methods employed for producing Raku-ware, and features... -
The Sinking Admiral by The Detection Club 9780008100452
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $18.88The Floating Admiral was the first of the Detection Club's collaborative novels, in which twelve of its members wrote a single novel. Eighty-five years later, fourteen members of the club have once... -
Rosie Revere and the Raucous Riveters: The Questioneers Book #1 Andrea Beaty 9781419777219
RRP: $11.68Booksplease Price: $9.46From the #1 New York Times bestselling team Andrea Beaty and David Roberts who created Ada Twist, Scientist and Iggy Peck, Architect comes a spirited story full of adventure, friendship, and science... -
Maryport: A Roman Fort and Its Community by David J. Breeze 9781784918019
Booksplease Price: $31.61The collection of Roman inscribed stones and sculpture, together with other Roman objects found at Maryport in Cumbria, is the oldest archaeological collection in Britain still in private hands... -
Elspeth Hart and the School for Show-offs by Sarah Forbes 9781847155955
Booksplease Price: $11.74Elspeth Hart and the School for Show-offs is the first adventure featuring the fabulous Elspeth Hart, a modern heroine with doodles on her trainers and unstoppable determination. Can you imagine... -
Winter 8000: Climbing the world's highest mountains in the coldest season by Bernadette McDonald
RRP: $46.80Booksplease Price: $36.17'He appeared, without a word, in the tent's entrance, covered in ice. He looked like anyone would after spending over twenty-four hours in a hurricane at over 8,000 metres. In winter. In the... -
Alone on the Wall by Alex Honnold 9780393356144
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $21.22On June 3rd, 2017, Alex Honnold became the first person to free solo Yosemite's El Capitan-to scale the wall without rope, a partner, or any protective gear-completing what was described as "the... -
Why Bowie Matters by Will Brooker 9780008313753
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.37A unique, moving and dazzlingly researched exploration of the places, people, musicians, writers and filmmakers that inspired David Jones to become David Bowie, what we can learn from... -
Far Above The World: The Time and Space of David Bowie by Paul Morley 9781472289476
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $34.32'A wondrous collection of writings to provoke the Bowie fan into deepening their understanding of the man, not just the myth.' Dave Roberts, God is in the TV zine'Insightful and vibrant, Far Above... -
The Bolds to the Rescue by Julian Clary 9781783443802
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $6.61The Bolds are a family of hyenas living as humans in a suburban house. But now their kindness to animal waifs and strays has become legendary - more and more animals keep turning up to stay! Roger... -
The Naturalists by Jaki McCarrick 9781906582845
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $16.79"Look, there's no rules of the road out there. Not any more. So how do ya live? Ya use the only thing ya can. Best compass a man has. Only compass a man has. His own heart." Set in a rural hamlet... -
Iggy Peck and the Mysterious Mansion: The Questioneers Book #3 Andrea Beaty 9781419777714
RRP: $11.68Booksplease Price: $9.46A chapter book adventure starring Iggy Peck, Architect and friends from the New York Times bestselling Questioneers series-now in paperback Iggy Peck is an architect at his very core: When he's not... -
Sofia Valdez and the Vanishing Vote: The Questioneers Book #4 Andrea Beaty 9781419743511
RRP: $11.68Booksplease Price: $9.46The fourth book in the bestselling Questioneers chapter book series starring community leader, Sofia Valdez!Miss Lila Greer thinks it's time for Grade Two to get a class pet, and she wants the kids... -
In the Shadow of Denali: Life And Death On Alaska's Mt. Mckinley by Jonathan Waterman 9781599217949
Booksplease Price: $25.84A classic in the genre of mountain literature-with a new preface by the author Rising more than 20,000 feet into the Alaskan sky is Denali, the tallest mountain in North America. In this collection... -
Visualizing Egypt: European Travel, Book Publishing, and the Commercialization of the Middle East in the Nineteenth Century Paulina Banas 9781617976674
RRP: $116.98Booksplease Price: $97.44Illustrated publications and the role of market forces in shaping representations of Egypt at a time when European colonial interests in the region were at their peak, with 80 color and black and... -
World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse by Lester R. Brown
RRP: $50.68Booksplease Price: $47.54In this urgent time, World on the Edge calls out the pivotal environmental issues and how to solve them now. We are in a race between political and natural tipping points. Can we close coal-fired... -
Universities and Innovation Economies: The Creative Wasteland of Post-Industrial Society by Peter Murphy
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $79.83Students drop out of universities in large numbers, many graduate to jobs that do not require a degree and a large number learn little at university, whilst graduate salaries have shrunk over time... -
Vanguardism: Ideology and Organization in Totalitarian Politics by Phillip W. Gray
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.82Providing an innovative conceptualization to extremist political movements founded upon "world-historic" populations and vanguard party organizations, Vanguardism sets out a new path in investigating... -
Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day by Peter Zuckerman 9780393345414
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $23.38When eleven climbers died on K2 in 2008, two Sherpas survived. Their astonishing tale became the stuff of mountaineering legend. This white-knuckle adventure follows the Sherpas from their remote... -
China, the United States, and Global Order by Rosemary Foot 9780521898003
RRP: $171.60Booksplease Price: $163.39The United States and China are the two most important states in the international system and are crucial to the evolution of global order. Both recognize each other as vital players in a range of... -
Mac Schweitzer: A Southwest Maverick and Her Art Ann Lane Hedlund 9781941451083
RRP: $117.00Booksplease Price: $87.07In Tucson during the 1950s, nearly everyone knew, or wanted to know, the southwestern artist Mac Schweitzer. Born Mary Alice Cox in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1921, she grew up a tomboy who adored horses,... -
Alone on the Wall: Alex Honnold and the Ultimate Limits of Adventure by Alex Honnold
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06'Riveting . . . Honnold is neither crazy nor reckless. Alone on the Wall reveals him to be an utterly unique and extremely appealing young man' - Jon Krakauer, bestselling author of Into the Wild... -
Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $12.56A starkly original and heartbreaking tale of friendship and rebellionWinner of the Carnegie Medal and a 2012 Costa Award winner. Narrated against the backdrop of a ruthless regime determined to beat... -
Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy by Elizabeth Popp Berman 9780691248882
Booksplease Price: $33.03The story of how economic reasoning came to dominate Washington between the 1960s and 1980s-and why it continues to constrain progressive ambitions todayFor decades, Democratic politicians have... -
The Door That Led to Where by Sally Gardner 9781471401114
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $11.82When the present offers no hope for the future, the answers may lie in the pastAJ Flynn has just failed all but one of his GCSEs, and his future is looking far from rosy. So when he is offered a...