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On the Road by Jack Kerouac 9780241347959
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35'I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's' Bob DylanSal Paradise, a young innocent, joins his hero, the mystical traveller Dean Moriarty, on a breathless,... -
Sharaf by Kumar Raj 9781905802333
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $13.17Major-General Farhan Al-Balawi is a loyal soldier in the Saudi Arabian army who dotes on his beloved daughter, Maryam, his pride in her learning and independent spirit sharpened by the death of his... -
Who's Who in British Climbing by Colin Edward Wells 9780955660108
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $32.11"Who's Who in British Climbing" contains nearly 700 mini biographies of climbers - the romantics, eccentrics and buffoons that have made British Climbing what it is: dissolute and hungover most of... -
Beyond Well-Being: Spirituality and Human Flourishing by Maureen Miner 9781617358043
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $82.24This volume arose out of a deep concern to assist people in their struggle to lead a flourishing life. Fractured, stressed, relationally broken and spiritually empty people may instinctively reach... -
In Praise of Forgiveness Massimo Recalcati 9781509534906
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.91Relationships fall apart, marriages fail, couples break up - it happens to us all. Time corrodes passion and the routines of daily life kill the excitement that surrounds the emotion of the first... -
Fish Tales by Nettie Jones 9780349019796
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84A LITHUB BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025Acquired by Toni Morrison, championed by Gayl Jones, and almost forgotten for forty years, FISH TALES is a fierce, fearless modern classic for our own fragmented times... -
Naked at Lunch: A Reluctant Nudist's Adventures in the Clothing-Optional World by Mark Haskell Smith 9780802125163
Booksplease Price: $29.67People have been getting naked in public for reasons other than sex for centuries. But as novelist and narrative journalist Mark Haskell Smith shows in Naked at Lunch, being a nudist is more... -
The Profumo Affair by Vanessa Holburn 9781399062473
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $34.90In the hot and steamy July of 1961, a hedonistic weekend at Lord Astor’s Buckinghamshire estate Cliveden set in motion a chain of events like no other. It was where John Profumo, Secretary of State... -
His Little Black Book by Thea Devine 9781416524151
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $32.49This meeting of the Mistress Club is now in session.... At a swanky cafe in midtown Manhattan, three twentysomething gals convene to discuss how to achieve their ultimate fantasy: becoming... -
Jeweled Splendours of the Art Deco Era: The Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan Collection by Princess Catherine Aga Khan
RRP: $126.00Booksplease Price: $87.78One Christmas Eve, Prince Sanruddin Aga Khan gave to his wife a magnificent jeweled box made by Cartier in the 1930s. So began the making of perhaps the most remarkable jewelry collection of a... -
Underivative Duty: British Moral Philosophers from Sidgwick to Ewing by Thomas Hurka 9780199577446
Booksplease Price: $203.53These ten new essays by leading contemporary philosophers constitute the first collective study of a group of British moral philosophers active between the 1870s and 1950s, including Henry Sidgwick,... -
A History of Tokyo by Jonathan Clements
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35Tokyo, which in Japanese means the "Eastern Capital," has only enjoyed that name and status for 150 years. Until the middle of the nineteenth century, the city that is now Tokyo was a sprawling... -
Pikes Cocktail Book: Rock 'n' Roll Cocktails from One of the World's Most Iconic Hotels by Dawn Hindle 9781788795982
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $16.15Recreate the most popular drinks to have been shaken, stirred and swallowed at one of the world's most unique venues. 'Among Ibiza's growing raft of luxury hotels, Pikes remains a characterful... -
His Fantasies, Her Dreams: Ellora's Cave by S. L. Carpenter 9781416536161
Booksplease Price: $26.29Learning to Live Againby S.L. Carpenter Michelle has dumped her jerk boyfriend and her dead-end job for a better future. A chance encounter with a hot guy on a train ignites long-buried passions and... -
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The Longest Crawl by Ian Marchant 9780747585572 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $6.85The British love their booze. Ian Marchant - bon viveur, pub singer and writer - sets off to map the British landscape in drink. This mission takes Ian and his friend Perry on a gruelling month-long... -
The Pikes Cocktail Book: Rock 'n' Roll Cocktails from One of the World's Most Iconic Hotels by Dawn Hindle
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $24.78Recreate the most popular drinks to have been shaken, stirred and swallowed at one of the world's most unique venues. George Michael, Freddie Mercury, Grace Jones, Fatboy Slim, Irvine Welsh, Boy... -
Underwinter: Symphony by Ray Fawkes 9781534303324
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.24When a fallen denizen of Heaven claws its way to Earth, four talented musicians are drawn into a web of perversion and violence in an attempt to stop it from bringing its curse to the entire living... -
To Remain Myself: The History of Onghokham by David Reeve 9789813251595
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $47.67This is a particularly vivid biography of a remarkable individual, an Indonesian historian and public intellectual who was both a public figure and a multi-minority member, being Dutch-educated,... -
Tart: Misadventures of an Anonymous Chef Slutty Cheff 9781526682697
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.64'It's the two best things in the world: food and sex.'Slutty Cheff is an anonymous London chef who knows what it's really like to work in the capital's hectic restaurant scene.From working sixty-hour... -
Love Letters to bell hooks: Narratives Celebrating the Influence of a Transgressive Educator Tricia M. Kress 9781032699479
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $90.47bell hooks was one of the most influential voices in critical and culturally-responsive education. In recognition of the magnificence of bell's contributions to the field of education, this book is... -
Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women Selection'Late into the night we talked of love, of its complications. In my father's eyes they were imaginary. . . This conception of rapid,... -
The Fashion System by Roland Barthes
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $26.19Fashion never ceases to interest psychologists, aestheticians and sociologists. Roland Barthes, however, examined fashion from a new point of view. Using descriptions from magazines, he uncovered a... -
After the Dance by Terence Rattigan
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $21.97Terence Rattigan's After the Dance is a brilliant attack on the hedonistic lifestyle of the 'bright young things' of the 1920s and 30s. David is a high-living, hard-drinking, successful writer... -
Matthew Leifheit: To Die Alive by Jeremy O. Harris
RRP: $105.00Booksplease Price: $71.19To Die Alive conjures a hedonistic fever dream of Fire Island's historic gay communities. The book contains 77 photographs by New York artist Matthew Leifheit taken by night over the past five years... -
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi 9780571345403
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35'Completely blew me away.' Daisy Johnson, author of Everything Under'One of the most dazzling debuts I've ever read.' Taiye Selasi, author of Ghana Must Go 'I'm urging everyone to read it.' Sophie... -
What's the Difference? Psychology: 150 Key Concepts in Psychology Dr. Fiona Starr 9780711298842
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.55What's the difference between your id and your ego? Or a narcissist and a hedonist? In 150 paired definitions, this wide-ranging psychology primer resolves any confusion.The What's the Difference?... -
You Had to Be There: An Odyssey Through Noughties London, One Night at a Time. by Jodie Harsh 9780571392421
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'Gallops through the pre-mobile phone era with wit and chaotic energy.' Sunday Times'A joyous rags-to-riches tale.' Financial Times'Nostalgic, salacious and bitingly witty.' Joe Lycett'A delicious,... -
Nightingale Wood by Stella Gibbons
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54'Gibbons is superb on middle class life' SAM JORDISON, GUARDIAN 'A sharp-edged romantic comedy, we have a chance to see what we've been missing' DAILY MAIL 'What luxury to stumble upon this quirky... -
The Point of View of the Universe: Sidgwick and Contemporary Ethics by Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek 9780198776727
Booksplease Price: $90.07What does the idea of taking 'the point of view of the universe' tell us about ethics? The great nineteenth-century utilitarian Henry Sidgwick used this metaphor to present what he took to be a... -
Fly Me by Daniel Riley
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $32.99The year is 1972, and the beaches of Los Angeles are the center of the world. Dropping into the embers of the drug and surf scene is Suzy Whitman, who has tossed her newly minted Vassar degree aside... -
Operation Playboy: Playboy Surfers Turned International Drug Lords - The Explosive True Story by Kathryn Bonella
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84Sex. Drugs. Danger. Death. FROM THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF BESTSELLERS HOTEL KEROBOKAN AND SNOWING IN BALIThis is the adrenaline-pumping story of the world's most audacious drug runners and the police... -
Kay Francis: A Passionate Life and Career Lynn Kear 9780786423668
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $42.48Kay Francis came of age in the Roaring Twenties and relished the era's hedonistic pursuits. Her career as an actress was launched at the same time, and before her death in 1968, she had appeared... -
A Painkiller to Die For Dr Martyn Pritchard 9781836283591
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23It was difficult for Will Jeavons to imagine just how his life could possibly get any better. Having overcome a traumatic childhood, he had gone on to study molecular pharmacology and win tenure as a... -
Sacrifice Regained: Morality and Self-Interest in British Moral Philosophy from Hobbes to Bentham by Roger Crisp
RRP: $165.90Booksplease Price: $159.66Does being virtuous make you happy? In this book, Roger Crisp examines the answers to this ancient question provided by the so-called 'British Moralists', from Thomas Hobbes, around 1650, for the... -
The Belle Hotel by Craig Melvin
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.82A great read - Matt Haig 13 October 2008. Welcome to the worst day of Chef Charlie Sheridan's life, the day he's about to lose his two great loves: his childhood sweetheart, Lulu, and the legendary... -
From Rake to Radical: The Life of Howe Peter Browne by Anne Chambers
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.28From Ireland, England, France, Austria, Greece, Turkey and Italy to America and the West Indies, overflowing with historic events, from the French Revolution to the Great Irish Famine, with a cast of... -
Different Times: A History of British Comedy by David Stubbs
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $34.84They don't make comedy like they used to . . .From the slapstick comedy of Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel, the surrealism of Spike Milligan and Monty Python, and the golden age of political... -
Orgasm and the West: A History of Pleasure from the 16th Century to the Present by Robert Muchembled 9780745638751
RRP: $126.00Booksplease Price: $112.56Can the orgasm be explained in historical terms? An almost incommunicable individual emotion yet also a cultural reality, the orgasm is part of, but also escapes, collective experience. The history... -
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 9781839641817
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $17.39Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury... -
Media Blight and the Dehumanizing of America by William K. Shrader 9780275941192
Booksplease Price: $160.67This impassioned critique of contemporary mass culture argues that the media, particularly television as the spearhead of electronic communications technology, contributes to the pervasive...