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Scandalous Liaisons: Charles II and his Court by R. E. Pritchard
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.62Scandalous Liaisons tells the story of the most hedonistic, loose-living court in English history, from Charles II's youthful years and mistresses in France, to his tempestuous relationship with the... -
Love and Trouble: Memoirs of a Former Wild Girl Claire Dederer 9781472231208
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50A hilarious, confrontational and moving story of one woman's attempts to navigate her way through the challenges of mid-life, for lovers of HOW TO BE A WOMAN and I'M NOT WITH THE BAND. 'Claire... -
Relight My Fire: a hilarious laugh-out-loud rom com perfect for 2021 Joanna Bolouri 9781786488589
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54A hilarious and heart-racing rom com from the bestselling author of THE LIST and ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMASPhoebe and Oliver had their happy ending, but now, with a five year old daughter, they are far... -
On the Road: The Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46Five decades after it was first published, Jack Kerouac's seminal Beat novel On the Road finally finds its way to the big screen, in a production from award-winning director Walter Salles (Motorcycle... -
Bentham's An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation: A Guide by Steven Sverdlik 9780190089900
RRP: €99.96Booksplease Price: €96.84Bentham's An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation is often considered the first work of the philosophical school of utilitarianism and is thus a vital text for students of... -
Dora Lives: The Authorized Story of Miki Dora by Drew Kampion 9781890481179
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €32.84The definitive record of the surfing iconoclast who became an icon The surfing iconoclast who became an icon, Miki Dora was the epitome of 1960s beach culture. His dark good looks were the envy of... -
The Souls of White Folk: White Settlers in Kenya, 1900s-1920s by Brett L. Shadle 9780719095344
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €73.32Kenya's white settlers have been alternately celebrated and condemned, painted as romantic pioneers or hedonistic bed-hoppers or crude racists. The souls of white folk examines settlers not as... -
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Cocoa Beach [Large Print] by Beatriz Williams 9780062670793
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €24.19The New York Times bestselling author of A Certain Age transports readers to sunny Florida in this lush and enthralling historical novel-an enchanting blend of love, suspense, betrayal, and... -
The Life of an Amorous Man: A Novel of Love and Desire in Old Japan Ihara Saikaku 9784805319857
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.98Japan's first modern novel-an unforgettable exploration of love and desire!The Life of an Amorous Man is a groundbreaking work by Ihara Saikaku, Japan's first popular novelist. This is the only... -
Hungry: Healthy and satisfying meals to eat on repeat, designed by a nutritionist by Caroline Hanna 9780600639831
RRP: €30.94Booksplease Price: €21.42Packed with foods that make you feel good and recipes that are easy to follow from registered nutritional therapist Caroline Hanna, Hungry is the cookbook to satisfy your cravings.No more coffee for... -
Iceland: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Marcel Krueger
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €19.61A guide to Iceland's rich literary heritage - from Norse witches to contemporary crime fiction. Iceland is an island of multiple identities in constant flux, just like its unruly, volcanic ground... -
Kevin McCloud's Grand Tour of Europe by Kevin McCloud 9780753827888
Booksplease Price: €19.29Channel 4's Kevin McCloud shows us how to experience the highs - and the lows - of a grand tour through France, Italy, Greece and Turkey.Loosely following in the footsteps of the most notorious grand... -
Morality and Social Class in Eighteenth-Century French Literature and Painting by Warren Roberts 9781487581312
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €22.35The moralistic tendencies that culminated in the Republic of Virtue can be traced in literature back to the late seventeenth century. In the 1690s two separate and antithetical moralities began to... -
Taste by Andrea Pavoni 9781911534327
Booksplease Price: €21.86Taste usually occupies the bottom of the sensorial hierarchy, as the quintessentially hedonistic sense, too close to the animal, the elemental and the corporeal, and for this reason disciplined and... -
Fulvia: A spellbinding story of female ambition set in the world of Ancient Rome Kaarina Parker 9781786587190
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81A STORY ABOUT FEMALE AMBITION, LEARNING WHERE TRUE POWER LIES, AND EXACTLY WHAT IT COSTS.'Compelling, relatable characters and a brilliant voice' CONN IGGULDEN'A tale of power-play, political hope... -
The Wall Of The Plague by Andre Brink 9780099285397
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91Helping to research her lover's film on the great plague, Andrea returns to Provence. However, her journey becomes more a trip of personal discovery than one of pure academic research as she begins... -
The Descent by Thomas Dekker
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.40'I have success, money, women. I've been lionised by the public and the media. The world is at my feet. I've spread my wings and here I am, soaring above everything and everyone. But in reality, the... -
Try This At Home: Adventures in songwriting: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER by Frank Turner
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*The brand new memoir from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Road Beneath My Feet. Taking 36 songs from his back catalogue, folk-punk icon Frank Turner explores... -
The Psychology of Happiness: A Good Human Life by Samuel S. Franklin
RRP: €28.56Booksplease Price: €27.27When Thomas Jefferson placed 'the pursuit of happiness' along with life and liberty in The Declaration of Independence he was most likely referring to Aristotle's concept of happiness, or eudaimonia... -
The Erotic in the Literature of Medieval Britain by Amanda Hopkins 9781843841197
RRP: €77.35Booksplease Price: €75.26An examination of the erotic in medieval literature which includes articles on the role of clothing and nudity, the tension between eroticism and transgression and religion and the erotic. This... -
Disreputable Pleasures: Less Virtuous Victorians at Play Mike Huggins (University of Cumbria, UK) 9780415345989
RRP: €71.39Booksplease Price: €66.45Many historians have claimed that respectability was the sharpest line of social division in Victorian society, even that the line between the 'respectable' and 'unrespectable' was more significant... -
Orgasm and the West: A History of Pleasure from the 16th Century to the Present Robert Muchembled (University of Paris) 9780745638768
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €21.29Can 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... -
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Stolen by Deborah Moggach 9780099477693 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €3.01From the bestselling author of Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.Always a rebel, Marianne was the first girl in her class to bleach her hair and learn how to smoke. A few boyfriends and one abortion later... -
Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill 9780393441161
Booksplease Price: €10.95Edited by Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer, "the acknowledged heirs of the founders of utilitarianism" (Jeff McMahan), the Norton Library edition of Utilitarianism features the complete... -
Cocoa: An exploration of chocolate, with recipes by Sue Quinn 9781787132603
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €23.24Chocolate has beguiled us for millennia. From the spiced drinks sipped by the elite in ancient Mesoamerica to the artisan bars spiked with intriguing flavours we devour today, chocolate has always... -
The Ninth Wave: Love and Food on the Isle of Mull by Carla Lamont
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €15.91From Masterchef: The Professionals quarter-finalist Carla Lamont. This book shares the sensual beauty and bounty of the Isle of Mull through the eyes of restauranteur and MasterChef: The... -
Subcultures: Cultural Histories and Social Practice by Ken Gelder
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €45.21This book presents a cultural history of subcultures, covering a remarkable range of subcultural forms and practices. It begins with London's 'Elizabethan underworld', taking the rogue and vagabond... -
Antic Hay by Aldous Huxley 9780099458180
Booksplease Price: €5.57WITH A FOREWORD BY DAVID LODGEWhen inspiration leads Theodore Gumbril to design a type of pneumatic trouser cushion to ease the discomfort of sedentary life, he decides the time has come to give up... -
Freaks Out!: Weirdos, Misfits and Deviants – The Rise and Fall of Righteous Rock ’n’ Roll Luke Haines 9781788709354
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54The followers - this book is not for you.The salt of the earth - this book is not for you.The worthy - this book is not for you.The ideologists - this book is not for you.Hedonists and bohemians -... -
Fly Me by Daniel Riley 9780316362115
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €11.76A nation on the verge of a new era-and a girl caught between her past and the ever-expanding present.Now a Los Angeles Times Bestseller!The year is 1972, and the beaches of Los Angeles are the center... -
A Belfast Child by John Chambers
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €7.81John Chambers was brought up on Belfast's notorious Loyalist Glencairn estate, during the height of the Troubles. From an early age he witnessed violence, hatred and horror as Northern Ireland tore... -
Vulgar Favours: The book behind the Emmy Award winning 'American Crime Story' about the man who murdered Gianni Versace by Maureen Orth
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.16A true story of dark forces that ended a colourful life. The basis for the Emmy Award winning American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace, a 10-part drama series on BBC2, starring... -
Living Off Crime by Kenneth D. Tunnell 9780742541962
Booksplease Price: €102.85Living Off Crime describes highly active property offenders who commit themselves to careers in serious property crimes such as burglary and armed robbery. This book takes the unique approach of... -
Jordi Gómez: Unlimited Jordi Gómez 9789058567468
RRP: €70.21Booksplease Price: €49.48Jordi Gomez: Unlimited showcases the dynamic visual world of photographer and multi-disciplinary artist Jordi Gomez, capturing his 25-year journey. From his early analog work to his exploration of... -
Switch Bitch by Roald Dahl
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46In Switch Bitch four tales of seduction and suspense are told by the grand master of the short story, Roald Dahl.Topping and tailing this collection are The Visitor and Bitch, stories featuring... -
Renegade Edo and Paris: Japanese Prints and Toulouse-Lautrec by Xiaojin Wu 9780932216076
RRP: €35.64Booksplease Price: €25.35A critical look at the renegade spirit that permeates Japanese prints and the posters of fin-de-siecle ParisBoth the Edo period (1603-1868) in Japan and the late nineteenth century in France... -
Odious Caribbean Women and the Palpable Aesthetics of Transgression by Gladys M. Francis 9781498543507
Booksplease Price: €108.75Odious Caribbean Women and the Palpable Aesthetics of Transgression examines the methods through which the works of French Caribbean women resist hedonistic conceptions of pleasure, "art for art's... -
Violent Night by Steve Hall 9781845201647
Booksplease Price: €49.72Why do our night-time cities seem to mix pleasure with violence? This is the time and place when cities are taken over by young men in search of alcohol, drugs, another club or a fight. Current... -
Here Be Dragons by Stella Gibbons
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91When Nell Sely moves from sleepy Dorset to Hampstead she leaves behind a childhood of dull teas and oppressive rules for the freedom of the big city. Naive and only nineteen, she becomes embroiled... -
Selected Climbs: Mont Blanc & the Aiguilles Rouges: 60 rock routes from F4 to F6a+ by Jean-Louis Laroche 9781910240458
RRP: €17.79Booksplease Price: €14.30Selected Climbs: Mont Blanc & the Aiguilles Rouges presents the best rock climbs in the Mont Blanc range and on the Aiguilles Rouges, from F4 to F6a+. The selection is based on purely hedonistic...