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Love in Exile Shon Faye 9780241605981
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.04'We ache for love, but love eludes us. Out of this crisis comes so much of what it means to be human'Shon Faye grew up quietly obsessed with the feeling that love was not for her. Not just romantic... -
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates 9780241448304 [USED COPY]
RRP: $40.19Booksplease Price: $3.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780241448304Author Bill GatesFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint -
Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found by Andrew Graham Dixon 9781846147104
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $29.05'This book is going to revolutionize the way we understand Vermeer' Peter CareyThe paintings of Johannes Vermeer of Delft are some of the most beautiful, even sublime, in the history of art. Yet like... -
Underground: How the Tube Shaped London by David Bownes 9781846144622 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $3.51In 2013 London Underground, the world's first underground railway, marks its 150th anniversary. This new, lavishly illustrated history is the official anniversary publication of the London... -
On the Equality of All Things: Physics and Philosophy by Carlo Rovelli 9780241733707
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.77What can we really know about the world around us? With clarity and lightness, acclaimed physicist Carlo Rovelli guides us through the speculative depths of modern physics, unafraid to test their... -
Indeterminate Inflorescence: Notes from a poetry class Lee Seong-Bok 9780241728154
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37A collection of meditations on poetry, art and life, taken from the creative writing lectures of one of South Korea's most prominent living poets'Kick against words like you would kick back on a... -
Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life Agnes Callard 9780241476192
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $20.94From philosopher Agnes Callard, one of today's leading public intellectuals, comes a new and vibrant understanding of Socrates, his work, and his unique approach to learningThe ancient Greek... -
We Who Wrestle With God by Jordan B. Peterson 9780241619636
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $24.84The revolutionary new offering from Jordan B. Peterson, renowned psychologist and author of the global bestseller 12 Rules for Life In We Who Wrestle with God, Jordan Peterson guides us through the... -
Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace by Gordon Mackenzie 9780670879830
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $23.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670879830Author Gordon MacKenzieFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint -
What Went Wrong With Capitalism by Ruchir Sharma 9780241595763
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $26.17A radical examination by a leading financial analyst, commentator and investor of the ills of capitalism and how they can be fixedWhat went wrong with capitalism? Ruchir Sharma's explanation is... -
Universal: A Journey Through the Cosmos by Brian Cox 9781846144363 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $3.42An awe-inspiring, unforgettable journey of scientific exploration from Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw, the top ten bestselling authors of The Quantum Universe.We dare to imagine a time before the Big... -
Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction Sadiah Qureshi 9780241352106
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $29.05Anyone alive today is among a tiny fraction of the once living: over 90 percent of species that ever lived are now extinct. How did we come to think of ourselves as survivors in a world where species... -
On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything by Nate Silver 9780241557037 [USED COPY]
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $5.78AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Masterly... Utterly compelling... A highly readable and engaging tour' Sam Freedman, The TimesFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the... -
How We Break: Navigating the Wear and Tear of Living by Vincent Deary 9780241008355
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.28'Exhilarating... Wise and compassionate' New Statesman An expert, empathetic guide to the science, psychology and physiology of breaking, from the acclaimed author of How We AreWhat happens when... -
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Science of Harmony, Hypocrisy and Outrage by Steven Pinker 9780241618837
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $16.96'One of the most insightful books I've read about what makes us human and how we understand each other' Bill GatesSteven Pinker, one of the world's greatest thinkers and bestselling author of... -
Bread for All: The Origins of the Welfare State by Chris Renwick 9780241186688 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $3.46SHORTLISTED FOR THE LONGMAN-HISTORY TODAY PRIZE 2018LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 'Makes a gripping human story out of the wisest and most progressive policy achievement of any government in... -
A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness by Michael Pollan 9780241509470
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $25.38'Big, generous, illuminating and beautifully written' John Banville, Financial TimesFrom the best-selling author of How to Change Your Mind, a pioneering search for consciousness in the brain and... -
The Forgotten Girls: An American Story by Monica Potts
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $18.00RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'I couldn't put it down. . . an important book, raw and simple enough that you can't help but feel it deeply' James Rebanks, author of The... -
The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World by Michael Lewis 9780241254738 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $4.01'Michael Lewis could spin gold out of any topic he chose ... his best work ... vivid, original and hard to forget' Tim Harford, Financial Times'Gripping ... There is war, heroism, genius, love, loss,... -
Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann by Harriet Baker 9780241540510
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $26.17*A FOYLES TOP TEN READ FOR APRIL*'A superb portrait of the complex imprint the countryside makes on the life of the mind ... A treasure' Doireann Ni GhriofaIn Rural Hours, Harriet Baker tells the... -
Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World by Patrick Joyce 9780241543023
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $26.17'A dozen pages in I realized that I had been waiting for much of my life to read this extraordinary book' Annie ProulxA way of life that once encompassed most of humanity is vanishing in one of the... -
Shelf Life: A Journey Through the Past, Present & Future of Bookselling and Publishing in Britain Michael Robb 9781837052592
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.20'A very enjoyable history and survey of the present and the future.' - James Daunt, Managing Director of Waterstones; CEO of Barnes & NobleEmbark on a captivating journey through the ages with Shelf... -
Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde Alexis Pauline Gumbs 9780241505717
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $33.54A Guardian and Lit Hub most anticipated book of 2024An exhilarating biography of the iconic poet, essayist and activist Audre Lorde Read these chapters like a collection of poems that speak in chorus... -
Obama: An Intimate Portrait: The Historic Presidency in Photographs by Pete Souza
RRP: $53.60Booksplease Price: $40.52'Precious historical documents . . . vividly human and often funny . . . these images tell the true story of a presidency that words have failed' Jonathan Jones, Guardian The definitive visual... -
The Longest Afternoon: The 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo by Brendan Simms 9780241004609 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: $4.73The true story, told minute by minute, of the soldiers who defeated Napoleon - from Brendan Simms, acclaimed author of Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy Europe had been at war for over twenty... -
God Save Texas: A Journey into the Future of America by Lawrence Wright 9780241325704 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $6.35A New York Times Notable Book of 2018'This is a funny, pointed love letter to Texas, at once elegiac and clear-eyed' Ben Macintyre, The Times From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming... -
The Traveller: The Revolutionary Life of George Forster and his Search for Humanity by Andrea Wulf 9780241711217
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $31.13'Andrea Wulf belongs to the small, splendid canon of writers unafraid to render fact with feeling' Maria Popova, creator of The Marginalian and author of FiguringAn inspiring biography of the... -
From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia by Pankaj Mishra 9780241954669
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37Pankaj Mishra's provocative account of how China, India and the Muslim World are remaking the world in their own image - shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2013SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE... -
Merchant, Soldier, Sage: A New History of Power by David Priestland 9780241955215
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36From historian David Priestland, this is remarkable book proposes a radical approach to how we see our world and who runs itWe live in an age ruled by merchants. Competition, flexibility and profit... -
Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future by Paul Mason 9781846147388 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $3.42From Paul Mason, the award-winning Channel 4 presenter, Postcapitalism is a guide to our era of seismic economic change, and how we can build a more equal society. Over the past two centuries or... -
The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind and the Quest for Superintelligence by Sebastian Mallaby 9780241703557
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $21.43'Extraordinary... beautifully written, clear-eyed and engaged in the deepest ethical questions of our day' Rory Stewart'Mallaby has done full justice to his kaleidoscopically interesting subject ..... -
Street, Palace, Square: The Architecture of Democratic Spaces by Jan-Werner Müller 9780241382035
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.77Can architecture ever be democratic? An elegant, timely new theory of politics and urban design from the acclaimed author of What is Populism? and Democracy RulesBuilding requires power and resources... -
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference: Illustrated Edition Greta Thunberg 9780241453445
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08A new expanded and illustrated edition of the history-making speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young activist who has become the voice of a generation'We are the change and change is coming' In August... -
Every Cripple a Superhero by Christoph Keller
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63'Fascinating ... compelling ... very funny' Sunday Times'A defiant call to arms ... affecting ... lingers long in the memory after its final page' Morning Star'A skilful act of literary witness,... -
The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future by David Wallace-Wells 9780241355213 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $3.73**SUNDAY TIMES AND THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**Selected as a Book of the Year 2019 by the SUNDAY TIMES, SPECTATOR and NEW STATESMAN'If you read just one work of non-fiction this year, it should... -
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference: Illustrated Edition by Greta Thunberg 9780241453445 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $2.65A new expanded and illustrated edition of the history-making speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young activist who has become the voice of a generation'We are the change and change is coming' In August... -
The Responsible Globalist: What Citizens of the World Can Learn from Nationalism by Hassan Damluji
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.42'Thought provoking and well-written... a good read for people who care about solving global problems. Damluji puts forth ideas that can help make global systems more successful' - Bill Gates An... -
George III (Penguin Monarchs): Madness and Majesty by Jeremy Black
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.49King of Britain for sixty years and the last king of what would become the United States, George III inspired both hatred and loyalty and is now best known for two reasons: as a villainous tyrant for... -
A Duty of Care: Britain Before and After Corona by Peter Hennessy
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.42One of our most celebrated historians shows how we can use the lessons of the past to build a new post-covid society in BritainThe 'duty of care' which the state owes to its citizens is a phrase much... -
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume Three: Herself Alone by Charles Moore 9780241324745
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $33.50Shortlisted for the 2020 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITINGThe final part of Charles Moore's bestselling and definitive biography of Britain's first female Prime Minister, 'One of the great...