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The Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Minds, Brains and Bodies by Clayton Aldern 9780241597378
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23'Penetrating, intensely personal, and impossible to put down, this is a book you need to read.' Annie Proulx, winner of the Pulitzer Prize'This book is a triumph.' Bill McKibbenA riveting, revelatory... -
My Beloved Monster Caleb Carr 9780241735213
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23An instant New York Times bestseller, this is an unforgettable story about a cat, love and loss from a highly acclaimed writerCaleb Carr has lived with cats ever since he was a young boy. He grew up... -
Capitalism and Its Critics John Cassidy 9780241457009
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £27.22At a time when we are faced with fundamental questions about the sustainability and morality of the economic system, Capitalism and Its Critics provides a kaleidoscopic history of global capitalism,... -
Destroyer of Worlds: The deep history of the nuclear age: 1895-1965 by Frank Close 9780241700860
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.77Henry Becquerel’s accidental discovery, in Paris in 1896, of a faint smudge on a photographic plate sparked a chain of discoveries which would unleash the atomic age.Destroyer of Worlds is the story... -
Cacheu: The Struggle Over Life in 17th Century West Africa by Toby Green 9780241611418
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23In 1665 Crispina Peres, the most powerful trader in the West African slave trafficking port of Cacheu, was arrested by the Inquisition. Her enemies had conspired to denounce her for taking treatments... -
Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas by Ngugi wa Thiong'o 9780241780978
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24A new collection of literary criticism and brilliant insights from one of the giants of contemporary thinkingWho owns language? In Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas, Ngugi wa... -
Life in Progress by Hans Ulrich Obrist 9780241712207
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24World-renowned curator Hans Ulrich Obrist for the first time grants a private view of his life, and his journey towards art and artistsWhen Hans Ulrich was six years old, he was knocked down by a... -
Waves and Stones: The Continuous and the Discontinuous in Human Thought by Graham Harman 9780241392867
Booksplease Price: £23.01We all see the world around us differently. Some people believe in gradual political progress; others push for radical revolution. Some of us see our lives as a long process of growth and change, and... -
The Migrants: A Memoir with Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel 9780241670125
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23Christopher de Hamel is one of the world’s best-known scholars and writers on illuminated manuscripts. He was mostly brought up in the south of New Zealand, where his family moved when he was four... -
Red Pockets: An Offering Alice Mah 9780241608319
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24'Part of me knew what the hungry ghosts wanted all along, what they still want. It is not vengeance. No, they want something else, but we refuse to listen. They want us to face up to our broken... -
Gods, Guns & Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity Manu Pillai 9780241456941
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.67'A brave and magnificent book, and a vital intervention: as elegant as it is witty, as erudite as it is wise, and as stylish as it is scholarly. Manu Pillai is fast becoming one of India's most... -
The Alienation Effect: How Central European Émigrés Transformed the British Twentieth Century Owen Hatherley 9780241378205
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £27.22A momentous history of the 1930s emigre generation, and how they reshaped BritainAs the horrors of fascism ran riot through Europe in the 1930s, tens of thousands of central Europeans, most of them... -
The Great Exchange: Making the News in Early Modern Europe by Joad Raymond Wren 9780241188538
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £28.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780241188538Author Joad Raymond WrenFormat HardbackPage Count 656Imprint Allen LanePublisher Penguin... -
The Glass Mountain: Escape and Discovery in Wartime Italy by Malcolm Gaskill 9780241622599
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53The bestselling author of The Ruin of All Witches returns with a gripping, vividly told journey into his family's wartime past'In this rich, engrossing book, Gaskill succeeds in his aim of writing ‘a... -
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography: Single-volume Centenary Edition by Charles Moore 9780241687673
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £29.86'Utterly gripped' Hilary MantelCharles Moore's bestselling and definitive biography of Britain's first female Prime Minister, now in a single volumeWith unparalleled authority and dramatic detail,... -
The Winner's Curse: Behavioral Economics Anomalies Then and Now by Richard H. Thaler 9780241789681
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53Nobel Prize-winner and co-author of Nudge, Richard Thaler, and rising star economist Alex Imas explore behavioral economics in this fully updated edition of the seminal work The Winner’s CurseWhy do... -
The Face: A Cultural History by Fay Bound-Alberti 9780241670712
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23'Utterly fascinating, beautifully written, scholarly yet entertaining' Joanna Lumley A pioneering study into how we interpret faces and what they reveal about us, from a world-renowned cultural... -
Kama: The Riddle of Desire by Das, Gurcharan
Booksplease Price: £25.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670087372Author Gurcharan DasFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Allen LanePublisher Penguin... -
Landbridge: Life in Fragments by Y-Dang Troeung 9780241648001
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24One woman's heart-breaking, life-affirming memoir of loss, survival, bearing witness and a legacy of love'Landbridge has forever altered what I know, how I love, and what I hope' Madeleine Thien,... -
Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman Didier Eribon 9780241686720
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.62A meditation on the social political and philosophical questions of ageingA few years ago, Didier Eribon's mother began to lose her physical and cognitive autonomy. After several months of... -
Against Identity: The Wisdom of Escaping the Self Alexander Douglas 9780241648216
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24Modern life encourages us to pursue the perfect identity. Whether we aspire to become the best lawyer or charity worker, life partner or celebrity influencer, we emulate exemplars that exist in the... -
Love in Exile Shon Faye 9780241605981
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.21'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... -
Hayek's Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right by Quinn Slobodian 9780241774984
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.47‘An essential read to understand the times in which we live' - Lea YpiA revelatory exploration of how today’s rightwing authoritarianism emerged not in opposition to neoliberalism, but from within... -
Indignity by Lea Ypi 9780241661925
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780241661925Author Lea YpiFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Allen LanePublisher Penguin Books... -
Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found by Andrew Graham Dixon 9781846147104
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.98'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... -
Political Girl: Life and Fate in Russia by Maria Alyokhina 9780241670118
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23'Witty, urgent, and unflinching... her story speaks to anyone who believes that protest can be art, and that art can confront, disrupt, and even destabilize authoritarian power' Alpa ShahWhat can you... -
Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run by Paul McCartney 9780241758571
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.27A landmark account of Paul McCartney’s triumphant musical reinvention in the 1970s and the rise of one of the decade’s most iconic bandsThis is the story, in their own words, of a band that came to... -
The First Fascist: The Life and Legacy of the Marquis de Morès by Sergio Luzzatto 9780241715819
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.98'A beguiling portrait... reminds us that, ideologically and culturally, Morès anticipates the tragedies of the 20th century, and also those of today' The TimesOne of the most anticipated books of the... -
The Struggle for Taiwan: A History by Sulmaan Wasif Khan 9780241674857
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23A gripping account of the past and future of TaiwanIn the overwhelming chaos across Asia at the end of the Second World War, one relatively minor issue was the future of the Japanese colony of... -
The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World David Graeber 9780241611555
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.65Drawn from more than two decades of pathbreaking writing, the iconic and bestselling David Graeber's most important essays and interviews.'The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is... -
Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan Richard Overy 9780241700693
Booksplease Price: £19.04'Enemy cities were pulverized or fried to a crisp. It was something they asked for and something they got.'In the closing months of the Second World War hundreds of thousands of Japanese, mostly... -
A Scandal in Königsberg by Christopher Clark 9780241767887
Booksplease Price: £16.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780241767887Author Christopher ClarkFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Allen LanePublisher Penguin... -
No Is Not a Lonely Utterance: The Art and Activism of Complaining by Sara Ahmed 9780241759271
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780241759271Author Sara AhmedFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Allen LanePublisher Penguin Books... -
The Infinite Alphabet: And the Laws of Knowledge by César A. Hidalgo 9780241655672
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23The celebrated scientist and author of Why Information Grows reveals how knowledge moves, drives progress and shapes the worldWe all understand that knowledge shapes the fate of business and the... -
Portals to a New Reality: Five Experiments to Unlock the Future of Physics by Vlatko Vedral 9780241803059
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23An acclaimed physicist signposts a new revolution in fundamental physics, and with it a new description of realityFor the last century, physics has been following the paths set out by the same two... -
Mexico: A History by Paul Gillingham 9780241386040
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £33.66This sweeping new history of Mexico spans 500 dramatic years of conquest, innovation and revolution'A one-of-a-kind book, populated by large and small characters, spanning five hundred years of... -
Worlds of Islam: A Global History by James McDougall 9780241528488
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £29.86'A brilliant and captivating work ... There is simply no better book on Islam in history’ Eugene RoganFrom its birth in seventh-century Arabia, Islam has been a faith on the move. In Worlds of Islam,... -
The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr 9780241678503
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23A foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves over the course of the country's history.Distilled over many years from Henry Louis... -
Living with the Gods: On Beliefs and Peoples by Neil MacGregor 9780241308295
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.74A panoramic exploration of peoples, objects and beliefs over 40,000 years from the celebrated author of A History of the World in 100 Objects and Germany, following the new BBC Radio 4 documentary... -
Indeterminate Inflorescence: Notes from a poetry class Lee Seong-Bok 9780241728154
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.61A 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...