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The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World by Lincoln P. Paine
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $28.61A monumental, wholly accessible work of scholarship that retells human history through the story of mankind's relationship with the sea. An accomplishment of both great sweep and illuminating... -
The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Mathematics, from One to Infinity by Steven Strogatz
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26Award-winning Steven Strogatz, one of the foremost popularisers of maths, has written a witty and fascinating account of maths' most compelling ideas and how, so often, they are an integral part of... -
Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Story of Huguette Clark and the Loss of One of the World's Greatest Fortunes by Paul Clark Newell
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.94Empty Mansions is a rich mystery of wealth and loss, connecting the Gilded Age opulence of nineteenth-century America with a twenty-first-century battle over a $300 million inheritance. At its heart... -
The Uses of Pessimism by Roger Scruton
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.60Scruton argues that the tragedies and disasters of the history of the European continent have been the consequences of a false optimism and the fallacies that derive from it. In place of these... -
Baking Cakes in Kigali Gaile Parkin 9781848871472
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Shortlisted for the 2010 McKitterick PrizeAngel Tungazara runs a small business, baking cakes for the parties and celebrations of her neighbours. As her customers tell her their stories, Angel comes... -
Green Philosophy: How to think seriously about the planet by Roger Scruton
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56The environment has long been the undisputed territory of the political Left, which has seen the principal threats to the earth as issuing from international capitalism, consumerism and the... -
Azazeel by Youssef Ziedan
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26Set in the 5th century AD, Azazeel is the exquisitely crafted tale of a Coptic monk's journey from Upper Egypt to Alexandria and then Syria during a time of massive upheaval in the early Church... -
Fools Joan Silber 9781838956615
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD When is it wise to be a fool for something? From New York to India to Paris, from the Catholic Worker movement to Occupy Wall Street, the characters in Joan... -
The Cellist of Sarajevo Steven Galloway 9781843547419
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43'A universal story, and a testimony to the struggle to find meaning, grace, and humanity, even amid the most unimaginable horrors.' Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner Snipers in the hills... -
The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers 9781843549086
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $10.29While on a duck-hunting holiday sailing in the Frisian Isles, Carruthers and his friend Davies become suspicious of German naval activity off the North Sea Coast. The pair decide to investigate, and... -
Dragonwings by Laurence Yep 9780064400855
Booksplease Price: $10.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780064400855Author Laurence YepFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Atlantic BooksPublisher Atlantic... -
Pirate School by Cathy East Dubowski 9780448411323
Booksplease Price: $5.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780448411323Author Cathy East DubowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Atlantic BooksPublisher... -
The Littles by John Peterson 9780590462259
Booksplease Price: $4.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780590462259Author John PetersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Atlantic BooksPublisher Atlantic... -
I Heart Politics: How People Power Took Over the World by Phoenix Andrews 9781838954222
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56'Fascinating' The Times'A fresh, lively and energetic take on how and why politics divides us' Samira Ahmed'As knowledgeable as it is fun' James Ball'A must-read' Mollie GoodfellowIf a week is a long... -
Much Ado About Numbers by Rob Eastaway 9781805460275
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.47"A spectacular journey... Highly recommended!" Dr Simon Smith, The Shakespeare Institute "A fascinating and hugely entertaining guide to Shakespearean mathematics." Prof Sarah Hart, author of Once... -
Soul of Education by Rachael Kessler 9780871203731
Booksplease Price: $37.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871203731Author Rachael KesslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Atlantic BooksPublisher... -
The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World Johan Norberg 9781838957926
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $8.51'This book is an excellent explanation of why capitalism is not just successful, but morally right' Elon Musk'A joyful counterblast... packed with vivid examples... decisive' The Economist'Compelling... -
Brooklyn Crime Novel Jonathan Lethem 9781838952211
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.431978 and two 14-year-old white boys are creating dubious art by using a hacksaw to cut multiple quarters into pieces. A child who's just bought ice cream from a Mr. Softee truck witnesses a daylight... -
The Only Way Is Up: How to Take Britain from Austerity to Prosperity Polly Toynbee 9781805462668
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56Political change is coming. But the new Westminster government's inheritance looks grim. We're all in it together, the Tories used to say. But they look set to bequeath sharp social divisions, vastly... -
Discover Your Spiritual Type by Corinne Ware 9781566991490
Booksplease Price: $30.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566991490Author Corinne WareFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Atlantic BooksPublisher Atlantic... -
Stop Chasing Happiness: Counterintuitive Life Advice From the World’s Happiest Country Frank Martela 9781805463733
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56The secret to happiness? Stop trying to find it - it's not all it's cracked up to be.Finding happiness is less about learning new tricks and more about unlearning ways of thinking holding you back:... -
Love, Expanded: How asexuals and aromantics are redefining love, life, and family by Wren Burke 9781805462583
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.71A boundary-pushing book on love and relationships in all its forms, showing exactly what we can all learn from the asexual community.Love, Expanded is not a book about suffering, though the... -
The Stronger Sex: What Science Tells us about the Power of the Female Body by Starre Vartan 9781805460886
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $20.60A myth-busting vindication of women's physical strengthsFor decades, Starre Vartan - like most women - was told that having a woman's body meant being weaker than men. Like many women, she mostly... -
The Cold Eye of Heaven by Christine Dwyer Hickey 9781805464402
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Farley is an elderly Dublin man, frail in body but sharp as a tack. Waking in the middle of the night, he finds himself lying paralyzed on the cold bathroom floor. And so his mind begins to move... -
V-Force: Britain’s Nuclear Bombers and the Cold War by Jonathan Glancey 9781838957957
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $20.21As World War II came to an end and America's nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki shocked the world, it became clear that the nascent Cold War would be as different a conflagration from WWII as... -
Peacemaker: U Thant, the United Nations and the Untold Story of the 1960s by Thant Myint-U 9781838958947
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $20.73'A wonderful subject, beautifully written, evoking a world startlingly like and unlike our own' Rory Stewart'A brilliant portrait not just of a great and unjustly forgotten man, but of an entire age'... -
On the Ashes by Gideon Haigh 9781838959999
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Nothing compares to the Ashes. The Ashes is always coming, even when it is finished. The Ashes is where hope, expectation, magic and chagrin flourish in equal measure, and performance is permanently... -
Rhyme and Reason: A Short History of British Poetry from the #1 bestselling author of The Etymologicon by Mark Forsyth 9781805465287
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56'Enchanting' Stephen FryDid you know:- Lord Byron sold more books in a day than Jane Austen did in her lifetime- During the First World War there were more women poets published than soldier poets- A... -
Red: A Natural History of the Redhead by Jacky Colliss Harvey 9781805466260
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91A New York Times bestseller, Red is the first book to explore the history of red hair and red-headedness throughout the world.With an obsessive fascination that is as contagious as it is compelling,... -
The Book of Lost Hours: The global phenomenon time travel romance that readers are loving by Hayley Gelfuso 9781805464754
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.03A sweeping, cinematic love story about memory and community for fans of The Ministry of Time, The Midnight Library and The Book Thief._________________'If you loved The Ministry of Time, you'll adore... -
For the Sun After Long Nights: The Story of Iran’s Women-led Uprising by Nilo Tabrizy 9781805460923
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $20.21***LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION***IN SEPTEMBER 2022, in response to the death of Mahsa Jîna Amini in police custody, after being arrested and beaten for not wearing her... -
The Nightingale Legacy by Catherine Coulter 9780515116243
Booksplease Price: $10.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780515116243Author Catherine CoulterFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Atlantic BooksPublisher... -
How Will I Ever Get Through This?: A Practical Guide to Navigating Life’s Toughest Times by Dr Lucy Hone 9781805464327
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56'The best work I know on positive psychology and grief is Lucy Hone's' Dr Martin SeligmanGrief is not confined to bereavement. Yet society rarely recognises these non-death losses, leaving many... -
The Wisdom of Farmers: What We Can Learn from the Land by John Connell 9781805464235
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91'There is hard-won wisdom here, and good cheer, and a reminder that the world is much wider, older and more interesting than you'd think' BILL McKIBBEN'Kind, wise and immensely readable' TIM... -
The Crypto Genius: A Quest to Unmask the Mysterious Mr Nakamoto by Benjamin Wallace 9781805464389
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91'Could be the best mystery story of the past twenty years.' James Patterson'This is, by far, the deepest investigation into possibly the biggest mystery of the 21st century. I couldn't put it down.'... -
Freedom to Think: The Long Struggle to Liberate Our Minds by Susie Alegre 9781838951535
RRP: $32.19Booksplease Price: $20.46Without a moment's pause, we share our most intimate thoughts with trillion-dollar tech companies. Their algorithms categorize us and jump to conclusions about who we are. They even shape our... -
Peak Human: What We Can Learn from the Rise and Fall of Golden Ages by Johan Norberg 9781838957315
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR'A compelling and timely study of what drove history's most influential civilisations... the book comes with impeccable timing... An entertaining and informative read for... -
Lost Boys: Undercover Adventures in the Manosphere by James Bloodworth 9781786499813
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26**You've seen the hit Netflix drama, Adolescence. Now read the book that explains it.**'So compelling' Financial Times'Remarkable' Sunday Times'Grimly fascinating' Pandora Sykes'Sobering'... -
Kind of Kin Rilla Askew 9781782390138
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60Your Grandpa is a felon and a Christian. He says he's a felon because he's a Christian. So says Aunt Sweet to her nephew Dustin, when her father, who has been raising Dustin, is arrested for hiding... -
The Rose by Jennifer Potter
RRP: $35.48Booksplease Price: $27.57This vividly written and lavishly illustrated book challenges many cherished beliefs about the rose. It looks set to establish itself as the definitive history of the Queen of Flowers.Ever since...