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The Lighthouse Stevensons by Bella Bathurst
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.15An exciting new edition of Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. 'Whenever I smell... -
Special by Bella Bathurst 9781447261872
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52A group of teenage schoolgirls are on a field trip to the Forest of Dean. Vain, spoilt and interested primarily in sex, alcohol and outfits, the girls squabble and smoke, skive and bitch, torment... -
Sound: A Story of Hearing Lost and Found by Bella Bathurst
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99'By the summer of 1998, it had become clear that there was something wrong with my hearing. It didn't happen suddenly but softly, so softly I almost wasn't aware of it happening; sound seemed to have... -
Field Work: What Land Does to People & What People Do to Land by Bella Bathurst
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'A priceless portrait of one of the least understood and frequently most vilified of people: farmers. It should really be read by all in this country who buys food - i.e. everyone.' Daily Mail ... -
A Secret Country by John Pilger
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41Expatriate journalist and film-maker John Pilger writes about his homeland with life-long affection and a passionately critical eye. In this fully updated edition of A Secret Country, he pays tribute... -
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin 9780099769910
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.90Bruce Chatwin provides a fascinating background to indigenous Australian life.The songlines are the invisible pathways that criss-cross Australia, tracks connecting communities and following ancient... -
The Woolgrower's Companion Joy Rhoades 9781784705022
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'A heart-breaking love story from a great new voice' SagaAustralia 1945. Until now Kate Dowd has led a sheltered life on her family's sprawling sheep station but, with her father's health in decline,... -
Sound: A Story of Hearing Lost and Found by 9781771643825
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £11.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771643825Author Bella BathurstFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Greystone BooksPublisher... -
Rooted: Stories of Life, Land and a Farming Revolution by Sarah Langford
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING'An honest look at the farming life today. Raw, earthy and inspiring' - Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment'A beautifully written,... -
Island by Alistair MacLeod
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15These slow, beautiful stories - resolute and resonant - are small masterpieces: apparently simple but actually crafted with enormous skill and precision. Set against the unforgiving landscape of Cape... -
Paying the Land by Joe Sacco 9781910702581
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.36In his first full-length work of journalism in a decade, the 'heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman' (Economist) brings his comics mastery to a story of indigenous North America, resource extraction,... -
London Fiction at the Millennium: Beyond Postmodernism by Claire Allen 9783030488888
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £91.59This book analyses London fiction at the millennium, reading it in relation to an exploration of a theoretical positioning beyond the postmodern. It explores how a selection of novels can be... -
Country Matters: A Countryside Companion: 74 tips, tales and talking points by Meg Clothier 9781788168700
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Everything you wanted to know about the countryside, but were too afraid to ask 'A joyful companion with surprises and delights on every page' Tristan Gooley, author of The Walker's Guide to Outdoor... -
London Fiction at the Millennium: Beyond Postmodernism by Claire Allen 9783030488857
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book analyses London fiction at the millennium, reading it in relation to an exploration of a theoretical positioning beyond the postmodern. It explores how a selection of novels can be... -
Stargazing: Memoirs of a Young Lighthouse Keeper Peter Hill 9781841954998
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95When Peter Hill, a student at Dundee College of Art, answered an advert in The Scotsman seeking lighthouse keepers, little did he imagine that within a month he would be living with three men he... -
Country Matters: A Countryside Companion: 74 tips, tales and talking points by Meg Clothier
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £10.33Everything you wanted to know about the countryside, but were too afraid to ask 'A joyful companion with surprises and delights on every page' Tristan Gooley, author of The Walker's Guide to... -
Witches: James I and the English Witch Hunts by Tracy Borman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.92September 1613.In Belvoir Castle, the heir of one of England's great noble families falls suddenly and dangerously ill. His body is 'tormented' with violent convulsions. Within a few short weeks he... -
The Oxford Book of Scottish Short Stories by Douglas Dunn 9780199556540
RRP: £15.49Booksplease Price: £12.31From tales of the supernatural to pungent social realism, and from the humorous to the disturbing, whether rural or urban, this anthology shows the vitality of the Scottish short story. Douglas... -
Seashaken Houses: A Lighthouse History from Eddystone to Fastnet by Tom Nancollas
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74'A thrilling celebration of lighthouses' i newspaperAn enthralling history of Britain's rock lighthouses, and the people who built and inhabited themLighthouses are enduring monuments to our... -
The Sea Inside by Philip Hoare
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88A startling book, his most personal to date, from Philip Hoare, co-curator of the Moby-Dick Big Read and winner of the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for 'Leviathan'. The sea surrounds us. It... -
The Levelling Sea: The Story of a Cornish Haven and the Age of Sail by Philip Marsden
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.74The story of Britain's colourful maritime past seen through the changing fortunes of the Cornish port of Falmouth. Within the space of few years, during the 1560s and 1570s, a maritime... -
In Defence of Dogs: Why Dogs Need Our Understanding by John Bradshaw 9780141046495 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £1.78What would dogs ask for, if they knew how? In the Sunday Times bestseller In Defence of Dogs John Bradshaw, an anthropologist at Bristol University who has been at the centre of the latest research... -
In Defence of Dogs: Why Dogs Need Our Understanding by John Bradshaw
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.03What would dogs ask for, if they knew how? In the Sunday Times bestseller In Defence of Dogs John Bradshaw, an anthropologist at Bristol University who has been at the centre of the latest research... -
The Accidental Garden: Gardens, Wilderness and the Space In Between Richard Mabey 9781805220725
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15SHORTLISTED FOR THE RICHARD JEFFRIES AWARD A WATERSTONES BEST NATURE WRITING BOOK OF 2024 PICK A BBC WILDLIFE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 'Delightful ... Mabey is the doyen of UK nature writing' New... -
Tubes: Behind the Scenes at the Internet by Andrew Blum
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Tubes: Behind the Scenes at the Internet by Andrew Blum is...'Utterly engrossing. The year's most original and stimulating 'travel' book. Even the most geek-wary of readers will enjoy' ... -
Weeds: The Story of Outlaw Plants by Richard Mabey
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Ever since the first human settlements 10,000 years ago, weeds have dogged our footsteps. They are there as the punishment of 'thorns and thistles' in Genesis and , two millennia later, as a symbol...