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The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic by Darby Penney
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.31"The Lives They Left Behind is a deeply moving testament to the human side of mental illness, and of the narrow margin which so often separates the sane from the mad. It is a remarkable portrait,... -
A Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson for the 21st Century by Jerome Charyn
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50PEN/ Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Longlist O, The Oprah Magazine "Best Books of Summer" selection "Magnetic nonfiction." --O, The Oprah Magazine "Remarkable insight ...[a] unique... -
The Measure of Darkness by Liam Durcan 9781942658047
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.38Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction Winner National Reading Group Month "Great Group Reads" selection "A deft exploration of the heart and mind that offers the pathos of a Sam Shepard... -
Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and The Bomb by David C. Cassidy
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.30"A fascinating, well-documented biography." --New York Times Book Review "A monumental effort." --New York Review of Books "An excellent piece of science writing...Cassidy does not so much... -
Places of the Heart: The Psychogeography of Everyday Life by Colin Ellard 9781942658009
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.67Library of Science Book Club selection Discover magazine "What to Read" selection "A really great book." IRA FLATOW, Science Friday "One of the finest science writers I've ever read." Los... -
Not Long Ago Persons Found by J. Richard Osborn 9781954276406
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A forensics team investigates the murder of a child and is drawn into a chilling international coverupThe body of a young boy is found floating in a city river with pollen in his lungs from a warm... -
The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray's Anatomy by Bill Hayes 9781934137215
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.00Bill Hayes pays eloquent tribute to two masterpieces: the human body and the book detailing it. With passion and wit, Hayes explores the significance of 'Gray's Anatomy' and explains why it came to... -
Mind Wars: Brain Science and the Military in the 21st Century by Jonathan D. Moreno 9781934137437
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50"One of the most important thinkers describes the literally mind-boggling possibilities that modern brain science could present for national security." --LAWRENCE J. KORB, former US Assistant... -
Autopsy of a Father Pascale Kramer 9781942658245
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.05"[Kramer's body of work is] precise and sumptuous . . . a song of emotion, but with a great lucidity about the humanity of simple people."-Swiss Federal Office of Culture, Swiss Grand Prize for... -
Sleeping Mask: Fictions by Peter LaSalle 9781942658184
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.33"LaSalle's [stories] transcend their particulars to show people with dreams, dilemmas, and disappointments that will move any reader." --Jhumpa Lahiri, Harvard Review "Haunting and evocative..... -
The Cage: The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers by Gordon Weiss 9781934137543
Booksplease Price: £15.23"The Cage is a tightly written and clear-eyed narrative about one of the most disturbing human dramas of recent years. . . . A riveting, cautionary tale about the consequences of unchecked political... -
As If by Magic by Edgard Telles Ribeiro 9781954276505
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Nothing is as it seems in the sinuous tales of Brazilian master Edgard Telles RibeiroA son embarks on a journey involving a disappearing suitcase, secret police, and a strange letter, while pursuing... -
A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland Ice by William E. Glassley 9781942658344
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.84"Very few people have spent as much time as William E. Glassley in such deep wilderness. So it would behoove us to pay attention even if he had not brought back such a fascinating, lovely, and useful... -
The Topography of Tears by Rose-Lynn Fisher 9781942658283
Booksplease Price: £18.38"When you first view Rose-Lynn Fisher's photographs, you might think you're looking down at the world from an airplane, at dunes, skyscrapers or shorelines. In fact, you're looking at her tears. . . ... -
Then They Started Shooting: Children of the Bosnian War and the Adults They Become Lynne Jones 9781934137666
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50"Remarkable insight and sensitivity ...deepen[s] our understanding of human resilience and how people rebuild their lives from tragic circumstances." --KENNETH ROTH, Executive Director, Human Rights... -
I Thought I Could Fly: Portraits of Anguish, Compulsion, and Despair by Charlee Brodsky 9781934137093
Booksplease Price: £20.22"Evocative images, eloquent testimony-a frank and often inspiring exploration of the experience of mental illness."-Peter D. Kramer, author of Freud: Inventor of the Modern Mind and Listening to... -
The Depopulation by Marina Closs 9781954276604
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26From a major new talent in Latin American literature comes a tale of cultures, languages, spirits, and the natural world on the brink of transformation“Of all the happy, hermitic lands, the Guayrá... -
Tinkers: 10th Anniversary Edition by Paul Harding 9781942658603
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942658603Author Paul HardingFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint < -
Centroeuropa Vicente Luis Mora 9781954276529
Booksplease Price: £13.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954276529Author Vicente Luis MoraFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint -
To & Fro by Leah Hager Cohen 9781954276253
Booksplease Price: £16.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954276253Author Leah Hager CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint
Cancion by Eduardo Halfon 9781954276079
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954276079Author Eduardo HalfonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint
A Perfect Turmoil: Walter E. Fernald and the Struggle to Care for America's Disabled 9781954276420
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954276420Author Alex GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint
Come on Up by Jordi Nopca 9781942658801
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942658801Author Jordi NopcaFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint
We Want So Much to Be Ourselves Stephen O'Connor 9781954276581
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954276581Author Stephen O'ConnorFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint
The Welsh Fasting Girl by Varley O'Connor 9781942658627
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942658627Author Varley O'ConnorFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint
Tarantula Eduardo Halfon 9781954276567
Booksplease Price: £13.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954276567Author Eduardo HalfonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint
Maria La Divina by Jerome Charyn 9781954276482
Booksplease Price: £13.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954276482Author Jerome CharynFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint
The Ice Harp Norman Lock 9781954276178
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Ralph Waldo Emerson battles dementia while debating whether to intercede in a Black soldier's unjust arrestIn 1879, toward the end of his life, the Sage of Concord has lost his words. Beset by...
City of Incurable Women by Maud Casey
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26In a fusion of fact and fiction, nineteenth-century women institutionalized as hysterics reveal what history ignored"City of Incurable Women is a brilliant exploration of the type of female bodily...
The Bar at Twilight by Frederic Tuten
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICEAn incomparable storyteller serves up an enchanting concoction of art, love, and longingIn fifteen masterful stories, Frederic Tuten entertains questions of existential...
Swimming to the Top of the Tide by Patricia Hanlon
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Four seasons of immersion in New England's Great Marsh"Like Wendell Berry and Rachel Carson, Hanlon is a true poet-ecologist, sharing in exquisitely resonant prose her patient observations of...
Her Here by Amanda Dennis
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26An atmospheric debut novel about one lost young woman's search for another"Spellbinding. . . . Wholly engrossing." -Washington PostElena, struggling with memory loss due to a trauma that has unmoored...
A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form by Paul Lockhart
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26"One of the best critiques of current mathematics education I have ever seen."-Keith Devlin, math columnist on NPR's Morning Edition A brilliant research mathematician who has devoted his career to...
Asero Franois Dominique 9781942658788
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26"A singular novel." -Lydia Davis, author of Can't and Won't and Essays One"An exhilarating adventure!" -Alberto Manguel, author of The Library at Night and Fabulous Monsters"Extraordinary. . . ...
Potomac Fever: Reflections on the Nation’s River Charlotte Taylor Fryar 9781954276345
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26An impassioned meditation on American identity and its ebb and flow through the Capital's great waterwayAs she walks the length of the Potomac River, clambering up its banks and sounding its depths,...
To See Beyond by Anna Badkhen 9781954276543
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A globe-spanning essay collection on the human condition from the author James McBride calls "one of the most creative and important nonfiction writers in our era"Our hyper-informed digital era of...
The World Itself: Consciousness and the Everything of Physics by Ulf Danielsson
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88There is a wonderfully weird but real world out there, and we are a part of it. It is time for physics to take life seriously.Can we ever truly comprehend the universe before we fully understand...
The Impostor by Edgard Telles Ribeiro 9781954276154
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Two exquisite novellas on memory, perception, and shifting intimaciesIn "The Impostor," a man travels with his wife through Italy and recalls a family legend about an uncle who was swallowed by Mt...
North of Ordinary John Rolfe Gardiner 9781954276321
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The long-awaited return of a quintessentially American storyteller"You're as likely to be hit twice by lightning on a Monday as see a wood chipper pull a man into its maw."So begins North of...
The Boy in His Winter: An American Novel Norman Lock 9781934137765
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26"Make[s] Huck and Jim so real you expect to get messages from them on your iPhone." --SCOTT SIMON, NPR Weekend Edition "Brilliant...The Boy in His Winter is a glorious meditation on justice, truth,...