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Shostakovich by Brian Morton 9781913368432
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Dmitri Shostakovich was the most popular Soviet composer of his generation. Internationally esteemed, he is widely considered to have been the last great classical symphonist, and his reputation has... -
Prince: A Thief in the Temple Brian Morton 9781782119746
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Prince Rogers Nelson released his first album in 1978. In the almost 40 years that followed he became a superstar, a recluse, an inspiration, an enigma, a slave and a symbol. He was a master of... -
John Barleycorn: `Alcoholic Memoirs' by Jack London
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36Published in 1913, this harrowing, autobiographical 'A to Z' of drinking shattered London's reputation as a clean-living adventurer and massively successful author of such books as White Fang and The... -
Pen in Hand: Reading, Rereading and other Mysteries by Tim Parks
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.21How can other people like the books we don't like? What benefit can we get from rereading a work? Can we read better? If so, how? These and many other questions, ranging from the field of writing to... -
PN Review 259 by Michael Schmidt
Booksplease Price: $10.48The May-June 2021 issue; Major new sequence of poems by Jamaican Poet Laureate Lorna Goodison; Opening essay in new eco-essay series by Brian Morton, about living rough in the remote Hebrides;... -
176 Interruptions by Charles Boyle 9781739421274
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $10.75There is gridlock on the M40 and a banana skin on every pavement. Lovers are disturbed in bed and my father becomes a rain god. Complacency is mocked. Death hovers. Shit happens. How the messiness of... -
Making a Noise: Getting It Right, Getting It Wrong in Life, Arts and Broadcasting by John Tusa
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $5.37John Tusa is a distinguished journalist, broadcaster and leader of arts organisations, best remembered for his times at the BBC, including creating Newsnight.Tusa's memoir is etched with candour. His... -
The Wolf Pit by Will Cohu 9780099542353
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.45In 1966 Will Cohu's grandparents moved to Bramble Carr, a remote cottage on the Yorkshire moors. The summers and winters he spent there were full of freedom and light; only after childhood ended was... -
Making a Noise: Getting It Right, Getting It Wrong in Life, Arts and Broadcasting Sir John Tusa 9781474607087
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $20.90In almost sixty years of professional life, John Tusa has fought for and sometimes against the major arts and political institutions in the country. A distinguished journalist, broadcaster and leader... -
Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.69Charles Mason (1728 -1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British Surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon... -
Salsa Rising: New York Latin Music of the Sixties Generation by Juan Flores 9780199764907
Booksplease Price: $48.98In the 1920s and 30s, musicians from Latin America and the Caribbean were flocking to New York, lured by the burgeoning recording studios and lucrative entertainment venues. In the late 1940s and... -
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Making a Noise: Getting It Right, Getting It Wrong in Life, Arts and Broadcasting by John Tusa 9781474607087 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $3.23In almost sixty years of professional life, John Tusa has fought for and sometimes against the major arts and political institutions in the country. A distinguished journalist, broadcaster and leader... -
Scotland: Defending the Nation: Mapping the Military Landscape by Carolyn Anderson
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $39.22Scotland has had a uniquely important military history over the last five centuries. Conflict with England in the 16th century, Jacobite rebellions in the 18th century, 20th-century defences and the... -
Music and Sentiment by Charles Rosen
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $14.55Acclaimed pianist and writer Charles Rosen explores music's profound ability to convey emotion through sound How does a work of music stir the senses, creating feelings of joy, sadness, elation, or... -
Vespers by Benedict Sheehan 9780193560710
RRP: $25.39Booksplease Price: $21.69for soloists and SATB unaccompanied Inspired by Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil, Vespers is a 12-movement English-language work in the Eastern Orthodox tradition. Suited to concert and liturgical... -
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The Quarry by Iain Banks 9781408703946 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $3.40Kit doesn't know who his mother is. What he does know, however, is that his father, Guy, is dying of cancer. Feeling his death is imminent, Guy gathers around him his oldest friends - or at least the... -
Norwegian Wood: The pocket guide to chopping, stacking and drying wood the Scandinavian way by Lars Mytting
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59A PORTABLE, POCKET EDITION OF THE DEFINITIVE WOOD-CUTTER'S BIBLE - PERFECT FOR FATHER'S DAY"The book has spread like wildfire" Daily Mail"A how-to book with poetry at its heart" T.L.S."A step-by-step... -
It Gets Worse: Adventures in Love, Loss and Penury Nicholas Lezard 9781784632106
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.76Book of the Week: The IdlerIt Gets Worse is the second instalment of Nicholas Lezard's rueful, dissolute life. Beginning where his first volume, Bitter Experience Has Taught Me, ended, Nick's... -
Gardening for Bumblebees: A Practical Guide to Creating A Paradise for Pollinators by Dave Goulson
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.41'Go on, have a flutter! Take a few tips from the new book by biologist Dave Goulson and it's a safe bet that beautiful butterflies will start gathering in your garden' Daily MailFrom the Sunday Times... -
In the House of the Interpreter: A Memoir by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Booksplease Price: $17.63During the early fifties, Kenya was a country in turmoil. While Ngugi enjoys scouting trips, chess tournaments and reading about Biggles at the prestigious Alliance School near Nairobi, things are... -
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Something Like Happy by John Burnside 9780224097031 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $6.90In these remarkable stories, John Burnside takes us into the lives of men and women trapped in marriage, ensnared by drink, diminished by disappointment; all kinds of women, all kinds of men -... -
Lawrence of Arabia's War: The Arabs, the British and the Remaking of the Middle East in WWI by Neil Faulkner
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $20.09A wealth of new research and thinking on Lawrence, the Arab Revolt, and World War One in the Middle East, providing essential background to today's violent conflicts Rarely is a book published that... -
To The End of the Land by David Grossman 9780099546740
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.68Ora, a middle-aged Israeli mother, is about to celebrate her son Ofer's release from army service when he returns to the front for a major offensive. Instead of waiting at home for the 'notifiers'... -
The Bard by Robert Crawford
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.26No writer is more charismatic than Robert Burns and no biographer has captured his energy, brilliance and radicalism as well as Robert Crawford does in The Bard. To his international admirers Burns... -
Something Like Happy by John Burnside
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71In these remarkable stories, John Burnside takes us into the lives of men and women trapped in marriage, ensnared by drink, diminished by disappointment; all kinds of women, all kinds of men -... -
Norwegian Wood: The guide to chopping, stacking and drying wood the Scandinavian way Lars Mytting 9780857052551
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.99THE DEFINITIVE WOOD-CUTTER'S BIBLE - THE BESTSELLING, YEAR-ROUND GUIDE TO CHOPPING, STACKING AND DRYING WOOD "The book has spread like wildfire" Daily Mail"A how-to book with poetry at its heart" T.L... -
Where Shall We Run To?: A Memoir by Alan Garner
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.22A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR From one of our greatest living writers, comes a remarkable memoir of a forgotten England. ... -
Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa Joseph Farrell 9781848668812
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Shortlised for the Saltire Society Non Fiction Book of the Year Award Almost every adult and child is familiar with his Treasure Island, but few know that Robert Louis Stevenson lived out his last... -
Better Times: Short Stories by Sara Batkie 9781496207876
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.86Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, the stories in Better Times focus on what's happening in places people don't think to look. Women, sometimes displaced, often lonely, are at the... -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage 9780393334159
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $13.83One of the founding stories of English literature, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight narrates the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse who rudely interrupts Camelot's Round Table festivities... -
My Sand Life, My Pebble Life: A memoir of a childhood and the sea by Ian McMillan
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.56My sand life, my pebble life. My life measured out in tides, coming in and going out. My life measured out in games of trying to spot the sea first. My life measured out in the delicious and... -
Taipei Tao Lin 9781782111856
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80At some point, maybe twenty minutes after he'd begun refreshing Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Gmail in a continuous cycle - with an ongoing, affectless, humorless realisation that his day 'was over' -... -
Black Wind, White Snow: The Rise of Russia's New Nationalism by Charles Clover
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.48A fascinating study of the motivations behind the political activities and philosophies of Putin's government in Russia"Part intellectual history, part portrait gallery . . . Black Wind, White Snow... -
The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth-Century History by David Edgerton
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.27'Forget almost everything you thought you knew about Britain ... You will not find a better informed history' David Goodhart, Evening Standard'A striking new perspective on our past' Piers Brendon,... -
Hoard Fleur Adcock 9781780373966
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $9.89Hoard brings together poems Fleur Adcock had to keep under wraps for several years because they didn't suit the themes of her last two collections, The Land Ballot and Glass Wings. They include... -
The Secret Lives of Colour by Kassia St. Clair 9781473630833
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A mind-expanding tour of the world without leaving your paintbox. Every colour has a story, and here are some of the most alluring, alarming, and thought-provoking. Very... -
Lost in the Lakes: Notes from a 379-Mile Hike Around the Lake District by Tom Chesshyre 9781837992959
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $8.99LAKELAND BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 - THE BILL ROLLINSON PRIZE FOR LANDSCAPE & TRADITION RUNNER UPJoin travel writer Tom Chesshyre for a Lakeland adventure like no other. Explore towering mountains,... -
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The Heart Broke In by James Meek 9780857862921 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $3.23EVERY ACTION HAS A CONSEQUENCEBec Shepherd is a scientist struggling to lead a good life Ritchie, her brother, is a TV star with skeletons in his closet Alex wants a family if he could only meet... -
The Heart Broke In by James Meek
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65EVERY ACTION HAS A CONSEQUENCEBec Shepherd is a scientist struggling to lead a good life Ritchie, her brother, is a TV star with skeletons in his closet Alex wants a family if he could only meet... -
Helgoland: The Strange and Beautiful Story of Quantum Physics by Carlo Rovelli
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37The instant Sunday Times bestseller -- a beautiful story of rebellion and scienceShortlisted for the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize'A triumph. . . We are left in a world that is not disenchanted by science,...