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Bedford Park by Bryan Appleyard
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $3.71An evocative historical thriller based in one of London's original suburbs.Set in 1912, Bedford Park is not just a London suburb: it is a crucible for enlightenment and modernity inhabited by people... -
The Car: The rise and fall of the machine that made the modern world Bryan Appleyard 9781474615419
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $9.10More than any other technology, cars have transformed our culture. Cars have created vast wealth as well as novel dreams of freedom and mobility. They have transformed our sense of distance and made... -
The Brain is Wider Than the Sky: Why Simple Solutions Don't Work in a Complex World Bryan Appleyard 9781780220154
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75A brand-new book from the award-winning SUNDAY TIMES journalist Brian Appleyard.Simplicity has become a brand and a cult. People want simple lives and simple solutions. And now our technology wants... -
Song of the Earth by Jonathan Bate
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41The most important critical work for decades' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times In the brilliantly engaging style that characterised The Genius of Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate has written a series of... -
The Kingdom by Emmanuel Carrere
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65'This is a brilliant, shocking book ... also witty, painfully self-critical and humane ... it is a work of great literature' Tim Whitmarsh, Guardian 'The Kingdom, already a huge bestseller in... -
The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe 9781784704896
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11'A great journalist with a whip-like satirical prose style... Wolfe's great gift is to make the heavy seem light and this book is such an entertaining polemic that I read it in a day and immediately... -
We Are Our Brains: From the Womb to Alzheimer's by Dick. F. Swaab
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Everything we think, do and refrain from doing is determined by our brain. From religion to sexuality, it shapes our potential, our desires and our characters. Taking us through every stage in our... -
The Strange Death of Christian England, and its Glorious Resurrection: Why Faith was nearly lost, and how it is being regained Andrew Hayward 9781806340750
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11In 2019 Melvyn Bragg, in a Sunday Times interview with Bryan Appleyard, described being at a family christening when the priest asked everyone to join in the Lord's Prayer. Bragg realised he was the... -
The Great Transformation: The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah by Karen Armstrong
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious concepts. Their emergence is second only to man's harnessing of fire in fundamentally transforming our understanding of what it... -
Trinity: The Treachery and Pursuit of the Most Dangerous Spy in History by Frank Close
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08'Everything about this story is astounding' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times"Trinity" was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945. Trinity is now also the... -
Collected Poems: 1958 - 2015 by Clive James
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $24.36Spanning fifty years of work, Collected Poems sees Clive James make his own rich selection from across his exceptional career in poetry.From his debut collection in 1986 to his dazzling achievements... -
Triumph of the City: How Urban Spaces Make Us Human by Edward Glaeser
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Understanding the modern city and the powerful forces within it is the life's work of Harvard urban economist Edward Glaeser, who at forty is hailed as one of the world's most exciting urban thinkers... -
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The Cambridge Quintet: A Work of Scientific Speculation by John Casti 9780349108537 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $2.67By 1949, the idea of duplicating human thought processes in a computer was starting to surface, as the outgrowth of code-breaking work done by Alan Turing and others in Britain during the Second... -
Tyrant: Shakespeare On Power by Stephen Greenblatt
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.68'Brilliant' Sunday TimesHow does a truly disastrous leader - a sociopath, a demagogue, a tyrant - come to power? How, and why, does a tyrant hold on to power? And what goes on in the hidden recesses... -
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge Professor Edward O. Wilson 9780349111124
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41In this groundbreaking new book, one of the world's greatest living scientists argues for the fundamental unity of all knowledge and the need to search for what he calls consilience, the composition... -
Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $11.90'Really made me think about how I think' - Mohsin Hamid, author of Exit WestTough times don't last. Tough people do. In The Black Swan, Taleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events... -
Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09An updated edition of the Sunday Times Bestseller Britain's best-known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit, she revisits the gender agenda and shows how... -
Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control by Dominic Streatfeild
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.24- What would it take to turn YOU into a suicide bomber? - Do heavy metal LPs contain subliminal messages? - What was MI6 doing with LSD in the 1950s? - Does the Unification Church brainwash recruits?... -
The New Evolution Diet: The Smart Way to Lose Weight, Feel Great and Live Longer by Arthur De Vany
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71The simple way to lose weight, look younger and feel healthier - without restricting calories or excessive exercisingThe New Evolution Diet is Professor Arthur De Vany's astonishing lifestyle... -
1939: Countdown to War by Richard Overy
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37'A gripping analysis of the final days of peace ... indispensable' M. R. D. Foot, The TimesRichard Overy's 1939: Countdown to War re-creates hour-by-hour the last desperate attempts to salvage peace... -
Gate of Lilacs: A Verse Commentary on Proust by Clive James
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.10Blending the critical essay with poetry, Gate of Lilacs is a collection of verse written by Clive James in response to - and profoundly inspired by - the work of Marcel Proust.'James picks out the... -
The Signal and the Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction by Nate Silver
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $12.23The International Bestseller by 'The Galileo of number crunchers' (Independent)Every time we choose a route to work, decide whether to go on a second date, or set aside money for a rainy day, we are... -
Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing by Robert A Caro
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68Robert A. Caro is one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation, whose landmark biographies are widely hailed as masterpieces.This is the captivating account of his life as a writer, describing... -
Free Ride: How the Internet is Destroying the Culture Business and How it Can Fight Back by Robert Levine 9780099549284
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04'Information wants to be free' says influential technologist Stewart Brand at a 1984 hacker convention. These words became the mantra that shaped the Internet, and the conflict he predicted has led... -
Perv by Jesse Bering
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.19In this eye-opening book, psychologist Jesse Bering argues that we are all sexual deviants on one level or another. He introduces us to the young woman who falls madly in love with the Eiffel Tower,... -
Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self by Marilynne Robinson 9780300171471
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.48One of our best contemporary writers explores the tension between science and religion and reveals how our concept of mind determines how we understand and value human nature and human civilization ... -
The Morbid Age: Britain and the Crisis of Civilisation, 1919 - 1939 by Richard Overy
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66Richard Overy's The Morbid Age opens a window onto the creative but anxious period between the First and Second World Wars. British intellectual life between the wars stood at the heart of... -
The Abolition Of Liberty by Peter Hitchens 9781843541493
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.02'It's fair to say that Peter Hitchens remains one of the most misrepresented figures in the British media... Hitchens is in reality one of the most thought-provoking and intelligent commentators on... -
Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet we Made by Gaia Vince
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68** Winner of Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2015 **We live in epoch-making times. The changes we humans have made in recent decades have altered our world beyond anything it has... -
The Dawkins Delusion? by Alister McGrath
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.71World-renowned scientist Richard Dawkins writes in The God Delusion: 'If this book works as I intend, religious readers who open it will be atheists when they put it down'. The volume has received... -
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Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet we Made by Gaia Vince 9780099572497 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.39** Winner of Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2015 **We live in epoch-making times. The changes we humans have made in recent decades have altered our world beyond anything it has... -
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Humanity: the Recent Moral History by Jonathan Glover 9780712665414 [USED COPY]
RRP: $32.16Booksplease Price: $3.23This book is about history and morality in the twentieth century. It is about the psychology which made possible Hiroshima, the Nazi genocide, the Gulag, the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Pol Pot's... -
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The Dawkins Delusion? by Alister McGrath 9780281059270 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $2.64World-renowned scientist Richard Dawkins writes in The God Delusion: 'If this book works as I intend, religious readers who open it will be atheists when they put it down'. The volume has received... -
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE Your body is teeming with tens of trillions of microbes. It's an entire world, a colony full of life. In other words, you... -
High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg by Niall Ferguson
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $21.00This is the extraordinary story of Siegmund Warburg: the refugee from Nazi Germany who restored the Blitz-shattered City of London as the world's preeminent international financial centre. In... -
Too Many Pills: How Too Much Medicine is Endangering Our Health and What We Can Do About It by James Le Fanu
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41The number of prescriptions issued by family doctors has soared threefold in just fifteen years with millions now committed to taking a cocktail of half a dozen (or more) different pills to lower the... -
Democracy by Alecos Papadatos
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $21.27An epic, moving graphic novel set in ancient Athens about the birth and the rise of democracy - from the illustrator behind the bestselling Logicomix 'Impressive ... Simultaneously a standout... -
Dylan's Visions of Sin Christopher Ricks 9780857862013
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.82'I consider myself a poet first and a musician second''It ain't the melodies that're important man, it's the words'There is no shortage of books about Bob Dylan. This one, however, is unique in its... -
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations by Daniel Yergin
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66A new type of Cold War is emerging between China and the West. . The global order is being simultaneously shaken by climate change and the shale revolution in oil and gas - and now by the coronavirus... -
Benjamin Britten: A Life For Music by Neil Powell
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $18.56Benjamin Britten was the greatest English composer of the twentieth century and one of the outstanding musicians of his age. Born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, in 1913, Britten was the youngest child of a...