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The Ghost Rider Ismail Kadare 9781847673411
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31An old woman is awoken in the dead of night by knocks at her front door. The woman opens it to find her daughter, Doruntine, standing there alone in the darkness. She has been brought home from a... -
The Crossroads Niccolo Ammaniti 9781847671387
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.92Cristiano is thirteen. Home life is far from perfect. When his father and two friends come up with a plan to rob a bank, Cristiano sees the chance of a better life. As a tremendous storm brews that... -
Scipio by Ross Leckie
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Yes, we have achieved much. Have we destroyed even more?In the name of Rome, Scipio Africanus systematically destroyed the hard-won empires of Hannibal and Alexander the Great. With breathtaking... -
The Complete Poems Of Anna Akhmatova Anna Akhmatova 9780862417161
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £25.42From the artistic passion of the St Petersburg poets and bohemians, to the collective suffering of a nation, Anna Akhmatova spoke to, and for, the soul of her people. This magnificent edition... -
The Art of Rest: How to Find Respite in the Modern Age by Claudia Hammond
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE MONTHShortlisted for the British Psychological Society Book Award for Popular ScienceMuch of value has been written about sleep, but rest is different; it is how we unwind,... -
Anglo-English Attitudes by Geoff Dyer
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Anglo-English Attitudes brings together Geoff Dyer's best journalism and other writing from 1984-99. There are studied meditations on photographers (Robert Capa, William Gedney, Cartier-Bresson),... -
Carthage Ross Leckie 9781847671011
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31I fought the Romans once. It no longer seems a prudent thing to do.Carthage concludes the internationally acclaimed trilogy that began with Hannibal and continued with Scipio. Here, Ross Leckie tells... -
Listen To The Voice: Selected Stories by Iain Crichton
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.53This collection of the best of Iain Crichton Smith's short fiction brings together not one but many voices, both public and private. Ranging from inner promptings towards self-discovery, through... -
Not Fade Away Jim Dodge 9781841954868
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Floorboard George Gastin is part of an insurance scam to wreck a pure white, mint condition '59 Cadillac originally intended for The Big Bopper as a token of an admirer's love. But Floorboard George... -
Binu and the Great Wall of China by Su Tong
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.79In Peach Village, crying is forbidden. But as a child, Binu never learnt to hide her tears. Shunned by the villagers, she faced a bleak future, until she met Qiliang, an orphan who offered her his... -
True Things About Me by Deborah Kay Davies
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31NOW A MAJOR MOTION FILM CALLED TRUE THINGSFrom their first encounter, late one night in an underground car park, the narrator of True Things About Me is intoxicated by a stranger who seems to... -
Timecode of a Face by Ruth Ozeki
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.25What did your face look like before your parents were born? Who are you? What is your true self? These are the questions in Ruth Ozeki's mind as she challenges herself to spend three hours gazing... -
In High Places by Dougal Haston
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43In his own words Dougal Haston covers the years from his childhood in Scotland, where his love of climbing was first sparked, through to his development into perhaps the most formidable climber of... -
Household Ghosts: A James Kennaway Omnibus: Tunes of Glory; Household Ghosts; Silence by James Kennaway
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38Tunes of GloryHousehold GhostsSilenceThis volume collects three of the very best works by James Kennaway, the brilliant young novelist and screenwriter who tragically died in a car crash at the... -
Stevenson Under The Palm Trees by Alberto Manguel
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31In the lush, uninhibited atmosphere of Samoa, Robert Louis Stevenson is languishing with the disease that will soon kill him; when a chance encounter with the mysterious Scottish missionary, Mr... -
Ghosting: A Double Life by Jennie Erdal
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Ghosting is a remarkable account of one woman's life - or, to be more accurate, lives. For fifteen years, Jennie Erdal had a double existence: officially she worked as a personal editor for one... -
The Book Of Secrets by Moyez Vassanji
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23When Pius Fernandes, a retired schoolteacher living in modern day Dar es Salaam, discovers a diary of a British colonial administrator from 1913, he is drawn into a provocative account of the Asian... -
SuperCooperators Martin Nowak 9781847673381
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Beyond The Survival of the Fittest: Why Cooperation, not Competition, is the Key to LifeIf life is about survival of the fittest, then why would we risk our own life to jump into a river to save a... -
The Nigger Factory Gil Scott-Heron 9781847678843
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The Nigger Factory is a scornful statement on the way in which human beings are conditioned to think. On the campus of Sutton University, Virginia, the students are trying to carry forth the message... -
An Unfortunate Woman: A Journey Richard Brautigan 9781841951461
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31An Unfortunate Woman, An Unforgettable Journey was the final book written by Richard Brautigan before his death in 1984 and lay unpublished for sixteen years.Originally written in the 160 pages of a... -
The Optimist: One Man's Search for the Brighter Side of Life Laurence Shorter 9781847671288
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Collapsing stock markets, melting ice caps, floods, tornadoes, terrorism . . . When it comes to bad news, we've never had it so good. Perhaps it is time to be a little more optimistic? That's what... -
The Corn King and the Spring Queen by Naomi Mitchison
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £13.66Introduced by Naomi Mitchison. Set over two thousand years ago on the calm and fertile shores of the Black Sea, Naomi Mitchison's The Corn King and the Spring Queen tells of ancient civilisations... -
A Long Stride: The Story of the World's No. 1 Scotch Whisky by Nicholas Morgan
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.73The history of Johnnie Walker, tracing its roots back to 1820, is also the history of Scotch whisky. But who was John Walker - the man who started the story? And how did his business grow from the... -
The Heart Broke In by James Meek
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95EVERY 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 Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim by Iceberg Slim
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.32Iceberg Slim's first three novels (Pimp, Trick Baby and Mama Black Widow) offered some of the rawest and bleakest visions of urban America ever put to paper. Their refusal to compromise, coupled with... -
In My Skin by Kate Holden
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31I watched the glaze of headlights, the windscreens of oncoming cars: a series of trapezoids with the silhouette of a single male driver. One pulled up in front of me; I reached over and opened the... -
Summer in the Shadow of Byron by Andrew McConnell Stott
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Villa Diodati. 1816.In a villa on the shore of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and his young wife Mary, gathered for the summer. For three glittering months, this party of young bohemians... -
Twilight of the Eastern Gods by Ismail Kadare
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.311958. In a dorm room in Moscow, a young writer is woken by the sound of angry voices on the radio. Through the fog of a hangover he hears the news that a novel called Doctor Zhivago has earned its... -
A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race And The Soul Of America by Craig Werner
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51A Change is Gonna Come chronicles more than forty years of black music: from the hopeful, angry refrains of the Freedom movement to the slick pop of Motown; from Woodstock and the 'Summer of Love' to... -
Born Fi' Dead: A Journey Through the Yardie Underworld Laurie Gunst 9781841953861
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Among the ethnic gangs that rule America's inner cities, none has had the impact of the Jamaican posses. Spawned in the ghettos of Kingston as mercenary street-fighters for the island's politicians,... -
Hannibal by Ross Leckie
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A battle is like lust. The frenzy passes. Consequence remains.Hannibal is an epic vision of one of history's greatest adventurers, the almost mythical man who most famously led his soldiers on... -
The Underground Sea by John Berger 9781805302995
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.35The Underground Sea is a succinct, urgent collection of writing from John Berger's archive. It brings together for the first time his work on mineworkers and the miners' strikes and has been edited... -
What Is a Doctor?: A GP’s Prescription for the Future of the NHS Dr Phil Whitaker 9781838858001
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023: POPULAR SCIENCEWhat Is a Doctor? is a vital contribution to the ongoing debate about how we maintain an NHS that is both fit for purpose and free.Taking insight from... -
The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry 9781805302117
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43A GUARDIAN BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024A NEW STATESMAN FICTION HIGLIGHT OF 2024AN OBSERVER FICTION TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024AN IRISH TIMES FICTION TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024'An absolute belter of a book'... -
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The Life And Adventures of John Nicol, Mariner by John Nicol 9781841950914 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.57The Life and Adventures of John Nicol, Mariner is a recently rediscovered text that vividly renders the unforgettable story of a man whom history had nearly forgotten. In his many voyages, the... -
Consolations II David Whyte 9781837263486
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73David Whyte's Consolations use everyday words to present us with a prism through which to better understand ourselves and the lives we walk through. At the request of readers globally, Whyte returns... -
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In Real Life by Chris Killen 9781847672629 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.62STILL FRIENDS A DECADE ON? WHAT ARE THE CHANCES?For a while, Ian, Lauren and Paul shared the same friends, the same university, the same dreams and the same potential. Ten years on they are worlds... -
Hark: How Women Listen Alice Vincent 9781805302063
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73We're told women are good at listening, but we rarely examine what they're listening to, what their worlds sound like, or how it feels to be expected to listen in a world of noise made by men.Like so... -
Food Fight: From Plunder and Profit to People and Planet Stuart Gillespie 9781837260430
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.68'Scholarly, literate and deeply moving, this isn't just a good read, it's an essential reference for anyone hoping to understand the food system, why it's broken and how we might imagine fixing it'... -
All of Us Atoms: A Memoir Holly Dawson 9781805301479
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73You tell me we are made of seven billion billion billion atoms. I can feel every one of them as I write this all down. It's a rush to feel that, like falling in love. Remembering is like falling in...