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Hamlet: Poem Unlimited by Prof. Harold Bloom
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31In the bestselling Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, Harold Bloom showed us how Shakespeare shaped human consciousness, and addressed the question of authorship in Hamlet. In Hamlet: Poem... -
Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life by Howard Sounes
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life is the classic biography of Charles Bukowski, the hard-drinking barfly whose semi-autobiographical books about low-life America made him a cult figure across the... -
Inside the Divide: One City, Two Teams . . . The Old Firm by Richard Wilson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Since 1888, Rangers and Celtic football clubs have been locked into an intense and frequently explosive rivalry: Rangers the product of West Scotland's Protestant establishment, Celtic the team... -
Missing by Karin Alvtegen
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31The murderer had sliced open the dead man's torso and removed unspecified internal organs. The police admitted that some kind of religious symbol had been left at the scene of the crime, suggesting a... -
Hy Brasil by Margaret Elphinstone
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95After fraudulently winning a writing competition, Sidony Redruth is sent by her editor to write the first-ever travel book on Hy Brasil, a near-mythical island somewhere in the Atlantic, whose very... -
Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres by Kelefa Sanneh
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51From his allegiance to punk rock in his adolescence to becoming an essential voice on music and culture, Kelefa Sanneh makes a deep study of how popular music unites and divides us. Distilling a... -
American Purgatorio John Haskell 9781841956985
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Jack's wife has disappeared. She was in the car when they stopped for gas, he knows that much. He walked back from the counter, and then ?Jack can't remember. But Anne has gone.John Haskell's... -
Agamemnon's Daughter by Ismail Kadare
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31In his compelling prequel to The Successor, Kadare draws us into a land deprived of choice, a country under a reign of terror. The spellbinding Agamemnon's Daughter was written in Albania in the... -
The Paris Review Interviews: Vol. 2 Philip Gourevitch 9781847670335
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51A second volume of fascinating interviews from one of the world's best loved literary magazinesSince The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest... -
Helen And Desire by Alexander Trocchi
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31How difficult it is to explain! The terribly mute hunger in our bodies! If I touch my thigh here in the near darkness of the tent my whole body is again instinct with the driving urge that brought me... -
Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis by Sir David Lindsay
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £9.88The Thrie Estaitis was first performed in the mid-sixteenth century to an audience of royalty and commoners alike. With its high style and penetrating political satire, it pressed for reform in... -
Without Blood Alessandro Baricco 9781841955742
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Without Blood begins with a shocking, visceral act of violence - the assassination of a man and his family. Only the daughter, Nina, survives, thanks to an extraordinary act of mercy by one of the... -
The Passages of Herman Melville by Jay Parini
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Herman had often walked these streets, eyeing the forest of tall ships, their blackened strakes handsomely curved, masts like crosses, empty of sails . . .1841. A young Herman Melville is yet to... -
Sarah Thornhill by Kate Grenville
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Sarah and Jack have never doubted that they are made for each other.But there is someone in Sarah's family who will not tolerate the relationship.The reason lies in both the past and the present, and... -
Just Duffy by Robin Jenkins
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.60In writing Just Duffy, a novel set amidst the urban decay of Lanarkshire, Robin Jenkins has created a modern-day Confession of a Justified Sinner. Convinced of his own rectitude, appalled at the... -
Tales of the South Seas: Island Landfalls: The Ebb-Tide: The Wrecker by Robert Louis Stevenson
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £10.18sland Landfalls * The Wrecker * The Ebb-TideDriven to the South Seas by ill health, Stevenson could not close his eyes to the impact of colonialism, the 'stirabout of epochs and races, barbarisms... -
Stay Woke, Kids! by Kazvare Knox
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Are immigrants taking our jobs, or are they all slobs?What does 'I'm colourblind' mean and why does it make no sense?And just how can you spot a Karen from a mile away?This illustrated collection of... -
How We Should Rule Ourselves by Alasdair Gray
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.39This pamphlet is for anyone alarmed by the present British government. It argues that the component nations of the United Kingdom can become true democracies only by declaring themselves republics... -
High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith Jimmy Cruickshank 9781841958316
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as... -
Once Upon A Time In England Helen Walsh 9781847671233
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95On the coldest night of 1975, a young man with shock-red hair tears though the snowbound streets of Warrington's toughest housing estate. He is Robbie Fitzgerald, and he is running for his life - and... -
Six Months in Sudan: A Young Doctor in a War-torn Village by James Maskalyk
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23James Maskalyk set out for the contested border town of Abyei, Sudan, in 2007. The newest Medicins Sans Frontieres' doctor in the field, he arrived with only his training, full of desire to... -
Witch Wood by John Buchan
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.32Set against the religious struggles of seventeenth-century Scotland, with Montrose for the king against a convenanted kirk, John Buchan's Witch Wood is a gripping atmospheric tale in the spirit of... -
Clear Light by Alan Spence
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Clear Light contains 150 haiku bursting with Alan Spence's characteristic verve and wit. Mythic and mesmerising, inspiring and hilarious, these poems shed clear light on the delights, hardships,... -
The Complete Brigadier Gerard Stories Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 9781847679192
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Mon Dieu! The extraordinary, sabre-rattling adventures of Gerard, a young French cavalry officer in the time of the Napoleonic wars, introduce a hero who will be adored by fans of Flashman and... -
The Paris Review Interviews: Vol. 1 Philip Gourevitch 9781841959252
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51From William Faulkner's famous reply, 'The writer's only responsibility is to his art,' to James Salter's confession 'What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish', the... -
An Iliad: A Story of War Alessandro Baricco 9781847671035
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Alessandro Baricco re-creates the siege of Troy through the voices of 21 Homeric characters. Sacrificing none of Homer's panoramic scope, Baricco forgoes Homer's detachment and admits us to realms of... -
Ringan Gilhaize by John Galt
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £9.88In a story which lays bare the strengths and the horrors of the egalitarian Scottish Presbyterian spirit, Ringan Gilhaize looks across three generations to describe Scotland's most turbulent years,... -
The Journal Of Sir Walter Scott Sir Walter Scott 9780862418281
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.68"I have all my life regretted that I did not keep a regular (journal). I have myself lost recollection of much that was interesting and I have deprived my family and the public of some curious... -
The Successor Ismail Kadare 9781841958873
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31The Designated Successor was found dead in his bedroom at dawn on December 14.Did he kill himself or was he murdered? This question slices through Ismail Kadare's masterful psychological thriller. As... -
The Helmet Of Horror by Victor Pelevin
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.81When Ariadne helped Theseus escape the Minotaur's labyrinth with the aid of a ball of thread, she led the way for the bewildered victims of a twenty-first century minotaur. Trapped in an endless maze... -
The Land Of The Leal James Barke 9780862411428
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £13.09This huge novel, closer in scope to a Russian epic than to any English counterpart, opens at the turn of the twentieth-century in the extreme poverty of the Rhinns of Galloway, an agicultural... -
My Lady Parts: A Life Defying Stereotypes Doon Mackichan 9781838856397
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The Feisty Feminist. The Hot Lesbian. The Desperate Cougar. The Deranged Mother. The Stupid Tart. The Hag.Doon Mackichan is best known for her comedy characters, but throughout her career there are... -
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Emergency: One man's story of a dangerous world, and how to stay alive in it by Neil Strauss 9781847677600 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.25With the economic downturn, the hysterical Swine Flu frenzy and the systemic corruption of our political system we need someone to guide us through these difficult times. Emergency tells how Strauss... -
Simon's Cat: It's a Dog's Life by Simon Tofield 9781786897008
Booksplease Price: £11.65While patrolling his territory, Simon's Cat dips into the lives of the many dogs in his neighbourhood, including crazy poodles, a lovestruck bulldog and a pack of mischievous puppies. With... -
Is Peace Possible? Kathleen Lonsdale 9781837264216
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Kathleen Lonsdale was a groundbreaking chemist who was instrumental in developing the science of crystallography. She was also a midlife convert to Quakerism who campaigned for peace and prison... -
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Marry Me by Dan Rhodes 9780857868497 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.54Essential reading for anyone who is, has ever been, or might one day be married.MARRY ME by Dan Rhodes is the sequel to his ANTHROPOLOGY AND 100 OTHER STORIESAbout the AuthorDan Rhodes was born in... -
The Scottish Novels: Kidnapped: Catriona: The Master of Ballantrae: Weir of Hermiston by Robert Stevenson 9780862415334
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.97Kidnapped - Catriona - The Master of Ballantrae - Weir of HermistonThese four great novels take us deep into Robert Louis Stevenson's imaginative and bitter-sweet relationship with his native... -
A Reading Diary: A Year Of Favourite Books by Alberto Manguel 9781841958217
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95While travelling in Calgary, Alberto Manguel was struck by how the novel he was reading seemed to reflect the world he was living in. An article in the daily paper would be suddenly illuminated by a... -
In Praise of Messy Lives by Katie Roiphe 9781782112082
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Is there some adventure out there that we are not having, some vividness, some wild pleasure, that we are not experiencing in our responsible, productive days? . . . We are bequeathed on earth one... -
Transformer: Klopp, the Revolution of a Club and Culture by Neil Atkinson 9781837262953
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95This is the story of a man who transformed a club and a cityThe news of Jurgen Klopp stepping down as Liverpool manager sent shockwaves across his adopted city. The story of Klopp and Liverpool is a...