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Gone are the Leaves Anne Donovan 9781782112624
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Feilamort can remember very little of his childhood before he became a choir boy in the home of the Laird and his French wife. Feilamort has one of the finest voices in the land. It is a gift he... -
The Baboons Who Went This Way And That: Folktales From Africa Alexander McCall Smith 9781841957722
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $11.74A man with a tree growing out of his head? A woman with children made of wax? A bird that can be milked? With more stories from his original celebration of African folktales, The Girl Who Married A... -
No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader by Mark Hodkinson
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.00Mark Hodkinson grew up among the terrace houses of Rochdale in a house with just one book. Today, Mark is an author, journalist and publisher. He still lives in Rochdale but is now surrounded by... -
Tamburlaine Must Die Louise Welsh 9781841956046
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25London, 1593. A city on edge. Under threat from plague and war, strangers are unwelcome, suspicion is wholesale, severed heads grin from the spikes on Tower Bridge. Playwright, poet and spy,... -
High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Other Unforgiving Places David Breashears 9781841953908
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.24For generations of adventurers, from Mallory to Hilary, Norgay to Krakauer, Mount Everest and the world's greatest peaks have provided the ultimate testing ground. But as the public's fascination... -
Not Fade Away Jim Dodge 9781841954868
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50Floorboard 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... -
True Things About Me by Deborah Kay Davies
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25NOW 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... -
The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to The Romans by Ruth Rendell
RRP: $7.80Booksplease Price: $6.77Paul was the most influential figure in the early Christian church. In this epistle, written to the founders of the church in Rome, he sets out some of his ideas on the importance of faith in... -
In High Places by Dougal Haston
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.24In 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... -
Ghosting: A Double Life by Jennie Erdal
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50Ghosting 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 Life Of Robert Burns by Catherine Carswell
RRP: $27.30Booksplease Price: $19.27First published in 1930 to an unprecedented storm of protest, Catherine Carswell's The Life of Robert Burns remains the standard work on its subject.Carswell deliberately shakes the image of Burns... -
Stranger to History: A Son's Journey through Islamic Lands Aatish Taseer 9781847671318
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00As a child, all Aatish Taseer ever had of his father was his photograph in a browning silver frame. Raised by his Sikh mother in Delhi, his father, a Pakistani Muslim, remained a distant figure. It... -
A Long Stride: The Story of the World's No. 1 Scotch Whisky by Nicholas Morgan
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.82The 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... -
Pandora In The Congo by Albert Sanchez Pinol
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00It is 1914. In the heart of the Belgian Congo, Garvey, a bedraggled British manservant, emerges from the jungle. He is the lone survivor of a mining expedition in which both his masters have died,... -
Brief Encounters with Che Guevara by Ben Fountain
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25This debut collection from the man Malcolm Gladwell described as a genius took readers by storm. From the slums of Haiti to a golf course in Myanmar, and from the Colombian jungle to the diamond... -
Death Wish by Iceberg Slim
RRP: $19.50Booksplease Price: $14.27Iceberg Slim's last published novel is perhaps his greatest. Death Wish, written in Slim's typically hard-hitting and highly compulsive prose, tells the story of Chicago's Mafia and the power... -
Imagined Selves: Imagined Corners: Mrs Ritchie: Mrs Grundy in Scotland: Women - An Inquiry: 'Women in Scotland' by Willa Muir
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $28.04This volume gathers together some of the real and the imagined lives of Willa Muir, one of the finest and fiercest intellectuals of her generation.Her writing is rich with paradox - although ... -
Dougal Haston: The Philosophy Of Risk Jeff Connor 9781841953403
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $22.97The untimely death of Dougal Haston in 1977 robbed climbing of one of its most charismatic, controversial and enigmatic figures. A man of extremes, who managed to combine a rock star's lifestyle with... -
Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Cafe Society And An Early Cry For Civil Rights David Margolick 9781841952840
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50The story of the song that foretold a movement and the Lady who dared sing it.Billie Holiday's signature tune, 'Strange Fruit', with its graphic and heart-wrenching portrayal of a lynching in the... -
Between The Monster And The Saint: Reflections on the Human Condition by Richard Holloway
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Being human isn't easy. We might think that consciousness and free will give us control over our lives but our minds are unpredictable places. We are susceptible to forces we don't understand. We are... -
The Search Geoff Dyer 9780857862730
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50Walker is at a party where he meets Rachel. Two days later she turns up at his apartment. However, it's not Walker she wants but her husband Malory, who has gone missing. She asks Walker to find him... -
A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race And The Soul Of America by Craig Werner
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.49A 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... -
Those Who Marched Away: An Anthology of the World's Greatest War Diaries Irene Taylor 9781847674159
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.58Arranged as a diary around a calendar year, Those Who Marched Away tells many individual stories from many wars down the ages, with several compelling entries for each day of the year. The diarists... -
This Is How You Remember It by Catherine Prasifka 9781805301028
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $25.16AN IRISH TIMES FICTION BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024You're nine when you get your first computer. Your favourite thing is a virtual pet website; you spend hours in the chatroom. You don't understand... -
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The Life And Adventures of John Nicol, Mariner by John Nicol 9781841950914 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $5.09The 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: $37.03Booksplease Price: $26.77David 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... -
Our Brains, Our Selves: What a Neurologist’s Patients Taught Him About the Brain Masud Husain 9781805301059
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $28.43What makes us who we are? Is it our background that creates our identities? Or our families, where we lived, how we were brought up and educated, the jobs we've held? Yes, all of the above, but more... -
All of Us Atoms: A Memoir Holly Dawson 9781805301479
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $26.77You 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... -
When I Was Five I Killed Myself by Howard Buten 9781841951898
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25Burton Rembrandt has the sort of perspective on life that is impossible for most adults to comprehend: the perspective of an eight-year-old boy. And to Burt, his parents and teachers seem to be... -
The Telling Room: Passion, Revenge and Life in a Spanish Village by Michael Paterniti 9781782112792
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00As heard on Radio 4 Book of the Week.In the medieval Castilian village of Guzman (population: 80), villagers have gathered for centuries in the 'telling room' to share stories and drink the local... -
Childish Things by Robin Jenkins 9781841952284
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $18.00Satirical and yet compassionate, Childish Things begins with a funeral at which Gregor McLeod, a retired school-master aged 72, is mourning the death of his wife Kate. It soon becomes evident,... -
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American Purgatorio by John Haskell 9781841956985 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $3.65Jack'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... -
![The Book Of Lists: The Original Compendium of Curious Information by David Wallechinsky 9781841956619 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9732147/10748789/9781841956619__10353.1781402945.jpg?c=1 "The Book Of Lists: The Original Compendium of Curious Information by David Wallechinsky 9781841956619 [USED COPY]")
The Book Of Lists: The Original Compendium of Curious Information by David Wallechinsky 9781841956619 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $5.27The first and best compendium of facts weirder than fiction, of intriguing information and must-talk-about trivia has spawned many imitators - but none as addictive or successful. For nearly three... -
![The People Speak: Voices that Changed Britain by Colin Firth 9780857864451 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/10120341/11136671/9780857864451__97846.1788941003.jpg?c=1 "The People Speak: Voices that Changed Britain by Colin Firth 9780857864451 [USED COPY]")
The People Speak: Voices that Changed Britain by Colin Firth 9780857864451 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $5.21'The idea was simple. Take the most impassioned speeches about the fight for what is right and bring them to life for a new generation. The reason why it's so powerful is because it's about... -
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Beauty Tips From Moose Jaw by Will Ferguson 9781841956909 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $3.96Will Ferguson has spent the past three years criss-crossing Canada: in a helicopter above the barren-lands of the sub-arctic; in a canoe with his four-year old son; on seaplanes; and on the... -
Brass by Helen Walsh
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25Nineteen-year-old Millie O'Reilly is clever, spiky and adored by men yet utterly forlorn. Increasingly disillusioned, she seeks an escape in the underbelly of Liverpool... Shockingly candid and... -
The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios Yann Martel 9781841956121
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25This superb collection, hailed for its power, compassion and elegance, takes in the wide sweep of human experience. From the last hours of a condemned man, to the imaginary life of an AIDS patient,... -
Shadow Karin Alvtegen 9781847671714
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.01Gerda Persson has lain dead for three days. Her life seems to have been quite ordinary. Until the freezer in her home is opened. It is full of books, neatly stacked and wrapped in clingfilm, a thick... -
The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible John Geiger 9781847674203
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50The Third Man Factor tells the revealing story behind an extraordinary idea: that people at the very edge of death, often adventurers or explorers, experience a benevolent presence beside them who... -
Let the Games Begin by Niccolo Ammaniti
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50The world might be in the throes of a global recession but when an author on the brink of despair, an enigmatic musician, a supermodel and a Satanic sect meet with the cream of Italian high society...