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One Million Tiny Plays About Britain by Craig Taylor
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28A Wonder Woman and bride-to-be finds herself worse for wear at the end of a hen night; a funeral director's love of Manchester United proves unhelpful when talking to the bereaved; two... -
Return To Akenfield: Portrait Of An English Village In The 21st Century by Craig Taylor
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Ronald Blythe's 1969 book Akenfield - a moving portrait of English country life told in the voices of the farmers and villagers themselves - is a modern classic. In 2004, writer and reporter Craig... -
New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time Craig Taylor 9781848549708
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.99'Beautifully woven' Sunday Times'Extraordinary city stories ... ambitious and entertaining ... [Taylor] does a fine job of telling the New York story' GuardianA symphony of contemporary New York told... -
London Made Us: A Memoir of a Shape-Shifting City by Robert Elms
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65'London is a giant kaleidoscope, which is forever turning. Take your eye off it for more than a moment and you're lost.' Robert Elms has seen his beloved city change beyond all imagining. London in... -
Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now - As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It and Long for It by Craig Taylor 9781847083296 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $3.23The ground-breaking and bestselling group portrait of London today: a book as rich, dynamic, lively, and diverse as the city itself 'Epic' David Nicholls 'Electrifying' The Times 'This is a... -
Our Stories: 75 Years of the NHS from the People Who Built It, Lived It and Love It Stephanie Snow 9781802793482
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41FOREWORD BY ADAM KAY, AUTHOR OF THIS IS GOING TO HURTPortion of proceeds from sales go to NHS Charities Together"What shines through with all the stories is a deep affection for the NHS."Henry Marsh,... -
Spitalfields: The History of a Nation in a Handful of Streets by Dan Cruickshank
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $18.96SHORTLISTED FOR THE HESSELL-TILTMAN HISTORY PRIZE 2017AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016Religious strife, civil conflict, waves of immigration, the rise and fall of industry, great prosperity and... -
The Swordfish and the Star: Life on Cornwall's most treacherous stretch of coast Gavin Knight 9781784700997
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.05The Penwith Peninsula in Cornwall is where the land ends. In The Swordfish and the Star Gavin Knight takes us into this huddle of grey roofs at the edge of the sea at the beginning of the... -
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs 9781847926180
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.17In this classic text, Jane Jacobs set out to produce an attack on current city planning and rebuilding and to introduce new principles by which these should be governed. The result is one of the most... -
The Passengers: Shortlisted for The Rathbones Folio Prize 2023 by Will Ashon 9780571364152
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80An original and profound portrait of contemporary Britain told through the testimonies of its inhabitants.'A spectacularly enjoyable and compelling reading experience . . . funny, moving, surprising... -
Revolutionary Acts: Love & Brotherhood in Black Gay Britain Jason Okundaye 9780571372225
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37A TLS AND GQ BOOK OF THE YEARFINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZESAnnouncing the arrival of a major new talent, an astonishing work of social history which captures Black gay Britain as never before.'A... -
Cut Short: Youth Violence, Loss and Hope in the City by Ciaran Thapar 9780241434987 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: $5.36'Lays down a transformative path to peace' David Lammy MP'A devastating and beautifully-drawn tribute to the young boys that the media turns into statistics of knife crime' Candice Carty-Williams'I... -
The Wallace Case: Britain's Most Baffling Unsolved Murder by Roger Wilkes
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75'It is a formidable, indeed a damning indictment and Wilkes presents the result of his detective work with journalistic panache'P. D. JAMES, Times Literary Supplement 'Roger Wilkes's seminal book... -
Crusades, The Complete Illustrated History of: An in-depth account of the crusading armies and their leaders, with more than 425 images of the battles, adventures, sieges and fortresses by Charles Phillips
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $16.87This meticulously researched book provides an accessible history of the nine crusades between 1096 and 1272 plus smaller campaigns across Europe culminating in the Holy League's victory over the... -
Floating City: Hustlers, Strivers, Dealers, Call Girls and Other Lives in Illicit New York by Sudhir Venkatesh
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71After his insider's study of Chicago crack gangs electrified the academy, Columbia University sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh spent a decade immersed in New York's underbelly, observing the call girls,... -
Canada by Richard Ford 9781408831007
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later. It was more bad instincts and bad luck that lead to Dell Parsons' parents robbing a bank... -
Canada by Richard Ford 9781408831007 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $3.14First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later.It was more bad instincts and bad luck that lead to Dell Parsons' parents robbing a bank. They... -
The Paper Lantern Will Burns 9781474622035
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09When future generations come to ask themselves when England lost it and what it lost, they will pick up The Paper Lantern' Michael Hofmann, TLS'A remarkable achievement in a book that feels at once... -
The Paper Lantern Will Burns 9781474622028
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $8.58'Will Burns is a soulful English poet of the kind we don't make enough of' MAX PORTER'Hugely affecting and timely' LUKE TURNER'A boldly struck chord, one that contains many of the dissonances, but... -
How to be Both by Ali Smith
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2015 WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2014WINNER OF THE 2014 COSTA NOVEL AWARD'I take my hat off to Ali Smith. Her writing lifts the soul' Evening Standard How... -
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum by Katherine Boo 9781846274510 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $2.65'A Mumbai slum understood and imagined as never before in language of intense beauty' Salman Rushdie 'If Bollywood ever decides to do its own version of The Wire, this would be it' Barbara... -
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum by Katherine Boo 9781846274510
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65'A Mumbai slum understood and imagined as never before in language of intense beauty' Salman Rushdie 'If Bollywood ever decides to do its own version of The Wire, this would be it' Barbara...