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Maggie & Me by Damian Barr
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $13.34A unique, tender and witty memoir of surviving the tough streets of small town Scotland during the Margaret Thatcher years ________________________ 'Shocking and funny in equal measure, and will... -
You Will Be Safe Here Damian Barr 9781408886052
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $17.08An Observer, Guardian, Financial Times, Sunday Times South Africa, Irish Times, Irish Independent, Big Issue and Strong Words Pick of the Year An Irish Times and The Times Summer Reading Pick ... -
The House by the Loch: 'a deeply satisfying work of pure imagination' - Damian Barr by Kirsty Wark 9781444777666
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $15.24A Scottish Number One Bestseller and Book of the Month.A novel of family drama and long-hidden secrets, set in the beautiful Scottish countryside, from the bestselling author of The Legacy of... -
Slum Boy: A Portrait by Juano Diaz 9781914240829
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $27.08One of the most moving accounts of non fiction ever written according to the Guardian 'This is a heart-breaking story, beautifully told. I hope it finds a million readers' - Andrew O'Hagan'What a... -
Alternatives to Valium: How Punk Rock Saved a Shy Boy's Life by Alastair McKay
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $23.94Shortlisted for the Saltire Society Non-Fiction Book of the Year "A few years ago, I asked Tom Petty how his songs had been influenced by his life. As a rule, songwriters aren't keen on unpicking... -
One of Them Michael Cashman 9781526612366
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.69'An extraordinary life, depicted with searing honesty ... A colourful journey sprinkled with delicious anecdotes' Daily Express 'Extraordinary ... You'll be ugly-sobbing at the end' Graham Norton ... -
A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin 9780241239957 [USED COPY]
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $5.68A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller As one of the best biographers of her generation, Claire Tomalin has written about great novelists and poets to huge success: now, she turns to look at her own life... -
History of Violence Edouard Louis 9781784706074
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.23** Shortlisted for the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award **The radical, urgent new novel from the author of The End of Eddy - a personal and powerful story of violence.I met Reda on Christmas... -
A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $17.54A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller In this remarkable memoir of love, loss and literature, acclaimed biographer Claire Tomalin turns her eye to another fascinating literary life: her own. She tells of... -
Rain by Barney Campbell
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.60Drawing on his own experience, Barney Campbell's Rain is a powerful, vivid and affecting portrait of the Afghan frontline.'No better on-the-ground description of Britain's war will ever be written... -
Gay Bar: Why We Went Out by Jeremy Atherton Lin 9781783785834
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.11'A brilliantly written and incisive account of gay life' Colm Toibin 'Each page made me yearn for the dance floor... I'm so glad that someone has written this definitive book about gay bars'... -
The Rabbit Factor by Antti Tuomainen 9781913193874
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $19.95An insurance mathematician's carefully ordered life is turned on its head when he unexpectedly loses his job and inherits an adventure park ... with a whole host of problems. A quirky, tense and... -
Night for Day Patrick Flanery (Author) 9781782396055
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $20.05Los Angeles, 1950. Over the course of a single day, two friends grapple with the moral and professional uncertainties of the escalating Communist witch-hunt in Hollywood. Director John Marsh races to... -
Camp!: The Story of the Attitude that Conquered the World by Paul Baker
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $20.84'My dear, she's on fire!' DAMIAN BARR'A snappy guide to an all-conquering aesthetic' Financial Times'The following things have seemed impossibly camp to me at one point or another: a doll whose body... -
On Forgiveness: How Can We Forgive the Unforgivable? by Richard Holloway
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.89'Full of human wisdom, this is a psychologically acute and absorbing approach to a very important subject' PHILIP PULLMANIn this inspiring work, Richard Holloway tackles the great theme of... -
The Moose Paradox by Antti Tuomainen 9781914585357
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.06Insurance mathematician Henri has his life under control, when a man from the past appears and a shady trio take over the adventure park's equipment supply company. Things are messier than ever in... -
The Moose Paradox by Antti Tuomainen
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $18.05Insurance mathematician Henri has his life under control, when a man from the past appears and a shady trio take over the adventure park's equipment supply company ... Things are messier than ever in... -
Elisabeth's Lists: A Life Between the Lines by Lulah Ellender 9781783783854
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.89'Go to your "books to read" list and place Elisabeth's Lists right at the top' Damian Barr The vivacious and moving true story of a lost era and a lost grandmother, pieced together from an... -
Imagine A Country: Ideas for a Better Future by Val McDermid
RRP: $22.80Booksplease Price: $16.34The first step on the road to change is to imagine possibility.Imagine A Country offers visions of a new future from an astonishing array of Scottish voices, from comedians to economists, writers to... -
Imagine A Country: Ideas for a Better Future by Val McDermid 9781838851699 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.80Booksplease Price: $4.26The first step on the road to change is to imagine possibility.Imagine A Country offers visions of a new future from an astonishing array of Scottish voices, from comedians to economists, writers to... -
black girl, no magic: reflections on race and respectability by Kimberly McIntosh 9780008477080
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.50'This book is a glowing achievement by one of the best essayists of her generation' Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff 'Witty, fresh and full of life' Liv... -
Significant Others: Creativity and Intimate Partnership by Whitney Chadwick
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.24Biographies of artists and writers have traditionally presented an individual's lone struggle for self-expression. In this book, critics and historians challenge these assumptions in a series of... -
Imagine A Country: Ideas for a Better Future by Val McDermid 9781838857646
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.11The first step on the road to change is to imagine possibility.Imagine A Country offers visions of a new future from an astonishing array of Scottish voices, from comedians to economists, writers to... -
Motherwell: A Girlhood by Deborah Orr 9781474611459 [USED COPY]
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $4.43*THE NO.3 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* 'Raw, compelling, wise and tender' Dolly Alderton'Motherwell is razor-sharp, fearless and wonderful' Adam Kay'Utterly candid and staggeringly good, both as the... -
Camp!: The Story of the Attitude that Conquered the World Paul Baker 9781804440469
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $14.99'My dear, she's on fire!' DAMIAN BARR'A snappy guide to an all-conquering aesthetic' Financial Times'The following things have seemed impossibly camp to me at one point or another: a doll whose body... -
Address Book by Neil Bartlett 9781912620128
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $16.00Address Book is the new work of fiction by the Costa-shortlisted author of Skin Lane. Neil Bartlett's cycle of stories takes us to seven very different times and situations: from a new millennium... -
Everywoman: One Woman's Truth About Speaking the Truth by Jess Phillips 9781786090065 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $4.03SHORTLISTED FOR THE PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS'Jess Phillips writes like she talks: brilliantly. Her humour and passion shine through every page. Loved it.' ROBERT WEBB_____________________If you're... -
Cheer Up Love: Adventures in depression with the Crab of Hate Susan Calman 9781473632042
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.59'DEEPLY HONEST, SURPRISINGLY HILARIOUS AND UPLIFTING' The Pool 'HEART-WARMING: UNMISSABLE' Damian Barr, Metro Susan Calman is a much-loved comedian and writer who has appeared on countless radio and... -
The Imaginary Lives of James Poneke by Tina Makereti 9781785631528
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $12.35James Poneke is a young Maori orphan, raised by missionaries, with a burning desire to travel and explore the world. When an English artist on a tour of New Zealand invites James to return home with... -
The Spirits: A Guide to Modern Cocktailing by Richard Godwin
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $25.00'A handbook of classic cocktails essential to every host's repertoire' VogueWant to master the art of mixology from home?Of all the skills you might acquire in life, learning how to make exquisite... -
As Kingfishers Catch Fire: Birds & Books by Alex Preston
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $9.99'Delightful . . . an original look at the literature inspired by Britain's birdlife' the Guardian, Best Nature Books of 2017'[The] pages light up with feathered magic' Evening StandardWhen Alex... -
Queen Macbeth: Darkland Tales by Val McDermid 9781846976759
RRP: $22.80Booksplease Price: $16.83Shakespeare fed us the myth of the Macbeths as murderous conspirators. But now Val McDermid drags the truth out of the shadows, exposing the patriarchal prejudices of history. Expect the unexpected ... -
The Heart of Things: On Memory and Lament by Richard Holloway
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.11Richard Holloway is one of our most beloved public thinkers. Throughout his life he has turned to poets and writers to help answer the big questions, and for solace and guidance in the face of life's... -
Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe by Richard Holloway 9781786899965
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.11Throughout history we have told ourselves stories to try and make sense of our place in the universe. Richard Holloway takes us on a personal, scientific and philosophical journey to explore what he... -
The Eye of the Beholder by Margie Orford 9781838856878
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.53LONGLISTED FOR THE SA SUNDAY TIMES FICTION AWARD When danger lies in the eye of the beholder, what happens when you reject its pull?Cora carries secrets her daughter can't know.Freya is frightened by... -
The Eye of the Beholder by Margie Orford
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $23.62When danger lies in the eye of the beholder, what happens when you reject its pull?Cora carries secrets her daughter can't know.Freya is frightened by what her mother leaves unsaid.Angel will only... -
A Country of Eternal Light by Paul Dalgarno 9781846976438
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.89Margaret Bryce has been having a hard time since dying in 2014. In a place beyond, we join Margaret as she revisits her life, from her Aberdeen prefab childhood to the birth of her twin girls,... -
Outrageous!: The Story of Section 28, Britain's Homophobic Law by Paul Baker 9781789145618
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $28.96On 23 May 1988, Paul Baker sat down with his family to eat cake on his sixteenth birthday while The Six O'Clock News played in the background. But something was not quite right. There was muffled... -
The Foghorn Echoes by Danny Ramadan 9781838854690
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.89WINNER OF THE LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FOR GAY FICTION Hussam and Wassim are teenage boys living in Syria during America's 2003 invasion of Iraq. When a surprise discovery results in tragedy, their... -
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $12.75Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction.Powerfully told from an all-female perspective, in A Thousand Ships, broadcaster and classicist Natalie Haynes retells the story of the Trojan War -...