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The Heat and the Fury Peter Schwartzstein 9781804441572
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €18.37In this ground-breaking book, British-American environmental journalist, Peter Schwartzstein, takes the reader on the first on-the-ground exploration of climate change's contribution to global... -
Rebel Sounds: Music as Resistance Joe Mulhall 9781804441169
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €16.90While the global history of the dictatorships, oppression, racism and state violence over the last century is well known - the role that music played in people's lives during these times is less... -
Gaza Faces History by Enzo Traverso 9781804441787
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.94Is the destruction of Gaza only a consequence of the October 7, 2023 attack, or is it also the outcome of a long process of dispossession and eradication? Do Palestinians have the right to resist the... -
We Come with this Place by Debra Dank 9781804440858
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.83Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-FictionIndigenous Writers' PrizeUTS Glenda Adams Award for New WritingLonglisted for the 2023 Stella PrizePrime Minister's Summer Reading List 2022, Grattan InstituteWe... -
Changemaker: A new guide for activists Professor Lisa Mueller 9781804441268
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.48From Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring, to the pro-democracy uprisings in Hong Kong and the George Floyd protests in Mueller's hometown of Minneapolis, we are seeing one of the largest worldwide... -
The Heat and the Fury: On the Frontlines of Climate Violence Peter Schwartzstein 9781804442258
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.39'A landmark work on perhaps the essential question of our time' - David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth In this ground-breaking book, environmental journalist, Peter Schwartzstein,... -
Ponyboy by Eliot Duncan 9781804440308
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.83LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2023'Incendiary . . . A uniquely trans story' Dazed'Gutting and glittery' Nylon'Eliot Duncan's melancholic transboy swagger sparkles . . . An... -
Hexes of the Deadwood Forest: 'Bold, surreal, feminist & ferociously funny' Service95 by Agnieszka Szpila 9781804443972
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €11.76You're holding a torpedo of a book in your hand. Take a seat and get comfortable. This novel's energy, humour and rebel spirit will awaken your mind and change your way of thinking' - Olga... -
Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, The Cold War and the Birth of Psychedelics by Benjamin Breen 9781804441091
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €18.73'It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation. It was their parents.'The generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly... -
Mother Tongue Tied: On Language, Motherhood & Multilingualism – Disrupting Myths & Finding Meaning Malwina Gudowska 9781804440797
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.70'Brilliantly illustrates how multilingual mothers are disproportionately tasked with preserving linguistic heritage on one hand and preparing children for public society on the other - all while... -
Strong Female Character Hanna Flint 9781804441039
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.39'At a time when fluff and gossip reign supreme, Hanna Flint's work is consistently insightful, informative and engaging all at once. I always finish reading it feeling just a tad bit smarter.'... -
Bullsh*t Comparisons: A field guide to thinking critically in a world of difference by Andrew Brooks 9781804440834
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.70Life is complicated, comparisons are easy. We consume enormous quantities of information every day from sources that are reliable, and those less trustworthy, including journalists, politicians,... -
Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism's Forgotten Radicals Maurice J Casey 9781804440995
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €18.73'Tells the story of early 20th century communism through the eyes of those who lived it and felt and believed in it - while also living their entirely normal, rackety, emotional lives' HALLIE... -
Wait For Her Sabrin Hasbun 9781804441527
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.70WINNER OF THE FOOTNOTE X COUNTERPOINTS WRITING PRIZE 2023-24 'Vivid, compassionate, captivating' Elif Shafak 'A special and original voice, one for our times' Philippe Sands 'A moving and tender... -
Smart: A History of Intelligence Dr David Brydan 9781804441763
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.26We encounter the idea of intelligence everywhere in our modern lives. Parents are told that their children will grow up smart if they are made to listen to Mozart, play with the right toys, and eat... -
Propaganda Girls: The Secret War of the Women in the OSS Lisa Rogak 9781804441671
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.70This is the incredible untold story of four women who helped win World War II by generating a wave of black propaganda.Betty MacDonald was a 28-year-old reporter from Hawaii. Zuzka Lauwers grew up in... -
Propaganda Girls: The Secret War of the Women in the OSS by Lisa Rogak 9781804442128
Booksplease Price: €24.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorLisa Rogak is the author of numerous books, including And Nothing But the Truthiness: The Rise (and Further... -
Voice of the Fish by Lars Horn
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.83'This book left me stunned. Breathtaking in its scope and generosity . . . We are in the midst of a transcendent talent.' Maaza Mengiste, author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted The Shadow King... -
The Many Lives of Syeda X Neha Dixit 9781804442272
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €18.37'A trenchant and invaluable people's history of the bottom of the pyramid in the world's most populous nation' Financial Times What does the life of an ordinary working-class, Muslim woman look and... -
Refuge: Stories of War (and Love) Sunny Singh 9781804442302
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.83'Superb. An incandescent, charged and propulsive work. I inhaled this collection. It's a testament to Sunny Singh's considerable talents as a writer' Irenosen OkojieNur and Abid relearn to love after... -
Rebel Sounds: Music as Resistance Joe Mulhall 9781804442241
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54'Empathy is the currency of all music and Joe Mulhall does a great job of explaining how that quality has been used to generate solidarity for the struggle and sympathy for those who suffer... -
Moving Mountains: Writing Nature through Illness and Disability by Louise Kenward 9781804440537
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €11.70'An anthology to treasure and return to' ELINOR CLEGHORN'Uniquely compelling, dynamic and powerful' LUCY JONES'Deeply affecting' TOM SHAKESPEARE'Promises to change the landscape of nature writing'... -
Mother Tongue Tied: On Language, Motherhood & Multilingualism Malwina Gudowska 9781804442630
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.39'Brilliantly illustrates how multilingual mothers are disproportionately tasked with preserving linguistic heritage on one hand and preparing children for public society on the other - all while... -
A Bollywood State of Mind: A journey into the world's biggest cinema by Sunny Singh
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €16.66'Prepare to laugh, sob and dance: this lively history of Indian cinema is imprinted with the memories of a life-long cinephile.' The Telegraph'A gem of a book and a must for film lovers everywhere'... -
Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy Elizabeth Norton 9781804441138
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €20.93Female kings have always been a rarity, an oddity, or an undesirable outcome. In almost all places on the globe a male ruler was preferred to a woman, with female inheritance vanishingly rare and... -
Moving Mountains: Writing Nature through Illness and Disability Louise Kenward 9781804441602
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.39'An anthology to treasure and return to' ELINOR CLEGHORN'Uniquely compelling, dynamic and powerful' LUCY JONES'Deeply affecting' TOM SHAKESPEARE'Promises to change the landscape of nature writing'... -
Strong Female Character by Hanna Flint
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.64'At a time when fluff and gossip reign supreme, Hanna Flint's work is consistently insightful, informative and engaging all at once. I always finish reading it feeling just a tad bit smarter.'... -
The New Censorship Ayala Panievsky 9781804441114
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.74'Riveting' - Arash Azizi, The Atlantic'Exceptional' - Michael Hauser-Tov, Haaretz 'Profound, compelling, and fascinating' - Emily Maitlis, The News AgentsAs we find ourselves in a time of democratic... -
Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism's Forgotten Radicals Maurice J Casey 9781804442227
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.83Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards 2024: History Book of the Year'Hotel Lux is an unforgettable book, bringing to life not only its protagonists but an entire world, and offering a new glimpse of... -
Spinning Out: Climate Change, Mental Health and Fighting for a Better Future by Charlie Hertzog Young
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.83'Utterly brilliant - engaging, thrilling, disturbing, revelatory, explosive' GEORGE MONBIOT'This extraordinary book, written with startling honesty and vulnerability, traces Charlie's remarkable... -
A Darker Shade: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers by Joyce Carol Oates 9781804440940
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.83In A Darker Shade: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers, Joyce Carol Oates has assembled a spectacular cast to explore this subgenre focusing on distortions to the human body in the most... -
A Woman of Pleasure by Kiyoko Murata 9781804440889
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €9.67'Irrefutable and beautiful' New York Times'Only Kiyoko Murata can convey this world' YOKO OGAWA, author of The Memory Police, Yomiuri ShibunThe year is 1903, and tenacious and spirited Aoi Ichi is... -
Hicky's Bengal Gazette: The Untold Story of India's First Newspaper Andrew Otis 9781804441657
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.66'An enthralling tale that ties together themes that are urgently relevant today: freedom of the press, the role of journalism, and the price of speaking truth to power' Sunny SinghHicky's Bengal... -
Pretty Baby by Chris Belcher 9781804440643
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.83FINALIST FOR THE 2022 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FOR LESBIAN MEMOIR'A muscular, canny memoir . . . I couldn't put it down. What a fucking gorgeous book' CARMEN MARIA MACHADO'Entertaining' New York... -
The Last Sweet Bite: When War Changes the Menu Michael Shaikh 9781804442777
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €16.90War changes every part of human culture: art, education, music, politics. Why should food be any different?For nearly twenty years, Michael Shaikh's job was investigating human rights abuses in... -
Twelve Feminist Lessons of War by Cynthia Enloe 9781804440285
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50'Cynthia Enloe is a force to be reckoned with and utterly tireless. Her work has long spanned intersectional analyses of gender, race and class...she repeatedly questions which things society pays... -
All Else Failed: The Unlikely Volunteers at the Heart of the Migrant Aid Crisis by Dana Sachs
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.83In 2015, increasing numbers of refugees and migrants, most of them fleeing war-torn homelands, arrived by boat on the shores of Greece, setting off the greatest human displacement in Europe since... -
Bullsh*t Comparisons: A field guide to thinking critically in a world of difference Andrew Brooks 9781804441817
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.39Life is complicated, comparisons are easy. We consume enormous quantities of information every day from sources that are reliable, and those less trustworthy, including journalists, politicians,... -
Nadezhda in the Dark by Nadezdha in the Dark Yelena Moskovich 9781804440483
RRP: €16.66Booksplease Price: €11.55'Moskovich is the master of silky, slinky sentences that run in unexpected directions' The Telegraph'Sexy and readable . . . a celebration of resilience and of myriad survivors' Times Literary... -
Living Together: Searching for Community in a Fractured World by Mim Skinner 9781804440803
RRP: €14.28Booksplease Price: €10.10'Brilliantly written, probing and necessary' PANDORA SYKES'Skinner goes in search of a different way of life . . . a sensitive and colourful account' New StatesmanIncludes a brand new chapter From...