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Happy Like Murderers by Gordon Burn
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $10.37In this controversial and seminal work of reportage, Gordon Burn reveals the strange inner dynamic of Fred and Rosemary West's relationship. Based on meticulous research, this dark history is told in... -
The North of England Home Service by Gordon Burn
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'Extraordinary, funny, tender, poetic . . . The story that emerges is Britain's.' Times Literary SupplementWith a new introduction by George Shaw In a forensic dissection of Britain's souring... -
Born Yesterday: The News as a Novel by Gordon Burn 9780571353637
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.88Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
This Brutal House: Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2019 by Niven Govinden
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2019'A true force of fierceness and beauty' OLIVIA LAING 'A vital book' ANDREW MCMILLAN'This Brutal House leaves its reader full of a powerful, protesting... -
Sex & Violence, Death & Silence: Encounters with recent art by Gordon Burn
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $21.05'The Pop artists were among the first to understand the desire of consumers to change their lives through the purchase of clean, manufactured commodities. YBA, on the other hand, was more interested... -
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The North of England Home Service by Gordon Burn 9780571219377 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $3.42In a forensic dissection of Britain's souring landscape Gordon Burn tells the tale of Ray Cruddas, a light entertainer effecting a semi-dignified retreat from his fading career, who returns to the... -
Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son: The Story of the Yorkshire Ripper by Gordon Burn
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.51It seemed the case of the notorious Yorkshire Ripper was finally closed when Peter Sutcliffe was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1981. But in the early 1980s, Gordon Burn spent three years living... -
This Brutal House: Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2019 by Niven Govinden 9780349700700
Booksplease Price: $4.57SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2019'Vivid prose reinventing ideas of motherhood, belonging and taking us into the community of drag balls and protest, both personal and political' Jenni... -
The Vogue by Eoin McNamee
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.94LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2019'A wonderfully eerie, tragic read. I read it with my heart in my mouth.' Anna Burns, Man Booker Prize-winning author of Milkman'A captivating tale about... -
The Vogue by Eoin McNamee 9780571331604
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $5.27'A wonderfully eerie, tragic read. I read it with my heart in my mouth.' Anna Burns author of MilkmanAn unforgettable novel of ghosts, lies and the the past, from the prize-winning Eoin McNameeLate... -
How I Killed Margaret Thatcher by Anthony Cartwright 9781781251577
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92'Judas Iscariot's here, look. Here comes Judas Iscariot...' Nine-year old Sean has never seen anything like what happens on the day Margaret Thatcher takes power and his grandad discovers his... -
Superpiss, Meltykiss, Spankers and Muff by Gordon Thorburn
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09Superpiss used to be a brand of windscreen washer fluid in Finland but they've changed the name for some reason. Bra milk has gone the same way. Luckily, there is still an Italian detergent called... -
The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine 9781399741675
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.46'Brims with humanity . . . I adored it'Lucy Caldwell, author of These Days'A powerful, moving, compelling, utterly enthralling debut'Jon McGregor, author of Reservoir 13'Perfectly pitched,... -
Lady Anne Clifford 1590-1676 by Gordon Thorburn 9781781557716
Booksplease Price: $27.32The story of Lady Anne Clifford is one of feminine victory in a man's world, the men including King James I, Charles I, Oliver Cromwell and two husbands: the Earl of Dorset, gambler, womaniser and... -
Bomber Command, 1939–1940: The War Before the War by Gordon Thorburn 9781399077941
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79For Bomber Command, the term 'Phoney War' never really meant much. Five Blenheims of 107 Squadron were among the blood and bullets the day after war was declared and only one came back. On 14... -
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Cassius, the True Story of a Courageous Police Dog by Gordon Thorburn 9781844549856 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $2.57Cassius was an exceptional police dog. In just five years he scored a century of arrests, saved lives, bit half a dozen policemen, and gave his handler, PC Joe Sleightholm, the most exhilarating and... -
More Luck of a Lancaster: 109 Operations, 315 Crew, 101 Killed in Action Gordon Thorburn 9781399030977
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79From 11 June 1943, the date of Lancaster Mark III EE136 WS/R’s very first op, to her last with 9 Squadron (on 19 October 1944), eighty-six Lancasters were assigned to Number 9. Of these, fifty were... -
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You Could Do Something Amazing with Your Life [You Are Raoul Moat] by Andrew Hankinson 9781911344322
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction. A letter arrives. You've got an appointment with a trainee clinical psychologist on April 29, 2008. You don't attend. Another letter arrives. It says... -
All That Man Is: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016 by David Szalay
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 MAN BOOKER PRIZEWINNER OF THE EDGE HILL READER'S CHOICE AWARDNine men. Each of them at a different stage of life, each of them away from home, and each of them striving - in... -
Jumpin' Jack Flash: David Litvinoff and the Rock'n'Roll Underworld by Keiron Pim
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68'REVELATORY' - DAILY TELEGRAPH *****'FASCINATING' - OBSERVER'ENGROSSING' - DAILY MAIL'You'll worry at your hunger to keep on reading, but you won't be able to stop' - GUARDIAN, Book of the Year David... -
In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile by Dan Davies
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.02A major source for the BBC drama The ReckoningWinner of the 2015 Gordon Burn Prize and the 2015 CWA Non-Fiction DaggerShortlisted for the Orwell Prize and the James Tait Black Prize'An astonishing... -
People Who Eat Darkness: Love, Grief and a Journey into Japan's Shadows by Richard Lloyd Parry
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68*** Richard Lloyd Parry is the Winner of the 2018 Rathbones Folio Prize ***In the summer of 2000, Jane Steare received the phone call every mother dreads. Her daughter Lucie Blackman - tall, blonde,... -
The Greedy Triangle by Marilyn Burns 9780545042208
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780545042208Author Silveria Gordon Burns MarylinFormat PaperbackPage Count -
Xstabeth: A Novel David Keenan 9781474617062
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75INCLUDES 'PREQUEL' THE TOWER THE FIELDS THE TRANSMITTERS'This book spoke, it said "read me" from the very first sentence as if it were alive, it gave me visceral joy' Kim Gordon'Reading [Xstabeth]... -
Mindhunter: Inside the FBI Elite Serial Crime Unit (Now A Netflix Series) by John Douglas
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $10.44________________________________________The bestselling true story and inspiration behind the hit Netflix show of how one underfunded FBI team became the first to explore the dark world of serial... -
The Book of Salt by Monique Truong
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04In a compelling novel that takes the reader on a strange journey from Indochina to Paris, the Vietnamese cook for Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas reveals his own fascinating story-Paris, 1934... -
I Am Sovereign Nicola Barker 9781786090959
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63__________________________________________'One of the funniest, most finely achieved comic novels, even by her own standard ... I think it's a masterpiece.' ALI SMITH'I think Nicola Barker is... -
The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave-Robbery in 1830s London Sarah Wise 9781844133307
Booksplease Price: $17.63Towards the end of 1831, the authorities unearthed a series of crimes at Number 3, Nova Scotia Gardens in East London that appeared to echo the notorious Burke and Hare killings in Edinburgh three... -
H(A)PPY Nicola Barker 9781785151149
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.77*WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2017**SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2018**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018*A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEARA TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEARAN... -
How to Live to 100: What Will REALLY Help You Lead a Longer, Healthier Life? Ariane Sherine 9781472143884
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07If you're reading this, you probably want to live to a hundred.And why wouldn't you want to live a super-long life, if you could remain in good health? You'd get to meet your great-grandkids, try out... -
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... -
Industry of Magic & Light David Keenan 9781399603249
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.43Industry of Magic & Light is a love letter to the counterculture of the 1960s and a requiem for its passing. The much-anticipated prequel to Keenan's cult classic debut, This is Memorial Device,... -
Monument Maker David Keenan 9781474617109
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.47Is it possible for books to dream? For books to dream within books? Is there a literary subterranea that would facilitate ingress and exit points through these dreams? These are some of the questions... -
Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure by Adelle Stripe
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE'The story of a band that's always on the brink: of stardom, of madness, of brilliance, of disgrace' Miranda Sawyer, Observer'You begin to wonder why more... -
This Is Memorial Device by David Keenan
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65A TELEGRAPH AND ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE MONTHLRB BOOK OF THE WEEKCAUGHT BY THE RIVER BOOK OF THE MONTHRoss Raymond and Johnny... -
The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking by Olivia Laing
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Why were so many authors of the greatest works of literature consumed by alcoholism? In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing takes a journey across America, examining the links between creativity... -
About A Son: A Father’s Search for Truth by David Whitehouse
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92'A book that reaches so deeply into the human experience that to read it is to be forever changed'ELIZABETH DAYOne night in October 2015, twenty-year-old Morgan Hehir went out with friends and never... -
Midland: A Novel out of Time by Honor Gavin
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20An industrial accident in a wire factory and the chance discovery of a birth certificate. Church services held in a ruined swimming pool. An unidentified elephant skull.Midland tells the stories of... -
The How of Happy: What will REALLY help you lead a more joyful life? Ariane Sherine 9781472143907
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07Happiness: as elusive as a working inkjet printer, and as slippery as an eel covered in baby oil. When we chase happiness, it runs away like a cat when you're trying to give it a bath, but the world...