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Fullalove by Gordon Burn
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'One of the landmark novels of the last decade.' GuardianFeatures a new introduction by William BoydNorman Miller used to be one of Fleet Street's finest. Now he's a middle-aged, burned-out hack with... -
Alma Cogan by Gordon Burn
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Winner of the Whitbread Best First Novel of the YearIn his classic debut novel, Gordon Burn takes Britain's biggest selling vocalist of the 1950s and turns her story into an equation of celebrity and... -
Pocket Money by Gordon Burn
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'A classic.' Frank Keating, Guardian'Unputdownable.' The FaceFeatures a new introduction by Stuart EversFollowing the 1985 final between Dennis Taylor and Steve Davis, Britain found itself in the... -
Best and Edwards by Gordon Burn 9780571353644
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Immaculately written, inspiring, sad and elegiac.' Daily TelegraphWith a new introduction by David PeaceDuncan Edwards played his first game for Manchester United at the age of fifteen and Walter... -
Happy Like Murderers by Gordon Burn
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'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
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.37Born Yesterday does what the media do every day: blurring the boundaries between what is real and what has been invented. In 2007, Gordon Burn took the extraordinary news headlines from that year,... -
Sex & Violence, Death & Silence: Encounters with recent art by Gordon Burn
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.71'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... -
Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son: The Story of the Yorkshire Ripper by Gordon Burn
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.59It 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... -
From Edinburgh to India and Burmah by William Gordon Burn Murdoch 9781241113827
Booksplease Price: £24.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241113827Author William Gordon Burn MurdochFormat PaperbackImprint Primary Sources, Historical... -
The North of England Home Service by Gordon Burn 9780571219377 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £3.00In 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... -
From Edinburgh to India & Burmah by William Gordon Burn Murdoch 9791041982080
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £21.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9791041982080Author William Gordon Burn MurdochFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint CultureaPublisher... -
From Edinburgh to India & Burmah by William Gordon Burn Murdoch 9789358007763
Booksplease Price: £24.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789358007763Author William Gordon Burn MurdochFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Lector House... -
This Brutal House: Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2019 by Niven Govinden
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02SHORTLISTED 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... -
Best and Edwards: Football, Fame and Oblivion by Gordon Burn 9780571215805 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.99'For those old enough to remember Duncan Edwards, watching Professor Williams, Best's doctor, was to be reminded of the slower, grainier days of 1958 when, in the words of Don DeLillo, "things were... -
This Brutal House: Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2019 by Niven Govinden 9780349700700
Booksplease Price: £3.41SHORTLISTED 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... -
Come Join Our Disease: Shortlisted for The Gordon Burn Prize 2021 by Sam Byers
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Why be healthy when the world is so sick? From the author of Perfidious Albion, a darkly comic and profoundly affecting novel about resistance, radicalism and redemption.'Bold, unflinching... -
The Vogue by Eoin McNamee 9780571331604
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £3.93'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... -
The Vogue by Eoin McNamee
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67LONGLISTED 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... -
Sex & Violence, Death & Silence: Encounters with recent art by Gordon Burn 9780571229291 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £2.69'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... -
How I Killed Margaret Thatcher by Anthony Cartwright 9781781251577
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.26'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: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Superpiss 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... -
Travelling Art: Gypsy Caravans and Canal Barges by Gordon Thorburn
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.80The hey-day of the British gypsy caravan was short, only about 70 years, during which period it grew from a simple utility vehicle, blossomed and flourished as a mobile work of art, then disappeared... -
Lady Anne Clifford 1590-1676 by Gordon Thorburn 9781781557716
Booksplease Price: £20.38The 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: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78For 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... -
The Benefactors Wendy Erskine 9781399741668
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.81'Wendy Erskine is a natural-born story-teller' Kevin Barry'Wry and wise, gripping and funny' David Nicholls (on Sweet Home)The debut novel from the author of the acclaimed short-story collections... -
The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine 9781399741675
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.00'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,... -
More Luck of a Lancaster: 109 Operations, 315 Crew, 101 Killed in Action Gordon Thorburn 9781399030977
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.49Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Harold Gibbons: St. Louis Teamster Leader and Warrior Against Jim Crow by Gordon Burnside 9781476674933
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59Harold Gibbons, the leader of St. Louis's Teamsters Union, was for years the right-hand man of Jimmy Hoffa, the union's national boss. A progressive himself, Gibbons fought and defeated Communists... -
You Could Do Something Amazing with Your Life [You Are Raoul Moat] by Andrew Hankinson 9781911344322
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Winner 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... -
From Edinburgh to the Antarctic: An Artist's Notes and Sketches during the Dundee Antarctic Expedition of 1892-93 by William Gordon Burn Murdoch 9781108048248
Booksplease Price: £38.42Scottish artist W. G. Burn Murdoch (1862-1939) joined a whaling expedition to Antarctica that left Dundee in 1892. He was on board the barque Balaena, the largest of the ships in the group, and under... -
From Edinburgh to the Antarctic: An Artists Notes and Sketches During the Dundee Antarctic Expedition of 1892-93 (1894) by William Gordon Burn-Murdoch 9781169969865
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £32.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781169969865Author William Gordon Burn-MurdochFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Literary... -
Te Aoturoa Tataki: Inclusive Early Childhood Education : Perspectives on Inclusion, Social Justice and Equity from Aotearoa New Zealand by Diane Gordon-Burns 9781927151433
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927151433Author Diane Gordon-BurnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint New Zealand Council for... -
All That Man Is: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016 by David Szalay
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15SHORTLISTED 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.46A 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46*** 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,... -
Xstabeth: A Novel David Keenan 9781474617062
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02INCLUDES '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]... -
The Greedy Triangle by Marilyn Burns 9780545042208
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780545042208Author Silveria Gordon Burns MarylinFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Scholastic... -
I Am Sovereign Nicola Barker 9781786090959
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16__________________________________________'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...