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The Granta Book Of India by Ian Jack
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.63The Granta Book of India brings together, for the first time, evocative, personal and informative pieces from previous editions of Granta magazine on the experiences of Indian life, culture and... -
The Granta Book Of Reportage by Ian Jack
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.25Since its relaunch in 1979, Granta magazine has championed the art and craft of reportage - journalism marked by vivid description, a novelist's eye to form and eyewitness reporting that reveals... -
The New Granta Book of Travel Liz Jobey 9781847083302
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.36Granta has long been known for the quality of its travel writing. The 1980s were the culmination of a golden age, when writers including Paul Theroux and Bruce Chatwin, James Hamilton-Paterson and... -
How To Drink by Victoria Moore 9781847081360
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.01In the past few decades many of us have become foodies, but our new focus on flavour has been dominated by what we eat. In How to Drink Victoria Moore aims to redress the balance, by explaining how... -
What Do Catholics Believe? by Leonie Caldecott 9781847080035
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.33The Catholic Church is by far the largest Christian denomination and the largest organized body of any world religion. Well over a billion people - or over one-sixth of the world's population -... -
Rowing to Eden: Collected Stories by Amy Bloom 9781783782154
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.01Amy Bloom has long been regarded as a master of the short story form. Here, her brilliance shines across two decades and more than twenty-five stories. From the bereaved widow who finds unexpected... -
33 Artists in 3 Acts by Sarah Thornton
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.77Is being an artist a radical form of entrepreneurship or a vocational calling like the priesthood? Is it an extension of philosophy or an offshoot of entertainment? In three richly interlinked but... -
How To Read Sartre Robert Bernasconi 9781862078758
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.01'I can want only the freedom of others' Jean-Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Sartre is best known as the pre-eminent philosopher of individual freedom. He is the one who told us that we are totally free... -
Aftershock: The Untold Story of Surviving Peace by Matthew Green 9781846273315
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.01Over the last decade, we have sent thousands of people to fight on our behalf. But what happens when these soldiers come back home, having lost their friends and killed their enemies, having seen... -
When I Forgot by Elina Hirvonen 9781846270956
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.00Anna is on her way to the hospital where her brother has been sectioned when she falters, and, in that pause, her world splinters for the reader into a blazing display of memory and madness, of... -
No Art: Poems by Ben Lerner 9781783782765
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.01This book brings together for the first time Ben Lerner's three acclaimed volumes of poetry, along with a handful of newer poems, to present a decade-long exploration of the relationship between form... -
Granta 81: Best Of Young British Novelists 3 Granta 9780903141581
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31As with the first two Young British Novelists issues, Granta's 2003 list was compelling and prescient. The issue introduced readers to fiction by Zadie Smith, David Mitchell and Monica Ali. From Ben... -
Granta 74: Confessions Of A Middle-Aged Ecstacy-Eater Ian Jack 9780903141444
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.56Granta magazine publishes the best of fiction, memoir, reportage and photography, Every issue of Granta is in print and many issues - such as 'Travel', 'Dirty Realism', 'The Family', 'India' and... -
Rodinsky's Room by Iain Sinclair
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99Rodinsky's world was that of the East European Jewry, cabbalistic speculation, an obsession with language as code and terrible loss. He touched the imagination of artist Rachel Lichtenstein, whose... -
Multiples: 12 Stories in 18 Languages by 61 Authors by Adam Thirlwell 9781846275388
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.01Like Chinese whispers, the rules of this literary game are simple: the first writer translates an unknown story into English, which a second writer then translates into a different language, and a... -
Instead of a Book: Letters to a Friend by Diana Athill 9781847084897
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £66.36Written in an even more vivid and direct style than her celebrated memoirs, Diana Athill's letters to the American poet Edward Field reveal a sharply intelligent woman with a brilliant sense of... -
Granta 20: In Trouble Again 9780140085976
Booksplease Price: £13.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140085976Format PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Granta BooksPublisher Granta BooksWeight(grams) 323g -
To the Island by Meaghan Delahunt 9781847082749
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.00He disappeared. That's all she really knew. In search of her father Andreas, whom she has never met, Lena travels with her small son from Australia to Greece. On the island of Naxos she finds him, a... -
A Meal in Winter by Hubert Mingarelli 9781846275364
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.00One morning, in the dead of winter, three German soldiers head out into the frozen Polish countryside. They have been charged by their commanders to track down and bring back for execution 'one of... -
How To Read Hume by Simon Blackburn 9781847080332
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88'Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.' David Hume David Hume is generally recognized as the United Kingdom's greatest philosopher, as well as a notable historian and... -
Scorper: A Novel by Rob Magnuson Smith 9781783781065
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.63Scorper, noun, a tool used to scoop out broad areas when engraving wood or metal. Scorper, novel, an uncanny and sinister tale of an eccentric American visitor to the small Sussex town of... -
The Long Dry Cynan Jones 9781783780402
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.63When the farmer wakes at dawn, he can already feel the heat of the day rising and the silence from his wife hanging heavy in the air. As he sets out across his parched fields to find a missing cow,... -
How To Read Hitler by Neil Gregor 9781783780280
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.00Incoherent, obsessive and violent, Hitler's ideas nonetheless found an audience of millions and led to one of the most horrific and devastating conflicts of the 20th century. Taking two of Hitler's... -
One Day I Will Write About This Place by Binyavanga Wainaina 9781847083326
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.25Binyavanga Wainaina tumbled through his middle-class Kenyan childhood out of kilter with the world around him.This world came to him as a chaos of loud and colourful sounds: the hair dryers at his... -
The Old Child And The Book Of Words by Jenny Erpenbeck 9781846276767
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.25From the winner of the International Booker Prize 'Bracing, unflinching and alive' Nicole Krauss 'Intense and beautifully written' Time Out A child is found standing on the street, with an... -
The Play Of The Eyes by Elias Canetti 9781847083555
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.56The third volume of Canetti's autobiography is set in Vienna between 1931 and 1937: years when the European catastrophe, already clear to anyone with eyes to see, was approaching its horrifying... -
Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?: A Story About Women and Economics by Katrine Marcal 9781846275661
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.77Adam Smith, the founder of modern economics, believed that our actions stem from self-interest and the world turns because of financial gain. But every night Adam Smith's mother served him his... -
Teenagers: A Natural History David Bainbridge 9781846271229
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.90During the second decade of human life, the body and brain undergo a profound and complex transformation, with emotions and intellect changing as rapidly and unpredictably as weight and height. These... -
A History Of Bombing by Sven Lindqvist 9781847085016
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.01On 1 November 1911, Lieutenant Cavarotti leaned out of the cockpit of his delicate aircraft and, holding a Haasen hand grenade, began one of the most devastating military tactics of the twentieth... -
Men Explain Things to Me: And Other Essays Rebecca Solnit (Y) 9781783780792
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.97A landmark, incendiary collection from one of the leading essayists working today. Inspiring everyone from radical activists to Beyonce Knowles, Rebecca Solnit's essay 'Men Explain Things to Me'... -
Things You Should Know by A. M. Homes
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.63Things You Should Know is a collection of dazzling stories by one of the most talented and daring young American writers, whose distinctive narratives demonstrate how extraordinary the ordinary can... -
What's It All About?: Philosophy And The Meaning Of Life Julian Baggini 9781862077805
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.63This book is aimed at the reader who is serious about confronting the big issues in life but is turned off by books which deal with them through religion, spirituality or 'psycho-babble'. It is for... -
Heresies: Against Progress And Other Illusions by John Gray
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.25By the author of the best-selling Straw Dogs, this book is a characteristically trenchant and unflinchingly clear-sighted collection of reflections on our contemporary lot. Whether writing about the... -
The Proof of Love by Catherine Hall 9781846273001
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.00By the time the summer holidays begin, Spencer Little is keen to put the events of the past term at Cambridge behind him and a remote village in the Lake District seems to offer the perfect escape... -
A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz by Sarah Death 9781783781300
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.25On the 2nd of August 1947 a young man gets off a train in a small Swedish town. He has survived the Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz, and the harrowing slave camps and transports during the final months of... -
The Lodgers Holly Pester 9781783789856
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.25'What it said to me was that I was here again, I was back, back from the great nowhere of somewhere else, returned, all too officially, to the whereabouts of Moffa.' A woman returns to the small... -
The Appointment by Herta Muller
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.25'I've been summoned, Thursday, ten sharp.' So begins one day in the life of a young clothing-factory worker during Ceausescu's totalitarian regime. She has been questioned before, but this time she... -
I'm Jack by Mark Blacklock 9781783780860
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.63In this provocative novel Mark Blacklock portrays the true and complex history of John Humble, aka Wearside Jack, the Ripper Hoaxer, a timewaster and criminal, sympathetic and revolting, the man... -
Have You Been Good?: A Memoir by Vanessa Nicolson 9781783780785
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88Vanessa Nicolson is the granddaughter of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson. She was born to an illustrious name and an unhappy marriage. Her father, the art historian Ben Nicolson, was... -
Where The God Of Love Hangs Out by Amy Bloom
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.00A young woman struggles to come to terms with her friend's murder; a man and his daughter-in-law confess their sins in the most unlikely of places; a daughter returns to her hated father's house to...