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The Granta Book Of Reportage by Ian Jack
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Since 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 Granta Book Of India by Ian Jack
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.94The 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 The Irish Short Story by Anne Enright
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Lyrical, dark, comic or iconoclastic, the Irish short story has always punched well above its weight. Anne Enright has brought together a dazzling collection of Irish stories by authors born in the... -
The New Granta Book of Travel Liz Jobey 9781847083302
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.79Granta 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... -
The Granta Book of the African Short Story by Helon Habila
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Presenting a diverse and dazzling collection from all over the continent, from Morocco to Zimbabwe, Uganda to Kenya. Helon Habila focuses on younger, newer writers - contrasted with some of their... -
A Fury For God: The Islamist Attack On America by Malise Ruthven
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80The terrorist attacks on New York and Washington were carried out by men steeped in a certain Islamic ideology, which has come to be called Islamism. In A Fury for God, Malise Ruthven reconstructs... -
Terra Nullius: A Journey Through No One's Land by Sven Lindqvist
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.51In the critically acclaimed Desert Divers and Exterminate All the Brutes, Sven Lindqvist travelled through Africa's deserts and unearthed the cruelty of colonialism. Now he has done the same for... -
Welcome To Everytown: A Journey Into The English Mind by Julian Baggini
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.94What do the English think? Every country has a dominant set of beliefs and attitudes concerning everything from how to live a good life, how we should organize society, and the roles of the sexes... -
Nothing Like A Dame: The Scandals Of Shirley Porter by Andrew Hosken
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Homes for Votes, three cemeteries at five pence apiece, the missing Tesco millions and a gold toilet seat - plus a procession of camels, pay-as-you-go toilets and a large plastic bin called Mr... -
A Country In The Moon: Travels In Search Of The Heart Of Poland by Michael Moran
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.37In this uproarious memoir and meticulously researched cultural journey, writer Michael Moran keeps company with a gallery of fantastic characters. In chronicling the resurrection of the nation from... -
The Empathy Exams: Essays by Leslie Jamison
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $9.88The subjects of this stylish and audacious collection of essays range from an assault in Nicaragua to a Morgellons meeting; from Frida Kahlo's plaster casts to a gangland tour of LA. Jamison is... -
The Saffron Road: A Journey with Buddha's Daughters by Christine Toomey
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80A brief meeting with a Buddhist nun in India made a deep impression on Christine Toomey. It sent her on a two-year, 60,000-mile odyssey to learn more about the contemporary women choosing in their... -
Twelve Minutes of Love: A Tango Story by Kapka Kassabova 9781846272851
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Kapka Kassabova first set foot in a tango studio ten years ago and, from that moment, she was hooked. With the beat of tango driving her on and the music filling her head, she's danced across the... -
The French Intifada: The Long War Between France and Its Arabs by Andrew Hussey 9781847082596
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.08Beyond the affluent centre of Paris and other French cities, in the deprived banlieues, a war is going on. This is the French Intifada, a guerrilla war between the French state and the former... -
The Long Dry Cynan Jones 9781783780402
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.94When 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,... -
The Divers' Game by Jesse Ball 9781783785872
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.61A pair of girls, Lethe and Lois, navigates the perimeters of a segregated city, armed with canisters of killing gas. Another child, Lessen, is at the centre of a bizarre cultural ritual that could be... -
The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World by George Prochnik 9781783781164
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37By the 1930s, Stefan Zweig, born to an affluent Jewish family in Vienna, had become the most widely translated living author in the world. His novels, short stories, and biographies became instant... -
History of a Suicide: My Sister's Unfinished Life by Jill Bialosky 9781783782130
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80On the night of April 15, 1990, Jill Bialosky's twenty-one-year-old sister Kim came home from a bar in downtown Cleveland. She argued with her boyfriend on the phone. Then she took her mother's car... -
Jokes for the Gunmen Mazen Maarouf 9781846276675
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2019 A brilliant collection of fictions in the vein of Roald Dahl, Etgar Keret and Amy Hempel. These are stories of what the world looks like from... -
The Strange Case of Thomas Quick: The Swedish Serial Killer and the Psychoanalyst Who Created Him by Dan Josefsson 9781846275760
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.49In 1991 Sture Bergwall, a petty criminal and drug addict, botched an armed robbery so badly that he was deemed to be more in need of therapy than punishment. He was committed to Sater, Sweden's... -
Going To Extremes: Notes from a Divided Nation by Barbara Ehrenreich 9781847080653
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.94America is a grotesquely polarized society and becoming more so all the time. In this razor-sharp, funny and terrifying collection of pieces, Barbara Ehrenreich shows how the widening gap between... -
Family Wanted: Adoption Stories by Sara Holloway 9781862078574
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.07Family has always been fertile ground for writers. To the usual familial themes, adoption adds its own potent elements: mystery, luck, the questing for origins, the yearning for a child, the... -
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The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus 9781847086242 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $3.23A terrible epidemic has struck the country and the sound of children's speech has become lethal. Radio transmissions from strange sources indicate that people are going into hiding. All Sam and... -
How To Read Plato by Richard Kraut 9781847080325
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65'The unexamined life is not worth living.' Socrates Plato is the founding thinker of European speculative thought. He was the first Western writer to undertake a comprehensive and rigorous study... -
Bait And Switch: The Futile Pursuit of the Corporate Dream by Barbara Ehrenreich 9781862078970
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $6.95Intrigued by reports of increasing poverty and despair within America's white-collar corporate workforce, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to infiltrate their world as an undercover reporter and learn... -
The Old Child And The Book Of Words by Jenny Erpenbeck 9781846276767
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80From 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... -
Happiness, Like Water: Stories by Chinelo Okparanta 9781847088314
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.37In this debut collection, Chinelo Okparanta introduces us to families burdened equally by the past and the future. Here, we meet a childless couple with very different desires; a college professor... -
Equal Danger by 9781847089274
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.80District Attorney Varga is shot dead while picking a sprig of jasmine. Then Judge Sanza is killed. Then Judge Azar. Is this string of murders an individual vendetta or a more sinister plot? The... -
A Book Of Silence by Sara Maitland 9781847081513
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65After a noisy upbringing as one of six children, and adulthood as a vocal feminist and mother, Sara Maitland began to crave silence. Over the past five years, she has spent periods of silence in the... -
![Smile Or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World by Barbara Ehrenreich 9781847081735 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9734241/10750874/9781847081735__97736.1781406053.jpg?c=1 "Smile Or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World by Barbara Ehrenreich 9781847081735 [USED COPY]")
Smile Or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World by Barbara Ehrenreich 9781847081735 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $3.46In this highly original and hugely entertaining account, Barbara Ehrenreich confronts the cult of positive thinking in America. She examines the impact of positive thinking on religion, medicine,... -
In An Antique Land by Amitav Ghosh 9781847081940
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.56In an Antique Land is a subversive history in the guise of a traveller's tale. When the author stumbles across a slave narrative in the margins of an ancient text, his curiosity is piqued. What... -
Granta City Guides: Budapest by Michael Jacobs 9781862078253
RRP: $5.35Booksplease Price: $4.54Once the elegant second city of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Budapest, the 'Queen of the Danube', is now being rediscovered as one of the liveliest and most attractive destinations in Europe... -
Men Explain Things to Me: And Other Essays Rebecca Solnit (Y) 9781783780792
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.39A 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'... -
The Secret Lives Of Buildings: From The Parthenon To The Vegas Strip In Thirteen Stories by Edward Hollis
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37The plans are drawn up, a site is chosen, foundations are dug: a building comes into being with the expectation that it will stay put and stay for ever. But a building is a capricious thing: it is... -
How Did You Get This Number by Sloane Crosley
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80What happens when the minibus full of your fellow wedding travellers hits a bear in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness? Or you hear the voice of your high school's long lost queen bee from a... -
This Party's Got To Stop by Rupert Thomson
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.94In his first venture into non-fiction, the celebrated novelist Rupert Thomson has produced one of the most extraordinary and unforgettable memoirs of recent years. On a warm, sunny day in July 1964,... -
How To Read Machiavelli by Maurizio Viroli
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65'Men are infamous and detestable who are destroyers of religion, squanderers of kingdoms and republics, and enemies of the virtues.' Niccolo Machiavelli Machiavelli (1459-1527) is one of the most... -
Dust by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Kenya, 2007. Odidi Oganda, running for his life, is gunned down in the streets of Nairobi. His sister, Ajany, and their father bring his body back home, to a crumbling colonial house in northern... -
The Collection by Nina Leger
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80WINNER OF THE PRIX ANAIS NIN Jeanne moves from room to room. In the anonymous hotel bedrooms of Paris - Hotel Agate, Hotel Prince Albert, Hotel Prince Monceau, Hotel Coypel, Hotel Nord & Champagne... -
Gossip from the Forest: The Tangled Roots of Our Forests and Fairytales by Sara Maitland
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Fairytales are one of our earliest and most vital cultural forms, and forests one of our most ancient landscapes. Both evoke a similar sensation in us - we find them beautiful and magical, but also...