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The Granta Book Of Reportage by Ian Jack
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.01Since 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: $21.40Booksplease Price: $15.87The 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: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.01Lyrical, 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: $38.06Booksplease Price: $28.04Granta 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: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.01Presenting 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... -
What Do Greens Believe? by Joe Smith
RRP: $16.64Booksplease Price: $12.83'The world has enough for everybody's need, but not enough for one person's greed' Gandhi Greens are driven by a concern with the fate of future generations and the natural world on which we all... -
Real England: The Battle Against The Bland by Paul Kingsnorth
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $20.04We see the signs around us every day: the chain cafes and mobile phone outlets that dominate our high streets; the disappearance of knobbly carrots from our supermarket shelves; and the headlines... -
The Baby Of Belleville by Anne Marsella
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $14.33Every new mother has a story to tell - and this is Jane de la Rochefoucault's. It's a story that contains all the familiar yet magical landmarks of feeding, teething, toddling, and measuring stuff in... -
Last Rites: The End Of The Church Of England Michael Hampson 9781862078918
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97Dire Sunday services, shrinking congregations and financial meltdown are the realities of the contemporary Church of England. In this controversial book, Michael Hampson, who worked as a parish... -
Remind Me Who I Am, Again Linda Grant 9781847082695
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $15.87At the beginning of the 1990s, Linda Grant's mother, Rose, was diagnosed with Dementia. In Remind Me Who I Am, Again Linda Grant tells the story of Rose's illness and tries to reconstruct the history... -
The Smoking Diaries Volume 2: The Year Of The Jouncer by Simon Gray
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $14.33As a baby, Simon Gray discovered that he could move his pram while still nestling inside it. 'It was a complete mystery to the adult intelligences, how had he done it, if it was he who had done... -
The Moro Affair by Leonardo Sciascia
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40On 16 March 1978, Aldo Moro, former Italian Prime Minister, was ambushed in Rome. Within three minutes the gang killed all five members of his escort and bundled Moro into one of three getaway cars... -
The Wandering Jews by Joseph Roth
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $23.04This is the first English translation of Joseph Roth's portrayal of the Jews of Eastern Europe: their poverty, their towns and trades, their feast days and the mysticism of their rabbis. Roth was... -
Gilding The Lily: Inside The Cut Flower Industry by Amy Stewart 9781846271748
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97A green-fingered gardener, Amy Stewart has always delighted in the sight of freshly cut flowers, but she grew increasingly curious and uneasy about the journey those flowers take to reach her bouquet... -
The Plot: A Biography of My Father's English Acre by Madeleine Bunting 9781847081445
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.92Madeleine Bunting is one of the most high-profile commentators in Britain. Her father was deeply conservative, with romantic, old-fashioned views about England. After his death, and wanting to... -
Everything is Happening: Journey into a Painting by Michael Jacobs 9781847088086
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.92Michael Jacobs was haunted by Velazquez's enigmatic masterpiece Las Meninas from first encountering it in the Prado as a teenager. In Everything is Happening Jacobs searches for the ultimate... -
The Last Jews Of Kerala Edna Fernandes 9781846270994
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.75Separated by a narrow stretch of swamp-like waters, and distinguished by the colour of their skin, the Black Jews and the White Jews have been locked in a rancorous feud for centuries. Only now, when... -
Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada 9781846276323
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40Three bears. The first, a diligent memoirist whose unlikely success forces her to flee Soviet Russia. The second, her daughter, a skilled dancer in an East Berlin circus. The third,... -
The Cow Book: A Story of Life on an Irish Family Farm by John Connell 9781783784189
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $17.54Farming has been in John Connell's family for generations, but he never intended to follow in his father's footsteps. Until, one winter, he finds himself back on the farm and begins to learn the... -
The Journalist And The Murderer by Janet Malcolm 9781783784547
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.92'Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible' In equal measure famous and infamous, Janet Malcolm's... -
Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? by Kathleen Collins 9781783783410
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $15.87It is the long, hot summer of 1963 and New York is filled with lovers, dreamers and protestors. Young African-American women grow out their hair and discover the taste of new freedoms. Young men,... -
Rowing to Eden: Collected Stories by Amy Bloom 9781783782154
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97Amy 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... -
Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters by Joseph Roth 9781847083418
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97The legendary Austro-Hungarian novelist and essayist, Joseph Roth, was born in Ukraine in 1894 and died tragically in Paris in 1939. These letters span the breadth of Roth's life, from the schoolboy... -
Aftershock: The Untold Story of Surviving Peace by Matthew Green 9781846273315
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97Over 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... -
Straw Dogs: Thoughts On Humans And Other Animals by John Gray 9781862075962
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.92'Powerful and brilliant... Straw Dogs challenges all our assumptions about what it is to be human, and convincingly shows that most of them are delusions' J. G. Ballard From Plato to... -
Twice A Stranger: How Mass Expulsion Forged Modern Greece And Turkey by Bruce Clark 9781862079243
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.92It was a massive, yet little-known landmark in modern history: in 1923, after a long war over the future of the Ottoman world, nearly 2 million citizens of Turkey or Greece were moved across the... -
Proust's Overcoat: The True Story of One Man's Passion for All Things Proust by Lorenza Foschini 9781846272721
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $14.33The story of the overcoat began with a chance meeting - between an obsessive book collector, Jacques Guerin, and his physician, Dr Robert Proust, brother of the late writer. Guerin immediately... -
The Secret Twenties: British Intelligence, the Russians and the Jazz Age by Timothy Phillips 9781847083289
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.92In the 1920s, many in the British establishment became convinced that their way of life was being threatened by the new Soviet state. The British government launched vast spying operations in... -
How To Drink by Victoria Moore 9781847081360
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97In 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... -
Salvador Joan Didion 9781783785230
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.92El Salvador, 1982, is at the height of a ghastly civil war. Joan Didion travels from battlefields to body dumps, interviews a puppet president, considers the distinctly Salvadorean meaning of the... -
![Islander: A Journey Around Our Archipelago by Patrick Barkham 9781783781904 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9690134/10706850/9781783781904__07011.1781311476.jpg?c=1 "Islander: A Journey Around Our Archipelago by Patrick Barkham 9781783781904 [USED COPY]")
Islander: A Journey Around Our Archipelago by Patrick Barkham 9781783781904 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $4.69Winner of the National Geographic Reader's Award 2018 Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2018 Shortlisted for the BBC Countryfile Magazine Country Book of the Year 2018 ... -
![Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot by Masha Gessen 9781847089342 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9693925/10710641/9781847089342__76718.1781314937.jpg?c=1 "Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot by Masha Gessen 9781847089342 [USED COPY]")
Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot by Masha Gessen 9781847089342 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $6.24On February 21st 2012, five members of an obscure feminist post-punk collective called Pussy Riot staged a performance in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. Dressed in their trademark brightly... -
![This Book Will Save Your Life by A. M. Homes 9781862079335 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9694758/10711474/9781862079335__93945.1781315596.jpg?c=1 "This Book Will Save Your Life by A. M. Homes 9781862079335 [USED COPY]")
This Book Will Save Your Life by A. M. Homes 9781862079335 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $5.71This Book Will Save Your Life is an uplifting story about one man's efforts to bring himself back to life. Richard is a modern-day everyman, a middle-aged divorcee trading stocks out of his home in... -
![The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st-Century Bestiary by Caspar Henderson 9781847082442 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9915275/10931806/9781847082442__25656.1786481450.jpg?c=1 "The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st-Century Bestiary by Caspar Henderson 9781847082442 [USED COPY]")
The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st-Century Bestiary by Caspar Henderson 9781847082442 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $12.00From Axolotl to Zebrafish, discover a host of barely imagined beings: real creatures that are often more astonishing than anything dreamt in the pages of a medieval bestiary. Ranging from the depths... -
Addlands by Tom Bullough 9781783781669 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $5.71Addlands is the moving and engrossing story of the Hamer family and their home, the Funnon Farm, deep in the hills of the Welsh borders. There is Idris, proud and insular, a man of the plough and... -
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97A man is thrown out of his home after his wife discovers that the sweat-smudged footprint on the inside of his windscreen doesn't match her own. Teenage cousins, drugged by summer, meet with a... -
Out Of Place: A Memoir by Edward W. Said
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97Edward Said experienced both British and American imperialism as the old Arab order crumbled in the late 1940s and early 1950s. This account of his early life reveals how it influenced his books... -
Hot Flushes, Cold Science: A History Of The Modern Menopause by Louise Foxcroft
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40For over two thousand years, attitudes to the menopause have created dread, shame and confusion. This meticulously researched and always entertaining book traces the history of 'the change of life'... -
This Is Not About Me by Janice Galloway
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40From her earliest years with a boozy, accident-prone father and a reluctantly pragmatic mother, Janice Galloway grew up as a watcher - careful and vigilant. Then her parents' marriage broke up and... -
Return To Akenfield: Portrait Of An English Village In The 21st Century by Craig Taylor
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40Ronald Blythe's 1969 book Akenfield - a moving portrait of English country life told in the voices of the farmers and villagers themselves - is a modern classic. In 2004, writer and reporter Craig...