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True Believers A Novel by Kurt Andersen
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812978896Author Kurt AndersenFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House IncPublisher... -
Heyday: A Novel by Kurt Andersen 9780812978469
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812978469Author Kurt AndersenFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Random House IncPublisher... -
The Real Thing by Kurt Andersen 9780803220553
Booksplease Price: £12.34You may already know that Belgium is the most boring country on planet Earth, but do you know why? Or what makes the Mark 44, Model O Lazy Dog Missile Cluster, the sexiest piece of military hardware... -
Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America - A Recent History by Kurt Andersen
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.55How an elite cabal rewrote the American dream for their gain - and left the rest of world behind.Evil Geniuses is the secret history of how, over the last half century, from even before Ronald Reagan... -
Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History by Kurt Andersen
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £9.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984801357Author Kurt AndersenFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House Trade... -
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History by Kurt Andersen
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812978902Author Kurt AndersenFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Random House Trade... -
Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World Suzy Hansen 9781472153883
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.54'Deeply honest and brave . . . A sincere and intelligent act of self-questioning . . . Hansen is doing something both rare and necessary' - Hisham Matar, New York TimesIn the wake of the 9/11 attacks... -
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History by Kurt Andersen 9781785038679
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.13You're entitled to your own opinion but not your own factsFantasy is the USA's primary product. From the Pilgrim Fathers onward America has been a place where renegades and freaks came in search of... -
Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World Suzy Hansen 9781472153890
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.96'A deeply honest and brave portrait of of an individual sensibility reckoning with her country's violent role in the world.' Hisham Matar, New York Times Book ReviewIn the wake of the 11th September... -
Reckless Minds: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era by Carlos Lozada
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.54The Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic uses the books of the Trump era to argue that our response to this presidency reflects the same failures of imagination that made it possible... -
What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era by Carlos Lozada
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £11.27In this "crisp, engaging, and very smart" (The New York Times Book Review) work, The Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic digs into books of the Trump era and finds that our response... -
The Kingdoms of Savannah: 'Not to be missed' KARIN SLAUGHTER by George Dawes Green
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.38*WINNER OF THE CWA GOLD DAGGER AWARD 2023 FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR*The apotheosis of Southern Gothic Noir' NEIL GAIMAN'Compelling characters and vivid settings make this impressive Southern... -
The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story by Michael Lewis 9780393347814
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.07In the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewis set out on a safari through Silicon Valley to find the world's most important technology entrepreneur. He found this in Jim Clark, a man whose... -
Signs of Resistance by Bonnie Siegler
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.18"Clever images of dissent are not a recent phenomenon in the United States. . . . [Signs of Resistance is] visually fascinating. . . . [and] there is bigly wit here, too."-The Washington Post In... -
The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village by John Strausbaugh 9780062078216
Booksplease Price: £12.13Cultural commentator John Strausbaugh's The Village is the first complete history of Greenwich Village, the prodigiously influential and infamous New York City neighborhood. From the Dutch settlers... -
Ride: Antoine Predock : 65 Years of Architecture by Antoine Predock 9780847899517
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £71.63A trailblazing original, Predock is his own tour de force. In his work, steel, glass, and concrete are combined with natural materials to celebrate modern life. Initially considered a regionalist... -
Just Enough Jeeves: Right Ho, Jeeves; Joy in the Morning; Very Good, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse 9780393339437
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £34.58Of course there can never be enough Jeeves for die-hard Wodehouse enthusiasts. But this selection brings old favorites to those fans in a sparkling package and will introduce new readers to the... -
Lame of Thrones: The Final Book in a Song of Hot and Cold by The Harvard Lampoon
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.88A loving but take-no-prisoners (grant them full amnesty) send-up of the beloved book and television franchise, Lame of Thrones will do for Game of Thrones what Nightlight and The Hunger Pains did for... -
The Best American Magazine Writing 2008 The American Society of Magazine Editors 9780231147149
Booksplease Price: £15.19The Best American Magazine Writing 2008 is an essential guide to the year's most entertaining, politically charged, and sophisticated essays. With pieces first published in The Nation, National... -
No Small Matter: Science on the Nanoscale by Felice C. Frankel
RRP: £49.95Booksplease Price: £42.26A small revolution is remaking the world. The only problem is, we can't see it. This book uses dazzling images and evocative descriptions to reveal the virtually invisible realities and possibilities... -
My Omaha Obsession: Searching for the City by Miss Cassette 9781496207616
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £17.912021 Nebraska Book AwardMy Omaha Obsession takes the reader on an idiosyncratic tour through some of Omaha's neighborhoods, buildings, architecture, and people, celebrating the city's unusual history... -
That's Not Funny, That's Sick: The National Lampoon and the Comedy Insurgents Who Captured the Mainstream by Ellin Stein 9780393074093
Booksplease Price: £21.53Labor Day, 1969. Two recent college graduates move to New York to edit a new magazine called The National Lampoon. Over the next decade, Henry Beard and Doug Kenney, along with a loose amalgamation... -
The Power of Strangers: The Benefits of Connecting in a Suspicious World by Joe Keohane
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.51When was the last time you spoke to a stranger?In our cities, we barely acknowledge one another on public transport, even as rates of loneliness skyrocket. Online, we carefully curate who we interact... -
The Know-It-Alls: The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball by Noam Cohen
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.27The world's tech giants are at the centre of controversies over fake news, free speech and hate speech on platforms where influence is bought and sold. Yet, at the outset, almost everyone thought the... -
The Drop: How the Most Addictive Sport Can Help Us Understand Addiction and Recovery by Thad Ziolkowski 9780062965936
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.95In this revelatory and original book, award-winning author of the acclaimed surf memoir On a Wave illuminates the connection between waves, addiction, and recovery, exploring what surfing can teach... -
Elvis in Vegas: How the King Reinvented the Las Vegas Show by Richard Zoglin
Booksplease Price: £13.36"Outstanding pop-culture history." -NewsdayThe "smart and zippy account" (The Wall Street Journal) of how Las Vegas saved Elvis and Elvis saved Las Vegas in the greatest musical comeback of all time... -
Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from within on Modern Democracy by Tom Nichols
RRP: £24.49Booksplease Price: £18.84A contrarian yet highly engaging account of the spread of illiberal and anti-democratic sentiment throughout our culture that places responsibility on the citizens themselves. Over the past three... -
Death of the Great Man: A Novel by Peter D. Kramer
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.13In a novel that's part comic mystery, part political satire, and part case vignette, a psychiatrist reviews his involvement with a narcissistic national leader who has turned up dead on the... -
Damaged People: A Memoir of Fathers and Sons by Joe McGinniss 9781668004852
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £19.37The son of renowned author Joe McGinniss-celebrated for works like The Selling of the President and true crime blockbusters Fatal Vision and Cruel Doubt-delivers a raw and deeply moving memoir that... -
Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons by Mike Reiss
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.03Semi-Finalist for the 2019 James Thurber Award * One of Vulture's Top-10 Comedy Books of 2018 * A "Must" pick by Entertainment Weekly * An A.V. Club Best Books selection * A "New and Noteworthy"... -
I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution by Craig Marks
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.39Remember When All You Wanted Was Your MTV? The perfect gift for the music fan or child of the eighties in your life.Named One of the Best Books of 2011 by NPR - Spin - USA Today - CNBC - Pitchfork -... -
Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians Tara Isabella Burton 9781529364736
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.38'We're all now self-makers, whether we like it or not - and this witty, sceptical book is the thought-provoking story of how we got here'GUARDIAN'A fast-moving train of a book'NEW YORK... -
Hollywood High: A Totally Epic, Way Opinionated History of Teen Movies Bruce Handy 9781501181177
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.00From a longtime Vanity Fair writer and editor, a delightfully entertaining, intelligent, and illuminating history and tribute to teen movies-from Rebel Without a Cause to Fast Times at Ridgemont... -
Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians Tara Isabella Burton 9781529364699
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.03'We're all now self-makers, whether we like it or not - and this witty, sceptical book is the thought-provoking story of how we got here' GUARDIAN'This funny, startling, insightful story of the... -
Watergate: A New History by Garrett M. Graff
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.20NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Do we need still another Watergate book? The answer turns out to be yes-this one." -The Washington Post * "Dazzling." -The New York Times Book Review From the New York... -
Survival of the Richest: escape fantasies of the tech billionaires Douglas Rushkoff 9781915590244
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88'A devastating portrait of the cultures and logics underlying big tech. Rushkoff is going to make you mad enough to fight back. A vital, lucid, and enraging read.' Naomi Klein, author of This Changes... -
Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity by Simon Johnson 9781399804479
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.63WINNERS OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE FOR ECONOMICSLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZEA... -
Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream by Carson Vaughan 9781503901490
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £9.77A resonant true story of small-town politics and community perseverance and of decent people and questionable choices, Zoo Nebraska is a timely requiem for a rural America in the throes of extinction...