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Fat Chance by Lyndsay Russell 9781842433003
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781842433003Author Lyndsay RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Oldcastle Books LtdPublisher... -
The Art of Wandering: The Writer as Walker by Merlin Coverley
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02The Art of Wandering is a history of that curious hybrid, the writer as walker. From the Ancient world to the modern day, the role of the walker continues to evolve, from philosopher and pilgrim,... -
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald 9780857304568
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €4.77Published to coincide with the 124th anniversary of F. Scott Fitzgerald's birth Enigmatic, intriguing and fabulously wealthy, Jay Gatsby throws lavish parties at his West Egg mansion to impress Daisy... -
Between Rivers by Leni Dipple 9781843445821
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02In this volume, Leni Dipple explores how poetry might be represented in a range of contexts, cutting across cultures and languages. An esoteric collection designed for the serious reader of poetry,... -
ON THE RECORDs: Notes from the Vinyl Revival Graham Sharpe 9780857305879
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €17.20Far from being yesterday's fading, forgotten format, vinyl records have survived and flourished as the music medium of choice for not only baby-boomers, but all ages. Every record a collector... -
Everything and the Kitchen Sink: UK Film, Music and TV before The Beatles Simon Matthews 9780857305961
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €17.20Everything AND the Kitchen Sink analyses 'kitchen sink realism' and the birth of 'pop cinema' in the context of contemporaneous debates surrounding politics, civil liberties, sexuality, race,... -
Short History Of Europe: A Pocket Essential by Gordon Kerr 9780857303455
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857303455Author Gordon KerrFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Oldcastle Books LtdPublisher... -
Tommy the Bruce James Yorkston 9780857305947
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54Meet Tommy Bruce, an anti-hero as unlike his historical namesake as could be imagined - very nearly spineless and not at all the man to save himself, until you push him too far... Tommy Bruce is... -
The Pen is Mightier: Autobiography of a Punk Rocker Edward Tudor Pole 9780857306050
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €21.30Best known for forming and fronting the punk band Tenpole Tudor in 1977, Edward Tudor Pole eventually came to prominence after appearing in the film The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle as a possible... -
House in the Country: Where Our Suburbs and Garden Cities Came From and Why it's Time to Leave Them Behind by Simon Matthews
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €17.20For nearly 150 years living in a house in the country has been what many of us aspire to. This book explores how this idea was imported from the US by Ebenezer Howard, founder of the garden city... -
British Traitors: Betrayal and Treachery in the Twentieth Century by Gordon Kerr
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81Capital punishment was abolished for murder in Great Britain in 1969, but remained as the punishment for high treason until as recently as 1998, demonstrating how seriously we take the crime of... -
After Agatha: Women Write Crime by Sally Cline
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.95After Agatha: Women Write Crime is the first book to examine how British, American and Canadian female crime writers pursue their craft and what they think about crime writing. Hundreds of women who... -
History Of The Cathars, A Pocket Essential Short by Sean Martin 9780857303097
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €13.32Catharism was the most successful heresy of the Middle Ages. Flourishing principally in the Languedoc and Italy, the Cathars taught that the world is evil and must be transcended through a simple... -
Short History Of Robin Hood: A Pocket Essential by Nick Rennison 9780857303264
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €4.77Robin Hood is England's greatest folk hero. Everyone knows the story of the outlaw who robbed from the rich and gave to the poor. Nick Rennison's highly entertaining book begins with the search for... -
The Golden Guinea Michael Nevin 9780857301031
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857301031Author Michael NevinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Oldcastle Books LtdPublisher... -
The Little Book Of Lonely Hearts: You Can't Love Without It by Paul Matthew Thompson 9781842432747
Booksplease Price: €3.64A witty and indispensable guide to assist readers on their path to true love. With sections on: Men Seeking Women, Women Seeking Men, Men Seeking Men, Women Seeking Women - and then there's the... -
Luca Antara Martin Edmond 9781842433195
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81'Luca Antara is a book-lover's book, a graceful and mesmerizing blend of history, autobiography, travel and romance.' - JM Coetzee Part memoir, travelogue, history and part detective story, Luca... -
A Person is a Prayer by Ammar Kalia 9780857305855
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €14.57Bedi and Sushma's marriage is arranged. When they first meet, they stumble through a faltering conversation about happiness and hope and agree to go in search of these things together. But even after... -
Riots and Rebels: A Pocket Essential History of Popular Protest in Britain Nick Rennison 9780857306197
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81The only power otherwise powerless people possess lies in their numbers. Riots and Rebels is an examination of how they have exercised that power over the centuries and how governments have reacted... -
Fat Chance by Lyndsay Russell 9781842432990
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.80Dedicated to any woman who's ever been a few pounds overweight Sad, lonely Sharon Plunkett is size eighteen. She's tried every fad, every diet and every cream, but like stains of grease on a pure... -
The Hand I Played David Spanier 9781842430392
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81The gambling writer and journalist David Spanier looks back at his life-long love of poker in this compelling memoir. Spanier takes us from teenage days spent playing the horses to the elegant... -
A Person is a Prayer Ammar Kalia 9780857306043
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54Bedi and Sushma's marriage is arranged. When they first meet, they stumble through a faltering conversation about happiness and hope and agree to go in search of these things together. But even after... -
Riots and Rebels: Popular Protest in Britain from the Peasants' Revolt to Extinction Rebellion Nick Rennison 9780857306074
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.95In 1381, a large army of people marched through the south-east of England to London, demanding an end to unfair taxation and threatening the rule of the boy-king, Richard II. During the eighteenth... -
Free Your Mind!: Giovanni 'Tinto' Brass, 'Swinging London' and the 60s Pop Culture Scene by Simon Matthews
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.22Between 1967 and 1970 Italian auteur Giovanni 'Tinto' Brass directed four feature films in London, each starring a woman as the main character. Exploring the political, cultural and sexual ideas of... -
1922: Scenes from a Turbulent Year Nick Rennison 9780857305015
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.201922 was a year of great turbulence and upheaval. Its events reverberated throughout the rest of the twentieth century and still affect us today, 100 years later. Empires fell. The Ottoman Empire... -
The Book of the Gaels by James Yorkston
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81Rural West Cork, Ireland. Two Kids, Joseph and Paul, and their struggling, poet father, Fraser, are battling grief and poverty. When a letter arrives with a summons to Dublin and the promise of... -
The President And The Provocateur by Alex Cox 9781842439418
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02The President and the Provocateur explores the parallel lives of John F. Kennedy, born into wealth and celebrity, destined for glory and a violent death, and of Lee Harvey Oswald, born into poverty... -
1974: Scenes from a Year of Crisis by Nick Rennison 9780857305817
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.541974 WAS A YEAR OF MAJOR CHANGE AROUND THE WORLD. Presidents resigned, emperors were deposed, and new governments came to power. On both sides of the Atlantic, major political figures left the scene,... -
Get Yer 'Air Cut: The issue of male coiffure, pop and counterculture before, during and after the Swinging Sixties Alan Clayson 9780857305909
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €16.96My hair is a statement and always will be, even when I no longer have any. The social revolution of the Swinging Sixties led to a renaissance of unchecked hair growth, and long hair, especially on... -
First Class Comrades: Stasi espionage and secret police operations in the early Cold War 1945-1961 J. Boulter 9780857305206
RRP: €94.01Booksplease Price: €62.08No country in history has been more deeply penetrated by spies than divided Germany after the Second World War. Fighting for the eastern corner were the 'first class comrades' of the Stasi - the East... -
A Short History Of Polar Exploration by Nick Rennison 9781843440901
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €3.30According to Apsley Cherry-Garrard, one of the men who went to Antarctica with Captain Scott, 'Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time that has ever been... -
The Boggarts of Britain Frank Mills 9781842430057
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.33Stories have been told about the little people for hundreds of years and they appear in many forms. Fairies are either good or wicked. Imps are mischievous. Elves are cheeky and Pixies love to... -
A Field Guide To Melancholy by Jacky Dr. Bowring 9781843446231
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.45A depressive illness or a passing feeling? Mental detachment or a precursor to genius? Melancholy is a critical part of what it is to be human, yet everything from Prozac to self help psychology... -
War Without Mercy: A Pocket Essential History of the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 Gordon Kerr 9780857305923
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81More than eighty-five years after it ended in defeat for the Republicans and victory for the Nationalists headed by General Francisco Franco, the Spanish Civil War remains a subject of debate and... -
Princes Amongst Men: Journeys with Romani-Gypsy Musicians Garth Cartwright 9780857306203
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.73Wide-ranging, irreverent and humorous, packed with fascinating - and sometimes tragic - details on lands and people who are rarely heard from. Princes Amongst Men is the only book to provide an... -
Hauntology: GHOSTS OF FUTURES PAST by Merlin Coverley
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.73Ghosts and spectres, the eerie and the occult. Why is contemporary culture so preoccupied by the supernatural, so captivated by the revenants of an earlier age, so haunted? The concept of Hauntology... -
Alchemy And Alchemists by Sean Martin
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50Often alchemy is seen as an example of medieval gullibility and the alchemists as a collection of eccentrics and superstitious fools. Sean Martin shows that nothing could be further from the truth... -
Making It Big Lyndsay Russell 9781842432730
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.33An alternative world where big curves are cool... Sad, lonely Sharon Plunkett is a plus-size girl. She's tried every fad, every diet and every cream, but like stains of grease on a pure silk blouse,... -
Looking for a New England: Action, Time, Vision: Music, Film and TV 1975 - 1986 by Simon Matthews
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.95Looking for a New England covers the period 1975 to 1986, from Slade in Flame to Absolute Beginners. A carefully researched exploration of transgressive films, the career of David Bowie, dystopias,... -
UFOs, Aliens and the Battle for the Truth: A Short History of UFOlogy by Neil Nixon
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €7.41This no-nonsense guide to one of our most enduring mysteries presents a short history of the strangest encounters, looks carefully at explanations from the blunt to the truly bizarre, offers insights...