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Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £10.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Critics Circle Awards 2013.Book InformationISBN 9780345804310Author Sonali... -
Wave: A Memoir of Life After the Tsunami Sonali Deraniyagala 9781844089079
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.39Winner of the PEN/Ackerley Prize 2014The book opens and we are inside the wave: thirty feet high, moving at twenty-five mph, racing two miles inland. And from there into the depths of the author's... -
Disasters and Human Development: An Earth Institute Sustainability Primer Dr. John C. Mutter 9780231206372
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.51Disasters arise from the convergence of natural and social forces. Earthquakes, cyclones, floods, droughts, and other catastrophic events disproportionately affect the most vulnerable people, whether... -
Disasters and Human Development: An Earth Institute Sustainability Primer Dr. John C. Mutter 9780231206365
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £59.48Disasters arise from the convergence of natural and social forces. Earthquakes, cyclones, floods, droughts, and other catastrophic events disproportionately affect the most vulnerable people, whether... -
Other Lives But Mine by Emmanuel Carrere
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Read this an expansive meditation on death, grief and the limtless reach of the human spirit from the bestselling author of The Adversary 'Compelling... Carrere has the gift of speaking simply and... -
Kadian Journal Thomas Harding 9780099591849
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15In July 2012 Thomas Harding's fourteen-year-old son Kadian was killed in a bicycle accident. Shortly afterwards Thomas began to write. This book is the result.Beginning on the day of Kadian's death,... -
Climate Change Science: A Primer for Sustainable Development Dr. John C. Mutter 9780231220477
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.67How will future climates be different from today's world-and what consequences will changes in climate have for societies? This book is a primer on the fundamental science of climate change and... -
Climate Change Science: A Primer for Sustainable Development Dr. John C. Mutter 9780231220460
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £61.80How will future climates be different from today's world-and what consequences will changes in climate have for societies? This book is a primer on the fundamental science of climate change and... -
Kinship Dorothy Cross 9781843519096
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.59Kinship is a unique undertaking in the artistic career of one of Ireland's leading artists. This book, and the artistic project it is part of, charts the act of returning a mummified body of a man to... -
A Long Watch: War, Captivity and Return in Sri Lanka by Ajith Boyagoda
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.93A Long Watch offers a story of human complexity amid entrenched narratives of Sri Lanka's long civil war. Pulled from a dark ocean after a battle at sea, Commodore Boyagoda became the highest-ranking... -
Dear World: A Syrian Girl's Story of War and Plea for Peace by Bana Alabed 9781501178450
Booksplease Price: £12.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501178450Author Bana AlabedFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon &... -
Travelling with Ghosts: An intimate and inspiring journey by Shannon Leone Fowler 9781474605984
Booksplease Price: £20.70'A cross between H is for Hawk and Wild' Stylist 'A courageous memoir of love and loss . . . compelling' Sunday Express'Intimate and inspiring' Observer 'Rich and absorbing' Cathy Rentzenbrink,... -
Family Life: A Novel by Akhil Sharma 9780393350609
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £11.05Hailed as a "supreme storyteller" (Philadelphia Inquirer) for his "cunning, dismaying and beautifully conceived" fiction (New York Times), Akhil Sharma is possessed of a narrative voice "as hypnotic... -
America Under Covid by Lawrence Wright
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.23'A virtuoso feat ... a book of panoramic breadth' New York Times Book Review'A devastating analysis ... Wright is a master of knitting together complex narratives' The ObserverJust as Lawrence... -
The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid by Lawrence Wright 9780141998138
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'A virtuoso feat ... a book of panoramic breadth' New York Times Book Review'A devastating analysis ... Wright is a master of knitting together complex narratives' The ObserverJust as Lawrence... -
Discrepant Solace: Contemporary Literature and the Work of Consolation David James 9780198985914
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.31Consolation has always played an uncomfortable part in the literary history of loss. But in recent decades its affective meanings and ethical implications have been recast by narratives that appear... -
Discrepant Solace: Contemporary Literature and the Work of Consolation by David James
Booksplease Price: £71.75Consolation has always played an uncomfortable part in the literary history of loss. But in recent decades its affective meanings and ethical implications have been recast by narratives that appear...