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Aung San Suu Kyi: Politician, Prisoner, Parent by Wendy Law-Yone
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.22POLITICIAN * PRISONER * PARENTA portrait of one of the most charismatic, but unknown, world leaders Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and crusader for... -
Lawfare by Geoffrey Robertson 9780008607890
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $9.63How Russians, the Rich and the Government Try to Prevent Free Speech and How to Stop Them. 'ESSENTIAL' Amal Clooney'AUTHORITATIVE' Sir Geoffrey Bindman... -
Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read by Virginia Woolf
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.22FOREWORD BY ALI SMITH WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADE Who better to serve as a guide to great books and... -
The Imaginary Museum: A Personal Tour of Contemporary Art featuring ghosts, nudity and disagreements by Ben Eastham
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.50Join the art critic Ben Eastham on a private tour of an extraordinary museum. Let him walk you through a building constructed from memory and filled with a series of bewildering art... -
Jews Don't Count by David Baddiel
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.35How identity politics failed one particular identity. 'a must read and if you think YOU don't need to read it, that's just the clue to know you do.' SARAH... -
Jews Don't Count by David Baddiel 9780008530198
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $10.55How identity politics failed one particular identity. 'A must read and if you think YOU don't need to read it, that's just the clue to know you do' SARAH... -
Wicked Women by Lisa Hilton 9780008389604
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $7.88The bestselling author and historian Lisa Hilton picks up the mythical 'City of Ladies' where the medieval writer Christine de Pisan left off, continuing a conversation about gender and... -
The Ethical Reader by Patricia Williams
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.54'I cannot help but see the bodies of my near ancestors in the current caravans of desperate souls fleeing from place to place, chased by famine, war and toxins. Ideas honed in slavery - of the... -
The Hero by Lee Child
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $6.00WHAT MAKES A HERO? WHO BETTER TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION THAN LEE CHILD... 'It's Lee Child. Why would you not read it?' Karin Slaughter ... -
The Hero by Lee Child 9780008361877
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $6.77THE ENDURING MYTH THAT MAKES US HUMAN What makes a hero? Who better to answer that question than Lee Child... ... -
The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake by William Blake 9780520256378
Booksplease Price: $43.54Since its first publication in 1965, this collection has been widely hailed as the best available text of William Blake's poetry and prose. It is now expanded to include a new foreword by Harold... -
This Plague of Souls Mike McCormack 9781838859350
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARA TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR Nealon returns to his family home in Ireland after a long time away, only to be greeted by a completely empty house. With no sign of his wife or... -
Best British Short Stories 2024 Nicholas Royle 9781784633097
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.57The nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its fourteenth yearInspired by Giles Gordon and David Hughes’s Best Short Stories series, which ran to ten volumes between 1986 and... -
Craic Baby: Dispatches from a Rising Language by Darach O Seaghdha 9781788545259 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $3.62From the author of the bestselling Motherfocloir, Non-fiction Irish Book of the Year. A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR. What do we talk about when we talk about Irish? When we talk about saving or... -
Craic Baby: Dispatches from a Rising Language by Darach O Seaghdha 9781788545266
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36From the author of the bestselling Motherfocloir, Non-fiction Irish Book of the Year. A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR. What do we talk about when we talk about Irish? When we talk about saving or... -
Classic Irish Short Stories by Frank O'Connor 9780192819185 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $2.80From its origins in the folk tale, through its evolution in response to changing social and political conditions to its current form, the Irish short story has retained its own distinct and unique... -
The Gods Want Blood by Anatole France
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.45Set in Paris during the years of the Reign of Terror, 'The Gods Want Blood' centres on the rise to power of Jacobin sympathizer Evariste Gamelin, a young painter who becomes a juror on a local... -
The Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre by John Russell Brown 9780192854421 [USED COPY]
RRP: $39.52Booksplease Price: $3.23Authoritative and wide-ranging, this absorbing account of the history of theatre draws on the latest scholarly research to describe and celebrate theatre's greatest achievemenst over 4,500 years,... -
Deer Island by Neil Ansell 9781915068330
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $10.37At the beginning of the 1980s Neil Ansell lived in a series of squats and derelict buildings across London. Becoming part of a floating community of rough sleepers and volunteers, who found purpose... -
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin 9780241972700 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $2.65Colm Toibin's Brooklyn is a devastating story of love, loss and one woman's terrible choice between duty and personal freedom. The book that inspired the major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan... -
The Age Of Revolution: 1789-1848 by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07Eric Hobsbawm traces with brilliant anlytical clarity the transformation brought about in evry sphere of European life by the Dual revolution - the 1789 French revolution and the Industrial... -
Coffee and Cigarettes: Scenes from a Writer's Life Ferdinand von Schirach 9781529345728
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.83A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023'Marvellously unpredictable . . . by the end of the book you wish it was twice as long' (Daily Telegraph)'Beautifully translated . . . The perfect way into [Ferdinand von... -
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65Colm Toibin's Brooklyn is a devastating story of love, loss and one woman's terrible choice between duty and personal freedom. The book that inspired the major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan... -
The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess 9780241997376
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.58From the acclaimed author of the dystopian classic A Clockwork Orange, The Wanting Seed is an inventive, thought-provoking and darkly absurd novel set in a work rampant with overpopulation. The... -
The Actor and the Spectator: Foundations of the Theory of Human Action by Lewis White Beck 9781855065574
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $21.76Can a machine think? More so, if I am a machine, can I think? This book attempts to answer these questions by analyzing two clusters of metaphors: one of which dramatizes human beings as spontaneous... -
A Voyage to the Moon by Cyrano de Bergerac
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $7.28"In A Voyage to the Moon, the narrator, after an attempt to reach the moon using vials of dewdrops, finally finds himself in what appears to be the Garden of Eden, surrounded by Biblical patriarchs... -
The Ten O'Clock Horses by Laurie Graham
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $8.92It is 1962. The first avocado pears are appearing at the greengrocers, people are thinking about carpeting their lavatories and boxing in their banisters, and Ronnie Glover, housepainter, husband and... -
Dr Wortle's School by Anthony Trollope
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Mr Peacocke, a Classical scholar, has come to Broughtonshire with his beautiful American wife to live as a schoolmaster. But when the blackmailing brother of her first husband - a reprobate from... -
The Thousand and One Ghosts by Alexandre Dumas
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $9.17Coming back into town after a hunting expedition, Alexandre Dumas witnesses an incredible scene: a man has come to hand himself in to the mayor after decapitating his wife, terrified by the fact that... -
The Wisdom of Trees: A Miscellany Max Adams 9781788542807
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28A passionate and informative celebration of trees and of man's ingenuity in exploiting their resources: the perfect gift for anyone who cares about the natural world. Trees are marvels of nature,... -
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes 9781847493774
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $8.42When an ageing, impoverished nobleman decides to style himself "Don Quixote" and embarks upon a series of daring endeavours, it is clear that his ability to distinguish between reality and the... -
Micromegas by Voltaire
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.54Micromegas is a six-hundred-and-fifty-year-old, thirty-nine-kilometre-high giant from the planet Sirius who can speak a thousand languages and has been expelled from his homeland for writing a... -
Wilhelm Meister by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.51Seduced by the chimerical world of the theatre and taking upon himself the grand ambition of becoming a successful performer and dramatist, the merchant's son Wilhelm Meister embarks on a tumultuous... -
Memories of London by Edmondo De Amicis
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36As a first-time visitor to London, De Amicis was awestruck by the bustle and magnificence of the Victorian metropolis and wrote a number of sketches in his trademark witty, observational style, which... -
Defending the Guilty: Truth and Lies in the Criminal Courtroom by Alex McBride
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES.'Terrific, fascinating, very funny' Daily Mail'Hilarious' Sun'Gripping' Literary ReviewHow do we ensure that the guilty are convicted and the innocent walk free?Shortlisted for... -
The Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $8.67SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2013Colm Toibin's The Testament of Mary is the moving story of the Virgin Mary, told by a novelist famous for writing brilliantly about the family.From the author... -
Dante's Divine Comedy by Ian Thomson 9781789548778
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11A TLS Book of the Year. 'Erudite and urgent, Ian Thomson's Dante's Divine Comedy is another book that everyone ought to read' Spectator. 'Succinct but wide-ranging, Ian Thomson's richly... -
Defending the Guilty: Truth and Lies in the Criminal Courtroom by Alex McBride 9780141042725 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $4.23NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES.'Terrific, fascinating, very funny' Daily Mail'Hilarious' Sun'Gripping' Literary ReviewHow do we ensure that the guilty are convicted and the innocent walk free?Shortlisted for... -
Ben Nicholson: Writings and Ideas by Lee Beard 9781848222410
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $37.31Throughout his life, Ben Nicholson (1894-1982) was a prolific and creative writer. Correspondent to many, his unpublished letters, selected and extracted here for the first time (along with published... -
Seven Types of Ambiguity by Elliot Perlman
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37At once a psychological thriller and a social critique, Seven Types of Ambiguity is a novel of obsessive love in an age of obsessive materialism.Following years of unrequited love, an out-of-work...