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PATRIOT Alexei Navalny 9781847927033
Booksplease Price: £20.00The powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs. Alexei Navalny began writing PATRIOT shortly after his near-fatal poisoning in... -
Someone Must Know: The Search for Missing People and Lost Identities by Dave Grimstead 9781847928542
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.87Every two minutes someone is reported missing in the UK. Most return, but some do not. The police are unable to investigate every case fully, and so too often these people disappear from memory. But... -
Upland: The Strange History and Vital Future of Britain’s Mountains by Ed Douglas 9781847927538
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.24Britain's mountains have inspired poets, painters and scientists and they are a cornerstone of our cultural narrative and our national identity. Yet they are also at the forefront of agricultural and... -
Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success Russ Buettner 9781847928238
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters behind the 2018 bombshell New York Times exposé of then-President Trump’s finances, an explosive investigation into the history of Donald Trump’s wealth,... -
The Roma: A Travelling History Madeline Potter 9781847927675
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.07The Roma is a profoundly personal portrait of a people and their on-going journey, shedding new light on their history in countries through which they've travelled and in which they've settled, and... -
The Good Society: And How We Make It by Kate Pickett 9781847928726
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.07A fairer, healthier, more caring and sustainable society is entirely within our grasp. The renowned co-author of The Spirit Level shows us the way.'Just what these times are crying out for’ KATE... -
A Kingdom and a Village: A One-Thousand-Year History of Moscow by Simon Morrison 9781847926524
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.24An erudite and entertaining history of Moscow, a city whose rich past offers crucial insight into contemporary global politics'A marvellous book' HELEN RAPPAPORT, author of The Rebel Romanov‘Every... -
Hello: The Unexpected Power of Choosing To Connect by Nicholas Epley 9781847926814
Booksplease Price: £14.16Leading psychologist Nicholas Epley helps us understand why our social fears are often mistaken and how small acts of connection can ultimately transform our lives.‘One of those rare books that might... -
Crucible: The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917-1924 Charles Emmerson 9781847923967
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.34'A REMARKABLE BOOK... AN AMAZINGLY AUDACIOUS AND COMPLETELY INNOVATIVE WAY OF WRITING HISTORY... IMMEDIATE AND GRIPPING' - WILLIAM BOYD In Petrograd a fire is lit. The Tsar is packed off to the Urals... -
The Geopolitics of Emotion: How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation and Hope are Reshaping the World by Dominique Moisi 9781847924230
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Samuel Huntington's landmark book, The Clash of Civilizations, presented a vision of a world divided by cultural differences, national interests, and political ideologies. In The Geopolitics of... -
Self Defence: The Vital New Science of Good Immune Health by Daniel M Davis 9781847927569
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.37The immune system is the master key to human health, not just protecting us from disease but connecting every aspect of our body in a vast and intricate web. Each person's immune system is both... -
Craftland: A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Arts and Vanishing Trades by James Fox 9781847927866
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.37The story of craft is the story of who we are.Britain has always been a craft land. For generations what we made with our hands defined our families, communities and regions. Craftland brings to life... -
The AI Con: The Hype, the Myth and the Power Grab of the Century by Emily Bender 9781847928610
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.07Is artificial intelligence going to take over the world? Have big tech scientists created an artificial lifeform that can think on its own? Are we about to enter an age where computers are better... -
Life on a Little-Known Planet: Dispatches from a Changing World by Elizabeth Kolbert 9781847929051
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.37‘To be a well-informed citizen of Planet Earth, you need to read Elizabeth Kolbert’ ROLLING STONE‘An essential voice’ HELEN MACDONALDUrgent and inspiring lessons from the frontlines of the climate... -
Imitation Games: How Gambling Hijacked Sport by Darragh McGee 9781847929327
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.17A pioneering investigation into the new digital age of gambling, its explosive growth and the transformational impact it is having on sport, fandom and society. A cheeky flutter. All part of the game... -
The Duel: Hitler Vs.Churchill, 10 May-31 July 1940 by John R. Lukacs 9780370315027 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: £3.51On 10 May 1940, Winston Churchill became Prime Minister - on 31 July 1940, the United States finally agreed to send desperately needed military aid. During the intervening 80 days, possibly the most... -
We Were There: The Untold Black British Stories that Shaped Our Country by Lanre Bakare 9781847927477
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.37We're not just urban. We're not just young. We don't just speak with one accent.When you think of the recent history of Black Britain, you probably think of the British Black Power movement, the... -
Pitlane Lessons: What F1 Can Teach You About Life and Work by Marc 'Elvis' Priestley 9781847928955
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05From the high-octane, high stakes world of F1, these are the key lessons learned at the top level of the sport – and how to take them out of the pitlane and make them work for youForeword by JAKE... -
Chain of Ideas: Great Replacement Theory and the Origins of Our Authoritarian Age by Ibram X. Kendi 9781847929372
Booksplease Price: £16.20A revelatory account of the racist conspiracy theory that now pervades global politics – from the prize-winning author of the million-copy bestseller How To Be an Antiracist'One of the pre-eminent... -
Do We Have the Right to Die? by Lady Hale 9781847929389
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.43Two leading thinkers present alternative answers to one of the most difficult and divisive questions of our times: do we have the right to die?As pressure grows to legalise assisted dying in the... -
The Baader-Meinhof Complex by Stefan Aust
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.54The rise and fall of the Baader-Meinhof group constitutes one of the most remarkable phenomena of post-war Europe. A group of young people, most of them from solid, middle-class backgrounds, took the... -
The Spook's Blood: Book 10 by Joseph Delaney 9780370331812 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: £2.27Time is running out for Thomas Ward. His final battle against the Fiend is drawing near, and the Spook's apprentice has never felt more alone in his task. Isolated and afraid, the Fiend is set to... -
How Music Got Free: What Happens When an Entire Generation Commits the Same Crime? by Stephen Witt 9781847922823 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: £3.65For fans of The Social Network, the story of an accidental pirate, a mastermind, and a mogul.How Music Got Free is a blistering story of obsession, music and obscene money. A story of visionaries and... -
Oracy: The Transformative Power of Talk Neil Mercer 9781847928566
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.07Literacy. Numeracy. Oracy?A manifesto on transformative power of finding your voice: a key driver of social mobility and an essential skill for our personal and professional lives.For generations our... -
The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Volume 4) Robert A Caro 9781847922953
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.24Hailed as 'the greatest biography of our era' (The Times) this is the fourth part of Robert Caro's multi-award-winning best-selling work on American President Lyndon Johnson.The Passage of Power,... -
The Essential Chomsky by Noam Chomsky
Booksplease Price: £8.68In a single volume, the seminal writings of the world's leading philosopher, linguist and critic, and author of the bestselling Who Rules the World'The general population doesn't know what's... -
Is Free Speech Under Threat? Charlotte Lydia Riley 9781847928221
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Two leading thinkers present alternative answers to one of the most difficult and divisive questions of our times: Is free speech under threat?Suzanne Nossel, CEO of PEN America, the leading free... -
Rosie's Walk by Pat Hutchins 9780370324463 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £3.00Rosie's walk around the farmyard, pursued by the hungry but clumsy fox, has become a beacon in the world of children's picture books, an ever-popular classic which generations have enjoyed. ... -
The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivisation and the Terror-Famine Robert Conquest 9781847925671
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.75Robert Conquest's The Harvest of Sorrow helped to reveal to the West the true and staggering human cost of the Soviet regime in its deliberate starvation of millions of peasants and remains one of... -
The Forest People by Colin M. Turnbull
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.59The Forest People is an astonishingly intimate and life-enhancing account of a hunter-gatherer tribe living in harmony with nature -- and an all-time classic of anthropology.For three years, Colin... -
A History of Britain - Volume 3: The Fate of Empire 1776-2000 by Simon Schama
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.24The final stage of Simon Schama's epic voyage around Britain spans centuries, crosses the breadth of the empire and covers a vast expanse of topics - from the birth of feminism to the fate of freedom... -
Nelson: The Sword of Albion Dr John Sugden 9781847922762
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.86The Sword of Albion concludes the most comprehensive and intimate life of Nelson ever written, one that teems with a glittering array of sailors and civilians, heroes and villains, husbands, wives... -
The Darkness Manifesto: On Artificial Light and the Threat to Our Ancient Rhythm by Johan Ekloef
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.18**A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**'Powerful... a clarion call for change', New Statesman'Poetic and philosophical at times, intimate and expansive at others', Daily TelegraphHow much light... -
Get In: The Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer Patrick Maguire 9781847928375
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.77The explosive, behind-the-scenes account of Labour, from electoral wipe-out in 2019 to its landslide return to government in 2024, by the authors of Left OutDrawing on their unrivalled access... -
The Power of Art by Simon Schama
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.54* 'Great art has dreadful manners...' Simon Schama observes at the start of his epic exploration of the power, and whole point, of art. 'The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into... -
The Singularity is Nearer: When We Merge with AI by Ray Kurzweil 9781847928290
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.88THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe legendary oracle of technological change explains how AI will transform our species beyond recognition.'The best person I know at predicting the future of AI' BILL... -
Talking Heads: The New Science of How Conversation Shapes Our Worlds by Shane O'Mara 9781847926487
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.62'Enjoyable' New Scientist'Delightfully well-written, accessible, surprisingly reflective and humorous' Irish Times'Thoughtful' Irish IndependentFrom neurons to nations, Talking Heads is a stunning... -
The Case for Love: Reflections on a Medical Career by A K Benjamin
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.11An exhilarating journey into the unfathomable depths of the human mind, from the acclaimed author of Let Me Not Be Mad.What does it take to care for a stranger? Really care.The Case for Love is a... -
London In The Nineteenth Century: 'A Human Awful Wonder of God' by Jerry White
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.98Jerry White's London in the Nineteenth Century is the richest and most absorbing account of the city's greatest century by its leading expert.London in the nineteenth century was the greatest city... -
The Art Of Memory by Frances A. Yates
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.37This unique and brilliant book is a history of human knowledge. Before the invention of printing, a trained memory was of vital importance. Based on a technique of impressing 'places' and 'images'...