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An Introduction to English Language: Word, Sound and Sentence by Koenraad Kuiper 9781350380127
RRP: £28.99£26.40Refreshed and updated, the fifth edition of this core textbook offers a clear and engaging introduction to the building blocks of the English language, namely its words, sounds and sentences. Assuming no prior knowledge, it combines accessibility with... -
Public Libraries and Marxism by Joe Pateman 9780367761196
RRP: £19.99£17.69Public Libraries and Marxism provides a Marxist analytical framework for understanding public libraries and presents a set of proposals for transforming the capitalist libraries of today. Evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of this Marxist framework,... -
Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less by Roy Schwartz
RRP: £14.99£8.41THE BESTSELLING GUIDE TO SAYING MORE WITH LESS--NOW A WALL STREET JOURNAL AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER--Brevity is confidence. Length is fear. This is the guiding principle of Smart Brevity, a communication formula built by Axios journalists to prioritize... -
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King 9781444723250
RRP: £10.99£6.28Twentieth Anniversary Edition with Contributions from Joe Hill and Owen King Part memoir, part masterclass by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer's craft, comprising the basic... -
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters by Priya Parker
RRP: £10.99£6.56Being deprived of social gatherings revealed just how important they are; to connect with others, collaborate, share ideas and create moving, life-affirming experiences.___________________________If there's one thing lockdown showed us, it's that time... -
Madrigals Magic Key To Spanish by Margarita Madrigal
RRP: £18.99£12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385410953Author Margarita MadrigalFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Doubleday & Co Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 442gDimensions(mm)... -
Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story by Ursula K Le Guin 9780544611610
RRP: £15.99£9.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544611610Author Ursula K Le GuinFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
The Great Post Office Scandal: The fight to expose a multimillion pound IT disaster which put innocent people in jail by Nick Wallis
RRP: £13.99£7.55On 23rd April 2021, the Court of Appeal quashed the convictions of 39 former Subpostmasters and ruled their prosecutions were an affront to the public conscience. It is a scandal that has been described as one of the most widespread and significant... -
Save the Cat! Writes a Novel: The Last Book On Novel Writing That You'll Ever Need by Jessica Brody
RRP: £13.99£9.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399579745Author Jessica BrodyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Ten Speed Press -
Accused: British Witches throughout History by Winsham, Willow 9781399014533
RRP: £14.99£10.95The image of the witch - crook-nosed, unpleasant of disposition and with a penchant for harming her neighbours - is well established in the popular imagination. For hundreds of years the accusation of witchcraft has been levelled against women throughout... -
Thunderclap: A memoir of art and life & sudden death by Laura Cumming 9781529922530
RRP: £12.99£9.09**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024****WINNER OF THE WRITERS' PRIZE 2024 | NON-FICTION**A beautifully illustrated new memoir of a life in art, a father and daughter, and what a shared love of a painting can come to mean.'Brilliant'... -
Metaphors We Live by by George Lakoff
RRP: £16.00£13.84People use metaphors every time they speak. Some of those metaphors are literary - devices for making thoughts more vivid or entertaining. But most are much more basic than that - they're "metaphors we live by", metaphors we use without even realizing... -
Poetry in the Making: A Handbook for Writing and Teaching by Ted Hughes
RRP: £10.99£7.32"In a series of chapters built round poems by a number of writers including himself . . . [Ted Hughes] explores, colourfully and intensively, themes such as 'Capturing Animals', 'Wind and Weather' and 'Writing about People'. The purpose throughout is to... -
Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape by Manchán Magan 9781804184035
RRP: £16.99£11.76Rediscover the lost words of an ancient land in this new and updated edition of an international bestseller.Most people associate Britain and Ireland with the English language, a vast, sprawling linguistic tree with roots in Latin, French, and German,... -
Interesting Stories about Curious Words: From Stealing Thunder to Red Herrings by Susie Dent
RRP: £14.99£9.80Join Susie Dent, lexicographer extraordinaire and Queen of Countdown's Dictionary Corner, on a curious and exceedingly interesting adventure through all the very best RED HERRINGS, COCK AND BULL STORIES and NINE-DAY WONDERS in the English language.Who... -
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop: The International Bestseller for lovers of Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Satoshi Yagisawa 9781786583239
RRP: £10.99£7.47The Japanese bestseller: a tale of love, new beginnings, and the comfort that can be found between the pages of a good book.When twenty-five-year-old Takako's boyfriend reveals he's marrying someone else, she reluctantly accepts her eccentric uncle... -
Word Magic: The Powers and Occult Definitions of Words (Second Edition) by Pao Chang 9780578589848
RRP: £13.99£10.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578589848Author Pao ChangFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Esoteric Knowledge PublishingPublisher Esoteric Knowledge PublishingWeight(grams)... -
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story Nathan Thrall 9781802060041
RRP: £10.99£7.77WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE'A deeply immersive portrait of daily life in Israel and the West Bank' The Best Books to Understand the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Financial... -
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
RRP: £12.99£9.09*THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER**OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD*Discover the shocking gender bias that affects our everyday lives.'HELL YES. This is one of those books that has the potential to change things - a monumental piece of research'... -
How to Read a Book by Charles Van Doren
RRP: £10.99£7.00With half a million copies in print, How to Read a Book is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader, completely rewritten and updated with new material. Originally published in 1940, this book is a rare... -
Economical Writing, Third Edition: Thirty-Five Rules for Clear and Persuasive Prose by Deirdre N McCloskey
RRP: £13.00£11.48Economics is not a field that is known for good writing. Charts, yes. Sparkling prose, no. Except, that is, when it comes to Deirdre Nansen McCloskey. Her conversational and witty yet always clear style is a hallmark of her classic works of economic... -
Research for People Who Think They Would Rather Create by Dirk Vis
RRP: £15.00£9.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493148437Author Dirk VisFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint OnomatopeePublisher OnomatopeeWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 130mm * 14mm -
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell
RRP: £20.00£13.34The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultish groups from Jonestown and Scientology to SoulCycle and social media gurus use language as the ultimate form of power. What makes "cults" so... -
Oxford Reading Tree TreeTops Classics: Level 17 More Pack A: Silas Marner by George Eliot
RRP: £10.10£7.19Silas Marner tells the story of Silas, wrongly accused of theft he leaves his home town to start a new life. He lives a solitary existence. Then one night an unknown visitor arrives and changes his life for ever. Exciting and powerful classic stories to... -
How to Speak Brit: The Quintessential Guide to the King's English, Cockney Slang, and Other Flummoxing British Phrases by Christopher J Moore
RRP: £22.00£12.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592408986Author Christopher J. MooreFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 198mm *... -
A Russian Journal by John Steinbeck
RRP: £12.99£9.09Just after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer, Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune. This rare opportunity took the famous travellers not only to... -
Everything is Everything: The Top 10 Bestseller by Clive Myrie 9781399715003
RRP: £10.99£7.40THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING MEMOIR, NOW UPDATED WITH NEW MATERIAL Readers LOVE Everything is Everything:'Clive Myrie is one heck of an author' 'Well written and thought provoking. One to come back to again' 'Thoughtful, analytical, deeply... -
How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't by Ian Dunt 9781399602747
RRP: £10.99£7.40THE NO.2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWhy do some prime ministers manage to get things done, while others miserably fail? What is a 'special adviser' and how did they take over British political life? And why is the House of Lords more functional than most... -
Oxford Reading Tree TreeTops Classics: Level 17 More Pack A: The Tempest by William Shakespeare
RRP: £10.10£6.64Prospero, the Duke of Milan, and his daughter Miranda are banished from their kingdom and set adrift in a rickety boat. They are carried to a magical island and make a new life. The Tempest tells the story of what happens many years later when a ship is... -
Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson
RRP: £10.99£7.51Them is an eye-opening, outrageously funny exploration of extremism, which makes both author and reader think twice about the looking-glass world of 'us' and 'them' . . .A Sunday Times bestseller and the book that launched Jon Ronson's inimitable career... -
Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative by Melissa Febos 9781526165848
RRP: £12.99£9.24In this bold and exhilarating mix of memoir and writing guide, Melissa Febos tackles the emotional, psychological, and physical work of writing intimately while offering an utterly fresh examination of the storyteller's life and the challenges it... -
Oxford Reading Tree TreeTops Classics: Level 17 More Pack A: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
RRP: £10.10£6.64In Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Mr Utterson is concerned when he receives a will from his friend Dr Jekyll. In it, he asks for all his possessions to be passed to the sinister Edward Hyde. Utterson suspects that something is very wrong, but he finds that... -
Short Stories in Welsh for Beginners: Read for pleasure at your level, expand your vocabulary and learn Welsh the fun way! by Olly Richards 9781399813938
RRP: £10.99£7.77An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners of Swedish."Olly's top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of what we know from neuroscience and cognitive psychology... -
Oxford Reading Tree TreeTops Classics: Level 17 More Pack A: Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
RRP: £10.10£6.64In Kidnapped the orphan, David Balfour, sets out to meet his unknown uncle. Time and again he finds himself in terrible danger - nearly killed by his uncle, threatened by cut-throat sailors and wanted by the King's soldiers. Will he ever be safe again? ... -
Save the Cat! Writes a Young Adult Novel: The Ultimate Guide to Writing a YA Bestseller by Jessica Brody
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984859235Author Jessica BrodyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale -
The Centre Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi 9781529097849
RRP: £9.99£6.87'Absolutely stunning . . . thrilling and unique' - Gillian Flynn'Creepy, provocative and wildly entertaining' - Emma Stonex'A thrillingly ambitious literary chiller' - The GuardianWelcome to The Centre. The cost may be high, but you'll never be the same ... -
Cuneiform by Irving Finkel
RRP: £9.99£6.80Cuneiform script on tablets of clay is, as far as we know, the oldest form of writing in the world. The choice of clay as writing medium in ancient Mesopotamia meant that records of all kinds could survive down to modern times, preserving fascinating... -
The Tyranny of Words by Stuart Chase 9780156923941
RRP: £18.99£12.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156923941Author Stuart ChaseFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint Harper PaperbacksPublisher Harper Paperbacks -
First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing ... and Life. by Joe Moran
RRP: £10.99£7.77A STYLE GUIDE BY STEALTH - HOW ANYONE CAN WRITE WELL (AND FULLY ENJOY GOOD WRITING)'Joe Moran is a wonderfully sharp writer, calm, precise and quietly comical' Craig BrownAdvanced maths has no practical use, and is understood by few. A symphony can be... -
The Special Collections Handbook by Alison Cullingford
RRP: £65.00£53.01The Special Collections Handbook, Third Edition is a comprehensive desk reference providing the essential principles, skills, and knowledge to manage special collections in any setting and covering all aspects of special collections work: preservation;...