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The Caliban Shore by Stephen Taylor 9780571210725
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The Grosvenor was one of the finest East Indiamen of her day, but she ran aground on the treacherous coast of south-east Africa. An astonishing number of her crew and passengers, including women and... -
Looking for the Perfect Beat: Remixing and Reshaping Hip-Hop, Rock and Rhythms by Arthur Baker 9780571387434
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE'Every chapter of Looking For The Perfect Beat is absolutely mesmerising' Buzz MagazineBeginning his career as a disco producer in the early 70s,... -
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Fusiliers by Mark Urban 9780571224883 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.52From 1775 to 1781, the Royal Welch Fusiliers fought furiously to uphold British rule in America. With a wealth of previously unused primary accounts, Urban tells the gripping story of one of the most... -
The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear by Edward Lear
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.99Edward Lear was the greatest nonsensicalist of all time. He was the inventor of the limerick and created the Jumblies and The Owl and the Pussycat. This complete edition of Lear's nonsense verse -... -
Equals by Adam Phillips
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorAdam Phillips was born in Cardiff in 1954. He is the author of numerous works of psychotherapy and literary... -
Plaques and Tangles by Nicola Wilson
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31I do not accept there is anything wrong with me.Days before her wedding Megan discovers she has a 50-50 chance of developing early onset Alzheimer's. Years later she's offered a genetic test. But if... -
What Good are the Arts? by John Carey 9780571226030
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.79From one of the country's most eminent reviewers and academics, a delightfully sceptical and devastatingly intelligent assessment of the true value of art.What Good are the Arts? by John Carey is a... -
![The Path of Minor Planets by Andrew Sean Greer 9780571260232 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5078774/5077953/9780571260232__56502.1723045951.jpg?c=1 "The Path of Minor Planets by Andrew Sean Greer 9780571260232 [USED COPY]")
The Path of Minor Planets by Andrew Sean Greer 9780571260232 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £1.25It's 1965, on a small island in the South Pacific, a group of astronomers gather to witness the passing of a comet, but when a young boy dies during a meteor shower, the lives of the scientists and... -
![A. E. Housman by A. E. Housman 9780571226740 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9913473/10930004/9780571226740__71221.1786479684.jpg?c=1 "A. E. Housman by A. E. Housman 9780571226740 [USED COPY]")
A. E. Housman by A. E. Housman 9780571226740 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.09In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their introductions, the... -
Living Weapon by Rowan Ricardo Phillips
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Living Weapon is a love song to the imagination, a new blade of light homing in on our political moment. A winged man plummets from the troposphere, four police officers enter a phone store, concrete... -
The Land of Green Ginger by Noel Langley
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67When Prince Abu Ali, son of Aladdin, is born his destiny has already been foretold: he is the one who has been chosen to break the spell of the mysterious Land of Green Ginger. His quest brings... -
Dock Leaves by Hugo Williams
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02In these poems, deadpan comedy and a relish for the outrageous and the bizarre often carry an emotional charge. Subjects include the stings inflicted by school, family and love-life.About the... -
Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot by T. S. Eliot 9780571247059
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51As a poet, editor and essayist, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth century poetry. This selection, which was made by Eliot himself, includes many of his most celebrated works,... -
Coltrane: The Story of a Sound by Ben Ratliff 9780571232741
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23No other jazz musician has proved so inspirational and so fascinating as Coltrane. Ben Ratliff, jazz critic for the New York Times, has written the first book to do justice to this great and... -
Woodhill by Matt Woodhead 9780571388516
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95I dance in the horror of grief.Three men at Woodhill prison are dead. Their families demand answers. This is a call to arms about the crisis facing prisons.In their own words, lyrically told, three... -
Skin by David Harsent 9780571382569
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Skin is David Harsent's visionary new collection, consisting of ten dramatic sequences of poems, which, like a planetary system, operate on one another in a dynamic assemblage of propulsion and pull... -
Santa's New Reindeer by Caroline Crowe 9780571375134
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Santa needs a new reindeer in this third hilarious Christmas must-have picture book, from the duo who brought you Santa's New Beard and Santa's New Sleigh!One week to go 'till Christmas Day,The final... -
Winter Pollen: Occasional Prose by Ted Hughes 9780571174263
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.58Ted Hughes has written a series of pieces on writers as diverse as Emily Dickinson, Isaac Bashevis Singer, T. S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath; and on his deep-rooted concern over education, the environment... -
Twiddling Your Thumbs: Hand Rhymes by Wendy Cope
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.11Beware of Jaws and meet Georgie, Thomasina, Serendipity the Snail and other characters in this collection of hand rhymes. Arranged in order of increasing difficulty, these rhymes are designed for use... -
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie 9780571196937
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Tim Supple's adaptations of Grimm Tales and More Grimm Tales have been universally acclaimed. With the help of David Tushingham, he has adapted Salman Rushdie's classic children's novel, Haroun and... -
Making Love to Marilyn Monroe: The Faber Book of Blue Verse by John Whitworth
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Making Love to Marilyn Monroe: The Faber Book of Blue Verse presents a variety of candidly sexual verse through the centuries from Catullus and Chaucer to modern poets like T.S. Eliot, Kingsley Amis,... -
The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51The Golden Gate is a brilliantly achieved novel written in verse. Set in the 1980s in the affluence and sunshine of California's Silicon Valley, it is an exuberant and witty story of... -
The War Poems by Siegfried Sassoon
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Siegfried Sassoon is one of the First World War poets whose poetry has defined a generation. He published most of his war poetry in The Old Huntsman (1917) and Counter-Attack (1918). Chronologically... -
High Ground: and Other Stories by John McGahern
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The stories in High Ground are set in ordinary places, in the streets and suburbs and dancehalls of Dublin, the small towns and fields of the midlands, the big houses of the beleaguered Anglo-Irish... -
A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse by Richard Hamer
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse contains the Old English texts of all the major short poems, such as 'The Battle of Maldon', 'The Dream of the Rood', 'The Wanderer' and 'The Seafarer', as well as a... -
Crash Land by Doug Johnstone 9780571330881
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.07Sitting in the departure lounge of Kirkwall Airport, Finn Sullivan just wants to get off Orkney. But then he meets the mysterious and dangerous Maddie Pierce, stepping in to save her from some... -
A Small Family Business by Alan Ayckbourn 9780571315703
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Well, that's one down, isn't it. Nine to go. Next! Thou shalt not kill. What about that then? Let's have a crack at that one next, shall we? Jack McCracken: a man of principle in a corrupt world... -
Dream Latitudes Alia Kobuszko 9780571395446
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23I am drawing a map of distances.The swimmer. The sleeper. The dreamer.Another afternoon traipsing the incomprehensiblecorridors of the brain. Nothing uttered.Alia Kobuszko's poetry is as immediate as... -
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Broadway Babies Say Goodnight by Mark Steyn 9780571200313 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.41The Broadway musical was a glorious seventy-year tradition, proceeding smoothly from Jerome Kern to Rodgers and Hammerstein to Stephen Sondheim, and giving us along the way the best songs in American... -
Through the Woods by Emily Carroll
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42'It came from the woods. Most strange things do.'Five mysterious, spine-tingling stories follow journeys into (and out of?) the eerie abyss.These chilling tales spring from the macabre imagination of... -
Fivemiletown by Tom Paulin
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67A reissue of Paulin's "corrosive and uproarious litany of bad sex, bad politics and bad religion" from the 1980s.About the AuthorTom Paulin was born in Leeds in 1949 but grew up in Belfast, and was... -
The Temporary by Rachel Cusk
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Ralph Loman works in an unsatisfying job, for a free London newspaper, when Francine Snaith, a temporary secretary for a corporate finance firm, unexpectedly crosses his path at a party. Her beauty... -
Bear in Mind These Dead by Susan McKay
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.67Nearly 4,000 people were killed over the thirty or so years of the Northern Irish Troubles. And the killings were as intimate as they were brutal. Neighbours murdered neighbours. Susan McKay's book... -
Hundred Years War Vol 2: Trial By Fire by Jonathan Sumption
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £18.20In the second volume of his celebrated history of the Hundred Years War, Jonathan Sumption examines the middle years of the fourteenth century and the succession of crises that threatened French... -
The Contract: A John Q Thriller by JM Gulvin
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02In New Orleans, Texas Ranger John Q is out of his jurisdiction, and possibly out of his depth. After a series of murders it seems that every time he asks questions there's trouble. But who could be... -
Hitchcock by Francois Truffaut
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.09Based on the famous series of dialogues between Francois Truffaut and Alfred Hitchcock from the 1960s, the book moves chronologically through Hitchcock's films to discuss his career, techniques, and... -
The Vegan Cookbook by Alan Wakeman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23This classic cookbook offers more than an authentic cuisine - it proffers a way of life based on compassion for all living things. For veganism is grounded in the simple truth that primary food -... -
Constructions by Michael Frayn
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67First published in 1974 and republished following the success of Frayn's masterly work of philosophy, The Human Touch, Constructions is a dazzling, thought-provoking and fascinating book which... -
N.P. by Banana Yoshimoto
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31N.P. is the title of a last collection of short stories by a celebrated Japanese writer. Written in English while he was living in Boston, the book may never see print in his native Japan: each time... -
A Barrister for the Earth Monica Feria-Tinta 9780571386369
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.67'Can a planet have legal rights? Could it be defended in a court of law?' A revolution is taking place. Around the world, ordinary people are turning to courts seeking justice for environmental...