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The Cry of the Owl by Patricia Highsmith
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'Extraordinary... one of her finest novels' Guardian"If everybody in the world didn't keep watching to see what everybody else did, we'd all go berserk."Jenny believes that sighting an owl is a... -
John le Carre by Eric Homberger
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.38Since the heyday of Ian Fleming's fantasy superspy James Bond, the novels of John le Carre have held up to readers across the world a sombre, fascinating picture of decline, deception and ethical... -
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott 9780099589624
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49**One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**Read this timeless tale of medieval romance and adventure.It is the dark days of King Richard the Lion Heart''s reign, when the beloved king is... -
King Arthur And His Knights Of The Round Table by Roger Lancelyn Green
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.73The legends of King Arthur - the most revered hero of British Mythology - have been retold many times, but Roger Lancelyn Green's version has become a classic since its first publication in 1953... -
Great Scottish Heroes: Fifty Scots Who Shaped the World by Stuart Pearson 9781784183752
Booksplease Price: £10.29Which Scottish anti-slavery campaigner lost a son in a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the American Civil War? Was the enemy of Scotland's first 'freedom fighter' not England, but ancient... -
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The Corners of the Globe: (The Wide World - James Maxted 2) by Robert Goddard 9780552167062 [USED COPY]
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £2.40Spring, 1919. James 'Max' Maxted, former Great War flying ace, returns to the trail of murder, treachery and half-buried secrets he set out on in The Ways of the World. He left Paris after avenging... -
Romances: The Last Plays by William Shakespeare
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.71Completing the 8 volume Everyman Signet Shakespeare contains Shakespeare series, this final volume contains Shakespeare's four Last Plays - THE TEMPEST, PERICLES, THE WINTER'S TALE AND CYMBELINE. The... -
All the Days and Nights by William Maxwell
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46In settings that range from small town Illinois to the Upper East Side of Manhattan, these stories are distinguished by Maxwell's inimitable wisdom and kindness, his sense of the small details that... -
The Garden Party And Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15This selection of stories by Katherine Mansfield has been chosen by Claire Tomalin and emphasize the stronger, feminist side of her writing rather than the popular, more sentimental view. The 21... -
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The Simple Soul And Other Stories by Catherine Cookson Charitable Trust 9780552145329 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £1.80This treasure trove of talent is set against the background of places already familiar to Catherine Cookson's countless readers - the North-East, the South Coast and London, with a time-scale... -
Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents by Paul Theroux 9780241950548
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Sir Vidia's Shadow is a book that chronicles bestselling author Paul Theroux's long friendship with writer V.S Naipaul from its beginning to untimely end with both funny and moving moments and stark... -
Writings on Irish Folklore, Legend and Myth by W. B. Yeats 9780140180015
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.79This collection brings together all of W. B. Yeats's published prose writings on Irish folklore, legend and myth, with pieces on subjects including ghosts, kidnappers, fairies, ancient tribes,... -
How Much Land Does a Man Need? & Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23These short works, ranging from Tolstoy's earliest tales to the brilliant title story, are rich in the insights and passion that characterize all of his explorations in love, war, courage, and... -
A Way Through the Wood Nigel Balchin 9781474601207
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40A psychological study of marriage, loyalty and justice, A WAY THROUGH THE WOOD is a remarkable post-war novel.'A superb storyteller' SUNDAY TIMES 'I'd place him up there with Graham Greene' Philippa... -
Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence 9780099511786
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT FISKSeven Pillars of Wisdom is an unusual and rich work. It encompasses an account of the Arab Revolt against the Turks during the First World War alongside general... -
The Gold Bat P.G. Wodehouse 9781841591728
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.43When O'Hara and Moriarty, two boys at Wrykyn School, tar and feather the statue of a pompous local MP, O'Hara mislays at the scene of their crime a tiny gold bat borrowed from Trevor, captain of the... -
The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers 9781843549086
Booksplease Price: £8.05While on a duck-hunting holiday sailing in the Frisian Isles, Carruthers and his friend Davies become suspicious of German naval activity off the North Sea Coast. The pair decide to investigate, and... -
I Want It Now by Kingsley Amis
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31The quickest way to get rich is to marry someone rich, but how do you do this if you aren't yet rich? TV chat-show host Ronnie Appleyard is preoccupied with this question as he pursues wealthy... -
The Secret Chamber by Patrick Woodhead
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.25People have been disappearing in what the explorer Stanley called the black heart of Africa - the impenetrable forests of northern Congo. But when a brilliant young English doctor vanishes, alarm... -
The Submission by Amy Waldman
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16A jury gathers in Manhattan to select a memorial for the victims of a devastating terrorist attack. Their fraught deliberations complete, the jurors open the envelope containing the anonymous... -
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Moving Target by Ross Kemp 9780099550624 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £2.42Former Special Reconnaissance Regiment Sergeant Nick Kane always stands by his friends. So when an old comrade is leaned on by gangsters, Nick's only too happy to help. But Nick quickly finds himself... -
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My Fair Lady by Alan Lerner 9780140013641 [USED COPY]
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £4.55Sparkling with wit, wisdom and wonderful songs including, 'I Could Have Danced All Night', 'Wouldn't It Be Loverly' and 'Get Me To The Church On Time', the musical play based on Bernard Shaw's... -
Moving Target by Ross Kemp 9780099550624
Booksplease Price: £26.56Former Special Reconnaissance Regiment Sergeant Nick Kane always stands by his friends. So when an old comrade is leaned on by gangsters, Nick's only too happy to help. But Nick quickly finds himself... -
1421: The Year China Discovered The World by Gavin Menzies
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.76On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their... -
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1421: The Year China Discovered The World by Gavin Menzies 9780553815221 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £5.70On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their... -
Spy Thrillers: From Buchan to le Carré by Clive Bloom 9780333522455
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £28.45This volume presents 13 essays on the Spy Thriller in the 20th century and includes a critical introduction to the subject. Each essay combines historical and aesthetic theory with practical... -
Redfalcon: Richard Hannay Returns by Robert J. Harris 9781846974854
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.74Richard Hannay Returns. JULY, 1942. Once again veteran adventurer Richard Hannay is called into action on a mission that will test him as never before. At stake is the fate of the beleaguered... -
Counterfeit Spies: How World War II Intelligence Operations Shaped Cold War Spy Fiction Oliver Buckton 9781538183687
Booksplease Price: £31.53A fascinating exploration of the roles many spy novelists played during World War II and the influence of intelligence work on their writing.World War II deception operations created elaborate... -
Ypres Diary 1914-15: The Memoirs of Sir Morgan Crofton by Gavin Roynon 9780752455792
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31Sir Morgan Crofton fought in the Boer War and joined the 2nd Life Guards at 34 years old as a cavalry office. His diary charts his experiences on the front-line at Ypres from late October 1914 to the... -
Fellow Passenger by Geoffrey Household
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A brilliant story of espionage and disguise from the original master of spy fiction.From the author of the modern classic ROGUE MALEClaudio Howerd-Wolferstan is neither a communist nor a spy. Yet he... -
Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales from Burns to Buchan by Gordon Jarvie
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.47Mystery and excitement abound in this lively collection of fairy tales, folklore and legends, which celebrate Scotland's enormously rich oral tradition and offers a carefully chosen combination of... -
Scottish Literature and World War I by David A Rennie
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £25.32This book highlights the variety of literary, social, political and philosophical reverberations of the war in Scottish writing. Part one of the collection presents multi-text case studies of areas... -
Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps by Ursula Buchan
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95John Buchan's name is known across the world for The Thirty-Nine Steps. In the past one hundred years the classic thriller has never been out of print and has inspired numerous adaptations for film,... -
Rogue Male: Soon to be a major film Geoffrey Household 9781409155836
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02THE classic thriller of the 20th century - 'Simply the best escape and pursuit story yet written' [THE TIMES] - with an introduction by Robert MacfarlaneAn Englishman plans to assassinate the... -
The Shaping of Turkey in the British Imagination, 1776-1923 by David S. Katz 9783319822563
Booksplease Price: £24.63This book is about the principal writings that shaped the perception of Turkey for informed readers in English, from Edward Gibbon's positing of imperial Decline and Fall to the proclamation of the... -
Hostage: London Geoffrey Household 9781780224008
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A superbly tense classic thriller from the bestselling author of ROGUE MALE.What happens when a terrorist decides to pull out?Julian Despard is a cell-leader in the ruthless international... -
The 39 Steps: Band 18/Pearl (Collins Big Cat) by Andrew Lane
Booksplease Price: £8.87Build your child's reading confidence at home with books at the right level Revisit John Buchan's classic adventure story of danger and intrigue, as hero Richard Hannay desperately tries... -
Rule Britannia: 'A rollicking good read' Ian Rankin Alec Marsh 9781786157188
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'An immensely readable treat!' ALEXANDER McCALL SMITHThe first book in a light-hearted historical adventure series set during the mid-twentieth century................................................... -
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Precious Bane by Mary Webb 9780860680635 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.22Born at the time of Waterloo in the wild country of Shropshire, Prudence Sarn is a wild, passionate girl, cursed with a hare lip -- her 'precious bane'. Cursed for it, too, by the superstitious... -
Space, Conrad, and Modernity by Con Coroneos 9780198187363
Booksplease Price: £70.19Recent literary and cultural criticism has taken a spatial turn. Nowadays, to speak is to speak from, to, or in; to know something is to have 'mapped' its discursive operation. This book locates this...