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Elizabeth de Burgh, Lady of Clare (1295-1360): Household and Other Records by Jennifer C Ward 9781843838913
RRP: £49.95Booksplease Price: £43.19Edition, with full explanatory notes and introduction, of financial records from Elizabeth de Burgh, one of the most important women of fourteenth-century England. Noble widows were powerful... -
The Woodcock by Richard Smyth 9781912054985
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60It's 1920s England, and the coastal town of Gravely is finally enjoying a fragile peace after the Great War. John Lowell, a naturalist who writes articles on the flora and fauna of the shoreline, and... -
In Search of Amrit Kaur: An Indian Princess in Wartime Paris Livia Manera Sambuy 9781529922721
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.12A lost princess and a vanished world: a remarkable true story that moves from the Punjab of the Raj to 1930s Paris and the cataclysm of the Second World War'Remarkable and compelling. I loved this... -
![A Spot of Folly: Ten Tales of Murder and Mayhem by Ruth Rendell 9781788160148 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/6495056/6571983/9781788160148__23906.1738431652.jpg?c=1 "A Spot of Folly: Ten Tales of Murder and Mayhem by Ruth Rendell 9781788160148 [USED COPY]")
A Spot of Folly: Ten Tales of Murder and Mayhem by Ruth Rendell 9781788160148 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.57New and uncollected tales of murder, mischief, magic and madness. Ruth Rendell was an acknowledged master of psychological suspense: these are ten (and a quarter) of her most chillingly... -
The Poems of Robert Browning: Volume Six: The Ring and the Book, Books 7-12 John Woolford 9781032164755
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £39.63The Ring and the Book, published serially in 1868-9, is one of the most daring and innovative poems in the English language. The story is based on the trial of an Italian nobleman, Guido... -
Rush Hour: How 500 Million Commuters Survive the Daily Journey to Work by Iain Gately 9781781854068
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.27Each working day 500 million people across the planet experience the miracle and misery of commuting. Whether undertaken by car, bus, train or bicycle, the practice shapes our days and creates a time... -
![The Nine Hundred: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz by Heather Dune Macadam 9781529329315 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9725617/10742277/9781529329315__71835.1781392884.jpg?c=1 "The Nine Hundred: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz by Heather Dune Macadam 9781529329315 [USED COPY]")
The Nine Hundred: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz by Heather Dune Macadam 9781529329315 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £3.22A remarkable story of courage in the face of injustice and brutality in the Second World War Books such as this are essential: they remind modern readers of events that should never be forgotten' -... -
Shadow Girls by Carol Birch
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.84Combining psychological suspense with elements of the ghost story, Shadow Girls is a literary exploration of girlhood by the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Jamrach's Menagerie. Manchester,... -
Islamic History: A Very Short Introduction by Adam J. Silverstein
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Does history matter? This book argues not that history matters, but that Islamic history does. This Very Short Introduction introduces the story of Islamic history; the controversies surrounding its... -
How to Read a Poem Terry Eagleton (University of Manchester, UK) 9781405151412
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £18.09Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poem is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personal... -
Syria's Secret Library: The true story of how a besieged Syrian town found hope Mike Thomson 9781474605922
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Hugely inspiring . . . A unique tribute to the power of books and the unquenchable human spirit' MICHAEL PALIN'An inspiring read - humanity at its best' DAVID NOTT, author of War DoctorDaraya lies... -
Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph by Lucasta Miller 9781529110906
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'Outstanding... The best short introduction I have come across' Sunday TimesWhen he died at the age of just twenty-five, few imagined John Keats would one day be considered among the greatest poets... -
Blood And Thunder: Rugby and Irish Life: A History Liam O’Callaghan 9781844886616
Booksplease Price: £25.65Liam O'Callaghan's revelatory Blood and Thunder shows that the rise of Irish rugby is inextricable from the tensions, debates and divisions - of politics, religion and class - that have defined... -
Totally Unofficial: The Autobiography of Raphael Lemkin by Raphael Lemkin 9780300186963
Booksplease Price: £57.36The never-before published autobiography of Raphael Lemkin, a giant among twentieth-century ethical thinkers Among the greatest intellectual heroes of modern times, Raphael Lemkin lived an... -
Ancient African Religions: A History by Robert M. Baum 9780197747070
Booksplease Price: £88.86Scholars have sometimes maintained that the study of the history of African religions is an impossible endeavor. Some have contended that African religions do not have a history unto themselves,... -
The Unicorn Woman by Gayl Jones 9780349016931
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'A literary giant' TAYARI JONESA richly imaginative and moving new novel from the Pulitzer finalist and acclaimed author of CorregidoraA cook and tractor repairman, Buddy was known as Budweiser to... -
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The Essential Spike Milligan by Alexander Games 9780007155118 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £1.98A Spike Milligan opus, containing everything from classics to hidden gems, with a foreword by Eddie Izzard. This stunning anthology of Spike Milligan's work comprises of favourites from... -
The Accusers: (Falco 15) by Lindsey Davis
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Fans of S. J. Parris, Donna Leon, Steven Saylor, C. J. Sansom will absolutely love this gripping page-turner of a historical mystery from multi-million copy bestselling author Lindsey Davis. Full... -
Magna Carta by David Carpenter
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'David Carpenter deserves to replace Sir James Holt as the standard authority, and an unfailingly readable one too.' Ferdinand Mount, TLS 'An invaluable new commentary' Jill Leopore, New Yorker With... -
Lumen Tiffany Atkinson 9781780375304
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02How might poetry help us articulate the body in illness, in work, and in love? Tiffany Atkinson's fourth collection includes the prize-winning sequence 'Dolorimeter', which takes fragments of speech... -
A Straight Up Giant Mark Waldron 9781780376691
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64Serious, comic, brave, cowardly, engaged, disengaged, urgent, unurgent, chattering chiffchaff, talking horses, unpretentious, pretentious, all of God's creatures are here. There's also an almost -... -
Rossini: His Life and Works by Richard Osborne 9780195181296
RRP: £79.00Booksplease Price: £62.30Gioachino Rossini was one of the most influential, as well as one of the most industrious and emotionally complex of the great nineteenth-century composers. Between 1810 and 1829, he wrote 39 operas,... -
The Suitcase: Six Attempts to Cross a Border by Frances Stonor Saunders 9781787330542
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.37'Frances Stonor Saunders is one of those writers you read no matter what she writes. She is that good... This is family history at its best... the words fizz off the page and flutter in the mind'... -
Conquest Nina Allan 9781529420791
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Rachel's boyfriend Frank is different from other people. His strangeness is part of what she loves about him: his innocence, his intelligence, his passionate immersion in the music of JS Bach. As a... -
Anaximander: And the Nature of Science Carlo Rovelli 9781802063042
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Anaximander is a delight and so is this book' -- James McConnachie, Sunday TimesNow widely available in English for the first time, this is Carlo Rovelli's first book: the... -
As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann 9780007429264
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.86A sensational tale of obsession and murder from the author of The Wilding. England, 1640s. Jacob Cullen is an educated, vigorous and dauntingly strong manservant in a Royalist household,... -
Lost Paradise: The Story of Granada by Elizabeth Drayson
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £7.63The essential history of an iconic European city, by Cambridge academic Elizabeth Drayson. 'An admirable achievement... [Drayson has] expertise as a scholar and command as a storyteller' BBC... -
Tory Nation: How one party took over by Samuel Earle
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.35'A witty, lucid investigation into one of the great mysteries of our time' JONATHAN COE'Should be read and enjoyed by readers on the left, right and centre' David Edgerton, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT ... -
We Had To Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.50Does what you see change who you are?Kayleigh is broke. Out of options, she takes a job as a content moderator, reviewing horrors and hate online and deciding which posts needs to be removed... -
The Jupiter Myth: (Marco Didius Falco: book XIV): a compelling and captivating historical mystery set in the heart of the Roman Empire from bestselling author Lindsey Davis Lindsey Davis 9780099515197
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Fans of S. J. Parris, Donna Leon, Steven Saylor, C. J. Sansom will love this exciting and enthralling historical mystery from multi-million copy bestselling author Lindsey Davis. Expertly weaving an... -
First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing ... and Life. by Joe Moran
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.59A 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... -
Innocence by Penelope Fitzgerald
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28A new edition of the Booker Prize winner Penelope Fitzgerald's best-loved novel of romance in post-war Italy, with a new introduction by Julian Barnes. The Ridolfis are a Florentine family... -
Martin Luther: Rebel in an Age of Upheaval by Heinz Schilling 9780198722816
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £29.68No other German has shaped the history of early-modern Europe more than Martin Luther. In this comprehensive and balanced biography we see Luther as a rebel, but not as a lone hero; as a soldier... -
Tory Nation: The Dark Legacy of the World's Most Successful Political Party by Samuel Earle 9781398518537
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'A witty, lucid investigation into one of the great mysteries of our time' JONATHAN COE'Should be read and enjoyed by readers on the left, right and centre' David Edgerton, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT ... -
About Face: (Brunetti 18) by Donna Leon
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'The very first sentences of About Face showcase Donna Leon's elegant, effortless style ... another great Brunetti outing.' The IndependentIndependent Mystery Booksellers Association... -
The PlayStation Dreamworld by Alfie Bown 9781509518029
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £36.30From mobile phones to consoles, tablets and PCs, we are now a generation of gamers. The PlayStation Dreamworld is - to borrow a phrase from Slavoj Zizek - the pervert's guide to videogames. It argues... -
Storm’s Edge: Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney Peter Marshall 9780008394424
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58'A surprising page-turner, full of humour and startling details' THE TIMES 'If I read a better history this year, I will be lucky' TOM HOLLAND ... -
Heidegger and the Place of Ethics by Michael Lewis 9781472525857
Booksplease Price: £40.79Despite Heidegger's identifying his own thought with 'ethics' in the most original sense, his understanding of ethics has been criticised both for its supposed ignorance of the role of the other... -
After Jews: Essays on Political Theology, Shoah and the End of Man Piotr Nowak 9781839996504
Booksplease Price: £25.71The basic idea of this book is an attempt to describe and critically interpret the condition of man living in the shadow of the Shoah, in the world "after Jews". The author achieves this by referring... -
Dr Johnson and Mr Savage by Richard Holmes 9780007204557
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £7.91A classic reissue of Richard Holmes's brilliant book on Samuel Johnson's friendship with the poet Richard Savage, which won the James Tait Black Prize for Biography. Dr Johnson & Mr Savage...