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Edward Lear and the Pussycat: Famous Writers and Their Pets Alex Johnson 9780712352444
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Behind every great writer there is a beloved pet, providing inspiration in life and in death, and companionship in what is often a lonely working existence. They also offer practical services, such... -
Victorian Feminists: Ten 19th Century Women Ahead of their Times Rebecca Sophia Katherine Wilson 9781399069397
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £22.66The Victorian era is often remembered for its rigid gender roles, yet beneath the surface, extraordinary women were challenging societal expectations and paving the way for future generations... -
Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories Sandra H. Dudley (University of Leicester, UK) 9781138117112
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.09Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories is a wide-ranging collection of essays exploring the stories that can be told by and about objects and those who choose to collect them. Examining objects and... -
Critical Approaches to Food in Children's Literature Kara K. Keeling 9780415808910
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £46.08Critical Approaches to Food in Children's Literature is the first scholarly volume on the topic, connecting children's literature to the burgeoning discipline of food studies. Following the lead of... -
Who Was A. A. Milne? by Sarah Fabiny
Booksplease Price: £5.18Find out how stories about his son's stuffed bear, famously known as Winnie the Pooh, made A. A. Milne one of the world's best-known children's authors in this informative biography from the #1 New... -
Celebrating Women: Women Writing on Women: Family, Friends, Feminism and Fun Sarah Gristwood 9781837330041
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.20A captivating collection of women's writing - including poetry, letters, novels, memoir, and journals - that celebrates the joy of being a woman. This glorious collection takes a refreshing look at... -
PENS INK & PLACES by Quentin Blake
Booksplease Price: £10.60A revelatory behind-the-scenes look at the work of Britain's best-loved illustrator Quentin Blake, providing an insight by the artist himself into his own practice and some of his most famous... -
Mushroom by Nicholas P. Money 9780199732562
RRP: £35.49Booksplease Price: £23.65The overnight appearance of mushrooms in a meadow or on a suburban lawn is a marvelous sight. It is one of many awe-inspiring, magical processes that have evolved among the fungi, yet this group... -
Watercolor in the Woods: Paint a Whimsical World of Forest Animals, Botanicals, Toadstools and More Jane Carkill 9798890030863
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.03Transport yourself to an idyllic realm with these beginner-friendly art tutorials from artist Jane Carkill. Her unique style of cottagecore artwork, reminiscent of the Beatrix Potter books we all... -
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The Wishing-Chair Again by Enid Blyton 9781405272230 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £2.58A classic fantasy story from the world's best-loved children's author, Enid Blyton, now with stunning new covers by Mark Beech. Be whisked away by these magical Wishing-Chair adventures. Mollie... -
Historic England: The Lake District: Unique Images from the Archives of Historic England by Billy F. K. Howorth
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42This illustrated history provides a nostalgic look at the Lake District's past and highlights the special character of some of its most important historic sites. The photographs are taken from the... -
Babel: Adventures in Translation Dennis Duncan (Munby Fellow in Bibliography, University of Cambridge) 9781851245093
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.30This innovative collection of essays shows how linguistic diversity has inspired people across time and cultures to embark on adventurous journeys through the translation of texts. It tells the story... -
Get Dressed!: A Historical Guessing Game for Fashion Lovers Katy Canales 9781838668471
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £12.19An illustrated, interactive introduction to fashion history for children, revealing the fascinating connections between clothing and culture In this first book of fashion history for children, young... -
Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: A Handful of Dust: Volume 4 by Evelyn Waugh 9780198703150
Booksplease Price: £117.09Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust (1934) is often thought to be among his best novels. It is a darkly bitter account of the end of a marriage, its causes and its effects. Waugh wrote the book with... -
KAREL from the other world Marian Werner 9781836283508
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £29.18What happens to us after we die? Some prefer to avoid asking the question, some think they have a reassuring answer, some are still pondering the possibilities. Some distinguished scientists think... -
111 Places in the Lake District That You Shouldn't Miss Solange Berchemin 9783740824044
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.13The Lake District delights its visitors with a series of superlatives: England's largest national park, highest mountain, deepest lakes and now a new World Heritage status. One of Britain's... -
The Artist's Sketchbook (Victoria and Albert Museum): Inside the Creative Mind Jenny Gaschke 9780500480946
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £29.20The first in an exciting and inspirational new V&A sketchbook series that explores the sketching processes and techniques of artists from the 16th century to the present day. Artists have been... -
Joel Chandler Harris: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism, 1977-1996, With Supplement, 1892-1976 by R. Bruce Bickley 9780313292637
Booksplease Price: £56.67Joel Chandler Harris was internationally famous in his own time and has a surprisingly broad scholarly and popular following in ours. His portraits of slaves and former slaves, particularly Uncle... -
Paddle the Lake District: A guide to Exploring the Lakes by Canoe, Kayak or Paddleboard MArk Rainsley 9781917182041
Booksplease Price: £19.75Dip your paddle into the waters of the Lake District. Whether you are a canoeist, kayaker or paddleboarder, paddling on any of the 'English Lakes' rewards you with discovering unique, beautiful... -
The Annotated Alice: 150th Anniversary Deluxe Edition by Lewis Carroll 9780393245431
RRP: £38.50Booksplease Price: £31.55One summer afternoon in 1862, the Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson took a rowboat out on the Thames. With him were three young friends from the Liddell family-the sisters Lorina, Edith, and Alice... -
Psychoanalytic Responses to Children's Literature Lucy Rollin 9780786437641
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59With the growing emphasis on theory in literary studies, psychoanalytic criticism is making notable contributions to literary interpretation. Sixteen chapters in this work explore the... -
Reading Champion: The Ants and the Grasshopper: Independent reading Turquoise 7 by Jackie Walter 9781445193618
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40In this retelling of an Aesop fable, Grasshopper is too busy having fun in the summer sunshine to collect food for the winter. The ants warn him that he needs to prepare for the cold weather, but he... -
Illustrators' Sketchbooks by Martin Salisbury 9780500023303
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.10A treasure trove of visual delights: examples of the sketchbooks of sixty international illustrators offer new insights into their artistic practice. Intimate and often unseen, the sketchbook means... -
Francoise Hardy: A musical tale of love and loss by Andrew Norman 9781912587674
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.46In the early 1960s a new 'Star' appeared on the pop music scene and burned brightly in the firmament. This was the enchantingly beautiful, French singer-songwriter ('chanteuse'), Francoise Madeleine... -
Lake District Mountain Landforms by Peter Wilson 9781904244561
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.54Written with fell walkers and other countryside enthusiasts in mind this thoroughly engaging and absorbing book shows that there is much more to the Lake District than simply 'stanes and watter'... -
Dream Keepers: Secrets of Moon Wood Rebecca Lewis-Oakes 9781800786974
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.06Welcome to Moon Wood, a magical world beyond your wildest dreams!Bella and her friends live in the sleepy, happy town of Sunny Wood and they're excited about the mysterious apothecary shop that has... -
Letters to Margaret: Confessions to my Late Wife Hunter Davies 9781837931033
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46At the end of almost every day of their fifty-five years of married life, the publicity-shy author Margaret Forster would ask the naturally gregarious and outgoing Hunter Davies to describe to her... -
Children's Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Kimberley Reynolds
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.99Children's literature takes many forms - works adapted for children in antiquity, picture books and pop-ups - and now includes the latest online games and eBooks. This vast and amorphous subject is... -
All the Presidents' Gardens: How the White House Grounds Have Grown with America by Marta McDowell
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.93Since 1800, the 18 acres surrounding the White House have been an unwitting witness to history. Kings and queens have dined there, bills and treaties have been signed, and presidents have landed and... -
Peter in Blueberry Land by Elsa Beskow 9780863154980
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.45A mini gift edition of Elsa Beskow's classic story.Peter is looking for blueberries for his mother's birthday but he can't find a single one. Suddenly he feels a light tap on his shoe, and a strange... -
Dream Keepers: Map to Starlight Hollow Rebecca Lewis-Oakes 9781800786998
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.06Welcome to Moon Wood, a magical world beyond your wildest dreams!Paisley and her friends love being Dream Keepers and making sure everyone in their sleepy town has sweet dreams. Even though Paisley's... -
Shakespeare's Gardens by Jackie Bennett
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £9.12Shakespeare's Gardens is a highly illustrated, informative book about the gardens that William Shakespeare knew as a boy and tended as a man, published to coincide with the 400th anniversary of his... -
The Real T E Lawrence: His Life and Legacy by Andrew Norman 9781036111250
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.26T. E. Lawrence, soldier and writer, the co-leader with King Faisal of Saudi Arabia of the Arab Campaign during the First World War, became a legend in his own lifetime. And yet to this day there is... -
Perfect Family Quiz David Pickering 9781847945297
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Perfect Family Quiz is an invaluable source of entertainment for the whole family. Whether you're looking for a fun way to spend a rainy day, an activity for a long car journey, or you simply want to... -
The Darling Dahlias and the Red Hot Poker by Susan Wittig Albert 9781952558177
RRP: £24.50Booksplease Price: £21.56It's Labor Day weekend, 1935, and members of the Darling Dahlias-the garden club in little Darling, Alabama-are trying to keep their cool at the end of a sizzling summer. This isn't easy, though,... -
Bound for the East Indies: Halsewell-A Shipwreck that Gripped the Nation by Andrew Norman 9781781557532
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £15.96The loss of East Indiaman HCS `Halsewell' on the coast of Dorset in southern England in January 1786, touched the very heart of the British nation. `Halsewell' was just one of many hundreds of... -
Dream Keepers: Song of Midnight Meadow Rebecca Lewis-Oakes 9781800787018
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.06Welcome to Moon Wood, a magical world beyond your wildest dreams!After banishing the Queen of Nightmares, it's Mai and her friends' jobs as Dream Keepers to craft the sweetest dreams for their sleepy... -
Thread Painting: Bunnies in My Garden by Jenny McWhinney
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £14.23From the beginner to the experienced stitcher, these 12 original and beautiful designs, each with detailed stitch instructions, will capture the imagination through embroidery. Detailed patterns,... -
Mr Bliss J. R. R. Tolkien 9780008705312
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.86Mr Bliss, a man notable for his immensely tall hats and for the girabbit in his garden, takes the whimsical decision to buy a motor car. But his first drive to visit friends quickly becomes a... -
Q and A Kids: Electricity by Amy Chapman 9781526324184
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A fantastic resource for children aged 5-7, this book about the science of electricity is perfect for curious young scientists and a great one-stop-shop for help with homework! For children working...