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![A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin 9780241239957 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9704590/10721291/9780241239957__47834.1781360888.jpg?c=1 "A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin 9780241239957 [USED COPY]")
A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin 9780241239957 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £3.00A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller As one of the best biographers of her generation, Claire Tomalin has written about great novelists and poets to huge success: now, she turns to look at her own life... -
English Pastoral: An Inheritance - The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of The Shepherd's Life by James Rebanks
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99THE SUNDAY TIMES NATURE BOOK OF THE YEARThe new bestseller from the author of The Shepherd's Life'A beautifully written story of a family, a home and a changing landscape' Nigel Slater As a boy,... -
![Educated: The Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling memoir by Tara Westover 9780099511021 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/6096507/8748282/9780099511021__36367.1743417586.jpg?c=1 "Educated: The Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling memoir by Tara Westover 9780099511021 [USED COPY]")
Educated: The Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling memoir by Tara Westover 9780099511021 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £3.26THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLERA BETWEEN THE COVERS PICKSelected as a book of the year by AMAZON, THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, NEW YORK TIMES, ECONOMIST, NEW STATESMAN, VOGUE, IRISH TIMES,... -
In the Garden of the Fugitives by Ceridwen Dovey 9780241982433
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A brilliant young woman and an older, more powerful man in a tale of slow-burning obsession and retribution - for fans of Patricia Highsmith and Rachel Cusk'This psychological thriller examines what... -
![A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin 9780241974834 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9919150/10935681/9780241974834__19600.1786484741.jpg?c=1 "A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin 9780241974834 [USED COPY]")
A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin 9780241974834 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.31A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller In this remarkable memoir of love, loss and literature, acclaimed biographer Claire Tomalin turns her eye to another fascinating literary life: her own. She tells of... -
A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller In this remarkable memoir of love, loss and literature, acclaimed biographer Claire Tomalin turns her eye to another fascinating literary life: her own. She tells of... -
Granta 51: Big Men (And L.A. Women) 9780140141108
Booksplease Price: £16.01This edition of the literary magazine contains contributions from Gitta Sereny, John Sweeney, Caroline Alexander, Blake Morrison, Douglas Brooker, Lindsey Hilsun, Edward Blishen, Claire Messud, Clive... -
Granta 87: Jublilee by Ian Jack
Booksplease Price: £16.59A celebration of Granta's first quarter century with new writing from the writers who made its reputation, including Martin Amis, Paul Auster, William Boyd, Amit Chaudhul, Richard Ford, James... -
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51In the summer of 1936, Agee and Evans set out on assignement for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. Their journey would prove an extraordinary collaboration... -
The Four Gospels: The Pocket Canons Edition by A. N. Wilson 9781847678355
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Encouraging the reading of the Bible as literature rather than doctrine, the four central gospels are presented here in the beauty of the Authorised King James Version, with four fresh, modern... -
Nobody Leaves: Impressions of Poland by Ryszard Kapuscinski
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'A masterpiece ... a moving image of post-war Poland, and the first breathing of one of the essential voices of the twentieth century... the master of literary reportage' The Times Literary... -
About A Son: A Father’s Search for Truth by David Whitehouse
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'A book that reaches so deeply into the human experience that to read it is to be forever changed'ELIZABETH DAYOne night in October 2015, twenty-year-old Morgan Hehir went out with friends and never... -
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.85'I do not know of any other writer who has done as much with language ... a very funny book' William S. Burroughs Fifteen-year-old Alex doesn't just like ultra-violence - he also enjoys rape, drugs... -
![A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess 9780141182605 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9680044/10696764/9780141182605__93035.1781301839.jpg?c=1 "A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess 9780141182605 [USED COPY]")
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess 9780141182605 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.39'I do not know of any other writer who has done as much with language ... a very funny book' William S. Burroughs Fifteen-year-old Alex doesn't just like ultra-violence - he also enjoys rape, drugs... -
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... -
Once in a House on Fire by Andrea Ashworth 9781035065264
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A lauded contemporary classic of the memoir form: devastatingly powerful, moving and uplifting.Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award'Strong and admirable' - Hilary Mantel'Full of energy' - Blake... -
The See-Through House: My Father in Full Colour by Shelley Klein
Booksplease Price: £9.99'A charming account of a daughter, a house and a fastidious dad' Sunday TimesShelley Klein grew up in the Scottish Borders, in a house designed on a modernist open-plan grid. With colourful glass... -
Cygnet: 'A clear-sighted, poignant rumination on loneliness, love, the melancholy of age' by Season Butler
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £4.01WINNER OF THE WRITERS' GUILD FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2020ELLE ONES TO WATCH 2019'Not since Holden Caulfield have I been so captivated by a first-person voice as the one Season Butler creates in Cygnet'... -
William Golding: The Man who Wrote Lord of the Flies by John Carey
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23William Golding was born in 1911 and educated at his local grammar school and Brasenose College, Oxford. He published a volume of poems in 1934 and during the war served in the Royal Navy. Afterwards... -
![Once in a House on Fire by Andrea Ashworth 9780330450089 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9705974/10722670/9780330450089__88654.1781363141.jpg?c=1 "Once in a House on Fire by Andrea Ashworth 9780330450089 [USED COPY]")
Once in a House on Fire by Andrea Ashworth 9780330450089 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: £2.80Set in 1970s Manchester, Once in a House on Fire tells the true story of three sisters and their mother, a close-knit and loving family forced to battle with poverty, abuse and the effects of... -
Granta 93: God's Own Countries by Ian Jack
Booksplease Price: £16.98The politics of religion around the world, featuring: Nadeem Aslam, Diana Athill, Geoff Dyer, Nell Freudenberger, Simon Gray, A L Kennedy, Richard Mabey, John McGahern, Andrew Martin, Pankaj Mishra,... -
The Force of Poetry by Christopher Ricks 9780198183266
Booksplease Price: £61.71Christopher Ricks is one of the best-known living critics of English, and was described by W. H. Auden as `the kind of critic every poet dreams of finding'. Though published indepenently over... -
Cygnet: 'A clear-sighted, poignant rumination on loneliness, love, the melancholy of age' by Season Butler 9780349700328
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £5.26WINNER OF THE WRITERS' GUILD FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2020ELLE ONES TO WATCH 2019'Terribly moving. A clear-sighted, poignant rumination on loneliness, love, the melancholy of age and of youth' China... -
On Agoraphobia by Graham Caveney
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'One of my favourite living writers: intelligent, lucid and, most impressive of all, funny' - Jonathan CoeIf we're talking agoraphobia, we're talking books. I slip between their covers, lose myself... -
Old School by Tobias Wolff 9780747574651
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42At one prestigious American public school, the boys like to emphasise their democratic ideals - the only acknowledged snobbery is literary snobbery. Once a term, a big name from the literary world... -
Letters of Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes 9780571221394
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.91At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter-writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and he was to become a prolific master of this art which combines writing and... -
![The Wizard: The Life of Stanley Matthews by Jon Henderson 9780224091855 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9664474/10681194/9780224091855__99722.1781287519.jpg?c=1 "The Wizard: The Life of Stanley Matthews by Jon Henderson 9780224091855 [USED COPY]")
The Wizard: The Life of Stanley Matthews by Jon Henderson 9780224091855 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.51'Stanley Matthews taught us the way football should be played' Pele'I couldn't believe he was just a man. He was the best player in the world' Bobby Charlton'He told me that he used to play for just... -
The Missing by Andrew O'Hagan
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95One of the most original, moving and beautifully written non-fiction works of recent years, The Missing marked the acclaimed debut of one of Britain's most astute and important writers.In a brilliant... -
Sonnets for Albert by Anthony Joseph
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49**WINNER OF THE T S ELIOT PRIZE FOR POETRY 2022** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR POETRY 2022** **LONGLISTED FOR THE OCM BOCAS PRIZE 2023** With Sonnets for Albert, Anthony Joseph... -
Life Writing by Sara Haslam
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Life Writing offers the novice writer engaging and creative activities, making use of insightful, relevant readings from well-known authors to illustrate the techniques presented. This volume makes... -
Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo 9780330524933
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Eric Packer is a twenty-eight-year-old multi-billionaire asset manager. We join him on what will become a particularly eventful April day in turn-of-the-twenty-first-century Manhattan. He's on a... -
![Edge of Heaven: The Yorkshire Coast by Lee Hanson 9781905080878 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/6500914/6577841/9781905080878__94326.1738460847.jpg?c=1 "Edge of Heaven: The Yorkshire Coast by Lee Hanson 9781905080878 [USED COPY]")
Edge of Heaven: The Yorkshire Coast by Lee Hanson 9781905080878 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: £2.92There has been an array of books written about the Yorkshire Coast. Books about its people, major historical events, famous individuals, its geology, its geography, its native fauna and wildlife, its... -
Wicked Beyond Belief: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper by Michael Bilton
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.03Now a major TV series 'A masterpiece that reads like a thriller' Time Out A gripping and probing account of the biggest criminal manhunt in British history. It is... -
The Last Hunters: The Crab Fishermen of Cromer by Candy Whittome 9780957152809
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.67Short-listed for the 2013 New Angle Prize for Literature.BOOK OF THE YEAR - overall winner of the East Anglian Book Awards 2012"A major piece of work, beautifully presented, on a subject familiar to... -
The Sleep Room: A Very British Medical Scandal by Jon Stock 9780349128917
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.13'Shocking' Telegraph, five stars'Compelling' Sunday Times 'A gripping expose' Financial Times'Lacerating' Blake Morrison, Guardian Book of the Day 'Beautifully researched, wildly unsettling' Sam... -
Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49This is the story of a haunted Irish childhood.The setting is Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 40s and 50s, fraught with political hatred, family secrets and lethal intrigue. As a young boy tries... -
Gaudi: God's Architect by Peter Stanford 9781399811811
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.05'This biography restores Gaudi to life as one of the most original architects of all time...Stanford shows how the Catalan genius put his soul into everything he did.' Blake Morrison'This riveting... -
John Stonehouse, My Father: The True Story of the Runaway MP by Julia Stonehouse
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Clear, dispassionate and selfless' Spectator'Exhaustive in her research, tenacious in spotting errors, indignant in denouncing lies.' Guardian'A compelling account of an extraordinary political... -
The Alvarez Generation: Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Peter Porter by William Wootten
Booksplease Price: £31.16This book is the biography of a taste in poetry and its consequences. During the 1950s and 1960s, a generation of poets appeared who would eschew the restrained manner of Movement poets such as... -
My Father, the Runaway MP: The Real Story of John Stonehouse by Julia Stonehouse
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43'Clear, dispassionate and selfless' Spectator'Exhaustive in her research, tenacious in spotting errors, indignant in denouncing lies.' Guardian'A compelling account of an extraordinary political...