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O, the Brave Music by Dorothy Evelyn Smith
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40A female narrator looks back on her childhood in a coming-of-age novel set before the First World War. Ruan is an intelligent and imaginative child, who gradually comes to understand the nuances of... -
Bespoke: A Guide to Cycle-Speak and Saddle Slang Tom Bromley 9780712353656
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Some sports lend themselves to language: cycling is one of them. With its rich history and culture, and its professional roots across the continent and beyond, cycling has developed a terminology... -
The Uncanny Gastronomic: Strange Tales of the Edible Weird by Zara-Louise Stubbs
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02"All I can tell you is that I think it was pig's meat." "You mean you're not sure?" "One can never be sure." A brush with the mushroom devil whets the appetite. The meat at the werewolf's table... -
Fell Murder: A Lancashire Mystery E.C.R. Lorac 9780712352048
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78First published in 1944 Fell Murder sees E.C.R. Lorac at the height of her considerable powers as a purveyor of well-made, traditional and emphatic detective fiction. The book presents a fascinating... -
Writing: Making Your Mark by Ewan Clayton
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £28.40Writing surrounds us in the modern world - but how did it develop into the systems we use today, and given the technological developments of the twenty-first century, what does its future hold? ... -
Reading Room: A Year of Literary Curiosities Ian Sansom 9780712352543
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.92This is a playful and provocative collection of 365 extracts sourced from the British Library's collections. Selected to challenge and inform the reader, each excerpt is accompanied by the unique... -
The Lure of Atlantis: Strange Tales from the Sunken Continent by Michael Wheatley 9780712354981
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'All about us on the stairs was some of the most exquisite statuary I have ever seen... save for a few pieces carved in the form of some hideous beast, the like of which I have never seen on earth..... -
Leonardo da Vinci: A Mind in Motion Juliana Barone 9780712352833
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.40Written by leading Leonardo experts from London and Florence, and accompanying a major British Library exhibition, this fascinating new book reveals the central importance of motion in Leonardo's art... -
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... -
The Philosophy of Tea Tony Gebely 9780712352598
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.38How did drinking the infusions of a unique plant from China become a vital part of everyday life? This gift book presents an entertaining and illuminating introduction to the history and culture of... -
Moonrise: The Golden Age of Lunar Adventures by Mike Ashley 9780712352758
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.20Before the Apollo 11 mission succeeded in landing on the Moon in 1969, writers and visionaries were fascinated by how we might get there and what we might find. The Greeks and Romans speculated about... -
Fantasy: Realms of Imagination by Tanya Kirk
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.10'Fantasy, we know, from the oldest stories in the oldest languages, has always been with us.' - Neil Gaiman, 'Preface' Fantasy is an expansive genre, encompassing sprawling epics, ancient... -
Shakespeare's First Folio: (400th Anniversary Facsimile) by William Shakespeare 9780712354295
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £84.05Published to mark the 400th anniversary of the book's original publication, this facsimile edition faithfully reproduces one of the finest copies held in the British Library collections. The... -
Jumping Jenny by Anthony Berkeley 9780712354707
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'Mr. Anthony Berkeley deserves all gratitude for his energetic efforts to escape from the thraldom of formula... If you are hard-boiled and disillusioned about detectives, you will find this tale... -
Green for Danger Christianna Brand 9780712354905
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02It is 1942, and struggling up the hill to the new military hospital, Heron's Park, Kent, postman Higgins has no idea that the sender of one of the seven letters of application he is delivering will... -
Dancing in Time: The History of Moving and Shaking Robert Hylton 9780712354615
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £16.77With a foreword by Oti Mabuse. Dance is at the heart of diverse cultures around the globe, from the increasing popularity of salsa clubs, to break dance battles that gather crowds in the street,... -
Poems in Progress: Drafts from Master Poets Alexandra Ault 9780712354660
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.30Ask two poets what their first drafts look like, and you'll get wildly different answers. From typed pages with delicate annotation to hasty scribbles in a dog-eared notebook, drafts can tell us so... -
The Little Blue Flames and Other Nightmare Tales by A. M. Burrage by A. M. Burrage 9780712354127
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.49The supernatural tales of A M Burrage were recognised by contemporaries such as M R James and the critic E F Bleiler as some of the most imaginative and cleverly told ghost stories in the English... -
Chatterton Square E H Young 9780712353229
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40"'You don't mean you're going to divorce him?' Miss Spanner said with horror." A sophisticated, emotive novel, Chatterton Square concerns the complex web of relationships between two neighbouring... -
The Chianti Flask Marie Belloc Lowndes 9780712353298
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78"[Belloc Lowndes] brings to the making of a mystery a literary sense and an imagination that puts life into the tale and into the readers." - The Observer An enigmatic young woman named Laura... -
Polar Horrors: Chilling Tales from the Ends of the Earth by John Miller 9780712354424
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Fired up by the accounts of exploring parties in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, writers of the weird and supernatural began to construct a literary Arctic and Antarctic in which... -
The Edinburgh Mystery: And Other Tales of Scottish Crime by Martin Edwards 9780712354851
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.01"Cara!" Mr. Wilkinson stood on the jetty looking out at the long, low shadow of the island, dark against the setting sun. "A beautiful place, and a beautiful name." "It's the Gaelic word for a... -
Spaceworlds: Stories of Life in the Void by Mike Ashley 9780712353090
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Since space flight was achieved, and long before, science fiction writers have imagined a myriad of stories set in the depths of the great darkness beyond our atmosphere. From generation ships -... -
A Pin to See the Peepshow by F. Tennyson Jesse 9780712353595
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Julia Almond believes she is special and dreams of a more exciting and glamorous life away from the drab suburbia of her upbringing. Her work in a fashionable boutique in the West End gives her the... -
Murder in the Basement by Anthony Berkeley 9780712353946
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40When two newlyweds discover that a corpse has been buried in the basement of their new home, a gruelling case begins to trace the identity of the victim. With all avenues of investigation approaching... -
I Am Stone: The Gothic Weird Tales of R. Murray Gilchrist by R. Murray Gilchrist 9780712354004
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'The first thing my dazed eyes fell upon was the mirror of black glass... She held it so that I might gaze into its depths. And there, with a cry of amazement and fear, I saw the shadow of the... -
The Love Child by Edith Olivier 9780712353649
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'She had saved her. But at what a cost! Her position, her name, her character - she had given them all, but Clarissa was hers.' Upon the death of her mother, Agatha Bodenham finds herself alone... -
Keeping Up Appearances Rose Macaulay 9780712354011
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'Oh God, one should not go to parties, Daisy sighed, sinking in wan defeat in the melancholy dawn. One should not mingle with others; one should keep oneself to oneself...' Lying awake after a... -
Which Way? Simon Thomas 9780712353984
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'There was no one in the room. Blinds and curtains were closed; the light of the skies, if any, was shut out. ... Only the fire was alive, consuming its life-for what? Then the door opened and as... -
Alexander the Great: The Making of a Myth Richard Stoneman 9780712354769
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £27.60Accompanying the first ever exhibition on the storytelling around Alexander the Great, King of Macedon, this book charts the evolution of a legend that continues to captivate audiences today. ... -
Tales of the Tattooed: An Anthology of Ink by John Miller 9780712353458
Booksplease Price: £9.13The excruciating beauty, exoticism and mystery of tattoos is laid bare in this new collection of 12 stories ranging from the 1880s to 1940s.Book InformationISBN 9780712353458Author John MillerFormat... -
The Night Land William Hope Hodgson 9780712355759
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Aeons in the future, Earth's surface faces perpetual night after the failing of the Sun. Humanity is entrenched within the Last Redoubt, a colossal metal pyramid. Beyond the safety of its structure... -
Lessons in Crime: Academic Mysteries by Martin Edwards 9780712355452
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02"The Master? Dr. Greeby? You don't say so! Murdered? Dear me! Poor Greeby! This will upset my whole day's work." An Oxford Master is slain on campus during Pentecost. A headmaster faces... -
Not to Be Taken: A Puzzle in Poison 9780712355421
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40"...now we have Not to Be Taken, a compact and fascinating essay in the art of home detection." Torquemada in The Observer, 1938"The murder is by arsenic; and although the number of suspects is... -
Secret Maps: How they Conceal and Reveal the World Tom Harper 9780712355643
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £28.90Secrets and maps are a match made in heaven. A Second World War military plan of a cave system covered with red stamps, a tatty hand-drawn treasure map marked with an 'X', or even your personal phone... -
Father by Elizabeth von Arnim
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Since her mother's death Jennifer has devoted years of her life to her father, managing the family home and acting as his secretary. After the sudden announcement that he has taken a new wife,... -
The Ways of Ghosts: And Other Dark Tales by Ambrose Bierce by Ambrose Bierce
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Motionless now and in absolute silence, she awaited her doom, the moments growing to hours, to years, to ages; and still those devilish eyes maintained their watch. Ambrose Bierce was one of... -
Swallowed By a Whale: How to Survive the Writing Life Huw Lewis-Jones 9780712353038
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50In this specially-commissioned anthology, sixty accomplished authors share secrets and insights into their writing lives: on their inspirations, methods, wild ideas and daily routines; on the... -
The Philosophy of Beer Jane Peyton 9780712353472
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.40Have you ever wondered about the difference between a lager and an ale? Or marvelled at how, with only four basic ingredients, there are around 150 different styles of beer? In The Philosophy of... -
The Royal Puzzle Book: 300 Challenges and Teasers from Alfred the Great to Charles III Philip Parker 9780712354431
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Test your knowledge of kings and queens by attempting to answer some 300 questions across 25 topics, from early kingdoms to the realms of England, Scotland and Wales and the British Royal Family of...