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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... -
Weird Woods: Tales from the Haunted Forests of Britain by John Miller
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Woods play an important and recurring role in horror, fantasy, the gothic and the weird. They are places in which strange things happen, where you often can't see where you are or what is around you... -
Suddenly at His Residence: A Mystery in Kent by Christianna Brand
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.02"Christianna Brand is not merely a purveyor of thrills or a maker of puzzles. She is a novelist." - The Daily Telegraph While the Blitz bombards London, the boisterous grandchildren of Sir Richard... -
The Philosophy of Cheese by Patrick McGuigan
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.40Patrick McGuigan is a British food journalist and cheese writer, who contributes to The Telegraph, Delicious and The Financial Times, among many other titles. He has travelled the world, from the... -
The Port of London Murders Josephine Bell 9780712353618
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78When the San Angelo drifts into port in the Thames Estuary, telephones begin to ring across the capital and an intricate series of events is set in motion. Beset by dreadful storms in the Bay of... -
Visions of the Vampire: Two Centuries of Immortal Tales by Sorcha Ni Fhlainn
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.41The vampire is one of the great enemies of humanity, a nightmarish figure who feeds on the living in order to sustain themselves. Born from ancient folklore, writers in the nineteenth century gave... -
The Philosophy of Tattoos by John Miller
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.40Tattooing is an ancient practice with profound religious and cultural significance. While western tattooing centres on three main traditions - Polynesian, Japanese and Euro-American -- it has been... -
The Home by Penelope Mortimer
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40... marvellous skill - a writer who can knock spots off most of her contemporaries. - The Guardian A tragi-comedy published in 1971 that looks at the experience of a woman escaping a broken... -
One Year's Time by Angela Milne
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'She got up, without meeting his eyes, and went into the bedroom to dress. That was life all over; you wanted to make a good exit, and you remembered you were still in your housecoat.' Single girl... -
Weekend at Thrackley by Alan Melville
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'I'm taking a revolver to Thrackley. You never know with blokes like Carson. I hate these harmless, potty people - they're always up to something.' Jim Henderson is one of six guests summoned by... -
The Philosophy of Gin by Jane Peyton 9780712353601
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £6.78Few if any alcoholic drinks have the dramatic and multi-faceted history of gin. In this fascinating new instalment of the British Library's pocket philosophies, gin is explored through its origins in... -
Lost Mars: The Golden Age of the Red Planet by Mike Ashley 9780712352406
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.72`I was suddenly struck with the sight of a trail of rich red vegetation of several miles in the midst of the eternal snows. I approached with curiosity this oasis in the frozen desert.' An antique... -
Big Ben Strikes Eleven by David Magarshack 9780712354837
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40The discovery of Sir Robert Boniface's body on the floor of his blue limousine was made quite accidentally on a sultry Friday evening towards the end of June. The industrial and financial tycoon, and... -
My Husband Simon Mollie Panter-Downes 9780712353120
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40My Husband Simon tells the story of the married life of Nevis Falconer, a young woman novelist, and Simon Quinn. Temperamentally unsuited, they are only kept together by a mutual physical attraction,... -
Protecting the People: The Central Office of Information and the Reshaping of Post-War Britain, 1946-2011 by David Welch 9780712353250
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £10.86One of the world's leading writers on propaganda and information projection presents a remarkably detailed history and critique of the workings and development of the COI from its origins in the... -
Love Letters: Intimate Correspondence Between Famous Lovers Andrea Clarke 9780712353519
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.46In an age of emails, tweets and emojis, this beautiful selection of original love letters invites us into a privileged realm and reminds us why the written word is so expressive and revealing. The 30... -
Warfare in Medieval Manuscripts Pamela Porter 9780712356053
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31The ways of war in the Middle Ages never cease to fascinate. There is a glamour associated with knights in shining armour, colourful tournaments and heroic deeds which appeals to the modern... -
The Burial of the Rats: And Other Tales of the Macabre by Bram Stoker by Bram Stoker 9780712354448
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.41'I knew the site of the hut and the hill behind it up which I had rushed, and in the flickering glow the eyes of the rats still shone with a sort of phosphorescence.' Beyond the genre-defining... -
Dragons, Heroes, Myths & Magic: The Medieval Art of Storytelling (Paperback Edition) by Chantry Westwell 9780712354141
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £13.70Journey through magical fairy tales, chivalric adventures, mystical events and celebrated foundation myths. Trace how folk traditions and the manners of courtly love have developed through... -
Death in Captivity: A Second World War Mystery by Michael Gilbert 9780712352130
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A man is found dead in an escape tunnel in an Italian prisoner-of-war camp. Did he die in an accidental collapse - or was this murder? Captain Henry `Cuckoo' Goyles, master tunneller and amateur... -
The Open Door: and Other Stories of the Seen and Unseen by Margaret Oliphant 9780712353540
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.90'There was not a soul to be seen, up or down; and the trees stood like ghosts, and the silence was terrible, and everything clear as day. You don't know what silence is until you find it in the light... -
Playing with Fire: The Weird Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle by Arthur Conan Doyle 9780712354257
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.68The luminous fog drifted slowly off the table and wavered and flickered across the room. There in the farther and darkest corner it gathered and glowed, hardening down into a shining core... ... -
The Outcast: and Other Dark Tales by E F Benson by E. Benson 9780712353861
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40The terrifying presence of a restless spirit on the top deck of a London bus; a possession at the bridge table on a cruise up the Nile; a nightmare encounter with druidic sacrifice in the innocuous... -
Dangerous Ages by Rose Macaulay 9780712353878
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Rose Macaulay takes a lively and perceptive look at three generations of women within the same family and the 'dangers' faced at each of those stages in life. The book opens with Neville celebrating... -
The Philosophy of Curry Sejal Sukhadwala 9780712354509
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.40There are curries on almost every continent, with a stunning diversity of flavours and textures across India alone, and many more interpretations the world over, including in Indonesia, Malaysia,... -
A General History of the Lives, Murders and Adventures of the Most Notorious Rogues by Captain Charles Johnson 9780712353397
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.75Buoyed by the runaway success of his bestselling A General History of the Pirates (1724), Captain Charles Johnson went on to publish a much-expanded edition of the work to include a further 80... -
Haunters at the Hearth: Eerie Tales for Christmas Nights by Lucy Evans 9780712354271
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02"But something odd does happen here at Christmas time. When I first heard the story, I thought it was an old wives' tale, but-well, these old houses-you hear strange things-" He lifted his shoulders... -
Stories for Summer: And Days by the Pool Simon Thomas 9780712355155
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Join a host of female writers in celebrating the sunshine months of the year. As a sister volume to Stories for Winter, this collection of 15 short stories takes its inspiration from the holiday... -
Uncanny Ireland: Otherworldly Tales of the Strange and Sublime Maria Giakaniki 9780712355209
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.68'Suddenly the upper rim of the clear setting sun disappeared behind the hill of Knockdoula, and it was twilight. Each child felt the transition like a shock ... and the rounded summit of Lisnavoura,... -
The Art of the Scribe: Practical Projects Inspired by the Calligraphy and Illuminations of Medieval Manuscripts Patricia Lovett 9780712354844
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £25.25Pages from some of the most celebrated and exquisite medieval manuscripts in the British Library provide the inspiration for twenty-one practical art and calligraphy projects. Seven classic scripts... -
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery by Leonard Gribble 9780712352260
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40The 1939 Arsenal side is firing on all cylinders and celebrating a string of victories. They appear unstoppable, but the Trojans - a side of amateurs who are on a winning streak of their own - may be... -
The Weird Tales of Dorothy K. Haynes Dorothy K. Haynes 9780712355766
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The fabric of Dorothy K. Haynes' weird fiction is truly the stuff of nightmares, where horrors cruel and mundane are interwoven with threads of dark fairy folklore and twisted witchcraft to deliver... -
Land of Mist and Magic: The Myths and Legends that Shaped the British Isles Philip Parker 9780712355148
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.30Britain is a land steeped in legend. From the Scottish Islands to the valleys of Wales, or the coves and inlets of Cornwall, scarcely a hillock, spring or churchyard is without its own story... -
The Little Book of Dragons by Carolyne Larrington 9780712355582
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Whether they breathe fire from above, spit poison on the land, or cause churning maelstroms in the sea, dragons can be found lurking in the margins of illuminated legend around the world. Their... -
Sailor Song: The Shanties and Ballads of the High Seas Gerry Smyth 9780712353700
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.60Passed down in the oral tradition and sung traditionally as working songs, sea shanties tell the human stories of life at sea: hard graft, battling the elements, the loss of ships or pining for a... -
Sing Me Who You Are by Elizabeth Berridge
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Skill, subtlety and stylistic assurance ... her moral comedy illumines life. - Daily Telegraph Harriet Cooper bumps up a rutted lane in a Hillman crammed with everything she owns. She has come to... -
Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird by Henry Bartholomew
Booksplease Price: £12.37'I have stood on the dim shore beyond time and matter and seen it. It moves through strange curves and outrageous angles. Some day I shall travel in time and meet it face to face.' Unlike... -
The Philosophy of Cocktails Jane Peyton 9780712354530
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.02An early description of a cocktail as 'a mix of alcoholic drinks with flavouring ingredients' does nothing to convey the alchemy and speak-easy glamour of these elaborate drinks. The cocktail's... -
Menace of the Monster: Classic Tales of Creatures from Beyond by Mike Ashley 9780712352697
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78The fact that humanity is not alone in the universe has long preoccupied our thoughts. In this compelling new collection of short stories from SF's classic age our visions of `other' are shown in a... -
Castle Skull: A Rhineland Mystery John Dickson Carr 9780712353267
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.44'That is the case. Alison has been murdered. His blazing body was seen running about the battlements of Castle Skull.' And so a dark shadow looms over the Rhineland where Inspector Henri Bencolin...