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The Other Side of Mrs Wood by Lucy Barker
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.53'Gorgeous, an utter delight' MARIAN KEYES 'A charming debut that sparks with fun and fizz' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING 'A... -
The Person in the Sight of Sociology by Colin Fletcher 9781138788107
Booksplease Price: £53.80Sociology is about society, but what about people? The person in the sight of sociology is all too often a matchstick being. In this original and stimulating book the person is characterized by what... -
Escaping From Houdini by Kerri Maniscalco 9780316551700
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.25Audrey Rose Wadsworth and her partner-in-crime-investigation, Thomas Cresswell, are en route to New York to help solve another blood-soaked mystery. Embarking on a week-long voyage across the... -
Escaping From Houdini by Kerri Maniscalco
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Audrey Rose Wadsworth and her partner-in-crime-investigation, Thomas Cresswell, are en route to New York to help solve another blood-soaked mystery. Embarking on a week-long voyage across the... -
Trade of the Tricks: Inside the Magician's Craft by Graham M. Jones 9780520270466
RRP: £59.00Booksplease Price: £55.61From risque cabaret performances to engrossing after-hours shop talk, "Trade of the Tricks" offers an unprecedented look inside the secretive subculture of modern magicians. Entering the flourishing... -
Translation and Globalization Michael Cronin 9780415270656
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.80Translation and Globalization is essential reading for anyone with an interest in translation, or a concern for the future of our world's languages and cultures. This is a critical exploration of the... -
The Amazing Harry Kellar: Great American Magician by Gail Jarrow 9781590788653
Booksplease Price: £13.71Presenting the amazing Harry Kellar: the first magician to receive international fame and the model for the Wizard of Oz! In this illustrated biography of the most well-known illusionist at the turn... -
Trade of the Tricks: Inside the Magician's Craft by Graham M. Jones 9780520270473
Booksplease Price: £21.40From risque cabaret performances to engrossing after-hours shop talk, "Trade of the Tricks" offers an unprecedented look inside the secretive subculture of modern magicians. Entering the flourishing... -
Wicked Salem: Exploring Lingering Lore and Legends by Sam Baltrusis 9781493037117
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £13.88It's no surprise that the historic Massachusetts seaport's history is checkered with violence and heinous crimes. Originally called Naumkeag, Salem means "peace." However, as its historical legacy... -
Cities of the Drift - The Lighthouse at the End of the World Philip A. Suggars 9781835412497
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.25Enter a London like no other in this fast-paced, captivating fantasy novel, perfect for fans of V.E. Schwab and Genevieve Cogman.Oyster McLellen has spent his life causing mischief. Running with a... -
Creating Solo Performance by Sean Bruno
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £33.43Creating Solo Performance is an innovative toolbox of exercises and challenges focused on providing you - the performer - with engaging and inspiring ways to explore and develop your idea both on the... -
A Miscellany of Mischief and Magic: Discover history's best hoaxes, hijinks, tricks, and illusions Tom Adams 9780711280588
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £9.76Welcome all rascals and tricksters to this marvellous miscellany of mischief and magic! This playful book explores the world of deception and trickery - both the good and the bad. Learn the secrets... -
Enchanted New York: A Journey along Broadway through Manhattan's Magical Past by Kevin Dann
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12A fantastical field guide to the hidden history of New York's magical past Manhattan has a pervasive quality of glamour-a heightened sense of personality generated by a place whose cinematic,... -
Westchester: History of an Iconic Suburb by Robert Marchant 9781476673240
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.19This history of Westchester County, New York, from the time of European settlement to the present, examines four centuries of development in an iconic region that became the archetypal American... -
Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century by Dana Stevens 9781501134203
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.62Named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, and NPR In this genre-defying "new kind of history" (The New Yorker), the chief film critic of Slate places comedy legend and acclaimed... -
Soulmaker: The Times of Lewis Hine by Alexander Nemerov 9780691170176
Booksplease Price: £37.43Between 1908 and 1917, the American photographer and sociologist Lewis Hine (1874-1940) took some of the most memorable pictures of child workers ever made. Traveling around the United States while... -
Spirit Sleuths: How Magicians and Detectives Exposed the Ghost Hoaxes by Gail Jarrow 9781662680236
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £16.88The latest from acclaimed author Gail Jarrow reveals how magicians—including Harry Houdini and his team of investigators—exposed fake mediums who exploited the vulnerable and gullible in the early... -
Bug Club NF Brown B/3B Real Life: Daredevils by Nick Hunter
Booksplease Price: £9.43This book tells us about the lives of four people behind some of the most amazing stunts in history: Harry Houdini, Bessie Coleman, Evel Knievel and Alain Robert. Part of the Bug Club reading series... -
Escape!: The Story of the Great Houdini by Sid Fleischman 9780060850968
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Young Hoosier Book Award (Middle Grades) 2009.Book InformationISBN 9780060850968Author Sid... -
Parapsychology: Frontier Science of the Mind by J. B. Rhine 9780557287178
RRP: £10.23Booksplease Price: £9.65Master magician Harry Houdini and English ghost researcher Harry Price were true pioneers in both establishing skepticism and scientific methods in the newly created field of paranormal research... -
Reading Planet KS2: The Amazing Houdini - Venus/Brown by Becca Heddle 9781398377219
Booksplease Price: £8.14Harry Houdini was the world's most famous magician and escapologist. He was so good at escaping from things that people thought he must have magical powers. But how did he fool his audiences... -
Only in Budapest: A Guide to Unique Locations, Hidden Corners and Unusual Objects by Duncan J. D. Smith 9783950366273
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £15.89Discover Europe with the 'Only In' Guides! These ground breaking city guides are for independent cultural travellers wishing to escape the crowds and understand cities from different and unusual... -
The Great Escape by Kate Egan 9781250047182
Booksplease Price: £10.22Mike is doing better in school these days. Learning magic helps him to learn other things as well. Sure, he's gotten in trouble in the past, but things are different now. So why does everyone still... -
Mind-Blowing Magic Tricks for Everyone: More Than 50 Step-by-Step Card, Coin, and Mentalism Tricks Using Everyday Objects by Oscar Owen
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £12.15"The ultimate guide to mastering the art of magic." -Business Insider"A must-have for any aspiring magician." -Mashable Learn to perform 50 unbelievable magic tricks that will impress and astonish... -
Take Back Your Life Study Guide: A 40-Day Interactive Journey to Thinking Right So You Can Live Right by Levi Lusko 9780310118916
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.59This forty-day interactive journey challenges you to come face to face with the real you, identify the internal battles you must declare war on, and become the difference-maker God created you to be... -
Houdini Lives! by Al Blanchard 9780615135830
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.42It's 1966, and world famous magician, escape artist, Harry Houdini, did not die 40 years ago as people thought. He's has been in hiding from his political enemies and is planning a dramatic comeback... -
Midnight in Tehran: Operation Long Jump, the Nazi Plot to Assassinate Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin by Christopher Sandford 9781476687568
Booksplease Price: £29.44This is the gripping history of the Nazi-sponsored attempt to infiltrate the 1943 wartime Allied conference in Tehran and to assassinate the "Big Three" leaders: Franklin Roosevelt, Winston... -
Titanic Thompson: The Man Who Bet on Everything by Kevin Cook 9780330529952
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22Titanic Thompson is the rollicking true story of one of the most charismatic characters in twentieth-century America. Travelling only with his golf clubs, a .45 revolver, and a suitcase full of cash,... -
Black and Blue Magic by Zilpha Keatley Snyder 9781504035606
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.74From a three-time Newbery Honor author: Harry Houdini Marco had it hard enough as a normal clumsy twelve-year-old-but growing wings made it even worse. Except for his unusual name, Harry Houdini... -
The InSpectres Volume Two by David Flores 9781912571475
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.33Set in England during the late Victorian era, famed author Arthur Conan Doyle must push aside his scepticism of the supernatural with the emergence of Spring-Heeled Jack, a mysterious phantom of... -
The Sensational Houdini's Puzzle Safe: A Collection of Puzzles Inspired by the Master of Mystery by Tim Dedopulos 9781787392472
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £9.28The Sensational Houdini's Puzzle Safe contains 50 exciting puzzles inspired by the greatest escapologist to have ever lived. With puzzle chains where one wrong answer can leave you locked in a... -
The InSpectres Volume One by Jarod Roe 9781912571369
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.33Set in England during the late Victorian era, famed author Arthur Conan Doyle must push aside his scepticism of the supernatural with the emergence of Spring-Heeled Jack, a mysterious phantom of... -
Young Houdini: The Silent Assassin by Simon Nicholson 9780192744890
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.68He is the world's most famous magician: but before his name became legend, who was young Harry Houdini? London, 1886. Lady Flora Cusp, devoted to funding libraries for the poor, has been shot in... -
Magic: A Beginner's Guide by Robert Ralley 9781851687138
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61The mysterious art of magic has been a source of wonderment since before the time of Christ. Shape shifting between the supernatural practices of 'real' magic and demonstrations of dazzling illusion,... -
Long Island's Mt Haunted Cemeteries by Joseph Flammer 9780764335891
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £17.25Have you wondered what lies beyond the grave? Join the Paranormal Adventurers as they unlock secrets in some of Long Island's historic and most haunted cemeteries. Venture with them into the darkest... -
Houdini: The Ultimate Spellbinder by Tom Lalicki 9781497644779
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.99Originally published as: SPELLBINDER: The Life of Harry Houdini. He was born Ehrich Weiss but, at an early age, he chose another name for himself. He wanted a name to suit his career of magic and... -
Seance 101: Physical Links to the Other Side by Elaine Kuzmeskus
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.03Seance 101 explores the physical side of the spirit world and how contact with the other side affects you! Read this book to find out : How spirits communicate with us by tipping tables. Learn the... -
The Great Houdini's Puzzle Vault by Tim Dedopulos
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.82The Great Houdini's Puzzle Vault contains 100 puzzles inspired by the greatest escapologist ever to have lived. With puzzle chains where one wrong answer can leave you locked in a never-ending circle... -
Secrets of Conjuring and Magic: Or How to Become a Wizard by Jean-Eugene Robert-Houdin 9781108032407
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £24.60Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin (1805-71) is often called the father of modern conjuring. His name was later adopted by magician and escape artist Harry Houdini, whose highly sceptical expose of Victorian... -
The Last Leaf: Voices of History's Last-Known Survivors by Stuart Lutz 9781616141622
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.74This unique oral history book records the stories told to the author personally by people who witnessed many of history's most famous events. Among many others, the author interviewed: the final...