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Death of a Hero by Richard Aldington
Booksplease Price: £14.09One of the great World War I antiwar novels - honest, chilling, and brilliantly satiricalBased on the author's experiences on the Western Front, Richard Aldington's first novel, Death of a Hero,... -
The Moronic Inferno: And Other Visits to America by Martin Amis 9780099461869
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.15At the age of ten, when Martin Amis spent a year in Princeton, New Jersey, he was excited and frightened by America. As an adult he has approached that confusing country from many arresting angles,... -
![Exactly What You Mean: The BBC Between the Covers Book Club Pick by Ben Hinshaw 9780241524732 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9664864/10681584/9780241524732__24859.1781287839.jpg?c=1 "Exactly What You Mean: The BBC Between the Covers Book Club Pick by Ben Hinshaw 9780241524732 [USED COPY]")
Exactly What You Mean: The BBC Between the Covers Book Club Pick by Ben Hinshaw 9780241524732 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.38The BBC Between the Covers Book Club Pick'Sentence by sentence, Ben Hinshaw offers wit, sensitivity and sharp observation. Then slowly the reader sees the grand design - the intricate, braided... -
The Weekenders: Adventures in Calcutta by Andrew O'Hagan 9780091895785
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47In 2001 a group of authors including Andrew O'Hagan, Tony Hawks and Irvine Welsh were given the opportunity to visit Sudan, one of the world's most inaccessible countries. The resulting book: The... -
![How It All Began by Penelope Lively 9780241957271 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9665051/10681771/9780241957271__88643.1781287995.jpg?c=1 "How It All Began by Penelope Lively 9780241957271 [USED COPY]")
How It All Began by Penelope Lively 9780241957271 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.87From Penelope Lively, winner of the Booker PrizeWhen . . . Charlotte is mugged and breaks her hip, her daughter Rose cannot accompany her employer Lord Peters to Manchester, which means his niece... -
How It All Began by Penelope Lively
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73From Penelope Lively, winner of the Booker PrizeWhen . . . Charlotte is mugged and breaks her hip, her daughter Rose cannot accompany her employer Lord Peters to Manchester, which means his niece... -
Gloucester Crescent: Me, My Dad and Other Grown-Ups William Miller 9781788160377
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.55Shortlisted for the 2019 PEN Ackerley Prize Gloucester Crescent is a curving, leafy street, tucked between Camden Town and Primrose Hill. It's unremarkable in many ways, unless you notice the lady... -
![History: The hilarious, unmissable novel from the brilliant Miles Jupp by Miles Jupp 9781472239976 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9920793/10937324/9781472239976__60087.1786485991.jpg?c=1 "History: The hilarious, unmissable novel from the brilliant Miles Jupp by Miles Jupp 9781472239976 [USED COPY]")
History: The hilarious, unmissable novel from the brilliant Miles Jupp by Miles Jupp 9781472239976 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.34A satirical, tragicomic story about a man on the edge from actor and comedian Miles Jupp. For readers of Jonathan Coe, Mark Watson, Michael Frayn and David Nicholls.Clive Hapgood is feeling stuck... -
History: The hilarious, unmissable novel from the brilliant Miles Jupp Miles Jupp 9781472239976
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A satirical, tragicomic story about a man on the edge from actor and comedian Miles Jupp. For readers of Jonathan Coe, Mark Watson, Michael Frayn and David Nicholls.Clive Hapgood is feeling stuck... -
History: The hilarious, unmissable novel from the brilliant Miles Jupp Miles Jupp 9781472239952
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.49'The funniest man in Britain has written a wonderful novel. Rejoice!' - Richard Osman'Very funny set pieces and one-liners' - Daily MailClive Hapgood is feeling stuck. The private school he teaches... -
The Chemistry of Death: (David Hunter 1) by Simon Beckett
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15* Don't miss 'THE CHEMISTRY OF DEATH' TV SERIES - now streaming on Paramount+ * Adapted from The Chemistry of Death and Written in Bone - starring Harry Treadaway as Dr David Hunter'A classy debut'... -
![The Chemistry of Death: The skin-crawlingly frightening David Hunter thriller by Simon Beckett 9780553817492 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9709140/10725828/9780553817492__58958.1781367893.jpg?c=1 "The Chemistry of Death: The skin-crawlingly frightening David Hunter thriller by Simon Beckett 9780553817492 [USED COPY]")
The Chemistry of Death: The skin-crawlingly frightening David Hunter thriller by Simon Beckett 9780553817492 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £2.99'A classy debut' The Times 'Best thriller I've read all year' Tess GerritsenDr David Hunter hoped he might at last have put the past behind him. But then they found what was left of Sally Palmer . . ... -
!["The Three Sisters" by Anton Chekhov 9780413771407 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9909233/10925764/9780413771407__33223.1786475968.jpg?c=1 ""The Three Sisters" by Anton Chekhov 9780413771407 [USED COPY]")
"The Three Sisters" by Anton Chekhov 9780413771407 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.37Chekhov's widely performed classic study of provincial life explores the irony of hope and the inadequacy of consolation.Michael Frayn's hugely popular translation is an AQA recommended text. For... -
![The "Cherry Orchard": A Comedy in Four Acts by Anton Chekhov](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/620552/620267/9780413695000__42419.1687396747.jpg?c=1 "The "Cherry Orchard": A Comedy in Four Acts by Anton Chekhov")
The "Cherry Orchard": A Comedy in Four Acts by Anton Chekhov
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.44'Frayn's translation, which strikes me as splendidly lucid and alive ...will be acted again and again' New Statesman In Chekhov's tragi-comedy - perhaps his most popular play - the Gayev family is... -
![Blue/Orange by Joe Penhall 9780413752703 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9707314/10724002/9780413752703__05796.1781365367.jpg?c=1 "Blue/Orange by Joe Penhall 9780413752703 [USED COPY]")
Blue/Orange by Joe Penhall 9780413752703 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.72In a London psychiatric hospital, an enigmatic patient claims to be the son of an African dictator - a story that becomes unnervingly plausible. An incendiary tale of race, madness and a Darwinian... -
Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life by Claire Tomalin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Katherine Mansfield is the celebrated biography be bestselling author Claire Tomalin'One of the best biographies I have ever read: a perfect match of author and subject. It should become a classic' ... -
The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft by Claire Tomalin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft is the acclaimed bestselling biography by Claire TomalinWinner of the Whitbread First Book PrizeWitty, courageous and unconventional, Mary Wollstonecraft was... -
Understanding Julian Barnes by Merritt Moseley 9781570038754
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91This is a telling assessment of the divergent works of a daring British writer. ""Understanding Julian Barnes"" surveys the career of an innovative British novelist who has been shortlisted for the... -
The Heart Of A Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £5.92WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ANDREY KURKOVA rich, successful Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and attempts a scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a... -
In Confidence: Talking Frankly about Fame Laurie Taylor 9781782797678
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40A study of celebrity based on the seventy odd interviews featured in the Sky Arts television series, In Confidence. Informants include David Schwimmer, Stephen Fry, Harry Belafonte, Alan Ayckbourn,... -
The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens by Claire Tomalin 9780241963258
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The Invisible Woman by Claire Tomalin is the acclaimed story of Nelly Ternan and Charles DickensWinner of the NCR Book Award, the Hawthornden Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize'This is the... -
Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain Barney Norris 9781784161354
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15A Times bestseller'Wonderful...I was hooked from the first page. It's the real stuff.' - Michael Frayn'Deeply affecting' - Guardian'Superb' - Mail on Sunday'Barney Norris is a rare and precious... -
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Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain by Barney Norris 9781784161354 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.87A Times bestseller'Wonderful...I was hooked from the first page. It's the real stuff.' - Michael Frayn'Deeply affecting' - Guardian'Superb' - Mail on Sunday'Barney Norris is a rare and precious... -
Foreplay: Hannah Arendt, the Two Adornos and Walter Benjamin by Carl Djerassi 9780299283346
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno were intellectual giants of the first half of the twentieth century. The drama Foreplay explores their deeply human and psychologically... -
![The Centre of the Bed: An Autobiography by Joan Bakewell 9780340823118 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9665485/10682205/9780340823118__72774.1781288345.jpg?c=1 "The Centre of the Bed: An Autobiography by Joan Bakewell 9780340823118 [USED COPY]")
The Centre of the Bed: An Autobiography by Joan Bakewell 9780340823118 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.98'Honest and intriguing ... beautifully written.' Observer'Joan Bakewell was everywhere at every stage: reporting on the Cuban missile crisis, interviewing Allen Ginsberg and Vaclav Havel, taking... -
The Centre of the Bed: An Autobiography by Joan Bakewell
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Honest and intriguing ... beautifully written.' Observer'Joan Bakewell was everywhere at every stage: reporting on the Cuban missile crisis, interviewing Allen Ginsberg and Vaclav Havel, taking... -
Thomas Hardy: The Time-torn Man by Claire Tomalin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The seminal biography of a great poet, novelist and sacred figure in English writing, Thomas Hardy, from bestselling author Clare Tomalin. 'An extraordinary story, beautifully told. Tomalin is the... -
A Country Doctor's Notebook by Mikhail Bulgakov
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83TRANSLATED BY MICHAEL GLENNYWith the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural Russia which, in 1916-17, was still largely... -
Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Jane Austen is the definitive biography of one of Britain's best-loved novelists, from the acclaimed author of Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, Charles Dickens: A Life and The Invisible Woman'As... -
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius by Graham Farmelo
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'A monumental achievement - one of the great scientific biographies.' Michael FraynThe Strangest Man is the Costa Biography Award-winning account of Paul Dirac, the famous physicist sometimes called... -
Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin 9780141036939
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Charles Dickens is the acclaimed definitive biography by bestselling author Claire Tomalin Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless... -
The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Maths Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets by Graham Farmelo 9780571321827
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'A superbly written, riveting book.'MARTIN REES, Astronomer Royal'I am overcome with admiration for its range and profundity. An amazing achievement.'MICHAEL FRAYN'A wonderful book.'TOM STOPPARDA... -
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Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin 9780141036939 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.40Charles Dickens is the acclaimed definitive biography by bestselling author Claire Tomalin Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless... -
![Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin 9780670917679 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9710362/10727041/9780670917679__00877.1781369903.jpg?c=1 "Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin 9780670917679 [USED COPY]")
Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin 9780670917679 [USED COPY]
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £2.58Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, but most of all a great... -
Understanding Jonathan Coe by Merritt Moseley 9781611176506
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £20.89In Understanding Jonathan Coe, the first full-length study of the British novelist, Merritt Moseley surveys a writer whose experimental technique has become increasingly well received and critically... -
The Women by T. C Boyle 9781408800980
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Welcome to the troubled, tempestuous world of Frank Lloyd Wright. Scandalous affairs rage behind closed doors, broken hearts are tossed aside, fires rip through the wings of the house and paparazzi... -
Anton Chekhov: A Life by Donald Rayfield 9780571253739
Booksplease Price: £27.41The description 'definitive' is too easily used, but Donald Rayfield's biography of Chekhov merits it unhesitatingly. To quote no less an authority than Michael Frayn:'With question the definitive... -
Arguments with England by Michael Blakemore
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'Some of the most exhilarating writing about theatre ever committed to paper, a beady and original analysis of Britain (and incidentally British theatre) in the 50s and 60s, a profound account of the... -
Restless by William Boyd 9780747586203
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.15It is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian emigree living in Paris. As war breaks out she is recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas Romer, a mysterious Englishman,... -
The Upstairs Room by Kate Murray-Browne
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.54'An incredible read. Clever, chilling, I couldn't put it down' Joanna Cannon, author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep In Kate Murray-Browne's debut, Eleanor and Richard have stretched themselves...