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Shady Characters: Ampersands, Interrobangs and other Typographical Curiosities by Keith Houston
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Where does the ampersand get its name from? What does the hashtag have to do with commerce in ancient Rome? Keith Houston gives the answers in this delightfully entertaining book.From the pilcrow to... -
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First Class: A History of Britain in 36 Postage Stamps by Christopher West 9780224095471 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.58This delightfully playful history uses 36 of our most expressive, quirky, beautiful and sometimes baffling stamps to tell us the story of Britain, through Dickens and the potato famine to Thatcher... -
![The Map That Changed the World: A Tale of Rocks, Ruin and Redemption by Simon Winchester 9780140280395 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/4847692/8665898/9780140280395__19216.1743274598.jpg?c=1 "The Map That Changed the World: A Tale of Rocks, Ruin and Redemption by Simon Winchester 9780140280395 [USED COPY]")
The Map That Changed the World: A Tale of Rocks, Ruin and Redemption by Simon Winchester 9780140280395 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £1.85THE EXTRAORDINARY TALE OF THE FATHER OF MODERN GEOLOGYHidden behind velvet curtains above a stairway in a house in London's Piccadilly is an enormous and beautiful hand-coloured map - the first... -
An Essay on Typography by Eric Gill
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Eric Gill's opinionated manifesto on typography argues that 'a good piece of lettering is as beautiful a thing to see as any sculpture or painted picture'. This essay explores the place of typography... -
The Book of Seconds: The Incredible Stories of the Ones that Didn't (Quite) Win by Mark Mason
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78The Book of Seconds reveals the exciting, intriguing and heroic runners-up who until now have been kept in the shadow of the firsts.Did you know that the winner of the second Tour de France rode 25... -
Courses for Horses: A Journey Round Racing in Britain and Ireland by Nicholas Clee 9781474618434
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26SHORTLISTED FOR BEST SPORTS WRITING AT THE 2024 SPORTS BOOK AWARDSIn parks, on downlands and heaths, by motorways, overlooking firths: the racecourses of Britain and Ireland are as various as the... -
The Paris Mapguide by Michael Middleditch
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31The award-winning, bestselling The Paris Mapguide by Michael Middleditch - the best streetmap on the marketThe perfect travelling companion, this clever guide combines illustrated, easy-to-read maps... -
Because Internet: Understanding how language is changing Gretchen McCulloch 9781529112825
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46THE ACCLAIMED NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Have you ever puzzled over how to punctuate a text message? Wondered where memes came from? Fret no more: Because Internet is the perfect book for... -
How Words Get Good: The Story of Making a Book by Rebecca Lee 9781788166386
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.60'Any bibliophile will find many enjoyable nuggets in this compendium of book chat' Stephen Poole, Guardian 'An engaging little eye-opener about the publishing business, full of tasty nuggets about... -
Millions Like Us: Women's Lives in the Second World War by Virginia Nicholson
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51In Millions Like Us Virginia Nicholson tells the story of the women's Second World War, through a host of individual women's experiences. We tend to see the Second World War as a man's war, featuring... -
Why Fonts Matter by Sarah Hyndman 9780753557235
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.07Discover the incredible power of fonts - how they influence your decisions, alter your perceptions, stir your emotions and change how you understand the world. Graphic designer Sarah Hyndman shares... -
Hans Christian Andersen: The Life of a Storyteller by Jackie Wullschlager
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.85The first English language biographer to have returned to the original Danish sources, Wullshlager creates a fascinating picture of Andersen as a deeply troubled man, as far from Danny Kaye's... -
Finding Peggy by Meg Henderson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Glasgow in the 1950s was a deprived and often violent place. Meg Henderson was part of a large family, and when the tenement block in which they lived collapsed they had to move to the notorious... -
The Penguin Modern Classics Book by Henry Eliot
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.98The essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the worldFor six decades the Penguin Modern Classics series has been an era-defining, ever-evolving series of books, encompassing works by... -
National Service: A Generation in Uniform 1945-1963 by Richard Vinen
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43Winner of the Templer Medal and the Wolfson History PrizeSunday Times Top 10 BestsellerRichard Vinen's National Service is a serious - if often very entertaining - attempt to get to grips with the... -
Design as Art by Bruno Munari
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.66One of the last surviving members of the futurist generation, Bruno Munari's Design as Art is an illustrated journey into the artistic possibilities of modern design translated by Patrick Creagh... -
Guy Mannering by Sir Walter Scott
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Guy Mannering is an astrologer who only half-believes in his art. Instead he places his faith in patriarchal power, wealth and social position. But the Scotland of this novel is a nation in which... -
The Making of the British Landscape: How We Have Transformed the Land, from Prehistory to Today by Francis Pryor
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.67From our suburban streets which still trace the boundaries of long vanished farms to the Norfolk Broads, formed when medieval peat pits flooded - evidence of man's effect on Britain is everywhere... -
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Fred Dibnah - Made in Britain by David Hall 9780593064696 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £2.61In 2004, after felling his last chimney and retiring from steeplejacking, Fred took to the road on his engine for the BBC series Made in Britain. Travelling the length and breadth of the country, his... -
Silence: A Christian History by Diarmaid MacCulloch
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95This book unravels a polyphony of silences from the history of Christianity and beyond. MacCulloch considers Judaeo-Christian borrowings from Greek explorations of the divine, and the silences which... -
The Affluent Society: Updated with a New Introduction by the Author by John Kenneth Galbraith
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23John Kenneth Galbraith's international bestseller The Affluent Society is a witty, graceful and devastating attack on some of our most cherished economic myths. As relevant today as when it was... -
The Morbid Age: Britain and the Crisis of Civilisation, 1919 - 1939 by Richard Overy
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43Richard Overy's The Morbid Age opens a window onto the creative but anxious period between the First and Second World Wars. British intellectual life between the wars stood at the heart of... -
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Forgotten Voices of the Second World War (Illustrated) by Max Arthur 9780091917746 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.54This landmark series brought history to life in a way that had never been done before - through the words of ordinary men and women. Their eyewitness accounts tell the story of the Second World War... -
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Berlin: Imagine a City by Rory MacLean 9781780224589 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.41The first single-volume biography of Berlin, one of the world's great cities - told via twenty-one portraits, from medieval times to the twenty-first century.A city devastated by Allied bombs,... -
The Book of Emma Reyes: A Memoir in Correspondence by Emma Reyes
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In this startlingly original memoir, composed of twenty-three letters written over the course of thirty years, Emma Reyes describes in vivid, painterly detail the remarkable courage and limitless... -
Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience by Shaun Usher
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.18Letters of Note, the book based on the beloved website of the same name, became an instant classic on publication in 2013, selling hundreds of thousands of copies. This new edition sees the... -
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Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience by Shaun Usher 9781782112235 [USED COPY]
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £2.82Letters of Note is a collection of over one hundred of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and unusual letters, based on the seismically popular website of the same name - an online museum of... -
Berlin: Imagine a City Rory MacLean 9781780224589
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.80The first single-volume biography of Berlin, one of the world's great cities - told via twenty-one portraits, from medieval times to the twenty-first century.A city devastated by Allied bombs,... -
The Car: The rise and fall of the machine that made the modern world Bryan Appleyard 9781474615419
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.77More than any other technology, cars have transformed our culture. Cars have created vast wealth as well as novel dreams of freedom and mobility. They have transformed our sense of distance and made... -
The Car by Bryan Appleyard
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.42More than any other technology, cars have transformed our culture. Cars have created vast wealth as well as novel dreams of freedom and mobility. They have transformed our sense of distance and made... -
Postcards to Europe: The unique must-have collection Various 9781409177555
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40From Paris to Prague, from the past to the present, authors and artists explore what Europe means to them - and us.Through moving personal letters, hilarious anecdotes, brilliant new fiction, and... -
A Cheesemonger's Compendium of British & Irish Cheese Ned Palmer 9781788167161
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41FROM THE BESTSELLING CHEESEMONGER-HISTORIAN A Cheesemonger's Compendium is a fully-illustrated standalone guide to the artisanal and farmhouse cheeses of the British Isles. A must-have for... -
Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties and Subtle Shades of Meaning Eli Burnstein 9781805227229
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'Delightful' Steven Pinker | 'A joy to read' David Crystal | 'Gulp it down' Lucy Mangan | 'A gem' Simon Garfield Swamp or bog? Guilt or shame? Clementine or tangerine? We like to think... -
Daphne by M. C. Beaton 9781849014885
Booksplease Price: £16.21Daphne Armitage is the acknowleged beauty of that family of renowned belles, but beauty is more than skin deep.Black-haired, exquisite Daphne is certain she can avoid the turmoil of true love by... -
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Daphne by M. C. Beaton 9781849014885 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £1.82Daphne Armitage is the acknowleged beauty of that family of renowned belles, but beauty is more than skin deep.Black-haired, exquisite Daphne is certain she can avoid the turmoil of true love by... -
The Apple Revolution: Steve Jobs, the Counterculture and How the Crazy Ones Took over the World by Luke Dormehl 9780753540626
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £15.14This is the story of how the sex, drugs and rock `n' roll generation changed the world for ever. Meet the Crazy Ones who created Silicon Valley - the hippies who started the Homebrew Computer Club;... -
Granta 91: Wish You Were Here by Ian Jack 9780903141802
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £16.53LAST GASPS Thoughts about Alan while waiting for Harold, by Simon Gray The author of the celebrated and widely-acclaimed The Smoking Diaries returns to print with a tender, affecting, and of course... -
Letters of Note: Sex by Shaun Usher
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02In Letters of Note: Sex, Shaun Usher collects together some of the most noteworthy missives ever written on the subject, from euphemism-laden, flirtatious exchanges and desire-driven expressions of... -
My Dear Bessie: A Love Story in Letters Chris Barker 9781782115670
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23AS HEARD ON RADIO 4'Utterly wonderful' NINA STIBBE, author of Love, NinaTwenty hours have gone since I last wrote. I have been thinking of you. I shall think of you until I post this, and until you... -
Manchester United Ruined My Life Colin Shindler 9780755363889
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Colin Shindler was dealt a cruel hand by Fate when he became a passionate Manchester City supporter. In this brilliant sporting autobiography he recalls the great characters of his youth, like his...