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A Literary Christmas: An Anthology by British Library 9780712352765
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.11This seasonal compendium collects together poems, short stories, and prose extracts by some of the greatest poets and writers in the English language. Like Charles Dickens's ghosts of Christmas Past... -
The British Library Magnificent Maps Puzzle Book Philip Parker 9780712352994
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.80The Library has one of the largest and most impressive cartographic collections in the world, including manuscript maps and atlases, administrative records and plans, largescale surveys and... -
Queens of the Abyss: Lost Stories from the Women of the Weird by Mike Ashley 9780712353915
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40It is too often accepted that during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries it was the male writers who developed and pushed the boundaries of the weird tale, with women writers following in... -
The Measure of Malice: Scientific Detection Stories by Martin Edwards 9780712352895
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78The detective's role is simple: to catch the culprit. Yet behind each casual observation lies a learned mind, trained on finding the key to the mystery. Crimes, whatever their form, are often best... -
Murder by Matchlight E. C. R. Lorac 9780712352222
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78London. 1945. The capital is shrouded in the darkness of the blackout, and mystery abounds in the parks after dusk. During a stroll through Regent's Park, Bruce Mallaig witnesses two men acting... -
Animals: The Book of the British Library Exhibition Malini Roy 9780712354332
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.45Artworks, manuscripts, printed works and wildlife sound recordings come together in this major compendium of the greatest and strangest representations of animals on record. Eighty detailed case... -
Pacific: An Ocean of Wonders Philip Hatfield 9780712352192
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £18.87If you centre a globe on Kiritimati (Christmas Island), all you see around it is a vast expanse of ocean. Islands of various sizes float in view while glimpses of continents encroach on the fringes,... -
Great Voyages: Daring Adventurers From James Cook to Gertrude Bell Deborah Patterson 9780712352857
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.80Discover the world through the eyes of the greatest explorers in history. Find out how the world was first circumnavigated by a slave and how travellers overcame the challenge of not having enough to... -
The Pocket Detective 2: 100+ More Puzzles, Brainteasers and Conundrums Kate Jackson 9780712353151
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Fancy yourself a golden age detective? In these pages lie the clues you will need to crack the most impenetrable of cases. Culprits lurk between the lines of word searches. Imposters are unearthed in... -
The Man with Six Senses by M. Jaeger 9780712353663
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Hilda is besotted with Michael, because Michael has a gift. Through some mutation, his mind is able to perceive 'lines of energy' and 'the vast ocean of movement' - things beyond the limits of the... -
Serpent, Siren, Maelstrom & Myth: Sea Stories and Folktales from Around the World by Gerry Smyth
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.35The sea is beautiful and alluring, but it is also dangerous and deadly. Above all, it is unknowable and untameable. Storytelling offered our ancestors a means to understand and interact with the... -
Impact of Evidence by Carol Carnac 9780712355254
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02"Her best yet. A classic story with well concealed and ingenious clues, sufficiently difficult to leave us properly surprised by both murderer and method." - The Spectator Near St. Brynneys in the... -
The Undying Monster: A Tale of the Fifth Dimension by Jessie Douglas Kerruish 9780712354936
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'Where grow pines and firs amain, Under Stars, sans heat or rain, Chief of Hammand, 'ware thy Bane!' The Hammand family have been hounded by an ancient curse for generations; now, after the close... -
The Book Lover's Bucket List: A Tour of Great British Literature Caroline Taggart 9780712353243
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.78Exploring the gardens, monuments, museums, and churches with walks both urban and rural, from the Bronte parsonage in Haworth to Zadie Smith's North London and Shakespeare's Stratford, The Book... -
War Among Ladies by Eleanor Scott 9780712354622
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Miss Cullen finds herself in a dreadful predicament. Four years from retirement, she can no longer meet the educational standards expected nor control her pupils at Besley High School for girls. She... -
Spectral Sounds: Unquiet Tales of Acoustic Weird by Manon Burz-Labrande 9780712354172
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Darkness now was around me - and sound. I seemed to stand in the centre of some yelling planet, the row resembling the resounding of many thousands of cannon, punctuated by strange crashing.' The... -
Crook o' Lune: A Lancashire Mystery by E.C.R. Lorac 9780712354868
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40"I'm minded of the way a fire spreads in dry bracken when we burn it off the fellside: tongues of flame this way and that - 'tis human tongues and words that's creeping like flames in brushwood." ... -
The Philosophy of Whisky by Billy Abbott 9780712354554
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.40'The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad but Whiskey!' - Mark Twain From illicit distillation to worldwide export, whisky has a powerful and... -
The Heart of the Forest: Why Woods Matter John Miller 9780712354561
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.90With a foreword by Kathleen Jamie. Trees can evoke powerful feelings. For Henry David Thoreau, the woods are places beyond civilisation; for Ursula Le Guin and J. R. R. Tolkien, they are loaded... -
Death of an Author by E.C.R. Lorac 9780712354677
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'I hate murders and I hate murderers, but I must admit that the discovery of a bearded corpse would give a fillip to my jaded mind.' Vivian Lestrange - celebrated author of the popular mystery... -
The Flaw in the Crystal: And Other Uncanny Stories by May Sinclair by May Sinclair 9780712354776
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40At that moment, in a flash that came like a shifting of her eyes, the world she looked at suffered a change... It was the same world, flat field for flat field and hill for hill; but radiant,... -
Breaking the News: 500 Years of News in Britain Jackie Harrison 9780712354417
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.90Whether tainted by suppression or hailed as a liberator of truth, the news is integral to our daily life. From the earliest news reporting over 500 years ago to today's 24-hour coverage of events in... -
Forest Silver: A Lake District Story by E M Ward 9780712355803
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'Far below, through the moonlit wood, the lake was visible again and the Island in it. Dim, like a phantom ship, it lay in the silver waters and from the nearer end of it shone a narrow rectangle of... -
Penned and Painted: The Art & Meaning of Books in Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts by Lucy Freeman Sandler 9780712354363
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £19.08The idea of the book was central throughout the western European and the eastern Mediterranean world in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. From the beginning, the word for 'book'-sefer in Hebrew,... -
Beasts with Five Fingers: Strange Tales of Disembodied Hands by Brian J. Showers 9780712369350
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02He looked up at the picture rail, and there was the hand holding on to a hook with three fingers, and slowly scratching the head of the parrot with the fourth.In 1919, W. F. Harvey published 'The... -
A General History of the Lives, Murders and Adventures of the Most Notorious Highwaymen by Captain Charles Johnson
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £11.71Captain Charles Johnson's celebrated A General History of the Pirates (1724) is the most famous book about pirates ever written. Buoyed by the volume's runaway success Johnson followed up with the... -
Death of a Bookseller by Bernard J Farmer
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.37An honest policeman, Sergeant Wigan, escorts a drunk man home one night to keep him out of trouble and, seeing his fine book collection, slowly falls in to the gentle art of book collecting. Just as... -
Yesterday's Tomorrows: The Story of Classic British Science Fiction in 100 Books by Mike Ashley
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.55Join Mike Ashley on a characterful tour of the most ingenious and often forgotten books from the rich history of classic British science fiction. From the enrapturing tales of H. G. Wells to the... -
Born of the Sun: Adventures in Our Solar System by Mike Ashley
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Terror in the steamy jungles of Venus, encounters on the arid expanse of Jupiter; asteroids mysteriously bursting with vegetation whizz past and reveal worlds beyond imagination orbiting the giver of... -
Wild Harbour by I. Macpherson 9780712352246
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Something has happened in Europe. Fearing the approach of to Britain, Terry and Hugh retreat from their home to the remote highlands of Scotland, prepared to live a simple existence together whilst... -
The Theft of the Iron Dogs: A Lancashire Mystery by E.C.R. Lorac 9780712354639
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40E.C.R. Lorac must be seriously considered for the position of leading writer of classic detective stories.' - Birmingham Post While hot on the heels of serial coupon-racketeer Gordon Ginner, Chief... -
The Christmas Egg: A Seasonal Mystery by Mary Kelly 9780712353106
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Chief Inspector Brett Nightingale and Sergeant Beddoes find the body of Princess Olga Karukhin, who fled from Russia at the time of the Revolution. Taking place in the three days leading up to... -
The Wheel Spins: aka The Lady Vanishes by Ethel Lina White 9780712354882
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'Then the rhythm of the train changed, and she seemed to be sliding backwards down a long slope. Click-click-click-click. The wheels rattled over the rails, with a sound of castanets.' Iris Carr's... -
The Book by Design: The Remarkable Story of the World's Greatest Invention P. J. M. Marks 9780712354042
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £27.60Why does a book look and feel the way it does? What can it tell us about the circumstances of its creation? This is a fascinating exploration of the development of book design through some of the... -
A History of America in 100 Maps Susan Schulten 9780712352178
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.65In this richly visual narrative, acclaimed historian Susan Schulten explores five centuries of American history through maps. From the voyages of European discovery to the digital age, she reveals... -
Death of Mr Dodsley: A London Bibliomystery by John Ferguson 9780712354721
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'A bookshop is a first-rate place for unobtrusive observation,' he continued. 'One can remain in it an indefinite time, dipping into one book after another, all over the place.' Mr. Richard... -
Mamma Diana Tutton 9780712353885
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'Joanna sat with her cheek against her [Libby's] shining hair. She had hardly thought of Steven since he slammed his way out of the house, but now, welling up within her and pouring out over her love... -
The Corpse in the Waxworks: A Paris Mystery by John Dickson Carr 9780712353731
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78'"The purpose, the illusion, the spirit of a waxworks. It is an atmosphere of death. It is soundless and motionless... Do you see?"' Last night Mademoiselle Duchene was seen heading into the... -
Death of Jezebel Christianna Brand 9780712354912
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40"A very neat version of the 'sealed room' mystery ... provides [Miss Brand] with excellent opportunities to indulge her sense of character and her pleasantly malicious wit, as well as her gift for... -
The Women's Suffrage Cookery Book by Mrs Aubrey Dowson 9780712353755
Booksplease Price: £10.86Enjoy hearty wholesome meals courtesy of the foot soldiers of the Women's Suffrage movement. The recipes in this book cover every meal of the day, as well as sections on vegetarian dishes, beverages...