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Year of the Rat: Undercover in the British Far Right Harry Shukman 9781784746049
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.45Far-right groups are now the most regular perpetrators of terrorist activity in the UK according to Prevent and are more visible than ever: on the streets, in the corridors of power. But how much do... -
I Want to Talk to You: And Other Conversations Diana Evans 9781784744243
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.07I am sitting in bed next to Mariah Carey. She’s wearing a pair of tiny boxer shorts and a belly-airing vest. “You can lie down if you want”, she says. “I mean it’s fine, be comfortable, “ so I lean... -
Switzy by Emma Cline 9781784746650
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.12A mesmerising portrait of an aging man’s last pilgrimage, from the New York Times best selling author of The Girls and The Guest.A private plane cuts through the winter night, somewhere over... -
Bluff: A powerful new collection reckoning with America, protest and poetry itself Danez Smith 9781784745738
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41‘A writer who never loses their way’ New York TimesA searing new collection from the Forward Prize-winning American poet about the year that the world’s gaze turned to Minneapolis – Smith's own home... -
![Elizabeth I: The Exhibition Catalogue by Susan Doran 9780701169398 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9710618/10727297/9780701169398__61780.1781370255.jpg?c=1 "Elizabeth I: The Exhibition Catalogue by Susan Doran 9780701169398 [USED COPY]")
Elizabeth I: The Exhibition Catalogue by Susan Doran 9780701169398 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £2.46An abused child, yet confident of her destiny, passionately sexual yet, she said, a virgin, famed as England's most successful ruler yet actually doing little, Elizabeth I is full of contradictions... -
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Blue Diary by Alice Hoffman 9780701173173 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: £3.00The story starts on a brutally gorgeous June day in the small town of Monroe, Massachusetts. Ethan and Jorie, the perfect, beautiful couple, have been married for 13 years, and they're still very... -
Father Alberto and the Flying Girl by Timothy X Atack 9781784746278
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.10‘Father Alberto and the Flying Girl is a story as strange as it is universal, as dark as it is joyous, as hilarious as it is heartfelt: it's a truly special book’ CHRISTOPHER WAKLING, author of What... -
![Lady Worsleys Whim by Hallie Rubenhold 9780701179809 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5836936/5914004/9780701179809__12459.1727408463.jpg?c=1 "Lady Worsleys Whim by Hallie Rubenhold 9780701179809 [USED COPY]")
Lady Worsleys Whim by Hallie Rubenhold 9780701179809 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: £3.35In February 1782, England opened their newspapers to read the details of Sir Richard Worsley vs. George Maurice Bisset, a Criminal Conversation trial in which the aggrieved Sir Richard attempted to... -
Call Me Ishmaelle by Xiaolu Guo 9781784745615
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.48I must work on a ship as a man... Yes, I must seek a new life, more adventurous than that of my fellows on this desolate salt marsh. I must find freedom on the seas.1843. Ishmaelle is born in a small... -
You Should Have Been Here Last Week: Sharp Cuttings from a Garden Writer by Tim Richardson 9781910258866
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12An amusing and thought-provoking compendium of columns, articles, essays and reviews from this acute, knowledgeable and irreverent commentator. In a career that has ranged from Country Life to... -
The Chatto Book of Modern Poetry, 1915-1955. by C. Day Lewis 9780313200991
Booksplease Price: £51.21Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Works of Charles Darwin: Vol 19: The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication (, 1875, Vol I) by Paul H. Barrett
Booksplease Price: £108.92The nineteenth volume in a 29-volume set which contain all Charles Darwin's published works. Darwin was one of the most influential figures of the 19th century. His work remains a central subject of... -
![Wilkie Collins: Bk 6: Bk. 6 by Peter Ackroyd 9780701169909 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9834782/10851310/9780701169909__26071.1782890644.jpg?c=1 "Wilkie Collins: Bk 6: Bk. 6 by Peter Ackroyd 9780701169909 [USED COPY]")
Wilkie Collins: Bk 6: Bk. 6 by Peter Ackroyd 9780701169909 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.82Short and oddly built, with a head too big for his body, extremely short-sighted, unable to stay still, dressed in colourful clothes, 'as if playing a certain part in the great general drama of... -
The Dice Cup by John Fuller 9780701188368
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.50'In the dice cup, then, life becomes not a design but a wager; not an adventure but a game...'Brimming with brio and brilliance, John Fuller's latest collection comprises exquisite philosophical... -
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Nigella Bites by Nigella Lawson 9780701172879 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £2.62Nigella is now not only the best and most glamorous young home cook in Britain, and a great cookery writer, she's also become a household name. Her first short series on Channel 4 had over 2 million... -
New Atalantis by Delarivier Manley
Booksplease Price: £108.12An early example of satirical political writing by a woman. The book, with its blend of politics and sexuality, is based on the public and private lives of prominent politicians and society figures... -
![The Life of Irene Nemirovsky: 1903-1942 by Olivier Philipponnat 9780701182885 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/10124838/11141158/9780701182885__56597.1789110425.jpg?c=1 "The Life of Irene Nemirovsky: 1903-1942 by Olivier Philipponnat 9780701182885 [USED COPY]")
The Life of Irene Nemirovsky: 1903-1942 by Olivier Philipponnat 9780701182885 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: £2.65Irene Nemirovsky's own life was as dramatic as any fiction. Dead at 39, author of 16 novels, a biography of Chekhov and many stories, few writers enjoy a posthumous resurgence as astonishing as hers... -
Strathallan: by Alicia LeFanu Anna M Fitzer 9781851969609
Booksplease Price: £55.09A novel, which addresses central themes of adultery, obsession and inheritance. It follows the fortunes of Matilda Melbourne who displays virtue, delicacy and an unwavering commitment to the... -
The Collected Letters of Ellen Terry, Volume 3 by Katharine Cockin
Booksplease Price: £70.59Ellen Terry's correspondence was both exuberant and extensive. Her remaining letters provide a fascinating insight into the dynamics of the Victorian theatre, and the difficulties of life for a woman... -
![Trespass by Rose Tremain 9780701177942 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9710635/10727314/9780701177942__24125.1781370274.jpg?c=1 "Trespass by Rose Tremain 9780701177942 [USED COPY]")
Trespass by Rose Tremain 9780701177942 [USED COPY]
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £2.57In a silent valley stands an isolated stone farmhouse, the Mas Lunel. Its owner is Aramon Lunel, an alcoholic so haunted by his violent past that he's become incapable of all meaningful action,... -
The Works of Charles Darwin: v. 4: Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Beagle, Under the Command of Captain Fitzroy, During the Years 1832-1836 (1838-1843) by Paul H. Barrett
Booksplease Price: £54.59The fourth volume in a 29-volume set which contain all Charles Darwin's published works. Darwin was one of the most influential figures of the 19th century. His work remains a central subject of... -
Counterfeit Ladies: The Life and Death of Moll Cutpurse and the Case of Mary Carleton by Elizabeth Spearing
Booksplease Price: £108.12Biographies of two 17th-century female criminals, both celebrated in their day. These are the first editions published since the 17th century.Book InformationISBN 9781851960873Author Elizabeth... -
Black Country by Liz Berry
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE BEST FIRST COLLECTION 2014*PBS Recommendation 2014*'When I became a bird, Lord, nothing could not stop me...'In Black Country, Liz Berry takes flight: to Wrens Nest, Gosty... -
The Conquest of Rome by Matilde Serao by Mathilde Serao
Booksplease Price: £70.29Matilde Serao (1857-1927) was a successful and prolific journalist and novelist. This book tells the story of the arrival in Rome of a provincial deputy from the poor South. It paints a portrait of... -
The Soldier's Orphan: A Tale: by Mrs Costello by Clare Broome Saunders
Booksplease Price: £86.28This is a novel virtually forgotten by modern readers, but one that deserves reassessment with this critical edition. Raised by guardians, Louisa's fate is intertwined with the neighbouring Stanley... -
The Works of Charles Darwin: v. 5: Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Beagle, Under the Command of Captain Fitzroy, During the Years 1832-1836 by Paul H. Barrett
Booksplease Price: £70.59The fifth volume in a 29-volume set which contain all Charles Darwin's published works. Darwin was one of the most influential figures of the 19th century. His work remains a central subject of study... -
The Republic of Motherhood by Liz Berry
RRP: £8.00Booksplease Price: £6.18*'The Republic of Motherhood' Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem*'I crossed the border into the Republic of Motherhoodand found it a queendom, a wild queendom.'In this bold and resonant... -
The Works of Charles Darwin: Vol 29: Erasmus Darwin (1879) / the Autobiography of Charles Darwin (1958) by Paul H. Barrett
Booksplease Price: £108.92The 29th volume in a 29-volume set which contain all Charles Darwin's published works. This volume concludes with a text on Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles Darwin and the autobiography of... -
Taxation and Debt in the Early Modern City by Michael Limberger 9781848931855
Booksplease Price: £110.69Fiscal relations between states and cities in early modern Europe is a major concern for economic and financial historians. This collection of eleven essays is based on new research using documentary... -
Now and for a Time by John Fuller 9780701173517
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83Throughout his long and prolific career, John Fuller has been admired for the way in which he melds levity with serious reflection. In this beautiful new collection of twenty-one poems he proves... -
Translations and Continuations: Riccoboni and Brooke, Graffigny and Roberts by Marijn S. Kaplan
Booksplease Price: £37.42This edition connects four female writers from two different countries, presenting the English translations of two of the most popular eighteenth-century French novels and a sequel to one of them... -
Maude by Christina Rossetti, On Sisterhoods and A Woman's Thoughts About Women By Dinah Mulock Craik by Christina G. Rossetti
Booksplease Price: £54.29"Maude" was written when Christina Rossetti was 19 and examines the heroine's struggle to resist the notion that modesty and domesticity constitute the duties of women. "On Sisterhoods" by Dinah... -
The Corinna of England, or a Heroine in the Shade; A Modern Romance: by E M Foster by Sylvia Bordoni 9781851969241
Booksplease Price: £54.29A novel that helps you understand the British reaction to Corinne as well as of its cultural, social and gender implications.Book InformationISBN 9781851969241Author Sylvia BordoniFormat HardbackPage -
Joanna Baillie: A Selection of Poems and Plays by Amanda Gilroy
Booksplease Price: £86.58This work includes Joanna Baillie's important poems and critical prefaces, the tragedies "De Montfort" and "Basil", and the comedy, "The Alienated Manor", together with substantial extracts from her... -
Beethoven Variations: Poems on a Life by Ruth Padel
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £10.12From the author of the bestselling Darwin: A Life in Poems, Ruth Padel's new collection follows in the footsteps of one of the world's greatest composers, Beethoven, and investigates what his life... -
A Herring Famine by Adam O'Riordan 9780701187972
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.50The poems of this dazzling second collection are of contradictory impulses: of abundance and famine, of absence and presence, of endings and new beginnings. Here again are the intelligent, elegant... -
Rhyming Reason: The Poetry of Romantic-Era Psychologists by Michelle Faubert
Booksplease Price: £46.49During the Romantic era, psychology and literature enjoyed a fluid relationship. Faubert focuses on psychologist-poets who grew out of the literary-medical culture of the Scottish Enlightenment. They... -
New Blazing World and Other Writings by Kate Lilley
Booksplease Price: £108.12"New Blazing World" (1666), is one of the earliest pieces of science fiction, telling the story of a voyage to a Utopian World. The Duchess of Newcastle (1623-73) was fascinated by contemporary... -
Building: Letters 1960-1975 by Isaiah Berlin 9780701185763
RRP: £59.95Booksplease Price: £38.84In the period covered here (1960-75) Isaiah Berlin creates Wolfson College, Oxford; John F. Kennedy becomes US President (and is assassinated); Berlin dines with JFK on the day he is told of the... -
Almost the Equinox: Selected Poems by Sarah Maguire 9780701188559
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.08* A POETRY BOOK SOCIETY SPECIAL COMMENDATION *Sarah Maguire's first collection, Spilt Milk, established her as one of the most original voices in British poetry, and led to her being chosen as one of...