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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 9780241971826
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.65Penguin's commemorative hardback reissue of One Hundred Years of Solitude by late Nobel laureate and author Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a timeless classic and the perfect Christmas gift for any... -
Newgate: London's Prototype of Hell by Stephen Halliday
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31There have been more prisons in London than in any other European city. Of these, Newgate was the largest, most notorious and worst. Built during the twelfth century, it became a legendary place -... -
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.53'As I walk'd through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a Denn; And I laid me down in that place to sleep: And as I slept I dreamed a Dream.' So begins one of... -
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 9780241968581
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.47ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS BOOKS AND WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE_______________________________'Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to... -
Jeopardy of Every Wind: The biography of Captain Thomas Bowrey Sue Paul 9781912049622
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Captain Thomas Bowrey gained renown in numerous fields. He would publish the first ever Malay-English dictionary; he was involved in the African slave trade to India and he collaborated with Daniel... -
The Pirate King: The Strange Adventures of Henry Avery and the Birth of the Golden Age of Piracy by Sean Kingsley 9781639365951
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.50The incredible story of the "Robin Hood of the Seas," who absconded with millions during the Golden Age of Piracy and who harbored an even greater secret.Henry Avery of Devon pillaged a fortune from... -
Pandemic Obsession: How They Feature in our Popular Culture by Stephen Basdeo
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24Pestilence entered The ordinary pursuits of society were paralysed; all previously-formed plans of happiness, business, trade, occupation, and domestic arrangement, were checked as cruelly and... -
Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster by Jonathan Auxier
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16From the New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Auxier comes an enchanting standalone novel about the power of friendship and the beauty of finding home Nan Sparrow is one of London's... -
Bachelors Anonymous by P. G. Wodehouse
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.43Much married American movie mogul Ivor Llewellyn depends on his friends at Bachelors Anonymous to keep him out of romantic entanglements on his trip to London. First, they arrange for Joe Pickering... -
Bunker: What It Takes to Survive the Apocalypse by Bradley Garrett
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 'An extraordinary achievement . . . gripping, grim and witty' Robert MacFarlane 'Unputdown-able ... No book could be more timely' Richard J Evans Today, the... -
Go Down Moses And Other Stories by William Faulkner 9780099546160
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47This title includes seven dramatic stories which reveal Faulkner's compassionate understanding of the Deep South. His characters are humble people who live out their lives within the same small... -
The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid by Lawrence Wright 9780141998138
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'A virtuoso feat ... a book of panoramic breadth' New York Times Book Review'A devastating analysis ... Wright is a master of knitting together complex narratives' The ObserverJust as Lawrence... -
Our Gang: Starring Trick and His Friends by Philip Roth 9780099389118
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.46'Disturbing, logical and very funny... In short, a masterpiece' New York Times Book ReviewA ferocious political satire in the great tradition of Jonathan Swift and Mark Twain, Our Gang is Philip... -
Memories of the Ford Administration by John Updike
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23When a history professor - Alfred Clayton, the hero of John Updike's fifteenth novel - is asked to record his impressions of the Ford Administration, he recalls a turbulent piece of personal history... -
The Newsmongers: A History of Tabloid Journalism Terry Kirby 9781789149418
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24The Newsmongers unfolds the seedy history of tabloid journalism, from the first printed 'Strange Newes' sheets of the sixteenth century to the sensationalism of today's digital age. The narrative... -
Masters of the Post: The Authorized History of the Royal Mail by Duncan Campbell-Smith 9780241957660
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53'Vivid, detailed, colourful ... a first-class history ... all sorts of delights leap out of these pages' Daily TelegraphFrom the very first 'master of the post' in 1512 to the vast network of today,... -
The Fight and Other Writings by William Hazlitt 9780140436136
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Hazlitt is one of the greatest masters of English prose style and this new selection demonstrates the variety and richness of his writing. The volume includes classic pieces of drama and literature... -
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Restoration London: Everyday Life in the 1660s by Liza Picard 9781842127308 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.33How did you clean your teeth in the 1660s? What make-up did you wear? What pets did you keep?Making use of every possible contemporary source, Liza Picard presents an engrossing picture of how life... -
Restoration London: Everyday Life in the 1660s by Liza Picard
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26How did you clean your teeth in the 1660s? What make-up did you wear? What pets did you keep?Making use of every possible contemporary source, Liza Picard presents an engrossing picture of how life... -
The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains by Thomas W. Laqueur 9780691157788
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £33.62The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone else care what became of his corpse? In The Work of... -
The Beautifull Cassandra: A Novel in Twelve Chapters by Jane Austen 9780691181530
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.46One of Jane Austen's most charming youthful "novels"-in-miniature-presented in a deluxe illustrated edition that will delight all Austen fansMost people think Jane Austen wrote only six novels... -
Essex Boys by Karen Bowman
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24Warrior, prince, lover and rogue: there is much to be said for the Essex man. Henry VIII, Daniel Defoe and Wat Tyler are all covered along with many more in this exciting exploration of Essex Boys... -
Classic Starts (R): The Swiss Family Robinson Johann David Wyss 9781454945338
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.16A shipwreck; a deserted island; a family wondering if they can survive. Rich in suspense and surprises, The Swiss Family Robinson entices young readers to come along on a wonderful adventure,... -
Anthology Year 5 (Treasure House) by 9780008160487
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58This beautifully illustrated anthology is a indispensable collection of extracts from well-loved children's books. Featuring fiction from Daniel Defoe, Arthur Conan Doyle and Rudyard Kipling as well... -
Abridged Classics: Brief Summaries of Books You Were Supposed to Read But Probably Didn't by John Atkinson
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.02A collection of irreverent summations of more than 100 well-known works of literature, from Anna Karenina to Wuthering Heights, cleverly described in the fewest words possible and accompanied with... -
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss 9781454951193
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78If you were stranded on a desert island, what would you do? Young readers can read and imagine in this unabridged paperback edition of The Swiss Family Robinson. After their ship crashes onto a... -
The History of Hayy Ibn Yaqzan by Abu Ja'far,al-Ishbili Abu Bakr ibn al-Tufail
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.76'The History of Hayy Ibn Yaqzan is the chief work of the Arab philosopher and physician, Abu Bakr Ibn Tugail, and is thought by some to have been the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's classic work... -
The Swiss Family Robinson J. D. Wyss 9780241734360
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Puffin Classics: the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every childRediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this... -
Stoke Newington: The Story of a Dissenting Village by Rab MacWilliam 9780750990912
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Stoke Newington has long been one of London's most intriguing and radical areas. Famous residents included Daniel Defoe, Mary Wollstonecraft and Edgar Allan Poe, and it was home to a variety of... -
The Last Greek by Christian Cameron
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Few writers are better at conjuring up a vision of Ancient Greece' THE TIMES* * * * * * *210BCE.The most powerful empires in the world brawl over the spoils of a declawed Greece.Philopoemen has a... -
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The Swiss Family Robinson by J. D. Wyss 9780141325309 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.41Introduced by America's first children's laureate and bestselling author, Jon Scieszka.Following a wild and raging storm, the Swiss family Robinson are stranded at sea. But the thundering waves have... -
KS2 Comprehension Book 4 by Celia Warren 9780721711577
RRP: £4.95Booksplease Price: £4.70Key Stage 2 Comprehension provides a unique collection of stimulating texts that appeal strongly to both boys and girls, together with questions that both build and stretch comprehension skills and... -
Robinson Crusoe by 9781913519438
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.25The perfect gift for a young adventurer. Share your beloved childhood stories with the next generation! Young and impulsive, Robinson Crusoe defies the advice of his parents and runs away to sea. He... -
British Ghost Stories: From The Golden Age of the Ghost Story by Dr Stephen Carver, Ph.D 9781840229769
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.24Selected and Introduced by Stephen Carver. 'Only their eyes, their terrible eyes, were living; and those eyes were all turned menacingly upon me!' - Amelia B. Edwards. 'I want to know what it is... -
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 9780198807452
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78"Pray, pray be composed," cried Elinor, "and do not betray what you feel to every body present. Perhaps he has not observed you yet." For Elinor Dashwood, sensible and sensitive, and her romantic,... -
The Counterhuman Imaginary: Earthquakes, Lapdogs, and Traveling Coinage in Eighteenth-Century Literature by Laura Brown 9781501773242
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91The Counterhuman Imaginary proposes that alongside the historical, social, and institutional structures of human reality that seem to be the sole subject of the literary text, an other-than-human... -
Truro Through Time by Christine Parnell
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.49In 1698 Celia Fiennes an intrepid traveler and relative of the Boscawen family rode into Truro on horseback and immediately loved it although she described it in her diary as 'a ruinated and... -
General History of the Robberies & Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates by Charles Captain Johnson
Booksplease Price: £20.64Originally published in 1724-and now with an introduction and commentary by David Cordingly, best-selling author of the pirate classic Under the Black Flag-this famous account of the most notorious... -
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 9780198793359
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.00'Pray, pray be composed,' cried Elinor, 'and do not betray what you feel to every body present. Perhaps he has not observed you yet.' For Elinor Dashwood, sensible and sensitive, and her romantic,... -
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan 9780393927719
Booksplease Price: £13.99Briefly imprisoned for preaching without a license, he is believed to have begun writing the most famous Christian allegory, The Pilgrim's Progress, while in jail. The Pilgrim's Progress was...