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Selected Poems by Tony Harrison 9780241964842
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.59A revised edition of Tony Harrison's award-winning Selected Poems This indispensable new selection of Tony Harrison's poems includes over sixty poems from his famous sonnet sequence The School of... -
Collected Poems by Tony Harrison 9780241974353
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Tony Harrison published his first pamphlet of poems in 1964 and for over fifty years has been a prominent force in modern poetry. His poetic range is truly far-reaching, from the intimate tenderness... -
The Poetry Pharmacy Returns: More Prescriptions for Courage, Healing and Hope by William Sieghart
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.68'A matchless compound of hug, tonic and kiss' Stephen Fry on William Sieghart's bestselling Poetry PharmacyThe Poetry Pharmacy is one of the bestselling (and most giftable) poetry anthologies of... -
Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73Beatrix Potter's books are adored by millions, but they were just one aspect of an extraordinary life. This captivating biography brings us the passionate, unconventional woman behind the beloved... -
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A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin 9780241239957 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £3.09A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller As one of the best biographers of her generation, Claire Tomalin has written about great novelists and poets to huge success: now, she turns to look at her own life... -
Selected Poems by Brian Patten
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78A selection of Brian Patten's best work over the last forty-five years, chosen by the poet himself. The earliest of these poems, 'Sleep Now', was written when Patten was fifteen, the latest when he... -
Damn' Rebel Bitches: The Women of the '45 by Maggie Craig 9781910948293
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'A racily written, well-researched and heart-warming account' Scots MagazineToo many historians have ignored the role of women in the '45. This book aims to redress the balance. Damn' Rebel... -
The (Not Quite) Biggest Ever Tim Vine Joke Book: Children's Edition Tim Vine 9781849416207
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10Comedian and TV star, Tim Vine, will have you laughing for hours with this new, abridged version of his hilarious joke book . . .Velcro.What a rip off.Why do you never see an elephant on a bus?... -
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Spirit Machines by Robert Crawford 9780224059015 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.00Booksplease Price: £2.72SPIRIT MACHINES, Robert Crawford's fourth collection, attends imaginatively to the fusion of spiritual experience and the insistently material world. In several of the poems, emotional and religious... -
The Poetry of Birds: edited by Simon Armitage and Tim Dee by Simon Armitage
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51A STUNNING COLLECTION OF POEMS CURATED BY THE NEW POET LAUREATE AND THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FOUR FIELDS___________________________'Some of the most ethereal verse ever written' Sunday Telegraph 'A... -
The Complete Poems by William Blake
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.73One of the great English Romantic poets, William Blake (1757-1827) was an artist, poet, mystic and visionary. His work ranges from the deceptively simple and lyrical Songs of Innocence and their... -
The Poems by W. B. Yeats 9781857151039
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.54A leader of the twentieth-century Irish nationalist movement, who eventually became one of the Free States's senators, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is also the greatest poet that nation has yet... -
The Art of Love by Ovid 9780099518822
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.51The Art of Love may have been written in the days of gladiators and emperors, but Ovid remains the smartest teacher on the subject of love in all of history. His advice is enduringly useful and... -
Demolition by Neil Rollinson 9780224081719
RRP: £9.00Booksplease Price: £6.84With the frank, subversive, and very funny poems in his first two books, Neil Rollinson established himself as a deft cartographer of the sensual world. While a rich and tactile eroticism still... -
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Memoirs by Kingsley Amis 9780091745332 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: £2.54An autobiography which describes the author's family in South London, his school days, Oxford, his joining the Army midway through the war and later leaving the academic world to work as a full-time... -
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101 Salivations: For the love of dogs by Rachael Hale 9780091913663 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £2.69For thousands of years, the dog has been at the centre of our affections. Over the centuries - from the wolves who first tentatively ventured close to the camp fire to the devoted little bundles of... -
Burning the Books: RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK: A History of Knowledge Under Attack Richard Ovenden 9781529378771
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26An unforgettable 3,000-year-old journey - from Mesopotamian clay tablets trying to predict the future, to Tudor book-hunters and Nazi bonfires, and on into the dangers of our increasingly digital... -
On Elizabeth Bishop by Colm Toibin 9780691154114
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.73In this book, novelist Colm Toibin offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences--the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her... -
The Rising Of The Moon Gladys Mitchell 9781860490743
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Every full moon a Ripper runs amok on the streets of Brentford. Masters Simon and Keith Innes set out to catch the killer under the disturbing guidance of the repellently delightful and now immortal... -
The Modern Japanese Prose Poem: An Anthology of Six Poets by Dennis Keene 9780691616339
Booksplease Price: £40.76Though the prose poem came into existence as a principally French literary genre in the nineteenth century, it occupies a place of considerable importance in twentieth-century Japanese poetry. This... -
On Elizabeth Bishop Colm Tóibín 9780691271040
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.46A compelling portrait of a beloved poet from one of today's most acclaimed novelistsIn this book, novelist Colm Toibin offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most... -
Railway Rhymes Peter Ashley 9781841597782
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82Railway Rhymes is probably the first time that the poetry of railways has been brought together into one dedicated volume. Here will certainly be found the old favourites - Philip Larkin's 'Whitsun... -
Vernon Watkins: New Selected Poems by Vernon Watkins 9781857548471
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.59Brought back into print in 2017 to mark the 50th anniversary of Vernon Watkins' death. Vernon Watkins (1906-1967) was called by Kathleen Raine: 'the greatest lyric poet of my generation.' Dylan... -
Futura-isms by Futura
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.42A collection of fascinating quotations from the legendary artist and graffiti pioneerFutura is a living legend-a world-renowned painter, designer, and photographer who was a pioneer of graffiti art... -
Civil To Strangers by Barbara Pym
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02INTRODUCED BY HAZEL HOLT'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' Richard Osman'I'd sooner read a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen' Philip LarkinWhen Barbara Pym died in 1980, she left a considerable... -
Granta 41: Biography 9780140140521
Booksplease Price: £16.29Why do biographies remain so popular? "Granta 41" presents a special collection of biographies organized around a single idea - how do you tell the story of a life?. Also in this issue is the... -
Crampton Hodnet by Barbara Pym 9780349016139
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.44INTRODUCED BY LOUIS DE BERNIERES'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN'I'd sooner read a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen' PHILIP LARKINFormidable Miss Doggett fills her life by giving... -
Summer: An Anthology for the Changing Seasons by Melissa Harrison
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.61Summer is a season of richness: gold against blue; sun dazzle on water; sweet fragrance, and the sound of insects, filling the air. We feel the sand between our toes, or the grass beneath our feet... -
The Faber Book of Christmas by Simon Rae
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.68If the most wonderful time of year is enough to plunge you into a gloom, look no further. This collection of spirited stories and vibrant poetry will brighten your mood as it brings together Charles... -
Palgrave's Golden Treasury by Francis Turner Palgrave
RRP: £13.49Booksplease Price: £10.46Originally published in 1861, Palgrave's Golden Treasury quickly established itself as the most popular selection of English poems. Today it stands as a testament to the richness of our finest native... -
Holy Disorders (A Gervase Fen Mystery) by Edmund Crispin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.92As inventive as Agatha Christie, as hilarious as P.G. Wodehouse - discover the delightful detective stories of Edmund Crispin. Crime fiction at its quirkiest and best. Holy Disorders takes... -
A Very Private Eye: An Autobiography in Diaries and Letters by Barbara Pym 9781447265399
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.30'Barbara Pym is one of my most favourite novelists. Few other writers have given me more laughter and more pleasure.' Jilly Cooper'Could one write a book based on one's diaries over thirty years? I... -
Keats by Sir Andrew Motion 9780571346660
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.68First published in 1997, Keats was the first major biography of this tragic hero of Romanticism for some thirty years, and it differs from its predecessors in important respects. The outline of the... -
The Great Modern Poets: An anthology of the essential poets and poetry since 1900 by Michael Schmidt 9781529434156
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78An essential introduction to the most significant poems and their works since 1900Reproduced within this collection are some of the greatest poems of the 20th century, featuring works from major... -
A Few Green Leaves by Barbara Pym 9781529091922
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Barbara Pym is one of my most favourite novelists. Few other writers have given me more laughter and more pleasure' - Jilly Cooper, author of The Rutshire Chronicles series'I'm a huge fan of Barbara... -
The Invention of Dr Cake by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67What is the truth about the mysterious Dr Cake? Why, at his funeral, is there no name on the brass plate so ostentatiously screwed into his coffin-lid? Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate, has written a... -
The Price of Everything by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23This volume brings together two long poems. 'Lines of Desire' tells the story of an individual in crisis, under pressure from past and present events. 'Joe Soap' combines narrative and lyric forms to... -
John Keats by John Keats
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31John Keats (1795-1821) abandoned a career in medicine to write poetry, until his life was cut tragically short from tuberculosis at the age of twenty-five. By that time, he had published three... -
Tom Brown's Body by Gladys Mitchell 9780099526230
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYRediscover Gladys Mitchell - one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers.The matchless detective and psychoanalyst Mrs... -
A Glass Of Blessings by Barbara Pym
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHORWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY CLARE CHAMBERS'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN 'My favourite writer . . . I pick up her books with joy, as though I...