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The Railway Children E Nesbit 9781857159158
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68Although E. Nesbit regarded her poetry as her most important work, it is her children's books (written 'to keep the house going') that ensured her lasting fame and which are still enjoyed with such... -
Fire in the Thatch: A Devon Mystery E. C. R. Lorac 9780712352604
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92The Second World War is drawing to a close. Nicholas Vaughan, released from the army after an accident, takes refuge in Devon - renting a thatched cottage in the beautiful countryside at Mallory... -
Whatever Happened to the Human Race? by Francis A. Schaeffer 9781433576997
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $14.24What Happened to the Human Race? challenges readers to think deeply about many of the "anti-God" and "antilife" practices that dominate American society. This book is a call to action, encouraging... -
New Readings on Women in Old English Literature by Helen Damico 9780253205476
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.98The publication of this volume of essays is a milestone in Old English studies. It is the first collection to examine this literature from a feminist perspective. Although the contributors represent... -
Holy Ghosts: Classic Tales of the Ecclesiastical Uncanny by Fiona Snailham
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75"I confess I have a particular dislike to remain in a church after dusk; it recalls to my mind the most painful story I ever heard." A festering evil lurks in the grotesque carvings of a... -
Cello Concerto by William Walton 9780193398139
RRP: $36.52Booksplease Price: $31.13This edition of Walton's Cello Concerto has been off-printed from the Wiliam Walton Edition full score, and combines the scholarship of the Edition (including an introduction by the editor) with the... -
The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women by Marie O'Regan
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.7525 chilling short stories by outstanding female writers.Women have always written exceptional stories of horror and the supernatural. This anthology aims to showcase the very best of these, from... -
Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.76'There's no writing against such power as this - one has no chance' William Makepeace ThackerayA compelling depiction of a man imprisoned by his own pride, Dombey and Son explores the devastating... -
The Runaway Bunny (Essential Picture Book Classics) by Margaret Wise Brown
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.50This book is packed with beautiful images and reassuring words as a mother bunny tells her baby bunny how much she loves him. The Runaway Bunny, first published... -
One Corpse Too Many: 2 by Ellis Peters 9780751543728 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $2.64In the summer of 1138, war between King Stephen and the Empress Maud takes brother Cadfael from the quiet world of his garden to the bloody battlefield. Not far from the safety of the Abbey walls,... -
Cornish Studies Volume 14 by Philip Payton 9780859897990
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $29.48The fourteenth volume in this acclaimed paperback series includes articles on Cornish mining history, the Cornish and Breton languages compared, the history and revival of Cornish, the poet Charles... -
March for 'A History of the English-Speaking Peoples' by William Walton 9780193568280
Booksplease Price: $12.73for Solo organ This exciting piece was composed as a television theme in 1959. Like an Elgar Pomp and Circumstance march, it alternates punchy fanfare textures with a warm and supremely 'English'... -
Coronation Te Deum by William Walton 9780193395121
Booksplease Price: $18.65for SATB and orchestra This new vocal-score edition was published to mark the 60th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, in June 1953. First performed as the new Queen processed out of... -
Spectral Sounds: Unquiet Tales of Acoustic Weird by Manon Burz-Labrande 9780712354172
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75'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... -
Classic Ghost Stories Lisa Tuttle 9781804177990
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09A selection of mysterious and intriguing tales from the shadows, featuring M.R. James, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Edith Wharton and Algernon Blackwood, with F. Marion Crawford's The Doll's Ghost and... -
The Disobedient Writer: Women and Narrative Tradition by Nancy A. Walker 9780292790964
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.35For centuries, women who aspired to write had to enter a largely male literary tradition that offered few, if any, literary forms in which to express their perspectives on lived experience. Since the... -
Flight by Victoria Glendinning 9780743220293 [USED COPY]
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $3.24Martagon, an engineer by profession and a loner by nature, falls head over heels in love for the very first time. He is masterminding the construction of an airport in Provence, exploiting his... -
The Wild Party by Art Spiegelman
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.64"Spiegelman's drawings are like demonic woodcuts: every angle, line, and curve jumps out at you. Stylishness and brutishness are in perfect accord." - The New York Times Art Spiegelman's sinister... -
The State Must Provide: Why America's Colleges Have Always Been Unequal--And How to Set Them Right by Adam Harris 9780062976505
RRP: $29.47Booksplease Price: $16.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062976505Author Adam HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint -
The Cockney Sparrow by Dilly Court 9780099499640 [USED COPY]
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $3.42She sang with the voice of a nightingale... Gifted with a beautiful soprano voice, young Clemency Skinner is forced to work as a pickpocket in order to support her crippled brother, Jack. Their... -
The Fading of the Light: a heart-wrenching historical family saga set on the Cornish coast by Charlotte Betts
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75'Lush, romantic and full of intrigue' Tracy Rees, Richard & Judy bestselling authorFrom the award-winning author of The Apothecary's Daughter comes The Fading of the Light, the next book in the... -
Keighley & Worth Valley Railway Through Time by Mark Bowling
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.65The Keighley & Worth Valley Railway is perhaps best known for its role in the 1970s film The Railway Children, based on Edith Nesbit's much-loved book. Perhaps less known is that the railway has... -
The Troll Garden: Short Stories by Willa Cather
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.93This collection of Willa Cather stories-her first book of fiction and the capstone of her early career-is as relevant today as at the time of its initial publication. As different and individually... -
The Confessions Of Brother Haluin: 15 Ellis Peters 9780751511154
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75In the winter of 1142, snow blankets the Bendictine Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul causing damage to the guest hall, and the brothers must repair its roof before the danger worsens. The... -
One Corpse Too Many: 2 Ellis Peters 9780751543728
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75In the summer of 1138, war between King Stephen and the Empress Maud takes brother Cadfael from the quiet world of his garden to the bloody battlefield. Not far from the safety of the Abbey walls,... -
A Lost Lady by Willa Cather 9780241752050
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $6.3590 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksHow light and alive she was! Like a bird caught in a net . . .Marian Forrester enchants everyone around her: her husband, an elderly railroad... -
Crossed Skis: An Alpine Mystery by Carol Carnac 9780712353311
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75In London's Bloomsbury, Inspector Julian Rivers of Scotland Yard looks down at a dismal scene. Here is the victim, burnt to a crisp. Here are the clues - clues which point to a good climber and... -
These Names Make Clues by E.C.R Lorac 9780712353847
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75'Should detectives go to parties? Was it consistent with the dignity of the Yard? The inspector tossed for it-and went.' Chief Inspector Macdonald has been invited to a treasure hunt party at the... -
Goodnight Moon Board Book with Milestone Cards by Margaret Wise Brown
Booksplease Price: $15.06Cherish little one's firsts forever with this special milestone edition of the all-time bestselling classic bedtime book. Includes twenty-four Goodnight Moon-themed milestone cards!In a baby's first... -
Weird Women, Volume 2: Volume 2: 1840-1925: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers by Lisa Morton
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.23Following the success of Weird Women: Volume 1, acclaimed anthologists Lisa Morton and Leslie S. Klinger return with another offering of overlooked masterworks from early female horror writers,... -
This Special Blessing for You Eric Schrotenboer 9780310180838
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.50God is full of love for your children, and This Special Blessing for You empowers them to live out who God wants them to be in the world. Now available as a board book, the engaging, rhyming text... -
The Swan-Daughter: The Daughters of Hastings Trilogy by Carol McGrath
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75'A wise and lyrical evocation of the lives of women in the aftermath of the Norman Conquest... A captivating read' SARAH BOWERThe second instalment in Carol McGrath's captivating The Daughters of... -
The Holy Thief: 19 by Ellis Peters
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75In the chilly, damp Autumn of 1144, two groups of visitors seek the hospitality of the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, and Brother Cadfael fears the trouble has come in with them. Among the... -
The Virgin In The Ice: 6 Ellis Peters 9780751547177
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75It is winter 1139 and the tranquil life in the monastery gardens in Shrewsbury is again interrupted by violence. Raging civil war has sent refugees fleeing north from Worcester. Among them are two... -
The Potter's Field by Ellis Peters
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75The year is 1143, and once again Brother Cadfael is forced to abandon the tranquility of his herb garden and use his knowledge of human nature to solve a murder- this time frighteningly close to home... -
Fell Murder: A Lancashire Mystery E.C.R. Lorac 9780712352048
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09First published in 1944 Fell Murder sees E.C.R. Lorac at the height of her considerable powers as a purveyor of well-made, traditional and emphatic detective fiction. The book presents a fascinating... -
Iris Origo: Marchesa Of Val D'Orica by Caroline Moorehead 9780749016562
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Iris Origo was one of the twentieth century's most attractive and intriguing women, a brilliantly perceptive historian and biographer whose works remain widely admired. Iris grew up in Italy where... -
Celtic Weird: Tales of Wicked Folklore and Dark Mythology by Johnny Mains 9780712354325
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.67From the shorelines, hills and towns of ancient lands, tales of twisted creatures, sins against nature and pagan revenants have been passed down from generation to generation. In the nineteenth and... -
Home: A Celebration: Notable Voices Reflect on the Meaning of Home Charlotte Moss 9780789344434
RRP: $20.07Booksplease Price: $16.86Filled with personal insight, humor, creativity, joy, and poignancy, Home: A Celebration is a lyrical ode to sanctuary and a thoughtful and inspirational book to peruse again and again. Through the... -
Telling the Truth: Titus Brandsma Among the Carmelite Martyrs of World War II Paul Chandler 9780813240190
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.07Titus Brandsma is best known for courageously speaking out against the ideology of National Socialism and for defending the freedom of the Catholic press to refuse their propaganda. Indeed, it was...