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Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.03'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: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.34This 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... -
March for 'A History of the English-Speaking Peoples' by William Walton 9780193568280
Booksplease Price: £9.50for 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: £13.92for 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: £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... -
Classic Ghost Stories Lisa Tuttle 9781804177990
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78A 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: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68For 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: £6.99Booksplease Price: £2.42Martagon, 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... -
One Corpse Too Many: 2 by Ellis Peters 9780751543728 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.97In 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,... -
The Wild Party by Art Spiegelman
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.67"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: £21.99Booksplease Price: £11.98Apologies 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: £6.99Booksplease Price: £2.55She 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'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: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68The 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65This 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In 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: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.7490 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'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... -
This Special Blessing for You Eric Schrotenboer 9780310180838
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.34God 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 Raven In The Foregate: 12 Ellis Peters 9780751517408
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In a mild December in the year of our Lord 1141, a new priest comes to the parishoners of the Foregate outside the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. Father Ailnoth brings with him a housekeeper... -
Sledging in the Snow: it's time for an adventure when snowflakes fall on Hillside Farm by Joanna Collingborn 9781915067364
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.88"Teddy climbed down from his cosy bed and ran over to the big window at the end of his room. It was SNOWING!" Teddy and Lara are in for a treat when snowflakes start to fall on their grandfather's... -
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 9781454954576
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16When the Bergson family leave their home in Sweden to travel to the United States in search of a better life, they, like many immigrants, are awed by the beautiful harshness of their new life in... -
Weird Women, Volume 2: Volume 2: 1840-1925: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers by Lisa Morton
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.35Following 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,... -
The Swan-Daughter: The Daughters of Hastings Trilogy by Carol McGrath
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02It 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The 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: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78First 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Iris 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: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.19From 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: £14.98Booksplease Price: £12.58Filled 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: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Titus 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... -
Trilogy by H. D. 9781857543162
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £9.60HD's war Trilogy ranks with Eliot's Four Quartets, Pound's Pisan Cantos and poems like Edith Sitwell's 'Still Falls the Rain' as civilian war poetry in a war which tore apart so many of the cities of... -
Funeral of Figaro by Ellis Peters 9780747233718 [USED COPY]
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £2.51When Figaro is killed in an aeroplane crash it seems that nothing can save the production of Mozart s opera at the Leander Theatre in London. Then world-class baritone, Marc Chatrier, arrives from... -
Saint Peter's Fair: 4 by Ellis Peters
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Saint Peter's Fair is a grand festive event, attracting tradesmen from across England and beyond. There is a pause in the civil war racking the country in the summer of 1139, and the fair promises to... -
Stuck in the Mud: the first brilliant adventure at Hillside Farm Joanna Collingborn 9781915067289
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37"Edward James, or Teddy as he was known, was just like any other boy, except Teddy had a very special grandfather. Teddy's grandfather had a farm!" But when it rains, disaster strikes! The farm... -
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 Virago Book Of Women Gardeners by Deborah Kellaway
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56From diggers and weeders, to artists and colourists, writers and dreamers to trend-setters, plantswomen to landscape designers, women have contributed to the world of gardening and gardens. Here...