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Fear by Roald Dahl
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65PERFECT for fans of Roald Dahl.Think you know Dahl? Think again. Discover a collection of deliciously dark ghost stories for adults, picked by Dahl himself . . . Do you enjoy being scared? Featuring... -
On Modern Beauty - Three Paintings by Manet, Gauguin, and Cezanne by Richard R. Brettell 9781606066065
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.85As the discipline of art history has moved away from connoisseurship, the notion of beauty has become increasingly problematic. Both culturally and personally subjective, the term is difficult to... -
On the Thirteenth Stroke of Midnight: Surrealist Poetry in Britain by Michel Remy
RRP: $25.39Booksplease Price: $19.14This book, the first published anthology of British surrealist poetry, takes its title from Herbert Read's words when he opened the Surrealist Poems and Objects exhibition at the London Gallery at... -
Dark Entries by Robert Aickman
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.71'Reading Robert Aickman is like watching a magician work, and very often I'm not even sure what the trick was. All I know is that he did it beautifully.' Neil GaimanFor fans of the BBC's Inside... -
The Fart that Saved the Universe Stephen Mangan 9780702330841
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $7.76A high-energy, laugh-out-loud, fully illustrated adventure story by much-loved actor Stephen Mangan and talented artist Anita Mangan, Celebrity Goggleboxers & creators of... -
Five Children on the Western Front by Kate Saunders 9780571323180 [USED COPY]
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $2.68An incredible, heart-wrenching sequel to E. Nesbit's Five Children and It, set on the eve of the First World War. The five children have grown up - war will change their lives for ever. Cyril is... -
Family Business by Victoria Glendinning
Booksplease Price: $5.83From Victoria Glendinning, winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, the James Tait Black Prize and (twice) the Whitbread Prize for Biography. 'It's... -
The "I" of Leadership: Strategies for Seeing, Being and Doing by Nigel Nicholson
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.93This is the leadership book you have to read: a barn-storming new take on what makes a versatile, integrated, and effective leader Using stories and examples from the lives of leaders, from the... -
The Conference of the Birds by Attar
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $13.84Considered by Rumi to be "the master" of Sufi mystic poetry, Attar is best known for his epic poem The Conference of the Birds, a magnificent allegorical tale about the soul's search for meaning. The... -
The District Nurses of Victory Walk (The District Nurse, Book 1) by Annie Groves 9780008272210 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $3.22The compelling new bestseller from the author of The Mersey Daughter and Winter on the Mersey. Alice Lake has arrived in London from Liverpool to start her training as a District Nurse,... -
It All Comes Down To This: The unforgettable story of three sisters facing a shocking truth about the past Therese Anne Fowler 9781472285157
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $10.91'Entertaining, in the best sense of the word, and a true page-turner' Ann Napolitano'I read it in a single gulp' Karen Joy Fowler'A smart and lively novel' Jess... -
Burntcoat by Sarah Hall
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80An electrifying story of passion, connection and transformation from 'a writer of show-stopping genius' (Guardian).'Dark and brilliant.' SARAH MOSS'A masterpience.' DAISY JOHNSON'Extraordinary.'... -
RSPB Spotlight Sparrows by Amy-Jane Beer 9781472955937 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $9.07RSPB Spotlight: Sparrows is packed with eye-catching, informative colour photos, and features succinct, detailed text written by a knowledgeable naturalist.Sparrows are often considered familiar to... -
It All Comes Down To This by Therese Anne Fowler
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $6.27'Entertaining, in the best sense of the word, and a true page-turner' Ann Napolitano'I read it in a single gulp' Karen Joy Fowler'A smart and lively novel' Jess... -
My Antonia by Willa Cather 9780241338322
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80The final novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is a celebration of the American midwest with Cather's strongest heroine at its heartJim and Antonia meets as children in the wide open plains of... -
Diaries, Letters and Recollections by Lynette Roberts 9781857548563
RRP: $20.03Booksplease Price: $15.50In 1939, following her marriage, the poet Lynette Roberts went to live in a small village in Wales. This experience, both enriching and isolating, became the source of some of her extraordinary... -
1940s Fashion by Fiona Kay
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.50Despite - or perhaps because of - the privations of war, the 1940s was one of the greatest decades for fashion in Britain. The designs and fashions of the 1930s would linger on through the early... -
A Closed Eye by Anita Brookner
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71'Without warning, it seemed, she had become a married woman.'Naive and undemanding, Harriet Lytton expects very little of life and that is what she recieves. Married to a respectable man old enough... -
A Christian Manifesto by Francis A. Schaeffer 9781581346923
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.64Schaeffer shows how law, government, education, and media have all contributed to a shift from America's Judeo-Christian foundation. He calls for a massive movement to reestablish these values that... -
Man-Size in Marble and Other Grim Tales by Stephen Carver 9781840229059
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $5.67Selected and introduced by Stephen Carver The draped effigy just behind him worried him again. He had been trying, at the back of his mind, behind the other thoughts, to strangle the thought of it... -
The Society of Free Spirits: A Grave Inheritance by Felicity Epps 9781444980042
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92A Waterstones YA Book of the Month! Sisterhood, seances and solving murder, perfect for fans of Bridgerton and Laura Wood.Mysterious deaths in the family. A young woman left to inherit a fortune. Was... -
Terrifying Ghosts Short Stories by Flame Tree Studio (Literature and Science)
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.45Ghastly castles, haunted mansions, shadowy forests and long, dark corridors... This new addition to the Gothic Fantasy series is packed with tales of terror, bringing together the new and the... -
25 Great Sentences and How They Got That Way by Geraldine Woods
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.57We all know the basic structure of a sentence: a subject and verb pair expressing a complete thought and ending with proper punctuation. But that classroom definition doesn't begin to describe the... -
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce by Michael Newton
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.12This terrifying selection of ghost stories brings together the very best classic works from the masters of the supernaturalPhantom coaches, evil familiars, shadowy houses, spectral children and... -
Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages by Prof. Harold Bloom
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $22.35"If readers are to come to Shakespeare and to Chekhov, to Henry James and to Jane Austen, then they are best prepared if they have read Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear, Robert Louis Stevenson and... -
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather 9780241338261
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'Quite simply a masterpiece ... I am completely bowled over by it; by the power of its writing, by the vividness of its scene painting and by the stories it tells' A. N. Wilson'Where there is great... -
Women in the Second World War by Neil R. Storey
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.86The Second World War affected the people of Britain like nothing before. This was especially true of Britain's women. With thousands of men called up to join the armed forces, women took their place... -
Love On The Dole by Walter Greenwood
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04In Hanky Park, near Salford, Harry and Sally Hardcastle grow up in a society preoccupied with grinding poverty, exploited by bookies and pawnbrokers, bullied by petty officials and living in constant... -
Bohemians: A Very Short Introduction by David Weir
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36The Romantic myth of Bohemia originated in the early nineteenth century as a way of describing the new conditions faced by artists and writers when the previous system of aristocratic patronage... -
The Sister Returns by Joanna Rees
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09The Sister Returns by Joanna Rees is the third novel in A Stitch in Time - a sweeping historical trilogy.To have a future, she must confront her past . . .It's 1929 and after running away from her... -
Sports Biomechanics: The Basics: Optimising Human Performance by Dr. Anthony J. Blazevich 9781408127490 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $4.23For coaches, athletes and students of biomechanics, the new edition of Sports Biomechanics: The basics answers real-world questions in sports using easily comprehensible language and clear and... -
The Smash-Up: a delicious satire from a breakout voice in literary fiction by Ali Benjamin
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09AN OF-THE-MOMENT NOVEL FOR READERS OF FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE'Timely, risky and dazzling' Polly Clark, author of Tiger'Sharply funny, perceptive, and surprising at every turn, The Smash-Up is a story... -
The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett 9781788165310 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $3.51** WINNER OF THE CRIME & THRILLER BRITISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ** * THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* 'The queen of tricksy crime. Every page is a joy' - SUNDAY TIMES 'Even better than The... -
Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis by John T. McGreevy 9781324066040
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $21.92The story of Roman Catholicism has never followed a singular path. In no time period has this been more true than over the last two centuries. Beginning with the French Revolution, extending to the... -
The House of Godwin: The Rise and Fall of an Anglo-Saxon Dynasty by Michael John Key 9781398117273
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.26Godwin and his family dominated English politics for almost half a century, establishing themselves as the most influential and powerful dynasty in Anglo-Saxon England. At the height of its power, it... -
The Histories by Herodotus 9780140455397
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $10.53Tom Holland's 'stirring new translation' (Telegraph) of Herodotus' Histories, one of the great books in Western history - now in paperbackThe Histories of Herodotus, completed in the second half of... -
The Lark: Introduction by Booker Prize-Winning Author Penelope Lively by E. Nesbit
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'A charming and brilliantly entertaining novel... shot through with the light-hearted Nesbit touch' Penelope Lively, from the introduction"When did two girls of our age have such a chance as we've... -
Big Porn Inc: Exposing the Harms of the Global Porn Industry Tankard Reist Melinda 9781876756895
RRP: $29.41Booksplease Price: $20.06Unmasking the lies behind the selling of porn as 'just a bit of fun' Big Porn Inc reveals the shocking truths of an industry that trades in violence, crime and degradation. This fearless book will... -
The Smash-Up: a delicious satire from a breakout voice in literary fiction Ali Benjamin 9781529409314
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $10.45AN OF-THE-MOMENT NOVEL FOR READERS OF FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE'Timely, risky and dazzling' Polly Clark, author of Tiger'Sharply funny, perceptive, and surprising at every turn, The Smash-Up is a story... -
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.71A beautiful anniversary edition of the classic bedtime story with shiny gold cover flourishes - the ideal gift and perfect for sharing at bedtime to sooth small children to sleep.Featuring a look at...