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Sherlock Holmes: The Essential Mysteries in One Sitting by Jennifer Kasius
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.54With countless clubs, films, and books celebrating Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary Sherlock Holmes, the popularity of literary history's favorite sleuth has never dimmed. Can you solve the case of... -
The Witch at Wayside Cross: Jesperson and Lane Book II by Lisa Tuttle
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.16Should you find yourself in need of a discreet investigation into any sort of mystery, crime or puzzling circumstances, think of Jesperson and Lane . . .Jesperson and Lane have just solved their... -
Clowns in the Burying Ground: The Grateful Dead, Literature, and the Limits of Philosophy Christopher K. Coffman 9781478033202
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36In Clowns in the Burying Ground, Christopher K. Coffman presents intertextual readings of the Grateful Dead and their lyrics to argue that the band's lyricists were deeply and significantly engaged... -
Enchanted New York: A Journey along Broadway through Manhattan's Magical Past by Kevin Dann
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12A fantastical field guide to the hidden history of New York's magical past Manhattan has a pervasive quality of glamour-a heightened sense of personality generated by a place whose cinematic,... -
The Mangle Street Murders by M. R. C. Kasasian
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Fresh, funny crime series for fans of Jasper Fforde and M.C. Beaton. 'Delightful and original... A series that could well become a cult' DAILY MAIL. 125 Gower Street, 1882. Queen Victoria... -
Oscar Wilde as a Character in Victorian Fiction by A. Kingston 9781349369645
Booksplease Price: £46.74This book documents how Oscar Wilde was appropriated as a fictional character by no less than thirty-two of his contemporaries, including such celebrated writers as Joseph Conrad, Arthur Conan Doyle,... -
Murder at the Margin: A Henry Spearman Mystery by Marshall Jevons 9780691259345
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.57Professor and amateur sleuth Henry Spearman uses economics to try to solve a murder while on a Caribbean vacationCinnamon Bay seems like the ideal Caribbean getaway. But for Harvard economist and... -
Vital Signs: Medical Realism in Nineteenth-Century Fiction by Lawrence Rothfield
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.07Vital Signs offers both a compelling reinterpretation of the nineteenth-century novel and a methodological challenge to literary historians. Rejecting theories that equate realism with... -
Clowns in the Burying Ground: The Grateful Dead, Literature, and the Limits of Philosophy Christopher K. Coffman 9781478029748
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.69In Clowns in the Burying Ground, Christopher K. Coffman presents intertextual readings of the Grateful Dead and their lyrics to argue that the band's lyricists were deeply and significantly engaged... -
Serpents in Eden: Countryside Crimes Martin Edwards 9780712357944
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78An eclectic mix of crime stories written over half a century. From a tale of poison-pen letters tearing apart a village community to a macabre mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle, the stories collected... -
Oscar Wilde as a Character in Victorian Fiction by A. Kingston 9780230600232
Booksplease Price: £46.58This book documents how Oscar Wilde was appropriated as a fictional character by no less than thirty-two of his contemporaries, including such celebrated writers as Joseph Conrad, Arthur Conan Doyle,... -
Mourning and Mysticism in First World War Literature and Beyond: Grappling with Ghosts by George M. Johnson 9781349673476
Booksplease Price: £26.60This book traces how iconic writers - including Arthur Conan Doyle, J.M. Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, Virginia Woolf, Wilfred Owen, and Aldous Huxley - shaped their response to the loss of loved ones in... -
Violet and the Mystery of Tiger Island by Harriet Whitehorn
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.54Get ready to meet Violet Remy-Robinson - an amateur Sherlock Holmes in the making - in the fifth book in this delightful young detective series, perfect for fans of Robin Stevens, Enid Blyton and... -
Prey by Michael Crichton
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28From the Number One international bestselling author of Jurassic Park comes this classic Crichton page-turner, weaving together heart-pounding thrills with cutting-edge technology. In... -
Prey by Michael Crichton 9780007229734 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.79From the Number One international bestselling author of Jurassic Park comes this classic Crichton page-turner, weaving together heart-pounding thrills with cutting-edge technology. In... -
The Murder Pit (An Arrowood Mystery, Book 2) by Mick Finlay
Booksplease Price: £9.99'Think Sherlock Holmes is the only detective working in Victorian London? Meet William Arrowood, the hero of Mick Finlay's series of absorbing novels' The Times ... -
Murder at the Margin: A Henry Spearman Mystery by Marshall Jevons
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.23Cinnamon Bay Plantation was the ideal Caribbean island getaway--or so it seemed. But for distinguished Harvard economist Henry Spearman it offered diversion of a decidedly different sort and one he'd... -
Ladies' Bane Patricia Wentworth 9781473673922
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02CLASSIC GOLDEN AGE MYSTERY PERFECT FOR FANS OF AGATHA CHRISTIEMiss Silver must unravel a tangled web of marriage, mystery and murder'Ranks with the best of the golden-age detectives' Daily MailNo one... -
Cultures of London: Legacies of Migration by Charlotte Grant 9781350242029
Booksplease Price: £71.19From its origin as the Roman city of Londinium through to its latest incarnation as a super-diverse World City in the twenty-first century, London's history and culture has been shaped by migration... -
Winter at Death's Hotel Kenneth Cameron 9781409109587
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16Madness and murder await you...Arthur Conan Doyle, renowned creator of Sherlock Holmes, arrives in New York with his wife Louisa ready to begin his first American tour. While he prepares his... -
Spotlight Patricia Wentworth 9781473673939
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02CLASSIC GOLDEN AGE MYSTERY, PERFECT FOR FANS OF AGATHA CHRISTIEWhen a blackmailer is stabbed at his own celebration, Miss Silver must find the guilty party'Ranks with the best of the golden-age... -
Cultures of London: Legacies of Migration Charlotte Grant 9781350242012
Booksplease Price: £24.60From its origin as the Roman city of Londinium through to its latest incarnation as a super-diverse World City in the twenty-first century, London's history and culture has been shaped by migration... -
The Murder Pit (An Arrowood Mystery, Book 2) by Mick Finlay 9780008214791 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.40'Think Sherlock Holmes is the only detective working in Victorian London? Meet William Arrowood, the hero of Mick Finlay's series of absorbing novels' The Times ... -
Violet and the Mummy Mystery by Harriet Whitehorn
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.54Get ready to meet Violet Remy-Robinson - an amateur Sherlock Holmes in the making - in the fourth book in this delightful young detective series, perfect for fans of Robin Stevens, Enid Blyton and... -
Scottish Literature: An Introduction by Alan Riach
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.59What do we mean by 'Scottish literature'? Why does it matter? How do we engage with it? Bringing infectious enthusiasm and a lifetime's experience to bear on this multi-faceted literary nation, Alan... -
How to Get Away with Myrtle (Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery 2) by Elizabeth C Bunce
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16An Edgar (R) Award Winning SeriesBefore the train has left the station, Victorian England's most accomplished new detective already is on a suspect's trail, and readers will be delighted to travel... -
Enigmas of Identity by Peter Brooks
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.73"We know that it matters crucially to be able to say who we are, why we are here, and where we are going," Peter Brooks writes in Enigmas of Identity. Many of us are also uncomfortably aware that we... -
Sherlocked! The ultimate escape room puzzle book by Sophie Blackman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.10Solve three mysteries, unravel logic puzzles and choose your path through this official Sherlock Holmes puzzle book!A break-in at a prestigious museum, a suspicious death and the kidnapping of two... -
Enigmas of Identity by Peter Brooks 9780691159539
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.69"We know that it matters crucially to be able to say who we are, why we are here, and where we are going," Peter Brooks writes in Enigmas of Identity. Many of us are also uncomfortably aware that we... -
Doctor Joe Bell: Model for Sherlock Holmes by Ely Liebow 9780879721985
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24It is to you that I owe Sherlock Holmes, wrote Arthur Conan Doyle to his former professor and mentor, Dr. Joseph Bell, in 1892. A distinguished physician and professor of medicine at Edinburgh... -
Manga Classics: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Great Literature Brought to Life 9781787081666
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.40Join the brilliant Holmes and his loyal friend Dr Watson as they unravel five seemingly impossible mysteries using Holmes's legendary powers of deduction. Discover the true identity of the masked... -
Every Cherry The Hound of the Baskervilles: Accessible Easier Edition by Stephanie Baudet 9781802633535
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.68An adapted, illustrated and accessible edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's classic mystery. Enjoy Every Cherry's new adaptation of Easier Classics' Hound of the Baskervilles featuring illustrations,... -
The Captain of the Pole-Star by Seth 9781804944035
Booksplease Price: £7.31A classic ghost story illustrated by acclaimed cartoonist, Seth.When the Pole-Star is trapped in Arctic ice, its voyage comes to a halt and the lives of the crew are in danger. Superstition soon... -
Photographing Fairies: A Novel by Steve Szilagyi 9781497648524
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.67In 1920s England, an American photographer is out to capture proof that fairies are real-despite the opposition of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In the 1920s, a country policeman, Constable Michael... -
British Literary Culture and Publishing Practice, 1880-1914 by Peter D. McDonald 9780521571494
Booksplease Price: £99.43This book examines the radical transformation of British literary culture during the period 1880-1914 as seen through the early publishing careers of three highly influential writers, Joseph Conrad,... -
Saving Endangered Heirs and Estates: Studies in European Literature by Hugo G. Walter 9781433141072
RRP: £76.05Booksplease Price: £67.50This book is a collection of great and insightful essays which discuss heroic endeavors to save endangered heirs and estates by searching devotedly for the truth in various criminal and civil... -
British Literary Culture and Publishing Practice, 1880-1914 by Peter D. McDonald 9780521893947
Booksplease Price: £50.23This book examines the radical transformation of British literary culture during the period 1880-1914 as seen through the early publishing careers of three highly influential writers, Joseph Conrad,... -
The Dick Francis Treasury of Great Racing Stories by Dick Francis 9780393337860
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £16.75Inside, you'll find a stableful of thrills and a few surprises from such famous authors as Arthur Conan Doyle and J.P. Marquand, Beryl Markham and John Galsworthy, Sherwood Anderson and Edgar Wallace... -
The Sherlock Holmes Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained DK 9780241205914
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.05Learn about the world's greatest detective in The Sherlock Holmes Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format... -
Rooms of Their Own: Where Great Writers Write Alex Johnson 9780711258013
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.55Rooms of Their Own travels around the world examining the unique spaces, habits and rituals in which famous writers created their most notable works. The perennial question asked of all authors is,...