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The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World by Claire Tomalin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A fascinating journey into the life of H.G. Wells, from one of Britain's best biographersHow did the first forty years of H. G. Wells' life shape the father of science fiction?From his impoverished... -
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... -
Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour by Gustave Flaubert
Booksplease Price: £12.71At once a classic of travel literature and a penetrating portrait of a "sensibility on tour," Flaubert in Egypt wonderfully captures the young writer's impressions during his 1849 voyages. Using... -
Owning Up: The Trilogy by George Melly
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54This single volume includes three famous memoirs - Scouse Mouse, Rum, Bum & Concertina and Owning Up, with a new introduction by the author. Scouse Mouse is a funny and frequently touching story of... -
New Poems Book Three by Charles Bukowski 9780753512623
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Charles Bukowski was one of America's best-known writers and one of its most influential and imitated poets. Although he published over 45 books of poetry, hundreds of his poems were kept by him and... -
Poems and Ballads & Atalanta in Calydon by Algernon Charles Swinburne
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78This volume brings together Swinburne's major poetic works, ATALANTA IN CALYDON (1865) and POEMS AND BALLADS (1866). ATALANTA IN CALYDON is a drama in classical Greek form, which revealed Swinburne's... -
Selected Poems by Stevie Smith 9780141186559
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Stevie Smith was one of the few modern poets to reach a wide general audience. Bizarre, witty, sad, sometimes caustic, her poems impart a zest for life, and reveal her unique eye for the marvels of... -
100 Poems To See You Through by Daisy Goodwin 9781529104691
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42When times are tough - whether because of illness, bereavement or receiving bad news - it can be hard to find the right words. Help comes in the form of this beautifully packaged gift book,... -
Granta 37: The Family 9780140152074
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.06The Family 'They fuck you up, your mum and dad,' Philip Larkin wrote, but Philip Larkin got it wrong. There are also your brothers and your sisters. And your uncles, your grandfather, your endless... -
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... -
A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller In this remarkable memoir of love, loss and literature, acclaimed biographer Claire Tomalin turns her eye to another fascinating literary life: her own. She tells of... -
The Penguin Book of Elegy: Poems of Memory, Mourning and Consolation Prof Stephen Regan 9780241269626
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'A tremendous sentimental education of a book ... scholarly discernment mixed with a wild-card flair ... an exceptional anthology, fascinating and unignorable' Kate Kellaway, Observer (Poetry Book of... -
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... -
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'A brilliantly and preposterously funny book' Guardian'A flawless comic novel ... I loved it then, as I do now. It has always made me laugh out loud' Helen Dunmore, The TimesJim Dixon has... -
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... -
Marriage Poems by John Hollander
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Some of the poets included in this anthology: Theocritus, Edmund Spenser, Edward Lear, Robert Browning, Thomas Hardy, John Donne, Philip Larkin, Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Rossetti, Shelley... -
The Anti-Death League by Kingsley Amis
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31In this surreal comedy of soldiers and spies, Lieutenant James Churchill and his colleagues find themselves questioning their purpose. Are they for death or against it? These men of action will... -
Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic by Alexander Stille 9780099594918
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54Excellent Cadavers (a term used in Sicily to distinguish the assassination of prominent government officials from the hundreds of common criminals killed in the course of routine mafia business)... -
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 Mersey Sound: Restored 50th Anniversary Edition by Adrian Henri
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'I wanted your soft vergesBut you gave me the hard shoulder'The Mersey Sound brought poetry down from the shelf and on to the street, capturing the mood of the Sixties and speaking to real lives with... -
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 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... -
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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The Poetry of Birds: edited by Simon Armitage and Tim Dee by Simon Armitage 9780141027111 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.61A 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 Poems by W. B. Yeats 9781857151039
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05A 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... -
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... -
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Spirit Machines by Robert Crawford 9780224059015 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.00Booksplease Price: £2.80SPIRIT 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... -
Nature Poems to See By: A Comic Artist Interprets More Great Poems Julian Peters 9781636081748
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £15.50Kirkus Most Anticipated YA Books of Spring 2026This stunning anthology of favorite poems about our relationship with the natural world, visually interpreted by acclaimed comic artist Julian Peters,... -
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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: £7.82An 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... -
Cynicism in British Post-War Culture: Ignorance, Dust and Disease by K. Curran 9781349495641
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book is the first academic text to examine cynicism as a driving force in the context of post-war British culture. It maps a sensibility that transcends divisions between high and low culture,... -
The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century by John Burnside 9780691218861
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.69A revelatory and deeply personal history of twentieth-century poetry by prize-winning poet and memoirist John BurnsidePoetry helps us to make sense of our world, transforming what the Russian poet... -
Cynicism in British Post-War Culture: Ignorance, Dust and Disease by Kieran Curran 9781137444349
Booksplease Price: £46.74This book is the first academic text to examine cynicism as a driving force in the context of post-war British culture. It maps a sensibility that transcends divisions between high and low culture,... -
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Memoirs by Kingsley Amis 9780091745332 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: £2.51An 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... -
Life Is Short: An Appropriately Brief Guide to Making It More Meaningful by Dean Rickles
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.34Why life's shortness-more than anything else-is what makes it meaningfulDeath might seem to render pointless all our attempts to create a meaningful life. Doesn't meaning require transcending death... -
Life Is Short: An Appropriately Brief Guide to Making It More Meaningful Dean Rickles 9780691240619
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.23Why life's shortness-more than anything else-is what makes it meaningfulDeath might seem to render pointless all our attempts to create a meaningful life. Doesn't meaning require transcending death... -
Women Writing Modern Fiction: A Passion for Ideas by Janice Rossen 9780333614204
Booksplease Price: £46.74Many women writers in twentieth-century Britain were fascinated by the individual thought processes of their characters. Women Writing Modern Fiction draws connections between the works of authors... -
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...