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A Glass Of Blessings by Barbara Pym
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $19.09BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHORWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY CLARE CHAMBERS'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN 'My favourite writer . . . I pick up her books with joy, as though I... -
The Saltmarsh Murders by Gladys Mitchell
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $31.32A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYRediscover Gladys Mitchell - one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers.Noel Wells, curate in the sleepy village of... -
Here Comes a Chopper by Gladys Mitchell
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $31.32A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYRediscover Gladys Mitchell - one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers.When a pair of ramblers, lost in the English... -
No Fond Return Of Love by Barbara Pym
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $19.09INTRODUCED BY PAUL BINDING'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN 'I'd sooner read a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen' PHILIP LARKIN 'No novelist brings more telling observation or more... -
When Last I Died by Gladys Mitchell
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $23.28A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYRediscover Gladys Mitchell - one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers.When psychoanalyst and detective Mrs Bradley's... -
The Case of the Gilded Fly: A Gervase Fen Mystery by Edmund Crispin
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $21.23The very first case for Oxford-based sleuth Gervase Fen, one of the last of the great Golden Age detectives. As inventive as Agatha Christie, as hilarious as P.G. Wodehouse, this is the perfect entry... -
Yorkshire Wolds Way Tony Gowers 9781781315682
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.97The Yorkshire Wolds were brought to international attention in 2012 by David Hockney's magnificent Royal Academy exhibition of paintings of the region. Now, Tony Gowers' completely updated, expanded... -
Challenges and Choices for Patient, Carer and Professional at the End of Life: Living with Uncertainty by Catherine Proot 9780367544461
RRP: $76.14Booksplease Price: $74.23Living with Uncertainty gives a broad perspective on the complexities and challenges of the practice of end-of-life care, as well as the perceived benefits and limitations of medical intervention... -
Self into Song: Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures by Carol Rumens 9781852247607
RRP: $18.92Booksplease Price: $14.61In this innovative series of public lectures at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to audiences drawn from both the city... -
Martin Amis: The Biography by Richard Bradford 9781780332291
Booksplease Price: $56.31Martin Amis's life could itself provide the formula for an enthralling work of fiction. Son of one of the most popular and best-loved novelists of the post-War era, he has forged a groundbreaking... -
Nature Poems: Treasured classics and new favourites (National Trust) by Deborah Alma
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $14.92More than 100 poems about Britain's nature in a beautifully illustrated book Seven chapters touch on different aspects of the British countryside, including seasons, birds and wildlife,... -
The Poetry of Horses by Various 9781788166041
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $14.66Since prehistory, horses have given us assistance, close companionship and artistic inspiration. Horses offer everything from practical help to brisk exercise to the sheer exhilaration of... -
Max is Missing by Peter Porter
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $16.14Few poets now writing share Porter's sense of the big picture, his ability to read the small event against the waxings and wanings of culture and empire. Whether these poems look at Europe through... -
The Sweet Dove Died by Barbara Pym 9781529091892
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.40'Barbara Pym is one of my most favourite novelists. Few other writers have given me more laughter and more pleasure' Jilly CooperBetween the amorous antique dealer Humphrey and his good-looking... -
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One Hundred Years of Poetry for Children by Michael Harrison 9780192763501 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $6.62This is a reflective and beautifully put-together anthology of poems to stimulate the emotions, whether evoking the comforting silence of true friendship, the thrill of sea tempests in the night, the... -
Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $20.44'Wonderful. A manifesto of horticultural delight' Literary Review 'Beautiful. Perfect for literary garden lovers' Good Housekeeping'Rich and unusual, a book to treasure. Few recent gardening books... -
![Answering Back: Living poets reply to the poetry of the past by Carol Ann Duffy 9780330448246 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9816709/10833269/9780330448246__00773.1782719803.jpg?c=1 "Answering Back: Living poets reply to the poetry of the past by Carol Ann Duffy 9780330448246 [USED COPY]")
Answering Back: Living poets reply to the poetry of the past by Carol Ann Duffy 9780330448246 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $6.90Carol Ann Duffy has invited fifty of her peers to choose and respond to a poem from the past. With up-and-coming poets alongside more established names, and original poems alongside the new works... -
Lost to the Sea: Britain's Vanished Coastal Communities: The Yorkshire Coast & Holderness Stephen Wade 9781473893436
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $23.28Once there was a Roman settlement on what is now Filey Brig. In Holderness, a prosperous town called Ravenser saw kings and princes on its soil, and its progress threatened the good people of Grimsby... -
![Bluffer's Guide to Cycling: Instant wit and wisdom by Rob Ainsley 9781785212284 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9675654/10692374/9781785212284__74687.1781297877.jpg?c=1 "Bluffer's Guide to Cycling: Instant wit and wisdom by Rob Ainsley 9781785212284 [USED COPY]")
Bluffer's Guide to Cycling: Instant wit and wisdom by Rob Ainsley 9781785212284 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.64Booksplease Price: $4.50nstantly acquire all the knowledge you need to pass as an expert in the world of cycling. Never again confuse a MAMIL with a MTBER, a fixie with a folder, or a Boris bike with a `bonk'. Bask in the... -
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The Puffin Book of Modern Children's Verse by Brian Patten 9780141321882 [USED COPY]
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $6.12The Puffin Book of Modern Children's Verse is the definitive collection of modern children's poetry of our time. Enchanting, funny, exciting and poignant, there is every kind of poem for every kind... -
Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $19.09INTRODUCED BY MAVIS CHEEK'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' Richard Osman'She is the rarest of treasures; she reminds us of the heartbreaking silliness of everyday life' Anne TylerTogether yet alone,... -
The Amis Collection: Selected Non-fiction by Kingsley Amis 9780141195308
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97'Amis has no faults. He is clever, witty, ironical' GuardianWhat advice can one give a green young author? What purpose do literary prizes serve? Where on earth can a man get a decent bite to eat?... -
Staying On by Paul Scott
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.83Tusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return 'home' when Tusker, once a Colonel in the British Army, retired, they chose instead to remain in the small hill town of Pangkot,... -
Ooga-Booga by Frederick Seidel
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.92'Seidel grips the twentieth century between his teeth like a blade as he speaks. He is one of the more formidable poets of the last third of the century.' Calvin Bedient, Poetry'He is scary, but... -
York Notes Companions: Romantic Literature by John Gilroy 9781408204795
RRP: $27.47Booksplease Price: $20.59The literature of the Romantic era is steeped in the politics of revolution and reaction. This volume looks at first and second generation poets such as Wordsworth, Blake, Byron and Shelley and... -
William Barnes by William Barnes
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer... -
Book of Matches by Simon Armitage 9780571169825
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97'A firework display of technique, versatility and passion.' Independent on Sunday'The crafted sincerity of this potent, lyrical collection, in which an absolutely contemporary voice concisely... -
Train Songs: Poetry of the Railway by Don Paterson 9780571315789
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.92'This is the night mail crossing the border, Bringing the cheque and the postal order...' -- W.H. Auden Wordsworth was the first laureate of locomotives: in fact he railed against them, and... -
Church Going Gone: a biography of religion, doubt, and faith Brian Mountford 9781789048124
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $24.99In this colourful memoir, from 1950's childhood to the COVID crisis, Brian Mountford describes his life as a priest, which has spanned a period of immense social change and seen the secularisation of... -
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101 Poems Against War by Matthew Hollis 9780571220342 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $4.47From the earliest times poets have spoken out against the horrors of war - many dying on the battlefields on which they wrote.This extraordinary anthology gathers together the most startling poems... -
77 Dream Songs by John Berryman 9780571207695
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $23.28Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket... -
This Is Not a Novel Jennifer Johnston 9780747269465
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $19.09Johnny, an outstanding young swimmer, went missing nearly thirty years ago: drowned, or so everyone except his sister Imogen believes. How could this have happened? Encouraged, pushed even, from a... -
The Burning Perch by Louis MacNeice
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket... -
The Customs House by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40Andrew Motion's new book opens with a sequence of war poems (first published as the pamphlet Laurels and Donkeys, on Armstice Day 2010), drawing on soldiers' experiences of war from 1914 until... -
Good Brexiteer’s Guide to English Lit, The by John Sutherland 9781780239927
RRP: $28.56Booksplease Price: $25.89What is Nigel Farage's favourite novel? Why do Brexiteers love Sherlock Holmes? Is Philip Larkin the best Brexit poet ever? Through the politically relevant side-road of English literature, John... -
Innovation: The History of England Volume VI by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $29.46'Ackroyd makes history accessible to the layman' - Ian Thomson, Independent Innovation brings Peter Ackroyd's History of England to a triumphant close. In it, Ackroyd takes readers from the end of... -
Harmonium by Wallace Stevens
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket... -
Poems for a world gone to sh*t: the amazing power of poetry to make even the most f**ked up times feel better Various Poets 9781787471030
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $22.04DISCOVER THE AMAZING POWER OF POETRY TO MAKE EVEN THE MOST F**KED UP TIMES FEEL BETTERA beautiful little book of short, simple, classic and contemporary poems to dip into, to make life feel better... -
Hull Pubs by Paul Chrystal
RRP: $38.06Booksplease Price: $27.80The port of Kingston upon Hull is one of England's most historical and diverse cities, and boasts a wealth of taverns, inns, alehouses and public houses. Most of the older drinking establishments... -
A Very Private Eye by Barbara Pym 9781529091946
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $22.04‘Barbara Pym is one of my most favourite novelists. Few other writers have given me more laughter and more pleasure’ - Jilly Cooper‘I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym’ - Richard Osman‘Could one write a...