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The Way to Dusty Death by Alistair MacLean 9780008336721
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.68Reissue of the classic tale of high-octane adventure set in the world of 1970s Formula One, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. Johnny Harlow seems to have it all: he's good... -
Death of a Bovver Boy by Leo Bruce 9780897337335
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $15.13Billed as ""the ugliest case that Carolus Deene ever chose to investigate,"" Leo Bruce's Death of a Bovver Boy finds the redoubtable schoolmaster-turned-detective involved in yet another mystery... -
Father of the Comic Strip: Rodolphe Toepffer by David Kunzle 9781578069484
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $22.65Sixty years before the comics entered the American newspaper press, Rodolphe Toepffer of Geneva (1799-1846), schoolmaster, university professor, polemical journalist, art critic, landscape draftsman,... -
The Man Upstairs by P. G. Wodehouse
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $14.74Wodehouse's well-known gift for satisfying plots and comic surprises is evident on every page, but there are also signs of his debt to earlier writers in the realistic tradition. Set mainly in London... -
Fear is the Key by Alistair MacLean
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.68A classic novel of ruthless revenge set in the steel jungle of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico - and on the sea bed below it. Off the Gulf of Mexico lies a sunken DC-3. Its cargo:... -
Wycliffe And The Last Rites by W. J. Burley
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35The Cornish Detective seriesA puzzling murder mystery. A tough new case for Detective Wycliffe to investigate.'You can always count on Wycliffe' FINANCIAL TIMES'GRIPPING' THE TIMES A bizarre murder... -
The Grooming of a Chancellor by George Alleyne 9789766406516
Booksplease Price: $60.46The Grooming of a Chancellor is Sir George Alleyne's autobiography. He was born in 1932 in St Philip, Barbados, the first of the seven children of Eileen, a homemaker, and Clinton Alleyne, a... -
Bon Appetit!: Travels with knife,fork & corkscrew through France Peter Mayle 9780751532692
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.95Gastronomy is a wonderful starting point to study France and the French. As the retired schoolmaster from Provence says 'The religion of France is food. And wine, of course.' And they put their... -
Caravan to Vaccares by Alistair MacLean
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.68The classic tale of suspense set in Provence, where an English tourist investigates a series of mysterious deaths, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. From all over Europe,... -
The Double Tongue: With an introduction by Meg Rosoff by William Golding
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43William Golding's final novel, left in draft at his death, tells the story of a priestess of Apollo. Arieka is one of the last to prophesy at Delphi, in the shadowy years when the Romans were... -
Rugby Football for Schools by J. T. Hankinson 9781041022664
RRP: $41.27Booksplease Price: $38.04Originally published in 1946, this companion volume to the author's cricket book deals with rugby football coaching and practice in schools. It is written by a schoolmaster, it was produced in a... -
Changes at Fairacre: The tenth novel in the Fairacre series Miss Read 9780752884226
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Changes are afoot in the village of Fairacre...Over the years, Fairacre has seen many changes, some for the better, some less so. But the declining number of children at the village school has again... -
Bear Island by Alistair MacLean
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.68Reissue of the classic tale of adventure and death on a mysterious Arctic island, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. A converted fishing trawler, Morning Rose carries a... -
Shakespeare's Schoolroom: Rhetoric, Discipline, Emotion by Lynn Enterline
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $25.95Shakespeare's Schoolroom places moments of considerable emotional power in Shakespeare's poetry-portraits of what his contemporaries called "the passions"-alongside the discursive and material... -
HMS Ulysses by Alistair MacLean
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.84The novel that launched the astonishing career of one of the 20th century's greatest writers of action and suspense - an acclaimed classic of heroism and the sea in World War II. ... -
The Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacLean
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.68The classic World War II thriller from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. Now reissued in a new cover style. The guns of Navarone, huge and catastrophically accurate, embedded... -
A Peaceful Retirement: The twelfth novel in the Fairacre series Miss Read 9780752884240
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Miss Read looks forward to her retirement - but it doesn't go quite as planned...When Miss Read took early retirement, she anticipated days of relaxation and calm. She couldn't have been more wrong!... -
A Country Christmas: Village Christmas, Jingle Bells, Christmas At Caxley 1913, The Fairacre Ghost Miss Read 9780752881744
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35A wonderfully entertaining collection of Christmas tales from the enduringly popular Miss Read.Taken from the original omnibus CHRISTMAS AT FAIRACRE, Miss Read's wonderfully festive collection of... -
Thrush Green: The classic nostalgic novel set in 1950s Cotswolds by Miss Read
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35The first novel in the bestselling Thrush Green series.It's the May Day holiday, and a fair has come to the village of Thrush Green.The residents of Thrush Green all have their own views about the... -
Gossip from Thrush Green by Miss Read
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Gossip, intrigue, drama... Change is afoot in a beautiful Cotswold village... 'Sometimes funny, sometimes touching, always appealing' NEW YORK TIMESAs the early sunshine begins to warm Thrush Green,... -
The Year at Thrush Green Miss Read 9780752884271
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35An enchanting story of village life from the bestselling author of the FAIRACRE series.January has been bitterly cold in Thrush Green. But at last the winter seems to be melting into a beautiful... -
Josephine Butler: A Very Brief History by Jane Robinson
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.97When Josephine Butler died in 1906, she was declared by Millicent Fawcett to have been 'the most distinguished Englishwoman of the nineteenth century'. With impassioned speeches and fiery writing,... -
The Dragon Can't Dance by Earl Lovelace
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43'A landmark, not in the West Indian, but in the contemporary novel.' C. L. R. James'First-class talent.' The VoiceTrinidad, 1970s. Calvary Hill - poverty stricken and rubbish-strewn - is home to a... -
The Moonlight School by Suzanne Woods Fisher
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $12.09Haunted by her sister's mysterious disappearance, Lucy Wilson arrives in Rowan County, Kentucky, in the spring of 1911 to work for Cora Wilson Stewart, superintendent of education. When Cora sends... -
The Songs of Hugo Wolf by Eric Sams 9780571242191
Booksplease Price: $27.98With a foreword by the legendary accompanist, Gerald Moore, Eric Sams' study (Faber 1961, revised 1983) is a notable landmark in the establishment of Wolf as one of the supreme masters of German song... -
Affairs at Thrush Green Miss Read 9780752883861
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35The well-loved residents of Thrush Green return in another slice of village life.Charles Henstock, rector of Thrush Green, has difficulty living up to his predecessor when he moves to the parish of... -
Winter in Thrush Green Miss Read 9780752877518
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35The wonderfully nostalgic second novel in the bestselling THRUSH GREEN series, from the author of THE VILLAGE SCHOOL.The arrival of a stranger in the village of Thrush Green stirs up ripples of... -
Four Gospels, One Jesus?: A Symbolic Reading by Richard A. Burridge
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35"Fresh, exciting, challenging and mind-stretching" Christian Herald Now an SPCK Classic, this is probably the most popular modern introduction to the four Gospel portraits of Jesus. It is written... -
Wycliffe in Paul's Court W.J. Burley 9780752849324
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55Two violent deaths shatter a small community. And to solve the case, Wycliffe must untangle a complex network of secrecy within the quiet of Paul's Court . . .The Cornish Detective... -
The Browning Version by Terence Rattigan
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.74Rattigan's well-loved play about an unpopular schoolmaster who snatches a last shred of dignity from the collapse of his career and his marriage. Twice filmed (with Michael Redgrave and Albert... -
Battles at Thrush Green Miss Read 9780752882345
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35The peace of a beautiful Cotswold village is about to be disturbed...'Unforgettable characters ... drama, romance and humour' EXPRESSChildren's voices ring out from the school playground; in the... -
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9780198848110
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.51The wise writer, I think, writes for the youth of his own generation, the critic of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward. Following the education and young life of Amory Blaine, from... -
At Home in Thrush Green by Miss Read 9780752883878
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.61There are newcomers to the village of Thrush Green...Charles Henstock, vicar of Thrush Green, is living in his new vicarage after the old one burned down. In its place are eight retirement homes, but... -
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Bon Appetit!: Travels with knife,fork & corkscrew through France by Peter Mayle 9780751532692 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $2.54Gastronomy is a wonderful starting point to study France and the French. As the retired schoolmaster from Provence says 'The religion of France is food. And wine, of course.' And they put their... -
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The Last Frontier by Alistair MacLean 9780006157496 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $3.86An undercover mission beyond the Iron Curtain to recover a defected scientist goes disastrously wrong - a classic early Cold War thriller from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. Now... -
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Winter in Thrush Green by Miss Read 9780752877518 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $2.41The wonderfully nostalgic second novel in the bestselling THRUSH GREEN series, from the author of THE VILLAGE SCHOOL.The arrival of a stranger in the village of Thrush Green stirs up ripples of... -
News From Thrush Green Miss Read 9780752877532
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35The third novel in the bestselling Thrush Green series.There are new people on the Green...When old Admiral Trigg and his sister Lucy died, their house - Tullivers - stood empty for many months. Then... -
Farewell to Fairacre: The eleventh novel in the Fairacre series Miss Read 9780752884233
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Miss Read must face the future in another delightful slice of village life...Now that Fairacre school no longer faces the threat of closure, Miss Read is looking forward to a few more years of... -
Take A Girl Like You by Kingsley Amis
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26In Kingsley Amis's Take A Girl Like You, twenty year old Jenny Bunn is supernally beautiful and stubbornly chaste, which is why Patrick Standish, an arrogant schoolmaster, wants her so much. This... -
Return to Thrush Green by Miss Read
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Spring has arrived in the beautiful village of Thrush Green - but problems are never far away.It's spring again in the village of Thrush Green, and with the changing season comes change for many of...