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In Youth is Pleasure by Denton Welch
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Unlike any other person I had come across, Welch seemed to be speaking particularly to me' Alan Bennett'Vivid ... surprising ... an exquisite balance of pain and beauty' GuardianOrvil Pym does not... -
The Complete Plays by Christopher Marlowe
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Marlowe's seven plays dramatise the fatal lure of potent forces, whether religious, occult or erotic. In the victories of Tamburlaine, Faustus's encounters with the demonic, the irreverence of... -
Invitation To The Dance by Hilary Spurling
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46A unique reference book for all fans of Anthony Powell's 12-volume novel, A Dance to the Music of Time, which has become a literary landmark of twentieth-century writing. More than a simple glossary,... -
The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark 9780241964002
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'One of the greatest books about growing up' James Wood, Guardian'You girls are my vocation . . . I am dedicated to you in my prime'Miss Jean Brodie is a schoolmistress with a difference. She is... -
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The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District by James Rebanks 9781846148545 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.78THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James Rebanks' isn't. The first son of a shepherd, who was the first son of a shepherd himself, he... -
Rhinoceros, The Chairs, The Lesson by Eugene Ionesco
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95These three great plays by one of the founding fathers of the theatre of the absurd, are alive and kicking with tragedy and humour, bleakness and farce. In Rhinoceros we are shown the innate... -
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations that Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson 9781846148552
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.49From Steven Johnson, the bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From, comes How We Got to Now, the companion book to his six-part BBC One television series exploring the power and the legacy of... -
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Soldier: The Autobiography by Mike Jackson 9780552156028 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.40General Sir Mike Jackson's illustrious career in the British Army has spanned almost 45 years and all that time he has shown loyalty, courage and commitment to the British army whilst also being an... -
The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District by James Rebanks
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Affectionate, evocative, illuminating. A story of survival - of a flock, a landscape and a disappearing way of life. I love this book' Nigel... -
The Librarian: The Top 10 Sunday Times Bestseller by Salley Vickers
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.73*A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller*'Vickers sees with a clear eye and writes with a light hand; she's a presence worth cherishing in the ranks of modern novelists.' Philip PullmanIn 1958, Sylvia... -
Mapp and Lucia by E. F. Benson
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Subtly brilliant comedy of social rivalry between the wars. Emmeline Lucas (known universally to her friends as Lucia) is an arch-snob of the highest order. In Miss Elizabeth Mapp of Mallards Lucia... -
Girl, 20 by Kingsley Amis
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Douglas Yandell, a young-ish music critic, is enlisted by Kitty Vandervane to keep an eye on her roving husband - the eminent conductor and would-be radical Sir Roy - as he embarks on yet another... -
The Good Woman of Setzuan by Bertolt Brecht
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73This play, written during Brecht's exile to the United States and set in pre-Communist China, is a parable of a young woman torn between obligation and reality, between love and practicality, and... -
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The Squad: Black Op by Tom Palmer 9780141337784 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £1.97The Squad - kickass teenage spies with the perfect cover. They are also part of an England youth football team. Wherever trouble is kicking off, the Squad are sent in. They're more than a match for... -
A Dangerous Liaison by Carole Seymour-Jones 9780099481690
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.85A Dangerous Liaison tells the intense, passionate and sometimes painful story of how these two brilliant free-thinkers - and rivals - came to a share a relationship that was to last over fifty years... -
Memoirs Of A Not So Dutiful Daughter by Jenni Murray 9781784163785
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47The only child of an electrical engineer and a mother who resented the fact that she'd never been to university, the broadcaster Jenni Murray grew up in a traditional household in the 1950s. But... -
Grandmothers Salley Vickers 9780241371435
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.05The new novel from Salley Vickers, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Librarian'Heart-warming... Grandmothers is a beautifully written and moving celebration of this love, too often unsung, that... -
Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation by Susan Williams
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Sir Seretse Khama, the first President of Botswana and heir apparent to the kingship of the Bangwato people, brought independence and great prosperity to his nation after colonial rule. But for six... -
It Never Rains by Roger McGough
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67It Never Rains by Roger McGough - an expanded edition of comic verse and free line drawings, from the nation's favourite poetWhile up at MagdalenSpent the time dagdalen.Moved on to CaiusBecame the... -
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The Librarian: The Top 10 Sunday Times Bestseller by Salley Vickers 9780241330234 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.76*A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller*'Vickers sees with a clear eye and writes with a light hand; she's a presence worth cherishing in the ranks of modern novelists.' Philip PullmanIn 1958, Sylvia... -
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English Humour for Beginners by George Mikes 9780241978542 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.21'To write a book is hard; to write a funny book is harder; to write a funny book both wise and funny is the prerogative of Mr. Mikes' The Times_________________________If you want to succeed here you... -
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.23One of the twentieth century's great undisputed masterpieces, Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano includes an introduction by Michael Schmidt in Penguin Modern Classics.It is the fiesta 'Day of the... -
World Without End: The Global Empire of Philip II by Hugh Thomas
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43Following Rivers of Gold and The Golden Age, World Without End is the conclusion of a magisterial three-volume history of the Spanish Empire by Hugh Thomas, its foremost worldwide authorityWorld... -
One Fat Englishman by Kingsley Amis
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Brimming with gluttony, booze and lust, Roger Micheldene is loose in America. Supposedly visiting Budweiser University to make deals for his publishing firm in England, Roger instead sets out to... -
Licks of Love: Short Stories And a Sequel, 'Rabbit Remembered' by John Updike
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Collected with a dozen wonderful stories, all set in classic Updike territory, the short novel 'RABBIT REMEMBERED' is a major work in its own right - a riveting return to Updike's most celebrated... -
Plays Unpleasant by George Bernard Shaw
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23With Plays Unpleasant, Shaw issued a radical challenge to his audiences' complacency and exposed social evils through his dramatization of the moral conflicts between youthful idealism and economic... -
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Grandmothers by Salley Vickers 9780241371435 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.19The new novel from Salley Vickers, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Librarian'Heart-warming... Grandmothers is a beautifully written and moving celebration of this love, too often unsung, that... -
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Whatever You Say I Am: The Life And Times Of Eminem by Anthony Bozza 9780552150958 [USED COPY]
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £2.01Eminem is currently the world's biggest and most controversial music star. He has been blasted for what many of his critics regard as overtly homophobic and misogynistic lyrics, and resented both for... -
Home at Grasmere: Extracts from the Journal of Dorothy Wordsworth and from the Poems of William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78A continuous text made up of extracts from Dorothy Wordsworth's Journal and a selection of her brother's poems. Dorothy Wordsworth kept her Journal 'because I shall give William pleasure by it'. In... -
Homo Faber by Max Frisch
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The novel tells the story of a middle-class UNESCO engineer called Walter Faber, who believes in rational, calculated world. Strange events undermine his security - an emergency landing in a Mexican... -
Richard II by William Shakespeare
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm off from an anointed king'Richard, a vain, despotic ruler, listens only to his flatterers. When his cousin Bolingbroke, previously banished,... -
Letter from America: 1946-2004 by Alistair Cooke
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.51A defining collection from Alistair Cooke's legendary BBC Radio broadcasts, guiding us through nearly sixty years of changing life in the United States'No one else succeeded in explaining to the... -
The Man In The Queue by Josephine Tey 9780099556725
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Outside a London theatre a throng of people wait expectantly for the last performance of a popular musical. But as the doors open at last, something spoils all thought of entertainment: a man in the... -
The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia by Paul Theroux 9780141189147
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The Great Railway Bazaar is Paul Theroux's account of his epic journey by rail through Asia. Filled with evocative names of legendary train routes - the Direct-Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local,... -
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame 9780143039099
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Kenneth Graham's The Wind in the Willows is one of the most celebrated works of literature for children, and this Penguin Classics edition contains notes and an introduction by Gillian Avery.Meek... -
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This Sceptred Isle by Christopher Lee 9780140261332 [USED COPY]
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £2.58Based on the award-winning Radio 4 programmes THIS SCEPTRED ISLE tells the fascinating story of British history from Caesar's invasion in 55BC to Queen Victoria's death in 1901.Using extracts from... -
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... -
Selected Poems: Donne by John Donne
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.18Showcasing the creative power of one of the most outstanding English Metaphysical Poets, the Penguin Classics edition of John Donne's Selected Poems includes an introduction and notes by Ilona Bell... -
The House of Bernarda Alba and Other Plays by Federico Garcia Lorca
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95In The House of Bernarda Alba, a tyrannical matriarch rules over her house and five daughters, cruelly crushing their hopes and needs. The other plays here also portray female characters whose... -
The Nanny State Made Me: A Story of Britain and How to Save it by Stuart Maconie
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41'He is as funny as Bryson and as wise as Orwell' ObserverIt was the spirit of our finest hour, the backbone of our post-war greatness, and it promoted some of the boldest and most brilliant schemes...