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The Penguin Dictionary of Jokes by Fred Metcalf
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Looking for a good joke? Searching for an ice-breaker for that after-dinner speech? Or are you just in need of a few laughs?Then stop! Your search is over. This book is the finest, funniest... -
The Complete Poems by Emily Bronte
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The poems of Emily Jane Bronte are passionate and powerful works that convey the vitality of the human spirit and of the natural world. Only twenty-one of her poems were published during her lifetime... -
The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith 9780241956861
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47'I fail to see - because I do not happen to be a "Somebody" - why my diary should be not be interesting'Mr Pooter is a man of modest ambition, content with his clerkly lot. So why is he always in... -
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Hidden Lives: A Family Memoir by Margaret Forster 9780140239829 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £1.97Margaret Forster's grandmother died in 1936, taking many secrets to her grave. Where had she spent the first 23 years of her life? Who was the woman in black who paid her a mysterious visit shortly... -
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The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain by Paul Theroux 9780140071818 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.97As mentioned in The Times Travel Book Club 2020Award winning writer Paul Theroux embarks on a journey that, though closer to home than most of his expeditions, uncovers some surprising truths about... -
Kaiser Wilhelm II: A Life in Power by Christopher Clark
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Christopher Clark's Kaiser Wilhelm II: A Life in Power is a short, fascinating and accessible biography of one of the 20th century's most important figures.King of Prussia, German Emperor, war leader... -
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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... -
Perfect Happiness by Penelope Lively
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Perfect Happiness is the fifth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope LivelyFrances, happily married for many years, and suddenly plunged into mourning. Her international celebrity husband... -
The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain by Paul Theroux
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23As mentioned in The Times Travel Book Club 2020Award winning writer Paul Theroux embarks on a journey that, though closer to home than most of his expeditions, uncovers some surprising truths about... -
Christmas At Thompson Hall: & Other Christmas Stories by Anthony Trollope
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Anthony Trollope's heartwarming tales of Christmas, presented in a beautiful hardcover edition perfect for giving as a gift.Christmas at Thompson Hall collects the best Christmas tales of Anthony... -
Paradise Lodge by Nina Stibbe
Booksplease Price: £13.15Lizzie Vogel's story continues in Paradise Lodge, the brilliantly comic sequel to Nina Stibbe's hilarious Man at the Helm. 'LOVE it! Instant classic - funny, wise, touching, entirely delightful'... -
Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps by Anne Applebaum
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43This landmark book uncovers for the first time in detail one of the greatest horrors of the twentieth century: the vast system of Soviet camps that were responsible for the deaths of countless... -
The Squad: White Fear by Tom Palmer 9780141337814
Booksplease Price: £9.78White Fear is the second must-have title in Tom Palmer's brilliant spy thriller new series The Squad. Perfect for readers of 10+ and all fans of Anthony Horowitz and Robert Muchamore's Cherub.A team... -
The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia by Orlando Figes
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73Orlando Figes' The Whisperers is a groundbreaking account of daily life in the chaotic and paranoid atmosphere of Stalinist Russia. Exploring the inner life of a Russia where everyone was afraid to... -
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome Jerome
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A comic masterpiece that has never been out of print since it was first published in 1889, Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat includes an introduction and notes by Jeremy Lewis in Penguin... -
Ending Up by Kingsley Amis
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31At Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage in the English countryside, five elderly people live together in rancorous disharmony. Adela Bastable bosses the house, as her brother Bernard passes his days thinking up... -
Hidden Lives: A Family Memoir by Margaret Forster
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Margaret Forster's grandmother died in 1936, taking many secrets to her grave. Where had she spent the first 23 years of her life? Who was the woman in black who paid her a mysterious visit shortly... -
Crimea by Orlando Figes
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73Orlando Figes' Crimea is a powerful history of the Crimean War, the conflict that dominated the nineteenth century. The Crimean War one of the fiercest battles in Russia's history, killing nearly a... -
Said And Done Roger McGough 9780099478751
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.81Roger McGough is one of Britain's best-loved poets, and something of a national institution. His name is ubiquitous with matter-of-fact Scouse humour, easy-going charm, and perfect observations of... -
The Autobiography by Johnnie Walker
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Young Johnnie Walker was obsessed with music and loved to share that passion. So it wasn't long after he'd started DJing in dance halls and pubs around his Solihull home that he got his big break: he... -
Echoes of Memory by John O'Donohue 9781848270749
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83In this powerful, evocative collection, master storyteller John O'Donohue explores themes of love and loss, beginnings and endings. Inspired by the ancient wisdom of the Celtic tradition and the... -
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 Pie At Night: In Search of the North at Play by Stuart Maconie
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.73Factory, mine and mill. Industry, toil and grime. Its manufacturing roots mean we still see the North of England as a hardworking place. But, more than possibly anywhere else, the North has always... -
A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: The Collected Stories by Margaret Drabble
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Margaret Drabble is one of the major literary figures of her generation. In this collection of her complete short fiction from across four decades, she examines the intense private worlds and... -
Cuba: A History by Hugh Thomas
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.68From award-winning historian Hugh Thomas, Cuba: A History is the essential work for understanding one of the most fascinating and controversial countries in the world. Hugh Thomas's acclaimed book... -
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... -
The Gathering Storm: The Second World War by Winston Churchill
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the Second World War.About the AuthorWinston S. Churchill (1874-1965) was prime minister of Great Britain from 1940 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1955. A prolific... -
Hang-Ups: Essays on Painting (Mostly) by Simon Schama
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.73Pre-eminent author and art historian Simon Schama has written widely on art for many years to great acclaim. In Hang-Ups, a personal selection of his articles from, amongst others, The New Yorker,... -
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... -
Gloucester Crescent: Me, My Dad and Other Grown-Ups William Miller 9781788160377
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.55Shortlisted for the 2019 PEN Ackerley Prize Gloucester Crescent is a curving, leafy street, tucked between Camden Town and Primrose Hill. It's unremarkable in many ways, unless you notice the lady... -
Bryant and May On The Loose: (Bryant & May Book 7) by Christopher Fowler
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Long regarded an anachronism and a thorn in the side of its superiors, the Peculiar Crimes Unit is to be disbanded. For octogenarian detectives Arthur Bryant and John May, it seems retirement is now... -
Selected Poems: Donne by John Donne
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Showcasing 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... -
Diaries Volume Two: Power and the People by Alastair Campbell
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54Power & the People covers the first two years of the New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997. This second voume of Campbell's unexpurgated diaries details... -
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth 9780141393421
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.23NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015 'Sublime ... it inspires a kind of evangelical cult passion among its devotees' Simon Schama'Roth is Austria's Chekhov' William Boyd Strauss's Radetzky March,... -
The Life of Charlotte Bronte by Elizabeth Gaskell 9780140434934
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Elizabeth Gaskell's biography of her close friend Charlotte Bronte was published in 1857 to immediate popular acclaim, and remains the most significant study of the enigmatic author who gave Jane... -
Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford 9781857151145
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05A story which traces the history of a house and a family at the time of World War I. This is a picture of Edwardian England at its most opulent. Exploring the themes of love, honour and betrayal,... -
Plays Political: The Apple Cart, On the Rocks, Geneva by George Bernard Shaw 9780140450309
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78While some of Shaw's earlier plays are still performed, his later plays, such as the ones in this volume, are barely known. As the collective title indicates, the themes here are political; yet,...