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Songs of Farewell by Hubert Parry 9780193518469
RRP: $14.67Booksplease Price: $12.50Parry's Songs of Farewell were composed over the final decade of his life. The elegiac tone of the Songs may also reflect a sense of loss caused by the First World War - in which some of Parry's most... -
Oxford Blue Veronica Stallwood 9780747260080
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75In order to come to terms with the death of a close friend, Kate Ivory has escaped Oxford and found sanctuary in a friend's cottage a few miles away. Here, in the peace of the countryside, she hopes... -
Coconut: How the Shy Fruit Shaped our World by Robin Laurance 9780750990615
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Coconuts have been around for longer than Homo sapiens; they have been turned into art, taken part in religious rituals and been a sign of wealth and success. They have saved lives, not only by... -
The Zurau Aphorisms by Franz Kafka 9781846558382
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Franz Kafka spent eight months at his sister's house in Zurau between September 1917 and April 1918, enduring the onset of tuberculosis. Illness paradoxically set him free to write, in a series of... -
Frostgrave: Into the Breeding Pits by Joseph A. McCullough
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.87With this new supplement for Frostgrave, players can lead their warbands into the vast network of catacombs, sewers, and dungeons that run underneath the Frozen City. It was in these dark confines... -
Modular Origami: 18 Colorful and Customizable Folded Paper Sculptures by Tung Ken Lam
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $21.61For anyone who wants to delve into decorative modular origami ornaments. Learn to fold colored paper into simple shapes, known as modules, and how to put them together, without using sticky tape or... -
A Two-Part Invention Elizabeth Garrett 9781852244620
RRP: $9.31Booksplease Price: $7.40The informing spirit of Garrett's second collection is music - in the cadences of the language, the forms and resolutions of the poems. For her, a memorable poem is a kind of two-part invention, an... -
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Oxford Then and Now by Vaughan Grylls 9781906388355 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.39Poet Matthew Arnold christened Oxford 'the city of dreaming spires' and Oxford Then and Now looks at the range of inspirational buildings that have made it one of the most visited towns in Europe... -
A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien's Road to Faerie by Verlyn Flieger 9780873386999
RRP: $36.17Booksplease Price: $31.10J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and Silmarillion have long been recognized as among the most popular fiction of the twentieth century, and most critical analysis of Tolkien has... -
Piers Plowman: The A Version by Miceal F. Vaughan 9781421401409
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.77The fourteenth-century Piers Plowman is one of the most influential poems from the Age of Chaucer. Following the character Will on his quest for the true Christian life, the three dream narratives... -
The Price of Eyes: The Empress Irini Series, Volume 4 Janet McGiffin 9781910895825
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20The fourth book in The Empress Irini Series, charting the extraordinary rise to power of Irini of Athens. In the final book, Irini returns to the throne. She tricks Constantine into divorcing... -
Anecdotes and Antidotes: A Medieval Arabic History of Physicians by Ibn Abi Usaybi'ah
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.19To my knowledge...no one...has ever written a comprehensive book dealing with physicians through the ages and recounting their history in a coherent fashion. So wrote Syrian physician Ibn Abi... -
Children's Games in Street and Playground: Volume 2: Hunting, Racing, Duelling, Exerting, Daring, Guessing, Acting, Pretending by Iona Opie
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.76Perhaps this book should come with a warning to parents: within these pages, children deliberately scare each other, ritually hurt each other, take foolish risks, promote fights, and play ten against... -
The Poetic Edda by Carolyne Larrington
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $7.73'She sees, coming up a second time, Earth from the ocean, eternally green; the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them, over the mountain hunting fish.' After the terrible conflagration of... -
The Poetic Edda by Carolyne Larrington 9780198834571
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $14.79She sees, coming up a second time, earth from the ocean, eternally green; the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them, over the mountain hunting fish. After the terrible conflagration of... -
That Sweet City: Visions of Oxford by John Elinger 9781908493781
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79In 1865 the Victorian poet Matthew Arnold rejoiced in the charm of Oxford, 'that sweet City with her dreaming spires'. A century and a half later, That Sweet City offers a visual and poetic tribute... -
Lore of the Land: Folklore & Wisdom from the Wild Earth: Volume 2 Claire Cock-Starkey 9780711269828
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.47Unearth the secrets of our natural world with The Lore of the Land, a richly illustrated compendium of folklore and wisdom from the land, skies and seas. From thundering rivers to shady groves,... -
The Library of Ice: Readings from a Cold Climate by Nancy Campbell 9781471169342
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92'A wonderful book: Nancy Campbell is a fine storyteller with a rare physical intelligence. The extraordinary brilliance of her eye confers the reader a total immersion in the rimy realms she explores... -
Putting Library Assessment Data to Work Selena Killick 9781783302208
RRP: $93.80Booksplease Price: $80.37Effective library assessment is crucial for a successful academic library. But what do we mean by library assessment and how can it be used to improve the library service? This new book provides a... -
Oxford Double Veronica Stallwood 9780747268451
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75Writer Kate Ivory has new neighbours on either side of her terraced house. On one side lives Jeremy Wells, a diffident, charming Oxford academic. On the other live Laura and Edward Foster who are... -
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The Aviary Gate by Katie Hickman 9780747596448 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $3.27_______________ 'A hugely enjoyable novel ... fast moving, complex and deeply satisfying' - Joanne Harris 'Lie back on your ottoman and relax. Katie Hickman will take you to a magical land ..... -
Rebellion by Joseph Roth
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.53At the end of the Great War, Andreas Pum has lost a leg but at least he has a medal and a barrel-organ which he plays on the streets of Vienna. At first the simple-minded veteran is satisfied with... -
The Art of the Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien 9780008601423
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $25.19A sumptuous full colour art book containing the complete collection of more than 100 sketches, drawings, paintings and maps created by J.R.R. Tolkien for The Hobbit. ... -
One and Everything Sam Winston 9781529509298
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07From Sam Winston, the co-creator of the Bologna Ragazzi award-winning A Child of Books, comes a thought-provoking celebration of the power of stories and written languages, and the imperative to... -
The Last Man and The Journal of Sorrow Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 9780198892793
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.99Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley began writing her 'Journal of Sorrow' (c.1822-6)three months after the devastating loss of her husband the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley to drowning. In the privacy of the... -
Shadow of Night: (All Souls 2) by Deborah Harkness 9781472276568
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $4.90*NOW A MAJOR SKY TV SERIES. Read the novel Season 2 is based on.*Fall deeper under the spell of Diana and Matthew in the captivating second volume of the No.1 internationally bestselling ALL SOULS... -
The Bovadium Fragments: Together with ‘The Origin of Bovadium’ by Richard Ovenden J. R. R. Tolkien 9780008737764
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.77World first publication of a previously unknown short satirical fantasy by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by his son, Christopher Tolkien, and accompanied by illustrations from the author together with an... -
Oxford Shift Veronica Stallwood 9780747260097
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75Joyce Fielding walked out one afternoon into the streets of Oxford and just disappeared. And now, Kate Ivory has been hired to find her. Joyce is a respectable widow in her sixties and there is... -
Oxford Shadows by Veronica Stallwood
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75Oxfordshire appeared to be a haven of safety for many children sent away from the bombs falling on London in 1944, but for 10-year-old Chris Barnes, the result was death. Over 50 years later,... -
Lore of the Wild: Folktales and Wisdom from Nature by Claire Cock-Starkey
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.15See nature in a whole new light with this enchantingly illustrated treasury of natural folklore and wild wisdom from around the world. Did you know that people used to believe that rabbits' ears... -
A Discovery of Witches: Now a major TV series (All Souls 1) by Deborah Harkness 9780755374045
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $4.90NOW A MAJOR SKY TV SERIES.THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. A Discovery of Witches is the first novel in the must-read ALL SOULS series. It begins with absence and desire. It... -
Poison is a Woman's Weapon: Empress Irini Series, Volume 2 by Janet McGiffin 9781910895740
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20The second book in The Empress Irini Series, charting the extraordinary rise to power of Irini of Athens. Irini's conniving mother-in-law, her five jealous step-brothers, and her own husband,... -
Human Resources by Robin Triggs
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $9.89The sequel to Night Shift, praised by Crime Review and Cemetery Dance.Antarctica. A city on the edge of nowhere.Anders Nordvelt is chief of security in this frozen land, so, when a prominent member... -
Human Resources by Robin Triggs 9781787584938
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.10The sequel to Night Shift, praised by Crime Review and Cemetery Dance.Antarctica. A city on the edge of nowhere.Anders Nordvelt is chief of security in this frozen land, so, when a prominent member... -
The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty by Joseph Sassoon 9780241388655
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.66The astonishing story of the Sassoons, one of the nineteenth century's preeminent commercial families and 'the Rothschilds of the East'The Sassoons were one of the great business dynasties of the... -
Night Shift Robin Triggs 9781787580374
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $9.89"Robin Triggs does a good job setting up a climate of suspicion in Night Shift, and the book has some genuinely chilling moments." - Crime Review Antarctica. A mining base at the edge of the... -
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Shadow of Night: (All Souls 2) by Deborah Harkness 9780755384754 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $3.39*NOW A MAJOR SKY TV SERIES. Read the novel Season 2 is based on.*Fall deeper under the spell of Diana and Matthew in the captivating second volume of the No.1 internationally bestselling ALL SOULS... -
Shadow of Night: (All Souls 2) by Deborah Harkness 9780755384754
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $7.64*NOW A MAJOR SKY TV SERIES. Read the novel Season 2 is based on.*Fall deeper under the spell of Diana and Matthew in the captivating second volume of the No.1 internationally bestselling ALL SOULS... -
The Trees by Ali Shaw 9781408862308
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.40A compulsive, mesmerising and wildly imaginative novel in the vein of Pan's Labyrinth and Station Eleven from the award-winning author of The Girl with Glass Feet There came an elastic aftershock... -
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The Trees by Ali Shaw 9781408862308 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $3.14A compulsive, mesmerising and wildly imaginative novel in the vein of Pan's Labyrinth and Station Eleven from the award-winning author of The Girl with Glass FeetThere came an elastic aftershock of...