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Poets in their Time: Essays on English Poetry from Donne to Larkin by Barbara Everett
Booksplease Price: £26.49In Poets in their Time Barbara Everett brings her extraordinary ability to read closely and her intimate knowledge of the period to an examination of Donne, Milton, Marvell, Rochester, Pope, Keats,... -
Chunky: The Best Bits from Acorn Antiques to Kitty and more by Victoria Wood
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £16.80'Absolutely perfect. All Christmas presents sorted. No notes.' Sarra ManningPublished to celebrate the much-missed Victoria Wood's 70th birthday, this stunning hardback edition of Chunky contains the... -
Montaigne by Stefan Zweig 9781782271031
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.60'He who thinks freely for himself, honours all freedom on earth.' Stefan Zweig was already an emigre-driven from a Europe torn apart by brutality and totalitarianism-when he found, in a damp... -
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The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler by Laurence Rees 9780091917654 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £3.98Fuelled by hate. Unable to form normal human relationships. Unwilling to debate political issues.In many ways Adolf Hitler seemed an unlikely leader, yet he inspired millions, leading Germany into... -
What to Read Next: How to Make Books Part of Your Life Stig Abell 9781529337242
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02For a whole year on his train to work, Stig Abell read books from across genres and time periods. Then he wrote about them, and their impact on our culture and his own life.The result is a work of... -
Novel on Yellow Paper by Stevie Smith 9780811231671
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.40I am a forward-thinking girl, and don't stay where I am. 'Left right, be bright.' Pompey Casmilus, Stevie Smith's loquacious alter ego, works as a secretary and writes down on yellow office paper... -
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Things I Learned on the 6.28: A Guide to Daily Reading by Stig Abell 9781529337242 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.99For a whole year on his train to work, Stig Abell read books from across genres and time periods. Then he wrote about them, and their impact on our culture and his own life.The result is a work of... -
The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler by Laurence Rees
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74Fuelled by hate. Unable to form normal human relationships. Unwilling to debate political issues.In many ways Adolf Hitler seemed an unlikely leader, yet he inspired millions, leading Germany into... -
Madame Depardieu and the Beautiful Strangers by Antonia Quirke 9780007182763
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.74A razor-sharp and achingly funny memoir of the men and movies that shaped one woman's life. A unique memoir, 'Madame Depardieu and the Beautiful Strangers' is the story of how a young... -
Primo Levi: The Elements of a Life by Ian Thomson 9780099515210
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £15.91'One of the best literary biographies of the year...superb... Levi, I think, would have appreciated it' Observer Re-issued to mark the centenary of Primo Levi's birth, now featuring a new... -
In Search Of Shakespeare by Michael Wood
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74Almost 400 years after his death, William Shakespeare is still acclaimed as the world's greatest writer, and yet the man himself remains shrouded in mystery. In this absorbing historical detective... -
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Primo Levi: The Elements of a Life by Ian Thomson 9780099515210 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £2.70'One of the best literary biographies of the year...superb... Levi, I think, would have appreciated it' Observer Re-issued to mark the centenary of Primo Levi's birth, now featuring a new... -
Magellan by Stefan Zweig
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51The life of the great Portuguese explorer who dared to sail beyond the horizon The Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521) is one of the most famous navigators in history-he was the... -
Pretty Girl In Crimson Rose by Sandy Balfour 9781843540892
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Half a million people a day do it in the Telegraph. The Times claims almost as many, and the Guardian 300,000. Most people remember their first time, and everyone has a favourite. You can do it in... -
Everything is Extraordinary: True stories about how we live, love and pay attention by Cole Moreton 9781399800372
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £9.64'Clive James raged against the dying of the light, as you would expect from a man who had punched out prose like a prizefighter all his life; yet he also showed grace and gratitude at being allowed... -
Chunky: The Best Bits from Acorn Antiques to Kitty and more by Victoria Wood 9781398707528
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'There was none like her before and there's been none like her since - she was unique.' Dawn FrenchVictoria Wood was one of the true comedy greats of her generation, celebrated for her acute... -
Darkness Falls from the Air Nigel Balchin 9781474601184
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78The classic novel of the London Blitz, DARKNESS FALLS FROM THE AIR captures the chaos, absurdity and ultimately the tragedy of life during the bombardment.Featured on BACKLISTED podcastBill Sarratt... -
A History of Pictures: From the Cave to the Computer Screen by David Hockney
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.85The making of pictures has a history going back perhaps 100,000 years to an African shell used as a paint palette. Two-thirds of it is irrevocably lost, since the earliest images known to us are... -
Novel On Yellow Paper Stevie Smith 9780860681465
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02INTRODUCED BY RACHEL COOKE'Virginia Woolf's roving consciousness lies behind the prose in Novel on Yellow Paper, but the tone owes more to Dorothy Parker . . . When first published in 1936, it... -
Long Players: Writers on the Albums That Shaped Them by Tom Gatti
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05In Long Players, fifty of our finest authors write about the albums that changed their lives, from Deborah Levy on Bowie to Daisy Johnson on Lizzo, Ben Okri on Miles Davis to David Mitchell on Joni... -
William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man by Duncan Wu 9780199549580
Booksplease Price: £52.63Romanticism is where the modern age begins, and Hazlitt was its most articulate spokesman. No one else had the ability to see it whole; no one else knew so many of its politicians, poets, and... -
The Small Back Room by Nigel Balchin
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78A true modern classic, THE SMALL BACK ROOM is a towering novel of the Second World War.Sammy Rice is a weapons scientist, one of the 'back room boys' of the Second World War. A crippling disability... -
Pushkin by T. J. Binyon 9780006373384
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £16.95A major biography of one of literature's most romantic and enigmatic figures, published in hardback to great acclaim: 'one of the great biographies of recent times' (Sunday Telegraph). ... -
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Pushkin by T. J. Binyon 9780006373384 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £2.50A major biography of one of literature's most romantic and enigmatic figures, published in hardback to great acclaim: 'one of the great biographies of recent times' (Sunday Telegraph). ... -
Bedford Park by Bryan Appleyard
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.77An evocative historical thriller based in one of London's original suburbs.Set in 1912, Bedford Park is not just a London suburb: it is a crucible for enlightenment and modernity inhabited by people... -
History of My Life: Volumes 1 and 2 by Giacomo Casanova 9780801856624
Booksplease Price: £42.66In volumes 1 and 2, Casanova tells the story of his family, his first loves, and his early travels. With the death of his grandmother, he is sent to a seminary-but is soon expelled. He is briefly... -
Raymond by Yann Le Bec 9781406378320
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £4.93This is the story of Raymond - an ordinary dog who, for a while, lives an extraordinary life.What if dogs could walk and talk and go to work? Well, Raymond the dog has big ambitions beyond his... -
A Way Through the Wood Nigel Balchin 9781474601207
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40A psychological study of marriage, loyalty and justice, A WAY THROUGH THE WOOD is a remarkable post-war novel.'A superb storyteller' SUNDAY TIMES 'I'd place him up there with Graham Greene' Philippa... -
Hope Against Hope by Nadezhda Mandelstam 9781841594125
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.37A harrowing yet uplifting account of Stalin's persecution of the Russian intelligentsia in the 1930s, and of one man - Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938), whose poetry, in spite of the unfolding tragedy of... -
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Bedford Park by Bryan Appleyard 9781780228389 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £1.98An evocative historical thriller based in one of London's original suburbs.Set in 1912, Bedford Park is not just a London suburb: it is a crucible for enlightenment and modernity inhabited by people... -
The Gilded Chalet: Travels through Literary Switzerland Padraig Rooney 9781857886528
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26In the summer of 1816 paparazzi trained their telescopes on Byron and the Shelleys across Lake Geneva. Mary Shelley babysat and wrote Frankenstein. Byron dieted and penned The Prisoner of Chillon... -
The Art of Not Falling Apart by Christina Patterson
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31New Statesman's Best Books of the Year, 2018Mail on Sunday, Books of the Year, 2018When life threw journalist Christina Patterson an involuntary-redundancy shaped curveball she decided to tear up the... -
Geography for the Lost by Kapka Kassabova 9781852247652
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Kapka Kassabova is a young Bulgarian emigre poet who writes in English but with a European imagination. Her well-travelled poems speak from different parts of the world and different moments of... -
A History of Pictures: From the Cave to the Computer Screen by David Hockney
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £15.23'I won't read a more interesting book all year... utterly fascinating' A. N. Wilson, Sunday Times 'Enormously good-humoured and entertaining... Hockney asks big questions about the nature of... -
Someone Else's Life by Kapka Kassabova 9781852246174
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Kapka Kassabova is a young Bulgarian emigre poet who writes in English but with a European imagination. In Someone else's life, her first poetry collection to be published in the UK, she explores the... -
The Brain is Wider Than the Sky: Why Simple Solutions Don't Work in a Complex World Bryan Appleyard 9781780220154
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A brand-new book from the award-winning SUNDAY TIMES journalist Brian Appleyard.Simplicity has become a brand and a cult. People want simple lives and simple solutions. And now our technology wants... -
Party Animals: My Family and Other Communists by David Aaronovitch
Booksplease Price: £13.16SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY AWARDDavid Aaronovitch grew up in Communist Great Britain - a Britain hidden from view for most, but for those on the inside it was a life... -
Olivia Manning: A Woman at War by Deirdre David 9780199609185
Booksplease Price: £60.87Olivia Manning: A Woman at War is the first literary biography of the twentieth-century novelist Olivia Manning. It tells the story of a writer whose life and work were shaped by her own fierce... -
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam by Douglas Murray 9781472942241
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.84THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER A WATERSTONES POLITICS PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR, 2018 The Strange Death of Europe is a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the act... -
Olivia Manning: A Woman at War by Deirdre David 9780198728580
Booksplease Price: £37.26Olivia Manning: A Woman at War is the first literary biography of the twentieth-century novelist Olivia Manning. It tells the story of a writer whose life and work were shaped by her own fierce...