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Bird: Exploring the Winged World by Phaidon Press
RRP: £44.95Booksplease Price: £32.06'The most glorious cornucopia celebrating our enduring love affair with birds - an uplifting and eye opening tribute to the way they enrich our lives.' - Alan Titchmarsh MBE, British TV presenter,... -
Owl by Desmond Morris
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £13.90The owls are not what they seem. From ancient Babylon to Edward Lear's The Owl and the Pussycat and the grandiloquent, absent-minded Wol from Winnie the Pooh to David Lynch's Twin Peaks, owls have... -
The Quentin Blake Book by Jenny Uglow
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.10A fully illustrated overview of the life and work of the universally loved Quentin Blake, released ahead of the artist's 90th birthday in December 2022. Quentin Blake is an artist who has charmed... -
Paul Nash and John Nash: Design Brian Webb 9781851495191
RRP: £12.50Booksplease Price: £10.37The brothers Paul and John Nash, in their very different ways, were a major influence on twentieth century British design. Paul Nash (1889-1946) is now recognised as the most significant war artist... -
The Poetry of Victorian Scientists: Style, Science and Nonsense by Daniel Brown 9781107527447
Booksplease Price: £32.12A surprising number of Victorian scientists wrote poetry. Many came to science as children through such games as the spinning-top, soap-bubbles and mathematical puzzles, and this playfulness carried... -
Journey Into Cyprus by Colin Thubron
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Cyprus, spring 1972. Tensions are rising between the Greek South and the Turkish North. Within two years, the country will become divided.It is at this distinctive time in history British travel... -
The Diary of a Nobody George Grossmith 9780099540885
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83'The funniest book in the world' Evelyn Waugh ... -
A Happy Poem to End Every Day by Jane McMorland Hunter 9781849947206
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.09'I can't think of a single person who wouldn't enjoy having this beautiful collection of poetry to dip into when they need a boost' - Good Housekeeping 'This is supreme bedtime reading.' - The Lady... -
Where Have All the Bullets Gone? by Spike Milligan
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.47VOLUME FIVE OF SPIKE MILLIGAN'S LEGENDARY MEMOIRS IS A HILARIOUS, SUBVERSIVE FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF WW2'The Godfather of Alternative Comedy' Eddie Izzard______________ 'Back to those haunting days in... -
Victorian Alphabet Books and the Education of the Eye: British Approaches to Literacy through the Nineteenth Century A. Robin Hoffman 9780198938132
RRP: £77.00Booksplease Price: £70.68Victorian Alphabet Books and the Education of the Eye shows how the familiar genre went beyond mere reading instruction to offer nineteenth-century British writers, illustrators, and publishers a... -
Darwin's Love of Life: A Singular Case of Biophilia by Karen L. Harel
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £54.13Biophilia-the love of life-encompasses the drive to survive, a sense of kinship with all life-forms, and an instinct for beauty. In this unconventional book, Kay Harel uses biophilia as a lens to... -
Dogs: Stories and Poems by Mark Bryant 9781408710234
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £6.50'Handsomely produced . . . All in all, a quite absorbing collection, an easy Christmas present, and a perfect (if bulky) loo-side read.'Jeremy NicholasA wonderful selection of writing on dogs, from... -
The Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson 9781509830442
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.79"How I long to sail!" said the tiny snail.The Snail and the Whale is a delightful tale of adventure and friendship by the unparalleled picture book partnership of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler,... -
I Am a Poetato: An A-Z of Poems About People, Pets and Other Creatures John Hegley 9781913074340
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.65I am a guillemot I use my bill a lot I get the fish out of the wet I eat my fill a lot Funny, witty, zany and thoughtful, this brilliant A-Z of animal poems will be loved by readers of... -
Let's Celebrate!: Festival Poems from Around the World Debjani Chatterjee 9781847804792
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40This exciting anthology of poems celebrates festivals all over the world. From Chinese New Year to Carnival, from Thanksgiving to Holi, and from Purnima to Diwali.This book of poetry includes... -
Spike Milligan: Man of Letters by Spike Milligan
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Spike Milligan's letters contain some of the best material he ever wrote . . . Collected here for the first time are the funniest, rudest and most revealing of them - most of which have never been... -
A Little History of British Gardening by Jenny Uglow
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.24Get out in your garden and discover the history hidden in the hedges.Did the Romans have rakes? Did the monks get muddy? Did potatoes seem really, really weird when they arrived on our shores?Drawn... -
The Puffin Baby and Toddler Treasury by 9780670878321
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.31The Puffin Baby and Toddler Treasury is a timeless collection of favourite nursery rhymes, lullabies, poems and stories, featuring well-loved characters such as Eric Hill's Spot, Raymond Briggs's The... -
Peace Work by Spike Milligan
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.47Peace Work is volume seven of Spike Milligan's outrageous, hilarious, legendary War Memoirs.'I had not informed my parents of my return, I wanted it to be a lovely surprise; it was, for me, they were... -
Goodbye Soldier by Spike Milligan
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.13Goodbye Soldier is volume six of Spike Milligan's outrageous, hilarious, legendary War Memoirs.'My namer is Maria Antonoinetta Fontana, but everyone call me Toni.''I'm Spike,' sometimes known as stop... -
Monty: His Part in My Victory by Spike Milligan
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.47Monty: His Part in My Victory is volume three of Spike Milligan's outrageous, hilarious, legendary War Memoirs.'It's all over, Von Arnheim has surrendered and he's very angry.''This could mean war..... -
Dreamer: Saving Our Wild World by Brian Moses
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99Paired with Bee Willey's stunning illustrations this is a picture book that will inspire young children to seek a more environmentally friendly world.In this evocative text talented poet Brian Moses... -
Lives of Houses by Hermione Lee 9780691193663
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.94A group of notable writers-including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow-celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists,... -
Alphabetical: How Every Letter Tells a Story by Michael Rosen
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.88From minding your Ps and Qs to wondering why X should mark the spot, Alphabetical is a book for everyone who loves words and language. Whether it's how letters are arranged on keyboards or Viking... -
A Very Irregular Head by Rob Chapman 9780306821431
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.78"I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway."-Syd Barrett's last interview, Rolling Stone, 1971 Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett... -
Specimens of Hair: The Curious Collection of Peter A. Browne by Mr. Robert McCracken Peck 9780922233496
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £20.91Strangely beautiful, utterly unique, "Specimens of Hair" presents the obsessive work of a 19th-century amateur naturalist who collected hundreds upon hundreds of specimens of hair--animal and human,... -
The Sound of Nonsense by Richard Elliott 9781501324543
Booksplease Price: £26.90In The Sound of Nonsense, Richard Elliott highlights the importance of sound in understanding the 'nonsense' of writers such as Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, James Joyce and Mervyn Peake, before... -
Victorians in the Mountains: Sinking the Sublime by Ann C. Colley 9781138272552
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.29In her compelling book, Ann C. Colley examines the shift away from the cult of the sublime that characterized the early part of the nineteenth century to the less reverential perspective from which... -
The Warm South: How the Mediterranean Shaped the British Imagination by Robert Holland
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.11An evocative exploration of the impact of the Mediterranean on British culture, ranging from the mid-eighteenth century to today Ever since the age of the Grand Tour in the eighteenth century, the... -
The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective Sara Lodge 9780300277883
Booksplease Price: £25.76A revelatory history of the women who brought Victorian criminals to account-and how they became a cultural sensation From Wilkie Collins to the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the traditional image... -
Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey by Mark Dery 9780008329846
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24The definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master of macabre nonsense. 'A genius book about a bookish genius' Daniel Handler, author of... -
Black Observatory: Poems by Christopher Brean Murray
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.66Telescopes aim to observe the light of the cosmos, but Christopher Brean Murray turns his powerful lens toward the strange darkness of human existence in Black Observatory, selected by Dana Levin as... -
Did You Kiss A Cat Today???: Poems for Children by Diane Stevenson 9798991223430
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.60A humorous and poignant collection of poetry for children of all ages in the vein of Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes and Edward Lear's nonsense poems. Written by three accomplished poets, Did You Kiss A... -
Bird Day: A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Avian Lives by Mark E. Hauber 9780226819402
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £9.26An hourly guide that follows twenty-four birds as they find food, mates, and safety from predators. From morning to night and from the Antarctic to the equator, birds have busy days. In this short... -
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, Volume III: Prose: 1949-1955 by W. H. Auden 9780691133263
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £83.60This volume contains all of W. H. Auden's prose works from 1949 through 1955, including many little-known essays that exemplify his range, wit, depth, and wisdom. The book includes the complete text... -
Lives of Houses by Kate Kennedy
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.80Notable writers-including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow-celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers,...