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T.S. Eliot - A Short Biography by John Worthen 9781906598860
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56Biographical writing about Eliot is in a more confused and contested state than is the case with any other major twentieth-century writer. No major biography has been released since the publication... -
![The Essential Spike Milligan by Alexander Games 9780007155118 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9698363/10715075/9780007155118__93235.1781351474.jpg?c=1 "The Essential Spike Milligan by Alexander Games 9780007155118 [USED COPY]")
The Essential Spike Milligan by Alexander Games 9780007155118 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $2.55A Spike Milligan opus, containing everything from classics to hidden gems, with a foreword by Eddie Izzard. This stunning anthology of Spike Milligan's work comprises of favourites from... -
Nox by Anne Carson 9780811218702
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $41.60Nox is an epitaph in the form of a book, a facsimile of a handmade book Anne Carson wrote and created after the death of her brother. The poem describes coming to terms with his loss through the lens...Qty in Cart: 0Price:RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $41.60Subtotal: -
![A Spot of Folly: Ten Tales of Murder and Mayhem by Ruth Rendell 9781788160148 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/6495056/6571983/9781788160148__23906.1738431652.jpg?c=1 "A Spot of Folly: Ten Tales of Murder and Mayhem by Ruth Rendell 9781788160148 [USED COPY]")
A Spot of Folly: Ten Tales of Murder and Mayhem by Ruth Rendell 9781788160148 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $3.26New and uncollected tales of murder, mischief, magic and madness. Ruth Rendell was an acknowledged master of psychological suspense: these are ten (and a quarter) of her most chillingly... -
The Essential Spike Milligan by Alexander Games 9780007155118
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.36A Spike Milligan opus, containing everything from classics to hidden gems, with a foreword by Eddie Izzard. This stunning anthology of Spike Milligan's work comprises of favourites from... -
Tallis by Kerry McCarthy
RRP: $47.72Booksplease Price: $44.79The composer Thomas Tallis (c. 1505 - November 1585) lived and worked through much of the turbulent Tudor period in England. Unlike many of his contemporaries, he did not just react to radical... -
![Not a Proper Journalist by Bob Humphrys 9780224082754 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9704220/10720921/9780224082754__66558.1781360390.jpg?c=1 "Not a Proper Journalist by Bob Humphrys 9780224082754 [USED COPY]")
Not a Proper Journalist by Bob Humphrys 9780224082754 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $3.29Bob Humphrys is one of the most famous names in sports journalism. As sports correspondent of BBC Wales's flagship news programme Wales Today, he was at the centre of every major story of the past... -
Touch of Evil by Richard Deming
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.83Orson Welles' classic 1958 noir movie Touch of Evil, the story of a corrupt police chief in a small town on the Mexican-American border, starring Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh and Marlene Dietrich, is... -
Hidden Powers: Lise Meitner's Call to Science Jeannine Atkins 9781665902519
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75From the acclaimed author of Finding Wonders and Grasping Mysteries comes a gorgeously written biography in "deliberate, delicate verse" (Kirkus Reviews) about the pioneering Jewish woman physicist... -
Everybody's Jonesin' for Something by Indigo Moor 9781496222701
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $13.43Turning an unflinching spotlight on the American Dream, Indigo Moor plunges headfirst into national-and personal-laments and desires. From Emmett Till to the fall of the Twin Towers and through the... -
The Emperor by Ryszard Kapuscinski
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.26The Penguin Modern Classics edition of Ryszard Kapuscinski's The Emperor is translated by William R. Brand and Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand, with an introduction by Neal Ascherton.After the deposition... -
The Posthumous Memoirs of Br s Cubas by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56A revelatory new translation of the playful, incomparable masterpiece of one of the greatest Black authors in the AmericasMachado de Assis is not only Brazil's most celebrated writer but also a... -
Alms For Oblivion Vol III by Simon Raven
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20'Brisk, bawdy and reckless' Evening Standard'A freak writer, he defies classification. In wilder moments he suggests a loose, lunatic collaboration of Trollope, Ouida and Waugh' ObserverThe Alms for... -
The Devil's Grinder, Moara Dracilor: Poems of Hope and Despair From the Forced Labor Camps of Post-WWII Communist Romania by Mircea Ionescu-Quintus 9781930972810
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $21.18This collection of Poems-offered as a dual-language English-Romanian edition-together with a critical Expose by the translators, a Preface by the author, a Chronicle and Biography, conveys to the... -
The Last Days of Detroit: Motor Cars, Motown and the Collapse of an Industrial Giant by Mark Binelli
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.98Once America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the furthest. The city of Henry Ford,... -
The King's Midwife: A History and Mystery of Madame du Coudray by Nina Rattner Gelbart 9780520221574
RRP: $37.41Booksplease Price: $34.80This unorthodox biography explores the life of an extraordinary Enlightenment woman who, by sheer force of character, parlayed a skill in midwifery into a national institution. In 1759, in an effort... -
![Sentimental Collaborations: Mourning and Middle-Class Identity in Nineteenth-Century America by Mary Louise Kete 9780822324355 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9918906/10935437/9780822324355__18734.1786484551.jpg?c=1 "Sentimental Collaborations: Mourning and Middle-Class Identity in Nineteenth-Century America by Mary Louise Kete 9780822324355 [USED COPY]")
Sentimental Collaborations: Mourning and Middle-Class Identity in Nineteenth-Century America by Mary Louise Kete 9780822324355 [USED COPY]
RRP: $121.26Booksplease Price: $9.68During the 1992 Democratic Convention and again while delivering Harvard University's commencement address two years later, Vice President Al Gore shared with his audience a story that showed the... -
Stramash: Tackling Scotland's Towns and Teams by Daniel Gray 9781906817664
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.39Fatigued by bloated big-game football and bored of samey big cities, Daniel Gray went in search of small town Scotland and its teams. At the time when the Scottish club game is drifting towards its... -
Butler Plays 2: Airbag; I'll Be the Devil; Faces in the Crowd; Juicy Fruits; 69; Do It! by Leo Butler
Booksplease Price: $31.77Butler Plays: Two brings together a selection of Leo Butler's work, currently both published and previously unpublished, covering the years 2007 to 2013. It showcases his incredible variety in style... -
Gulliver's Travels: and Alexander Pope's Verses on Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.09'Among the six indispensable books in world literature' George Orwell ... -
O Brother by John Niven 9781805303343
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZELONGLISTED FOR SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL BOOK AWARDA GUARDIAN BEST MEMOIR OF 2023A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023John Niven's little... -
Trim, The Cartographer's Cat by Matthew Flinders 9781472967220
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09Not many ships' cats have even one memorial statue, let alone six. But Trim does, including one outside Euston Station in London, proudly unveiled by Prince William on the bicentenary of Matthew... -
![The Last Days of Detroit: Motor Cars, Motown and the Collapse of an Industrial Giant by Mark Binelli 9781847921680 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9977613/10994048/9781847921680__33902.1786691964.jpg?c=1 "The Last Days of Detroit: Motor Cars, Motown and the Collapse of an Industrial Giant by Mark Binelli 9781847921680 [USED COPY]")
The Last Days of Detroit: Motor Cars, Motown and the Collapse of an Industrial Giant by Mark Binelli 9781847921680 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $4.44By the end of the nineteenth century, Detroit, founded by the French as a fur-trading post, was thriving. In 1913 Henry Ford began mass-producing cars at his Model T plant, transforming the area into... -
The Mountains Next Door by Janice Emily Bowers 9780816546992
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23The Rincon Mountains east of Tucson are a small and seemingly undistinguished range; rounded and arid, they are more a site for foothill walks than serious exploring. Yet, upon close inspection,... -
Thirst by Benjamin Warner
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $11.47________________________ 'A terrifying thriller ... Visceral' - Entertainment Weekly 'An emergency from its very first sentence ... A literary thriller that summons the survivalist terror of... -
Graceland Cemetery: Chicago Stories, Symbols, and Secrets by Adam Selzer
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.88Chosen for the 2024 Illinois Reads Program by the Illinois Reading Council One of Chicago's landmark attractions, Graceland Cemetery chronicles the city's sprawling history through the stories of its... -
Gweilo: Memories Of A Hong Kong Childhood by Martin Booth 9780553816723
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.36Martin Booth died in February 2004, shortly after finishing the book that would be his epitaph - this wonderfully remembered, beautifully told memoir of a childhood lived to the full in a far-flung... -
Alms For Oblivion Vol I by Simon Raven
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.82'Cracking entertainment... Dangerously, deliciously addictive' Daily Telegraph'[Raven is] a freak writer, he defies classification. In wilder moments he suggests a loose, lunatic collaboration of... -
O Brother by John Niven 9781805300588
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $14.24AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZEA GUARDIAN BEST MEMOIR OF 2023A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023AN iNEWS BEST BOOK TO GIFTJohn Niven's little brother Gary was... -
Closing the Writing Gap Alex Quigley (Huntington School, UK) 9781032017716
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $20.63This book explains seven critical steps to improve children's writing. Though seemingly 'natural', writing proves devilishly difficult for far too many school pupils and closing this gap can have a... -
The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives by Brook Manville 9780691230450
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $19.52A powerful case for democracy and how it can adapt and survive-if we want it toIs democracy in trouble, perhaps even dying? Pundits say so, and polls show that most Americans believe that their... -
Death or Ice Cream? by Gareth P. Jones
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60Larkin Mills: The Birthplace of Death! Larkin Mills is no ordinary town. It's a place of contradictions and enigma, of secrets and mysteries. A place with an exquisite ice cream parlour, and an awful... -
Answering the Cry for Freedom: Stories of African Americans and the American Revolution by Gretchen Woelfle 9781629793061
Booksplease Price: $19.84Even as American Patriots fought for independence from British rule during the Revolutionary War, oppressive conditions remained in place for the thousands of enslaved and free African Americans... -
The Four Corners of the Heart: An Unfinished Novel by Françoise Sagan
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.00From the internationally bestselling author of Bonjour Tristesse comes the surprise publication of a novel she never finished-and a story that evokes her greatest works. French literary star Franc... -
Panic as Man Burns Crumpets: The Vanishing World of the Local Journalist Roger Lytollis 9781472145802
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35WINNER OF THE LAKELAND BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2022'For those who know about provincial newspapers, this will be a classic and a gem. Those who don't know will envy what they have missed' MELVYN... -
Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome by Douglas Boin
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.91In the conventional story of Rome's collapse, violent "barbarians" destroy "civilisation". Yet from a different point of view, those stale generalities become a history shockingly alive and relevant... -
Mission France: The True History of the Women of SOE by Kate Vigurs 9780300264814
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.96The full story of the thirty-nine female SOE agents who went undercover in France"The freshness and honesty of Mission France make it an ideal book for taking a new look at the secret war, at a time... -
The Glovemaker by Ann Weisgarber
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75From Ann Weisgarber, the critically acclaimed author of The Personal History of Rachel DuPree, comes The Glovemaker - a stunning historical novel for fans of Cold Mountain. Winter, 1888. Utah... -
The Speaking Stone - Stories Cementeries Tell by Michael Griffith 9781947602304
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.50The Speaking Stone: Stories Cemeteries Tell is a literary love letter to the joys of wandering graveyards. While working on a novel, author and longtime Cincinnati resident Michael Griffith starts... -
Red Gold: The Managed Extinction of the Giant Bluefin Tuna by Jennifer E. Telesca
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $20.42Illuminating the conditions for global governance to have precipitated the devastating decline of one of the ocean's most majestic creatures The International Commission for the Conservation of...