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Sidney's 'The Defence of Poesy' and Selected Renaissance Literary Criticism by Gavin Alexander
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.43Controversy raged through England during the 1570-80s as Puritans denounced all manner of games & pastimes as a danger to public morals. Writers quickly turrned their attention to their own art and... -
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights: Volume 3 by Malcolm Lyons
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.71Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter,... -
Death in the Stocks by Georgette Heyer
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.15A moonlit night. A sleeping village. And an unaccountable murder...An English bobbie returning from night patrol finds a corpse in evening dress locked in the stocks on the village green. He... -
Showstopper: Detective Peter Diamond Book 21 by Peter Lovesey 9781408727546
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Bath's top detective, Peter Diamond, doesn't believe in jinxes. So when he's asked to investigate a top TV show plagued by a series of misfortunes, Diamond is unmoved. He's no fan of the show - which... -
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The Way It Was by Stanley Matthews 9780747264279 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.41Stanley Matthews was the most popular footballer of his era, the man who epitomised a generation of legendary players: Tom Finney, Nat Lofthouse, Billy Wright and many more. He was the first... -
Zidane by Patrick Fort
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.73Get inside the mind of football's most enigmatic icon'Zidane is the master' PeleOne of modern football's most brilliant players - and one of its most iconic and mysterious figures - Zinedine Zidane's... -
The Nature of the Gods by Cicero
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Towards the end of his life, Cicero turned away from his oratorical and political career and looked instead to matters of philosophy and religion. The dialogue The Nature of the Gods both explores... -
To Love and Be Wise Josephine Tey 9781529156430
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'The most interesting of the great female writers of the Golden Age. This disarmingly low-key tale of a mysterious disappearance is the perfect introduction to her world' VAL MCDERMID 'The... -
Nocturne: A Journey in Search of Moonlight by James Attlee 9780141039312
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73For many of us the moon, and the chill light it casts, are things we either ignore or take for granted. It wouldn't enter our heads therefore to set off around the world in search of moonlight. But,... -
Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73Beatrix Potter's books are adored by millions, but they were just one aspect of an extraordinary life. This captivating biography brings us the passionate, unconventional woman behind the beloved... -
Bring on the Girls by P. G. Wodehouse
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.43Despite an enormous solo output, P. G Wodehouse often co-operated with other writers, especially in the early stages of his career, exchanging or sharing plots, advising on problems and even writing... -
The Golden Ass by Apuleius
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Written towards the end of the second century AD, The Golden Ass tells the story of the many adventures of a young man whose fascination with witchcraft leads him to be transformed into a donkey. The... -
The Man In The Queue by Josephine Tey 9780099556725
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Outside a London theatre a throng of people wait expectantly for the last performance of a popular musical. But as the doors open at last, something spoils all thought of entertainment: a man in the... -
Detective Stories Peter Washington 9781841596044
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.43This is a glorious collection of some of the best sleuths in the business. It includes creators such as Poe and Conan Doyle to Hammet, Christie, Chandler, Rendell and Rankin.A collection of some of... -
Plain Murder by C. S. Forester
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Taking us into a 1930s London of grimy back streets, smoky cafes and shabby rooms, Plain Murder, C. S. Forester's second crime novel, is a brilliantly atmospheric and gripping portrayal of the dark... -
Bryant & May - Oranges and Lemons by Christopher Fowler
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'The most consistently brilliant, entertaining and educational voice in contemporary British crime fiction, the utterly fabulous Christopher Fowler.' Cathi Unsworth, CRIMESQUADIt's a Sunday morning,... -
Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49A stranger enters the inner sanctum of the Ashby family posing as Patrick Ashby, the heir to the family's sizeable fortune. The stranger, Brat Farrar, has been carefully coached on Patrick's... -
Seven Viking Romances by Hermann Palsson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Combining traditional myth, oral history and re-worked European legend to depict an ancient realm of heroism and wonder, the seven tales collected here are among the most fantastical of all the Norse... -
The Voyage of Argo by Apollonius Rhodes 9780140440850
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.73Written in the third century BC in Alexandria, this is the only full surviving account of Jason's legendary quest for the Golden Fleece. It describes the thrilling adventures of the Argonauts on... -
The Grand Banks Cafe: Inspector Maigret #8 by Georges Simenon
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.85'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves It was indeed a photograph, a picture of a woman. But the face was completely hidden, scribbled all over in red ink. Someone... -
Dangerous Davies Leslie Thomas 9780099436171
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47As plain-clothes men go, Dangerous Davies looks like a non-starter. The small fry of petty larceny and minor disturbances in the backwaters of north-west London are his daily round. His... -
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Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear 9780141003108 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £4.70'Potter's marvellous voice, captured in letters and journals, comes through loud and clear ... Lear gives us much to consider about this unfamiliar and remarkable woman' Daily TelegraphBeatrix... -
How Much Land Does a Man Need? & Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23These short works, ranging from Tolstoy's earliest tales to the brilliant title story, are rich in the insights and passion that characterize all of his explorations in love, war, courage, and... -
The Penguin Book of Irish Short Stories by Benedict Kiely
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.85'Do the Irish have, in relation to anybody else, any special capacity for the short story?'In this collection of thirty-eight short stories covering many generations and moods of Irish writing, this... -
The Double Flame: Essays on Love & Eroticism by Octavio Paz 9781846554360
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47A discourse on the connection between sex, eroticism and love in literature by the Nobel Prize-winning poet and essayist.About the AuthorThe celebrated poet and essayist, Octavio Paz was born in 1914... -
Miss Pym Disposes Josephine Tey 9780099556695
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15A classic murder mystery from the Golden Age of detective fiction, written by genre legend Josephine Tey.Leys Physical Training College is famous for its excellent discipline and its spectacularly... -
The Chill by Ross Macdonald
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Private detective Lew Archer has better things to do than take on an investigation for Alex Kincaid, a young man claiming that his new bride, Dolly, has gone missing. Snapped by a hotel photographer... -
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Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers 9780563494157 [USED COPY]
RRP: £13.62Booksplease Price: £4.02The elegant, intelligent amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey is one of detective literature's most popular creations. Ian Carmichael is the personification of Dorothy L. Sayers' charming investigator in... -
The Victoria Vanishes: (Bryant and May Book 6) Christopher Fowler 9780553817997
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81One night, Arthur Bryant witnesses a drunk middle-aged lady coming out of a pub in a London backstreet. The next morning, she is found dead at the exact spot where their paths crossed. Even more... -
The Mammoth Book of the Adventures of Moriarty: The Secret Life of Sherlock Holmes's Nemesis - 37 short stories Maxim Jakubowski (Bookseller/Editor) 9781472135773
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02We think of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, but far more seductive is the pairing of Holmes and Professor James Moriarty, 'the Napoleon of crime' - a rivalry unparalleled in the world of crime... -
Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 11 Maxim Jakubowski (Bookseller/Editor) 9781472111869
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02This superb annual anthology of the year's most outstanding short crime fiction published in the UK is now well into its second decade. Jakubowski has succeeded, once again, in unearthing the best... -
Motives for Murder Various 9780751566154
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40*WINNER OF THE CWA SHORT STORY DAGGER WITH THE TRIALS OF MARGARET BY L. C. TYLER*In honour of multi award-winning author Peter Lovesey, the members of the Detection Club have written twenty-two... -
Agents & Spies Short Stories by Flame Tree Studio
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.26Daring tales of kidnap and rescue, assassination and revenge, the politics of death and espionage, these are the themes of this latest volatile concoction of classic and new writing. The days of... -
The Club: How the Premier League Became the Richest, Most Disruptive Business in Sport Jonathan Clegg 9781473699588
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.82An excellent recap, with wonderful access and forensic detail on the Premier League's rise to global alpha status... All told with an arch sense of humour The GuardianHow did English football - once... -
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Me, Family and the Making of a Footballer: The warmest, most charming memoir of the year by Jamie Redknapp 9781472271969 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.21'a wonderful book ... a great read' Daily Mail'a fascinating book ... I really enjoyed it' Piers Morgan, Good Morning Britain'a heart-warming, funny and insightful read. Perfect for a rainy day by... -
Me, Family and the Making of a Footballer: The warmest, most charming memoir of the year by Jamie Redknapp
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £4.99'a wonderful book ... a great read' Daily Mail'a fascinating book ... I really enjoyed it' Piers Morgan, Good Morning Britain'a heart-warming, funny and insightful read. Perfect for a rainy day by... -
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Killing with Confetti by Peter Lovesey 9780751577495 [USED COPY]
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £6.04The eighteenth book in the award-winning Peter Diamond series, from Peter Lovesey.As a New Year begins in Bath, Ben Brace proposes to his long-term girlfriend, Caroline. The problem is that she's the... -
The Fourth Door Paul Halter 9781835013489
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'Paul Halter is France's answer to John Dickson Carr' Martin EdwardsThe ultimate locked-room mystery.In Paul Halter's The Fourth Door, the impossible becomes reality. A haunted room. An unbroken seal... -
Managing Human Resources: Human Resource Management in Transition Stephen Bach (Kings College, London) 9781119991533
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £31.49This revised edition is a comprehensive, authoritative set of essays. It is more detailed and analytical than the mainstream treatments of HRM. As in previous editions, Managing Human Resources... -
Ask a Policeman by The Detection Club 9780008283179
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95This classic crime novel by six different authors is introduced by Martin Edwards, archivist of the Detection Club, and includes a never-before-published Preface by Agatha Christie, 'Detective...