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Unfinished Business: The Fight for Women's Rights by Polly Russell 9780712353953
Booksplease Price: £4.60In the midst of today's highly politicised debates on gender equality, one thing is clear: the fight for women's rights is unfinished business. This book, which accompanies a bold and forward-facing... -
Fearsome Fairies: Haunting Tales of the Fey by Elizabeth Dearnley 9780712354301
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.59'You see - no, you do not, but I see - such curious faces: and the people to whom they belong flit about so oddly, often at your elbow when you least expect it, and looking close into your face, as... -
The Horned God: Weird Tales of the Great God Pan by Michael Wheatley 9780712354967
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'...and then the music was so loud, so beautiful that I couldn't think of anything else. I was completely lost to the music, enveloped by melody which was part of Pan.' In 1894, Arthur Machen's... -
Sally on the Rocks Winifred Boggs 9780712353045
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40When her bohemian life in Paris falls flat at the beginning of the First World War, Sally Lunton returns to the care of her guardian in Little Crampton to find a husband. With some encouragement from... -
Strange Journey by Maud Cairnes 9780712354950
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40In this body swap comedy from the 1930s, the minds of two strangers, aristocrat Lady Elizabeth and middle-class Polly Wilkinson, switch places with baffling and hilarious results. With wry... -
Our Haunted Shores: Tales from the Coasts of the British Isles by Emily Alder 9780712354219
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'The sea that night sang rather than chanted; all along the far-running shore a rising tide dropped thick foam, and the waves, white-crested, came steadily in with the swing of a deliberate purpose.'... -
The Book Lover's European Bucket List: A Grand Tour of Literature by Caroline Taggart 9780712354943
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.10Following the success of The Book Lover's Bucket List, Caroline Taggart sets off on a tour of Europe to select 100 literary landmarks across the continent to describe and provide practical advice for... -
Crossed Skis: An Alpine Mystery by Carol Carnac 9780712353311
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In London's Bloomsbury, Inspector Julian Rivers of Scotland Yard looks down at a dismal scene. Here is the victim, burnt to a crisp. Here are the clues - clues which point to a good climber and... -
Foreign Bodies by Martin Edwards 9780712356992
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Today, translated crime fiction is in vogue - but this was not always the case. A century before Scandi noir, writers across Europe and beyond were publishing detective stories of high quality. Often... -
Thirteen Guests J. Jefferson Farjeon 9780712356015
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78No observer, ignorant of the situation, would have guessed that death lurked nearby, and that only a little distance from the glitter of silver and glass and the hum of voices two victims lay silent... -
Family Matters Anthony Rolls 9780712356695
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78'The characters are quite extraordinarily living...A most original and grimly farcical situation' - Dorothy L. SayersRobert Arthur Kewdingham is an eccentric failure of a man. In middle age he... -
The End of the Web George Sims 9780712356824
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16Leo Selver, a middle-aged antiques dealer, is stunned when the beautiful and desirable Judy Latimer shows an interest in him. Soon they are lying in each other's arms, unaware that this embrace will... -
Beauty, What it is and How to Retain it by A Lady 9780712358859
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £8.78'At night the teeth should be cleaned with a very soft brush of badger's hair.' 'Hair should be brushed for twenty minutes night and morning' 'Paint is used, we believe, by some absurd women, on the... -
Magna Carta: Manuscripts and Myths by Claire Breay 9780712358330
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.72The Magna Carta is one of the most celebrated documents in English history and one of the British Library's greatest treasures. But despite this, the reinterpretations of it since 1215 have tended to... -
Pleasures of the Table: A Literary Anthology by Christina Hardyment 9780712357807
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £25.27This beautifully illustrated collection of food writing includes delectable scenes of cooking and feasting from novels and stories, poems that use food to tempt and seduce, and fine writing by and... -
Blood on the Tracks: Railway Mysteries by Martin Edwards
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Never had I been given a tougher problem to solve, and never had I been so utterly at my wits' end for a solution.' A signalman is found dead by a railway tunnel. A man identifies his wife as a... -
The Santa Klaus Murder by Mavis Doriel Hay
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Aunt Mildred declared that no good could come of the Melbury family Christmas gatherings at their country residence Flaxmere. So when Sir Osmond Melbury, the family patriarch, is discovered - by a... -
Fire in the Thatch: A Devon Mystery E. C. R. Lorac 9780712352604
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40The Second World War is drawing to a close. Nicholas Vaughan, released from the army after an accident, takes refuge in Devon - renting a thatched cottage in the beautiful countryside at Mallory... -
The Notting Hill Mystery Charles Warren Adams 9780712356268
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78The Notting Hill Mystery has been widely described as the first detective novel. The story is told by the insurance investigator Ralph Henderson, who is building a case against the sinister Baron... -
Scarweather by Anthony Rolls 9780712356640
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78'My friend Ellingham has persuaded me to reveal to the public the astounding features of the Reisby case. As a study in criminal aberration it is, he tells me, of particular interest, while in... -
The Lake District Murder John Bude 9780712357166
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.37'Luke flung the light of his torch full onto the face of the immobile figure. Then he had the shock of his life. The man had no face! Where his face should have been was a sort of inhuman, uniform... -
The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books Martin Edwards 9780712356961
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53The main aim of detective stories is to entertain, but the best cast a light on human behaviour, and display both literary ambition and accomplishment. Even unpretentious detective stories, written... -
Seven Dead J. Jefferson Farjeon 9780712356886
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Ted Lyte, amateur thief, has chosen an isolated house by the coast for his first robbery. But Haven House is no ordinary country home. While hunting for silverware to steal, Ted stumbles upon a... -
Night in the Front Line: And Other Second World War Stories by Ann-Marie Einhaus 9780712356978
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £11.00The Second World War sparked the writing of hundreds of short stories, by servicemen and women as well as civilians. They appeared in magazines and collections during and after the war, and addressed... -
The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'All his stories are amusing, intriguing, and he is a master of the final twist' - Agatha Christie'One of the most stunning trick stories in the history of detective fiction' - Julian SymonsGraham... -
The Methods of Sergeant Cluff Gil North 9780712356473
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16After battling for justice, at great personal risk, in his first recorded case, Sergeant Caleb Cluff made a swift return to duty in this book. The story opens one wet and windy night, with the... -
Serpents in Eden: Countryside Crimes Martin Edwards 9780712357944
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78An eclectic mix of crime stories written over half a century. From a tale of poison-pen letters tearing apart a village community to a macabre mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle, the stories collected... -
Portrait of a Murderer: A Christmas Crime Story by Anne Meredith 9780712356862
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78'Powerful and impressive ...there is a fine inevitability in the plot structure which gives it true tragic quality' - Dorothy L. SayersAdrian Gray was born in May 1862 and met his death through... -
The Writer Abroad: Literary Travels from Austria to Uzbekistan by Lucinda Hawksley 9780712357876
Booksplease Price: £14.42From the grand tour to the global village, novelists and poets have made particularly observant travellers. Many writers have been prone to wanderlust, eager to explore the world and draw inspiration... -
Dogs: A Literary Anthology by Catherine Bradley 9780712357760
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £16.24'Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends'. - Alexander PopeThroughout the history of writing, dogs have captivated their owners with their loyalty and playfulness... -
Continental Crimes by 9780712356794
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05A man is forbidden to uncover the secret of the tower in a fairy-tale castle by the Rhine. A headless corpse is found in a secret garden in Paris - belonging to the city's chief of police. And a... -
Shakespeare in Ten Acts by Gordon McMullan 9780712356312
Booksplease Price: £8.90Four hundred years after Shakespeare's death, it is difficult to imagine a time when he was not considered a genius. But those 400 years have seen his plays banished and bowdlerized, faked and... -
Calamity in Kent John Rowland 9780712357838
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40In the peaceful seaside town of Broadgate, an impossible crime occurs. The operator of the cliff railway locks the empty carriage one evening; when he returns to work next morning, a dead body is... -
The Last Best Friend George Sims 9780712356848
Booksplease Price: £4.60"The small man standing on the narrow ledge stared fixedly forward with eyes made wide and blank by terror." At 2pm on a Monday in 1966, Ned Balfour wakes in Corsica beside a beautiful woman. In the... -
The Z Murders by J. Jefferson Farjeon 9780712356213
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78'Jefferson Farjeon is quite unsurpassed for creepy skill in mysterious adventures.'Dorothy L. SayersRichard Temperley arrives at Euston station early on a fogbound London morning. He takes refuge in... -
Death of Anton by Alan Melville 9780712357883
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78'There's more crime going on in Carey's Circus than in the whole underworld of London. Theft, immorality, blackmail - you'll find all the pretties here.'Seven Bengal tigers are the star attraction of... -
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Death of an Airman by Christopher St John Sprigg 9780712356152 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £3.60Death of an Airman is an enjoyable and unorthodox whodunit from a writer whose short life was as remarkable as that of any of his fictional creations. When an aeroplane crashes, and its pilot is... -
The Ghost Stories of M. R. James by Roger Luckhurst
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.83The second in a series of republished classic literature, The Ghost Stories of M. R. James collects the tales that best illustrate his quiet mastery of the ghost story form. Running through each of... -
The Cornish Coast Murder by John Bude
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12'Never, even in his most optimistic moments, had he visualised a scene of this nature - himself in one arm-chair, a police officer in another, and between them - a mystery.' The Reverend Dodd,... -
Resorting to Murder: Holiday Mysteries Martin Edwards 9780712357487
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Holidays offer us the luxury of getting away from it all. So, in a different way, do detective stories. This collection of vintage mysteries combines both those pleasures. From a golf course at the...