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The Saltmarsh Murders by Gladys Mitchell
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYRediscover Gladys Mitchell - one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers.Noel Wells, curate in the sleepy village of... -
Here Comes a Chopper by Gladys Mitchell
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYRediscover Gladys Mitchell - one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers.When a pair of ramblers, lost in the English... -
The Case of the Gilded Fly: A Gervase Fen Mystery by Edmund Crispin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28The very first case for Oxford-based sleuth Gervase Fen, one of the last of the great Golden Age detectives. As inventive as Agatha Christie, as hilarious as P.G. Wodehouse, this is the perfect entry... -
Other by Peter Quartermain 9780819522580
Booksplease Price: £19.00When most Americans think of contemporary British poetry, they think of such mainstream poets as Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, and Geoffrey Hill. Yet there is a vibrant, diverse alternative poetry... -
Dramatic Monologue by Alan Sinfield
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £110.39First published in 1977, this book looks at the versatile literary form of dramatic monologue. Although it is often associated with Browning and other poets writing between 1830 and 1930, the concept... -
No Fond Return Of Love by Barbara Pym
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02INTRODUCED BY PAUL BINDING'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN 'I'd sooner read a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen' PHILIP LARKIN 'No novelist brings more telling observation or more... -
Mother Tongue by Pura Lopez Colome 9781903631324
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.84Pura Lopez Colome's true home is language rather than geographical place, and her poetry pays tribute to this debt to the mother tongue as source, origin, identity and consolation. She reflects on... -
Work to Be Done: Selected Essays and Reviews by Bruce Whiteman 9781771966092
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Essays and critical writing drawn from a wide-ranging fifty-year career in lettersDrawn from a body of essays and reviews written over the course of nearly fifty years, Work to Be Done showcases both... -
The Cambridge Companion to English Poets by Claude Rawson 9780521874342
Booksplease Price: £116.40This volume provides lively and authoritative introductions to twenty-nine of the most important British and Irish poets from Geoffrey Chaucer to Philip Larkin. The list includes, among others,... -
Yeats and Modern Poetry by Edna Longley 9781107009851
Booksplease Price: £79.75Scholars and critics commonly align W. B. Yeats with Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot and the modernist movement at large. This incisive study from renowned poetry critic Edna Longley argues that Yeats'... -
The Cambridge Companion to English Poets by Claude Rawson 9780521697033
Booksplease Price: £39.70This volume provides lively and authoritative introductions to twenty-nine of the most important British and Irish poets from Geoffrey Chaucer to Philip Larkin. The list includes, among others,... -
Andrew Young: Priest, Poet and Naturalist: A Reassessment by Richard Ormrod 9780718895136
RRP: £27.50Booksplease Price: £24.07Andrew Young was one of the most original, inventive and paradoxical poets of the twentieth-century. C.S. Lewis called him, 'A modern Marvell and a modern marvel', and Philip Larkin remarked that,... -
Aperture Jacek Dehnel 9781938890949
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.49The poet brings his fascination with formal poetry to 21st century subjects - internet culture, science, postmodern architecture - even as he also explores intimacy, gay love, and emotionally-charged... -
Yorkshire Wolds Way Tony Gowers 9781781315682
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.54The Yorkshire Wolds were brought to international attention in 2012 by David Hockney's magnificent Royal Academy exhibition of paintings of the region. Now, Tony Gowers' completely updated, expanded... -
Challenges and Choices for Patient, Carer and Professional at the End of Life: Living with Uncertainty by Catherine Proot
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19Living with Uncertainty gives a broad perspective on the complexities and challenges of the practice of end-of-life care, as well as the perceived benefits and limitations of medical intervention... -
Self into Song: Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures by Carol Rumens 9781852247607
RRP: £7.95Booksplease Price: £6.14In this innovative series of public lectures at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to audiences drawn from both the city... -
Martin Amis: The Biography by Richard Bradford 9781780332291
Booksplease Price: £23.66Martin Amis's life could itself provide the formula for an enthralling work of fiction. Son of one of the most popular and best-loved novelists of the post-War era, he has forged a groundbreaking... -
The Routledge Guide to Modern English Writing by Ronald Carter
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £29.49In 1963 President John F. Kennedy was shot, Sylvia Plath published The Bell Jar, and the Beatles were in their prime. This was a changing world, which British and Irish writers both contributed to... -
Nature Poems: Treasured classics and new favourites (National Trust) by Deborah Alma
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.63More than 100 poems about Britain's nature in a beautifully illustrated book Seven chapters touch on different aspects of the British countryside, including seasons, birds and wildlife,... -
A Book of Birds: by Humphrey Ocean Humphrey Ocean, RA 9781912520374
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £9.24The artist Humphrey Ocean RA has painted portraits of Sir Paul McCartney and Philip Larkin, among many others. But alongside these prestigious commissions, he has always returned to drawing the... -
Reminiscence Work with Old People by Clare Gillies 9780412580703
Booksplease Price: £46.58Perhaps being old is like having lighted rooms Inside your head, and people in them, acting People you know, but can't quite name. Philip lArkin This book is about those very old people who have a... -
The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose by Ian Hickey 9781032597652
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose is the first collection of essays solely focused on examining the Nobel prize winning poet’s prose. The collection offers ten different... -
The Lennon Companion by David Gutman 9780306812705
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.00John Lennon lives on. Forty years after the Beatles invaded America in 1964, and more than twenty years after Lennon's death, his work is perennially popular and continues to appeal across the... -
The Poetry of Horses Various 9781788166041
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16Since prehistory, horses have given us assistance, close companionship and artistic inspiration. Horses offer everything from practical help to brisk exercise to the sheer exhilaration of... -
Max is Missing by Peter Porter
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Few poets now writing share Porter's sense of the big picture, his ability to read the small event against the waxings and wanings of culture and empire. Whether these poems look at Europe through... -
The Grey Man by S. R. Crockett 9781904999584
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £15.50The Grey Man is a fast-paced adventure romance set in Ayrshire, Scotland, in the reign of James VI. Written when S.R. Crockett was at the height of his power and popularity as a novelist, the story... -
A Concise Companion to Postwar British and Irish Poetry by Nigel Alderman 9781118646946
RRP: £37.95Booksplease Price: £35.41This volume introduces students to the most important figures, movements and trends in post-war British and Irish poetry. An historical overview and critical introduction to the poetry published in... -
Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.59'Wonderful. A manifesto of horticultural delight' Literary Review 'Beautiful. Perfect for literary garden lovers' Good Housekeeping'Rich and unusual, a book to treasure. Few recent gardening books... -
Randomly Moving Particles: Poems by Andrew Motion
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £12.98Randomly Moving Particles is built from two long poems that form its opening and close, connected by three shorter pieces. The title poem, in a kaleidoscope of compelling scenes, engages with... -
Strangers by Anita Brookner 9780241828878
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.69'Each book is a prayer bead on a string, and each prayer is a secular, circumspect prayer, a prayer and a protest and a charm against encroaching night' Hilary Mantel, Guardian'No one writes with... -
Lost to the Sea: Britain's Vanished Coastal Communities: The Yorkshire Coast & Holderness Stephen Wade 9781473893436
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Once there was a Roman settlement on what is now Filey Brig. In Holderness, a prosperous town called Ravenser saw kings and princes on its soil, and its progress threatened the good people of Grimsby... -
John Fuller and the Sycamore Press: A Bibliographic History by Ryan Roberts
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.66Established in 1968, John Fuller's Sycamore Press was an important independently run press that published some of the most influential and critically acclaimed writers of the past half-century. In... -
New Jazz Conceptions: History, Theory, Practice Roger Fagge (University of Warwick, UK) 9780367886769
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08New Jazz Conceptions: History, Theory, Practice is an edited collection that captures the cutting edge of British jazz studies in the early twenty-first century, highlighting the developing... -
Poetry in the Wars by Edna Longley 9780906427996
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.53In the two world wars – and throughout the Troubles in Northern Ireland – poets insisted on not serving any political or nationalist case. As the war poets were attacked for failing to write their... -
Blokes: The Bad Boys of British Literature by David Castronovo 9781441169815
Booksplease Price: £28.57The blokes were writers who revitalized British drama, fiction, poetry, and criticism. When Britain was in the economic doldrums, when its supply of great authors was dwindling after World War II,... -
Bye-Bye Land by Christian Barter 9781942683353
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68In 2016, Barter was named Acadia National Park's first-ever Poet Laureate, in honor of the park's Centennial year. Barter has been honored with many prestigious awards and accolades, including the... -
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The Puffin Book of Modern Children's Verse by Brian Patten 9780141321882 [USED COPY]
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £2.57The Puffin Book of Modern Children's Verse is the definitive collection of modern children's poetry of our time. Enchanting, funny, exciting and poignant, there is every kind of poem for every kind... -
Sonny Rollins: The Cutting Edge by Richard Palmer 9780826469168
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £30.69Throughout his life as a tenor saxophonist, Theodore Walter 'Sonny' Rollins has been committed to the fundamental truths of jazz, especially swing, while managing also to be consistently experimental... -
The Amis Collection: Selected Non-fiction by Kingsley Amis 9780141195308
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Amis has no faults. He is clever, witty, ironical' GuardianWhat advice can one give a green young author? What purpose do literary prizes serve? Where on earth can a man get a decent bite to eat?... -
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Bluffer's Guide to Cycling: Instant wit and wisdom by Rob Ainsley 9781785212284 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £1.89nstantly acquire all the knowledge you need to pass as an expert in the world of cycling. Never again confuse a MAMIL with a MTBER, a fixie with a folder, or a Boris bike with a `bonk'. Bask in the...