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The Birth and Impact of Britpop: Mis-Shapes, Scenesters and Insatiable Ones by Laird, Paul 9781399017473
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.53Remember the ninteties? Of course you do. Cool Britannia, New Labour, Blur vs Oasis, Geri Halliwell's Union Flag dress, TFI Friday, wasssssuuuuuuppppppp , Opal Fruits turning into Starburst without... -
The Arrest of Scotland Yard by Donald Thomas 9781471904363
Booksplease Price: £18.98When John Posthumous Lerici, decadent poet, black magician and unacknowledged son of Lord Byron, is murdered, the family hire Inspector Swain. His investigations lead Swain through the familiar... -
A Brief History of the English Reformation Mr Derek Wilson 9781845296469
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Religion, politics and fear: how England was transformed by the Tudors.The English Reformation was a unique turning point in English history. Derek Wilson retells the story of how the Tudor monarchs... -
Rather Splendid London Walks: Joolz Guides' Quirky and Informative Walks Through the World's Greatest Capital City by Julian McDonnell
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.68Pip-pip and Tally-Ho... meet the most famous tour guide on YouTube, Joolz Guides! In Rather Splendid London Walks you can join Joolz himself on 20 fun-packed walks around the city, picking out the... -
The Gift Book 1: Eleanor by R A Williams 9781913532956
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.31The North Atlantic, 14 April 1912. Amid the chaos of the sinking Titanic, a young Eleanor Annenberg meets the eyes of a stranger and is immediately captivated. As the ship buckles around them, she... -
C. S. Lewis: A Biography by A. N. Wilson
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.68This acclaimed biography charts the progress of the brilliant, prolific writer, C. S. Lewis. C. S. Lewis was a deeply complex man, capable of inspiring both great devotion and great... -
The March of Unreason: Science, Democracy, and the New Fundamentalism by Dick Taverne 9780199205622
RRP: £22.49Booksplease Price: £19.71Our daily news bulletins bring us tales of the wonder of science, from Mars rovers and intelligent robots to developments in cancer treatment, and yet often the emphasis is on the potential threats... -
Furball and the Mokes by A. N. Wilson
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Sneak behind the skirting board with Furball the trusting hamster, and run riot with the Mokes - a gang of cockney mice...It's a scary world out there, especially if you're a pet hamster who likes... -
Tony Gale - That's Entertainment: My Autobiography by Tony Gale 9781914197802
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.20In a footballing career spanning 21 years, Tony Gale played over 720 games on almost every league pitch across the four divisions. He is one of only 16 players in the UK to have played over 300 games... -
A Dead Man Out of Mind by Kate Charles
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64A woman priest at St Margaret's? Over my dead body! Dolly Topping, head of the national organisation 'Ladies Opposed to Women Priests' and wife of one of the churchwardens, feels that strongly about... -
The Newgate Jig by Ann Featherstone 9781848542037 [USED COPY]
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £1.25A hanging always draws a crowd. But not everyone there has come to jeer at the condemned man. George Kevill's young son Barney is in the front row, and he knows his father is innocent. There are... -
Ripping England!: Postwar British Satire from Ealing to the Goons by Roger Rawlings 9781438467337
RRP: £72.50Booksplease Price: £69.67Examines an all too often neglected period of postwar British cinema and popular culture.Ripping England! investigates a fertile moment for British satire-the period between 1947 and 1953, which... -
The A-Z of Victorian Crime by Neil R. A. Bell
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88Few things are more evocative of Victorian Britain than its criminals; they are, together with railways, gas lamps and swirling fog, vital ingredients in any Victorian melodrama. The truth, however,... -
The Newgate Jig by Ann Featherstone
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £2.77A hanging always draws a crowd. But not everyone there has come to jeer at the condemned man. George Kevill's young son Barney is in the front row, and he knows his father is innocent. There are... -
Proof of Identity by Neil Powell 9781847770950
Booksplease Price: £13.85Neil Powell's seventh Carcanet collection explores the deep roots of identity: family histories we inherit, memories we carry, the casual decisions and wrong turnings that add up to make us who we... -
Charles Leclerc: A Biography by Adam Hay-Nicholls 9781837730087
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51From acclaimed journalist Adam Hay-Nicholls, the very first biography of rising star Charles Leclerc, published to mark the start of the 2023 Formula One season.Few of the drivers on the F1 grid have... -
The Newgate Jig by Ann Featherstone 9781848542051 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £1.98A hanging always draws a crowd. But not everyone there has come to jeer at the condemned man. George Kevill's young son Barney is in the front row, and he knows his father is innocent. There are... -
The Elizabeth David Collection by Elizabeth David 9781911667087
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £14.64In 1965 Elizabeth David opened a shop in Pimlico, London, where she sold Le Creuset pans and other hard-to-get-hold-of kitchen utensils. The store, with its marvellous window displays, was as... -
Was and Is: Collected Poems by Neil Powell
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60Winner of the 2017 East Anglian Book Award for Poetry. Winner of the 2017 East Anglian Writers 'Book by the Cover' Award. There are two kinds of Collected Poems, one of which presents an author's... -
The Gift Book 1: Eleanor by RA Williams
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.83The North Atlantic, 14 April 1912. Amid the chaos of the sinking Titanic, a young Eleanor Annenberg meets the eyes of a stranger and is immediately captivated. As the ship buckles around them, she... -
Tales from a Master's Notebook: Stories Henry James Never Wrote by Various
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41A collection of stories from some of our best-loved writers, inspired by ideas found in Henry James's notebooks.When Henry James died he left behind a series of notebooks filled with ideas for novels... -
The Lucky Thirteen: The Winners of America's Triple Crown of Horse Racing by Edward Bowen 9781493059355
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.69In more than a century of American Thoroughbred racing, only thirteen horses have won the Triple Crown (the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes, and the Belmont Stakes, all won in the same season)... -
The Glass Pearls (Faber Editions): 'A wonderful noir thriller and tremendous rediscovery' - William Boyd by Emeric Pressburger
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31For fans of The Passenger, this thrilling tale of an ex-Nazi surgeon hiding in plain sight in 1960s London by the celebrated filmmaker is a lost noir gem, introduced by Anthony Quinn and narrated on... -
Dancing With The Red Devil: A Memoir of Love, Hope, Family and Cancer Sarah Standing 9781472296368
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'A beautifully written gem of a book, both inspiring and poignant.' Elton John'Incisive and heart-rending.' Richard E GrantSarah Standing is a wife, a mother, a journalist, a toy shop owner, a... -
Dancing With The Red Devil: A Memoir of Love, Hope, Family and Cancer Sarah Standing 9781472296351
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24'A beautifully written gem of a book, both inspiring and poignant.' Elton John'Incisive and heart-rending.' Richard E GrantSarah Standing is a wife, a mother, a journalist, a toy shop owner, a... -
Hunan: A Lifetime of Secrets from Mr Peng's Chinese Kitchen by Mr. Peng
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £21.41Founded in 1982 by Mr Peng, Hunan is a legendary London restaurant which attracts customers from all over the world.At Hunan, diners don't choose - they simply say what they don't eat and how spicy... -
Full Marks for Trying: An unlikely journey from the Raj to the rag trade Brigid Keenan 9781408852279
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.09______________________ The hilarious, outrageously witty, and surprisingly touching memoir about growing up in India and coming of age in sixties London, by the author of Diplomatic Baggage ... -
Full Marks for Trying by Brigid Keenan 9781408852309
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.70______________________ The hilarious, outrageously witty, and surprisingly touching memoir about growing up in India and coming of age in sixties London, by the author of Diplomatic Baggage ... -
Elizabethan Society: High and Low Life, 1558-1603 Mr Derek Wilson 9781472102331
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603) marked a golden age in English history. There was a musical and literary renaissance, most famously and enduringly in the form of the plays of Shakespeare... -
Life after Gravity: Isaac Newton's London Career by Patricia Fara
RRP: £32.49Booksplease Price: £24.39The story of Isaac Newton's decades in London - as ambitious cosmopolitan gentleman, President of London's Royal Society, Master of the Mint, and investor in the slave trade. Isaac Newton is... -
Inheritance: The Lost History of Mary Davies: A Story of Property, Marriage and Madness by Leo Hollis 9781786079954
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £11.30'Brilliant' Financial Times 'Hollis expertly weaves together the human tragedy and high politics behind the explosion of one of the world's greatest cities' Dan Snow The reclaimed history of a... -
Inheritance: The Lost History of Mary Davies: A Story of Property, Marriage and Madness by Leo Hollis
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74'Brilliant' Financial Times 'Hollis expertly weaves together the human tragedy and high politics behind the explosion of one of the world's greatest cities' Dan Snow The reclaimed history of a... -
Diplomatic Baggage: Adventures of a Trailing Spouse by Brigid Keenan
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15The beloved Sunday Times bestseller - a touching, hilarious, often outrageous memoir of home-making and family adventures in the world's furthest outposts 'Hilarious, and utterly beguiling - it's... -
A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War by Patricia Fara
RRP: £13.49Booksplease Price: £10.422018 marked a double centenary: peace was declared in war-wracked Europe, and women won the vote after decades of struggle. A Lab of One's Own commemorates both anniversaries by revealing the untold... -
A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War by Patricia Fara 9780198794981
RRP: £27.49Booksplease Price: £21.46Many extraordinary female scientists, doctors, and engineers tasted independence and responsibility for the first time during the First World War. How did this happen? Patricia Fara reveals how...