Filter By
Books (1429)
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Pride and Prejudice: (British Library Deluxe Facsimile Edition) A Novel in Three Volumes by Jane Austen 9780712355735
RRP: €148.75Booksplease Price: €95.71To commemorate the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth, the British Library is reproducing, in beautiful facsimile form, a first edition of Pride and Prejudice from the Library's restricted... -
The Little Book of Fairies by Carolyne Larrington 9780712355742
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02In our modern age fairies are diminutive, winged spirits associated with the innocence of childhood, or else the brooding heroes of popular romantasy books. But the fairies of the British Isles have... -
Mystery in White: A Special Christmas Edition by J. Jefferson Farjeon 9780712355599
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.85'The horror on the train, great though it may turn out to be, will not compare with the horror that exists here, in this house.'On Christmas Eve, heavy snowfall brings a train to a halt near the... -
The Philosophy of Board Games Caroline Taggart 9780712355988
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02Throughout history, people have wanted to conquer, plot and travel across with the world in two-dimensions. From the murky origins of human's earliest past times, where fortune-telling and play blur,... -
Eerie East Anglia: Fearful Tales of Field and Fen Edward Parnell 9780712355711
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81A seaside honeymoon holiday is plagued by the mystery of bells which never stop ringing - and that which answers the call. Druidic rites and modernity spells disaster at a Norfolk golf course... -
Stories for Mothers and Daughters 9780712355377
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54From domineering mothers and very modern daughters to the quiet dreamers on either side of the generational divide, this anthology sketches a joyous, fraught, and ultimately tender portrait of... -
The Black Mirror by Winifred Duke 9780712369756
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54In the dock stood a girl, but could she be the one who had lately entered and was seated between her female companions?... Even the judge, sitting in Mr. Justice Deidpole's seat, was unfamiliar, a... -
The Spring Begins Katherine Dunning 9780712355971
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €8.77She knew now, with a sense of deep tranquil certainty, that terror and injury could not spring from love of this kind, no matter what Nurse said. But she could not put all this into words.Set over... -
Maidens or Monsters?: Amazons and Goddesses, Queens and Temptresses in Medieval Legend Chantry Westwell 9780712355063
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €25.41Chantry Westwell has used her profound knowledge of the Library's unrivalled Medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscript collections to explore some of literature's most enduring and... -
The Philosophy of Puddings Neil Buttery 9780712355117
RRP: €11.90Booksplease Price: €8.81Just what is a pudding? We all have our favourites, whether it is a school-dinner jam roly-poly with custard, or a Yorkshire pud with onion gravy, a Burns' Night haggis or the Christmas plum pudding... -
Death in High Heels Christianna Brand 9780712355247
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54The pursuit of fashion is a matter of life and death in the debut novel from Christianna Brand, one of the Queens of Golden Age crime fiction. Life in the West End dress shop Christophe et Cie is... -
Jack on the Gallows Tree Leo Bruce 9780712369206
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54"If Carolus Deene catches so much as a whiff of murder he will be on the scent with all the persistence and gusto of a dachshund in search of truffles."While Senior History Master of Queen's School,... -
Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue on CD-Rom 9780712355186
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02Trolls have escaped from the black lava wastes of Iceland and the dense pine forests of Scandinavia to take on a new life in the collective global imagination. They may not steal goats and eat people... -
The Dead of Summer: Strange Tales of May Eve and Midsummer Johnny Mains 9780712355285
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.86May Day Eve, Walpurgis Night and Midsummer Eve or the Summer Solstice. Tales of these fated days and nights, and their riotous rituals and feasts, have rung down the centuries, and yet in today's... -
Scandalize My Name Fiona Sinclair 9780712355476
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54"Caroline, too, stared out at the restless traffic, her mind's eye revolted by the memory of Ivan Sweet's pale cold face and the explosive malice that had seethed behind his dead brown eyes..."On the... -
A Telegram from Le Touquet by John Bude 9780712355353
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81As he walked away from the phone there was a puzzled expression on Blampignon's massive countenance. He was thinking: Le Touquet again! With some trepidation Nigel Derry approaches the country... -
Tour de Force by Christianna Brand 9780712355360
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81Inspector Cockrill has finally booked a holiday, destined for the Mediterranean with a motley crew of fellow vacationers. By the time they have reached the island of San Juan el Pirata, the tour... -
The Philosophy of Pickles and Fermented Foods Thom Eagle 9780712355216
RRP: €11.90Booksplease Price: €8.81Fermented food is playing a significant role in the developing discussion around gut health and the microbiome. More than the latest health trend, pickling and fermentation are techniques that have... -
Stories for Lovers 9780712355537
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54Fall head over heels with this collection of unconventional and heartfelt romances that will leave you longing for more. From icons of feminist literature to forgotten Chinese modernists, these... -
The Ghostly Tales of Edith Wharton Mike Ashley 9780712355872
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.09Drawing from a lifetime of supernatural short-story writing, this new collection of Wharton's greatest, and most chilling, tales show one of the most talented ghost story practitioners of all time at... -
Randalls Round: Nine Nightmares by Eleanor Scott by Eleanor Scott 9780712354059
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54'These stories have all had their origins in dreams... Terrifying enough to the dreamer... I hope that some readers will experience an agreeable shudder or two in the reading of them.' A malignant... -
Lady Living Alone Norah Lofts 9780712355124
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.07And now, in this low and critical moment, something in Penelope, something which had understood courage and resource and action, though she herself had never been brave or resourceful or active,... -
Dramatic Murder: A Lost Christmas Murder Mystery by Elizabeth Anthony 9780712355568
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.77She could imagine the headlines all too well... DEATH ON POSSETT ISLANDWell-known Playwright Found Dead on Christmas Tree.Dimpson McCabe - Dimpsie - has invited all of his closest friends of the... -
When Books Go Bad: The Book of Literary Scandals Alex Johnson 9780712355834
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50The literary life isn't just about curling up with a good book and a cuppa, it's also a world where Lord Byron calls John Keats' work "p**s-a-bed poetry", spaniels eat the first drafts of... -
Tea on Sunday Lettice Cooper 9780712355667
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €7.98On a cold winter's afternoon, Alberta Mansbridge waits at a table set with teacups for eight, musing over her guests. The ex-jailbird Barry, the nephew and his ghastly new flibbertijibbet of a wife,... -
Airing in a Closed Carriage Joseph Shearing 9780712369107
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54"She said once she heard some people told to get an airing in a closed carriage and that her life had been like that, trying to get fresh air, but always closed up, in a box."As warm sunshine bathes... -
Shadows Over Cymru by Aaron Worth 9780712369503
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.86From the peaks of Eryri to dramatic coastlines, misty valleys and haunted mines, Wales is a land whose myth and folklore has long been reflected in a thriving storytelling tradition, with the dragons... -
Swallowed by a Whale: Writing Advice from Authors of Note 9780712355544
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02In this specially commissioned anthology, 60 accomplished authors share secrets and insights into their writing lives: on their inspirations, methods, wild ideas and daily routines; on the pleasure... -
A History of the Second World War in 100 Maps by Jeremy Black 9780712355315
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €21.90Whilst the First World War had seen an exceptional growth in the use and production of military cartography, the global conflict that followed employed maps, charts, reconnaissance, radar, sonar and... -
Sky High Michael Gilbert 9780712355940
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54In the village of Brimberley, the worst thing on the horizon seems to be the chance of being outshone by the rival village choir of Bramshott. But that is until Brimberley's lead tenor is blown up in... -
The Double Turn Carol Carnac 9780712369008
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54At Firenze, the reclusive artist Adrian Delafield's Florentine enclave in St John's Wood, the whispers of an impending tragedy are growing louder. The tension between the fanatical zealot of a... -
The Ghost Slayers: Thrilling Tales of Occult Detection by Mike Ashley 9780712354165
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.54Occult or psychic detective tales have been chilling readers for almost as long as there have been ghost stories. This beguiling subgenre follows specialists in occult lore - often with years of... -
Mr. Pottermack's Oversight R. Austin Freeman 9780712355469
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81On a sultry afternoon in July, a man stumbles through thick foliage and rough ground, making for the coast. He wears prisoner's garb and the guards are hot on his heels. Happening upon a bather's... -
Spores of Doom: Dank Tales of the Fungal Weird Aaron Worth 9780712355629
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54From the fungus-webbed House of Usher to the maddening, fungus-like wallpaper of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's classic tale of madness, and Ray Bradbury's account of insidious mushroom dispersal via the... -
Sunless Solstice: Strange Christmas Tales for the Longest Nights by British Library 9780712354103
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54'Like any other boy I expected ghost stories at Christmas, that was the time for them. What I had not expected, and now feared, was that such things should actually become real.' Strange things... -
The Spring House Cynthia Asquith 9780712355049
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54It is 1915, and Miranda Gray is spending the war on the other side of the Atlantic to her Canadian husband. Staying with her eccentric relatives and young son at her family's stately home, Star... -
The Camomile: An Invention Catherine Carswell 9780712355070
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81'the chamomile, the more it is trodden on, the faster is grows.'Shakespeare, Henry IV part 1The opening quote of The Camomile provides an insight into the book's title. The narrative highlights the... -
Weird Sisters: Tales from the Queens of the Pulp Era by Mike Ashley 9780712355223
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81It is natural, especially at her age, that she should crave, need meat. When I am a little better I will go out and set traps, as I used to do as a boy... We must give her meat; she has done a great... -
Haunted Yorkshire: Ghostly Tales from God's Own County Elizabeth Dearnley 9780712369459
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54The stars gave light enough for me to discern the figure as that of a man, but I could scarcely discover more. "Dark night, this," I said. "Darker below," he muttered, as though to himself; "darker,... -
Illusions of Presence: Lost Christmas Ghost Stories Johnny Mains 9780712355933
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.86As clanging bells pierce the Winter calm, a bustling throng of spectral visitants is making its approach. The eminent anthologist and seeker of forgotten tales, Johnny Mains, has been scouring the...