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Hits and Misses by Simon Rich
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.26'Simon Rich is outrageously, lavishly gifted' - Caitlin Moran 'Simon Rich is the funniest writer alive' - Matt Haig 'How fabulously funny' - Lauren Laverne 'One of my favourite authors' ... -
The Swan Song of A.J. Wentworth by H.F. Ellis 9781788421850
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.16The last of the humorous fictional memoirs of a hapless assistant schoolmaster. It is to be A.J. Wentworth's final appearance on the scholastic scene. Once more he dons his cap and gown - or, to... -
The Retirement of A.J. Wentworth by H.F. Ellis 9781788421843
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.16The second of the humorous fictional memoirs of a hapless schoolmaster. A. J. Wentworth, formerly teacher of mathematics at Burgrove prep school for boys, now passes his retirement years in a... -
Jeeves and the Leap of Faith by Ben Schott
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'A masterpiece in every sense' Daily MailThe Drones club's in peril. Gussie's in love. Spode's on the warpath. And His Majesty's Government needs a favour. Thank goodness Bertie Wooster is back!From... -
Hotel Splendide by Ludwig Bemelmans
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31In this uproariously funny memoir, Ludwig Bemelmans uncovers the fabulous world of the Hotel Splendide, the luxury New York hotel where he worked as a waiter. With equal parts affection and barbed... -
Ruritania: A Cultural History, from The Prisoner of Zenda to the Princess Diaries by Nicholas Daly
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.43This is a book about the long cultural shadow cast by a single bestselling novel, Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda (1894), which introduced Ruritania, a colourful pocket kingdom. In this... -
Buried for Pleasure (A Gervase Fen Mystery) by Edmund Crispin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88As inventive as Agatha Christie, as hilarious as P.G. Wodehouse - discover the delightful detective stories of Edmund Crispin. Crime fiction at its quirkiest and best. In the sleepy... -
Jerome Kern by Stephen Banfield 9780300217612
Booksplease Price: £37.44A founding father of the modern American musical, Jerome Kern (1885-1945) was the composer of legions of popular songs, including such standards as "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" and "Ol' Man River." His... -
The Paris Review Interviews: Vol. 4 Philip Gourevitch 9781847674494
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Since The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest writers of our age. Here is the fourth collection of brilliant interviews to be gathered... -
Hit & Hope: How the Rest of Us Play Golf by David Owen 9780743261463
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Tiger Woods called his book HOW I PLAY GOLF. Great for him but what has that got to do with the rest of us mortals. Even Jack Nicklaus said of Mr. Woods 'He plays a game with which I am not familiar... -
The Moving Toyshop (A Gervase Fen Mystery) by Edmund Crispin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.96As inventive as Agatha Christie, as hilarious as P.G. Wodehouse - discover the delightful detective stories of Edmund Crispin. Crime fiction at its quirkiest and best. Richard Cadogan,... -
Blott On The Landscape by Tom Sharpe
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49The landscape is flawless, the trees majestic, the flora and the fauna are right and proper. All is picturesquely typical of rural England at its best. Sir Giles, an MP of few principles and curious... -
The Wilt Alternative: (Wilt Series 2) by Tom Sharpe
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Henry Wilt is no longer the victim of his own uncontrolled fantasies. As Head of a reconstituted Liberal Studies Department he has assumed power without authority at the Fenland College of Arts &... -
The Anti-social Behaviour of Horace Rumpole by Sir John Mortimer
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78The Anti-social Behaviour of Horace Rumpole - a delightful novel starring John Mortimer's iconic character'One of the great comic creations of modern times' Evening StandardASBOs may be the pride and... -
Sir Elton by Philip Norman
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.64'He's got me spot on' Elton John'Anyone who can read will admire the intelligence, the detail and the robust good sense of this biography. It captures the flavour of the times every bit as... -
A Hitch in Time: Writings from the London Review of Books by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Revisiting this selection of diaries and essay-reviews from the London Review of Books is restorative, an extended spa treatment that stretches tired brains and unkinks the usual habitual responses... -
The Inimitable Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse 9781513264493
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.76"Mr Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight... -
The Excitements: Two National Treasures seek revenge in this delightful mystery for fans of The Thursday Murder Club by CJ Wray 9781398711839
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £11.49'I will be thinking about Penny, Josephine and Archie for a while yet!' 'A fun and entertaining story that made me laugh out loud!' 'Highly recommend!' ... -
The Hungover Cookbook by Milton Crawford 9780224086578
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.80Hangovers and what to do with them...the perfect gift for every occasion!Hangovers and what to do with them...the perfect gift for every occasion!The morning after - the drilling headache, the waves... -
Pieces of Modesty by Peter O'Donnell 9780285638341
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42* THE UNMISSABLE MODESTY BLAISE SHORT STORY COLLECTION * 'The finest escapist thrillers ever written' THE TIMES 'Before Buffy, before Charlie's Angels, before Purdy and Emma Peel, there was... -
NUNC! by Quentin Letts 9781408722855
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The 'Nunc Dimittis', set to music by composers from Tallis to Rachmaninov, is one of the great canticles of Christianity and is heard daily in Britain's cathedrals. It is based on ten verses in St... -
The Night of the Morningstar by Peter O'Donnell
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05* THE ELEVENTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING MODESTY BLAISE SERIES * 'The finest escapist thrillers ever written' THE TIMES 'Before Buffy, before Charlie's Angels, before Purdy and Emma Peel, there... -
Broken Engagements: The Action for Breach of Promise of Marriage and the Feminine Ideal, 1800-1940 by Saskia Lettmaier 9780199569977
RRP: £127.50Booksplease Price: £106.80The common law action for breach of promise of marriage originated in the mid-seventeenth century, but it was not until the nineteenth century that it rose to prominence and became a regular feature... -
Xanadu Talisman by Peter O'Donnell
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.24* THE TENTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING MODESTY BLAISE SERIES * 'The finest escapist thrillers ever written' THE TIMES 'Before Buffy, before Charlie's Angels, before Purdy and Emma Peel, there was... -
In Pursuit of Knowledge: Scholars, Status, and Academic Culture by Deborah L. Rhode 9780804755344
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.06Although academics have never lacked for critics, publications on the profession tend to be either popularized polemics, which are engaging but misleading, or scholarly analyses, which are... -
The Penguin Book of the British Short Story: 1: From Daniel Defoe to John Buchan by Philip Hensher
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'A bold anthology ... alive with provocations and insights' John Carey, Sunday Times'The Boy-scouts mistook my signal, and have killed the postman. I've had very little practice in this sort of... -
The Mighty Franks: A Memoir by Michael Frank
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE 2018 JQ WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE ... -
A Colossal Wreck: A Road Trip Through Political Scandal, Corruption, and American Culture by Alexander Cockburn 9781781682951
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.45Alexander Cockburn was without question one of the most influential journalists of his generation, whose writing stems from the best tradition of Mark Twain, H. L. Mencken and Tom Paine. Colossal... -
In the Crypt with a Candlestick: ‘An irresistible champagne bubble of pleasure and laughter' Rachel Johnson by Daisy Waugh
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78LONGLISTED FOR THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT AWARD'Sharp, funny . . . the best sort of murder mystery' Tatler'A perfect antidote to all the real-life craziness going on' Daily MailSir Ecgbert Tode of... -
Mr Rosenblum's List: or Friendly Guidance for the Aspiring Englishman by Natasha Solomons
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02List item 2: Never speak German on the upper decks of London buses. Jack Rosenblum is five foot three and a half inches of sheer tenacity. He's writing a list so he can become a Very English... -
The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Ted Jones
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.62A reader's journey along the French Riviera, from Hyeres and Saint-Tropez to the Italian border, introducing the lives and work of writers who passed this way. The sunlight and calm of the French... -
J.M. Coetzee: a life in writing by J. C. Kannemeyer 9781922070081
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.18J.M. Coetzee: a life in writing is the first biography of Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee. A global publishing event of the rarest kind, the book has been written with the full cooperation of Coetzee,... -
Three Cheers for Me by Donald Jack
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.15"I enjoyed every word . . . terrifically funny." P.G. Wodehouse With his disturbingly horse-like face and a pious distaste for strong drink and bad language, young Bartholomew Bandy doesn't seem... -
Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Vampire Menace Olga Wojtas 9781912235506
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Fifty-something librarian Shona is a proud former pupil of the Marcia Blaine School for Girls, but has a deep loathing for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, which she thinks gives her alma mater a bad... -
The Castle: A History by John Goodall
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.30A vibrant history of the castle in Britain, from the early Middle Ages to the present day The castle has long had a pivotal place in British life, associated with lordship, landholding, and... -
The Secret Hours: The Gripping New Thriller from the No.1 Bestselling Author of Slow Horses by Mick Herron 9781399800532
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.18An Instant Sunday Times Bestseller* and a gripping standalone thriller with a riveting reveal about a disastrous MI5 mission in Cold War Berlin. A dazzling entry-point to Mick Herron's writing and an...