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My Name Is Legion by A.N. Wilson 9780099457947
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16The Daily Legion is a tabloid that peddles celebrity gossip and denounces asylum seekers. However, its financial survival depends on the support of a brutal African government. Recklessly defending... -
England A. N. Wilson 9781906011215
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.45This is the patriot's song book, which includes such rollicking word-smiths as Hilaire Belloc, G K Chesterton, Rudyard Kipling and the lyrics of Gilbert and Sullivan. England, as every fan of... -
Lilibet: The Girl Who Would be Queen by A.N. Wilson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.10A celebration of the life of Queen Elizabeth II, showing us that the Queen's qualities of duty, self-sacrifice and love of country were present in her from an early age.'The moments in life of... -
Latin: or, the Empire of a Sign by Françoise Waquet
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.53Though not without its rivals, Latin stood at the apex of Western culture from the Renaissance until relatively recently. Francoise Waquet offers an enthralling, original history of the language's... -
Iris Murdoch As I Knew Her by A.N. Wilson 9780099723103
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47A brilliant, controversial and insightful biography. Fifteen years ago, Iris Murdoch asked A. N. Wilson to be her biographer. This book is a tribute to the novelist he knew for thirty years. This is... -
After The Victorians: The World Our Parents Knew A.N. Wilson 9780099451877
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £15.91When this book begins, in the reign of Edward VII, Great Britain commands the mightiest empire the world has ever seen. By the time it ends, with the Coronation of Elizabeth II, Britain has emerged... -
The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens Helena Kelly 9781837731299
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.59Think you already know the story of Charles Dickens' life? Think again.Almost everything you're familiar with was first mentioned in an authorised biography written by Dickens' close friend John... -
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The Ring and the Crown: A History of Royal Weddings by Alison Weir 9780091943776 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £3.44As we look forward to the marriage of Harry to Meghan Markle, this book takes an informative and entertaining look back at royal weddings throughout English history.Anticipation is mounting. The... -
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The Victorians by A N Wilson 9780091796228 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £2.54"The Victorians" has been widely acclaimed as the classic single-volume history of the Victorian era. Now, in this illustrated edition, A.N. Wilson presents his magnificent portrait of the age... -
Jesus by A. N. Wilson 9780712606974
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54The Jesus of Faith and the Jesus of History are two different beings, with two different stories. In this brilliant and bestselling biography, A. N. Wilson reappraises our readings of the Gospels... -
The Four Gospels: The Pocket Canons Edition by A. N. Wilson 9781847678355
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Encouraging the reading of the Bible as literature rather than doctrine, the four central gospels are presented here in the beauty of the Authorised King James Version, with four fresh, modern... -
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Iris Murdoch Biography by A. N. Wilson 9780091742461 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £2.58A.N. Wilson had John Bayley as his tutor at Oxford, which is where he met Iris Murdoch. He remained a close friend of them both throughout her life and it was at Iris's pleading in 1988 that he... -
Hellfire: Evelyn Waugh and the Hypocrites Club by David Fleming 9781803996516
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.84'This is a pacey and colourful read ... elegantly written.' - Daisy Dunn, The Times'The whole book reads rather like a Powell novel, with unexpected meetings and reversals ... it is a constant... -
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The Faber Book of Church and Clergy by A. N. Wilson 9780571169757 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.40What is a Mark of the Beast waistcoat? Why did John Milton hate bishops? How does a Monsignor tear his postage stamps? And what does a congregation do when the Vicar announces that he is God?These... -
The Faber Book of Church and Clergy by A. N. Wilson
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31What is a Mark of the Beast waistcoat? Why did John Milton hate bishops? How does a Monsignor tear his postage stamps? And what does a congregation do when the Vicar announces that he is God?These... -
A Bad Business: Essential Stories Nicolas Slater Pasternak 9781805332060
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Reminds us how extremely funny he could be' A.N. Wilson, TLS 'The man more than any other who has created modern prose' James Joyce A refreshingly accessible way in to this iconic Russian... -
The Mystery of the Parsee Lawyer: Arthur Conan Doyle, George Edalji and the Case of the Foreigner in the English Village by Shrabani Basu
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12'Basu's account of how Arthur Conan Doyle set about trying to get a pardon for Edalji is in itself a fine piece of detective work.' The Times 'Compulsive reading.' A.N. Wilson 'Nails the nastiness... -
Fatal Proof John Fairfax 9781408711613
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £15.71'These Benson and de Vere stories are unputdownable... A five star bravura performance. This writer gets better and better' A.N. WilsonThe Hither Green murder...William Benson knows what it's like to... -
Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Biography by Adam Sisman 9781399638098
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SECRET LIFE OF JOHN LE CARRÉ'A fine and serious biography which, on page after page, has made me laugh out loud' Sunday Telegraph'It is a long time since I have enjoyed a book... -
The First Poems in English by Michael Alexander
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78This selection of the earliest poems in English comprises works from an age in which verse was not written down, but recited aloud and remembered. Heroic poems celebrate courage, loyalty and... -
The Queen: The Life and Family of Queen Elizabeth II by A. N. Wilson
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67'Entertaining... Wilson is affectionate without being reverential.' Daisy Goodwin, The TimesIn this original and vibrant examination of the life and times of Queen Elizabeth II, biographer and... -
Peace on the Western Front: The emotional World War One historical novel perfect for Remembrance Day by Mattia Signori 9781786583413
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.10THE WORST OF ENEMIES. THE BEST OF FRIENDS. A powerful, emotional novel of peace and friendship against the greatest of odds . . .1914. A boy enrols in the army, hoping to find peace in the great... -
Childhood, Boyhood And Youth by Leo Tolstoy 9781857150131
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41Tolstoy's lightly fictionalized account of his own early experience ranks with Turgenev's Sportsman's Notebook as a masterpiece of nineteenth-century Russian pastoral life. Peasants and soldiers,... -
Fatal Proof by John Fairfax 9780349143521
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'Unputdownable...This writer gets better and better' A.N. WilsonThe Hither Green murder...William Benson knows what it's like to be accused of something you didn't do - the fear, the vulnerability... -
Trieste Dasa Drndic 9781780878355
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.26"Trieste is a monumental feat of the imagination. Impassioned and lucid, it is impossible to read it and not come away with a new understanding of the world. Dasa Drndic has given us a masterpiece... -
Purgatory by Dante Alighieri 9781847496119
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05Describing Dante's second stage in his arduous journey to redemption, Purgatory features a host of unforgettable scenes and characters, and arguably some of the best poetry to be found in the Divine... -
A Life of Contrasts: The Autobiography of the Most Glamorous Mitford Sister by Diana Mitford, (Lady Mosley) 9781783342471
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30Diana Mitford, the most glamorous of the Mitfords, rivetingly narrates her life populated with key characters of 20th century history. Evelyn Waugh and Oswald Mosley fell in love with her, while not... -
Beowulf by Michael Alexander
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.29Beowulf is the greatest surviving work of literature in Old English, unparalleled in its epic grandeur and scope. It tells the story of the heroic Beowulf and of his battles, first with the monster... -
Colonel Chabert by Honore de Balzac 9781847497734
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.00An old man arrives at the offices of the lawyer Derville, claiming to be Colonel Chabert, a hero of the Napoleonic Wars who was left for dead on the battlefield, but in fact managed to survive under... -
God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain by Rosemary Hill
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.37Pugin was one of Britain's greatest architects and his short career one of the most dramatic in architectural history. Born in 1812, the son of the soi-disant Comte de Pugin, at 15 Pugin was working... -
The Same Old Story: New Translation by Ivan Goncharov
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05Filled with dreams of pursuing a career as a poet, the young Alexander Aduev moves from the country to St Petersburg, where he takes up lodgings next to his uncle Pyotr, a shrewd and world-weary... -
The Victorians by A. N. Wilson 9780099451860
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.71People, not abstract ideas, make history, and nowhere is this more revealed than in A. N. Wilson's superb portrait of the Victorians, in which hundreds of different lives have been pieced together to... -
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The Victorians by A. N. Wilson 9780099451860 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.52People, not abstract ideas, make history, and nowhere is this more revealed than in A. N. Wilson's superb portrait of the Victorians, in which hundreds of different lives have been pieced together to... -
Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris by Ian Kershaw
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.40Ian Kershaw's Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris charts the rise of Adolf Hitler, from a bizarre misfit in a Viennese dosshouse, to dictatorial leadership.With extraordinary skill and vividness, drawing on a... -
Inferno by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05Dante's dramatic journey through the circles of hell in search of redemption - and his encounter with devils, monsters and the souls of some of the greatest sinners who ever walked on earth - is one... -
Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800-1906 by Mr David Cannadine
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.99SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2018 'This is stupendous. The British nineteenth century, in all its complexity, all its horror, all its energy, all its hopes is laid bare. This is the... -
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... -
The Invisible Ones by Stef Penney
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Rose Janko is missing. It has been seven years since she disappeared, and nobody said a word. Now, following the death of his wife, her father Leon feels compelled to find her. Rumour had it she ran... -
The Italian Girl by Iris Murdoch
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Edmund has escaped from his family into a lonely life. Returning for his mother's funeral he finds himself involved in the old, awful problems, together with some new ones. One by one his relatives... -
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After The Victorians: The World Our Parents Knew by A. N. Wilson 9780099451877 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £2.45When this book begins, in the reign of Edward VII, Great Britain commands the mightiest empire the world has ever seen. By the time it ends, with the Coronation of Elizabeth II, Britain has emerged...