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The Gamekeeper by Barry Hines
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.55George Purse is an ex-steelworker employed as a gamekeeper on a ducal country estate. He gathers, hand-rears and treasures the birds to be shot at by his wealthy employers. He must ensure that the... -
A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.26With prose that is every bit as raw, intense and bitingly honest as the world it depicts, Barry Hines's A Kestrel for a Knave contains a new afterword by the author in Penguin Modern Classics.Life is... -
The Play Of Kes by Barry Hines
Booksplease Price: $29.41A moving yet straightforward dramatisation of Barry Hines's popular novel, Kes, the story of how fifteen-year-old Billy Casper trains a kestrel. It is not the training of the young hawk that is... -
Kes by Barry Hines 9780573150234
Booksplease Price: $15.83A new adaptation of the classic book A Kestrel for a Knave, Kes tells the story of a day in the life of Billy Casper; a 15-year-old boy about to leave school and determined not to end up working down... -
A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines 9780241978962
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60The classic book that inspired Kes, the famous film, now published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Barry Hines's A Kestrel for a Knave was published in 1968, and was made into one of the... -
A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines 9780140029529
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60Billy Casper is a boy with nowhere to go and nothing to say; part of the limbo generation of school leavers too old for lessons and too young to know anything about the outside world. He hates and is... -
Kes (stage version) by Barry Hines
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86A tried-and-tested stage adaptation of Barry Hines' novel A Kestrel for a Knave, about a troubled young boy who finds and trains a kestrel. Billy, a disaffected young boy, has problems at school... -
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A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines 9780141184982 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $4.37With prose that is every bit as raw, intense and bitingly honest as the world it depicts, Barry Hines's A Kestrel for a Knave contains a new afterword by the author in Penguin Modern Classics.Life is... -
Barry Hines: <I>Kes</I>, <i>Threads</i> and Beyond by David Forrest 9781784992620
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $97.01Barry Hines's novel A Kestrel for a Knave, adapted for the screen as Kes, is one of the best-known and well-loved novels of the post-war period, while his screenplay for the television drama Threads... -
The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District by James Rebanks
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.60THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Affectionate, evocative, illuminating. A story of survival - of a flock, a landscape and a disappearing way of life. I love this book' Nigel... -
The Day the Music Died: A Life Lived Behind the Lens Tony Garnett 9781472122711
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55'An extraordinary book by an extraordinary man' Ken LoachTony Garnett's story begins in working-class, war-torn Birmingham where he movingly describes the trauma of his mother's death following a... -
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The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District by James Rebanks 9781846148545 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $3.59THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James Rebanks' isn't. The first son of a shepherd, who was the first son of a shepherd himself, he... -
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The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District by James Rebanks 9780141979366 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $5.30THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Affectionate, evocative, illuminating. A story of survival - of a flock, a landscape and a disappearing way of life. I love this book' Nigel... -
Moving The Goalposts: A Yorkshire Tragedy Anthony Clavane 9781848665149
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $10.49'As good an explanation as you will ever read of how the deindustrialisation of the 70s and 80s fuelled Brexit' The Times 'Magnificent . . . A fascinating insight into a decade that changed the... -
Saville by David Storey
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20WINNER OF THE 1976 BOOKER PRIZE'If you are looking for an intellectual and artistic honesty, a patient thoughtfulness and detailed insight into other lives...this novel will delight and move you'... -
Kes by David Forrest 9781839025648
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.08Ken Loach's 1969 drama Kes, considered one of the finest examples of British social realism, tells the story of Billy, a working class boy who finds escape and meaning when he takes a fledgling... -
Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26In the wild there is no safety. The otter cub Tarka grows up with his mother and sisters, learning to swim, catch fish - and to fear the cry of the hunter and the flash of the metal trap. Soon he... -
All Points North: the bestselling memoir from the new Poet Laureate by Simon Armitage
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.08'A joy. Celebrates the real world and revels in its mad glory' Sue Townsend, Sunday Times_____________________________________All Points North is part-memoir and part-excursion. Charting the rugged... -
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H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald 9780099575450 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $2.71Discover the memoir that inspired the major new film starring Claire Foy and Brendan GleesonThe hawk was everything I wanted to be: solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of... -
Little White Bull - British Fiction in the 50s and 60s by John Muckle 9781848613058
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $18.02Little White Bull takes a fresh look at the times before the day before yesterday, not the end times but the new beginnings, and tries to show how British fiction grappled with subjects as thorny and... -
Marianne Faithfull: As Years Go By Mark Hodkinson 9781917274081
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.74Marianne Faithfull was the quintessential icon of the Swinging Sixties, with her long blonde hair, blue eyes, and mini skirts embodying the era's vibrant culture. Her high-profile relationship with... -
Yorkshire: A Literary Landscape by David Stuart Davies
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.04A gorgeous anthology to dip into and savour the rich literary heritage of Yorkshire, Britain's largest county. Yorkshire is renowned for its landscapes: the magical wilderness of the moors and the... -
The Truth of Things (2) – Pike Anthony McGowan 9780008739041
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.71Family bonds are tested when a fishing expedition nosedives into near tragedy in this novella from Carnegie Medal winner Anthony McGowan. When Nicky spots a glint... -
Claude Lanzmann's 'Shoah' Outtakes: Holocaust Rescue and Resistance Professor Sue Vice (University of Sheffield, UK) 9781350357464
Booksplease Price: $38.58As we approach the end of the 'era of the witness', given the passing on of the generation of Holocaust survivors, Claude Lanzmann's archive of 220 hours of footage excluded from his ground-breaking... -
Claude Lanzmann's 'Shoah' Outtakes: Holocaust Rescue and Resistance by Professor Sue Vice 9781350187078
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $40.27As we approach the end of the 'era of the witness', given the passing on of the generation of Holocaust survivors, Claude Lanzmann's archive of 220 hours of footage excluded from his ground-breaking... -
How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91A poignant coming-of-age novel set in a Welsh mining town, Richard Llewellyn's How Green Was My Valley is a paean to a more innocent age, published in Penguin Modern ClassicsGrowing up in a mining... -
Natural Mechanical by J O Morgan 9781909585522
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.46Handicapped at school by his dyslexia and facing the strap at home, Rocky seeks out his own education from the fields and streams around him on the Isle of Skye. He develops an instinctive talent for... -
Opening The Gates of Hell: The untold story of Herbert Kenny, the man who discovered Belsen Mark Hodkinson 9781788404846
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $20.00The incredible true story of the first Allied soldier to open the gates of Belsen.Herbert Kenny, an army dispatch rider, was the first Allied soldier to push open the gates at Belsen Concentration... -
No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader by Mark Hodkinson
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.62Mark Hodkinson grew up among the terrace houses of Rochdale in a house with just one book. Today, Mark is an author, journalist and publisher. He still lives in Rochdale but is now surrounded by... -
King of Rabbits by Karla Neblett
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.20'A brilliant debut; vivid and compelling.' JENNI FAGAN'You won't be able to predict the outcome of King Of Rabbits ... It's a powerful and tragic read, making a profound statement about how important... -
King of Rabbits by Karla Neblett 9781529156751
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.81CHOSEN AS BOOK OF THE MONTH BY AFRORI BOOKSFEATURED ON BBC RADIO 4: OPEN BOOK'It's hard not to fall for the main character . . . you can see the car crash coming, but you can't look away' CLAIRE... -
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King of Rabbits by Karla Neblett 9781529156751 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $4.93CHOSEN AS BOOK OF THE MONTH BY AFRORI BOOKSFEATURED ON BBC RADIO 4: OPEN BOOK'It's hard not to fall for the main character . . . you can see the car crash coming, but you can't look away' CLAIRE... -
Dogs of the Deadlands by Anthony McGowan
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.60'It broke my heart and then splinted it back together again... Magnificent.' Hannah Gold, bestselling author of The Last Bear 'A dog's eye perspective that's so vivid you can almost taste the... -
Dogs of the Deadlands: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WEEK JUNIOR BOOK AWARDS by Anthony McGowan 9780861546398
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.59'It broke my heart and then splinted it back together again... Magnificent.' Hannah Gold, bestselling author of The Last Bear 'A dog's eye perspective that's so vivid you can almost taste the... -
Featherhood: 'The best piece of nature writing since H is for Hawk, and the most powerful work of biography I have read in years' Neil Gaiman by Charlie Gilmour
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $5.97'The best piece of nature writing since H is for Hawk, and the most powerful work of biography I have read in years' Neil Gaiman'Wonderful - I can't recommend it too highly' Helen Macdonald'One of...