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The House Gun by Nadine Gordimer 9780747542575
Booksplease Price: £9.99How else can you defend yourself against losing your hi-fi equipment, your TV set and computer, your watch and rings? A house gun, like a house cat; that is a fact of ordinary life in many cities of...Qty in Cart: 0Price:Booksplease Price: £9.99Subtotal: -
My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time by Liz Jensen 9780747585930 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £2.13In fin-de-siecle Copenhagen, part-time prostitute Charlotte and her lumpen sidekick, Fru Schleswig, have taken on jobs as cleaning ladies of dubious talent to tide them over the harsh winter of 1897... -
Clover Twig and the Incredible Flying Cottage by Kaye Umansky 9780747590637 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £2.09Clover Twig is clever, neat and responsible. She also needs to find a job to help out her lovable and chaotic family. So when she sees a sign saying 'Wonted. Strong Gril to Cleen. Aply Mrs Eckles,... -
Mortlock by Jon Mayhew 9781408827482 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: £1.25The sister is a knife thrower in a magician's stage act, the brother is an undertaker's assistant. Neither orphan knows of the other's existence. Until, that is, three terrible Aunts descend on the... -
Chester's Big Surprise by Olivia Villet 9780747555643 [USED COPY]
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £1.25Chester is feeling a little sad and lonely because his special friend Tilda did not come out to play. So Chester wanders sadly around all their favourite places hoping that she will have changed her... -
I Was Vermeer: The Forger Who Swindled the Nazis by Frank Wynne 9780747566816 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.32In 1945, a small-time Dutch art dealer was arrested for selling a forgery of a priceless national treasure - a painting by Vermeer - to Hitler's right-hand man. The charge was treason, the only... -
The Trees by Ali Shaw 9781408862254 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.21There came an elastic aftershock of creaks and groans and then, softly softly, a chinking shower of rubbled cement. Leaves calmed and trunks stood serene. Where, not a minute before, there had been a... -
The Kindness by Polly Samson 9781408861875 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.29'He followed her eyes skyward to a bird that was falling, turning and turning, like a heart that had leapt free. It fell, and as it did it became a falcon. He was transfixed.' Julian's fall begins... -
River Cottage Everyday by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall 9780747598404 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £2.80Putting food on the table for the family quickly and economically doesn't mean you have to compromise on quality. This book shows how Hugh's approach to food can be adapted to suit any growing,... -
The Soloist by Mark Salzman 9780747520375 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.13As a young cellist, Renne was hailed as potentially the greatest cellist who had ever lived, until, this is, at age 18 when he lost the gift. For the next 15 years he lost himself in teaching music... -
Soft by Rupert Thomson 9780747541097 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: £1.87The objective of advertising is to change the behaviour of the consumer so they purchase more of the product. That, at any rate, is the theory. But Jimmy Lyle may have taken things a bit too far with... -
Bright, Precious Days by Jay McInerney 9781408876589 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £2.29Russell and Corrine Calloway have spent half their lives in the bright lights of New York. Theirs is the generation that flew too close to the sun on wings of cocaine - and whose lives changed... -
Florentine and Pig Have a Very Lovely Picnic by Eva Katzler 9781408824375 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £2.65Welcome to the magical world of Florentine and Pig! Join them on their adventures as they discover the glorious world of friendship, frolics & food. Florentine and Pig are going to celebrate a... -
Trapped Beetle by Dosh Archer 9780747597605 [USED COPY]
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.49When Doctor Glenda realises that the elephant is not the only one hearing things, she sets out to save a trapped beetle from a terrible fate. First readers have never been such fun. With bright,... -
The Infinite Tides by Christian Kiefer 9781408831526 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.29Mathematical genius. Brilliant engineer. Revered astronaut. Keith Corcoran is all of these things and more, but his otherworldly talents do nothing to prepare him for the tragedy that befalls his... -
My Tango with Barbara Strozzi by Russell Hoban 9780747592716 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £4.56Recently separated, Phil Ockerman falls hard for Bertha Strunk at a tango lesson in Clerkenwell. Bertha also bears a strong resemblance to the seventeenth-century Venetian singer and composer Barbara... -
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows 9781408895993 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £1.98The beloved, life-affirming international bestseller which has sold over 5 million copies worldwide - now a major film starring Lily James, Matthew Goode, Jessica Brown Findlay, Tom Courtenay and... -
Easy Peasy by Lesley Glaister 9780747535096 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £1.98Zelda is terrified that her love affair is about to end, and she prays for something - anything - to prevent the inevitable heartbreak. Then she is told that her father has hanged himself. His death... -
Purveyor of Enchantment by Marika Cobbold 9781408825013 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £1.98'A life lived in fear is a life half lived,' Clementine Hope's sister, Ophelia, is fond of quoting to her.Clementine, thirty-something and newly divorced, lives in a small Hampshire town, teaching... -
Villages of Britain: The Five Hundred Villages That Made the Countryside by Clive Aslet 9780747588726 [USED COPY]
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £2.79Villages of Britain is the history of the countryside, told through five hundred of its most noteworthy settlements. Many of Britain's villages are known for their loveliness, of course, but their... -
The Tulip by Anna Pavord 9780747542964 [USED COPY]
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £2.80The Tulip is not a gardening book. It is the story of a flower that has made men mad. Greed, desire, anguish, devotion have all played their part in the development of the tulip from a wild flower of... -
Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger by Louis Sachar 9781408801741 [USED COPY]
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £2.09All the kids from Wayside School had to spend 243 days in horrible schools while Wayside was closed to get rid of the infestation of cows! Now the kids are back and the fun begins again on every... -
The Kinship of Secrets by Eugenia Kim 9781526602824 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.35The riveting story of two sisters, one raised in the United States, the other in South Korea, and the family that bound them together even as the Korean War kept them apart 'A gorgeous achievement'... -
Two Sides of the Story by Mary Hooper 9780747535782 [USED COPY]
RRP: £3.99Booksplease Price: £3.65Astra is thoughtful, a bit of a hippy, interested in astrology, and is best friends with Beth who is much more street-wise, trendy and vivacious. Their friendship is good and uncomplicated until they... -
Party Girls Die in Pearls by Plum Sykes
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.88Nancy Mitford meets Clueless, with a touch of Agatha Christie, in this tale of cocktails, murder and mayhem in 1980s Oxford Oxford, 1985. Ursula Flowerbutton, a Fresher and wide-eyed country... -
Other People's Children by Joanna Trollope 9780747540052 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780747540052Author Joanna TrollopeFormat HardbackImprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLCPublisher... -
The Princess Bride by William Goldman 9780747590583
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.94Beautiful, flaxen-haired Buttercup has fallen for Westley, the farm boy, and when he departs to make his fortune, she vows never to love another. So, when she hears that his ship has been captured by... -
Ancestor Stones by Aminatta Forna 9780747585923 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.54Abie follows the arc of a letter from London back to Africa to a coffee plantation that now could be hers if she wants it. Standing among the ruined groves she strains to hear the sound of the past,... -
ABC of Childhood by Steven Appleby 9780747576044 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £2.70A is for ANTICIPATION, B is for BABY and C is for CATATONIC STATE soon to befall the exhausted parents. Whether you want to remember what it was like to be a child, or are trying to forget the... -
Pavel and I by Dan Vyleta 9780747596318 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.54Berlin, 1946. During one of the coldest winters on record, Pavel Richter, a decommissioned GI, finds himself at odds with a rogue British Army colonel and a Soviet General when a friend deposits the... -
The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi 9780747578864
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.99Jessamy Harrison is eight years old. Sensitive, whimsical, possessed of a powerful imagination, she spends hours writing, reading or simply hiding in the dark warmth of the airing cupboard. As the... -
Statesmen in Caricature: The Great Rivalry of Fox and Pitt the Younger in the Age of the Political Cartoon by N G Howe 9780755627134
Booksplease Price: £33.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780755627134Author N G HoweFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLCPublisher... -
Propaganda and the Cyprus Revolt: Rebellion, Counter-Insurgency and the Media, 1955-59 by Maria Hadjiathanasiou 9780755637546
Booksplease Price: £31.11During the EOKA period of Greek Cypriot revolt against British colonial rule, the Greek Cypriots and the British deployed propaganda as a means of swaying allegiances, both within Cyprus and on the... -
Turkey and the European Union: The Politics of Belonging by Lucia Najslova 9780755639984
Booksplease Price: £31.11Turkey's EU accession talks, which began in 2005, were intended to strengthen Turkey's democracy and the EU's ability to embrace difference. Instead, we have seen repeated questioning of Turkey's... -
Terrorism in the Cold War: State Support in the West, Middle East and Latin America by Adrian Hanni 9780755636556
Booksplease Price: £31.11Accounts of the relationships between states and terrorist organizations in the Cold War era have long been shaped by speculation, a lack of primary sources and even conspiracy theories. In the last... -
Liminal Commons: Modern Rituals of Transition in Greece by Angelos Varvarousis 9780755638895
Booksplease Price: £71.72This book is the first attempt to rethink and appraise the role of temporary commoning experiences that develop in contexts of crisis. Activist and urban planner, Angelos Varvarousis, argues that... -
Pollution and Atmosphere in Post-Soviet Russia: The Arctic and the Environment by Lars Rowe 9780755634897
Booksplease Price: £31.11This study addresses the many initiatives to decrease industrial pollution emitting from the Pechenganikel plant in the northwestern corner of Russia during the final years of the Soviet Union, and... -
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by J. K. Rowling 9781408803011 [USED COPY]
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £1.98As featured in the first year set texts reading list in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is an extensive introduction to the magical beasts that exist... -
The Old Believers in Imperial Russia: Oppression, Opportunism and Religious Identity in Tsarist Moscow by Peter T. De Simone 9780755601325
Booksplease Price: £35.08'Two Romes have fallen. The third stands. And there will be no fourth.' So spoke Russian monk Hegumen Filofei of Pskov in 1510, proclaiming Muscovite Russia as heirs to the legacy of the Roman Empire... -
Countering Violent Extremism: The International Deradicalisation Agenda by Tahir Abbas 9781838607227
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £67.35Terrorism and radicalisation are increasingly dominating sociological, political and cultural concerns. This book explores how the problems causing violent extremism are local, and therefore, so are...