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Weird Woods: Tales from the Haunted Forests of Britain by John Miller
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.28Woods play an important and recurring role in horror, fantasy, the gothic and the weird. They are places in which strange things happen, where you often can't see where you are or what is around you... -
Suddenly at His Residence: A Mystery in Kent by Christianna Brand
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.28"Christianna Brand is not merely a purveyor of thrills or a maker of puzzles. She is a novelist." - The Daily Telegraph While the Blitz bombards London, the boisterous grandchildren of Sir Richard... -
The Philosophy of Cheese by Patrick McGuigan
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $9.55Patrick McGuigan is a British food journalist and cheese writer, who contributes to The Telegraph, Delicious and The Financial Times, among many other titles. He has travelled the world, from the... -
The Port of London Murders Josephine Bell 9780712353618
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.09When the San Angelo drifts into port in the Thames Estuary, telephones begin to ring across the capital and an intricate series of events is set in motion. Beset by dreadful storms in the Bay of... -
Visions of the Vampire: Two Centuries of Immortal Tales by Sorcha Ni Fhlainn
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.02The vampire is one of the great enemies of humanity, a nightmarish figure who feeds on the living in order to sustain themselves. Born from ancient folklore, writers in the nineteenth century gave... -
The Philosophy of Tattoos by John Miller
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $9.55Tattooing is an ancient practice with profound religious and cultural significance. While western tattooing centres on three main traditions - Polynesian, Japanese and Euro-American -- it has been... -
One Year's Time by Angela Milne
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55'She got up, without meeting his eyes, and went into the bedroom to dress. That was life all over; you wanted to make a good exit, and you remembered you were still in your housecoat.' Single girl... -
Weekend at Thrackley by Alan Melville
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55'I'm taking a revolver to Thrackley. You never know with blokes like Carson. I hate these harmless, potty people - they're always up to something.' Jim Henderson is one of six guests summoned by... -
The Philosophy of Gin by Jane Peyton 9780712353601
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $8.75Few if any alcoholic drinks have the dramatic and multi-faceted history of gin. In this fascinating new instalment of the British Library's pocket philosophies, gin is explored through its origins in... -
Lost Mars: The Golden Age of the Red Planet by Mike Ashley 9780712352406
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.29`I was suddenly struck with the sight of a trail of rich red vegetation of several miles in the midst of the eternal snows. I approached with curiosity this oasis in the frozen desert.' An antique... -
Big Ben Strikes Eleven by David Magarshack 9780712354837
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55The discovery of Sir Robert Boniface's body on the floor of his blue limousine was made quite accidentally on a sultry Friday evening towards the end of June. The industrial and financial tycoon, and... -
The Burial of the Rats: And Other Tales of the Macabre by Bram Stoker by Bram Stoker 9780712354448
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.02'I knew the site of the hut and the hill behind it up which I had rushed, and in the flickering glow the eyes of the rats still shone with a sort of phosphorescence.' Beyond the genre-defining... -
Dragons, Heroes, Myths & Magic: The Medieval Art of Storytelling (Paperback Edition) by Chantry Westwell 9780712354141
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $17.67Journey through magical fairy tales, chivalric adventures, mystical events and celebrated foundation myths. Trace how folk traditions and the manners of courtly love have developed through... -
Death in Captivity: A Second World War Mystery by Michael Gilbert 9780712352130
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35A man is found dead in an escape tunnel in an Italian prisoner-of-war camp. Did he die in an accidental collapse - or was this murder? Captain Henry `Cuckoo' Goyles, master tunneller and amateur... -
The Open Door: and Other Stories of the Seen and Unseen by Margaret Oliphant 9780712353540
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.67'There was not a soul to be seen, up or down; and the trees stood like ghosts, and the silence was terrible, and everything clear as day. You don't know what silence is until you find it in the light... -
Playing with Fire: The Weird Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle by Arthur Conan Doyle 9780712354257
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.02The luminous fog drifted slowly off the table and wavered and flickered across the room. There in the farther and darkest corner it gathered and glowed, hardening down into a shining core... ... -
The Outcast: and Other Dark Tales by E F Benson by E. Benson 9780712353861
Booksplease Price: $16.51The terrifying presence of a restless spirit on the top deck of a London bus; a possession at the bridge table on a cruise up the Nile; a nightmare encounter with druidic sacrifice in the innocuous... -
The Philosophy of Curry Sejal Sukhadwala 9780712354509
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $9.55There are curries on almost every continent, with a stunning diversity of flavours and textures across India alone, and many more interpretations the world over, including in Indonesia, Malaysia,... -
Haunters at the Hearth: Eerie Tales for Christmas Nights by Lucy Evans 9780712354271
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35"But something odd does happen here at Christmas time. When I first heard the story, I thought it was an old wives' tale, but-well, these old houses-you hear strange things-" He lifted his shoulders... -
Stories for Summer: And Days by the Pool Simon Thomas 9780712355155
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55Join a host of female writers in celebrating the sunshine months of the year. As a sister volume to Stories for Winter, this collection of 15 short stories takes its inspiration from the holiday... -
Uncanny Ireland: Otherworldly Tales of the Strange and Sublime Maria Giakaniki 9780712355209
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.20'Suddenly the upper rim of the clear setting sun disappeared behind the hill of Knockdoula, and it was twilight. Each child felt the transition like a shock ... and the rounded summit of Lisnavoura,... -
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery by Leonard Gribble 9780712352260
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55The 1939 Arsenal side is firing on all cylinders and celebrating a string of victories. They appear unstoppable, but the Trojans - a side of amateurs who are on a winning streak of their own - may be... -
The Weird Tales of Dorothy K. Haynes Dorothy K. Haynes 9780712355766
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35The fabric of Dorothy K. Haynes' weird fiction is truly the stuff of nightmares, where horrors cruel and mundane are interwoven with threads of dark fairy folklore and twisted witchcraft to deliver... -
Land of Mist and Magic: The Myths and Legends that Shaped the British Isles Philip Parker 9780712355148
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $27.48Britain is a land steeped in legend. From the Scottish Islands to the valleys of Wales, or the coves and inlets of Cornwall, scarcely a hillock, spring or churchyard is without its own story... -
Roarings from Further Out: Four Weird Novellas by Algernon Blackwood by Xavier Aldana Reyes 9780712353052
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35The reputation of early-twentieth century British writer Algernon Blackwood currently resides with his two novellas `The Willows' (1907) and `The Wendigo' (1910), and with good reason. They are... -
These Names Make Clues by E.C.R Lorac 9780712353847
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35'Should detectives go to parties? Was it consistent with the dignity of the Yard? The inspector tossed for it-and went.' Chief Inspector Macdonald has been invited to a treasure hunt party at the... -
Thirteen Guests J. Jefferson Farjeon 9780712356015
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75No observer, ignorant of the situation, would have guessed that death lurked nearby, and that only a little distance from the glitter of silver and glass and the hum of voices two victims lay silent... -
Family Matters Anthony Rolls 9780712356695
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75'The characters are quite extraordinarily living...A most original and grimly farcical situation' - Dorothy L. SayersRobert Arthur Kewdingham is an eccentric failure of a man. In middle age he... -
The End of the Web George Sims 9780712356824
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.95Leo Selver, a middle-aged antiques dealer, is stunned when the beautiful and desirable Judy Latimer shows an interest in him. Soon they are lying in each other's arms, unaware that this embrace will... -
Beauty, What it is and How to Retain it by A Lady 9780712358859
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $11.48'At night the teeth should be cleaned with a very soft brush of badger's hair.' 'Hair should be brushed for twenty minutes night and morning' 'Paint is used, we believe, by some absurd women, on the... -
Pleasures of the Table: A Literary Anthology by Christina Hardyment 9780712357807
RRP: $42.51Booksplease Price: $32.92This beautifully illustrated collection of food writing includes delectable scenes of cooking and feasting from novels and stories, poems that use food to tempt and seduce, and fine writing by and... -
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The Philosophy of Beards by Thomas S. Gowing 9780712357661 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $2.54'The absence of Beard is usually a sign of physical and moral weakness.' 'Take two drawings of the head of a lion, one with and the other without the mane. You will see how much of the majesty of... -
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Murder of a Lady by Anthony Wynne 9780712356237 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $2.83Duchlan Castle is a gloomy, forbidding place in the Scottish Highlands. Late one night the body of Mary Gregor, sister of the laird of Duchlan, is found in the castle. She has been stabbed to death... -
![Penguins, Pineapples and Pangolins: First Encounters with the Exotic by Claire Cock-Starkey 9780712356367 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9710975/10727654/9780712356367__72727.1781370750.jpg?c=1 "Penguins, Pineapples and Pangolins: First Encounters with the Exotic by Claire Cock-Starkey 9780712356367 [USED COPY]")
Penguins, Pineapples and Pangolins: First Encounters with the Exotic by Claire Cock-Starkey 9780712356367 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $3.99Can you remember seeing a giraffe for the first time? Tasting a pineapple? Touching a cactus? Probably not, because in these modern times everyone is very knowing - knowledge is at our fingertips and... -
Sea Monsters on Medieval by Chet van Duzer 9780712357715
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.40The sea monsters on medieval and Renaissance maps, whether swimming vigorously, gambolling amid the waves, attacking ships, or simply displaying themselves for our appreciation, are one of the most... -
Death on the Riviera by John Bude 9780712356374
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.35When a counterfeit currency racket comes to light on the French Riviera, Detective Inspector Meredith is sent speeding southwards - out of the London murk to the warmth and glitter of the... -
Father by Elizabeth von Arnim
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55Since her mother's death Jennifer has devoted years of her life to her father, managing the family home and acting as his secretary. After the sudden announcement that he has taken a new wife,... -
The Ways of Ghosts: And Other Dark Tales by Ambrose Bierce by Ambrose Bierce
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55Motionless now and in absolute silence, she awaited her doom, the moments growing to hours, to years, to ages; and still those devilish eyes maintained their watch. Ambrose Bierce was one of... -
A Children's Literary Christmas: An Anthology Anna James 9780712352796
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95Immerse yourself in some truly festive magic with this brand-new collection of the finest Christmas stories, prose, songs and poetry from some of the greatest writers in the English language... -
Settling Scores: Sporting Mysteries Martin Edwards 9780712353212
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75Talented sportsmen inexplicably go absent without leave, crafty gamblers conspire in the hope of making a killing, and personal rivalries and jealousies come to a head on fields of play... The...