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Poppyland D. J. Taylor 9781784633462
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.39On Stewkey Blues: ‘In his solid, grounded, entertaining collection of stories, DJ Taylor draws out the mythical qualities of East Anglia’s terrain, urban or rural or somewhere marginal in between.’... -
Orwell: The Life by D. J. Taylor
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.72Orwell has become one of the most potent and symbolic figures in western political thought. Even the adjective 'Orwellian' is now a byword for a particular way of thinking about life, literature and... -
Kept by D J Taylor 9780061146091
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061146091Author D J TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins... -
Egypt by D. J. Taylor 9781844011162
Booksplease Price: $11.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844011162Author D. J. TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint New Generation... -
Wrote For Luck by D. J. Taylor 9781910296264
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910296264Author D.J. TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Galley Beggar PressPublisher... -
At the Chime of a City Clock by D. J. Taylor 9781849013901
Booksplease Price: $23.45Summer 1931 in seedy Bayswater and James Ross is on his uppers. An aspiring writer whose stories nobody will buy ('It's the slump'), with a landlady harassing him for unpaid rent and occasional... -
Stewkey Blues: Stories D. J. Taylor 9781784632458
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.39Fiction Category Winner in the 2022 East Anglian Book AwardsSome of the characters in Stewkey Blues have lived in Norfolk all their lives. Others are short-term residents or passage migrants. Whether... -
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D J Taylor
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $23.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374532116Author D J TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Farrar, Strauss &... -
Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918-1940 by D. J. Taylor
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.98Bright Young People/ Making the most of our youth/ They talk in the Press of our social success/ But quite the reverse is the truth. [Noel Coward]The Bright Young People were one of the most... -
Lost Girls: Love, War and Literature: 1939-51 by D.J. Taylor
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95A Times Book of the Year 2019'You should not deny yourself the pleasure of reading it' Sunday Times'A remarkable work and an important addition to the extraordinary wartime history of literary... -
George Orwell: A Reader's Guide: Or, 'Who Is Big Brother?' and Other Questions D. J. Taylor 9780300284232
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.74A spirited and essential companion to Orwell and his works, covering all the novels and major essays An intellectual who hated intellectuals, a socialist who didn't trust the state-our foremost... -
The Quality of Love: Twin Sisters at the Heart of the Century Ariane Bankes 9780715655924
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'Oh, what lives they both led!' Spectator 'Enriched by the correspondence between the twins - for, ultimately, the great love story is theirs alone' Telegraph A TLS Book of the Year When her... -
'Rock and Roll is Life': The True Story of the Helium Kids by One Who Was There: A Novel by D. J. Taylor 9781472128843
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.77'Taylor's magnificent new novel is Spinal Tap for literary types . . . thoroughly entertaining, knowledgeable romp through the fear and loathing of rock's golden age. Beautifully written and... -
The Quality of Love: Twin Sisters at the Heart of the Century by Ariane Bankes 9780715654989
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $14.14When her mother Celia Paget died, Ariane Bankes inherited a battered trunk stuffed with letters and diaries belonging to Celia and her twin Mamaine. This correspondence charted the remarkable lives... -
What You Didn't Miss: A Book of Literary Parodies as Featured in Private Eye by D. J. Taylor 9781780336886
RRP: $3.86Booksplease Price: $3.57Since the late 1990s, Private Eye's 'What You Didn't Miss' column has trained a vigilant lens on some of the great literary reputations of our age. Highlights of this bumper selection include Martin... -
Coming Up For Air D.J. Taylor 9781472133090
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35A new edition of Orwell's elegiac fourth novel, introduced and annotated by his biographer, D.J. TaylorFirst published in 1939 and dominated by the shadow of the Second World War, Coming up for Air... -
Keep the Aspidistra Flying by D.J. Taylor
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35A new edition of Orwell's end-of-tether third novel, introduced and annotated by his biographer, D.J. TaylorFirst published in 1936, and drawing on Orwell's own experiences of working in a Hampstead... -
In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers by William Palmer 9781472145000
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20'Wise, witty and empathetic . . . outstanding'JIM CRACE'A fascinating treatment of the age-old problem of writers and drink which displays the same subtle qualities as William Palmer's own... -
In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers William Palmer 9781472144997
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55'Sympathetic and wonderfully perceptive . . . a heartbreaking read'NICK COHEN, Critic'Wise, witty and empathetic . . . outstanding'JIM CRACE'A fascinating treatment of the age-old problem of writers... -
Biological Science 1 and 2 by R. Soper 9780521561785
Booksplease Price: $97.00This is the third edition of the highly successful book, Biological Science. The text has been revised and updated to provide comprehensive coverage of the latest syllabuses. New material has been... -
Siegfried Sassoon: A Biography by Max Egremont
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55The life of Siegfried Sassoon has been recorded and interpreted in literature and film for over half a century. He is one of the great figures of the First World War, and Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man... -
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The Glass Painter's Daughter by Rachel Hore 9781847391407 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $3.78In a tiny stained-glass shop hidden in the backstreets of Westminster lies the cracked, sparkling image of an angel. The owners of Minster Glass have also been broken: Fran Morrison's mother died... -
Nineteen Eighty-Four by D.J. Taylor
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $5.97A new edition of Orwell's timeless dystopian classic, introduced and annotated by his biographer, D.J. TaylorSince its first publication in 1949, Orwell's devastating expose of the totalitarian mind... -
Animal Farm by D.J. Taylor
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $3.46A new edition of Orwell's savage satire of the Soviet Revolution, introduced and annotated by his biographer, D.J. TaylorFirst published in 1945, just as the allied forces had begun to parcel up the... -
Life Writing: Essays on Autobiography, Biography and Literature by Richard Bradford 9780230202528
RRP: $128.99Booksplease Price: $116.82This volume of more than twenty essays reflects the intersections between biography, autobiography and literature. Several pieces focus upon the contentious sub-genre of literary biography, while... -
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The Memory Garden by Rachel Hore 9781416511007 [USED COPY]
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $3.12Lamorna Cove, in Cornwall's far west, is a tiny bay set at the mouth of a secluded wooded valley of wild beauty, the haunt, a hundred years ago, of a close-knit colony of artists. Here, to a rented... -
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The Dream House by Rachel Hore 9781416510994 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $3.42Kate Hutchinson and her husband Simon are Londoners, performing the balancing act of raising two young children in a cramped terraced house whilst holding down stressful full-time jobs. When... -
Nella Last's Peace: The Post-War Diaries Of Housewife 49 by Patricia Malcolmson
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86Outwardly Nella's life was probably seen as ordinary; but behind this mask were a lively mind and a persistent pen - a pen that never gave up over almost three decades, reporting, describing,... -
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Nella Last's Peace: The Post-War Diaries Of Housewife 49 by Patricia Malcolmson 9781846680748 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $2.54Outwardly Nella's life was probably seen as ordinary; but behind this mask were a lively mind and a persistent pen - a pen that never gave up over almost three decades, reporting, describing,... -
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell 9780241416419
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Ever since its publication in 1948, George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian regime where Big Brother controls its citizens like 'a boot stamping on a human face' has become a touchstone... -
Orwell in Spain by George Orwell
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Including Homage to Catalonia'Spain not only defined Orwell as an individual, it also gave him his first glimpse of totalitarianism' D. J. Taylor, GuardianGeorge Orwell's experience of the Spanish... -
Burmese Days D.J. Taylor 9781472133007
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35A new edition of Orwell's debut novel, introduced and annotated by his biographer, D. J. TaylorFirst published in 1934, and a bitter souvenir of Orwell's time as a servant of the British Raj, Burmese... -
A Clergyman's Daughter D.J. Taylor 9781472133014
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35A new edition of Orwell's starkly realistic second novel, introduced and annotated by his biographer, D. J. TaylorFirst published in 1935, when Orwell was struggling to establish himself as a writer,... -
A Week in Paris by Rachel Hore 9781471130762
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35SECRETS FROM THE PAST, UNRAVELLING IN THE PRESENT From the million-copy Sunday Times bestseller comes a gripping and moving story spanning 25 years and World War II, secrets, family and enduring love... -
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First Class: A History of Britain in 36 Postage Stamps by Christopher West 9780224095471 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $3.33This delightfully playful history uses 36 of our most expressive, quirky, beautiful and sometimes baffling stamps to tell us the story of Britain, through Dickens and the potato famine to Thatcher... -
Writers in Conversation with Christopher Bigsby: Volume VII by Christopher Bigsby 9781911343523
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.83Writers in Conversation compiles Christopher Bigsby's interviews with the world's greatest writers from over a decade of the Arthur Miller Centre's International Literary Festival at the University... -
The Last Englishman: The Life of J.L. Carr by Byron Rogers 9781781311523
RRP: $23.22Booksplease Price: $12.89'A fine biography...Rogers has done a wonderful job' Daily Telegraph J. L. Carr was the most English of Englishmen: headmaster of a Northamptonshire school, cricket enthusiast and campaigner for the... -
The Dream House by Rachel Hore
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55From the million-copy Sunday Times bestseller comes an enchanting story about one woman's move to the house of her dreams. 'Tender and funny, warm and wise, the story of one woman's search for the... -
A Place of Secrets: Intrigue, secrets and romance from the million-copy bestselling author of The Hidden Years Rachel Hore 9781847391421
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55The stunning novel from the million-copy Sunday Times bestseller A RICHARD & JUDY BOOKCLUB PICK The night before it all begins, Jude has the dream again . . . Can dreams be passed down through... -
Nothing, Doting, Blindness by Henry Green
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.72WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY D. J. TAYLORThese three brilliant novels span Henry Green's career as a novelist and display his unique talents as a writer. Nothing is a tale of the merry-go-round of love,...