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Guilty Thing by Frances Wilson 9781408840139
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $27.11'Life for De Quincey was either angels ascending on vaults of cloud or vagrants shivering on the city streets.' Thomas De Quincey - opium-eater, celebrity journalist, and professional... -
The Courtesan's Revenge by Frances Wilson 9780571205240
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $19.97Harriette Wilson was the most desired and the most dangerous woman in Regency London. This highly acclaimed biography reveals for the first time the true story behind her sensational life and... -
Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel by Frances Wilson 9780374613204
RRP: $66.50Booksplease Price: $44.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374613204Author Frances WilsonFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint -
Burning Man: The Ascent of DH Lawrence by Frances Wilson
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.58**LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2021** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2021** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE** **FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PLUTARCH... -
The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth by Frances Wilson 9780571230471 [USED COPY]
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $4.09Ordinarily presented as a self-effacing virgin or sacrificial saint, Dorothy Wordsworth was a talented writer and exceptional woman. She was William Wordsworth's inspiration, aide and most valued... -
Electric Spark: The Enigma of Dame Muriel by Frances Wilson 9781250448170
RRP: $45.60Booksplease Price: $29.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250448170Author Frances WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint -
How to Survive the Titanic or The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay by Frances Wilson 9781408828151
Booksplease Price: $20.63**WINNER OF THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY 2012** The strange and fascinating story of the owner of the Titanic, J. Bruce Ismay, the man who jumped ship 'Beautifully... -
How to Survive the Titanic or The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay by Frances Wilson 9781408828151 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $2.26**WINNER OF THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY 2012** The strange and fascinating story of the owner of the Titanic, J. Bruce Ismay, the man who jumped ship 'Beautifully... -
Short Notices of Seven Years' Work in a Country Parish by Robert Francis Wilson 9780371623718
RRP: $28.41Booksplease Price: $27.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371623718Author Robert Francis WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 232 -
Poverty Reduction: What Role for the State in Today's Globalized Economy by Francis Wilson 9781856499538
Booksplease Price: $53.18Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Madame de Mauves & Other Tales by Henry James 9781529431124
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $19.95'This selection forms a biography of sorts. Submerged beneath the surface of his melodramas are the unspoken fears that Henry hoped, by living in Europe, to leave behind' Frances Wilson, from her... -
Unruly Times: Wordsworth and Coleridge in Their Time by A. S. Byatt
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.49Unruly Times is a superlative portrait of the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge, and a fascinating exploration of the Romantic Movement and the dramatic events that shaped it. With a... -
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $16.74A BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEARWINNER OF THE 2020 CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONA SUNDAY TIMES, ECONOMIST... -
Too Small To Fail by Morris Gleitzman 9780241955208
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $17.291 boy. 1 girl. 1 camel.Squillions of dollars.A plan that can't fail. Or can it?Oliver's parents own a bank. This makes them very rich, very important and very busy. Oliver, on the other hand, is... -
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $12.67Jon Scieszka introduces some really stupid off-the-wall fairy tales including: 'Chicken Licken', 'The Princess and the Bowling Ball'; 'The Really Ugly Duckling', and 'Jack's Bean Problem'.Chosen by... -
Knock Knock Who's There? Sally Grindley 9780141331607
RRP: $13.28Booksplease Price: $10.24A gorilla, a witch, a ghost, then a fierce scaly dragon hungry for his tea. Who will be next? Each time there's a knock at the door, there's a different monster, but each time they're wearing the... -
Jeremiah in the Dark Woods by Janet Ahlberg 9780141304960 [USED COPY]
RRP: $15.18Booksplease Price: $3.78Once upon a time there were three bears, seven dwarfs, five gorillas, a frog prince, some sleeping beauties, a wolf, a dinosaur, a mad hatter, a steamboat, four firemen on a fire engine, a... -
The Beast in the Jungle & Other Tales by Henry James 9781529431162
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $19.95'James's tales can be traps and ruses; they can also be complex self-descriptions in which his own fears and desires have full reign'Frances Wilson, from her Preface to The Beast in the Jungle &... -
Jeremiah in the Dark Woods by Janet Ahlberg
RRP: $15.18Booksplease Price: $12.31Once upon a time there were three bears, seven dwarfs, five gorillas, a frog prince, some sleeping beauties, a wolf, a dinosaur, a mad hatter, a steamboat, four firemen on a fire engine, a... -
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka 9780140548969 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $4.16Jon Scieszka introduces some really stupid off-the-wall fairy tales including: 'Chicken Licken', 'The Princess and the Bowling Ball'; 'The Really Ugly Duckling', and 'Jack's Bean Problem'.Chosen by... -
Princess Smartypants Breaks the Rules! by Babette Cole
RRP: $13.28Booksplease Price: $10.24When the Queen packs off Princess Smartypants to finishing school, it seems that our favourite royal might become a perfect princess after all . . . huh, no chance! Instead, Princess Smartypants... -
The Frog Prince Continued by Jon Scieszka
RRP: $9.48Booksplease Price: $8.57After the Princess kissed the frog, he turned into a handsome prince and they lived happily ever after... or "did they?" The Princess can't stand the Prince's froggy habits - the way he hops around... -
Fairy Tales by Terry Jones
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $12.67Three raindrops have an argument on their way out of a cloud ... A silly King goes for a walk with a dog tied to each leg ... An enterprising herring, bored of the North Sea, decides to swim right... -
Home at Grasmere: Extracts from the Journal of Dorothy Wordsworth and from the Poems of William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.58A continuous text made up of extracts from Dorothy Wordsworth's Journal and a selection of her brother's poems. Dorothy Wordsworth kept her Journal 'because I shall give William pleasure by it'. In... -
Prince Cinders by Babette Cole
RRP: $15.18Booksplease Price: $11.44Prince Cinders leads a very hard life. Bullied by his three hairy brothers about his less-than-perfect looks, he spends all his time cleaning and tidying up after them. One Saturday night Prince... -
The Middle Years & Other Tales by Henry James 9781529431148
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $19.95'Both the fictional and autobiographical versions of 'The Middle Years' are concerned with authors, acolytes, and endings rather than the middle of things. Or rather they are about, as are all the... -
The Selfish Giant by Michael Foreman
RRP: $15.18Booksplease Price: $11.44When the Selfish Giant builds a high wall round his lovely garden to keep the children out, the North Wind blows, the Frost comes and the Snow dances through the trees. The Giant wonders why Spring... -
Pirate School: Where's That Dog? by Jeremy Strong 9780141317601 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.38Booksplease Price: $4.90The third very funny story about the children at pirate school. The children hide a stray dog on board, while Patagonia Clatterbottom, the head teacher, is plagued by school inspectors, who are not... -
Centrally Heated Knickers by Michael Rosen 9780141306711 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.28Booksplease Price: $5.00Hail! Hail!I come from anothergalaxy.Discover the wierd and wonderful world of martians, woolly saucepans and centrally heated knickers in 100 poems about science and technology from the delightfully... -
Crazy Jane Feaver 9781472155771
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.23'One of the best novels I've read in years: obsessive, intimate and very funny' Blake Morrison, Author of Two Sisters'Stunning . . . it almost feels transgressive' Anthony Cummins, Daily Mail'One of... -
Bad Blood (4th Estate Matchbook Classics) by Lorna Sage 9781841150437 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $3.7420th Anniversary Edition with an introduction by Frances Wilson From a childhood of gothic proportions, through teenage pregnancy in the 1960s, Lorna Sage vividly and wittily... -
Bad Blood: A Memoir Lorna Sage 9781841150437
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.7320th Anniversary Edition with an introduction by Frances Wilson From a childhood of gothic proportions, through teenage pregnancy in the 1960s, Lorna Sage vividly and wittily... -
Fish Tale by Matthew Yorke
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $13.93When a painting of a beautiful woman disappears from a wall at Balmoral Castle, the consequences are far-reaching: a tragic death, a search for truth and motive, a fraught reconciliation between... -
Invasion of the Polyhedrons by Will Eaves 9781739421243
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $16.51'The morning is all angles and degrees / like the coots practising lift-off ...' The world is multi-faceted and these are not one-track poems: dread, dismay and outright hilarity are all woven... -
Wish You Were Here: England on Sea by Travis Elborough
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $17.59In this gloriously original social history, Travis Elborough argues that our national character - our snobbishness and willingness to laugh at ourselves, our attitudes to sex and fair play and our... -
The Imperial Tea Party: Family, politics and betrayal – the ill-fated British and Russian royal alliance by Frances Welch
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.59Russia and Britain were never natural bedfellows. But the marriage, in 1894, of Queen Victoria's favourite granddaughter, Alicky, to the Tsarevich Nicholas marked the beginning of an uneasy... -
Big Pig, Little Pig: A Year on a Smallholding in South-West France by Jacqueline Yallop 9780241977156
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.58'A love story, a meditation on meat eating, on farming animals, on the relations between man and beast. Yallop writes with great tenderness' Daily TelegraphOn her fortieth birthday Jacqueline Yallop... -
Wish You Were Here: England on Sea by Travis Elborough 9780340935118 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $4.07In this gloriously original social history, Travis Elborough argues that our national character - our snobbishness and willingness to laugh at ourselves, our attitudes to sex and fair play and our... -
Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars by Francesca Wade
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54A SUNDAY TIMES LITERARY NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARA GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (AS CHOSEN BY AUTHORS)**LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE****SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE... -
Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas by Donna M. Lucey 9780393356168
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $26.45With unprecedented access to newly discovered sources, Donna M. Lucey illuminates the lives of four women painted by the society portraitist John Singer Sargent. With uncanny clairvoyance, Sargent's...