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The Purple Plain by H. E. Bates
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Full of mounting suspense and masterly characterisation, Bates's popular wartime novel tells the story of three very different men who, after their aircraft crashes, are forced to trek across the... -
The Sleepless Moon by H. E. Bates 9780413776525
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.62"The Sleepless Moon" opens with the marriage of Constance and Melford Turner, with Constance's dreamlike walk across the square of Orlingford: when the warm summer wind ripples her white silk dress... -
The Jacaranda Tree by H. E. Bates 9780413775993
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.62This is a reissue of Bates's acclaimed novel of Burma. During World War II, a small English community are forced to flee when Japanese forces invade Burma. Paterson, the manager of a rice-mill,... -
Through the Woods by H. E. Bates 9781908213020
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £10.48H E Bates carried a woodland in his imagination. He fell under its spell as a boy growing up in the Midlands, becoming increasingly enchanted each time he stepped below the wooded canopy. Memory... -
The Feast of July by H. E. Bates 9780413775986
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.62This is a reissue of a Bates classic. Betrayed by her lover, Bella Ford sets out on a journey to find him and exact her revenge. Instead, however, her arduous search brings her to the home of the... -
Oh! to be in England: Book 4 by H. E. Bates
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Join the Larkins for another adventure in the much-loved series, inspiration for the new ITV drama starring Bradley Walsh'Christening? We never said nothing about no christening, Ma, did we?'And so... -
A Breath of French Air: Book 2 by H. E. Bates
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Take a perfick trip to France in the second book of this much-loved series, inspiration for the ITV drama THE LARKINS starring Bradley Walsh'I should like to go to France,' said Ma.'God Almighty,'... -
Fair Stood the Wind for France by H. E. Bates 9780141188164
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95When John Franklin brings his plane down into Occupied France at the height of the Second World war, there are two things in his mind - the safety of his crew and his own badly injured arm. It is a... -
The Darling Buds of May: Book 1 by H. E. Bates
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'Home looks nice. Allus does though, don't it? Perfick'And so the Larkins - Pop, Ma, Mariette, Zinnia, Petunia, Primrose, Victoria and Montgomery - return from an outing for fish and chips and ice... -
A Little of What You Fancy: Book 5 by H. E. Bates
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'Teetotal!' Ma said. 'It's a libel. He'll never live it down. He'll never be able to hold his head up again. Whatever will people think? What's he going to say when anybody asks him to have... -
When the Green Woods Laugh: Book 3 by H. E. Bates
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Take a trip to Larkin country in the much-loved series, inspiration for the ITV drama THE LARKINS starring Bradley Walsh'There!' Pop said. 'There's the house. There's Gore Court for you. What about... -
Elephant's Nest In A Rhubarb Tree & Other Stories by H. E. Bates 9780811210881
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.31Readers who have discovered the delights of the British master storyteller H.E. Bates in A Month by the Lake and A Party for the Girls (published by New Directions in 1987 and 1988) will welcome this... -
A Study Guide for H. E. Bates's Daffodil Sky by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375378499
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.67Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
How Sleep The Brave: Complete Stories of Flying Officer 'X' by H. E. Bates 9780099442035
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Heroic and moving accounts of the R.A.F. in war time by the author of Fair Stood the Wind for France and The Darling Buds of May'After 60 years of writing and reading, I would place H.E. Bates as one... -
The Wood for the Trees: The Long View of Nature from a Small Wood by Richard A. Fortey 9780008104696
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58From one of our greatest science writers, this biography of a beech-and-bluebell wood through diverse moods and changing seasons combines stunning natural history with the ancient... -
The Uncommon Reader: A Life of Edward Garnett by Helen Smith 9780224081818
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.74THE SUNDAY TIMES LITERATURE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017Over a career spanning nearly fifty years Edward Garnett - editor, critic and publisher's reader - would become one of the most influential men in... -
What Happened to the Corbetts by Nevil Shute Norway
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Nevil Shute wrote this prophetic novel just before the start of the Second World War. In it he describes the devastation that results from an aerial bomb attack on Southampton that destroys the... -
Pied Piper by Nevil Shute Norway
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.24Nevil Shute's classic Second World War novel is an uplifting, satisfying and moving story.John Howard is determined to brighten up his old age by taking a fishing trip to France. However, during his... -
Letters 1945-59 by William S. Burroughs 9780141189888
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54Beginning as surprisingly formal notes from the road to his friends Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, the letters gradually deepen in substance and style. Burroughs's letters show the development of... -
The Gobbler by Adrian Edmondson 9780749322335 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £2.99Julian Mann, the hard drinking, preening, and sexually provocative star of the TV sitcome Richard the Nerd, feels caught on the horns of a dilemma: should he be concentrating on his career, which is... -
Ishq And Mushq by Priya Basil 9780552773843
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16'Take off your clothes I want to see you' Karam said.Just a few words, spoken like a caress made Sarna start wondering. Where did he learn such new and passionate techniques?When Sarna Singh leaves... -
Spring: An Anthology for the Changing Seasons by Melissa Harrison
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.10It is a time of awakening. In our -fields, hedgerows and woodlands, our beaches, cities and parks, an almost imperceptible shift soon becomes a riot of sound and colour: winter ends, and life surges... -
Citizen Lord: Edward Fitzgerald 1763-1798 by Stella Tillyard 9780701165383 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.53The sequel to "Aristocrats", this tells the story of the headstrong and passionate 18th century Irish revolutionary, Lord Edward Fitzgerald. Son of a duke, heir to estates and influence, Lord Edward... -
Sleep Toward Heaven: How do you forgive when you can't forget? by Amanda Eyre Ward
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47In Gatestown, Texas, twenty-nine-year-old Karen awaits her execution on Death Row. In New York, Franny, a doctor the same age, plans her wedding and tries to resist the urge to run. In Austin, Celia,... -
Malediction by Sally Spedding 9781907230417 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £4.84Colette Bataille, a single mother, falls desperately in love with the charismatic and handsome Father Jean Baptiste who grips her into a mystical hold. But she soon finds he is no ordinary Catholic... -
Kent's Literary Heritage by Margaret Woodhams 9781398110618
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68The landscape, buildings and people of Kent have provided inspiration for writers for centuries. Whether the writers were natives of the county itself or came as visitors, its coastline, orchards,... -
The Oxford Book of English Short Stories by A. S. Byatt 9780199561605
RRP: £12.49Booksplease Price: £9.78The Oxford Book of English Short Stories , edited by A. S. Byatt, herself the author of several collections of short stories, is the first anthology to specifically take the English short story as... -
Most Secret by Nevil Shute Norway
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49In their trusty fishing boat Genevieve, armed with a flame thrower and limited ammunition, a small group of officers and men take a stand against the might of the German army after the fall of France... -
Back to the Local by Maurice Gorham 9780571386987
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £6.04One of the Financial Times' 'Best Summer Books of 2024''Probably the most delightful and evocative book ever produced on the English pub.' Slightly Foxed'Wonderful . . . a detailed study of life in... -
The Redeemed by Tim Pears
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.84SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 2020 A love divided. A world torn in two. A return. A redemption. A stirring, exquisitely rendered tale of homecoming; the final instalment in Tim... -
The Faithful by Juliet West 9781447259091
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'A wonderful writer' - Jessie Burton, author of The MiniaturistAs Britain is pulled towards war, the secrets within two families threaten to tear them apart, in the outstanding novel from Juliet... -
The Faithful by Juliet West
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16As Britain is pulled towards war, the secrets within two families threaten to tear them apart, in the outstanding novel from Juliet West, The Faithful . . .July 1935. In the village of Aldwick on the...