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Mr Majeika by Humphrey Carpenter
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.27Mr Majeika is the most magical teacher around!As a rule, magic carpets don't turn up in schools, but this is exactly what happens when Class Three's new teacher flies in through the classroom window... -
Mr Majeika on the Internet by Humphrey Carpenter
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.64Class Three has got a new computer and while exploring it, Mr Majeika manages to get the whole class trapped in the school website. Many adventures follow and Class Three meet bizarre characters... -
Mr Majeika Vanishes by Humphrey Carpenter
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.73Class 3 are sure that something is very wrong when Mr Majeika leaves school without saying goodbye. When they find a message from him saying he's been arrested by the Silly Crime Squad, they are... -
Mr Majeika and the School Play by Humphrey Carpenter
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.84'I really am quite useless as a wizard.'But Class Three thinks Mr Majeika is an excellent wizard, particularly when his spells go wrong! First Hamish Bigmore ends up on TV, then a real giant appears... -
Mr Majeika and the Haunted Hotel by Humphrey Carpenter
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.13Mr Majeika is the most magical wizard-turned-teacher around!Oh, don't be cowards,' said Jody. 'I'm sure it's perfectly safe.'Mysteriously stranded in the fog at night. Mr Majeika and Class Three find... -
Mr Majeika and the School Inspector by Humphrey Carpenter
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.13'Use of magic by teacher strictly forbidden.'Poor Mr Majeika goes to the bottom of the class when the school inspector comes to call. Things don't get any easier when Mr Majeika turns himself into a... -
Mr Majeika and the Ghost Train by Humphrey Carpenter
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.73Mr Majeika is the most magical teacher around!'Do be careful, Mr Majeika, there might be real ghosts in there.'When Class Three and Mr Majeika get on board a ghost train, they are in for a surprise... -
Mr Majeika Joins the Circus by Humphrey Carpenter
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.13When Class Three and Mr Majeika go to the circus, it's definitely not as fun as they imagined. Everyone's a bit old, creaky and rubbish really! So when Mr Majeika casts a small spell to help the... -
J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter 9780618057023
Booksplease Price: £13.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618057023Author Humphrey CarpenterFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Houghton Mifflin... -
Mr Majeika and the Music Teacher by Humphrey Carpenter
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.13'Music teacher? What music teacher?'The sudden arrival of a new music teacher throws St barty's School into confusion. Mysterious smells start coming from the staffroom and creepy-crawlies appear out... -
Mr Majeika and the School Trip by Humphrey Carpenter
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.68More amazing adventures with Mr Majeika, the ex-wizard, turned teacher, and his class at St Barty's School. This time there's a trip down a magic river, a battle to save St Barty's from the wrecking... -
Mr Majeika and the School Caretaker by Humphrey Carpenter
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.13When old Mr Jenks retires, St Barty's School advertises for a new caretaker. Unfortunately there's only one applicant - Hamish Bigmore's Uncle Wilf who is just as rude and bad-tempered as Hamish... -
Mr Majeika and the Dinner Lady by Humphrey Carpenter
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.13Mr Majeika is the most magical teacher around!Sometimes, ' whispered Jody. 'I think school dinners would be alright if it wasn't for her.'Mrs Chipchase, the nasty dinner lady, makes lunch hour at St... -
A Great, Silly Grin by Humphrey Carpenter 9780306812057
Booksplease Price: £21.62A Great, Silly Grin opens at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival, where a staggeringly inspired satirical revue called Beyond the Fringe startled a public steeped in the polite, bland banality of the 1950s... -
Oxford Companion to Children's Literature by Humphrey Carpenter 9780198602286
Booksplease Price: £42.31The indispensable reference book for anyone concerned with children's books. Over 900 biographical entries deal with authors, illustrators, printers, publishers, educationalists, and others who have... -
J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.15The original authorised biography, and the only one written by an author who actually met J.R.R. Tolkien, reissued to mark Tolkien's 125th Anniversary. In more than 40 years since... -
Mr Majeika and the School Book Week by Humphrey Carpenter
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.13'Oh dear,' said Mr Majeika, 'I seem to have made the spell too strong.'Class Three has fun during Book Week, when famous storybook characters suddenly appear! But there's trouble ahead with Wilhemina... -
Mr Majeika and the Lost Spell Book by Humphrey Carpenter
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.13A super magical story featuring Mr Majeika, the popular wizard turned teacher!Fun and magic combine as usual in this new Mr Majeika story. The pupils in Class 3 at St Barty's School are not impressed... -
Mr Majeika by Humphrey Carpenter 9780140316773 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £1.88Mr Majeika is the most magical teacher around!As a rule, magic carpets don't turn up in schools, but this is exactly what happens when Class Three's new teacher flies in through the classroom window... -
J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography Humphrey Carpenter 9780008805296
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £60.14The only authorised biography, and the only one written by an author who actually met J.R.R. Tolkien, now reissued as a deluxe edition housed in a matching custom-built slipcase and... -
The Seven Lives of John Murray: The Story of a Publishing Dynasty Humphrey Carpenter 9780719565335
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26From the burning of Byron's memoirs, Jane Austen's clipped businesslike manner, and the lucrative controversy caused by the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species, through to the discovery of the... -
The Inklings: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien and Their Friends by Humphrey Carpenter
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88Critically acclaimed, award-winning biography of CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien and the brilliant group of writers to come out of Oxford during the Second World War. C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and... -
Mr Majeika and Mr Majeika and the Lost Spell Book bind-up by Humphrey Carpenter
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.84Two books in one for those avid readers where one Mr Majeika adventure is just not enough! Mr Majeika: Mr Majeika can behave just like any ordinary teacher if he wants to, but something has to be... -
Jamie and Angus Anne Fine 9781406391824
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.74Warm, timeless and humorous illustrated stories about a boy and his soft toy companion by the former Children's Laureate, with new illustrations by celebrated artist Sam Usher.When Jamie sets eyes on... -
Jamie and Angus Forever by Anne Fine
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.83A delightful collection of stories about Jamie and his toy highland bull from the former Children's Laureate, charmingly illustrated by celebrated artist Sam Usher.As best friends should, Jamie and... -
Jamie and Angus Together Anne Fine 9781406392944
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.16A delightful collection of stories about friendship from the award-winning former Children's Laureate Anne Fine.Once best friends, always best friends. Nothing can come between Jamie and Angus - a... -
Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups by Ben Holden 9781471153754
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.22There are few more precious routines than that of the bedtime story. So why do we discard this invaluable ritual as grown-ups to the detriment of our well-being and good health? In this... -
Tolkien by Raymond Edwards
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.51J.R.R. Tolkien arguably changed the sort of things we read and write more profoundly than any other twentieth-century writer. When The Lord of the Rings was published, Tolkien was in his early... -
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded edtion J. R. R. Tolkien 9780008628802
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.15The comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life of one of the world's greatest storytellers, now revised and expanded to include more than 150 previously unseen letters,... -
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded edition by J. R. R. Tolkien 9780008628765
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £17.73The comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life of one of the world's greatest storytellers, now revised and expanded to include more than 150 previously unseen letters,... -
Writing the Radio War: Literature, Politics and the BBC, 1939-1945 by Ian Whittington 9781474413596
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £90.60Wartime British writers took to the airwaves to reshape the nation and the Empire'Writing the Radio War' positions the Second World War as a critical moment in the history of cultural mediation in... -
e: A Novel by Matt Beaumont
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88An unforgettable first novel, an author to shout about, a campaign to ensure that everyone knows this is the funniest, sharpest read of the year. Consisting entirely of staff emails, e... -
Spike: An Intimate Memoir by Norma Farnes 9781841157870
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.99The complete memoirs of a man of many talents and faces - the late, great Spike Milligan - affectionately recounted by his close friend and agent for 35 years, Norma Farnes. 'What's he... -
Mr Bliss J. R. R. Tolkien 9780008705312
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25Mr Bliss, a man notable for his immensely tall hats and for the girabbit in his garden, takes the whimsical decision to buy a motor car. But his first drive to visit friends quickly becomes a... -
Bosie: The Tragic Life of Lord Alfred Douglas by Douglas Murray
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26WITH A NEW FOREWORD AND REVISED INTRODUCTION'A superb biography ... full of compassion, perception' Roger Lewis, The Times 'I love this book. Douglas Murray is a genius' Rupert EverettLord Alfred... -
J. R. R. Tolkien, Scholar and Storyteller: Essays in Memoriam by Mary Salu 9780801478871
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24A moving and thoughtful tribute, this book, originally published in 1979, offers fourteen essays dedicated to the memory of J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973). The contributors, a distinguished group of... -
Staying Alive by Matt Beaumont 9780007167036
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.78From the bestelling author of 'e' comes a hilarious and moving novel of a very normal life becoming extraordinary Murray's living life to the full - and it might just kill him. He's... -
The Great Tower of Elfland: The Mythopoeic Worldview of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, and George MacDonald by Zachary A. Rhone 9781606353295
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £30.20Beginning in the mid-1950s, scholars proposed that the Inklings were a uni ed group centered on fantasy, imagination, and Christianity. Scholars and a few Inklings themselves supported the premise... -
The Duke Ellington Reader by Mark Tucker 9780195093919
RRP: £30.49Booksplease Price: £21.01Duke Ellington is universally recognized as one of the towering figures of 20th-century music, both a brilliant composer and one of the preeminent musicians in jazz history. In The Duke Ellington... -
Martin Amis: The Biography by Richard Bradford 9781780332291
Booksplease Price: £23.66Martin Amis's life could itself provide the formula for an enthralling work of fiction. Son of one of the most popular and best-loved novelists of the post-War era, he has forged a groundbreaking...