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John Betjeman on Trains by John Betjeman
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.62John Betjeman (1906-1984) was not only one of the best-loved Englishmen of the twentieth century, he was also the people's favourite poet and champion of many causes linked to the preservation of... -
John Betjeman by Sir John Betjeman 9780571247028
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Sir John Betjeman (1906-84) was born in Highgate, the son of a manufacturer of Dutch descent. His poetry enjoyed immense popularity, as did his personality, and his knighthood in 1969 and appointment... -
John Betjeman Collected Poems John Betjeman 9780719568503
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38Collected Poems made publishing history when it first appeared, and has now sold more than two million copies, to an ever-growing readership. This newly expanded edition includes Betjeman's verse... -
Harvest Bells: New and Uncollected Poems by John Betjeman by John Betjeman
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.11A charming new collection of previously unpublished and uncollected poems by Sir John Betjeman. John Betjeman's unforgettable poems on landscape and suburbia, desire and death, faith and doubt,... -
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John Betjeman on Trains by John Betjeman 9780413776129 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.87John Betjeman (1906-1984) was not only one of the best-loved Englishmen of the twentieth century, he was also the people's favourite poet and champion of many causes linked to the preservation of... -
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John Betjeman Collected Poems by John Betjeman 9780719568503 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.40'It would be difficult - in my opinion impossible - to point to a contemporary poet of greater originality or more genuine depth of feeling' Anthony PowellTHE DEFINITIVE JOHN BETJEMAN COLLECTION,... -
Betjeman's England by John Betjeman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26For more than half a century, Betjeman's writings have awakened readers to the intimacy of English places - from the smell of gaslight in suburban churches, to the hissing of backwash on a shingle... -
John Betjeman: The Biography by Bevis Hillier
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50This biography takes the reader from Betjeman's troubled childhood in north London, through his blossoming at Oxford; a gay fling with W. H. Auden; a clandestine marriage to a field marshal's... -
A Nip in the Air by John Betjeman 9780393044232
RRP: £13.50Booksplease Price: £10.81Much of the originality of John Betjeman as a poet, apart from the unique assonance of his haunting verse forms, comes from the sharp and affectionate gusto with which he introduces his readers to... -
The Best of Betjeman John Betjeman 9780719568329
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26John Betjeman, appointed Poet Laureate in 1972, is celebrated as the best loved poet of the twentieth century. His subtle blend of wit and melancholia, affection and criticism continues to attract an... -
Tennis Whites and Teacakes by John Betjeman 9780719569043
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Trains and Buttered Toast John Betjeman 9780719561276
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74Eccentric, sentimental and homespun, John Betjeman's passions were mostly self-taught. He saw his country being devastated by war and progress and he waged a private war to save it. His only weapons... -
John Betjeman and Cornwall by Philip Payton 9780859898478
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £62.27"I was one of the 8,000-strong 'Betjemaniacs' gathered at Carruan farm in Cornwall in August 2006 to celebrate the hundredth birthday of Sir John Betjeman, the late Poet Laureate. Situated high above... -
John Betjeman and Cornwall by Philip Payton 9780859898485
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.23"I was one of the 8,000-strong `Betjemaniacs' gathered at Carruan farm in Cornwall in August 2006 to celebrate the hundredth birthday of Sir John Betjeman, the late Poet Laureate. Situated high... -
John Betjeman: Reading the Victorians by Greg Morse
Booksplease Price: £33.37John Betjeman was undoubtedly the most popular Poet Laureate since Tennyson. But beneath the thoroughly modern window on Britain that he opened during his lifetime lay the influence of his... -
Collected Poems by Sir John Betjeman 9780374126537
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £24.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374126537Author Sir John BetjemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 498Imprint Farrar, Strauss &... -
John Betjeman: Reading the Victorians by Greg Morse 9781845192716
Booksplease Price: £114.18John Betjeman was undoubtedly the most popular Poet Laureate since Tennyson. But beneath the thoroughly modern window on Britain that he opened during his lifetime lay the influence of his... -
John Betjeman: A Bibliography by William S. Peterson 9780198184034
Booksplease Price: £98.57Sir John Betjeman (1906-1984), Poet Laureate, was probably the most widely-read English poet of the twentieth century. Because of his frequent appearances on radio and television and his fervent... -
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In Praise of Churches by John Betjeman 9780719555626 [USED COPY]
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £2.57This work brings together John Betjeman's poems and prose and Paul Hogarth's paintings about the Church. Together, they demonstrate Betjeman's intimate knowledge of and love for the Church, both High... -
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English Love Poems by John Betjeman 9780571070657 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorPoet and architectural critic, Sir John Betjeman was born in North London in 1906. He was taught by T S... -
A Passion For Places: England Through the Eyes of John Betjeman by David Meara
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Sir John Betjeman was born at the start of the twentieth century, and lived to become Poet Laureate, an accomplished writer and campaigner, and something of a national treasure. All his life he loved... -
John Betjeman and Modernism. An Analysis by Ahmed M Hashim 9783668317147
RRP: £25.50Booksplease Price: £20.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783668317147Author Ahmed M HashimFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Grin VerlagPublisher Grin... -
Poems in the Porch: The Radio Poems of John Betjeman by Kevin J. Gardner 9781441142184
Booksplease Price: £15.12The book represent a genuine and important discovery in the canon of Betjeman's poems, often considered closed with the publication of the "Complete Poems". Between 1953-57, John Betjeman read a... -
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Trains and Buttered Toast: Selected Radio Talks by John Betjeman 9780719561269 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.66Eccentric, sentimental and homespun, John Betjeman's passions were mostly self-taught. He saw his country being devastated by war and progress and he waged a private war to save it. His only weapons... -
The Great Modern Poets: An anthology of the essential poets and poetry since 1900 by Michael Schmidt 9781529434156
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.46An essential introduction to the most significant poems and their works since 1900Reproduced within this collection are some of the greatest poems of the 20th century, featuring works from major... -
Faith and Doubt of John Betjeman: An Anthology of Betjeman's Religious Verse by Kevin J. Gardner 9780826482723
Booksplease Price: £25.41Sir John Betjeman was one of the twentieth century's great makers of the Christian imagination. He was maybe the most significant literary figure of our time to declare his Christian faith and his... -
The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin by Philip Larkin
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.91This entirely new edition brings together all of Philip Larkin's poems. In addition to those in Collected Poems (1988), and in the Early Poems and Juvenilia (2005), some unpublished pieces from... -
The Skipper's War: Dragon School, Oxford & The Great War by Desmond Devitt
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.59Charles 'Skipper' Lynam, the celebrated preparatory school headmaster at the Dragon School, Oxford, during the First World War, inspired a generation of his pupils as they found themselves caught up... -
Devon and Cornwall's Oddest Historical Tales by John Fisher
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31The West Country's colourful past encompasses a pageant of historical figures and peculiar stories - from Lawrence of Arabia's flamboyant motorbike forays across Dartmoor and the terrifying account... -
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Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor by Patrick Leigh Fermor 9781473622463 [USED COPY]
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £2.73A revelatory collection of letters written by the author of The Broken Road.Handsome, spirited and erudite, Patrick Leigh Fermor was a war hero and one of the greatest travel writers of his... -
Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers: A Weather Poem for Every Day of the Year: Volume 8 Jane McMorland Hunter 9781837330416
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.07Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers: A Weather Poem for Every Day of the Year is an anthology of classic and contemporary poems, all about the weather.This latest anthology from Jane McMorland Hunter... -
Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor by Patrick Leigh Fermor
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88A revelatory collection of letters written by the author of The Broken Road.Handsome, spirited and erudite, Patrick Leigh Fermor was a war hero and one of the greatest travel writers of his... -
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The Nation's Favourite: Twentieth Century Poems by Griff Rhys-Jones 9780563551430 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.25This lovely book of poetry brings together over 100 of the most celebrated and cherished poems of the 20th century. Including poets as diverse as John Betjeman and Ted Hughes, Siegfried Sassoon and... -
A Life on the Lines: The Grand Old Man of Steam by R. H. N. Hardy
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.11During much of his early career, from 1944 through to the early 1960s, Richard Hardy took hundreds of pictures of life on the railways and the men he knew and worked with on a daily basis, using his... -
Joan: Beauty, Rebel, Muse: The Remarkable Life of Joan Leigh Fermor by Simon Fenwick
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53Volumes have been written by and about Patrick Leigh Fermor, but his wife Joan is almost entirely absent from their pages. Now Simon Fenwick, the first archivist to see the Leigh Fermor papers,... -
London's Railway Stations by Oliver Green
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.89An illustrated historical tour of London's 13 great railway termini, on a clockwise circuit from Paddington to Victoria. London's railway termini are among the most recognisable and familiar... -
The Other Mitford: Pamela's Story by Diana Alexander
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31Pamela Jackson, nee Mitford, is perhaps the least well known of the illustrious Mitford sisters, and yet her story is just as captivating, and more revealing. Despite shunning the bright city lights... -
Dear Mr Murray: Letters to a Gentleman Publisher David McClay 9781473662704
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78The publishing house of John Murray was founded in Fleet Street in 1768 and remained a family business over seven generations. Intended both to entertain and inspire, Dear Mr Murray is a collection... -
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Adventures on the High Teas: In Search of Middle England by Stuart Maconie 9780091926519 [USED COPY]
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £2.19Everyone talks about 'Middle England'. Sometimes they mean something bad, like a lynch mob of Daily Mail readers, and sometimes they mean something good, like a pint of ale in a sleepy Cotswold... -
A Corpus of Formal British English Speech: The Lancaster/IBM Spoken English Corpus by Gerald Knowles 9780582056398
RRP: £62.99Booksplease Price: £61.65This work provides 50,000 words of prosodically-transcribed text from a variety of sources. The introduction explains fully the transcription conventions, the structure of the corpus and its...