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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68_______________ WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK _______________ 'A remarkable achievement' - Sunday Times 'A... -
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale 9781839042409
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28Summer 1860, an elegant country house, a young boy is found dead in an outside privy. All clues point towards the murderer being a member of the grieving household. Called to the scene is the most... -
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale 9780747596486 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $2.16_______________ WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK _______________ 'A remarkable achievement' - Sunday Times 'A... -
Murder at Wrotham Hill by Diana Souhami 9780857382856
Booksplease Price: $27.74Murder at Wrotham Hill takes the killing in October 1946 of Dagmar Petrzywalski as the catalyst for a compelling and unique meditation on murder and fate. Dagmar, a gentle, eccentric spinster, was... -
Mrs Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady Kate Summerscale 9781408831243
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.64When the married Isabella Robinson was introduced to the dashing Edward Lane at a party in 1850, she was utterly enchanted. He was 'fascinating', she told her diary, before chastising herself for... -
The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions by Kate Summerscale 9781800813359
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.48THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ALL BIBLIOMANES A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, SPECTATOR AND DAILY MAIL AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 WOMAN'S HOUR AND START THE WEEK Plunge into this... -
The Wicked Boy: Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2017 Kate Summerscale 9781408851166
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2017 The gripping, fascinating account of a shocking murder case that sent late Victorian Britain into a frenzy, by the number one bestselling,... -
The Queen of Whale Cay: The Extraordinary Story of 'Joe' Carstairs, the Fastest Woman on Water by Kate Summerscale
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11_______________ 'A biography that sparkles with enthusiastic research and empathetic writing' - Sunday Times 'A small jewel of a biography' - The New Yorker 'A fascinating, hilarious and... -
The Haunting of Alma Fielding: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020 by Kate Summerscale 9781408895474 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.11FROM BRITAIN'S TOP-SELLING TRUE CRIME WRITER'A wonderful book' HILARY MANTEL'Gothic, dark and scandalous' SUNDAY TIMESSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER... -
The Maul and the Pear Tree: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders 1811 by P. D. James
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37In 1811 John Williams was buried with a stake in his heart. Was he the notorious East End killer or his eighth victim in the bizarre and shocking Ratcliffe Highway Murders? In this vivid and gripping... -
Mad Tom's Rising: The Revolutionary Mystic and the Last Battle Fought on English Soil Ian Breckon 9781837732289
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.54A story of faith, fanaticism, and the uncanny power of the imagination.The dawn of the Victorian era: the world is changing rapidly. Poverty and the workhouse cast long shadows across rural England,... -
The Premonitions Bureau: A Sunday Times bestseller by Sam Knight
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.05'Fascinating.' Hilary Mantel'Terrific.' New Scientist'Gripping.' Financial Times'Stunning . . . Brimming with mystery and suffesed with haunting atmosphere.' Patrick Radden Keefe What if you had a... -
Au Revoir Now Darlint: The Letters of Edith Thompson by Laura Thompson
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $16.40As seen on Woman's Hour, BBC Newsnight and in the Daily TelegraphA hundred years ago, on the night of 3 October 1922, a thirty-two-year-old clerk named Percy Thompson was stabbed to death as he... -
The Murderer of Warren Street: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Revolutionary by Marc Mulholland 9781786090263 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $4.77A DAILY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEARREVOLUTIONARY. CONSPIRATOR. JAIL-BREAKER. FUGITIVE. DUELLIST. RADICAL. AND KILLER.ON 8 December 1854, Emmanuel Barthelemy visited 73 Warren Street in the heart of... -
The Mystery of the Parsee Lawyer: Arthur Conan Doyle, George Edalji and the Case of the Foreigner in the English Village by Shrabani Basu
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.54'Basu's account of how Arthur Conan Doyle set about trying to get a pardon for Edalji is in itself a fine piece of detective work.' The Times 'Compulsive reading.' A.N. Wilson 'Nails the nastiness... -
The Murderer of Warren Street: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Revolutionary by Marc Mulholland 9781786090263
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63A DAILY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEARREVOLUTIONARY. CONSPIRATOR. JAIL-BREAKER. FUGITIVE. DUELLIST. RADICAL. AND KILLER.ON 8 December 1854, Emmanuel Barthelemy visited 73 Warren Street in the heart of... -
Stolen Innocence: A Mother's Fight for Justice by John Batt 9780091905699
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63To lose one child is terrible; to lose two is unimaginable. For no one to believe that you are innocent of their deaths and to be imprisoned because of it must be unbearable.Yet this is the reality... -
Stolen Innocence: A Mother's Fight for Justice by John Batt 9780091905699 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $3.39To lose one child is terrible; to lose two is unimaginable. For no one to believe that you are innocent of their deaths and to be imprisoned because of it must be unbearable.Yet this is the reality... -
Midnight in Peking: The Murder That Haunted the Last Days of Old China by Paul French
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.51Midnight in Peking is a gripping true murder mystery by Paul FrenchTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4'A first-rate murder story, a thrilling narrative. Hurtles along from one... -
All That is Wicked: The 'Victorian Hannibal Lecter' and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind Kate Winkler Dawson 9781785789656
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Rulloff was a brilliant yet utterly amoral murderer - some have called him a 'Victorian-era Hannibal Lecter' - whose crimes spanned decades, but by 1871 he was captured, chained in a cell - a... -
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 9780241986608
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.94'Come at once if convenient - if inconvenient come all the same . . .'The note from Sherlock Holmes to Dr Watson cannot be ignored and soon the pair find themselves investigating the curious case of... -
The Einstein Vendetta: Hitler, Mussolini, and a true story of murder by Thomas Harding 9780241658499
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.18From the Sunday Times bestselling author of HANNS AND RUDOLF, THE HOUSE BY THE LAKE and BLOOD ON THE PAGE, pre-order the gripping story of an unsolved murder which took place against the... -
Five Days of Fog: Peaky Blinders with a feminist twist Anna Freeman 9781780227979
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75'Think Patrick Hamilton meets Peaky Blinders with a feminist twist' Metro'Utterly transporting, read and lose yourself completely' Stylist'A cinematic, rogueish, and utterly entertaining page-turner... -
Honour: Achieving Justice for Banaz Mahmod by Caroline Goode 9781786075451
Booksplease Price: $22.73The true story of the police investigation into the 'honour' killing of Banaz Mahmod THE TRUE STORY BEHIND ITV'S HONOUR Shortlisted for the CWA Non-Fiction Dagger When Rahmat Sulemani reported... -
The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World by Malcolm Gaskill
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.28*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE**A TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR*'A bona fide historical classic' Sunday Times'Simply one of the best... -
Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell by John Preston 9780241388686 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $2.65WINNER OF THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2021THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2021A SUNDAY TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEARA dramatic, gripping account of the rise... -
Hearth of Darkness: If your home had a dark past, would you want to know? A true story by Matt Blake 9781783969159
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.17'Captivating. What begins as a modern horror story slowly reveals itself as something more ambiguous and, ultimately, heartening. Blake is a very winning narrator.' Julie Myerson A haunting... -
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 9780241952931
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.80'When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.'In this, the final collection of Sherlock Holmes adventures, the intrepid detective... -
The Complete Enderby by Anthony Burgess
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68Enderby is a poet, social critic and Catholic. He may be found hiding in the lavatory where much of his best work is composed, or perhaps in Rome, brainwashed into respectability by a glamorous wife,... -
Loch of the Dead: Frey & McGray Book 4 by Oscar De Muriel
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.35'A hugely entertaining Victorian mystery' New York Times 'I enjoyed this - properly creepy and Gothic' Ian Rankin_______________A CASE FOR FREY & McGRAY The Scottish Highlands, 1889. When a young... -
The Poisonous Solicitor: The True Story of a 1920s Murder Mystery by Stephen Bates 9781785789601
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.22SHORTLISTED FOR THE ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION'METICULOUSLY RESEARCHED ... A GLORIOUSLY ENGAGING ROMP' JANICE HALLETT, THE SUNDAY TIMES'IMMERSIVE AND COMPELLING' DAVID KYNASTON'A PAGE-TURNER'... -
Van Gogh's Ear: The True Story by Bernadette Murphy
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.07In December 1888, Vincent van Gogh cut off his ear. It is the most famous story about any artist in history. But what really happened on that dark winter night?In Van Gogh's Ear, Bernadette Murphy... -
Fall: Winner of the Costa Biography Award 2021 John Preston 9780241388686
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80WINNER OF THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2021THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2021A SUNDAY TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEARA dramatic, gripping account of the rise... -
The Sugar Barons by Matthew Parker
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.05For 200 years after 1650 the West Indies were the most fought-over colonies in the world, as Europeans made and lost immense fortunes growing and trading in sugar - a commodity so lucrative that it... -
The Italians by Luigi Barzini
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron - and millions of tourists ever since - in its spell. Yet, beneath 'the brilliant and vivacious surface', what are the realities of Italian life? Few... -
The Italians by Luigi Barzini 9780140145953 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $2.80The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron - and millions of tourists ever since - in its spell. Yet, beneath 'the brilliant and vivacious surface', what are the realities of Italian life? Few... -
All That is Wicked by Kate Winkler Dawson
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08'A master-class in bringing history to life, in all its creepy, twisted glory' - Karen Kilgariff, co-host of My Favorite Murder podcast'Every true crime fan will be riveted by Kate's master... -
Damn His Blood: Being a True and Detailed History of the Most Barbarous and Inhumane Murder at Oddingley and the Quick and Awful Retribution by Peter Moore 9780099554677 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $3.39The brutal murder of the Reverend George Parker in the rural village of Oddingley on Midsummer's Day in 1806 - shot and beaten to death, his body set on fire and left smouldering in his own glebe... -
Essays and Letters by Friedrich Holderlin
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08One of Germany's greatest poets, Johann Christian Friedrich Hoelderlin (1770-1843) was also a prose writer of intense feeling, intelligence and perception. This new translation of selected letters... -
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.81A 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...