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Shadow Child by Libby Purves
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75'Family love is one of the most powerful elemental forces on earth, and at that moment, our last moment as a unit of three, we rode a great curling triumphant wave of it, all together. Death may have... -
How Not to Be a Perfect Mother by Libby Purves
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10A fresh new look brings this parenting classic up-to-date for a new generation of mothers and mothers-to-be. Taking an irreverent and humorous look at the trials and tribulations of motherhood, Radio... -
Continental Drift by Libby Purves 9780340826294 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $3.42Sometimes it takes a fresh pair of eyes to see yourselves clearly . . .Henry is a young, hip, radio DJ; Philip is an ex-MP ruined by scandal and disowned by his party; Diana, his long-suffering wife;... -
Acting Up by Libby Purves 9780340826317 [USED COPY]
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $3.94The Andersons are a military family with honours and traditions stretching back two hundred years. When the second Iraq war breaks out, it is only natural that their newest generations should be... -
Holy Smoke by Libby Purves 9780340721605 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $3.52'Middle Age' writes Libby Purves 'is a fine high vantage point for looking back. The official passing of another thousand years away from Bethlehem is a stimulus to thinking about Christianity'. In... -
Passing Go by Libby Purves 9780340718834 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $3.75On the high ground above the great city, Roy and Helen live in brittle affluence inside a weary marriage. Of their four children, three have long vanished into the sprawling, sluttish metropolis... -
Radio: A True Love Story by Libby Purves 9780340822425 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $3.40Libby Purves has had an ongoing love affair with the radio since her childhood, when she saved her pocket money to buy a d-i-y transistor set. This was the 1950s, pre-television, when the family... -
Coast and Countryside: Joe Cornish, David Noton and Paul Wakefield by Libby Purves 9781907892196 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $3.46Over a hundred years ago, the National Trust was founded to preserve places of historic interest and natural beauty in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Today it protects around... -
Moonfleet by John Meade Falkner
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.04Orphaned John Trenchard grows up in the village of Moonfleet with his aunt, entranced by the local legend of the ghostly Blackbeard, who rises each winter night to search for his lost diamond. While... -
Till the Boys Come Home: How British Theatre Fought the Great War Roger Foss 9780750960663
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79Ever since the signing of the Armistice in 1918, theatre has played an important part in reflecting the experience of the 'war to end all wars'. But on the Home Front, what role did those involved... -
MI5 and Me by Ms Charlotte Bingham 9781408888148 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $3.60'A Jilly Cooper heroine in a John le Carre world' (Libby Purves, TLS); a beguiling comic memoir about a young woman who discovers her father is a spy (and was the model for John le Carre's George... -
Voices from the Blue: The Real Lives of Policewomen by Jennifer Rees
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $8.28'God, I love these women! Their breeziness, compassion, humour and resilience are a tonic'Libby Purves, Times Literary SupplementIn February 1919, London's first women police officers took to the... -
Voices from the Blue: The Real Lives of Policewomen by Jennifer Rees 9781472143105
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $5.37'God, I love these women! Their breeziness, compassion, humour and resilience are a tonic'Libby Purves, Times Literary SupplementIn February 1919, London's first women police officers took to the... -
"King Lear" by William Shakespeare
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.05'By far the best edition of King Lear - in respect of both textual and other matters - that we now have.'John Lyon, English Language Notes'This volume is a treasure-trove of precise information and... -
The Music Room by William Fiennes
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36'Fiennes has exceptional gifts, and he has written a small masterpiece, a tribute to the power of place, family and memory' Sunday Telegraph William Fiennes' childhood was one of imagination and... -
The Green Dwarf and Other Early Fiction by Charlotte Bronte
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.54Inspired by a box of wooden toy soldiers given as a present to her elder brother Branwell in 1826, Charlotte Bronte created, together with her siblings, a series of tales set in the imaginary realm... -
Icons of England by Bill Bryson 9780552776356 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $3.39This celebration of the English countryside does not only focus on the rolling green landscapes and magnificent monuments that set England apart from the rest of the world. Many of the contributors... -
The Season: A Social History of the Debutante by Kristen Richardson
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.57From Georgian England and Edith Wharton's New York to the contemporary International Debutante Ball, the presentation of young women into society has persisted. In this "sharply observed" (The New... -
"Educating Rita" by Willy Russell 9780413767905
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $13.40Educating Rita, about a working-class Liverpool girl's hunger for education, is 'simply a marvellous play, painfully funny and passionately serious; a hilarious social documentary; a fairy-tale with... -
Icons of England by Bill Bryson
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92This celebration of the English countryside does not only focus on the rolling green landscapes and magnificent monuments that set England apart from the rest of the world. Many of the contributors... -
Winning Recipes: For Every Day by Natalie Coleman
Booksplease Price: $6.58Natalie Coleman won MasterChef 2013 with a Scotch egg, and ever since she's been showcasing the same fresh, fun, down-to-earth cooking that made her a star. Now, she shows you how to do it too,... -
The Social Entrepreneur: Making Communities Work by Andrew Mawson 9781843546610
Booksplease Price: $20.42Social entrepreneurs are cutting through ideology and red tape and making real, lasting social change. Britain's leading social entrepreneur shows how, and why, it works. When Andrew Mawson arrived... -
You Are What You Grow: Life, Land and the Pursuit of Happiness by Antonia Swinson
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $6.20Based on her hit Allotment Tales column for "The Scotsman and New Consumer Magazine", Antonia Swinson - the First Lady of the allotment - shares, not only her tips for gardening and allotment... -
The Prince and the Pauper by Jemma Kennedy 9781472515636
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.40You are a Prince, not a pauper. And before too long the whole of England will be in your hands... Jemma Kennedy's stage adaptation of The Prince and the Pauper is a dynamic and fast-paced... -
Green Was The Earth On The Seventh Day by Thor Heyerdahl
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41In the late 1930s, Thor Heyerdahl left his home in Norway and set off with his new wife for paradise. Fulfilling a long-held ambition to return to nature, the couple sought, and to a degree found, a... -
10 Things Girls Need Most: To grow up strong and free by Steve Biddulph
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $14.73In answer to the crisis in girls' mental health, the UK's best selling parenting author, Steve Biddulph brings an interactive learning guide rich in content and interactive elements to help parents... -
Clouds Of Glory: A Childhood in Hoxton by Bryan Magee 9780712635608
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Hoxton today is one of the most fashionable parts of inner London, yet before the Blitz, it was the capital's most notorious slum area. It was London's busiest market for stolen goods, the centre of... -
10 Things Girls Need Most: To grow up strong and free by Steve Biddulph 9780008146795 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $2.93In answer to the crisis in girls' mental health, the UK's best selling parenting author, Steve Biddulph brings an interactive learning guide rich in content and interactive elements to help parents... -
Olivier Philip Ziegler 9781782067887
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.24Hollywood superstar; Oscar-winning director; greatest stage actor of the twentieth century. His era abounded in greats - Gielgud, Richardson, Guinness, Burton, O'Toole - but none could challenge... -
Uniform Justice: (Brunetti 12) by Donna Leon
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.92'Complex and thought-provoking and lingers in the mind' Sunday TimesNeither Commissario Brunetti nor his wife Paola have ever had much sympathy for the Italian armed forces, so when a young cadet is... -
Do You Think You're Clever?: The Oxford and Cambridge Questions by John Farndon
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80What happens if I drop an ant?What books are bad for you?What percentage of the world's water is contained in a cow?The Oxbridge undergraduate interviews are infamous for their unique ways of... -
Vicious Circle: Hector Cross 2 by Wilbur Smith
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.57THE SECOND HECTOR CROSS THRILLER FROM WILBUR SMITH. PERFECT FOR FANS OF BOURNE AND LEE CHILD'S JACK REACHER SERIES.He'll stop at nothing to protect the ones he loves. Hector Cross is under siege... -
Curtain Call by Anthony Quinn
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92On a sultry afternoon in the summer of 1936 a young woman is witness to an attempted murder in a London hotel room. Nina, a West End actress, faces a dilemma: she shouldn't have been at the hotel in... -
Hot Flushes, Cold Science: A History Of The Modern Menopause by Louise Foxcroft 9781847081711 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $3.27For over two thousand years, attitudes to the menopause have created dread, shame and confusion. This meticulously researched and always entertaining book traces the history of 'the change of life'... -
Dr. Quin, Medicine Man by John Quin
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $16.79Surgeons cut, but physicians... what do physicians actually do? And is it true that other doctors really call them 'the magicians'? John Quin worked for thirty-three years as a physician for the... -
Pure Juliet by Stella Gibbons 9781784870270
Booksplease Price: $20.41Creepy. Peculiar. Fairy. Goblin. Liar. Weirdo. Crank. Genius.No one knows what to make of Juliet Slater, not even her mother. And clothes, boys, school, friends, the changing seasons and what other... -
Running with the Firm by James Bannon 9780091951528 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $2.64'Of course I'm a f**king hooligan, you pr**k. I am a hooligan...there I've said it...I'm a hooligan. And, do you know why? Because that's my f**king job.'In 1995, a film called I.D., about an... -
"The Beauty Queen of Leenane" by Martin McDonagh
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $13.40The Beauty Queen of Leenane was first presented as a Druid Theatre/Royal Court Theatre co-production in January 1996. Set in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, The Beauty Queen of Leenane... -
My Stir-fried Life by Ken Hom 9781849549783
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $21.33As a boy, Ken Hom lived hand-to-mouth in the slums of Chicago's Chinatown. Today, he is one of the most celebrated TV chefs of all time, the man who showed the British how to cook Asian food and... -
A Home of Their Own: The Heart-warming 150-year History of Battersea Dogs & Cats Home by Garry Jenkins 9780553820010 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $3.39Battersea Dogs & Cats Home is the best-known animal sanctuary in the world. Since it first opened its doors in 1860, millions of abandoned and abused pets have benefited from its refuge. Around the...