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Fatherhood: The Truth by Marcus Berkmann
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.43There are lots of books about parenthood. But if you look closely most of them are about motherhood. Fathers get brief paragraphs about needing the odd cuddle themselves and being helpful for... -
Rain Men by Marcus Berkmann
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.95There are many cricket books, and they are all the same. 'Don't Tell Goochie', autobiographical insights of nights on the tiles in Delhi with Lambie and the boys; 'Fruit cake days', a celebrated... -
Berkmann's Pop Miscellany by Marcus Berkmann
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $4.00Marcus Berkmann was for many years the pop critic of the Spectator, waiting like most freelances to get fired. He's also the author of the bestselling Berkmann's Cricket Miscellany, concentrating on... -
Berkmann's Cricketing Miscellany Marcus Berkmann 9781408711767
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55Marcus Berkmann, author of the cricket classics Rain Men and Zimmer Men, returns to the great game with this irresistible miscellany of cricketing trivia, stories and more fascinating facts than... -
Berkmann's Cricketing Miscellany by Marcus Berkmann 9780349145129
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $9.71Marcus Berkmann, author of the cricket classics Rain Men and Zimmer Men, returns to the great game with this irresistible miscellany of cricketing trivia, stories and more fascinating facts than... -
The Spectator Book of Wit, Humour and Mischief by Marcus Berkmann
Booksplease Price: $16.05Approaching its 200th birthday in the rudest of health, the Spectator is known for the quality of its writing and the deep eccentricity of some of its writers. Given the freedom to say what they... -
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Rain Men by Marcus Berkmann 9780349107424 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $2.41There are many cricket books, and they are all the same. 'Don't Tell Goochie', autobiographical insights of nights on the tiles in Delhi with Lambie and the boys; 'Fruit cake days', a celebrated... -
Zimmer Men: The Trials and Tribulations of the Ageing Cricketer by Marcus Berkmann
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.95Ten years after his classic Rain Men - 'cricket's answer to Fever Pitch,' said the Daily Telegraph - Marcus Berkmann returns to the strange and wondrous world of village cricket, where players sledge... -
A Shed Of One's Own: Midlife Without the Crisis by Marcus Berkmann
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.95For many men, middle age arrives too fast and without due warning. One day you are young, free and single; the next you are bald, fat and washed-up, with weird tendrils of hair growing out of your... -
Set Phasers to Stun: 50 Years of Star Trek by Marcus Berkmann
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95Forty-seven years after NBC killed it off, Star Trek celebrates its half-century in a state of rude health. Boldly going where several other people have been before, Marcus Berkmann tells the story... -
How to Be a Writer: Baths, Biscuits and Endless Cups of Tea Marcus Berkmann 9781408713839
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.20Marcus Berkmann has been a freelance writer since 1988, working for newspapers and magazines and occasionally writing a book, like this one. He reckons to have written literally millions of words in... -
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The Spectator Book of Wit, Humour and Mischief by Marcus Berkmann 9781408707432 [USED COPY]
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $3.30Approaching its 200th birthday in the rudest of health, the Spectator is known for the quality of its writing and the deep eccentricity of some of its writers. Given the freedom to say what they... -
Still a Bit of Snap in the Celery: or K.B.O. *Keep Buggering On by Marcus Berkmann 9780349145488
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.62From the bestselling author of A Shed of One's Own, a very funny memoir about being 60.Marcus Berkmann's funny, instantly recognisable description of middle-age in A Shed of One's Own struck a chord... -
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Zimmer Men: The Trials and Tribulations of the Ageing Cricketer by Marcus Berkmann 9780349119151 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $2.41Ten years after his classic Rain Men - 'cricket's answer to Fever Pitch,' said the Daily Telegraph - Marcus Berkmann returns to the strange and wondrous world of village cricket, where players sledge... -
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A Shed Of One's Own: Midlife Without the Crisis by Marcus Berkmann 9780349123721 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $3.01For many men, middle age arrives too fast and without due warning. One day you are young, free and single; the next you are bald, fat and washed-up, with weird tendrils of hair growing out of your... -
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Still a Bit of Snap in the Celery: or K.B.O. *Keep Buggering On by Marcus Berkmann 9780349145488 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $10.32From the bestselling author of A Shed of One's Own, a very funny memoir about being 60.Marcus Berkmann's funny, instantly recognisable description of middle-age in A Shed of One's Own struck a chord... -
Ashes To Ashes: 35 Years of Humiliation (And About 20 Minutes of Ecstasy) Watching England v Australia by Marcus Berkmann
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95The Ashes may be the longest and fiercest sporting soap opera the world has known. The anticipation is always intense, expectations are high and, for England fans, disappointment is almost... -
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Detour de France: An Englishman in Search of a Continental Education by Michael Simkins 9780091927523 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $4.55Though happy enough with his lot, Michael Simkins has never truly shaken the nagging doubt - helpfully upheld by his partner Julia - that he somehow lacks worldly sophistication. While she spent her... -
The Book of Seconds: The Incredible Stories of the Ones that Didn't (Quite) Win by Mark Mason
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75The Book of Seconds reveals the exciting, intriguing and heroic runners-up who until now have been kept in the shadow of the firsts.Did you know that the winner of the second Tour de France rode 25... -
The People's Songs: The Story of Modern Britain in 50 Records by Stuart Maconie
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.15These are the songs that we have listened to, laughed to, loved to and laboured to, as well as downed tools and danced to. Covering the last seven decades, Stuart Maconie looks at the songs that have... -
Highgate Mums: Overheard Wisdom from the Ladies Who Brunch by Dan Hall
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.77'Her first words were "shoes" and "brioche".' 'There's no nicer way to put this, but frankly anyone can afford to go skiing these days.' 'Of course I said "no". A trampoline in the garden gives out... -
How to Survive: Lessons for Everyday Life from the Extreme World by John Hudson
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55A splendid book . . . I can't think of anyone I know who wouldn't benefit from reading it' - Marcus Berkmann, Daily Mail'A brilliant, brilliant book' - Chris Evans, Virgin RadioNow including a new... -
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Uncommon Knowledge: Extraordinary Things That Few People Know by Tom Standage 9781788163323 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $3.47The world can be an amazing place if you know the right questions to ask: How did carrots become orange? What's stopping us from having a four-day week? How can we remove all the broken bits of... -
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Sloths: A Celebration of the World's Most Misunderstood Mammal by William Hartston 9781786494252 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $2.81How old is the sloth? How do sloths have sex?How did a sloth save Dublin?The answers to these questions, and more, are found in this wonderfully entertaining celebration of the sloth. Walking readers... -
Sloths: A Celebration of the World's Most Misunderstood Mammal by William Hartston
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.98How old is the sloth? How do sloths have sex?How did a sloth save Dublin?The answers to these questions, and more, are found in this wonderfully entertaining celebration of the sloth. Walking readers... -
Night Sky: Stargazing with the Naked Eye by Robert Harvey
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $20.70Can you spot the Big Dipper in the night sky? Or Orion's Belt? Or Cassiopeia? Even in cities, and without the aid of a telescope, these are a few of the easier constellations to find. In fact, a... -
Silent Witnesses by Nigel McCrery
Booksplease Price: $16.98A crime scene. A murder. A mystery.The most important person on the scene? The forensic scientist. And yet the intricate details of their work remains a mystery to most of us. Silent Witnesses looks... -
Brief Lives 3 - Newton by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97Isaac Newton (1642-1727), the English genius, made his greatest contributions to original thought before the age of twenty-five, while at home in Lincolnshire escaping the great plague of 1665, a... -
Field of Shadows: The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937 by Dan Waddell
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51Adolf Hitler despised cricket, considering it un-German and decadent. And Berlin in 1937 was not a time to be going against the Fuhrer's wishes. But hot on the heels of the 1936 Olympics, an... -
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Field of Shadows: The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937 by Dan Waddell 9780593072615 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $3.38Adolf Hitler despised cricket, considering it un-German and decadent. And Berlin in 1937 was not a time to be going against the Fuhrer's wishes. But hot on the heels of the 1936 Olympics, an... -
Gimson's Kings and Queens: Brief Lives of the Forty Monarchs since 1066 by Andrew Gimson
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.72NEWLY REVISED AND UPDATEDA book for all lovers of history: the experienced and the novice, the serious and the silly.Gimson's Kings and Queens whirls us through the lives of our monarchs - from 1066... -
Restaurant Babylon by Imogen Edwards-Jones
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09What makes a restaurant hot? Whose name do you need to drop to get a table? Why is one place booked solid for the next nine months while somewhere equally delicious is as empty and inhospitable as... -
Sex is Forbidden by Tim Parks 9780099565895
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.98Sex is forbidden at the Dasgupta Institute. So what is the sparkling, magnetically attractive Beth Marriot doing here? Beth is fighting demons: a catastrophic series of events has undermined all... -
On the Tip of My Tongue: The perfect word for every life moment Tom Read Wilson 9780711276673
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.18In On the Tip of My Tongue, logophile and television star Tom Read Wilson takes a delicious dive into the etymology and usage of words, euphemisms and bon mots. Written with his trademark sparkling... -
Spell It Out: The singular story of English spelling by David Crystal
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.69Why is there an 'h' in ghost? William Caxton, inventor of the printing press and his Flemish employees are to blame: without a dictionary or style guide to hand in fifteenth century Bruges, the... -
Deer Man: Seven Years of Living in the Forest by Geoffroy Delorme
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.95The astonishing, true account of one man's quest to immerse himself in nature and live with wild deer for seven years.'Haunting, remarkable and ultimately very moving' Sunday Times'A story of... -
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Sex is Forbidden by Tim Parks 9780099565895 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $2.46Sex is forbidden at the Dasgupta Institute. So what is the sparkling, magnetically attractive Beth Marriot doing here? Beth is fighting demons: a catastrophic series of events has undermined all... -
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Big Sam: My Autobiography by Sam Allardyce 9781472232670 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $3.39Football fans will love this insight into the life and mind of the new Everton manager, Big Sam. With nearly 20 years as a player - plus almost 25 years as a coach and manager - under his belt, Sam... -
A Short History of Drunkenness by Mark Forsyth
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.08THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ANYONE WHO ENJOYS A TIPPLE . . . OR TWO . . . OR TEN! Almost every culture on earth has drink, and where there's drink there's drunkenness. But in every age and in every place... -
Statistical: Ten Easy Ways to Avoid Being Misled By Numbers by Anthony Reuben
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.59'Fascinating . . . timely' Daily Mail'Refreshingly clear and engaging' Tim Harford'Delightful . . . full of unique insights' Prof Sir David SpiegelhalterThere's no getting away from statistics. We...