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Fatherhood: The Truth by Marcus Berkmann
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74There 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26There 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 Cricketing Miscellany by Marcus Berkmann 9780349145129
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.53Marcus 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 Marcus Berkmann 9781408711767
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £8.54Marcus 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 Pop Miscellany by Marcus Berkmann
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.01Marcus 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... -
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Fatherhood: The Truth by Marcus Berkmann 9780091900632 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.09There 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... -
The Spectator Book of Wit, Humour and Mischief by Marcus Berkmann
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.24Approaching 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.87There 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Ten 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26For 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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The Spectator Book of Wit, Humour and Mischief by Marcus Berkmann 9781408707432 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £2.56Approaching 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... -
Set Phasers to Stun: 50 Years of Star Trek by Marcus Berkmann
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Forty-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... -
Berkmann's Pop Miscellany: Sex, Drugs and Cars in Swimming Pools Marcus Berkmann 9780349147291
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Marcus 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... -
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A Shed Of One's Own: Midlife Without the Crisis by Marcus Berkmann 9780349123721 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.33For 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... -
Still a Bit of Snap in the Celery: or K.B.O. *Keep Buggering On by Marcus Berkmann 9780349145488
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38From 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... -
Still a Bit of Snap in the Celery: or K.B.O. *Keep Buggering On Marcus Berkmann 9780349145495
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02From 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... -
How to Be a Writer: Baths, Biscuits and Endless Cups of Tea Marcus Berkmann 9781408713839
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56Marcus 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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Zimmer Men: The Trials and Tribulations of the Ageing Cricketer by Marcus Berkmann 9780349119151 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.87Ten 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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Still a Bit of Snap in the Celery: or K.B.O. *Keep Buggering On by Marcus Berkmann 9780349145488 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £8.00From 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £3.09Though 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 Amazing Test Match Crime by Adrian Alington
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40The best cricket novel ever written . . .Before 'Sandpapergate' there was The Amazing Test Match Crime.'Cricket is the great narrative sport, and a close, hard-fought Test Match is the nearest any... -
The People's Songs: The Story of Modern Britain in 50 Records by Stuart Maconie
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.07These 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: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02'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... -
The Book of Seconds: The Incredible Stories of the Ones that Didn't (Quite) Win by Mark Mason
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78The 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... -
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Uncommon Knowledge: Extraordinary Things That Few People Know by Tom Standage 9781788163323 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.69The 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... -
Uncommon Knowledge: Extraordinary Things That Few People Know by Tom Standage
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81The 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... -
How to Survive: Lessons for Everyday Life from the Extreme World by John Hudson
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40A 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... -
Sloths: A Celebration of the World's Most Misunderstood Mammal by William Hartston
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.74How 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: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.05Can 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
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16A 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... -
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Silent Witnesses by Nigel McCrery 9780099569244 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.97A 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... -
The Next Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy by Tim Harford
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'Endlessly insightful and full of surprises - exactly what you would expect from Tim Harford' BILL BRYSON'Entertaining . . . A lively introduction to some of the most ingenious, yet often overlooked... -
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Field of Shadows: The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937 by Dan Waddell 9780593072615 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.62Adolf 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... -
Field of Shadows: The English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937 by Dan Waddell
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Adolf 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... -
Restaurant Babylon by Imogen Edwards-Jones
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47What 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... -
Deer Man: Seven Years of Living in the Forest by Geoffroy Delorme
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The 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: £16.99Booksplease Price: £1.91Sex 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.88In 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Why 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...