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Ghostwalk by Rebecca Stott
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.06A stunning literary ghost-story of entanglement and obsession; ambition and betrayal - set in present-day Cambridge, but entangled with the 17th centuryThe son of a reclusive historian finds his... -
Tennyson by Rebecca Stott 9780582237124
Booksplease Price: £57.90Alternative approaches have emerged which have radically altered our understanding of Tennyson's poetry and his relationship to the Victorian age. This text covers the most significant areas of new... -
Dark Earth by Rebecca Stott
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.37'Superb ... radically new and beautiful' Observer 'Magical and evocative' Imogen Hermes Gowar, author of The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock 'Heartachingly poignant' Lucy Holland,... -
The Coral Thief Rebecca Stott 9780753827109
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A powerful and gripping historical thriller for fans of The Essex Serpernt and The Miniaturist. 'Original and evocative ... a mesmerising thriller' Daily Telegraph'Full of twists and turns'... -
Darwin's Ghosts by Rebecca Stott 9781408831014
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Soon after publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin received a letter that deeply unsettled him. He had expected outrage and accusations of heresy, but this letter was different: it... -
Dark Earth by Rebecca Stott 9780008209254
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £5.54'Superb ... radically new and beautiful' Observer 'Magical and evocative' Imogen Hermes Gowar, author of The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock 'Heartachingly poignant' Lucy Holland,... -
Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Rebecca Stott 9780582404700
Booksplease Price: £62.59This volume will provide students with an introduction to the poetry and life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, one of the most popular poets of her day in Britain and America and who has become one of... -
In the Days of Rain: WINNER OF THE 2017 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD by Rebecca Stott 9780008209193
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58WINNER OF THE 2017 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD In the vein of Bad Blood and Why be Happy when you can be Normal?: an enthralling, at times shocking, and... -
Darwin and the Barnacle: The Story of One Tiny Creature and History's Most Spectacular Scientific Breakthrough by Rebecca Stott 9780393325713
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £19.04A scientific detective story that illuminates the remarkable saga of Darwin's greatest achievement. Pairing Charles Darwin and a rare species of barnacle as her unlikely protagonists, Rebecca Stott... -
Women We Buried, Women We Burned: a memoir by Rachel Louise Snyder
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Following the acclaimed No Visible Bruises, a piercing account of the author's childhood in an evangelical Christian community, her teenage escape, and her career as a reporter at the frontline of... -
The Girl in the Shadows: My Life in a Cult by Katy Morgan-Davies
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'I was the shadow child no one ever saw...'From the day she was born until she escaped aged 30, Katy Morgan-Davies knew nothing but a life in captivity. Her father was the deluded and cruel leader of... -
Charles Darwin: Voyaging: Volume 1 of a biography by Janet Browne
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £21.59Few lives of great men offer so much interest - and so many mysteries - as the life of Charles Darwin, the greatest figure of nineteenth-century science, whose ideas are still inspiring discoveries... -
Air Bridge by Hammond Innes
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47The Soviets have cut off food and fuel supplies to West Berlin in a final attempt to force a stranglehold over the city. The Allied response is the Berlin airlift: thousands of planes carrying... -
Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope, leaving the Westboro Baptist Church Megan Phelps-Roper 9781787478008
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50'For anyone who enjoyed Hillbilly Elegy or Educated, Unfollow is an essential text' - Louis Theroux'Such a moving, redemptive, clear-eyed account of religious indoctrination' - Pandora Sykes'A... -
Your Blue-Eyed Boy by Helen Dunmore 9780141033624 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £2.57A heart-stopping novel from the WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017'A brilliantly plotted thrilling fable unravelling dark, sad secrets' Mail on Sunday'There are things you should know about... -
Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted Territory by Keggie Carew 9781784740764 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.99***Winner of the Costa Biography Award*** Keggie Carew grew up in the gravitational field of an unorthodox father who lived on his wits and dazzling charm. As his memory begins to fail, she... -
Unfollow: A Radio 4 Book of the Week Pick for June 2021 Megan Phelps-Roper 9781787478015
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'For anyone who enjoyed Hillbilly Elegy or Educated, Unfollow is an essential text' - Louis Theroux'A moving, redemptive, clear-eyed account of religious indoctrination' - Pandora Sykes'A nuanced... -
Principles of Geology by Charles Lyell
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51One of the key works in the nineteenth-century battle between science and Scripture, Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology (1830-33) sought to explain the geological state of the modern Earth by... -
The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95**FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017**'Scrupulous, pitch-perfect. With heart-pounding force, Dunmore builds up a double narrative of suspense' Sunday TimesLeningrad, 1952. Andrei, a... -
With Your Crooked Heart by Helen Dunmore 9780141033617 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £1.78With Your Crooked Heart is bestselling author Helen Dunmore's sixth novel.Louise married Paul, brother to Johnnie . . . Yet she doesn't get one man with this union - she gets two. Born twelve years... -
A House for Two Pounds by K. Iggulden
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A richly recounted memoir of growing up in an Irish farming community in the 1940sA love of Ireland and the Irish is what shines through this little memoir. Growing up amongst the fields, woods and... -
The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore 9780141046839 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.97**FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017**'Scrupulous, pitch-perfect. With heart-pounding force, Dunmore builds up a double narrative of suspense' Sunday TimesLeningrad, 1952. Andrei, a... -
Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted Territory by Keggie Carew 9781784703158 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.34Discover a daughter's journey into her father's past in this Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the 2016 Costa Biography Award.Keggie Carew grew up under the spell of an unorthodox, enigmatic... -
Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted Territory Keggie Carew 9781784703158
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Discover a daughter's journey into her father's past in this Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the 2016 Costa Biography Award.Keggie Carew grew up under the spell of an unorthodox, enigmatic... -
The Siege by Helen Dunmore 9780241952191 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.19**FROM THE AUTHOR OF INSIDE THE WAVE, THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017** Leningrad, September 1941. Hitler orders the German forces to surround the city at the start of the most dangerous, desperate... -
An Evening of Long Goodbyes by Paul Murray 9780241955895
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31The brilliant first novel by the author of The Bee StingAcclaimed as one of the funniest and most assured debuts of recent years, An Evening of Long Goodbyes is the story of Dubliner Charles... -
House of Orphans by Helen Dunmore
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95**FROM THE AUTHOR OF INSIDE THE WAVE, THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017**Finland, 1902, and the Russian Empire enforces a brutal policy to destroy Finland's freedom and force its people into submission... -
The Siege by Helen Dunmore 9780241952191
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31**FROM THE AUTHOR OF INSIDE THE WAVE, THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017** Leningrad, September 1941. Hitler orders the German forces to surround the city at the start of the most dangerous, desperate... -
Mourning Ruby by Helen Dunmore 9780141015019 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £1.97**FROM THE AUTHOR OF INSIDE THE WAVE, THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017**Rebecca was abandoned by her mother in a shoebox in the backyard of an Italian restaurant when she was two days old. Her life... -
Talking to the Dead by Helen Dunmore
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Talking to the Dead is bestselling author Helen Dunmore's fourth novel.There's nothing closer than sisters . . . Unloved by their distant mother, Isabel and Nina cemented their bond in childhood when... -
The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15A riveting story of dislocation, survival, and the power of stories to break or save usWhen Clemantine Wamariya was six years old, her world was torn apart. She didn't know why her parents began... -
Darwin Loves You: Natural Selection and the Re-enchantment of the World by George Levine 9780691136394
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Jesus and Darwin do battle on car bumpers across America. Medallions of fish symbolizing Jesus are answered by ones of amphibians stamped "Darwin," and stickers proclaiming "Jesus Loves You" are... -
Sins of My Father: A Guardian Book of the Year 2022 – A Daughter, a Cult, a Wild Unravelling by Lily Dunn
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'An extraordinary story' CLOVER STROUD'Astonishing and valuable' THE SPECTATOR'Beautifully written' DAILY MAIL'Intensely gripping . . . as brutal and funny as it is raw and candid' VIV GROSKOP'As... -
Excommunicated: A heart-wrenching and compelling memoir about a family torn apart by one of New Zealand's most secretive religious sects for readers of Driving to Treblinka and Educated by Craig Hoyle 9781775542018
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.79A heart-wrenching multigenerational family memoir by an excommunicated member of the Exclusive Brethren After coming out as gay, Craig Hoyle was excommunicated from the New Zealand Exclusive... -
Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge / Jude the Obscure by Simon Avery
Booksplease Price: £28.57This Reader's Guide analyses the critical history of two of Hardy's major tragic novels, from the time of their publication to the present. Simon Avery traces the changing critical fortunes of the... -
The Joy of Secularism: 11 Essays for How We Live Now by George Levine 9780691156026
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.69The case for a thoughtful secularism from some of today's most distinguished scientists, philosophers, and writersCan secularism offer us moral, aesthetic, and spiritual satisfaction? Or does the... -
Writers in Conversation with Christopher Bigsby: Volume VII by Christopher Bigsby 9781911343523
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.27Writers in Conversation compiles Christopher Bigsby's interviews with the world's greatest writers from over a decade of the Arthur Miller Centre's International Literary Festival at the University... -
Mrs Gaskell and Me: Two Women, Two Love Stories, Two Centuries Apart by Nell Stevens 9781509868216
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Winner of the 2019 Somerset Maugham Award'A great galloping joy of a book - funny, lyrical, fast paced, heart-warming - a delicious celebration of love and life' - Rebecca Stott, author of In the... -
Amphibian Tyler Wetherall 9780349017921
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £11.75'Has a queasily compelling power' The Times'Haunting and visceral as a fairytale' Lilly Dancyger'Brims with sex and violence and threat, and moves to a crescendo of strange and magical beauty'... -
Mrs Gaskell and Me: Two Women, Two Love Stories, Two Centuries Apart Nell Stevens 9781509868186
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.37Winner of the 2019 Somerset Maugham Award'A great galloping joy of a book - funny, lyrical, fast paced, heart-warming - a delicious celebration of love and life' Rebecca Stott, author of In the Days...