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At Her Majesty's Pleasure by Robert Douglas
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $22.04In his final instalment in his autobiographical trilogy, Robert Douglas takes us through the sixties and into the eighties with his memories of life as a prison officer, and, at the end of his... -
Staying On Past the Terminus by Robert Douglas
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $19.09Glasgow 1961.It is ten years since we last visited the close at 18 Dalbeattie Street in Maryhill.The stalwarts are still there...Ella, Drena, Rhea and 'Granny' Thomson (86).Irma the German war bride... -
Whose Turn for the Stairs? Robert Douglas 9780755318926
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $19.09This is an utterly charming story about twelve families and their tightly knit street in 1950s Maryhill. Following the end of the war, the close rebuilds its ties and the strong sense of community... -
Somewhere To Lay My Head by Robert Douglas
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $22.04We left Robert a long way from home, a sixteen-year-old recruit in the RAF. Now, we follow his escape from the Forces (until National Service a few years later!), his return to Glasgow and life down... -
Last Dance at the Wrecker's Ball Robert Douglas 9780755380312
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $16.80Glasgow, 1971. The old way of life is under threat for the tight-knit community in Dalbeattie Street, Maryhill. The shadow of the wrecker's ball looms large over their homes, and they must face the... -
Night Song of the Last Tram - A Glasgow Childhood by Robert Douglas
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $23.28A wonderfully colourful and deeply poignant memoir of growing up in a 'single end' - one room in a Glasgow tenement - during and immediately after the Second World War. Although young Robert... -
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $11.16'What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it ever done to him?' Ebenezer Scrooge is a bad-tempered skinflint who hates Christmas and all it stands for, but a... -
The Turning Point: A Year that Changed Dickens and the World by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $20.04A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR The year is 1851. It's a time of radical change in Britain, when industrial miracles and artistic innovations rub shoulders with political unrest, poverty and disease. It's... -
The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and The Secret History of Wonderland by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $22.51SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDThis is the secret history of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage. But beneath the fairy tale lies the complex... -
Night Song of the Last Tram - A Glasgow Childhood by Robert Douglas 9780340838617 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $4.69A wonderfully colourful and deeply poignant memoir of growing up in a 'single end' - one room in a Glasgow tenement - during and immediately after the Second World War. Although young Robert... -
Memoirs by James Burns, Bailie of the City of Glasgow, 1644-1661. Followed by the ... Battel of York and the Diary of Robert Douglas When With the Scotish Army in England, M.Dc.Xl.Iv by James Burns 9780461675351
Booksplease Price: $29.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461675351Author James BurnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint -
The Collected Peter Pan by Sir J. M. Barrie 9780198878384
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $14.45'To die will be an awfully big adventure.' Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, is one of the immortals of children's literature. J. M. Barrie first created Peter Pan as a baby, living in... -
The Collected Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $32.68'To die will be an awfully big adventure.' Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, is one of the immortals of children's literature. J. M. Barrie first created Peter Pan as a baby, living in... -
London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $23.28'I go about the street with water-creases crying, "Four bunches a penny, water-creases."' London Labour and the London Poor is an extraordinary work of investigative journalism, a work of... -
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Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius by Nick Hornby 9780241585252 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $9.71The essential gift for lovers of Prince, Dickens and everyone in between!In Nick Hornby's completely joyous and original new book two great figures share the stage. Charles Dickens and Prince. Two... -
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Light Perpetual: 'Heartbreaking . . . a boundlessly rich novel.' Telegraph by Francis Spufford 9780571336487 [USED COPY]
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $5.57'Dazzling.' The Times'Exceptional.' Guardian'Brilliant.' Observer'Extraordinary.' Financial TimesWinner of the Encore Award 2022. Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021. November 1944. A German rocket... -
A Christmas Carol: and Other Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $29.27'What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it ever done to him?' Ebenezer Scrooge is a bad-tempered skinflint who hates Christmas and all it stands for, but a... -
The Only Story by Julian Barnes
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.83**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question.First love has lifelong... -
Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control by Dominic Streatfeild
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $23.51- What would it take to turn YOU into a suicide bomber? - Do heavy metal LPs contain subliminal messages? - What was MI6 doing with LSD in the 1950s? - Does the Unification Church brainwash recruits?... -
The Water -Babies by Charles Kingsley
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $15.16'this is all a fairy tale...and, therefore, you are not to believe a word of it, even if it is true' The Water-Babies (1863) is one of the strangest and most powerful children's stories ever... -
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The Only Story by Julian Barnes 9781784708313 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $4.69**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question.First love has lifelong... -
The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $26.97The Water-Babies (1863) is one of the strangest and most powerful children's books ever published. Written by an Anglican clergyman with an insatiable love of science, the story combines an uplifting... -
The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began by Stephen Greenblatt
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.16WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2012Almost six hundred years ago, a short, genial man took a very old manuscript off a library shelf. With excitement, he saw what he had discovered and... -
The Bestseller Code by Matthew Jockers
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.92'If you're someone who dreams of penning a bestseller, read this book' The Week'What if the success of E.L.James and Dan Brown was not so random? What if there were an algorithm that could pick out... -
The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life by Prof. Harold Bloom
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $37.01Our most revered critic returns to his signature theme "Literary criticism, as I attempt to practice it," writes Harold Bloom in The Anatomy of Influence, "is in the first place literary, that is to... -
Campaldino 1289 by Kelly DeVries
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.99Campaldino is one of the important battles between the Guelphs and Ghibellines - the major political factions in the city states of central and northern Italy. It heralded the rise of Florence to a... -
Reading Lessons: The books we read at school, the conversations they spark and why they matter Carol Atherton 9780241629505
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97An English teacher's love letter to reading and the many ways literature can make us, and our lives, better.How can a Victorian poem help teenagers understand YouTube misogyny? Can Jane Eyre... -
Castagnaro 1387 by Kelly DeVries
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $35.80The battle of Castagnaro, fought on 11 March 1387 between the Veronese and the Paduans, is one of the most famous Italian medieval conflicts in the English-speaking world. This is thanks in no small... -
Searching for Juliet: The Lives and Deaths of Shakespeare's First Tragic Heroine by Sophie Duncan
RRP: $59.50Booksplease Price: $41.89'Invigorating ... engaging ... thrilling' Samantha Ellis, GUARDIAN'An astonishing tour-de-force . . . Juliet has found the biographer she deserves' Marion TurnerA cultural, historical, and literary... -
The Golden House by Salman Rushdie
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.83**New York Times bestseller** 'One of the most vivid and convincing portraits of contemporary America I've read' Observer When powerful real-estate tycoon Nero Golden immigrates to the States under... -
Eileen: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016 by Ottessa Moshfegh
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.83**NOW A MAJOR FILM****SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE**Trapped between caring for her alcoholic father and her job as a secretary at the boys' prison, Eileen Dunlop dreams of escaping to the big... -
The Penguin Book of the British Short Story: 2: From P.G. Wodehouse to Zadie Smith by Philip Hensher
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.04This is the first anthology capacious enough to celebrate the full diversity and energy of its writers, subjects and tones. The most famous authors are here, and many others, including some... -
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Erebus: The Story of a Ship by Michael Palin 9781784758578 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $5.47_______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The Terror In the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most... -
Erebus: The Story of a Ship by Michael Palin
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.47_______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The Terror In the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most... -
Red Thread: On Mazes and Labyrinths by Charlotte Higgins
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $22.51'Charlotte Higgins's Red Thread is a masterwork' Ali SmithA thrillingly original, labyrinthine journey through myth, art, literature, history, archaeology and memoir. The tale of how the hero Theseus... -
A Natural by Ross Raisin
Booksplease Price: $31.32Tom has always known exactly the person he is going to be. A successful footballer. A man others look up to. Now, though, the bright future he imagined for himself is threatened.The Premier League... -
The Co-Op's Got Bananas: A Memoir of Growing Up in the Post-War North by Hunter Davies 9781471153419
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $15.35A poignant and very personal childhood memoir of growing up in Cumbria during the Second World War and into the 1950s, from columnist Hunter Davies Despite the struggle to make ends meet during the... -
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A Natural by Ross Raisin 9781784702786 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $8.43Tom has always known exactly the person he is going to be. A successful footballer. A man others look up to. Now, though, the bright future he imagined for himself is threatened.The Premier League... -
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The Co-Op's Got Bananas: A Memoir of Growing Up in the Post-War North by Hunter Davies 9781471153419 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $5.71A poignant and very personal childhood memoir of growing up in Cumbria during the Second World War and into the 1950s, from columnist Hunter Davies Despite the struggle to make ends meet during the... -
Islands of Mercy by Rose Tremain
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.40'A hell of a read' Sunday Times'Triumphant, and beautifully told...one of the best novelists writing today' Sara Collins, GuardianAll must gamble with their fate. But not all can win...In the city of...