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The Story of English by Robert McCrum
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51The Story of English is the extraordinary tale of the origins and development of the English language. Two thousand years ago English was confined to a handful of savage tribes on the shores of... -
John McConnell: Design by Robert McCrum
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £10.48John McConnell's list of collaborators includes many household names - Boots, Faber & Faber, Halfords, Clarks, John Lewis. The man behind the Biba logo (for which he won the D&AD Silver in... -
Wodehouse: A Life by Robert McCrum 9780393327519
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £25.79To Evelyn Waugh he was simply "the Master." He wrote ninety novels and story collections, and among his immortal characters are Jeeves, Psmith, and the Empress of Blandings (who is, of course, a pig)... -
Shakespearean: On Life & Language in Times of Disruption by Robert McCrum
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Enchanting' - Simon Russell Beale 'Remarkable' - James Shapiro'Wonderful . . . compulsively readable' - Nicholas HytnerWhy do the collected works of an Elizabethan writer continue to speak to us as... -
The 100 Best Novels: In English by Robert McCrum 9781903385470
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903385470Author Robert McCrumFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint -
The Penalty Kick: The Story of a Gamechanger Robert McCrum 9781912559572
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.88'Football in the 1880s was an unruly, rough, and often dangerous game. To curb the state the sport was in, William McCrum proposed a new and drastic sanction. He called it a penalty kick.' In... -
Every Third Thought: On Life, Death, and the Endgame by Robert McCrum
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40As read on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week'Moving, intellectual and unsentimental. I think it will become a classic' Melvyn Bragg'Thoughtful, subtle, elegantly clever and oddly joyous, Every Third... -
The 100 Best Novels: In the English Language Robert McCrum 9781903385425
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903385425Author Robert McCrumFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint -
The Story of English: Third Revised Edition by Robert McCrum 9780142002315
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142002315Author Robert McCrumFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint -
Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being by Ted Hughes
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.94This enthralling tour de force of literary criticism, unprecedented in Shakespeare studies for its scope and daring, is nothing less than an attempt to show the Complete Works - dramatic and poetic -... -
My Year Off: Rediscovering Life After a Stroke by Robert McCrum
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68With an introduction by Henry Marsh, author of Do No HarmMy brain, which had just let me down so badly, was perhaps never so active. The paramedics' question was a fundamental one. Who are you? Yes... -
My Year Off: Recovering Life After a Stroke by Robert McCrum 9780393350050
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £16.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393350050Author Robert McCrumFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint -
A Bunch of Fives by Helen Simpson 9780099561576
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54Since the 1990 publication of her first collection, Four Bare Legs in a Bed, Helen Simpson has been hailed as one of the best short story writers at work in the world today. These wonderfully funny... -
The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'A landmark, bringing together a lifetime's work on Lewis Carroll by writer and mathematician Martin Gardner. He dazzles on Carroll's puzzles and games of logic and entertains on everything from... -
Admissions: A Life in Brain Surgery Henry Marsh 9781474603874
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'Sensational' SUNDAY TIMES NO. BESTSELLER'Extraordinary...both exhilarating and alarming...fascinating' DAILY MAIL'Wonderful...a testament to the tenacity of the human spirit' FINANCIAL TIMESHenry... -
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Admissions: A Life in Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh 9781474603867 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £3.30THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLERHenry Marsh has spent a lifetime operating on the surgical frontline. There have been exhilarating highs and devastating lows, but his love for the practice of... -
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Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh 9781780225920 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.19'A SUPERB ACHIEVEMENT' IAN MCEWAN* * * * *What is it like to be a brain surgeon?How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cut through the stuff that creates thought, feeling and... -
Mrs Palfrey At The Claremont: A Virago Modern Classic by Elizabeth Taylor
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont is, for me, her masterpiece' - Robert McCrum, Guardian, 'The Best 100 Novels''An author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth' - SARAH WATERS 'Jane Austen,... -
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £5.50'A SUPERB ACHIEVEMENT' IAN MCEWAN* * * * *What is it like to be a brain surgeon?How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cut through the stuff that creates thought, feeling and... -
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Churchill by Roy Jenkins 9780330488051 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.51From the admiralty to the miner's strike, from the Battle of Britain to the Nobel Prize, Churchill oversaw some of the most important events the World has ever seen. Roy Jenkins faithfully presents... -
In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul 9781529014051
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73With an introduction by publisher and acclaimed author Robert McCrum. Winner of the Booker Prize 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018. A young Indian servant in Washington... -
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Renegade: Henry Miller and the Making of "Tropic of Cancer" by Frederick W. Turner 9780300192513
Booksplease Price: £28.58The untold story of Henry Miller's explosive 1934 novel, banned in America for more than a quarter century Though branded as pornography for its graphic language and explicit sexuality, Henry... -
Constitutional by Helen Simpson 9780099494188
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49A sensational short story collection from Britain's master of the genre.Charting tantrums, funerals, pregnancy and love affairs, these stories unroll with piercing wit and compassion. One woman finds... -
Notes on the Death of Culture: Essays on Spectacle and Society by Mario Vargas Llosa
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'The most approachable and exhilarating Latin American writer of our times.' Robert McCrum, ObserverIn the past, culture was a kind of vital consciousness that constantly rejuvenated and revivified... -
Dreams From My Mother Dame Elizabeth Anionwu 9781841885223
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02What a page turner of a book! Dame Elizabeth uncovers the layers of her life from a childhood defined by secrets, to discovering the identity of her father, to her political awakening, and her... -
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Anne Fadiman is the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, and who once found herself poring over a 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only thing in her... -
North Seamus Heaney 9780571377794
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51This edition of Seamus Heaney's seminal fourth collection North, reproduced in its elegant first setting and in its original jacket, marks fifty years since first publication in 1975.By conjuring... -
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome 9781847496539
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.51What could be better during the golden age of boating on the Thames than a relaxing row up the river? So think J., George and Harris - not forgetting Montmorency the dog - but little do they suspect... -
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'The story of the negro in America is the story of America ... it is not a very pretty story'James Baldwin's breakthrough essay collection made him the voice of his generation. Ranging over Harlem in... -
How to Use a Fork: Stories of Mending the Broken Brain by Orlando Swayne 9781035064335
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25'An incredible voyage of discovery . . . intensely moving and awe-inspiring' - Marina Hyde'A moving, thoughtful and truly fascinating read' - Abi Morgan, author of This is Not a Pity Memoir'Witty,... -
The Thirty-Nine Steps by Charles Buchan
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.13When Richard Hannay finds the corpse of freelance spy Franklin P. Scudder in his London flat, he goes on the run, fearing that his life is in danger. Scudder had previously revealed that he was... -
Emma by Jane Austen 9780141439587
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £5.99'Her masterpiece, mixing the sparkle of her early books with a deep sensibility' Robert McCrum, ObserverAlthough described by Jane Austen as a character 'whom no one but myself will much like', the... -
A Plea For Eros by Siri Hustvedt
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED AND A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN'A luminous collection of mind-expanding pieces on literary and philosophical themes . . . A... -
The Victorians by A. N. Wilson 9780099451860
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.71People, not abstract ideas, make history, and nowhere is this more revealed than in A. N. Wilson's superb portrait of the Victorians, in which hundreds of different lives have been pieced together to... -
Transparent Imprint by Michael Barnard 9781447251200
Booksplease Price: £10.42When news of Macmillan's planned 'first novels' imprint leaked out in the Spring of last year, there was extensive coverage in the press, on radio and on web blogs. The Guardian called it 'Ryanair... -
Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed 9781642590029
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.21Ten Days That Shook the World is an undisputed classic of political reportage. A stunning first-hand account overflowing with urgency and immediacy, Reed's masterpiece lives and breathes the... -
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The Victorians by A. N. Wilson 9780099451860 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.52People, not abstract ideas, make history, and nowhere is this more revealed than in A. N. Wilson's superb portrait of the Victorians, in which hundreds of different lives have been pieced together to... -
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The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language by Mark Forsyth 9781848313071 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.41'Witty and erudite ... stuffed with the kind of arcane information that nobody strictly needs to know, but which is a pleasure to learn nonetheless.' Nick Duerden, Independent.'Particularly good ..... -
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language Mark Forsyth 9781785781704
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.60THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Witty and erudite ... stuffed with the kind of arcane information that nobody strictly needs to know, but which is a pleasure to learn nonetheless.' Nick... -
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The Great Wall: China Against the World 1000 BC - AD 2000 by Julia Lovell 9781843542155 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.78Legendarily 2,200 years old and 4,300 miles long, China's Great Wall seems to be a confident physical statement made by an advanced civilization, anxious to draw a line between itself and the...