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The Ghost Stories of M. R. James by Roger Luckhurst
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.83The second in a series of republished classic literature, The Ghost Stories of M. R. James collects the tales that best illustrate his quiet mastery of the ghost story form. Running through each of... -
The Cornish Coast Murder by John Bude
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Never, even in his most optimistic moments, had he visualised a scene of this nature - himself in one arm-chair, a police officer in another, and between them - a mystery.' The Reverend Dodd,... -
Resorting to Murder: Holiday Mysteries Martin Edwards 9780712357487
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Holidays offer us the luxury of getting away from it all. So, in a different way, do detective stories. This collection of vintage mysteries combines both those pleasures. From a golf course at the... -
Astrology in Medieval Manuscripts Sophie Page 9780712352109
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31The art of predicting earthly events from the movements of stars and planets has always been a source of fascination. Medieval astrologers, though sometimes feared to be magicians in league with... -
Verdict of Twelve Raymond Postgate 9780712356749
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78A woman is on trial for her life, accused of murder. The twelve members of the jury each carry their own secret burden of guilt and prejudice which could affect the outcome.In this extraordinary... -
Around the World in 80 Maps Clare Hibbert 9780712356930
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.80Sumptuously illustrated with eighty maps from the British Library's unrivalled collection, this gorgeous children's book whisks its reader around the globe. Like that of Jules Verne's famous hero,... -
The Bard in Brief: Shakespeare in Quotations by Hannah Manktelow 9780712356336
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £10.80Widely acknowledged to be the greatest dramatist in the English language, William Shakespeare is also one of the most quoted writers of all time. His plays and sonnets influenced the history of the... -
![A Scream in Soho by John G. Brandon 9780712357456 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5686571/5763821/9780712357456__03439.1726110354.jpg?c=1 "A Scream in Soho by John G. Brandon 9780712357456 [USED COPY]")
A Scream in Soho by John G. Brandon 9780712357456 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.72'For a scream in the early hours of the morning in Soho, even from a female throat, to stop dead in his tracks a hard-boiled constable, it had to be something entirely out of the ordinary.' Soho... -
![Wartime Nursery Rhymes: A First World War Collection by Nina MacDonald 9780712357364 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/6054115/6131120/9780712357364__31621.1732434455.jpg?c=1 "Wartime Nursery Rhymes: A First World War Collection by Nina MacDonald 9780712357364 [USED COPY]")
Wartime Nursery Rhymes: A First World War Collection by Nina MacDonald 9780712357364 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £2.90"This little pig flew to Margate, And this little pig went too, The first little pig dropped a bomb on the town, And the second dropped another, then flew. But both little pigs were shot in the air,... -
![The Sussex Downs Murder by John Bude 9780712357968 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/6226629/6303575/9780712357968__06711.1736779951.jpg?c=1 "The Sussex Downs Murder by John Bude 9780712357968 [USED COPY]")
The Sussex Downs Murder by John Bude 9780712357968 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.25'Already it looked as if the police were up against a carefully planned and cleverly executed murder, and, what was more, a murder without a corpse!' Two brothers, John and William Rother, live... -
The Finishing Touch: Cosmetics Through the Ages by Julian Walker 9780712357524
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £12.16The quest for physical beauty is essentially as old as Woman herself', according to A Complete Guide to Personal Loveliness from 1937. This fascinating new book explores some of the materials and... -
London: A History in Maps by Peter Barber 9780712358798
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £32.83Over the past 2000 years London has developed from a small town, fitting snugly within its walls, into one of the world's largest and most dynamic cities. This book illustrates and helps to explain... -
![A Book of Book Lists: A Bibliophile's Compendium by Alex Johnson 9780712352253 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9655859/10672579/9780712352253__87430.1781279393.jpg?c=1 "A Book of Book Lists: A Bibliophile's Compendium by Alex Johnson 9780712352253 [USED COPY]")
A Book of Book Lists: A Bibliophile's Compendium by Alex Johnson 9780712352253 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £4.70This is a book of book lists. Not of the '1,001 Books You MUST Read Before You Die' variety but lists that tell stories. Lists that make you smile, make you wonder, and see titles together in... -
![Painted Labyrinth: The World of the Lindisfarne Gospels by Michelle P. Brown 9780712348119 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9710973/10727652/9780712348119__91542.1781370749.jpg?c=1 "Painted Labyrinth: The World of the Lindisfarne Gospels by Michelle P. Brown 9780712348119 [USED COPY]")
Painted Labyrinth: The World of the Lindisfarne Gospels by Michelle P. Brown 9780712348119 [USED COPY]
RRP: £5.95Booksplease Price: £2.53Published to coincide with a British Library exhibition of the same name, "Painted Labyrinth: The World of the Lindisfarne Gospels" looks at the background and history of this breathtaking artwork... -
Murder at the Manor: Country House Mysteries by Martin Edwards 9780712309936
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The English country house is an iconic setting for some of the greatest British crime fiction. Short stories are an important part of this tradition, and writers from Agatha Christie to Margery... -
Foreign Bodies by Martin Edwards 9780712356992
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Today, translated crime fiction is in vogue - but this was not always the case. A century before Scandi noir, writers across Europe and beyond were publishing detective stories of high quality. Often... -
Thirteen Guests J. Jefferson Farjeon 9780712356015
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78No observer, ignorant of the situation, would have guessed that death lurked nearby, and that only a little distance from the glitter of silver and glass and the hum of voices two victims lay silent... -
Family Matters Anthony Rolls 9780712356695
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78'The characters are quite extraordinarily living...A most original and grimly farcical situation' - Dorothy L. SayersRobert Arthur Kewdingham is an eccentric failure of a man. In middle age he... -
The End of the Web George Sims 9780712356824
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16Leo Selver, a middle-aged antiques dealer, is stunned when the beautiful and desirable Judy Latimer shows an interest in him. Soon they are lying in each other's arms, unaware that this embrace will... -
Beauty, What it is and How to Retain it by A Lady 9780712358859
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £8.78'At night the teeth should be cleaned with a very soft brush of badger's hair.' 'Hair should be brushed for twenty minutes night and morning' 'Paint is used, we believe, by some absurd women, on the... -
Magna Carta: Manuscripts and Myths by Claire Breay 9780712358330
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.72The Magna Carta is one of the most celebrated documents in English history and one of the British Library's greatest treasures. But despite this, the reinterpretations of it since 1215 have tended to... -
Pleasures of the Table: A Literary Anthology by Christina Hardyment 9780712357807
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £25.27This beautifully illustrated collection of food writing includes delectable scenes of cooking and feasting from novels and stories, poems that use food to tempt and seduce, and fine writing by and... -
![The Philosophy of Beards by Thomas S. Gowing 9780712357661 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9655864/10672584/9780712357661__89385.1781279397.jpg?c=1 "The Philosophy of Beards by Thomas S. Gowing 9780712357661 [USED COPY]")
The Philosophy of Beards by Thomas S. Gowing 9780712357661 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £1.97'The absence of Beard is usually a sign of physical and moral weakness.' 'Take two drawings of the head of a lion, one with and the other without the mane. You will see how much of the majesty of... -
![Murder of a Lady by Anthony Wynne 9780712356237 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9682827/10699547/9780712356237__10413.1781304524.jpg?c=1 "Murder of a Lady by Anthony Wynne 9780712356237 [USED COPY]")
Murder of a Lady by Anthony Wynne 9780712356237 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.19Duchlan Castle is a gloomy, forbidding place in the Scottish Highlands. Late one night the body of Mary Gregor, sister of the laird of Duchlan, is found in the castle. She has been stabbed to death... -
![Penguins, Pineapples and Pangolins: First Encounters with the Exotic by Claire Cock-Starkey 9780712356367 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9710975/10727654/9780712356367__72727.1781370750.jpg?c=1 "Penguins, Pineapples and Pangolins: First Encounters with the Exotic by Claire Cock-Starkey 9780712356367 [USED COPY]")
Penguins, Pineapples and Pangolins: First Encounters with the Exotic by Claire Cock-Starkey 9780712356367 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £3.62Can you remember seeing a giraffe for the first time? Tasting a pineapple? Touching a cactus? Probably not, because in these modern times everyone is very knowing - knowledge is at our fingertips and... -
Sea Monsters on Medieval by Chet van Duzer 9780712357715
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.49The sea monsters on medieval and Renaissance maps, whether swimming vigorously, gambolling amid the waves, attacking ships, or simply displaying themselves for our appreciation, are one of the most... -
Death on the Riviera by John Bude 9780712356374
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02When a counterfeit currency racket comes to light on the French Riviera, Detective Inspector Meredith is sent speeding southwards - out of the London murk to the warmth and glitter of the... -
The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'All his stories are amusing, intriguing, and he is a master of the final twist' - Agatha Christie'One of the most stunning trick stories in the history of detective fiction' - Julian SymonsGraham... -
The Methods of Sergeant Cluff Gil North 9780712356473
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16After battling for justice, at great personal risk, in his first recorded case, Sergeant Caleb Cluff made a swift return to duty in this book. The story opens one wet and windy night, with the... -
Serpents in Eden: Countryside Crimes Martin Edwards 9780712357944
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78An eclectic mix of crime stories written over half a century. From a tale of poison-pen letters tearing apart a village community to a macabre mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle, the stories collected... -
Portrait of a Murderer: A Christmas Crime Story by Anne Meredith 9780712356862
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78'Powerful and impressive ...there is a fine inevitability in the plot structure which gives it true tragic quality' - Dorothy L. SayersAdrian Gray was born in May 1862 and met his death through... -
The Writer Abroad: Literary Travels from Austria to Uzbekistan by Lucinda Hawksley 9780712357876
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £14.32From the grand tour to the global village, novelists and poets have made particularly observant travellers. Many writers have been prone to wanderlust, eager to explore the world and draw inspiration... -
Dogs: A Literary Anthology by Catherine Bradley 9780712357760
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £16.24'Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends'. - Alexander PopeThroughout the history of writing, dogs have captivated their owners with their loyalty and playfulness... -
![Thirteen Guests by J. Jefferson Farjeon 9780712356015 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9682822/10699542/9780712356015__62986.1781304520.jpg?c=1 "Thirteen Guests by J. Jefferson Farjeon 9780712356015 [USED COPY]")
Thirteen Guests by J. Jefferson Farjeon 9780712356015 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.09No observer, ignorant of the situation, would have guessed that death lurked nearby, and that only a little distance from the glitter of silver and glass and the hum of voices two victims lay silent... -
![Comic, Curious and Quirky: News Stories from Centuries Past by Rona F. Levin 9780712357722 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9710980/10727659/9780712357722__23982.1781370761.jpg?c=1 "Comic, Curious and Quirky: News Stories from Centuries Past by Rona F. Levin 9780712357722 [USED COPY]")
Comic, Curious and Quirky: News Stories from Centuries Past by Rona F. Levin 9780712357722 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £2.53This book is an eclectic collection of humorous, bizarre and quirky newspaper stories spanning the 1700s to 1900s. It reveals life's (often avoidable) daily perils such as the woman who poisoned her... -
Calamity in Kent John Rowland 9780712357838
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40In the peaceful seaside town of Broadgate, an impossible crime occurs. The operator of the cliff railway locks the empty carriage one evening; when he returns to work next morning, a dead body is... -
The Last Best Friend George Sims 9780712356848
Booksplease Price: £4.83"The small man standing on the narrow ledge stared fixedly forward with eyes made wide and blank by terror." At 2pm on a Monday in 1966, Ned Balfour wakes in Corsica beside a beautiful woman. In the... -
The Z Murders by J. Jefferson Farjeon 9780712356213
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78'Jefferson Farjeon is quite unsurpassed for creepy skill in mysterious adventures.'Dorothy L. SayersRichard Temperley arrives at Euston station early on a fogbound London morning. He takes refuge in... -
Death of Anton by Alan Melville 9780712357883
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78'There's more crime going on in Carey's Circus than in the whole underworld of London. Theft, immorality, blackmail - you'll find all the pretties here.'Seven Bengal tigers are the star attraction of... -
![Death of an Airman by Christopher St John Sprigg 9780712356152 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/6177678/6254631/9780712356152__75747.1736596038.jpg?c=1 "Death of an Airman by Christopher St John Sprigg 9780712356152 [USED COPY]")
Death of an Airman by Christopher St John Sprigg 9780712356152 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £3.60Death of an Airman is an enjoyable and unorthodox whodunit from a writer whose short life was as remarkable as that of any of his fictional creations. When an aeroplane crashes, and its pilot is...