geraint Posted 22 February , 2018 Share Posted 22 February , 2018 Good heads up there! I'm off to the Bangor branch tomorrow, eager to spend! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard_Lewis Posted 15 March , 2018 Share Posted 15 March , 2018 I picked up today the story of the 'Journey's End Battalion' by RC Sheriff. I can't recall the precise title as I forgot that I'd bought it and left it in the boot of the car! Still there for now...Cover price £12.99, I think, but only a fiver today. I also bagged a book of first-hand memories of Dunkirk (£3) as well as Ian McGeechan's book on the British Lions (£4). Bernard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulgranger Posted 16 March , 2018 Share Posted 16 March , 2018 The Works is about to try again in Grantham. It's had shops twice here in the past, but closed them down. Third time lucky with the new shop, perhaps. My wife has made it clear I am not to spend all day in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyH Posted 17 March , 2018 Share Posted 17 March , 2018 (edited) The Works at Blooms Garden Centre near Rugby, has 'The Invisible Cross' paperback edition 2017 at £3 (was £9.99), edited by Andrew Davidson from the letters of Colonel Graham Chaplin of the 1st Cameronians, an account of three years in the trenches. Mike. Edited 17 March , 2018 by MikeyH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BereniceUK Posted 21 March , 2018 Share Posted 21 March , 2018 There were several copies of The Journey's End Battalion: The 9th East Surrey in the Great War by Michael Lucas in the Lancaster branch today, priced £5. Also one copy of First World War Posters by Rosalind Ormiston, priced £4, which I bought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyH Posted 4 April , 2018 Share Posted 4 April , 2018 (edited) The Banbury branch has 'Great War Tank - Mark 1V Owner's Workshop Manual', by David Fletcher, published by Haynes. A well illustrated 160 page review of the design, building, and operation of the Mark 1V Tank. Also has chapters on the tanks anatomy, armament, the tank at war, and surviving MK 1V's including the recovery of Deborah. was £22.99 on offer at £6.00. Mike. Edited 4 April , 2018 by MikeyH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaySearching Posted 9 May , 2018 Share Posted 9 May , 2018 Popped into the works at Middlesbrough today for some holiday reading Bought the following for £6.00 several left Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BridgetM Posted 10 May , 2018 Share Posted 10 May , 2018 Why not look at their website and click-and-collect? Don't just rely on what happens to be in the shop you have access to. Assumes you don't feel the need to look through before you buy, but at these prices... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 10 May , 2018 Share Posted 10 May , 2018 (edited) As a pretty much retired bookseller (Old books, not the crud that Waterstones is rammed out with), may I plug three of my colleagues who all sell online by mail order? All have online catalogues: POSTCRIPT BOOKS. This is the mail order end of the old Sandpiper Books, run by a nice fellow called Robert Collie and now based at their distributors in Newton Abbot. They currently have listed 190 titles on the Great War at reduced prices. Their mailing is £2 a pop, so it opens up quite a lot of stuff to those out in the sticks. Robert Collie-as either Sandpiper or Postscript has been the market leader in academic or serious books for a long-time now-and I suspect that the greater number of more recent Great War books that come to be remaindered will go through him. Well worth looking at. BIBLIOPHILE Based near me in East London- been going for donkey's years as well. Tends to be more middle-of-the-road than Postscript but can challenge The Works on titles and price. ACADEMIC BOOK COLLECTION A bit more up market- Has more middle-brow books,strong on Art and Lit but good quality History in every catalogue. The Prop. (an old friend of over 25 years) specialises in knobbling publishers back lists, so that much of what he lists in not available anywhere else. I have no commercial connection with any of these outfits- nor The Works. The Works is fine but the choice is quite limited. There is quite a lot kicking around on the Great War-with more to come. Happy hunting!! Edited 10 May , 2018 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 10 May , 2018 Share Posted 10 May , 2018 Very appreciative of you sharing your colleagues information, a quick look at their websites shows some interesting titles, question is can I afford to buy some more? John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 13 May , 2018 Share Posted 13 May , 2018 On 3/21/2018 at 22:32, BereniceUK said: There were several copies of The Journey's End Battalion: The 9th East Surrey in the Great War by Michael Lucas in the Lancaster branch today, priced £5. Also yesterday in the Works outlet in the Wyevale Garden Centre on the A10 between Cambridge and Royston, near Shepreth. I even bought a copy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scalyback Posted 21 May , 2018 Share Posted 21 May , 2018 Not posted in a while! Haynes. Great War Tank, Owners Manual. £22.99 normally. The Works £6.99 and even cheaper using my points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Scorer Posted 20 July , 2018 Share Posted 20 July , 2018 On 14/11/2016 at 08:11, The Scorer said: I'm bringing this one back to life to report that the Newport shop have "Mapping the Great War" for sale at £8.00 ..... a bargain!! They've still got some copies (yesterday) .... although they're £5 each now!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardenerbill Posted 25 September , 2018 Share Posted 25 September , 2018 Just popped into the Manchester Arndale Works and they have 'Over The Top - Great battles of the First World War' by Martin Marix Evans for £3.00 is it: a) any good or b) worth it at that price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Filsell Posted 26 September , 2018 Share Posted 26 September , 2018 "Just walk on by" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saw119 Posted 9 October , 2018 Share Posted 9 October , 2018 (edited) Just picked up Nick Lloyd's Hundred Days for £3 in the town Works in Sheffield Edited 14 October , 2018 by saw119 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hazelclark Posted 31 October , 2018 Share Posted 31 October , 2018 Purchased Lloyd’s book last night in Edinburgh. Haven’t started though. H Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardenerbill Posted 18 December , 2018 Share Posted 18 December , 2018 Manchester Arndale Works have the following: TANKS - 100 Years of Armoured Warfare by Robin Cross & David Willey & The Tank Museum £10 Tank Hunter: World War One by Craig Moore £6 The Journey's End Battalion: The 9th East Surrey in the Great War by Michael Lucas £5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyH Posted 23 December , 2018 Share Posted 23 December , 2018 (edited) Not the Works, but a local W.H.Smith's branch has 'Tommy' by Richard Holmes in hardback at £6.00, also at the same price 'The Somme', this contains an account of the six phases of the battle taken from the Times History of the Great War, volumes 9,10 and 11. The hardback book was published by the Times in 2018 with a cover price of £18.99. Reproduction is generally good, but a couple of photos are a little murky. Mike. Edited 23 December , 2018 by MikeyH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donald D Posted 5 January , 2019 Share Posted 5 January , 2019 On Thursday in the Works in Luton town centre I bought Richard Van Emden's 1918 for £6.00. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyH Posted 27 February , 2019 Share Posted 27 February , 2019 In the Works in Banbury today 'Dead Wake' by Erik Larson, an account of the last crossing of the Lusitania. Paperback published in 2015, 429 pages. Originally priced at £9.99 marked down to £3, further discount at the till, purchased for £1.50. Mike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Scorer Posted 27 February , 2019 Share Posted 27 February , 2019 There don't seem to be any copies of "Mapping The Great War" in their shops now - unless they're all in one which I haven't visited! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alf mcm Posted 17 March , 2019 Share Posted 17 March , 2019 I ordered 'Tank Hunter World War One' by Craig Moore online from https://www.theworks.co.uk/c/non-fiction-books/history-books and it was delivered to the store {free of charge} only 2 days later. It's a good way of getting books without paying postage. Regards, Alf McM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyH Posted 16 July , 2019 Share Posted 16 July , 2019 (edited) Not the Works, but a discount bookshop in Sheringham, Norfolk (next to the sinkhole!), has a selection of Pen and Sword military titles at good prices. My choice 'Salute of Guns', by Donald Boyd, 2012 edition at £7.99. Mike. Edited 17 July , 2019 by MikeyH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Regiano Posted 31 January , 2020 Share Posted 31 January , 2020 Richard Van Emden's The Road to Passchendaele for £2 at The Works in Wilmslow (out of stock on-line). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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