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Young, newly married and intensely ambitious, Michael Davenport is trying to make a living as a writer. His adoring wife, Lucy, has a private fortune that he won't touch in case it compromises his art. She in turn is never quite certain of what is...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics,...

'Wharton's dazzling skills as a stylist, creator of character, ironical observer and unveiler of passionate, thwarted emotions have earned her a devoted following' Sunday TimesNewland Archer and May Welland are the perfect couple. He is a wealthy young...

SOON TO BE FEATURED ON THE GRAHAM NORTON BOOK CLUB PODCAST ON AUDIBLEDiscover Albert French's haunting first novel; a story of racial injustice, as unsentimental as it is heartbreaking.The tale of Billy Lee Turner, a ten-year-old boy convicted of the...

Evan Shepard is a young man with a chequered past when he first meets the Drakes, after his car breaks down outside their house. Behind him, he has a troubled adolescence, a failed marriage and a little daughter, but his meeting with the quiet and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957671475Author Nikki MoustakiFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint CliffsnotesPublisher CliffsnotesWeight(grams) 77g

Meet the Wapshots of St Botolphs. There is Captain Leander Wapshot, venerable sea-dog and would-be suicide; his licentious older son, Moses; and Moses's adoring and errant younger brother, Coverly. Tragic and funny, ribald and splendidly picaresque, and...

This is the definitive collection of short stories by Saul Bellow. Abundant, precise, various, rich and exuberant, the stories display the stylistic and emotional brilliance which characterizes this master of prose. Some stories recount the events of a...

As dramatized on Radio 4 and seen on Netflix, Nella Larsen's Passing is a distinctive and revealing novel about racial identity, and a key text of the Harlem Renaissance.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket...

William Grove is a nervous teenager trying to fit in at his new boarding school. Jack Draper is a teacher whose wife is cheating on him with one of his colleagues. Edith Stone is the daughter of the English master who falls in love with the most popular...

'Amazing' Reese Witherspoon'Heart-rending' Taylor Jenkins Reid 'Luminous and moving!' Kate Quinn'Unforgettable' Kristen HarmelThe heartbreaking and completely unputdownable instant New York Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick about the...

Featuring short stories from F. Scott Fitzgerald, Anita Loos, Dorothy Parker, Zora Neale Hurston and more Edited and Introduced by David M. Earle Vivacious, charming, irreverent: a flapper is a girl who knows how to have a roaring good time. In...

This novel is one of the most ambitious and remarkable literary achievements of our time. It is a picaresque, psychological novel-a novel of the road, a journey or voyage of the human spirit in its search for reality in a world of illusion and nightmare...

VINTAGE CLASSICS' AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIESSpine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics.A landmark in American fiction, Light in August explores Faulkner's central...

A merchant seaman is the sole survivor when his ship is sunk in a battle in the South Pacific. Badly burned, he is stripped of every shred of identity and cast into the sea, naked, faceless, nameless. Rescued and lying in a Pearl Harbor hospital, he is...

Spolit, feckless Temple Drake, the daughter of a judge, runs away from school with an unsuitable man. Abandoned by him with a gang of moonshiners, Temple falls into the clutches of the psychotic Popeye, one of the most grotesque characters of Faulkner's...

Fitzgerald's beloved account of the devastating costs of the American dream gets a fittingly gorgeous update in this high-end art-book edition, elaborately decorated by the famed Italian illustrators known at the Balbusso Twins. Featuring more than fifty...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598537529Author William FaulknerFormat HardbackPage Count 1150Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America

Discover Ernest Hemingway's most decadent novel'He's so damned nice and he's so awful. He's my sort of thing'Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley,...

'Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.'One of the great literary curios of the twentieth century Save Me the Waltz is the first and only novel by the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald. During the years when Fitzgerald was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496715883Author Ellen Marie WisemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

'The past is never dead. It's not even past.'Nancy, a black nursemaid, is about to be hanged for killing her mistress's baby. The mother, Temple Drake, knows the reason why. The night before the execution, a lawyer pleads with Temple to intercede, but...

Sometimes it's the most unlikely meetings that give us life's greatest gifts.1970s, Southern Alabama. Sixty-two-year-old Jeremiah Lewis Taylor, or "Nub," has spent his whole life listening to those he loves tell him he's no good-first his ex-wife, now...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376196Author E. E. CummingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

Dean Corde is a man of position and authority at a Chicago university. He accompanies his wife to Bucharest where her mother, a celebrated figure, lies dying in a state hospital. As he tries to help her grapple with an unfeeling bureaucracy, news filters...

A poignant story of the inability to capture lost youth, by the Nobel Prize-winning author of A Farewell to Arms.'Luck is a feast which doesn't stay in one place'Richard Cantrell is an American colonel living in Venice just after the Second World War...

It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentuckhy, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. The worlds of Halle and Paul D. are to be destroyed in a cataclysm of torment and agony. The world of Sethe, however, is to turn from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957671499Author Tammy CastlemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint CliffsnotesPublisher CliffsnotesWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 133mm * 6mm

INCLUDES A READING GUIDETerrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe's...

The Sun Also Rises is both a tragic love story and a searing group portrait of hapless American expatriates drinking, dancing, and chasing their illusions in post-World War I Europe. The man at its centre, world-weary journalist Jake Barnes, is burdened...

Out of print for over seventy years, Gentleman Overboard by Herbert Clyde Lewis is being rescued for today's readers to launch Boiler House Press's new series, Recovered Books. Halfway between Honolulu and Panama, a man slips and falls from a ship. For...

Part novel, part Pop artwork, Andy Warhol's a is an electrifying slice of life at his Factory studio'A work of genius' NewsweekIn the early 1960s, Andy Warhol set out to turn the novel into pop art. a, the first book he wrote, is the result. Transcribed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789533514376Author Angela RodelFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Sandorf PassagePublisher Sandorf PassageWeight(grams) 712g

______________________________________Hemingway's last major novel, set in the Gulf Stream islands, captures the struggles of adult personal relationships in his consummate distinctive style.This is the last book Hemingway wrote before he died, the story...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598537758Author Walker PercyFormat HardbackPage Count 1000Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America

VINTAGE CLASSICS' HARLEM RENAISSANCE SERIES Celebrating the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important Black arts movements in modern history.'Why not? She's just as a good as the rest, and you know what they say, "the blacker the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for United States National Book Awards: Fiction 1998.Book InformationISBN 9780374270322Author Tom WolfeFormat HardbackPage Count 742Imprint Farrar, Straus &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250239365Author Shirley JacksonFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 147mm * 94mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645178569Author Ernest HemingwayFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Readerlink Distribution Services, LLCPublisher Readerlink Distribution Services,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598537147Author James Scott West IIIFormat HardbackPage Count 756Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America