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The Grandmothers by Doris Lessing
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10Four novellas by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, that once again show her to be unequalled in her ability to capture the truth of the human condition. The title... -
The Memoirs of a Survivor by Doris Lessing
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10A compelling vision of a disorietating and barbaric future from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Many years in the future, city life has broken down, communications... -
The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing
Booksplease Price: $15.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Nobel Prize 2007.Book InformationISBN 9780679721826Author Doris LessingFormat Paperb -
On Cats by Doris Lessing 9780007285518
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.22A collection of charming and celebrated writings about cats, from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Doris Lessing's love affair with cats began at a young age, when... -
Shikasta by Doris Lessing 9780006547198
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The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10The landmark novel of the Sixties - a powerful account of a woman searching for her personal, political and professional identity while facing rejection and betrayal. In 1950s London,... -
The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing 9780586089033
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.37A classic tale from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, of a family torn apart by the arrival of Ben, their feral fifth child. 'Listening to the laughter, the sounds... -
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing 9780061582486
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $20.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061582486Author Doris LessingFormat PaperbackImprint -
Jimfish by Christopher Hope
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.94In the 1980s, a small man is pulled up out of the Indian Ocean in Port Pallid, SA, claiming to have been kidnapped as a baby. The Sergeant, whose job it is to sort the local people by colour, and... -
Briefing for a Descent Into Hell by Doris Lessing 9780006548089
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.99A study of a man beyond the verge of a nervous breakdown, this is a brilliant and disturbing novel by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Penniless, rambling and... -
The Golden Notebook (Collins Modern Classics) by Doris Lessing
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will... -
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Alfred and Emily by Doris Lessing 9780007240173 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $3.16Doris Lessing's first book after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature revisits her childhood in Southern Africa and the lives, both fictional and factual, that her parents led. 'I think... -
Mara and Dann by Doris Lessing 9780006550839 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $4.22A visionary novel from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. It is sooner than you might think. And the Earth's climate is much changed - it's colder than ever before in... -
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London Observed by Doris Lessing 9780586092262 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $3.78Across eighteen short stories, Lessing dissects London and its inhabitants with the power for truth and compassion to be expected of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. 'During that first... -
The Sweetest Dream by Doris Lessing 9780006552307 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $3.16Nobel Prize for Literature winner Doris Lessing tackles the 1960s and their legacy head-on in one of her most involving, personal, political novels. It's the morning of the 1960s and it's... -
The Marriages Between Zones 3, 4 and 5 by Doris Lessing 9780006547204
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the second instalment in the visionary novel cycle 'Canopus in Argos: Archives'. This is the story of the kindly Queen... -
Red List: MI5 and British Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century by David Caute
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.10In the popular imagination MI5, or the Security Service, is known chiefly as the branch of the British state responsible for chasing down those who endanger national security-from Nazi fifth... -
Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949-1962 by Doris Lessing 9780006388890
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.97The second volume of the autobiography of Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. 'Walking in the Shade' begins in 1949, as Doris Lessing arrives in London with nothing... -
The Scorpion God: Three Short Novels (introduced by Charlotte Higgins) by William Golding
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'Visionary.' Bettany Hughes'Tremendous.' Ben Okri'Luminous.' Rose TremainEven when he leapt from the parapet he talked.Ancient Egypt. The Prince is set to marry Pretty Flower, his sister, in the... -
Free Fall by William Golding
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'Marvellous.' A.S. Byatt'Astonishing.' John Gray'Luminous.' Rose TremainI could take whichever I would of these paths.Sammy Mountjoy is an artist who has risen from poverty to see his pictures hung... -
A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.54On his travels through the wild mountainous terrain of the Caucasus, the narrator of A Hero of Our Time chances upon the veteran soldier and storyteller Maxim Maximych, who relates to him the dubious... -
The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem by Julie Phillips
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08What does it mean to create, not in "a room of one's own" but in a domestic space? Do children and genius rule each other out? In The Baby on the Fire Escape, award-winning biographer Julie Phillips... -
Free Woman by Lara Feigel
Booksplease Price: $15.79'A fascinating mix of literary criticism, cultural history and memoir ... Highly enjoyable' Sunday Times How might we live more freely, and will we be happier or lonelier if we do? Rereading The... -
The Book of Not by Tsitsi Dangarembga
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THIS MOURNABLE BODY and NERVOUS CONDITIONSONE OF THE BBC'S 100 WOMEN FOR 2020As Zimbabwe emerges into independence, Tambudzai Sigauke embarks on her second... -
The Inheritors by William Golding
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.47Hunt, trek, and feast among Neanderthals in this stunning novel by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, introduced by Ben Okri.This was a different voice; not the voice of the... -
Great Writers and the Cats who Owned Them Susannah Fullerton 9781851246540
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.28Throughout history, cats and writers have bonded together in a magical combination of comfort, companionship and inspiration. The famous authors featured here range from Samuel Johnson, whose cat... -
The Housemaid's Daughter Barbara Mutch 9780755392124
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.72Duty and love collide on the arid plains of central South Africa. Previously released as 'Karoo Plainsong' this is a fully revised debut novel.Cathleen Harrington leaves her home in Ireland in 1919... -
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga 9780571368129
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THIS MOURNABLE BODY, ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 WOMEN FOR 2020 'UNFORGETTABLE' Alice Walker 'THIS IS THE BOOK WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR' Doris Lessing 'A UNIQUE... -
Dissolve Nikki Gemmell 9780733650635
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'Every woman on Earth should read it' Caroline Overington, Weekend AustralianHaving lived through the humiliation and bewildering complexity of heartbreak in her twenties, Nikki Gemmell eventually... -
The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them by Antonia Fraser
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.73The inspiration for the annual Pleasure of Reading Prize A charming and revealing collection of essays from some of our best-loved writers about the pleasures of reading, with royalties donated to... -
The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.58THE RESISTANCE STARTS NOWA group of rebels have united to save a world ravaged by war, violence and greed. Joan is their leader. Jean de Men is their foe. The future of humanity is being rewritten . ... -
Monsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People? by Claire Dederer 9781399715072
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.06'How rare and nourishing this sort of roaming thought is and what a joy to read' MEGAN NOLAN, Sunday Times'An exhilarating, shape-shifting exploration of the perilous boundaries between art and life'... -
Tastes of Honey: The Making of Shelagh Delaney and a Cultural Revolution by Professor Selina Todd 9781784703486
Booksplease Price: $17.63'A sympathetic and perceptive account of a fine writer at a critical moment in our cultural life' KEN LOACHOn 27 May 1958, A Taste of Honey opened in a small fringe theatre in London. Written by a... -
The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $26.14A beautiful fairytale filled with unexpected plot twists. ... -
James Merrill Poems James Merrill 9781841598086
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04James Merrill once called his poetic works 'chronicles of love and loss', and in twenty books written over four decades he used the details of his life - comic and haunting, exotic and domestic - to... -
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence 9780141441498
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Banned and vindicated, condemned and lauded, Lady Chatterley's Lover is D.H. Lawrence's seminal novel of illicit passion and forbidden desire. Lady Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless... -
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) by Virginia Woolf
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $8.39'Brilliant interweaving of personal experience, imaginative musing and political clarity' Kate Mosse Virginia Woolf exposes the prejudices and constraints against which women writers... -
Under The Frog by Tibor Fischer
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04Tibor Fischer's hilarious first novel follows the adventures of two young Hungarian basketball players through the turbulent years between the end of World War II and the revolution of 1956. In this... -
Mrs Dalloway (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) by Virginia Woolf
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04'Sheer magic' Eileen Atkins, Daily MailDiscover one of the most famous and ground-breaking pieces of twentieth century literature about one day in the mind of woman as she prepares to give a party... -
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence 9780141192482
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful,...