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Shadows in Summerland by Adrian Van Young
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $29.29"An extraordinary novel sure to enchant readers of Sarah Waters as well as those looking for a thrilling and transporting gothic tale." -Julia Fierro, author of The Gypsy Moth Summer The author of... -
Chasing the Dark: The Story of Britain's Most Famous Paranormal Investigator and the Question of Life After Death by Ben Machell 9780349146829
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $30.63'One of the best books about the paranormal I have read... Uncannily good' DANNY ROBINS'A fascinating testimony to our nervous hunger to map the hazy, haunted territory at the edges of the rational..... -
The Gilda Stories: The immortal cult classic Jewelle Gomez 9781784878610
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.84'A groundbreaking work of Afrofuturism before the term was even coined' Guardian'A lush, exciting, inspiring read' Sarah WatersThe night hides many things . . .Louisiana, 1850. A young girl escapes... -
Night Wherever We Go by Tracey Rose Peyton
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $23.61Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize 2023 'A hugely impressive debut' SARAH WATERS '[A]... -
Chasing the Dark: The Story of Britain's Most Famous Paranormal Investigator and the Question of Life After Death by Ben Machell 9780349146836
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $26.03'A fascinating testimony to our nervous hunger to map the hazy, haunted territory at the edges of the rational... engrossing, entertaining and distinctly unsettling' Sarah Waters'Shiversomely eerie..... -
Dracula (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Bram Stoker
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $24.02The acclaimed Couture Classics with cover designs by Ruben Toledo have become collector's items in the worlds of literature, fashion, design, and popular culture. Now, Toledo's signature style graces... -
New Directions: Writing Post 1990 by Fiona Tolan 9781408204771
RRP: $22.50Booksplease Price: $18.10A York Notes Companion for students of contemporary literature, this volume looks at the literature of our own times, shaped by recent experiences from millennial anxieties to the events of 9/11... -
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte 9781857150025
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $23.56The title of the novel comes from the Yorkshire manor on the moors of the story. The narrative centres on the all-encompassing, passionate, but ultimately doomed love between Catherine Earnshaw and... -
Erotic Stories Rowan Pelling 9781841596143
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $22.29A perfect gift of timeless erotic stories ranging from ancient Greek myth to modern stories of longing and lust. This beautifully jacketed Everyman's Library Pocket Classics hardcover anthology has a... -
The Cambridge Companion to Gay and Lesbian Writing by Hugh Stevens 9780521716574
RRP: $52.65Booksplease Price: $44.69In the last two decades, lesbian and gay studies have transformed literary studies and developed into a vital and influential area for students and scholars. This Companion introduces readers to the... -
The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey 9780241639139
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily TelegraphAbducted, beaten, hidden in an attic, a young woman stages an audacious escape. But is... -
Trauma and Romance in Contemporary British Literature Jean-Michel Ganteau (Universite Paul Valery, France) 9781138108028
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $87.34Drawing on a variety of theoretical approaches including trauma theory, psychoanalysis, genre theory, narrative theory, theories of temporality, cultural theory, and ethics, this book breaks new... -
Dope Girls: The Birth Of The British Drug Underground by Marek Kohn 9781862076181
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.14This is a discussion of the transformation of drug use (especially morphine and cocaine, which was once commonly available in any chemist's shop) into a national menace. It revolves around the death... -
Our Shadow Selves VG Lee 9781068389382
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.39In the crumbling seaside town of Hawksbridge, Shona finds kinship with the eccentric Gifford family living illegally in a derelict building. Their stories of survival give her the courage to paint... -
Dope Girls: The Birth Of The British Drug Underground Dr Marek Kohn 9781803511634
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE HIT TV SERIES STARRING ELIZA SCANLEN AND JULIANNE NICHOLSON 27 November 1918, London. Just days after the end of the Great War, rising star Billie Carleton took to the... -
Mr Fox by Helen Oyeyemi 9781035063758
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64'Funny, deep, shocking, wry, heartwarming and spine-chilling' The GuardianMr Fox, by award-winning author Helen Oyeyemi, is a beautiful and immersive exploration of the labyrinthine world of... -
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte 9781847493736
RRP: $13.63Booksplease Price: $11.08A novel of high romance and great intensity, Jane Eyre has enjoyed popular success and critical acclaim ever since its first publication in 1847. Jane's journey from a troubled childhood to... -
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.19WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE; THE ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN AWARD FOR YOUTH LITERATURE; THE STONEWALL BOOK AWARD (YA); THE PRINTZ... -
Adult Onset Ann-Marie MacDonald 9781473610156
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64'Ann-Marie MacDonald captures the dark hilarity of parenthood like nobody else. I gulped down Adult Onset in a single day.' EMMA DONOGHUE, author of ROOM 'A complex, troubling novel that cuts with... -
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.37'Brimming from start to finish with sly humour and gothic mischief' SARAH WATERS 'Beguilingly clever, very sexy and seriously frightening' GUARDIAN... -
Nuclear Family by Kate Davies 9780008536619
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.21'Funny, poignant, smart and wonderfully, achingly real' SARAH WATERS 'I can't think of another author who can make me ricochet so quickly from painful empathy to helpless laughter' ERIN... -
Impromptu in Moribundia by Patrick Hamilton
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64'I recommend Hamilton at every opportunity, because he was such a wonderful writer and yet is rather under-read today. All his novels are terrific' Sarah Waters'If you were looking to fly from... -
Environmental Protest and the State in France by G. Hayes 9780333990438
Booksplease Price: $176.59This book discusses the issues and strategies which have characterized the environmental campaigns mounted against recent controversial infrastructure projects in France. Focusing on the changing... -
The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64'All his novels are terrific, but this one is my favourite' Sarah WatersPatrick Hamilton's novels were the inspiration for Matthew Bourne's new dance theatre production, The Midnight Bell.Measuring... -
Craven House by Patrick Hamilton
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64'All his novels are terrific' Sarah WatersPatrick Hamilton's novels were the inspiration for Matthew Bourne's new dance theatre production, The Midnight Bell.In Craven House, among the shifting,... -
Calypso by Oliver K. Langmead 9781803365336
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $16.63"Thoughtful, elegant, exciting - I loved it." Sarah Waters A ground-breaking, mind-bending and wildly imaginative epic verse revolution in SF. A saga of colony ships, shattering moons and... -
The Soul Thief S L Howe 9780008695811
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.12A brand new gothic horror for fans of Sarah Waters and Carly Reagon At the end of a long nightshift at the hospital Dr Warren Carter is offered a nightcap by a beautiful young... -
The House on Rye Lane by Susan Allott 9780008567156
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $19.48'Sublime, elegant and exciting... beautifully written and entirely gripping. I'm a big fan of Susan Allott' CHRIS WHITAKER 'The lovechild of Sarah Waters' The Paying Guests and Lisa... -
The Undoing of Violet Claybourne: The captivating 1930s-set mystery of family secrets, lies and the darkest deception Emily Critchley 9781804185100
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.67A dark, captivating novel of family secrets, desperate ambition and the deepest betrayal . . . TO BE ONE OF THEM, SHE WILL DO WHATEVER IT TAKES.1938. Gillian Larking is used to blending in and going... -
What Girls Do in the Dark by Rosie Garland
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.84Rosie Garland's dauntless and enthralling new poetry collection, What Girls Do in the Dark, invites us to leap into deep space - across a universe where light, names, place and time become the... -
The Digested Twenty-first Century by John Crace 9781780338583
Booksplease Price: $40.37John Crace's Digested Read first appeared in in February 2000 and has been running ever since. Each week Crace reduces a new book - anything from a Booker Prize winner to a Nigella cookery book is... -
The Victorian Woman Question in Contemporary Feminist Fiction by J. King 9781403917270
Booksplease Price: $91.14The Victorian Woman Question in Contemporary Feminist Fiction explores the representation of Victorian womanhood in the work of some of today's most important British and North American novelists... -
Winter Love by Han Suyin 9781739462505
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.42"Winter Love is startlingly good: an intense, compelling story of illicit desire and heartbreak that's also a fabulous evocation of worn-out wartime life. A blistering, unsettling, darkly romantic... -
The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50'One of the great British novels of the twentieth century: a narrative of extraordinary reach, power and beauty' Sarah WatersThe nuns who enter a medieval Norfolk convent are told to renounce the... -
Neo-Victorian Fiction and Historical Narrative: The Victorians and Us by L. Hadley 9780230551565
Booksplease Price: $158.85Placing the popular genre of neo-Victorian fiction within the context of the contemporary cultural fascination with the Victorians, this book argues that these novels are distinguished by a... -
In the Dark by Deborah Moggach 9780099507123
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.17From the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel1916. Pretty Eithne Clay runs a ramshackle South London boarding house with the help of her teenage son, Ralph, and their maid, Winnie... -
Dark is the Morning Rupert Thomson 9781035909629
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $29.72Sometimes love isn't where you belongIn a mountain village in the Abruzzo region of Italy, Gino, a troubled young man, realises that his childhood sweetheart Franca can give his life the happiness... -
A Wreath Of Roses Elizabeth Taylor 9781844087129
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.64Spending the holiday with friends, as she has for many years, Camilla finds that their private absorptions - Frances with her painting and Liz with her baby - seem to exclude her from the gossipy... -
Give Me Everything You've Got Imogen Crimp 9781526691811
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $28.35'A subtle, claustrophobic, seduction of a novel' CLAIRE FULLER'Hypnotic and immersive ... Utterly addictive' COLIN WALSH'A hugely talented writer' SARAH WATERS'Sexy, evocative and unsettling in all... -
Before the Ruins by Victoria Gosling 9781788163804
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.75'Engrossing, beguiling, and with an undertow of menace, Before the Ruins is a masterly debut from a richly talented author.' Sarah Waters 'Jaw-droppingly brilliant writing' Marian Keyes Andy...