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Poems That Make Grown Women Cry by Anthony Holden 9781471148644
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.62'A deep and valuable collection that you could rely upon in your time of need' The Times Following the success of their anthology Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, father-and-son team Anthony and Ben... -
Base Notes Adelle Stripe 9781399608602
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25Base Notes chronicles a pre-internet smalltown England of the 1980s and 90s already fading from view. Here memories are triggered by perfumes and their aspirational advertising campaigns, the scenes... -
Accabadora by Michela Murgia
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02One of Elena Ferrante's best 40 books by female writersWhen Maria, the fourth child of a widow, is adopted by the old and childless Bonaria Urrai, her life is instantly transformed - she finally has... -
Girl in the Making Anna Fitzgerald 9780241999349
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'Devastating' Anne Enright'Beautiful' Louise Nealon'Magnificent' Aingeala Flannery'Masterful' Kathleen MacMahonJean Kennedy is a gentle, perceptive girl growing up in a very strange world: suburban... -
Lost in the Spanish Quarter by Heddi Goodrich
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.15Told with intimacy and ferocity and set in the passionate and crumbling Spanish Quarter of Naples, comes a poignant tale of first love - of a place, of a person - where languages and cultures collide... -
A True Blue Idea by Marina Colasanti 9780814346396
Booksplease Price: £21.68Marina Colasanti is a Brazilian journalist, visual artist, and author of over sixty volumes of short stories, poetry, essays, and children's literature. Her books have been translated into several... -
The Passion According to G.H by Clarice Lispector
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95One of Elena Ferrante's Top 40 Books by Women G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in an insane asylum from which dangerous objects have... -
Myths of the Underworld in Contemporary Culture: The Backward Gaze by Judith Fletcher 9780198767091
RRP: £93.00Booksplease Price: £83.93Myths of the Underworld in Contemporary Culture: The Backward Gaze examines a series of twentieth and twenty-first century fictional works that adapt Greco-Roman myths of the catabasis, the heroic... -
Anonymous: The Performance of Hidden Identities by Thomas DeGloma 9780226765136
Booksplease Price: £24.80A rich sociological analysis of how and why we use anonymity. In recent years, anonymity has rocked the political and social landscape. There are countless examples: An anonymous whistleblower was... -
April De Angelis Plays 2: Jumpy; The Village; A Laughing Matter; Rune; Extinct; Gin Craze by April de Angelis
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38April de Angelis's second collection covers six plays written between 2011 and 2021, including the previously unpublished short play Rune and her first musical, Gin Craze!Jumpy'The funniest new play... -
A Portrait In Shadow by Nicole Jarvis
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.25Enter a sumptuous world of art and magic in 17th-century Florence as Artemisia Gentileschi is determined to make her mark as a painter, and exact her revenge - perfect for fans of Alix E. Harrow,... -
The City of the Living: A literary chronicle narrating one of the most vicious crimes in recent Roman history Nicola Lagioia 9781787705142
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95In March 2016, in an apartment on the outskirts of Rome, two "ordinary" young men brutally tortured and murdered twenty-two-year-old Luca Varani. News of the seemingly inexplicable crime sent... -
Stories of Southern Italy by Various
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Woven through all these tales are the unique histories and mythologies of the regions of Southern Italy, encompassing Sicily, Calabria, Cantania, Basilicata, Apulia and Campania. Theocritus, Virgil... -
Author Unknown: The Power of Anonymity in Ancient Rome by Tom Geue 9780674988200
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £34.04An exploration of the darker corners of ancient Rome to spotlight the strange sorcery of anonymous literature.From Banksy to Elena Ferrante to the unattributed parchments of ancient Rome, art without... -
The Archeology of a Good Ragu: Discovering Naples, My Father & Myself by John Domini
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £12.87The Archeology of a Good Ragu offers a unique take on the recovery narrative. A damaged but savvy author finds new wholeness by way of a fascinating old city: Naples, Italy. John Domini's exploration... -
Serious Noticing: Selected Essays by James Wood
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41The selected essays of James Wood - our greatest living literary critic and author of How Fiction Works'James Wood is a close reader of genius... By turns luscious and muscular, committed and... -
Anonymous: The Performance of Hidden Identities by Thomas DeGloma 9780226828794
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.30A rich sociological analysis of how and why we use anonymity. In recent years, anonymity has rocked the political and social landscape. There are countless examples: An anonymous whistleblower was... -
Speaking in Tongues by J M Coetzee 9781324096450
Booksplease Price: £19.60Language, historically speaking, has always been slippery. Two dictionaries provide two different maps of the universe: which one is true, or are both false? Speaking in Tongues-taking the form of a... -
The Sport of Kings: Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017 by C. E. Morgan 9780008173319
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.26Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Shortlisted for the Rathbones... -
The Inseparables: The newly discovered novel from Simone de Beauvoir by Simone de Beauvoir
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49When Andree joins her school, Sylvie is immediately fascinated. Andree is small for her age but walks with the confidence of an adult.The girls become close. They talk for hours about equality,... -
The Wind Whistling in the Cranes: A Novel by Margaret Jull Costa
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.09With the grand sweep of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels, this enduring tale transports us to a picturesque seaside town haunted by its colonial past. Considered one of Europe's most influential... -
Mussolini's Island Sarah Day 9781472238207
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02SHORTLISTED FOR THE BETTY TRASK AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA DEBUT CROWNLONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST NOVEL PRIZESarah Day's MUSSOLINI'S ISLAND is a novel of sexuality and desire, of hidden... -
This Thing Called Love by Alawiya Sobh 9781803095905
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.00A heart-wrenching story about love, loss, sex, friendship between women, and the universal struggle to come to terms with death. Just before the outbreak of the July 2006 war in Lebanon, a... -
The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li 9780008531850
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24'One of our finest living authors ... propulsively entertaining' New York Times 'Sly, profound ... Electrifying' Observer 'Wonderfully strange and alive' Jon McGregor ... -
The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes by Tatiana buleac 9781646054091
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.49From one of Moldova's most celebrated writers, The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes is a complex coming-of-age story unraveling the fragile, complicated, redemptive relationship between a mother and... -
The Natural Way of Things: 'The Handmaid's Tale for our age' (Economist) by Charlotte Wood
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE WEEKEND'Savage: think Atwood in the outback'Paula Hawkins'An unforgettable reading experience'Liane Moriarty'Ferocious... recalls the early Elena Ferrante'NPR'A... -
Casting Off Elizabeth Jane Howard 9781035042470
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15The Second World War has finally ended and so begins a new era of freedom and opportunity for the Cazalet family in Casting Off, the fourth novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard's magnificent Cazalet... -
All Change Elizabeth Jane Howard 9781035042487
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15As the old world begins to fade from view and a new dawn emerges, All Change marks the fifth and final volume in Elizabeth Jane Howard's bestselling Cazalet Chronicles.'Compelling, moving,... -
Marking Time Elizabeth Jane Howard 9781035042456
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Beautifully and poignantly told, Marking Time is the second novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard's bestselling family saga The Cazalet Chronicles, set during the onset of World War II.'Compelling, moving,... -
Confusion Elizabeth Jane Howard 9781035042463
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Set in the height of the Second World War, The Cazalet Chronicles continues with the third in the series, Confusion, where chaos has become a way of life for the Cazalet family.'Compelling, moving,... -
The Warm South: How the Mediterranean Shaped the British Imagination by Robert Holland
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.11An evocative exploration of the impact of the Mediterranean on British culture, ranging from the mid-eighteenth century to today Ever since the age of the Grand Tour in the eighteenth century, the... -
The Light Years Elizabeth Jane Howard 9781035042449
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Told with exceptional grace, The Light Years is a modern classic of twentieth-century English life and is the first novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard's extraordinary, bestselling family saga, The... -
Dogs of Summer: A Novel by Andrea Abreu 9781662602450
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £10.01"[A] firecracker of a debut."-The New York Times"Andrea Abreu's debut novel about two girls in the summer heat of Tenerife is perfect for these dog days."-Shreya Chattopadhyay, The New York Times... -
I Love Dick by Chris Kraus
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49When Chris Kraus, an unsuccessful artist pushing 40, spends an evening with a rogue academic named Dick, she falls madly and inexplicably in love, enlisting her husband in her haunted pursuit. Dick... -
Vernon Subutex Two by Virginie Despentes
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02**Sunday Times Best Books of 2018**"Funny, irreverent and scathing" Guardian"Virginie Despentes is a true original, a punk rock George Eliot" ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN, author of You Too Could Have a Body... -
Murder In Matera: A True Story of Passion, Family, and Forgiveness in Southern Italy by Helene Stapinski 9780062438492
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.64"A murder mystery, a model of investigative reporting, a celebration of the fierce bonds that hold families together through tragedies...Murder in Matera is a gem." - San Francisco Chronicle... -
Newcomers: Book Two: Book Two Lojze Kovacic 9781939810403
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.48Young protagonist Bubi is a perpetual outsider - exiled from Switzerland in 1938, his family returns home to Ljubljana, where their half-German background makes them stick out in local society... -
Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami 9781529074413
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A beguiling novel about three women struggling to determine their own lives in contemporary Tokyo.'Breathtaking' - Haruki Murakami author of Norwegian WoodA New York Times 'Notable Book of the Year'... -
Reading through the Night by Jane Tompkins 9780813944517
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Jane Tompkins, a renowned literature professor and award-winning author, thought she knew what reading was until, struck by a debilitating illness, she finds herself reading day and night because it... -
Land of Women by Maria Sanchez
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.64Maria Sanchez is obsessed with what she cannot see. As a field veterinarian following in the footsteps of generations before her, she travels the countryside of Spain bearing witness to a life...