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Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.97The classic, heartrending story of a British boy's four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War. Newly reissued with an introduction by John Lanchester. Based on... -
A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction James F. English (University of Pennsylvania) 9781405120012
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £32.02A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction offers an authoritative overview of contemporary British fiction in its social, political, and economic contexts. Focuses on the fiction that has... -
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Bottle by Steve Fist 9781840189735 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £3.23Steve Fist was the football hooligan's football hooligan and Bottle is his story, so it follows that he is now the ex-football hooligan turned writer's ex-football hooligan turned writer. Between the... -
Northanger Abbey (Vintage Classics Austen Series) by Jane Austen
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Jane Austen takes a satirical swipe at the gothic novel in this classic book bursting with sly subversive wit. 'Jane Austen is a genius, and Northanger Abbey is hugely underrated' Martin Amis... -
Days of the Dead Tim Glencross 9781444797626
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78William Hoffer - handsome, refined, a little cold perhaps - is an established figure in London society.But Hoffer has secrets. He is vague about his Midwestern origins. The counsel he offers a... -
The Tragedy of Mister Morn by Vladimir Nabokov 9780141196329
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Morn, a masked king, rules over a realm to which he has restored order after a violent revolution. Secretly in love with Midia, the wife of a banished revolutionary, Morn finds himself facing renewed... -
High Dive by Jonathan Lee
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'A meticulous and gripping reimagination of the Brighton bomb' Observer, Best Novels of 2015In September 1984, a man calling himself Roy Walsh checked into The Grand Hotel in Brighton and planted a... -
The Ocean Is Closed by 9781733540148
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.38"Bradshaw was a famously charming man, and his lounge-lizard urbanity fully suffuses his prose. This new anthology is a necessary book for all men and women of letters." -Martin Amis A... -
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 9780241951644
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of my tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.'Humbert Humbert... -
A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction by James F. English 9781405120005
RRP: £106.95Booksplease Price: £95.77A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction offers an authoritative overview of contemporary British fiction in its social, political, and economic contexts. Focuses on the fiction that has... -
Libra by Don DeLillo 9780141188225
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.81An unparalleled work of historical conjecture, ranging imaginatively over huge tracts of the American popular consciousness, Don DeLillo's Libra contains an introduction by the author in Penguin... -
Murder Book by Richard Rayner 9780006511403
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58'About as noir as it can be...excellent' Frances Fyfield, Daily Telegraph The city is Los Angeles, the birthplace of the American dream, a city that has come to symbolize both heaven and... -
Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets David Simon 9781782116301
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'A masterpiece' MARTIN AMIS 'The best book about homicide detectives by an American writer' NORMAN MAILER Based on a year on the killing streets of Baltimore, David Simon's true crime masterpiece... -
The Truth About Lisa Jewell by Will Brooker
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74*For those aspiring authors who are interested in the path to success*'I read this yesterday in one glorious sitting! What an absolute treat of a book!' Lesley Kara'Illuminating, revealing and... -
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 9780241953242
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is one of the best-known novels of the 20th century: the controversial story of Humbert Humbert who falls in love with twelve year old Lolita, beautifully repackaged as part... -
Fold by Tom Campbell
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £2.77Five friends. One year. All bets are off. Reading, 2009. It may not be Vegas, but for Nick, Doug, Vijay, Alan and Simon, it's as good as they're going to get. Each in their forties, and beset by... -
On Being John McEnroe by Tim Adams 9780224069625
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Read a fan's eye view of one of tennis's most notorious stars, and an exploration into the idea of sporting obsession. The perfect nostalgic treat for any Wimbledon fan.The greatest sports stars... -
Youth Subcultures in Fiction, Film and Other Media: Teenage Dreams by Nick Bentley 9783030103309
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £99.82This collection explores the representation, articulation and construction of youth subcultures in a range of texts and contexts. It brings together scholars working in literary studies, screen... -
The Novel Cure: An A to Z of Literary Remedies by Ella Berthoud
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Mumsnet 'Best Books for Christmas 2016''Ideal for anyone who has ever wondered what on earth to read next' SJ WATSON'Witty, engaging and informative. The sort of book you choose for a friend and end... -
The Death of Eli Gold by David Baddiel 9780007270842
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28The new novel from David Baddiel, comedian, columnist and author of the critically-praised The Secret Purposes. In New York's Mt. Sinai hospital, the world's greatest living writer, Eli... -
Miracles of Life by J. G. Ballard
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28J. G. Ballard was, for over fifty years, one of this country's most significant writers. Beginning with the events that inspired his classic novel, 'Empire of the Sun', this revelatory autobiography... -
First Person by Richard Flanagan
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Young and penniless, Kif Kehlmann, is rung in the middle of the night by notorious con man and corporate criminal, Siegfried Heidl. About to go to trial for defrauding the banks of $700 million,... -
Youth Subcultures in Fiction, Film and Other Media: Teenage Dreams by Nick Bentley 9783319731889
Booksplease Price: £100.05This collection explores the representation, articulation and construction of youth subcultures in a range of texts and contexts. It brings together scholars working in literary studies, screen... -
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The Novel Cure: An A to Z of Literary Remedies by Susan Elderkin 9780857864208 [USED COPY]
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £2.96Are you weary in Brain and Body? Do you desire a Positive Cure for your Pessimism? Do you require Bronte to re-boot your Broken Heart? Do you despair of your Nose? Can Fielding open your Flood Gates?... -
Willing, Wanting, Waiting by Richard Holton 9780199214570
Booksplease Price: £114.88Richard Holton provides a unified account of intention, choice, weakness of will, strength of will, temptation, addiction, and freedom of the will. Drawing on recent psychological research, he argues... -
The Book of Dave by Will Self
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.79The Book of Dave is Booker-shortlisted author Will Self's dazzling sixth novel What if a demented London cabbie called Dave Rudman wrote a book to his estranged son to give him some fatherly advice?... -
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger 9780241984758
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51In honour of the centennial of the birth of J.D. Salinger in 1919, Penguin reissues all four of his books in beautiful commemorative hardback editions - with artwork and text based on the very first... -
The Novel Now: Contemporary British Fiction by Richard Bradford 9781405113854
RRP: £93.95Booksplease Price: £86.42The Novel Now is an intelligent and engaging survey of contemporary British fiction. Discusses familiar names such as Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, and Angela Carter and compares them... -
The Day of Creation by J. G. Ballard 9780007227891
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'Classic Ballard. Mesmerising. No one writes with such haunting impact' William Boyd In parched, war-torn central Africa, Dr Mallory watches his clinic fail and dreams of discovering a... -
Holiday in a Coma & Love Lasts Three Years: two novels by Frédéric Beigbeder by Frédéric Beigbeder 9780007229031
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95One night in a Parisian nightclub and the aftermath of a marriage provide the stories for these two novels by Frederic Beigbeder, award-winning author of 'Windows on the World'. In... -
Anglo-English Attitudes by Geoff Dyer
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Anglo-English Attitudes brings together Geoff Dyer's best journalism and other writing from 1984-99. There are studied meditations on photographers (Robert Capa, William Gedney, Cartier-Bresson),... -
Promises, Promises by Adam Phillips
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Has psychoanalysis failed to keep its promise? What are psychoanalysis and literature good for? And what, if anything, have they got to do with each other? Promises, Promises is a delightful new... -
The Price You Pay by Aidan Truhen
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'A smart alec New York cocaine dealer discovers there's a hit out on him and decides the best course of action is to take bloody - and amusingly creative - revenge' Sun Get mad, get even, get paid... -
Cocaine Nights by J. G. Ballard
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28'Snort up "Cocaine Nights". It's disorientating, deranging and knocks the work of other avant-garde writers into a hatted cock' Will Self Five people die in an unexplained house fire in... -
Dorian by Will Self 9780141040202
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Dorian - Will Self's brilliant 'imitation' of Oscar Wilde's original tainted love story 'Brutal, savage, infinitely readable' Observer'Chilling, hysterical, tasteless and haunting. A Gothic thriller... -
Out of the Blue: September 11 and the Novel Kristiaan Versluys 9780231149372
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69Writers have represented 9/11 and its aftermath with varying degrees of success. In Out of the Blue, Kristiaan Versluys focuses on novels that move beyond patriotic cliches and cheap sensationalism... -
The Kindness of Women by J. G. Ballard 9780006547013
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28'This is autobiography taken to the highest reaches of fiction, another wonderful novel of scorching power, shot through with honesty and lyricism' Observer The Kindness of Women continues... -
The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivisation and the Terror-Famine Robert Conquest 9781847925671
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.75Robert Conquest's The Harvest of Sorrow helped to reveal to the West the true and staggering human cost of the Soviet regime in its deliberate starvation of millions of peasants and remains one of... -
In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul 9780330524803
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Winner of the Booker Prize 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018. In a Free State tells the story first of an Indian servant in Washington, who becomes an American citizen but... -
Evading Class in Contemporary British Literature by L. Driscoll 9780230615274
Booksplease Price: £46.74This trenchant book argues that the cultural attempt to erase class during the period from Margaret Thatcher to Tony Blair has only generated its return as a troubling subterranean element in British...