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Herbert Ponting: Scott's Antarctic Photographer and Pioneer Filmmaker by 9780750979016
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $23.81Herbert Ponting (1870-1935) was young bank clerk when he bought an early Kodak compact camera. By the early 1900s, he was living in California, working as a professional photographer, known for... -
Julian Fellowes's Belgravia: Now a major TV series, from the creator of DOWNTON ABBEY by Julian Fellowes 9781474603546 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $4.56FROM THE CREATOR OF DOWNTON ABBEY and THE GILDED AGE'A modern classic that will fill any Downton-shaped hole' Daily Express It is the evening of 15 June 1815, and the Duchess of Richmond has thrown... -
The Actor And The Text by Cicely Berry
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $28.03Cicely Berry, Voice Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, is world-famous for her voice teaching. The Actor and the Text is her classic book, distilled from years of working with actors of the... -
Black Lives Matter and Music: Protest, Intervention, Reflection by Fernando Orejuela 9780253038425
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $31.69Music has always been integral to the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States, with songs such as Kendrick Lamar's "Alright," J. Cole's "Be Free," D'Angelo and the Vanguard's "The Charade,"... -
Rabbits by Hugo Rifkind 9781846976704
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $20.88Tommo has just moved to a prestigious boarding school. A product of the middle class, and with new-found independence thrust upon him, he finds himself invited into fading crumbling country houses. ... -
Claudine Married by Colette 9780099422495
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.58THE STORIES THAT INSPIRED THE FILM COLETTE, out Jan 2019.The third book in Colette's enchanting Claudine series.Following the excitement of a shared life in Paris, Claudine's marriage to Renaud has... -
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.53Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire is the tale of a catastrophic confrontation between fantasy and reality, embodied in the characters of Blanche DuBois and... -
Julian Fellowes's Belgravia: Now a major TV series, from the creator of DOWNTON ABBEY by Julian Fellowes
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.24FROM THE CREATOR OF DOWNTON ABBEY and THE GILDED AGE'A modern classic that will fill any Downton-shaped hole' Daily Express It is the evening of 15 June 1815, and the Duchess of Richmond has thrown... -
The Fortunate Ones by Ed Tarkington
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $19.95The perfect read for fans of Succession or The White Lotus "As a novelist, Tarkington is the real deal. I can't wait to see this story reach a wide audience."-Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife... -
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.11'Witty, stylish and ferociously absorbing' ObserverJean-Baptiste Grenouille is abandoned on the filthy streets of eighteenth-century Paris as a baby, but grows up to discover he has an... -
The Average Human by Ellen Toby-Potter 9780099468684
RRP: $13.28Booksplease Price: $10.47The Mayborn family has cast its shadow over the small town of Loomis for generations. Accompanied by rumours of unnatural family unions, the Mayborns have sunk from their position as powerful... -
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh 9780241472736
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.89Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War.The most nostalgic and... -
Rabbits: 'Darkly funny as Saltburn, but with kilts' - Val McDermid Hugo Rifkind 9781846977091
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.89Tommo has just moved to a prestigious boarding school. A product of the middle class, and with new-found independence thrust upon him, he finds himself invited into fading crumbling country houses. ... -
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.11Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War.The most nostalgic and... -
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 9780141199085
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.33The Penguin English Library Edition of Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte"May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then"Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross... -
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 9780141199870
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $12.67The Penguin English Library Edition of Mansfield Park by Jane Austen'We have all been more or less to blame ... every one of us, excepting Fanny'Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in... -
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy 9780140435184
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.64Thomas Hardy's tragic vision of a love struggling to overcome prejudice and rejection, The Return of the Native is edited in Penguin Classics with an introduction by Penny Bouhmelha.Against the... -
Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome 9780140437508
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $15.11Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends George and Harris decide that a jaunt up the Thames would suit them to a 'T'. But when they set off, they can hardly predict the... -
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 9780141198897
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.89The Penguin English Library Edition of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens"What do you think that is?' she asked me, again pointing with her stick; 'that, where those cobwebs are?""I can't guess... -
The Romance of Tristan: The Tale of Tristan's Madness by Beroul 9780140442304
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.58One of the earliest extant versions of the Tristan and Yseut story, Beroul's French manuscript of The Romance of Tristan dates back to the middle of the twelfth century. It recounts the legend of... -
Frankenstein (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Mary Shelley
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $22.14Now a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with an introduction by Elizabeth Kostova and cover art by Ghost World creator Daniel Clowes, Mary Shelley's timeless gothic novel presents the epic battle... -
Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time by Hilary Spurling 9780141030791
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $27.63BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 in The Sunday Times, Spectator, Mail on Sunday, Observer and Financial Times'A landmark biography' The Times, Books of the Year'One of our generation's greatest biographers'... -
The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK 9781465491015
RRP: $41.78Booksplease Price: $28.67Learn about the greatest works of literature, and the lives of those who wrote them in The Literature Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a... -
Confidence: A Novel by Rafael Frumkin 9781982189747
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.24"Theranos but make it gay." -Electric Literature Best friends (and occasional lovers) Ezra and Orson are teetering on top of the world after founding a company that promises instant enlightenment in... -
King Lear by William Shakespeare 9780141396460
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $12.67'The most perfect specimen of the dramatic art existing in the world' Percy Bysshe ShelleyShakespeare's bleak and brutal tragedy begins when an ageing king, seeking a successor, rejects the young... -
The Entwined Duology - Entwined H. M. Long 9781835411384
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.78Three sisters join the hunt for a stolen magical artefact in the start of this Gilded Age fantasy duology. Perfect for fans of heists, skullduggery and stolen kisses, and authors such as Nghi Vo and... -
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $23.62These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death.Anthony and Gloria are the essence of Jazz Age glamour. A brilliant and magnetic couple, they fling themselves at... -
Suddenly Last Summer and Other Plays by Tennessee Williams
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.11These three dramatic works by Tennessee Williams explore the darker side of human nature and are haunted by a sense of isolation and regret. 'Suddenly Last Summer' is the starkly told story of... -
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by John Lanchester
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.11Spurred on by admiration for his novelist half-brother and irritation at the biography written about him by Mr Goodman ('his slapdash and very misleading book'), the narrator, V, sets out to record... -
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $12.67The Penguin English Library Edition of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne'Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, - stern and wild ones, - and they had made her strong, but... -
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
RRP: $47.50Booksplease Price: $32.30Part 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,... -
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 9780141199061
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $12.67The Penguin English Library Edition of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe'I walk'd about on the shore, lifting up my hands, and my whole being, as I may say, wrapt up in the contemplation of my... -
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 9780140449136
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $12.54'Dostoyevsky's finest masterpiece' John BayleyDostoyevsky's great novel of damnation and redemption evokes a world where the lines between innocence and corruption, good and evil, blur. It tells the... -
Emma by Jane Austen 9780141199528
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $12.67The Penguin English Library Edition of Emma by Jane Austen'I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall'Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma... -
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 9780141199672
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $12.67The Penguin English Library Edition of Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen"The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so... -
Tender is the Night F Scott Fitzgerald 9780099541523
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $12.98**AS SEEN ON WRITE AROUND THE WORLD WITH RICHARD E GRANT**It is the French Riviera in the 1920s. Nicole and Dick Diver are a wealthy, elegant, magnetic couple. A coterie of admirers are drawn to... -
Moby-Dick: Or, The Whale by Herman Melville 9780143105954
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $19.70In part, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of... -
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot 9780141439624
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.89Drawing on George Eliot's own childhood experiences to craft an unforgettable story of first love, sibling rivalry and regret, The Mill on the Floss is edited with an introduction and notes by A.S... -
Jake Cake: The Football Beast by Michael Broad
Booksplease Price: $18.34Have you ever met a yeti playing football, a very tricky sea monster or a REAL phantom on the ghost train at the funfair? Jake has, and here's what happened when he met them! (Nobody believed him, of... -
Le Morte D'Arthur Volume 2 by Sir Thomas Malory
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $22.14Volume two of Le Morte D'Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory's powerful and elegaic version of the Arthurian legend, recounts the adventures of Sir Tristram de Liones and the treachery of Sir Mordred, and...