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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 Story of a Nutcracker by Sarah Ardizzone 9780099596059
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Discover the real story behind Disney's latest blockbuster adaptation The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, and the iconic Nutcracker Christmas ballet, as told by Alexandre Dumas'How could you imagine,... -
The Inseparables: Vintage Classics French Series by Simone de Beauvoir 9781784878467
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,... -
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 9781784877460
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'She wanted to die, and she wanted to live in Paris.'This is the story of Emma, trapped in a disappointing marriage with a dull country doctor, she dreams for a life more like the sentimental novels... -
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 9780099573074
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49A NEW TRANSLATION BY ADAM THORPE'A great novel that is also an inexhaustible pleasure to read' GuardianEmma Bovary is an avid reader of sentimental novels; brought up on a Normandy farm and... -
Madame Bovary: Vintage Classics French Series by Gustave Flaubert 9781784878450
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Madame Bovary is one of the greatest, most beguiling novels ever written.Emma Bovary is an avid reader of sentimental novels; brought up on a Normandy farm and convent-educated, she longs for romance... -
Swann's Way: Vintage Classics French Series by Marcel Proust
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49The definitive translation of a truly great French novel - Proust's beautiful, atmospheric story of memory and loss.This is the first volume of In Search of Lost Time, one of the greatest French... -
The Tears, The English Translation of Al-Abarat: Mustafa Lutfi Al-Manfaluti, Translated by Majid Khan Malik Saddiqui by Mustafa Lutfi Al-Manfaluti 9780993073014
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37Al-Abarat consists of eight short stories, The Orphan, The Veil, The Abyss, The Punishment, The Martyrs, The Remembrance, The Reward and The Victim. Some are his own and some are translations of... -
Suite Francaise: Vintage Classics French Series by Irène Némirovsky 9781784878412
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49The second world war classic of life under Nazi occupation. Nemirovsky was sent to Auschwitz in 1942. In 1941, Irene sat down to write a book that would convey the magnitude of what she was living... -
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15**AS FEATURED IN HRH THE DUCHESS OF CORNWALL'S BOOK CLUB, THE READING ROOM**'A masterpiece' The Sunday TimesIn 1941, Irene Nemirovsky sat down to write a book that would convey the magnitude of what... -
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky 9780099488781 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.29**AS FEATURED IN HRH THE DUCHESS OF CORNWALL'S BOOK CLUB, THE READING ROOM**'A masterpiece' The Sunday TimesIn 1941, Irene Nemirovsky sat down to write a book that would convey the magnitude of what... -
Cheri: Vintage Classics French Series by Colette 9781784878436
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49This is Colette's famous love story about the romance between an older woman and a younger man.Lea de Lonval is a magnificent and aging courtesan facing the end of her career. She has devoted the... -
Cheri by Colette
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83A vivid, believable love story between an older woman and a younger man.Lea de Lonval is a magnificent and aging courtesan facing the end of her career. She has devoted the last six years to the... -
The Three Musketeers: Le Panteau! by Richard Lloyd 9780573164163
Booksplease Price: £12.27Alexandre Dumas's yarn of those famous swashbucklers, Porthos, Aramis, Athos, and D'artagnan has been transplanted into pantoland. With the Musketeers re-cast a a bevy of thigh-slapping lovelies, a... -
The Stars' Tennis Balls by Stephen Fry
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Ned Maddstone has the world at his feet. Handsome, charming, popular and talented, his life is progressing smoothly, effortlessly, happily. But an unfortunate confrontation with a boy in his school... -
The Nutcracker Treasury by Mint Editions 9781513201191
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.07Follow the tale of a beloved Christmas toy and his battles against the evil Mouse King from origin, to retelling, to adaptation and translation in The Nutcracker Treasury. Containing four major... -
The Nutcracker Treasury by Mint Editions 9781513139081
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.06Follow the tale of a beloved Christmas toy and his battles against the evil Mouse King from origin, to retelling, to adaptation and translation in The Nutcracker Treasury.Containing four major... -
Pierrots on the Stage of Desire: Nineteenth-Century French Literary Artists and the Comic Pantomime by Robert F. Storey 9780691611808
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £48.32This book, a companion to the author's Pierrot: A Critical History of a Mask (Princeton, 1978), provides a detailed history of nineteenth-century French pantomime, from the feeries of Jean-Gaspard... -
The Life of Mark Twain: The Early Years, 1835-1871 by Gary Scharnhorst 9780826221445
RRP: £51.00Booksplease Price: £32.56This book begins the first multi-volume biography of Samuel Clemens to appear in over a century. In the succeeding years, Clemens biographers have either tailored their narratives to fit the... -
Play of Shadows Sebastien de Castell 9781787471450
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Swordplay, magic, intrigue and friendships stronger than iron: the first volume in the new swashbuckling fantasy series set in the universe of THE GREATCOATS.Damelas Chademantaigne picked a poor... -
Play of Shadows by Sebastien de Castell 9781787471474
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.26Swordplay, magic, intrigue and friendships stronger than iron: the first volume in the new swashbuckling fantasy series set in the universe of THE GREATCOATS.Damelas Chademantaigne picked a poor... -
The Snow Queen and Other Winter Tales (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions) Various Authors 9781435160699
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £25.25Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen" has delighted readers for more than a century and inspired numerous adaptations. This anthology gathers 100 tales that share the winter theme of Andersen's... -
The Three Musketeers: Band 17/Diamond (Collins Big Cat) by Martin Howard
Booksplease Price: £8.23Build your child's reading confidence at home with books at the right level Follow the exciting adventure of D'Artagnan as he desperately tries to fight for a place as one of the King's... -
Alexander Dumas Dictionary Of Cuisine Dumas 9781138966475
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £45.63First published in 2005. A cookery book by the author of The Three Muskateers and The Count of Monte Cristo may seen an improbability. Yet Alexandre Dumas was an expert cook- his love of food was... -
I'm Henry IV, I Am: Henry IV of France in Selected Works of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries by Michael G. Paulson 9781433189098
RRP: £64.80Booksplease Price: £59.41This book focuses on Henry IV of France as he is presented in selected works by Voltaire, Alfred de Vigny, Alexandre Dumas pere, and George Sand. The book depicts King Henry from his earliest years... -
Melodrama As Provocateur Linda Williams 9781478038573
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.12As one of the most influential contemporary film scholars, Linda Williams brought her critical feminist lens to some of society's most maligned and underappreciated film genres. Melodrama as... -
Melodrama As Provocateur Linda Williams 9781478033691
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £77.00As one of the most influential contemporary film scholars, Linda Williams brought her critical feminist lens to some of society's most maligned and underappreciated film genres. Melodrama as... -
Bending Steel: Modernity and the American Superhero by Aldo J. Regalado 9781628462210
Booksplease Price: £93.72Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound . . . It's Superman!"" Bending Steel examines the historical origins and cultural... -
Bending Steel: Modernity and the American Superhero by Aldo J. Regalado 9781496813039
Booksplease Price: £29.86Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound . . . It's Superman!" Bending Steel examines the historical origins and cultural... -
Oxford Playscripts: The Three Musketeers by Ken Ludwig 9780198326960
Booksplease Price: £13.63An engaging classroom playscript. Acclaimed Broadway playwright Ken Ludwig's humorous adaptation of this classic tale. First performed by the Bristol Old Vic in 2006. Based on Alexandre Dumas'... -
The Historical Novel in Europe, 1650-1950 by Richard Maxwell 9781107404465
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £40.98A much older genre than is often thought, the historical novel has played a vital role in the development of the novel overall. It began in seventeenth-century France as a distinctive way of... -
Young Gifted and Black: Meet 52 Black Heroes from Past and Present by Jamia Wilson 9781786039835
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40"...to be revisited again and again...The candy-colored pages and straightforward stories are hard to resist..." -The New York Times "Gorgeously illustrated...vibrant and comprehensive...will be... -
Young, Gifted and Black: Meet 52 Black Heroes from Past and Present by Jamia Wilson 9781786031587
Booksplease Price: £17.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786031587Author Jamia WilsonFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Frances Lincoln Children's... -
The Development of Sex Differences and Similarities in Behavior by M. Haug 9789401047494
Booksplease Price: £46.58M. HAUG Universite Louis Pasteur, Laboratoire de Psychophysi%gie, URA 1295, 7, rue de /'Universite, 67000 Strasbourg, France This varied and impressive volume is a record of the major presentations... -
The Racketeer by John Grisham 9781399751902
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Electrifying' GuardianEveryone has their price.A judge has been brutally murdered.His body is found in a remote lakeside cabin. There is no sign of forced entry or a struggle. Just two dead bodies -... -
Gusto: Essential Writings in Nineteenth-Century Gastronomy Denise Gigante 9780415970938
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.66The French invented the restaurant in the late eighteenth century. Not long after, they invented gastronomy, the modern art of eating well: English society discovered the French chef and the... -
Baby Young, Gifted, and Black: With a Mirror! by Jamia Wilson
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78*Featured for World Book Day: Black History Month*"There are so many things I am and can be... There's a whole world waiting for me." Introduce your baby to Black excellence with this lyrical... -
Baudelaire the Damned by F. W. J. Hemmings 9781448205158
Booksplease Price: £17.49First published in 1982, this penetrating, immensely readable biography of the brilliant poet, translator, and art critic, F. W. J. Hemmings gives us a fascinating new perspective on Baudelaire's... -
The Evolution of the French Courtesan Novel: From de Chabrillan to Colette by Courtney Sullivan 9781137597083
Booksplease Price: £52.00'Sullivan's outstanding book is the first to show how French courtesans were fully-fledged masters of the pen as well as proverbial ladies of the night. We learn how their rewriting of classics such... -
Fandango and Other Stories by Bryan Karetnyk 9780231189774
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.09In a bucolic idyll, a terrorist agonizes over the act of violence he is about to commit. On a remote island in the South Pacific, the investigation of a case of mass suicide reveals further mysteries...