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The Book of Mormon by Joseph Smith
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.43"The Book of Mormon" is one of the most influential - as well as controversial - religious documents in American history, and is regarded as sacred scripture by followers around the world, including... -
Notes from Underground; the Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 9780140442526
Booksplease Price: £9.52"Notes from Underground" (1864) is a study of a single character, 'the real man of the Russian majority', and a revelation of Dostoyevsky's own deepest beliefs. One of his best critics has said of... -
The Song of Kieu: A New Lament by Nguyen Du
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.00'An essential book for anyone invested, not only in Vietnamese literature, but the historic power of the national epic . . . and its perennial place in our species' efforts toward self-knowledge. Tim... -
The Life of the Buddha by Tenzin Chogyel
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67This is a call to mindfulness, dedicated to easing suffering.The story of Shakyamuni Buddha's epic journey to enlightenment is perhaps the most important narrative in the Buddhist tradition. Tenzin... -
Selected Prose by John Donne
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23This selection of John Donne's most powerful prose shows that the man remembered predominantly for his poetry was also a preacher, and a prose writer of extraordinary power. In it, he explores the... -
Selected Satire: Fifty Years of Ignorance by Shrilal Shukla
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £9.68Selected Satire: Fifty Years of Ignorance brings together about 20 satire pieces of eminent Hindi writer, Shrilal Shukla. Most noted for his novel Raag Darbari, for which he received the Sahitya... -
Natalja's Stories by Inger Christensen 9780241790465
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95From one of Denmark's most revered authors, a startlingly original novel about a migrant's fate, told across several generationsThis is the story of a young woman who is spirited away to St... -
Two Girls, Fat and Thin by Mary Gaitskill
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The intense, caustically funny first novel from the bestselling author of Bad Behaviour'Dark, menacing and original' Joanna Briscoe, GuardianDorothy Never - fat - lives alone in New York, eats and... -
The End Samuel Beckett 9780241338971
RRP: £4.00Booksplease Price: £3.47'They didn't seem to take much interest in my private parts which to tell the truth were nothing to write home about, I didn't take much interest in them myself.'From the master of the absurd, these... -
In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Puts Chandler to shame ... Hughes is the master we keep turning to' Sara ParetskyAfter the war, cynical veteran Dix Steele has moved to L.A., a city terrified by a strangler preying on young women... -
Elizabeth and her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim 9780241341292
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67' "Oh, my dear, relations are like drugs, - useful sometimes, and even pleasant, if taken in small quantities and seldom, but dreadfully pernicious on the whole, and the truly wise avoid them"... -
The Place of Dead Roads by William S. Burroughs
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95This surreal fable, set in America's Old West, features a cast of notorious characters: The Crying Gun, who breaks into tears at the sight of his opponent; The Priest, who goes into gunfights giving... -
The Shape of Things to Come by John Clute
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.47When Dr Philip Raven, an intellectual working for the League of Nations, dies in 1930 he leaves behind a powerful legacy - an unpublished 'dream book'. Inspired by visions he has experienced for many... -
In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes 9780241639184
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily TelegraphLos Angeles, the late 1940's. A serial killer stalks the foggy streets at night ...Dix... -
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The End by Samuel Beckett 9780241338971 [USED COPY]
RRP: £4.00Booksplease Price: £2.02'They didn't seem to take much interest in my private parts which to tell the truth were nothing to write home about, I didn't take much interest in them myself.'From the master of the absurd, these... -
Sword of Honour by Evelyn Waugh
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.73Fictionalising his experience of service during the Second World War, Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honour is the complete one-volume edition of his masterful trilogy, edited with an introduction by Angus... -
The Discourses by Niccolo Machiavelli
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Few figures in intellectual history have proved as notorious and ambiguous as Niccolo Machiavelli. But while his treatise The Prince made his name synonymous with autocratic ruthlessness and cynical... -
The Machine Stops and Other Stories by E M Forster 9780241652572
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780241652572Author E M ForsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin... -
The Travels by Marco Polo
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.43A sparkling new translation of one of the greatest travel books ever written: Marco Polo's seminal account of his journeys in the east, in a collectible clothbound edition. Marco Polo was the most... -
The Travels Marco Polo 9780241253052
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A sparkling new translation of one of the greatest travel books ever written: Marco Polo's seminal account of his journeys in the east.Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His... -
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells 9780141199047
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.15The Penguin English Library Edition of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells'Death!' I shouted. 'Death is coming! Death!'In this pioneering, shocking and nightmarish tale, naive suburban Londoners... -
Death in Midsummer by Yukio Mishima 9780241630853
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithFilled with rich... -
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 9780141394886
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.' Shocking and controversial when it was first published, The Grapes of Wrath is Steinbeck's Pultizer Prize-winning... -
Middlemarch by George Eliot
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.81Considered one the masterpieces of realist fiction, George Eliot's novel, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, explores a fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of modern changes... -
A Shepherd's Life by W. H. Hudson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Considered a classic at the time of its publication in 1910, A Shepherd's Life is a rare account of the lives of those who lived on and worked the land in nineteenth-century rural Britain. A... -
Smile Please by Jean Rhys
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A brilliant companion piece to Wide Sargasso Sea, this is Jean Rhys's beautifully written, bitter-sweet autobiography, covering her chequered early years in Dominica, England and Paris.Jean Rhys... -
The World of Sex by Henry Miller
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.74In The World of Sex, Henry Miller, one of the most scandalous writers of the 20th century explains his literary project Henry Miller's bold, explicit novels scandalized readers and remade the... -
The Ninety-Five Theses and Other Writings by Martin Luther
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23For the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, a new translation of Martin Luther's most famous works by leading scholar and pastor William RussellThis volume contains selections from Martin Luther's... -
Sleeping Dog by Dick Lochte 9780241656921
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.19Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage seriesFor the unlikely crime-busting duo Leo and Serendipity, a missing dog is only the start of their troubles...Leo Bloodworth, 'the Bloodhound', is a... -
The Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft 9780241746837
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.16'Assuming that I was sane and awake, my experience on that night was such as has befallen no man before'After five years of 'strange amnesia', Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee remains haunted by madness and... -
On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho by Matsuo Basho
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.37Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and a life-long traveller. His poems combine 'karumi', or lightness of touch, with the Zen ideal of... -
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh 9780241284629
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43A beautiful clothbound edition of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel of duty and desire set against the backdrop of the faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War.The most... -
Inspector Imanishi Investigates Seicho Matsumoto 9780241724439
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'An absolute classic, and a whole new world to explore ... irresistible' Lee Child'Beautiful and melancholic, Inspector Imanishi Investigates is not just an ingenious and elegant mystery, but a... -
Death in Midsummer by Yukio Mishima 9780241678947
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Ten tales of loss and longing, from one one Japan's greatest writers It was the height of summer, and there was anger in the rays of the sunA summer holiday that turns to tragedy; a moonlit journey... -
Poems by Wang Wei
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Wang Wei, one of Chinese literature's greatest poets, divided his time between the court and his country estate, where he drew inspiration from the mountains and solitude. His poetry affirms his... -
River Poems by Various
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82Rivers were the arteries of our first civilizations - the Tigris and Euphrates of Mesopotamia, India's Ganges, Egypt's Nile, the Yellow River of China - and have nourished modern cities from London... -
Is This a Dagger Which I See Before Me? William Shakespeare 9780241252192
RRP: £4.00Booksplease Price: £3.47'And when I shall die,Take him and cut him out in little stars.'This collection of Shakespeare's soliloquies, including both old favourites and lesser-known pieces, shows him at his dazzling best.One... -
X-Men by Stan Lee 9780143135760
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £31.17Illustrated throughout, The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents specially curated cartoon anthologies of the world's greatest superheroesThe seeds of a pop-cultural phenomenon were sown with... -
From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming 9780241689363
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorDuring the Second World War Ian Fleming (1908-1964) was assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence,... -
The Penguin Book of the Undead by 9780143107682
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.59Since ancient times, accounts of supernatural activity have mystified us. Ghost stories as we know them did not develop until the late nineteenth century, but the restless dead haunted the premodern...