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Mister Paradise: And Other One-Act Plays by Tennessee Williams
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.58The greatest playwright of the American South, Tennessee Williams used his talent throughout his life to create brief plays exploring many of the themes that dominated his best-known works. Here,... -
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather 9780241338261
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.89'Quite simply a masterpiece ... I am completely bowled over by it; by the power of its writing, by the vividness of its scene painting and by the stories it tells' A. N. Wilson'Where there is great... -
Mrs Escobar: My life with Pablo by Victoria Eugenia Henao
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $24.21**A Sunday Times Book of the Year**The closest you'll ever get to the most infamous drug kingpin in modern history, told by the person who stood by his sideThe story of Pablo Escobar, one of the... -
Caught by Lisa Moore 9780099587354
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $12.98Slaney lay there, flat on his back, chest hammering, looking at the stars. It was as far as he had been from the Springfield penitentiary since the doors of that institution admitted him four years... -
The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1) by Glen Duncan
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $16.09YOU'RE THE LAST. I'M SORRY. THE END IS COMING.For two centuries Jacob Marlowe has wandered the world, enslaved by his lunatic appetites and tormented by the memory of his first and most monstrous... -
Understanding David Foster Wallace by Marshall Boswell 9781643360690
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $28.33Since its publication in 2003, Understanding David Foster Wallace has served as an accessible introduction to the rich array of themes and formal innovations that have made Wallace's fiction so... -
Springtime in a Broken Mirror by Mario Benedetti
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.11An extraordinary story of love and exile, from one of the great masters of the Latin American novel'Having news from you is like opening a window'Santiago is trapped. Taken political prisoner in... -
4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.79'A masterpiece.' Daily Mail'Absorbing and immersive . . . the author's greatest novel.' FTSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017On March 3rd, 1947, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the only child of Rose... -
The End Of Alice by A.M. Homes
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.89THE END OF ALICE treads the wafer-thin line between the evil and the everyday, following the correspondence of two paedophiles. One, the narrator, is a child-killer, serving his twenty-third year in... -
The Lawless Roads by Graham Greene
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $23.69In 1938 Graham Greene was commissioned to visit Mexico to discover the state of the country and its people in the aftermath of the brutal anti-clerical purges of President Calles. His journey took... -
The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker 9781783786381
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.89The Mezzanine is the story of one man's lunch hour. Pondering life's littlest questions - why does one shoelace always wear out before the other? Whatever happened to the paper drinking straw - our... -
Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $12.75FROM THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE MARS ROOMA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTIONFidel and Raul Castro are in the hills, descending only to burn... -
Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.11In 1960, John Steinbeck set out in his pick-up truck with his dog Charley to rediscover and chronicle his native USA, from Maine to California.He felt that he might have lost touch with its sights,... -
Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread by Michiko Kakutani
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $24.87**SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020** From renowned, Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic, Michiko Kakutani, comes an inspiring... -
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.69'Graham Greene's masterpiece' John UpdikeDuring a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the 'whisky priest', is on the run. With the police closing in, his routes of escape... -
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene 9780099540960
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $23.69ONE OF FIVE NEW VINTAGE FUTURE CLASSIC READING GUIDE EDITIONSDuring a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the 'whisky priest', is on the run. With the police closing in,... -
Crime Family: A Novel Cliff Dorfman 9798895655740
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $23.52Spanning Hollywood, high fashion, and hidden offshore empires, Crime Family traces an heir adopted through the infamous Louise Wise agency as he confronts the crimes, lies, and generational trauma... -
The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey by Salman Rushdie 9780099285229
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.23An extraordinary and vivid introduction to the country of Nicaragua and its politics from the Booker-winning author of Midnight's Children.In this brilliantly focused and haunting portrait of the... -
Building Great Sentences: How to Write the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read by Brooks Landon
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $24.34Based on the bestselling series from The Great Courses, Building Great Sentences celebrates the sheer joy of language-and will forever change the way you read and write. Great writing begins with... -
The Line Becomes A River by Francisco Cantu
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.49Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2019, an electrifying memoir from a Mexican-American US Border Patrol guard'Stunningly good... The best thing I've read for ages' James Rebanks,... -
The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.23Charles Highway is every mother's worst nightmare. Precociously intelligent, mercilessly manipulative and highly sexed, Charles devotes the last of his teenage years to bedding girls and evading the... -
Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight In Heaven by Sherman Alexie
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.23Ball games, cars, and romances: the icons and battlefields of modern life. In twenty-two linked stories, with infinite humour and pathos, Sherman Alexie explores some of the major issues of our time:... -
Dirt Road by James Kelman 9781782118251
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.08Shortlisted for Saltire Fiction Book of the Year 2016'A celebration of what it is to be human' SpectatorMurdo, a teenager obsessed with music, dreams of a life beyond home. His recently widowed dad,... -
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov 9781857152722
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.97Initially an almost grotesquely comic figure, Pnin gradually grows in stature by contrast with those who laugh at him. Whether taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has not... -
A Dead Man's Memoir: A Theatrical Novel by Mikhail Bulgakov
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.11This is Bulgakov's semi-autobiographical story of a writer who fails to sell his novel and fails to commit suicide. When his play is taken up by the theatre, literary success beckons, but he has... -
The Story of the Stone by Cao Xueqin
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $23.62"The Story of the Stone" (c. 1760), also known as "The Dream of the Red Chamber", is one of the greatest novels of Chinese literature. The fifth part of Cao Xueqin's magnificent saga, "The Dreamer... -
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov 9781857150674
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $24.21A beautiful work of art - Nabokov was such a master at both prose and poetry. This unique blend of prose and poetry offers a delightful sojourn to cherish.About the AuthorVladimir Nabokov (Author)... -
The Man of Feeling by Javier Marias
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.69The Man of Feeling is a story of love and memory by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013.On a train journey from Paris to Madrid a young opera... -
The Complete Plays by Christopher Marlowe
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $14.71Marlowe's seven plays dramatise the fatal lure of potent forces, whether religious, occult or erotic. In the victories of Tamburlaine, Faustus's encounters with the demonic, the irreverence of... -
It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future Saul Bellow 9780241401989
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54'Sentence by sentence, page by page, Bellow is simply the best writer we have' The New York Times Book ReviewIn It All Adds Up, Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author Saul Bellow takes readers on a... -
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth 9780099399018
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $15.49'The most outrageously funny book about sex written' GuardianPortnoy's Complaint n. [after Alexander Portnoy (1933-)]:A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually... -
The Human Stain by Philip Roth 9780099282198
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.23'An extraordinary book - bursting with rage, humming with ideas, full of dazzling sleights of hand'- Sunday TelegraphPhilip Roth's brilliant conclusion to his eloquent trilogy of post-war America - a... -
If On A Winter's Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino 9781857151381
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $21.68Calvino's dazzling post-modernist masterpiece combines a love story, a detective story and a sardonic dissection of the publishing industry in a scintillating allegory of reading. Based on a witty... -
The Years by Virginia Woolf 9780241372074
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.11'A brilliant fantasia of all Time's problems, age and youth, change and permanence, truth and illusion' The Times Literary SupplementThe Years is the story of the Pargiter family - their intimacies... -
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $13.89Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos: he is separated from... -
I'll Go To Bed At Noon by Gerard Woodward 9780099286936
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $25.00It is 1970 in the suburbs of north London and, from the untidy comfort of her crowded house, Colette Jones is watching her older brother go to pieces, drinking himself into oblivion on home-made wine... -
The Second Plane: September 11, 2001-2007 by Martin Amis
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.49Martin Amis first wrote about September 11 a week later in a piece for The Guardian beginning, 'It was the advent of the second plane, sharking in low over the Statue of Liberty: that was the... -
Nemesis by Philip Roth 9780099542261
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $15.37It's the sweltering summer of 1944, and Newark is in the grip of a terrifying epidemic. Decent, athletic twenty-three year old playground director Bucky Cantor is devoted to his charges and ashamed... -
Travelling With Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary by Alberto Granado 9781844134267
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $25.00In 1952 Alberto Granado, a young doctor, and his friend Ernesto Guevara, a 23-year-old medical student from a distinguished Buenos Aires family decided to explore their continent. They set off from... -
Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.23Cassie Wright, porn princess, intends to cap her legendary career by breaking the world record for serial fornication. On camera. With six hundred men. Snuff unfolds from the perspectives of Mr 72,...