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Out by Natsuo Kirino
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the draining graveyard shift at a boxed-lunch factory. Burdened with chores and heavy debts and isolated from husbands and children, they all secretly dream of a... -
The Years (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) by Virginia Woolf
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.45Discover the most popular of Woolf's books during her lifetime - a powerful portrait of a family coping with changes wrought by the new twentieth century. The Years follows the lives of the... -
House of Hunger by Dambudzo Marechera
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65'One of African literature's most fascinating and unorthodox figures' Brian Chikwava'When all else fails, don't take it in silence: scream like hell, scream like Jericho was tumbling down, serenaded... -
A Tale of Four Dervishes by Mir Amman 9780140455182
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.87In despair at having no son to succeed him, the King of Turkey leaves his palace to live in seclusion. Soon after, however, he encounters four wandering dervishes - three princes and a rich merchant... -
Orlando (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) by Virginia Woolf
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.45Virginia Woolf's most unusual and fantastic creation, a funny, exuberant tale that examines the very nature of sexuality. **One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World** As his tale... -
Watching The Roses : Egerton Hall Trilogy 2 by Adèle Geras 9780099417231 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $3.24Once Megan, Bella and Alice shared a room. The Tower Room was theirs alone, remote from the rest of Egerton Hall School and here they formed a deep friendship which would continue long after they... -
Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life by Yiyun Li
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.51'Profoundly engaging in depth, with remarkable subtlety and rare, limpid beauty. A must-read' - Mary GaitskillA luminous memoir about reading, writing and how to find meaning in a lifeWritten over... -
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 9781857151336
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.39Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of... -
Jacob's Room Virginia Woolf 9780099478263
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.92WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY LAWRENCE NORFOLK AND ELISABETH BRONFENJacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's first truly experimental novel. It is a portrait of a young man, tracing his life from childhood, to... -
One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 9781857152234
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.97In the book which put South America on the literary map, Marquez tells the haunting story of a community lost in the depths of that almighty continent where time passes slowly. A poetic masterpiece... -
Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36New to the Vintage Classics Woolf series, this is Woolf's groundbreaking experimental novel.Jacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's first truly experimental novel. It is a portrait of a young man, tracing... -
To The Lighthouse (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) by Virginia Woolf
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.04Rediscover one of Virginia Woolf's greatest works in this beautiful new gift edition from Vintage Classics. 'My mind was warped into a new shape by her prose and it will never be the same again'... -
The Millstone by Margaret Drabble 9780241979174
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.37A celebration of the drama and intensity of the mother-child relationship, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.It is the Swinging Sixties, and Rosamund Stacey is young and... -
Notes to Self by Emilie Pine
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65'I am afraid of being the disruptive woman. And of not being disruptive enough. I am afraid. But I am doing it anyway.'In this dazzling debut, Emilie Pine speaks powerfully from her painful personal... -
The Waves (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) Virginia Woolf 9781784870843
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.04Virginia Woolf wanted to write about the vast unknown uncertain continent that is the world and us in it' Jeanette Winterson, from her introduction to The Waves The Waves is an ... -
The African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart No Longer at Ease Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.17Chinua Achebe is considered the father of African literature in English, the writer who 'opened the magic casements of African fiction' for an international readership. Following the 50th anniversary... -
Carried Away Alice Munro 9781841593029
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.91Set in her native southwest Ontario, they include 'Royal Beatings', in which a young girl, her father and her stepmother release the tension of their circumstances in a ritual of punishment and... -
Song Of Solomon Toni Morrison 9781857152166
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.07This is the story of Macon 'Milkman' Dead, heir to the richest black family in a midwestern town, as he makes a voyage of rediscovery, travelling southwards geographically and inwards spirituality... -
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
RRP: $34.84Booksplease Price: $26.60The first complete new translation for 25 years of the acknowledged masterpiece of Japanese literature. Lady Murasaki's great 11th century novel is a beautifully crafted story of love, betrayal and... -
The Millstone by Margaret Drabble
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.03A celebration of the drama and intensity of the mother-child relationship, Margaret Drabble'sThe Millstone won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1965.It is the Swinging Sixties, and Rosamund Stacey is... -
I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $21.32A scandalous exploration of elite undergraduate life from the author of The Bonfire of the VanitiesDupont University: the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate... -
The Cost of Living by Kathleen Farrell 9781405988766
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Rediscover the brilliance of The Cost of Living in the Mermaid Collection - classic books by popular pioneering female authors republished to delight new generations of readers. A witty and... -
The Backward Shadow by Lynne Reid Banks 9780099529071
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Jane has had her baby and is living along with him in a country cottage. Her idyllic time there is soon complicated by the arrival of Toby, the love of her life, and her friend Dorothy. The two women... -
The Lowlife: (Faber Editions) Alexander Baron 9780571393473
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80The day they moved in was a memorable one for me. Not because of them, for I couldn't know what they were to bring into my life, but because of a dog.Harryboy Boas is a gambling man. An independent... -
Reality Hunger: A Manifesto by David Shields
Booksplease Price: $17.62Reality Hunger questions every assumption we ever made about art, the novel, journalism, poetry, film, TV, rap, stand-up, graffiti, sampling, plagiarism, writing, and reading. In seeking to tear up... -
An Embarrassment Of Mangoes by Ann Vanderhoof 9780553825763
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Who hasn't fantasized about leaving their job, saying goodbye to the rat race and escaping to some exotic destination in search of sun, sand, and a different way of life? Ann Vanderhoof and her... -
Sybil: The True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Separate Personalities by Flora Schreiber 9780140040319 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $6.00`Sybil' is the fascinating, incredibly moving true story of a woman with sixteen personalities - two of whom were men - and her struggle, against overwhelming odds, for health and happiness. ... -
My First Memory: Epiphanies, Watersheds and Origin Stories by Ben Holden 9781471167461
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59WHAT IS YOUR FIRST MEMORY? Or, rather, what do you imagine to be your earliest memory? Perhaps, alternatively, there was a moment during childhood when the world's axis shifted? A transformative... -
Mine Boy by Peter Abrahams 9780571376414
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'One of my all-time favourite novels.' Tsitsi Dangarembga'The first African novel in English to draw international attention.' New York Times'The forerunner of an entire school of African literary... -
Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging by Jodi Dean 9781788735025
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.26In the twentieth-century millions of people across the globe addressed each other as "comrade". Now, it's more common to hear talk of "allies" on the left than it is of comrades. In Comrade, Jodi... -
Village Of Stone by Xiaolu Guo
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Village of Stone brilliantly evokes the harshness of life on the typhoon-battered coast of China, where fishermen are often lost to violent seas and children regularly swept away. It is the... -
Sindbad: And Other Stories from the Arabian Nights by Muhsin Mahdi 9780393332469
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $17.38Husain Haddawy's rapturously received translation of The Arabian Nights is based on a landmark reconstruction of the earliest extant manuscript version. Readers of this classic will also want to own... -
The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'I'm surprised it isn't the most famous book in the world' Max Porter'How simple this novel is. How subtle. How strong. How unlike any other. It is unique. It is unforgettable. It is extraordinary'... -
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding 9781853260216 [USED COPY]
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $3.22Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. Tom Jones is widely regarded as one of the first and most influential English novels. It is certainly... -
Tom Jones Henry Fielding 9781853260216
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $5.35Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. Tom Jones is widely regarded as one of the first and most influential English novels. It is certainly... -
The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold by Kate Bernheimer 9781573660969
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.86The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold is a lavishly poetic novel that recounts through folklore and fairy stories the visionary obsessions of a passionate young woman. The narrative moves freely through... -
The Other Side of the Story: Structures and Strategies of Contemporary Feminist Narratives by Molly Hite
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.98According to Molly Hite, a number of influential contemporary women novelists-notably Jean Rhys, Doris Lessing, Alice Walker, and Margaret Atwood-attempt innovations in narrative form that are more... -
Mothers Don't by Katrixa Agirre 9781739823603
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07A mother kills her twins. Another woman, the narrator, is about to give birth. She is a writer and realises that she knows the woman who killed the children. An obsession is triggered. She takes a... -
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 9781784871512
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29'[The Gulag Archipelago] helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph ... -
Sybil: The True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Separate Personalities by Flora Schreiber
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37A controversial cult classic, Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber is the extraordinary story of a woman who suffered from multiple personality disorder.'How are you today?' the doctor asked. 'I'm fine',...