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The Tortoise And The Hare Elizabeth Jenkins 9780349019642
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The re-dipping of dishes was a small matter, but the emotional texture of married life is made up of small matters. This one had become invested with a fatal quality.Imogen, the beautiful and much... -
The Rosemary Tree Elizabeth Goudge 9781473656260
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Michael Stone was once a famous author. That was before he went to prison. Now, recently released, Michael needs a new beginning. Weighed down by failure and despair, the town of Silverbridge seems... -
Quartet by Richmal Crompton 9781509859481
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.46The quartet at the heart of this delightful novel are the four Gainsborough siblings: beautiful but vain Lorna, ultra-sensitive Adrian, nature-loving Laurence and thoughtful, strange little Jenifer... -
A Time to Rejoice: Book Three in the the gripping, uplifting Rivenshaw Saga set at the close of World War Two Anna Jacobs 9781444787757
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Anna Jacobs' books are deservedly popular. She is one of the best writers of Lancashire sagas around' - Historical Novels Reviews'Anna Jacobs' books have an impressive grasp of human emotions' -... -
The Walled Garden: Unearth the most moving and captivating novel of the year by Sarah Hardy 9781838779290
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28'Richly evocative' STACEY HALLS'Heartbreaking' RACHEL HORE'Touching, absorbing'' DAILY MAIL'Poignant . . . There'll be tears' WOMAN & HOME'An enveloping story to savour' KATE SAWYERA luminous debut... -
The Walled Garden: Unearth the most captivating historical fiction debut of 2023 by Sarah Hardy
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.95LONGLISTED FOR THE HWA GOLD CROWN AWARD FOR BEST HISTORICAL FICTION NOVEL OF THE YEARA luminous debut novel about love, the trauma of war and the miracle of human resilience, for readers of Anna... -
The Summer House Party by Caro Fraser
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05In the gloriously hot summer of 1936, a group of people meet at a country house party. Within three years, the country will be engulfed in war, but for now time stands still as they sip champagne on... -
Gentian Hill by Elizabeth Goudge
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Unable to bear the prospect of a life at sea, young Anthony O'Connell deserts his ship at Torquay and escapes into the Devonshire countryside under a new name. When Stella Sprigg, adopted daughter of... -
The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus Emma Knight 9781529433951
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.68'A spellbinding debut about friendship, motherhood, first love, and the choices that bind us' CARLEY FORTUNE'Addictive, nostalgic and comforting, this layered family mystery crept round my heart'... -
Statues in a Garden Isabel Colegate 9781526621603
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05'Just the right mixture of doomed fun, melancholy and faintly lascivious despair' Observer 'I am afraid I have something to tell you. It is that we are all about to be destroyed.' 1914. The... -
The Blackmailer by Isabel Colegate
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05The glittering, sharp and sinister work of one of our most incisive and wickedly funny satirists; 'Isabel Colegate has no rival' (The Times) 'What we feel for each other is really a passion for... -
The Lark: Introduction by Booker Prize-Winning Author Penelope Lively by E. Nesbit
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'A charming and brilliantly entertaining novel... shot through with the light-hearted Nesbit touch' Penelope Lively, from the introduction"When did two girls of our age have such a chance as we've... -
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by John Mandeville
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.19Ostensibly written by an English knight, the Travels purport to relate his experiences in the Holy Land, Egypt, India and China. Mandeville claims to have served in the Great Khan's army, and to have... -
The Dean's Watch: The Cathedral Trilogy by Elizabeth Goudge
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A rich and beautiful story, set in a quiet cathedral city.When cathedral dean Adam Ayscough encounters clockmaker Isaac Peabody, their unlikely friendship touches the lives of the entire community... -
A Woman's Life by Rachel Billington 9780752842738
Booksplease Price: £20.70'The novel is a reflection of the characters' lives - vivid, dramatic and sometimes chaotic, with emotional volume turned up to full blast . . . a narrative of striking exuberance and generosity -... -
A Woman Made of Snow by Elisabeth Gifford
Booksplease Price: £14.84'A pageturner packed with family secrets and Arctic adventure' Dundee Courier How do you solve the mysteries of a love frozen in time?Caroline Gillan and her new husband Alasdair have moved back to... -
Comic Sagas and Tales from Iceland by Leifur Eiricksson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.79Icelandic literary culture was one of the richest and most important in the medieval world. Texts that were written in Iceland during this period include Njal's Saga, Egil's Saga, The Vinland Sagas,... -
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74In the spring of 1860, Fabrizio, the charismatic Prince of Salina, still rules over thousands of acres and hundreds of people, including his own numerous family, in mingled splendour and squalor... -
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters; Seymour - an Introduction by J. D. Salinger
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A haunting portrait of family tragedy from the acclaimed author of The Catcher in the Rye'He was a great many things to a great many people while he lived, and virtually all things to his brothers... -
Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Romantics, adventurers, sensualists, melancholics and dreamers inhabit the bizarre and exotic world conjured up in these seven intricately interwoven tales, whose settings range from Tuscany and... -
Orlando King by Isabel Colegate
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73The masterpiece of one of the most important and overlooked British women writers of the twentieth century, with a new introduction by Melissa Harrison; 'Isabel Colegate has no rival' (The Times) ... -
The Penguin Book of First World War Stories by Ann-Marie Einhaus
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23An anthology of Great War short stories by British writers, both famous and lesser-known authors, men and women, during the war and after its end. These stories are able to illustrate the impact of... -
Inside Story Martin Amis 9781529113471
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'Utterly compelling' GuardianLife...is shapeless, it does not point to and gather round anything, it does not cohere. Artistically, it's dead. Life's dead.So begins a love letter to life, a... -
Notes from Underground and the Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'That sense of the meaninglessness of existence that runs through much of twentieth-century writing - from Conrad and Kafka, to Beckett and beyond - starts in Dostoyevsky's work' Malcolm... -
The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley 9780099499145
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Behind the large house, the fragrant camomile lawn stretches down to the Cornish cliffs. Here, in the dizzying heat of August 1939, five cousins have gathered at their aunt's house for their annual... -
Still Life by A. S. Byatt 9780099479918
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Frederica Potter arrives at Cambridge University greedy for knowledge, sex and love. It isn't long before she becomes infatuated with a mysterious and controlling poet. Back in Yorkshire, her sister... -
Ten Thousand Sorrows by Elizabeth Kim 9780553812640
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47I don't know how old I was when I watched my mother's murder, nor do I know how old I am today.' The illegitimate daughter of a peasant and an American GI, Elizabeth Kim spent her early years as a... -
The Wapshot Scandal: With an Introduction by Dave Eggers by John Cheever 9780099540595
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVE EGGERSOnce upon a time the Wapshots of St. Botolphs were distinguished for their unshakeable good opinion of themselves. But the family members have drifted far from... -
House of Gold by Natasha Solomons 9780099510659
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54Perfect for fans of THE TEA PLANTER'S WIFE'This has everything - engaging characters, a thrilling story and beautiful scenery' KATIE FFORDE________________________The start of a war. The end of a... -
The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12Escape to the Cornish cliffs in the dizzying heat of August 1939, where five cousins are making the most of the last summer of their youth.Oliver is just back from the Spanish Civil War and... -
The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse by T. Carmi
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24This stunning anthology gathers together the riches of poetry in Hebrew from 'The Song of Deborah' to contemporary Israeli writings. Verse written up to the tenth century show the development of... -
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce Colm Toibin 9780241354421
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.59An intimate study of three of Ireland's greatest writers from one of its best-loved contemporary voices, Colm Toibin__________________In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin takes three of... -
Music in the Castle of Heaven: A Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach by John Eliot Gardiner
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who seems so ordinary, so opaque - and occasionally so... -
Liveforever by Andrés Caicedo
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Andres Caicedo's novel Liveforever is a wild celebration of youth, hedonism and the transforming power of music.Maria del Carmen Huerta lives a respectable middle-class life in Colombia. One day she... -
Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73Beatrix Potter's books are adored by millions, but they were just one aspect of an extraordinary life. This captivating biography brings us the passionate, unconventional woman behind the beloved... -
A Month of Sundays by John Updike
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Updike's seventh novel concerns a month of seven days, a month of enforced rest and recreation as experienced by the Reverend Tom Marshfield, sent west from his Midwestern church in disgrace.About... -
The Anti-Death League by Kingsley Amis
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31In this surreal comedy of soldiers and spies, Lieutenant James Churchill and his colleagues find themselves questioning their purpose. Are they for death or against it? These men of action will... -
The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope 9780140433449
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium and former Prime Minister of England, is widowed and wracked by grief. Struggling to adapt to life without his beloved Lady Glencora, he works hard to guide... -
The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.37'Her gallery of personages is huge, her scene painting superb, her pathos controlled, her humour quiet and civilised' Anthony Burgess'So glittering is the overall parade - and so entertaining the... -
The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.19Set at the height of the "tulipomania" that gripped Holland in 17th century, this is the story of Cornelius van Baerle, a humble grower whose sole desire is to grow the perfect specimen of the tulip...