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My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk 9781841593319
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.38The Ottoman Sultan has commissioned the best artists in the land to create a book celebrating the glories of his realm: but he wants them to illuminate it in the European style. Because figurative... -
Once We Were Sisters Sheila Kohler 9781786890009
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70This is the story of Maxine and Sheila Kohler, two sisters who grew up in the suffocating gentility of 1950s South Africa. When Maxine is just shy of her fortieth birthday her husband, a brilliant... -
Christianity: A Global History by David Chidester 9780140257113
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $30.53A monumental new history of Christianity from its beginnings as a persecuted cult, up to its present day international diversity. 'A model of condensation without simplification' - J.M Coetzee 'Clear... -
Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005 by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $26.19Following on from Stranger Shores, which contained J.M. Coetzee's essays from 1986 to 1999, Inner Workings gathers together his literary essays from 2000 to 2005.Of the writers discussed in the first... -
Diary of a Bad Year by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73An eminent, ageing Australian writer is invited to contribute to a book entitled Strong Opinions. For him, troubled by Australia's complicity in the wars in the Middle East,it is a chance to air some... -
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Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee 9780099289524 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $4.12**A BBC RADIO 4 GOOD READ**'A great novel by one of the finest authors writing in the English language today' The TimesAfter years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town,... -
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73**A BBC RADIO 4 GOOD READ**'A great novel by one of the finest authors writing in the English language today' The TimesAfter years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town,... -
Master Of Petersburg by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2003In The Master of Petersburg J. M. Coetzee dares to imagine the life of Dostoevsky. Set in 1869, when Dostoevsky was summoned from Germany to St Petersburg... -
In The Heart Of The Country by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a black concubine. But when his embittered spinster... -
Dusklands by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73A megalomaniac Boer frontiersman wreaks hideous vengeance on a Hottentot tribe for undermining the 'natural' order of his universe with their anarchic rival order, mocking him and subjecting him to... -
Stranger Shores by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.64J. M. Coetzee is, without question, one of the world's greatest novelists. This volume gathers together for the first time in book form twenty-nine pieces on books, writing, photography and the 1995... -
Life And Times Of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies... -
Youth by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73Youth's narrator, a student in 1950s South Africa, has long been plotting an escape from his native country. Studying mathematics, reading poetry, saving money, he tries to ensure that when he... -
Slow Man by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.12Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away... -
Summertime by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.78A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on a period in the seventies when, the biographer senses, Coetzee was 'finding his feet as a... -
Elizabeth Costello by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73Elizabeth Costello is an Australian writer of international renown. Famous principally for an early novel that established her reputation, she has reached the stage where her remaining function is to... -
Boyhood: Scenes from provincial life by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.12In Boyhood, J. M. Coetzee revisits the South Africa of half a century ago, to write about his childhood and interior life. Boyhood's young narrator grew up in a small country town. With a father he... -
Life And Times of Michael K 9780140074482
RRP: $33.60Booksplease Price: $21.71From author of Waiting for the Barbarians and Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee. J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be... -
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Elizabeth Costello by J. M. Coetzee 9780099461920 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $4.60Elizabeth Costello is an Australian writer of international renown. Famous principally for an early novel that established her reputation, she has reached the stage where her remaining function is to... -
A Dream of Horses & Other Stories by Aashish Kaul 9781782795360
RRP: $14.68Booksplease Price: $11.63The stories in this collection draw variously on the themes of love and loss, Taoist metaphors, socio-political concerns, and the writer's place and role in the world. Literary and complex yet... -
The Found Voice: Writers' Beginnings by Denis Sampson 9780198752998
Booksplease Price: $85.43The Found Voice: Writers' Beginnings uses the means of literary biography and criticism to do something rarely attempted--to understand how a key creative period establishes the authoritative voice... -
Identity, Politics and the Novel: The Aesthetic Moment Ian Fraser 9780708326060
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $50.25Fraser's diverse and wide-ranging book offers an examination of the work of four critically acclaimed novelists, Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Identity), Ian McEwan (Atonement... -
On Representation: Deleuze and Coetzee on the Colonized Subject by Grant Hamilton 9789042034129
Booksplease Price: $154.67In this important new study, Hamilton establishes and develops innovative links between the sites of postcolonial literary theory, the fiction of the South African/Australian academic and Nobel... -
Bearings by Isobel Dixon 9781911027027
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.98In her fourth collection Isobel Dixon takes readers on a journey to far-flung and sometimes dark places in poems that are vivid forays of discovery and resistance, arrival and loss. Bearings sings of... -
Stories of Fathers, Stories of the Nation: Fatherhood and Paternal Power in South African Literature by Grant Andrews 9781869144784
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $39.94This book explores representations of fathers in select South African novels published from the birth of apartheid to the post-transitional moment. Father figures in the texts reflect political and... -
White Boy Running by Christopher Hope
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35In the run up to the 1987 election Christopher Hope returned to his native South Africa after a twelve-year absence. The nature of that year's whites-only election and the bitter defeat of the... -
Reading the 21st Century: Books of the Decade, 2000-2009 by Stan Persky 9780773540477
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.31In wide-ranging and innovative criticism, Stan Persky examines international non-fiction and fiction to engage with both the triumphs and tensions of reading and writing today. Evaluating works by... -
Tracing the (Post)Apartheid Novel beyond 2000: Interviews with Selected Contemporary South African Authors by Danyela Dimakatso Demir 9781032632230
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $90.47This anthology comprises of interviews with contemporary South African authors, offering vignettes of their lives and summaries of their works.In curating this book, Danyela Demir and Olivier... -
The Walk by Robert Walser
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.84Ranging from one-page fantasies to novella-length studies of everyday existence, The Walk reveals the irresistible genius of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Under-appreciated even in... -
Loot by Nadine Gordimer 9780747565383
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $22.81A startling new work from a Nobel prize-winning author: ten short stories, each a revelation of our interior lives, each entering unforeseen contexts of our contemporary world. In the title story an... -
The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh 9780006514091
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.39The International Bestseller from the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author 'An absorbing story of a world in transition' JM Coetzee 'A... -
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The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh 9780006514091 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $1.91The International Bestseller from the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author 'An absorbing story of a world in transition' JM Coetzee 'A... -
Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara Ellah Wakatama Allfrey 9781408869024
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.54Africa has produced some of the best writing of the twentieth century from Chinua Achebe, Ayi Kwei Armah, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and the Nobel Laureates Wole Soyinka, Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee and... -
The Happiness Glass Carol Lefevre 9781925581638
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $22.37Carol Lefevre is an Adelaide-based writer whose book, The Happiness Glass, explores the imaginative terrain between essays and short fiction. The narrative takes us from remote NSW to New Zealand and... -
Digital Literary Creative Practice: Six Memos for Writers in the Current Millennium by David Thomas Henry Wright 9781032418254
RRP: $100.78Booksplease Price: $90.47In 1985, Italo Calvino proposed six values he deemed crucial to literature as it moved into the next millennium: lightness, quickness, 'crystal' exactitude, visibility, multiplicity, and consistency... -
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Girl by Edna O'Brien 9780571341184 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $4.16The final novel by the legendary Irish icon Edna O'Brien, author of The Country Girls.'The taboo-breaking, the fabulous prose - there's no one like Edna.' Anne Enright'Girl broke me in two: a hard... -
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Brighton Rock by Graham Greene 9780099478478 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $4.58Gripping, terrifying, an unputdownable read. Discover Graham Greene's most iconic novel.A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless,... -
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $13.90Gripping, terrifying, an unputdownable read. Discover Graham Greene's most iconic novel.A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless,... -
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The Wine of Solitude by Irene Nemirovsky 9780099520375 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $5.17From the author of the bestselling Suite Francaise.Helene is a troubled young girl. Neglected by her self-absorbed mother and her adored but distant father, she longs for love and for freedom. As... -
Parents for a Future by Rupert Read 9781911343370
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.39That our ecological future appears grave can no longer come as any surprise. And yet we have so far failed, collectively and individually, to begin the kind of action necessary to shift our path away...