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Parallel Text: French Short Stories: Nouvelles Francaises by Pamela Lyon
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Originally written to entertain, move or chill, the eight short stories in this collection accompanied by parallel English translations now also help students gain deeper insights into French... -
Daughter Of Persia by Sattareh Farman-Farmaian
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Sattareh Farman Farmaian, the daughter of a once-powerful and wealthy Iranian prince, was raised and educated in the 1920s and 1930s in a Persian harem compound, along with numerous mothers and more... -
The Vet's Daughter: A Virago Modern Classic by Barbara Comyns
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02INTRODUCED BY JANE GARDAM'A small Gothic masterpiece . . . I have read it many times, and with every re-read I marvel again at its many qualities' SARAH WATERS'It projects its fantastic story with a... -
Londoners by Maureen Duffy 9780099587361
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Many of the Londoners in this novel are outcasts - some are criminals in society's eyes. Most are descended from adventurers and immigrants. The worlds they inhabit - the bedsit; the cruisers' pub -... -
Mossy Trotter Elizabeth Taylor 9780349005577
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'It's always a treat to read Elizabeth Taylor. Mossy Trotter is a real gem. A delightfully mischievous boy living in those long-ago halcyon days when children played out all day, roaming commons,... -
The Little Book of Joy: Spread Good Cheer by Joanna Gray
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67With joyful tasks, words of wisdom and simple yet practical tips for looking on the bright side of life, The Little Book of Joy will show you how to sprinkle an extra serving of happiness into your... -
The Haunt by A. L. Barker 9780571322008
Booksplease Price: £14.75Originally published in 1999, The Haunt, set in a seedy, decaying hotel on the Cornish coast, was to be the final entry in A. L. Barker's brilliant fifty-year writing career. 'The Haunt is the novel... -
The Little Book of Resilience: Strength. Grit. Power by Joanna Gray 9781837830527
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67With inspirational quotations, practical tasks and thoughtful exercises, The Little Book of Resilience teaches you how to cope with everything life throws at you, and come back stronger. The Little... -
Sisters By A River: A Virago Modern Classic by Barbara Comyns
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Tragic, comic and completely bonkers all in one, I'd go as far as to call her something of a neglected genius' LUCY SCHOLES, GUARDIAN 'It is hard not to believe that Barbara Comyns's own adventures... -
The Widening World of Children's Literature by S. Ang 9781349400928
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book looks at the changing shape of children's literature in English from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. In particular it examines the dialect between 'enclosure' and 'exposure',... -
The Little Book of Focus: Calm. Mindful. Productive Joanna Gray 9781837832880
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Get in the zone and channel your productivity with The Little Book of Focus. With inspirational quotations, practical tips and thoughtful exercises, The Little Book of Focus will show you how to find... -
The Little Book of Manifesting: Dream. Believe. Achieve. by Joanna Gray 9781837830503
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Bring your dreams to life with The Little Book of Manifesting. With motivational quotations, fun tasks and thoughtful exercises, The Little Book of Manifesting will show you how to manifest the life... -
The Little Book of Rest: Take. It. Easy Joanna Gray 9781837832897
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Inhale... Exhale... and take a moment of respite with The Little Book of Rest. With inspirational quotations, practical tips and thoughtful exercises, The Little Book of Rest will show you how to... -
The Little Book of Gratitude: Give More Thanks by Joanna Gray
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67The Little Book of Gratitude shows you how to focus on the good in life and find joy in the little things with thoughtful and practical tips to cultivate gratitude every day.Practising gratitude is... -
The Little Book of Self-Love: Patience. Kindness. Peace. by Joanna Gray 9781837830510
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Nurture your relationship with yourself with The Little Book of Self-Love.The Little Book of Self-Love will show you how to practise self-compassion and kindness with uplifting quotations, real-world... -
The Widening World of Children's Literature by S. Ang 9780312226688
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book looks at the changing shape of children's literature in English from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. In particular it examines the dialect between 'enclosure' and 'exposure',... -
The Little Book of Sex: Hot Hot Hot by Joanna Gray 9781787134096
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37"Love is an ice cream sundae with all the marvellous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top." Jimmy Dean Succumb to your primal desires with The Little Book of Sex. From the first signs of attraction... -
The Little Book of Self-Care: Restore Recharge Flourish by Joanna Gray
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance." Oscar Wilde When pursuing your dreams and a joyous, fulfilling life, self-care isn't just beneficial, it's essential. More than just a fad,... -
Riverbank and Seashore in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century British Literature by Gillian Mary Hanson 9780786422845
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.99The waters of river and sea represent a kind of freedom, a liberty which, as Iris Murdoch writes, enables man "to exist sanely without fear and to perceive what is real." As settings in fiction,... -
Nevermore Cécile Wajsbrot 9781803093895
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.18A meditation on loss and recovery through the act of translation and its recuperative powers. An unnamed translator mourning the loss of a close friend retreats to Dresden to translate the "Time... -
The Women In Black by Madelaine St. John
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02' A pocket masterpiece. A jewel' Hilary MantelOn the second floor of the famous F. G. Goode department store, in Ladies' Cocktail Frocks, the women in black are girding themselves for the Christmas... -
Waterlog by Roger Deakin 9781784700065
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Waterlog celebrates the magic of water and the beauty of wild Britain.In 1996 Roger Deakin set out to swim the British Isles. He swam in the sea, in rivers, in streams, tarns, lakes, lochs, ponds,... -
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather 9780241338261
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'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... -
Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather 9781844083725
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In 1851 Bishop Latour and his friend Father Valliant are despatched to New Mexico to reawaken its slumbering Catholicism. Moving along the endless prairies, Latour spreads his faith the only way he... -
Samurai William: The Adventurer Who Unlocked Japan by Giles Milton
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88In 1611 an astonishing letter arrived at the East India Trading Company in London after a tortuous seven-year journey. Englishman William Adams was one of only twenty-four survivors of a fleet of... -
The Time in Aderra by Ann Schlee 9781447269779
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Untouched by the ravages of war and the politically volatile atmosphere, the Villa della Pace remains an island of European society in the tiny British Protectorate of Aderra. Its circle religiously... -
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
RRP: £13.49Booksplease Price: £9.65'The greatest enterprise of its kind in history,' was the verdict of British prime minister Stanley Baldwin in June 1928 when The Oxford English Dictionary was finally published. With its 15,490... -
Innocents: Variations on a Theme by A. L. Barker 9780571321995
Booksplease Price: £14.75A. L. Barker's debut story collection appeared in 1947 and won the inaugural Somerset Maugham prize, instantly marking her out as a remarkable new talent. Each story describes a crisis in life; each... -
In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Cultural History of Naples by Jordan Lancaster
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.37The definitive companion for anyone seeking to delve beneath the surface of Naples. Naples is an Italian city like no other. Drama and darkness are often associated with the Naples, which rests... -
Instances of the Number 3 by Salley Vickers 9781841156590
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95The fantastic new edition of the bestselling second novel from the author of 'Miss Garnet's Angel'. Bridget Hansome and Frances Slater have only one thing in common. And that's Peter... -
It's a Don's Life by Mary Beard
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Mary Beard's by now famous blog A Don's Life has been running on the TLS website for nearly three years. In it she has made her name as a wickedly subversive commentator on the world in which we... -
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald 9780006550198
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88From the Booker Prize-winning author of 'Offshore' comes this unusual romance between the poet Novalis and his fiancee Sophie, newly introduced by Candia McWilliam. The year is 1794 and... -
In the Place of Fallen Leaves by Tim Pears
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73WINNER OF THE HAWTHORNDEN PRIZE AND THE RUTH HADDEN MEMORIAL AWARD Tim Pears' prize-winning, critically acclaimed debut about a hot summer in a Devon village where time seems to stand still ... -
The Tale of Ahmed by Henry Cockburn 9781682194270
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.53Tale of Ahmed is a gripping fictional account of the dangerous journey of a teenage boy, Ahmed, who travels from Afghanistan, across the Middle East and Europe, to seek refuge in England. Author... -
Chemistry and Other Stories by Tim Pears 9781526623416
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05'As good as any modern fiction you will read this year' Sunday Times, Best new short story collections A wife compulsively digs in her garden. Two brothers, long estranged, reunite for a terse,... -
Blue: The History of a Color by Michel Pastoureau 9780691181363
Booksplease Price: £29.82A beautifully illustrated visual and cultural history of the color blue throughout the agesBlue has had a long and topsy-turvy history in the Western world. The ancient Greeks scorned it as ugly and... -
Unexpected Lessons in Love Bernardine Bishop 9781848547841
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Novel AwardCecilia Banks has a great deal on her plate. But when her son Ian turns up on her doostep with the unexpected consequence of a brief fling, she feels she has... -
The Snow Line by Tessa McWatt
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Four strangers from around the world arrive in India for a wedding. Together, they climb a mountain - but will they see the same thing from the top? Londoner Reema, who left India before she could... -
The Snow Line: a novel by Tessa McWatt
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.45Old and young. White and brown. Male and female. British. Indian. Other. Four strangers from around the world arrive in India for a wedding. Together, they climb a mountain - but will they see the... -
I, John Kennedy Toole: A Novel by Kent Carroll
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.62A rich new novel that explores the true story of A Confederacy Of Dunces and the remarkable life of its author, John Kennedy Toole.I, John Kennedy Toole is the novelized true story of the funny,...