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A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92Martin believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover. But when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leaves him for her psychoanalyst, Martin is plunged into an intensive emotional... -
At Home In The World: A Life With J D Salinger by Joyce Maynard 9781862300415
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71In 1972, Joyce Maynard, an undergraduate at Yale, wrote an article for the New York Times Magazine called 'An Eighteen Year Old Looks Back on Life'. Among the hundreds of letters she received as a... -
The Rosemary Tree Elizabeth Goudge 9781473656260
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75Michael 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... -
The Walled Garden: Unearth the most captivating historical fiction debut of 2023 by Sarah Hardy
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.33LONGLISTED 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 Walled Garden: Unearth the most moving and captivating novel of the year by Sarah Hardy 9781838779290
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.76'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... -
Gentian Hill by Elizabeth Goudge
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75Unable 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 Summer House Party by Caro Fraser
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.45In 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... -
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The Summer House Party by Caro Fraser 9781786691507 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $3.11In 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... -
Statues in a Garden Isabel Colegate 9781526621603
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.45'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... -
Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time by Hilary Spurling 9780141030791
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.48BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 in The Sunday Times, Spectator, Mail on Sunday, Observer and Financial Times'A landmark biography' The Times, Books of the Year'One of our generation's greatest biographers'... -
The Blackmailer by Isabel Colegate
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.57The 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... -
Orlando King by Isabel Colegate
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36The 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) ... -
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters; Seymour - an Introduction by J. D. Salinger
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $8.59A 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... -
The Lark: Introduction by Booker Prize-Winning Author Penelope Lively by E. Nesbit
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'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 Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11When Dr Primrose loses his fortune in a disastrous investment, his idyllic life in the country is shattered and he is forced to move with his wife and six children to an impoverished living on the... -
The Dean's Watch: The Cathedral Trilogy by Elizabeth Goudge
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75A 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... -
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by John Mandeville
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.31Ostensibly 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 Egoist by George Meredith 9780140430349
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63Virginia Woolf said of The Egoist: 'Meredith pays us a supreme compliment to which as novel-readers we are little accustomed ... He imagines us capable of disinterested curiosity in the behaviour of... -
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Orlando King by Isabel Colegate 9781526615589 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $3.38The 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) ... -
Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.37Romantics, 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... -
A Woman Made of Snow by Elisabeth Gifford
Booksplease Price: $19.81'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: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.12Icelandic 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: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.07In 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... -
A Long Way From Home by Rosamunde Pilcher 9781405997430
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Rediscover the brilliance of A Long Way From Home in the Mermaid Collection - classic books by popular pioneering female authors republished to delight new generations of readers. Pre-order this... -
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce Colm Toibin 9780241354421
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.51An 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... -
The Penguin Book of First World War Stories by Ann-Marie Einhaus
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37An 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... -
Liveforever by Andrés Caicedo
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28Andres 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... -
Notes from Underground and the Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65'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... -
Music in the Castle of Heaven: A Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach by John Eliot Gardiner
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.40Johann 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... -
The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse by T. Carmi
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.42This 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... -
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Ten Thousand Sorrows by Elizabeth Kim 9780553812640 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $3.94I 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... -
Inside Story Martin Amis 9781529113471
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92'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... -
House of Gold by Natasha Solomons 9780099510659
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.48Perfect 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... -
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The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley 9780099499145 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $2.99Behind 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... -
The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.54Escape 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... -
Ten Thousand Sorrows by Elizabeth Kim 9780553812640
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71I 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 Auden Generation by Samuel Hynes 9780712652506
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.04This is a study of a literary generation writing in a period of expanding fears and ever more urgent political and social crises. The pace of the time itself, the sense of time passing and an end... -
Towers in the Mist: The Cathedral Trilogy by Elizabeth Goudge
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75A charming tale of hope and love, set amid the dreaming spires of Elizabethan Oxford.When Faithful Crocker, an impoverished young man with a love of learning, travels to Oxford in the hope of... -
A Month of Sundays by John Updike
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65Updike'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 House On Hope Street by Danielle Steel 9780552146388
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Life was good for Liz and Jack Sutherland. In eighteen years of marriage they had built a family, a successful law practice, and a warm happy home near San Francisco, in a house on Hope Street. But...