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Dance To The Music Of Time Volume 1 Anthony Powell 9780099436683
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.77_________________________The first three volumes of Anthony Powell's remarkable A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME sequence: A QUESTION OF UPBRINGING; A BUYER'S MARKET; THE ACCEPTANCE WORLD'One of the... -
Quicksands: A Memoir by Sybille Bedford
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Beginning in 1956 with the publication of A Legacy, Sybille Bedford has narrated - in fiction and non-fiction - what has been by turns her sensuous, harrowing, altogether remarkable life. In this... -
Hindoo Holiday: An Indian Journal J. R. Ackerley 9780141189253
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65A highly entertaining and moving journal chronicling J. R. Ackerley's time in IndiaIn the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley spent several months in India as the Private Secretary to the Maharajah of... -
The Persian Expedition by Xenophon
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11In The Persian Expedition, Xenophon, a young Athenian noble who sought his destiny abroad, provides an enthralling eyewitness account of the attempt by a Greek mercenary army - the Ten Thousand - to... -
An Apology for Idlers by Robert Louis Stevenson
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.07An irresistible invitation to reject the work ethic and enjoy life's simple pleasures (such as laughing, drinking and lying in the open air), Robert Louis Stevenson's witty and seminal essay on the... -
Oranges and Snow: Selected Poems of Milan Djordjevic by Milan Djordjevic 9780691142463
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $22.26Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic has done more than anyone since Czeslaw Milosz to introduce English-language readers to the greatest modern Slavic poets. In Oranges and Snow, Simic... -
On Henry Miller: Or, How to Be an Anarchist by John Burnside 9780691166872
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $21.82An engaging invitation to rediscover Henry Miller-and to learn how his anarchist sensibility can help us escape "the air-conditioned nightmare" of the modern worldThe American writer Henry Miller's... -
Inventing Paradise: The Greek Journey, 1937-47 by Edmund Keeley 9780810119390
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $21.31In the looming shadow of an oppressive dictatorship and imminent world war, George Seferis and George Katsimbalis, along with other poets and writers from Greece's fabled Generation of the 1930s,... -
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The Durrells of Corfu by Michael Haag 9781781257883 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $3.42The Durrell family are immortalised in Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals and its ITV adaptation, The Durrells. But what of the real life Durrells? Why did they go to Corfu in the first... -
Complete Poetry, Translations & Selected Prose Bernard Spencer 9781852248918
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $14.47Bernard Spencer (1909-63) was a distinctive voice in 20th-century English poetry, and a central figure in the Personal Landscape group of wartime Cairo writers. He spent much of his life working for... -
The Durrells of Corfu by Michael Haag
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.58The Durrell family are immortalised in Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals and its ITV adaptation, The Durrells. But what of the real life Durrells? Why did they go to Corfu in the first... -
The Isles of Greece John Lucas 9781906011161
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $7.30For travellers through the Aegean from Odysseus onwards, the Greek islands have proved to be places of beauty and enchantment, but also of violence, of love and death. "Isles of Greece" doesn't plot... -
Clea 9780140153224
RRP: $32.16Booksplease Price: $23.13The magnificent final volume of one of the most widely acclaimed fictional masterpieces of the postwar era. Few books have been awaited as eagerly as Clea, the sensuous and electrically suspenseful... -
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Berlitz: Corfu Pocket Guide by 9781780040455 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: $4.01Berlitz Pocket Guide Corfu gives you reliable, user-friendly detail with colour photography to uncover Greece's pretty Emerald Isle: from elegant Corfu Town with its lovely, Venetian architecture and... -
The Rilke of Ruth Speirs: New Poems, Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus, & Others: 2015 by Rainer Maria Rilke 9781909747128
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.89Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is universally recognized as among the most important twentieth-century German-language poets. Here, for the first time, are all the surviving translations of his... -
Rhodes in Ancient Times: First Published in 1885, a revised edition with additional material by Cecil Torr 9780953992362
Booksplease Price: $22.14"Not the shadow of a smile disturbs the dry exposition of the scholarly Englishman [Cecil Torr] who has given us the best historical monograph on the island... Read him and you will see why..."... -
Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65A cult modern classic, Tropic of Capricorn is as daring, frank and influential as Henry Miller first novel, Tropic of Cancer -- new to Penguin Modern Classics with a cover by Tracey EminA story of... -
The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65'Out of the sea, as if Homer himself had arranged it for me, the islands bobbed up, lonely, deserted, mysterious in the fading light'Enraptured by a young woman's account of the landscapes of Greece,... -
George Seferis: Waiting for the Angel, A Biography by Roderick Beaton 9780300197563
Booksplease Price: $65.41The first biography in any language of one of the world's greatest modernist poets Poet, essayist, diarist, novelist, and diplomat, George Seferis brought about a revolution in the way people viewed... -
Gerald Durrell: The Authorised Biography by Douglas Botting 9780006387305
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $17.41The authorised biography of the great naturalist and conservationist Gerald Durrell, who died aged seventy in January 1995 in Jersey, where he founded the zoo he'd dreamed of as a small boy and... -
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Gerald Durrell: The Authorised Biography by Douglas Botting 9780006387305 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $3.23The authorised biography of the great naturalist and conservationist Gerald Durrell, who died aged seventy in January 1995 in Jersey, where he founded the zoo he'd dreamed of as a small boy and... -
Whatever Happened to Margo? by Margaret Durrell
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $8.08*With a foreword from Gerald Durrell* In 1947, returning to the UK with two young children to support, Margaret Durrell starts a boarding house in Bournemouth. But any hopes of respectability are... -
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The Tragedy of the Templars: The Rise and Fall of the Crusader States by Michael Haag 9781846684517 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $3.08In 1187, nearly a century after the victorious First Crusade, Saladin captured Jerusalem. The Templars, headquartered on the Temple Mount, were driven from the city along with the Frankish population... -
Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch by Henry Miller
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.35In his great triptych "The Millennium," Bosch used oranges and other fruits to symbolize the delights of Paradise. Whence Henry Miller's title for this, one of his most appealing books; first... -
Alexandria: A History and Guide by E.M. Forster
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $16.04With a novelist's pen, Forster brings to life the fabled, romantic city of Alexander the Great, capital of Graeco-Roman Egypt, beacon of light and culture symbolised by the Pharos, where the doomed... -
PN Review 277 by Michael Schmidt 9781800174207
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20The May-June 2024 issue. Since we started as Poetry Nation, a twice yearly hardback, in 1973, we've been publishing new poetry, rediscoveries, commentary, literary essays, interviews and reviews from... -
Journey Into Cyprus by Colin Thubron
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68Cyprus, spring 1972. Tensions are rising between the Greek South and the Turkish North. Within two years, the country will become divided.It is at this distinctive time in history British travel... -
The Quest For Mary Magdalene: History & Legend by Michael Haag
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Mary Magdalene is a larger figure than any text, larger than the Bible or the Church; she has taken on a life of her own. She has been portrayed as a penitent whore, a wealthy woman, Christ's wife,... -
Companions by Christina Hesselholdt
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Camilla, Charles, Alma, Edward, Alwilda and Kristian are a circle of friends hurtling through mid-life. Structured as a series of monologues jumping from one friend to the next, Companions follows... -
The Lantern Deborah Lawrenson 9781409135487
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92A brooding, contemporary novel of secrets, lost love, perfume and Provence for fans of Tracy Rees and Jenny Ashcroft'A modern day Rebecca, complete with an eerie house ... and nail-biting happenings'... -
Books, Baguettes and Bedbugs: Enchanting memoir of a struggling writer and an eccentric Paris bookshop Jeremy Mercer 9780753820582
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41Enchanting memoir of a struggling writer living and working in the eccentric Parisian bookshop, 'Shakespeare and Company''Completely riveting ...a vivid picture of modern Paris' OBSERVER'Shakespeare... -
Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor by Patrick Leigh Fermor
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.24A revelatory collection of letters written by the author of The Broken Road.Handsome, spirited and erudite, Patrick Leigh Fermor was a war hero and one of the greatest travel writers of his... -
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $8.71A novel of high adventure, great storytelling and moral purpose, based on an extraordinary true story of eight years in the Bombay underworld'A literary masterpiece... at once erudite and intimate,... -
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Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts 9780349117546 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.39A novel of high adventure, great storytelling and moral purpose, based on an extraordinary true story of eight years in the Bombay underworld'A literary masterpiece... at once erudite and intimate,...