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Daniel Deronda by George Eliot 9781857151633
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.29George Eliot's last novel, published in 1876, weaves together two stories, one about Gwendolen Harleth, the spoilt beauty who marries for money, the other concerning the mysterious hero of the title... -
Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett 9781857159387
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20Originally published as a serial in the children's monthly magazine ST NICHOLAS, LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY was Frances Hodgson Burnett's first children's novel and on its publication in book form in... -
Showing and Doing: Wittgenstein as a Pedagogical Philosopher Michael A. Peters 9781594514494
RRP: $77.39Booksplease Price: $68.74Three prominent Wittgenstein scholars introduce the broad educational significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein's work to a wider audience of educational researchers and practitioners through provocative,... -
King of the Fields by Isaac Bashevis Singer 9780141391588
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Isaac Bashevis Singer, comes a fictional exploration of primitive history. Singer's novel portrays an era of superstition and violence in a country... -
Collected Stories by D. H. Lawrence 9781857151800
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $24.34Lawrence is known mainly as a novelist and poet but he was also the author of many superb short stories and novellas. By bringing together all his shorter fiction, this volume makes it possible to... -
The Rose Apple Tree Mystery by Ovidia Yu 9781408717028
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35'The sharpest exercise in decolonising fiction in Singapore's literary landscape. It is also, simply, really fun to read!' - Ong Sor Fern----------'Til death do us part...Singapore, 1947. Newlyweds... -
Akenfield by Ronald Blythe
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91'The best portrait of rural life in England' Roger Deakin'Exquisite' John Updike'The finest contemporary writer on the English countryside' ObserverRonald Blythe's perceptive and vivid evocation of... -
The Jewel In The Crown by Paul Scott
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51___________________NOW A BBC RADIO 4 EXTRA DRAMATISATION STARRING ANNA MAXWELL MARTIN AND PRASANNA PUWANARAJAH___________________BOOK ONE OF THE RAJ QUARTETIndia 1942: everything is in flux. World... -
Collected Stories by Raymond Chandler
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $24.34The only complete collection of shorter fiction by the undisputed master of detective literature, assembled here for the first time in one volume, includes stories unavailable for decades. When... -
Collected Stories W. Somerset Maugham 9781857152760
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.54Though W. Somerset Maugham was also famous for his novels and plays, it has been argued that in thethe short story he reached the pinnacle of his artwas his true metier. These expertly told tales,... -
The Koran by N. J. Dawood
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.26'Across the language barrier Dawood captures the thunder and poetry of the original' The TimesThe Koran is universally accepted by Muslims to be the infallible Word of God as first revealed to the... -
The Sleeping Beauty C S Evans 9781857159202
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20This most romantic of fairy tales is found in many versions, and the story of the beautiful girl who falls into a long sleep, to be awakened by a lover, has been interpreted by some as an allegory of... -
Mrs Pepperpot Stories by Alf Proysen
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.81A fantastic collection of much-loved, classic stories for all the family!Mrs Pepperpot can't choose when she will shrink to the size of a pepperpot - it just happens! But whatever she encounters,... -
Talking Turkeys by Benjamin Zephaniah
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $6.95A reissue of TALKING TURKEYS by street poet Benjamin Zephaniah. Talking Turkeys is an unconventional collection of straight-talking poems about heroes, revolutions, racism, love and animal rights,... -
Russian Fairy Tales by Gillian Avery
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.72The famous stage-designer Ivan Bilibin was a self-taught artist who was lucky enough to be offered the commission of a lifetime at the very start of his career. In 1899 the Department for the... -
The Happy Prince And Other Tales by Oscar Wilde 9781857159394
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20The five original fairy tales included in this volume were first published by Davis Nutt in 1888. Although it is said that Wilde wrote them for his two young sons, the author himself claimed they... -
Solitude by Carmela Ciuraru 9781841597676
RRP: $15.48Booksplease Price: $11.38A collection of poems which capture the experience of solitude- by day or night, in the city or in the country, in waking or in dreams. There are contented reveries, expressions of loneliness and... -
A World on Fire: An Epic History of Two Nations Divided by Amanda Foreman
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $20.60'No two nations have ever existed on the face of the earth which could do each other so much good or so much harm'President Buchanan, State of the Nation Address, 1859A World on Fire tells, with... -
Cinderella by C. S. Evans
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20This most beloved of all fairy tales is told in many versions and found in many different cultures - from the Italian CENERANTOLA to the Russian CHERNUSHKA For this edition, first published in 1919,... -
Dialogues and Letters by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43A major writer and a leading figure in the public life of Rome, Seneca (c. 4BC-AD 65) ranks among the most eloquent and influential masters of Latin prose. This selection explores his thoughts on... -
Putting Emotional Intelligence To Work by David Ryback
RRP: $60.62Booksplease Price: $55.03Putting Emotional Intelligence to Work offers a new paradigm of communication for the 21st-century workplace. Beginning with the thoughts of communication pioneer Carl Rogers, this book covers the... -
Remote People by Evelyn Waugh
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97Perhaps the funniest travel book ever written, Remote People begins with a vivid account of the coronation of Emperor Ras Tafari - Haile Selassie I, King of Kings - an event covered by Evelyn Waugh... -
That Uncertain Feeling by Kingsley Amis
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43In That Uncertain Feeling by Kingsley Amis, competition is stiff for the position of sub-librarian in Aberdarcy Library. For John Lewis, the situation is complicated by the attentions of daunting and... -
A Book Of Nonsense by Edward Lear 9781857159073
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20Edward Lear, the 20th child of a London stockbroker, entered the household of Lord Stanley as little more than a servant, but his sense of humour soon made him welcome above stairs and he began to... -
Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 9781857159295
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $15.13First published as a serial in YOUNG FOLKS between May and July 1886 and now reprinted in an Everyman edition on the centenary of Stevenson's death. KIDNAPPED is an adventure story that has become... -
A Child's Garden Of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson 9781857159080
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62Perhaps one of the most popular of Stevenson's works, A Child's Garden Of Verses, first published in 1885, is regarded universally as one of the greatest recollections of childhood in verse.About the... -
The Pied Piper Of Hamelin by Robert Browning 9781857159226
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20First published in 1842, Robert Browning's poetic version of the legend about the lost children of Hamelin is sub-titled 'A Child's Story' and was originally intended only for the private enjoyment... -
Payment Deferred by C.S. Forester 9780241654170
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.18Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage seriesThere is nothing more dangerous than a desperate manBank clerk William Marble is facing financial ruin - until a visit from a wealthy young... -
Fables by Aesop
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20Aesop is believed to have lived in the sixth century B.C., a slave on the Greek island of Samos. His ability to teach lessons in morality through story has made his name synonymous with the genre of... -
The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91The Voyage of the Beagle is Charles Darwin's account of the momentous voyage which set in motion the current of intellectual events leading to The Origin of Species. This Penguin Classics edition is... -
Owning Up: The Trilogy by George Melly
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.76This single volume includes three famous memoirs - Scouse Mouse, Rum, Bum & Concertina and Owning Up, with a new introduction by the author. Scouse Mouse is a funny and frequently touching story of... -
Little World: Jungle Journey: A push-and-pull adventure by Allison Black
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $6.95Introducing the interactive Little World series from Ladybird that makes our big world little.Little World is designed for curious toddlers, allowing them to explore familiar landscapes and faraway... -
The Common Years by Jilly Cooper
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66During the ten years she lived at the edge of Putney Common Jilly Cooper walked daily on this expanse of green. For most of the time she lived there she kept a diary, noting the effects of the... -
Fever by J. M. G. Le Clezio
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62In these nine unforgettable and impressionistic 'tales of little madness', the Nobel Prize-winning author Le Clezio explores how the physical sensations we experience every day can be as strong as... -
The Girl on the Boat by P. G. Wodehouse
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $14.74When Sam Marlowe falls in love with his cousin's sparky ex-fiancee he finds himself up against stiff opposition from her millionaire father, her father's best friend and the best friend's son for... -
Selected Short Stories by Rabindranath Tagore
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Poet, novelist, painter and musician, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is the grand master of Bengali culture. Written during the 1890s, the stories in this selection brilliantly recreate vivid images... -
The Puffin Book of Nonsense Verse by Quentin Blake
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Ever eaten Poodle Strudel? Slain a Jabberwock? Bathed in Irish Stew? Quentin Blake is one of the best loved of children's illustrators. In this brilliant book he has selected and illustrated his... -
Selected Poems and Fragments by Friedrich Holderlin
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.20Friedrich Hoelderlin (1770-1843) is now recognized as one of Europe's supreme poets. He first found his true voice in the epigrams and odes he wrote when transfigured by his love for the wife of a... -
Black Beauty Anna Sewell 9781857159165
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.00Described on the title-page of the first edition as 'the autobiography of her horse, translated from the original equine', BLACK BEAUTY was Anna Sewell's only book, written when she fatally ill but... -
Children's Classics: The Jungle Book (Children's Easy Classics) Gemma Barder 9781802631579
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $2.83When a Man Cub enters Mother and Father Wolf's cave, rather than turning him away (or eating him!) they call him Mowgli and raise him as one of the wolfpack. As he grows up, his friends, Baloo the...