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Frida: The award-winning novel about the colourful and captivating life of Frida Kahlo by Claire Berest 9781035426782
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.38'The portrait of a fascinating, eccentric, and indomitable woman . . . an incandescent novel' Elle'No author has yet captured Frida's tragic life in words as sensually and passionately as this'... -
Essays Two by Lydia Davis 9781405992657
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.96Lydia Davis returns with a timeless collection of essays on literature and language.'Precise, concentrated, lyrical. No one writes like Lydia Davis, and everyone should read her' Hanif Kureishi'A... -
Best of Friends: from the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction Kamila Shamsie 9781526680044
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.18'A profound novel about friendship. I loved it to pieces' MADELINE MILLER** SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDIE BOOK AWARDS 2023 ** PICKED AS ONE OF THE SUNDAY TIMES' BEST PAPERBACKS OF 2023** CHOSEN AS A... -
French Braid by Anne Tyler
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.65*ONE OF THE TIMES BEST FICTION BOOKS OF 2022*The glorious Sunday Times bestseller from one of our greatest storytellers. French Braid follows one family's joys and heartbreaks, mistakes and secrets,... -
Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $7.99'This is a story about what might happen when a woman takes charge... A glorious visceral mystery' The TimesWhile on her daily walk with her dog in the woods near her home, Vesta comes across a... -
The Crystal World by J. G. Ballard
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.84From J. G. Ballard, author of 'Crash' and 'Cocaine Nights' comes his extraordinary vision of an African forest that turns all in its path to crystal. Through a 'leaking' of time, the West... -
The Prince's Boy by Paul Bailey
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.81In May 1927, nineteen-year-old Dinu Grigorescu, a skinny boy with literary ambitions, is newly arrived in Paris. He has been sent from Bucharest, the city of his childhood, by his wealthy father to... -
High-Rise by J. G. Ballard
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.84From the author of 'Crash' and 'Cocaine Nights' comes an unnerving tale of life in a modern tower block running out of control. Within the concealing walls of an elegant forty-storey tower... -
Utopia and the Contemporary British Novel by Caroline Edwards
Booksplease Price: $45.76This book examines the experience of time functions in a specific set of British novels to reveal the persistence of the utopian imagination in the twenty-first century. Through close textual... -
Love Alters: Lesbian Stories by Emma Donoghue
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35With this anthology, honoured on first publication as a Lambda Literary Award finalist, Emma Donoghue offers an eloquent and timely definition of the modern lesbian short story. Breaking out beyond... -
God Help the Child by Toni Morrison 9780099555926
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66Toni Morrison's fierce and provocative novel exposes the damage adults wreak on children, and how this echoes through the generations. Sweetness wants to love her child, Bride, but she struggles to... -
Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.26'Words connect the visible track to the invisible thing ... like a fragile makeshift bridge cast across the void'With imagination and wit, Italo Calvino sought to define the virtues of the great... -
The End of the Story Lydia Davis 9780241205457
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43The first and only novel by Lydia Davis, winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2013.'It surprised me, over and over, to find that I was with such a young man. He was twenty-two when I met him... -
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A Scots Quair: The Mearns Trilogy by Lewis Grassic Gibbon 9781846973673 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $8.89A Scots Quair is revolutionary - innovative in its form, deft and humorous in its use of the Scots language, courageous in its characterisation and politics. Central to the trilogy is Chris Guthrie,... -
Ways of Telling Xandra Bingley 9781912559893
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.17'Ways of Telling isn't like any other book. Is it social reportage, the eye at the keyhole, the ear at the door? It is its own thing.' Margaret Atwood 'I couldn't love it more. After the very... -
The Original: A Novel by Nell Stevens 9781324130697
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $13.73Brought to her uncle's decaying Oxfordshire estate when she was a child, Grace has grown up on the periphery of a once-great household, an outsider in her own home. Now a self-possessed and secretive... -
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Bertie, May and Mrs Fish: Country Memories of Wartime by Xandra Bingley 9780007149513 [USED COPY]
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $3.77A lyrical, evocative and wonderfully original wartime memoir about life on a farm in the Cotswolds, seen through the eyes of a child. 'Bertie, May and Mrs Fish' is Xandra Bingley's account... -
The Unlimited Dream Company by J. G. Ballard
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.84With a new introduction by John Gray and striking new cover from the artist Stanley Donwood, the author of 'Cocaine Nights' brings you the story of suburban London transformed into an exotic... -
Our Kind of People: Thoughts on the HIV/AIDS epidemic Uzodinma Iweala 9780719523601
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.95HIV/AIDS has profoundly affected life in sub-Saharan Africa. It has been reported as one of the most destructive diseases in recent memory - tearing apart communities and ostracising the afflicted... -
The Drought by J. G. Ballard
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.68With a new introduction by M. John Harrison and a striking new cover design from the artist Stanley Donwood, this acclaimed cult novel sees human existence threatened by devastating climate change. ... -
The History of Love: A Novel by Nicole Krauss 9780393328622
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.62Leo Gursky taps his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he's still alive. But it wasn't always like this: in the Polish village of his youth, he fell in love and wrote a book..... -
Boxer Handsome by Anna Whitwham 9780099584452
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62'A genuinely impressive debut. Boxer Handsome does everything great fiction should... revealing a world that most people will never even think about. If you can't see what it is that people need from... -
Long Players: Writers on the Albums That Shaped Them by Tom Gatti
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.09In Long Players, fifty of our finest authors write about the albums that changed their lives, from Deborah Levy on Bowie to Daisy Johnson on Lizzo, Ben Okri on Miles Davis to David Mitchell on Joni... -
Serious Sweet by A. L. Kennedy
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEJon is 59 and divorced: a senior civil servant in Westminster who hates many of his colleagues and loathes his work, he is a good man in a bad world. Meg is a... -
Small Holdings Nicola Barker 9780007436040
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.27Hilarious, poignant and frequently surreal, Small Holdings is a is a comedy of errors from a neglected corner of everyday life by the brilliantly unconventional Nicola Barker. An... -
Yesterday's Weather: Includes Taking Pictures and Other Stories by Anne Enright
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66First publication of a new collection of the Booker Prize-winner's stories including those from her most recent hardback 'Taking Pictures'.In Yesterday's Weather, Booker Prize-winning author Anne... -
The Goddess Chronicle by Natsuo Kirino
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43On an island in the shape of a teardrop live two sisters. One is admired far and wide, the other lives in her shadow. One is the Oracle, the other is destined for the Underworld.But what will happen... -
The Outsider by Albert Camus 9780141198064
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43'My mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know.'In The Outsider (1942), his classic existentialist novel, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social... -
The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience: 500 Years of Women's Self-Portraits Jennifer Higgie 9781474613798
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35'Reveals an until-now hidden history of women's self-portraiture. A gift that keeps on giving' ALI SMITH, NEW STATESMAN, Books of the Year'A fascinating survey . . . Extraordinary' DAILY MAIL'A... -
Red Thread: On Mazes and Labyrinths by Charlotte Higgins
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20'Charlotte Higgins's Red Thread is a masterwork' Ali SmithA thrillingly original, labyrinthine journey through myth, art, literature, history, archaeology and memoir. The tale of how the hero Theseus... -
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin 9780141041742
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.26A devastating story of love, loss and one woman's terrible choice between duty and personal freedom. Discover Brooklyn ahead of it's eagerly anticipated follow-up, Long Island. It is Ireland in the... -
Hackenfeller's Ape (Faber Editions): Introduced by Sarah Hall by Brigid Brophy 9780571381296
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $8.06An eccentric professor saves a London Zoo ape from a rocket experiment in this dazzling classic by a trailblazing animal rights activist, introduced by Sarah Hall.'Pitch-perfect.' Ali Smith'So... -
Zero-Sum Joyce Carol Oates 9780008609801
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.84'Oates's imagination is as unique, dystopian and vivid as Lewis Carroll's' ROSE TREMAIN 'A master storyteller' THE TIMES ... -
Ruth & Pen by Emilie Pine
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.36The brilliant debut novel from Emilie Pine, author of the international bestseller NOTES TO SELFDublin, 7 October 2019One day, one city, two women: Ruth and Pen. Neither knows the other, but both are... -
Women in Dark Times Jacqueline Rose 9781804271711
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56Women in Dark Times begins with three remarkable women: revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg; German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon; and film icon Marilyn Monroe. Bound together by their... -
Sunset Song: Voted ‘The Best Scottish Book of All Time’ Lewis Grassic Gibbon 9781846977510
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43'Oh, she hated and loved in a breath!' Faced with the choice between her harsh farming life and the seductive world of books and learning, the spirited Chris Guthrie decides to remain in rural... -
Memento Mori Muriel Spark 9781844085521
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35Unforgettably astounding and a joy to read, Memento Mori is considered by many to be the greatest novel by the wizardly Dame Muriel Spark. In late 1950s London, something uncanny besets a group of... -
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Journey by Moonlight by Len Rix 9781901285505 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $2.59A major classic of 1930s literature, Antal Szerb's Journey by Moonlight is the fantastically moving and darkly funny story of a bourgeois businessman torn between duty and desire. 'On the... -
Virtue and the Quiet Art of Scholarship: Reclaiming the University by Anne Pirrie
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $51.20Virtue and the Quiet Art of Scholarship offers a fresh perspective on what it is to be a 'good knower' in a social and educational environment dominated by the market order. It explores how narrowly... -
Letters from Tove by Tove Jansson 9781517910105
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.89A virtual memoir in letters by the beloved creator of the Moomins Tove Jansson's works, even her famed Moomin books, fairly teem with letters of one kind or another, from messages bobbing in bottles...