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True Story by Michael Finkel
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Michael Finkel was a top New York Times Magazine journalist publicly fired and disgraced for making up a composite character for a big investigative news piece about Africa. This book is about how... -
The Alvarez Generation: Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Peter Porter by William Wootten 9781781381632
Booksplease Price: £44.80This book is the biography of a taste in poetry and its consequences. During the 1950s and 1960s, a generation of poets appeared who would eschew the restrained manner of Movement poets such as... -
Before the Light Fades: A Memoir of Grief and Resistance by Natasha Walter
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.82'A fascinating story of courage, doubt and defiance across three generations' SARAH WATERS'A fierce and beautiful book' EDMUND DE WAAL'Heartfelt and upfront... A grieving daughter rediscovers her... -
An Ice-cream War by William Boyd
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'As ambitious as it is remarkable. Balances on seesaws of innocence and violence, sanity and lunacy, hilarity and horror' The Times_____________________________'We will all melt like ice-cream in... -
Before the Light Fades: A Family Story of Resistance - 'Fascinating' Sarah Waters by Natasha Walter 9780349010595
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'A fascinating story of courage, doubt and defiance across three generations' SARAH WATERS'A fierce and beautiful book' EDMUND DE WAAL'Heartfelt and upfront... A grieving daughter rediscovers her... -
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I'll Go To Bed At Noon by Gerard Woodward 9780099286936 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.54It is 1970 in the suburbs of north London and, from the untidy comfort of her crowded house, Colette Jones is watching her older brother go to pieces, drinking himself into oblivion on home-made wine... -
I'll Go To Bed At Noon by Gerard Woodward 9780099286936
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16It is 1970 in the suburbs of north London and, from the untidy comfort of her crowded house, Colette Jones is watching her older brother go to pieces, drinking himself into oblivion on home-made wine... -
Promises to Keep: Thoughts in Old Age by Richard Hoggart 9780826482730
Booksplease Price: £21.69The outstanding quality of Richard Hoggart's new book is its warmth. In the style of Montaigne, Hoggart looks back over his years and pinpoints those human qualities which have come to mean most to... -
Time Bites: Views and Reviews by Doris Lessing 9780007179862
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68Assembled here for the first time in book form are the very best occasional writings from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. A selection of the very best of Doris Lessing's... -
The Other by Ryszard Kapuscinski 9781786635969
Booksplease Price: £10.99Introduction by Neal AschersonIn our globalised but increasingly polarised age, Kapuscinski shows how the Other remains one of the most compelling ideas of our times.In this reflection on a lifetime... -
The Good Terrorist by Doris Lessing
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58A group of squatters rebel against Mrs Thatcher and erupt into violence in this politicised novel from the author of 'The Golden Notebook'. In a London squat a band of bourgeois... -
New Selected Poems by Les Murray 9781847771674
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £11.57New Selected Poems contains Les Murray's gathering from the full range of his poetry, from poems of the 1960s to work from Taller When Prone (2004) and new poems yet to appear in a collection. Les... -
Vauxhall by Gabriel Gbadamosi 9781846591464
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.261970s London: Young Michael runs past the railway arches and terraces of Vauxhall. Reaching the street on which he lives, he witnesses a young girl fall from a window, her sari floating down behind... -
Amateurs In Eden: The Story of a Bohemian Marriage: Nancy and Lawrence Durrell Joanna Hodgkin 9781844087945
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Nancy Durrell was a woman famous for her silences. Anais Nin said 'I think often of Nancy's most eloquent silences, Nancy talking with her fingers, her hair, her cheeks, a wonderful gift. Music again... -
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 9780140449334
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67'Their icy blasts are refreshing and restorative. They tell you the worst. And having heard the worst, you feel less bad' Blake MorrisonWritten in Greek by the only Roman emperor who was also a... -
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence 9780099541653
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83Now a major Netflix film starring Emma Corrin and Jack O'Connell, Lady Chatterley's Lover is one of the most pivotal - and controversial - novels of the twentieth century.Clifford Chatterley... -
Life Writing: A Writers' and Artists' Companion by Carole Angier 9781472527066
Booksplease Price: £27.81Life Writing: A Writers' & Artists' Companion is an essential guide to writing biography, autobiography and memoir. PART 1 explores the history and forms of life writing and the challenges and... -
Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949-1962 by Doris Lessing 9780006388890
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68The second volume of the autobiography of Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. 'Walking in the Shade' begins in 1949, as Doris Lessing arrives in London with nothing... -
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Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane 9780099744412 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.57A haunted childhood, lived out in two dimensions. One is legendary: the Sun-fort of Grianan, home of the warrior Fianna; the Field of the Disappeared, over which no gulls fly; the house in Donegal... -
The Photographer at Sixteen: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE 2020 by George Szirtes
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A poet's memoir of his mother that flows backwards through time, through a tumultuous period of European history - a tender and yet unsparing autobiographical journey.**A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK**"A... -
The Man on the Mantelpiece by Janet Denny 9781781323571
Booksplease Price: £11.29On the first day of World War Two Jim begins a diary. An ardent eighteen-year-old pacifist, nothing will persuade him to fight.Seventy years later his daughter discovers his writing. After a month... -
The Poems of Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney 9780571340385
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.68'More than any other poet since Wordsworth he can make us understand that the outside world is not outside, but what we are made of.' John CareyThis is the long-awaited, definitive edition of Seamus... -
Things in Every Room by Helen Longstreth 9781787335295
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.50An intimate and beguiling memoir about what we keep behind the doors of the past, how it haunts the present and what it takes to make sense of it all.'Beautifully considered' Sophie Elmhirst'A... -
Look! We Have Come Through!: Living With D. H. Lawrence by Lara Feigel 9781408877555
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74'Her intensity and intimacy are engaging' Blake Morrison, Guardian 'A lovely, urgent, serious book' Tessa Hadley 'Refreshing and unexpected' Daisy Hay, Financial Times Brilliantly interweaving... -
The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting 9780099582489
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.17'Many years ago - when our grandfathers were little children - there was a doctor and his name was Dolittle'Dr Dolittle lives in Puddleby-on-the-Marsh with his friends Dab-Dab the duck, Jip the dog,... -
Crazy Jane Feaver 9781472155771
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'One of the best novels I've read in years: obsessive, intimate and very funny' Blake Morrison, Author of Two Sisters'Stunning . . . it almost feels transgressive' Anthony Cummins, Daily Mail'One of... -
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The Long Afternoon by Giles Waterfield 9780747268482 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £2.96In the 1930s, Henry and Helen Williamson arrive on the French Riviera looking for a house. Barely thirty, Henry has been forced to retire from the Indian civil service through ill-health. They fall... -
Thoughtlines: Walking in Writer's Suffolk Jacky Colliss Harvey 9781914982187
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.06This is a book is about walking and writing; about walkers who wrote, and writers who walk. And because it is a book about walking and writing it is also a book about thinking, the circuit that... -
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Primo Levi: The Elements of a Life by Ian Thomson 9780099515210 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £2.70'One of the best literary biographies of the year...superb... Levi, I think, would have appreciated it' Observer Re-issued to mark the centenary of Primo Levi's birth, now featuring a new... -
September 1, 1939: A Biography of a Poem by Ian Sansom 9780007557233
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.30This is a book about a poet, about a poem, about a city, and about a world at a point of change. More than a work of literary criticism or literary biography, it is a record of why and how we create... -
A Silent Language — WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE: The Nobel Lecture by Jon Fosse 9781804271230
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.39'If there's any metaphor I would use for the act of writing, it would have to be listening,' says Jon Fosse in A Silent Language, the lecture he delivered after being awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in... -
Primo Levi: The Elements of a Life by Ian Thomson 9780099515210
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £15.91'One of the best literary biographies of the year...superb... Levi, I think, would have appreciated it' Observer Re-issued to mark the centenary of Primo Levi's birth, now featuring a new... -
The Grandmothers by Doris Lessing
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Four novellas by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, that once again show her to be unequalled in her ability to capture the truth of the human condition. The title... -
The Emperor by Ryszard Kapuscinski
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The Penguin Modern Classics edition of Ryszard Kapuscinski's The Emperor is translated by William R. Brand and Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand, with an introduction by Neal Ascherton.After the deposition... -
People Who Eat Darkness: Love, Grief and a Journey into Japan's Shadows by Richard Lloyd Parry
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46*** Richard Lloyd Parry is the Winner of the 2018 Rathbones Folio Prize ***In the summer of 2000, Jane Steare received the phone call every mother dreads. Her daughter Lucie Blackman - tall, blonde,... -
September 1, 1939: A Biography of a Poem by Ian Sansom
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.09This is a book about a poet, about a poem, about a city, and about a world at a point of change. More than a work of literary criticism or literary biography, it is a record of why and how we create... -
Somewhere To Lay My Head by Robert Douglas
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26We left Robert a long way from home, a sixteen-year-old recruit in the RAF. Now, we follow his escape from the Forces (until National Service a few years later!), his return to Glasgow and life down... -
The Scent of Dried Roses: One family and the end of English Suburbia - an elegy by Tim Lott
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.76Tim Lott's parents, Jack and Jean, met at the Empire Snooker Hall, Ealing, in 1951, in a world that to him now seems 'as strange as China'. In this extraordinarily moving exploration of his parents'... -
What Good Are the Arts? by John Carey 9780195305548
Booksplease Price: £31.45Hailed as "exhilarating and suggestive" (Spectator), "thought-provoking and entertaining" (David Lodge, Sunday Times), and "incisive and inspirational" (Guardian), What Good are the Arts? offers a... -
Deaths of the Poets by Michael Symmons Roberts 9780099581321
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54From Dylan Thomas's eighteen straight whiskies to Sylvia Plath's desperate suicide in the gas oven of her Primrose Hill kitchen; from Chatterton's Pre-Raphaelite demise to Keats' death warrant in a...