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Ulysses James Joyce 9781857151008
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $37.01James Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on one day in June 1904. It is considered to be one of the most important... -
Agnes Grey/The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte 9781841593432
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $31.04The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is Anne Bronte's second and most celebrated novel. Set in the dramatic northern landscape made familiar by the author's more famous sisters, it tells the story of Helen... -
Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen 9781857150018
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $30.32Probably the popular favourite among Jane Austen's novels, Pride and Prejudice was the first to be written (1796-7), when the author was just twenty-one. Revised for publication thirteen years later,... -
Angel Killer: (Jessica Blackwood 1) by Andrew Mayne
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $8.07Meet Jessica Blackwood, FBI Agent and ex-illusionist. Called in because of her past to offer expertise on the mysterious 'Warlock' case, Jessica must put all her unique knowledge to the test as ... -
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings by Charles Dickens
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $27.80Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful,... -
Name of the Devil: (Jessica Blackwood 2) by Andrew Mayne 9780571327621 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $5.74West Virginia: A church congregation vanishes in mysterious circumstances, only to be found dead some miles away. The evidence on the ground appears to indicate a ritual killing and the work of... -
Dickens at Christmas by Charles Dickens
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $34.20Discover this selection of the best of Dickens' Christmas stories and writings in one beautiful gift edition.The ultimate Christmas present.It is said that Charles Dickens invented Christmas, and... -
Sketches by Boz by Charles Dickens
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97'Sets out the London of the 1830s before you, streets, people, pleasures, low life, prisons' Claire TomalinCharles Dickens's first published book, Sketches by Boz is a funny and touching collection... -
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
RRP: $59.50Booksplease Price: $41.46Tolstoy is said to have called Les Miserables the greatest novel ever written, and it exerted a powerful influence on the creation of War and Peace. At one level a detective story in which the... -
Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome 9780140437508
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $18.92Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends George and Harris decide that a jaunt up the Thames would suit them to a 'T'. But when they set off, they can hardly predict the... -
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens 9780140437423
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $16.64'His characters are marvellous, his insights wonderful ... You don't expect reality but you get something bigger and better' Ruth RendellThe Old Curiosity Shop was an instant bestseller that, even... -
Histories Volume 1 William Shakespeare 9781857151770
RRP: $52.36Booksplease Price: $38.96The Everyman Complete Shakespeare will publish the History plays in two volumes. In volume I are contained Shakespeare's first five history plays: HENRY VI parts I, II and II; RICHARD III and KING... -
The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley: The spellbinding BBC Between the Covers book club pick by Sean Lusk
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $19.02A BBC Between the Covers Book Club pick and Sunday Times Historical Fiction Book of the Month, for fans of PANDORA, THE ESSEX SERPENT and THE NIGHT CIRCUS.Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for... -
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $34.20Considered by many readers, including Shaw, Chesterton, Conrad and Trilling, as one of Dickens's finest achievements, Bleak House tells the complex story of a notorious lawsuit in which love and... -
Jingo: (Discworld Novel 21) by Terry Pratchett
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.02'Generous, amusing and the ideal boarding point for those who have never visited Discworld' Sunday TelegraphThe Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet... -
The Age Of Innocence by Edith Wharton 9781857152029
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.04Edith Wharton's novel reworks the eternal triangle of two women and a man in a strikingly original manner. When about to marry the beautiful and conventional May Welland, Newland Archer falls in love... -
The Mystery Of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens 9781857152838
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.16As in many of Dickens's greatest novels, the gulf between appearance and reality drives the action. Set in the seemingly innocuous cathedral town of Cloisterham, the story rapidly darkens with a... -
Cousin Bette by Honore De Balzac 9781857150155
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $22.51Set in Paris in the mid-nineteenth century, it relates the story of the vengeful Bette who, along with her scheming accomplice Valerie Marneffe, sets out to ruin her extended family. Exploring themes... -
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $15.87Poe found the germ of the story he would develop into ARTHUR GORDON PYM in 1836 in a newspaper account of the shipwreck and subsequent rescue of the two men on board. Published in 1838, this rousing... -
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James 9780141441351
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $14.26'A most wonderful, lurid, poisonous little tale' Oscar WildeThe Turn of the Screw, James's great masterpiece of haunting atmosphere and unbearable tension, tells of a young governess sent to a... -
The Wings Of The Dove by Henry James 9781857152302
RRP: $38.08Booksplease Price: $29.49In this extraordinary variation on the theme of the eternal triangle, Henry James contrasts two women who love one man: the magnificent but ambitious and unscrupulous Kate Croy, and the fragile... -
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $17.40'Hardy's is a world that can never disappear' Margaret DrabbleSubtitled 'A Story of a Man of Character', Hardy's powerful study of the heroic but deeply flawed Michael Henchard is an intensely... -
Hellhound on his Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin Hampton Sides 9780718192068
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.01Hellhound on His Trail is the story of two very different men whose lives catastrophically interweaved over the course of some nine months in the late 1960s: one was a thief and con man called James... -
The Castle by Franz Kafka 9781857151275
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $30.32Summoned to take up the position of a land surveyor to the mysterious lord of a castle, the character known as K. finds himself in a bitter and baffling struggle to contact his new employer and go... -
The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.59When penniless businessman Mr Bedford retreats to the Kent coast to write a play, he meets by chance the brilliant Dr Cavor, an absent-minded scientist on the brink of developing a material that... -
Hard Times Charles Dickens 9780099518921
RRP: $16.64Booksplease Price: $13.11'It is proof of Dickens' genius (or maybe just the unchanging nature of Britain) that you can read Hard Times as if it were all happening now' Guardian ... -
Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde And Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson 9781857150636
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $30.32Published as a 'shilling shocker', Robert Louis Stevenson's dark psychological fantasy gave birth to the idea of the split personality. The story of respectable Dr Jekyll's strange association with... -
Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett 9780141441429
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $23.28Matthew Bramble, a gout-ridden misanthrope, travels Britain with his nephew, niece, spinster sister and man-servant, the trusty Humphry Clinker. In poor health, Bramble sees the world as one of... -
Tragedies Volume 1: Contains Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear by William Shakespeare 9781857150926
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $34.20Volume 1 of the Everyman Shakespeare, published in 1992, includes the four major tragedies: HAMLET, KING LEAR, OTHELLO and MACBETH. The authoritatively edited texts of the plays are supplemented with... -
The History of Henry Esmond by John Sutherland
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.04'What spectacle is more august than that of a great king in exile? Who is more worthy of respect than a brave man in misfortune?' When "Henry Esmond" appeared in 1852, noted writers and critics of... -
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights: Volume 3 by Malcolm Lyons
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $37.39Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter,... -
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 9780141439655
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $15.87'The first of Hardy's great novels, and the first to sound the tragic note for which his best fiction is remembered' Margaret DrabbleThomas Hardy's novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued... -
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo 9781841593456
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $30.73Hugo's grand medieval melodrama tells the story of the beautiful Esmeralda, a gypsy girl loved by three men: Archdeacon Frollo, his adoptive son Quasimodo, bell-ringer of Notre-Dame cathedral, and... -
The Nutcracker by E. T. A. Hoffmann 9780143122500
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.59The story that inspired the legendary ballet, presented in a beautiful hardcover edition perfect for giving as a gift.Written in 1816 by the German Romantic E. T. A. Hoffmann for his children,... -
Jingo: (Discworld Novel 21) by Terry Pratchett 9781804990643
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.40'IT WAS SO MUCH EASIER TO BLAME IT ON THEM. IT WAS BLEAKLY DEPRESSING TO THINK THAT THEY WERE US.'War is brewing on the Discworld.An island has appeared from the ocean depths, right in the middle of... -
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence 9780099540755
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.83'A work whose power stands the test of time' Sunday Times ... -
Hard Times Charles Dickens 9781857150735
RRP: $38.06Booksplease Price: $28.75This edition of "Hard Times" includes an introduction by Philip Collins. It tells the tragic story of Louisa, starved of the graces of the imagination so essential to emotional well-being, and... -
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens 9781857152098
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.87The humour of the shop and the pilgrimage counterbalance the tragic and sentimental story of Little Nell. The story is rich in Dickensian characters, including Mrs Jarley, Quilp, Dick Swiveller, and... -
Persuasion by Jane Austen 9781857150728
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $30.32This complete and unabridged edition contains a biography of the author and a new introduction and afterword. Anne falls in love with Wentworth, who had nothing but himself to recommend him, and no... -
Jane Eyre (Vintage Classics Bronte Series) Charlotte Bronte 9781784870737
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.83A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Charlotte Bronte's masterpiece. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MAGGIE O'FARRELL As an orphan, Jane's childhood is full of trouble, but her stubborn ...