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Breaststrokes: 'A study of womanhood, vulnerability, and the secrecy of the inner-life' Margaux Vialleron 9781398525795
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.01A novel on consent told in five acts over the course of one weekend. Cloe and Gertrude and the Jenkins-Bell sisters, Mathilde and Sarah, have never met. They are strangers who share a city. It is... -
The Yellow Kitchen Margaux Vialleron 9781398508491
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.40Expectation meets Julie and Julia, The Yellow Kitchen is a brilliant exploration of food, belonging and friendship. London E17, 2019. A yellow kitchen stands as a metaphor for the lifelong friendship... -
Nadezhda in the Dark by Nadezdha in the Dark Yelena Moskovich 9781804440483
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £9.71'Moskovich is the master of silky, slinky sentences that run in unexpected directions' The Telegraph'Sexy and readable . . . a celebration of resilience and of myriad survivors' Times Literary... -
There's No Turning Back Alba de Céspedes 9781805331124
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38The young women studying at the Grimaldi yearn for new kinds of life. Monitored by the nuns who run the college, eight of them form a close group, sharing confidences and hopes for the future. But... -
I Give It To You Valerie Martin 9781781255537
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Jan Vidor seems like the ideal tenant for a long summer holiday in a Tuscan villa. Unobtrusive and quietly sociable, the American academic can be relied upon to entertain herself - but her... -
The Explosion Chronicles Yan Lianke 9781784701925
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL 2017 With the Yi River on one side and the Balou Mountains on the other, the village of Explosion was founded a thousand years ago by refugees fleeing a... -
Queen (Faber Editions) Birgitta Trotzig 9780571393633
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Lose yourself in this tumultuous Swedish family saga, introduced by Sarah Moss ('a masterpiece')In these parts, they called her Queen. And she was queen of rags, of sagging mouldering roofs, of... -
Sunday's Children by Ingmar Bergman
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83The second novel in world renowned film-maker, Ingmar Bergman's trilogy of novels plotting the fractious marriage of his parentsOver the course of one summer, eight-year-old Pu Bergman makes the... -
I Choose Elena by Lucia Osborne-Crowley
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Aged 15 and on track to be an Olympic gymnast, Lucia Osborne-Crowley was violently raped on a night out. The injuries she sustained that evening ended her gymnastics career, and eventually manifested... -
The Lost Daughter of Venice by . Charlotte Betts
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Come to Venice. Please, Phoebe, do not fail me.'Lingers in the heart long after the final page is turned . . . a must read for anyone who wants to be absorbed as well as utterly enchanted' Carol... -
The Burning Girl Claire Messud 9780708898611
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A bracing and hypnotic portrait of the complexities of female friendship from the New York Times bestselling author of The Woman Upstairs.Julia Robinson and Cassie Burnes have been friends since... -
The Yellow Kitchen by Margaux Vallerian
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.36Expectation meets Julie and Julia, The Yellow Kitchen is a brilliant exploration of food, belonging and friendship. London, 2019. A yellow kitchen stands as a metaphor for the lifelong friendship... -
The Lost Daughter of Venice by Charlotte Betts
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Come to Venice. Please, Phoebe, do not fail me.Venice, 1919Seventeen years ago, the grand Venetian Palazzo degli Angeli was Phoebe Wyndham's home; now, the neglected walls of the palazzo are just a... -
There's No Turning Back by Alba de Céspedes 9781805333173
Booksplease Price: £12.41The young women studying at the Grimaldi yearn for new kinds of life. Monitored by the nuns who run the college, eight of them form a close group, sharing confidences and hopes for the future. But... -
There's No Turning Back Alba de Céspedes 9781805331148
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A stunningly powerful novel of a group of young women coming of age in 1930s Rome, from the celebrated author of Forbidden NotebookThe young women studying at the Grimaldi yearn for new kinds of life... -
Hotel Milano: Booker shortlisted author of Europa by Tim Parks 9781529919639
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49From the bestselling, Booker-shortlisted chronicler of Italy, a classic novel about a man's emotional reckoning in a changed world far from homeFrank's reclusive existence in a leafy part of London... -
Not The Whole Story: A Memoir Angela Huth 9781472127068
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.31'Deliciously gossipy and amusingly trenchant' Daily Mail, BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR'A delightful memoir' Kate Saunders, The Times'Fabulous . . . dazzling' Tatler'Enchanting . . . movingly lyrical' Ysenda... -
The Door by Magda Szabó 9781529940190
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'A dark domestic fairy tale' New York TimesA young writer employs a housekeeper - and slowly finds herself the sole keeper of the older woman's sercrets.Magda is a writer, Emerence her housekeeper... -
Only in Naples: Lessons in Food and Famiglia by Katherine Wilson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'See Naples and die', said Goethe. But Katherine Wilson saw Naples and started to live. Katherine is fresh out of college when she arrives in Naples to intern at the US Consulate. There she meets... -
The Wonders Elena Medel 9781782276593
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Maria and her granddaughter Alicia have never met. Decades apart, both make the same journey to Madrid in search of work and independence. Maria, scraping together a living as a cleaner and carer,... -
The Girl on the Via Flaminia by Alfred Hayes
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A dark love story set in wartime Rome from the author of In Love and Your Face for the World to SeeRome, 1944. Robert is a lonely American soldier looking for a girl. Lisa is cold and hungry, obliged... -
Not The Whole Story: A Memoir by Angela Huth
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.63'A delightful memoir' Kate Saunders, The Times'Fabulous . . . dazzling' Tatler'Enchanting . . . movingly lyrical' Ysenda Maxtone Graham, Country LifeThis short volume has turned out to be merely a... -
The Portrait: From the author of THE GIRLS ARE GOOD by Ilaria Bernardini
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67***From the author of The Girls Are Good***'A gripping story of love, death, art and deceit' - Sofka Zinovieff, author of PutneyAn internationally renowned writer, Valeria Costas has dedicated her... -
Her Side of the Story by Alba de Céspedes 9781782277583
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38A captivating feminist classic about a woman's struggle for independence in fascist Italy, from the author of Forbidden Notebook - with an afterword by Elena Ferrante Alessandra has always wanted... -
Lonely Crowds Stephanie Wambugu 9781837266432
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Ruth's life changes the day she stands in line with her mother to buy a new school uniform - and sees another girl and her aunt turned away, unable to afford one. The girl, Maria, meets Ruth's stare... -
Can you hear me?: A gripping holiday read set during a scorching Italian summer Elena Varvello 9781473654891
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78'A novel of crime and darkness that eschews straightforward domestic noir' Guardian'Move over Ferrante, there's a new Elena in town' Independent'There is much beauty and sadness in this slim novel'... -
Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal by Tim Parks
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'Parks...offers detailed cultural observation, witty yet eagle-eyed, of what makes Italians so Italian' The TimesHow does Italy really work?When Valeria travels from hot, dusty Basilicata to begin... -
Tasting Sunlight by Ewald Arenz
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.01An extraordinary bond develops between an angry teenage runaway and a middle-aged woman running a large farm on her own, as they work the land and slowly heal ... the sublime, achingly beautiful... -
A Cup of Rage by Raduan Nassar
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.39Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize'A savagely short novel of immeasurable ambition and violent beauty. This is the language of genius.' Juan Pablos Villalobos'How often, honestly, does... -
Child of Fortune Yuko Tsushima 9780241335031
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'A terrific novel' Angela CarterKoko won't do what is expected of her. Defying her family's wishes, she has brought up her eleven-year-old daughter alone in her apartment. And now, after a casual... -
The Country of Others by Leila Slimani
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'A panoramic, ambitious tale.' The Times'Exceptional.' Salman Rushdie'Powerful.' Christine Mangan'Captivating.' ElleFrom the internationally bestselling author of Lullaby, The Country of Others is... -
Her Side of the Story Alba de Céspedes 9781782278238
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A captivating feminist classic about a woman's struggle for independence in fascist Italy, from the author of Forbidden Notebook - with an afterword by Elena Ferrante Alessandra has always wanted... -
A People's History of Heaven by Mathangi Subramanian
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12LONGLISTED FOR A PEN/FAULKNER AWARD, 2020 A dazzling tribute to the resilience and determination of a remarkable community of women In the sprawling Bangalore slum of Heaven, five girls -... -
Child of Fortune by Yuko Tsushima 9780241675274
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Koko won't do what is expected of her. Defying her family's wishes, she has brought up her eleven-year-old daughter alone in her apartment. And now, after a casual affair, she is unexpectedly... -
Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes 9781782278221
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Out running an errand, Valeria Cossati gives in to a sudden impulse - she buys a shiny black notebook. She starts keeping a diary in secret, recording her concerns about her daughter, the constant... -
Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread by Michiko Kakutani
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £9.28**SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020** From renowned, Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic, Michiko Kakutani, comes an inspiring... -
Last Evenings with Teresa: A Financial Times Book of the Year 2025 by Juan Marsé 9781035421886
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'One of Spain's most acclaimed writers' New York Times'Spain's finest contemporary novelist' GuardianA REDISCOVERED POST-WAR LOVE STORY FROM ONE OF SPAIN'S MOST ACCLAIMED AUTHORS. 1950s Barcelona. A... -
Waiting for Bojangles by Olivier Bourdeaut 9781501175091
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £10.50An "oddball fairy tale" (The New York Times)-shortlisted for one of France's highest literary prizes-a dark, funny, and wholly charming novel about a young boy and his eccentric family, who grapple... -
The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15One of Elena Ferrante's Top 40 Best Books by Women Erika Kohut teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory by day. By night she trawls the city's porn shows while her mother, whom she loves and hates... -
The Moon and the Bonfires by Cesare Pavese
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67'Insinuating, haunting and lyrically pervasive' The New York Times Book ReviewA new translation by Tim ParksTwenty years after making his fortune in America, Eel is drawn back to the closest thing he...