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A Long Way From Home by Rosamunde Pilcher 9781405997430
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Rediscover the brilliance of A Long Way From Home in the Mermaid Collection - classic books by popular pioneering female authors republished to delight new generations of readers. Pre-order this... -
Notes from Underground and the Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'That sense of the meaninglessness of existence that runs through much of twentieth-century writing - from Conrad and Kafka, to Beckett and beyond - starts in Dostoyevsky's work' Malcolm... -
Music in the Castle of Heaven: A Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach by John Eliot Gardiner
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.71Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who seems so ordinary, so opaque - and occasionally so... -
The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse by T. Carmi
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.66This stunning anthology gathers together the riches of poetry in Hebrew from 'The Song of Deborah' to contemporary Israeli writings. Verse written up to the tenth century show the development of... -
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Ten Thousand Sorrows by Elizabeth Kim 9780553812640 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $3.79I don't know how old I was when I watched my mother's murder, nor do I know how old I am today.' The illegitimate daughter of a peasant and an American GI, Elizabeth Kim spent her early years as a... -
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce Colm Toibin 9780241354421
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.08An intimate study of three of Ireland's greatest writers from one of its best-loved contemporary voices, Colm Toibin__________________In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin takes three of... -
The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.18Escape to the Cornish cliffs in the dizzying heat of August 1939, where five cousins are making the most of the last summer of their youth.Oliver is just back from the Spanish Civil War and... -
Inside Story Martin Amis 9781529113471
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51'Utterly compelling' GuardianLife...is shapeless, it does not point to and gather round anything, it does not cohere. Artistically, it's dead. Life's dead.So begins a love letter to life, a... -
House of Gold by Natasha Solomons 9780099510659
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.76Perfect for fans of THE TEA PLANTER'S WIFE'This has everything - engaging characters, a thrilling story and beautiful scenery' KATIE FFORDE________________________The start of a war. The end of a... -
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The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley 9780099499145 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $2.88Behind the large house, the fragrant camomile lawn stretches down to the Cornish cliffs. Here, in the dizzying heat of August 1939, five cousins have gathered at their aunt's house for their annual... -
Ten Thousand Sorrows by Elizabeth Kim 9780553812640
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09I don't know how old I was when I watched my mother's murder, nor do I know how old I am today.' The illegitimate daughter of a peasant and an American GI, Elizabeth Kim spent her early years as a... -
The Auden Generation by Samuel Hynes 9780712652506
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.36This is a study of a literary generation writing in a period of expanding fears and ever more urgent political and social crises. The pace of the time itself, the sense of time passing and an end... -
The Complete Henry Bech by John Updike
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Henry Bech, the celebrated author of Travel Light, has been scrutinized, canonized and vilified by critics and readers across the world. Here, the experiences of this bemused literary icon, one of... -
Towers in the Mist: The Cathedral Trilogy by Elizabeth Goudge
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35A charming tale of hope and love, set amid the dreaming spires of Elizabethan Oxford.When Faithful Crocker, an impoverished young man with a love of learning, travels to Oxford in the hope of... -
A Month of Sundays by John Updike
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.26Updike's seventh novel concerns a month of seven days, a month of enforced rest and recreation as experienced by the Reverend Tom Marshfield, sent west from his Midwestern church in disgrace.About... -
The Secret History by Procopius
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.91A trusted member of the Byzantine establishment, Procopius was the Empire's official chronicler, and his History of the Wars of Justinian proclaimed the strength and wisdom of the Emperor's reign... -
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Hidden Lives: A Family Memoir by Margaret Forster 9780140239829 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $2.54Margaret Forster's grandmother died in 1936, taking many secrets to her grave. Where had she spent the first 23 years of her life? Who was the woman in black who paid her a mysterious visit shortly... -
Rainbow's End by Katie Flynn 9781529984323
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.46Liverpool, 1904When Ada Docherty gives birth to twins, Deidre and Donal, in her tiny house in Evangelist Court, she has no choice but to make Ellen, her eldest daughter, bring them up, for she must... -
Hidden Lives: A Family Memoir by Margaret Forster
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09Margaret Forster's grandmother died in 1936, taking many secrets to her grave. Where had she spent the first 23 years of her life? Who was the woman in black who paid her a mysterious visit shortly... -
Selected Poems by Fernando Pessoa
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $10.26The writing of Fernando Pessoa reveals a mind shaken by intense inner suffering. In these poems he adopted four separate personae: Alberto Caeiro, Alvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis and himself, using... -
The Anti-Death League by Kingsley Amis
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.26In this surreal comedy of soldiers and spies, Lieutenant James Churchill and his colleagues find themselves questioning their purpose. Are they for death or against it? These men of action will... -
Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.71Beatrix Potter's books are adored by millions, but they were just one aspect of an extraordinary life. This captivating biography brings us the passionate, unconventional woman behind the beloved... -
The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope 9780140433449
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium and former Prime Minister of England, is widowed and wracked by grief. Struggling to adapt to life without his beloved Lady Glencora, he works hard to guide... -
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A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin 9780241239957 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $3.86A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller As one of the best biographers of her generation, Claire Tomalin has written about great novelists and poets to huge success: now, she turns to look at her own life... -
The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.54'Her gallery of personages is huge, her scene painting superb, her pathos controlled, her humour quiet and civilised' Anthony Burgess'So glittering is the overall parade - and so entertaining the... -
The Great Fortune: The Balkan Trilogy 1 Olivia Manning 9781786091130
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RACHEL CUSK'A fantastically tart and readable account of life in eastern Europe at the start of the war' Sarah Waters'Wonderfully entertaining' ObserverAutumn, 1939... -
Oroonoko by Aphra Behn 9780140439885
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.09Restoration-era poet, playwright and novelist Aphra Behn was the first truly professional woman writer in English, and Oroonoko is her sophisticated and insightful condemnation of slavery. This... -
The Cost of Living by Kathleen Farrell 9781405988766
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62Rediscover the brilliance of The Cost of Living in the Mermaid Collection - classic books by popular pioneering female authors republished to delight new generations of readers. A witty and... -
Offshore, Human Voices, The Beginning Of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald 9781857152692
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.92Sixty-one when she published her first novel, Penelope Fitzgerald based many subsequent books on the experiences of a long and varied life.Offshore, which won the Booker Prize in 1979, explores her... -
The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Set at the height of the "tulipomania" that gripped Holland in 17th century, this is the story of Cornelius van Baerle, a humble grower whose sole desire is to grow the perfect specimen of the tulip... -
Beating About The Bush Linda Taylor 9780099462293
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $13.22Ella Norton has opted for the simple life. Gone are the power suits, the high earnings and the high stress of city life - and instead she's got her own cottage, a course in horticulture, and a crush... -
Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents by Paul Theroux 9780241950548
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09Sir Vidia's Shadow is a book that chronicles bestselling author Paul Theroux's long friendship with writer V.S Naipaul from its beginning to untimely end with both funny and moving moments and stark... -
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners by John Bunyan 9780140432800
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86Composed and published while John Bunyan (1628-1688) was in prison for his religious principles, Grace Abounding is an extraordinary spiritual autobiography. It was written in an age when religious... -
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Nothing but Trouble by Rachel Gibson 9780552164481 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $3.21Chelsea Ross knows she's a great actress. Which is lucky, as she's just got the toughest role of her life!Washed up from Hollywood and in serious need of some cash, Chelsea jumps at the $10,000... -
A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.91A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller In this remarkable memoir of love, loss and literature, acclaimed biographer Claire Tomalin turns her eye to another fascinating literary life: her own. She tells of... -
Heat Wave by Penelope Lively
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.26Published in Penguin Modern Classics, Penelope Lively's Heat Wave is a moving portrayal of a fragile family damaged and defined by adultery, and the lengths to which a mother will go to protect the... -
The Vagrant Mood by W. Somerset Maugham
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62"The Vagrant Mood" is a brilliantly varied and colourful collection of essays. From Kant to Raymond Chandler; from the legend of Zurbaran to the art of the detective story; and, from Burke to... -
Spilt Milk by Amanda Hodgkinson 9781905490714
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09The new novel from the author of 22 Britannia Road, Amanda Hodgkinson.'Hogkinson's second novel is simply but elegantly written, its subtle charms emerging as her gentle, bittersweet story shows... -
The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule by Joanna Kavenna 9780141011981
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09Joanna Kavenna went north in search of the Atlantis of the Arctic, the mythical land of Thule. Seen once by an Ancient Greek explorer and never found again, mysterious Thule came to represent the... -
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This Family: the compelling and beautifully written story of family drama and motherhood by Kate Sawyer 9781529340754 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: $13.29FOR FANS OF ANNE TYLER, ELIZABETH JANE HOWARD AND SORROW AND BLISS'A multi-layered family drama that sings with emotion' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING'A smart yet tender page-turner' ERIN KELLYMary has raised a...