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4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster 9780571324620 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $3.61LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 On March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley... -
Last Acts Alexander Sammartino 9781805337829
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26Even though his firearms store is failing, things are looking up for David Rizzo. His son, Nick, has just recovered after a near-fatal overdose, which means one thing: Rizzo can use Nick's... -
Dinner at the Centre of the Earth by Nathan Englander
RRP: $5.15Booksplease Price: $4.37'One of our most consistently brilliant, bold and funny writers' Dave Eggers'His writing is liberal in every good sense of the word' Jonathan FranzenA spellbinding thriller. A spy novel. A love story... -
Everyman by Philip Roth
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionEveryman is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret and stoicism.The novel takes its title from a classic of early English drama, whose... -
Understanding Gary Shteyngart by Geoff Hamilton 9781611177640
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $26.95Understanding Gary Shteyngart, the first comprehensive examination of Shteyngart's novels and memoir, introduces readers to one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful... -
The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. by Adelle Waldman 9780099558996
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.33Nathaniel Piven is a rising star in Brooklyn's literary scene. After several lean, striving years and an early life as a class-A nerd, he now (to his surprise) has a lucrative book deal, his pick of... -
Astroturf by Matthew Sperling 9781787471146
Booksplease Price: $19.65LONGLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME PRIZE 2019.'I loved Matthew Sperling's sly, subversive novel, a wickedly funny tale of how to come out on top in a fake news world.' Olivia Laing, author of The Lonely... -
National Treasures by Charles McLeod 9780099542230
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.96A man puts pieces of his life up for auction. An antique chess set played with a troubled brother ($99.99), number plates from a crashed stolen car ($20), Chuck Taylor trainers worn in a riot in... -
All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well by Tod Wodicka 9780099506935
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.96Meet Burt Hecker, aka Eckbert Attquiet, a 63-year-old medieval re-enactor with a momentous nose, who dresses in tunics and drinks too much home-made mead. His treasured wife Kitty has died and their... -
The End Of Alice by A.M. Homes
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $8.60THE END OF ALICE treads the wafer-thin line between the evil and the everyday, following the correspondence of two paedophiles. One, the narrator, is a child-killer, serving his twenty-third year in... -
Quicksand Steve Toltz 9781473606074
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35'A tour de force of sustained brilliance' Mail on SundayWildly funny and unceasingly surprising, Quicksand is both a satirical masterpiece and an unforgettable story of fate, family and friendship... -
The Power of Words by Simone Weil
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.73'There are certain words which possess, in themselves, when properly used, a virtue which illumines and lifts up towards the good'The philosopher and activist Simone Weil was one of the most... -
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43A HILARIOUS SATIRE THAT SHOWS OFFICE DYNAMICS AT THEIR MOST PETTY AND PROFOUND FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR, JOSHUA FERRISThey spend their days - and too many of their nights - at work... -
Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.02FROM THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE MARS ROOMA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTIONFidel and Raul Castro are in the hills, descending only to burn... -
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREIn these stories lives come into focus through single events or sudden memories which bring the past bubbling to the surface. The past, as Alice Munro's... -
Kaddish.com by Nathan Englander
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97Larry is the secular son in a family of Orthodox Brooklyn Jews. When his father dies, it's his responsibility to recite the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, every day for eleven months. To... -
The Life List of Adrian Mandrick: A Novel by Chris White 9781501174315
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.15"With a birder's eye for detail, White takes us on [Adrian Mandrick's] painful, near death descent...[her] life-affirming conclusion reminds us that endangered species aren't the only ones that need... -
Life Without Children: Stories by Roddy Doyle
Booksplease Price: $9.80Love and marriage, children and family, death and grief. Life touches everyone the same, but living under lockdown? It changes us alone.A man abroad wanders the stag-and-hen-strewn streets of... -
Life Without Children: Stories Roddy Doyle 9781787333574
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.54***A GUARDIAN BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN AUTUMN 2021***A brilliantly warm, witty and moving portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heart-rending short storiesLove and marriage. Children and family... -
Fleishman Is in Trouble: THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35'Sharp and wicked, insightful and funny, and then suddenly so touching' DAVID NICHOLLS'It is a Great Novel . . . It has depth, wit, nuance and life. Heartbreaking and funny' NIGELLA LAWSON'This is... -
Fleishman Is in Trouble: THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER by Taffy Brodesser-Akner 9781472267054 [USED COPY]
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $3.15'Sharp and wicked, insightful and funny, and then suddenly so touching' DAVID NICHOLLS'It is a Great Novel . . . It has depth, wit, nuance and life. Heartbreaking and funny' NIGELLA LAWSON'This is... -
Collected Works: A Novel by Lydia Sandgren
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.58'Meet Sweden's Sally Rooney' The Times 'A wry bestseller that reads like the effortlessly chic European cousin of Fleishman is in Trouble'Telegraph 'Thrilling, brilliant and immense in the best... -
Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro 9780099524298
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREThese are beguiling, provocative stories about manipulative men and the women who outwit them, about destructive marriages and curdled friendships, about... -
Life Without Children by Roddy Doyle 9781787333574 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: $5.88***A GUARDIAN BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN AUTUMN 2021***A brilliantly warm, witty and moving portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heart-rending short storiesLove and marriage. Children and family... -
Open Secrets by Alice Munro
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 'A superb collection... Marriage, gambles, disappearances, motiveless vandalism - it is the stuff of unremarkable lives, conveyed in a remarkable fashion'... -
The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths and Our American Narratives by David Mura
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52Uncovering the pernicious narratives white people create to justify white supremacy and sustain racist oppression The police murders of two Black men, Philando Castile and George Floyd, frame this... -
Commitment Mona Simpson 9781472158154
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $13.70'Quietly devastating writing' The Observer'Commitment is a majestic novel' Yiyun Li, author of The Book of GooseA masterful and engrossing novel about a single mother's collapse and the fate of her... -
Dance of the Happy Shades by Alice Munro
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREAlice Munro's territory is the farms and semi-rural towns of south-western Ontario. In these dazzling stories she deals with the self-discovery of adolescence,... -
The Government of No One: The Theory and Practice of Anarchism by Ruth Kinna
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $8.51'The standard book on anarchism for the twenty-first century. Written with brio, quiet insight and clarity' Carl LevyA magisterial study of the history and theory of one of the most controversial... -
Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66The only novel from bestselling author Alice Munro, winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureCatching frogs, grazing knees, singing songs to save England from Hitler - that was childhood for Del... -
You have a friend in 10A: Stories by Maggie Shipstead
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.62BY THE AUTHOR OF THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AND 2022 WOMEN'S FICTION PRIZE-SHORTLISTED GREAT CIRCLE'The same chilling brilliance of Daphne du Maurier's most unsettling short fiction' FINANCIAL... -
The Progress of Love by Alice Munro
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREThese dazzling and utterly satisfying stories explore varieties and degrees of love - filial, platonic, sexual, parental and imagined - in the lives of... -
The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREAlice Munro has a genius for entering the lives of ordinary people and capturing the passions and contradictions that lie just below the surface. In this... -
Animal Person by Alexander MacLeod
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.43The highly anticipated follow-up to Alexander MacLeod's critically acclaimed debut, Animal Person is a wry and perfectly-observed collection of short stories about intimacy, family and the struggle... -
Speaking Out: Lectures and Speeches 1937-58 by Albert Camus
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26A new collection of Albert Camus' most brilliant speeches and lectures'Freedom is dangerous, as hard to live as it is exalting...'This definitive new collection of Albert Camus' public speeches and... -
Washington Square by Henry James 9780141441368
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.93Henry James's classic tale of romance in urban nineteenth-century America, Washington Square is edited with an introduction and notes by Martha Banta in Penguin Classics.When timid and plain... -
The End of Enlightenment: Empire, Commerce, Crisis Richard Whatmore 9780141997704
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56'A brilliant work of intellectual interpretation by our foremost historian of Enlightenment ideas. Whatmore rescues the Enlightenment from today's circular debates and places it where it belongs: in... -
Heroes of the Frontier by Dave Eggers 9780241979044
Booksplease Price: $23.50THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER 'The mirror image of Eggers's brilliantly dystopian The Circle... [A] state of the nation novel, cleansing the spirit and lifting the heart' Guardian A hilarious... -
Travel Writing by Peter Ferry 9780701181925
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20Pete Ferry is driving home from work one evening when he sees a car swerving dangerously on the road. He wants to keep out of its way, so he allows it to overtake - but as it does so he sees that the... -
You have a friend in 10A: By the 2022 Women's Fiction Prize and 2021 Booker Prize shortlisted author of GREAT CIRCLE Maggie Shipstead 9781804990995
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66BY THE AUTHOR OF THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AND 2022 WOMEN'S FICTION PRIZE-SHORTLISTED GREAT CIRCLE'The same chilling brilliance of Daphne du Maurier's most unsettling short fiction' FINANCIAL...