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The Children Of Dynmouth by William Trevor
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26The Children Of Dynmouth - a classic prize-winning novel by William TrevorWilliam Trevor's The Children of Dynmouth (Winner of the Whitbread Award and shortlisted for the Booker Prize) was first... -
Moon Tiger Penelope Lively 9781405967006
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING, GOLDEN BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED CLASSIC, NOW WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ELIF SHAFAKClaudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying.But she remains defiant to the... -
Two Lives: Reading Turgenev & My House in Umbria by William Trevor
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Two Lives: Reading Turgenev & My House in Umbria - two novels by William Trevor'Evocative and haunting. Trevor writes like an angel, but is determined to wring your heart' Daily Mail'Marvellous,... -
Fools of Fortune by William Trevor
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26Fools of Fortune by William Trevor - a classic early novel from one of the world's greatest writersWinner of the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel of the YearMurder and revenge during the Irish Civil... -
Staying On by Paul Scott
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66Tusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return 'home' when Tusker, once a Colonel in the British Army, retired, they chose instead to remain in the small hill town of Pangkot,... -
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.09Penelope Lively's Booker Prize winning classic, Moon Tiger is a haunting story of loss and desire, published here as a Penguin Essential for the first time.Claudia Hampton - beautiful, famous,... -
The World My Wilderness by Rose Macaulay
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35It is 1946 and the people of France and England are facing the aftermath of the war. Banished by her beautiful, indolent mother to England, Barbary Deniston is thrown into the care of her... -
Mossy Trotter Elizabeth Taylor 9780349005577
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35'It's always a treat to read Elizabeth Taylor. Mossy Trotter is a real gem. A delightfully mischievous boy living in those long-ago halcyon days when children played out all day, roaming commons,... -
A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43'One of the best books I've ever read' Richard Osman'Tender and elegant' Guardian'Unlike anything else in modern English literature' D.J. Taylor, SpectatorA damaged survivor of the First World War,... -
Contemporary British Women Writers: Narrative Strategies by Robert E. Hosmer 9780333565322
RRP: $141.89Booksplease Price: $118.89Contemporary British Women Writers is a collection of ten essays, each devoted to an important novelist and written by a distinguished scholar. Included in this volume are Sybille Bedford, Anita... -
Contemporary British Women Writers: Narrative Strategies by Robert E. Hosmer 9781349225675
RRP: $141.89Booksplease Price: $118.89Contemporary British Women Writers is a collection of ten essays, each devoted to an important novelist and written by a distinguished scholar. Included in this volume are Sybille Bedford, Anita... -
Alternative Paradigms of Literary Realism by D. Adams 9780230621862
Booksplease Price: $60.29Using the traditional genres of allegory, pastoral, and parable, this book develops alternative paradigms of literary realism with which to reexamine a group of crucial but marginalized 20th century... -
John Brown's Body by A. L. Barker 9780571322022
Booksplease Price: $19.03'An extraordinary achievement.' A. S. ByattJohn Brown's Body, first published in 1969, was A.L. Barker's fourth novel and was shortlisted for the second annual Booker Prize in 1970.Marise Tomelty is... -
Smile of Discontent: Humor, Gender, and Nineteenth-century British Fiction by Eileen Gillooly
RRP: $130.29Booksplease Price: $122.46Like sex, Eileen Gillooly argues, humour has long been viewed as a repressed feature of 19th-century femininity. However, in the works of writers such as Jane Austen, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell,... -
Debatable Land: reissued by Candia McWilliam 9781408822999
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.09_______________________WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FICTION PRIZE_______________________'McWilliam is an astonishing wordmaster who time and again dazzles the reader' - Penelope Fitzgerald, Times Literary... -
The Hours of the Night Sue Gee 9780755303137
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $8.59Gillian Traherne and her mother Phoebe lead a remote existence in their grey, stone house on the Welsh borders. Gillian is a loner, an eccentric poet in her thirties, who has a difficult relationship... -
Heaven, Hell, and the Victorians by Michael Wheeler 9780521455657
RRP: $56.76Booksplease Price: $52.86The Victorians were obsessed with death, bereavement, and funeral rituals, and speculated vigorously on the nature of heaven, hell, and divine judgment. This popular abridgement of Michael Wheeler's... -
Heaven, Hell, and the Victorians by Michael Wheeler 9780521455169
RRP: $127.71Booksplease Price: $116.09The Victorians were obsessed with death, bereavement, and funeral rituals, and speculated vigorously on the nature of heaven, hell, and divine judgment. This popular abridgement of Michael Wheeler's... -
Postmortem Postmodernists: The Afterlife of the Author in Recent Narrative by Laura E. Savu 9781611473919
Booksplease Price: $143.64This book scrutinizes the genre of the author-as-character with respect to three broad issues-authorship, the posthumous, and cultural revisionism-that arise in reading such works from a contemporary... -
The Taxi Queue by Janet Davey 9780099506966
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.81Two men meet by chance in the taxi queue outside Paddington station one January night. Richard is in his mid-forties, apparently happily married, with two children. Abe is young, and casually... -
On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays by A. S. Byatt 9780674008335
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $36.06As writers of English from Australia to India to Sri Lanka command our attention, Salman Rushdie can state confidently that English fiction was moribund until the Empire wrote back, and few, even... -
Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: The heartwarming story that inspired a nation, now an international bestseller Alba Donati 9781399605489
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55HOW A BOOKSELLER INSPIRED A NATIONThe diary of a publicist-turned bookseller who left Florence to open a tiny bookshop on a Tuscan hill. 'Like Chocolat meets Penelope Fitzgerald's The Bookshop, set... -
Tom Stoppard: A Life by Professor Dame Hermione Lee
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.06Shot through with Stoppard's voice, and illuminating all his plays, Lee's gripping narrative draws on unprecedented access to archive material, interviews and long conversations with Stoppard himself... -
That Glimpse of Truth: The 100 Finest Short Stories Ever Written David Miller 9781035924912
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $21.76Profound, lyrical, shocking, wise: the short story is capable of almost anything. This collection of 100 of the finest stories ever written ranges from the essential to the unexpected, the... -
The Story: 100 Great Short Stories Written by Women by Victoria Hislop
RRP: $23.22Booksplease Price: $18.91A special reissue from Head of Zeus's bestselling anthology collection of the best 100 short stories written by women, selected by Victoria Hislop, one of the nation's favourite novelists. Witty,... -
The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950 by Carmen Callil 9781849016766
Booksplease Price: $26.70For Colm Toibin and Carmen Callil there is no difference between literary and commercial writing - there is only the good novel: engrossing, inspirational, compelling. In their selection of the best... -
Imposture: A Novel by Benjamin Markovits 9780393329735
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $20.70Lord Byron was the greatest writer and the most notorious, scandalous lover of his age-an irresistible attraction for a sheltered, bookish, and passionate young woman like Eliza Esmond. Eliza... -
Miss Garnet's Angel by Salley Vickers 9780006514213
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.80Salley Vicker's sensational debut novel, 'Miss Garnet's Angel' is a voyage of discovery; a novel about Venice but also the rich story of the explosive possibilities of change in all of us at any time... -
Through the Window: Seventeen Essays (and one short story) by Julian Barnes 9780099578581
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20In these seventeen essays (and one short story) the 2011 Man Booker Prize winner examines British, French and American writers who have meant most to him, as well as the cross-currents and... -
Aphrodite's Hat by Salley Vickers 9780007371068
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.55A wonderful collection of stories from the much-loved Salley Vickers. The stories in this long-awaited collection by Salley Vickers all deal with psychological aspects of love: love given... -
Hunger by Lan Samantha Chang 9781911590668
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43'A work of gorgeous, enduring prose' Washington Post 'Luminously elegiac stories... Complex and rueful... gives voice to internal struggles, catalogues of loss' New York Times Book Review A... -
To The Bitter End: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45 by Victor Klemperer
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55The international bestselling record of a German Jew in Nazi Germany.'Deserves to stand beside the diary of Anne Frank as a day-to-day description of the sufferings of the victims of Hitler's evil... -
All Change by Elizabeth Jane Howard 9781529049466
RRP: $7.73Booksplease Price: $5.97As featured on BBC Radio 4 Open BookAs the old world begins to fade from view and a new dawn emerges, All Change marks the fifth and final volume in Elizabeth Jane Howard's bestselling The Cazalet... -
Confusion by Elizabeth Jane Howard 9781529049459
RRP: $7.73Booksplease Price: $5.97As featured on BBC Radio 4 Open BookSet in the height of the Second World War, The Cazalet Chronicles continues with the third in the series, Confusion, where chaos has become a way of life for the... -
Marking Time by Elizabeth Jane Howard
RRP: $7.73Booksplease Price: $5.97As featured on BBC Radio 4 Open BookBeautifully and poignantly told, Marking Time is the second novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard's bestselling family saga The Cazalet Chronicles.'She helps us to do the... -
Casting Off by Elizabeth Jane Howard 9781529049428
RRP: $7.73Booksplease Price: $5.97As featured on BBC Radio 4 Open BookThe Second World War has finally ended and so begins a new era of freedom and opportunity for the Cazalet family. Elizabeth Jane Howard's magnificent Cazalet... -
The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk 9781804270134
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $81.73In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas begin to sweep the continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his... -
Casting Off Elizabeth Jane Howard 9781035042470
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51The Second World War has finally ended and so begins a new era of freedom and opportunity for the Cazalet family in Casting Off, the fourth novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard's magnificent Cazalet... -
All Change Elizabeth Jane Howard 9781035042487
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51As the old world begins to fade from view and a new dawn emerges, All Change marks the fifth and final volume in Elizabeth Jane Howard's bestselling Cazalet Chronicles.'Compelling, moving,... -
Marking Time Elizabeth Jane Howard 9781035042456
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51Beautifully and poignantly told, Marking Time is the second novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard's bestselling family saga The Cazalet Chronicles, set during the onset of World War II.'Compelling, moving,...