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Homework: A Memoir Geoff Dyer 9781837262014
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $18.04Born in 1958, the only child of a dinner lady and a sheet-metal worker, Geoff Dyer grew up in a world shaped by the Second World War. It was a time of Airfix models and wargames, conkers and... -
Deaths of the Poets by Michael Symmons Roberts 9780099581321
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $30.53From Dylan Thomas's eighteen straight whiskies to Sylvia Plath's desperate suicide in the gas oven of her Primrose Hill kitchen; from Chatterton's Pre-Raphaelite demise to Keats' death warrant in a... -
Feet in the Clouds: A Tale of Fell-Running and Obsession by Richard Askwith 9781781310564 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $5.42Winner of 'Best New Writer' - British Sports Publishing Awards. Winner of the 'Bill Rollinson Prize for Landscape and Tradition' - Lakeland Book Awards Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of... -
Coastlines: The Story of Our Shore by Patrick Barkham 9781847088994 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $5.04Told through a series of walks beside the sea, this is a story of the most beautiful 742 miles of coastline in England, Wales and Northern Ireland: their rocks, plants and animals, their views, walks... -
Beyond the High Blue Air: A Memoir by Lu Spinney
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.01Aged 29, Lu Spinney's son Miles suffered a devastating head injury and was left in a coma. With unflinching honesty, Lu Spinney has written a passionate, urgent account of the years following her son... -
New Aldeburgh Anthology Ariane Bankes 9781843835882
RRP: $69.28Booksplease Price: $61.74A book for those drawn back to Aldeburgh year after year for the music, writing and arts - and to all who care for the landscape, the sea and the ongoing life of the Suffolk Coast. The New... -
Hell and After: Four early English-language poets of Australia by Francis MacNamara 9781857547856
Booksplease Price: $45.30The first metropolis to be depicted in Australian literature was Hell: before cities existed in Australia, Francis McNamara, the convict poet, described the infernal one populated by those who... -
Solar Bones by Mike McCormack 9781786891297 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $4.60WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDWINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEBGE IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016Marcus Conway has come a long way to stand in the... -
Solar Bones by Mike McCormack 9781786891297
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDWINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEBGE IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016Marcus Conway has come a long way to stand in the... -
Alfred and Emily by Doris Lessing 9780007240173 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $4.96Doris Lessing's first book after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature revisits her childhood in Southern Africa and the lives, both fictional and factual, that her parents led. 'I think... -
Love Child by Allegra Huston 9781408803066
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $16.57When Allegra Huston was four years old, her mother was killed in a car crash. Soon afterwards, she was introduced to an intimidating man wreathed in cigar smoke - the legendary film director John... -
Alfred and Emily by Doris Lessing 9780007240173
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $17.26Doris Lessing's first book after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature revisits her childhood in Southern Africa and the lives, both fictional and factual, that her parents led. 'I think... -
Translations from the Natural World by Les A. Murray 9781857540055
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $15.94Not only the migrating birds speak in Translations from the Natural World. The imprisoned species of pigs use their slum language; ravens, cuttlefish, sunflowers and a shell-back tick are among those... -
On Agoraphobia by Graham Caveney 9781529057713
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45If we're talking agoraphobia, we're talking books. I slip between their covers, lose myself in the turn of one page, re-discover myself on the next. Reading is a game of hide-and-seek. Narrative and... -
Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts by Margaret Atwood 9781784744496
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $47.52'Fat and satisfying' Observer * 'I loved it' Dua Lipa * 'Deliciously naughty' iNews * 'Beautifully told' Woman & Home * 'Spellbinding' FT * Book of the Year Guardian, Financial Times, Observer,... -
Diary of an Invasion Andrey Kurkov 9781914495847
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.38'Uplifting and utterly defiant' Matt Nixson, Daily Express 'Immediate and important ... This is an insider's account of how an ordinary life became extraordinary' Helen Davies, The TimesThis journal... -
The Swimmer: The Wild Life of Roger Deakin by Patrick Barkham 9780241471487
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70BEST BOOK OF 2023 ACCORDING TO THE NEWSTATESMAN AND OBSERVER'The Swimmer is a wonderful, original achievement; teeming with stories, glittering with images, and experimental in form and tone' Robert... -
Yorkshire: A lyrical history of England's greatest county Richard Morris 9781780229096
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84'Restless, poetic, strange ... and the territory it describes deserves nothing less' Observer'Glittering and energetic' Country LifeYorkshire is 'a continent unto itself', a region where mountain,... -
At Her Majesty's Pleasure by Robert Douglas
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.45In his final instalment in his autobiographical trilogy, Robert Douglas takes us through the sixties and into the eighties with his memories of life as a prison officer, and, at the end of his... -
Instrumental by James Rhodes 9781782113379 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $7.52James Rhodes' passion for music has been his absolute lifeline. It has been the thread that has held him together through a life that has encompassed pain, conflict and turmoil. Listening to... -
The Glass Kingdom by Lawrence Osborne
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $11.78A tense, stunningly well-observed heist novel from 'the bastard child of Graham Greene and Patrica Highsmith' (Metro)Sarah Talbot Jennings, a young American living in New York, has fled to Bangkok to... -
At Her Majesty's Pleasure by Robert Douglas 9780340935309 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $5.25In his final instalment in his autobiographical trilogy, Robert Douglas takes us through the sixties and into the eighties with his memories of life as a prison officer, and, at the end of his... -
A A Time and a Place: George Crabbe, Aldeburgh and Suffolk by 9780718896119
Booksplease Price: $47.46There anchoring, Peter chose from Man to hide, There hang his Head, and view the lazy Tide In its hot slimy Channel slowly glide . George Crabbe, eighteenth-century poet, clergyman and... -
Philip Roth: The Biography by Blake Bailey
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $49.43'Superlative... definitive and genuinely gripping' SUNDAY TIMES'Utterly engrossing' EVENING STANDARD'Compulsively readable... Beautifully written... Definitive' OBSERVER Appointed by Philip Roth and... -
Underworld by Don DeLillo 9781529092097
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45Underworld opens - famously - at the Dodgers-Giants 1951 National League final, where Bobby Thomson hits The Shot Heard Round the World and wins the pennant race for the Giants. But on the other side... -
The Three of Us: A Family Story by Julia Blackburn 9780099507048
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $26.19Winner of the J. R. Ackerley AwardThis is the story of three people: Julia Blackburn, her father Thomas and her mother Rosalie. Thomas was a poet and an alcoholic, who for many years was addicted to... -
Instrumental James Rhodes 9781782113393
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35James Rhodes' passion for music has been his absolute lifeline. It has been the thread that has held him together through a life that has encompassed pain, conflict and turmoil. Listening to... -
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder Salman Rushdie 9781529921168
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.12**Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024**A moving and life-affirming memoir about survival and the power of love to heal, from internationally renowned writer Salman Rushdie'A story of hatred... -
Division Street by Helen Mort
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $19.87*SHORTLISTED FOR THE T.S ELIOT PRIZE AND COSTA POETRY AWARD 2013*'A stone is lobbed in '84, hangs like a star over Orgreave. Welcome to Sheffield. Border-land,our town of miracles...' ... -
Yorkshire: A lyrical history of England's greatest county by Richard Morris 9780297609438 [USED COPY]
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $5.52'A restless, poetic, strange book, and the territory it describes deserves nothing less' Observer'Meticulously researched ... fascinating' Country LifeYorkshire, it has been said, is 'a continent... -
What Dementia Teaches Us About Love by Nicci Gerrard
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70A SUNDAY TIMES, NEW STATESMAN AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'Immensely powerful . . . her investigation of this terrible illness is sensitive and compelling' Sunday TimesAfter her own father's... -
36 Hours: 2022 by Fiona Mason 9781916165526
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $15.41Less than a year after being diagnosed with inoperable cancer, Fiona Mason's husband died at home. She was his carer. Unflinching in its detail, this book is a delicate chronicle of his last day and... -
Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War by Ian Buruma
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35Ian Buruma's maternal grandparents, Bernard and Winifred (Bun & Win), wrote to each other regularly throughout their life together. The first letters were written in 1915, when Bun was still at... -
Housman Country: Into the Heart of England by Peter Parker
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05Why is it that for many people 'England' has always meant an unspoilt rural landscape rather than the ever-changing urban world in which most English people live? What was the 'England' for which... -
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie 9781787334793
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $28.58**Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024**A gripping account of survival and recovery from internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize-winner Salman RushdieOn the morning of 12 August... -
In Gratitude by Jenny Diski
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.68_______________ 'One of the most inventive, original and disturbing writers of her generation' - Daily Telegraph 'Diski does not do linear, or normal, or boring ... In Gratitude amounts to the... -
Diary of an Invasion by Andrey Kurkov 9781800699090
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54'Uplifting and utterly defiant' Matt Nixson, Daily Express 'Immediate and important ... This is an insider's account of how an ordinary life became extraordinary' Helen Davies, The Times'At first we... -
William Wordsworth: A Life by Stephen Gill
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $50.93In this second edition of William Wordsworth: A Life, Stephen Gill draws on knowledge of the poet's creative practices and his reputation and influence in his life-time and beyond. Refusing to treat... -
The Last Act of Love: The Story of My Brother and His Sister by Cathy Rentzenbrink
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54A Richard and Judy Book club selection.In the summer of 1990, Cathy's brother Matty was knocked down by a car on the way home from a night out. It was two weeks before his GCSE results, which turned... -
The Last Act of Love: The Story of My Brother and His Sister by Cathy Rentzenbrink 9781447286394 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $3.28A Richard and Judy Book club selection.In the summer of 1990, Cathy's brother Matty was knocked down by a car on the way home from a night out. It was two weeks before his GCSE results, which turned...