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Christmas Stories by Diana Secker Tesdell
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.32As a literary subject, Christmas has inspired everything from intimate domestic dramas, to fanciful flights of the imagination, and the full range of its expression is represented in this wonderfully... -
The Sleeping Beauty C S Evans 9781857159202
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68This most romantic of fairy tales is found in many versions, and the story of the beautiful girl who falls into a long sleep, to be awakened by a lover, has been interpreted by some as an allegory of... -
Laughing Gas by P. G. Wodehouse
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68A Hollywood star and an English aristocrat exchange souls while under ether at the dentist and the result is mayhem. Though his golden curls and sweet expression make him the idol of mothers... -
The Luck Of The Bodkins P.G. Wodehouse 9781841591179
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.32Monty Bodkin's pursuit of Gertude Butterwick is temporarily interrupted by his encounter with silver-screen siren Miss Lotus Blossom, who sees in him a means of restoring relations with her idol, the... -
Leave It To Psmith by P. G. Wodehouse
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.32It all starts with an umbrella, the best to be found in the Drones Club. From such an innocent beginning Wodehouse weaves a comic tale of suspense and romance involving one of his most distinctive... -
The Head Of Kay's by P. G. Wodehouse
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.32It is the general view at Eckleton school that there never was such a house of slackers as Kay's. Fenn, head of house and county cricketer, does his best to impose some discipline but is continually... -
Animal Poems by John Hollander
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92This is a collection of classic animal poems. The poems include: Robert Burns's "To a Mouse"; Ted Hughes's "Hawk Roosting"; Christopher Smart's "My Cat Jeoffry"; and e.e. cummings's... -
The Audubon Reader by John James Audubon
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.69John James Audubon (1785-1851) was for half a century America's dominant wildlife artist. His seminal Birds of America, a collection of 435 life-size prints, is still a standard work, and the name... -
Flann O'Brien The Complete Novels by Flann O'Brien
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $22.67In the five novels by Ireland's greatest comic writer we can explore the full range of his invention, from the multi-layered madness of At Swim-Two-Birds to the piercing realism of The Hard Life and... -
The Complete English Works by George Herbert 9781857152043
Booksplease Price: $17.47An entirely new edition of Herbert's collected poems with nots, chronology and introduction by the distinguised scholar Anne Pasternak Slater, this volume is designed to complement the editions of... -
Leonard Cohen Poems by Leonard Cohen 9781841597874
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $9.89This anthology contains a cross-section covering his career, including such legendary songs as 'Suzanne', 'Sisters of Mercy', 'Bird on the Wire', 'Famous Blue Raincoat' and 'I'm Your Man' and... -
Poems And Prose by John Donne 9781857157222
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $11.82The major seventeenth-century English poet between Shakespeare and Milton, Donne is chiefly celebrated as a love poet. But he was also the author of magnificent satires and epistles, and a series of... -
Little Red Riding Hood by Charles Perrault
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.32This collection of eight French contes collected by Charles Perrault in the last decade of the seventeenth century, contains perhaps the most famous fairy stories of all time - 'Cinderella', 'The... -
The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $30.47Describing his collection of Essays as 'a book consubstantial with its author', Montaigne identified both the power and the charm of a work which introduces us to one of the most attractive figures... -
In Search Of Lost Times Volume 1 by Terence Kilmartin
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $21.94In the opening volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator travels backwards in time in order to tell the story of a love affair that had taken place before his own birth. Swann's jealous love for... -
Beloved by Toni Morrison 9781857152685
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentucky, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. The worlds of Halle and Paul D. are to be destroyed in a cataclysm of torment... -
Collected Nonfiction Volume 1: Selections from the Autobiography, Letters, Essays, and Speeches by Mark Twain
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.72Politics, religion, culture, travel, science and technology, family life: nothing escaped the eye and pen of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, nineteenth-century America's most... -
The Man Upstairs by P. G. Wodehouse
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.32Wodehouse's well-known gift for satisfying plots and comic surprises is evident on every page, but there are also signs of his debt to earlier writers in the realistic tradition. Set mainly in London... -
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Rudolf Erich Raspe
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92Baron Munchausen's absurd adventures have entertained adults and children alike for more than two centuries. First published in England in 1785, his traveller's tales soon became as well known as... -
Cocktail Time P.G. Wodehouse 9781841591346
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.32Frederick, Earl of Ickenham, is not the man to run away from other people's romantic problems, not even when faced with the tangled relationships of his godson, Johnny, Johnny's girlfriend, Belinda,... -
Piccadilly Jim P.G. Wodehouse 9781841591353
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.32This sparkling story of transatlantic manners follows the fortunes of playboy Jimmy Crocker in England and America. When Jimmy falls for a girl in London and vows to reform himself as a result, the... -
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss 9781857159332
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68This classic story of a Swiss family - pastor, wife and four sons -shipwreaked on an uninhabited island (most fortunately blessed with an unlikely profusion of natural resources) was written by a... -
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 9781857152197
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Foreshadowing his later detailed accounts of the Soviet prison-camp system, Solzhenitsyn's classic portrayal of life in the gulag is all the more powerful for being slighter and more personal than... -
Howards End by E. M. Forster 9781857150254
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29The story of a house and two sisters, Howards End is also a subtle meditation on national, sexual and social identities. Half German by birth and middle-class English by upbringing, Helen and... -
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco 9781857152999
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.26Who is killing monks in a great medieval abbey famed for its library - and why? Brother William of Baskerville is sent to find out, taking with him the assistant who later tells the tale of his... -
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford 9781857150209
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68This is the story of fatal attraction and its consequences. The American narrator's highly-strung wife falls for his bluff, inarticulate English friend. Retrospectively piecing the story together,... -
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov 9781857152722
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68Initially an almost grotesquely comic figure, Pnin gradually grows in stature by contrast with those who laugh at him. Whether taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has not... -
Voss by Patrick White
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.08Voss describes an epic journey, both physical and spiritual. The eponymous hero, Johann Voss, is based on Ludwig Leichhardt, the nineteenth-century German explorer and naturalist who had already... -
Praeterita And Dilecta by John Ruskin 9781857152791
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.47To call Praeterita an autobiography is to tell only part of the truth. A book like no other, by oneof the greatest masters of English prose., it is less a narrative than the prismatic sotry of an... -
Bachelors Anonymous by P. G. Wodehouse
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.32Much married American movie mogul Ivor Llewellyn depends on his friends at Bachelors Anonymous to keep him out of romantic entanglements on his trip to London. First, they arrange for Joe Pickering... -
Little Mermaid and Other Fairy Tales, The (Illustrated with Interactive Elements by Hans Christian Andersen 9780062692597
RRP: $37.52Booksplease Price: $27.87Featuring beloved characters such as the Little Mermaid, Thumbelina, and the Snow Queen, a deluxe full-color edition of Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairytales, illustrated with stunning... -
Mavis Gallant Collected Stories by Mavis Gallant
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.11This generous collection of fifty-two stories selected from across her prolific career by the author, is preceded by a preface in which she discusses the sources of her art.With irony and an... -
The Clicking Of Cuthbert P.G. Wodehouse 9781841591124
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.32Who but P.G. Wodehouse could have extraced high comedy from the most noble and ancient game of golf? And who else could have combined this comedy with a real appreciation of the game, drawn from... -
Jeeves In The Offing by P. G. Wodehouse
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.32Anyone who involves himself with Roberta Wickham is asking for trouble, so naturally Bertie Wooster finds himself in just that situation when he goes to stay with his Aunt Dahlia at Brinkley Court... -
Joy In The Morning by P. G. Wodehouse
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.32Trapped in the rural hell-hole of Steeple Bumpleigh with his bossy ex-fiancee, Florence Craye, her fire-breathing father, Lord Worplesdon, her frightful Boy-Scout brother, Edwin, and her beefy new... -
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.34Tolstoy is said to have called Les Miserables the greatest novel ever written, and it exerted a powerful influence on the creation of War and Peace. At one level a detective story in which the... -
The Adventures Of Robin Hood by Roger Lancelyn Green 9781857159271
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.80The story of Robin Hood, said Roger Lancelyn Green can never die, nor cease to fire the imagination. Like the old fairy tales it must be told and told again, for it is touched with enchantment... -
A Hero Of Our Time Mikhail Lermontov 9781857150780
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29Set in the Caucasus, the scene of Russia's military campaigns in the 19th century, this is both an adventure story and a sardonic look at the heroic ideals of the author's contemporaries - which... -
The General in his Labyrinth Gabriel Garcia Marquez 9781857152821
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68With the style and eloquent language that earned him the Nobel prize for literature, Marquez weaves a stunning story of glory and despair. Both real history and Marquez' imagination let us enter the... -
A House For Mr Biswas by V. S. Naipaul 9781857152135
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.47In the comic masterpiece which established him one of the greatest writers in the English language, Naipaul follows the fortunes of Mr Biswas, the outsider who refuses to conform to the customs of...