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The Murderer by Roy Heath
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'For me life hasn't got dreams, success and all that damn nonsense. Life is full of shadows: some of them soft and others conceal a hammer.'Galton Flood is a lonely man, restless and ill at ease with... -
Cambridge by Caryl Phillips
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Cambridge is a powerful and haunting novel set in that uneasy time between the abolition of the slave trade and the emancipation of the slaves. It is the story of Emily Cartwright, a young woman sent... -
Sontag: Her Life by Benjamin Moser
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.54WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHYSelected as a Book of the Year 2019 by the SPECTATOR, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN and FINANCIAL TIMES 'Definitive and delightful' Stephen Fry 'There can... -
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 9781841593418
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15At the turn of the twentieth century. When their father dies young, exhausted by the failure of his attempts at agriculture, it is left to the visionary Alexandra to guide the family to prosperity... -
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 9780143122333
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £16.30Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by award-winning director Guillermo del Toro. The epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous... -
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Stet: An Editor's Life by Diana Athill 9781847084279 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.47For nearly 50 years, Diana Athill edited (and nursed and coerced and coaxed) some of the most celebrated writers in the English language. In a prose style of inimitable wit and rare candour, she... -
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce 9780099573159
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Discover James Joyce's impressionistic portrait of a young man finding his artistic voice in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, reissued to coincide with 100 years since the first publication... -
Adam Bede by George Eliot 9781857150599
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.11Carpenter Adam Bede is in love with the beautiful Hetty Sorrel, but unknown to him, he has a rival, in the local squire's son Arthur Donnithorne. Hetty is soon attracted by Arthur's seductive charm... -
Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford 9780241372548
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Ford Madox Ford's great masterpiece exploring love and identity during the First World War, in a Penguin Classics edition with an introduction by Julian Barnes. A masterly novel of destruction and... -
The Rhys Woman by Paula Le Gallez 9781349106790
Booksplease Price: £46.28A reader-based textual analysis of the work of Jean Rhys. The author generates new readings of two of the short stories and all five of the novels. By focusing on character, she disagrees with those... -
Postcolonial Literature by Justin D. Edwards 9780230506732
Booksplease Price: £90.57This Guide analyses the criticism of English-language literature from the major regions of the postcolonial world. Criticism on works by writers such as Jean Rhys, V.S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie, is... -
Jane Eyre (Vintage Classics Bronte Series) Charlotte Bronte 9781784870737
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Charlotte Bronte's masterpiece. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MAGGIE O'FARRELL As an orphan, Jane's childhood is full of trouble, but her stubborn ... -
Games At Twilight by Anita Desai
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.46Set in contemporary Bombay and other cities, these stories reflect the kaleidoscope of urban life - evoking the colour, sounds and white-hot heat of the city. Warm, perceptive, humorous and touched... -
Ulysses by James Joyce 9781784877712
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.76Celebrating 100 Years of Joyce's masterpiece The authoritative Hans Walter Gabler text; with a new introduction by Anne Enright. Set entirely on one day, 16 June 1904, Ulysses follows Leopold Bloom... -
Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf 9780241372500
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37'One of the great writers of the twentieth century' GuardianIt is June in 1939, and the inhabitants of a country house prepare to host the annual village pageant in its grounds. It will tell the... -
The Shooting Party by Isabel Colegate
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'Threads of romance, social comment, country lore and intrigue both above and below stairs are cunningly worked together to create a brilliant tapestry' Sunday TelegraphIt is 1913 - a breath away... -
Villette by Charlotte Bronte 9780140434798
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Villette is Charlotte Bronte's powerful autobiographical novel of one woman's search for true love, edited with an introduction by Helen M. Cooper in Penguin Classics.With neither friends nor family,... -
Villette by Charlotte Bronte 9780241198964
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.68Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful,... -
Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A masterpiece of autobiography, and perhaps the first literary memoir of an addict, the Penguin Classics edition of Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is edited with an... -
Stet: An Editor's Life by Diana Athill
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.37Diana Athill helped shape some of the most celebrated books in modern literature. For nearly five decades, she edited (and nursed and coerced and coaxed) writers including Jean Rhys, V. S. Naipaul... -
Dangling Man by Saul Bellow
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Expecting to be inducted into the army, Joseph has given up his job and carefully prepared for his departure to the battlefront. When a series of mix-ups delays his induction, he finds himself facing... -
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 9780099511120
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.17Jane Eyre is the inspiring heroine of one of the best-loved British novels of all time. ... -
Dubliners by James Joyce 9780099573142
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49EDITED BY HANS WALTER GABLER WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY SCARLETT BARON AND JOHN BANVILLEIn this powerfully influential series of short stories, James Joyce captures uneasy souls, shabby lives and innocent... -
The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield by Katherine Mansfield 9780141441818
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITHKatherine Mansfield's clear, sparkling and perceptive short stories revolutionized the genre, and this collection represents the whole range of her writing. Moving,... -
Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabea loves movies, Coca-Cola and her philandering rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly and... -
Repositioning Shakespeare: National Formations, Postcolonial Appropriations Thomas Cartelli 9780415194983
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Repositioning Shakespeare offers an original assessment of a broad range of texts and cultural events that appropriate Shakespeare. Examining these materials within the context of 'the nation' in a... -
Liveforever by Andrés Caicedo
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Andres Caicedo's novel Liveforever is a wild celebration of youth, hedonism and the transforming power of music.Maria del Carmen Huerta lives a respectable middle-class life in Colombia. One day she... -
Agnes Grey/The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte 9781841593432
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.46The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is Anne Bronte's second and most celebrated novel. Set in the dramatic northern landscape made familiar by the author's more famous sisters, it tells the story of Helen... -
Indigo Or Mapping The Waters by Marina Warner 9780099154518
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.73Inspired by The Tempest, Indigo traces the scars of colonialism across continents, family blood-lines and three centuries. Rich, sensual and magical in its use of myths and fairytales Indigo explores... -
Howards End by E. M. Forster
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31The Penguin English Library Edition of Howards End by E. M. Forster'The poor cannot always reach those whom they want to love, and they can hardly ever escape from those whom they love no longer. We... -
The Pursuit of Love: With Love in a Cold Climate and The Blessing by Nancy Mitford
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'A masterpiece ... The Pursuit of Love is one of the funniest books ever written' India Knight, The TimesNancy Mitford's brilliantly witty, irreverent stories of the upper classes in pre-war London... -
Married Love by Tessa Hadley
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'The ghost of Katherine Mansfield hovers lightly over these deceptively delicate snapshots' MetroA beguiling collection of short stories from award-winning author of Free Love, The Past and Late in... -
The Portable Beat Reader by Ann Charters
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73Beginning in the late 1940's, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was "beat." Beat as in poverty and beatitude, ecstasy and exile. Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the... -
Everything Will Be All Right by Tessa Hadley
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'An astute and accomplished work' Daily MailJoyce Stevenson is thirteen when her widowed mother takes them to live with Aunt Vera, a formidable teacher neglected by her unfaithful husband. Joyce... -
Hackenfeller's Ape (Faber Editions): Introduced by Sarah Hall by Brigid Brophy 9780571381296
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.25An eccentric professor saves a London Zoo ape from a rocket experiment in this dazzling classic by a trailblazing animal rights activist, introduced by Sarah Hall.'Pitch-perfect.' Ali Smith'So... -
Penguin Modern Box Set 9780241421345
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £68.99This box set of the 50 books in the new Penguin Modern series celebrates the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics list and its iconic authors. Including avant-garde essays, radical... -
The Grass Arena: An Autobiography by John Healy
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31John Healy's The Grass Arena describes with unflinching honesty his experiences of addiction, his escape through learning to play chess in prison, and his ongoing search for peace of mind. This... -
Black Leopard, Red Wolf: Dark Star Trilogy Book 1 by Marlon James
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.79THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLEREscape into a world of magic and danger with THE DARK STAR TRILOGY. Drawing on a rich tradition of African mythology, fantasy and history, this is the story of a lost... -
The Millstone by Margaret Drabble
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.90A celebration of the drama and intensity of the mother-child relationship, Margaret Drabble'sThe Millstone won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1965.It is the Swinging Sixties, and Rosamund Stacey is... -
An Education by Lynn Barber
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £10.92When the journalist Lynn Barber was 16, she was picked up at a bus-stop by an attractive older man who drew up in his sports car - and her life was almost wrecked. A bright confident girl, on course...