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Rome and the Mediterranean: The History of Rome from its Foundation by Livy 9780140443189
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.98Books XXXI to XLV cover the years from 201 b.c. to 167 b.c., when Rome emerged as ruler of the Mediterranean.About the AuthorTitus Livius (59BC-AD17) began working on his History of Rome at the age... -
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner 9780241996560
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60Winner of the Booker Prize, the beautiful, romantic and gorgeously philosophical Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner is part of our Penguin Essential series which spotlights the very best of our modern... -
Albion by Anna Hope 9780241698426
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.03FROM THE AUTHOR OF EXPECTATIONAS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4'Hope breathes fresh thinking into the dusty corners and overgrown hedges of the English country house dilemma' The Times'Superb ... Anna Hope... -
Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26The thirtieth anniversary edition of a twentieth century classic - an unforgettable journey through 1960s Morocco, based on the author's own childhoodFor fans of Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other... -
Beating About The Bush Linda Taylor 9780099462293
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $13.22Ella Norton has opted for the simple life. Gone are the power suits, the high earnings and the high stress of city life - and instead she's got her own cottage, a course in horticulture, and a crush... -
The Parade by Dave Eggers
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.09From the bestselling author of The Circle and The Monk of Mokha comes a taut, suspenseful story of two foreigners' role in a nation's fragile peace.'Tightly written, carefully designed to wrong-foot... -
The Secret History by Procopius
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26A trusted member of the Byzantine establishment, Procopius was the Empire's official chronicler, and his History of the Wars of Justinian proclaimed the strength and wisdom of the Emperor's reign... -
Albion by Anna Hope 9781405966733
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF EXPECTATION'Hope breathes fresh thinking into the dusty corners and overgrown hedges of the English country house dilemma' The Times'Superb ... Anna... -
The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece by Robert Morkot
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $17.88The cradle of Western civilisation, Ancient Greece was a land of contradictions and conflict. Intensely quarrelsome and competitive, the Greek city-states consistently proved unwilling and unable to... -
Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science by Jim Al-Khalili
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $12.89In Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science, Jim al-Khalili celebrates the forgotten pioneers who helped shape our understanding of the world. For over 700 years the international language of... -
The New Confessions by William Boyd
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43'Brilliant. A Citizen Kane of a novel' Daily Telegraph__________________________________Meet John James Todd:Scotsman, auteur, Rousseau-fanatic - and 'subversive element'Born in 1899, John James Todd... -
The Trojan War by Barry Strauss
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20Did the Trojan War really happen?Spectacular new archaeological evidence suggests that it did. Recent excavations and newly translated Hittite texts reveal that Troy was a large, wealthy city allied... -
H(A)PPY Nicola Barker 9781785151149
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.03*WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2017**SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2018**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018*A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEARA TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEARAN... -
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid 9780141029542
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26The internationally bestselling, Man Booker-shortlisted portrait of a man caught between conflicting identities and betrayed by the world he has embraced - from the author of Exit WestAdapted as a... -
The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97A man of devilish charm and enterprising spirit, Dougal Douglas is employed to revitalize the ailing firm of Meadows, Meade & Grindley. He succeeds, but not quite in the way his employer intended... -
The Myth Of The Blitz by Angus Calder
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $23.70The Myth of the Blitz was nurtured at every level of society. It rested upon the assumed invincibility of an island race distinguished by good humour, understatement and the ability to pluck victory... -
The Roman History: The Reign of Augustus by Cassius Cocceianus Dio
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Augustus Caesar, the first emperor of Rome (27 BC-AD 14), brought peace and prosperity to his city after decades of savage civil war. This selection from Cassius Dio's Roman History gives the fullest... -
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford 9780141441849
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Ford Madox Ford's extraordinary novel of passion and betrayal, The Good Soldier, is edited with an introduction by David Bradshaw in Penguin Classics.The Dowells, a wealthy American couple, have been... -
Evelina by Frances Burney 9780140433470
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62Leaving the secluded home of her guardian for the first time, beautiful Evelina Anville is captivated by her new surroundings in London's beau monde - and in particular by the handsome, chivalrous... -
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43The Reluctant Fundamentalist is Mohsin Hamid's thrillingly provocative international bestseller, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize in 2007Now a... -
The Age of Alexander by Plutarch
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.03The Parallel Lives of Plutarch are cornerstones of Western literature, and have exerted a profound influence on writers and statesmen since the Renaissance, most notably Shakespeare. This selection... -
The Dean's December by Saul Bellow
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Dean Corde is a man of position and authority at a Chicago university. He accompanies his wife to Bucharest where her mother, a celebrated figure, lies dying in a state hospital. As he tries to help... -
Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE 'A brilliant storyteller . . . a book which stretches, tantalizes and delights' Financial Times_____________________________________On Brazzaville... -
Nat Tate: An American Artist 1928-1960 by William Boyd
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43The infamous literary hoax that fooled the art worldOn January 8 1960, artist Nat Tate set out to burn his entire life's work. Four days later he jumped off a Staten Island ferry, killing himself... -
The Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91The most important historical source on one of the most powerful leaders of the ancient world, Arrian's The Campaigns of Alexander illustrates how Alexander the Great came to rule over a vast empire... -
The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Rome by Chris Scarre 9780140513295
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56More than fifteen centuries after its fall, the Roman Empire remains one of the most formative influences on the history of Europe. Its physical remains dot the landscape from Scotland to Syria. Its... -
Any Human Heart by William Boyd
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43DISCOVER THE BOOKER PRIZE LONGLISTED NOVEL ABOUT ONE HEART'S LOVES AND LOSSES FROM ICONIC STORYTELLER WILLIAM BOYD'Superb, wonderful, enjoyable' Guardian'Full of delights' The... -
Man at the Helm by Nina Stibbe
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43The very start of Lizzie Vogel's story. From the much-loved author of Love, Nina, discover a wildly comic, brilliantly sharp-eyed novel about one family's fall from grace.'All hail a book that's... -
Reasons to be Cheerful: Winner of the 2019 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction by Nina Stibbe
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Lizzie Vogel's story continues in Reasons to be Cheerful, the brilliantly comic sequel to Nina Stibbe's hilarious books Man at the Helm and Paradise Lodge.WINNER OF THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE... -
Jeeves and the King of Clubs Ben Schott 9781787461000
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66'Peerless in its wit, elegance and silliness.' Evening Standard BOOKS OF THE YEAR A Sunday Times PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR__________________________________________________________________Storm clouds... -
The Persian Expedition by Xenophon
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91In The Persian Expedition, Xenophon, a young Athenian noble who sought his destiny abroad, provides an enthralling eyewitness account of the attempt by a Greek mercenary army - the Ten Thousand - to... -
Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York that Changed Music Forever by Will Hermes 9780241003756
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09Love Goes to Buildings on Fire by Will Hermes - Five Years in New York that Changed Music Forever'A must-read for any music fan' (Boston Globe)Crime was everywhere, the government was broke and the... -
The Adulterants by Joe Dunthorne
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $11.86From the wickedly funny author of Submarine comes a hilarious new tragicomedy - a screwball tale of millennial angst, pre-midlife crises and one man's valiant quest to come of age in his thirties... -
Armadillo by William Boyd
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'Marvellously paced and ingeniously plotted. A real page-turner' Observer_________________________One winter morning, Lorimer Black - young, good-looking, but with a somewhat troubled expression -... -
Strangers by Anita Brookner
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'He was haunted by a feeling of invisibility, as if he were a mere spectator of his own life, with no one to identify him in the barren circumstances of the here and now.'Paul Sturgis is a retired... -
Stars and Bars by William Boyd
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'One of the comic masterpieces' Daily Telegraph ______________________________________Henderson Dores is an Englishman in New York - and completely out of his depth.He should be concentrating on his... -
The Birth of Classical Europe: A History from Troy to Augustine by Simon Price 9780140274851
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $18.54'The Penguin History of Europe series ... is one of contemporary publishing's great projects' New StatesmanTo an extraordinary extent we continue to live in the shadow of the classical world. At... -
The Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton by Sathnam Sanghera
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.08'Could not be more enjoyable, engaging or moving' Observer"It's 1979, I'm three years old, and like all breakfast times during my youth it begins with Mum combing my hair, a ritual for which I have... -
Yalta: The Price of Peace by Serhii Plokhy
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26Imagine you could eavesdrop on a dinner party with three of the most fascinating historical figures of all time. In this landmark book, a gifted Harvard historian puts you in the room with Churchill,... -
Travelling Heroes: Greeks and their myths in the epic age of Homer by Robin Lane Fox
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.03Robin Lane Fox's Travelling Heroes: Greeks and their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer proposes a new way of thinking about ancient Greeks, showing how real-life journeys shaped their mythical tales. ...