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The Paris Trilogy: A Life in Three Stories by Colombe Schneck 9781398529397
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $12.75The Paris Trilogy is celebrated French author Colombe Schneck's first English language publication, translated by Lauren Elkin and Natasha Lehrer. Writing in response to Annie Ernaux and in... -
Au Bonheur des Dames (The Ladies' Delight) by Emile Zola
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Now the basis for the major BBC tv adaptation The Paradise, this is a lavish drama and a timeless commentary on consumer capitalism. The Penguin Classics edition of Emile Zola's The Ladies' Delight... -
Eureka Street by Robert McLiam Wilson
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51Eureka Street is a story of Belfast in the 1990s, six months before and after another ceasefire. It is the story of Chuckie Lurgan, fat, Protestant and poor, who suddenly becomes wealthy by various... -
A Woman by Sibilla Aleramo
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.97'A groundbreaking, earthquaking vision, a story and a manifesto, and a literary performance so energetic it almost demands to be read aloud' Guardian 'To love, to sacrifice oneself, and to submit!... -
The Smell of Hay by Giorgio Bassani
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43A new translation of Giorgio Bassani's haunting collection of short stories that evoke 1930s Ferrara, with an introduction by Ali Smith.Isolated lives and a lost world are evoked in these memorable... -
The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles by Giorgio Bassani
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Into the insular town of 1930s Ferrara, a new doctor arrives. Fadigati is hopeful and modern, and more than anything wants to fit into his new home. But his fresh, appealing appearance soon crumbles... -
On Beauty by Zadie Smith 9780241989166
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEFrom the acclaimed author of Swing Time, White Teeth and Grand Union, discover a brilliantly funny and deeply moving story... -
The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal 9780140449662
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Headstrong and naive, the young Italian aristocrat Fabrizio del Dongo is determined to defy the wrath of his right-wing father and go to war to fight for Napoleon. He stumbles on the Battle of... -
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand 9780140449686
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Poet and soldier, brawler and charmer, Cyrano de Bergerac is desperately in love with Roxane, the most beautiful woman in Paris. But there is one very large problem - he has a nose of stupendous size... -
Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43'We're not Christians, Christ stopped short of here, at Eboli.' Exiled to a remote and barren corner of Italy for his opposition to Mussolini, Carlo Levi entered a world cut off from history and the... -
Agua Viva by Clarice Lispector
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43In Agua Viva Clarice Lispector aims to 'capture the present'. Her direct, confessional and unfiltered meditations on everything from life and time to perfume and sleep are strange and hypnotic in... -
My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE & THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONAn exquisite story of mothers and daughters from the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Olive... -
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World by Elif Shafak
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.26SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019'Expect vibrant, vivid and eye-opening descriptions of Middle Eastern life propelled by a tender storyline, all in Shafak's haunting, beautiful and considered... -
The Man of My Dreams by Curtis Sittenfeld
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51From the Sunday Times bestselling author of RODHAM, AMERICAN WIFE, YOU THINK IT, I'LL SAY IT and HELP YOURSELF'A rigorous and wily stylist. She packs her pages with clever observations without... -
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20'The reason Homer Wells kept his name was that he came back to St Cloud's so many times, after so many failed foster homes, that the orphanage was forced to acknowledge Homer's intention to make St... -
English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26WINNER OF THE WHITBREAD BOOK AWARD 2000SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2000'Deeply impressive. . . Every page fizzes with linguistic invention' Guardian An electrifying modern classic - Kneale's... -
A Modest Proposal and Other Writings by Jonathan Swift
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91The Penguin Classics edition of Jonathan Swift's savagely satirical A Modest Proposal and Other Writings is edited with an introduction and notes by Carol Fabricant.To ease poverty in Ireland by... -
The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $7.78From the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Swing Time, White Teeth and On Beauty'A pleasure from the first page to the last' Evening Standard'A glorious concoction by our most... -
You Have to Make Your Own Fun Around Here by Frances Macken
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.51'This atmospheric debut looks like a rural Irish coming-of-age novel, but it's cleverer, darker, more unreliable.' Daily Mail AN IRISH INDEPENDENT BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR AN IRISH INDEPENDENT... -
Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour by Philip Ball
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.43Colour in art - as in life - is both inspiring and uplifting, but where does it come from? How have artists found new hues, and how have these influenced their work? Beginning with the ancients -... -
Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 9780140442427
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Eduard and Charlotte are an aristocratic couple who live a harmonious but idle life in their estate. But the peace of their existence is thrown into chaos when two visitors - Eduard's friend the... -
The Beautiful Summer by Cesare Pavese
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43'An astonishing portrait of an innocent on the verge of discovering the cruelties of love... there are whispers here of the future work of Elena Ferrante' Elizabeth Strout, from the introduction'Life... -
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning is the moving follow-up to Laurie Lee's acclaimed Cider with RosieAbandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him, the young Laurie Lee walks to London. There... -
Go by John Clellon Holmes
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.26The novel that launched the beat generation's literary legacy describes the world of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady. Published two months before Kerouac began ON THE ROAD, GO is the... -
Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector by Benjamin Moser
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.03"That rare person who looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf," Clarice Lispector is one of the most popular but least understood of Latin American writers, and now in Why this... -
Holiday by Stanley Middleton
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING NOVEL2019 marked the centenary of Stanley Middleton's birth. Holiday, winner of the 1974 Booker Prize, remains the most celebrated and popular novel from 'the Chekhov of... -
Sugar Street: Nobel Prize Winner by Naguib Mahfouz
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51THE ACCLAIMED INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER BY THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR.'A masterpiece' - The Times'The Arab Tolstoy' - Simon Sebag MontefioreSugar Street, the climactic final book in the classic... -
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim 9780241619742
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith... -
The Volcano Lover: A Romance by Susan Sontag 9780141190112
RRP: $15.48Booksplease Price: $11.09A historical romance, Sontag's book is based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his wife, Emma, and Lord Nelson in the final decades of the eighteenth century. Passionately examining the shape of... -
Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak 9780241979921
Booksplease Price: $11.43From Booker-shortlisted author Elif Shafak, comes a powerful tale of faith, love and friendship set across Istanbul and OxfordOn a spring evening in Istanbul, Peri is on her way to a dinner party - a... -
There Lives a Young Girl In Me Who Will Not Die Tove Ditlevsen 9780241637364
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26While Tove Ditlevsen is now famous around the world as an extraordinary prose writer, in Denmark she has also long been celebrated as a poet. She published her first collection in her early twenties,... -
The Short Story of the Novel: A Pocket Guide to Key Genres, Novels, Themes and Techniques Henry Russell 9781786277442
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $9.47The Short Story of the Novel is a new and innovative introduction to the best works of fiction from the last 500 years. Simply constructed, the book explores 60 key novels from The Tale of Genji to... -
Mavis Gallant Collected Stories by Mavis Gallant
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.14This 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... -
South From Granada by Gerald Brenan
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.26Part autobiography, part travelogue, and wholly a tribute to the unspoilt beauty of southern Spain, Gerald Brenan's South from Granada includes an introduction by Chris Stewart, author of the... -
Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43From Booker-shortlisted author Elif Shafak, comes a powerful tale of faith, love and friendship set across Istanbul and OxfordOn a spring evening in Istanbul, Peri is on her way to a dinner party - a... -
The Liverpool Nightingales Kate Eastham 9781405936606
Booksplease Price: $13.45A heart-warming and moving tale of courage and friendship set in Victorian Liverpool, for fans of Call the Midwife, Daisy Styles and Nadine Dorries. 'Deftly written and moving' Woman's... -
The Mortgaged Heart by Carson McCullers
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.26The Mortgaged Heart is an important collection of Carson McCullers"s work, including stories, essays, articles, poems, and her writing on writing. These pieces, written mostly before McCullers was... -
The Longest Journey by E. M. Forster
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Rickie Elliot, a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent, sets out from Cambridge full of hopes to become a writer. But when his... -
Three Summers by Margarita Liberaki
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43With a new introduction by Polly Samson, Sunday Times bestselling author of A THEATRE FOR DREAMERS 'Gorgeous... the written equivalent of lying in the sun eating figs' India Knight, Sunday Times'That... -
Women by Mihail Sebastian
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.26A gorgeous, tender modern classic about the complexities of love, with an introduction from the Booker-winning author John BanvilleStefan Valeriu, a young Romanian student, holidays alone in the...