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Cereus Blooms at Night: The Booker-Longlisted Queer Classic by Shani Mootoo 9781784878320
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.31EVERYONE THINKS MALA IS A MURDERER'A Caribbean classic' Monique Roffey, author of The Mermaid of Black Conch-------Everyone in Paradise thinks Mala Ramchandin is a murderer. But with no body, no... -
Original Sins: An extraordinary memoir of faith, family, shame and addiction Matt Rowland Hill 9781529113174
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51An extraordinarily brave memoir about faith, family, shame and addiction - an Observer, New Statesman and Sunday Times Book of the Year'Brilliant... lively, engaging and extremely well written -... -
All the Bad Apples by Moira Fowley-Doyle 9780241333969
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.22The stunning new novel about silenced female voices, family secrets and dangerous truths from the author of The Accident Season.'Exquisite . . . This is a book to hold tightly to your chest' Irish... -
The Life Writing of Otherness: Woolf, Baldwin, Kingston, and Winterson Lauren Rusk 9780415803533
RRP: $65.78Booksplease Price: $62.15Focusing on innovative works by Woolf, Baldwin, Kingston and Winterson, the author analyzes how they each represent the self as unique, collectively "other," and inclusively human, and how these... -
The Private World of Georgette Heyer by Jane Aiken Hodge 9780099493495 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $3.01As an internationally bestselling phenomenon and queen of the Regency Romance, Georgette Heyer is one of the most beloved historical novelists of our time. She's written more than fifty novels -... -
Vampire Circus by Mark Morris 9780099556275
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.35'Your children will die. Your community will die. To give me back my life.'The small rural community of Shettle has fallen into a decline. It is rife with crime and its inhabitants plagued by... -
The Waves by Virginia Woolf 9780099478270
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $4.37WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY JEANETTE WINTERSON AND GILLIAN BEERThe Waves is an astonishingly beautiful and poetic novel. It begins with six children playing in a garden by the sea and follows their lives... -
Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.10'It was I who removed de P- this morning.' With these chilling words Victor Haldin shatters the solitary, industrious existence of Razumov, his fellow student at St Petersburg University. Razumov... -
Three Poets of the First World War by Wilfred Owen
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.91This new selection brings together the poetry of three of the most distinctive and moving voices to emerge from the First World War. Here are the controlled passion and rich metaphors of Wilfred... -
Dog Stories by Diana Secker Tesdell 9781841596068 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $2.93The unforgettable canines gathered here include Kipling's heroically faithful 'Garm', Bret Harte's irrepressible scoundrel of a 'yaller dog' and the aggressively affectionate three-legged pit bull... -
Crippen: A Novel of Murder by John Boyne
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51July 1910: The grisly remains of Cora Crippen, music hall singer and wife of Dr Hawley Crippen, are discovered in the cellar of 39 Hilldrop Crescent, Camden. But the Doctor and his mistress, Ethel Le... -
Gisli Sursson's Saga and the Saga of the People of Eyri by Vesteinn Olason
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.93These sagas recount fierce feuds in which honour is fought for, sacrifice is demanded, and blood is shed. The fate of the characters at the centre of each saga, however, is very different. Gisli is a... -
Belladonna by Anbara Salam
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $19.65'A beguiling whirlwind of love and obsession' Elle _______________________________________________It is summer, 1956, when fifteen-year-old Bridget first meets Isabella. In their conservative... -
A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.82When Connecticut mechanic and foreman Hank Morgan is knocked unconscious, he wakes not to the familiar scenes of nineteenth-century America but to the bewildering sights and sounds of sixth-century... -
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by John Lanchester
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26Spurred on by admiration for his novelist half-brother and irritation at the biography written about him by Mr Goodman ('his slapdash and very misleading book'), the narrator, V, sets out to record... -
The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean 9780099289586
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20Susan Orlean first met John Laroche when visiting Florida to write for the New Yorker about his arrest for stealing rare ghost orchids from a nature reserve. Fascinated both by Laroche and the world... -
Cli-Fi: A Companion by Axel Goodbody 9781788740722
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.37What is Cli-Fi? Climate change fiction is a new literary phenomenon that emerged at the turn of the twenty-first century in response to what may be society's greatest challenge. Climate change is... -
Shylock is My Name: The Merchant of Venice, Retold by Howard Jacobson 9781784878863
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.21Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice is brilliantly reinvented by Howard Jacobson, in his merciless, sharp and funny story of revenge, justice and antisemitism. With an absent wife and a daughter... -
Blast From The Past by Ben Elton 9780552998338 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $2.83It's two fifteen a.m., you're in bed alone and you're woken by the phone.Your eyes are wide and your body tense before it has completed so much as a single ring. And as you wake, in the tiny moment... -
An Affair with My Mother: A Story of Adoption, Secrecy and Love by Caitriona Palmer 9780241971734
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09An Affair with My Mother by Caitriona Palmer: a moving and gripping story of love, denial and a daughter's quest for the truth.Caitriona Palmer had a happy childhood in Dublin, raised by loving... -
Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot 9780140444728
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62Denis Diderot (1713-1784) was among the greatest writers of the Enlightenment, and in Jacques the Fatalist he brilliantly challenged the artificialities of conventional French fiction of his age... -
Heartstones by Ruth Rendell 9780099534907 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $2.39In a college town two schoolgirls live with their widowed father Luke, a gentle well-educated man, meticulous and orderly. Elvira and Spinny are watchful however for Luke plans to remarry and has... -
Cat Stories Diana Secker Tesdell 9781841596105
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $14.74Playful kittens and ruthless predators, beloved pets and witches' familiars - cats of all kinds come alive in these stories. Maeve Brennan and Alice Adams movingly explore what cats can mean to their... -
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $10.26THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERBBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'A beautiful, gentle exploration of the dark season of life and the light of spring that eventually follows' RAYNOR WINN'My favourite book of... -
Chocky by John Wyndham
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.93Matthew's parents are worried. At eleven, he's much too old to have an imaginary friend, yet they find him talking to and arguing with a presence that even he admits is not physically there. This... -
Cinderella Liberator by Rebecca Solnit
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.94Rebecca Solnit retells 'Cinderella'. A Fairy Tale Revolution is here to remix and revive our favourite stories. 'She looked like a girl who was evening, and an evening that had become a girl...'In... -
Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown 9781784870515
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66Fifty years after its first publication, discover the classic coming-of-age novel that confronts prejudice and injustice with power and humanity.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RITA MAE BROWNMolly Bolt is a... -
Who Among Us? by Mario Benedetti 9780241350997
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62'This novel is a jewel ... one of those books that enters the soul, which it is impossible not to be conquered by. It is a masterpiece like few others' Huffington PostMiguel and Alicia fall... -
A Room of One's Own (Vintage Feminism Short Edition) by Virginia Woolf
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.11Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short formWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JEANETTE WINTERSON'What conditions are necessary for the creation of works of art?' Security, confidence, independence, a... -
Selected Poems by Rabindranath Tagore
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91The poems of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) are among the most haunting and tender in Indian and in world literature, expressing a profound and passionate human yearning. His ceaselessly inventive... -
Nadja by Andre Breton
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.11NADJA is a Surrealist romance, and has come to be known as a book which defined that movement's attitude towards life. With its blend of intimate confession and sense of the marvellous, NADJA... -
Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.26'An intense, courageous novel, equal to the best of Virginia Woolf and Samuel Beckett' The New York TimesPart detective novel, part love story, part psychoanalytic case study, Malina is a staggering... -
Ties That Bind, Ties That Break by Lensey Namioka
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.22Set in China in 1900s the story of a young girl who defied tradition by refusing to have her feet bound and in doing so changed the course of her life forever.About the AuthorLensey Namioka was born... -
The Penguin Book of First World War Stories by Ann-Marie Einhaus
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91An anthology of Great War short stories by British writers, both famous and lesser-known authors, men and women, during the war and after its end. These stories are able to illustrate the impact of... -
The Wandering by Intan Paramaditha
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20*The most unusual novel you will read all year, where you create your own story*'An ingenious choose-your-own-adventure challenge' Lauren Elkin, GuardianLonglisted for the 2021 Stella PrizeYou've... -
The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence 9781857151619
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.72This novel renews the Victorian family saga in a modern setting, tracing the history of the Brangwens through several generations. The book was banned when it first appeared in 1915 for its sensuous... -
The Virgin Soldiers by Leslie Thomas 9780099490036
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09'It rained a lot and steamed when the sun shone. It was always hot. But it was safe...'One way or another the Communist guerrilla war in Malaya kept a whole British army occupied from 1948 until 1952... -
Doing Animal Studies with Androids, Aliens, and Ghosts: Defamiliarizing Human-Nonhuman Animal Relationships in Fiction by David P. Rando 9781350356122
Booksplease Price: $116.84Exploring what can be learnt when literary critics in the field of animal studies temporarily direct attention away from representations of nonhuman animals in literature and towards liminal figures... -
At Swim-two-birds by Flann O'Brien
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.26Flann O'Brien's innovative metafictional work, whose unruly characters strike out their own paths in life to the frustration of their author, At Swim-Two-Birds is a brilliant impressionistic jumble... -
Original Sins: A Memoir by Matt Rowland Hill
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.25** A Sunday Times, New Statesman and Guardian Book of the Year ****Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2022**'A stunningly well-written, funny, heartrending and utterly gripping memoir about...