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American Pastoral by Philip Roth
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'A tragedy of classical proportions...a magnificent novel' The TimesDiscover the Pulitzer-prize winning novel that confirmed Philip Roth as one of the greatest American writers.'Swede' Levov is... -
The Wife: Discover the critically acclaimed novel behind Glenn Close's Oscar nominated performance by Meg Wolitzer 9780099478195
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73A Husband. A Wife. Their SecretJoe and Joan Castleman are en route to Helsinki. Joe is thinking about the prestigious literary prize he will receive there, while Joan is plotting how to leave him... -
Wildlife by Richard Ford 9781526611741
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £5.89Now a critically acclaimed film starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan, co-written by Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan, and directed by Paul Dano The setting is Great Falls, Montana, where the Rockies... -
Notwithstanding: Stories from an English Village by Louis de Bernieres
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Welcome to the village of Notwithstanding, where a lady dresses in plus fours and shoots squirrels, a retired general gives up wearing clothes altogether, a spiritualist lives in a cottage with the... -
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.47WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW O'HAGANIn the summer of 1976 Gary Gilmore robbed two men. Then he shot them in cold blood. For those murders Gilmore was sent to languish on Death Row - and could... -
Stories from the Kitchen by Diana Secker Tesdell
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.09Stories from the Kitchen is a mouth-watering smorgasbord of stories with food in the starring role, by a rich variety of authors from Dickens, Chekhov and Saki to Isak Dinesen, Jim Crace and Amy Tan... -
Erotic Stories Rowan Pelling 9781841596143
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.79A perfect gift of timeless erotic stories ranging from ancient Greek myth to modern stories of longing and lust. This beautifully jacketed Everyman's Library Pocket Classics hardcover anthology has a... -
The Shorter Poems by Edmund Spenser 9780140434453
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.54Although he is most famous for The Faerie Queene, this volume demonstrates that for these poems alone Spenser should still be ranked as one of England's foremost poets.Spenser's shorter poems reveal... -
Nadja by Andre Breton
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73NADJA 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... -
The Second Plane: September 11, 2001-2007 by Martin Amis
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.37Martin Amis first wrote about September 11 a week later in a piece for The Guardian beginning, 'It was the advent of the second plane, sharking in low over the Statue of Liberty: that was the... -
American Pastoral by Philip Roth 9780099771814
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEPhilip Roth's masterpiece provides a piercing look into the promises of prosperity, civic order and domesticity in twentieth century America 'Swede' Levov is living the... -
Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Shortlisted for the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 20172017 PULITZER PRIZE Finalist for Fiction TIME Top Ten Novels of 2016 'It might be the best American novel about a middle-class family since... -
Everything is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer 9780141008257
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING NOVELADAPTED INTO A FEATURE FILM WITH ELIJAH WOODFrom the bestselling author of Here I Am, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and We are the Weather - a hilarious,... -
Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII by John Cornwell
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Backed by a wealth of new research, John Cornwell tells for the first time the story of the World War II career of Eugenio Pacelli, the man who was Pope Pius XII, arguably the most dangerous... -
The Information Martin Amis 9781784879969
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JAMES WOODOnce close friends, writers Gwyn Barry and Richard Tull now find themselves in fierce competition.While Tull has spiralled into a mire of literary obscurity and... -
The Girl on the Boat by P. G. Wodehouse
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.79When Sam Marlowe falls in love with his cousin's sparky ex-fiancee he finds himself up against stiff opposition from her millionaire father, her father's best friend and the best friend's son for... -
The Dean's December by Saul Bellow
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Dean 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... -
Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the bestselling author of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Everything is Illuminated and We are the Weather - a rich and moving novel about modern family lives... -
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer 9780241978894
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.85THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING NOVELADAPTED INTO A FEATURE FILM WITH ELIJAH WOODFrom the bestselling author of Here I Am, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and We are the Weather - a hilarious,... -
Greatest Baseball Stories Ever Told: Thirty Unforgettable Tales From The Diamond by Jeff Silverman 9781592280834
Booksplease Price: £13.75At a 1931 barnstorming exhibition game in Tennessee, a seventeen-year-old pitcher for the Chattanooga Lookouts struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig back to back. Her name was Jackie... -
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £5.96Hailed as a masterpiece from its first publication, Revolutionary Road is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright young couple who are bored by the banalities of suburban life and long to be... -
The Information by Martin Amis
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Once close friends, writers Gwyn Barry and Richard Tull now find themselves in fierce competition.While Tull has spiralled into a mire of literary obscurity and belletristic odd jobs, Barry's... -
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin 9780141032948
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73When David meets the sensual Giovanni in a bohemian bar, he is swept into a passionate love affair. But his girlfriend's return to Paris destroys everything. Unable to admit to the truth, David... -
The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America by Sara B. Franklin 9781982134341
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.76Legendary editor Judith Jones, the woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century-including Julia Child, Anne Frank, Edna Lewis, John Updike, and Sylvia Plath-finally gets her... -
Pale Fire: With an Introduction by Mary Gaitskill by Vladimir Nabokov 9781474620871
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'One of the greatest books I've ever read. Its heart is strange, but it is huge; let yours beat in response' MARY GAITSKILLPale Fire, a 999-line poem, is the final work of the celebrated - and... -
Stories: Collected Stories by Susan Sontag
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'Magnificent... Her famous seriousness pervades throughout... What's striking is the astonishing scope, potential and possibility Sontag saw in short fiction' Financial TimesThe complete collected... -
Libra by Don DeLillo 9780141041995
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.05Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. Friday, November 22, 1963. 12.30 PM.Shots ring out. A president dies. And a nation is plunged into psychosis. Don DeLillo's extraordinary Libra is a brilliant reimagining... -
To Jerusalem and Back by Saul Bellow
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42In the mid-1970s, Saul Bellow visited Israel and To Jerusalem and Back is his account of his time there. Immersing himself in its landscape and culture, he records the opinions, passions and dreams... -
The Bookshop, The Gate Of Angels And The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.59Penelope Fitzgerald, who died in 2000, emerged late in life as one of the most remarkable English writers of the last century. The three novels in this volume all display her characteristic wit,... -
Philip Roth: The Biography by Blake Bailey
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £24.28'Superlative... definitive and genuinely gripping' SUNDAY TIMES'Utterly engrossing' EVENING STANDARD'Compulsively readable... Beautifully written... Definitive' OBSERVER Appointed by Philip Roth and... -
The Complete Poems by Andrew Marvell 9780140424577
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Member of Parliament, tutor to Oliver Cromwell's ward, satirist and friend of John Milton, Andrew Marvell was one of the most interesting and important poets of the seventeenth century. The Complete... -
The Submission by Amy Waldman
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16A jury gathers in Manhattan to select a memorial for the victims of a devastating terrorist attack. Their fraught deliberations complete, the jurors open the envelope containing the anonymous... -
Selected Poems by Brian Patten
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78A selection of Brian Patten's best work over the last forty-five years, chosen by the poet himself. The earliest of these poems, 'Sleep Now', was written when Patten was fifteen, the latest when he... -
Libra by Don DeLillo
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.54'Think of two parallel lines. One is the life of Lee H. Oswald. One is the conspiracy to kill the President. What bridges the space between them? What makes a connection inevitable? There is a third... -
Libra by Don DeLillo 9780141188225
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.24An unparalleled work of historical conjecture, ranging imaginatively over huge tracts of the American popular consciousness, Don DeLillo's Libra contains an introduction by the author in Penguin... -
The Poems by W. B. Yeats 9781857151039
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.54A leader of the twentieth-century Irish nationalist movement, who eventually became one of the Free States's senators, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is also the greatest poet that nation has yet... -
All Points North: the bestselling memoir from the new Poet Laureate by Simon Armitage
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10'A joy. Celebrates the real world and revels in its mad glory' Sue Townsend, Sunday Times_____________________________________All Points North is part-memoir and part-excursion. Charting the rugged... -
Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.63Rant is the oral history of one Buster 'Rant' Casey, in which an assortment of friends, enemies, detractors, lovers and relations have their say on the man who may or may not be the most efficient... -
The Fame Lunches by Daphne Merkin 9781250074768
Booksplease Price: £19.02Daphne Merkin brings her signature combination of wit, candor, and penetrating intelligence to subjects that touch on every aspect of contemporary culture, from the high calling of the literary life... -
The Best American Erotic Poems: From 1800 to the Present by David Lehman 9781416537465
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £13.26There is a deep tradition of eroticism in American poetry. Thoughtful, provocative, moving, and sometimes mirthful, the poems collected in The Best American Erotic Poems celebrate this exuberant...