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Circus of Dreams: Adventures in the 1980s Literary World John Walsh 9781472133489
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £10.18Something extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years, a generation of young British writers took the literary novel into new realms of setting, subject... -
Glow by Ned Beauman
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'ADDICTIVELY GOOD' The Times'Over-whelming' Independent'Supercharged' Evening Standard'Deliciously, startlingly, exuberantly fresh' GuardianWith GLOW, Ned Beauman has reinvented the international... -
The Doll by Ismail Kadare 9781784709327
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'A fascinating study of a difficult love' John Burnside, GuardianYoung Ismail's world centres around his mother. Naive and fragile as a paper doll, she is an unlikely presence in her husband's... -
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Nutshell by Ian McEwan 9781784705114 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.04**Sunday Times Number One Bestseller**A classic tale of murder and deceit from one of the world's best storytellers - 'a masterpiece' The TimesTrudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the... -
Ladies of Lyndon by Margaret Kennedy
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Agatha is aware of an intensity, a powerful storm of emotion briefly awakened by a shortlived love affair with her cousin Gerald, that is entirely lacking from the successful marriage on which she is... -
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46An exhilarating satire of Eighties excess that captures the effervescent spirit of New York, from one of the greatest writers of modern American proseSherman McCoy is a WASP, bond trader and... -
Kill 'Em All by John Niven
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49_____________________The long-awaited sequel to KILL YOUR FRIENDSA Guardian Book of the Year 2018It is 2017 - the time of Trump, Brexit and fake news. And time for the return of Steven Stelfox,... -
Novel Style: Ethics and Excess in English Fiction since the 1960s by Ben Masters 9780198766148
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £84.95We live in a time of linguistic plainness. This is the age of the tweet and the internet meme; the soundbite, the status, the slogan. Everything reduced to its most basic components. Stripped back... -
The researchED Guide to Explicit and Direct Instruction: An evidence-informed guide for teachers: 2019 Adam Boxer 9781912906376
RRP: £14.50Booksplease Price: £14.28researchED is an educator-led organisation with the goal of bridging the gap between research and practice. This accessible and punchy series, overseen by founder Tom Bennett, tackles the most... -
Flaubert's Parrot/History of the World by Julian Barnes 9781841593487
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.71Flaubert's Parrot, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1984, concerns the attempts of an increasingly bemused researcher to establish certain facts about a famous French novelist and the stuffed bird... -
The North Water: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize by Ian McGuire
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.40NOW A MAJOR BBC TV SERIES STARRING COLIN FARRELL, JACK O'CONNELL AND STEPHEN GRAHAMA ship sets sail with a killer on board . . . 1859. A man joins a whaling ship bound for the Arctic Circle. Having... -
Michel the Giant: An African in Greenland by Tete-Michel Kpomassie
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The gripping true story of one man's ten year expedition from a village in West Africa to the Arctic CircleWITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHORScorching heat, rich, fertile soil, and treacherous snakes... -
You're Doing It Wrong by Kevin Power 9781843518327
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £10.88Art honours the world, and criticism honours art, even - perhaps especially - when the critic sets out to destroy. The bad review is hardly ever written out of mere spite. In most cases, the... -
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A fascinating insight into the vibrant culture of Modernism, and the rich artistic world of Paris's Left Bank, Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas includes an introduction by Thomas... -
Unravelled: A Family Lost and Found by Fanny Mills 9781911397724
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.51In Unravelled the author unpicks the threads of her comically nuclear family with its deep silences to find what lay hidden, never to be spoken of. Beneath the carefully woven fabric of her family... -
Bryant & May’s Peculiar London by Christopher Fowler
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81As the nation's oldest serving detectives, we know more about London than almost anyone. After all, we've been walking its streets and impulsively arresting its citizens for decades. Who better to... -
Letter To A Christian Nation by Sam Harris
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41"A hard-hitting polemic against religious fundamentalism" - Foreword by Richard Dawkins' Thousands of people have written to tell me that I am wrong not to believe in God. The most hostile of these... -
The Earl Of Petticoat Lane by Andrew Miller 9780099478737
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Henry and Miriam were raised in East London, but their families had emigrated from Eastern Europe, and they were not to end their lives in the East End. From a market stall on Petticoat Lane, their... -
High-Rise by J. G. Ballard
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.63From the author of 'Crash' and 'Cocaine Nights' comes an unnerving tale of life in a modern tower block running out of control. Within the concealing walls of an elegant forty-storey tower... -
Double Blind by Edward St Aubyn
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.50'I was gripped by it' IAN McEWANThree lives collide, not one of them will emerge unchanged - the exhilarating new novel from the author of the Patrick Melrose series.When Olivia meets a new lover,... -
The Golden Apples by Eudora Welty
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95First published in 1949, THE GOLDEN APPLES is an acutely observed, richly atmospheric portrayal of small town life in Morgana, Mississippi. There's Snowdie, who has to bring up her twin boys alone... -
Live a Little by Howard Jacobson
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'A . . . tender love story . . . This book is alive. It pulses with warmth and intelligence' The TimesA wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker... -
Every Day Is an Atheist Holiday!: More Magical Tales from the Bestselling Author of God, No! by Penn Jillette 9780142180273
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £18.90Let's be honest - nobody has more fun than atheists. Don't believe it? Well, consider this: For non-believers, every day you're alive is a day to celebrate! And no one celebrates life to the fullest... -
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Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey 9780140183504 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £1.25Eminent Victorians marked an epoch in the art of biography; it also helped to crack the old myths of high Victorianism and to usher in a new spirit by which chauvinism, hypocrisy and the stiff upper... -
Pigs Have Wings P.G. Wodehouse 9781841591032
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.43It is pig stealing time in Shropshire. After winning the Fat Pig competition for two years in a row with Empress of Blandings, Lord Emsworth's ascendancy at the Agricultural Show is threathened by... -
Selected Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Hailed as the greatest modern lyrical poet of Germany, Rainer Maria Rilke's genius lies in his passion for perfection, artistic integrity and 'willingness to remain a perpetual beginner'. The verse... -
Look At the Birdie by Kurt Vonnegut
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.99Look at the Birdie evokes a world in which squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town Lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, moral ambiguity, and... -
Live a Little Howard Jacobson 9781787331433
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £11.98A wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question.*SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE 2020*At the age of... -
Shaken and Stirred: Intoxicating Stories by Diana Secker Tesdell
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15In this lively collection, wine snobs receive their comeuppance at the hands of Roald Dahl and Edgar Allan Poe; innocents over-imbibe in tales by Jack London and Alice Munro; riotous partying exacts... -
Mr Rinyo-Clacton's Offer by Russell Hoban
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Russell Hoban's imagination knows no bounds ... darkly funny and profound' The Times'You want to buy my death for a million pounds!' Piccadilly Circus tube station is an unlikely location for a pact... -
Leaving Before the Rains Come Alexandra Fuller 9781784700591
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46The sequel to the bestselling Don't Let's Go to the Dogs TonightBorn in England and uprooted to southern Africa as a toddler by her parents, Alexandra Fuller experienced a unique upbringing - both... -
The Underground Man by Ross Macdonald
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95When a chance encounter makes him a witness to the abduction of a child, private detective Lew Archer can't help but be drawn into the case, pursuing a trail that leads all too quickly to murder... -
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje 9781841593395
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41Hana, a Canadian nurse, exhausted by death, and grieving for her own dead father; the maimed thief-turned-Allied-agent, Caravaggio; Kip, the emotionally detached Indian sapper - each is haunted in... -
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth 9780099399018
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'The most outrageously funny book about sex written' GuardianPortnoy's Complaint n. [after Alexander Portnoy (1933-)]:A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually... -
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The Water-Method Man by John Irving 9780552992077 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £1.21Fred 'Bogus' Trumper is a wayward knight-errant in the battle of the sexes and the pursuit of happiness. He also happens to have a complaint more serious than Portnoy's. Yet he stubbornly clings to... -
Night by Elie Wiesel
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This is his account of that atrocity: the ever-increasing horrors... -
Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'I think it A Work of genius, I think it The Work of a Genius' John CheeverFor many years, the great poet Von Humboldt Fleisher and Charlie Citrine, a young man inflamed with a love for literature,... -
It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future Saul Bellow 9780241401989
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Sentence by sentence, page by page, Bellow is simply the best writer we have' The New York Times Book ReviewIn It All Adds Up, Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author Saul Bellow takes readers on a... -
Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991 by Salman Rushdie
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Drawing from two political and several literary homelands, this collection presents a remarkable series of trenchant essays, demonstrating the full range and force of Salman Rushdie's remarkable... -
Reflections on The Revolution in France And Other Writings by Edmund Burke
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.55Amid the 18th century's golden generation that included his companions Adam Smith, Samuel Johnson and Edward Gibbon, Burke's controversial mixture of conservative and subversive theories made him...