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American Notes by Charles Dickens
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37'Like Shakespeare, Dickens was able to embrace a whole world' John MortimerWhen Charles Dickens set out for America in 1842, he was the most famous man of his day to make the journey, and embarked on... -
Jeeves and the King of Clubs Ben Schott 9781787461000
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04'Peerless in its wit, elegance and silliness.' Evening Standard BOOKS OF THE YEAR A Sunday Times PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR__________________________________________________________________Storm clouds... -
Miss Pym Disposes Josephine Tey 9780099556695
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92A classic murder mystery from the Golden Age of detective fiction, written by genre legend Josephine Tey.Leys Physical Training College is famous for its excellent discipline and its spectacularly... -
Don't Look Now and Other Stories by Daphne Du Maurier
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.37Collecting five stories of suspense, mystery and slow, creeping horror, Daphne Du Maurier's Don't Look Now and Other Stories includes an introduction by Susan Hill, author of The Woman in Black, in... -
The Life of Charlotte Bronte by Elizabeth Gaskell 9780140434934
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Elizabeth Gaskell's biography of her close friend Charlotte Bronte was published in 1857 to immediate popular acclaim, and remains the most significant study of the enigmatic author who gave Jane... -
Anthem by Ayn Rand 9780141189611
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.58A powerful dystopian novel from a writer who experienced firsthand the dehumanising conditions of Soviet Russia, Ayn Rand's Anthem includes an introduction by Leonard Peikoff in Penguin Modern... -
Rich Wife Emily Bludworth De Barrios 9780299351649
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.86Rich Wife is a collection of expansive long poems whose structures echo the cluttered charm of a dresser adorned with hats and hairpins, vials and scarves. Drawing inspiration from James Schuyler's... -
Abortion in the American Imagination: Before Life and Choice, 1880-1940 by Karen Weingarten 9780813565309
RRP: $160.80Booksplease Price: $119.82The public debate on abortion stretches back much further than Roe v. Wade, to long before the terms "pro-choice" and "pro-life" were ever invented. Yet the ways Americans discussed abortion in the... -
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A Well-Behaved Woman: the New York Times bestselling novel of the Gilded Age by Therese Anne Fowler 9781473632493 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.60THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A glittering depiction of a woman ahead of her time who absolutely refused to be second best' Red Alva Smith, her Southern family destitute after the Civil War, marries... -
Lives of Houses by Kate Kennedy
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.81Notable writers-including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow-celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers,... -
My First Memory: Epiphanies, Watersheds and Origin Stories by Ben Holden 9781471167461
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59WHAT IS YOUR FIRST MEMORY? Or, rather, what do you imagine to be your earliest memory? Perhaps, alternatively, there was a moment during childhood when the world's axis shifted? A transformative... -
Terence Davies by Michael Koresky 9780252080210
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $20.26Called the most important British filmmaker of his generation, Terence Davies made his reputation with modern classics like Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day Closes, personal works... -
Rooms of Their Own: Where Great Writers Write Alex Johnson 9780711258013
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.50Rooms of Their Own travels around the world examining the unique spaces, habits and rituals in which famous writers created their most notable works. The perennial question asked of all authors is,... -
Sylvia's Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell 9780140434224
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Elizabeth Gaskell's only historical novel, Sylvia's Lovers, is set in 1790 in the seaside town of Monkshaven (Whitby) where press-gangs wreak havoc by seizing young men for service in the Napoleonic... -
Henry James Goes to Paris by Peter Brooks 9780691138428
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $38.26Henry James's reputation as The Master is so familiar that it's hard to imagine he was ever someone on whom some things really were lost. This is the story of the year--1875 to 1876--when the young... -
Bliss by Katherine Mansfield
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.54Introducing 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 Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories by Michael Cox
RRP: $20.76Booksplease Price: $15.14The thrill and chill of the ghost story is displayed in all its variety and vitality through this marvellous anthology. Ranging from the early 19th century to the 1960s, the collection reveals the... -
Abridged Classics: Brief Summaries of Books You Were Supposed to Read But Probably Didn't by John Atkinson
Booksplease Price: $21.43A collection of irreverent summations of more than 100 well-known works of literature, from Anna Karenina to Wuthering Heights, cleverly described in the fewest words possible and accompanied with... -
Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas by Donna M. Lucey 9780393356168
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.65With unprecedented access to newly discovered sources, Donna M. Lucey illuminates the lives of four women painted by the society portraitist John Singer Sargent. With uncanny clairvoyance, Sargent's... -
The Virago Book Of Women Travellers. Mary Morris 9781860492129
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07Some of the extraordinary women whose writings are including in this collection are observers of the world in which they wander; their prose rich in description, remarkable in detail. Mary McCarthy... -
Peace and Bread in Time of War by Jane Addams
Booksplease Price: $21.01First published in 1922 during the "Red Scare," by which time Jane Addams's pacifist efforts had adversely affected her popularity as an author and social reformer, Peace and Bread in Time of War is... -
Predecessors, Et Cetera: Essays by Amy Clampitt 9780472064571
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $22.23Predecessors, Et Cetera collects Amy Clampitt's reflections on her predecessors (the poets Donne, Wordsworth, Dickinson, Frost, Eliot, and Marianne Moore as well as the novelists Henry James and... -
The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore 9781471156687
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.63From the winner of the Oscar for the Best Screenplay for The Imitation Game in 2015 comes a superb historical legal thriller based on the famous 'War of the Currents' fought between Thomas Edison and... -
Fashion and Fiction: Self-Transformation in Twentieth-Century American Literature by Lauren S. Cardon 9780813938622
RRP: $34.83Booksplease Price: $30.07During the twentieth century, the rise of the concept of Americanization-shedding ethnic origins and signs of ""otherness"" to embrace a constructed American identity-was accompanied by a rhetoric of... -
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The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore 9781471156687 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $3.22From the winner of the Oscar for the Best Screenplay for The Imitation Game in 2015 comes a superb historical legal thriller based on the famous 'War of the Currents' fought between Thomas Edison and... -
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Elizabeth Ammons 9780393283785
Booksplease Price: $17.41This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1852 first book edition, accompanied by Elizabeth Ammons's preface, note on the text, and explanatory annotations.Twenty-two illustrations.A rich selection... -
Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers by Janet Malcolm
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Selected essays from America's foremost literary journalist and essayist, featuring ruminations on writers and artists as diverse as Edith Wharton, Diane Arbus and the Bloomsbury Group. This... -
Henry James: A Life in Letters James Henry 9780140435160
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.42James's correspondents included presidents and prime ministers, painters and great ladies, actresses and bishops, and the writers Robert Louis Stevenson, H.G. Wells and Edith Wharton. This... -
Chilling Ghost Short Stories by Dale Townshend
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $17.67A deluxe edition with a chilling selection of original and classic short stories. The new tales, many of them published here for the first time, are written by today's top authors, and they bring a... -
Paris in American Literature by Laurette Long 9780807865682
Booksplease Price: $65.47Meral explores the ways in which Paris constitutes an authentic literary subject and analyzes the differing responses to the city of such American writers as Henry James, Edith Wharton, Ernest... -
Holy Ghosts: Classic Tales of the Ecclesiastical Uncanny by Fiona Snailham
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75"I confess I have a particular dislike to remain in a church after dusk; it recalls to my mind the most painful story I ever heard." A festering evil lurks in the grotesque carvings of a... -
Spectral Sounds: Unquiet Tales of Acoustic Weird by Manon Burz-Labrande 9780712354172
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75'Darkness now was around me - and sound. I seemed to stand in the centre of some yelling planet, the row resembling the resounding of many thousands of cannon, punctuated by strange crashing.' The... -
Classic Ghost Stories Lisa Tuttle 9781804177990
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09A selection of mysterious and intriguing tales from the shadows, featuring M.R. James, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Edith Wharton and Algernon Blackwood, with F. Marion Crawford's The Doll's Ghost and... -
The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women by Marie O'Regan
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.7525 chilling short stories by outstanding female writers.Women have always written exceptional stories of horror and the supernatural. This anthology aims to showcase the very best of these, from... -
Weird Women, Volume 2: Volume 2: 1840-1925: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers by Lisa Morton
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.23Following the success of Weird Women: Volume 1, acclaimed anthologists Lisa Morton and Leslie S. Klinger return with another offering of overlooked masterworks from early female horror writers,... -
The Troll Garden: Short Stories by Willa Cather
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.93This collection of Willa Cather stories-her first book of fiction and the capstone of her early career-is as relevant today as at the time of its initial publication. As different and individually... -
Susan Glaspell: A Critical Biography by Barbara Ozieblo 9780807848685
Booksplease Price: $60.22During her lifetime, playwright and novelist Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) was regarded as highly as Eugene O'Neill and Edith Wharton. Winner of the 1931 Pulitzer Prize for drama (for ""Alison's... -
Iris Origo: Marchesa Of Val D'Orica by Caroline Moorehead 9780749016562
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Iris Origo was one of the twentieth century's most attractive and intriguing women, a brilliantly perceptive historian and biographer whose works remain widely admired. Iris grew up in Italy where... -
Celtic Weird: Tales of Wicked Folklore and Dark Mythology by Johnny Mains 9780712354325
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.67From the shorelines, hills and towns of ancient lands, tales of twisted creatures, sins against nature and pagan revenants have been passed down from generation to generation. In the nineteenth and... -
Home: A Celebration: Notable Voices Reflect on the Meaning of Home Charlotte Moss 9780789344434
RRP: $20.07Booksplease Price: $16.86Filled with personal insight, humor, creativity, joy, and poignancy, Home: A Celebration is a lyrical ode to sanctuary and a thoughtful and inspirational book to peruse again and again. Through the...