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The Octopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris 9780140187700
Booksplease Price: $21.11Like the tentacles of an octopus, the tracks of the railroad reached out across California, as if to grasp everything of value in the state Based on an actual, bloody dispute between wheat farmers... -
The New Penguin Book of American Short Stories, from Washington Irving to Lydia Davis by Kasia Boddy
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.37The short story is one of the most varied and exciting genres in American literature. This collection brings together many of its finest examples from the early nineteenth century to the present. It... -
Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories by Roald Dahl
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.35Scare yourself silly this Halloween with fourteen terrifying ghost stories chosen by the master of the macabre, Roald Dahl'Spookiness is the real purpose of the ghost story. It should give you the... -
100 Years: Wisdom From Famous Writers on Every Year of Your Life by Joshua Prager
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.76An extraordinary literary journey, 100 Years traces the passages of life from age one to one hundred through quotations from the world's greatest writers. Moving year by year, with surprising and... -
Love Letters of Great Men and Women by Ursula Doyle
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.37From the private papers of Jane Austen and Mozart to those of Anne Boleyn and Nelson, Love Letters of Great Men and Women collects together some of the most romantic letters in history. For some of... -
Letters of Note: Grief by Shaun Usher
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.07In Letters of Note: Grief, Shaun Usher gathers together some of the most powerful messages about grief, from the heart-wrenching pain of losing a loved one to reliving fond memories of those who have... -
Tom Stoppard: A Life by Professor Dame Hermione Lee
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $14.61Shot through with Stoppard's voice, and illuminating all his plays, Lee's gripping narrative draws on unprecedented access to archive material, interviews and long conversations with Stoppard himself... -
Pennyroyal by Lucy Roslyn
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.78'I think of my body sometimes like it's stubborn. We're not good friends. Like it's a spooky hotel, and I'm a ghost haunting it. 'Cause you don't live in a hotel, you just pass through.' When... -
Brilliant Careers: The Virago Book of 20th Century Fiction Ali Smith 9781860498428
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92A seminal fiction collection that stretches from Gertrude Stein to Grace Paley, from Edith Wharton to Angela Carter, from Mae West to Margaret Atwood, from Zora Neale Hurston to Joyce Carol Oates. ... -
The Season: A Social History of the Debutante by Kristen Richardson
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.57From Georgian England and Edith Wharton's New York to the contemporary International Debutante Ball, the presentation of young women into society has persisted. In this "sharply observed" (The New... -
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos 9780871403179
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.78This delirious 1925 Jazz Age classic introduced readers to Lorelei Lee, the small-town girl from Little Rock, who has become one of the most timeless characters in American fiction. Outrageous and... -
Becoming a Hairstylist by Kate Bolick 9781982115906
Booksplease Price: $20.90Based on the real-life experiences of an expert in the field, an immersive, accessible guide to a career in hairstyling brought to life by acclaimed writer Kate Bolick-essential reading for anyone... -
Because They Wanted To by Mary Gaitskill
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65'A perfectly formed set of stories about alienation in modern times' Independent'Mesmerizing - almost ecstatic' The New York TimesMary Gaitskill's coolly compelling, quietly devastating stories... -
American Gothic Short Stories by Monika Elbert
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.45With handsome young men who never grow old, and the strangest of relatives appearing from dark corridors and long shadows, the frenzied imagination of the American Gothic is a fertile theme for this... -
My Ex-Life by Stephen McCauley 9781250122445
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $15.85Julie definitely doesn't have a problem with marijuana (she's given it up completely, so it doesn't matter if she gets stoned almost daily) and the Airbnb she's running out of her seaside house north... -
Haunted House Short Stories by Rebecca Buchanan
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.10"Another recent volume of the Gothic Fantasy series is Haunted House Short Stories, which offers another selection of excellent fiction." - Kirkus Following the great success of our Gothic Fantasy... -
Writers in Conversation with Christopher Bigsby: Volume VII by Christopher Bigsby 9781911343523
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.44Writers in Conversation compiles Christopher Bigsby's interviews with the world's greatest writers from over a decade of the Arthur Miller Centre's International Literary Festival at the University... -
It All Comes Down To This by Therese Anne Fowler
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $6.27'Entertaining, in the best sense of the word, and a true page-turner' Ann Napolitano'I read it in a single gulp' Karen Joy Fowler'A smart and lively novel' Jess... -
It All Comes Down To This: The unforgettable story of three sisters facing a shocking truth about the past Therese Anne Fowler 9781472285157
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $10.91'Entertaining, in the best sense of the word, and a true page-turner' Ann Napolitano'I read it in a single gulp' Karen Joy Fowler'A smart and lively novel' Jess... -
Fear by Roald Dahl
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65PERFECT for fans of Roald Dahl.Think you know Dahl? Think again. Discover a collection of deliciously dark ghost stories for adults, picked by Dahl himself . . . Do you enjoy being scared? Featuring... -
25 Great Sentences and How They Got That Way by Geraldine Woods
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.57We all know the basic structure of a sentence: a subject and verb pair expressing a complete thought and ending with proper punctuation. But that classroom definition doesn't begin to describe the... -
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce by Michael Newton
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.12This terrifying selection of ghost stories brings together the very best classic works from the masters of the supernaturalPhantom coaches, evil familiars, shadowy houses, spectral children and... -
Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages by Prof. Harold Bloom
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $22.35"If readers are to come to Shakespeare and to Chekhov, to Henry James and to Jane Austen, then they are best prepared if they have read Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear, Robert Louis Stevenson and... -
Footsteps in the Dark Short Stories Emily Alder 9781839641879
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $16.82Dedicated to that ominous strain of horror that sends a shiver down your spine, this selection of masterful tales gathers the weird and wonderful from a rich tradition of genre writing. The sound of... -
The Smash-Up: a delicious satire from a breakout voice in literary fiction by Ali Benjamin
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09AN OF-THE-MOMENT NOVEL FOR READERS OF FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE'Timely, risky and dazzling' Polly Clark, author of Tiger'Sharply funny, perceptive, and surprising at every turn, The Smash-Up is a story... -
Terrifying Ghosts Short Stories by Flame Tree Studio (Literature and Science)
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.45Ghastly castles, haunted mansions, shadowy forests and long, dark corridors... This new addition to the Gothic Fantasy series is packed with tales of terror, bringing together the new and the... -
The Well-Spoken Thesaurus: The Most Powerful Ways to Say Everyday Words and Phrases by Tom Heehler
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07The ultimate guide on how to speak eloquently, including 200 well-spoken alternatives to common words and phrases.If you've ever fumbled while trying to use a big word ('lofty word,' 'pretentious... -
The Smash-Up: a delicious satire from a breakout voice in literary fiction Ali Benjamin 9781529409314
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $10.45AN OF-THE-MOMENT NOVEL FOR READERS OF FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE'Timely, risky and dazzling' Polly Clark, author of Tiger'Sharply funny, perceptive, and surprising at every turn, The Smash-Up is a story... -
Hidden Realms Short Stories by Dr. Lori Campbell-Tanner
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.45With new stories by modern writers and classic tales from many traditions, Hidden Realms Short Stories delves into the secret corridors, the hidden doors at the end of the alley, the hole in the... -
Homer And Langley by E. L. Doctorow
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75Brilliant brothers Langley and Homer Collyer are born into bourgeois New York comfort, their home a mansion on upper Fifth Avenue, their future rosy. But before he is out of his teens Homer begins to... -
Picturing the Postcard: A New Media Crisis at the Turn of the Century by Monica Cure
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.35The first full-length study of a once revolutionary visual and linguistic medium Literature has "died" many times-this book tells the story of its death by postcard. Picturing the Postcard looks to... -
Everybody's Fool by Richard Russo 9781760294823
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37Richard Russo's new novel takes place in the decaying American town of North Bath over the course of a very busy weekend, ten years after the events of Nobody's Fool. Donald 'Sully' Sullivan is... -
Oedipus Plays: Oedipus Tyrannos; Oedipus at Kolonos; Antigone by Sophocles
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Oedipus Plays includes Timberlake Wertenbaker's translations of Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannos, Oedipus at Kolonos and... -
The Ash Girl by Timberlake Wertenbaker
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65When an invitation to The Ball arrives at the Ash girl's house, from Prince Amir, she can't bring herself to believe that she, like her sisters, can go. With her mother dead and her father away, she... -
The Virago Book of Friendship Rachel Cooke 9780349018430
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $16.03A fond, fascinated look at women's friendship through the fiction, diaries, and letters of friends'A highly entertaining, often instructive anthology bursting with every kind of amicable - or... -
A House by the Sea by Bunny Williams 9781419720819
RRP: $60.30Booksplease Price: $55.29Tastemaker, author, and renowned designer, Bunny Williams has been at the top of the interior design world for more than 40 years. This book is something of a sequel to her acclaimed and much-beloved... -
The March: A Novel by E. L. Doctorow 9780349119595
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Doctorow's new novel is set towards the end of the American Civil War and follows General Sherman's epic march with sixty thousand Union troops through Georgia and the Carolinas, one of the major... -
Christmas Horror Short Stories Flame Tree Studio (Literature and Science) 9781835628065
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.45The time of cheer and goodwill to all... Or is it? For many, Christmas falls in the bleak midwinter, in the long dark hours where cold icy fingers ever encroach upon the fire valiantly struggling in... -
Letter to the Americans Jean Cocteau 9780811231596
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.40In 1949, Jean Cocteau spent twenty days in New York, and began composing on the plane ride home this essay filled with the vivid impressions of his trip. With his unmistakable prose and graceful wit,... -
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92Empire Falls, Maine: once a thriving hub of industry, this small town nestles in a bend of the vast and winding Knox River, and has always been the empire of the wealthy Whiting family. Now the last...