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Selected Writings by Alexander von Humboldt
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.73Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His life was packed with adventure and discovery, whether climbing volcanoes in the Andes, swimming with... -
The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead 9781841594163
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74'A thrilling blend of noir and fantasy.'Guardian.In an unnamed city - a hardboiled pre-Civil Rights New York sort of city -heroine Lila Mae has succeeded in becoming the very first Black female... -
The White Feather by P. G. Wodehouse
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.43In order to save his reputation and the honour of his house at school after he shames himself by running away from a fight between fellow pupils and toughs from the local town, a studious schoolboy... -
The Essential Guide To Collectibles by Alistair McAlpine 9781841590806
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.87The at-a-glance layout of this guide allows collectors to plan their next trip to the United States or Europe around their collecting passion, providing them with the necessary information to find... -
Poems of Rome Karl Kirchwey 9781841598116
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Poems of Rome ranges across the centuries and contains the work of poets from many cultures and times, from ancient Rome to contemporary America. Designed to lend itself to those visiting the city -... -
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74As children, Kathy, Ruth and Tommy attended an exclusive boarding-school in the English countryside. Idyllic in some ways yet vaguely sinister, 'Hailsham' was a place of intense friendships,... -
Waterland by Graham Swift
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Set in the bleak Fen Country of East Anglia, and spanning some 240 years in the lives of its haunted narrator and his ancestors, Waterland is a book that takes in eels and incest, ale-making and... -
River Poems by Various
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82Rivers were the arteries of our first civilizations - the Tigris and Euphrates of Mesopotamia, India's Ganges, Egypt's Nile, the Yellow River of China - and have nourished modern cities from London... -
The Koran by Ed M. Pickthall
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £13.72While in the service of India's Nizam of Hyderbad, Marmaduke Pickthall converted to Islam, and, with the help of Muslim theologians and linguists, produced this English interpretation of the Holy... -
Hip Hops: Poems about Beer by Christoph Keller
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15From Li Bai's 'Bring in the Ale' to Ted Kooser's 'Beer Bottle'; from Robert Burns's' John Barleycorn' to Carol Ann Duffy's 'John Barleycorn' (no, you are not seeing double), the poems collected here... -
Orlando by Virginia Woolf 9781841594149
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41The beautiful Everyman gift edition in hardback.The Lord Orlando's country seat has 365 rooms. An exquisitely beautiful youth, he is a favourite of the ageing Queen Elizabeth and enjoys all that... -
Love in a Cold Climate & The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.38Nancy Mitford modelled the characters in her best-known novels on her own unconventional (and at the time of writing, notorious) family. We are introduced to the Radletts through the eyes of their... -
A Thousand Acres Jane Smiley 9781841593821
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.76This powerful twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare's King Lear centers on a wealthy Iowa farmer who decides to divide his farm among his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she is cut... -
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £10.14First published anonymously in 1912, this resolutely unsentimental novel gave many white readers their first glimpse of the double standards - and double consciousness - experienced by Black people... -
Alexander Pope Poems by Alexander Pope
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15As a young man Pope shot to fame with The Rape of the Lock, a light-hearted mock-heroic poem about a trivial society scandal, still his best remembered work. Wit and irony, dazzling technical mastery... -
Lucky Per by Henrik Pontoppidan
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.76Social realism and fairy tale combine in Lucky Per, a bildungsroman about the ambitious son of a clergyman who rejects his faith and flees a restricted life in rural Jutland for Denmark's capital... -
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks 9781841594132
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.04Neurologist Oliver Sacks investigates the complex relationship between the brain and the mind and, almost impossibly, manages to make his subject matter not only accessible to the general reader, but... -
The Sea, The Sea & A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.04First published in 1961, The Severed Head is regarded is one of Iris Murdoch's most entertaining works. A dark and ferocious comic masterpiece, the novel traces the turbulent emotional journey of... -
Blood's a Rover: Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy Vol. 2 by James Ellroy
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05Blood's a Rover takes us into the 70s. RFK and MLK are dead. A kid private eye clashes with a mob goon and an enforcer for FBI director Edgar Hoover in L.A. There's an armoured-car heist and a cache... -
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 9781841594057
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.74The Sun Also Rises is both a tragic love story and a searing group portrait of hapless American expatriates drinking, dancing, and chasing their illusions in post-World War I Europe. The man at its... -
Hope Against Hope by Nadezhda Mandelstam 9781841594125
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.37A harrowing yet uplifting account of Stalin's persecution of the Russian intelligentsia in the 1930s, and of one man - Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938), whose poetry, in spite of the unfolding tragedy of... -
The Complete English Poems by John Donne
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.71Donne created new forms of lyric, satire, elegiac and religious verse, and his independence of view, compact manner of expression encompassing conflicting moods, impassioned paradox, outbreaks of... -
The Babur Nama by Babur
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05A lost inheritance, a rags-to-riches journey from vagabondage in the mountains of central Asia to an imperial throne in India, warrior-poet Babur's life was one of adventure and endurance against the... -
Russian Stories by Christoph Keller 9781841596273
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.43Russian Stories rounds up marvellous short stories by all the Russian heavyweights, including Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov, Bulgakov, Babel and Nabokov, and... -
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 9780879757021
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.84Nearly two thousand years after it was written, Meditations remains profoundly relevant for anyone seeking to lead a meaningful life. Few ancient works have been as influential as the Meditations... -
Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott 9781857152104
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.38A Superb historical novel set in the late seventeenth century, Rob Roy is also an adventure story. Using his favourite device of contrasting characters and places, Scott sets romantic rural Scotland... -
The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells 9781841593296
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.37In The Time Machine an inventor travels to the remote future where he finds both love and terror. The protagonist of The Invisible Man struggles to come to terms with his condition in a narrative... -
The Bloody Chamber, Wise Children, Fireworks by Angela Carter
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.76In The Bloody Chamber, Carter's famous collection of deeply unsettling stories inspired by fairy tales, a Beauty is turned into a Beast and Little Red Riding's grandmother is stoned to death as a... -
London Stories by 9781841596167
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.98London has the greatest literary tradition of any city in the world. Its roll-call of story-tellers includes cultural giants who changed the way the world thought about writing, like Shakespeare,... -
Oscar and Lucinda: True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05OSCAR AND LUCINDA is a sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel set in nineteenth-century England and Australia where the two potential lovers lead parallel lives until chance brings them together on... -
The Small Bachelor by P. G. Wodehouse 9781841591889
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.43Would-be painter, George Finch, with lots of money and no talent, falls for lovely Molly Waddington who falls for him. Unfortunately, Molly's snobbish stepmother, Mrs Sigsbee H. Waddington, New York... -
Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82An exciting addition to Everyman's Library: a new series of small, handsome hardcover volumes devoted to the world's classic poets.Book InformationISBN 9781857157000Author Percy ShelleyFormat... -
The Best of Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore 9781841594156
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £12.42Rabindranath Tagore published his first volume of poetry at the age of thirteen. He went on to become a towering figure in Bengali and world literature.Tagore was remarkably productive over his long... -
Journey to the Centre of the Earth, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, Round the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.57In Journey to the Centre of the Earth, an obsessive German professor and his nephew travel towards the earth's core in the steps of a medieval explorer beneath an Icelandic volcano where they... -
Selected Stories by Guy de Maupassant
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46During his most productive decade, the 1880s, Maupassant wrote more than 300 stories, including 'Boule de Suif', 'The Necklace', 'The House of Madame Tellier', 'The Hand', 'The Horla' and... -
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.08In 1914 Paul Baumer and his classmates are marched to the local recruiting office by a sentimentally patriotic form-master. On a calm October day in 1918, only a few weeks before the Armistice, Paul... -
Wedding Stories Diana Secker Tesdell 9781841596235
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15The stories collected here--including such gems as Stephen Crane's "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky," O. Henry's "The Marry Month of May," F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Bridal Party," Joy Williams's... -
The Arabian Nights by 9781841593616
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05The Arabian Nights - stories told by Queen Shahrazad over a thousand and one nights, to beguile the Sultan into deferring her execution - first began to appear in the West in the early 18th century,... -
Detective Stories Peter Washington 9781841596044
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.43This is a glorious collection of some of the best sleuths in the business. It includes creators such as Poe and Conan Doyle to Hammet, Christie, Chandler, Rendell and Rankin.A collection of some of... -
The Poppy Seed Cakes by Margery Clark
RRP: £12.50Booksplease Price: £9.45Auntie Katusha has just come from the Old Country, bringing poppy seeds to make cakes for a mischievous four-year-old boy named Andrewshek. A little neighbour, Erminka, who wears red boots which are...