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A Man of the People by Chinua Achebe
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65As Minister for Culture, the Honourable M. A. Nanga is 'a man of the people', as cynical as he is charming, and a roguish opportunist. At first, the contrast between Nanga and Odili, a former pupil... -
Girl, 20 by Kingsley Amis
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Douglas Yandell, a young-ish music critic, is enlisted by Kitty Vandervane to keep an eye on her roving husband - the eminent conductor and would-be radical Sir Roy - as he embarks on yet another... -
The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson 9780141441399
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Caught in the midst of England's War of the Roses, young Dick Shelton's loyalties are torn between a guardian who betrays him and the leader of the secret fellowship, "The Black Arrow". the Houses of... -
The Virgin Soldiers by Leslie Thomas 9780099490036
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71'It rained a lot and steamed when the sun shone. It was always hot. But it was safe...'One way or another the Communist guerrilla war in Malaya kept a whole British army occupied from 1948 until 1952... -
The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith 9781857152623
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.17Three classic crime novels by a master of the macabre - The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, and Ripley's Game - appear here together in hardcover for the first time. Suave, agreeable, and... -
Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves by Rachel Malik 9780241976098
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 2018**'A surprisingly touching account of hidden lives forced out of the shadows' Sunday TimesOne day in 1940 Rene Hargreaves walks out on her family and the... -
The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.47THE TIN DRUM presents Hitler's rise and fall through the eyes of the dwarfish narrator whose magic powers become symbolic of the dark forces dominating the German nation in the period. Like Thomas... -
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman by Angela Carter
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $8.38Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffman's mysterious machines, has fallen in love with Albertina, the Doctor's daughter. But Albertina, a beautiful woman... -
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights: Volume 3 by Malcolm Lyons
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $21.05Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter,... -
The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark 9780241956779
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.80One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World'A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women SelectionMuriel Spark's classic The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie features a schoolmistress you'll... -
Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.76'There's no writing against such power as this - one has no chance' William Makepeace ThackerayA compelling depiction of a man imprisoned by his own pride, Dombey and Son explores the devastating... -
Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Bellow evokes all the rich colour and exotic customs of a highly imaginary Africa in this comic novel about a middle-aged American millionaire who, seeking a new, more rewarding life, descends upon... -
Iron Gustav: A Berlin Family Chronicle by Hans Fallada
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37A powerful story of the shattering effects of the First World War on both a family and a country - from Hans Fallada, bestselling author of Alone in Berlin'This remarkable work, now complete after 76... -
The Victim by Saul Bellow
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65Leventhal is a natural victim; a man uncertain of himself, never free from the nagging suspicion that the other guy may be right. So when he meets a down-at-heel stranger in the park one day and... -
The Centaur by John Updike 9780141189048
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79In a small Pennsylvania town in the late 1940s, schoolteacher George Caldwell yearns to find some meaning in his life. Alone with his teenage son for three days in a blizzard, Caldwell sees his son... -
The Pursuit by Peter Smalley 9780099513650
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Spring 1792.Captain James Rennie is anxious to be active again after a year on the beach. And this time he longs for regular service with the Fleet as opposed to the extraordinarily dangerous... -
My Education: A Book of Dreams by William S. Burroughs
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65My Education is Burroughs's last novel, first published two years before his death in 1997. It is a book of dreams, collected over several decades and as close to a memoir as we will see. The dreams... -
Micromegas and Other Short Fictions by Francois Voltaire
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Something between a tale and a polemic, these "fables of reason" are feats of narrative compression and contain much of Voltaire's best and funniest writing. From ribald tales of adultery to... -
Rabbit Redux by John Updike
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.37It's 1969, and the times are changing. America is about to land a man on the moon, the Vietnamese war is in full swing, and racial tension is on the rise. Things just aren't as simple as they used to... -
Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991 by Salman Rushdie
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68Drawing 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... -
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36'The most reliable and comprehensive account of the Great Plague that we possess' Anthony Burgess In 1665 the plague swept through London, claiming over 97,000 lives. Daniel Defoe was just five at... -
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... -
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan 9780141441177
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.94A gripping tale of adventure that has enthralled readers since it was first published, John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps is edited with an introduction and notes by Sir John Keegan in Penguin... -
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So Much Life Left Over by Louis de Bernieres 9781784705886 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $1.58A heartbreaking story of love, loss and survival following the unforgettable Daniel Pitt. From the multi-million copy bestselling author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin.Returning from life as a fighter... -
Omerta by Mario Puzo
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92Omerta, the Sicilian code of silence, has been the cornerstone of the Mafia's sense of honour for centuries. Born in the Sicilian hills, omerta carried the Mafia through a hundred years of change,... -
The Two-Penny Bar: Inspector Maigret #11 by Georges Simenon
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.52'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves 'A radiant late afternoon. The sunshine almost as thick as syrup in the quiet streets of the Left Bank . . .there are days like... -
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart (Vintage Voyages) by Tim Butcher
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.68A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and one journalist's daring and adventurous journey.When Daily Telegraph correspondent Tim... -
Ending Up by Kingsley Amis
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80At Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage in the English countryside, five elderly people live together in rancorous disharmony. Adela Bastable bosses the house, as her brother Bernard passes his days thinking up... -
Gridlock by Ben Elton
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.44Gridlock is when a city dies. Killed in the name of freedom. Killed in the name of oil and steel. Choked on carbon monoxide and strangled with a pair of fluffy dice. How did it come to this? How did... -
The Cat Inside by William S. Burroughs
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Both heartwarming and meditative, The Cat Inside explores not only the personal relationship between Burroughs and cats, but the deeper relationship of cats with mankind, which Burroughs traces back... -
The Ascent Of Rum Doodle: Vintage Voyages by W E Bowman
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.57An outrageously funny spoof about the ascent of a 40,000-and-a-half-foot peak, discover this laugh-out-loud cult favourite. Led by the reliably under-insightful Binder, a team of seven British men... -
Selected Essays by Samuel Johnson
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08This volume contains a generous selection from the essays Johnson published twice weekly as 'The Rambler' in the early 1750s. It was here that he first created the literary character and forged the... -
My Coney Island Baby by Billy O'Callaghan
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.15'A poignant, piercing meditation on middle age and the passing of time... will linger with you long after the book is closed' Guardian *SHORTLISTED FOR THE ENCORE AWARD 2020*On a bitterly cold... -
A Farewell To Arms Ernest Hemingway 9781857151497
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.19One of Hemingway's finest novels, A FAREWELL TO ARMS was published in 1929 when the author was at the height of his power, It draws on his own experiences serving with the Italins in World War One... -
Down Cemetery Road: Zoë Boehm Thrillers 1 Mick Herron 9781399815703
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75*From the creator of SLOW HORSES and soon to be a major TV series starring Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson*'If you haven't read Zoe Boehm yet, welcome to your next fiction addiction' Val McDermid,... -
The Benefactor by Susan Sontag
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37The Benefactor is Susan Sontag's first book and first novel. It was originally published in 1963, and introduced a unique writer to the world. In the form of a memoir by a latter-day Candide named... -
The Red and the Black by Stendhal 9780140447644
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.14Charting the rise and fall of an ambitious young social climber in a cruel, monarchical society, Stendhal's The Red and the Black is translated with an introduction and notes by Roger Gard in Penguin... -
Selected Letters by John Keats 9780141192796
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $16.58'I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination' - Keats, in a letter to his friend Benjamin Bailey in November 1817.In a period of great... -
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Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux 9780140281118 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.11Dark Star Safari is Paul Theroux's now classic account of a journey from Cairo to Cape Town.Travelling across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, and through country after country, Theroux... -
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Gridlock by Ben Elton 9780552773560 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.27Gridlock is when a city dies. Killed in the name of freedom. Killed in the name of oil and steel. Choked on carbon monoxide and strangled with a pair of fluffy dice. How did it come to this? How did...