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Collected Stories Franz Kafka 9781857151459
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.77Kafka was an obsessive writer who produced a huge volume of stories, novels, diaries and letters in his brief lifetime. The present volume includes all his available shorter fiction in a new... -
The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan 9780140011302
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.68Perhaps more than any other book The Thirty-Nine Steps has set the pattern for the story of the chase for a wanted man. And, of the many writers who have attempted this kind of thing since Buchan,... -
So Much Life Left Over by Louis de Bernieres
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.92A 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... -
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... -
Whisky Galore by Compton Mackenzie
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04It's 1943 and the war has brought rationing to the Hebridean islands of Great and Little Todday. When food is in short supply, it is bad enough, but when the whisky runs out, it looks like the end of... -
Go by John Clellon Holmes
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65The novel that launched the beat generation's literary legacy describes the world of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady. Published two months before Kerouac began ON THE ROAD, GO is the... -
Exterminator! by William S. Burroughs
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65A man, dispirited by ageing, endeavours to steal a younger man's face; a doctor yearns for a virus that might eliminate his discomfort by turning everyone else into doubles of himself; a Colonel lays... -
Confessions of an Italian by Ippolito Nievo
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.66An overlooked classic of Italian literature, this epic and unforgettable novel recounts one man's long and turbulent life in revolutionary Italy.At the age of eighty-three and nearing death, Carlo... -
The First Forty-Nine Stories by Ernest Hemingway
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04From Ernest Hemingway's Preface: 'There are many kinds of stories in this book. I hope you will find some that you like- In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what... -
Ravelstein by Saul Bellow
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Abe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor who glories in training the movers and shakers of the political world. He has lived grandly and ferociously - and much beyond his means. His close friend Chick... -
Cause for Alarm by Eric Ambler 9780141190327
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.35Nicky Marlow needs a job. He's engaged to be married and the employment market in Britain in 1937 is pretty slim. So when his fiancee points out the position with an English armaments manufacturer in... -
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... -
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... -
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome Jerome
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80A comic masterpiece that has never been out of print since it was first published in 1889, Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat includes an introduction and notes by Jeremy Lewis in Penguin... -
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart by Tim Butcher
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68**THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and one journalist's daring and adventurous journey... -
The Information by Martin Amis
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68Once close friends, writers Gwyn Barry and Richard Tull now find themselves in fierce competition.While Tull has spiralled into a mire of literary obscurity and belletristic odd jobs, Barry's... -
The Forsyte Saga: Volume 3 by John Galsworthy
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08In this final volume of The Forsyte Saga Galsworthy writes about the lives and loves of the Cherrell family, cousins of the Forsytes. For centuries, the Cherrell sons have left their home of... -
The Spoils of Poynton by Henry James 9780140432886
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Mrs Gereth is convinced that Fleda Vetch would make the perfect daughter-in-law. Only the dreamy, highly-strung young woman can genuinely appreciate, and perhaps eventually share, Mrs Gereth's... -
The Mayor's Tongue by Nathaniel Rich 9780099526520
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.15The Mayor's Tongue is a bold, vertiginous debut novel that unfolds in two narratives, one following a young man and the other an old man. The young man is Eugene Brentani, a devotee of the reclusive...