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The Girl on the Via Flaminia by Alfred Hayes
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65A dark love story set in wartime Rome from the author of In Love and Your Face for the World to SeeRome, 1944. Robert is a lonely American soldier looking for a girl. Lisa is cold and hungry, obliged... -
Gertrude Stein by Lucy Daniel 9781861895165
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.48'You are, of course, never yourself', wrote Gertrude Stein in one of her famously witty autobiographies. Since the 1920s Stein has been celebrated in many incarnations: as the embodiment of Left Bank... -
Fanning the Spark: A Memoir by Mary Ward Brown 9780817358662
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $22.07In 1986, after years of publishing stories in literary magazines and periodicals, Mary Ward Brown published her first book, the story collection Tongues of Flame. It soon received regional and... -
Books, Baguettes and Bedbugs: Enchanting memoir of a struggling writer and an eccentric Paris bookshop Jeremy Mercer 9780753820582
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41Enchanting memoir of a struggling writer living and working in the eccentric Parisian bookshop, 'Shakespeare and Company''Completely riveting ...a vivid picture of modern Paris' OBSERVER'Shakespeare... -
Essays by George Orwell 9780141395463
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65These essays, reviews and articles illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who created a unique literary manner from the process of thinking aloud... -
Woman at Sea by Catherine Poulain
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29**SHORTLISTED FOR THE SCOTT MONCRIEFF PRIZE 2019****NOMINATED FOR THE MEDICIS PRIZE 2018**'A tale of travel and adventure, the story of a body utterly surrendered to pain and joy. It is mind-blowing,... -
Claudine In Paris by Colette
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04THE STORIES THAT INSPIRED THE FILM COLETTE, out Jan 2019.The second book in Colette's enchanting Claudine series.Seventeen-year-old Claudine is in despair having left her beloved village Montigny for... -
The Poets' Daughters: Dora Wordsworth and Sara Coleridge by Katie Waldegrave 9780099537342
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63Dora Wordsworth and Sara Coleridge, were life-long friends. They were also the daughters of best friends: William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the two poetic geniuses who shaped the... -
In A Land Of Plenty by Tim Pears 9780099538004
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.48In a small town in the middle of England, the aftermath of the Second World War brings change. For ambitious industrialist Charles Freeman, it offers new opportunities and marriage to Mary. He buys... -
The Great Mistake Jonathan Lee 9781783786244
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.71The 'Father of Greater New York' is dead. Shot outside his Park Avenue mansion in the year of our Lord, 1903. In the hour of his death, will the truth of his life finally break free? Born to a... -
Justice Corrupted: How the Left Weaponized Our Legal System by Ted Cruz
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $20.77. . . with liberty and justice for some. The left has corrupted the U.S. legal system. Wielding the law as a weapon, arrogant judges and lawless prosecutors are intimidating, silencing, and even... -
The American Sentence: From Pulpit to Pulp Fiction Ira B. Nadel 9781350473089
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $21.23A compelling quest to locate a history and poetics of the American sentence, this book applies four stages of communication to the story of American writing - the sermon, the telegraph, the newspaper... -
Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald by Jonathan Bate 9780008425005
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10A dazzling biography of two interwoven, tragic lives: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald. 'Highly engaging ... Go now, read this book' THE TIMES 'For... -
We Shall Pass Clifford Thurlow 9781804251751
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.571936. Spain erupts in civil war. The Republic forms an International Brigade and calls for volunteers to combat a Nationalist uprising led by General Franco. After his best friend Jimmy is killed by... -
The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'The tender and achingly poetic account of a love affair' Lester Bangs, Rolling StoneLeo Percepied, aspiring writer and self-styled freewheeling bum, gravitates to the subterraneans, impoverished... -
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald 9781784877088
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04'In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars'The world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby's party. But Gatsby stands apart from... -
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9780099541530
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.15Read F Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel of love, money, revenge and betrayal set in Jazz Age America. Jay Gatsby is a self-made man, famed for his decadent champagne-drenched parties. Despite being... -
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9780099577720
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY GEOFF DYERThe world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby's party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne his... -
The Outsider by Colin Wilson
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75The classic study of alienation, creativity and the modern mind'Excitingly written, with a sense of revelation' GUARDIANTHE OUTSIDER was an instant literary sensation when it was first published in... -
The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Ted Jones
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.17A reader's journey along the French Riviera, from Hyeres and Saint-Tropez to the Italian border, introducing the lives and work of writers who passed this way. The sunlight and calm of the French... -
A Stricken Field: A Novel by Martha Gellhorn
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $21.41Martha Gellhorn was one of the first - and most widely read - female war correspondents of the twentieth century. She is best known for her fearless reporting in Europe before and during World War II... -
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 9780241968581
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.35ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS BOOKS AND WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE_______________________________'Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to... -
Claudine Married by Colette 9780099422495
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11THE STORIES THAT INSPIRED THE FILM COLETTE, out Jan 2019.The third book in Colette's enchanting Claudine series.Following the excitement of a shared life in Paris, Claudine's marriage to Renaud has... -
The Condor and the Cows by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PICO IYERIn September 1947, long before mass tourism and with no knowledge of Spanish, Christopher Isherwood and William Caskey left for a six-month tour of Colombia, Ecuador,... -
Denial of Justice: Dorothy Kilgallen, Abuse of Power, and the Most Compelling JFK Assassination Investigation in History by Mark Shaw 9781642930580
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $26.33Why is What's My Line? TV star and Pulitzer-Prize-nominated investigative reporter Dorothy Kilgallen one of the most feared journalists in history? Why has her threatened exposure of the truth about... -
Quint Robert Lautner 9780008647506
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.81'Puts some of the balls back into serious English fiction' GILES COREN, THE TIMES Before there was Jaws, there was... QUINT ... -
Collected Shorter Fiction Volume 1 Leo Tolstoy 9781857157574
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $17.23Written over a period of more than half a century, Tolstoy's enchanting short stories and novellas reflect every aspect of his developing art and outlook. Volume 1 of the Everyman Collected Shorter... -
The Beast Within by Emile Zola 9780140449631
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37His haunting, impressionistic study of a man's slow corruption by jealousy, Emile Zola's The Beast Within (La Bete Humaine) is translated from the French with an introduction and notes by Roger... -
Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Seven Pillars of Wisdom is the autobiographical account of T.E. Lawrence - also known as 'Lawrence of Arabia' - of his service in the Arab Revolt during the First World War, published in Penguin... -
The Penguin Writer's Manual by Martin H. Manser
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37The Penguin Writer's Manual is the essential companion for anyone who wants to master the art of writing good English. Whether you're composing an essay, sending a business letter or an email to a... -
Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'My literary hero is John Dos Passos' - Adam Curtis (filmmaker) 'A modernist masterpiece, capturing ... the fragmented lives it sketches, in a dazzling kaleidoscope of New York City in the 1920s'... -
Eddie Muller's Noir Bar: Cocktails Inspired by the World of Film Noir by Eddie Muller
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $21.45Eddie Muller-host of TCM's Noir Alley, one of the world's leading authorities on film noir, and cocktail connoisseur-takes film buffs and drinks enthusiasts alike on a spirited tour through the "dark... -
Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome 9780140437508
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.65Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends George and Harris decide that a jaunt up the Thames would suit them to a 'T'. But when they set off, they can hardly predict the... -
Five Love Affairs and a Friendship: The Paris Life of Nancy Cunard, Icon of the Jazz Age by Anne de Courcy
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41Dazzlingly beautiful, highly intelligent and an extraordinary force of energy, Nancy Cunard was an icon of the Jazz Age, said to have inspired half the poets and novelists of the twenties. Born into... -
Take A Girl Like You by Kingsley Amis
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65In Kingsley Amis's Take A Girl Like You, twenty year old Jenny Bunn is supernally beautiful and stubbornly chaste, which is why Patrick Standish, an arrogant schoolmaster, wants her so much. This... -
The Great Gatsby: Chiltern Edition by 9781912714063
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $18.13Part of the Chiltern Classics range.Nick Carraway rents a property on Long Island, where the new moneyed class are given to ostentatious displays of wealth. None more so than the mysterious Jay... -
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.26Considered by many readers, including Shaw, Chesterton, Conrad and Trilling, as one of Dickens's finest achievements, Bleak House tells the complex story of a notorious lawsuit in which love and... -
The Snow Goose and The Small Miracle by Paul Gallico
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.94Classic storytelling from a bestselling author. Gallico's most famous story, THE SNOW GOOSE, is set in the wild, desolate Essex marshes and is an intense and moving tale about the relationship... -
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death.Anthony and Gloria are the essence of Jazz Age glamour. A brilliant and magnetic couple, they fling themselves at... -
Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.00'It was I who removed de P- this morning.' With these chilling words Victor Haldin shatters the solitary, industrious existence of Razumov, his fellow student at St Petersburg University. Razumov...