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Red Cavalry and Other Stories by Isaac Babel
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Throughout his life Isaac Babel was torn by opposing forces, by the desire both to remain faithful to his Jewish roots and yet to be free of them. This duality of vision infuses his work with a... -
Quarry's Blood by Max Allan Collins
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.05The hitman hero of the acclaimed series Quarry on Cinemax returns for his final fight. By Quarry's creator, the award-wining author of Road to Perdition! At the very end of his bloody, clandestine... -
Marry Me by John Updike
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.60Sally is big, blonde and pampered. She's married to Richard. But she loves Jerry. Jerry loves Sally in return, but he's also still in love with his wife Ruth. Who's been sleeping with Richard ... As... -
Erasing Memory: A MacNeice Mystery by Scott Thornley
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64The heart-pounding first installment of the MacNeice Mysteries, featuring a sophisticated detective solving the horrific murder of a beautiful young violinist - perfect for fans of Peter Robinson's... -
Collected Stories Franz Kafka 9781857151459
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.37Kafka 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... -
Cause for Alarm by Eric Ambler 9780141190327
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.23Nicky 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... -
Top of the Heap by Erle Stanley Gardner 9781835411803
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.25From Perry Mason creator Erle Stanley Gardner - during his life, the best-selling American author of all time - comes a lost classic of detective fiction featuring private eyes Donald Lam (once... -
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky 9781857152548
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.37This study of natural goodness is Dostoevsky's most touching novel. Prince Myshkin, the last, poverty-stricken member of a once great family and regarded by many as an idiot, returns to Russia from a... -
News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Gabriel Garcia Marquez's News of a Kidnapping is a powerful retelling of actual events from a turbulent period of Colombian history. 'She looked over her shoulder before getting into the car to be... -
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.23One of the twentieth century's great undisputed masterpieces, Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano includes an introduction by Michael Schmidt in Penguin Modern Classics.It is the fiesta 'Day of the... -
Collected Stories W. Somerset Maugham 9781857152760
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.37Though W. Somerset Maugham was also famous for his novels and plays, it has been argued that in thethe short story he reached the pinnacle of his artwas his true metier. These expertly told tales,... -
All Shot Up by Chester Himes
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Outrageous, shocking, wonderful' The New York TimesA golden Cadillac big enough to cross the ocean has been seen sailing along the streets of Harlem. A hit-and-run victim's been hit so hard she got... -
Black is the Night: Stories inspired by Cornell Woolrich by Maxim Jakubowski
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.24A gritty and thrilling anthology of 28 new short stories in tribute to pulp noir master, Cornell Woolrich, author of 'Rear Window' that inspired Alfred Hitchock's classic film. Featuring Neil... -
Licks of Love: Short Stories And a Sequel, 'Rabbit Remembered' by John Updike
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Collected with a dozen wonderful stories, all set in classic Updike territory, the short novel 'RABBIT REMEMBERED' is a major work in its own right - a riveting return to Updike's most celebrated... -
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.15'My guest was lying sprawled on his back. There was a long knife through his heart which skewered him to the floor'Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is... -
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins 9780099519003
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83'The first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels' T S EliotWhen Rachel Verinder receives a gift of an astonishing yellow diamond from her bitter old uncle for her eighteenth... -
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth 9781857151978
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41THE RADETSKY MARCH is subtle and touching study of family life at the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Writing in the traditional form of the family saga, Roth nevertheless manages to bring to his... -
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On Java Road: ‘The bastard child of Graham Greene and Patricia Highsmith’ METRO by Lawrence Osborne 9781529114959 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £4.82A veteran British journalist living in Hong Kong investigates the disappearance of a student protestor amidst the pro-democracy demonstrations in this unsettling new novel from the acclaimed author... -
The Feral Detective Jonathan Lethem 9781786497512
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.50'A nimble and uncanny performance, brimming with Lethem's trademark verve and wit' Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground RailroadPhoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist... -
The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.51A beautiful fairytale filled with unexpected plot twists. ... -
Just in Case by Meg Rosoff
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05Winner of the 2007 Carnegie Medal, the captivating and darkly-comic novel Just in Case is a thrilling coming-of-age story - described by The Times as a modern The Catcher in the Rye - from the... -
Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight In Heaven by Sherman Alexie
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Ball games, cars, and romances: the icons and battlefields of modern life. In twenty-two linked stories, with infinite humour and pathos, Sherman Alexie explores some of the major issues of our time:... -
A Bloody Business by Dylan Struzan
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.67ON THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF PROHIBITION, LEARN WHAT REALLY HAPPENED. In 1919, the National Prohibition Act was passed, making it illegal across America to produce, distribute, or sell liquor. With... -
Night Train by Martin Amis
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49A sharp twist on the noir genre from one of England's finest fiction writers'I worked one hundred murders,' says Detective Mike Hoolihan, an American policewoman. 'In my time I have come in on the... -
Turn on the Heat Erle Stanley Gardner 9781785656170
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.25From the world-famous creator of "Perry Mason," Erle Stanley Gardner - at his death the best-selling American writer of all time - comes another baffling case for the Cool & Lam detective agency:... -
The Dain Curse, The Glass Key, and Selected Stories by Dashiell Hammett 9781841593074
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.71With his diamond-sharp prose and artfully handled intrigue, Dashiell Hammett virtually invented hard-boiled crime fiction. This omnibus edition includes four linked stories - 'The House in Turk... -
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Sherlock: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 9781849903677 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £1.97The hit BBC series Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, offers a fresh, contemporary take on the classic Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stories, and has helped introduce a whole new generation of fans... -
Something More Than Night by Kim Newman
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.64Hollywood, the late 1930s. Raymond Chandler writes detective stories for pulp magazines, and drinks more than he should. Boris Karloff plays monsters in the movies, and is a genial,... -
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'The Adventures of Augie March is the Great American Novel. Search no further' Martin AmisA penniless and parentless Chicago boy growing up in the Great Depression, Augie March drifts through life... -
The Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95As the First World War reaches its final year, an illicit love affair is beginning between a sixteen-year-old boy and a young woman married to a soldier at the front. They meet secretly in her flat... -
Cotton Comes to Harlem by Chester Himes
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'A bawdy, brazen rollercoaster of a novel . . . the wildest' The New York TimesA preacher called Deke O'Malley's been selling false hope: the promise of a glorious new life in Africa for just $1,000... -
A Laodicean by Thomas Hardy
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The daughter of a wealthy railway magnate, Paula Power inherits De Stancy Castle, an ancient castle in need of modernization. She commissions George Somerset, a young architect, to undertake the work... -
Kill Me If You Can by Max Allan Collins
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.63Mike Hammer hits his 75th anniversary hard, after the disappearance of Velda, in this brand new case set between Kiss Me, Deadly and The Girl Hunters, based on an unproduced screenplay from Mickey... -
The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15A startling panorama of Los Angeles in the fifties. New Year's Eve as 1949 turns to 1950, Los Angeles: The City of Angels has becomes the city of the Angel of Death.Communist witch-hunts and insanely... -
The Last Stand Mickey Spillane 9781785656866
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.02ON MICKEY SPILLANE'S 100TH BIRTHDAY-- A BRAND-NEW NOVEL FROM THE MASTER When legendary mystery writer Mickey Spillane died in 2006, he left behind the manuscript of one last novel he'd just... -
Killing Quarry by Max Allan Collins 9781785659454
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.84The hitman hero of the acclaimed series Quarry on Cinemax returns with an all-new assignment. By Quarry's creator, the award-wining author of Road to Perdition! WHO PUT QUARRY IN THE CROSSHAIRS? ... -
The Last Stand by Mickey Spillane 9781785656996
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.75ON MICKEY SPILLANE'S 100TH BIRTHDAY - A BRAND-NEW NOVEL FROM THE MASTER When legendary mystery writer Mickey Spillane died in 2006, he left behind the manuscript of one last novel he'd just... -
If He Hollers, Let Him Go Chester Himes 9780241692424
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31The searing debut novel by Chester Himes, 'written with youthful panache and a bellyful of anger' (Observer)Robert 'Bob' Jones - crew leader, shipyard worker, educated, employed - is finding life... -
Portrait of an Unknown Lady by Maria Gainza
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.20In this dazzling story of art and illusion, secrets and schemes, who is to be trusted - and what is real?From the internationally acclaimed author of Optic Nerve *A TLS Book of the Year*'A writer who... -
Blind Man with a Pistol Chester Himes 9780241692615
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31The final novel in the trailblazing Harlem Detective series, set in a New York City at boiling pointBawdy and tough-talking, wickedly funny and wantonly sensual, Blind Man With a Pistol is a surreal...