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A Passage North Anuk Arudpragasam 9781783786947
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.84SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 'Mesmerizing, political, intimate, unafraid - this is a superb novel... that pays such close, intelligent attention to the world we all live in' Sunjeev... -
The Man With Night Sweats Thom Gunn 9780571392612
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.22With an illuminating new preface by Colm Toibin, here is Thom Gunn's extraordinary memorial to love, life and death in the time of the AIDS crisisThe Man With Night Sweats, originally published in... -
Montaillou: Cathars and Catholics in a French Village 1294-1324 by Emmanuel le Roy Ladurie
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38An enthralling account of day-to-day life in a medieval French village. Using records gathered by the Catholic Church in its pursuit of heretics, the book recreates the lives of a rich cast of... -
Trying To Save Piggy Sneed by John Irving
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $23.96This collection of short writing is a treat for John Irving addicts and the perfect introduction to his work for the uninitiated. In a spirited opening piece, John Irving explains how he became a... -
Returning to Reims by Didier Eribon
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38'A deeply intelligent and searching book, one that makes you re-consider the narrative of your own life and reframe the story you tell yourself' Hilary MantelA Guardian reader's Best Book of 2018... -
From a Low and Quiet Sea: From the Number 1 bestselling author of STRANGE FLOWERS Donal Ryan 9781784160265
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.81Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2018'An engrossing, unpredictable, beautifully crafted novel' RODDY DOYLEFarouk's country has been torn apart by war... -
Evangelista's Fan by Rose Tremain
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73'A master class in the art of storytelling' ObserverThis short story collection demonstrates the enormous range of Tremain's talent and imagination. The teasing and brilliant title story,... -
Rabbit Angstrom A Tetralogy: (Rabbit Run,Rabbit Redux,Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest) John Updike 9781857152142
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $54.73Newly revised by the author for this edition, and printed together in one volume for the first time, Updike's four Rabbit novels chronicle the history of a man and a nation from the 1950s to the... -
The Siege by Helen Dunmore 9780241952191
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35**FROM THE AUTHOR OF INSIDE THE WAVE, THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017** Leningrad, September 1941. Hitler orders the German forces to surround the city at the start of the most dangerous, desperate... -
The Parisian by Isabella Hammad
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.68'A sublime reading experience: delicate, restrained, surpassingly intelligent, uncommonly poised and truly beautiful' Zadie Smith**WINNER OF THE BETTY TRASK AWARD 2020**Midhat Kamal - dreamer,... -
A Good Man in Africa by William Boyd
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35WINNER OF THE WHITBREAD FIRST NOVEL AWARDWINNER OF THE SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD'Uproariously funny' Observer_________________________Overweight, oversexed and over there . . .Morgan Leafy is hardly... -
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between by Hisham Matar
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHY WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE... -
The Malay Archipelago by Wallace Alfred Russel
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Of all the extraordinary Victorian travelogues, The Malay Archipelago has a fair claim to be the greatest - both as a beautiful, alarming, vivid and gripping account of some eight years' travel... -
The Romantic by William Boyd 9780241994078
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35Soldier. Farmer. Felon. Writer. Father. Lover.One man, many lives.Born in 1799, Cashel Greville Ross experiences myriad lives: joyous and devastating, years of luck and unexpected loss. Moving from... -
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons 9780241951514
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World'A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women SelectionA hilarious and merciless parody of rural melodramas and one of the best-loved comic... -
Quickly, While They Still Have Horses: Short Stories by the Winner of the EU Prize for Literature by Jan Carson 9780857529909
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.94'Jan Carson is a born storyteller: her work is so imaginative, whimsical, mischievous and brave, but tender and curious too - you never know where she's going to take you next, so reading her is... -
Salka: The exquisite retelling of the tragic Lady of the Lake myth from the multi-million bestselling author Francesca Simon 9780571396122
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.56A passionate retelling of a haunting myth, a tragic romance that echoes through the ages.The moment I saw her face.The moment I heard her siren song . . .Salka, the faerie Lady of the Lake, can't... -
A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.01SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 'Mesmerizing, political, intimate, unafraid - this is a superb novel... that pays such close, intelligent attention to the world we all live in' Sunjeev... -
Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38'I think it A Work of genius, I think it The Work of a Genius' John CheeverFor many years, the great poet Von Humboldt Fleisher and Charlie Citrine, a young man inflamed with a love for literature,... -
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87'The reason Homer Wells kept his name was that he came back to St Cloud's so many times, after so many failed foster homes, that the orphanage was forced to acknowledge Homer's intention to make St... -
The Leavetaking by John McGahern
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35A haunting novel by 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel) and 'the Irish novelist everyone should read' (Colm Toibin). A day, crucial and cathartic, in the life of a young Catholic... -
A Modest Proposal and Other Writings by Jonathan Swift
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38The Penguin Classics edition of Jonathan Swift's savagely satirical A Modest Proposal and Other Writings is edited with an introduction and notes by Carol Fabricant.To ease poverty in Ireland by... -
Mrs Osmond by John Banville
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35A MASTERFUL TALE OF BETRAYAL AND CORRUPTION BY THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE SEA'Banville is one of the writers I admire the most' Hanya Yanahigara, author of A Little Life 'A brilliant... -
The Home Scar: From the Women’s Prize-longlisted author of Nothing But Blue Sky by Kathleen MacMahon 9780241995433
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35"MacMahon writes with such beautiful simplicity, conjuring real and complex people straight off the page ... subtle and authentic" - Claire Fuller On opposite sides of the world, half-siblings Cassie... -
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi 9780241975237
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $12.66A BBC Top 100 Novels that Shaped Our WorldEffia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies. One sold into slavery; one a slave trader's wife. The consequences of their fate reverberate... -
The Raptures: ‘Original and exciting, terrifying and hilarious’ Sunday Times Ireland by Jan Carson
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.12When several children from the same village start succumbing to a mysterious illness, the quest to discover the cause has devastating and extraordinary consequences.'Absolutely MAGNIFICENT: dark,... -
Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70James Baldwin's electrifying first novel.'I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal with my father.'Drawing on James Baldwin's own boyhood in a religious community in 1930s Harlem, his... -
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror by Robert Louis Stevenson
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $13.61His innovative thriller, as shocking now as when it was first published, the Penguin Classics edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror... -
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.70From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Number One New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton'A terrific writer' Zadie Smith'A superbly gifted storyteller and a... -
My Father's Tears and Other Stories by John Updike
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70John Updike was a master storyteller, and this collection, from his final years, reveals that up to the end he remained the finest short-story writer of his generation.'Magnificent, exhilarating,... -
Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life by Roald Dahl
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70The sweet scents of rural life infuse Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life, a collection of Roald Dahl's country stories - but there is always something unexpected lurking in the undergrowth . . .Whether it... -
How It All Began by Penelope Lively
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35From Penelope Lively, winner of the Booker PrizeWhen . . . Charlotte is mugged and breaks her hip, her daughter Rose cannot accompany her employer Lord Peters to Manchester, which means his niece... -
Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE 'A brilliant storyteller . . . a book which stretches, tantalizes and delights' Financial Times_____________________________________On Brazzaville... -
Couples by John Updike
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $16.23An intoxicating yet sensitive novel about the sexual experiences of ten couples from Tarbox, New England. Well-to-do, sociable, articulate but dangerously unfulfilled; they play word games in the... -
The Penguin Book of Irish Short Stories by Benedict Kiely
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $29.09'Do the Irish have, in relation to anybody else, any special capacity for the short story?'In this collection of thirty-eight short stories covering many generations and moods of Irish writing, this... -
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 9780141439563
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $14.01'His novels will endure as long as the language itself' Peter AckroydDickens's haunting late novel depicts the education and development of a young man, Pip, as his life is changed by a series of... -
An Arrow in Flight: Selected Stories of Mary Lavin by Mary Lavin 9781668098714
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $28.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668098714Author Mary LavinFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon &... -
The Man Who Would Be King: Selected Stories of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Rudyard Kipling is one of the most magical storytellers in the English language. This new selection brings together the best of his short writings, following the development of his work over fifty... -
The End of Your Life Book Club Will Schwalbe 9781444706383
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.45'A wonderful book about wonderful books and mothers and sons and the enduring braid between them.' - Mitch Albom, author of Tuesdays With Morrie'a true meditation on what books can do.' - Edmund de... -
Names of the Women by Jeet Thayil 9781529113822
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73'Dazzling' MARLON JAMES, BOOKER PRIZE WINNER'Original and thought-provoking' SPECTATOR'Electrifying' TESSA HADLEY Under a predawn sky, humming with starlight and the songs of birds, a group of...