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Names of the Women by Jeet Thayil
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $24.32From the Booker-shortlisted author of Narcopolis, in prose of extraordinary power, a novel about the women whose roles were suppressed, reduced or erased in the Gospels.'Dazzling, smouldering . . ... -
Three Summers by Margarita Liberaki
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25With a new introduction by Polly Samson, Sunday Times bestselling author of A THEATRE FOR DREAMERS 'Gorgeous... the written equivalent of lying in the sun eating figs' India Knight, Sunday Times'That... -
Notes to Self by Emilie Pine
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50'I am afraid of being the disruptive woman. And of not being disruptive enough. I am afraid. But I am doing it anyway.'In this dazzling debut, Emilie Pine speaks powerfully from her painful personal... -
Women by Mihail Sebastian
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50A gorgeous, tender modern classic about the complexities of love, with an introduction from the Booker-winning author John BanvilleStefan Valeriu, a young Romanian student, holidays alone in the... -
The Queen of Dirt Island: From the Booker-longlisted No.1 bestselling author of Strange Flowers by Donal Ryan
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61From the Booker longlisted author, and an Irish Times No.1 bestseller - a searing, jubilant novel about four generations of women and the stories that bind them.'Beautiful, compassionate ... Donal... -
Too Much of Life: Complete Chronicles by Clarice Lispector 9780241597583
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.49A TLS Book of the Year This exhilarating collection of non-fiction sees one of the greatest twentieth-century writers meditating on the moments that make up a life'How did I so unwittingly transform... -
Notes from a Coma by Mike McCormack 9781786891419
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.23After suffering a catastrophic breakdown, J.J. O'Malley volunteers for a government project exploring the possibility of using coma as a means to keep prisoners under control. Floating in a... -
Montaillou: Cathars and Catholics in a French Village 1294-1324 by Emmanuel le Roy Ladurie
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00An 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: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.25This 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: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00'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: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.75Longlisted 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: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61'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: $68.25Booksplease Price: $50.82Newly 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: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25**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 Pink Line: The World's Queer Frontiers Mark Gevisser 9781788165150
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.25Guardian's Best Paperback of the Month ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S and FINANCIAL TIMES' BOOKS OF 2020 'In intimate, often tender prose, Gevisser brings to life the complex movement for queer civil... -
Inishowen by Joseph O'Connor
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45From the bestselling author of Star of the Sea and Shadowplay, 'a powerful, moving adventure of raw fate and betrayed love' (Independent on Sunday).Inspector Martin Aitken's life is a mess. He's... -
Red Cavalry and Other Stories by Isaac Babel
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.00Throughout 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... -
Ships Of Heaven: The Private Life of Britain's Cathedrals by Christopher Somerville
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.25'Somerville is one of our finest gazetteers of the British countryside. He brings his formidable knowledge to bear on his personal quest to explore the cathedrals in this entrancing book'The... -
The Boatman and Other Stories by Billy O'Callaghan
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $13.88The breathtaking short story collection from the Costa-shortlisted Irish writerThree gunshots on the Irish border define the course of a young man's life; a writer clings fast to a star-crossed... -
A Passage North Anuk Arudpragasam 9781783786947
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $23.07SHORTLISTED 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: $25.33Booksplease Price: $17.84With 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... -
The Parisian by Isabella Hammad
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $13.63'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: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25WINNER 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: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50WINNER 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 Photograph by Penelope Lively
Booksplease Price: $14.94'DO NOT OPEN - DESTROY.'The words on the envelope he has found are written in Kath's hand, but Glyn ignores his wife's instruction and breaks the seal. His life unwinds. For he finds a photograph... -
The Malay Archipelago by Wallace Alfred Russel
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Of 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: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25Soldier. 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: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25One 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: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.66'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: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.09A 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... -
The Train Was on Time by Heinrich Boll
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25'Boell's novel blows a stent in the human heart. . . It feels more necessary than ever.' Anna Funder, from the introduction'This is the best book I have read this year; not by miles, but by whole... -
Undercurrent by Barney Norris
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.66'Lyrical' Daily Mail'Beautiful' Spectator'Skilled' Financial Times'Vulnerable' Guardian'Deft' Independent'Profound' Observer'The beginning of summer. Perhaps it crosses my mind even now while I wait... -
Solo Faces by James Salter
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25Rand lives free; lean, pure and defiant, the world has little influence on him. His passion is climbing - the mountains, the huge vertical faces. There, where storms, snow, or rockfall can kill, he... -
All We Shall Know by Donal Ryan
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.07From the twice Man Booker longlisted author of From a Low and Quiet Sea 'Poetic, powerful and heart-rending' THE TIMES'An exquisite account of womanhood, friendship, prejudice and tradition that is... -
Last Stories William Trevor 9780241337783
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50'What a writer he was; he could flip over a sentence so gently, and showthe underbelly in a heartbeat. His work is always quietly compassionate' Elizabeth StroutIn this final collection of ten... -
My Coney Island Baby by Billy O'Callaghan
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.32'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... -
Perfect Happiness by Penelope Lively
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07Perfect Happiness is the fifth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope LivelyFrances, happily married for many years, and suddenly plunged into mourning. Her international celebrity husband... -
The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2019 'An ice-cold skewering of patriarchy, humanity and the darkness of 20th century Europe' The... -
The Spoils of Poynton by Henry James 9780140432886
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07Mrs 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... -
An Evening of Long Goodbyes by Paul Murray 9780241955895
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25The brilliant first novel by the author of The Bee StingAcclaimed as one of the funniest and most assured debuts of recent years, An Evening of Long Goodbyes is the story of Dubliner Charles...