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Before Literature: The Nature of Narrative Without the Written Word by Sheila J. Nayar
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.54Before Literature examines storytelling that, whether due to historical, technological, or socio-economic circumstance, is neither shaped nor influenced by alphabetic literacy.How does a story unfold... -
Mad Blood Stirring by Simon Mayo 9781784162962
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'The plot of Mad Blood Stirring grows from a kernel of historical truth, but his book dazzles not so much as fact than as fiction...Instructive as well as entertaining'NEW YORK TIMES1815: The war is... -
North by Frank Owen 9781782399025
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.15A Guardian Book of the Month'Echoes of Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Stephen King's The Stand...' Guardian on SouthIf a virus doesn't kill you, the South will...The USA has been ravaged by Civil War... -
The Last Voyage Brian McLaren 9781399814140
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.27It's 2056 and international oligarchs have pushed the world to the precipice of ecological, economic, and nuclear catastrophe. But two philanthropists have teamed up to establish a long-term colony... -
The Portable Hannah Arendt by Hannah Arendt
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43Although Hannah Arendt is considered one of the major contributors to social and political thought in the twentieth century, this is the first general anthology of her writings. This volume includes... -
Narrating Death: The Limit of Literature by Walter Wadiak 9780367665012
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Drawing on literary and visual texts spanning from the twelfth century to the present, this volume of essays explores what happens when narratives try to push the boundaries of what can be said about... -
The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.67In January 1850 Dostoyevsky was sent to a remote Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy. The four years he spent there, startlingly re-created in The House of the Dead, were the... -
Legends of the Fall by Jim Harrison
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31New York Times bestselling author Jim Harrison was one of America's most beloved and critically acclaimed writers. The classic Legends of the Fall is Harrison at his most memorable: a striking... -
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Poe found the germ of the story he would develop into ARTHUR GORDON PYM in 1836 in a newspaper account of the shipwreck and subsequent rescue of the two men on board. Published in 1838, this rousing... -
City of Bohane by Kevin Barry
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.99**Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award** 'A electrifying masterpiece' Joseph O'Connor The once-great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is on its knees, infested by vice... -
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Hard Times by Charles Dickens 9780141439679 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £1.98'Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else'Dickens's novel honouring the value of the human heart in an age of... -
Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'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'... -
On the Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Road Trip by Paul Theroux
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23WINNER OF THE EDWARD STANFORD AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO TRAVEL WRITING 2020 The master of contemporary travel writing, Paul Theroux, immerses himself in the beautiful and troubled heart... -
Beloved by Toni Morrison 9781857152685
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentucky, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. The worlds of Halle and Paul D. are to be destroyed in a cataclysm of torment... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American West by Steven Frye
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £22.92This Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to one of the most vibrant and expansive traditions in world literature. The American West occupies a unique place in the global imagination, and... -
The Second Sleep: the Sunday Times #1 bestselling novel by Robert Harris
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49PRE-ORDER PRECIPICE, THE THRILLING NEW NOVEL FROM ROBERT HARRIS, NOW - PUBLISHING AUGUST 2024WHAT IF YOUR FUTURE LIES IN THE PAST?'One word: wonderful. Two words: compulsive reading. Three words: buy... -
Minecraft: The Haven Trials by Suyi Davies
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £5.99Journey into a lawless land and take its toughest trials in this official Minecraft novel!All of Cecelia Alao's friends call her Cece. All one of them. But she and Therese are so close that one... -
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Mad Blood Stirring by Simon Mayo 9781784162962 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.34'The plot of Mad Blood Stirring grows from a kernel of historical truth, but his book dazzles not so much as fact than as fiction...Instructive as well as entertaining'NEW YORK TIMES1815: The war is... -
The North Water: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize by Ian McGuire
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.40NOW A MAJOR BBC TV SERIES STARRING COLIN FARRELL, JACK O'CONNELL AND STEPHEN GRAHAMA ship sets sail with a killer on board . . . 1859. A man joins a whaling ship bound for the Arctic Circle. Having... -
King Lear by William Shakespeare 9780141396460
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67'The most perfect specimen of the dramatic art existing in the world' Percy Bysshe ShelleyShakespeare's bleak and brutal tragedy begins when an ageing king, seeking a successor, rejects the young... -
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78'I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific big-wigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the... -
The Swimmers by Marian Womack
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.64"A richly imagined eco-gothic tale." - The Guardian "Exquisitely realised." - The Times After the ravages of the Green Winter, Earth is a place of deep jungles and monstrous animals. The last... -
My Antonia by Willa Cather 9781784874445
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Willa Cather's best-loved novel, and the final book in the Great Plains trilogy, is a beautiful portrayal of friendship, longing and growing up in frontier Nebraska. When young orphan Jim Burden is... -
Dubliners by James Joyce 9781857150490
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.71His stories are fillled with the rich detail of Dublin life, portraying ordinary, often defeated lives with unflinching realism. He writes of social decline, sexual desire and exploitation,... -
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Tennessee Williams's evocation of loneliness and lost love, The Glass Menagerie is one of his most powerful and moving plays. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes a new introduction by... -
The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81'The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels.'So says John Berry, son of a... -
The Leavetaking by John McGahern
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A 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... -
The Mastermind: The hunt for the World's most prolific criminal by Evan Ratliff
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'Meth, murder and pirates: the coder who became a crime boss. A world that lurks just outside of our everyday perception, in the dark corners of the internet we never visit' - WiredThe Mastermind... -
The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas 9780140439243
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In the final adventure of the Musketeers, THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK sees D'Artagnan remain in the service of the corrupt King Louis XIV after the Three Musketeers have gone their separate ways. ... -
Dark Frontier by Matthew Harffy 9781804548592
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.54A thrilling historical western set in 1890s Oregon. An English soldier turned policeman escapes to the American West for a new future, but life on the frontier proves far harder than he ever imagined... -
The Temple Of The Golden Pavilion by Ivan Mishima 9781857151695
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41Generally regarded both in Japan and in the West as his most successful novel, THE TEMPLE OF THE GOLDEN PAVILION brings together all Mishima's preoccupations with violence, desire, religious life and... -
Pony: from the bestselling author of Wonder by R. J. Palacio
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.67The highly anticipated, unforgettable new story from the internationally bestselling, multi-award-winning author of WONDER.'Thrillingly told . . . Palacio is a fantastic writer' The Times'Perfection ... -
Suddenly Last Summer and Other Plays by Tennessee Williams
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95These three dramatic works by Tennessee Williams explore the darker side of human nature and are haunted by a sense of isolation and regret. 'Suddenly Last Summer' is the starkly told story of... -
The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works by Thomas Nashe
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43Written in the late sixteenth century, at the pinnacle of the English Renaissance, the rich and ingenious works of Thomas Nashe uniquely reveal the ambivant nature of the Elizabethan era. Mingling... -
Hard Times by Charles Dickens 9780141198347
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful,... -
The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Revolutionary ... An extravagant, finely written tale of ecological sabotage' The New York TimesAudacious, controversial and hilarious, The Monkey Wrench Gang is Edward Abbey's masterpiece - a big,... -
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.47'This is what literature is meant to be' Anthony Burgess'O what we ben! And what we come to...' Wandering a desolate post-apocalyptic landscape, speaking a broken-down English lost after the end of... -
Moses Ascending by Sam Selvon
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Moses thinks he's got it made. Originally a poor Caribbean immigrant, he is now the proud landlord of a ramshackle house in Shepherd's Bush, London. He has visions of being master of his own domain,... -
The Pornographer by John McGahern 9780571225712
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31The provocative novel by 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel) and 'the Irish novelist everyone should read' (Colm Toibin).Michael, a writer of pornographic fiction, creates an... -
The Sound And The Fury by William Faulkner 9781857150698
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41Ever since the first furore was created on its publication in 1929, The Sound and the Fury has been considered one of the key novels of this century. Depicting the gradual disintegration of the...