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Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics by Anonymous 9780099743613 [USED COPY]
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $3.24The political BONFIRE OF VANITIES- a novel based on the Clinton campaign which has become the most controversial book for years. The author's identity is a secret, even from his publishers. He is... -
Risky Business: People, Pastimes, Poker and Books by Al Alvarez 9780747593119 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $3.42Al Alvarez's writing career has come in many guises. One of the most influential post-war critics, he has written profoundly and eloquently about writers and their craft for over fifty years. But... -
The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World by Maya Jasanoff 9780007553723
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.84CUNDILL PRIZE 2018 WINNER SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018 'Enlightening, compassionate, superb' John le Carre ... -
The Routledge Dance Studies Reader by Alexandra Carter 9780415164474 [USED COPY]
RRP: $41.53Booksplease Price: $3.52The Routledge Dance Studies Reader represents the range and diversity of writings from the 1980s and 1990s, providing contemporary perspectives on ballet, modern dance, postmodern 'movement... -
All My Cats by Bohumil Hrabal
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $9.80'One of the greatest European prose writers' Philip RothIn the autumn of 1965, Bohumil Hrabal bought a weekend cottage in the countryside east of Prague. There, until his death, he tended to an... -
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: The Million-Copy Bestseller James McBride 9781399620420
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92WATERSTONES FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH FOR OCTOBER 2024 THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLERBARACK OBAMA'S BOOK OF THE YEAR PICKAMAZON.COM NO.1 BOOK OF THE YEAR'I loved this book' BONNIE GARMUS'A generous,... -
Must You Go?: My Life with Harold Pinter Lady Antonia Fraser 9780753828786
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41A unique testimony to modern literature's most celebrated and enduring marriage.'I first saw Harold across a crowded room, but it was lunchtime, not some enchanted evening, and we did not speak.'When... -
William Blake vs the World by John Higgs
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41'Fascinating' The Times'Blakeian in its singularity' New Statesman'A wonderful adventure' Irish Times'Rich, complex and original' Tom Holland'A crisp, ambitious and thoroughly contemporary... -
We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.84A masterful novel about a violent crime and its reverberations throughout a community - as timely and relevant in 2019 as it was when first published in 2001 'We were the Mulvaneys,... -
Worst Case Scenario by Helen Fitzgerald
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09A deliciously dark, unapologetically funny, and nail-bitingly tense psychological thriller by the international bestselling author of The CryNUMBER ONE BESTSELLER***Guardian, Telegraph, Herald... -
An Abbreviated Life: A Memoir by Ariel Leve
Booksplease Price: $15.79A beautiful, startling, and candid memoir about growing up without boundaries, in which Ariel Leve recalls with candor and sensitivity the turbulent time she endured as the only child of an unstable... -
If This Is A Man/The Truce (50th Anniversary Edition): Surviving Auschwitz by Primo Levi
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07A new edition of Primo Levi's classic memoir of the Holocaust, with an introduction by David Baddiel, author of Jews Don't Count'With the moral stamina and intellectual poise of a twentieth-century... -
Encounter by Milan Kundera
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $9.82With the same dazzling mix of emotion and idea that characterizes his novels he illuminates the art and artists who remain important to him and whose work helps us better understand the world. An... -
Old School by Tobias Wolff 9780747574651
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28At one prestigious American public school, the boys like to emphasise their democratic ideals - the only acknowledged snobbery is literary snobbery. Once a term, a big name from the literary world... -
Innocent by Scott Turow
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92Scott Turow's Innocent is the eagerly anticipated sequel to the huge bestselling landmark legal thriller Presumed Innocent.Twenty years ago, Tommy Molto charged his colleague Rusty Sabich with the... -
The Imaginary Jew by David Suchoff
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.93The Holocaust changed what it means to be a Jew, for Jew and non-Jew alike. Much of the discussion about this new meaning is a storm of contradictions. In The Imaginary Jew, Alain Finkielkraut... -
Fitzrovia, The Other Side of Oxford Street: A Social History 1900-1950 by Ann Basu 9780750987905
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $17.66This is the other side of the story. Before the Second World War, Ann Basu's family of Jewish tailors lived where the BT Tower stands today. At that time of high migration, the women's fashion trade... -
Reading the 21st Century: Books of the Decade, 2000-2009 by Stan Persky 9780773540477
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.98In wide-ranging and innovative criticism, Stan Persky examines international non-fiction and fiction to engage with both the triumphs and tensions of reading and writing today. Evaluating works by... -
The Prison Minyan by Jonathan Stone
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36The scene is Otisville Prison, upstate New York. A crew of fraudsters, tax evaders, trigamists and forgers discuss matters of right and wrong in a Talmudic study and prayer group, or 'minyan', led by... -
Cutting It Short by Bohumil Hrabal
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.80'As I crammed the cream horn voraciously into my mouth, at once I heard Francin's voice saying that no decent woman would eat a cream puff like that'In a quiet town where not much happens, Maryska,... -
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories by Delmore Schwartz 9780285636699
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Delmore Schwartz became the voice of a new generation, when In Dreams Begin Responsibilities was published in the debut issue of 'Partisan Review' in 1937. The title story tells of an unnamed... -
Tom Stoppard: A Life by Professor Dame Hermione Lee
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $14.61Shot through with Stoppard's voice, and illuminating all his plays, Lee's gripping narrative draws on unprecedented access to archive material, interviews and long conversations with Stoppard himself... -
Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen by Mary Norris
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.19Mary Norris has spent more than three decades guarding The New Yorker's grand traditions of grammar and usage. Now she brings her vast experience and sharpened pencil to help the rest of us in a... -
Canceled Lives: My Father, My Scandal, and Me by Blake Bailey 9781510783317
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $20.77A canceled bestselling author's highly personal account of his public scandal-a scandal that was reported on the front page of the New York Times and throughout the world. Blake Bailey grew up in the... -
Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68WINNER OF THE 1990 COMMONWEALTH WRITERS PRIZE, SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 1990Since the age of eleven Moses Berger has been obsessed with the Gursky clan, an insanely wealthy, profoundly... -
Tyrant: Shakespeare On Power by Stephen Greenblatt
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.68'Brilliant' Sunday TimesHow does a truly disastrous leader - a sociopath, a demagogue, a tyrant - come to power? How, and why, does a tyrant hold on to power? And what goes on in the hidden recesses... -
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz 9780374605445
RRP: $34.83Booksplease Price: $26.18With the Soviet Union extinct, Saddam Hussein defeated, and U.S. power at its zenith, the early 1990s promised a "kinder, gentler America." Instead, it was a period of rising anger and domestic... -
The Position by Meg Wolitzer
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36Everything changes for the four Mellow children the day they find a book called Pleasuring on the shelf. It is written by their liberal parents, features tasteful pastel illustrations of their... -
The Position by Meg Wolitzer 9780099485056 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $2.51Everything changes for the four Mellow children the day they find a book called Pleasuring on the shelf. It is written by their liberal parents, features tasteful pastel illustrations of their... -
Red Cavalry and Other Stories by Isaac Babel
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37Throughout 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... -
Oh What A Paradise It Seems by John Cheever
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.15In an idyllic American village, elderly romantic Lemuel Sears still has it in him to fall wildly in love with strangers of both sexes. But Sears's paradise is under threat; the pond he loves is being... -
The Wife: Discover the critically acclaimed novel behind Glenn Close's Oscar nominated performance by Meg Wolitzer 9780099478195
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.92A Husband. A Wife. Their SecretJoe and Joan Castleman are en route to Helsinki. Joe is thinking about the prestigious literary prize he will receive there, while Joan is plotting how to leave him... -
Ash Mountain by Helen FitzGerald
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09Single-mother Fran returns to her sleepy hometown to care for her dying father when a devastating bush fire breaks out. A heartbreaking, nail-biting disaster-noir thriller from the bestselling author... -
Ash Mountain by Helen FitzGerald 9781913193287 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $2.61Single-mother Fran returns to her sleepy hometown to care for her dying father when a devastating bush fire breaks out. A heartbreaking, nail-biting disaster-noir thriller from the bestselling author... -
Sweet Mystery: A Book of Remembering by Judith Hillman Paterson 9780817359607
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $22.07An exquisitely written memoir-combining sorrow and joy, anger and forgiveness, suffering and healing-that affirms the resilience and strength that imbue the human spirit. Judith Paterson was just... -
The Syme Papers by Benjamin Markovits
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.07Douglas Pitt is a man obsessed. Laughed at, mocked and dismissed at every turn, Pitt has spent the best part of an unremarkable academic career attempting to prove the genius of Samuel Highgate Syme... -
The Novel Cure: An A to Z of Literary Remedies by Ella Berthoud
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Mumsnet 'Best Books for Christmas 2016''Ideal for anyone who has ever wondered what on earth to read next' SJ WATSON'Witty, engaging and informative. The sort of book you choose for a friend and end... -
Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005 by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Following on from Stranger Shores, which contained J.M. Coetzee's essays from 1986 to 1999, Inner Workings gathers together his literary essays from 2000 to 2005.Of the writers discussed in the first... -
Jewish Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Ilan Stavans
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.72The story of Jewish literature is a kaleidoscopic one, multilingual and transnational in character, spanning the globe as well as the centuries. In this broad, thought-provoking introduction to... -
Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen by Mary Norris 9780393240184
RRP: $29.47Booksplease Price: $27.03Mary Norris has spent more than three decades guarding The New Yorker's grand traditions of grammar and usage. Now she brings her vast experience and sharpened pencil to help the rest of us in a...