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News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97Gabriel 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: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.91One 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: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.54Though 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: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.26'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: $24.50Booksplease Price: $16.36A 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: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20Collected 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: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60'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: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.81'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: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.72THE 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: $12.89Booksplease Price: $6.22A 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... -
Portrait of an Unknown Lady by Maria Gainza
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $11.87In 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: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43The 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... -
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Dead Reckoning: The New Science of Catching Killers by Michaelbaden & Marion Roach 9780099439790 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $3.23Michael Baden and Marion Roach take readers to the autopsy table in the morgue and practically place the scalpel in their hands to show how advances in forensic science are solving crimes as never... -
Redburn by Herman Melville
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62Wellington Redburn is a fifteen-year-old from the state of New York, with only one dream - to run away to sea. However, when he does fulfil this long-held fantasy, he quickly finds that reality as... -
Mystery In Spiderville by John Hartley Williams 9780099426936
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.33Alongside the names of James Hadley Chase and Erle Stanley Gardner we must now add that of John Hartley Williams - though Mystery in Spiderville is no run-of-the-mill hard-boiled thriller. The decor... -
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.60A haunting Modernist masterpiece and the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola's Oscar-winning film Apocalypse Now, Heart of Darkness explores the limits of human experience and the nightmarish... -
Mike Hammer - Killing Town by Mickey Spillane
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $15.60While undercover in upstate New York, Hammer is accused by police of murdering a young woman near the freight yards. Roughed up by the cops and facing a murder charge, Hammer's fate is looking bleak... -
The Stories of Ray Bradbury by Ray Bradbury 9781841593265
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $24.34p-Included here are famous tales like 'Sound of Thunder', in which the carelessness of a group of time-travellers leads to disastrous consequences, and 'The Veldt', in which two seemingly innocent... -
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 9780241655573
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.03Joseph Conrad's haunting Modernist masterpiece, now in the beautifully designed Penguin Clothbound Classics seriesHeart of Darkness has been considered for most of this century as a literary classic,... -
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Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen 9780552772532 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $3.10Joey Perrone is a woman with a mission. She's just been pushed overboard from a cruise liner by Chaz, her scumbag husband, and survived to tell the tale. But rather than reporting him to the police,... -
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My Father's Tears and Other Stories by John Updike 9780141042596 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $2.83John 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,... -
Tough Tender by Max Allan Collins
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.22Has Nolan met his match? MWA Grandmaster Max Allan Collins' veteran thief faces off against a cold-blooded femme fatale in this double-length adventure originally published as two complete novels and... -
The Road to San Giovanni by Italo Calvino
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43In five elegant autobiographical meditations Calvino delves into his past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a lifelong obsession with the cinema and fighting in the Italian... -
The Man from London by Georges Simenon
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'One of Simenon's darkest novels' Le MondeOn a foggy winter's evening in Dieppe, after the arrival of the daily ferry from England, a railway signalman habitually scrutinizes the port from his tiny,... -
The Victim by Saul Bellow
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.26Leventhal is a natural victim; a man uncertain of himself, never free from the nagging suspicion that the other guy may be right. So when he meets a down-at-heel stranger in the park one day and... -
The Galton Case by Ross Macdonald 9780141196633
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $8.51Twenty years ago, Anthony Galton vanished, along with his streetwise bride and several thousand dollars of the Galton fortune. Now his dying mother wants him found, and Lew Archer is on the case: is... -
Vantage Point: A MacNeice Mystery by Scott Thornley 9781487003326
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.15The highly anticipated fourth instalment in the critically acclaimed MacNeice Mysteries series finds MacNeice and his team on the hunt for a sophisticated serial killer who draws his inspiration from... -
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett 9780141194608
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.09The last novel from the unsurpassed master of American detective fiction, Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man is a genre-defining mystery novel, published in Penguin Modern Classics.Ex-detective Nick... -
Collected Stories by Rudyard Kipling 9781857151992
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.41This selection covers the full range of Kipling's extraordinary short stories throughout his career. Ranging in subject matter from the Indain to the Occult, from children to animals, from domestic... -
The Flemish House: Inspector Maigret #14 by Georges Simenon
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.13'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves She wasn't an ordinary supplicant. She didn't lower her eyes. There was nothing humble about her bearing. She spoke frankly,... -
Skim Deep by Max Allan Collins
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.22The first new Nolan novel in 33 years from one of the masters of the genre, Max Allan Collins, award-winning author of Road to Perdition.The onetime world-class thief Nolan - now happily gone... -
Guys and Dolls: and Other Stories by Damon Runyon
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97Slick, upbeat and funny, these stories inspired the popular musical and film Guys and Dolls.'Of all the high players this country ever sees, there is no doubt but that the guy they call the Sky is... -
Uncommon Danger by Eric Ambler
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.26Kenton's career as a journalist depends on his facility with languages, his knowledge of European politics and his quick judgement. Where his judgement sometimes fails him, however, is in his... -
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43'When I opened my eyes and sat up in bed Nora was shaking me and a man with a gun in his hand was standing in the bedroom doorway.'Ex-detective Nick Charles attracts trouble like a magnet. He thinks... -
Web of Lies by Beverley Naidoo
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86Sequel to THE OTHER SIDE OF TRUTH.Two years after their flight from Nigeria, 14-yr-old Sade, her younger brother Femi and her father are living in a council flat in London, waiting for their claim... -
Two for the Money by Max Allan Collins
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.22After 16 years on the run, would Nolan bury the hatchet with the mob...or would they bury him first? They don't come tougher than Nolan - but even a hardened professional thief can't fight off... -
The Complete Henry Bech by John Updike
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Henry Bech, the celebrated author of Travel Light, has been scrutinized, canonized and vilified by critics and readers across the world. Here, the experiences of this bemused literary icon, one of... -
The Man with the Golden Typewriter: Ian Fleming's James Bond Letters by Fergus Fleming
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $12.95'Constantly entertaining ... So much here to amuse and inform' Observer 'These friendly, knockabout letters are a treat' Sunday Telegraph 'Irresistible' New York Times ________________________... -
Eye Contact Cammie McGovern 9780141024981
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $15.45For nine years Adam has been the centre of his mother, Cara's, world. And, she thinks, she has been the centre of his. Until the day he disappears. When he is found in the woods behind his school,... -
Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen 9780552772532
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51Joey Perrone is a woman with a mission. She's just been pushed overboard from a cruise liner by Chaz, her scumbag husband, and survived to tell the tale. But rather than reporting him to the police,...