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Take A Girl Like You by Kingsley Amis
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65In Kingsley Amis's Take A Girl Like You, twenty year old Jenny Bunn is supernally beautiful and stubbornly chaste, which is why Patrick Standish, an arrogant schoolmaster, wants her so much. This... -
Selected Poems D. H. Lawrence 9780140424584
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.65From early, rhyming works in Love Poems and Others (1913) to the ground-breaking exploration of free verse in Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923) the poems of D. H. Lawrence challenged convention and... -
The Ascent: A house can have many secrets by Stefan Hertmans 9781529920543
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04The dazzling new novel by Stefan Hertmans, author of the modern classic War and Turpentine.'Magnificent' Philippe Sands'Powerful and humane' Observer'An utterly masterly book' Jonathan CoeIn 1979,... -
Inspirations: Selections from Classic Literature by Paulo Coelho
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.37'Anthology' comes from the Greek word that stands for garlands - a bouquet of flowers. An anthology then, should be a small token of something much larger. In the case of flowers, they bring to mind... -
Air Bridge by Hammond Innes
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71The Soviets have cut off food and fuel supplies to West Berlin in a final attempt to force a stranglehold over the city. The Allied response is the Berlin airlift: thousands of planes carrying... -
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins 9780141389431
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65The Penguin English Library Edition of The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins'In one moment, every drop of blood in my body was brought to a stop ... There, as if it had that moment sprung out of the... -
One Day at a Time by Danielle Steel 9780552151832
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.81Coco Barrington is the black sheep of her unusual Hollywood family. Having dropped out of law school, she works as a dog walker in North California. Her widowed mother, mega-bestselling author... -
The Poorhouse Fair by John Updike
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37At the Diamond County Home for the Aged, the inmates prepare for the annual ritual of the Poorhouse Fair, a summer celebration at which the old and infirm sell their produce on stalls to the people... -
Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Eileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China, where she enjoys a passionate following both on the mainland and in Taiwan. At the heart of Chang's achievement is her short... -
Ulverton by Adam Thorpe
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04Immerse yourself in the stories of Ulverton, as heard on BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime'Sometimes you forget that it is a novel, and believe for a moment that you are really hearing the voice of the... -
Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope 9780140433265
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.61Son of a bankrupt landowner, Frank Gresham is intent on marrying his beloved Mary Thorne, despite her illegitimacy and apparent poverty. Frank's ambitious mother and haughty aunt are set against the... -
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott 9780141199139
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'The Penguin English Library Edition of Ivanhoe by Walter Scott'Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives!'Banished from England for seeking... -
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 9780141389462
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65The Penguin English Library Edition of Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell"Eh, miss, but that be a rare young lady! She do have such pretty coaxing ways ..."Seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson... -
In The Garden of Beasts: Love and terror in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68'A compelling tale... a narrative that makes such a brave effort to see history as it evolves and not as it becomes.' SPECTATORSuffused with the tense atmosphere of the times, and with brilliant... -
The Adventure of the Six Napoleons and Other Cases by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.54The Penguin English Library editionMany readers would claim that The Adventure of the Copper Beeches or The Man with the Twisted Lip was their favourite Sherlock Holmes story - but then that would be... -
The Five Orange Pips and Other Cases by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.94The Penguin English Library Edition of The Five Orange Pips and Other Cases by Arthur Conan Doyle'He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson ... He sits motionless, like a spider in the centre of its web,... -
Tarry Flynn by Patrick Kavanagh
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65He did not ask things to have a meaning or to tell a story. To be was the only storyA semi-autobiographical novel from the author of The Green Fool and The Great HungerA man's mother can be a... -
The Death of Democracy by Benjamin Carter Hett
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.81*A TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR*WHAT CAUSED THE FALL OF THE MOST PROGRESSIVE GOVERNMENT IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY EUROPE, AND THE RISE OF THE MOST TERRIFYING?In the 1930s, Germany was at a turning... -
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell 9780141198927
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.36The Penguin English Library edition of North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell'How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?'Elizabeth... -
The Imaginary Girlfriend by John Irving 9780552996808
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11From a novelist known for the complexity of his novels - they are also long - comes an autobiography of compelling simplicity; it is also short. Dedicated to the memory of two wrestling coaches and... -
A Man in Love: My Struggle Book 2 by Karl Ove Knausgaard
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68An electrifying story about love and new life from the international phenomenon, Karl Ove Knausgaard.* Karl Ove Knausgaard's dazzling new novel, The Morning Star, is available to pre-order now *This... -
The Western Lands by William S. Burroughs
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $10.65A fascinating mix of autobiographical episodes and extraordinary Egyptian theology, Burroughs's final novel is poignant and melancholic. Blending war films and pornography, and referencing Kafka and... -
A Short History of Slavery by James Walvin
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37As we approach the bicentenary of the abolition of the Atlantic trade, Walvin has selected the historical texts that recreate the mindset that made such a savage institution possible - morally... -
Infinite Resignation: On Pessimism Eugene Thacker 9781912248193
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.26The author of the contemporary classic, In the Dust of This Planet, is back with another raw and unsettling look at the human condition. Comprised of aphorisms, fragments, and observations both... -
The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.77When Reverend Josiah Crawley, the impoverished curate of Hogglestock, is accused of theft it causes a public scandal, sending shockwaves through the world of Barsetshire. The Crawleys desperately try... -
Exile and the Kingdom: Stories by Albert Camus
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80The stories of Exile and the Kingdom explore the dilemma of being an outsider - even in one's own country - and of allegiance. With intense power and lyricism, Camus evokes beautiful but harsh... -
A Spy In The House Of Love by Anais Nin 9780241614686
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.31Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith... -
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte 9780099529668
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.15'A powerful novel of expectation, love, oppression, sin, religion and betrayal' Daily Mail When the mysterious and beautiful young widow Helen Graham becomes the new tenant at Wildfell Hall rumours... -
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson 9780141441795
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.80Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped is at once a rollicking adventure story and an earnest political allegory. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Donald McFarlan... -
South Riding by Winifred Holtby 9781849902038
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $15.26The community of South Riding, like the rest of the country, lives in the long shadow of war. Blighted by recession and devastated by the loss, they must also come to terms with significant social... -
Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot 9780140436389
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) made her fictional debut when SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE appeared in 'Blackwood's Magazine' in 1857. These stories contain Eliot's earliest studies of what became enduring... -
Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation and Time Travel by Michio Kaku 9780141030906 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $2.64From cyborgs, starships, UFOs, aliens and antimatter to telepathy, invisibility, psychokinesis and precognition, Michio Kaku's Physics of the Impossible is an exciting look at how science fiction... -
Felix Holt: The Radical by George Eliot
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37When the young nobleman Harold Transome returns to England from the colonies with a self-made fortune, he scandalizes the town of Treby Magna with his decision to stand for Parliament as a Radical... -
Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Jane Austen
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves... -
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo 9781841593456
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.30Hugo's grand medieval melodrama tells the story of the beautiful Esmeralda, a gypsy girl loved by three men: Archdeacon Frollo, his adoptive son Quasimodo, bell-ringer of Notre-Dame cathedral, and... -
One Day at a Time by Danielle Steel 9780552151832 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $3.11Coco Barrington is the black sheep of her unusual Hollywood family. Having dropped out of law school, she works as a dog walker in North California. Her widowed mother, mega-bestselling author... -
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.04'A powerful novel of expectation, love, oppression, sin, religion and betrayal' Daily Mail When the mysterious and beautiful young widow Helen Graham becomes the new tenant at Wildfell Hall... -
The Crooked Timber Of Humanity by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.77'Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.' Immanuel KantIsaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century - an activist of the intellect... -
Life Is A Dream by Gyula Krudy
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Life is a Dream (1931) is Gyula Krudy's magical collection of ten short stories. Creating a world where editors shoot themselves after a hard day's brunching, men attend duels incognito and lovers... -
Collection of Sand: Essays by Italo Calvino
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.36Italo Calvino in Collection of Sand claimed that 'the brain begins in the eye'. The essays collected here display his fascination with the visual universe, in which the things we see tell a truth...