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The Furrows: From the Prize-winning author of The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell 9781529115550
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.83A powerful new novel about grief and mourning from the acclaimed and prize-winning author of The Old DriftA BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEAR and NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARI don't want to tell you... -
Sing A Black Girl’s Song: The Unpublished Works by Ntozake Shange 9781399625807
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $32.89I am gonna write poems til I die and when I have gotten outta this body I am gonna hang round in the wind and knock over everybody who got their feet on the ground. In the late 1960s, Ntozake Shange... -
Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.92James Baldwin's electrifying first novel.'I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal with my father.'Drawing on James Baldwin's own boyhood in a religious community in 1930s Harlem, his... -
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell by Tucker Max 9780141029450
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97Tucker Max drinks to excess at inappropriate times, disregards social norms, indulges every whim, takes no responsibility for his actions, rebels against any authority, mocks idiots and posers,... -
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $21.97One 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... -
At Swim-two-birds by Flann O'Brien
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.92Flann O'Brien's innovative metafictional work, whose unruly characters strike out their own paths in life to the frustration of their author, At Swim-Two-Birds is a brilliant impressionistic jumble... -
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.01Published in 1872, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals was a book at the very heart of Darwin's research interests - a central pillar of his 'human' series. This book engaged some of... -
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie 9781857152173
RRP: $42.82Booksplease Price: $32.63A history of India since independence seen through the eyes of characters born on that independence was granted. Often hailed as a classic of magic realism, this is a many-layered and entralling... -
Junky by William S. Burroughs 9780141189826
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $18.68A shocking expose of the desperate subculture surrounding heroin addiction, William S. Burroughs' Junky is edited with an introduction by Oliver Harris in Penguin Modern Classics.Burroughs' first... -
The First Man by 9780141185231
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.40The unfinished manuscript of The First Man was discovered in the wreckage of car accident in which Camus died in 1960. Although it was not published for over thirty years, it was an instant... -
Knowledge Of Angels: Man Booker prize shortlist by Jill Paton Walsh
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.40It is, perhaps, the fifteenth century and the ordered tranquillity of a Mediterranean island is about to be shattered by the appearance of two outsiders: one, a castaway, plucked from the sea by... -
Woman's Hour: Daily Meditations from Wise, Witty and Wonderful Women 9781785945069
RRP: $52.36Booksplease Price: $38.96For 75 years, Woman's Hour has brought us the most iconic and inspirational women from all over the world, delving into their lives and opinions, desires and lessons to others. Now, their wise words... -
The Help by Kathryn Stockett 9780241956533 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $5.90The Help is the phenomenal international bestseller (that inspired the Oscar nominated film) by Kathryn Stockett.Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise... -
Cloud Busting by Malorie Blackman
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $16.26Despite his Mum's insistence, Sam doesn't want to be friends with Davey, he thinks Davey's a first class, grade A, top of the dung heap moron. But one day Davey saves Sam's life and a bond is formed... -
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison 9780241970560
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40New Penguin Essentials edition of Ralph Ellison's blistering, impassioned novel of African-American lives in 1940s America, Invisible Man.'I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to... -
Idioglossia by Eleanor Bailey 9780552776073
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $31.32Idioglossia: A secret language between a few people, a private language; a lalallation; the babble of babies or the murmur of lunatics.Bolshy, demanding, eccentric, Great Edie is a Jewish immigrant... -
On Photography by Susan Sontag 9780141035789
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.92Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject.Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues... -
Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler 9780141182247
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40This wonderful translation of Dream Story will allow a fresh generation of readers to enjoy this beautiful, heartless and baffling novella. Dream Story tells how through a simple sexual admission a... -
Gridlock by Ben Elton 9780552773560 [USED COPY]
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $5.81Gridlock is when a city dies. Killed in the name of freedom. Killed in the name of oil and steel. Choked on carbon monoxide and strangled with a pair of fluffy dice. How did it come to this? How did... -
The Annotated Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
RRP: $35.70Booksplease Price: $25.01When Lolita was first published in 1955 it created a sensation and established Nabokov as one of the most original prose writers of the twentieth century. This annotated edition, a revised and... -
Blackass by A. Igoni Barrett
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.83'A devastating social parable brimming with humanity and heart...' Marlon JamesWhite skin, green eyes, red hair... BLACKASSFuro Wariboko - born and bred in Lagos - wakes up on the morning of his job... -
Hurricanes in Perfect Power: Tales of Modern Motherhood by Various
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $30.32A stunning new collection of short stories about motherhood, selected and introduced by Candice Brathwaite.______________'To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect... -
Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.40Mulk Raj Anand's extraordinarily powerful story of an Untouchable in India's caste system, with a new introduction by Ramachandra Guha, author of GandhiBakha is a proud and attractive young man, yet... -
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $34.20WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW O'HAGANIn the summer of 1976 Gary Gilmore robbed two men. Then he shot them in cold blood. For those murders Gilmore was sent to languish on Death Row - and could... -
Gridlock by Ben Elton
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $23.87Gridlock is when a city dies. Killed in the name of freedom. Killed in the name of oil and steel. Choked on carbon monoxide and strangled with a pair of fluffy dice. How did it come to this? How did... -
Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.40When Joel Knox's mother dies, he is sent into the exotic unknown of the Deep South to live with a father he has never seen. But once he gets there, everyone is curiously evasive when Joel asks to see... -
Another Country by James Baldwin
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $21.97'A masterwork... an almost unbearable, tumultuous, blood-pounding experience' Washinton PostWhen Another Country appeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly story of... -
Mystic River Dennis Lehane 9780553818246
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.40There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected.When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up their... -
We Were Eight Years in Power: 'One of the foremost essayists on race in the West' Nikesh Shukla, author of The Good Immigrant by Ta-Nehisi Coates
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $20.44THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'I've been wondering who might fill the intellectual void after James Baldwin died. Clearly it is Ta-Nehisi Coates' Toni Morrison'Searing. One of the foremost essayists... -
The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy 9781857152616
RRP: $59.50Booksplease Price: $46.48This handsome edition of McCarthy's completed Border Trilogy in one volume gives the reader one of the most important works of American fiction of the last decades. McCarthy's work is far more than a... -
How Far We've Come by Joyce Efia Harmer
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.32A groundbreaking and critically-acclaimed debut novel of friendship and freedom that crosses continents and centuries, in a timeslip story exploring the legacy of slavery, selected as The Times... -
Staying On by Paul Scott
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.83Tusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return 'home' when Tusker, once a Colonel in the British Army, retired, they chose instead to remain in the small hill town of Pangkot,... -
On Photography by Susan Sontag
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $17.80'The most original and illuminating study of the subject.' The New YorkerPhotographs are everywhere. From high art to family albums to legal evidence, they capture and document the world around us... -
Dead and Alive by Zadie Smith 9780241729601
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $33.72An illuminating new essay collection from one of the most distinctive, exciting and acclaimed writers of her generation, Zadie Smith'Zadie Smith is a wonderful essayist. She is a natural. She writes... -
All That I Have by Laurent Joffrin 9780099451969
RRP: $38.06Booksplease Price: $30.99On a moonlit night in 1943 an Indian princess was parachuted in to occupied France to join the Resistance as a radio operator code-named Aurora. Daughter of a Sufi mystic, she had declined the... -
The Unsettled Ayana Mathis 9781529158878
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.83'[A] powerful book' Marilynne Robinson'A book to be read and re-read' Jesmyn Ward'Poetic and fierce' Yiyun LiFrom the moment Ava Carson and her ten-year-old son, Toussaint, arrive at the Glenn Avenue... -
Homing Instinct by Diana Appleyard 9780552998215 [USED COPY]
RRP: $38.06Booksplease Price: $6.14It's time to start thinking the unthinkable...Carrie Adams, successful television producer, mother and wife, is about to return to work. Baby Tom has fallen in love with the new nanny; six-year-old... -
White Tears by Hari Kunzru
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.59'A stunning, audacious new thriller... It will shock you, horrify you, unsettle you, and that's exactly the point. As brave as it is brutal, it lets nothing and nobody off the hook' NPR'A book that... -
Forgotten Dreams by Katie Flynn 9780099503149
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $31.32Lottie Lacey and her mother, Louella, share a house in Victoria Court with Mr Magic and his son Baz. Lottie is a child star, dancing and singing at the Gaiety Theatre to an enraptured audience,... -
American Ghosts & Old World Wonders by Angela Carter 9780099133711
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $23.28Shortly before her death Angela Carter was preparing this volume of short stories, one which does full justice to the glory of her imagination and the range of her talent. It is divided into distinct...