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The Red and the Black by Stendhal 9780140447644
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $15.81Charting the rise and fall of an ambitious young social climber in a cruel, monarchical society, Stendhal's The Red and the Black is translated with an introduction and notes by Roger Gard in Penguin... -
No More Mr Nice Guy by Howard Jacobson 9780099274636
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $24.32Frank Ritz is a television critic. His partner, Melissa Paul, is the author of pornographic novels for liberated women. He watches crap all day; she writes crap all day. It's a life. Or it was a... -
The Information by Martin Amis
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45Once close friends, writers Gwyn Barry and Richard Tull now find themselves in fierce competition.While Tull has spiralled into a mire of literary obscurity and belletristic odd jobs, Barry's... -
Moments of Reprieve by Primo Levi
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $15.50Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century: a man who survived one of the ugliest times in history, yet who was able to describe his own Auschwitz... -
The Distracted Preacher and Other Tales by Thomas Hardy
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07The darkly passionate short stories of Thomas Hardy are compelling explorations of love, social class, superstition and legend. This collection contains many of his finest and most representative,... -
The Book Lover's Tale by Ivo Stourton 9780552773874
RRP: $5.83Booksplease Price: $5.40He collects books: Interior designer for the rich and powerful, Matt de Voy lends his tasteful eye to the households of his wealthy female clients. He also advises on which books should adorn... -
Becoming Other: Heterogeneity and Plasticity of the Self David Berliner 9781805396482
RRP: $179.40Booksplease Price: $147.36Most of us are conscious of having a single and stable self, but the self is more fragmented and plastic than we care to think. David Berliner explores the captivating world of identity through an... -
A Vision of the World: Selected Short Stories by John Cheever
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61Selected and Introduced by Booker-Prize winner Julian Barnes'Reading Cheever is a restless pleasure, the work never settles: these brilliant stories make me get up and walk around the room' Anne... -
Libra by Don DeLillo
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.94'Think of two parallel lines. One is the life of Lee H. Oswald. One is the conspiracy to kill the President. What bridges the space between them? What makes a connection inevitable? There is a third... -
Libra by Don DeLillo 9780141188225
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.23An unparalleled work of historical conjecture, ranging imaginatively over huge tracts of the American popular consciousness, Don DeLillo's Libra contains an introduction by the author in Penguin... -
The Early Stories: 1953-1975 by John Updike 9780141016085
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $29.60Gathering together almost all the short fiction that John Updike published between 1953 and 1975, this collection opens with Updike's autobiographical stories about a young boy growing up during the... -
Errant Letters: Jacques Rancière and the Philosophy of Literature by Mikołaj Golubiewski 9783631881644
RRP: $89.70Booksplease Price: $81.16Jerzy Franczak comprehensively presents Jacques Rancière’s thought by emphasizing the relationship between politics and literature. This detailed analysis takes into account the context of modern... -
Tinkers by Paul Harding
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.58An old man lies dying. Confined to bed in his living room, he sees the walls around him begin to collapse, the windows come loose from their sashes, and the ceiling plaster fall off in great chunks,... -
The Submission by Amy Waldman
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.66A jury gathers in Manhattan to select a memorial for the victims of a devastating terrorist attack. Their fraught deliberations complete, the jurors open the envelope containing the anonymous... -
The Penguin Book of Welsh Short Stories by Alun Richards
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $24.32'It is my hope that the Wales of the past and present is well represented in this volume, together with the world of work and workmen in some of our more ravaged terrains.'In twenty-four short... -
Dead and Alive by Zadie Smith 9780241729601
Booksplease Price: $27.61An 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... -
The Essential Groucho: Writings by, for and about Groucho Marx by Stefan Kanfer
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.52No, Groucho is not my real name, I'm just breaking it in for a friend.' Presenting the greatest and most hilarious examples of Groucho, one of the most influential and well-loved figures in the long... -
Dead and Alive by Zadie Smith 9780241729595
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $31.14An 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... -
Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries by Helen Fielding
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $13.86'Helen Fielding is one of the funniest writers in Britain' Nick Hornby Discover the most recent escapades of Britian's favourite singleton. 8.45 P.M. Realise there have been so many times in my life... -
After Midnight by Irmgard Keun
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25Depicting a young woman's life in Nazi Germany, a masterpiece from the author of Child of All Nations'I cannot think of anything else that conjures up so powerfully the atmosphere of a nation turned... -
English Bread and Yeast Cookery by Elizabeth David
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.24In this universally acclaimed book Elizabeth David deals with all aspects of flour-milling, yeast, bread ovens and the different types of bread and flour available. The recipes cover yeast cookery of... -
Libra by Don DeLillo 9780141041995
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.52Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. Friday, November 22, 1963. 12.30 PM.Shots ring out. A president dies. And a nation is plunged into psychosis. Don DeLillo's extraordinary Libra is a brilliant reimagining... -
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Libra by Don DeLillo 9780241984536 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $11.43'Think of two parallel lines. One is the life of Lee H. Oswald. One is the conspiracy to kill the President. What bridges the space between them? What makes a connection inevitable? There is a third... -
How Books Can Save Democracy by Michael Fischer 9781595343215
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.37How Books Can Save Democracy argues that American democracy is in crisis as healthy disagreement has pivoted into negative, winner-take-all contests. Michael Fischer proposes that literature is an... -
Wilt: (Wilt Series 1) by Tom Sharpe
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61Henry Wilt, tied to a daft job and a domineering wife, has just been passed over for promotion yet again. Ahead of him at the Polytechnic stretch years of trying to thump literature into the heads... -
Selling Hitler: The Story of the Hitler Diaries by Robert Harris
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $17.18PRE-ORDER PRECIPICE, THE THRILLING NEW NOVEL FROM ROBERT HARRIS, NOW - PUBLISHING AUGUST 2024'Impossible to stop reading' OBSERVER'Thrilling, intricate and hilarious' DAILY MAILAPRIL 1945: From the... -
In Between the Sheets by Ian McEwan
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61The second collection of blazingly original short stories from Booker prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author Ian McEwan.A two-timing pornographer becomes the unwilling object of one of his... -
All Points North: the bestselling memoir from the new Poet Laureate by Simon Armitage
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $16.75'A joy. Celebrates the real world and revels in its mad glory' Sue Townsend, Sunday Times_____________________________________All Points North is part-memoir and part-excursion. Charting the rugged... -
Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis 9780374523039
Booksplease Price: $23.52This is a fictional memoir by the nineteenth-century Brazilian writer whom Philip Roth has described as 'a great ironist, a tragic comedian'. "Dom Casmurro" is the story of Bento Santiago, an... -
Ancient Light by John Banville
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.66'Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother.'Alexander Cleave, an actor who thinks his best days are behind him, remembers his first unlikely affair as a teenage boy in a small... -
The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64'Brilliant...wild and exhilarating' New YorkerSgt Raymond Shaw is a hero of the first order. He's an ex-prisoner of war who saved the life of his entire outfit, a winner of the Congressional Medal of... -
The Sisters: 'The big baggy novel I’ve been waiting for – perfect for a summer holiday' The Times by Jonas Hassen Khemiri 9781399753593
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $28.37'It's been a while since we were stunned by an ambitious family saga'The TimesSELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMESLONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION'One... -
The Unfolding by A.M. Homes
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $28.49The dazzling new state-of-the-nation novel from one of America's most significant contemporary writers and winner of the Women's Prize for May We Be Forgiven, which explores the makings of our... -
The Unfolding by A.M. Homes 9781783785353
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.19The Big Guy loves his family, money and democracy. Undone by the results of the 2008 Presidential election, he taps a group of like-minded men to reclaim their version of America. As they build a... -
Blue Ruin by Hari Kunzru 9781398532748
Booksplease Price: $28.37From one of the sharpest voices in fiction today, a profound and enthralling novel about beauty, power, and capital's influence on art and those who devote their lives to creating it. Once, Jay was... -
The Body Politic: A Novel by Brian Platzer
RRP: $33.15Booksplease Price: $23.99In the bestselling tradition of The Interestings and A Little Life, this "cleverly constructed and emotionally compelling" (Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation) novel follows four longtime friends as... -
Religion and American Literature Since 1950 by Mark Eaton 9781350123755
Booksplease Price: $201.06From Flannery O'Connor and James Baldwin to the post-9/11 writings of Don DeLillo, imaginative writers have often been the most insightful chroniclers of the USA's changing religious life since the... -
Folklore, Literature, and Cultural Theory: Collected Essays by Cathy Lynn Preston 9781138974432
RRP: $72.13Booksplease Price: $65.77First published in 1996. The need to write, particularly in pre-technological recording days, in order to preserve and to analyze, lies at the heart of folklore and yet to write means to change the... -
Laughing at the Darkness: Postmodernism and Optimism in American Humour by Paul McDonald 9781847601896
RRP: $23.30Booksplease Price: $22.93Paul McDonald's book is the second in the Humanities Ebooks Contemporary American Literature Series, edited by Christopher Gair and Aliki Varvogli. Given that postmodernism has been associated with... -
The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50Winner of the 1966 Pulitzer Prize and National Book AwardKiev, 1911. When a twelve-year-old Russian boy is found stabbed to death, his body drained of blood, the accusation of ritual murder is...