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Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost City by Dr Edmund Richardson
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.19'Not all lost cities are real, but this one was.' The extraordinary story of Alexander the Great's lost city, and a quest to unravel one of the most captivating mysteries in ancient history. ... -
Solitude by Anthony Storr 9780006543497
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.68'Brings excellent news for those who, whatever their reasons for doing so, live alone ... Heartening' Anita Brookner, Spectator 'Storr is an... -
The Penguin Book of English Short Stories by Christopher Dolley
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Introducing a beautifully-designed collection of sixteen short stories from some of the best English writers over two hundred years of our history.The Penguin Book of English Short Stories celebrates... -
Haunted Tales: Classic Stories of Ghosts and the Supernatural by Lisa Morton
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.51Following their acclaimed Ghost Stories and Weird Women, award-winning anthologists Leslie S. Klinger and Lisa Morton present a new eclectic anthology of ghosty tales certain to haunt the reader long... -
Little Red Riding Hood by Charles Perrault
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $14.74This collection of eight French contes collected by Charles Perrault in the last decade of the seventeenth century, contains perhaps the most famous fairy stories of all time - 'Cinderella', 'The... -
Hero of the Empire: The Making of Winston Churchill by Candice Millard
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56'Thrilling, tremendously enjoyable' The New York Times'A nail-biting escape story' Financial TimesAt the age of twenty-four, Winston Churchill already believed he was destined for greatness. This is... -
101 Famous Poems by Roy J. Cook 9780071419307
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.52This is an inspirational collection of masterpieces from the world's greatest poets. Poetry has the power to give us strength, inspiration, and hope, helping us to make meaning from our hectic lives... -
The Jungle Book (Easy Classics Picture Books) Abigail Tompkins 9781802637861
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.22Rediscover this timeless story of friendship and adventure, perfect for reading with children! Raised by a pack of wolves, Mowgli loves living in the jungle alongside his friends, Baloo the bear... -
The Puffin Book of Stories for Seven-year-olds by Wendy Cooling
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $4.37The Puffin Book of Stories for Seven-year-olds edited by Wendy Cooling is a perfect selection of loved stories for all 7 year olds!Full of exciting stories from some of our best-loved authors,... -
Roald Dahl Collected Stories by Roald Dahl
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.41Many of these stores are now so famous from film and television adaptations that they need no introduction. Roald Dahl is well known as a master of the macabre and the unexpected in the tradition of... -
The Swoose by Dick King-Smith
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $6.95Fitzherbert's mother is a goose, but his father was a swan - which makes him a swoose! As Fitzherbert grows up he decisdes he wants to fly and he wants to meet his father. His search begins, but what... -
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RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $2.41The Puffin Book of Stories for Seven-year-olds edited by Wendy Cooling is a perfect selection of loved stories for all 7 year olds!Full of exciting stories from some of our best-loved authors,... -
How the Rhino Got His Skin by Rosie Dickins 9781409596776
RRP: $7.73Booksplease Price: $5.43The Rhino has lovely skin that fits just right. But what happens when he spies the cake that Man just made? A special cake with currant and plums in it.This tale is wonderfully illustrated and the... -
Half a Lifelong Romance by Eileen Chang
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91From one of twentieth-century China's greatest writers and the author of Lust, Caution, this is an unforgettable story of a love affair set in 1930s Shanghai. Manzhen is a young worker in a Shanghai... -
Selected Poems by William Wordsworth 9781857152456
RRP: $18.06Booksplease Price: $13.91It is hard to imagine how radically the tender songs and simple stories in this collection changed the history of English poetry, but Wordsworth exerted a profound influence on the whole of... -
Blake Poems William Blake 9781857157109
RRP: $15.48Booksplease Price: $11.38Blake's explosive lyrical genius is here represented by the full text of 'Songs of Innocence' and 'Songs of Experience', plus a wide range of marvellous short poems unpublished in his lifetime. In... -
The Cosmic Time of Empire: Modern Britain and World Literature by Adam Barrows 9780520260993
RRP: $46.44Booksplease Price: $42.58Combining original historical research with literary analysis, Adam Barrows takes a provocative look at the creation of world standard time in 1884 and rethinks the significance of this remarkable... -
The Collected Stories by Ernest Hemingway
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $20.06Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) is celebrated as a novelist and man of action. He is perhaps most famous for WHOM THE BELL TOLLS and A FAREWELL TO ARMS. But he was equally prolific as a writer of short... -
Darwin by Adrian J. Desmond
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.10This biography of Charles Darwin attempts to capture the private unknown life of the real man - the gambling and gluttony at Cambridge, his gruelling trip round the globe, his intimate family life,... -
Scenes from Provincial Life: Including Scenes from Married Life by William Cooper 9780141046884
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.98Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All... -
Fables Jean de La Fontaine 9781857155082
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $14.74Seventeenth-century Frenchman Jean de La Fontaine happily plundered Aesop and other classical writers as a source for his witty, elegant fables, as well as inventing a number of his own. Seeking to... -
The Journals of Captain Cook by James Cook
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.56Cook led three famous expeditions to the Pacific Ocean between 1768 and 1779. In voyages that ranged from the Antarctic circle to the Arctic Sea, Cook charted Australia and the whole coast of New... -
Quick, Let's Get Out of Here by Michael Rosen
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.77The yucky things your brother does, the annoying things your parents say, the funny things you feel.Michael Rosen knows all about YOU! A much-loved classic of family life from the brilliant Michael... -
The Talmud: A Selection by Norman Solomon
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.10The Talmud is one of the most significant religious texts in the world, second only to the Bible in its importance to Judaism. As the Bible is the word of God, The Talmud applies that word to the... -
The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20Bo Mason, his wife, Elsa, and their two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifting from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks out his fortune - in the... -
All My Cats by Bohumil Hrabal
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $9.43'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... -
Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991 by Salman Rushdie
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20Drawing from two political and several literary homelands, this collection presents a remarkable series of trenchant essays, demonstrating the full range and force of Salman Rushdie's remarkable... -
Payment Deferred by C. S. Forester
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86Mr Marble is in serious debt, desperate for money to pay his family's bills, until the combination of a wealthy relative, a bottle of Cyanide and a shovel offer him the perfect solution. In fact, his... -
Curzon: Imperial Statesman by David Gilmour
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.55'A fast-moving, entertaining and finely written story' Simon Schama'Masterly ... a remarkable portrait of a brilliant complex and tragic genius' William Dalrymple, Los Angeles TimesGeorge Nathaniel... -
Brother Dusty Feet by Rosemary Sutcliff 9780099354215
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86Along with his faithful dog Argos, eleven-year-old Hugh Copplestone decides to leave his Aunt and Uncle's house after one beating too many, and heads for Oxford to seek his fortune.When he meets a... -
The Everyman Anthology Of Poetry For Children Gillian Avery 9781857159318
RRP: $16.13Booksplease Price: $12.19Gillian Avery, historian of children's books and novelist whose first book THE WARDEN'S NEICE has become a modern classic of children's literature, has made a very personal selection of favourite... -
Russian Poets Peter Washington 9781841597805
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86Ever since Pushkin, Russian poets have been famous for their ability to combine private and public experience in lyric poetry of a comprehensiveness and intensity unmatched elsewhere. Ranging in... -
The Jewel In The Crown by Paul Scott
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.51___________________NOW A BBC RADIO 4 EXTRA DRAMATISATION STARRING ANNA MAXWELL MARTIN AND PRASANNA PUWANARAJAH___________________BOOK ONE OF THE RAJ QUARTETIndia 1942: everything is in flux. World... -
Cinderella by C. S. Evans
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20This most beloved of all fairy tales is told in many versions and found in many different cultures - from the Italian CENERANTOLA to the Russian CHERNUSHKA For this edition, first published in 1919,... -
Remote People by Evelyn Waugh
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26Perhaps the funniest travel book ever written, Remote People begins with a vivid account of the coronation of Emperor Ras Tafari - Haile Selassie I, King of Kings - an event covered by Evelyn Waugh... -
King of the Fields by Isaac Bashevis Singer 9780141391588
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.86From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Isaac Bashevis Singer, comes a fictional exploration of primitive history. Singer's novel portrays an era of superstition and violence in a country... -
A World on Fire: An Epic History of Two Nations Divided by Amanda Foreman
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $20.60'No two nations have ever existed on the face of the earth which could do each other so much good or so much harm'President Buchanan, State of the Nation Address, 1859A World on Fire tells, with... -
The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914 by Simon Heffer
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.82'A riveting account of the pre-First World War years . . . The Age of Decadence is an enormously impressive and enjoyable read.' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times'A magnificent account of a less than... -
The Sleeping Beauty C S Evans 9781857159202
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20This most romantic of fairy tales is found in many versions, and the story of the beautiful girl who falls into a long sleep, to be awakened by a lover, has been interpreted by some as an allegory of... -
Selected Short Stories by Rabindranath Tagore
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Poet, novelist, painter and musician, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is the grand master of Bengali culture. Written during the 1890s, the stories in this selection brilliantly recreate vivid images...