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The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $22.68When 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: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40The 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: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.87Introducing 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: $21.40Booksplease Price: $16.26'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: $21.40Booksplease Price: $17.40Robert 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: $42.82Booksplease Price: $27.11The 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: $30.92Booksplease Price: $23.28George 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: $26.16Booksplease Price: $4.69From 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... -
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific by Paul Theroux
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $34.61Paul Theroux invites us to join him on one of his most exotic and tantalizing adventures exploring the coasts and blue lagoons of the Pacific Islands, and taking up residence to discover the secrets... -
Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation and Time Travel by Michio Kaku
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $23.30From 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... -
Forty Stories by Dave Eggers
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $21.97This collection of pithy, brilliantly acerbic pieces is a companion to Sixty Stories, Barthelme's earlier retrospective volume. Barthelme spotlights the idiosyncratic, haughty, sometimes downright... -
The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni 9780140442748
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.01Set in Lombardy during the Spanish occupation of the late 1620s, The Betrothed tells the story of two young lovers, Renzo and Lucia, prevented from marrying by the petty tyrant Don Rodrigo, who... -
Blake Poems William Blake 9781857157109
RRP: $28.56Booksplease Price: $20.99Blake'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... -
Inspirations: Selections from Classic Literature by Paulo Coelho
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $21.97'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: $38.06Booksplease Price: $29.68The 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: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.92The 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: $28.54Booksplease Price: $20.97Coco 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 Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $18.92More than any other writer Gilbert White (1720-93) has shaped the relationship between man and nature. A hundred years before Darwin, White realised the crucial role of worms in the formation of soil... -
The Prince Of Tides by Pat Conroy
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $18.92Pat Conroy's inspired masterpiece relates the dark and violent chronicle of an astounding family: the Wingos of Colleton, South Carolina. No reader will forget them. And no reader can remain... -
Fantastic Tales: Visionary And Everyday by Italo Calvino
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $23.30From fabulous enchantments and supernatural horrors to subtler, more psychological terrors, the best of nineteenth-century fantastic literature is collected here by Italo Calvino. These mysterious... -
Micromegas and Other Short Fictions by Francois Voltaire
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $23.28Something between a tale and a polemic, these "fables of reason" are feats of narrative compression and contain much of Voltaire's best and funniest writing. From ribald tales of adultery to... -
The Divine Comedy & Paradise by Dante Alighieri
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $21.97In Paradise, having plunged to the uttermost depths of Hell and climbed the Mount of Purgatory, Dante ascends to Heaven, continuing his soul's search for God, guided by his beloved Beatrice. As he... -
The Education of a British-Protected Child by Chinua Achebe
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.92The pieces here span reflections on personal and collective identity, on home and family, on literature, language and politics, and on Achebe's lifelong attempt to reclaim the definition of 'Africa'... -
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.40'The most reliable and comprehensive account of the Great Plague that we possess' Anthony Burgess In 1665 the plague swept through London, claiming over 97,000 lives. Daniel Defoe was just five at... -
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce 9780099573159
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.83Discover James Joyce's impressionistic portrait of a young man finding his artistic voice in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, reissued to coincide with 100 years since the first publication... -
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9781857150193
RRP: $33.32Booksplease Price: $24.13The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted "gin was the national drink and... -
Sylvia's Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell 9780140434224
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97Elizabeth Gaskell's only historical novel, Sylvia's Lovers, is set in 1790 in the seaside town of Monkshaven (Whitby) where press-gangs wreak havoc by seizing young men for service in the Napoleonic... -
The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf 9780140185638
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.92'A strange, tragic, inspired book ... It is absolutely unafraid' E. M. ForsterA party of English people are aboard the Euphrosyne, bound for South America. Among them is a young girl, Rachel Vinrace,... -
Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Robert Maturin 9780241366547
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40The Penguin English Library Edition of Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin'My hour is come ... the clock of eternity is about to strike, but its knell must be unheard by mortal ears!'This... -
The Mill On The Floss by George Eliot 9781857151121
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $23.99From the author of MIDDLEMARCH and SILAS MARNER, a story of frustrated intelligence and longing, featuring the intelligent Maggie, who yearns to be loved, and her brother Tom, who is forced to study... -
Summer by Edith Wharton 9780140186796
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $14.33A tale of forbidden sexual passion and thwarted dreams played out against the lush, summer backdrop of the Massachusetts Berkshires Edith Wharton called Summer her 'hot Ethan'. In their rural... -
The Bostonians by Henry James 9781857150827
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.16Tells the story of Basil Ransom, a bemused and handsome lawyer from the American South who battles with the earnest feminists of Boston for the soul of the beautiful Verena Tarrant, whom he hopes to... -
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $17.83'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: $47.60Booksplease Price: $35.11'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: $30.92Booksplease Price: $23.28Life 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: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.40Italo 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... -
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $15.87The Penguin English Library Edition of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne'Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, - stern and wild ones, - and they had made her strong, but... -
Emma by Jane Austen 9780141199528
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $15.87The Penguin English Library Edition of Emma by Jane Austen'I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall'Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma... -
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 9780141199672
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $15.87The Penguin English Library Edition of Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen"The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so... -
Legend of a Suicide by David Vann 9780141043784
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $31.32Roy is still young when his father, a failed dentist and hapless fisherman, puts a .44 magnum to his head and commits suicide on the deck of his beloved boat. Throughout his life, Roy returns to that...