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Any Human Heart by William Boyd
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31DISCOVER THE BOOKER PRIZE LONGLISTED NOVEL ABOUT ONE HEART'S LOVES AND LOSSES FROM ICONIC STORYTELLER WILLIAM BOYD'Superb, wonderful, enjoyable' Guardian'Full of delights' The... -
Exposure by Helen Dunmore
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.15______________________________'A deceptively simple masterpiece' Independent on Sunday'Will haunt you for months, if not years' Guardian'Outstanding ... if you only buy one book, make it this one'... -
The Children Of Dynmouth by William Trevor
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The Children Of Dynmouth - a classic prize-winning novel by William TrevorWilliam Trevor's The Children of Dynmouth (Winner of the Whitbread Award and shortlisted for the Booker Prize) was first... -
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.71Discover Mann's Nobel Prizewinning semi-autobiographical and sweeping family epic.The Buddenbrook clan is everything you'd expect of a nineteenth-century German merchant family - wealthy, esteemed,... -
The Night Listener by Armistead Maupin
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Gabriel Noone is a writer whose late night radio stories have brought him into the homes of millions. Noone is in the midst of a painful separation from his lover of ten years when a publisher sends... -
Island by Alistair MacLeod
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15These slow, beautiful stories - resolute and resonant - are small masterpieces: apparently simple but actually crafted with enormous skill and precision. Set against the unforgiving landscape of Cape... -
The Trick to Time by Kit de Waal
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67'There's a trick to time. You can make it expand or you can make it contract. Make it shorter or make it longer . . .'Some moments you want to last forever. Some moments shape a life. For Mona,... -
A Bit on the Side by William Trevor
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47A Bit on the Side - Twelve remarkable stories by the master storyteller William Trevor'Compassionate, poignant, even heart-rending. Almost perfect works of art by perhaps the greatest short story... -
Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain Barney Norris 9781784161354
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15A Times bestseller'Wonderful...I was hooked from the first page. It's the real stuff.' - Michael Frayn'Deeply affecting' - Guardian'Superb' - Mail on Sunday'Barney Norris is a rare and precious... -
Fever by J. M. G. Le Clezio
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78In these nine unforgettable and impressionistic 'tales of little madness', the Nobel Prize-winning author Le Clezio explores how the physical sensations we experience every day can be as strong as... -
Death in Spring by Merce Rodoreda
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Soaringly beautiful, urgent and disturbing... A masterpiece.' Colm Toibin, from the introduction'Dark and beautiful and brilliant' Sarah Moss, author of Ghost Wall Death in Spring is a dark and... -
The Dare by John Boyne 9780552775762
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.85At the start of his school holidays, Danny Delaney is looking forward to a trouble-free summer. But when his mother returns home one afternoon, flanked by two policemen, he knows that something... -
The Sagas of the Icelanders by Jane Smiley
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.97In Iceland, the age of the Vikings is also known as the Saga Age. A unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the world's great literary treasures - as epic as Homer, as deep in tragedy... -
The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth by William Boyd
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A philandering art dealer tries to give up casual love affairs - seeking only passionate kisses as a substitute. A man recounts his personal history through the things he has stolen from others... -
Any Human Heart by William Boyd 9780241981450
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Any Human Heart is William's Boyd's classic, bestselling novel, now available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary, but Logan Mountstuart's - lived... -
The Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017: 'masterly'GUARDIAN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: 'An absolute tour de force'Fran may be old but she's not going without a fight. So she dyes her hair, enjoys every... -
Death Match by Lincoln Child 9780099478638
Booksplease Price: £27.21A young couple are found dead in their apartment, and double suicide seems to be the only interpretation- Alarm bells ring in the towering Manhattan offices of Eden Incorporated, the high-tech... -
In Defence of Dogs: Why Dogs Need Our Understanding by John Bradshaw 9780141046495 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £1.78What would dogs ask for, if they knew how? In the Sunday Times bestseller In Defence of Dogs John Bradshaw, an anthropologist at Bristol University who has been at the centre of the latest research... -
Ships Of Heaven: The Private Life of Britain's Cathedrals by Christopher Somerville 9780857523648
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £26.29_________________'Something close to divine inspiration' - The TimesWhen Christopher Somerville, author of the The January Man ('a truly wonderful, uplifting book, bursting with life' - Nicholas... -
The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950 by Carmen Callil 9781849016766
Booksplease Price: £20.70For Colm Toibin and Carmen Callil there is no difference between literary and commercial writing - there is only the good novel: engrossing, inspirational, compelling. In their selection of the best... -
Armadillo by William Boyd
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Marvellously paced and ingeniously plotted. A real page-turner' Observer_________________________One winter morning, Lorimer Black - young, good-looking, but with a somewhat troubled expression -... -
Sleep Toward Heaven: How do you forgive when you can't forget? by Amanda Eyre Ward
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47In Gatestown, Texas, twenty-nine-year-old Karen awaits her execution on Death Row. In New York, Franny, a doctor the same age, plans her wedding and tries to resist the urge to run. In Austin, Celia,... -
Life Class by Pat Barker 9780141019475
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls The first novel in Pat Barker's acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - an unforgettable story of art and war,... -
The Early Stories: 1953-1975 by John Updike 9780141016085
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.18Gathering 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... -
The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'A bold, funny epic' Observer'Compelling and satisfying . . . At times, incredibly funny, at others, heartrending' Sarah Winman, author of Still Life___Cyril Avery is not a real Avery. At least,... -
The Awakening and Selected Stories by Kate Chopin
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02The Awakening and Selected Stories is Kate Chopin's groundbreaking depiction of a woman who dares to defy the expectations of society in the pursuit of her desire, edited with an introduction by... -
Pomegranate Soup by Marsha Mehran
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49For the inhabitants of the damp little Irish town of Ballinacroagh, the repertoire of gastronomic delights has never extended farther than the limp meals of the local inn's carvery. But things are... -
Fascination by William Boyd
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Fascination is master storyteller William Boyd's third volume of short storiesDescribed as "the finest storyteller of his generation", and following his acclaimed collections On the Yankee Station... -
Memories of the Ford Administration by John Updike
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23When a history professor - Alfred Clayton, the hero of John Updike's fifteenth novel - is asked to record his impressions of the Ford Administration, he recalls a turbulent piece of personal history... -
The Paper Man by Billy O'Callaghan
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54An unforgettable and sweeping interwar love story, from the Costa-shortlisted and bestselling Irish author of Life Sentences'Imaginative, beautifully told... Superb'SPECTATOR'The best book yet by a... -
Ancient Light by John Banville
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16'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... -
Before My Actual Heart Breaks by Tish Delaney
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49WINNER OF THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD__________________________________________________'Fresh, entertaining, funny and moving' RODDY DOYLE'A touching tale of how one woman survives a... -
After the Party by Cressida Connolly
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'I always wanted to be friends with both my sisters. Perhaps that was the source, really, of all the troubles of my life...'It is the summer of 1938 and Phyllis Forrester has returned to England... -
Standing In The Rainbow by Fannie Flagg
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16The time is 1946-2000. The Place is Elmwood Springs, Missouri. World War II has ended. Neighbour Dorothy broadcasts daily from her front room - to an audience across the state - the antics of her... -
Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Ruth Hilton is an orphaned young seamstress who catches the eye of a gentleman, Henry Bellingham, who is captivated by her simplicity and beauty. When she loses her job and home, he offers her... -
Two Lives: Reading Turgenev & My House in Umbria by William Trevor
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Two Lives: Reading Turgenev & My House in Umbria - two novels by William Trevor'Evocative and haunting. Trevor writes like an angel, but is determined to wring your heart' Daily Mail'Marvellous,... -
Stars and Bars by William Boyd
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'One of the comic masterpieces' Daily Telegraph ______________________________________Henderson Dores is an Englishman in New York - and completely out of his depth.He should be concentrating on his... -
The Steppe and Other Stories, 1887-91 by Anton Chekhov
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The Steppe and Other Stories 1887-91 is a collection that reveals Anton Chekhov's evolution from a novice writer to a master of short narrative form. This Penguin Classics edition is translated by... -
Fools of Fortune by William Trevor
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Fools of Fortune by William Trevor - a classic early novel from one of the world's greatest writersWinner of the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel of the YearMurder and revenge during the Irish Civil... -
The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers 9780099582793
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49The first modern spy novel and a must-read for espionage junkies and fans of James Bond and John Le Carre. ...