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Parallel Text: German Short Stories: Deutsche Kurzgeschichten by Richard Newnham
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.59Much maligned in pre-war Germany, the short story enjoyed a creative rebirth in 1945. Initially imported by the Allies, the form also matched perfectly the prevailing mood of irony, objectivity and... -
Caleb Williams by William Godwin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78When honest young Caleb Williams comes to work as a secretary for Squire Falkland, he soon begins to suspect that his new master is hiding a terrible secret. But as he digs deeper into Falkland's... -
Our Town and Other Plays by Thornton Wilder
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Finding the theatre of the 1920s lacking in bite and conviction, Thornton Wilder set out to bring back realism and to celebrate the innocent, simple and religious. Yet he also tried to endow... -
Villages by John Updike
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Owen Mackenzie's life story abounds with sin and seduction, domesticity and debauchery. His marriage to his college sweetheart is quickly followed by his first betrayal and he embarks upon a series... -
The Complete Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.46Edgar Allan Poe's gift for the macabre influenced Baudelaire and French symbolism, Freudian analysis, the detective novel and the Hollywood film. His psychologically profound stories, which comprise... -
Wastelands 3: The New Apocalypse by John Joseph Adams
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.64The brilliant new post-apocalyptic collection by master anthologist John Joseph Adams, for the first time including new stories by the edgiest modern writers. The new post-apocalyptic collection by... -
Junky by William S. Burroughs 9780141189826
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05A 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 Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare 9780141396583
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.37'I pity the man who cannot enjoy Shakespeare' George Bernard ShawThe beautiful and witty Katherina has sworn never to accept the demands of any would-be husband. But when she is pursued by the wily... -
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol 9781857152807
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and... -
Nature and Selected Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Through his writing and his own personal philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson unburdened his young country of Europe's traditional sense of history and showed Americans how to be creators of their own... -
The Plague by Albert Camus
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The Plague is Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courageThe townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear,... -
How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A poignant coming-of-age novel set in a Welsh mining town, Richard Llewellyn's How Green Was My Valley is a paean to a more innocent age, published in Penguin Modern ClassicsGrowing up in a mining... -
The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Sam the Lion runs the pool-hall, the picture house and the all-night cafe. Coach Popper whips his boys with towels and once took a shot at one when he disturbed his hunting. Billy wouldn't know... -
The New Wilderness by Diane Cook
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.41'THE ENVIRONMENTAL NOVEL OF OUR TIMES.' Lemn Sissay, Booker Prize judge From a critically acclaimed author comes a searing novel about maternal love pushed to the brink by environmental... -
Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Cassie Wright, porn princess, intends to cap her legendary career by breaking the world record for serial fornication. On camera. With six hundred men. Snuff unfolds from the perspectives of Mr 72,... -
The Mortgaged Heart by Carson McCullers
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The Mortgaged Heart is an important collection of Carson McCullers"s work, including stories, essays, articles, poems, and her writing on writing. These pieces, written mostly before McCullers was... -
Selected Poems by Charles-Pierre Baudelaire
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The poems of Charles Baudelaire are filled with explicit and unsettling imagery, depicting with intensity every day subjects ignored by French literary conventions of his time. 'Tableaux parisiens'... -
A Son Of The Circus by John Irving
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.71'The doctor was fated to go back to Bombay; he would keep returning again and again - if not forever, at least for as long as there were dwarves in the circus.'Born a Parsi in Bombay, sent to... -
The Plague by Albert Camus 9780241458877
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'A story for our, and all, times' Guardian The Plague is Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courageThe townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims... -
The Italian by Ann Radcliffe 9780140437546
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31From the first moment Vincentio di Vivaldi, a young nobleman, sets eyes on the veiled figure of Ellena, he is captivated by her enigmatic beauty and grace. But his haughty and manipulative mother is... -
The Gentleman from San Francisco: And Other Stories by David Richards
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78A much neglected literary figure, Ivan Bunin is one of Russia's major writers and ranks with Tolstoy and Chekhov at the forefront of the Russian Realists. Drawing artistic inspiration from his... -
Red Dragon: (Hannibal Lecter) by Thomas Harris 9780099532934
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.65_________________________THE LEGENDARY THRILLER THAT CREATED DR HANNIBAL LECTERWill Graham was a brilliant profiler of criminals for the FBI - until he suffered terrible injuries in the process of... -
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Ex-Heroes: Superheroes vs Zombies by Peter Clines 9780091953621 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £1.98Book One in the EX SeriesThe Mighty Dragon. Stealth. Gorgon. Regenerator. Cerberus. Zzzap. They were superheroes fighting to make Los Angeles a better place.Then the plague of living death spread... -
The Royal Hunt of the Sun by Peter Shaffer 9780141188881
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73In the rich, humid air of sixteenth-century Peru, Atahuallpa, the Sun-God King, meets Pizarro the Conquistador, representative of the Spanish Empire at its most insatiable. While the Inca King is... -
No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Obi Okonkwo is an idealistic young man who, thanks to the privileges of an education in Britain, has now returned to Nigeria for a job in the civil service. However in his new role he finds that the... -
Licks of Love: Short Stories And a Sequel, 'Rabbit Remembered' by John Updike
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Collected with a dozen wonderful stories, all set in classic Updike territory, the short novel 'RABBIT REMEMBERED' is a major work in its own right - a riveting return to Updike's most celebrated... -
Plays Unpleasant by George Bernard Shaw
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23With Plays Unpleasant, Shaw issued a radical challenge to his audiences' complacency and exposed social evils through his dramatization of the moral conflicts between youthful idealism and economic... -
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce 9780143108245
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51The first, shortest, and most approachable of James Joyce's novels, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man portrays the Dublin upbringing of Stephen Dedalus, from his youthful days at Clongowes Wood... -
Those Who Wish Me Dead: Now a major film starring Angelina Jolie Michael Koryta 9781444742558
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78When Jace Wilson accidentally witnesses a brutal murder, his life is changed forever. An ordinary teenager growing up in Indiana, Jace is suddenly forced into the Witness Protection Program and given... -
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth 9781857151978
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41THE RADETSKY MARCH is subtle and touching study of family life at the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Writing in the traditional form of the family saga, Roth nevertheless manages to bring to his... -
Futurity: Contemporary Literature and the Quest for the Past by Amir Eshel 9780226924953
Booksplease Price: £48.40When looking at how trauma is represented in literature and the arts, we tend to focus on the weight of the past. In this book, Amir Eshel suggests that this retrospective gaze has trapped us in a... -
The First Man by 9780141185231
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.73The 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... -
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann 9781857152890
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.37With this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front ranks of the great modern novelists, winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929. The Magic Mountain takes place in an... -
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The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving 9780552992091 [USED COPY]
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £2.39'The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels.'So says John Berry, son of a... -
The New Wilderness: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020 by Diane Cook
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.50'THE ENVIRONMENTAL NOVEL OF OUR TIMES.' Lemn Sissay, Booker Prize judge From a critically acclaimed author comes a searing novel about maternal love pushed to the brink by environmental... -
Plays and Fragments by Menander
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Menander (c. 341-291 BC) was the foremost innovator of Greek New Comedy, a dramatic style that moved away from the fantastical to focus upon the problems of ordinary Athenians. This collection... -
Little Birds by Anais Nin
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Anais Nin's Little Birds is published in Penguin Modern Classics.Anais Nin's second volume of erotic short stories after Delta of Venus, Little Birds is broader in scope, encompassing the entire... -
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A sizzling drama of desire, avarice and deception set in the American Deep South, Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is published in Penguin Modern Classics.'Big Daddy' Pollitt, the richest... -
Sweet Bird of Youth and Other Plays by Tennessee Williams
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Loneliness, sexual tension and the need for human kindness pervade these three plays by Tennessee Williams, as their characters rage against personal demons and the modern world. In 'Sweet Bird of... -
On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books by Karen Swallow Prior
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.43Publishers Weekly starred review A Best Book of 2018 in Religion, Publishers Weekly Reading great literature well has the power to cultivate virtue, says acclaimed author Karen Swallow Prior...