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Ayoade on Top by Richard Ayoade
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.35A message from the Captain:'On behalf of myself and the entire Ayoade team, welcome to Ayoade on Top. At last, the definitive book about perhaps the best cabin-crew dramedy ever filmed: View from the... -
Yellow Tulips: Poems 1968-2011 by James Fenton
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Winner of both the Queen's Gold Medal and the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, James Fenton has given readers some of the most memorable lyric verse of the past decades, from the formal skill that... -
The Dwarfs by Harold Pinter
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $7.22Harold Pinter's first and only novel, written in the early 1950s before he began writing plays. The novel is set in post-war London's East End, a landscape of bomb-sites, and describes the lives of... -
The Caliban Shore by Stephen Taylor 9780571210725
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37The Grosvenor was one of the finest East Indiamen of her day, but she ran aground on the treacherous coast of south-east Africa. An astonishing number of her crew and passengers, including women and... -
The Complete Herbal Handbook for the Dog and Cat by Juliette de Bairacli-Levy 9780571161157
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $13.75Dog and cat owners are becoming increasingly concerned about the safety of processed pet food and the possible side-effects of over-use of antibiotics and hormone treatments This new edition,... -
Tom Stoppard Plays 4: Dalliance; Undiscovered Country; Rough Crossing; On the Razzle; The Seagull by Tom Stoppard
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.26This fourth volume of Tom Stoppard's work for the stage brings together five of his most celebrated translations and adaptations of plays by Arthur Schnitzler (Dalliance and Undiscovered Country),... -
Alan Ayckbourn Plays 4 by Alan Ayckbourn
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66The Revengers' ComediesA hugely entertaining pitch that recalls the old movies to which it frequently pays homage - Strangers on a Train, Rebecca, Kind Hearts and Coronets - and expands after... -
Government of the Tongue by Seamus Heaney 9780571141517
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37The title, The Government of the Tongue, carries suggestions of both monastic discipline and untrammelled romanticism, and is meant to raise an old question about the rights and status of poetic... -
Service Slang by J. L. Hunt 9780571240142 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $2.64Desperate to avoid 'bubble-dancing', join the 'dromestoners' or eat a nice 'tiddly oggy'? Baffled? Well, pull yourself out of the 'aspargus bed' and dip into Service Slang to find out what these... -
Underwood Lane by John Byrne
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Underwood Lane - the winter sun hangs like a suppurating boil glued to a giant sheet of dirty asbestos above the blackened tenements that rear up from the cobbled street like a row of broken teeth..... -
10,000 Qi Facts: A Brain-Busting Box Set by John Lloyd
RRP: $80.40Booksplease Price: $57.83QI is the smartest comedy show on television. Over the last seven years, the QI team have blown your socks off, made your jaw drop and knocked you sideways with their astonishing fact books. Now they... -
The Whitsun Weddings by Philip Larkin
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Philip Larkin (1922-1985) remains England's best-loved poet - a writer matchlessly capable of evoking his native land and of touching all readers from the most sophisticated intellectual to the... -
In Darkling Wood by Emma Carroll 9780571317578
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.07The end of the war . . .Two hopeful sisters . . . A magical wood . . .'You're telling me there are fairies in this wood?' When Alice's brother gets a longed-for chance for a heart transplant,... -
Qi: the Book of General Ignorance by Stephen Fry 9780571233687 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.35Compendium of popular misconceptions, misunderstandings and common mistakes culled from the hit BBC show, QI. Published to coincide with the fourth series broadcast in September 2006. If, like Alan... -
To Reach the Clouds: Man on Wire Film Tie in by Philippe Petit 9780571245857 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $3.52One night in 1974, a young Frenchman secretly - and illegally - rigged a tightrope between the twin towers of the World Trade Center. At daybreak, he gave the high-wire performance of all time,... -
Unnovations: Tomorrow's Outmoded Artefacts Today by Charlie Brooker 9780571275243 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $3.35Tomorrow's outmoded artefacts today. From the makers of "TV Go Home" comes a comic spoof of the consumer-product catalogues that arrive like an unwanted rash from newpapers and magazines. Modelled on... -
Nil Nil by Don Paterson
Booksplease Price: $12.37Nil Nil, Don Paterson's first volume of poetry, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 1993 and heralded the arrival of a major new talent. The book presented a new and urgent poetry of... -
God'S Gift to Women by Don Paterson 9780571177622
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37After the huge success of Nil Nil (a Poetry Book Society Choice and winner of the Forward Prize best first collection), Don Paterson's second collection was impatiently awaited. His readers were not... -
John Keats by John Keats 9780571328765
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer... -
Euripides' Alcestis by Ted Hughes
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Alcestis is the story of a king, Admetus, who is able to escape death because his wife, Alcestis, has volunteered to die in his place. Ted Hughes's version goes beyond translation to an inspired... -
Pierced by Thomas Enger
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65A Convicted Killer: Despite always maintaining his innocence, Tori Pulli, once a powerful player on Oslo's underground crime scene, has been found guilty of murder. A Loose End: Scarred reporter,... -
The Madonna of The Mountains by Elise Valmorbida
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80WINNER OF THE 2019 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTIONShortlisted for the Edward Stanford Award2019 Walter Scott Prize Academy Recommended1923, north-eastern Italy: Maria Vittoria's father... -
Vendetta (Tv Tie-in) by Michael Dibdin 9780571270637 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $3.42There was something about the Burolo case which was different any other he had ever been involved in. He had known cases which obsessed him professionally, taking over his life until he was unable to... -
The It Doesn't Matter Suit and Other Stories by Sylvia Plath
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.07A timeless collection of stories for younger children.In the eponymous The It-Doesn't-Matter Suit, little Max Nix is on a quest to find the perfect suit he can go ice-fishing, cow-milking and... -
A Strange and Sublime Address by Amit Chaudhuri
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Abhi, a Bengali boy, spends his school holidays at his uncle's home in Calcutta, trying to make sense of the often confusing world of adults around him. Heatwaves, thunderstorms, mealtimes,... -
Moondial by Helen Cresswell
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.07A new edition of the much-loved classic story of time travel, ghosts and friendship.Even before she came to Belton, Minty Cane had known that she was a witch, or something very like it . . .Minty is... -
A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe by Milan Kundera
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $9.81The people of Central Europe cannot be separated from European history; they cannot exist outside it; but they represent the wrong side of this history; they are its victims and outsiders.In a moment... -
Sylvia Plath: A Critical Guide by Sylvia Plath
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Sylvia Plath was one of the most gifted and innovative poets of the twentieth century, yet serious study of her work has often been hampered by a fierce preoccupation with her life and death. Tim... -
Five Boys by Mick Jackson 9780571206186
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Something strange is going on in the village. A dead pig is carried through the lanes in a coffin, a heap of signposts are buried in a field and a mummy walks the streets late at night, scaring the... -
Poems and Shorter Writings by James Joyce 9780571210985
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.67This collection brings together all the poems published by James Joyce in his lifetime, most notably "Chamber Music" and "Pomes Penyeach". It also includes a large body of his satiric or humorous... -
The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells by Andrew Sean Greer
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80It is 1985, and Greta Wells wishes she lived in any time but this one: she has lost her brother to AIDS, her lover Nathan to another woman, and can not seem to go on alone. To ease her sadness,... -
Medea by Euripides 9780571320769
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65I choose to take back my life.My life.Medea is a wife and a mother. For the sake of her husband, Jason, she's left her home and borne two sons in exile. But when he abandons his family for a new... -
Heir of Mystery: Unlikely Exploits: Book 2 by Philip Ardagh 9780571210947 [USED COPY]
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $3.39A cross between Dickens and Monty Python, this is the second book in the "Unlikely Explots" trilogy chronicling the adventures of the McNally family.About the AuthorOver two metres tall, with a bushy... -
Gaining Ground by Joan Barfoot 9780571399888
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80I swear I loved them all, and I did the best I could. And then I left them, left all of it.Abra has a perfect-seeming life as a wife and mother: until one day, she walks away, leaving only a note... -
Writing Home by Alan Bennett
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66Already a bestseller, this is a wonderfully entertaining collection of Alan Bennett's prose writings. Writing Home brings together diaries, reminiscences and reviews to give us a unique and... -
Stradivarius: Five Violins, One Cello and a Genius by Toby Faber 9780330492591
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'An incredible story of musical instruments, how they're made and what people make of them' - Keith Richards Everyone knows of the legendary quality and unbelievable price tag of a Stradivarius... -
The Big Music by Kirsty Gunn
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37'The hills only come back the same: I don't mind . . .' begins Kirsty Gunn's The Big Music, a novel that takes us to a new understanding of how fiction can affect us. Presented as a collection of... -
Good Will Hunting by Matt Damon 9780571196111
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $15.61Wildly charismatic, impossibly brilliant, totally rebellious - Will Hunting is a mathematical genius who lives on the fringes of society, refusing to accept the talent that he has for maths and... -
The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber 9781782114086
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $9.19OASIS, an Amazon Original Series, coming in 2017'I am with you always, even unto the end of the world . . .' Peter Leigh is a missionary called to go on the journey of a lifetime. Leaving behind his... -
Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life by Robert Spaethling
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08What was Mozart really like? Wild? Sublime? Responsible? Fun-loving? Bright? Foul-mouthed? Reading these sparkling new translations of Mozart's letters, we learn in his own words that he was all of...