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Ulverton by Adam Thorpe
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Immerse yourself in the stories of Ulverton, as heard on BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime'Sometimes you forget that it is a novel, and believe for a moment that you are really hearing the voice of the... -
On Silbury Hill by Adam Thorpe
Booksplease Price: £11.15Twenty years after the publication of his classic novel Ulverton, the acclaimed poet and novelist Adam Thorpe revisits the landscape which inspired him. Silbury Hill in Wiltshire has perplexed people... -
Voluntary by Adam Thorpe 9780224094177
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.50From an abandoned rowing boat in Estonia full of wild flowers to a swimming pool in the Congo full of drowned insects, Adam Thorpe's new collection takes us on a wide-ranging journey through states... -
No Telling by Adam Thorpe 9780099428831
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.17Set in 1968 in the Parisian suburbs, No Telling is narrated by twelve-year-old Gilles as he approaches his Solemn Communion, puberty, and some sense of the chaos around him. His home is deeply... -
Missing Fay by Adam Thorpe
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'An intricately crafted novel, sharp-eared, current and full of heart' Guardian, Books of the YearA spirited fourteen-year-old, Fay, goes missing from a Lincoln council estate. Is she a runaway, or a... -
The Rules of Perspective by Adam Thorpe 9780312426583
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £16.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312426583Author Adam ThorpeFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint -
Birds With A Broken Wing by Adam Thorpe 9780224079440
RRP: £9.00Booksplease Price: £6.84Adam Thorpe's fifth collection finds purpose in the discarded, the secretive, the failed. Juxtaposing creation and destruction, hope and grief - a small boy deep down a lead mine; an unlit, nocturnal... -
Nineteen Twenty-One by Adam Thorpe 9780099272984
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83It is the freakishly hot, drought summer of 1921; dust storms in London, parched and cracking earth, autumn tints in July. Holed up in a cottage in the Chilterns, a young writer strives to write the... -
Words From the Wall by Adam Thorpe 9781787330993
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.50These remarkable poems are despatches from the edges of experience: from the remote coast of northern Iceland where tree-trunks and dead whales lie beached, to the furthest outposts of the Roman... -
Nine Lessons From The Dark by Adam Thorpe 9780224063852
RRP: £9.00Booksplease Price: £6.84Adam Thorpe's fourth collection continues his engagement with history: the living continuum that connects us with our near and distant past, nourishing and illuminating our present. Here are traces... -
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Booksplease Price: £1.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780753175255Author Adam ThorpeFormat HardbackPage Count 472Imprint -
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Pieces Of Light by Adam Thorpe 9780099272694 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £2.67Hugh Arkwright's remote childhood in the Central African bush, and its sudden disruption, leaves him with a legacy of magic, mystery, and tragic loss. Late in his life, he returns to the gaunt house... -
Notes from the Cevennes: Half a Lifetime in Provincial France by Adam Thorpe
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22Adam Thorpe's home for the past 25 years has been an old house in the Cevennes, a wild range of mountains in southern France. Prior to this, in an ancient millhouse in the oxbow of a Cevenol river,... -
Therese Raquin by Emile Zola 9780099573531
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83Mysterious disappearances, domestic cases, noiseless, bloodless snuffings-out... the law can look as deep as it likes, but when the crime itself goes unsuspected... oh yes, there's many a murderer... -
When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.87NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK From the New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Wife comes a bold combination of true crime, psychology and a hint of the... -
Crow Court by Andy Charman 9781800180901
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA DAGGERS HISTORICAL AWARD 2022 Spring, 1840. In the Dorset market town of Wimborne Minster, a young choirboy drowns himself. Soon... -
Crow Court by Andy Charman
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.43LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA DAGGERS HISTORICAL AWARD 2022 Spring, 1840. In the Dorset market town of Wimborne Minster, a young choirboy drowns himself. Soon... -
When the Stars Go Dark: New York Times Bestseller by Paula McLain
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.50NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK From the New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Wife comes a bold combination of true crime, psychology and a hint of the... -
The Martian's Regress by J. O. Morgan
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.50**SHORTLISTED FOR THE TS ELIOT PRIZE 2020**From the winner of the Costa Poetry AwardA lone martian returns to Earth. He leaves behind him a hardened survivalist culture, its muddled myths and songs,... -
Next of Kin by John Boyne 9780552777407
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.811936: London is abuzz with gossip about the affair between Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson. But the king is not the only member of the aristocracy with a hard decision to make. Owen Montignac, the... -
The Shore by Sara Taylor 9780099591887
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2015SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES/PETERS FRASER & DUNLOP YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2015The... -
A Division Of The Spoils by Paul Scott
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.46BOOK FOUR OF THE RAJ QUARTETThe British Raj in India is in its final days. But the fall of the Empire is both the end of one era and the beginning of another. For the Hindus and Muslims, the... -
Selected Letters by John Keats 9780141192796
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.37'I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination' - Keats, in a letter to his friend Benjamin Bailey in November 1817.In a period of great... -
The Military Philosophers by Anthony Powell
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'He is, as Proust was before him, the great literary chronicler of his culture in his time.' GUARDIAN'A Dance to the Music of Time' is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English... -
Long Way Down by Ewan McGregor 9780751538953
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26After their fantastic trip round the world in 2004, fellow actors and bike fanatics Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman couldn't shake the travel bug. And after an inspirational UNICEF visit to Africa,... -
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 9780099573074
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49A NEW TRANSLATION BY ADAM THORPE'A great novel that is also an inexhaustible pleasure to read' GuardianEmma Bovary is an avid reader of sentimental novels; brought up on a Normandy farm and... -
Design for Behaviour Change: Theories and Practices of Designing for Change by Kristina Niedderer
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.59Design impacts every part of our lives. The design of products and services influences the way we go about our daily activities and it is hard to imagine any activity in our daily lives that is not... -
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 9781784877460
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'She wanted to die, and she wanted to live in Paris.'This is the story of Emma, trapped in a disappointing marriage with a dull country doctor, she dreams for a life more like the sentimental novels... -
Song of the Earth by Jonathan Bate
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The most important critical work for decades' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times In the brilliantly engaging style that characterised The Genius of Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate has written a series of... -
Englishness Revisited - Contemporary Literary Representations of English National and Cultural Identity by Karolina Kolenda
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.65The book discusses selected works of literature written in Great Britain in the final decades of the twentieth century in the context of contemporary debates on English national and cultural identity... -
Mermaids: Lusts and Legends of a Rebel Sisterhood by Sophia Kingshill 9781915068026
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £14.75Mermaids are blessed with one tail or two, are as happy in freshwater as salt, and boast an ancestry that stretches from the classical world to the present, pre-dating Homer's sirens and which will... -
Trauma and Romance in Contemporary British Literature Jean-Michel Ganteau (Universite Paul Valery, France) 9781138108028
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49Drawing on a variety of theoretical approaches including trauma theory, psychoanalysis, genre theory, narrative theory, theories of temporality, cultural theory, and ethics, this book breaks new... -
Tell-Tales 4: The Global Village 9781845230791
Booksplease Price: £16.05Tell Tales Four is a groundbreaking collection of short stories from the UK-based Tell-Tale literary collective. Taking as its theme, The Global Village, Tell-Tales 4 has drawn writers together from... -
Sound Barrier: Poems 1982-2002 by Maura Dooley
Booksplease Price: £9.88Maura Dooley's poetry is remarkable for embracing both lyricism and political consciousness, for its fusion of head and heart. These qualities have won her wide acclaim. Helen Dunmore (in Poetry... -
British Fiction Today by Rod Mengham 9780826487322
Booksplease Price: £40.38"British Fiction Today" provides students and readers with a critical introduction to key authors and novels since 1990 through a collection of the latest critical perspectives on current British... -
The Complete Poems Of Anna Akhmatova Anna Akhmatova 9780862417161
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £25.42From the artistic passion of the St Petersburg poets and bohemians, to the collective suffering of a nation, Anna Akhmatova spoke to, and for, the soul of her people. This magnificent edition... -
Finding a Leg to Stand On: New & Selected Poems 1980-2012 Connie Bensley 9781852249564
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £8.00Connie Bensley's poems are sharply satirical, often poking fun at social pretence and suburban pretension. They present a comedy of manners in which mismatched characters are bounced between love,... -
A Way in the World: A Sequence by V. S. Naipaul
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78A Way in the World is a vastly innovative novel exploring colonial inheritance through a series of narratives that span continents, swing back and forth between past and present and delve into both... -
The Secret Agent: With an Introduction by Giles Foden Joseph Conrad 9780099511533
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83'Spookily topical' Guardian Read... -
Madame Bovary: Vintage Classics French Series by Gustave Flaubert 9781784878450
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Madame Bovary is one of the greatest, most beguiling novels ever written.Emma Bovary is an avid reader of sentimental novels; brought up on a Normandy farm and convent-educated, she longs for romance...