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Ulverton by Adam Thorpe
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04Immerse 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... -
Missing Fay by Adam Thorpe
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04'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... -
No Telling by Adam Thorpe 9780099428831
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.27Set 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... -
Voluntary by Adam Thorpe 9780224094177
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $10.05From 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... -
On Silbury Hill by Adam Thorpe 9781915068361
RRP: $18.76Booksplease Price: $14.04Silbury Hill in Wiltshire has perplexed people for generations. Was it once an island, moated by water? Was it a place of worship, of ritual, of celebration, perhaps a way of marking the seasons'... -
Nineteen Twenty-One by Adam Thorpe 9780099272984
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.15It 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: $13.40Booksplease Price: $10.05These 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... -
Birds With A Broken Wing by Adam Thorpe 9780224079440
RRP: $12.06Booksplease Price: $9.17Adam 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... -
Nine Lessons From The Dark by Adam Thorpe 9780224063852
RRP: $12.06Booksplease Price: $9.17Adam 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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The Rules of Perspective by Adam Thorpe 9780753175255 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: $1.68Apologies 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: $9.37Booksplease Price: $3.51Hugh 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: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.01Adam 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: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.15Mysterious 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: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.26NEW 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: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36LONGLISTED 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: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.00LONGLISTED 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... -
The Martian's Regress by J. O. Morgan
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $10.05**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: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.811936: 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... -
A Division Of The Spoils by Paul Scott
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.68BOOK 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... -
The Shore by Sara Taylor 9780099591887
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63SHORTLISTED 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... -
Selected Letters by John Keats 9780141192796
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $16.58'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: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36'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... -
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Long Way Down by Ewan McGregor 9780751538953 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.22After 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,... -
Long Way Down by Ewan McGregor 9780751538953
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41After 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: $13.39Booksplease Price: $8.35A 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... -
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 9781784877460
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.97'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: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41The 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... -
Mermaids: Lusts and Legends of a Rebel Sisterhood by Sophia Kingshill 9781915068026
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $16.33Mermaids 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... -
Tell-Tales 4: The Global Village 9781845230791
Booksplease Price: $21.87Tell 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... -
Finding a Leg to Stand On: New & Selected Poems 1980-2012 Connie Bensley 9781852249564
RRP: $14.67Booksplease Price: $10.72Connie 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,... -
The Complete Poems Of Anna Akhmatova Anna Akhmatova 9780862417161
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $34.06From 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... -
A Way in the World: A Sequence by V. S. Naipaul
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09A 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: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.15'Spookily topical' Guardian Read... -
Selected Poems by John Burnside
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $13.56Over seventeen years and nine collections, John Burnside has built - in the words of Bernard O'Donoghue - 'a poetic corpus of the first significance', a poetry of luminous, limpid grace. His... -
The Price of Water in Finistere by Bodil Malmsten
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71'In the same way as there's a partner for every person, there's a place. All you have to do is find the one that's yours among the billions that belong to someone else, you have to be awake, you have... -
Rough Music by Fiona Sampson 9781847770455
Booksplease Price: $16.54'Rough music' is the old English name for a custom of public scapegoating. This is a book full of disturbing musical echoes, in which brilliant renewals of carol, charm, folksong and ballad explore... -
The Silvering Maura Dooley 9781780370941
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $9.89Maura 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... -
How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer by Sarah Bakewell
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $10.65How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love? How to live? This question obsessed Renaissance nobleman Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92), who... -
Silent in Finisterre by Jane Griffiths
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $9.89The houses and landscapes of childhood exert a strong presence in Silent in Finisterre. Recalled by name, in incantation, or described in ways that recapture their irreducible reality to a child for... -
The Invention of Paris: A History in Footsteps by Eric Hazan 9781844677054
RRP: $33.49Booksplease Price: $31.48The Invention of Paris is a tour through the streets and history of the French capital under the guidance of radical Parisian author and publisher Eric Hazan.Hazan reveals a city whose squares echo...