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Love and Friendship by Alison Lurie
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $17.12'A brilliant and seemingly effortless accomplishment...steady uninterrupted delight' Sunday TelegraphFaculty wife Emily Stockwell Turner is beautiful, rich, and principled. However, five years in a... -
The Nowhere City by Alison Lurie
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $17.12'Marvellous entertainment' Sunday TimesJust married and newly arrived in Los Angeles are Paul and Katherine Cattleman. Paul responds immediately to the sunny, sprawling cosmopolitan city but to... -
Truth and Consequences by Alison Lurie
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73'Delightful... Her characters are, as always, wonderfully imperfect' New York Review of BooksAlan has changed because he's injured his back. Pain has altered his appearance and made him glum,... -
Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73'If you're coming to Lurie for the first time, you must begin with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Foreign Affairs' GuardianVinnie Miner is an American professor of children's literature on her way to... -
Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie 9780812976311
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $28.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize 1985.Book InformationISBN 9780812976311Author Alison LurieFormat Paper -
Real People by Alison Lurie 9781504053297
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504053297Author Alison LurieFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint < -
Words and Worlds by Alison Lurie 9781883285883
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $21.46In this candid and bluntly humorous collection of essays on a wide range of topics, Lurie begins with a portrait of her life at Radcliffe during World War II when the smartest women in the country... -
The Last Resort by Alison Lurie 9781784876272
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73Jenny has devoted her life to her husband, the famous naturalist Wilkie Walker. But this year, as winter comes on, Wilkie seems distant and depressed. In desperation Jenny persuades him to visit Key... -
Truth and Consequences: A Novel by Alison Lurie 9780143038030
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $35.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143038030Author Alison LurieFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint < -
The Language of Houses: How Buildings Speak to Us by Alison Lurie 9781883285609
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $37.17In 1981 Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Alison Lurie published The Language of Clothes, a meditation on costume and fashion as an expression of history, social status and individual psychology... -
The Language of Houses: How Buildings Speak to Us by Alison Lurie 9781883285661
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $23.02In 1981 Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Alison Lurie published The Language of Clothes, a meditation on costume and fashion as an expression of history, social status and individual psychology... -
A Study Guide for Alison Lurie's Foreign Affairs by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375380232
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $20.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375380232Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 54I -
Familiar Spirits: A Memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson by Alison Lurie 9780142000458
RRP: $50.40Booksplease Price: $39.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142000458Author Alison LurieFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint < -
Don't Tell the Grown-Ups: The Subversive Power of Children's Literature by Alison Lurie 9780316246255
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $32.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316246255Author Alison LurieFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint < -
Boys and Girls Forever: Children's Classics from Cinderella to Harry Potter by Alison Lurie 9780142002520
RRP: $50.40Booksplease Price: $39.48Presents fourteen essays on classic and contemporary children's literature, exploring the lives of notable authors and contending that the best writers for children hold on to some essence of... -
You Are Here: A Memoir of Arrival by Wesley Gibson 9780316740845
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.29A wonderfully original tale of the disintegration and mutation of an apparently ordinary American family. -- Alison LurieBook InformationISBN 9780316740845Author Wesley GibsonFormat PaperbackPage... -
Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting by Ann Hood
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $25.62Knitting Yarns explores what is so magical about knitting and how it can inspire joy and help us get through life-changing events. Knitting occupies an important a place in the hearts of a number of... -
The Wife: Discover the critically acclaimed novel behind Glenn Close's Oscar nominated performance by Meg Wolitzer
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.34NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING GLENN CLOSEA husband. A wife. A secret. Behind any great man, there's always a greater woman.Joe and Joan Castleman are on an aeroplane, 35,000 feet above the... -
The Wife: Discover the critically acclaimed novel behind Glenn Close's Oscar nominated performance by Meg Wolitzer 9780099478195
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73A Husband. A Wife. Their SecretJoe and Joan Castleman are en route to Helsinki. Joe is thinking about the prestigious literary prize he will receive there, while Joan is plotting how to leave him... -
Twice upon a Time: Women Writers and the History of the Fairy Tale by Elizabeth Wanning Harries
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $82.01Fairy tales, often said to be "timeless" and fundamentally "oral," have a long written history. However, argues Elizabeth Wanning Harries in this provocative book, a vital part of this history has... -
Gorey's Worlds by Erin Monroe 9780691177045
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $52.94An exploration of the artistic and cultural influences that shaped writer and illustrator Edward GoreyThe illustrator, designer, and writer Edward Gorey (1925-2000) is beloved for his droll, surreal,... -
Glorious Sky: Herbert Katzman's New York by Julia Blaut 9781904832836
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $44.65Herbert Katzman's lyrical representations of contemporary New York are a stunning tribute to the artist's fascination with the skyline of his adopted city. 'Glorious Sky: Herbert Katzman's New York'... -
Love In Idleness by Amanda Craig 9780349115856
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $13.99'This is a life-affirming read - take it on holiday, but leave the rest of the party at home' The Times'An intelligent and satisfying romantic comedy' Women and HomeAt the Casa Luna, friends and... -
Games At Twilight by Anita Desai
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $21.97Set in contemporary Bombay and other cities, these stories reflect the kaleidoscope of urban life - evoking the colour, sounds and white-hot heat of the city. Warm, perceptive, humorous and touched... -
The Complete Stories by Anita Desai
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73The Complete Stories gathers together Anita Desai's short story collections Diamond Dust and Games at Twilight and the novellas of The Artist of Disappearance, with a new preface from the author... -
American Women Writing Fiction: Memory, Identity, Family, Space by Mickey Pearlman
Booksplease Price: $73.06American literature is no longer the refuge of the solitary hero. Like the society it mirrors, it is now a far richer, many-faceted explication of a complicated and diverse society -- racially,... -
On the Button: The Significance of an Ordinary Item by Nina Edwards 9781848855847
Booksplease Price: $145.97What do you use every day that is small and large, worthless and beyond price? It's easily found in the gutter, yet you may never be able to replace it. You are always losing it but it faithfully... -
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RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $5.17'Love is, of course, a central preoccupation of literature...' Victoria Hislop, bestselling author and champion of the short story, has chosen her favourite short stories by women writers. Here... -
Diamond Dust & Other Stories by Anita Desai 9780099289647
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $26.19Whole lives come into focus in this rich and diverse collection, as Desai trains her luminous spotlight on private universes from India to Canada and New England, from Cornwall to Mexico. Her... -
Fundamentalism in America: Millennialism, Identity and Militant Religion by Philip H. Melling 9780748609789
RRP: $71.38Booksplease Price: $63.48This important book challenges the idea that religious fundamentalism can adequately be understood as a paranoid, xenophobic faith. It demonstrates instead how it draws upon a long tradition of... -
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The Story: Life: Great Short Stories for Women by Women by Victoria Hislop 9781781856666 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $5.63'Life provides infinite shades of light and dark...' Victoria Hislop, bestselling author and champion of the short story, has chosen her favourite short stories by women writers. Here are... -
The Dogs of Littlefield by Suzanne Berne
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $26.19Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2014Littlefield, Massachusetts: home to psychologists, college professors and their over-achieving children, and recently lauded as one of the Ten... -
Dressed in Fiction by Clair Hughes 9781845201722
Booksplease Price: $77.32When we look closely at dress in a novel we begin to enrich our sense of the novel's historical and social context. More than this, wealth, class, beauty and moral rectitude can all be coded in... -
My Life and Dr.Joyce Brothers: A Novel in Stories by Kelly Cherry 9780817312435
Booksplease Price: $49.41Nina is a Virginia belle, now out shoveling Wisconsin snow. Divorced, childless, and middle-aged, she's alone again, having been recently left by the man she loves. She has a cute, cuddly dog for... -
The Bible for Children: From the Age of Gutenberg to the Present by Ruth B. Bottigheimer 9780300207514
Booksplease Price: $73.96For more than five centuries, parents, teachers, and preachers in Europe and America have written and illustrated Bibles especially for children. These children's Bibles vary widely, featuring... -
The Sorcerer's Apprentice: An Anthology of Magical Tales by Jack Zipes 9780691191423
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $32.70A diverse new anthology that traces the meaning and magic of the sorcerer's apprentice tale throughout history"The Sorcerer's Apprentice" might conjure up images of Mickey Mouse from the Disney film... -
Moods by Louisa May Alcott 9780813516707
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $56.91Moods, Louisa May Alcott's first novel was published in 1864, four years before the best-selling Little Women. The novel unconventionally presents a "little woman," a true-hearted abolitionist... -
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The Lie of the Land by Amanda Craig 9780349142685 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $5.04'A very good read indeed' MATT HAIG'Terrific, page-turning, slyly funny' INDIA KNIGHT'As satisfying a novel as I have read in years' SARAH PERRY'One of the most brilliant and entertaining novelists'... -
The Lie of the Land by Amanda Craig
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.28'A very good read indeed' MATT HAIG'Terrific, page-turning, slyly funny' INDIA KNIGHT'As satisfying a novel as I have read in years' SARAH PERRY'One of the most brilliant and entertaining novelists'... -
Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life by Claire Tomalin
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70Katherine Mansfield is the celebrated biography be bestselling author Claire Tomalin'One of the best biographies I have ever read: a perfect match of author and subject. It should become a classic' ...