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Visitors by Anita Brookner
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Dorothea May's tranquility is shattered by Kitty Levinson's announcement of her granddaughter's forthcoming marriage. As the wedding approaches, the scene is set for a highly charged conflict of... -
A Closed Eye by Anita Brookner
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71'Without warning, it seemed, she had become a married woman.'Naive and undemanding, Harriet Lytton expects very little of life and that is what she recieves. Married to a respectable man old enough... -
Providence by Anita Brookner 9780241977767
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65Kitty Maule wants to be 'totally unreasonable, totally unfair, very demanding, and very beautiful.'Instead, she is clever, hesitant and too patient for her own good. For years, she has been in love... -
Fraud by Anita Brookner 9780241979419
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71'Oh, she'll turn up all right. Somewhere or other. Trouble is, we won't know where to look.'Slowly, almost imperceptibly, Anna Durrant's acquaintances realize that Anna has gone missing. Normally so... -
The Bay Of Angels by Anita Brookner
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65'It was at Millie's party, on that Friday evening, that she met her second husband, my stepfather-to-be, and thus changed both our lives . . .'Zoe is delighted when her widowed mother marries Simon,... -
A Family Romance by Anita Brookner
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71'Literature for me was a magnificent destiny for which I was not yet fully prepared.'Paul and Henrietta Manning and their solitary, academic daughter Jane have nothing in common with Dolly, widow of... -
Look At Me by Anita Brookner
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65'Once a thing is known it can never be unknown.' By day Frances Hinton works in a medical library, by night she haunts the room of a West London mansion flat. Everything changes, however, when she is... -
Undue Influence by Anita Brookner
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71'People are mysterious. And they do reveal mysterious connections. But sometimes one is merely anxious to alter the script. It was not the first time I had been guilty of a misapprehension'At... -
The Debut by Anita Brookner 9781982107512
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $16.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982107512Author Anita BrooknerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint -
Brief Lives by Anita Brookner
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71'I never liked her, nor did she like me; strange, then, how we managed to keep up a sort of friendship for so long.'Fay Langdon has relinquished her singing career to marry Owen, a highly successful... -
Latecomers by Anita Brookner 9780141048291
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65'No man is free of his own history' Hartmann and Fibich came to England on the kindertransport. As orphans of the war they were strangers in a strange land. Together, they survived. And in adulthood... -
A Private View by Anita Brookner 9780241979471
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71'Seated at a cafe table, in the syrupy warmth of out-of-season Nice, he reviewed his life and found it to be alarmingly empty.'George Bland had planned to spend his retirement in leisurely travel and... -
A Start in Life by Anita Brookner 9780241977750
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $14.54'Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.'Ruth Weiss, an academic, is beautiful, intelligent and lonely. Studying the heroines of Balzac in order to discover where her... -
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65Winner of the Booker Prize'The Hotel du Lac was a dignified building, a house of repute, a traditional establishment, used to welcoming the prudent, the well-to-do, the retired, the self-effacing,... -
Family And Friends by Anita Brookner 9780241977781
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11'Sofka gazes ahead, with her family's future before her . . .'Sofka Dorn, widowed matriarch of a prosperous German Jewish family living in England, rules her four children with an exacting hand... -
Lewis Percy by Anita Brookner 9780241977798
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71'The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.'Destined to be a... -
Falling Slowly by Anita Brookner 9780241977811
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71'She hoped one day to find the image she unconsciously sought, without knowing why she sought it, something to lift the spirits, to transport her on an imaginary journey, to give a hint of the... -
The Rules of Engagement by Anita Brookner 9780141014128
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71The Rules of Engagement is the twenty second novel by Anita Brookner, the Booker Prize winning author of Hotel du Lac.Elizabeth and Betsy are old school friends. Born in 1948 and unready for the... -
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner 9780241996560
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.80Winner of the Booker Prize, the beautiful, romantic and gorgeously philosophical Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner is part of our Penguin Essential series which spotlights the very best of our modern... -
The Next Big Thing by Anita Brookner 9780241977842
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $10.65'This would soon be a new day, all too closely resembling the others, the normal days of his present existence, in which nothing happened nor could be expected to happen'At seventy-three Herz is... -
Visitors by Anita Brookner 9780140264258 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $2.61Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner 9780140147476 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $2.64Winner of the Booker Prize'The Hotel du Lac was a dignified building, a house of repute, a traditional establishment, used to welcoming the prudent, the well-to-do, the retired, the self-effacing,... -
Eustace and Hilda: With an introduction by Anita Brookner L. P. Hartley 9781474616485
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.59'A masterpiece' Anita Brookner'A very beautiful novel' Nick Hornby'Includes some of the most perfect sentences in English' GuardianAt the turn of the twentieth century, two children play on an... -
The Long Afternoon by Giles Waterfield 9780747268482 [USED COPY]
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $4.13In the 1930s, Henry and Helen Williamson arrive on the French Riviera looking for a house. Barely thirty, Henry has been forced to retire from the Indian civil service through ill-health. They fall... -
The Gardener by Salley Vickers 9780241482797 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: $3.38The new novel from Salley Vickers, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Librarian and GrandmothersArtist, Hassie Days, and her sister, Margot, buy a run down Jacobean house in Hope Wenlock on the... -
From the Heart Susan Hill 9781784706135
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63A devastating coming-of-age story about a woman caught in the wrong era, from the bestselling author of The Woman in Black. ... -
Orlando King by Isabel Colegate 9781526615589 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $3.38The masterpiece of one of the most important and overlooked British women writers of the twentieth century, with a new introduction by Melissa Harrison; 'Isabel Colegate has no rival' (The Times) ... -
The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories by Penelope Lively 9780241978535 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $2.64'Lively remains a sublime storyteller' Guardian on How It All Began'More stylish than many writers half her age . . . Lively knows a thing of two about storytelling.' The Times on How It All Began A... -
Losing Gemma by Katy Gardner 9780141005461 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $2.44Two girls went travelling in search of adventure, in search of 'real life'. Only one came back ...A chilling, gripping novel about the backpacking holiday of a lifetime with utterly devastating and... -
The Birds Have Also Gone by Yashar Kemal 9781846559624
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11There is an ancient Turkish tradition which promises a place in paradise to anyone who sets a small bird free. Three boys start up a bird-catching business to enable people to free them in order to... -
The Lady and the Little Fox Fur by Violette Leduc
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'The great French feminist writer we need to remember' Guardian 'Violette Leduc's novels are works of genius and also a bit peculiar' Deborah Levy, from the introduction An old woman lives alone... -
The Boatman and Other Stories by Billy O'Callaghan
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.54The breathtaking short story collection from the Costa-shortlisted Irish writerThree gunshots on the Irish border define the course of a young man's life; a writer clings fast to a star-crossed... -
King of the Fields by Isaac Bashevis Singer 9780141391588
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.28From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Isaac Bashevis Singer, comes a fictional exploration of primitive history. Singer's novel portrays an era of superstition and violence in a country... -
Statues in a Garden Isabel Colegate 9781526621603
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.45'Just the right mixture of doomed fun, melancholy and faintly lascivious despair' Observer 'I am afraid I have something to tell you. It is that we are all about to be destroyed.' 1914. The... -
The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories by Penelope Lively 9780241281147 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $3.39'You are in the hands of a master' Daily Mail 'Thoughtful, intelligent and light of touch... Lively has the gift, rare and wonderful, of being able to peel back the layers one by one and set them... -
Last Stories by William Trevor 9780241337769 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $3.89*A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller*'What a writer he was; he could flip over a sentence so gently, and show the underbelly in a heartbeat. His work is always quietly compassionate' Elizabeth StroutIn... -
Henry And Cato by Iris Murdoch 9780099429081
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Henry and Cato is the story of two prodigal sons. Henry returns from a self-imposed exile in America to an unforeseen inheritance of wealth and land in England. He is also returning to his mother... -
The Blackmailer by Isabel Colegate
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.57The glittering, sharp and sinister work of one of our most incisive and wickedly funny satirists; 'Isabel Colegate has no rival' (The Times) 'What we feel for each other is really a passion for... -
Orlando King by Isabel Colegate
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36The masterpiece of one of the most important and overlooked British women writers of the twentieth century, with a new introduction by Melissa Harrison; 'Isabel Colegate has no rival' (The Times) ... -
The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories by Penelope Lively
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'Lively remains a sublime storyteller' Guardian on How It All Began'More stylish than many writers half her age . . . Lively knows a thing of two about storytelling.' The Times on How It All Began A...