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Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.08No longer a boy, not quite a man, Edwin Clayhanger stands on a canal bridge on his last day of school, and surveys the valley of Bursley and the Five Towns. Serious, good-natured and full of... -
The Regent by Arnold Bennett 9789365783186
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789365783186Author Arnold BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint -
Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04Miserly and mysterious, the richest man in the Five Towns lives simply, ruling his household with an iron fist and a cruel temper. His daughter, Anna, is used to the life of strict, thrifty order... -
Riceyman Steps Arnold Bennett 9780241255797
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65Henry Earlforward, a shabby Clerkenwell bookseller, has retired from life to devote himself (and his wife Violet) to a consuming passion for money. Miserliness becomes a fatal illness and Bennett... -
The Grand Babylon Hotel by Arnold Bennett
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04Nella, daughter of millionaire Theodore Racksole, orders a dinner of steak and beer at the exclusive Grand Babylon Hotel in London. Her order is refused, so Theodore promptly buys the chef, the... -
The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68'There are few more moving accounts of the effects of time, the passage of history and the slow encroachment of age than this remarkable, epic novel' Guardian ... -
Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett 9780241255773
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65'Deeply moving, original, and dealing with material that I had never encountered in fiction, but only in life' Margaret Drabble Growing up in the world of the 'five towns' of industrial England,... -
The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett 9780915864775
RRP: $28.07Booksplease Price: $20.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780915864775Author Arnold BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 586Imprint -
Shelter, Housing and Homes: a Social Right by Arnold Bennett 9781551640426
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551640426Author Arnold BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint -
The Card: A Story of Adventure in the Five Towns Arnold Bennett 9780241255544
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65One of fiction's greatest chancers - the story of Denry Machin and his unceasing, ingenious efforts to become a great manSet in the raw, Victorian world of the 'Five Towns', The Card tells the... -
Oxford Bookworms Library: Level 2:: Stories from the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
Booksplease Price: $16.23"The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story." David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.Why does... -
How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F.A. Cup by J. L. Carr
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.80'One of the greatest football novels ever written and a comic masterpiece' DJ Taylor' DJ Taylor'But is this story believable? Ah, it all depends upon whether you want it to believe it.' J.L. CarrIn... -
Light In August by William Faulkner 9780099283157
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.92A landmark in American fiction, Light in August explores Faulkner's central theme: the nature of evil. Joe Christmas - a man doomed, deracinated and alone - wanders the Deep South in search of an... -
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Marriage Material by Sathnam Sanghera 9780099558675 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $2.65SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD AND LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE To Arjan Banga, who has returned to the Black Country after the unexpected death of his father, his family's... -
The Saga of Goesta Berling by Selma Lagerlof 9780143105909
Booksplease Price: $18.00One hundred years ago, Selma Lagerloef became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. She assured her place in Swedish letters with this sweeping historical epic, her first and... -
Marriage Material by Sathnam Sanghera
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD AND LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZEFROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BOY WITH THE TOPKNOT AND EMPIRELAND'Enormously enjoyable' SUNDAY TIMES'A satirical... -
The Great British Dream Factory: The Strange History of Our National Imagination by Dominic Sandbrook
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.41'Delightfully good ... an exuberant and learned celebration of British culture ... full of love for and fascination with everything from the origins of heavy metal in the metal-bashing industries of... -
It's Gone Dark Over Bill's Mother's by Lisa Blower 9781912408160
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Arnold Bennett Prize 2020.Book InformationISBN 9781912408160Author Lisa BlowerFormat P -
The Persians and Other Plays: The Persians / Prometheus Bound / Seven Against Thebes / The Suppliants by Aeschylus
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. The Persians, the only Greek tragedy to deal with events from... -
The Golden Age of British Short Stories 1890-1914 by Philip Hensher
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37'Excellent, entertaining and ingenious ... from Oscar Wilde to Arthur Conan Doyle, this fine anthology celebrates one of the richest moments in Britain's literary history' Sunday TimesThe quarter... -
The Power of Dreams by Rosie Harris 9780099481829
Booksplease Price: $19.48Fans of Dilly Court, Kitty Neale, Emma Hornby and Rosie Goodwin will love this vivid and compelling saga, set around Tiger Bay and Cardiff. Much-loved multi-million copy bestseller Rosie Harris has... -
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 9780141394671
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and... -
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The Power of Dreams by Rosie Harris 9780099481829 [USED COPY]
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $3.30Fans of Dilly Court, Kitty Neale, Emma Hornby and Rosie Goodwin will love this vivid and compelling saga, set around Tiger Bay and Cardiff. Much-loved multi-million copy bestseller Rosie Harris has... -
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell 9780140434248
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80As relevant now as when it was first published, Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South skilfully weaves a compelling love story into a clash between the pursuit of profit and humanitarian ideals. This... -
Demolition by Neil Rollinson 9780224081719
RRP: $12.06Booksplease Price: $9.17With the frank, subversive, and very funny poems in his first two books, Neil Rollinson established himself as a deft cartographer of the sensual world. While a rich and tactile eroticism still... -
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Chandlers Green by Ruth Hamilton 9780552150330 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: $3.94The Chandlers had been making candles in Bolton for five hundred years, and had given their name to the village of Chandlers Green. The dynasty, now in decline and ruled by Richard Chandler, is... -
The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Lord Alfred Tennyson 9781853264146
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $5.67Selected by Rosemary Gray. Poignant, wry, chilling, challenging, amusing, thought-provoking and always intriguing, these accomplished tales from the pens of great writers are object-lessons in the... -
Long Summer Day: The first in the magnificent saga trilogy by R. F. Delderfield
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.191902-1911An age of innocence and hope.Before the storm clouds roll over Europe. As Paul Craddock recovers from his Boer War injuries, he starts to plan a new life. As soon as he is able he invests... -
The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy 9780140435474
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65When country-girl Grace Melbury returns home from her middle-class school she feels she has risen above her suitor, the simple woodsman Giles Winterborne. Though marriage had been discussed between... -
I Am Stone: The Gothic Weird Tales of R. Murray Gilchrist by R. Murray Gilchrist 9780712354004
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92'The first thing my dazed eyes fell upon was the mirror of black glass... She held it so that I might gaze into its depths. And there, with a cry of amazement and fear, I saw the shadow of the... -
The Oxford Anthology of English Poetry Volume II: Blake to Heaney by John Wain 9780192804228
RRP: $19.42Booksplease Price: $15.22This two-volume anthology celebrates four centuries of English poetry, from the Elizabethan era to the present day. This, the second of the two volumes, covers poets from Blake to Heaney, and... -
A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: The Collected Stories by Margaret Drabble
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65Margaret Drabble is one of the major literary figures of her generation. In this collection of her complete short fiction from across four decades, she examines the intense private worlds and... -
All Over the Town R. F. Delderfield 9781444762495
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75Nat Hearn came back from the War to be assistant editor and can carrier in chief of the Sandcome Clarion.R.F. Delderfield takes the lid off small town life with a relish born of experience and... -
Llandudno Through Time by Christopher Draper
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.65'Llandudno is more stylish than either Rhyl or Blackpool and not dearer', observed Edwardian author Arnold Bennett. Prime Minister Lloyd George considered the resort a perfect tonic, advising... -
The Journal of a Disappointed Man by W. N. P. Barbellion
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.37The young naturalist W. N. P. Barbellion described this remarkably candid record of living with multiple sclerosis as 'a study in the nude'. It begins as an ambitious teenager's notes on the natural... -
The Avenue Goes to War by R. F. Delderfield
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75Life didn't stop in the Avenue because the war had started . . .Berni Carver joins up with the Commandos with his twin brother hoping they will serve out the war together. Archie Carver is determined... -
Cheap Day Return R. F. Delderfield 9780340554487
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75Kent Stuart left the West Country town of Redcliffe Bay more than thirty years ago, pursued by the guilt and shame of a scandal that cost him his youth and happiness.Having led an exciting life as a... -
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Cheap Day Return by R. F. Delderfield 9780340554487 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $3.22Kent Stuart left the West Country town of Redcliffe Bay more than thirty years ago, pursued by the guilt and shame of a scandal that cost him his youth and happiness.Having led an exciting life as a... -
The Lazy Weekend Cookbook: Relaxed brunches, lunches, roasts and sweet treats by Matt Williamson
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.17Chef Matt Williamson serves up an abundance of culinary inspiration from around the world, from breakfast classics such as French toast to Mexican barbecues, delicious baking suggestions to... -
Come Home Charlie & Face Them: A classic heist novel full of 20s nostalgia by R. F. Delderfield
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75The real motive wasn't love and it wasn't greed . . . It rose to the surface out of a grey pit of boredom.When Charlie Pritchard is shown a way to escape his mundane and monotonous life as a...