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Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91WINNER OF THE 1992 BOOKER PRIZE'Gripping . . . SACRED HUNGER covers a period between 1752 and 1765 . . . it concerns the entangled and conflicted fortunes of two cousins: Erasmus Kemp, the son of a... -
The Hide by Barry Unsworth 9780393316322
RRP: $21.29Booksplease Price: $19.09This early work by the Booker Prize-winning author Barry Unsworth chronicles one of his literary obsessions the corruption of innocence and forms it into a compelling contemporary narrative set in... -
Morality Play by Barry Unsworth
RRP: $23.22Booksplease Price: $13.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525434092Author Barry UnsworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random... -
The Partnership by Barry Unsworth 9780393321470
RRP: $21.93Booksplease Price: $20.55Foley and Moss are partners in a successful small business, making plaster pixies for the tourist trade. Foley is the artistic member of the partnership; he thinks up the ideas and designs and has... -
Stone Virgin by Barry Unsworth 9780393313093
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $23.61A mysterious sculpture of a beautiful and erotic Madonna holds the key to the Fornarini family's secrets. When Raikes, a conservation expert, tries to restore her, he is swept under the statue's... -
Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth 9780525434115
RRP: $24.45Booksplease Price: $18.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Booker Prize 1992.Book InformationISBN 9780525434115Author Barry UnsworthFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
After Hannibal by Barry Unsworth 9780393317701
RRP: $24.51Booksplease Price: $21.88From the Booker Prize-winning author of Sacred Hunger, "a vivid, sinuous, profound, and entirely beguiling venture." -Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times. Set in the beautiful landscape and rich history... -
Pascali's Island by Barry Unsworth 9780393317213
RRP: $21.29Booksplease Price: $19.12The year is 1908, the place, a small Greek island in the declining days of the crumbling Ottoman Empire. For twenty years Basil Pascali has spied on the people of his small community and secretly... -
The Rage of the Vulture by Barry Unsworth 9780393313086
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $28.72It is May 1908 and the Ottoman world is crumbling. Robert Markham, an Englishman in Constantinople, is newly posted to the British legation with his imperious wife and overly curious son. Markham's... -
The Songs of the Kings by Barry Unsworth 9780525435242
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $20.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525435242Author Barry UnsworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random... -
Losing Nelson by Barry Unsworth 9780393321173
RRP: $27.09Booksplease Price: $24.45Losing Nelson is a novel of obsession, the story of Charles Cleasby, a man unable to see himself separately from the hero-Lord Horatio Nelson-he mistakenly idolizes. He is, in fact, a Nelson... -
The Quality of Mercy by Barry Unsworth 9780307948045
RRP: $24.51Booksplease Price: $18.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307948045Author Barry UnsworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random... -
Mooncranker's Gift by Barry Unsworth 9780393314786
RRP: $24.51Booksplease Price: $22.76Farnaby, a young Englishman in Istanbul researching a thesis on Ottoman fiscal policy, is nervous at his reunion with the celebrated Mooncranker who once so fatefully influenced and disturbed his... -
The Big Day by Barry Unsworth 9780393321494
RRP: $20.64Booksplease Price: $18.73Donald Cuthbertson prided himself on being a model for his students and teachers, but he had lately begun to lose his focus. Degree Day is approaching, along with a birthday party for his wife,... -
The Greeks Have a Word for It by Barry Unsworth 9780393321487
RRP: $21.29Booksplease Price: $18.81Kennedy, an opportunist, orchestrates a scam that will have some intended and some thoroughly unintended consequences. For Mitsos, an unresolved family tragedy awakens again, along with his need to... -
Sugar and Rum: A Novel by Barry Unsworth 9780393318906
RRP: $23.87Booksplease Price: $21.50Unable to work on his novel about Liverpool's slave trade, Benson is teaching creative writing and wandering the city. The pupils who bring him their fantasies are a sad, dispossessed group with... -
The Ruby in Her Navel by Barry Unsworth 9780525435259
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525435259Author Barry UnsworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random... -
Bittersweet by Danielle Steel
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66India Taylor lived in a world of manicured lawns and neatly-maintained calendars. With four wonderful children, India believed in commitment and sacrifice, just as she believed in Doug, the man she... -
The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one main ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But their routine is both shaken and stirred when they are joined by professional... -
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91'Still an acknowledged masterpiece and a model for historical fiction ... sympathetic and intensely involving: a great feat of imagination' Hilary Mantel Bringing to life the intrigue of ancient... -
The Safeguard of the Sea: A Naval History of Britain 660-1649 by N. A. M. Rodger
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.55Throughout Britain's history, one factor above all others has determined the fate of the nation: its navy. N. A. M. Rodger's definitive account reveals how the political and social progress of... -
Signifying God: Social Relation and Symbolic Act in the York Corpus Christi Plays by Sarah Beckwith
Booksplease Price: $36.83In "Signifying God" Sarah Beckwith explores the most lavish, long-lasting, and complex form of collective theatrical enterprise in English history: the York Corpus Christi plays. First staged as... -
Signifying God: Social Relation and Symbolic Act in the York Corpus Christi Plays by Sarah Beckwith 9780226041346
Booksplease Price: $118.59In Signifying God, Sarah Beckwith explores the most lavish, long-lasting, and complex form of collective theatrical enterprise in English history: the York Corpus Christi plays. First staged as early... -
Enchanted Objects: Visual Art in Contemporary Fiction by Allan Hepburn 9781487550363
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $28.28Enchanted Objects investigates the relationship between visual art and contemporary fiction, addressing the problems that arise when paintings, deluxe books, porcelains, or statues are represented in... -
Transculturation and Aesthetics: Ambivalence, Power, and Literature by Joel Kuortti 9789042039155
Booksplease Price: $104.14This collection is a timely reflection on the momentous concept of transculturalism. With its historical roots in globalization, transculturation, oriented to (new) aesthetics, seeks new cultural... -
The Oxford Book of Exile by John Simpson 9780192142214
RRP: $117.39Booksplease Price: $97.23From the moment Adam and Eve were expelled from Paradise, exile has been a part of the human experience. The circumstances in which individuals or entire peoples are compelled to leave their homeland... -
Claudius the God by Robert Graves
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.91Continuing the saga begun in I, Claudius, Robert Graves's Claudius the God is a compelling fictional autobiography of the Roman emperor, published with an introduction by Barry Unsworth in Penguin... -
Pleasured by Philip Hensher 9780007180202
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.17Perhaps the best novel yet about the collapse of the Berlin Wall, 'at once cinematic, intimate and epic' (The Times) - from Granta Best of British novelist Philip Hensher, author of the bestselling... -
Critique and Utopia in Postcolonial Historical Fiction: Atlantic and Other Worlds by Greg Forter 9780198830436
RRP: $107.07Booksplease Price: $98.08This bold and ambitious volume argues that postcolonial historical fiction offers readers valuable resources for thinking about history and the relationship between past and present. It shows how the... -
The Regeneration Trilogy by Pat Barker
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $19.03The Booker Prize-winning modern classic of contemporary war fiction from the Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the GirlsRecommended by Richard Osman 'One of the few real masterpieces... -
Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.15**By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021** A BBC RADIO 4 Book at Bedtime SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 1994 'A poetic and vividly conjured book about Africa and the brooding... -
The Oxford Book of the Sea by Jonathan Raban 9780192801944
RRP: $17.40Booksplease Price: $13.05It is no surprise that one of the earliest works in English literature should be a poem about the sea: the sea has been a source of fascination from the earliest times, and the Anglo-Saxon poem 'The... -
The Whaleboat House by Mark Mills 9780007161928
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $12.49From the No. 1 bestseller and author of Richard & Judy pick The Savage Garden: an award-winning crime novel set in post-war New York for fans of Carlos Ruiz Zafon and Jed Rubenfeld Long... -
John by Niall Williams 9780747596783
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20What invisible drama plays, what passes to and fro in the columns of air above them, none knows, but the disciples think: perhaps the time is arrived at last. Aged, blind and perilously frail, John...