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Imposture Benjamin Markovits 9780571233335
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $12.67Three years after Lord Byron dismissed him from his service, Dr John Polidori has fallen on hard times. And then a young woman mistakes the doctor for the poet. As the pair fall in love, Polidori... -
The Syme Papers by Benjamin Markovits
RRP: $15.18Booksplease Price: $11.44Douglas Pitt is a man obsessed. Laughed at, mocked and dismissed at every turn, Pitt has spent the best part of an unremarkable academic career attempting to prove the genius of Samuel Highgate Syme... -
The Sidekick by Benjamin Markovits 9780571371532
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.89ONE OF THIS WEEK'S BEST NOVELS OF 2022The perfect novel for fans of The Last Dance, Hoop Dreams and Winning Time'Exquisite. . . Warm, humane, and tragic.' JONATHAN LETHEM At his high school... -
Childish Loves by Benjamin Markovits 9780571233373
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $15.11When the narrator of Childish Loves inherits a colleague Peter's writings on Lord Byron, he finds himself acting as a literary sleuth. Sorting through boxes of manuscripts he reads between the ... -
A Quiet Adjustment by Benjamin Markovits 9780571233359
RRP: $15.18Booksplease Price: $11.44Nineteen-year -old Annabella Milbanke, visiting London for the swirl of parties and engagements of the season, is introduced to Byron at a waltz. He has just published Childe Harold, and is... -
Either Side of Winter by Benjamin Markovits
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.89In Fall we see the tentative beginnings of an unlikely romance - between schoolteacher Amy and drifting former graduate, Charles. In Winter we hear how her colleague Howard learns, seventeen years... -
Playing Days by Benjamin Markovits 9780571253173
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.11Fresh out of college and uncertain how to proceed with life, the narrator of Ben Markovits' Playing Days finds himself drifting towards a career that once obsessed his father - professional... -
The Rest of Our Lives: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025 by Benjamin Markovits 9780571388554
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.89SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025'Feels less like reading a novel and more like sitting in a car beside a dear friend . . . a profoundly moving experience.' ANN PATCHETT 'Deeply human ... a... -
Age of Iron by J. M. Coetzee 9780241983935
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $13.89Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker prize-winning author of Disgrace, J. M. Coetzee tells the remarkable story of a nation gripped in brutal apartheid in Age of Iron. In Cape Town, South Africa, an... -
Age of Iron by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $15.11Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker prize-winning author of Disgrace and The Life and Times of Michael K, J. M. Coetzee tells the remarkable story of a nation gripped in brutal apartheid in his Sunday... -
The Power of Dreams by Rosie Harris 9780099481829 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.38Booksplease Price: $4.67Fans 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... -
The Power of Dreams by Rosie Harris 9780099481829
Booksplease Price: $27.63Fans 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... -
This Side of Brightness Colum McCann 9781408805916
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.69At the turn of the twentieth century, Nathan Walker comes to New York City to take the most dangerous job in the country: digging the tunnel far beneath the Hudson that will carry trains from... -
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.97WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BENJAMIN MARKOVITSIn 1845 Thoreau, a Harvard-educated 28-year-old, went to live by himself in the woods in Massachusetts. He stayed for over two years, living... -
One Boat Jonathan Buckley 9781804271766
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54On losing her father, Teresa returns to a small town on the Greek coast - the same place she visited when grieving her mother nine years ago. She immerses herself again in the life of the town,... -
Early Sobrieties by Michael Deagler 9781529153811 [USED COPY]
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $6.71'Suberb . . . vivid' TELEGRAPH'The arrival of a writer of considerable gifts' TLS 'Michael Deagler is the real deal . . . a truly intelligent work from a clearly intelligent writer' PERCIVAL... -
The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964 by Zachary Leader
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $31.75Literature Book of the Year, Sunday Times'Terrific' Guardian'Enthralling' Spectator'Magisterial' Daily Telegraph'Unsurpassable' New York Review of BooksBy the time Herzog was published in 1964, Saul... -
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54*WINNER OF THE 2017 PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION* 'Beautifully written, thought-provoking, and unforgettable ... If you want a good understanding of how the issues that cause poverty are... -
The Feral Detective Jonathan Lethem 9781786497512
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $12.35'A nimble and uncanny performance, brimming with Lethem's trademark verve and wit' Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground RailroadPhoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist... -
Somebody's Fool by Richard Russo 9781838959586
RRP: $34.18Booksplease Price: $25.14'A wise and witty drama of small-town life . . . delivering the generous humour, keen ear for dialogue, and deep appreciation for humanity's foibles that have endeared the author to his readers for... -
Somebody's Fool by Richard Russo 9781838959616
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $12.54'A wise and witty drama of small-town life . . . delivering the generous humour, keen ear for dialogue, and deep appreciation for humanity's foibles that have endeared the author to his readers for... -
The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers 9780393635522
RRP: $43.68Booksplease Price: $41.42An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American...