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Christmas in Austin by Benjamin Markovits
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Intricately, intimately written, with some wonderful prose and delicate dialogue.' Guardian'A loving and nuanced portrait of a family's myriad functions.' The New Yorker'Utterly absorbing.'... -
Imposture Benjamin Markovits 9780571233335
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Three 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: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Douglas 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31ONE 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... -
Christmas in Austin by Benjamin Markovits 9780571365968
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £10.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571365968Author Benjamin MarkovitsFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Faber & FaberPublisher... -
Either Side of Winter by Benjamin Markovits
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31In 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... -
Imposture: A Novel by Benjamin Markovits 9780393329735
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £16.05Lord Byron was the greatest writer and the most notorious, scandalous lover of his age-an irresistible attraction for a sheltered, bookish, and passionate young woman like Eliza Esmond. Eliza... -
Playing Days by Benjamin Markovits 9780062376633
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062376633Author Benjamin MarkovitsFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher... -
A Weekend in New York by Benjamin Markovits
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'Elegant and absorbing.' Guardian'A book to be savoured.' Observer'Intimate, funny . . . Masterfully done.' Daily Mail'Sophisticated and engrossing.' Literary ReviewPaul is a mid-ranking tennis... -
Playing Days by Benjamin Markovits 9780571253173
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Fresh 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... -
A Quiet Adjustment by Benjamin Markovits 9780571233359
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Nineteen-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... -
A Quiet Adjustment: A Novel by Benjamin Markovits 9780393330229
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £19.94In his "Byron trilogy," Benjamin Markovits lovingly reinvents the nineteenth-century novel, true to its perfect prose, penetrating insight, and simmering passions. Inspired by the actual... -
Childish Loves: A Novel by Benjamin Markovits 9780393330236
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £23.29When his former colleague Peter Sullivan dies, Ben Markovits inherits unpublished manuscripts about the life of Lord Byron-including the novels Imposture and A Quiet Adjustment. Ben's own literary... -
A Weekend in New York by Benjamin Markovits 9780571403370
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £11.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571403370Author Benjamin MarkovitsFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Faber & FaberPublisher... -
Benjamin Markovits: Critical Essays by Michael Kalisch 9781032614915
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.28* The first collection to offer a critical guide to prize-winning Anglo-American novelist Benjamin Markovits's work * An invaluable resource for students and scholars of contemporary and popular... -
You Don't Have To Live Like This by Benjamin Markovits
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURYTen years out of Yale and drifting through a teaching career, Greg Marnier heads for his college reunion, jetlagged and drunk. There he bumps... -
You Don't Have to Live Like This by Benjamin Markovits 9780062376619
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062376619Author Benjamin MarkovitsFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher... -
The Rest of Our Lives: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025 by Benjamin Markovits 9780571388554
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31SHORTLISTED 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... -
Gentrification in Contemporary Fiction: Domestic Spaces, Neighbourhoods and Global Real Estate James Peacock 9781350295971
Booksplease Price: £85.65Focusing on literary representations of gentrification, this book analyses twenty-first century anglophone novels by authors from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and India... -
Age of Iron by J. M. Coetzee 9780241983935
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Nobel 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Nobel 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 Midcentury Minor Novel: American Fiction, 1945–1965 Michael Kalisch 9781399526876
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.99The Midcentury Minor Novel brings to light a distinctive mode of the American novel emergent in the middle decades of the twentieth century. It explains how a group of neglected writers reimagined... -
This Side of Brightness Colum McCann 9781408805916
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73At 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73WITH 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23On 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
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16'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: Love and Strife, 1965-2005 by Zachary Leader
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.04The final volume of the definitive authorised biography of one of the greatest American writers.'A moving testament to one of the last century's greatest writers' Sunday TimesAt forty-nine, Saul... -
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RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £3.43'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: £20.99Booksplease Price: £16.71Literature 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23*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: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.50'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... -
Philip Roth: The Biography by Blake Bailey
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.54'Superlative... definitive and genuinely gripping' SUNDAY TIMES'Utterly engrossing' EVENING STANDARD'Compulsively readable... Beautifully written... Definitive' OBSERVER Appointed by Philip Roth and... -
Early Sobrieties by Michael Deagler 9781804946626
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'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... -
Somebody's Fool by Richard Russo 9781838959586
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.23'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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.60'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 Origins of Cool in Postwar America by Joel Dinerstein
Booksplease Price: £22.29Cool. It was a new word and a new way to be, and in a single generation, it became the supreme compliment of American culture. The Origins of Cool in Postwar America uncovers the hidden history of... -
The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1855-1872: Volume 2 by Henry James 9780803226074
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £62.00The Complete Letters of Henry James fills a crucial gap in modern literary studies by presenting in a scholarly edition the complete letters of one of the great novelists and letter writers of the... -
The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers 9780393635522
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £20.76An 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... -
The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1855-1872: Volume 1 by Henry James 9780803225848
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.40The Complete Letters of Henry James fills a crucial gap in modern literary studies by presenting in a scholarly edition the complete letters of one of the great novelists and letter writers of the... -
Choice: A Novel by Neel Mukherjee 9781324116912
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.19"How ought one to live?" This is the question that obsesses London-based publisher Ayush, driving him to question every act of consumption. He embarks on a radical experiment in his own life and the...