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Shelter in Place by David Leavitt
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36'Very funny and unexpected, a material response to our times, plush as velvet' Rachel Cusk 'A wickedly funny and emotionally expansive novel' Jenny Offill It is the Saturday after the 2016... -
While England Sleeps by David Leavitt
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Set against the rise of fascism in 1930s Europe, WHILE ENGLAND SLEEPS tells the story of the love affair between Brian Botsford, an upper-class young writer, and Edward Phelan, an idealistic,... -
The Two Hotel Francforts by David Leavitt 9781408843215
Booksplease Price: $14.55A taut and subtle historical novel of two couples caught up in a world at war, from the acclaimed author of The Indian Clerk'A highly accomplished, urbane and satisfying novel ... Splendid' Literary... -
The Body of Jonah Boyd by David Leavitt 9780747568285
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $9.57It's 1969 and Denny is on her way to the annual Thanksgiving dinner at the Wright's plush campus house. Denny is more nervous than usual because she has recently begun an affair with Dr Ernest... -
The Lost Language of Cranes David Leavitt 9781408854587
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11'One of his generation's most gifted writers.' New York Times 'An amazingly perceptive novel.' San Francisco Chronicle 'Fascinating... lingers in the mind' New York Times Book Review Owen and... -
While England Sleeps by David Leavitt 9780349109534 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $2.64Set against the rise of fascism in 1930s Europe, WHILE ENGLAND SLEEPS tells the story of the love affair between Brian Botsford, an upper-class young writer, and Edward Phelan, an idealistic,... -
The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the invention of computers David Leavitt 9780753822005
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41The story of Alan Turing, the persecuted genius who helped break the Enigma code and create the modern computer.To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an... -
Maurice by E. M. Forster
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.28An astonishingly frank and deeply autobiographical account of homosexual relationships in an era when love between men was not only stigmatised, but also illegal, E.M. Forster's Maurice is edited by... -
A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65'It was the start of my second new life, in a city that had a spin of its own - a wilder orbit inside the earth's calm blue-green whirl. New York wasn't open to the hopelessness and lost purpose that... -
Putting On The Ritz by Joe Keenan 9781784757083
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Following the hilarious debacle of Blue Heaven, librettist Philip Cavanaugh has again allowed himself to be drawn into a fiendish money-making plan by his friend and ex-lover Gilbert Selwyn. Gilbert... -
Selected Poems by Sharon Olds
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.32Michael Ondaatje has called Sharon Olds's poetry 'pure fire in the hands' and cheered the 'roughness and humour and brag and tenderness and completion in her work as she carries the reader through... -
Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World by Gregory Woods
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.15Finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards in the LGBTQ Studies category: a landmark account of the seismic changes brought to twentieth-century culture by gay and lesbian networks"An avalanche of... -
One Secret Thing by Sharon Olds 9780224087841
RRP: $17.42Booksplease Price: $12.70Sharon Olds completes her cycle of family poems in a book at once intense and harmonic, playful with language, and rich with a new self-awareness and sense of irony. The opening poem, with its... -
Meaningful Work: Stories by Joanna Novak
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.86Winner of FC2's Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize.A stunning look at the labor of obsession and the industry of self-destruction.In her lush, lyrical, and unflinching short fiction debut,... -
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 9780674057920
RRP: $61.57Booksplease Price: $52.01The Picture of Dorian Gray altered the way Victorians understood the world they inhabited. It heralded the end of a repressive Victorianism, and after its publication, literature had-in the words of...