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After A Funeral by Diana Athill
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.89This is the story of how and why a talented writer came to take his own life. When Diana Athill met the man she calls Didi, an Egyptian in exile, she fell in love instantly and out of love just... -
Don't Look At Me Like That by Diana Athill 9781783785803
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.89England, in the mid-fifties. Meg Bailey has always aspired to live a respectable life. With her best friend, Roxane, she moves from secondary school to an un-bohemian art college in Oxford. Under... -
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Don't Look At Me Like That by Diana Athill 9781783785803 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $4.31England, in the mid-fifties. Meg Bailey has always aspired to live a respectable life. With her best friend, Roxane, she moves from secondary school to an un-bohemian art college in Oxford. Under... -
Instead of a Book: Letters to a Friend by Diana Athill
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.89Diana Athill has corresponded with the American poet Edward Field for over thirty years, freely sharing jokes, pleasures and pains with her old friend, and writing with an intimacy and spontaneity... -
A Florence Diary Diana Athill (Y) 9781783787425
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $19.97A charming, vibrant diary of Diana Athill's holiday to Florence in the late 1940s. In August 1947, Diana Athill travelled to Florence by the Golden Arrow train for a two-week holiday with her good... -
Somewhere Towards The End by Diana Athill 9781803510927
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.11'There is a sense throughout Athill's work that you are making a new friend as much as reading a new story ... a delight to read' Observer WINNER OF THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZE, the moving and... -
Make Believe: A True Story by Diana Athill
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.89Following a turbulent upbringing, a history of addiction and a committal to an asylum, the teachings of Malcolm X changed Hakim Jamal's life. He became an eloquent, rousing spokesperson for the... -
Instead of a Letter Diana Athill (Y) 9781783787432
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.11Despite her family's ailing finances, Diana Athill's childhood - spent in a lovely house in Norfolk - was blissful. In 1932, she fell in love with Paul: an undergraduate who tutored her younger... -
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A Florence Diary by Diana Athill 9781783783168 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $3.50In August 1947, Diana Athill travelled to Florence by the Golden Arrow train for a two-week holiday with her good friend Pen. In this playful diary of that trip, Athill recorded her observations and... -
Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things that Matter by Diana Athill
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.89What matters in the end? In the final years of life, which memories stand out? Writing from her retirement home in Highgate, London, as she approaches her 100th year, Diana Athill recalls in... -
Yesterday Morning: A Very English Childhood by Diana Athill 9781783788163
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.89A remarkable, truthful and vivid recollection of childhood, from the author of Stet, After a Funeral, Don''t Look at Me Like That and Instead of a Letter. Here Athill goes back to the beginning in a... -
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Somewhere Towards The End by Diana Athill 9781847080691 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $3.50'There is a sense throughout Athill's work that you are making a new friend as much as reading a new story ... a delight to read' Observer WINNER OF THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZE, the moving and... -
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Somewhere Towards the End: A Memoir by Diana Athill 9780393067705 [USED COPY]
RRP: $34.18Booksplease Price: $5.91Diana Athill is one of the great editors in British publishing. For more than five decades she edited the likes of V. S. Naipaul and Jean Rhys, for whom she was a confidante and caretaker. As a... -
In My Mind's Eye: A Thought Diary by Jan Morris
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54'I have never before in my life kept a diary of my thoughts, and here at the start of my ninth decade, having for the moment nothing much else to write, I am having a go at it. Good luck to me.'So... -
On Smaller Dogs and Larger Life Questions by Kate Figes
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $9.99Coming up to her sixtieth birthday, Kate Figes found herself turning to the larger questions of family, love and life's meaning. It is like this author to examine different stages in writing, and... -
Spain by Jan Morris 9780571241767
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $17.54Spain is one of the absolutes. Nothing is more compelling than the drama, at once dark and dazzling, of that theatre over the hills - the vast splendour of the Spanish landscape, the intensity of... -
The Old Man and the Knee: How to be a Golden Oldie by Christopher Matthew
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.06Daunted by the prospect of old age? Fearful of becoming a silly old fool? 'No need,' says Christopher Matthew.He has just hit eighty. He plays golf; walks the dog; has all his own hair; doesn't need... -
My History: A Memoir of Growing Up by Lady Antonia Fraser
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.24The childhood and early life memoir of Antonia Fraser, one of our finest narrative historians.Antonia Fraser's magical memoir describes growing up in the 1930s and '40s, but its real concern is with... -
Conundrum Jan Morris 9780571341139
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.22As one of Britain's best and most-loved travel writers, Jan Morris has led an extraordinary life. Perhaps her most remarkable work is this grippingly honest account of her ten-year transition from... -
Ardor by Roberto Calasso
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.58In this revelatory volume, Roberto Calasso, whom the Paris Review has called 'a literary institution', explores the ancient texts known as the Vedas. Little is known about the Vedic people who lived... -
Rosie: Scenes from a Vanished Life Rose Tremain 9781784708016
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.97*The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller*Rose Tremain (or Rosie as she was then) grew up in post-war London - a city still partly in ruins, where both food and affection were fiercely rationed. But when... -
Dreams of the Good Life: The Life of Flora Thompson and the Creation of Lark Rise to Candleford by Richard Mabey 9780141044811
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $23.69While the Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy, Flora Thompson's much-loved portrait of life in the English countryside, has inspired a hit television series, relatively little is known about the author... -
You Will Be Safe Here Damian Barr 9781408886052
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $17.08An Observer, Guardian, Financial Times, Sunday Times South Africa, Irish Times, Irish Independent, Big Issue and Strong Words Pick of the Year An Irish Times and The Times Summer Reading Pick ... -
Florence: A Traveller's Reader Edward Chaney 9781472141293
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.77'The best conceivable guide to the city' - an essential cultural history for all visitors of FlorenceThe rich and glorious past of one of the best loved cities in the world, Florence, is brought... -
Gathering Evidence by Thomas Bernhard
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.97Born in 1931, the illegitimate child of an abandoned mother, Thomas Bernhard was brought up by an eccentric grandmother and adored grandfather. Tormented as a young student in a right-wing, catholic... -
Up Above the World by Paul Bowles 9780141191386
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $15.11A chance encounter while holidaying in Central America leads an American couple, the Slades, to befriend the charming, handsome Grove Soto and his young Cuban mistress. But as the Slades' trip... -
In Diamond Square: A Virago Modern Classic by Merce Rodoreda
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $15.24'A small masterpiece' Colm Toibin, Daily Telegraph'I don't know how many times I have reread the book, including several times in Catalan, with such effort that speaks volumes to my devotion to the... -
There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, And He Hanged Himself: Love Stories by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.11In these dark, dreamlike love stories with a twist, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya tells of strange encounters in claustrophobic communal apartments, ill-fated holiday romances, office trysts, schoolgirl... -
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Dying: A Memoir by Cory Taylor 9781782119784 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $3.61SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 STELLA PRIZEIn the year before her death, as she struggled with an untreatable illness, Cory Taylor began to write about her experiences, the patterns of her life, and of... -
Dying: A Memoir by Cory Taylor 9781782119784
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.89SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 STELLA PRIZEIn the year before her death, as she struggled with an untreatable illness, Cory Taylor began to write about her experiences, the patterns of her life, and of... -
Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac 9780140440508
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $15.11Depicting the fatal clash between material desires and the liberating power of human passions, Honore de Balzac's Eugenie Grandet is translated with an introduction by M.A. Crawford in Penguin... -
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce Colm Toibin 9780241354421
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $16.32An intimate study of three of Ireland's greatest writers from one of its best-loved contemporary voices, Colm Toibin__________________In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin takes three of... -
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Our Hidden Lives: The Remarkable Diaries of Postwar Britain by Simon Garfield 9780091897338 [USED COPY]
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $4.58In 1936 anthropologist Tom Harrison, poet and journalist Charles Madge, and documentary filmmaker Humphrey Jennings set up the Mass Observation Project. The idea was simple: ordinary people would... -
The River Between by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $16.00THE RIVER BETWEEN explores life on the Makuyu and Kameno ridges of Kenya in the early days of white settlement. Faced with an alluring, new religion and 'magical' customs, the Gikuyu people are torn... -
Things I Don't Want to Know by Deborah Levy
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $16.00The first in Deborah Levy's essential three-part 'Living Autobiography' on writing and womanhood. 'Unmissable. Like chancing upon an oasis, you want to drink it slowly . . . Subtle, unpredictable,... -
National Service: A Generation in Uniform 1945-1963 by Richard Vinen
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $23.62Winner of the Templer Medal and the Wolfson History PrizeSunday Times Top 10 BestsellerRichard Vinen's National Service is a serious - if often very entertaining - attempt to get to grips with the... -
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A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin 9780241239957 [USED COPY]
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $5.68A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller As one of the best biographers of her generation, Claire Tomalin has written about great novelists and poets to huge success: now, she turns to look at her own life... -
Confessions of an Italian by Ippolito Nievo
RRP: $37.98Booksplease Price: $27.87An overlooked classic of Italian literature, this epic and unforgettable novel recounts one man's long and turbulent life in revolutionary Italy.At the age of eighty-three and nearing death, Carlo... -
The Face of Another by Kobo Abe
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.11The narrator is a scientist hideously deformed in a laboratory accident - a man who has lost his face and, with it, connection to other people. Even his wife is now repulsed by him. His only entry... -
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Hidden Lives: A Family Memoir by Margaret Forster 9780140239829 [USED COPY]
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $3.74Margaret Forster's grandmother died in 1936, taking many secrets to her grave. Where had she spent the first 23 years of her life? Who was the woman in black who paid her a mysterious visit shortly...