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Constitutional by Helen Simpson 9780099494188
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49A sensational short story collection from Britain's master of the genre.Charting tantrums, funerals, pregnancy and love affairs, these stories unroll with piercing wit and compassion. One woman finds... -
Motherhood: Vintage Minis by Helen Simpson
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.85Enjoy Helen Simpson's sharply funny, humane take on the everyday joys and struggles of motherhood in this perfect Mother's Day gift. ... -
In-Flight Entertainment by Helen Simpson 9780099546122
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Poignant, funny and perceptive, Helen Simpson's fifth collection of runs the gamut of emotions and deals with birth, death and everything in between. We shift from a diary chronicling the dangers of... -
A Bunch of Fives by Helen Simpson 9780099561576
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54Since the 1990 publication of her first collection, Four Bare Legs in a Bed, Helen Simpson has been hailed as one of the best short story writers at work in the world today. These wonderfully funny... -
Cockfosters: Stories by Helen Simpson 9780525563624
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £14.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525563624Author Helen SimpsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint -
Getting a Life by Helen Simpson 9780375724978
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £13.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375724978Author Helen SimpsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint -
Four Bare Legs In a Bed by Helen Simpson 9780749391621
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.46Brilliant, funny and tragic, Four Bare Legs in a Bed is an outstanding and invigorating collection of short stories. In Simpson's singular and opulent voice, we hear of the mixed blessings of... -
Dear George And Other Stories by Helen Simpson 9780749395452
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73In this stellar collection of short stories, Helen Simpson explores independence, solitude, marriage, sex and babies with her characteristic blend of comedy and lyricism. Here are tales of young love... -
Hey Yeah Right Get A Life by Helen Simpson 9780099284222
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.57Helen Simpson's third collection is a bold, honest exploration of the trials and the rewards of motherhood. 'Her stories are - for those who, like me, recognise the truth in every word - like a... -
Multitudes by Lucy Caldwell
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31From Belfast to London and back again the eleven stories that comprise Caldwell's first collection explore the many facets of growing up - the pain and the heartache, the tenderness and the joy,... -
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Dear George And Other Stories by Helen Simpson 9780749395452 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.92In this stellar collection of short stories, Helen Simpson explores independence, solitude, marriage, sex and babies with her characteristic blend of comedy and lyricism. Here are tales of young love... -
The Ritz London Book Of Afternoon Tea: The Art and Pleasures of Taking Tea Helen Simpson 9780091909949
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81Taking tea is one of the quintessentially English occasions, and who is a greater authority on the subject than the sumptuous Ritz London Hotel? This charming Edwardian-style book captures the... -
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The Ritz London Book Of Afternoon Tea: The Art and Pleasures of Taking Tea by Helen Simpson 9780091909949 [USED COPY]
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £1.97Taking tea is one of the quintessentially English occasions, and who is a greater authority on the subject than the sumptuous Ritz London Hotel? This charming Edwardian-style book captures the... -
Back Talk by Danielle Lazarin
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £3.39'Beautifully crafted' New York Times'The best collection I've read in years, from a phenomenal new talent' Celeste NgFrom an award-winning writer, a stunning collection of stories about women's... -
Ten by Andrej Longo 9781846556173
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46The Mafia and the Ten Commandments meet in these interlinked short stories about the undebelly of Naples. Ten uncovers the raw heart of a city, telling the stories of ordinary people forced to make... -
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank Nathan Englander 9781780222295
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.89A FRANK O'CONNOR AWARD-winning, simply stunning short-story collection by one of America's most critically acclaimed young writers.From the up-and-coming young American writer who has contributed to... -
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Panorama of Paris: Selections from "Tableau de Paris" by Louis-Sebastien Mercier 9780271019314
Booksplease Price: £32.96Panorama of Paris offers English-language readers an introduction to one of the forgotten masterpieces of French literature, Louis-Sebastien Mercier's twelve-volume Le Tableau de Paris (published... -
When Last I Died by Gladys Mitchell
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYRediscover Gladys Mitchell - one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers.When psychoanalyst and detective Mrs Bradley's... -
The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story by Philip Hensher
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Sometimes - not often - a book comes along that feels like Christmas. Philip Hensher's timely, but timeless, selection of the best short stories from the past 20 years is that kind of book. His... -
Granta 98: The Deep End by Ian Jack 9780903141949
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.26Struggling maybe, but waving not drowning. This issue of "Granta" contains writing from people whose experience of life suggests they have something to tell us about survival.This work features Diana... -
British Women Short Story Writers: The New Woman to Now by Emma Young
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.41What is the relationship between the British woman writer and the short story? This collection examines what this versatile genre offers women writers and what this can tell us about the society and... -
Stories of Fatherhood by Diana Secker Tesdell
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15This wide-ranging anthology pays tribute to fathers young and old. At one end of the spectrum, a touching story by Ann Packer tells of a man preparing for the wonder and terror of his first child's... -
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter 9781784878689
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.30A beautiful hardback edition of Angela Carter's feminist retelling of fairy tales - masterful, seductive and luminous. From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in... -
Truth and Consequences by Alison Lurie
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'Delightful... Her characters are, as always, wonderfully imperfect' New York Review of BooksAlan has changed because he's injured his back. Pain has altered his appearance and made him glum,... -
Hurricanes in Perfect Power: Tales of Modern Motherhood by Various
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74A stunning new collection of short stories about motherhood, selected and introduced by Candice Brathwaite.______________'To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect... -
Ghost: 100 Stories to Read with the Lights On by Louise Welsh 9781035920327
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.63An anthology collection of 100 scary stories to read with the lights on, selected and introduced by award-winning author Louise Welsh.Haunted houses, mysterious counts, weeping widows and restless... -
A Haunted House: The Complete Shorter Fiction by Virginia Woolf
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.19'The window panes reflected apples, reflected roses; all the leaves were green in the glass' Nowhere are Virginia Woolf's daring experimentations with style and form more evident than in her short... -
Resorting to Murder: Holiday Mysteries Martin Edwards 9780712357487
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Holidays offer us the luxury of getting away from it all. So, in a different way, do detective stories. This collection of vintage mysteries combines both those pleasures. From a golf course at the... -
Contemporary Feminism and Women's Short Stories by Emma Young 9781474427739
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £90.60New reading of contemporary feminisms and the short storyThe short story has received renewed attention and notable popular acclaim in the twenty-first century. This book offers a wide-ranging survey... -
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The Story: Loss: Great Short Stories for Women by Women by Victoria Hislop 9781781856659 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.41'I think few of the stories in Loss will leave readers cold...' Victoria Hislop, bestselling author and champion of the short story, has chosen her favourite short stories by women writers. Here... -
A Vintage Christmas: Vintage Minis by Various
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Immerse yourself in a literary wonderland with this collection of timeless Christmas tales.'There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas' said Charles Dickens. From yuletide carols to... -
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The Story: Life: Great Short Stories for Women by Women by Victoria Hislop 9781781856666 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.68'Life provides infinite shades of light and dark...' Victoria Hislop, bestselling author and champion of the short story, has chosen her favourite short stories by women writers. Here are... -
Dead Men's Morris by Gladys Mitchell 9780099583974
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYRediscover Gladys Mitchell - one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers.A dead solicitor, a suspicious pig-farmer and... -
Death at the Opera by Gladys Mitchell 9781784708665
Booksplease Price: £13.16Rediscover Gladys Mitchell - one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers.Hillmaston School has chosen The Mikado for their next school... -
Death and the Maiden by Gladys Mitchell 9781784708658
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYRediscover Gladys Mitchell - one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers.When former banana-grower Edris Tidson hears... -
Calm: Vintage Minis Tim Parks 9781784872595
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.85How do we find calm in our frantic modern world? Tim Parks - lifelong sceptic of all things spiritual - finds himself on a Buddhist meditation retreat trying to answer this very question. With brutal... -
The Mystery of a Butcher's Shop Gladys Mitchell 9781784708672
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Rediscover Gladys Mitchell - one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers.When Rupert Sethleigh's body is found one morning, laid out in the... -
Ask a Policeman by The Detection Club
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28This classic crime novel by six different authors is introduced by Martin Edwards, archivist of the Detection Club, and includes a never-before-published Preface by Agatha Christie, 'Detective... -
The Nowhere City by Alison Lurie
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'Marvellous entertainment' Sunday TimesJust married and newly arrived in Los Angeles are Paul and Katherine Cattleman. Paul responds immediately to the sunny, sprawling cosmopolitan city but to... -
Collected Stories by Lorrie Moore 9781841593937
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.71These humorous and poignant tales of lovers, loneliness, and never-quite-belonging, delivered in her characteristically knowing, wry voice, confirm Lorrie Moore as a master of the short story form...