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Constitutional by Helen Simpson 9780099494188
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04A 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... -
In-Flight Entertainment by Helen Simpson 9780099546122
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Poignant, 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: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.48Since 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... -
Motherhood: Vintage Minis by Helen Simpson
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $6.50Enjoy Helen Simpson's sharply funny, humane take on the everyday joys and struggles of motherhood in this perfect Mother's Day gift. ... -
Four Bare Legs In a Bed by Helen Simpson 9780749391621
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $14.02Brilliant, 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
Booksplease Price: $14.02In 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: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.48Helen 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... -
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Dear George And Other Stories by Helen Simpson 9780749395452 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $2.57In 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: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.81Taking 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: $16.07Booksplease Price: $2.64Taking 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... -
Ten by Andrej Longo 9781846556173
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68The 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... -
Back Talk by Danielle Lazarin
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $4.54'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... -
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank Nathan Englander 9781780222295
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.57A 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... -
When Last I Died by Gladys Mitchell
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11A 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: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37'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... -
Truth and Consequences by Alison Lurie
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04'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,... -
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter 9781784878689
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.82A 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... -
Hurricanes in Perfect Power: Tales of Modern Motherhood by Various
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.07A 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... -
Resorting to Murder: Holiday Mysteries Martin Edwards 9780712357487
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09Holidays 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... -
A Haunted House: The Complete Shorter Fiction by Virginia Woolf
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $8.29'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... -
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The Story: Loss: Great Short Stories for Women by Women by Victoria Hislop 9781781856659 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $3.23'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... -
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The Story: Life: Great Short Stories for Women by Women by Victoria Hislop 9781781856666 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $3.59'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... -
A Vintage Christmas: Vintage Minis by Various
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92Immerse 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... -
Writers Rules by 9780852653289
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Writing a novel can be a slow, painful and lonely process. Many writers never manage to achieve their goal. This inspirational book will help you to rediscover the joy of your craft and rekindle your... -
Dead Men's Morris by Gladys Mitchell 9780099583974
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11A 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: $17.63Rediscover 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... -
Calm: Vintage Minis Tim Parks 9781784872595
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $6.50How 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: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04Rediscover 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... -
Death and the Maiden by Gladys Mitchell 9781784708658
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71A 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... -
Babies: Vintage Minis Anne Enright 9781784872588
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $6.50Babies: our biggest mystery and our most natural consequence, our hardest test and our enduring love. Anne Enright describes the intensity, bewilderment and extravagant happiness of her experience of... -
Late, Late in the Evening by Gladys Mitchell 9780099583929
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYRediscover Gladys Mitchell - one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers.Margaret Clifton remembers the childhood... -
Tom Brown's Body by Gladys Mitchell 9780099526230
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYRediscover Gladys Mitchell - one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers.The matchless detective and psychoanalyst Mrs... -
Words Into Action: Finding the Life of the Play by William Gaskill
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.63Packed with insights from a lifetime of directing theatre, Words into Action is a fascinating read and a vital masterclass for actors and directors. Renowned theatre director William Gaskill was... -
The Twenty-Third Man by Gladys Mitchell 9780099563273
Booksplease Price: $17.63A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYRediscover Gladys Mitchell - one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers.Renowned criminologist, psychoanalyst and... -
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories: Vintage Classics Most Red Series by Angela Carter 9780099588115
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $8.27Discover Angela Carter's classic feminist retelling of favourite fairy tales interwoven by a master of seductive, luminous storytelling.From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood,... -
Here Comes a Chopper by Gladys Mitchell
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYRediscover Gladys Mitchell - one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers.When a pair of ramblers, lost in the English... -
Sisters: Vintage Minis by Louisa May Alcott
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $6.70Your sister might be the kindred soul who knows you best, or the most alien being in your household; she might enrage you or inspire you; she might be your fiercest competitor or closest... -
Come Away, Death by Gladys Mitchell 9780099563280
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYRediscover Gladys Mitchell - one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers.Sir Rudri Hopkinson, an eccentric amateur... -
Ask a Policeman by The Detection Club
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10This 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: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.92'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...