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Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.26Hermione Lee sees Virginia Woolf afresh, in her historical setting and as a vital figure for our times. Her book moves freely between a richly detailed life-story and new attempts to understand... -
Lives of Houses by Hermione Lee 9780691193663
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $23.25A group of notable writers-including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow-celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists,... -
Tom Stoppard: A Life by Professor Dame Hermione Lee
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $14.61Shot through with Stoppard's voice, and illuminating all his plays, Lee's gripping narrative draws on unprecedented access to archive material, interviews and long conversations with Stoppard himself... -
Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald 9780006542544
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.22From the Booker Prizewinning author of 'Offshore' and 'The Blue Flower'; a funny, touching, authentic story of life at Broadcasting House during the Blitz. The human voices of Penelope... -
Body Parts: Essays on Life-Writing by Hermione Lee 9781844137466
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71As readers, we seem to be increasingly fascinated by studies of individual lives. In this timely, unusual and exhilarating collection Hermione Lee is concerned in different ways with approaches to... -
The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.22Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It is March 1913, and the grand old city of Moscow is stirring herself to meet the beginning of spring. Change is in the air, and nowhere more so than at... -
The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.22Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It is 1912, and at Cambridge University the modern age is knocking at the gate. Fred Fairly, a Junior Fellow at the college of St Angelicus,... -
The Pinecone by Jenny Uglow
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66The Pinecone is set in the village of Wreay, near Carlisle, where a masterpiece in Victorian architecture stands - the strangest and most magical church in England. This vivid, original book tells... -
Elizabeth Gaskell by Jenny Uglow
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.48Winner of the Portico PrizeShortlisted for the Whitbread Biography of the YearHigh-spirited, witty and passionate, Elizabeth Gaskell wrote some of the most enduring novels of the Victorian age,... -
The Golden Child by Penelope Fitzgerald 9780006546252
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.22'The Golden Child', Penelope Fitzgerald's first work of fiction, is a classically plotted British mystery centred around the arrival of the Golden Child at a London museum. Far be it for... -
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.22Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop. Hardborough becomes a... -
The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and The Secret History of Wonderland by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDThis is the secret history of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage. But beneath the fairy tale lies the complex... -
This Dark Country: Women Artists, Still Life and Intimacy in the Early Twentieth Century by Rebecca Birrell
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.68Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 Longlisted for the William M B Berger Prize for British Art History 2022 Guardian Art Book of the Year 2021 A dazzling, boldly original... -
Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life by Clare Mac Cumhaill
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68WINNER OF THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWNAN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOKA FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDElizabeth Anscombe: defiantly... -
In Her Nature: How Women Break Boundaries in the Great Outdoors by Rachel Hewitt 9781529920055
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.68'Heartfelt, passionate, infuriating and often devastating, this book will inspire you to fight for your right to tread your own path' CAROLINE CRIADO PEREZ, author of Invisible WomenWhen Rachel loses... -
Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time by Hilary Spurling 9780141030791
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.48BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 in The Sunday Times, Spectator, Mail on Sunday, Observer and Financial Times'A landmark biography' The Times, Books of the Year'One of our generation's greatest biographers'... -
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce Colm Toibin 9780241354421
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.51An 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... -
Clive Bell and the Making of Modernism: A Biography by Professor Mark Hussey
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79'Amusing, charming, stimulating, urbane' - THE TIMES 'Revelatory' - GUARDIAN 'Restores Clive Bell vividly to life' - Lucasta Miller ______________ Clive Bell is perhaps better known today... -
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 9780141183411
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.94A pioneering work of modernist fiction, using her unique stream-of-consciousness technique to explore the inner lives of her characters, Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse is widely regarded as one... -
Mrs Woolf and the Servants by Alison Light
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Virginia Woolf was a feminist and a bohemian but without her servants - cooking, cleaning and keeping house - she might never have managed to write.Mrs Woolf and The Servants explores the hidden... -
Sontag: Her Life by Benjamin Moser
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $15.77WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHYSelected as a Book of the Year 2019 by the SPECTATOR, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN and FINANCIAL TIMES 'Definitive and delightful' Stephen Fry 'There can... -
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 9780241371954
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'One of the greatest elegies in the English language, a book which transcends time' Margaret DrabbleTo the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family, the Ramseys, whose... -
To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf 9780241341681
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.94'The Lighthouse was then a silvery, misty-looking tower with a yellow eye that opened suddenly and softly in the evening'To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family... -
D. H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider by John Worthen
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $18.56D. H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider is an illuminating and clear-sighted portrait of one of the twentieth century's most brilliant, radical and misunderstood writers.John Worthen follows... -
Games At Twilight by Anita Desai
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $14.02Set in contemporary Bombay and other cities, these stories reflect the kaleidoscope of urban life - evoking the colour, sounds and white-hot heat of the city. Warm, perceptive, humorous and touched... -
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf 9780099734314
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $7.38WITH AN INTRODUCTION, PLUS EXTENSIVE NOTES AND REFERENCES BY HERMIONE LEE This volume combines two books which were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century. Together... -
Vita and Harold: The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson 1919-1962 by Nigel Nicolson
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.59The classic story of the relationship between Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, and a unique portrait of the Bloomsbury Group.'Vita and Harold have become part of our literature' OBSERVERThe... -
Dweller in Shadows: A Life of Ivor Gurney by Kate Kennedy 9780691218557
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $29.08The first comprehensive biography of an extraordinary English poet and composer whose life was haunted by fighting in the First World War and, later, confinement in a mental asylumIvor Gurney... -
The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford 9781526676078
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.07‘Marvellously subtle, moving and funny’ JOHN BANVILE, OBSERVER ‘Wonderfully written in every breath of every sentence’ HERMIONE LEE, GUARDIAN ‘Wistful, bittersweet – and often very funny’ DAILY... -
Frost In May by Antonia White 9781844083787
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75Nanda Gray, the daughter of a Catholic convert, is nine when she is sent to the Convent of Five Wounds. Quick-witted, resilient and eager to please, she accepts this closed world where, with all the... -
Drown by Junot Diaz
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Originally published in 1997, Drown instantly garnered terrific acclaim. Moving from the barrios of the Dominican Republic to the struggling urban communities of New Jersey, these heartbreaking,... -
The Professor's House by Willa Cather
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75INTRODUCED BY A.S. BYATT'She is undoubtedly one of the greatest American writers' OBSERVER 'A triumph' HERMIONE LEE 'Willa Cather makes a world which is burningly alive, sometimes lovely, often... -
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 9781847495754
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.45Having travelled from her native New York to London to meet her relatives, Isabel Archer, a young, independently minded young woman, rejects the marriage proposals of two suitors in her determination... -
A Love Letter to Europe: An outpouring of sadness and hope - Mary Beard, Shami Chakrabati, Sebastian Faulks, Neil Gaiman, Ruth Jones, J.K. Rowling, Sandi Toksvig and others by Frank Cottrell Boyce
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75How are great turning points in history experienced by individuals?As Britain pulls away from Europe great British writers come together to give voice to their innermost feelings. These writers... -
Eating Air by Pauline Melville 9781846590818
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.25What could a ballerina, an anarchist, an Islamic terrorist and a banker possibly have in common? Our narrator, the enigmatic, piano-playing, rum drinking, Baron S knows. And he's ready to tell... -
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURYA ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, Oscar's sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J. R. R... -
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf 9780241436288
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.54'But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction - what has that got to do with a room of one's own?'A Room of One's Own grew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf had been invited to... -
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RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $3.10A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY#11 in the New York Times '100 Best Books of the 21st Century'A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, Oscar's sweet but... -
After the Death of Don Juan by Sylvia Townsend Warner
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65'She has a talent amounting to genius' John UpdikeDon Juan, that notorious libertine, has disappeared. Has he been dragged down to hell by demons, as rumoured - or has he escaped? Dona Ana, the woman... -
Middlemarch by George Eliot 9780141439549
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.06One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''One of the few English novels written for grown-up people' Virginia WoolfGeorge Eliot's nuanced and moving novel is a masterly evocation of...