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The Schooldays of Jesus by J.M. Coetzee
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.54From the double Booker Prize-winning author of Disgrace, an astonishing novel of new beginnings and the troubles of youth.'Brilliant... Tenaciously absorbing' Daily TelegraphDavid is the small boy... -
The Death of Jesus by J.M. Coetzee
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.54The luminous new novel from 'one of the best writers of our time', double Booker Prize winner J. M. Coetzee.'Full of truth, tearfully moving to read... Brilliant' Evening StandardSimon and David - a... -
The Childhood of Jesus by J.M. Coetzee
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $9.54From the double Booker Prize-winning author of Disgrace, 'a moving story of lost childhood' (Sunday Telegraph).After crossing oceans, a man and a boy - both strangers to each other - arrive in a new... -
J.M. Coetzee and Neoliberal Culture by Andrew Gibson 9780198857914
RRP: $123.28Booksplease Price: $118.62This book presents J. M. Coetzee's work as a complex, nuanced counterblast to contemporary, global, neoliberal economics and its societies. Not surprisingly, given his many years in South Africa and... -
Beyond the Ancient Quarrel: Literature, Philosophy, and J.M. Coetzee by Patrick Hayes 9780198805281
Booksplease Price: $134.31In Plato's Republic, Socrates spoke of an 'ancient quarrel between literature and philosophy' which he offered to resolve once and for all by banning the poets from his ideal city. Few philosophers... -
The Summer That Melted Everything by Tiffany McDaniel 9781911344360
Booksplease Price: $14.73Winner of The Guardian's Not the Booker Prize. Fielding Bliss has never forgotten the summer of 1984. The year a heatwave scorched the small town of Breathed, Ohio. The year he became friends with... -
The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Idealistic young officer Giovanni Drogo is full of determination to serve his country well. But when he arrives at a bleak border station in the Tartar desert, where he is to take a short assignment... -
Arctic Summer: Author of the 2021 Booker Prize-winning novel THE PROMISE by Damon Galgut
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.31FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISE'A masterly piece of fiction. Delicate and detailed' Daily Mail'It is a project to which Galgut, whose fiction has often covered the terrain of... -
Fallen Land by Patrick Flanery 9780857898791
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.94Poplar Farm has been in Louise's family for generations, inherited by her sharecropping forebear from a white landowner after a lynching. Now, the farm has been carved up, the trees torn down; a... -
In a Strange Room: Author of the 2021 Booker Prize-winning novel THE PROMISE by Damon Galgut
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISEA young man takes three journeys, through Greece, India and Africa. He travels lightly, simply. To those who travel with him and those whom he meets... -
The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs: Author of the 2021 Booker Prize-winning novel THE PROMISE Damon Galgut 9781838958879
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISESHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE, 2003A year ago Patrick Winter was in Namibia completing his military service. Now, during the first free ... -
Absolution by Patrick Flanery 9780857892027
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.94In her garden, ensconced in the lush vegetation of the Western Cape, Clare Wald, world-renowned author, mother, critic, takes up her pen and confronts her life. Sam Leroux has returned to South... -
I Am No One Patrick Flanery 9781782397984
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.94Jeremy O'Keefe, a middle-aged Professor, returns to his native New York after a decade teaching at Oxford, and quickly settles into a lonely rhythm of unfulfilling lectures and long, silent evenings... -
The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs by Damon Galgut
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.94FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISESHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE, 2003A year ago Patrick Winter was in Namibia completing his military service. Now, during the first free ... -
The Impostor: Author of the 2021 Booker Prize-winning novel THE PROMISE by Damon Galgut
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISEShortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best BookA gripping, claustrophobic novel of guilty secrets, obsession and self-reinvention on... -
The Housemaid's Daughter Barbara Mutch 9780755392124
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.72Duty and love collide on the arid plains of central South Africa. Previously released as 'Karoo Plainsong' this is a fully revised debut novel.Cathleen Harrington leaves her home in Ireland in 1919... -
The Good Doctor: Author of the 2021 Booker Prize-winning novel THE PROMISE by Damon Galgut
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISEWinner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and shortlisted for the Man Booker, The Good Doctor is a powerful tale of a friendship overshadowed by... -
Exquisite Cadavers by Meena Kandasamy 9781786499653 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $3.22From the author of When I Hit You, shortlisted for the 2018 Women's Prize for FictionKarim and Maya:[x] share a home [x] worry about money [x] binge-watch films [x] argue all the time Karim, a young... -
A Passage To India by E. M. Forster 9781857150292
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, and feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the 'real India', they seek... -
Waiting For The Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04The modern classic from double Booker Prize winner J.M. Coetzee - soon to be a major film starring Mark Rylance, Robert Pattinson and Johnny DeppFor decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a... -
Exquisite Cadavers by Meena Kandasamy
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.96From the author of When I Hit You, shortlisted for the 2018 Women's Prize for FictionKarim and Maya:[x] share a home [x] worry about money [x] binge-watch films [x] argue all the time Karim, a young... -
A House For Mr Biswas by V. S. Naipaul 9781857152135
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.47In the comic masterpiece which established him one of the greatest writers in the English language, Naipaul follows the fortunes of Mr Biswas, the outsider who refuses to conform to the customs of... -
Rules of the Wild by Francesca Marciano 9780099274698
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71In the vast space of East Africa lives a close-knit tribe of expatriates. They all meet at dinner parties; they share the same doctors and eat at the same restaurants; they sleep with each other and... -
Pobby and Dingan by Ben Rice
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Pobby and Dingan live in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, the opal capital of Australia. They are friends with Kellyanne Williamson, the daughter of a miner: indeed only she can see them. Pobby and... -
Rules of the Wild by Francesca Marciano 9780099274698 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $3.42In the vast space of East Africa lives a close-knit tribe of expatriates. They all meet at dinner parties; they share the same doctors and eat at the same restaurants; they sleep with each other and... -
My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk 9781841593319
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.47The Ottoman Sultan has commissioned the best artists in the land to create a book celebrating the glories of his realm: but he wants them to illuminate it in the European style. Because figurative... -
The Ambassadors by Henry James
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65The greatest expression of his talent for witty, observant explorations of what it means to 'live well', Henry James's The Ambassadors is edited with an introduction and notes by Adrian Poole in... -
Toward the End of Time by John Updike 9780141188966
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79Ben Turnbull is a 66 year-old retired investment consultant living north of Boston in the year 2020. A recent war between the United States and China has thinned the population and brought social... -
The Sound And The Fury by William Faulkner 9781857150698
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29Ever since the first furore was created on its publication in 1929, The Sound and the Fury has been considered one of the key novels of this century. Depicting the gradual disintegration of the... -
Here and Now: Letters by J. M. Coetzee 9780099584223
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63Although Paul Auster and J.M. Coetzee had been reading each other's books for years, the two writers did not meet until February 2008. Not long after, Auster received a letter from Coetzee,... -
The African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart No Longer at Ease Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.17Chinua Achebe is considered the father of African literature in English, the writer who 'opened the magic casements of African fiction' for an international readership. Following the 50th anniversary... -
Hunter of Stories Eduardo Galeano 9781472128867
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92'Not since Guy de Maupasant has the short literary form been imbued with such grace, elegance and poignancy . . . these quintessential and often poetic pearls astonish, inspire reflection and... -
Once We Were Sisters Sheila Kohler 9781786890009
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65This is the story of Maxine and Sheila Kohler, two sisters who grew up in the suffocating gentility of 1950s South Africa. When Maxine is just shy of her fortieth birthday her husband, a brilliant... -
The Childhood of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee 9780099581550
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $10.10From the double Booker Prize-winning author of Disgrace, 'a moving story of lost childhood' (Sunday Telegraph).After crossing oceans, a man and a boy - both strangers to each other - arrive in a new... -
Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005 by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Following on from Stranger Shores, which contained J.M. Coetzee's essays from 1986 to 1999, Inner Workings gathers together his literary essays from 2000 to 2005.Of the writers discussed in the first... -
Diary of a Bad Year by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04An eminent, ageing Australian writer is invited to contribute to a book entitled Strong Opinions. For him, troubled by Australia's complicity in the wars in the Middle East,it is a chance to air some... -
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04**A BBC RADIO 4 GOOD READ**'A great novel by one of the finest authors writing in the English language today' The TimesAfter years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town,... -
In The Heart Of The Country by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a black concubine. But when his embittered spinster... -
Master Of Petersburg by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2003In The Master of Petersburg J. M. Coetzee dares to imagine the life of Dostoevsky. Set in 1869, when Dostoevsky was summoned from Germany to St Petersburg... -
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee 9780099289524 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $5.56**A BBC RADIO 4 GOOD READ**'A great novel by one of the finest authors writing in the English language today' The TimesAfter years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town,...