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God On The Rocks by Jane Gardam
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75'A meticulously observed modern classic' IndependentDuring one glorious summer between the wars, the realities of life and the sexual ritual dance of the adult world creep into the life of young... -
The Sidmouth Letters by Jane Gardam
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Jane Austen's love life- long the subject of speculation- is finally, delightfully dealt with in the title story of this collection. Many of the other stories, like 'The Sidmouth Letters,' bring... -
A Long Way From Verona by Jane Gardam
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75I ought to tell you at the beginning that I am not quite normal having had a violent experience at the age of nine'Jessica Vye's 'violent experience' colours her schooldays and her reaction to the... -
The Queen Of The Tambourine by Jane Gardam
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75Eliza Peabody is one of those dangerously blameless women who believe they have God in their pocket. She is a modern-day Florence Nightingale, always up at the Hospice or the Wives' club; she is too... -
The Stories by Jane Gardam 9780349140384
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75Throughout her career, prize-winning novelist Jane Gardam has been writing glorious short stories, each one hallmarked with all the originality, poignancy, wry comedy and narrative brilliance of her... -
The People On Privilege Hill by Jane Gardam
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75It is a wet day in Dorset, and walking to a luncheon party is Sir Edward Feathers QC, followed by two elderly friends: his scruffy neighbour and sparring partner, Veneering, and Fiscal-Smith, the... -
Bilgewater by Jane Gardam
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75Marigold Green calls herself 'hideous, quaint and barmy'. Other people calle her Bilgewater, a corruption of Bill's daughter. Growing up in a boys' school where her father is housemaster, she is... -
Bilgewater by Jane Gardam 9780349114026 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $2.61Marigold Green calls herself 'hideous, quaint and barmy'. Other people calle her Bilgewater, a corruption of Bill's daughter. Growing up in a boys' school where her father is housemaster, she is... -
The Stories by Jane Gardam 9781408705681 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $3.55Throughout her career, prize-winning novelist Jane Gardam has been writing glorious short stories, each one hallmarked with all the originality, poignancy, wry comedy and narrative brilliance of her... -
Last Friends by Jane Gardam 9781609450939
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $14.54Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Old Filth Jane Gardam 9780349139494
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75'It's a cliche to compare novelists to Jane Austen, but in the case of Jane Gardam it happens to be true. Her diamond-like prose, her understanding of the human heart, her formal inventiveness and... -
The Man In The Wooden Hat Jane Gardam 9780349139487
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75'It's a cliche to compare novelists to Jane Austen, but in the case of Jane Gardam it happens to be true. Her diamond-like prose, her understanding of the human heart, her formal inventiveness and... -
Last Friends: From the Orange Prize shortlisted author by Jane Gardam
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75'Gardam writes about love, death, loneliness, money and madness with gentle ferocity. The Old Filth trilogy should be read by anyone who has ever been interested in how we become who we are' Amanda... -
The Old Man and the Knee: How to be a Golden Oldie by Christopher Matthew
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92Daunted 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... -
Firefly by Janette Jenkins 9780099575047
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.27On a secluded hillside in Jamaica lies Firefly, Noel Coward's peaceful retreat. Here, between sundowners and sunsets, brandies and cigarettes, the seventy-one-year-old Coward whiles away his days - a... -
The Six Who Came to Dinner: Stories by Costa Award Shortlisted author of MEET ME AT THE MUSEUM by Anne Youngson 9781804991152
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04'An extraordinary new writer' NINA STIBBESix short stories full of colourful suspects and complicated motives by the winner of the Paul Torday Memorial prize for debut authors over sixty - perfect... -
Welcome To Coolsville by Jason Mordaunt 9780099450269
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $7.97Nine days is a long time in Coolsville. More than enough time for Dr. Kiely Flanagan to shop business mogul J.P. Gillespie to a scandal-hungry media, collect the bounty and split for the sun. Time... -
The Way I Found Her by Rose Tremain 9780749396992 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $2.77'A magical invention of page-turning suspense, of sadness, grief and passion' The TimesLewis Little, precocious thirteen-year-old, is spending summer in Paris with his mother, Alice. Alice is... -
The Penderwicks on Gardam Street by Jeanne Birdsall
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28The Penderwick sisters are at home on Gardam Street and ready for an adventure!But the adventure they get isn't quite what they had in mind. Mr Penderwick's sister has decided it's time for him to... -
Blast From The Past by Ben Elton
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68It's two fifteen a.m., you're in bed alone and you're woken by the phone.Your eyes are wide and your body tense before it has completed so much as a single ring. And as you wake, in the tiny moment... -
Blast From The Past by Ben Elton 9780552998338 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $2.93It's two fifteen a.m., you're in bed alone and you're woken by the phone.Your eyes are wide and your body tense before it has completed so much as a single ring. And as you wake, in the tiny moment... -
The Way I Found Her by Rose Tremain
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92'A magical invention of page-turning suspense, of sadness, grief and passion' The TimesLewis Little, precocious thirteen-year-old, is spending summer in Paris with his mother, Alice. Alice is... -
The Last Taboo by Bali Rai
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28Simran likes Tyrone from the moment she spots him in the crowd. He's gorgeous and he won't take no for an answer. There's just one problem. . . Tyrone is black and Simran's not sure how her family... -
Parallel Text: French Short Stories: Nouvelles Francaises by Pamela Lyon 9780140023855 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $2.87Originally written to entertain, move or chill, the eight short stories in this collection accompanied by parallel English translations now also help students gain deeper insights into French... -
How It All Began by Penelope Lively 9780241957271 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $2.51From Penelope Lively, winner of the Booker PrizeWhen . . . Charlotte is mugged and breaks her hip, her daughter Rose cannot accompany her employer Lord Peters to Manchester, which means his niece... -
Daughter Of Persia by Sattareh Farman-Farmaian
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68Sattareh Farman Farmaian, the daughter of a once-powerful and wealthy Iranian prince, was raised and educated in the 1920s and 1930s in a Persian harem compound, along with numerous mothers and more... -
Narrow Dog To Carcassonne by Terry Darlington 9780553816693
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92'WE COULD BORE OURSELVES TO DEATH, DRINK OURSELVES TO DEATH, OR HAVE A BIT OF AN ADVENTURE...'When they retired Terry and Monica Darlington decided to sail their canal narrowboat across the Channel... -
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... -
Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.40Beatrix Potter's books are adored by millions, but they were just one aspect of an extraordinary life. This captivating biography brings us the passionate, unconventional woman behind the beloved... -
How It All Began by Penelope Lively
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65From Penelope Lively, winner of the Booker PrizeWhen . . . Charlotte is mugged and breaks her hip, her daughter Rose cannot accompany her employer Lord Peters to Manchester, which means his niece... -
Narrow Dog To Carcassonne by Terry Darlington 9780553816693 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $3.23'WE COULD BORE OURSELVES TO DEATH, DRINK OURSELVES TO DEATH, OR HAVE A BIT OF AN ADVENTURE...'When they retired Terry and Monica Darlington decided to sail their canal narrowboat across the Channel... -
Perfect Happiness by Penelope Lively
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Perfect Happiness is the fifth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope LivelyFrances, happily married for many years, and suddenly plunged into mourning. Her international celebrity husband... -
Rising Summer: the perfect happy and wholesome novel to escape with by Mary Jane Staples 9780552138451 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $2.84Tim Parkes was three when his parents were killed in a train crash and he went to live with his Aunt May, first in New Cross, and then to Walworth where the living was cheaper. They managed... -
Londoners by Maureen Duffy 9780099587361
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92Many of the Londoners in this novel are outcasts - some are criminals in society's eyes. Most are descended from adventurers and immigrants. The worlds they inhabit - the bedsit; the cruisers' pub -... -
Fly in the Ointment by Anne Fine 9780552774673
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Guilt is in the eye of the beholder ...When her cold and indifferent husband vanishes, so does Lois's old life. Now she is ready to take her chances again. There's only one fly in the ointment:... -
Three Women and a Boat: A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Title by Anne Youngson
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.92Tender and humorous novel of second chances and life-changing new friendship for fans of Rachel Joyce, Clare Chambers and Barbara Pym'Life-affirming and funny' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING'Anne Youngson's witty... -
The Vet's Daughter: A Virago Modern Classic by Barbara Comyns
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75INTRODUCED BY JANE GARDAM'A small Gothic masterpiece . . . I have read it many times, and with every re-read I marvel again at its many qualities' SARAH WATERS'It projects its fantastic story with a... -
The Little Book of Joy: Spread Good Cheer by Joanna Gray
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.94With joyful tasks, words of wisdom and simple yet practical tips for looking on the bright side of life, The Little Book of Joy will show you how to sprinkle an extra serving of happiness into your... -
The Little Book of Resilience: Strength. Grit. Power by Joanna Gray 9781837830527
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.94With inspirational quotations, practical tasks and thoughtful exercises, The Little Book of Resilience teaches you how to cope with everything life throws at you, and come back stronger. The Little... -
Sisters By A River: A Virago Modern Classic by Barbara Comyns
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75'Tragic, comic and completely bonkers all in one, I'd go as far as to call her something of a neglected genius' LUCY SCHOLES, GUARDIAN 'It is hard not to believe that Barbara Comyns's own adventures...