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The Stories of Jane Gardam by Jane Gardam 9781609453442
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £14.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609453442Author Jane GardamFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Europa EditionsPublisher Europa... -
The Queen Of The Tambourine by Jane Gardam
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Eliza 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... -
Crusoe's Daughter by Jane Gardam 9780349119892
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In 1904, when she was six, Polly Flint went to live with her two holy aunts at the yellow house by the marsh - so close to the sea that it seemed to toss like a ship, so isolated that she might have... -
God On The Rocks by Jane Gardam
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'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 People On Privilege Hill by Jane Gardam
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02It 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... -
The Stories by Jane Gardam 9780349140384
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Throughout 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 Pangs Of Love by Jane Gardam 9780349114040
Booksplease Price: £14.24With her customary accuracy, Jane Gardam reveals the extraordinariness of ordinary people as she deals with the pangs of love- fulfilled or hopeless, sexual or spiritual, tortured or hilarious- in... -
Showing The Flag by Jane Gardam 9780349122540
Booksplease Price: £15.23The flag that is shown, literally and metaphorically, by these characters is always the Union Jack. Gardam's stories are acutely observed social commentaries on Englishness, its weaknesses and its... -
Bilgewater by Jane Gardam
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Marigold 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 Sidmouth Letters by Jane Gardam
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Jane 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... -
Summer After The Funeral by Jane Gardam 9780349102450
Booksplease Price: £15.23A rather mysterious old clergyman is dead, and his most adoring child, sixteen-year-old Athene is desolate. A statuesque beauty, greatly admired, she is also lonely, untouchable and living a secret... -
Faith Fox by Jane Gardam
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02When sweet, healthy hearty Holly Fox dies suddenly in childbirth, the Surrey village whose pearl she was reverberates with shock. She leaves behind her a helpless, silent husband, and a tiny... -
The Flight Of The Maidens by Jane Gardam
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02This delightful novel describes the post-war summer of 1946 - and follows the growing-up of three young women in the months between leaving school and taking up their scholarships at university. Una... -
The Hollow Land by Jane Gardam
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Her territory isn't young or old; it's the heart-and brain-matter of people, their desires and worries and fantasies and intricate interactions. All of this is set capably against a particular... -
A Long Way From Verona by Jane Gardam
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02I 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... -
God on the Rocks by Jane Gardam 9781933372761
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £12.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933372761Author Jane GardamFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Europa EditionsPublisher Europa... -
Old Filth Jane Gardam 9780349139494
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'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... -
Crusoe's Daughter by Jane Gardam 9781609450694
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £11.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609450694Author Jane GardamFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Europa EditionsPublisher Europa... -
The Hollow Land by Jane Gardam 9781609452469
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £12.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609452469Author Jane GardamFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Europa EditionsPublisher Europa... -
Last Friends by Jane Gardam 9781609450939
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £11.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609450939Author Jane GardamFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Europa EditionsPublisher Europa... -
The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam 9781933372891
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £10.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933372891Author Jane GardamFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Europa EditionsPublisher Europa... -
The Man In The Wooden Hat Jane Gardam 9780349139487
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'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... -
A Long Way from Verona by Jane Gardam 9781609451417
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £11.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609451417Author Jane GardamFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Europa EditionsPublisher Europa... -
Last Friends: From the Orange Prize shortlisted author by Jane Gardam
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Daunted 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: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.17On 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... -
Psmith, Journalist by P. G. Wodehouse
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.43Psmith helps acting editor Billy Windsor change the image of Cosy Moments magazine and they are stalked by gangsters when their expose of slum tenements angers an unscrupulous landlord.eccentric and... -
The six who came to dinner stories by Anne Youngson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78The village cleaning lady who holds everyone's house-keys opens a boot to find some unexpectedly dead contents; a vengeful dinner party host serves more than just a roast to her six guests; and... -
The Six Who Came to Dinner: Stories by Costa Award Shortlisted author of MEET ME AT THE MUSEUM by Anne Youngson 9781804991152
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'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: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.95Nine 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
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'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... -
Horse Stories by Diana Secker Tesdell
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.43Horse Stories corrals two centuries of short fiction about the most majestic of domesticated animals. From writers old and new come stories of magnificent stallions, broken-down nags, racehorses,... -
The Last Taboo by Bali Rai
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Simran 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... -
Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73Beatrix 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... -
Perfect Happiness by Penelope Lively
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Perfect 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... -
Blast From The Past by Ben Elton
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46It'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 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... -
Narrow Dog To Carcassonne by Terry Darlington 9780553816693
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'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... -
How It All Began by Penelope Lively
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31From 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... -
Parallel Text: French Short Stories: Nouvelles Francaises by Pamela Lyon
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Originally 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...