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Living In The Maniototo Janet Frame 9781844084609
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92'All I had experienced, all the stories I had read or dreamed came to me the moment I, a stranger, turned the key in the lock of the unknown house.'In a sweltering basement in downtown Baltimore,... -
The Edge of the Alphabet Janet Frame 9781804271186
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $12.48Toby Withers, a young man with epilepsy, leaves New Zealand after the death of his mother. While on board a ship to England, he meets Zoe, a middle-aged woman looking for a life of meaning and Pat,... -
Storms Will Tell Janet Frame 9781852247898
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07Janet Frame (1924-2004) was one of New Zealand's foremost modern writers, best-known for her prizewinning novels and for the three-volume autobiography later adapted by Jane Campion into her film "An... -
Faces In The Water by Janet Frame 9780349011141
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92'One of the most impressive accounts of madness to be found in literature' ANITA BROOKNER'Lyrical, touching and deeply entertaining' JOHN MORTIMER, OBSERVER'Any one of her books could be published... -
Faces In The Water Janet Frame 9781844084616
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75'One of the most impressive accounts of madness to be found in literature' ANITA BROOKNER'Lyrical, touching and deeply entertaining' JOHN MORTIMER, OBSERVER'Any one of her books could be published... -
An Angel At My Table: The Complete Autobiography by Janet Frame
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07NOW AN AWARD-WINNING FILM ON NETFLIX 'One of the great autobiographies written in the twentieth century' MICHAEL HOLROYD, SUNDAY TIMES'Irresistibly readable, commendably honest' FLEUR ADCOCK, TIMES... -
The Lagoon: A Collection of Short Stories by Janet Frame 9780747531890
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11This collection of stories - Janet Frame's first published book - appeared in New Zealand in 1951, while she was confined in a mental hospital. It won the Hubert Church Award, and a threatened brain... -
The Shutter of Snow (Faber Editions): 'Extraordinary.' Lucy Ellmann by Emily Holmes Coleman
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Introduced by Claire-Louise Bennett, experience one new mother's psychological journey in this lost 1930 foremother of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar.'Astonishing and moving. A pretty amazing book.'... -
The Women In Black by Madelaine St. John
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75' A pocket masterpiece. A jewel' Hilary MantelOn the second floor of the famous F. G. Goode department store, in Ladies' Cocktail Frocks, the women in black are girding themselves for the Christmas... -
Stories of Ourselves : Volume 2: Cambridge Assessment International Education Anthology of Stories in English by Mary Wilmer 9781108436199
RRP: $22.11Booksplease Price: $21.01This series contains poetry and prose anthologies composed of writers from across the English-speaking world. Stories of Ourselves Volume 2 is a set text for Cambridge IGCSE (R), O Level and... -
Committed: A Memoir of Finding Meaning in Madness Suzanne Scanlon 9781399804844
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'A deep, sometimes harrowing book about loss, grief, and the way literary representations of mental illness shaped Scanlon's experience of her own life' Emily Gould, The Cut'Visceral, raw and tender,... -
Quinine by Kelly Ana Morey 9781869694319
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $18.44Vienna, 1903: Thirty-three-year-old Marta Mueller, natural historian and talented artist, meets Bernard Schmidt, a copra planter from German East Neuguinea (now Papua New Guinea) who is looking for a... -
Frost In May by Antonia White
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92'Frost in May is the unsurpassed novel of convent school life. This story of a clash between a determined young girl and an authoritarian regime is both perceptive and painfully emotional, convincing... -
The Axeman’s Carnival: The No. 1 International Bestseller by Catherine Chidgey 9781787704619
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08In this darkly comic work of literary satire by New Zealand's most acclaimed and best-selling novelist Tama, a talking magpie and social media influencer, is the sole witness to a marriage in... -
The Return Of The Soldier by Rebecca West
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92'Spellbinding . . . Probably her best fiction' - Sunday TimesThe soldier returns from the front to the three women who love him. His wife, Kitty, with her cold, moonlight beauty, and his devoted... -
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston 9780349010335
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL NOVELS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'This novel is a packet of surprises as we have no idea what's going to happen next' GUARDIAN'One of the greatest writers of our time' TONI... -
Pet: A new novel from the Women's Prize longlisted author of Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08"FAULTLESS." -The Guardian *** "A SLY PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER." -The Observer Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic new teacher and longs... -
Pet: The International Bestseller by Catherine Chidgey 9781787705081
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $8.08"FAULTLESS." -The Guardian *** "A SLY PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER." -The Observer Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic new teacher and longs... -
Complete Short Stories Elizabeth Taylor 9781844088409
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.99Elizabeth Taylor is finally being recognised as an important British author: one of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth - Sarah WatersElizabeth Taylor, highly acclaimed author of classic... -
The Weather In The Streets by Rosamond Lehmann
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE BRITISH WRITERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'With brilliant dialogue and intense passages of elation and despair, The Weather in the Streets takes you on the rollercoaster of... -
Memento Mori by Muriel Spark 9780349010342
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Remember you must die.Dame Lettie Colston is the first of her circle to receive insinuating anonymous phone calls. Neither she, nor her friends, wish to be reminded of their mortality, and their... -
Deep Water: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith 9780349010328
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75'If I really don't like somebody, I kill him . . . You remember Malcolm McRae, don't you?'Melinda Van Allen is beautiful, headstrong and sexy. Unfortunately for Vic Van Allen, she is his wife. Their... -
A View Of The Harbour: A Virago Modern Classic by Elizabeth Taylor 9780349010304
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75INTRODUCED BY SARAH WATERS'Every one of her books is a treat and this is my favourite, because of its wonderful cast of characters, and because of the deftness with which Taylor's narrative moves... -
Daily Rituals Women at Work: How Great Women Make Time, Find Inspiration, and Get to Work by Mason Currey
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'That word, "vacation," makes me sweat.' Coco Chanel on taking a break'You must do it irregardless, or it will eat its way out of you.' Zora Neale Hurston on writing'One has to choose between the... -
The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy 9780349010373
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75'One of the best novels about growing up fast' GUARDIAN 'One falls for Sally Jay Gorce from a great height from the first sentence' OBSERVER'Scandalous and entertaining . . . Both funny and true'... -
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75A BESTSELLING NOVEL AND MAJOR FILM STARRING MERYL STREEP AND JACK NICHOLSON'I have bought more copies of this book to give to people, in a frenzy of enthusiasm, than any other . . . Heartburn is the... -
Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80SHORTLISTED: THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD LONGLISTED: WOMENS' PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022 A NOVEL OF DEVASTATING BEAUTY SET IN BUCHENWALD DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR "A powerful and disturbing study in... -
Remote Sympathy: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022 by Catherine Chidgey
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66SHORTLISTED: THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD LONGLISTED: WOMENS' PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022 A NOVEL OF DEVASTATING BEAUTY SET IN BUCHENWALD DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR "A powerful and disturbing study in...