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Quartet by Jean Rhys
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65Jean Rhys's first novel, a heartbreaking and disturbingly intimate portrayal of an isolated woman in ParisSet in a superficially romantic, between-wars Paris, Quartet is a poignant tale of a lonely... -
Voyage in the Dark by Jean Rhys
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65'A wonderful bitter-sweet book, written with disarming simplicity' Esther Freud'It was as if a curtain had fallen, hiding everything I had ever known,' says Anna Morgan, eighteen years old and... -
Smile Please by Jean Rhys
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65A brilliant companion piece to Wide Sargasso Sea, this is Jean Rhys's beautifully written, bitter-sweet autobiography, covering her chequered early years in Dominica, England and Paris.Jean Rhys... -
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''Rhys took one of the works of genius of the 19th Century and turned it inside-out to create one of the works of genius of the 20th Century'... -
The Collected Short Stories by Jean Rhys
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37New to Penguin Classics, the remarkable, devastating collected stories by the author of Wide Sargasso Sea.Some of Jean Rhys's most powerful writing is to be found in this rich, dark collection of her... -
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Jean Rhys's Good Morning Midnight is an unforgettable portrait of a woman bravely confronting loneliness and despair in her quest for self-determinationIn 1930s Paris, where one cheap hotel room is... -
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 9780241951552
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.80One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World'Jean Rhys's spell-binding novel Wide Sargasso Sea, inspired by Jane Eyre and winner the Royal Society of Literature Award is beautifully repackaged... -
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 9780393352566
Booksplease Price: $12.80Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys's return to the literary center stage. She had a startling early career and was known for her extraordinary prose and haunting women... -
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys 9780393357806
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.82The last of the four novels Jean Rhys wrote in interwar Paris, Good Morning, Midnight is the culmination of a searing literary arc, which established Rhys as an astute observer of human tragedy. Her... -
After Leaving Mr Mackenzie by Jean Rhys
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65A brilliant, yet brutal, portrait of a woman struggling to retrieve both life and love, from the author of Wide Sargasso SeaFor six months, Julia has lived alone in a drab Parisian hotel on an... -
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 9780141185422
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''Rhys took one of the works of genius of the 19th Century and turned it inside-out to create one of the works of genius of the 20th Century'... -
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 9780241281901
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'A gorgeous clothbound edition of Jean Rhys's great masterpiece of desire and madness in the Caribbean, published for the novel's fiftieth... -
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 9780140818031
Booksplease Price: $10.02Jean Rhys's late, literary masterpiece Wide Sargasso Sea was inspired by Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and is set in the lush, beguiling landscape of Jamaica in the 1830s. Born into an oppressive,... -
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys by Anthony Fowles 9781906075347
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906075347Author Anthony FowlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint -
I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys by Miranda Seymour
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $9.50'An absolute belter of a biography' MARINA HYDE A Times Literary Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2022 An LA Times Best Book of... -
A Study Guide for Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375399142
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $12.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375399142Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 50I -
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Take a Girl Like Me: Life With George by Diana Melly 9780099490555 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $3.83Once there was a girl, pretty and smart and sexy. By her mid-twenties, she'd acquired two husbands and two children, and life wasn't going to plan... Then she met a man. Outrageous, brilliant,... -
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 9780143107668
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.03The classic American novel, rejacketed with a new foreword by Tom Perotta and introduction by Hawthorne scholar Robert MilderSet in the harsh Puritan community of 17th century Boston, this is a tale... -
The Girl on the Via Flaminia by Alfred Hayes
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65A dark love story set in wartime Rome from the author of In Love and Your Face for the World to SeeRome, 1944. Robert is a lonely American soldier looking for a girl. Lisa is cold and hungry, obliged... -
Finding Belle Reeta Chakrabarti 9780008553098
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.22'A gripping story of family betrayal, full of passion and anger ... moving and memorable' Rose Tremain 'Harrowing, poignant and ambitious ... a definite for book clubs' Nina Bhadreshwar ... -
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 9780241956793
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.80In Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf explores the events of one day, impression by impression, minute by minute, as Clarissa Dalloway's and Septimus Smith's worlds look set to collide - this classic novel... -
In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers William Palmer 9781472144997
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36'Sympathetic and wonderfully perceptive . . . a heartbreaking read'NICK COHEN, Critic'Wise, witty and empathetic . . . outstanding'JIM CRACE'A fascinating treatment of the age-old problem of writers... -
In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers by William Palmer 9781472145000
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79'Wise, witty and empathetic . . . outstanding'JIM CRACE'A fascinating treatment of the age-old problem of writers and drink which displays the same subtle qualities as William Palmer's own... -
Siblings by Brigitte Reimann 9780241555842
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $8.08'Spare, chilling, with wild flashes of vivid colour and the tempo of a thriller, Siblings jolts us into the beating heart of a family and post-war East Germany, conjuring the political dreams and... -
Take A Girl Like Me: Life With George by Diana Melly 9781784704605
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Once there was a girl, pretty and smart and sexy. By her mid-twenties, she'd acquired two husbands and two children, and life wasn't going to plan... Then she met a man. Outrageous, brilliant,... -
Jane Eyre: Abridged for Young Readers Charlotte Bronte 9781529506624
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.25"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will."As a young orphan, Jane Eyre is thrown upon the mercy of an aunt and cousins who are anything but merciful,... -
The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse: 1509-1659 by David Norbrook
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.67The era between the accession of Henry VIII and the crisis of the English republic in 1659 formed one of the most fertile epochs in world literature. This anthology offers a broad selection of its... -
The Princess of 72nd Street Elaine Kraf 9780241715277
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Ellen is a single artist living alone on New York's Upper West Side in the 1970s. She is beset by old boyfriends, paint pigment choices, and, occasionally, by 'radiances' - episodes of joyous,... -
Missing Person by Patrick Modiano
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65One man hunts obsessively for his lost identity, in this intoxicating noir masterpiece from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature'Modiano is a pure original' Adam Thirlwell'I am nothing... -
A Florence Diary Diana Athill (Y) 9781783787425
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08A charming, vibrant diary of Diana Athill's holiday to Florence in the late 1940s. In August 1947, Diana Athill travelled to Florence by the Golden Arrow train for a two-week holiday with her good... -
The Chandelier Clarice Lispector 9780241371343
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Clarice Lispector's masterly second novel, now available in English for the first time'She found the best clay that one could desire: white, supple, sticky, cold ... She would get a clear and tender... -
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A Florence Diary by Diana Athill 9781783783168 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $2.47In August 1947, Diana Athill travelled to Florence by the Golden Arrow train for a two-week holiday with her good friend Pen. In this playful diary of that trip, Athill recorded her observations and... -
Instead of a Letter Diana Athill (Y) 9781783787432
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Despite her family's ailing finances, Diana Athill's childhood - spent in a lovely house in Norfolk - was blissful. In 1932, she fell in love with Paul: an undergraduate who tutored her younger... -
The Old Slave and the Mastiff: The gripping story of a plantation slave's desperate escape by Patrick Chamoiseau
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75A profoundly unsettling story of a plantation slave's desperate escape into a rainforest beyond human control, with his master and a ferocious dog on his heels. This flight to freedom takes them on... -
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Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things that Matter by Diana Athill 9781783782543 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.89Several years ago, Diana Athill accepted that she could no longer live entirely independently, and moved to a retirement home in Highgate. There, she found herself released from the daily anxieties... -
Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things that Matter by Diana Athill
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80What matters in the end? In the final years of life, which memories stand out? Writing from her retirement home in Highgate, London, as she approaches her 100th year, Diana Athill recalls in... -
The Old Slave and the Mastiff: The gripping story of a plantation slave's desperate escape by Patrick Chamoiseau 9780349700465
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE AND BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2018PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOKS OF 2018CHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS 'MOST ANTICIPATED FICTION BOOKS OF 2018' '(A) beautiful book, by a writer who's... -
Butterfly's Shadow by Lee Langley 9780099542179
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Lee Langley's bewitching story of lost hope and thwarted love opens where Puccini's opera ends; with Madame Butterfly - Cho-Cho-San - handing over her beloved son to his American father before... -
Selected Poems by William Yeats
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80W.B. Yeats's Selected Poems is edited with an introduction and notes by Timothy Webb in Penguin Modern Classics.Few have lived their ideas so passionately and nobly as W.B. Yeats in his love affairs,... -
After A Funeral by Diana Athill
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80This is the story of how and why a talented writer came to take his own life. When Diana Athill met the man she calls Didi, an Egyptian in exile, she fell in love instantly and out of love just...