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The Brickfield by L. P. Hartley
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35A lonely boy living on his uncle's farm in the Lincolnshire Fens, Richard Mardick's solitary existence is interrupted by a chance meeting, and idyllic love affair, with Lucy. A disused brickfield is... -
Eustace and Hilda by L P Hartley
RRP: $38.64Booksplease Price: $28.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940322806Author L.P. HartleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 876Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New... -
The Betrayal by L. P. Hartley 9781848548640
Booksplease Price: $30.52In The Betrayal, the sequel to The Brickfield, Richard Mardick, now an ageing novelist, is forced by circumstances to look back on the days of his boyhood and confesses to Denys Aspin, his young... -
The Go-Between by L P Hartley
RRP: $24.45Booksplease Price: $15.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940322998Author L.P. HartleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint The New York Review of Books,... -
The Hireling L. P. Hartley 9781473612556
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Overcome with grief at her husband's death, Lady Franklin, an eligible young widow, unburdens herself to Leadbitter - a gallant, hard-bitten ex-soldier who has invested his savings in the car he... -
Facial Justice by L. P. Hartley
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.93'You'll never be happy until you can think and feel and look like other people . . .' Jael 97 is an Alpha. Deemed over-privileged for her beauty, she is compelled to report to the Ministry of Facial... -
The Go-between by L. P. Hartley
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43The moving exploration of a young boy's loss of innocence'The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there...'When one long, hot summer, young Leo is staying with a school-friend at... -
The Boat L. P. Hartley 9781848548114
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Timothy Casson, a bachelor writer, is forced to return from a contented life in Venice to an English village. Taking a house by the river where he can pursue his passion for rowing, he has to do... -
The Shrimp and the Anemone by L. P. Hartley 9780571203826
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43There is a delicious irony and humour in this Jamesian story about Eustace and Hilda, an Edwardian brother and sister, with its famous opening scene as nine-year-old Eustace watches an anemone devour... -
The Harness Room by L P Hartley 9781954321618
Booksplease Price: $18.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954321618Author L P HartleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Valancourt BooksPublisher... -
Eustace and Hilda: With an introduction by Anita Brookner L. P. Hartley 9781474616485
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.97'A masterpiece' Anita Brookner'A very beautiful novel' Nick Hornby'Includes some of the most perfect sentences in English' GuardianAt the turn of the twentieth century, two children play on an... -
The Travelling Grave and Other Stories (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) by L P Hartley 9781943910793
Booksplease Price: $21.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943910793Author L P HartleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Valancourt BooksPublisher... -
The Travelling Grave and Other Stories (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) by L P Hartley 9781943910786
Booksplease Price: $39.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943910786Author L P HartleyFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint Valancourt BooksPublisher... -
Stamboul Train by Graham Greene
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.31A classic espionage thriller from master storyteller Graham Greene 'One of the most important British writers of the twentieth century - he brought something undeniably new to fiction' Daily... -
The Young Melbourne & Lord M by David Cecil 9781509854929
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.06Modern Library's 100th best non-fiction book of all time, and John F. Kennedy's favourite book.A masterful biography of the life of Lord Melbourne - Queen Victoria's Prime Minister and devoted... -
Chill Tidings: Dark Tales of the Christmas Season 9780712353236
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35'The tiles of the hall floor were as pretty as ever, as cold as ever, and bore, as always on Christmas Eve, the trickling pattern of dark blood.' The gifts are unwrapped, the feast has been consumed... -
The Pan Book of Horror Stories by Various 9781509828890
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.47Fifty years ago Pan launched a series of books that were to delight and disgust - sometimes even on the same page - readers for thirty years. From classics in the genre to scraping-the-barrel... -
Old Derbyshire and New Worlds: The Jefferys of Hungry Bentley by Valerie Hardy
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $25.84'The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there.' L. P. Hartley. (The Go Between) This is the story of 'Jefferyland' : the story of the Jeffery family of Derbyshire who have farmed... -
Haunters at the Hearth: Eerie Tales for Christmas Nights by Lucy Evans 9780712354271
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35"But something odd does happen here at Christmas time. When I first heard the story, I thought it was an old wives' tale, but-well, these old houses-you hear strange things-" He lifted his shoulders... -
The Literary Career of W. B. Trites by Richard E. Rex 9781680537277
Booksplease Price: $147.21This book discusses the eight novels by American expatriate author W. B. Trites, who, although highly praised by such contemporaries H. G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, W. B. Maxwell, Max Beerbohm, L. P... -
The Haunted Library: Tales of Cursed Books and Forbidden Shelves by Tanya Kirk 9780712355292
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35As he turned over its stiff and yellow pages, he noticed with pleasure the smell of corruption that had first repelled him in these decaying volumes, a smell, he now thought, of ancient and secret... -
Grievous: A Novel by H. S. Cross 9781250251206
RRP: $47.72Booksplease Price: $29.40St. Stephen's Academy, Yorkshire, 1931. A world unto itself, populated by boys reveling in life's first big mistakes and men still learning how to live with the consequences of their own. It is a... -
Hide and Seek: The Child between Psychoanalysis and Fiction by Virginia L. Blum 9780252064586
RRP: $43.86Booksplease Price: $37.36In response to widespread cultural fantasies about the child--including childhood innocence, the child as origin of the adult, the fetal emergence of subjectivity, and the "inner child"... -
Ghosts of Christmas Past: A chilling collection of modern and classic Christmas ghost stories by 9781473663466
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35A present contains a monstrous secret.An uninvited guest haunts a Christmas party.A shadow slips across the floor by firelight.A festive entertainment ends in darkness and screams.Who knows what... -
The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950 by Carmen Callil 9781849016766
Booksplease Price: $26.70For Colm Toibin and Carmen Callil there is no difference between literary and commercial writing - there is only the good novel: engrossing, inspirational, compelling. In their selection of the best... -
Mossy Trotter Elizabeth Taylor 9780349005577
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35'It's always a treat to read Elizabeth Taylor. Mossy Trotter is a real gem. A delightfully mischievous boy living in those long-ago halcyon days when children played out all day, roaming commons,... -
Xgs #1: A Ghost Story for Christmas 9781771966382
RRP: $7.73Booksplease Price: $6.71World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2024.When a group of tourists visits the deserted island of Podolo, one wants to rescue a feral cat they find there, and the... -
Ancient Forgiveness: Classical, Judaic, and Christian by Charles L. Griswold 9780521119481
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $116.84In this book, eminent scholars of classical antiquity and ancient and medieval Judaism and Christianity explore the nature and place of forgiveness in the pre-modern Western world. They discuss... -
Must Close Saturday: The Decline and Fall of the British Musical Flop Adrian Wright 9781783272358
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $35.45The first book to deal exclusively with British musical flops, Must Close Saturday presents a rolling panorama of the good, the bad and the ugly, reassessing their place in theatrical history. The...