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Eustace and Hilda by L P Hartley
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £18.86Apologies 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 Go-Between by L P Hartley
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £12.64Apologies 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 Shrimp and the Anemone by L. P. Hartley 9780571203826
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31There 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 Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74In the spring of 1860, Fabrizio, the charismatic Prince of Salina, still rules over thousands of acres and hundreds of people, including his own numerous family, in mingled splendour and squalor... -
Storied Cities: Literary Imaginings of Florence, Venice, and Rome by Michael L. Ross 9780313287176
Booksplease Price: £76.81The fabled cities of Italy--Florence, Venice, and Rome--have each acquired a distinctive tradition of literary representation involving characteristic, recurrent motifs and symbolic signatures. A... -
The Spring House Cynthia Asquith 9780712355049
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02It is 1915, and Miranda Gray is spending the war on the other side of the Atlantic to her Canadian husband. Staying with her eccentric relatives and young son at her family's stately home, Star... -
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The House at Riverton by Kate Morton 9780330448444 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.58Summer 1924: On the eve of a glittering Society party, by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never... -
Filming Literature: The Art of Screen Adaptation Neil Sinyard 9781138969780
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £47.72This is a comprehensive survey of the relationship between film and literature. It looks at the cinematic adaptations of such literary masters as Shakespeare, Henry James, Joseph Conrad and D.H... -
Norfolk Summer: Making the Go-Between by Christopher Hartop
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.84Norfolk Summer presents the story about the making of a film starring Julie Christie and Alan Bates Joseph Losey's award-winning movie The Go-Between was filmed entirely on location in Norfolk in... -
Ring of Stone Circles: Exploring Neolithic Cumbria Stan L Abbott 9781913393434
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28To paraphrase L.P. Hartley, "The past is a different country." Stan L Abbott sets out to explore the visible clues to our mysterious past from the Neolithic and Bronze Ages: stone circles. Cumbria... -
The Leopard: Revised and with new material by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49The Leopard is a modern classic which tells the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution.'There is a great feeling... -
Caetana Says No: Women's Stories from a Brazilian Slave Society by Sandra Lauderdale Graham 9780521893534
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £20.41This 2002 book presents the true and dramatic accounts of two nineteenth-century Brazilian women - one young and born a slave, the other old and from an illustrious planter family - and how each... -
Caetana Says No: Women's Stories from a Brazilian Slave Society by Sandra Lauderdale Graham 9780521815321
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £40.98This 2002 book presents the true and dramatic accounts of two nineteenth-century Brazilian women - one young and born a slave, the other old and from an illustrious planter family - and how each... -
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively 9780141188317
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Winner of the Booker Prize, Penelope Lively's Moon Tiger is the tale of a historian confronting her own, personal history, unearthing the passions and pains that have defined her life. This Penguin... -
Eustace and Hilda: With an introduction by Anita Brookner L. P. Hartley 9781474616485
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.73'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 Innumerable Dance - The Life and Work of William Alwyn by Adrian Wright 9781843834120
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.17This first extended biography of William Alwyn sets his works in full context and uses hitherto unpublished material to give a vivid account of his marriages, his operas and his relationship with... -
Henry Dresser and Victorian Ornithology: Birds, Books and Business Henry A. McGhie 9781784994136
Booksplease Price: £38.91This book explores the life of Henry Dresser (1838-1915), one of the most productive British ornithologists of the mid-late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and is largely based on... -
Xgs #3: A Ghost Story for Christmas 9781771966405
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.92World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2024.When Margaret finds a cottage to rent in the moorlands for her visiting Aunt Dorothea, she pays no mind to its rumored... -
Xgs #2: A Ghost Story for Christmas 9781771966399
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.92World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2024.After the death of his wife in childbirth, Captain Dalgety has grown distant from his estate and young daughter. But... -
Xgs #1: A Ghost Story for Christmas 9781771966382
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.92World-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...