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Monday Morning by Patrick Hamilton
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'If you were looking to fly from Dickens to Martin Amis with just one overnight stop, then Hamilton is your man' Nick Hornby'I recommend Hamilton at every opportunity, because he was such a wonderful... -
Twopence Coloured by Patrick Hamilton
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'I recommend Hamilton at every opportunity, because he was such a wonderful writer and yet is rather under-read today. All his novels are terrific' Sarah Waters'If you were looking to fly from... -
Craven House by Patrick Hamilton
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75'All his novels are terrific' Sarah WatersPatrick Hamilton's novels were the inspiration for Matthew Bourne's new dance theatre production, The Midnight Bell.In Craven House, among the shifting,... -
Impromptu in Moribundia by Patrick Hamilton
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.99'I recommend Hamilton at every opportunity, because he was such a wonderful writer and yet is rather under-read today. All his novels are terrific' Sarah Waters'If you were looking to fly from... -
Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.61The seventy-fifth anniversary edition, with a new introduction by Anthony Quinn.'I recommend Hamilton at every opportunity, because he was such a wonderful writer and yet is rather under-read today... -
The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75'All his novels are terrific, but this one is my favourite' Sarah WatersPatrick Hamilton's novels were the inspiration for Matthew Bourne's new dance theatre production, The Midnight Bell.Measuring... -
The Gorse Trilogy by Patrick Hamilton
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07Ernest Ralph Gorse's heartlessness and lack of scruple are matched only by the inventiveness and panache with which he swindles his victims. With great deftness and precision Hamilton exposes how his... -
Patrick Hamilton by John Harding 9781871551990
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $14.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781871551990Author John HardingFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint < -
Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky by Patrick Hamilton
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41The Midnight Bell, a pub on the Euston Road, is the pulse of this brilliant and compassionate trilogy. It is here where the barman, Bob, falls in love with Jenny, a West End prostitute who comes in... -
Vehicle Maintenance and Repair Level 1 by Patrick Hamilton 9781408064221
RRP: $42.87Booksplease Price: $42.41This new edition of the highly successful Vehicle Maintenance and Repair Level 1 workbook provides complete coverage of the QCF National Occupational Standards at Level 1 as set by the IMI and is... -
Light Vehicle Maintenance and Repair Level 2: Soft Bound Version by Patrick Hamilton 9781408057490
Booksplease Price: $53.59This new edition of the highly successful Light Vehicle Maintenance and Repair Level 2 workbook provides complete coverage of the National Occupational Standards at Level 2 as set by the IMI and has... -
The Last Landlady: An English Memoir by Laura Thompson 9781783528455
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.73Shortlisted for Harper's Bazaar Book of the Year 2019A Guardian, Spectator and Mail on Sunday Book of the Year 2018'A lyrical portrait of a fast-vanishing way of life . . . Thompson is a terrific... -
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... -
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... -
Gilgi, One of Us by Irmgard Keun
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65A brilliant, bestselling feminist novel from Weimar Germany, from the author of Child of All Nations'A formidable literary talent ... Sharp yet naive, Gilgi is utterly human' Irish TimesGilgi knows... -
Schlump by Hans Herbert Grimm 9780099595786 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $2.84A GERMAN CLASSIC FROM A FORGOTTEN AUTHORSchlump is seventeen, a romantic, a chancer and a dreamer. It's 1915 so naturally he volunteers for war. In France he is assigned an administrative position in... -
The Poorhouse Fair by John Updike
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37At the Diamond County Home for the Aged, the inmates prepare for the annual ritual of the Poorhouse Fair, a summer celebration at which the old and infirm sell their produce on stalls to the people... -
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04'A fantasy, a vivid dream...inventive and brilliant' GuardianHenri has a passion for Napoleon - but Napoleon has a passion for chicken. As soldier and emperor butcher their way across Europe, glory... -
The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04A gripping tragicomedy of a bungled kidnapping in a provincial Argentinean town, considered to be one of Greene's finest novels.In a provincial Argentinian community, Charley Fortnum - a British... -
Of Love and Hunger by Julian Maclaren-Ross
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.36The key literary figure in the pubs of post-war Fitzrovia, Maclaren-Ross pulled together his dispersed energies to write two great books: the posthumously published Memoirs of the Forties and this... -
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65Few novels have caused as much debate as Hubert Selby Jr.'s notorious masterpiece, Last Exit to Brooklyn, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Irvine Welsh, author of... -
Killzone: Ascendancy by Sam Bradbury 9780241954317
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.45'There is no poetry or romance in war, it is brutal and ugly and terrifying and it turns men into animals - shrieking, screaming and running while destroying all in their path. It is survival'Visari,... -
After Midnight by Irmgard Keun
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Depicting a young woman's life in Nazi Germany, a masterpiece from the author of Child of All Nations'I cannot think of anything else that conjures up so powerfully the atmosphere of a nation turned... -
The Lowlife: (Faber Editions) Alexander Baron 9780571393473
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80The day they moved in was a memorable one for me. Not because of them, for I couldn't know what they were to bring into my life, but because of a dog.Harryboy Boas is a gambling man. An independent... -
Twenty-One Stories by Graham Greene
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92A celebrated collection of stories from one of the most important British writers of the twentieth century. Features Greene's most famous short story, 'The Destructors'.Written between 1929 and 1954,... -
Slaves of Solitude by Nicholas Wright
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $14.54'I don't know how I became so filled with hate. I find it shocking that I did. Somebody said to me that war affects us in all kinds of ways, and that drinking is only one of them. Perhaps hating... -
We Learnt About Hitler at the Mickey Mouse Club: A Childhood on the Eve of War by Enid Elliott Linder 9781785786099 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $7.33For fans of Call the Midwife, a unique autobiography of a 1930s London childhood.Enid Elliot Linder was the daughter of a butler and a lady's maid in service in some of England's grandest country... -
We Learnt About Hitler at the Mickey Mouse Club: A Childhood on the Eve of War by Enid Elliott Linder
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80For fans of Call the Midwife, a unique autobiography of a 1930s London childhood.Enid Elliot Linder was the daughter of a butler and a lady's maid in service in some of England's grandest country... -
The Terminator by Sean French
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.16Made on a low budget, The Terminator was one of the most influential films of the 1980s. Combining explosive special effects and an intricate time-travel plot, it set Arnold Schwarzenegger on the... -
Five Days of Fog: Peaky Blinders with a feminist twist Anna Freeman 9781780227979
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75'Think Patrick Hamilton meets Peaky Blinders with a feminist twist' Metro'Utterly transporting, read and lose yourself completely' Stylist'A cinematic, rogueish, and utterly entertaining page-turner... -
Therese Raquin (National Theatre version) by Emile Zola 9781854599582
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $14.54A gripping psychological thriller adapted for the stage by Emile Zola himself from his own notorious novel, in a version by Nicholas Wright. Stifled by an oppressive mother-in-law and a sickly... -
The Heat Of The Day by Elizabeth Bowen
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.55It is wartime London, and the carelessness of people with no future flows through the evening air. Stella discovers that her lover Robert is suspected of selling information to the enemy. Harrison,... -
Beer, in So Many Words: The Best Writing on the Greatest Drink by Adrian Tierney-Jones 9780993291111
Booksplease Price: $17.43These days beer could not be more popular. New craft breweries open by the week; most pubs routinely serve several draught real ales; supermarkets stock an astonishing range of the best beers from... -
Lulu by Frank Wedekind
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.85Nicholas Wright's version of Wedekind's celebrated erotic masterpiece is the first to be based on the author's original text, restoring the clarity, the daring and the sexual explicitness of a modern... -
Mrs Klein by Nicholas Wright
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.48Nicholas Wright's play about the controversial psychoanalyst Melanie Klein is a haunting and poignant study of mother-daughter relationships. In 1934 the son of Melanie Klein, Britain's most... -
Kitty's Salon: Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich by Nigel Jones
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $18.49There is no book in English about the wartime Berlin 'salon' run by Kitty Schmidt under the secret control of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Final SolutionSalon Kitty was the most... -
All She Ever Wanted Patrick Redmond 9780751561814
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09For Tina Ryan, falling in love is the worst thing that could ever happen to her. Love is a refuge for the weak, lonely and needy. Once she was like that herself - but no longer. Recovering from a... -
Kitty's Salon: Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich by Nigel Jones 9781789466157
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.57There is no book in English about the wartime Berlin 'salon' run by Kitty Schmidt under the secret control of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Final SolutionSalon Kitty was the most... -
Vincent in Brixton by Nicholas Wright
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.78A moving portrait of the young Vincent van Gogh - a hit in the West End and on Broadway. Winner of the 2003 Olivier Award for Best New Play. Brixton, 1873. A brash young Dutchman rents a room in... -
Tower by Nigel Jones 9780099537656
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29No building has been more intimately involved in the story of Britain than the Tower of London - a mighty, brooding stronghold in the very heart of the capital. Castle, prison, torture chamber,...