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Inheritance by Paul Bailey 9781909585300
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $10.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909585300Author Paul BaileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint -
Chapman's Odyssey by Paul Bailey 9781408821664
Booksplease Price: $11.67Harry Chapman is not well, and he doesn't like hospitals. Furthermore, Dr Pereira's wonder drug is causing some strange side effects: he can hear more than the usual quotient of voices. First, it is... -
Joie de vivre by Paul Bailey 9781909585454
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $10.75Inheritance, Paul Bailey's first book of poems after a lifetime of writing fiction, was acclaimed by Carol Rumens in the Guardian as 'a collection to engage everyone who appreciates elegant craft,... -
Experimental Nature in Acrylics: Our Landscapes by Paul Bailey 9781849947763
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.69New and experimental ways to capture landscape in acrylics. Landscape artist Paul Bailey's fascination with the natural world is sensationally conveyed in his colourful and semi-abstract paintings... -
The Passport by Herta Muller
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2009 'Just as the father in the house in which we live is our father, so Comrade Nicolae Ceausescu is the father of our country. And just as the... -
Memoirs of Hadrian: And Reflections on the Composition of Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Framed as a letter from the Roman Emperor Hadrian to his successor, Marcus Aurelius, Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian is translated from the French by Grace Frick with an introduction by... -
Love by Stendhal
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37A timeless treatise on the unique power of human emotion, Stendhal's Love is translated by Gilbert and Suzanne Sale with an introduction by Jean Stewart and B.C.J.G. Knight in Penguin Classics.In... -
Bloomsbury 35 Various Authors 9781526635044
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.26In 1984, a time when the publishing landscape was becoming increasingly corporate, Nigel Newton decided to start a new independent literary publishing company. The following year, over early mornings... -
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Daily Telegraph Third Book of Obituaries by Telegraph Group Limited 9780330367752 [USED COPY]
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $3.64'a splendid anthology, both hilarious and melancholy' Spectator Witty, enchanting, engaging and moving, Hugh Massingberd's third collection of Daily Telegraph obituaries ranges in scope from... -
Selected Poems: E.J. Scovell by E.J. Scovell 9780856359224
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.89This Selected Poems draws on Scovell's Collected Poems (1988), which Paul Bailey in the Sunday Times hailed as 'the crowning achievement of a long writing life... This is a wonderful book. The... -
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'A classic.' Guardian'A masterpiece.' The New Yorker'I just adore this book and have probably reread it a hundred times.' Michelle Zauner From the Orange Prize winning author of Home and Gilead... -
Electric Kilns for Ceramics: A Makers Guide to Successful Firing by Jo Davies 9780719841477
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.52This title gives a clear, thorough and practical account of firing, but goes further and explains the techniques and ideas behind this magical stage of making. It highlights commonly-overlooked... -
Summer Cooking by Elizabeth David
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $12.21For Elizabeth David, summer fare meant fresh, seasonal food recipes that could be prepared quickly and savoured slowly, from Gnocchi alla Genovese ('simply an excuse for eating pesto') to La Poule au... -
The Drowned And The Saved by Primo Levi
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $7.04Shortly after completing The Drowned and the Saved, Primo Levi committed suicide. The manner of his death was sudden, violent and unpremeditated, and there are some who argue that he kiled himself... -
Chernobyl Strawberries: A Memoir by Vesna Goldsworthy
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09How would you make sense of your life if you thought it might end tomorrow? In this captivating and best-selling memoir Vesna Goldsworthy tells the story of herself, her family and her early life in... -
A Very Private Eye by Barbara Pym 9781529091946
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41‘Barbara Pym is one of my most favourite novelists. Few other writers have given me more laughter and more pleasure’ - Jilly Cooper‘I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym’ - Richard Osman‘Could one write a... -
Glazes for the Contemporary Maker by Louisa Taylor 9780719842405
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.84Quite simply, everything you need to know about glazes. Glazes for the Contemporary Maker is an essential guide for all ceramic artists and potters looking to expand their knowledge and gain... -
Blaming Elizabeth Taylor 9781844083084
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75'How deeply I envy any reader coming to her for the first time!' Elizabeth Jane Howard* A finely nuanced exploration of responsibility, snobbery and culture clash from one of the twentieth century's... -
Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey by Janet Malcolm
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37In Reading Chekhov Janet Malcolm takes on three roles: literary critic, biographer and journalist. Her close readings of Chekhov's stories and plays are interwoven with episodes from his life and... -
Painter of Silence Georgina Harding 9781408830420
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2012 Iasi, Romania, the early 1950s. A nameless man is found on the steps of a hospital. Deaf and mute, he is unable to communicate until a young nurse... -
Accabadora by Michela Murgia
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75One of Elena Ferrante's best 40 books by female writersWhen Maria, the fourth child of a widow, is adopted by the old and childless Bonaria Urrai, her life is instantly transformed - she finally has... -
A Lie About My Father by John Burnside
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92A moving, unforgettable memoir of two lost men: a father and his child.He had his final heart attack in the Silver Band Club in Corby, somewhere between the bar and the cigarette machine. A... -
Contemporary Raku by Stephen Murfitt 9781785009938
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.52Contemporary Raku is a complete guide to this exciting, dramatic and beautiful art form. It explains the making, glazing and firing methods employed for producing Raku-ware, and features... -
School's Out by Christophe Dufosse 9780099466727
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.27When a teacher is found dead, having apparently committed suicide, his friend Pierre Hoffman takes over class 4F and finds himself responsible for a group of strangely subdued, well-behaved and yet... -
The Photographer at Sixteen: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE 2020 by George Szirtes
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41A poet's memoir of his mother that flows backwards through time, through a tumultuous period of European history - a tender and yet unsparing autobiographical journey.**A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK**"A... -
Angel: A Virago Modern Classic Elizabeth Taylor 9781844083077
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.28INTRODUCED BY HILARY MANTELElizabeth Taylor is finally being recognised as an important British author: an author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth - Sarah WatersWriting stories... -
Magellan by Stefan Zweig
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08The life of the great Portuguese explorer who dared to sail beyond the horizon The Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521) is one of the most famous navigators in history-he was the... -
Snow White and Other Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.50'Once upon a time in mid-winter, when the snowflakes were falling from the sky like down, a queen was sitting and sewing at a window ...' The tales gathered by the Grimm brothers are at once... -
Midsummer Nights: Tales from the Opera:: with Kate Atkinson, Sebastian Barry, Ali Smith & more by Jeanette Winterson
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75In celebration of the Glyndebourne Festival, Jeanette Winterson has brought together some of the best loved and most critically acclaimed authors writing today to pen stories inspired by opera... -
Selected Tales by Jacob Grimm 9780199555581
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.48'Once upon a time in mid-winter, when the snowflakes were falling from the sky like down, a queen was sitting and sewing at a window ...' The tales gathered by the Grimm brothers are at once... -
The Pendragon Legend by Len Rix 9781805330660
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36"An absolute treat... Szerb is a master novelist, a comedian whose powers transcend time and language" Nicholas Lezard, Guardian At an end-of-season London soiree a young Hungarian scholar, Dr... -
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... -
The Book of Disquiet Fernando Pessoa 9781846687358
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Sitting at his desk, Bernardo Soares imagined himself free forever of Rua dos Douradores, of his boss Vasques, of Moreira the book-keeper, of all the other employees, the errand boy, the post boy,... -
The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition by Fernando Pessoa
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $9.73The Book of Disquiet is one of the great literary works of the twentieth century. Written over the course of Fernando Pessoa's life, it was first published in 1982, pieced together from the thousands... -
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Journey by Moonlight by Len Rix 9781901285505 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $2.69A major classic of 1930s literature, Antal Szerb's Journey by Moonlight is the fantastically moving and darkly funny story of a bourgeois businessman torn between duty and desire. 'On the... -
Vertigo & Ghost by Fiona Benson
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68**WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2019****WINNER OF THE ROEHAMPTON PRIZE FOR BEST POETRY COLLECTION 2019**Violence hangs over this book like an electric storm. Beginning with a poem... -
The White King by Gyorgy Dragoman
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92'Disturbing, compelling, beautifully translated' The Times'Electric, urgent, luminous ... a coming-of-age with a difference' Daily MailEleven-year-old Djata makes sure he is always home on Sundays... -
Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb 9781805330240
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'Antal Szerb is one of the great European writers' Ali Smith 'A novel to love as well as admire, always playful and ironical, full of brilliant descriptions, bon mots and absurd situations'... -
My Face for the World to See by Alfred Hayes 9780241342305
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.80A brilliant, bruising depiction of the dark side of 1950s Hollywood, from the author of In Love.At a Hollywood party, a screenwriter rescues an aspiring actress from a drunken suicide attempt. He is... -
Nostalgia by Mircea Cartarescu 9780241448915
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.30'Cartarescu is one of the great literary voices of Central Europe' Olga Tokarczuk, Nobel Prize winner and author of Flights'A Danubian Narnia. . . his writing delivers a rainbow-hued riot of fantasy,...