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Behold, America by Sarah Churchwell
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $21.78SELECTED AS A 2018 SUMMER READ BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER, I-PAPER AND THE BIG ISSUE 'Enormously entertaining' SUNDAY TIMES 'Fascinating' NEW STATESMAN 'Excoriating, brilliant' ALI SMITH ... -
The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe by Sarah Churchwell 9780312425654
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $34.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312425654Author Sarah ChurchwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador... -
The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe Sarah Churchwell 9781526613349
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $11.12'Ferociously smart. A rare combination of guilty pleasure and intellectual insight' VOGUE 'Perceptive. Refreshing. Tears away layers of false readings and conspiracy theories' NEW YORK TIMES ... -
The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells by Sarah Churchwell
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.42The history America never wanted you to read. 'The narrative took my breath away' Philippe Sands 'An extraordinarily and shockingly powerful read' Peter Frankopan 'One of the must-reads of... -
Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby Sarah Churchwell 9781844087686
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.27Since its publication in 1925, The Great Gatsby has become one of the world's best-loved books. Careless People tells the true story behind F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, exploring in newly rich... -
Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of the Great Gatsby by Sarah Churchwell 9780143126256
RRP: $46.80Booksplease Price: $36.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143126256Author Sarah ChurchwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin... -
Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers: From Charlotte Temple to The Da Vinci Code by Sarah Churchwell 9781441162168
Booksplease Price: $72.97What is it about certain books that makes them bestsellers? Why do some of these books remain popular for centuries, and others fade gently into obscurity? And why is it that when scholars do turn... -
Metamorphoses: In Search of Franz Kafka by Karolina Watroba 9781800812741
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $27.44'A high-spirited, richly informed, and original portrait, a cross between biography, literary analysis and a study in modern canonisation: Karolina Watroba is an inspired guide and her book a... -
Metamorphoses: In Search of Franz Kafka Karolina Watroba 9781800812758
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.89'A high-spirited, richly informed, and original portrait, a cross between biography, literary analysis and a study in modern canonisation: Karolina Watroba is an inspired guide and her book a... -
The Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery by Michael Taylor
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45Discover how the campaign to end slavery divided Britain and was almost thwarted by some of the most powerful and famous figures of the era.**SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL... -
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZEChosen as 'BOOK OF THE YEAR' by Observer, Guardian, Telegraph, Irish Times, New Statesman, Times Literary Supplement, HeraldWhen Olivia Laing moved to New York... -
Forgotten Fitzgerald: Echoes of a Lost America by F. Scott Fitzgerald
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.64While F. Scott Fitzgerald was writing the novels we remember him for today, he was also publishing short stories in popular magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post and Esquire. Although many of... -
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 9780198864400
RRP: $13.63Booksplease Price: $11.08'Can't repeat the past? ... Why of course you can!' Often called 'the great American novel', F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is a story of adulterous love, dreams, and betrayal among the... -
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $14.86Regarded as a modern fairy tale, L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz is one of America's most cherished and enchanting children's stories. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of... -
Marilynne Robinson: . by Rachel Sykes
RRP: $175.50Booksplease Price: $126.96Best known for a trilogy of historical novels set in the fictional town of Gilead, Iowa, Marilynne Robinson is a prolific writer, teacher, and public speaker, who has won the Pulitzer Prize and was... -
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The Paris Wife by Paula McLain 9781844086689 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $4.68Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a shy twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness when she meets Ernest Hemingway and is captivated by his energy, intensity and burning... -
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.64Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a shy twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness when she meets Ernest Hemingway and is captivated by his energy, intensity and burning... -
Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies about Our Past by Kevin M Kruse
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $39.66The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Distortions of the past promoted in the conservative media have led large numbers of Americans to believe in fictions over facts, making... -
Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past by Kevin Kruse 9781541604667
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.49In this "incisive" (Vanity Fair) and "authoritative" (New York Times) instant New York Times bestseller, America's top historians set the record straight on the most pernicious myths about our... -
Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan 9780007216161
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $21.18The highly anticipated novel from the bestselling author of 'The Joy Luck Club' and 'The Bonesetter's Daughter'. On an ill-fated art expedition of the Southern Shan State in Burma, eleven... -
My Dear Governess: The Letters of Edith Wharton to Anna Bahlmann by Irene Goldman-Price 9780300169898
Booksplease Price: $112.44A rich trove of letters from Edith Wharton to her governess, written over the course of their long and affectionate friendship An exciting archive came to auction in 2009: the papers and personal... -
What Is History, Now? by Suzannah Lipscomb 9781474622479
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.25This groundbreaking new collection addresses the burning issue of how we interpret history today. What stories are told, and by whom, who should be celebrated, and what rewritten, are questions that... -
The Awakening Kate Chopin 9781782117131
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $11.74Over one long, languid summer Edna Pontellier, fettered by marriage and motherhood, becomes acquainted with Robert Lebrun. As the days shorten and the temperature drops Edna succumbs to Robert's... -
Rosebud Sleds and Horses' Heads: 50 of Film's Most Evocative Objects - An Illustrated Journey Scott Jordan Harris (United Kingdom.) 9781783200405
RRP: $23.30Booksplease Price: $22.93Dorothy's ruby slippers. Michael Myers's mask. Marilyn Monroe's billowy white dress. Indiana Jones's trusty hat. These objects are icons of popular culture synonymous with the films they appear in,... -
Beginners by Raymond Carver
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remians one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date. But the original, unedited... -
The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 by Lionel Shriver
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.15THE BRILLIANT NEW NOVEL FROM THE ORANGE PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN. 'Distinctly chilling' Independent ... -
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.89Next, dive into TOM LAKE - the breath-taking new novel from Ann Patchett 'Dazzling ... life-affirming and compulsively readable' Sunday Times 'Patchett blends wisdom and humanity jointly with... -
A Stranger in Corfu Alex Preston 9781837263936
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $27.16'Suspenseful, vivid and impossible to put down' TOM HOLLAND'Laced with thrills' EVIE WYLD'Utterly gripping' ADAM RUTHERFORDOn the Greek island of Vidos the past lingers like salt in the air. The... -
Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music: America Changed Through Music Ross Hair 9781138318298
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $90.66Released in 1952, the Anthology of American Folk Music was the singular vision of the enigmatic artist, musicologist, and collector Harry Smith (1923-1991). A collection of eighty-four commercial... -
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Smut: Two Unseemly Stories by Alan Bennett 9781846685262 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $3.80The Shielding of Mrs Forbes Graham Forbes is a disappointment to his mother, who thinks that if he must have a wife, he should have done better. Though her own husband isn't all that satisfactory... -
Smut: Two Unseemly Stories by Alan Bennett
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.32The Shielding of Mrs Forbes Graham Forbes is a disappointment to his mother, who thinks that if he must have a wife, he should have done better. Though her own husband isn't all that satisfactory... -
The Cambridge Centennial Edition of The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 9781009414593
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $29.72The Great Gatsby is often called the great American novel. Emblematic of an entire era, F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic tale of illicit desire, grand illusions, and lost dreams is rendered in a lyrical... -
The Great Gatsby: The 1926 Broadway Script by James L. W. West III 9781009385220
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $31.80The cultural ubiquity of The Great Gatsby is such that it is tempting to think we know almost all there is to say about it. But F. Scott Fitzgerald's most famous work still has the capacity to... -
Curious: True Stories and Everyday Absurdities Rebecca Front 9781780226118
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.06'Warm, anxious and true - a Little Book of Un-Calm' Caitlin MoranShortlisted for Non-fiction Book of the Year at the National Book AwardsRead on BBC Radio 4Sometimes things are more ordinary than you... -
The Highest Glass Ceiling: Women's Quest for the American Presidency by Ellen Fitzpatrick 9780674088931
RRP: $42.80Booksplease Price: $36.76In The Highest Glass Ceiling, best-selling historian Ellen Fitzpatrick tells the story of three remarkable women who set their sights on the American presidency. Victoria Woodhull (1872), Margaret... -
How to be Both by Ali Smith
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2015 WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2014WINNER OF THE 2014 COSTA NOVEL AWARD'I take my hat off to Ali Smith. Her writing lifts the soul' Evening Standard How... -
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Lila by Marilynne Robinson 9781844088805 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $5.85LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church-the only available shelter from the rain-and ignites a... -
A Horse Walks into a Bar by David Grossman 9781784704223
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017The setting is a comedy club in a small Israeli town. An audience that has come expecting an evening of amusement instead sees a comedian falling... -
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin 9781529077223
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador BooksThe world just goes along. Nothing much matters, you know? I mean really matters. but then sometimes, just for a second, you get this grace, this belief that... -
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May We Be Forgiven by A. M. Homes 9781847083234 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $3.49WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'Reads like a brilliant miniseries... Has the narrative intensity of Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections and the emotional punch of Siri Hustvedt's What I...