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The Post Office Girl: Stefan Zweig's Grand Hotel Novel by Stefan Zweig
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15It's the 1930s. Christine, A young Austrian woman whose family has been impoverished by the war, toils away in a provincial post office. Out of the blue, a telegram arrives from an American aunt... -
Bad Traffic by Simon Lewis
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.40Inspector Jian is a Chinese cop from the Siberian borders who thinks he's seen it all. But his search for his missing daughter brings him to the meanest streets he's ever faced - in rural England. ... -
The Book of Leviathan by Peter Blegvad 9780953522729
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.31PETER BLEGVAD's cult comic strip LEVIATHAN ran for seven years in The Independent on Sunday review. It was memorably described by Simpsons creator Matt Groening as "one of the greatest, weirdest... -
Findings by Kathleen Jamie
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.98It's surprising what you can find by simply stepping out to look. Award-winning poet Kathleen Jamie has an eye and an ease with the nature and landscapes of Scotland as well as an incisive sense of... -
A Parrot in the Pepper Tree: A Sequel to Driving over Lemons by Chris Stewart
Booksplease Price: £7.69Chris Stewart's Driving Over Lemons told the story of his move to a remote mountain farm in Las Alpujarras - an oddball region of Spain, south of Granada. Funny, insightful and real, the book became... -
The Last Days of the Bus Club by Chris Stewart
Booksplease Price: £8.26It's two decades since Chris Stewart moved to his farm on the wrong side of a river in the mountains of southern Spain and his daughter Chloee is preparing to fly the nest for university. In this... -
Artist in Residence by Simon Bill
Booksplease Price: £7.55For Simon Bill's drunken anti-hero, an abstract artist forced to haunt private views to siphon the free booze, the picture looks bleak. He has been dumped by his curator girlfriend and the only... -
Things Remembered and Things Forgotten by Ginny Takemori
Booksplease Price: £8.95'If we want to understand what has been lost to time, there is no way other than through the exercise of imagination ... imagination applied with delicate rather than broad strokes'. So wrote the... -
An Absence of Cousins: A Novel Lore Segal 9781914502101
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Ilka Weisz is in need not just of friends but 'elective cousins'. She has left her home in New York to accept a junior teaching post at the prestigious Concordance Institute, a liberal college in... -
The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson 9780954899578
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.26In the deep winter snows of a Swedish hamlet, a strange young woman fakes a break-in at the house of an elderly artist in order to persuade her that she needs companionship. But what does she hope to... -
Her First American Lore Segal 9781914502330
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15It's the early 1950s. Ilka Weissnix, a newly arrived Jewish-Austrian refugee, boards a train from New York hoping to find a 'real American'. In a railroad bar she meets Carter Bayoux, an urbane... -
Border Run by Simon Lewis
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.85Bored of the 'mango smoothie' trail and keen to spice up their Facebook albums, and perhaps also their sex lives, Jake and Will take a tour into China's jungle borderland with Burma. Their guide,... -
Fair Play by Tove Jansson 9780954899530
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.99"So what can happen when Tove Jansson turns her attention to her own favourite subjects, love and work, in the form of this novel about two women, lifelong partners and friends? Expect something... -
Travelling Light by Tove Jansson 9780954899585
Booksplease Price: £8.26This newly translated collection of stories brilliantly evokes the shifting scenes and restlessness of summer. A professor arrives in a beautiful Spanish village only to find that her host has left... -
Theory & Practice Michelle de Kretser 9781914502163
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'Michelle de Kretser is a genius - one of the best writers working today. She is startlingly, uncannily good at naming and facing what is most difficult and precious about our lives. Theory &... -
Art in Nature: and other stories by Tove Jansson
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49An elderly caretaker at a large outdoor exhibition, called Art in Nature, finds that a couple have lingered on to bicker about the value of a picture; he has a surprising suggestion that will resolve... -
Sightlines by Kathleen Jamie
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.49The outer world flew open like a door, and I wondered - what is it that we're just not seeing? In this greatly anticipated sequel to Findings, prize-winning poet and renowned nature writer... -
The River is The River by Jonathan Buckley
Booksplease Price: £9.64A woman named Naomi arrives at her sister's house, intending, it seems, to say goodbye. She is abandoning her city life for a remote Scottish retreat, which she will share with a man called Bernat,... -
Encircling: Book 2 by Carl Frode Tiller
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49The island of Otteroya, a rural backwater of Norway, provides the setting for Book Two of Tiller's multi-award winning Encircling trilogy. Its singular premise continues: an enigmatic central... -
Men & Dogs: A Personal History from Bogart to Bowie by Judith Watt 9780954221751
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.69MEN & DOGS and WOMEN & DOGS are a stunning pair of books. Each contains 80 images of people and their dogs, from Maria Callas to Robbie Williams, Churchill to Jilly Cooper. They are an amazing... -
A Winter Book: Selected Stories by Tove Jansson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'Beautifully crafted and deceptively simple-seeming, these stories are like pieces of scattered light.' Ali Smith Following the widely acclaimed and bestselling The Summer Book, here is A Winter... -
The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society by Chris Stewart
Booksplease Price: £7.69The Good Life goes on at El Valero. Find yourself laughing out loud as Chris is instructed by his daughter on local teenage mores; bluffs his way in art history to millionaire Bostonians; is rescued... -
Telescope by Jonathan Buckley
Booksplease Price: £7.55Daniel Brennan, approaching the premature end of his life, retreats to a room in his brother's suburban house. To divert himself and to entertain Ellen, his carer, he writes the journal that is... -
Nostalgia by Jonathan Buckley
Booksplease Price: £10.65The small Tuscan town of Castelluccio is preparing for its annual festival, a spectacular pageant in which a leading role will be taken by the self-exiled English painter Gideon Westfall. A man... -
Three Ways to Capsize a Boat: An Optimist Afloat by Chris Stewart
Booksplease Price: £7.69Chris Stewart's sea-faring 'prequel' to Driving Over Lemons was launched into the hardback bestseller list in May, where it's been bobbing about happily ever since. Sort of Books plan to make this... -
Letters from Klara: Short stories by Tove Jansson
Booksplease Price: £8.26The rich seam that is Jansson's adult prose continues with this penultimate collection of short stories, written in her seventies at the height of her Moomin fame and translated into English for the... -
Maximum Diner: Making it Big in Uckfield by Christopher Nye 9780954221737
Booksplease Price: £5.76Join Christopher Nye on his hilarious journey to become the self-styled Rocco Forte of the Road to Eastbourne... This is a book about a dream. The dream of running a restaurant. In Uckfield, East... -
The Fantastic Book of Everybody's Secrets by Sophie Hannah 9780954899547
Booksplease Price: £6.40Everybody has their secrets, and in Sophie Hannah's fantastic stories the curtains positively twitch with them. Who, for instance, is the hooded figure hiding in the bushes outside a young man's... -
Contact by Jonathan Buckley 9780956003867
Booksplease Price: £8.26Dominic Pattison's life is one of level contentment: his marriage has proved happy and durable; his business, too, is successful.And then Sam Williams, a builder and ex-squaddie, enters his life. Sam... -
Paddle: A long way around Ireland by Jasper Winn 9780956003881
Booksplease Price: £8.26One summer, writer and musician, Jasper Winn set himself an extraordinary task. He would kayak the whole way round Ireland - a thousand miles - camping on remote headlands and islands, carousing in... -
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Celebrating 50 years of Tove Jansson's classic, bestselling novel Featured in the BBC 2 Between the Covers Bookclub Special (Eurovision series 2023) 'Distils the essence of summer' Robert... -
Match the Colour: A Colour-Sorting Board Book Susie Hammer 9781800788572
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.06An innovative board book design that lets toddlers place three chunky shapes into matching slots.This bold, bright board book makes learning about shapes and first words endlessly fun. -
Match the Shape: A Shape-Sorting Board Book Susie Hammer 9781800788589
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.06An innovative board book design that lets toddlers place three chunky shapes into matching slots. This bold, bright board book makes learning about shapes and first words endlessly fun. A chunky... -
New Heinemann Maths: Reception: Sorting Activity Book (8 Pack) by 9780435165284
Booksplease Price: £15.26NHM Reception Activity Books: Use language at an appropriate reading level. Place maths in a variety of contexts. Lead more able children through a range of problem-solving activities. Book... -
It's Just a F***ing Date: Some Sort of Book About Dating by Greg Behrendt 9781626811201
Booksplease Price: £14.74A fun and funny guide to dating from the New York Times bestselling authors of IT'S CALLED A BREAKUP BECAUSE IT'S BROKEN and HE'S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU. "The book is jam-packed with... -
Moomin and the Ice Festival by Tove Jansson
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.48It's winter in Moominvalley and Moomintroll and his family are getting ready for the Long Winter Sleep. But as the first flakes of snow fall, they receive an exciting invitation to the Ice Festival... -
Other People's Houses by Lore Segal
Booksplease Price: £8.26'First published 54 years ago and yet feels as timely as any book I've read this year' Observer Nine months after the Nazi occupation of Austria, 600 Jewish Children assembled at Vienna station to... -
No Exit Simon Lewis 9781908745897
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Inspector Jian and his daughter Weiwei just want to go back to their home in China: but Jian is facing a corruption charge in his absence and risks arrest. Instead he tries to scrape a living on... -
Cairn Kathleen Jamie 9781914502002
Booksplease Price: £7.52'This marvel of a book is a profound meditation on the precariousness of the planet ... these pieces kept bringing tears to my eyes, catching me offguard ... it is what art or, in this case,... -
Assorted Puzzle Book: Travel Edition: 2021 by 9781838488901
Booksplease Price: £5.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838488901Page Count 98Imprint Cheryl McIntoshPublisher Cheryl McIntosh