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The Butcher's Daughter by Victoria Glendinning
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67'Historical fiction at its finest' @MargaretAtwood (Twitter) It is 1535 and Agnes Peppin, daughter of a West-country butcher, has been banished, leaving her family home in disgrace to live out the... -
Family Business by Victoria Glendinning
Booksplease Price: £4.12From Victoria Glendinning, winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, the James Tait Black Prize and (twice) the Whitbread Prize for Biography. 'It's... -
Raffles: And the Golden Opportunity Victoria Glendinning 9781788160902
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78By the time of his death, Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) was the founder of Singapore and Governor of Java, having left school in his early teens to become a clerk for the British East India... -
Elizabeth Bowen: A Biography by Victoria Glendinning 9780307277404
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307277404Author Victoria GlendinningFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher... -
Leonard Woolf: A Biography by Victoria Glendinning 9781582434117
Booksplease Price: £18.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582434117Author Victoria GlendinningFormat PaperbackPage Count 530Imprint CounterpointPublisher... -
Vita: The Life of Vita Sackville-West by Victoria Glendinning
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.99The Whitbread Prize-winning biography of Vita Sackville-West. Vita Sackville-West was a vital, gifted and complex woman. A dedicated writer, she made her mark as poet, novelist, biographer, travel... -
Family Business: An Intimate History of John Lewis and the Partnership by Victoria Glendinning
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.41From Victoria Glendinning, winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, the James Tait Black Prize and (twice) the Whitbread Prize for Biography. 'It's... -
A Suppressed Cry: The Short Life of a Victorian Daughter by Victoria Glendinning 9781844089161
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.97'I always wanted everything so frantically, and I'm just the person that can't have them.' Based on family papers and memories, this picture of middle class life at the end of the nineteenth century... -
Sylvia, Queen Of The Headhunters: An Outrageous Englishwoman And Her Lost Kingdom Philip Eade 9780753823811
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The biography of the last Ranee of Sarawak, born into the aristocracy as Sylvia Brett in 1885 and destined to become 'Queen of the Headhunters'.'Jaw-dropping ... If you thought White Mischief the... -
The Death Of The Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'One of the best novels about a young woman that I've ever read' Greta GerwigWhen sixteen-year-old Portia is orphaned, she is plunged into the sophisticated and politely treacherous world of her... -
Shadow Lovers UK Edition: The Last Affairs Of H.g.wells by Andrea Lynn
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £41.24Nearing 70, and in what would be the last decade of his life, H.G. Wells fell in love at least three times - once with the much younger Baroness Budberg, and soon thereafter with two well-born... -
Heroes and Villains by Angela Carter
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42A modern fable, a post-apocalyptic romance, a gothic horror story; Angela Carter's genre-defying fantasia Heroes and Villains includes an introduction by Robert Coover in Penguin Modern Classics... -
An Accidental Man by Iris Murdoch 9780140036114
Booksplease Price: £22.02A scintillating novel of fate, accidents, and moral dilemmasSet in the time of the Vietnam War, this story concerns the plight of a young American, happily installed in a perfect job in England,... -
Darkness Visible by William Styron
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73This is a story of depression a condition that reduced William Styron from a person enjoying life and success as an acclaimed writer, to a man engulfed and menaced by mental anguish. With profound... -
The Thinking Reed by Rebecca West 9780860684985
Booksplease Price: £23.66Isabelle is beautiful, immensely rich and a widow at the age of twenty-six. In 1928 she leaves America for Cannes and Paris in search of high society - and love. For though outwardly she has... -
No Signposts In The Sea Vita Sackville-West 9780860685784
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Edmund Carr is at sea in more ways than one. An eminent journalist and self-made man, he has recently discovered that he has only a short time to live. Leaving his job on a Fleet Street paper, he... -
Henry James: His Women and His Art by Lyndall Gordon 9781844088928
Booksplease Price: £25.63James's friendship with Constance Fenimore Woolson ended in 1894 when he tried to drown a boatload of her dresses in the Venetian lagoon; she had fallen to her death three months before. It was an... -
The Fountain Overflows Rebecca West 9781844086993
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Rose Aubrey is one of a family of four children. Their father, Piers, is the disgraced son of an Irish landowning family, a violent, noble and quite unscrupulous leader of popular causes. His... -
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Cousin Rosamund by Rebecca West 9780860688297 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.98Cousin Rosamund unfolds the final chapters of the saga that began with The Fountain Overflows, Rebecca West's acknowleged masterpiece, and continued with This Real Night.As the glitter of the 1920s... -
Cousin Rosamund Rebecca West 9780860688297
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Cousin Rosamund unfolds the final chapters of the saga that began with The Fountain Overflows, Rebecca West's acknowleged masterpiece, and continued with This Real Night.As the glitter of the 1920s... -
Latecomers by Anita Brookner 9780141048291
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'No man is free of his own history' Hartmann and Fibich came to England on the kindertransport. As orphans of the war they were strangers in a strange land. Together, they survived. And in adulthood... -
A Time In Rome by Elizabeth Bowen
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.75Elizabeth Bowen's account of a time spent in Rome is no ordinary guidebook but an evocation of a city - its history, its architecture and, above all, its atmosphere. She describes the famous... -
A Very Private Eye by Barbara Pym 9781529091946
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26‘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... -
The Collector Collector by Tibor Fischer
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.02To a small flat in South London comes a Sumerian bowl: but the bowl is the Collector Collector, clay with something to say, an object d'art who will offer Rosa, its owner, vast swathes of unrecorded... -
The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux 9780140060898
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Winner of the Stanford Dolman Lifetime Contribution to Travel Writing Award 2020The Mosquito Coast - winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize - is a breathtaking novel about fanaticism and a... -
Good Behaviour: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick – Booker Prize Gems Molly Keane 9780349019604
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40We kept our heads above the morass, stifled screaming despairs only by the exercise of Good Behaviour.Behind the gates of Temple Alice, the aristocratic St Charles family is sinking into a state of... -
The Iris Trilogy: Memoirs of Iris Murdoch by John Bayley
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.38Dame Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) was one of the greatest British novelists and philosophers of the twentieth century. She read philosophy at Oxford where she met and later married John Bayley, a... -
Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42In this ingenious book Perec creates an entire microcosm in a Paris apartment block. Serge Valene wants to make an elaborate painting of the building he has made his home for the last sixty years. As... -
The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05Winner of the Stanford Dolman Lifetime Contribution to Travel Writing Award 2020The Mosquito Coast - winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize - is a breathtaking novel about fanaticism and a... -
A Very Private Eye: An Autobiography in Diaries and Letters by Barbara Pym 9781447265399
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.30'Barbara Pym is one of my most favourite novelists. Few other writers have given me more laughter and more pleasure.' Jilly Cooper'Could one write a book based on one's diaries over thirty years? I... -
Pilate by Ann Wroe
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Although very little is known for certain about Pontius Pilate, the man who crucified Christ, this has not stopped writers in every age from imagining his life. In this extraordinary book, Ann Wroe... -
Selected Letters of Rebecca West by Rebecca West 9780300079043
Booksplease Price: £71.45From the time that George Bernard Shaw remarked that "Rebecca West could handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely," West's writings and her politics have elicited strong... -
Family History Vita Sackville-West 9781784873479
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Evelyn, aged thirty-nine, is an attractive widow living an irreproachable life. Then she meets Miles, fifteen years her junior, and falls passionately in love. But both lovers have strong... -
Man or Mango? by Lucy Ellmann 9781526623515
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.87By the author of Ducks, Newburyport, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2019, the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year Award and the Goldsmiths Prize 'Bold ... Wonderful' Sunday Times 'Hilarious ..... -
Elizabeth Bowen: Collected Stories Elizabeth Bowen 9781841593920
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.54A brilliant and much admired novelist, Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) surpassed herself as a writer of short fiction: 'the supreme genius of her time', writes John Banville in his introduction; 'There... -
Charlotte Mew: and Her Friends by Penelope Fitzgerald
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Penelope Fitzgerald's fascinating portrait of the tragic poet and her life at the heart of the Bloomsbury set. Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) cut one of the most distinctive figures of the... -
The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Read Elizabeth Bowen's accessible feminist take on the Irish aristocracyWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY VICTORIA GLENDINNINGThe Irish troubles rage, but up at the 'Big House', tennis parties, dances and... -
The Return Of The Soldier Rebecca West 9781844086986
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The soldier returns from the front to the three women who love him. His wife, Kitty, with her cold, moonlight beauty, and his devoted cousin Jenny wait in their exquisite home on the crest of the... -
Portrait of a Woman in Silk: Hidden Histories of the British Atlantic World Zara Anishanslin 9780300234237
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.92Through the story of a portrait of a woman in a silk dress, historian Zara Anishanslin embarks on a fascinating journey, exploring and refining debates about the cultural history of the... -
Life Writing: A Writers' and Artists' Companion by Carole Angier 9781472527066
Booksplease Price: £28.25Life Writing: A Writers' & Artists' Companion is an essential guide to writing biography, autobiography and memoir. PART 1 explores the history and forms of life writing and the challenges and...