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Fearless and Free: A Memoir Josephine Baker 9781784878344
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.14This is Josephine Baker in her own words.Josephine Baker took Paris by storm in the 1920s, dazzling audiences with her humour, beauty and effervescence on stage. She became an icon. Hemingway, Jean... -
Tar Baby Toni Morrison 9781784877279
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.72Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion comes Jadine. Then there’s Son.Jadine is sophisticated, beautiful, a black American graduate of the Sorbonne. Son is a black fugitive from small-town... -
Slaughterhouse 5: Vintage Quarterbound Classics by Kurt Vonnegut 9781784879693
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.47A beautiful hardback edition of one of the most funny, moving and brilliant novels of the twentieth century.'A book to read and reread. He is a true artist' New York TimesBilly Pilgrim - hapless... -
In the Absence of Men Philippe Besson 9781529949094
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781529949094Author Philippe BessonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Vintage ClassicsPublisher... -
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 9781784877521
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.69'Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? - You think wrong!' This is the story of Jane, an orphan in Victorian England, she is relentlessly bullied... -
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 9780099511625 [USED COPY]
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £2.29Tess is an innocent young girl until the day she goes to visit her rich 'relatives', the D'Urbervilles, in hope that they might help her alleviate her own family's poverty. Her encounter with her... -
Ripley by Patricia Highsmith 9781529940886
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.54NOW A MAJOR NEW NETFLIX SERIESTom Ripley wants money, success, and the good life - and he's willing to kill for it.Struggling to stay one step ahead of his creditors (and the law), Ripley leaps at... -
A Little Lumpen Novelita Roberto Bolaño 9781784879402
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.54'Now I am a mother and a married woman, but not long ago I led a life of crime'So begins Bianca’s tale of growing up the hard way. Orphaned overnight as a teenager, she drops out of school and drifts... -
By Night in Chile Roberto Bolaño 9781784879587
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.54Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix is dying.A priest, a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a poet, in his feverish delirium the crucial events of his past swell around him.From glimpses of the... -
Three Elegies For Kosovo by Ismail Kadare
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.8728 June 1389, the Field of the Blackbirds. A Christian army made up of Serbs, Bosnians, Albanians and Romanians confront an Ottoman army. In ten hours the battle is over, and the Muslims possess the... -
Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens 9780099540793
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.84'The novel has everything: absorbing melodrama, with a supporting cast of heroes, villains and eccentrics' The Times When Nicholas's father dies he, his mother and sister are left penniless. To earn... -
Love by Toni Morrison 9781784878535
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.94VINTAGE CLASSICS' AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIESSpine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics.A haunting and... -
Monsieur Pain Roberto Bolaño 9781784879464
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.54Paris, 1938. The Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo lies in hospital, hiccupping himself to death.When the doctors struggle to offer a diagnosis, his wife calls on an acquaintance of her friend Madame... -
The Third Reich Roberto Bolaño 9781784879556
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.54War-games champion Udo Berger is finally on holiday.Travelling to the Costa Brava with his long-ignored girlfriend, Ingeborg, there they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly and Hanna, and... -
Chevengur Andrey Platonov 9781784879150
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.34'Platonov is an extraordinary writer, perhaps the most brilliant Russian writer of the twentieth century' New York Review of BooksThe Soviet Don Quixote, Chevengur is now seen by many Russian writers... -
Trainspotting: A special gift edition by Irvine Welsh 9781784878894
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.67A beautiful hardback edition of the seminal novel that changed the face of British fiction.Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a... -
Revenge Yoko Ogawa 9781529949100
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781529949100Author Yoko OgawaFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Vintage ClassicsPublisher Vintage... -
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens 9780099518884 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.29Read Charles Dickens's first novel. The Pickwick Papers was Dickens' first novel and was a huge success when it was first published. It tells the tale of the irrepressible Mr Pickwick and his fellow... -
Culture and Imperialism Edward W Said 9781529942125
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781529942125Author Edward W SaidFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Vintage ClassicsPublisher... -
I Capture the Castle: A special gift edition by Dodie Smith 9781784878702
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.58A beautiful hardback edition of one of the most gorgeous, funny and heartbreaking novels ever written.'I write this sitting in the kitchen sink' is the first line of this timeless, witty and... -
All the Conspirators by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.54The scene is 1920s Kensington and Philip and Joan are testing the very limits of politeness and restraint as they fight to expunge the oppression of their mother - by whatever means necessary. In his... -
Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.54In November 1929, Christopher Isherwood - determined to become a 'permanent foreigner' - packed a rucksack and two suitcases and left England on a one-way ticket for Berlin. With incredible candour... -
Last Evenings On Earth Roberto Bolaño 9781784879570
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.54‘This is where the story should end, but life is not as kind as literature...’A journey to Acapulco gradually becomes a descent into the underworld. An elderly South American writer instructs a... -
The Return Roberto Bolaño 9781784879518
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.54‘In this neighbourhood, only the dead go out for a walk’...A young party animal collapses in a Parisian disco and dies on the dance floor, only to watch his soul departing his body. Two embittered... -
The Skating Rink Roberto Bolaño 9781784879532
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.54Dropped from the Olympic figure skating team, Nuria Martí’s fate pivots her into a world of corruption, jealousy – and revenge.Cushioning her fall from grace, a besotted admirer builds a secret ice... -
Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac 9780099560869
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.44'This brilliant but devastatingly sad novel moved me so much, I began it again the moment I got to the end' Rose Tremain ... -
My Uncle Silas: From the author of The Darling Buds of May, the inspiration behind The Larkins by H.E. Bates 9780099421979 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £1.95The deeds and misdeeds of Uncle Silas, the rural reprobate, were renowned in the short stories H E Bates published in the 1930s.In this collection the stories are presented in full, accompanied by... -
The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea: Vintage Quarterbound Classics by Yukio Mishima 9781784879723
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.37A beautiful hardback edition of the great Japanese classic.'Mishima's greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century' The TimesA band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult... -
The Insufferable Gaucho Roberto Bolaño 9781784879501
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.32‘If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear...’A rat policeman comes to the startling realisation that each rat is out for themselves. An elderly... -
A Christmas Carol (Vintage Christmas) by Charles Dickens 9780099599852 [USED COPY]
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £2.15'Bah,' said Scrooge, 'Humbug' Ebenezer Scrooge is unimpressed by Christmas. He has no time for festivities or goodwill toward his fellow men and is only interested in money. Then, on the night of... -
Ulysses by James Joyce 9780099511199 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £3.66Set entirely on one day, 16 June 1904, Ulysses follows Leopold Bloom and Stephen Daedalus as they go about their daily business in Dublin. From this starting point, James Joyce constructs a novel of... -
An Italian Christmas: Festive Tales for La Dolce Vita (Vintage Christmas Tales) by Various 9781784878634
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.56Buon Natale -- A Merry Christmas -- made all the more joyful with these literary treats filled with ancient churches, trains whistling through the countryside, steaming tureens, plates piled high... -
Antwerp Roberto Bolaño 9781784879426
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.54Amidst the seedy hotels and deserted campsites of the Costa Brava, someone has gone missing.A detective sets out to find them. They search among the hapless girls, failed poets, and shifty policemen... -
The Rachel Papers: 50th Anniversary Edition by Martin Amis 9781784879631
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.54WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY CLAIRE LOWDONCharles Highway is every mother's worst nightmare. Precociously intelligent, mercilessly manipulative and highly sexed, Charles devotes the last of his teenage... -
The Railway Man (Vintage War) Exp Eric Lomax 9780099597551
RRP: £3.99Booksplease Price: £3.27This is the story of innocence betrayed, of passion and curiosity about the world of machines turned nightmarish and punished by the cruelty of which only humans are capable. It is also a story of... -
Amulet Roberto Bolaño 9781784879419
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.54Auxilio Lacouture is trapped.For twelve days she hides alone in a lavatory on the fourth floor of her university. Staring at the floor, she begins a heartfelt and feverish tale: she is the Mother of... -
Woes of the True Policeman Roberto Bolaño 9781784879563
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.54When Oscar Amalfitano begins an affair with one of his students, he has no idea where it will lead.More than his turbulent revolutionary past, or the death of his beautiful wife, the scandalous... -
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Vintage War Ernest Hemingway 9781784879815
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.94Hemingway's great novel of the Spanish Civil WarHigh in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has... -
Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz József Debreczeni 9781784878887
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.49A lost classic of Holocaust literature translated for the first time - from journalist, poet and survivor József DebreczeniWhen József Debreczeni arrived in Auschwitz in 1944, had he been selected to... -
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller: A special gift edition by Italo Calvino 9781784878665
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.47A beautiful hardback edition of Calvino's incomparable, genre-defying, wondrous masterwork. You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But alas...