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Alone in America: The Stories That Matter by Robert A. Ferguson 9780674066762
RRP: $46.38Booksplease Price: $38.88Robert A. Ferguson investigates the nature of loneliness in American fiction, from its mythological beginnings in Rip Van Winkle to the postmodern terrors of 9/11. At issue is the dark side of a... -
The Selected Letters of John Berryman by John Berryman
RRP: $43.80Booksplease Price: $37.89A wide-ranging, first-of-its-kind selection of Berryman's correspondence with friends, loved ones, writers, and editors, showcasing the turbulent, fascinating life and mind of one of America's major... -
Fantasies of the New Class: Ideologies of Professionalism in Post-World War II American Fiction by Stephen Schryer 9780231157575
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $30.35America's post-World War II prosperity created a boom in higher education, expanding the number of university-educated readers and making a new literary politics possible. Writers began to direct... -
The Salinger Contract: A Novel by Adam Langer 9781453297940
RRP: $25.74Booksplease Price: $19.96An enthralling literary mystery that connects some of the world's most famous authors-from Norman Mailer and Truman Capote to B. Traven and J. D. Salinger-to a sinister collector in Chicago Adam... -
Bernard Malamud: A Writer's Life by Philip Davis 9780199270095
RRP: $30.30Booksplease Price: $24.26Philip Davis tells the story of Bernard Malamud (1914-1986), the self-made son of poor Jewish immigrants who went on to become one of the foremost novelists and short-story writers of the post-war... -
Chaim Potok: Confronting Modernity Through the Lens of Tradition by Daniel Walden 9780271059822
Booksplease Price: $41.09Chaim Potok was a world-class writer and scholar, a Conservative Jew who wrote from and about his tradition and the conflicts between observance and acculturation. With a plain, straightforward... -
The Italian Teacher: The Costa Award Shortlisted Novel Tom Rachman 9781786482600
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35***SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD***'Wickedly funny, deeply touching . . . I confess this was the first of Rachman's novels I'd read but I was so swept away by it that I raced out to buy the... -
The Flaneur: A Stroll through the Paradoxes of Paris Edmund White 9781037207891
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86*WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ALEXANDER CHEE*'A stylish, deftly erudite and enormously diverting book' - Sunday Telegraph'An artfully aimless pleasure cruise around Paris' - Guardian'White's genius as... -
Zero K by Don DeLillo 9781509822843
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55Jeffrey Lockhart has been summoned to The Convergence: a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely, cryogenically controlled.He is there to say goodbye to his stepmother, Artis, who has... -
The Vegan Andrew Lipstein 9781399602600
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55'A meaty comedy with a bleeding heart, highly recommended for all animals who read'Joshua Cohen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The NetanyahusHerschel Caine is a soon-to-be master of the universe... -
Proust: The Search by Benjamin Taylor
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $14.01An arresting study of the life, times, and achievement of one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century "Taylor's endeavor is not to explain the life by the novel or the novel by the... -
Robert B. Heilman: His Life in Letters by Edward Alexander 9780295988665
RRP: $139.26Booksplease Price: $137.95Robert Bechtold Heilman was a great literary figure of the twentieth century. This collection of his correspondence includes over 600 exchanges with more than 100 correspondents, among them Saul... -
The Vegan Andrew Lipstein 9781399602594
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.76Herschel Caine is a master of the universe. His hedge fund, built on the miracle of machine learning, is inches away from systematically sapping profits from the market. His SoHo offices (shoes... -
Harold Rosenberg: A Critic's Life by Debra Bricker Balken
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $40.69Despite being one of the foremost American intellectuals of the mid-twentieth century, Harold Rosenberg (1906-1978) was utterly incapable of fitting in-and he liked it that way. Signature cane in one... -
Reporter: A Memoir by Seymour M. Hersh 9780141989099
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91'Reporter is just wonderful. Truly a great life, and what shines out of the book, amid the low cunning and tireless legwork, is Hersh's warmth and humanity. Essential reading for every journalist and... -
A Bright Ray of Darkness by Ethan Hawke
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66'Riveting work' Patti Smith'Vivid . . . it communicates a real power' Sunday Times'A wild ride of a book' MetroActor William Harding has been caught cheating on his rock star wife and the press have... -
The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINGATE PRIZE by Omer Friedlander 9781399803953
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINGATE PRIZE 2022'In these wise, capacious, achingly beautiful stories, Omer Friedlander maps the hidden geography of the human heart like a young Chekhov' ANTHONY MARRA'A... -
Heaven Can Indeed Fall: The Life of Willmoore Kendall by Christopher H. Owen 9781793624468
Booksplease Price: $43.65Willmoore Kendall was a man against the world, a "maverick," an "iconoclast." His thoughts were profound, his countless enemies powerful, his personal life full of drama. Heaven Can Indeed Fall is... -
Here Goes Nothing Steve Toltz 9781529371604
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55'One of the funniest and most original writers at work today' The TimesA firecracker of a novel by the Booker-shortlisted author of A Fraction of the Whole - a scathingly funny and affecting tale of... -
A Saint from Texas by Edmund White
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66______________ 'An epic novel' - Telegraph 'A worldly wise delight' - Observer 'Another brilliant accomplishment from one of the country's most indispensable writers' - Texas Observer ... -
Here Goes Nothing Steve Toltz 9781529371574
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $10.06'A morbidly two-fisted tour de force ' Sunday TimesA firecracker of a novel by the Booker-shortlisted author of A Fraction of the Whole - a scathingly funny and affecting tale of life, death, love... -
The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land by Omer Friedlander 9781399803946
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55'Friedlander's shimmering prose and admirably versatile points of view make his stories compelling' SARAH MOSS'In these wise, capacious, achingly beautiful stories, Omer Friedlander maps the hidden... -
My Man in Antibes: Getting to Know Graham Greene by Michael Mewshaw
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $19.53"One of the Year's Best," Times Literary Supplement When a writer tracks down his literary hero, Graham Greene, who is living quietly on the shores of the Mediterranean, the author finds his new... -
Left Bank: Art, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940-1950 by Agnes Poirier
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.18'Rich and funny' Julian Barnes, Guardian 'Poirier's hugely enjoyable, quick-witted and richly anecdotal book is magnifique' The Times A captivating portrait of those who lived, loved, fought,... -
The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir Edmund White 9781526690418
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26***A TIMES/SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025***'All the no-holds-barred candour you'd expect . . . A hoot, and surprisingly touching' THE TIMES, BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Trousers down from page one ..... -
Best Contemporary Jewish Writing by Michael Lerner 9780787959722
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $27.72Jewish culture, identity, and spirituality through the eyes of the brightest and best authors Best Contemporary Jewish Writing is a treasure trove of short stories, poetry, and essays from such... -
Making Meaning in English: The Role of Knowledge in the Curriculum by David Didau
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $24.91What is English as a school subject for? What does knowledge look like in English and what should be taught? Making Meaning in English examines the broader purpose and reasons for teaching English... -
Nothing Special by Nicole Flattery
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $13.64AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 _______________ 'A blade-sharp coming-of-age novel' SPECTATOR 'Confirms Flattery as a bracingly original writer' IRISH INDEPENDENT 'In enviably elegant... -
The Grand Biocentric Design: How Life Creates Reality by Robert Lanza
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.16What if life isn't just a part of the universe . . . what if it determines the very structure of the universe itself? The theory that blew your mind in Biocentrism and Beyond Biocentrism is back,... -
Torture and Democracy by Darius Rejali 9780691143330
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $53.11This is the most comprehensive, and most comprehensively chilling, study of modern torture yet written. Darius Rejali, one of the world's leading experts on torture, takes the reader from the late... -
A New Literary History of America by Greil Marcus
RRP: $43.80Booksplease Price: $38.92America is a nation making itself up as it goes along-a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In...