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The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 by Rachel Kushner
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15From the Booker-shortlisted author of The Mars Room, a career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and culture.In The Hard Crowd, Rachel Kushner gathers a selection of her writing... -
The Man Who Fell In Love With The Moon Tom Spanbauer 9781529110739
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15The cult gay classic of the early 1990s, reissued to mark the year of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riotsBetween nights, earning his keep at Excellent, Idaho's outrageously pink whorehouse,... -
The Practice of Reading by Denis Donoghue 9780300082647
Booksplease Price: £33.01This lucid and elegantly written book is a sustained conversation about the nature and importance of literary interpretation. Distinguished critic Denis Donoghue argues that we must read texts... -
The Touch by Daniel Keyes
Booksplease Price: £18.18The ultimate 'what if' novel, from the million-copy-bestselling author of FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON: 'A masterpiece of poignant brilliance ... heartbreaking' GuardianKaren and Barney Stark should never... -
Flowers of Time: On Postapocalyptic Fiction by Professor Mark Payne
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £92.98An exploration of postapocalyptic fiction, from antiquity to today, and its connections to political theory and other literary genresThe literary lineage of postapocalyptic fiction-stories set after... -
Camp Zero by Michelle Min Sterling 9781668007570
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668007570Author Michelle Min SterlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 320 -
Framing Women: Changing Frames of Representation from the Enlightenment to Postmodernism by Sandra Carroll 9783484401433
Booksplease Price: £87.43With contributions of scholars from Europe and North America, this book covers the representation of women in word and image in the context of changing frames of mentalities in two distinct periods -... -
Survivors by Terry Nation
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Survivors of a global plague battle for life on an empty planet. A gripping vision of a post-apocalyptic world...'A fine piece of British post-apocalyptic fiction''Nation's novel is based on his... -
Soulmaker: The Times of Lewis Hine by Alexander Nemerov 9780691170176
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £37.43Between 1908 and 1917, the American photographer and sociologist Lewis Hine (1874-1940) took some of the most memorable pictures of child workers ever made. Traveling around the United States while... -
Our Fears Made Manifest: Essays on Terror, Trauma and Loss in Film, 1998-2019 Ashley Jae Carranza 9781476679310
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £31.54The beginning of the 21st century was a time of unprecedented events in American society: Y2K, 9/11 and the wars that followed, partisan changes in government and the rapid advancements of the... -
The Centrality of Crime Fiction in American Literary Culture by Alfred Bendixen
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This collection of essays by leading scholars insists on a larger recognition of the importance and diversity of crime fiction in U.S. literary traditions. Instead of presenting the genre as the... -
The Imago Sequence and Other Stories by Laird Barron 9781597801461
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.09To the tradition of eldritch horror pioneered and refined by writers such as H.P. Lovecraft, Peter Straub, and Thomas Ligotti comes Laird Barron, an author whose literary voice invokes the grotesque,... -
Then Came the Evening by Brian Hart 9781408809662
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.14An unflinching and beautiful debut about belonging and betrayal, family and forgiveness_____________________'Told with a stark narrative voice that reflects the harsh unforgiving subject, the... -
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The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth 9780099552710 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £2.36One of the most celebrated thrillers ever written, The Day of the Jackal is the electrifying story of the struggle to catch a killer before it's too late. It is 1963 and an anonymous Englishman has... -
Unrest by Joanna Rawson 9781555975364
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.24The second collection by award-winning poet Joanna Rawson, whose intense language recalls the prose of Cormac McCarthy' (Kirkus). A man's sister sews him into a bus seat. Stowaway immigrants... -
Guts and Glory: Diggers, Sport and War by Peter Rees 9780733344220
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.79From one of Australia's leading military historians and biographers, Peter Rees, comes Guts and Glory, an enthralling history of the way in which sport is ever present in the wars fought by, or... -
The Road: Improving Standards in English through Drama at Key Stage 3 and GCSE Paul Bunyan 9781408134825
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.12Joe Penhall's screenplay for the film of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel provides a gripping and unforgettable text for use in English at Key Stage 4. The novel won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize... -
Feast Day of Fools James Lee Burke (Author) 9781409136316
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A powerful and unforgettable thriller from 'one of the finest American writers' GUARDIANDanny Boy Lorca was used to having apocalyptic visions - the beatings he'd taken in jail and the booze he drank... -
Apocalyptic Fiction by Andrew Tate 9781474233507
Booksplease Price: £29.88Visions of post-apocalyptic worlds have proved to be irresistible for many 21st-century writers, from literary novelists to fantasy and young adult writers. Exploring a wide range of texts, from the... -
House of the Rising Sun James Lee Burke (Author) 9781409163466
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02New York Times bestseller and 'one of the finest crime writer's America has ever produced' James Lee Burke returns with his latest masterpiece, the story of a father and son separated by war.From its... -
South by Frank Owen
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67South takes place in a USA ravaged by Civil War. It's been thirty years since the first wind-borne viruses ended the war between North and South - and still they keep coming. Every wind brings a new... -
Spin a Black Yarn Josh Malerman 9781398711686
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Josh Malerman is a master weaver of stories-and in this spine-chilling collection he spins five twisted tales from the shadows of the human soul: A sister tells her little brother that HALF THE HOUSE... -
A House at the Bottom of the Lake Josh Malerman 9781398711594
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A haunting tale of love and mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box and Malorie.At seventeen years old, James and Amelia can feel the rest of their lives beginning. They have... -
History of the Gothic: American Gothic by Charles L. Crow 9780708320440
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.46Defining the American gothic tradition both within the context of the major movements of intellectual history over the past three-hundred years, as well as within the issues critical to American... -
Goblin Josh Malerman 9781398711563
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL****Goblin seems like any other ordinary small town. But with the master storyteller Josh Malerman as your tour guide, you'll... -
A Mirror for History: How Novels and Art Reflect the Evolution of Middle-Class America by Marc Egnal 9781621908678
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.64In A Mirror for History, author Marc Egnal uses novels and art to provide a new understanding of American society. The book argues that the arc of middle-class culture reflects the evolution of the... -
Deliverance by James Dickey
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £11.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063319677Author James DickeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint < -
A Mirror for History: How Novels and Art Reflect the Evolution of Middle-Class America by Marc Egnal 9781621909040
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36In A Mirror for History, author Marc Egnal uses novels and art to provide a new understanding of American society. The book argues that the arc of middle-class culture reflects the evolution of the... -
Pearl Josh Malerman 9781398711655
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL There's something strange about Walter Kopple's farm. It begins with his grandson, who senselessly murders one of Walter's pigs. But... -
Robert Aldrich: Interviews by Eugene L. Miller 9781578066032
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36In this collection of interviews, Robert Aldrich (1918-1983) tells fascinating stories of making motion pictures with such film legends as Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Jack Palance, Robert Mitchum,... -
From the Delivered to the Dispatched: Masculinity in Modern American Fiction (1969-1977) by Harriet Stilley 9780367664824
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08From the Delivered to the Dispatched: Masculinity in Modern American Fiction (1969-1977) focuses on masculinity in late twentieth-century American fiction. This rigorous study shows the ways post-war... -
Badiou and American Modernist Poetics by Cameron MacKenzie 9783319950273
Booksplease Price: £51.90Badiou and American Modernist Poetics explores the correspondence between Alain Badiou's thinking on art and that of the canonical modernists T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, and Ezra Pound. Utilizing a... -
The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu: A Novel by Tom Lin
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Winner of the Carnegie Medal for ExcellenceFinalist for the Young Lions Fiction AwardOrphaned young, Ming Tsu, the son of Chinese immigrants, is raised by the notorious leader of a California crime... -
Fuse by Julianna Baggott 9781472201423
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The next part in the epic PURE trilogy, for fans of Cormac McCarthy, Justin Cronin and Suzanne Collins. Partridge has escaped the safety of his father's empire and left the Dome, where his people -... -
The Cambridge Companion to American Novelists by Timothy Parrish 9781107013131
RRP: £77.00Booksplease Price: £74.05This Companion examines the full range and vigor of the American novel. From the American exceptionalism of James Fenimore Cooper to the apocalyptic post-Americanism of Cormac McCarthy, these newly... -
World's Edge: A haunting collection of near-future fiction from a master of American Noir James Sallis 9781835013113
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95James Sallis’ collection of five novellas.'James Sallis is a superb writer ' - TimesJames Sallis’ World’s Edge presents five masterful novellas—Dayenu, Carriers, Settlers, Allotments, and... -
Daphne: The New Novel From The Bestselling Author of BIRD BOX by Josh Malerman
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Horror has a new name: Daphne. A brutal, enigmatic woman stalks a girls high school basketball team in a reimagining of the slasher genre by the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box.It's Kit... -
Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night by Jon Kalman Stefansson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE ICELANDIC LITERATURE PRIZE"The Icelandic Dickens" Irish Examiner"Stefansson shares the elemental grandeur of Cormac McCarthy" EILEEN BATTERSBY, T.L.S... -
The Cove by Ron Rash
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31It is 1918 and the world is at war. But this feels a million miles away for Laurel Shelton. In the house where her parents toiled and died, in the wilds of the Appalachian Mountains, Laurel aches for... -
Dashboard Elvis is Dead: The epic, extraordinary new novel from one of Scotland's most exceptional novelists by David F. Ross
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40A failed writer connects the murder of an American journalist, a drowned 80s musician and a Scottish politician's resignation, in a heart-wrenching novel about ordinary people living in extraordinary...