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Reality Hunger: A Manifesto by David Shields
Booksplease Price: $27.62Reality Hunger questions every assumption we ever made about art, the novel, journalism, poetry, film, TV, rap, stand-up, graffiti, sampling, plagiarism, writing, and reading. In seeking to tear up... -
Knowledge Under Siege: Charting a Future for Universities Marc Spooner 9781779401243
Booksplease Price: $80.45At a time when universities are being defunded by governments and vilified by ultra-conservative pundits, defining their value has never been more urgent For decades, efforts to quantify the value... -
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Hot Milk by Deborah Levy 9780241968031 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $4.49NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING EMMA MACKEY AND FIONA SHAWSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2016SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2016Plunge into this hypnotic tale of female sexuality and... -
Metamorphosis by Ovid
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.70Mary Innes's classic prose translation of one of the supreme masterpieces of Latin literature, Ovid's Metamorphosis. Ovid drew on Greek mythology, Latin folklore and legend from ever further afield... -
Swing Time: LONGLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017 by Zadie Smith
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2017'Smith's finest. Extraordinary, truly marvellous' Observer A dazzlingly exuberant novel moving... -
Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $18.46WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR CRITICISM 2019From the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Changing My Mind and Swing Time - discover a second unmissable... -
Some Rain Must Fall And Other Stories Michel Faber 9781782117162
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35The debut work, a short story collection from the bestselling, critically acclaimed author of Under the Skin, The Crimson Petal and the White and The Book of Strange New Things.Michel Faber's short... -
Two Lives: Reading Turgenev & My House in Umbria by William Trevor
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35Two Lives: Reading Turgenev & My House in Umbria - two novels by William Trevor'Evocative and haunting. Trevor writes like an angel, but is determined to wring your heart' Daily Mail'Marvellous,... -
The Sea House by Esther Freud
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $26.19The architect Klaus Lehmann loves his wife, Elsa, with a passion that continues throughout their married life, despite long periods of separation. Almost half a century after Lehmann's death in the... -
Fools of Fortune by William Trevor
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.70Fools of Fortune by William Trevor - a classic early novel from one of the world's greatest writersWinner of the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel of the YearMurder and revenge during the Irish Civil... -
Poems And Prose by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 9781857157352
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73A few magical poems by Coleridge remain among the most celebrated works in the language: KUBLA KHAN, CHRISTABEL and - above all -THE ANCIENT MARINER. All are included in this volume, together with... -
Londoners by Maureen Duffy 9780099587361
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.12Many of the Londoners in this novel are outcasts - some are criminals in society's eyes. Most are descended from adventurers and immigrants. The worlds they inhabit - the bedsit; the cruisers' pub -... -
The Quality of Mercy by Barry Unsworth 9780099538226
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $26.19It is the spring of 1767, two years after the events of Barry Unsworth's Booker Prize-winning novel Sacred Hunger. Erasmus Kemp, the son of a Liverpool slave ship owner, has had the rebellious... -
Virginia Woolf: Inspiring Quotes from an Original Feminist Icon Virginia Woolf 9781913947132
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54The first and collection of Virginia Woolf's most inspirational quotes. 'No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.' Over 100 words of wisdom from the inimitable... -
The Powerbook by Jeanette Winterson
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73'Winterson is a rangy pirate, a world-swashbuckler, a plunderer of stories, literatures and hearts' Ali Smith, Scotsman 'It's night. I'm sitting at my screen. There's an e-mail for me. I unwrap it... -
The 21st-Century Novel: Notes from the Edinburgh World Writers' Conference by Jonathan Bastable 9780748698349
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $46.91Contemporary creative writers reflect on the past, present and future of the novel In 2012-2013, a year-long conversation between writers took place at 17 literary festivals around the world, from... -
Mental Fight by Ben Okri
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $13.38An epic poem touching on issues of racism, intolerance and environmental destructions from Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri. There is much to celebrate in the human journey so far - art in... -
Wild by Ben Okri 9781800244306
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.81Poems of living and loving from Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri. Freedom is the most precious commodity in the world. In this powerful collection, the celebrated novelist, essayist, dramatist... -
State Of Happiness by Stella Duffy 9781844080236
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $23.71Duffy is best known for her sharp insights and sharper wit, and both are on display here... Brave, understated and unforgettable' DAILY MAILWhen Jack and Cindy meet at a friend's party they are... -
Knowledge Under Siege: Charting a Future for Universities Marc Spooner 9781779401274
Booksplease Price: $251.69At a time when universities are being defunded by governments and vilified by ultra-conservative pundits, defining their value has never been more urgent For decades, efforts to quantify the value... -
Checkout 19: 'A book to shake the world anew' Sebastian Barry by Claire-Louise Bennett
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23A New York Times 10 Best Books of 2022 Selection 'Extraordinary . . . radiant' Sunday Times'An existential tour-de-force' Eimear McBride'Elatingly risky' Guardian 'We read in order to come to life... -
The Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017: 'masterly'GUARDIAN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: 'An absolute tour de force'Fran may be old but she's not going without a fight. So she dyes her hair, enjoys every... -
Essays On The Art Of Angela Carter: Flesh and the Mirror by Lorna Sage
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $8.42Go out and get Carter. Get all her fiction, all her fact.' Ali Smith This distinguished volume of essays commemorates the work of Angela Carter. Here her fellow writers, along with an impressive... -
Uncollected Writings Jamaica Kincaid 9781035036103
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $29.93A landmark collection of essays by the iconic writer Jamaica Kincaid.'An unaffectedly sumptuous, irresistible writer' - Susan Sontag'What a writer' - Ali Smith'Both a daughter of Bronte and Woolf and... -
Katherine Mansfield: New Directions by Dr Aimee Gasston 9781350249356
Booksplease Price: $71.06Includes a literary reflection on Mansfield's work by award-winning novelist Ali Smith.Katherine Mansfield: New Directions brings together leading international scholars to explore and celebrate the... -
Katherine Mansfield: New Directions by Aimee Gasston 9781350135505
Booksplease Price: $235.47Includes a literary reflection on Mansfield's work by award-winning novelist Ali Smith.Katherine Mansfield: New Directions brings together leading international scholars to explore and celebrate the... -
The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.38'A landmark, bringing together a lifetime's work on Lewis Carroll by writer and mathematician Martin Gardner. He dazzles on Carroll's puzzles and games of logic and entertains on everything from... -
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The Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble 9781782118336 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $4.16NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017: 'masterly'GUARDIAN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: 'An absolute tour de force'Fran may be old but she's not going without a fight. So she dyes her hair, enjoys every... -
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Hot Milk by Deborah Levy 9780241146545 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $8.06SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2016Plunge into this hypnotic tale of female sexuality and power - from the Man Booker shortlisted author of Swimming... -
Getting it in the Head Mike McCormack 9781786891396
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35Prepare to enter a world where the infatuation with death, ruin and destruction is total. Set in locations from New York to the west of Ireland, and to the nameless realms of the imagination, it is a... -
Tenderness by Alison MacLeod
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73The spellbinding story of Lady Chatterley's Lover, and the society that put it on trial; the story of a novel and its ripple effects across half a century, and about the transformative and triumphant... -
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.40Penelope. Immortalised in legend and myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Odysseus, silently weaving and unpicking and weaving again as she waits for her husband's return.Now Penelope wanders the... -
Plain Pleasures: With an Introduction by Chris Power Jane Bowles 9781474620437
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY CHRIS POWER'Readers who've not yet read Jane Bowles are almost to be envied, like people who've still to read Austen or Mansfield or Woolf' Ali Smith'The most important... -
How We Are Translated: a novel by Jessica Gaitan Johannesson
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.01LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE Do you ever feel like you're not speaking the same language? Swedish immigrant Kristin won't talk about her pregnancy. Her Brazilian-born Scottish boyfriend... -
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Love Is A Four Letter Word by Claire Calman 9780552998536 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $5.08Sex. Yes. She remembered that.Wasn't that the thing that happened somewhere between the talking-and-going-out-to-dinner bit and the sobbing-and-eating-too-many-biscuits bit? Still, Bella was sure she... -
Scottish Writing After Devolution: Edges of the New by Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon 9781474486187
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $49.73A provisional re-mapping of Scotland's post-devolution literary culture, these fifteen essays explore how literature, theatre and visual art have both shaped and reflected the 'new Scotland' promised... -
Poor Cow: A Virago Modern Classic by Nell Dunn
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.84THE BESTSELLING NOVEL BY NELL DUNN'Her art is ignited by voice . . . as you hear it, is unquestionable' ALI SMITH, GUARDIAN 'Touching, truthful and fresh' MARGARET DRABBLE 'Nell Dunn's hilarious,... -
Within the Walls by Giorgio Bassani
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70A new translation of Giorgio Bassani's award winning collection of novellas, which inspired his masterpiece The Garden of the Finzi-Continis.A young working class woman abandoned by her bourgeois... -
Pink Soap Anju Gaston 9781068176661
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84“I ask the internet the difference between something being too close to the bone and something being too close to home.” This funny and terrifying book is a study of what and how things mean, and... -
Fire Exit Morgan Talty 9781916751040
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.36Finalist for the 2024 Center for Fiction First Novel PrizeA lone white man lives beside the river on the edge of the Penobscot reservation in Maine. Charles spends his days doing odd jobs, looking...