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The Master Bedroom by Tessa Hadley
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $12.07LONGLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTIONKate Flynn has always been a clever girl, brought up to believe in herself as something special. Now Kate is forty-three and has given up her university... -
A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: The Collected Stories by Margaret Drabble
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.50Margaret Drabble is one of the major literary figures of her generation. In this collection of her complete short fiction from across four decades, she examines the intense private worlds and... -
The Sunlight Pilgrims by Jenni Fagan
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.58It's November 2020 and the world is freezing over. As ice water melts into the Atlantic, and vast swathes of people make for the warmer south, Dylan is heading to Scotland, once the home of his late... -
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes 9780571235285
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25Lose yourself in the tortured love lives of expats in 1920s Paris in this iconic cult classic.'Nightwood is itself. It is its own created world, exotic and strange, and reading it is like drinking... -
The Muse: A memoir of love at first sight by Nell Dunn 9781529327953
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43Nobody writes like Nell Dunn... always communally, with rare honesty, with love, and with calm and ground-breaking understanding... It's glorious. Ali Smith The Muse is all it could be; an act of... -
How Poetry Works by Phil Roberts 9780140285376
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $24.32In this refreshing and inspiring book, Phil Roberts asserts that poetry, like music, is based on sound and so close attention should be paid to its rhythms and metrical patterns. He illustrates his... -
The Powerbook by Jeanette Winterson
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61'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... -
Uncollected Writings Jamaica Kincaid 9781035036103
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $27.79A 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: $65.99Includes 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: $218.65Includes 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... -
State Of Happiness by Stella Duffy 9781844080236
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $22.02Duffy 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... -
Mental Fight by Ben Okri
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.42An 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: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.75Poems 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... -
Ancient Light by John Banville
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.66'Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother.'Alexander Cleave, an actor who thinks his best days are behind him, remembers his first unlikely affair as a teenage boy in a small... -
Reality Hunger: A Manifesto by David Shields
Booksplease Price: $25.64Reality 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: $76.26At 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... -
Essays On The Art Of Angela Carter: Flesh and the Mirror by Lorna Sage
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $7.82Go 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... -
Virginia Woolf: Inspiring Quotes from an Original Feminist Icon Virginia Woolf 9781913947132
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43The 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... -
Checkout 19: 'A book to shake the world anew' Sebastian Barry by Claire-Louise Bennett
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61A 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: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25NEW 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... -
The Dragon Syndicates by Martin Booth 9780553505900
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $27.01It is not unreasonable to believe that potentially the greatest threat to world civil order...comes from Chinese international criminal syndicates and gangs otherwise collectively referred to as the... -
The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.00'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: $19.48Booksplease Price: $3.86NEW 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... -
Tenderness by Alison MacLeod
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61The 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: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.23Penelope. 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... -
Getting it in the Head Mike McCormack 9781786891396
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25Prepare 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... -
Poor Cow: A Virago Modern Classic by Nell Dunn
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.64THE 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: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50A 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... -
Plain Pleasures: With an Introduction by Chris Power Jane Bowles 9781474620437
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43WITH 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: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.01LONGLISTED 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: $25.33Booksplease Price: $4.72Sex. 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: $50.68Booksplease Price: $46.18A 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... -
About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time by Mark Currie
RRP: $50.68Booksplease Price: $46.18Why have theorists approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect? Mark Currie argues that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future are vital for an understanding of... -
Fire Exit Morgan Talty 9781916751040
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.62Finalist 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... -
New Forms of Environmental Writing: Gleaning and Fragmentation by Timothy C. Baker 9781350271357
Booksplease Price: $62.13Surveying a wide range of contemporary poetry, fiction, and memoir by women writers, this book explores our most pressing environmental concerns and shows how these texts find innovative new ways to... -
To Be a Man: 'One of America's most important novelists' (New York Times) by Nicole Krauss
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.07WINNER OF THE 2022 WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES, ESQUIRE, O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE, TIME MAGAZINE, LITHUB AND BUSTLE 'Superb' New York Times 'Masterful ..... -
The Creative Writing Coursebook: Forty-Four Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry by Julia Bell
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $27.46A fully updated comprehensive guide for improving and practicing your creative writing, including contributions from Ali Smith and Kit de Waal The Creative Writing Coursebook, edited by Julia Bell... -
Utopia and the Contemporary British Novel by Caroline Edwards 9781108498708
RRP: $183.30Booksplease Price: $166.84This book examines the experience of time functions in a specific set of British novels to reveal the persistence of the utopian imagination in the twenty-first century. Through close textual... -
This is How We Are Human by Louise Beech 9781913193713
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.22When the mother of an autistic young man hires a call girl to make him happy, three lives collide in unexpected and moving ways ... changing everything. A devastatingly beautiful, rich and... -
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This is How We Are Human by Louise Beech 9781913193713 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $4.15When the mother of an autistic young man hires a call girl to make him happy, three lives collide in unexpected and moving ways ... changing everything. A devastatingly beautiful, rich and...