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Clear Light by Alan Spence
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Clear Light contains 150 haiku bursting with Alan Spence's characteristic verve and wit. Mythic and mesmerising, inspiring and hilarious, these poems shed clear light on the delights, hardships,... -
At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40At the Bottom of the River is Jamaica Kincaid's first published work, a selection of inter-connected prose poems told from the perspective of a young Afro-Caribbean girl.Collecting pieces written for... -
The Bear Boy Cynthia Ozick 9781474624039
Booksplease Price: £11.29'Sparky, mischievous, witty, dazzlingly clever' Ali Smith'A cause for celebration. Here we have a heroine to love, a story we can't let go of' Ann PatchettIt had always been my habit-- privately I... -
There's Only One Danny Garvey: Shortlisted for Scottish Fiction Book of the Year by David F. Ross
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78A promising young football player returns home to his tiny Scottish village, his dreams in tatters and a dark secret haunting his conscience, in a beautiful, unforgettable novel about hope and... -
A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark 9780811223027
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.87Rich and slim, the celebrated author Nancy Hawkins takes us in hand and leads us back to her threadbare years in postwar London, where she spends her days working for a mad, near-bankrupt publisher... -
Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.99A moving, eye-opening polemic about the US-Mexico border and what happens to the tens of thousands of unaccompanied Mexican and Central American children arriving in the US without papers ... -
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Trumpet by Jackie Kay 9781447289494 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £3.10Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize, Trumpet by Jackie Kay is a starkly beautiful modern classic about the lengths to which people will go for love. It is a moving story of a shared life founded on... -
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There's Only One Danny Garvey: Shortlisted for Scottish Fiction Book of the Year by David F. Ross 9781913193508 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.69A promising young football player returns home to his tiny Scottish village, his dreams in tatters and a dark secret haunting his conscience, in a beautiful, unforgettable novel about hope and... -
The Blood of Others Simone de Beauvoir 9780241696453
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Potent and vividly emotional, Simone de Beauvoir's captivating novel questions freedom and individual responsibility in the face of brutality'These carefree faces, on which we allowed our smiles to... -
Its Colours They Are Fine Alan Spence 9781786892973
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A classic of short fiction, Alan Spence's celebrated debut collection, first published in 1977, brings Glasgow to vibrant life and captures the spirit of the city as it teetered on the brink of... -
Winner of Weatherglass Novella Prize 9781739570767
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40It's the early 19th century and a small sailing ship with a cargo of convict women and their children is crossing the ocean to a penal colony. Among those trying to survive is a 15-year-old girl... -
Art in Nature: and other stories by Tove Jansson
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49An elderly caretaker at a large outdoor exhibition, called Art in Nature, finds that a couple have lingered on to bicker about the value of a picture; he has a surprising suggestion that will resolve... -
British Women Short Story Writers: The New Woman to Now by Emma Young
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.41What is the relationship between the British woman writer and the short story? This collection examines what this versatile genre offers women writers and what this can tell us about the society and... -
Fireworks by Angela Carter
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83'I started to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in.' So says Angela Carter of this collection, written during a period living in Toyko. These exotic, sensuous... -
Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell by Javier Marias
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'Your Face Tomorrow is already being compared with Proust and rightly so' Observer'One of contemporary literature's major works ... you have to open this book' Ali SmithThe concluding part in Javier... -
Lion's Honey: The Myth of Samson by David Grossman 9781786893383
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.81In exhilarating and lucid prose, Grossman gives us a provocative new take on the story of Samson: his battle with the lion, the three hundred burning foxes, the women he bedded, the one he loved and... -
The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson 9780141023359
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The Testament of Gideon Mack is James Robertson's acclaimed novel exploring faith and belief. For Gideon Mack, faithless minister, unfaithful husband and troubled soul, the existence of God, let... -
The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson 9780954899578
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.26In the deep winter snows of a Swedish hamlet, a strange young woman fakes a break-in at the house of an elderly artist in order to persuade her that she needs companionship. But what does she hope to... -
Contemporary Women’s Ghost Stories: Spectres, Revenants, Ghostly Returns by Gina Wisker 9783030890568
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.56This book offers new insights on socially and culturally engaged Gothic ghost stories by twentieth century and contemporary female writers; including Shirley Jackson, Angela Carter, Toni Morrison,... -
The Fall of Kelvin Walker by Alasdair Gray
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31It is the Swinging Sixties and Kelvin Walker has moved from Scotland to London to make his fortune. Through his wanton ambition, a megalomania surfaces that is unrelieved by his insensitive attempts... -
Fair Play by Tove Jansson 9780954899530
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.99"So what can happen when Tove Jansson turns her attention to her own favourite subjects, love and work, in the form of this novel about two women, lifelong partners and friends? Expect something... -
The Last Gift of the Master Artists by Ben Okri 9781803285672
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.39The moment before the world changed and innocence was lost - Ben Okri's breathtaking novel about life in the time immediately before the arrival of the Atlantic slavers restores the full vibrancy of... -
Love in Idleness by Charlotte Mendelson 9780330482981
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42'I loved it. The evocation of ennui and loneliness rings very true . . . great unexpected observations . . . very funny' Lesley Glaister Anna Raine is desperate: to escape Somerset, to evade her... -
Notes from an Island by Tove Jansson 9781908745941
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.49For thirty summers Tove and her partner, the graphic artist, Tuulikki Pietila, retreated to the tiny island of Klovharun, a rocky outcrop in the gulf of Finland, where they would live, paint and... -
ABECEDAIRE Sharon Kivland 9781913430108
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £10.92"I wrote five days a week for a year, no more than a page, writing only for the length of the analytic hour, fifty minutes, following Freud's model of train travel for his theory of free... -
The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction Daniel O'Gorman 9781032178455
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49The study of contemporary fiction is a fascinating yet challenging one. Contemporary fiction has immediate relevance to popular culture, the news, scholarly organizations, and education - where it is... -
Contemporary Women's Ghost Stories: Spectres, Revenants, Ghostly Returns by Gina Wisker 9783030890537
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.56This book offers new insights on socially and culturally engaged Gothic ghost stories by twentieth century and contemporary female writers; including Shirley Jackson, Angela Carter, Toni Morrison,... -
Lullaby Beach by Stella Duffy
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.55'FAULTLESS STORYTELLING' Observer'A PORTRAIT OF SISTERHOOD ... POWERFUL, WISE, CELEBRATORY' Daily MailA compelling novel about family secrets and the legacy of trauma, set against the changing... -
Blooming Flowers: A Seasonal History of Plants and People by Kasia Boddy 9780300264791
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.25An evocative and richly illustrated exploration of flowers and how, over the centuries, they have given us so much sustenance, meaning, and pleasure"From the meaning of carnations in Sex and the City... -
Mr Loverman: From the Booker prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £5.47Treat yourself to this joyful, big-hearted read from Booker Prize-winning novelist Bernardine Evaristo, part of our Penguin Essentials series which spotlights the very best of our modern classics... -
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £5.44'Hypnotic, pitiless and told brilliantly' Bret Easton EllisEvery weekend, in basements and parking lots across America, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes... -
The Art of Writing Fiction Andrew Cowan 9781138593695
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £27.79An elegant and intimate insight into the personal and practical processes of writing, Andrew Cowan's The Art of Writing Fiction draws on his experience as a prize-winning novelist and his work with... -
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The Purple Shroud by Stella Duffy 9781844087785 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.41Once, Theodora was little more than a slave, the daughter of a bear-keeper, running barefoot through the streets of Constantinople. Now she is Theoudoron, 'the Gift of God', Empress of Byzantine Rome... -
FALLOUT: A Novel Eleanor Ansthruther 9798999527035
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A radical daughter. A closeted father. A prim mother turned protester. One runaway girl sets a family on fire - and lights the way to liberation. In the bleak winter of 1982, fifteen-year-old Bridget... -
Harare North by Brian Chikwava
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49When he lands in Harare North, our unnamed protagonist carries nothing but a cardboard suitcase full of memories and a longing to be reunited with his childhood friend, Shingi.He ends up in Shingi's... -
The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Xuela Claudette Richardson is recalling the last seventy years of her life, and so she must begin with her birth, and the accompanying death of her mother.Xuela's vivid, visceral recollections of the... -
dd's Umbrella by Hwang Jungeun 9781911284949
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88What was it they were battling? Their smallness, of course, their smallness. A delicate and arresting queer novel from one of Korea's most celebrated contemporary writers d, a nonbinary gig... -
A Calamity of Noble Houses Amira Ghenim 9781787705586
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51One fateful night in December 1935, the destinies of two prominent families are changed forever. Zubaida, the young wife of Mohsen Ennaifer, is suspected of a clandestine love affair with Tahar, a... -
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The Story: Life: Great Short Stories for Women by Women by Victoria Hislop 9781781856666 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.68'Life provides infinite shades of light and dark...' Victoria Hislop, bestselling author and champion of the short story, has chosen her favourite short stories by women writers. Here are... -
In the City by the Sea Kamila Shamsie 9781526679994
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49For every bullet shot by an oppressor there springs to life a starHasan lives an idyllic childhood of abundance: of pomegranates and cricket and ostensible serenity. This illusory veneer of calm is...