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Fiend by Peter Stenson 9780099558835
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Breaking Bad meets Night of the Living Dead in this manically energetic, stunningly written debut that pits a crystal meth addict against the zombie apocalypse.When Chase sees the little girl in... -
Sweet Tooth Book Two by Jeff Lemire
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.19A cross between Bambi and Cormac McCarthy's The Road, SWEET TOOTH tells the story of Gus, one of a rare new breed of human/animal hybrid children, who has been raised in isolation following an... -
McGlue Ottessa Moshfegh 9781784706623
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83Discover the blistering first novella from the from the Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen and My Year of Rest and Relaxation.They said I've done something wrong?... And they've just left me down... -
The American Western by Stephen McVeigh
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £105.64This wide-ranging book illuminates the importance of the Western in American history. It explores the interconnections between the Western in both literature and film and the United States in the... -
The Sorrow of Angels Jon Kalman Stefansson 9780857389121
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02It is three weeks since the boy came to town, carrying a book of poetry to return to the old sea captain - the poetry that did for his friend Bardur. Three weeks, but already Bardur's ghost has faded... -
Unbury Carol Josh Malerman 9781409193197
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40"This one haunts you for reasons you can't quite put your finger on. . . . [Josh Malerman] defies categories and comparisons with other writers."-Kirkus ReviewsOnly three people know Carol Evers'... -
The One Safe Place Tania Unsworth 9781444010220
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.29Those who enter the Gabriel H. Penn Home for Childhood only get to leave one way...In the near future the gap between rich and poor has become insurmountable. Life as a street child in the big city... -
Blue/Orange by Rachel Clements 9781408140918
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.99In a London psychiatric hospital, an enigmatic patient claims to be the son of an African dictator - a story that becomes unnervingly plausible. An incendiary tale of race, madness and a Darwinian... -
Aggressive Fictions: Reading the Contemporary American Novel by Kathryn Hume 9780801450013
RRP: £49.00Booksplease Price: £40.68A frequent complaint against contemporary American fiction is that too often it puts off readers in ways they find difficult to fathom. Books such as Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho, Katherine... -
The Fighter by Michael Farris Smith 9781843449942
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02The acres and acres of fertile soil, the two-hundred year old antebellum house, all gone. And so is the woman who gave it to him. The foster mother who saved Jack Boucher from a childhood of... -
I Cheerfully Refuse Leif Enger 9781804710821
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Barnes & Noble's April Book Club PickAn Amazon Top 10 Editors' PickA Most Anticipated Book of 2024 from Literary HubSet in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved... -
Penhall Plays: Blue/orange, Dumb Show, Wild Turkey: v. 2 by Joe Penhall 9780713689433
Booksplease Price: £25.47Penhall's 1994 play Some Voices was described as 'the most thrilling playwriting debut in years' by the Sunday Times. He has consistently lived up to and exceeded that early promise as the plays in... -
Harbinger: The Post-Pandemic Survival Thriller Robin Crumby 9781036713751
Booksplease Price: £11.78"An action-packed, thought-provoking story of an all-too-possible dystopian future." - The Book Reviewers What would you do to protect those you love? Former defence analyst Zed Samuels must... -
Red Sky in Morning by Paul Lynch
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02BY THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOKER PRIZE LONGLISTED PROPHET SONG.'Paul Lynch is peerless' Donal Ryan, author of Strange FlowersSpring 1832: Donegal, north west Ireland. Coll Coyle wakes to a blood dawn and... -
Superpositions: Laruelle and the Humanities by Rocco Gangle 9781786602466
Booksplease Price: £45.75One of the most important French philosophers working today, Francois Laruelle has developed an innovative and powerful repertoire of concepts across an oeuvre spanning four decades and more than... -
Ecocollapse Fiction and Cultures of Human Extinction by Sarah E. McFarland 9781350202900
Booksplease Price: £33.84This work analyzes 21st-century realistic speculations of human extinction: fictions that imagine future worlds without interventions of as-yet uninvented technology, interplanetary travel, or other... -
Haunted Child by Joe Penhall 9781408159651
Booksplease Price: £14.82We have the tools to enlighten and yet our world is darkening. We live in an era of pessimism and worry; we are hollowed out, lurching from crisis to crisis, with no faith that anything will improve,... -
Wildfire: The Post-Pandemic Survival Thriller Robin Crumby 9781036713744
Booksplease Price: £11.78An unstoppable virus. Everything we took for granted is gone. Only the strong will survive. In the aftermath of a devastating flu pandemic, a military-led relief effort is evacuating UK survivors... -
Aliens: Infiltrator by Weston Ochse
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.18The official prequel to the huge new Alien video game, Aliens: Fireteam Elite from Cold Iron Studios. A Weyland-Yutani scientist arrives at Pala Station and finds the researchers there courting... -
Exile, Nature, and Transformation in the Life of Mary Hallock Foote by Megan Riley McGilchrist 9781647790189
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Combining a breadth of scholarship, insightful critical thinking, and an engaging personal interaction with Mary Hallock Foote's substantial collection of illustrations and writings, Megan Riley... -
The The Doloriad by Missouri Williams 9781911585848
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Winner of the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2023 In the wake of a mysterious environmental cataclysm that has wiped out the rest of humankind, the Matriarch, her brother, and the family... -
What Light Can Do: Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World by Robert Hass 9780061923913
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Renowned for his magisterial verse, Robert Hass is also a brilliant essayist. The New York Times hailed him as a writer who is so intelligent that to read his poetry or prose, or to hear him speak,... -
Birthday by Joe Penhall 9781408172919
Booksplease Price: £14.52The birth of their daughter should be one of the happiest days of Ed and Lisa's life. An NHS maternity ward and their somewhat unusual circumstances make for an unsettling and satisfyingly comic... -
New Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut by D. Simmons 9780230120976
Booksplease Price: £56.06Kurt Vonnegut's darkly comic work became a symbol for the counterculture of a generation. From his debut novel, Player Piano (1951) through seminal 1960's novels such as Cat's Cradle (1963) and... -
Rough South, Rural South: Region and Class in Recent Southern Literature by Jean W. Cash 9781496810526
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Essays in Rough South, Rural South describe and discuss the work of southern writers who began their careers in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. They fall into two categories... -
Help Me, Jacques Cousteau by Gil Adamson 9781408811467
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.14Hazel is only a toddler when she sails back to Canada with her parents to begin a new life. As the boat dips and dives across the ocean and sends her bed crashing against the walls, Hazel wakes up to... -
The Fighter by Michael Farris Smith 9781843449928
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The acres and acres of fertile soil, the two-hundred year old antebellum house, all gone. And so is the woman who gave it to him. The foster mother who saved Jack Boucher from a childhood of... -
Inland: The New York Times bestseller from the award-winning author of The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.39FEATURED ON BARACK OBAMA'S 2019 READING LIST SHORTLISTED FOR THE SWANSEA UNIVERSITY DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 'SPECTACULAR' Guardian'A WONDER' Daily Mail'SPARKLING' The Times'EXQUISITE'... -
The Wolves of Winter by Tyrell Johnson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95'A cracking futuristic adventure, told with pace and panache and packed with vivid, shiver-inducing description' Daily Mail 'Read this in one... -
9/11 and the War on Terror by David Holloway
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £19.03This interdisciplinary study of how 9/11 and the 'war on terror' were represented during the Bush era, shows how culture often functioned as a vital resource, for citizens attempting to make sense of... -
The Child to Come: Life after the Human Catastrophe by Rebekah Sheldon
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01Generation Anthropocene. Storms of My Grandchildren. Our Children's Trust. Why do these and other attempts to imagine the planet's uncertain future return us-again and again-to the image of the... -
The Sick Bag Song Nick Cave 9781782116684
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.83THE SICK BAG SONG chronicles Cave's journey with his band the Bad Seeds on a twenty-two-day, North American tour. It is a highly personal account that blends memories, musings, poetry, lyrics,... -
The Coen Brothers Encyclopedia by Lynnea Chapman King 9780810885769
Booksplease Price: £90.87Joel and Ethan Coen have written and directed some of the most celebrated American films of the last thirty years. The output of their work has embraced a wide range of genres, including the... -
Literature and Ecotheology: From Chaos to Cosmos George B. Handley 9781032769059
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Literature and Ecotheology: From Chaos to Cosmos challenges us in a time of climate crisis to find more common ground between the dual projects of ecocriticism and ecotheology.This book argues that... -
Children of the Flying City Jason Sheehan 9780593109533
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.51Brought to the flying city of Highgate when he was only five years old, orphan Milo Quick has never known another home. Now almost thirteen, Milo survives one daredevil grift at a time, relying only... -
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Reading "The Virginian" in the New West by Melody Graulich 9780803271043
Booksplease Price: £29.79Although the origins of the western are as old as colonial westward expansion, it was Owen Wister's novel The Virginian, published in 1902, that established most of the now-familiar conventions of... -
Last Days by Brian Evenson 9781566894166
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.02Evenson is a major figure among writers who straddle the line between genre forms and literary concerns, and he was recently the subject of a 5 x 5 interview (five interviewers, and spread over five... -
Disaster Mon Amour by David Thomson
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.55A deep-and darkly comic-dive into the nature of disasters, and the ways they shape how we think about ourselves in the world "In this brilliant book, David Thomson tells the story of how we came to... -
Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion since 1960 by Amy Hungerford 9780691145754
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.63How can intense religious beliefs coexist with pluralism in America today? Examining the role of the religious imagination in contemporary religious practice and in some of the best-known works of... -
Power Plays in Transnational American Fiction: Gender, Race, and Genre Dr. or Prof. Ruth Maxey 9798765125236
Booksplease Price: £90.57Inspired by the career of Judie Newman, a genuinely ground-breaking scholar in the fields of U.S. and postcolonial literature, this book moves beyond strict national or genre boundaries in its...