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The Kiss: Intimacies from Writers by Brian Turner 9780393635263
Booksplease Price: £17.99From Sioux Falls to Khartoum, from Kyoto to Darwin; from the panchayat forests to the Giant's Causeway; in taxis and at bus stops, in kitchens and sleigh beds, haystacks and airports-people are... -
Why I Like This Story by Jackson R. Bryer
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £41.33Presents essays by leading short-story writers on their favorite American short stories and why they like them. It will send readers to the library or bookstore to read - or re-read - the stories... -
Still Love in Strange Places by Beth Kephart 9780393324471
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £16.01When Beth Kephart met and fell in love with the artist who would become her husband, she had little knowledge of the place he came from-an exotic coffee farm high in the jungle hills of El Salvador,... -
MINE: Essays by Sarah Viren 9780826359544
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56This is a book about ownership. It begins with an essay about being given a man's furniture while he's on trial for murder and follows with essays that question corporeal, familial, and intellectual... -
A Special Providence by Richard Yates
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Bobby is eighteen and lost on the battlefields of Europe, stumbling his way through World War II. He has turned out to be the heroic soldier he imagined and his experience of battle principally... -
We Take Care of Our Own: Faith, Class, and Politics in the Art of Bruce Springsteen June Skinner Sawyers 9781978835719
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £36.40We Take Care of Our Own traces the evolution of Bruce Springsteen's beliefs, beginning with his New Jersey childhood and ending with his most recent works from Springsteen on Broadway to Letter to... -
We Take Care of Our Own: Faith, Class, and Politics in the Art of Bruce Springsteen June Skinner Sawyers 9781978835702
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.68We Take Care of Our Own traces the evolution of Bruce Springsteen's beliefs, beginning with his New Jersey childhood and ending with his most recent works from Springsteen on Broadway to Letter to... -
Acid by Edward Falco 9780268006471
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.69In this award-winning collection of short stories Edward Falco narrates the lives and times of our contemporaries, characters off the dizzying streets of end of the century America. Within these... -
Acid by Edward Falco 9780268006464
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £57.35In this award-winning collection of short stories Edward Falco narrates the lives and times of our contemporaries, characters off the dizzying streets of end of the century America. Within these... -
The Best American Catholic Short Stories: A Sheed & Ward Collection by Daniel McVeigh 9781580512107
Booksplease Price: £16.21The Best American Catholic Short Stories captures twenty of the best short stories from thirteen American Catholic writers over the past seventy-five years. Spanning most of the twentieth century,... -
Massacre Pond by Paul Doiron 9781472114655
Booksplease Price: £20.70On an unseasonably hot October morning, Mike Bowditch is called to the scene of a bizarre crime: the corpses of seven moose have been found butchered on the estate of Elizabeth Moore, a wealthy... -
More Time: Contemporary Short Stories and Late Style by Lee Clark Mitchell 9780198839224
Booksplease Price: £82.82More Time studies the contemporary short story and focuses on four recent collections: Alice Munro's Dear Life (2012); Andre Dubus's Dancing After Hours (1996); Joy Williams's The Visiting Privilege... -
Mark My Words: Profiles of Punctuation in Modern Literature by Lee Clark Mitchell 9781501360725
Booksplease Price: £22.47Why are Emily Dickinson and Henry James drawn habitually to dashes? What makes James Baldwin such a fan of commas, which William Carlos Williams tends to ignore? And why do that odd couple, the... -
Think Like a Feminist: The Philosophy Behind the Revolution by Carol Hay 9781324020271
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.44Think Like a Feminist is an irreverent yet rigorous primer that unpacks over two hundred years of feminist thought. In a time when the word feminism triggers all sorts of responses, many of them... -
The Dogs of Detroit: Stories by Brad Felver
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £18.51The 14 stories of The Dogs of Detroit each focus on grief and its many strange permutations. This grief alternately devolves into violence, silence, solitude, and utter isolation. In some cases,... -
On Writing Short Stories by Tom Bailey 9780195395655
Booksplease Price: £118.11On Writing Short Stories, Second Edition, explores the art and craft of writing short fiction by bringing together nine original essays by professional writers and thirty-three examples of short... -
Trespasser by Paul Doiron 9781780338170
Booksplease Price: £21.69While on patrol on foggy March evening, Mike Bowditch receives a call for help. A woman has reportedly struck a deer on a lonely coast road. When the game warden arrives on the scene, he finds blood... -
Jumping Over Fire by Nahid Rachlin 9780872864528
Booksplease Price: £13.82An Iranian family embroiled in Islamic revolution, the hostage crisis, incest, and exile in America Forced to flee the country with their parents as Khomeini rises to power, Nora and Jahan Ellahi... -
Bad Little Falls by Paul Doiron 9781780338194
Booksplease Price: £21.69Game warden Mike Bowditch has been sent into exile, transferred by his superiors to a remote outpost on the Canadian border. When a blizzard descends on the coast, Bowditch is called to the remote... -
The Deposition by Pete Duval
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68An insurance lawyer driving across Iowa engages a wounded, hitchhiking priest in a metaphysical debate. A vacationing air traffic controller with a penchant for Saint Francis of Assisi is bitten by... -
Trouble Will Save You: Three Novellas 9781646424887
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £51.05In these three deeply observed novellas, award-winning author David Nikki Crouse dramatizes the lives of women living in Interior Alaska. Each novella acts as an extended meditation on grief, loss,... -
The Poacher's Son by Paul Doiron 9781472102805
Booksplease Price: £20.85Set in the wilds of Maine, this is an explosive tale of an estranged son thrust into the hunt for a murderous fugitive - his own father.Game warden Mike Bowditch returns home one evening to find an... -
The Bone Orchard by Paul Doiron 9781472114686
Booksplease Price: £20.70In the aftermath of a family tragedy, Mike Bowditch has left the Maine Warden Service and is working as a fishing guide in the North Woods. But when his mentor Sgt. Kathy Frost is forced to kill a... -
Knock Wood: A Memoir in Essays Jennifer Militello 9781945814969
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Winner of the 2018 Dzanc Nonfiction Prize "Knock Wood is an absolute wonder, and Jennifer Militello is at the top of her form." -Andre Dubus III, author of Townie and The House of Sand and Fog In... -
Utopia and Terror in Contemporary American Fiction by Judie Newman
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89This book examines the quest for/failure of Utopia across a range of contemporary American/transnational fictions in relation to terror and globalization through authors such as Susan Choi, Andre... -
Ocean State by Stewart O'Nan 9781611854329
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67When I was in eighth grade my sister helped kill another girl.For the Oliviera family - mum Carol, daughters Angel and Marie - autumn 2009 in the once-prosperous beach town of Ashaway, Rhode Island... -
Origin: A Novel by Diana Abu-Jaber 9780393331554
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £20.67Secretly, in her heart of hearts, Lena Dawson hides the strangest of beliefs about her childhood. Hiding behind a cool competence as a superb fingerprint analyst in a crime lab in snowy Syracuse, New... -
The All-American: A Novel by Joe Milan, Jr. 9781324035657
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £19.14Seventeen-year-old Bucky Yi knows nothing about his birth country of South Korea or his bio-dad's disappearance; he can't even pronounce his Korean name correctly. Running through the woods of rural... -
Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back by Frank Schaeffer 9780306817502
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.47By the time he was nineteen, Frank Schaeffer's parents, Francis and Edith Schaeffer, had achieved global fame as bestselling evangelical authors and speakers, and Frank had joined his father on the... -
Think Like a Feminist: The Philosophy Behind the Revolution by Carol Hay
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £16.75Think Like a Feminist is an irreverent yet rigorous primer that unpacks over two hundred years of feminist thought. In a time when the word feminism triggers all sorts of responses, many of them... -
How Are You Going To Save Yourself J M Holmes 9781473677722
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'A powerful rendering of contemporary masculinity in America.' TLS'A blistering debut . . . Hilarious and compelling, Holmes offers up a mirror to contemporary society . . . a compassionate and... -
Truth is the Arrow, Mercy is the Bow: A DIY Manual for the Construction of Stories by Steve Almond 9781638931300
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38"Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy Is the Bow is one of the best books on writing I've ever read. It's also the funniest by a country mile." -Richard Russo, author of the North Bath trilogyThe long-awaited... -
Euphoria by Lily King 9781529092653
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The New York Times Top Ten BestsellerFrom the author of Writers & Lovers, Euphoria is Lily King's gripping novel inspired by the true story of a woman who changed the way we understand our world... -
Faith and Fiction: Christian Literature in America Today by Anita Gandolfo 9780275991968
Booksplease Price: £76.51In recent years, there has been an explosion in the market for fiction on religious topics and themes, most notably Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. The variety of contemporary religious fiction and... -
The River Is Waiting (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel Wally Lamb 9781668006405
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK | A USA TODAY BESTSELLER #1 New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb, celebrated for two prior Oprah's Book Club selections, returns... -
What We've Lost Is Nothing: A Novel by Rachel Louise Snyder 9781476725208
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £11.18In her "keenly observed" (Star Tribune, Minneapolis) debut, Rachel Louise Snyder, author of the memoir Women We Buried, Women We Burned and the award-winning No Visible Bruises, chronicles the... -
Ordinary Hazards by Anna Bruno
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78For fans of Celeste Ng comes a transfixing debut novel about how life's small decisions can ultimately yield the most powerful consequences. Everyone always wants to know why relationships fail... -
Bad Marie: A Novel by Marcy Dermansky
Booksplease Price: £12.30"Bad Marie" is the story of Marie, tall, voluptuous, beautiful, thirty years old, and fresh from six years in prison for being an accessory to murder and armed robbery. The only job Marie can get on... -
Secrets We Kept: Three Women of Trinidad by Krystal A. Sital 9780393609264
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.81There, in a lush landscape of fire-petaled immortelle trees and vast plantations of coffee and cocoa, where the three hills along the southern coast act as guardians against hurricanes, Krystal A... -
Godine at 50: A Retrospective of Five Decades in the Life of an Independent Publisher David R. Godine 9781567926767
RRP: £42.99Booksplease Price: £29.98"The story of a book-making life."-New York Times "The lovely colors, tasteful art and elegant typography are an abiding reminder to a hurried world that some gifts of grace endure. That promise is...