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Edenglassie Melissa Lucashenko 9781836431060
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74'Lucashenko is a national treasure: there are no two ways around it.' Vogue Australia * From the winner of eight major literary awards, including Australia's Miles Franklin Award * Two... -
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 9780099560692
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.17'Thomas Hardy's thrilling story of seduction, murder, cruelty and betrayal' The TimesTess is an innocent young girl until the day she goes to visit her rich 'relatives', the D'Urbervilles. Her... -
Daikon by Samuel Hawley 9781668083055
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £21.12"A riveting tale about war, intrigue, love, and perseverance." -John Grisham "Absorbing...Unfolds like a detective novel...The story barrels ahead urgently...Duty, anger, sorrow, conscience and even... -
Franz Schubert and His World by Christopher H. Gibbs 9780691163802
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02During his short lifetime, Franz Schubert (1797-1828) contributed to a wide variety of musical genres, from intimate songs and dances to ambitious chamber pieces, symphonies, and operas. The essays... -
Ghost Wedding David Park 9780861549740
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.11A POIGNANT STORY OF LOVE AND REGRET, FROM A MASTER OF CONTEMPORARY IRISH FICTION * 'David Park is one of Ireland's great novelists.' Roddy Doyle, author of The Commitments * For fans of... -
Are We Not Drawn ... by Peter Philpott 9781848610248
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.39"Are We Not Drawn..." takes off from a palindrome quoted in Anne Michael's novel, "Fugitive Pieces": 'Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?' Drawn onward; but trapped in... -
A Stranger's Pose by Emmanuel Iduma
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.22A unique blend of travelogue, musings and poetry, A Stranger's Pose draws the reader into a world of encounters haunted by the absence of home, estrangement from a lover and family tragedies. The... -
Ghost Wedding David Park 9780861549733
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12A poignant story of love and regret, from a master of contemporary Irish fiction An Irish Times and RTE Culture Book of the Year for 2025 * 'David Park is one of Ireland's great novelists.'... -
The Long Walk by Jan Zwicky 9780889774490
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.92"The Long Walk carries a lifetime's force of meaning. A deeply beautiful book." Anne Michaels In The Long Walk, Jan Zwicky bears witness to environmental and cultural cataclysm. Both prophetic and... -
Indole Alkaloids: Spirooxindole by Maliha Uroos 9780323916745
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £104.97Indole Alkaloids: Spirooxindole details the multistep synthesis of natural products using schematic diagrams, providing a quick-and-easy way to review and understand new and novel synthetic... -
Gestures of Testimony: Torture, Trauma, and Affect in Literature by Michael Richardson 9781501339400
Booksplease Price: £37.81After 9/11, the United States became a nation that sanctioned torture. Detainees across the globe were waterboarded, deprived of sleep, beaten by guards, blasted with deafening music and forced into... -
To the Wedding by John Berger 9780747599395
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78A mother and father, estranged for years, are travelling across Europe to their daughter's wedding. Vibrant, beautiful Ninon has fallen in love with the young Italian Gino. She is twenty-three years... -
Literature and The Contemporary: Fictions and Theories of the Present by Roger Luckhurst 9780582312043
Booksplease Price: £57.60At the end of the century, much criticism has become devoted to `last things': the end of history, the end of the subject, the end of the novel, the end, even, of the end. Literature and the... -
Hell in Contemporary Literature: Western Descent Narratives Since 1945 by Rachel Falconer
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £105.94What does it mean when people use the word 'Hell' to convey the horror of an actual, personal or historical experience? Now available in paperback, this book explores the idea that modern, Western... -
Canadian Literature by Faye Hammill 9780748621613
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £86.19An important critical study of Canadian literature, placing internationally successful anglophone Canadian authors in the context of their national literary history.While the focus of the book is on... -
His Fantasies, Her Dreams: Ellora's Cave by S. L. Carpenter 9781416536161
Booksplease Price: £12.52Learning to Live Againby S.L. Carpenter Michelle has dumped her jerk boyfriend and her dead-end job for a better future. A chance encounter with a hot guy on a train ignites long-buried passions and... -
Shakespeare and Contemporary Fiction: Theorizing Foundling and Lyric Plots by Barbara L. Estrin 9781644531068
Booksplease Price: £30.06In the first book to use fiction as theory, Barbara L. Estrin reverses chronological direction, beginning with contemporary novels to arrive at a re-visioned Shakespeare, uncovering a telling... -
THE BALLAD OF BLOODY SUNDAY, DERRY, 30 JANUARY 1972: 2021 by Ernest M. Keeling 9791220110402
Booksplease Price: £16.96It is an inalienable instinct as old as the stars that a people have right to their land ... Ireland holds the dubious distinction of being Britain's oldest colony. 'The Ballad' is a narrative... -
The Grammar of Identity: Transnational Fiction and the Nature of the Boundary by Stephen Clingman 9780199653812
Booksplease Price: £59.59In our current world, questions of the transnational, location, land, and identity confront us with a particular insistence. The Grammar of Identity is a lively and wide-ranging study of... -
Letters to Amelia by Lindsay Zier-Vogel
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £13.70Grace Porter is reeling from grief after her partner of seven years unexpectedly leaves. Amidst her heartache, the 30 year-old library tech is tasked with reading newly discovered letters that Amelia... -
Child of All Nations by Irmgard Keun
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Kully knows some things you don't learn at school. She knows the right way to roll a cigarette and pack a suitcase. She knows that cars are more dangerous than lions. She knows you can't enter a... -
Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck 9780811218351
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.84A forested property on a Brandenburg lake outside Berlin lies at the heart of this darkly sensual, elegiac novel. Encompassing over one hundred years of German history, from the nineteenth century to... -
Map of the Invisible World by Tash Aw
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28From the author of the internationally acclaimed, Whitbread Award-winning 'The Harmony Silk Factory' comes an enthralling new novel that evokes an exotic yet turbulent and often frightening world. ... -
Contemporary Jewish Writing in Canada: An Anthology by Michael Greenstein 9780803221857
Booksplease Price: £59.76Contemporary Jewish Writing in Canada brings together important and innovative works from modern Jewish writers living in Canada. This anthology presents a variety of male and female voices, both... -
The Holocaust and the Postmodern by Robert Eaglestone 9780199239375
Booksplease Price: £51.63Robert Eaglestone argues that postmodernism, especially understood in the light of the work of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, is a response to the Holocaust. This way of thinking offers new... -
The Grammar of Identity: Transnational Fiction and the Nature of the Boundary by Stephen Clingman 9780199278497
Booksplease Price: £109.82In our current world, questions of the transnational, location, land, and identity confront us with a particular insistence. The Grammar of Identity is a lively and wide-ranging study of... -
After Life: An Ethnographic Novel by Tobias Hecht
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89Bruna Verissimo, a youth from the hardscrabble streets of Recife, in Northeast Brazil, spoke with Tobias Hecht over the course of many years, reliving her early childhood in a raging and destitute... -
Material: The Art of Handcrafting Beautiful Objects in a Digital Age Nick Kary 9781915294623
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.10'An important book, brimming with insight.' Nicholas Evans, author of The Horse Whisperer 'Material is generous, wise, fascinating and fundamentally humane.' Dan Richards, author of Outpost ... -
Canadian Fiction: A Guide to Reading Interests by Sharron Smith 9781591581666
Booksplease Price: £66.77Discover some of the great Canadian authors and titles you've been missing. This guide describes and organizes according to reading interests more than 500 of the best contemporary Canadian fiction... -
Staying Alive Neil Astley 9781852245887
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.56Staying Alive is an international anthology of 500 life-affirming poems fired by belief in the human and the spiritual at a time when much in the world feels unreal, inhuman and hollow. These are... -
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Staying Alive by Neil Astley 9781852245887 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.41Staying Alive is an international anthology of 500 life-affirming poems fired by belief in the human and the spiritual at a time when much in the world feels unreal, inhuman and hollow. These are... -
Salt Slow by Julia Armfield
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.16'Wickedly clever prose and a sense of humour that seems to loom up like a character in itself' - M John Harrison, GuardianIn her brilliantly inventive and haunting debut collection of stories, Julia... -
Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces by Jenny Erpenbeck 9780811229326
Booksplease Price: £13.00Jenny Erpenbeck's highly acclaimed novel Go, Went, Gone was a New York Times notable book and launched one of Germany's most admired writers into the American spotlight. In the New Yorker, James Wood... -
Eastbound by Maylis de Kerangal 9781838490447
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK 2023; A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023; A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022; A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022; On the Trans-Siberian Railway a desperate... -
Sixty-Six Books: A Contemporary Response to the King James Bible by Various 9781849432276
Booksplease Price: £22.24The King James Version of the Bible (KJV) is a foundation stone of the English language. The KJV was composed as a collective project and written to be spoken. Sixty-Six Books has been created, in...