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Reading Race Relationally: Embodied Dispositions and Social Structures in Colson Whitehead's Novels by Marlon Lieber
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $46.23What does it mean to write African American literature after the end of legalized segregation? In this study of Colson Whitehead's first six novels, Marlon Lieber argues that this question has... -
The Underground Railroad: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2017 by Colson Whitehead 9780708898406 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $2.79WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017WINNER OF THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD 2017LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER 2016AMAZON.COM #1 BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016#1 NEW... -
The Underground Railroad: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2017 by Colson Whitehead 9780708898390 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $4.02WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER 2016AMAZON.COM #1 BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE... -
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.82'A towering masterpiece by a writer of genius.' IndependentIndia, 1975. An unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency. Amidst a backdrop of wild political turmoil,... -
Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha 9780571348220
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60Two families. One desperate to remember, the other to forget.Winner of the LA Times Book Prize, Best Mystery/ThrillerWinner of the California Book Awards' Gold Medal for FictionShortlisted for the... -
Cool Machine: by the two-time Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead 9780349727684
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.03From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner ColsonWhitehead, an exuberantly entertaining novel that brings 1980s New York to vivid, unforgettable life.'Colson... -
Orange Laughter Leone Ross 9780571391707
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43'Powerful.' DAILY TELEGRAPH'[Ross] is a master of detail.' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT'A literary rollercoaster.' PEOPLE'Chillingly real . . . unforgettable.' BOOKLISTFrom a singular voice: a gripping... -
Cool Machine: by the two-time Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead 9780349727677
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $20.00From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead, an exuberantly entertaining novel that brings 1980s New York to vivid, unforgettable life. 1981... -
Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Two families. One desperate to remember, the other to forget.Will the truth burn them both?'Masterful.' Ruth Ware'A smart, sensitive page-turner.' Daily MailWINNER OF THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE... -
Meanwhile in Dopamine City by DBC Pierre 9780571228942
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $23.36***Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2020***FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINING AUTHOR OF VERNON GOD LITTLE'Pierre's high-risk prose explores and expands the cartoonish, taboo-busting outer edges of... -
Crook Manifesto: ‘Fast, fun, ribald and pulpy, with a touch of Quentin Tarantino’ Sunday Times by Colson Whitehead 9780349727653
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.09ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF THE SUMMER BY OPRAH DAILY, NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, TIME, NPR, LOS ANGELES TIMES, ESSENCE AND MORE'Whether in high literary form or entertaining,... -
Meanwhile in Dopamine City: Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2020 by DBC Pierre
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.22FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINING AUTHOR OF VERNON GOD LITTLE'Pierre's high-risk prose explores and expands the cartoonish, taboo-busting outer edges of literary possibility.' -- Independent***It's a big... -
The Refugees Viet Thanh Nguyen 9781472153784
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.35In The Refugees, Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when... -
American Gothic Literature: A Thematic Study from Charles Brockden Brown to Colson Whitehead by Ruth Bienstock Anolik 9780786498512
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $32.50American Gothic literature inherited many time-worn tropes from its English Gothic precursor, along with a core preoccupation: anxiety about power and property. Yet the transatlantic journey left... -
Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books Winner of the National Book Award 1990 The Apocalypse would definitely put a crimp in my career plans. Rutherford Calhoun, a puckish rogue and newly freed... -
The Angel of History by Rabih Alameddine
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35'A profoundly beautiful novel that infolds the political with the personal in unexpected and new ways . . . An extraordinary book' Neel Mukherjee, New Statesman, 'Books of the Year 2016''His stories... -
The Book of Night Women: From the Man Booker prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James 9781780746524
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.98A startling, hard-edged dissection of slavery and a tour de force of both voice and storytelling By the Man Booker-winning author Marlon James, this is the powerful story of Lilith, born into... -
Glass by Patrick Wilmot
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.09A writer in self-imposed exile in London receives a call from the Prime Minister of his former country, inviting him to return to write the Prime Minister's biography. As he embarks from his small... -
Brooklyn Crime Novel by Jonathan Lethem 9781805460404
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $25.191978 and two 14-year-old white boys are creating dubious art by using a hacksaw to cut multiple quarters into pieces. A child who's just bought ice cream from a Mr. Softee truck witnesses a... -
Harsh Times by Mario Vargas Llosa
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE"A wildly enjoyable book; the 85-year-old Vargas Llosa is as sharp and mordantly funny as ever." Financial TimesGuatemala, 1954. A... -
Hope Isn't Stupid: Utopian Affects in Contemporary American Literature by Sean Austin Grattan 9781609385217
RRP: $67.08Booksplease Price: $57.47Hope Isn't Stupid is the first study to interrogate the neglected connections between affect and the practice of utopia in contemporary American literature. Although these concepts are rarely... -
Down the River Unto the Sea by Walter Mosley
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Winner of the RBA Prize for Crime Writing Joe King Oliver was one of the NYPD's finest investigators until, dispatched to arrest a well-heeled car thief, he is framed for assault, a charge that lands... -
She Would Be King by Wayetu Moore
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91"Wayetu Moore is an inspiration . . . her book is a gift" Imbolo Mbue "The book is unforgettable . . . irresistibly evocative and fierce. She Would Be King is a masterfully wrought... -
Train Dreams Denis Johnson 9781803510224
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43'A masterpiece... one of the best prose writers in our time' Michael Ondaatje An epic miniature of one man's life journey through the American West at the turn of the twentieth century. ... -
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson 9781783787623
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43'A masterpiece... One of the best prose writers in our time' Michael Ondaatje An epic miniature of one man's life journey through the American West at the turn of the twentieth century. ... -
No Holding Back: The Autobiography by Michael Holding
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.95The autobiography of West Indies fast-bowling legend turned Sky pundit, Michael Holding, author of the award-winning Why We Kneel, How We RiseAs one of the fastest bowlers the world has seen, Michael... -
American Literature in the Era of Trumpism: Alternative Realities by Dolores Resano 9783030738570
RRP: $128.99Booksplease Price: $128.77This edited collection offers an exploration of American literature in the age of Trumpism-understood as an ongoing sociopolitical and affective reality-by bringing together analyses of some of the... -
Folklore Recycled: Old Traditions in New Contexts by Frank de Caro 9781617037641
Booksplease Price: $128.26Folklore Recycled starts from the proposition that folklore--usually thought of in its historical social context as ""oral tradition""--is easily appropriated and recycled into other contexts. That... -
American Literature in the Era of Trumpism: Alternative Realities by Dolores Resano 9783030738600
RRP: $128.99Booksplease Price: $128.92This edited collection offers an exploration of American literature in the age of Trumpism-understood as an ongoing sociopolitical and affective reality-by bringing together analyses of some of the... -
Ours Phillip B. Williams 9781803510781
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91In the mid-1800s, a fearsome and powerful conjure woman named Saint annihilates plantations in the South to rescue the enslaved. She brings those she has freed to a haven of her own creation: a town,... -
Ours by Phillip B. Williams 9781803510774
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.71"A beautifully written and ambitious epic about the complexity of freedom. Williams crafts an expansive, original world filled with characters who linger long after the final page" Brit Bennett,... -
Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror by Stefan Rabitsch 9781496836632
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29Metropolis, Gotham City, Mega-City One, Panem's Capitol, the Sprawl, Caprica City-American (and Americanized) urban environments have always been a part of the fantastic imagination. Fantastic... -
Locking Up Our Own: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize by James Forman
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-FictionLonglisted for the National Book AwardOne of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2017Former public defender James Forman, Jr. is... -
Hudson's Kill by Paddy Hirsch
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.39'A wild horse-and-carriage ride through early 19th century New York... Meticulously researched, the novel brings the city to life in lurid sensory detail.' Noel O'Reilly, author of WreckerNew York,... -
Black Hibiscus: African Americans and the Florida Imaginary by John Wharton Lowe 9781496848598
RRP: $113.52Booksplease Price: $91.77Contributions by Simone A. Alexander, Jose Felipe Alvergue, Valerie Babb, Pamela Bordelon, Taylor Hagood, Joyce Marie Jackson, Delia Malia Konzett, Jane Landers, John Wharton Lowe, Gary Monroe,... -
The Liars' Gospel: From the author of The Power, winner of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017 Naomi Alderman 9780670919918
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.26From the author of The Power, winner of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017IT BEGINS AND ENDS WITH A SACRIFICE... It was a time of brutal tyranny and occupation. Young men and women took to... -
Freight Dogs by Giles Foden
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55'Every new novel by Giles Foden is something to celebrate' Paul Theroux'An amazing and profound work, rich in memorable detail' Jay Parini'Foden has cleverly reworked the grand African adventure... -
Freight Dogs by Giles Foden 9780297868019
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $11.221996: in a Ugandan dive bar, the 'freight dogs' gather. An anarchic group of mercenary pilots from Texas, Russia, Kenya and Belgium who transport weapons between warring African nations, without... -
Freight Dogs by Giles Foden 9780297609100
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $11.801996: in a Ugandan dive bar, the 'freight dogs' gather. An anarchic group of mercenary pilots from Texas, Russia, Kenya and Belgium who transport weapons between warring African nations, without... -
Escape, Escapism, Escapology: American Novels of the Early Twenty-First Century by Professor John Limon
Booksplease Price: $36.24Escape, Escapism, Escapology: American Novels of the Early Twenty-First Century identifies and explores what has emerged as perhaps the central theme of 21st-century American fiction: the desire to...