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Nicotine by Gregor Hens
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Written with the passion of an obsessive, Nicotine addresses a life of addiction, from the epiphany of the first drag to the perennial last last cigarette. Reflecting on his experiences as a smoker... -
Rein Gold by Elfriede Jelinek
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Originally written as a libretto for the Berlin State Opera, Elfriede Jelinek's rein GOLD reconstructs the events of Wagner's epic Ring cycle and extends them into the present day. Brunnhilde... -
Notes on Suicide by Simon Critchley
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Suicide is everywhere. It haunts history and current events. It haunts our own networks of friends and family. The spectre of suicide looms large, but the topic is taboo because any meaningful... -
Surrender by Joanna Pocock
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Blending personal memoir with reportage, Surrender is a narrative nonfiction work on the changing landscape of the West and the scavenger, rewilder and ecosexual communities, inspired by a two-year... -
Batlava Lake by Adam Mars-Jones 9781913097622
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Pristina, Kosovo, 1999. Barry Ashton, recently divorced, has been deployed as a civil engineer attached to the Royal Engineers corps in the British Army. In an extraordinary feat of ventriloquism,... -
Brian by Jeremy Cooper
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Perennially on the outside, Brian has led a solitary life; he works at Camden Council, lunches every day at Il Castelletto cafe and then returns to his small flat on Kentish Town Road. It is an... -
Arkady by Patrick Langley
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31Brothers Jackson and Frank live on the margins of a big urban sprawl. From abandoned tower blocks to gleaming skyscrapers, their city is brutal, beautiful and divided. As anti-government protests... -
Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23How to speak of the searing, unpindownable power that the past - ours, our family's, our culture's - wields in the present? In five long sections, Maria Tumarkin's Axiomatic tells true and intimate... -
River by Esther Kinsky 9781910695296
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31'After many years I had excised myself from the life I had led in town, just as one might cut a figure out of a landscape or group photo. Abashed by the harm I had wreaked on the picture left behind,... -
Animalia by Frank Wynne
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Animalia retraces the history of a modest peasant family through the twentieth century as they develop their small plot of land into an intensive pig farm. In an environment dominated by the... -
Nocilla Lab by Agustin Fernandez Mallo
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31A landmark in contemporary Spanish literature, Agustin Fernandez Mallo's Nocilla Trilogy - Nocilla Dream, Nocilla Experience, and Nocilla Lab - presents multiple narratives of people and places that... -
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk 9781910695432
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31Flights, a novel about travel in the twenty-first century and human anatomy, is Olga Tokarczuk's most ambitious to date. It interweaves travel narratives and reflections on travel with an in-depth... -
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.37Flights, a novel about travel in the twenty-first century and human anatomy, is Olga Tokarczuk's most ambitious to date. It interweaves travel narratives and reflections on travel with an in-depth... -
The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk 9781804270134
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £63.36In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas begin to sweep the continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his... -
Rave by Rainald Goetz 9781913097196
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.31'Meet girls. Take drugs. Listen to music.' In Rave, cult German novelist Rainald Goetz takes a headlong dive into nineties techno culture. From the cathartic release on the dance floor to the intense... -
Compass by Mathias Enard
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43As night falls over Vienna, Franz Ritter, an insomniac musicologist, takes to his sickbed with an unspecified illness and spends a restless night drifting between dreams and memories, revisiting the... -
The Fallen by Carlos Manuel Alvarez
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.62A powerful, unsettling portrait of ordinary family life in Cuba, Carlos Manuel Alvarez's debut novel The Fallen is a masterful portrayal of a society in free fall. Diego, the son, is disillusioned... -
Ash before Oak by Jeremy Cooper 9781910695890
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.09Ash before Oak is a novel in the form of a fictional journal written by a solitary man on a secluded Somerset estate. Ostensibly a nature diary, chronicling the narrator's interest in the local flora... -
Essayism by Brian Dillon
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Imagine a type of writing so hard to define its very name means a trial, effort or attempt. An ancient form with an eye on the future, a genre poised between tradition and experiment. The essay wants... -
Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk 9781913097257
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.03With Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Man Booker International Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk returns with a subversive, entertaining noir novel. In a remote Polish village, Janina... -
Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk 9781910695715
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31With Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Man Booker International Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk returns with a subversive, entertaining noir novel. In a remote Polish village, Janina Duszejko,... -
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood Mary McCarthy 9781804271650
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Blending memories and family myths, Mary McCarthy takes us back to the 1920s, when she was orphaned into a world of relations as colourful, potent and mysterious as the Catholic religion. There was... -
Can the Monster Speak?: Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts by Paul Preciado 9781913097585
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the Ecole de la Cause Freudienne's annual conference in Paris. Standing up in front of the profession for... -
Second-hand Time by Svetlana Alexievich 9781910695111
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.73Second-hand Time is the latest work from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. Here she brings together the voices of dozens of witnesses to the collapse of the USSR in a... -
Moving Kings by Joshua Cohen 9781910695494
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.51One of the boldest voices of his generation, Joshua Cohen returns with Moving Kings, a propulsive, incendiary novel that interweaves, in profoundly intimate terms, the housing crisis in America's... -
The Doll's Alphabet by Camilla Grudova
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Surreal, ambitious and exquisitely conceived, The Doll's Alphabet is a collection of stories in the tradition of Angela Carter and Margaret Atwood. Dolls, sewing machines, tinned foods, mirrors,... -
Companions by Christina Hesselholdt
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Camilla, Charles, Alma, Edward, Alwilda and Kristian are a circle of friends hurtling through mid-life. Structured as a series of monologues jumping from one friend to the next, Companions follows... -
An Apartment in Uranus by Paul B. Preciado 9781913097073
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.31Uranus is the coldest planet in the solar system, a frozen giant named after a Greek deity. It is also the inspiration for Uranism, a concept coined by the writer Karl Heinrich Ulrichs in 1864 to... -
The Variations by Patrick Langley 9781804270509
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.60Selda Heddle, a famously reclusive composer, is found dead in a snowy field near her Cornish home. She was educated at Agnes's Hospice for Acoustically Gifted Children, which for centuries has... -
The Book of All Loves by Agustín Fernández Mallo 9781804270790
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.15In the wake of the Great Blackout, faced with the near-extinction of humanity, a pair of lovers speak to each other. They parse, with precision, with familiarity, the endless aspects of their love... -
Lili Is Crying H�l�ne Bessette 9781804271674
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Lili is Crying, Helene Bessette's debut novel, explores the fraughtness and depth of the troubling relationship between Lili and her mother Charlotte. With a near-mythic quality, Bessette's... -
Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99On the Sunday of his eighteenth birthday, in 1975, Colin takes a walk on Box Hill, a biker hang-out. There he accidentally trips over Ray, a biker napping under a tree - and that's where it all... -
Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Feverish and forthright, Pond is an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudinous life told by an unnamed woman living on the cusp of a coastal town. Broken bowls, belligerent... -
The Son of Man by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo 9781804270912
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23After several years of absence, a man reappears in the life of a woman and their young son. Intent on being a family again, he drives them to Les Roches, a dilapidated house in the mountains, where... -
Cafés Holly Pester 9781804272022
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Welcome to Cafes! Somewhere to eat and forget about work, where we can meet friends and not think about love, where we can meet lovers and be too nervous to eat. In Holly Pester's unique lyric, the... -
Bricks and Mortar by Clemens Meyer 9781910695197
Booksplease Price: £17.54Bricks and Mortar is the story of the sex trade in a big city in the former GDR, from just before 1989 to the present day, charting the development of the industry from absolute prohibition to full... -
It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over by Anne de Marcken 9781804270745
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31The heroine of the spare and haunting It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over is voraciously alive in the afterlife. Adrift yet keenly aware, she notes every bizarre detail of her new reality. And even... -
Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants by Mathias Enard
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31In 1506, Michelangelo - a young but already renowned sculptor - is invited by the sultan of Constantinople to design a bridge over the Golden Horn. The sultan has offered, alongside an enormous... -
Strange Beach Oluwaseun Olayiwola 9781804271551
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Strange Beach is the debut collection from poet and choreographer Oluwaseun Olayiwola. Intimate and erotic, ecological and philosophical, the poems in Strange Beach illuminate the body as a porous... -
I Remain in Darkness by Annie Ernaux
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A powerful meditation on ageing and familial love, I Remain in Darkness recounts Annie Ernaux's attempts to help her mother recover from Alzheimer's disease, and then, when that proves futile, to...