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Nicotine by Gregor Hens
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Written 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... -
The Appointment by Katharina Volckmer 9781913097325
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38In a well-appointed examination in London, a young woman unburdens herself to a certain Dr Seligman. Though she can barely see above his head, she holds forth about her life and desires, and her... -
Batlava Lake by Adam Mars-Jones 9781913097622
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70Pristina, 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,... -
Arkady by Patrick Langley
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.55Brothers 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... -
Rein Gold by Elfriede Jelinek
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Originally 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: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Suicide 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: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Blending 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... -
Brian by Jeremy Cooper
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $16.25Perennially 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... -
Nocilla Lab by Agustin Fernandez Mallo
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.55A 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... -
Animalia by Frank Wynne
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.07Animalia 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... -
Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38How 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: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.55'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,... -
The Fallen by Carlos Manuel Alvarez
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $13.90A 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: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.39Ash 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... -
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk 9781910695432
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.55Flights, 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: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.48Flights, 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: $199.50Booksplease Price: $133.06In 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: $31.48Booksplease Price: $19.55'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: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.10As 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... -
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood Mary McCarthy 9781804271650
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.07Blending 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: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.88In 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: $31.48Booksplease Price: $26.73Second-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: $27.28Booksplease Price: $22.07One 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... -
Essayism by Brian Dillon
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Imagine 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: $20.98Booksplease Price: $12.66With 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: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.55With 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,... -
The Doll's Alphabet by Camilla Grudova
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Surreal, 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: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Camilla, 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... -
The Book of All Loves by Agustín Fernández Mallo 9781804270790
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.22In 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... -
An Apartment in Uranus by Paul B. Preciado 9781913097073
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $19.55Uranus 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: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.26Selda 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... -
Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Feverish 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... -
Lili Is Crying H�l�ne Bessette 9781804271674
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Lili 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: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.88On 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... -
Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants by Mathias Enard
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.55In 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: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Strange 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... -
The Son of Man by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo 9781804270912
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38After 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... -
Bricks and Mortar by Clemens Meyer 9781910695197
Booksplease Price: $36.83Bricks 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... -
What Have You Left Behind? by Bushra al-Maqtari
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38In 2015, a year after it started, Bushra al-Maqtari decided to document the suffering of civilians in the Yemeni Civil War, which has killed over 350,000 people according to the UN. Inspired by the... -
Vivian by Christina Hesselholdt
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.55With Vivian, her second novel to be published in English, Christina Hesselholdt delves into the world of the enigmatic American photographer Vivian Maier (1926-2009), whose unique body of work only...