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The Russian Dreambook of Colour and Flight by Gina Ochsner 9781846270093
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02In her very dusty provincial museum of fake exhibits lovingly crafted from cardboard, wire and glue, Tanya dreams of Russian art's long colours and wonders when Yuri will stop fishing long enough to... -
Teenagers: A Natural History David Bainbridge 9781846271229
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67During the second decade of human life, the body and brain undergo a profound and complex transformation, with emotions and intellect changing as rapidly and unpredictably as weight and height. These... -
A Journal Of The Flood Year David Ely 9781846271670
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02In a near-future, half-flooded world governed by technobureaucracy and ultraconformity, where human contact is abhorrent and passion unheard of, William Fowke already has a reputation as a... -
The Proof of Love by Catherine Hall 9781846273001
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02By the time the summer holidays begin, Spencer Little is keen to put the events of the past term at Cambridge behind him and a remote village in the Lake District seems to offer the perfect escape... -
Season to Taste: How I Lost My Sense of Smell and Found My Way by Molly Birnbaum 9781846273841
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67When an accident obliterated Molly Birnbaum's sense of smell, it also destroyed her dream of becoming a chef, and sent her instead upon a brave and uncertain mission to reawaken her nose. Writing... -
The Fox Was Ever the Hunter by Herta Muller 9781846274770
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Romania, the last months of the dictator's regime. Adina is a young schoolteacher. Paul is a musician. Clara, Adina's friend, works in a wire factory. Pavel is Clara's lover. But one of them works... -
A Meal in Winter by Hubert Mingarelli 9781846275364
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02One morning, in the dead of winter, three German soldiers head out into the frozen Polish countryside. They have been charged by their commanders to track down and bring back for execution 'one of... -
Such Small Hands by Andres Barba 9781846276750
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Her father died instantly, her mother in the hospital. She has learned to say this flatly and without emotion, the way she says her name (Marina), her doll's name (also Marina) and her age... -
To the Island by Meaghan Delahunt 9781847082749
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02He disappeared. That's all she really knew. In search of her father Andreas, whom she has never met, Lena travels with her small son from Australia to Greece. On the island of Naxos she finds him, a... -
Epilogue: A Memoir by Will Boast 9781847088215
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67When Will Boast's father dies he is alone in the world: an American with distant English roots, orphaned, and derailed by grief. Everything he thought he knew about his parents unravels when he... -
Going To Extremes: Notes from a Divided Nation by Barbara Ehrenreich 9781847080653
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67America is a grotesquely polarized society and becoming more so all the time. In this razor-sharp, funny and terrifying collection of pieces, Barbara Ehrenreich shows how the widening gap between... -
How To Drink by Victoria Moore 9781847081360
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In the past few decades many of us have become foodies, but our new focus on flavour has been dominated by what we eat. In How to Drink Victoria Moore aims to redress the balance, by explaining how... -
Family Wanted: Adoption Stories by Sara Holloway 9781862078574
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Family has always been fertile ground for writers. To the usual familial themes, adoption adds its own potent elements: mystery, luck, the questing for origins, the yearning for a child, the... -
How To Read Sartre Robert Bernasconi 9781862078758
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'I can want only the freedom of others' Jean-Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Sartre is best known as the pre-eminent philosopher of individual freedom. He is the one who told us that we are totally free... -
The View From The Ground by Martha Gellhorn 9781862071490
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Martha Gellhorn's peacetime dispatches bear witness to six decades of change: America in the Great Depression, the betrayal of Czechoslovakia, young Poles undaunted by their Communist government, the... -
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton 9781783787265
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 'A breathtakingly ambitious mystery ... as beautiful as it is triumphant.' Daily Mail An astonishing, epic story of promise, deceit and desperation in New Zealand's gold... -
The Dig by Cynan Jones 9781847088802
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Deep in rural Wales, a farmer is struggling through lambing season when he becomes aware that his land is being stalked by a badger-baiter who brings with him the stark threat of violence. Built of... -
Granta 83: This Overheating World by Ian Jack 9780903141628
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £16.38Not so much the state we're in as the mess we're getting into. The world we were born into has gone. We shall never completely recapture its climate, its seasons, the way its plants grew and its... -
Granta 88: Mothers by Ian Jack 9780903141734
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £16.38Edmund White on Delilah Mae White: 'What made her uncertain were the proper boundaries between children and adults, love and sex, work and play. What bewildered her were her own children.' John... -
Granta 11: Greetings From Prague by William Boyd 9780140073836
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £16.28What is Milan Kundera's writing about? Sexual conquest and Russian tanks, arousal and totalitarian repression, infidelity and political betrayal, desire and the quiet tragedy of Europe. Kundera is a... -
What Do Catholics Believe? by Leonie Caldecott 9781847080035
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.46The Catholic Church is by far the largest Christian denomination and the largest organized body of any world religion. Well over a billion people - or over one-sixth of the world's population -... -
When I Forgot by Elina Hirvonen 9781846270956
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.16Anna is on her way to the hospital where her brother has been sectioned when she falters, and, in that pause, her world splinters for the reader into a blazing display of memory and madness, of... -
Villa Des Roses by Willem Elsschot 9781862076167
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.16The gilt-lettered advertisement outside Madame Brulot's pension in the shabby rue d'Armaille promises a 'first-class family boarding house' and 'modern conveniences'. One thing is certain: few emerge... -
Salvador Joan Didion 9781783785230
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95El Salvador, 1982, is at the height of a ghastly civil war. Joan Didion travels from battlefields to body dumps, interviews a puppet president, considers the distinctly Salvadorean meaning of the... -
Ablutions by Patrick deWitt 9781847086341
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A nameless barman tends a decaying bar in Hollywood and takes notes for a book about his clientele. Initially, he is morbidly amused by watching the regulars roll in and fall into their nightly... -
Granta 74: Confessions Of A Middle-Aged Ecstacy-Eater Ian Jack 9780903141444
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Granta magazine publishes the best of fiction, memoir, reportage and photography, Every issue of Granta is in print and many issues - such as 'Travel', 'Dirty Realism', 'The Family', 'India' and... -
How To Read Hume by Simon Blackburn 9781847080332
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.' David Hume David Hume is generally recognized as the United Kingdom's greatest philosopher, as well as a notable historian and... -
The Lodgers Holly Pester 9781783789856
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'What it said to me was that I was here again, I was back, back from the great nowhere of somewhere else, returned, all too officially, to the whereabouts of Moffa.' A woman returns to the small... -
Conversations with my Gardener by Henri Cueco 9781862078406
Booksplease Price: £11.29Tales of life, death and lettuce in a French garden. Two men, both advancing in years, converse deep in the French countryside. One is an artist, the other his gardener. On finishing his work, the... -
Granta 53: News: Scoop,Lies & Video 9780140141320
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £16.17This edition of the literary magazine takes the news as its topic.Book InformationISBN 9780140141320Format PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Granta BooksPublisher Granta BooksWeight(grams) 320g -
Granta 20: In Trouble Again 9780140085976
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £16.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140085976Format PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Granta BooksPublisher Granta BooksWeight(grams) 323g -
The Old Child And The Book Of Words by Jenny Erpenbeck 9781846276767
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31From the winner of the International Booker Prize 'Bracing, unflinching and alive' Nicole Krauss 'Intense and beautifully written' Time Out A child is found standing on the street, with an... -
A History Of Bombing by Sven Lindqvist 9781847085016
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23On 1 November 1911, Lieutenant Cavarotti leaned out of the cockpit of his delicate aircraft and, holding a Haasen hand grenade, began one of the most devastating military tactics of the twentieth... -
Things That Disappear: Reflections and Memories Jenny Erpenbeck 9781803512990
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In this fascinating collection, Jenny Erpenbeck meditates on the disappearance and impermanence of things. Whether recalling the demolition of familiar places, the loss of a friendship, or a change... -
This Time Of Dying by Reina James 9781846270468
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02It is October 1918 and London is gathering in its dead. For Henry Speake, of Speake & Son Undertakers, laying to rest the shattered young bodies of those sent home from the Front to die has become a... -
Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun Mónica Ojeda 9781803512419
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.65The ear is the organ of fear. It is a door to that which is not of this world. Leaving behind the dread and decay of the city, Noa and her best friend, Nicole, travel up into the Andes, heading for... -
Granta 76: Music by Ian Jack
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £16.77Granta Magazine publishes the best of fiction, memoir, reportage and photography, only using work that has never been published before. Contributions include: Nik Cohn on "Bounce in New Orleans"; "Dr... -
What Do Greens Believe? by Joe Smith
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.39'The world has enough for everybody's need, but not enough for one person's greed' Gandhi Greens are driven by a concern with the fate of future generations and the natural world on which we all... -
A Fury For God: The Islamist Attack On America by Malise Ruthven
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31The terrorist attacks on New York and Washington were carried out by men steeped in a certain Islamic ideology, which has come to be called Islamism. In A Fury for God, Malise Ruthven reconstructs... -
How Did You Get This Number by Sloane Crosley
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31What happens when the minibus full of your fellow wedding travellers hits a bear in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness? Or you hear the voice of your high school's long lost queen bee from a...