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Its Colours They Are Fine Alan Spence 9781786892973
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A classic of short fiction, Alan Spence's celebrated debut collection, first published in 1977, brings Glasgow to vibrant life and captures the spirit of the city as it teetered on the brink of... -
Goose Music by Andy Brown 9781844718566
Booksplease Price: £10.29Goose Music is a collection of new poems co-authored by Andy Brown and John Burnside, two writers with backgrounds in ecology and notable for their lyric poetry. John Burnside won the Whitbread Prize... -
Swansong by Kerry Andrew
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'Swansong is the real thing, right from the start: spiky, strange and contemporary, but always with a dark undertow of myth and folklore tugging at its telling...this is a brilliant novel by a writer... -
On Shakespeare's Sonnets: A Poets' Celebration Dr. Hannah Crawforth 9781350531505
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.41'These contributors are some of the best, and best-known poets writing today ... The result is a slimly elegant book of new poetry, some of it very fine indeed ... It really is extraordinary that... -
Old World by Robert Crawford 9781787334564
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £9.48Traversing the globe, Old World is a generous, playful collection about the issues facing our planet today, from a major Scots poet and biographer of T.S. Eliot'For intellectual range, emotional... -
Practices and Mediations of Sámi Culture: Indigeneity, Ethno-history and Art by Jan Borm 9789004754980
RRP: £119.00Booksplease Price: £95.69The present volume is dedicated to the culture of the Sámi and their homeland, Sápmi (Lapland). The contributions focus on textual and visual representations of Sápmi and the Sámi in the past and... -
Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2025: A Selection of the Shortlist by House of Anansi Press Inc 9781487013899
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.38The prestigious and highly anticipated annual anthology of the best poetry in English from the shortlist of the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize. Each year, the best books of poetry published in English... -
Unfinished Business by Michael Bracewell
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £7.11UNFINISHED BUSINESS focuses on an ordinary suburban office worker, fundamentally weak but always keeping his eyes fixed on some horizon where a heightened, romantic, better world must surely exist. ... -
The Anthropocene Lyric: An Affective Geography of Poetry, Person, Place by Tom Bristow 9781137364746
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £56.12This book takes the work of three contemporary poets John Burnside, John Kinsella and Alice Oswald to reveal how an environmental poetics of place is of significant relevance for the Anthropocene: a... -
Ecology and Modern Scottish Literature by Professor Louisa Gairn
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £19.59This book presents a provocative and timely reconsideration of modern Scottish literature in the light of ecological thought. Louisa Gairn demonstrates how successive generations of Scottish writers... -
Sleeping Under the Juniper Tree by Pauline Stainer
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Pauline Stainer is a poet 'working at the margins of the sacred', conveying sensations 'with an economy of means that is breathtaking...her poems are not merely artefacts, they have an organic life... -
Poetry in the Mind: The Cognition of Contemporary Poetic Style by Lecturer Joanna Gavins
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.23Poetry in the Mind is the first book-length cognitive analysis focused entirely on 21st century poetic texts and their conceptual effects. Addressing central poetic notions or features of poetic... -
Bird-Woman by Em Strang 9781848614949
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27"Em Strang's poetry reminds us that right dwelling is not just a theoretical or ideological concern; it must also be rooted in the gravity that structures everything, rich in the old pagan knowledge... -
Be Near Me by Andrew O'Hagan
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31From the author of Mayflies 'There is no page on which there is not something surprising or quotable or pleasurable of thought-provoking.' Hilary Mantel'One of the few truly essential works of... -
We Were Not There by Jordi Doce 9781848616813
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.39"Jordi Doce is one of the three or four living European poets whose work I most treasure. He brings all his faculties to the rich task of being; his voice inhabits the names, not just with wonder,... -
A Farewell to Ice: A Report from the Arctic by Peter Wadhams
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Astonishing ... beautiful, compelling and terrifying' Observer'Wadhams' writing sparkles ... a lyrical sense of wonder at the natural world ... essential reading ... may be the best ... -
Nature and Space in Contemporary Scottish Writing and Art by Camille Manfredi 9783030187590
Booksplease Price: £65.96This book examines how contemporary Scottish writers and artists revisit and reclaim nature in the political and aesthetic context of devolved Scotland. Camille Manfredi investigates the interaction... -
Poetry in the Mind: The Cognition of Contemporary Poetic Style by Joanna Gavins
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £95.01Joanna Gavins presents some of the newest and most influential ideas in cognitive psychology and cognitive linguistics through clearly explained, practical analyses of the work of some of the most... -
The Ultras by Eoin McNamee
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Taking his cue from the true-life story of Special Forces Operative Captain Robert Nairac, Eoin McNamee has in The Ultras weaved a compelling fictional narrative through the backwaters of history... -
The Doll by Ismail Kadare 9781784709327
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'A fascinating study of a difficult love' John Burnside, GuardianYoung Ismail's world centres around his mother. Naive and fragile as a paper doll, she is an unlikely presence in her husband's... -
Haunted Spaces in Twenty-First Century British Nature Writing by Anneke Lubkowitz 9783110678598
RRP: £117.50Booksplease Price: £79.49This study investigates the figure of haunting in the New Nature Writing. It begins with a historical survey of nature writing and traces how it came to represent an ideal of 'natural' space as empty... -
Poetry Book Society Autumn 2025 Bulletin Alice Kate Mullen 9781913129811
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62The Poetry Book Society Bulletin is your beautifully designed quarterly guide to the most essential new poetry from the UK and Ireland. Curated by expert poet-selectors, each issue features exclusive... -
Post-Romantic Aesthetics in Contemporary British and Irish Poetry by Stefanie John 9781032016504
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £43.94This book demonstrates the legacies of Romanticism which animate the poetry and poetics of Eavan Boland, Gillian Clarke, John Burnside, and Kathleen Jamie. It argues that the English Romantic... -
Nature and Space in Contemporary Scottish Writing and Art by Camille Manfredi 9783030187620
Booksplease Price: £46.88This book examines how contemporary Scottish writers and artists revisit and reclaim nature in the political and aesthetic context of devolved Scotland. Camille Manfredi investigates the interaction... -
The Sea, The Sea: Vintage Classics Murdoch Series by Iris Murdoch
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Iris Murdoch's extraordinary exploration of human nature shines with intricate detail. ... -
The Physic Garden Catherine Czerkawska 9781908643513
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.22Moving, poetic and quietly provocative' - The Independent. City life in the early nineteenth century was never short of drama: poverty and pollution preyed on all but the lucky few, and 'resurrection... -
You, Beast: Poems by Nick Lantz
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.91With macabre humor, You, Beast explores the roots and limits of human empathy. Nick Lantz examines our strange, absurd, and often brutal relationship with other animals, from roaches scuttling across... -
Poems about Books and Libraries by Andrew Scrimgeour
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82A remarkably diverse treasury of literary celebrations, Books and Libraries is sure to take pride of place on the shelves of the book-obsessed. Books have long captured the imagination of readers... -
Bloodlines by Andy Brown 9781905208401
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.02In Bloodlines Andy Brown turns his attention to the subjects of medicine and the human body, treating them with the lyricism, imaginative range and formal agility for which his poetry has become... -
A Body of Work: An Anthology of Poetry and Medicine by Corinna Wagner 9781472513298
Booksplease Price: £39.69A Body of Work includes poems by writers from the dawn of Enlightenment to the 21st Century and explores changing attitudes to medicine, health and the body. The book is divided into eight thematic... -
The Vogue by Eoin McNamee
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2019'A wonderfully eerie, tragic read. I read it with my heart in my mouth.' Anna Burns, Man Booker Prize-winning author of Milkman'A captivating tale about... -
Truevine: An Extraordinary True Story of Two Brothers and a Mother's Love by Beth Macy
Booksplease Price: £9.26In Truevine, Virginia, in 1899 everyone the Muse brothers knew was either a former slave, or a child or grandchild of slaves. George and Willie Muse were just six and nine years old, but they worked... -
Ecology and Modern Scottish Literature by Louisa Gairn
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £90.60This book presents a provocative and timely reconsideration of modern Scottish literature in the light of ecological thought. Louisa Gairn demonstrates how successive generations of Scottish writers... -
Blue is the Night by Eoin McNamee 9780571278619
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.311949. Lance Curran is set to prosecute a young man for a brutal murder, in the 'Robert the Painter' case, one which threatens to tear society apart. In the searing July heat, corruption and... -
The Vogue by Eoin McNamee 9780571331604
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £3.93'A wonderfully eerie, tragic read. I read it with my heart in my mouth.' Anna Burns author of MilkmanAn unforgettable novel of ghosts, lies and the the past, from the prize-winning Eoin McNameeLate... -
Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn’t Enough by Dina Nayeri 9781529920529
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15The prizewinning author of The Ungrateful Refugee asks who is believed in our society, who is not - and why?'Ambitious and moving... it will cement Nayeri's position as a master storyteller of the... -
Slow Burn by Jordi Doce 9781915968067
RRP: £8.00Booksplease Price: £6.66Suddenly there's a room missing in the house. Just yesterday there was a door, now it's gone. A path opens through the forest, which fades as you enter. Disappearance, absence, these are now integral... -
Alexander von Reiswitz (Bilingual edition): Catching Strangers -The Family Constellation Project Nadine Barth 9783775759465
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £44.32Fascinating interpretation of the topic "family"This book combines photography and literature in a unique project. Over a period of fifteen years, photographer Alexander von Reiswitz captured... -
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The Blue Tango by Eoin McNamee 9780571207701 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.41LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE At 2.20am in the morning of the 13th November 1952 the body of 19 year old Patricia Curran was carried into the surgery belonging to the family doctor. At first Dr... -
Exurbia by Andy Brown 9781905208241
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.02Exurbia is the name of the urban fringe at the outer limits of suburbia. These poems begin here, characterised by edges, transition and change. In the assured lyric voice for which Andy Brown's...