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Nana by Emile Zola 9780140442632 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.19Born to drunken parents in the slums of Paris, Nana lives in squalor until she is discovered at the Theatre des Varietes. She soon rises from the streets to set the city alight as the most famous... -
Slip by Amelia Loulli 9781787334670
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £9.48One in three women in Britain have an abortion. For such a common procedure, it has not been the subject of a dedicated book of poetry - not, at least, until now.'Painful, brave and steadfastly... -
A Lover's Discourse by Xiaolu Guo 9781529112481
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'A fragmentary meditation on the nature of love' GuardianA Chinese woman comes to post-Brexit London to start over - just as the Brexit campaign reaches a fever pitch. Isolated and lonely in a... -
Medusa’s Ankles: Selected Stories from the Booker Prize Winner by A S Byatt 9781529112993
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73A luminous selection of short stories from the Booker prize-winning A. S. Byatt, celebrating over thirty years of writingWith an introduction by David MitchellByatt takes her readers to a place that... -
In Search of Lost Time: The Way by Swann's by Marcel Proust
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.19One of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time Vol. 1: The Way by Swann's is published in a new translation from the French by... -
![The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner 9781910702673 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9739106/10755728/9781910702673__55248.1781413296.jpg?c=1 "The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner 9781910702673 [USED COPY]")
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner 9781910702673 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £3.77**SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018****A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND CRITICS' TOP BOOK OF 2018**'An unforgettable novel.' DAILY TELEGRAPH'More knowing about prison life [than Orange Is The... -
Hurricanes in Perfect Power: Tales of Modern Motherhood by Various
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74A stunning new collection of short stories about motherhood, selected and introduced by Candice Brathwaite.______________'To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect... -
How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers 9780141020044
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47How We Are Hungry is a collection of Dave Eggers's short stories that twist and inspire the imagination Dave Eggers has championed the cause of the short story so magnificently that through his own... -
Unquiet by Linn Ullmann
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67'Linn Ullmann has written something of beauty and solace and truth. I don't know how she managed to sail across such dangerous waters' RACHEL CUSKHe is a renowned Swedish filmmaker and has a plan for... -
Who Do You Think You Are? by Alice Munro
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE**A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BIG JUBILEE READ PICK**Previously published as 'The Beggar Maid', Alice Munro's wonderful collection of stories reads like a novel,... -
Stories: Collected Stories by Susan Sontag
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Magnificent... Her famous seriousness pervades throughout... What's striking is the astonishing scope, potential and possibility Sontag saw in short fiction' Financial TimesThe complete collected... -
Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Ruth Hilton is an orphaned young seamstress who catches the eye of a gentleman, Henry Bellingham, who is captivated by her simplicity and beauty. When she loses her job and home, he offers her... -
No Love Lost: The Selected Novellas of Rachel Ingalls, Introduced by Patricia Lockwood by Rachel Ingalls 9780571376582
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Introduced by Patricia Lockwood: Gothic tales from the mistress of the weird behind frogman-romance Mrs Caliban for fans of Shirley Jackson, Lucia Berlin and Patricia Highsmith.'Wonderful.' Margaret... -
Dolores: From one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists Lauren Aimee Curtis 9781474612517
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Dolores is a glowing, beating heart of a book; Curtis' sentences manage to be both mysterious and precise, creating a potent atmosphere that resonates beyond its brevity -- Megan Hunter, author of... -
Scratches: The Rules of the Game, Volume 1 by Michel Leiris
Booksplease Price: £13.92A dazzling translation by Lydia Davis of the first volume of Michel Leiris's masterwork, perhaps the most important French autobiographical enterprise of the twentieth century Michel Leiris, a French... -
Scraps: The Rules of the Game, Volume 2 by Michel Leiris 9780300212389
Booksplease Price: £12.05The second volume of Michel Leiris's hugely influential four-volume autobiographical essay, available to English-language readers in a brilliant and sensitive translation by Lydia Davis One of the... -
Flash Fiction Forward: 80 Very Short Stories by James Thomas 9780393328028
Booksplease Price: £13.23After publication of the first Flash Fiction anthology over a decade ago, "flash" became part of the creative writing lexicon for readers, writers, students, and teachers. In this follow-up... -
Living and Dying with Proust by Christopher Prendergast
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43A LIFETIME'S READING OF PROUST'S MASTERPIECE "A work buzzing with appetite and curiosity."-Andrew Marr, author and broadcaster "Living and Dying with Marcel Proust is a feast."-Lydia Davis, winner... -
Motion Sickness by Lynne Tillman 9781913512330
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26From the acclaimed cult writer of Weird Fucks For the narrator of Motion Sickness life is an unguided tour, populated with hotels and strangers, art, books, and films. Adrift in Europe, her life... -
Novel 11, Book 18 by Dag Solstad 9781784704988
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16WINNER OF THE SWEDISH ACADEMY'S NORDIC PRIZE 2017'He's a kind of surrealistic writer... I think that's serious literature' Haruki Murakami'An utterly hypnotic and utterly humane writer' James... -
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... -
American Genius, A Comedy Lynne Tillman 9781913512521
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A former historian is spending time in a residential home - but is it an artist's retreat, a sanatorium, or a psychiatric hospital?In hypnotic and digressive prose, Tillman's narrator spins tales of... -
![Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts by David Shields 9780393341959](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/1917132/1916702/9780393341959__15433.1707437706.jpg?c=1 "Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts by David Shields 9780393341959")
Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts by David Shields 9780393341959
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.92In our bureaucratized culture, we're inundated by documents: itineraries, instruction manuals, permit forms, primers, letters of complaint, end-of-year reports, accidentally forwarded email, traffic... -
Mothercare by Lynne Tillman
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02From the brilliantly original novelist and cultural critic Lynne Tillman comes Mothercare, an honest and beautifully written account of a sudden, drastically changed relationship to one's mother, and... -
Cast in Doubt by Lynne Tillman 9781913512958
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Like Helen I kept a diary when I was young. It was nothing like Helen's. I tried faithfully to record the events of the day, to describe what I was reading and thinking and to scrutinize and... -
Haunted Houses by Lynne Tillman 9781913512170
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.99From the author of Weird Fucks, a witty, bleak, and outrageous account of American girlhood. Haunted Houses is the story of three young women. Jane's occasionally violent father reads her the... -
It Was Like My Trying to Have a Tender-hearted Nature: A Novella and Stories by Diane Williams 9781573661409
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58In the forty-one stories and novella collected here, Diane Williams probes the dangerous terrain of the family romance and the eternal bafflement of being alive. In stories that are as short as prose... -
Portrait Tales by Jean Fremon 9781739778330
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64'Portrait Tales offers a compelling series of behind-the-scenes stories about both well-known and little-known masterly portraits from world art history and, therefore, about the famous or unduly... -
Famous Children and Famished Adults: Stories by Evelyn Hampton 9781573660693
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.58Winner of FC2's Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize.Stories that remap the world to reveal hidden places we have always suspected of existing and scenarios that show us glimpses of ourselves. ... -
We Still Have the Telephone by Erica Van Horn 9781739778309
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Assembling fragments of past and present Erica Van Horn describes a life laid out in detail, quietly registering the fuzziness of the line between eccentricity and madness. In this mosaic portrait of... -
I Want To Show You More by Jamie Quatro
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78'Passionate, sensuous, savagely intense, and remarkable . . . Moves between carnality and spirit like some franker, modernized Flannery O'Connor.' - James Wood, New York TimesSharp-edged and... -
Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud 9780393341829
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.34The modernist masterpiece that is Arthur Rimbaud's Illuminations has been given new life with the publication of John Ashbery's "dazzling" (The Economist) new translation, widely hailed as one of the... -
In the Cut: With an introduction by Olivia Sudjic by Susanna Moore
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Living alone in New York, Frannie teaches creative writing to a motley bunch of students, and secretly compiles a dictionary of street slang: virginia, n., vagina; snapper, n., vagina; brasole, n.,... -
Chéri and The End of Chéri by Colette 9781324052050
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.92Cheri and its sequel, The End of Cheri, mark Colette's finest achievements in their brilliant, subtle, and frank investigations of love and power. Set in the Parisian demimonde in the last days of... -
I'll Never Be French (no matter what I do): Living in a Small Village in Brittany by Mark Greenside 9781416586951
Booksplease Price: £12.93In a story that stands above the throngs of travel memoirs, full of gorgeous descriptions of Brittany and at times hysterical encounters with the locals, Mark Greenside describes his initially... -
Sex, or the Unbearable by Lauren Berlant
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Sex, or the Unbearable is a dialogue between Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman, two of our leading theorists of sexuality, politics, and culture. In juxtaposing sex and the unbearable they don't propose... -
Now, Now, Louison by Jean Fremon 9780993009389
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64Progressing by image and word associations, Fremon evokes Bourgeois's history and inner life, bringing a sense of fascinating and moving proximity to the internationally renowned artist... The art... -
Suppose a Sentence by Brian Dillon 9781913097011
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In Suppose a Sentence, Brian Dillon turns his attention to the oblique and complex pleasures of the sentence. A series of essays prompted by a single sentence - from Shakespeare to Gertrude Stein,... -
Nativity by Jean Fremon
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Studded with five gouache drawings by Louise Bourgeois, this erudite, witty fable by the acclaimed author of Now, Now, Louison (2018) considers the ambiguous figure of the baby Jesus and its... -
The Harpy by Megan Hunter 9781529010237
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99'Brilliant . . . A deeply unsettling, excellent read' - Daisy Johnson, author of Everything Under 'A potent contemporary fable . . . riveting' - Guardian'Genuinely thrilling . . . one long beautiful...