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Sundial by Catriona Ward 9781250812704
Booksplease Price: £17.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250812704Author Catriona WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Tor NightfirePublisher Tor... -
Head Off & Split: Poems by Nikky Finney 9780810152168
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37The poems in Nikky Finney's breathtaking collection Head Off & Split sustain a sensitive and intense dialogue with emblematic figures and events in African American life: from civil rights matriarch... -
Zinc Fingers: Poems A to Z by Peter Meinke 9780822957249
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £13.29In Peter Meinke's eleventh collection, he writes poems of humor and sadness. His poems speak truth with the self-assurance of a man willing to laugh at himself and, by extension, he invites us to... -
Stray Decorum by George Singleton 9781938103544
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.90Eleven stories, all previously published in journals like Atlantic Monthly, Oxford American and The Georgia Review, in which George Singleton brings small-town South Carolina alive. Using everyday... -
Untying the Moon: A Novel by Ellen Malphrus 9781611176100
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.24Bailey Martin is in perpetual motion--a child of the South Carolina lowcountry tides, being pulled to and from a reckoning with destiny. A marine biologist by training and an artist by dedication and... -
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore by William Joyce 9781442457027
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize (Children's) 2013 and NAPPA Gold Awards (Preschoolers & Up) 2012 and... -
Why I Write: Thoughts on the Craft of Fiction by Will Blythe 9780316115926
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.52In this widely praised anthology, twenty-six writers illuminate the motivations at the heart of their creative lives in original essays that are as surprising and varied as their fiction. The... -
Bellocq's Ophelia: Poems by Natasha Trethewey 9781555973599
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.09In the early 1900s, E.J. Bellocq photographed prostitutes in the red-light district of New Orleans. His remarkable, candid photos inspired Natasha Trethewey to imagine the life of Ophelia, the... -
A Mirror for History: How Novels and Art Reflect the Evolution of Middle-Class America by Marc Egnal 9781621909040
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36In A Mirror for History, author Marc Egnal uses novels and art to provide a new understanding of American society. The book argues that the arc of middle-class culture reflects the evolution of the... -
A Mirror for History: How Novels and Art Reflect the Evolution of Middle-Class America by Marc Egnal 9781621908678
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.64In A Mirror for History, author Marc Egnal uses novels and art to provide a new understanding of American society. The book argues that the arc of middle-class culture reflects the evolution of the... -
Jim The Boy by Tony Earley 9780316198950
Booksplease Price: £14.00"This exquisitely wrought story of a boy named Jim growing up in North Carolina during the Depression with his mom and three uncles exhibits a clear-eyed maturity, and an understated daring, rarely... -
The Cigar Factory: A Novel of Charleston by Michele Moore 9781611178401
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.91"The sun leaned for down bringing shade to the waterfront," begins Michele Moore's entrancing debut novel, harkening back to an era when the legendary fishermen of Charleston's Mosquito Fleet rowed... -
A Word on Words: The Best of John Seigenthaler's Interviews by Patrick Toomay 9780826505736
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £22.68For years the legendary John Seigenthaler hosted A Word on Words on Nashville's public television station, WNPT. During the show’s four-decade run (1972 to 2013), he interviewed some of the most... -
Speak So I Shall Know Thee: Interviews with Southern Writers by William J. Walsh 9780786467495
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.19I agree with that.... The poetry in the country has become sort of a company affair where support for the arts has just about ruined the arts and the system of bureaucrats managing the funds that are... -
Words and Music: Confessions of an Optimist by Stephen Rubin
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £21.43WORDS AND MUSIC: THE ADVENTURES OF AN OPTIMISTBook InformationISBN 9781493065103Author Stephen RubinFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint ApplausePublisher Globe Pequot PressWeight(grams)... -
Ain't No Grave by Mary Glickman 9781504090971
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £12.51From a National Jewish Book Award finalist: A Jewish man and a black woman find love against all odds, in a novel set in the twentieth-century American South. Nine-year-olds Max Sassaport and Ruby... -
In the Company of Men: A Woman at the Citadel by Nancy Mace 9780689840036
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22When Nancy Mace entered the Citadel, the United States government had just recently overturned the ruling that women were not allowed to enter the "Corps of Cadets." Having grown up in a military... -
Georgia Voices v. 1; Fiction by Hugh M. Ruppersburg 9780820314334
RRP: £45.95Booksplease Price: £37.69Since the early 19th century, Georgia has produced an impressive number of distinguished fiction writers, from Joel Chandler Harris, Sidney Lanier, Flannery O'Connor, and Carson McCullers to such... -
Praying for Strangers: An Adventure of the Human Spirit by River Jordan 9780425245606
RRP: £18.85Booksplease Price: £18.30What if there was something you could do-something simple, yet so powerful-that could positively influence others and change your life in the process? Critically acclaimed author River Jordan... -
Georgia Voices, Volume 1: Fiction by Hugh Ruppersburg 9780820352367
RRP: £114.95Booksplease Price: £103.50Since the early nineteenth century, Georgia has produced an impressive number of distinguished fiction writers, from Joel Chandler Harris, Sidney Lanier, Flannery O'Connor, and Carson McCullers to... -
First Words by Paul Mandelbaum 9781565122727
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.00Most kid write stories. A few of them grow up to be successful authors. Before Stephen King created Carrie, he created Jhonathan, at age nine. And before there was Rabbit Angstrom, there was Manuel... -
Contemporary Fiction Writers of the South: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook by Joseph M. Flora 9780313287640
Booksplease Price: £66.77The extraordinary flowering of Southern literary talent in the early twentieth century, the Southern Literary Renascence, has continued virtually unabated, showing increasing vitality in recent... -
The Little Book by Selden Edwards 9780349121727
Booksplease Price: £21.69She was loved by three men. Two were history.Wheeler Burden is the last heir of the famous Boston banking Burdens; he lives in San Francisco and is a philosopher, rock idol, writer, lover of women,... -
Grieving as a Teacher's Curriculum: Relevant Prose and Postscripts by Edward Podsiadlik III 9789004422490
Booksplease Price: £53.18Teachers are not automatons. An educator's personal values, concerns, and aspirations cannot be cleaved from one's professional life without impacting the quality and relevance of the teaching... -
Graceling by Kristin Cashore 9780152063962
Booksplease Price: £19.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize (Young Adult) 2009 and California Young Reader Medal (Young Adult) 2012 and... -
All The Right Circles by John Russell 9781644280423
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £6.71Fans of Pat Conroy will enjoy John Russell's long-awaited second novel, a rich, multi-generational story of money and morals, power and race, sex and sanity, set in a changing America. Jack Callahan... -
By the Rivers of Babylon by Mary Glickman 9781504078856
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £21.69On a sultry South Carolina island, sunlight teases out the darkest secrets of the heart, in this novel from the author of An Undisturbed Peace. Joe and Abigail Becker, a Jewish couple from Boston,... -
Marked Men: White Masculinity in Crisis by Sally Robinson 9780231112932
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69White men still hold most of the political and economic cards in the United States; yet stories about wounded and traumatized men dominate popular culture. Why are white men jumping on the victim... -
An Undisturbed Peace: A Novel by Mary Glickman 9781504018340
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.81Hailed as "the finest depiction of the infamous Trail of Tears," this unflinching novel sheds light on a tragic history (Pat Conroy). As the tribes of the South make the grueling journey across the... -
Grace at Low Tide by Beth Webb Hart 9781595540263
Booksplease Price: £11.78“Beth Webb Hart shares her knowledge [of the lowcountry] withskill, wisdom, and beauty.” – Pat Conroy, author of ThePrince of TidesWhen a business venture goes sour, Charleston blue-bloodsBilly and... -
Vietnam and the Southern Imagination by Owen W. Gilman 9781604731699
Booksplease Price: £31.89A revealing look at how many of the new generation of southern writers link southern cultural heritage and the American experience in Vietnam Much recent fiction from the American South has... -
Beating the Odds: A Teen Guide to 75 Superstars Who Overcame Adversity by Mary Ellen Snodgrass 9780313345647
Booksplease Price: £71.85Many famous people have overcome difficult circumstances and gone on to become successful in their fields. This book profiles the lives of 75 courageous and persistent people who have triumphed over... -
Off Season by Anne Rivers Siddons 9780446698290
Booksplease Price: £16.39For as long as she can remember, they were Cam and Lilly - happily married, totally in love with each other, parents of a beautiful family and partners in life. Then, after decades of marriage, it... -
Two Minus One: A Memoir by Kathryn Taylor 9781631524547
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Kirkus Best Books of 2018 "You can quit waiting for the other shoe to drop: I'm in it for life." Those are the fateful, repeated words that help convince Kathryn Taylor to remarry, retire... -
The Invisible Circus Jennifer Egan 9781780331225
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.06In Jennifer Egan's highly acclaimed first novel, set in 1978, the political drama and familial tensions of the 1960s form a backdrop for the world of Phoebe O'Connor, age eighteen. Phoebe is obsessed... -
Before and After by Lisa Wingate
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40The incredible and heart-breaking true stories of victims of a notorious adoption scandal - inspired by No.1 bestselling novel Before We Were YoursFrom the 1920s to 1950, Georgia Tann ran a corrupt... -
Wild Mustard: New Voices from Vietnam by Charles Waugh 9780810134676
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58Wild Mustard, an anthology of prizewinning short fiction by contemporary Vietnamese writers, throws into relief the transformations of self and place that followed Vietnam's turn toward a market... -
Frank Stitt's Southern Table: Recipes and Gracious Traditions from Highlands Bar and Grill by Frank Stitt 9781579652463
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.05SEBA Award Winner SIBA Award Winner R. W. Apple, Jr., of The New York Times credits third-generation Alabamian Frank Stitt with turning Birmingham into a "sophisticated, easygoing showplace of... -
Iron House John Hart 9781848541801
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Iron House is the remarkable story of two orphaned brothers separated by violence at a tender age. When a boy is savagely killed in their brutal orphanage, one brother runs and takes the blame with... -
The King of Lies John Hart 9781848540989
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.06Jackson Workman Pickens - 'Work' to his friends - an unambitious lawyer in a small Southern town, has some serious baggage. His mother died a year ago from a 'fall' down the family's colonial...