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Scablands and Other Stories Dr Jonathan Taylor 9781784632946
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.42These are tales from the post-industrial scablands - stories of austerity, poverty, masochism and migration. The people here are sick, lonely, lost, half-living in the aftermath of upheaval or trauma... -
Concrete Fields David Gaffney 9781784633035
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28The countryside - what is it for? A paradise on earth where you can relax and get creative? Or an outdoor wool factory where every other house is an Airbnb and there are fewer trees than Camden. In... -
Scarecrow by Matthew Pritchard
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67'You've displeased me. You things always do. Now it's time for us to part.' He watched, expressionless, as the thing raised a feeble arm; then he released a handle on the winch. The thing slumped,... -
Death and the Seaside Alison Moore 9781784630690
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67With an abandoned degree behind her and a thirtieth birthday approaching, amateur writer Bonnie Falls moves out of her parents' home into a nearby flat. Her landlady, Sylvia Slythe, takes an interest... -
Burnt Island by Alice Thompson 9781907773488
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67For disillusioned author Max Long, the offer of a writing-fellowship on the mysterious-sounding 'Burnt Island' is a godsend. Max is determined that, inspired by his tenure on this windswept outpost,... -
Bodies of Water by V. H. Leslie 9781784630713
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Shortlisted for Best Novella in the 2017 British Fantasy AwardsDen of Geek Top Books of 2016Ginger Nuts of Horror Top 20 Books of 2016After ministering to fallen women in Victorian London, Evelyn has... -
Please Don’t Bomb the Ghost of My Brother by Julian Stannard 9781784633066
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.89Julian Stannard has been described as the poet of cabaret. His poems sing and weep in equal measure; a poetry of wretchedness and hilarity, of discombobulation and the bizarre. In his new collection... -
The Frost Fairs John McCullough 9781844713981
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Winner of the 2012 Polari PrizeA Book of the Year for The Independent and The Poetry SchoolHoliday Read in The ObserverThe Frost Fairs is a compassionate book with a global and historical scope,... -
Sunny and the Ghosts Alison Moore 9781784631260
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.45Sometimes, when you open a door or lift a lid, you find exactly what you expected to find: coats in the coat cupboard, bread in the bread bin, toys in the toy box. And sometimes you don't.When... -
Missing Alison Moore 9781784631406
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28Having moved from the Fens to the Midlands to the Scottish Borders, Jessie Noon finds herself struggling to leave the past behind.Following a family tragedy, Jessie Noon moved from the Fens to the... -
You by Phil Whitaker 9781784631444
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.40Big Issue in the North Summer Reading RecommendationA man boards a train, hoping to see the daughter he has heard nothing from for seven years. As he travels towards his destination, he restlessly... -
After Absalon Simon Okotie 9781784631666
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28The story of a man walking down a ramp, After Absalon is the culmination of Simon Okotie's extraordinary trilogy of novels. Marguerite, a down-at-heel detective, is on the trail of Harold Absalon,... -
The Electric Dwarf Tim Vine 9781784631727
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28A 'Withnail' for the twenty-first centuryTim Vine's satirical thriller appears to revolve around the dysfunctional lives of Norman and Peter - the latter becoming an accidental terrorist. Driven by... -
Your Fault Andrew Cowan 9781784631802
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.10Metro: Best Fiction of 2019Longlisted for the Not the Booker Prize 2019'Elegant, unsparing, meticulously detailed novel in which a conscientious boy grows up with bedeviled parents. Where do men come... -
The Best British Poetry 2014 Mark Ford 9781907773686
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28The Best British Poetry 2014 presents the finest and most engaging poems found in literary magazines and webzines over the past year. The material gathered represents the rich variety of current UK... -
Best British Short Stories 2023 by Nicholas Royle 9781784632991
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.89Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year... -
Our Island Story by Guy Ware 9781784633134
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Denis Klamm, feckless scion of two former Leaders, returns to the Island for his father’s funeral, only to find it sinking. Or the sea rising – it depends what you believe. Either way, they’re all... -
Liminal by Bee Lewis 9781784631383
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £3.96Esther, a pregnant amputee, and her husband, Dan, are seeking a new life, setting up home - restoring an abandoned railway station called Rosgill, far away in the Scottish Highlands. Spanning the... -
The Manchester Trilogy: Book 2 by Neil Campbell 9781784631482
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40In this, the second volume of a projected Manchester trilogy, the young writer takes a zero-hours job in a mail-sorting depot but struggles to cope with the demands of menial work and the attitudes... -
Heat Wave Julian Stannard 9781784632182
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.63Heat Wave is a form of poetic cabaret,'What good is sitting, alone in your room?/ come hear the music play!' If a cabaret is full of high jinks it can also land punches - truth can be masked by the... -
The Catchers Xan Brooks 9781784633202
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.89Spring 1927. The birth of popular music. John Coughlin is a song-catcher from New York who has been sent to Appalachia to source and record the local hill-country musicians. His assignment leads him... -
The Collage Poems of Drafts by Rachel Blau DuPlessis 9781844717583
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.59Rachel Blau DuPlessis has, to cite Walter Benjamin, "an edgy attraction to history's material residues." This has been one motivation of Drafts as a decade-long project, and it is a central... -
The Complex by Michael Walters 9781784631628
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.63The countryside, the near future.Gabrielle Hunter, husband Leo and son Stefan drive to a remote luxury retreat for a spring break at the invitation of new client Art Fisher, who will be there with... -
Poppyland D. J. Taylor 9781784633462
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28On Stewkey Blues: ‘In his solid, grounded, entertaining collection of stories, DJ Taylor draws out the mythical qualities of East Anglia’s terrain, urban or rural or somewhere marginal in between.’... -
Blade Pitch Control Unit by Sean Bonney 9781844712519
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22Blade Pitch Control Unit is a gathering of Sean Bonney's work in poetry over the last five years. It collects together all the work from his previous pamphlets that he still feels is valid, plus a... -
Broken Doll by Neil Campbell 9781844713011
Booksplease Price: £10.84With both economy and compassion, Neil Campbell creates lyrical visions of loss and confinement. Children, teenagers, parents, single men and women all feature in the unflinching depictions of... -
Antler by John Clegg 9781844719648
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22Eric Gregory Award Winner The poems in Antler stalk their quarry over difficult ground. Prehistoric landscapes blend with genuine and imaginary anthropology; the real world becomes distorted through... -
The Pre-War House and Other Stories by Alison Moore 9781784630843
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.63Shortlisted for the East Midland's Book Award 2014The Pre-War House and Other Stories is the debut collection from Alison Moore, whose first novel, The Lighthouse, was shortlisted for the Man Booker... -
The Sophist by Charles Bernstein 9781844710003
Booksplease Price: £14.39The Sophist was first published by Sun & Moon Press in 1987 and has been unavailable for well over a decade. A pivotal book for Bernstein, The Sophist demonstrated his great range of subject matter,... -
Justine by Alice Thompson 9781784630317
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize Justine is a painting, a doppelganger and a woman of beguiling beauty. Set in contemporary London, Justine is a story of a man's obsession with a woman -... -
The Migraine Hotel by Luke Kennard 9781844715558
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.89A combination of verse and prose poetry, `The Migraine Hotel' is Luke Kennard's third collection and very much a sequel to `The Harbour Beyond the Movie'. The voices continue to explore the territory... -
Recital: An Almanac by John Siddique 9781844717231
Booksplease Price: £10.69John Siddique is a poet who wants you to read his work, his writing isn't a puzzle you have to figure out. Gathered in these pages is the work of an artist who believes in stories - our stories. From... -
Reveilles by Nathan Hoks 9781844717927
Booksplease Price: £10.29Reveilles, Nathan Hoks' first collection of poems, re-imagines a tempered surrealism for the twenty-first century. Hoks combines dream-like sequences with flashes of reality-in fact, rather than... -
How the Songs Come Down: New and Selected Poems by Carter Revard 9781844710645
Booksplease Price: £13.04Revard's poems are more like those of Seamus Heaney than those of Paul Muldoon - more like Robert Frost than Wallace Stevens, more like Mark Twain than Henry James. They are true stories, some from... -
Pitch: Drafts 77-95 by Rachel Blau DuPlessis 9781844717477
Booksplease Price: £10.95Pitch: Drafts 77-95 is a skeptical monument built and reassembled by a continuous folding over itself - tracking an encounter with an edge we might pitch over, with the pitch dark of our time, with... -
Earn Your Milk: Collected Prose by Tom Raworth 9781844715084
Booksplease Price: £11.83Earn Your Milk contains all the uncollected prose works of Tom Raworth, gathering together Letters from Yaddo, The Vein and Letter to Martin Stannard with his uncategorizable prose-work A Serial... -
The Falconer by Alice Thompson 9781784630096
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.97Award-winning writer Alice Thompson's compelling new novel is a story of transformation; an exploration of the shifting borderlands between imagination and reality. It is 1936. Iris Tennant has... -
Selected Poems by Miodrag Pavlovic 9781844719594
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.95A generous selection of work by Miodrag Pavlovic. He is the third of the Serbian triumvirate of Popa, Lalic and Pavlovic which transformed Serb poetry in the 1950s. Pavlovic has been translated and... -
Torques: Drafts 58-76 by Rachel Blau DuPlessis 9781844713349
Booksplease Price: £12.81Twisted, knotted, struck by events and emotions at our historical moment, these Drafts register and produce torques - exaltation and tension, torsion and force, in their symphonic and bantering... -
Radio Nostalgia by Chris Hamilton-Emery 9781784630744
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22Radio Nostalgia examines the borders of war, social exile, and manufactured liberty expressed through corporate media. The poet's world is mediated through news anchors, oracles and heralds, where...