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The Meanwhile Sites Pete Green 9781784632694
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86What is a city for? How long do the vibrations persist from an economic shock wave, or a guitar chord? Is anything really permanent? The 'meanwhile site' is a place where change becomes a design... -
The Way to Work Dr Sean Ashton 9781784632922
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.18Have you ever boarded your morning commute and wished you'd never arrive at your destination? That is what happens to the protagonist of The Way to Work. Having boarded what he assumes to be his... -
A Perfect Explanation Eleanor Anstruther 9781784631642
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20Longlisted for the Not the Booker Prize 2019Longlisted for The Desmond Elliott Prize 2019Observer: Fiction to look out for in 2019The i Paper's 30 of the best new debut novels to read in 2019Scottish... -
It Gets Worse: Adventures in Love, Loss and Penury Nicholas Lezard 9781784632106
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.39Book of the Week: The IdlerIt Gets Worse is the second instalment of Nicholas Lezard's rueful, dissolute life. Beginning where his first volume, Bitter Experience Has Taught Me, ended, Nick's... -
Cracked Skull Cinema Mr David Briggs 9781784632076
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.39Poetry Wales: Poetry Books of 2019Cracked Skull Cinema offers poems on culture and society, colonialism and its legacies, media and power. Set between these are homages and reflections on middle age,... -
Temptation: A User's Guide Vesna Main 9781784631284
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60Lush Library Recommends: Anna James' Books for 2018Variations and fugue on the theme of obsessionVesna Main disturbs our self-image as educated, reasonable and ironic people who read modernist... -
Sunny and the Hotel Splendid by Alison Moore 9781784632021
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.03On the hottest day of the year, Ana Sharma and her mum check in to the Hotel Splendid, a place where bells seem to ring all by themselves, jam pots and milk jugs appear on the breakfast table as if... -
The Watch Bibi Berki 9781784632373
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $6.37Shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish 2020 Fiction PrizeOne sweltering midsummer night, two young women forge an unlikely bond. One of them is full of hope and ambition, the other devoid of it. How can... -
My Hummingbird Father Pascale Petit 9781784633110
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.18When artist Dominique receives a letter from her dying father, a reckoning with repressed memories and a pull for romantic and familial love sends shockwaves through her life, as she journeys to... -
Everything is Present Anna Woodford 9781784633509
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86Poems within Everything is Present have won The Ledbury Competition, The Wigtown Prize, and were featured in The Forward Book of Poems of the Year. ‘As brave, as bravura, a performance as the... -
Sound Advice: Bringing transformative advice to life through pop song themes from the 1980s Alan Green 9781784633585
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.74Have you ever wanted a compelling reason to listen to more music? Sound Advice invites readers on a voyage of self-discovery that uniquely combines the immersive joy of listening to pop music with... -
The Harbour Beyond the Movie by Luke Kennard 9781844715336
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.18Luke Kennard is an award-winning poet, critic and short-fiction writer. He works as a research student and assistant teacher at the University of Exeter. He is an award-winning man. His first... -
Implacable Art by Anna Mendelssohn 9781876857004
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.09Excerpt from the book: "Europa" a little insight no great light, somewhere circulating, sorrow helps and trust in human compassion. What does not help is the piling up of pretence and incapacity for... -
Nude by Nuala Ni Chonchuir 9781844716425
Booksplease Price: $14.23The women and men in Nude play out their desires and frustrations from Dublin to Paris, Delhi to Barcelona, and beyond. In these stories there are mercurial lovers, illicit affairs and mistakes that... -
Effigies III by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke 9781784631833
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.55The Effigies series has woven a vibrant tapestry of indigenous poets from Native North America and the Pacific. As the third in this series, this anthology continues this weaving with the work of... -
Ossabaw by Dr. David Hamilton 9781844712601
Booksplease Price: $15.56Believing in invention as the art of finding things, David Hamilton has been concerned with finding what, in memory, in nature, in his reading, and in daily events, suggests a poem. Some of the... -
The Wildflowers of Baltimore by Rob Roensch 9781844719075
Booksplease Price: $15.20The Wildflowers of Baltimore is a collection of stories about young men on high-stakes searches for love, truth and understanding. In many cases, the searching young men discover that the answers... -
A Lost Expression by Luke Kennard 9781844718757
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.60Next Generation Poet 2014 This is Luke Kennard's fourth collection of poetry and departs from his previous work in its scope and outlook. The prose poems and dramatic monologues run deeper and, the... -
Tjanting by Ron Silliman 9781876857196
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.50Space heater. Writing gathers around the pigeons. This line leads to Uranus. Nun census. Silver fork upon a chipped blue plate. I saw sleeping bag, pillows in the Buick's back. The companionship of... -
Mother/Land by Cheryl Savageau 9781844712694
Booksplease Price: $16.63In Cheryl Savageau's new book of poetry, Mother/Land, she radically re-maps New England as Native American space. Savageau retells and re-imagines creation stories, revealing a landscape of trees,... -
The Existential Detective by Alice Thompson 9781784630119
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66William Blake is a private detective. When he is asked by an eccentric scientist to investigate the where-abouts of his amnesiac missing wife, Louise, Will finds himself entangled in layers of... -
The World So Often: Poems 1982-2008 by Luis Garcia Montero 9781844719037
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.55Luis Garcia Montero (Granada, 1958) is one of the most read and influential Spanish writers today. He is an essayist, fiction writer, journalist, professor of Spanish Literature at the University of... -
The Word for Sorrow by Josephine Balmer 9781844719655
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.60Working on Ovid's extraordinary but often much-neglected exile poetry with an old second-hand Latin dictionary one stormy spring morning, Josephine Balmer noticed a school-boy's faded name inked on... -
The Poems of Sidney West by Juan Gelman 9781844714643
Booksplease Price: $15.84This translation offers for the first time the splendid poems of Sidney West to English readers, supposedly their original addressees. West is among the best imaginary poets of America, allegedly his... -
On Leave: A book of anecdotes by Keith Tuma 9781844714865
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.66A book of and about literary anecdotes, On Leave presents passing observations concerning the anecdote in a modular prose that tracks the events of a year on leave. Its cast of characters includes... -
Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart and the Secret History of Maximalism by Michel Delville 9781844710591
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $19.65This book is not another critical biography, but an interpretive essay investigating what we feel is the cultural and historical importance of Zappa and Beefheart in the context of a wide-ranging... -
The Fork-in-the-Road Indian Poetry Store by Phillip Carroll Morgan 9781844712670
Booksplease Price: $16.52Native Writers Circle Of The Americas First Book Award For Poetry These poems rise from the smoke of a Council Fire. Around the fire gather many nations of the world, some angry, some at peace. The... -
Red Earth: A Vietnam Warrior's Journey by Philip H. Red Eagle 9781844712687
Booksplease Price: $14.09Native American men and women who wound up in Vietnam were very different from traditional warriors. Many had been removed from that traditional culture as many of these warrior traditions had been... -
Erec & Enide by Amy De'Ath 9781844718092
RRP: $8.39Booksplease Price: $7.31Erec & Enide is a bold and unashamedly intimate work that delights in the theatrical, communicative powers of language, and by turns gives way to a quiet sadness. Writing out of contemporary feminist... -
Words Need Love Too by Kamau Brathwaite 9781876857493
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.60Words Need Love Too represents both a summation - a drawing together of concerns that the poet has explored in his writings through the previous `years of salt' - and a turning point, a hopeful new... -
The Redemption of Galen Pike: and Other Stories by Carys Davies 9781907773716
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86Winner of the 2015 International Frank O'Connor Short Story AwardWinner of the 2015 Jerwood Fiction Uncovered PrizeShortlisted for the 2015 Wales Book of the Year: FictionShortlisted for the 2015... -
Making the Wedding Dress Jackie Wills 9781784633844
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Wills gives readers the exceptional at the heart of daily life, invites us to suspend disbelief, enable the surreal.She begins Making the Wedding Dress with a quote from a handbook on sewing and asks... -
The Night Jar Louise Peterkin 9781784632168
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.39Dynamic first collection from this popular Scottish poet, The Night Jar lifts the lid on a fizzing range of personas, dramas and states of mind - presenting them for our delight: 'I collect the... -
The Solex Brothers (Redux): And Other Prose Poems by Luke Kennard
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.18Like a toboggan of wolves who have eaten their driver, The Solex Brothers rushes blindly through the forest, drawing on the tropes and archetypes of folk tales, parables, political manifestos,... -
Candescent Blooms Andrew Hook 9781784632564
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.39Shortlisted for Best Collection in the British Fantasy Awards 2023Candescent Blooms is a collection of twelve short stories which form fictionalised biographies of mostly Golden Era Hollywood actors... -
Some New Ambush by Carys Davies
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.09From the award-winning author of West and The Mission HouseSome New Ambush is the first collection of short stories from award-winning writer Carys Davies. Love, loss, birth, death, betrayal, madness... -
The Ophelia Letters by Rebecca Tamas
RRP: $8.39Booksplease Price: $7.79The poems in the first half of The Ophelia Letters explore the interaction between self and place in ways both strange and loaded with magic: journeying to the Arctic with Werner Herzog, stopping off... -
To An Occupier Burning Holes Ken Evans 9781784632700
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.18Formally-innovative, wildly-inventive, comic, surreal and poignant - Evan's poetry is a restless delight as he tackles almost any subject from lost invoices, hearing aids, fruit flies, migration, bin... -
Connective Tissue Jane Fraser 9781784632526
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.39This collection of short fiction aims to define the sometimes indefinable and to give voice to those struggling to make sense of what life throws at them. There are those who travel in a continuous... -
The Peckham Experiment Guy Ware 9781784632632
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Guy Ware's new novel charts a course from the 1930s onwards through the fragmentary memories of the 85 year-old Charlie, whose identical twin brother JJ has recently died. Sons of a working-class...