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Brexlit: British Literature and the European Project by Dr Kristian Shaw 9781350225817
Booksplease Price: £31.52Britain's vote to leave the European Union in the summer of 2016 came as a shock to many observers. But writers had long been exploring anxieties and fractures in British society - from... -
Notes from an Island by Tove Jansson
Booksplease Price: £10.35In the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson, helped by Brunstroem, a maverick fisherman, raced to build a cabin on a treeless skerry in the Gulf of Finland. The island was Klovharun, and for... -
Dante's Divine Trilogy by Alasdair Gray
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.99In this masterful retelling of one of the greatest works of world literature, Alasdair Gray - in his last work - offers an original translation in prosaic English rhyme. Lyrical and modern, this... -
Of Me and Others: 1952-2019 Alasdair Gray 9781786895202
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £10.19In this frank, playful and typically unorthodox collection of essays, Alasdair Gray tells how his early life experiences influenced his writing, including the creation of those landmarks of... -
The Holy Machine Chris Beckett 9781848876569
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.79George Simling has grown up in the city-state of Illyria in the Eastern Mediterranean, an enclave of logic and reason founded as a refuge from the Reaction, a wave of religious fundamentalism that... -
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Murderers I Have Known by Marina Warner 9780099428374 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.57Like her award-winning novels, Marina Warner's stories conjure up mysteries and wonders in a physical world, treading a delicate, magical line between the natural and the supernatural, between... -
Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 1: Fever and Spear by Javier Marias
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Your Face Tomorrow is already being compared with Proust and rightly so' Observer'One of contemporary literature's major works ... you have to open this book' Ali Smith'I am myself my own fever and... -
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid 9781529077124
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40A haunting and tragicomic tale of the end of childhood, Annie John is told with Jamaica Kincaid's trademark candour and complexity, and is a true coming-of-age classic.An adored only child growing up... -
Brexlit by Dr Kristian Shaw 9781350090835
Booksplease Price: £112.13Britain's vote to leave the European Union in the summer of 2016 came as a shock to many observers. But writers had long been exploring anxieties and fractures in British society - from... -
Waking the Warriors by Ben Okri 9781035923380
Booksplease Price: £13.30When the world ends, only the underground mysteries will save us...A great wall is rising on the horizon and a foreign army is massing on the borders of the small country of Nevereach. As invaders... -
The Weatherhouse Nan Shepherd 9781782118862
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31The women of the tiny town of Fetter-Rothnie have grown used to a life without men, and none more so than the tangle of mothers and daughters, spinsters and widows living at the Weatherhouse... -
Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 2: Dance and Dream Javier Marias 9780241288917
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'Unquestionably the most significant Spanish writer of his generation ... Your Face Tomorrow is rich, haunting, intriguing' Observer'This trilogy must be one of the greatest novels of our age' Antony... -
Waking the Warriors by Ben Okri 9781035923373
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.95When the world ends, only the underground mysteries will save us...A great wall is rising on the horizon and a foreign army is massing on the borders of the small country of Nevereach. As invaders... -
Beginning Middle End Valeria Luiselli 9780008804800
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.09'A summer book for life' ALI SMITH 'Dazzles on every page' KATIE KITAMURA 'I was utterly captivated' KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE From the award-winning... -
Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.16Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to North America to work as an au pair for Lewis and Mariah and their four children. At first glance Lewis and Mariah are a blessed couple - handsome,... -
Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland 9780007162512
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95The story of one family piecing itself back together after a tragic highschool shooting, Hey Nostradamus! is Douglas Coupland's most soulful, piercing and searching novel yet. Pregnant and... -
Paradise by Kae Tempest
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99'Tempest has a gift for shattering and transcending convention.' New York TimesPhiloctetes lives in a cave on a desolate island: the wartime hero is now a wounded outcast. Stranded for ten years, he... -
A Fire in My Head by Ben Okri 9781803281285
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05A powerful collection of new and recently completed poems by Ben Okri covering topics of the day, such as the refugee crisis, racism, Obama, the Grenfell Tower fire, and the Corona outbreak. In... -
Community in Contemporary British Fiction: From Blair to Brexit by Sara Upstone 9781350244023
Booksplease Price: £105.96Examining how British writers are addressing the urgent matter of how we form and express group belonging in the 21st century, this book brings together a range of international scholars to explore... -
Weatherland: Writers & Artists Under English Skies by Alexandra Harris 9780500292655
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38Writers and artists across the centuries, from Chaucer to Ian McEwan, and from the creator of the Luttrell Psalter in the 14th century to John Piper in the 20th, looking up at the same skies and... -
The Emperor's Babe: A Novel by Bernardine Evaristo
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER'Wildly entertaining, deeply affecting' Ali SmithLondinium, AD 211. Zuleika is a modern girl living in an ancient world. She's a back-alley... -
The Sea Cloak Nayrouz Qarmout 9781905583782
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.09The Sea Cloak is a collection of 11 stories by the author, journalist, and campaigner, Nayrouz Qarmout. Drawing from her own experiences growing up in a Syrian refugee camp, as well as her current... -
Weight by Jeanette Winterson
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.24Condemned to shoulder the world forever by the gods he dared defy, freedom seems unattainable to Atlas. But then he receives an unexpected visit from Heracles, the one man strong enough to share the... -
The Last Gift of the Master Artists by Ben Okri
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12'One of the most beautiful and profound novels I've read in ages' Washington Post 'A magical take on Africa before the arrival of the Atlantic slave ships' Independent 'Takes on the great riddles... -
The God of Small Things: Winner of the Booker Prize by Arundhati Roy
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.20'They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.' This is the story of Rahel... -
On Christmas by Gyles Brandreth
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.60A seasonal anthology of Christmas-themed writings to savour during the highs and lows of Christmas Day. This delightful book offers a diverse array of classic and contemporary writers who have... -
Miracles of Life by J. G. Ballard
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28J. G. Ballard was, for over fifty years, one of this country's most significant writers. Beginning with the events that inspired his classic novel, 'Empire of the Sun', this revelatory autobiography... -
Among Flowers by Jamaica Kincaid
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40In this acclaimed travel memoir Jamaica Kincaid chronicles a spectacular and exotic three-week trek through the Himalayan land of Nepal, where she and her companions are gathering seeds for planting... -
Tiger Work by Ben Okri
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99'Both a work of lyrical imagination and a warning about the dangers we will face unless we take immediate action' New Yorker 'An artist's ardent plea for change' Kirkus This earth that we love... -
The Emperor's Babe: A Novel by Bernardine Evaristo 9780140297812
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.50FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL, WOMAN, OTHERWINNER OF THE NESTA FELLOWSHIP AWARD 2003'Wildly entertaining, deeply affecting' Ali Smith, author of How to be both and AutumnA... -
The Novel Now: Contemporary British Fiction Richard Bradford (University of Ulster, Coleraine) 9781405113861
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £32.02The Novel Now is an intelligent and engaging survey of contemporary British fiction. Discusses familiar names such as Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, and Angela Carter and compares them... -
Scorper: A Novel by Rob Magnuson Smith 9781783781065
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Scorper, noun, a tool used to scoop out broad areas when engraving wood or metal. Scorper, novel, an uncanny and sinister tale of an eccentric American visitor to the small Sussex town of... -
The End Of Alice by A.M. Homes
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.67THE END OF ALICE treads the wafer-thin line between the evil and the everyday, following the correspondence of two paedophiles. One, the narrator, is a child-killer, serving his twenty-third year in... -
The New Pastoral in Contemporary British Writing Deborah Lilley 9781032088006
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book identifies a major turn in contemporary British literature in response to environmental crisis. It argues that the pastoral is emerging as a new critical framework in which to explore the... -
The Magic of What's There by David Morley
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61In his bold new collection, David Morley, winner of the Ted Hughes Award, casts off the worlds of myth and magical fable to focus on the fiercely personal. `Love teaches you how to mind / And how to... -
Ragnarok: The End of the Gods by A.S. Byatt
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.81As the bombs rain down in the Second World War, one young girl is evacuated to the English countryside. Struggling to make sense of her new wartime life, she is given a copy of a book of ancient... -
The Drowned World by J. G. Ballard
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.63When London is lost beneath the rising tides, unconscious desires rush to the surface in this apocalyptic tale from the author of 'Crash' and 'Empire of the Sun', reissued here with a new... -
Funny Ha, Ha: 80 of the Funniest Stories Ever Written by Paul Merton 9781800249684
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £13.86The Sunday Times Humour Book of the Year A special reissue from Head of Zeus's bestselling anthology series of the funniest stories ever written, selected by comedian Paul Merton. From Anton... -
The Novel Now: Contemporary British Fiction by Richard Bradford 9781405113854
RRP: £93.95Booksplease Price: £86.42The Novel Now is an intelligent and engaging survey of contemporary British fiction. Discusses familiar names such as Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, and Angela Carter and compares them... -
The Day of Creation by J. G. Ballard 9780007227891
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'Classic Ballard. Mesmerising. No one writes with such haunting impact' William Boyd In parched, war-torn central Africa, Dr Mallory watches his clinic fail and dreams of discovering a...