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21st-Century British Gothic: The Monstrous, Spectral, and Uncanny in Contemporary Fiction Emily Horton 9781350286603
Booksplease Price: $59.55In this innovative re-casting of the genre and its received canon, Emily Horton explores fictional investments in the Gothic within contemporary British literature, revealing how such concepts as the... -
On Not Climbing Mountains by Claire Thomas 9780733644566
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.14From the internationally acclaimed, prize-winning author of The Performance and Fugitive Blue comes a remarkable work of literary fictionA woman arrives in Geneva, the first stop in a train journey... -
Tove Jansson by Paul Gravett
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $28.18An appreciation of the life and art of Tove Jansson, creator of the Moomin books, which are adored by children and adults across the globe. This book provides fresh insights and a deeper... -
Ferdinand, the Man with the Kind Heart by Michael Hofmann
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25'A great writer' Ali SmithNewly translated by Michael Hofmann, the touching final novel from the author of Child of All Nations'I don't think I'm that unusual, and I don't think I'm crazy... -
An Evening of Long Goodbyes by Paul Murray 9780241955895
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25The brilliant first novel by the author of The Bee StingAcclaimed as one of the funniest and most assured debuts of recent years, An Evening of Long Goodbyes is the story of Dubliner Charles... -
Joie de vivre by Paul Bailey 9781909585454
RRP: $19.50Booksplease Price: $15.64Inheritance, Paul Bailey's first book of poems after a lifetime of writing fiction, was acclaimed by Carol Rumens in the Guardian as 'a collection to engage everyone who appreciates elegant craft,... -
The Small Hours by Susie Boyt 9781844088263
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.64Harriet Mansfield, brave, wry and handsome, is determined to triumph no matter what. With a decade of therapy under her belt and a new large inheritance, it seems there is nothing she cannot achieve... -
Chapman's Odyssey by Paul Bailey 9781408821664
Booksplease Price: $16.98Harry Chapman is not well, and he doesn't like hospitals. Furthermore, Dr Pereira's wonder drug is causing some strange side effects: he can hear more than the usual quotient of voices. First, it is... -
Scotland: Her Story: The Nation's History by the Women Who Lived It by Rosemary Goring
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Scotland's history has been told many times, but never exclusively by its women. This book takes a unique perspective on dramatic national events as well as ordinary life, as experienced by women... -
The Kindness of Women by J. G. Ballard 9780006547013
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.15'This is autobiography taken to the highest reaches of fiction, another wonderful novel of scorching power, shot through with honesty and lyricism' Observer The Kindness of Women continues... -
A Scots Quair: Sunset Song: Cloud Howe: Grey Granite by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.58Chris Guthrie, torn between her love of the land and her desire to escape the narrow horizons of a peasant culture, is the thread that links these three works. In them, Gibbon interweaves the... -
Unlikely Stories, Mostly by Alasdair Gray
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25A man finds a bald patch on the back of his head that looks curiously like a face, then discovers he's splitting in two. A bored student suggests digging a tunnel into the foundations of the art... -
The Complete Short Stories: Volume 2 by J. G. Ballard 9780007245765
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $28.06The second in a two volume collection of short stories by the acclaimed author of 'Empire of the Sun', 'Crash' and 'Super-Cannes'. The new edition is introduced by Adam Thirwell. With... -
After You'd Gone: From the author of Hamnet - one of the most unforgettable love stories you'll ever read by Maggie O'Farrell 9781035430062
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64The groundbreaking debut novel from the bestselling author of HAMNET and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT: one of the most extraordinary love stories you'll ever read.*Over 480,000 copies sold* 'This... -
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Funny Ha, Ha: 80 of the Funniest Stories Ever Written by Paul Merton 9781838939021 [USED COPY]
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $4.68The Sunday Times Humour Book of the Year. 80 of the funniest stories ever written, selected and introduced by Paul Merton. From Anton Chekhov to Ali Smith, from P.G. Wodehouse to Nora Ephron,... -
The Complete Short Stories: Volume 1 by J. G. Ballard
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $22.97First in a two volume collection of short stories by the acclaimed author of 'Empire of the Sun', 'Crash' and 'Super-Cannes'. The new edition is introduced by Adam Thirwell. With eighteen... -
Theory & Practice Michelle de Kretser 9781914502163
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45'Michelle de Kretser is a genius - one of the best writers working today. She is startlingly, uncannily good at naming and facing what is most difficult and precious about our lives. Theory &... -
Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.66** SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDIE BOOK AWARDS 2023 ** CHOSEN AS A BEST BOOK OF 2022 BY THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, DAILY MAIL, FINANCIAL TIMES AND IRISH TIMES ** 'A profound novel about friendship. I... -
Scottish Stories by Sir Walter Scott
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $22.29Scottish Stories is a treasury of great writing from a richly literary land, where the short story has flourished for over two centuries. Here are chilling supernatural stories from Robert Louis... -
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Everything is True: A junior doctor's story of life, death and grief in a time of pandemic by Dr Roopa Farooki 9781526633392 [USED COPY]
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $4.93CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2022 BY THE GUARDIAN AND NEW STATESMAN 'A STAND OUT' SUNDAY TIMES 'STARTLINGLY HONEST AND DEVASTATINGLY GOOD' RACHEL CLARKE 'YOU EMERGE KNOWING HOW LUCKY YOU ARE TO HAVE READ... -
Everything is True: A junior doctor's story of life, death and grief in a time of pandemic Dr Roopa Farooki 9781526633392
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $17.59CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2022 BY THE GUARDIAN AND NEW STATESMAN 'A STAND OUT' SUNDAY TIMES 'STARTLINGLY HONEST AND DEVASTATINGLY GOOD' RACHEL CLARKE 'YOU EMERGE KNOWING HOW LUCKY YOU ARE TO HAVE READ... -
Asunder by Chloe Aridjis
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.89Marie's job as a museum guard at the National Gallery in London offers her the life she always wanted, one of invisibility and quiet contemplation. But amid the hushed corridors surge currents of... -
Letters of Intent: Selected Essays by Cynthia Ozick 9781786491084
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $24.53'What we ought to do, as writers, is seize freedom now, immediately, by recognizing that we already have it.'Cynthia Ozick, one of 'the greatest living American writers', has, over a lifetime of... -
Frida: The award-winning novel about the colourful and captivating life of Frida Kahlo by Claire Berest 9781035426799
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $25.08'The portrait of a fascinating, eccentric, and indomitable woman . . . an incandescent novel' Elle'No author has yet captured Frida's tragic life in words as sensually and passionately as this'... -
Dearly: Poems by Margaret Atwood
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61'A source of uncompromising elemental warmth' Ali SmithBy turns moving, playful and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts... -
Child of All Nations by Irmgard Keun
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50Kully knows some things you don't learn at school. She knows the right way to roll a cigarette and pack a suitcase. She knows that cars are more dangerous than lions. She knows you can't enter a... -
The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $13.88'A modern gothic triumph' Max PorterThe Bass Rock has for centuries watched over the lives that pass under its shadow on the Scottish mainland. And across the centuries the fates of three women are... -
Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala 9781399827140
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY KATIE KITAMURA'A work of visceral urgency and power' AMITAV GHOSH'Totally and shockingly alive from its very first paragraph' ALI SMITH, GUARDIAN'An extraordinary book' SUNDAY... -
The Atrocity Exhibition by J. G. Ballard
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.88A prophetic and experimental masterpiece by J. G. Ballard, the acclaimed author of 'Crash' and 'Super-Cannes'. This edition includes explanatory notes from the author. The irrational,... -
Runaway by Alice Munro
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61**AS SEEN ON BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS****Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**The matchless Munro makes art out of everyday lives in this exquisite short story collection. Here are men and women of... -
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25'If I vanished he wouldn't notice, if I died he wouldn't care. I think of him all the time, and he thinks of me not at all. I love him, and my love torments me. There are times when I feel like a... -
The Artificial Silk Girl Irmgard Keun 9780241382967
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50A hilarious, tragic novel about a would-be movie star in 1920s Berlin, from the author of Child of All Nations Doris is going to be a big star. Wearing a stolen fur coat and recently fired from her... -
At Night All Blood is Black: WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2021 David Diop 9781782277538
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2021 A GUARDIAN and THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'This slight book is an extraordinarily powerful exploration of what happens to the souls of... -
Super-Cannes by J. G. Ballard
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.15A high-tech business park on the Mediterranean is the setting for a most disturbing crime in this reissue featuring a new introduction by Ali Smith. A disturbing mystery awaits Paul and... -
French Braid: The Sunday Times bestseller from the Booker Prize shortlisted author of A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler 9781529115475
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61When Mercy Garrett moves herself out of the family home, everyone determines not to notice.All she wants is space and silence. No clutter. Not even their cat, Desmond.But it turns out family life is... -
Joseph Knight by James Robertson 9780007150250
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.15'A book of such quality as to persuade you that historical novels are the true business of the writer.'Daily Telegraph A gripping, shocking story of history, enlightement and slavery from... -
The Trials and Tribulations of Lucas Lessar by Shauna Seliy 9780747591962
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.42Lucas Lessar's great-grandfather arrived in Pennsylvania with a handful of pear seeds and a pocketful of introductions with which to make his fortune - and one name on his lips. He has told this... -
Frida: The award-winning novel about the colourful and captivating life of Frida Kahlo by Claire Berest 9781035426782
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $27.79'The portrait of a fascinating, eccentric, and indomitable woman . . . an incandescent novel' Elle'No author has yet captured Frida's tragic life in words as sensually and passionately as this'... -
Essays Two by Lydia Davis 9781405992657
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.60Lydia Davis returns with a timeless collection of essays on literature and language.'Precise, concentrated, lyrical. No one writes like Lydia Davis, and everyone should read her' Hanif Kureishi'A... -
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The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld 9781784705497 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $4.54'A modern gothic triumph' Max PorterThe Bass Rock has for centuries watched over the lives that pass under its shadow on the Scottish mainland. And across the centuries the fates of three women are...