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Discrepant Solace: Contemporary Literature and the Work of Consolation by David James
Booksplease Price: $214.07Consolation has always played an uncomfortable part in the literary history of loss. But in recent decades its affective meanings and ethical implications have been recast by narratives that appear... -
The Devil's Causeway: The True Story of America's First Prisoners of War in the Philippines, and the Heroic Expedition Sent to Their Rescue by Matthew Westfall 9780762788453
Booksplease Price: $33.83As the United States engaged in a bloody campaign to pacify its newly-won Philippines territory, a secret American mission went terribly wrong, resulting in a prisoner-of-war incident that... -
Your Absence is Darkness by Jón Kalman Stefánsson 9781529418781
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $32.00"Comparisons do not do justice to the complexity of Stefansson's book, nor the uniqueness of his prose" DANIEL MASON, author of North Woods"Stefansson shares the elemental grandeur of Cormac... -
Polly and the One and Only World Don Bredes 9780989983891
RRP: $29.30Booksplease Price: $23.23Don Bredes's new young adult (YA) fantasy is called Polly and the One and Only World. Don's first novel, Hard Feelings, was an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults in 1977, a New... -
The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84Fierce and lyrical, The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton is a story of survival, solitude and unlikely friendship. Most of all it is about what it takes to keep hope alive in a parched and brutal world... -
The Silverberg Business: a novel Robert Freeman Wexler 9781618732019
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $23.23In 1888 in Victoria, Texas, for a simple job, a Chicago private eye gets caught up in the poker game to end all poker games.Shannon, a Chicago private detective, returns home to Galveston, Texas for... -
Fallow by Daniel Shand
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.24Fallow is a tense, thrilling literary novel combining elements of dark comedy and surrealism. At its heart is the relationship between two brothers bound by a terrible crime. Paul and Mikey are on... -
Hungry Ghosts: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick by Kevin Jared Hosein 9781526644459
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $13.44_____________________________ * A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK FOR 2023 * * WINNER OF THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2024 * 'A shimmering slice of Trinidadian... -
The Heavenly Table by Donald Ray Pollock 9781784703240
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73Cane, Cob and Chimney Jewett are young Georgia sharecroppers held under the thumb of their God-fearing father, Pearl. When he dies unexpectedly, they set out on horseback for Canada, robbing and... -
Hungry Ghosts: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick Kevin Jared Hosein 9781526644480
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $34.42_____________________________ * A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK FOR 2023 * * LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2024 * 'A shimmering slice of Trinidadian... -
Fugue State by Brian Evenson
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $23.86With illustrations for each chapter heading, plus a fully illustrated version of the story "Dread," by indie musician and comic artist Zak Sally, this collection could break Brian Evenson out from... -
Above Isla Morley 9781444787061
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.24NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS...Blythe, a sixteen-year-old Kansas schoolgirl is abducted and kept in an abandoned silo by a survivalist, who is convinced that the world is about to end. Struggling to... -
All Rivers Run Free by Natasha Carthew 9781786488626
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $21.48'Raw, passionate, hallucinatory. Reading All Rivers Run Free was to be lured by an edgy siren voice of fierce womanhood' Rachel HolmesA woman on the edge of the sea finds a girl on the edge of life... -
The Bureau: a gritty tale of love and death in Northern Ireland by Eoin McNamee 9781529440447
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84'Some of the most beautiful prose being written in Ireland today' Irish TimesA Harper's most talked-about thriller novel 2025A Irish Times Book of the Year 2025A Critic Book of the Year 2025A... -
Mule Boy by Andrew Krivak 9781954276468
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45NPR "BOOK OF THE DAY"An elegiac novel of men lost in a coal mining disaster and the boy who survives to tell the storyOn New Year's Day, 1929, Ondro Prach, the thirteen-year-old son of Slovak... -
Lila: An Oprah's Book Club Pick Marilynne Robinson 9781844088829
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDAN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICKLila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church - theonly available... -
Red Sky at Noon by Simon Sebag Montefiore
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.78'An epic adventure story set against the most awful war in history. Ridiculously good' Dan Snow'The black earth was already baking and the sun was just rising when they mounted their horses and rode... -
Animalia by Frank Wynne
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.07Animalia retraces the history of a modest peasant family through the twentieth century as they develop their small plot of land into an intensive pig farm. In an environment dominated by the... -
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Elmet: SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 by Fiona Mozley 9781473660540 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $4.33SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 AND THE PFD/SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARDWINNER OF A SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD AND THE POLARI PRIZE'A quiet explosion of a book, exquisite and... -
Like the Appearance of Horses Andrew Krivak 9781954276130
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $31.25A novel of one family, a century of war, and the promise of homecoming from Dayton Literary Peace Prize winner and National Book Award finalist Andrew KrivakRooted in the small, mountain town of... -
By Gaslight by Steven Price
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $13.65*SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA ENDEAVOUR HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD 2017* LONDON 1885 - A woman's body is discovered on Edgware Road. Ten miles away, her head is pulled from the dark muddy waters of... -
Trauma and the Discourse of Climate Change: Literature, Psychoanalysis and Denial by Lee Zimmerman
RRP: $75.58Booksplease Price: $72.64The more the global north has learned about the existential threat of climate change, the faster it has emitted greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. In Trauma and the Discourse of Climate Change,... -
A Guardian and a Thief: The sensational new novel from the author of A Burning Megha Majumdar 9781398551640
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.00NAMED A NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, NEW YORKER, WASHINGTON POST, NPR, ATLANTIC, TIME, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, NEW YORK MAGAZINE, ELLE, KIRKUS, BOOKPAGEOPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK< -
The Bear by Andrew Krivak
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45From National Book Award in Fiction finalist Andrew Krivak comes a gorgeous fable of Earth's last two human inhabitants, and a girl's journey homeIn an Edenic future, a girl and her father live close... -
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $20.77'IF THERE WAS EVER A CRUCIAL BOOK FOR OUR CURRENT TIMES, IT'S PAUL LYNCH'S PROPHET SONG... BRILLIANTLY HAUNTING.' OBSERVER The explosive literary sensation: a mother faces a terrible choice... -
Slayer's Reign in Blood by D.X. Ferris
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $17.93D.X. Ferris explores the creation of the most universally respected metal album.Slayer's controversial "Reign in Blood" remains the gold standard for extreme heavy metal: a seamless procession of ten... -
A Rock between Two Rivers: The Fracturing of a Texas Family Ranch by Hugh Asa Fitzsimons
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $20.90A Rock between Two Rivers is the story of a man coming to terms with the environmental legacy of his family's ranch in Dimmitt County, Texas, and reckoning with the birthright he'll leave for the... -
Prophet Song: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 by Paul Lynch 9780861545896
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.98'IF THERE WAS EVER A CRUCIAL BOOK FOR OUR CURRENT TIMES, IT'S PAUL LYNCH'S PROPHET SONG... BRILLIANTLY HAUNTING.' OBSERVER * THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER * The explosive literary sensation:... -
Flannery O'Connor and Robert Giroux: A Publishing Partnership by Patrick Samway 9780268103095
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $60.61Flannery O'Connor is considered one of America's greatest fiction writers. The immensely talented Robert Giroux, editor-in-chief of Harcourt, Brace & Company and later of Farrar, Straus; Giroux, was... -
Savage Love by Douglas Glover 9780864929013
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $34.06An Amazon.ca Best Book of 2013A Globe and Mail Top 100 for 2013A Quill & Quire Best Book of 2013Longlisted, Frank O'Connor International Short Story AwardSavage Love marks the long-awaited literary... -
The Bullet Swallower Elizabeth Gonzalez James 9781399709101
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54A dazzling magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Bullet Swallower follows a Mexican bandido as he sets off for Texas to save his family, only to... -
Dance on Saturday: Stories by Elwin Cotman 9781618731722
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.55Philip K. Dick Award finalist In the title novella, Cotman imagines a group of near-immortals living in Pittsburgh in an uneasy truce with Lord Decay. Their truce is threatened when one of them... -
No Country for Girls: The most original, high-octane thriller of the year Emma Styles 9780751583830
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.38GOLD. THEFT. MURDER. A ROAD TRIP TO DIE FOR.'An unrelenting page-turner' CHRIS WHITAKER, author of WE BEGIN AT THE END'A triumph' THE i'The real star is the desolate Outback' THE TIMES'Thrilling . . ... -
Running the Light by Sam Tallent 9781399632898
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $29.93'A thrilling, nauseating and painfully real depiction of what happens as youth, talent and charisma sour' MEGAN NOLAN'Anyone wondering where The Great American Novel went: this is it on bail' DBC... -
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No Country for Girls: The most original, high-octane thriller of the year by Emma Styles 9780751583861 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $4.14GOLD. THEFT. MURDER. A ROAD TRIP TO DIE FOR.Winner of the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing PrizeShortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger AwardShortlisted for the Davitt Award for Best Adult Crime... -
No Country for Girls: The most original, high-octane thriller of the year by Emma Styles
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54GOLD. THEFT. MURDER. A ROAD TRIP TO DIE FOR.Winner of the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing PrizeShortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger AwardShortlisted for the Davitt Award for Best Adult Crime... -
Man V. Nature: From the Booker-shortlisted author of The New Wilderness Diane Cook 9781786078858
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $13.65*SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2015* SHORTLISTED FOR THE LA TIMES BOOKS PRIZE 2015 A SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE NOTABLE BOOK OF 2014 A BOSTON GLOBE BEST FICTION OF 2014 ... -
A Little History of the World E. H. Gombrich 9780300108835
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.27The international bestseller: E. H. Gombrich's sweeping history of the world, for the curious of all ages "All stories begin with 'Once upon a time.' And that's just what this story is all about:... -
Reptile House by Robin McLean
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $21.50The characters in these nine short stories abandon families, plot assassinations, nurse vendettas, tease, taunt, and terrorize. They retaliate for bad marriages, dream of weddings, and wait decades... -
Universal Harvester by John Darnielle 9781911344070
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35From the cult author of Wolf in White Van comes a horror- infused thriller set in a tiny Midwestern town; Clerks meets Cormac McCarthy. Jeremy works at the counter of Video Hut in Nevada, Iowa...