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Forty Stories by Dave Eggers
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51This collection of pithy, brilliantly acerbic pieces is a companion to Sixty Stories, Barthelme's earlier retrospective volume. Barthelme spotlights the idiosyncratic, haughty, sometimes downright... -
All the Days and Nights by William Maxwell
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46In settings that range from small town Illinois to the Upper East Side of Manhattan, these stories are distinguished by Maxwell's inimitable wisdom and kindness, his sense of the small details that... -
Women Writing Across Cultures: Present, past, future by Pelagia Goulimari 9780367336653
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.54This collection brings together an international, multicultural, multilingual, and multidisciplinary community of scholars and practitioners in different media seeking to question and re-theorize the... -
The Angelic Avengers by Isak Dinesen
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Lucan has been orphaned and Zosine has been deserted, and London is a hostile place for two young girls without a home. Bound together by poverty, grief and their shared years at school, they set out... -
Russian Poets Peter Washington 9781841597805
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Ever since Pushkin, Russian poets have been famous for their ability to combine private and public experience in lyric poetry of a comprehensiveness and intensity unmatched elsewhere. Ranging in... -
Postcolonial Translation: Theory and Practice by Susan Bassnett-McGuire 9780415147453
RRP: £60.99Booksplease Price: £54.65This outstanding collection brings together eminent contributors (from Britain, the US, Brazil, India and Canada) to examine crucial interconnections between postcolonial theory and translation... -
For Two Thousand Years by Mihail Sebastian
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'Nothing I have read is more affecting than Mihail Sebastian's magnificent, haunting 1934 novel, For Two Thousand Years' - Philippe Sands, Guardian Books of the YearA prescient interwar masterpiece,... -
A Few Quick Ones P.G. Wodehouse 9781841591605
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.99A collection from the master, containing The Fat of the Land (Freddie Widgeon) Scratch Man (The Oldest Member) The Right Approach (Mr Mulliner), Jeeves Makes An Omelette, The Word In Season (Bingo... -
Bartleby And Co by Enrique Vila-Matas
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Marcelo, a clerk in a Barcelona office who might himself have emerged from a novel by Kafka, inhabits a world peopled by characters in literature. He once wrote a novel about the impossibility of... -
Sontag: Her Life by Benjamin Moser
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £11.50WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHYSelected as a Book of the Year 2019 by the SPECTATOR, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN and FINANCIAL TIMES 'Definitive and delightful' Stephen Fry 'There can... -
Barbara: A Novel Joni Murphy 9781662602870
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £18.20Barbara is born shortly before World War II and lives through the conflict as a desert child trailing her father, an engineer in the famed and infamous Manhattan Project. When Barbara is thirteen,... -
Hopscotch and Blow-Up by Julio Cortazar
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.54With his "counter-novel" Hopscotch and his unforgettable short stories, Julio Cortazar earned a place among the most innovative authors of the twentieth century. Hopscotch follows the adventures of... -
If On A Winter's Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino 9781857151381
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41Calvino's dazzling post-modernist masterpiece combines a love story, a detective story and a sardonic dissection of the publishing industry in a scintillating allegory of reading. Based on a witty... -
Blowfish: A Novel Kyung-ran Jo 9781662601781
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.60Blowfish is a postmodern novel in four parts, alternating between the respective stories of a female sculptor and a male architect. Death is the motif connecting these parallel lives. The sculptor's... -
Berta Isla by Javier Marias
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.47'The most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature' Boston Globe'No one else, anywhere, is writing quite like this' Daily Telegraph A thrilling new literary offering from the... -
Where the Stress Falls by Susan Sontag
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Where the Stress Falls is divided into three sections: the first, 'Reading', includes ardent pieces on writers from Sontag's own private canon - Machado de Assis, Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Borges,... -
Collected Stories by Janice Galloway
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Comprising stories from her debut collection, Blood, and the critically acclaimed Where You Find It - this collection presents some of the best known and most loved works by one of Scotland's 'most... -
A Book Of Memories by Peter Nadas
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41A Book of Memories is made up of three first-person narratives: The first, that of a young Hungarian writer and his fated love for a German poet; we also learn of the narrator's adolescence in... -
Penguin Modern Box Set 9780241421345
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £68.99This box set of the 50 books in the new Penguin Modern series celebrates the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics list and its iconic authors. Including avant-garde essays, radical... -
Plough Quarterly No. 34 – Generations by Emmanuel Katongole
RRP: £9.00Booksplease Price: £6.73We're born with a hunger for roots and a desire to pass on a legacy.The past two decades have seen a boom in family history services that combine genealogy with DNA testing, though this is less a... -
Numbers in the Dark by Italo Calvino
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Numbers in the Dark is a collection of short stories covering the length of Italo Calvino's extraordinary writing career, from when he was a teenager to shortly before his death. They include witty... -
On Photography by Susan Sontag 9780141035789
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject.Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues... -
The House Of The Spirits by Isabel Allende 9781857152814
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.07We begin - at the turn of the century, in an unnamed South American country - in the childhood home of the woman who will be the mother and grandmother of the clan, Clara del Valle. A warm-hearted,... -
On Photography by Susan Sontag
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.48'The most original and illuminating study of the subject.' The New YorkerPhotographs are everywhere. From high art to family albums to legal evidence, they capture and document the world around us... -
1,000 Books to Read Before You Die by James Mustich 9781523504459
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £24.16"The ultimate literary bucket list." -The Washington Post "If there's a heaven just for readers, this is it." -O, The Oprah Magazine Celebrate the pleasure of reading and the thrill of... -
Perspectives on Retranslation: Ideology, Paratexts, Methods by Özlem Berk Albachten 9780367518103
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Perspectives on Retranslation: Ideology, Paratexts, Methods explores retranslation from a variety of aspects and reflects methodological and theoretical developments in the field. Featuring eleven... -
Developments: Encounters of Formation in the Latin American and Hispanic/Latino Bildungsroman by Alejandro Latinez 9781433119415
RRP: £60.70Booksplease Price: £54.28Developments: Encounters of Formation in the Latin American and Hispanic/Latino Bildungsroman, a notable contribution for students and scholars of Latin American, Brazilian, Hispanic and Latino... -
The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 by Rachel Kushner
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15From the Booker-shortlisted author of The Mars Room, a career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and culture.In The Hard Crowd, Rachel Kushner gathers a selection of her writing... -
Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing by Helene Cixous
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.88Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing is a poetic, insightful, and ultimately moving exploration of 'the strange science of writing.' In a magnetic, irresistible narrative, Cixous reflects on the... -
Helene Cixous: Writing and Sexual Difference by Abigail Bray 9780333922392
Booksplease Price: £47.74Abigail Bray offers a lucid and accessible introduction to Helene Cixous and her theorisation of writing and sexual difference. This book explores the context of feminist debates surrounding Cixous's... -
Modernist Parasites: Bioethics, Dependency, and Literature, post-1900 by Sebastian Williams 9781666921298
Booksplease Price: £81.47Modernist Parasites: Bioethics, Dependency, and Literature, post-1900 analyzes biological and social parasites in the political, scientific, and literary imagination. Initially referring to a guest... -
The House of Memory: Stories by Jewish Women Writers of Latin America: 2022 by Marjorie Agosin 9781910146736
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62This new edition of The House of Memory: Stories by Jewish Women Writers of Latin America revisits the meaning of heritage and home, exploring the experience of losing the familiar to embrace the... -
Del manuscrito al libro: Materialidad del texto y critica genética en la novela iberoamericana: 1969-1992 by Rafael Clíment-Espíno 9781930744806
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £37.30Del manuscrito al libro revela, tomado como punto de partida el manuscrito original de cuatro novelas, el importante sustrato de materiales textuales que esconden los libros. El estudio cuestiona que... -
People in the Room by Norah Lange 9781911508229
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95A young woman in Buenos Aires spies three women in the house opposite her family's home. Intrigued, she begins to watch them. She imagines them as accomplices to an unknown crime, as troubled... -
Breaking Ground: Thinking with Reiner Schürmann Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback 9783035808025
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £39.80An anthology of responses to Reiner Schurmann's philosophical research, writings, and commentaries. In recent years, academic interest in Reiner Schurmann's philosophical work has grown significantly... -
Subject to Change: The Lessons of Latin American Women's Testimonio for Truth, Fiction, and Theory by Joanna R. Bartow 9780807892848
Booksplease Price: £33.36By analyzing testimonial writing, works of fiction, and critical theory, Joanna R. Bartow examines the self-representation of testimonial subjects. She questions limits on reading testimonio that... -
Shame in Contemporary You-Narration: Time, Gender and Race Denise Wong 9781399546959
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £74.65In fiction, you-narratives written in the last decade across the world parody the form of second-person address found in advertising, self-help and ‘how-to’ books while anticipating shame and... -
The Ripple Effect: Gender and Race in Brazilian Culture and Literature by Maria José Somerlate Barbosa 9781612498539
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.74In The Ripple Effect: Gender and Race in Brazilian Culture and Literature, Barbosa adopts a comparative, multilayered, and interdisciplinary line of research to examine social values and cultural... -
The Aesthetic Clinic by Fernanda Negrete 9781438480206
Booksplease Price: £27.24Examines experimental art and literature by women alongside psychoanalysis and philosophy to develop a new understanding of sublimation and aesthetic experience.In The Aesthetic Clinic, Fernanda... -
The Ripple Effect: Gender and Race in Brazilian Culture and Literature by Maria José Somerlate Barbosa 9781612498522
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £64.89In The Ripple Effect: Gender and Race in Brazilian Culture and Literature, Barbosa adopts a comparative, multilayered, and interdisciplinary line of research to examine social values and cultural...