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Escape, Escapism, Escapology: American Novels of the Early Twenty-First Century by Professor John Limon
Booksplease Price: £28.09Escape, Escapism, Escapology: American Novels of the Early Twenty-First Century identifies and explores what has emerged as perhaps the central theme of 21st-century American fiction: the desire to... -
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CAREY MULLIGAN, GARRETT HEDLUND & MARY J. BLIGEWhen Henry McAllan moves his city-bred wife, Laura, to a cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta in 1946, she finds... -
Red at the Bone: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020 Jacqueline Woodson 9781474616454
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02THE TIMES '100 BEST SUMMER READS'NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2020'Sublime' Candice Carty-Williams'An epic in miniature' Tayari Jones 'A banger' Ta-Nehisi... -
Flight to Canada by Ishmael Reed
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Reinvents the particulars of slavery in America with a comic rage ... The book explodes. Reed's special grace is anger ... a muscular, luminous prose' The New York Times'It always was, and will... -
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Mudbound by Hillary Jordan 9780099524687 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.98NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CAREY MULLIGAN, GARRETT HEDLUND & MARY J. BLIGEWhen Henry McAllan moves his city-bred wife, Laura, to a cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta in 1946, she finds... -
The Readymade Thief by Augustus Rose
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47An addictive literary puzzle that introduces an unforgettable young heroine plunged into the twisted world of a secret society with a dark agenda. Lee Cuddy is seventeen years old and on the run,... -
Catherine House: 'It's almost impossible not to be seduced' Louise O'Neill by Elisabeth Thomas
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.89'A delicious, diverse, genre-bending gothic, as smart as it is spooky' Chloe Benjamin During your three years at Catherine House you will have no contact with those in the outside world.Each of our... -
The Buck, the Black, and the Existential Hero: Refiguring the Black Male Literary Canon, 1850 to Present by James B. Haile 9780810141650
Booksplease Price: £34.10The Buck, the Black, and the Existential Hero: Refiguring the Black Male Literary Canon, 1850 to Present combines philosophy, literary theory, and jazz studies with Africana studies to develop a... -
Red River by Lalita Tademy 9780755332700
Booksplease Price: £23.66A heartbreaking and compelling story of a family's experiences of slavery and the American Civil War. From Sam Tademy, the son of a runaway slave, and his fiercely strong wife Polly, to the father... -
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £5.74A QUEEN'S READING ROOM PICK 2023'I adored The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention Of Wings, which were both wise, charming and sensual' SANTA MONTEFIORE The Secret Life of Bees: The... -
Progress Compromised: Social Movements and the Individual in African American Postmodern Fiction by John L. Glenn 9780807169926
Booksplease Price: £41.93In Progress Compromised, John L. Glenn examines how African American literature engages in debates about the political and cultural tensions prompted by black social movements during the 1950s and... -
Doom Patterns: Latinx Speculations and the Aesthetics of Violence by Maia Gil'Adí 9781478031208
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24In Doom Patterns, Maia Gil'AdI takes up speculative fiction as a site for theorizing Latinx identity across national and ethnic borders and shows the vital role of historical trauma in its formation... -
Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces by Michael Chabon
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.99Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Manhood for Amateurs and Moonglow, returns with a collection of heartfelt, humorous and insightful essays on the... -
Brothers and Keepers by John Edgar Wideman
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Brothers and Keepers is John Edgar Wideman's seminal memoir about two brothers - one an award-winning novelist, the other a fugitive. Wideman recalls the capture of his younger brother Robby, details... -
Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £3.39In 1985 police bombed a West Philadelphia row house. Eleven people died and a fire started that destroyed sixty other houses. John Edgar Wideman brings these events and their repercussions to... -
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Red at the Bone: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020 by Jacqueline Woodson 9781474616454 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.29THE TIMES '100 BEST SUMMER READS'NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2020'Sublime' Candice Carty-Williams'An epic in miniature' Tayari Jones 'A banger' Ta-Nehisi... -
Lightning Men by Thomas Mullen
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'A brilliant blending of crime, mystery, and American history. Terrific entertainment' Stephen King on Darktown Lightning Men follows the multi-award-nominated, highly acclaimed crime debut... -
Dinner at the Centre of the Earth by Nathan Englander
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £3.39'One of our most consistently brilliant, bold and funny writers' Dave Eggers'His writing is liberal in every good sense of the word' Jonathan FranzenA spellbinding thriller. A spy novel. A love story... -
Lightning Men Thomas Mullen 9781408710616
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.01'A brilliant blending of crime, mystery, and American history. Terrific entertainment' Stephen King on DarktownLightning Men follows the multi-award-nominated, highly acclaimed crime debut Darktown... -
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The North Water: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize by Ian McGuire 9781471151262 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.34'Brilliant, fast paced, gripping. A tour de force of narrative tension and a masterful reconstruction of a lost world' - Hilary MantelA ship sets sail with a killer on board . . .1859. A man joins a... -
The Sweetness of Water: Longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize Nathan Harris 9781472274410
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE**A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK AND BARACK OBAMA SUMMER READING 2021 SELECTION'A fine, lyrical novel, impressive in its complex interweaving... -
The Incendiaries by R. O. Kwon 9780349011882
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Absolutely electric' Garth Greenwell 'A major talent' Financial Times'Reminiscent of Donna Tartt's The Secret History' New YorkerPhoebe Lin and Will Kendall fall in love at university.Phoebe is a... -
Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread by Michiko Kakutani
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.09**SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020** From renowned, Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic, Michiko Kakutani, comes an inspiring... -
Aphasia by Mauro Javier Cárdenas 9780861540099
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.53'Monumental, funny, potent, and fresh' Carlos Fonseca, author of Natural History Antonio is living a double life - and doing a pretty good job of it. By day he's Antonio, mild-mannered... -
Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas 9780802170293
Booksplease Price: £13.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2009.Book InformationISBN 9780802170293Author Michael Thomas -
There There by Tommy Orange 9781784707972
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49** Shortlisted for the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award **One of Barack Obama's best books of 2018, the New York Times bestselling novel about contemporary America from a bold new Native... -
The Old Slave and the Mastiff: The gripping story of a plantation slave's desperate escape by Patrick Chamoiseau
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A profoundly unsettling story of a plantation slave's desperate escape into a rainforest beyond human control, with his master and a ferocious dog on his heels. This flight to freedom takes them on... -
The Shadowed Sun: Dreamblood: Book 2 by N. K. Jemisin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Gujaareh, the city of dreams, suffers under the imperial rule of the Kisuati Protectorate. A city where the only law was peace now knows violence and oppression. And nightmares: a mysterious and... -
The Island of Forgetting Jasmine Sealy 9780008532932
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.63'Inventive, excellent ... a pure pleasure to read' THE TIMES In this compelling debut, an unknowable legacy passes through generations of one family living on the... -
Diseases and Disorders in Contemporary Fiction: The Syndrome Syndrome James Peacock 9781138547995
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.04The essays in this collection address the current preoccupation with neurological conditions and disorders in contemporary literature by British and American writers. The book places these fictional... -
The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron 9780099285564
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEIn 1831 Nat Turner awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. He is a slave, a preacher, and the leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of 'that peculiar... -
Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'A great writer' James Baldwin'Part vision, part satire, part farce ... a wholly original, unholy cross between the craft of fiction and witchcraft' The New York TimesA plague is spreading across... -
The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka 9780241994283
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction'Exquisite' The New York Times'A tale of grief and memory awash with dark humour and wit'... -
Meridian: With an introduction by Tayari Jones Alice Walker 9781474622370
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'My life suddenly made sense when I encountered Alice Walker's fiction' Tayari Jones'Remarkable' New York TimesMeridian Hill, the brilliant and inquisitive daughter of a working-class Black family in... -
The Undertakers by Nicole Glover
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.15THE CONDUCTOR'S FILM RIGHTS NOW OPTIONED BY QUEEN LATIFAHIn the exciting sequel to The Conductors, and the second book in the Murder & Magic series of historical fantasy novels set in post-Civil war... -
The Conductors by Nicole Glover
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.15FILM RIGHTS NOW OPTIONED BY QUEEN LATIFAH_________________________________'An Underground Railroad - but with magic' P. Djeli Clark'...a delightfully genre-bending debut' Tananarive... -
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights: Volume 2 by Malcolm Lyons
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.06Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter,... -
Augustown by Kei Miller 9781474603614
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02WINNER OF THE OCM BOCAS PRIZE FOR CARIBBEAN LITERATURESHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE, THE GREEN CARNATION PRIZE, and the HISTORICAL WRITERS AWARD'Miller's storytelling is superb' SUNDAY... -
After Postmodernism: The New American Fiction by Theophilus Savvas 9780367640118
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Several of American literature's most prominent authors, and many of their most perceptive critics and reviewers, argue that fiction of the last quarter century has turned away from the tendencies of... -
The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews Adam Biles 9781837260690
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Shakespeare and Company, Paris, is one of the world's most iconic and beautiful bookshops. Located on the banks of the Seine, opposite Notre-Dame, it's long been a meeting place for anglophone...