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Twenty-First Century Fiction: What Happens Now by Sian Adiseshiah 9781137035172
Booksplease Price: £46.28This lively new volume of essays examines what happens now in 21st century fiction. Fresh theoretical approaches to writers such as Salman Rushdie, David Peace, Margaret Atwood, and Hilary Mantel,... -
Twenty-First Century Fiction: What Happens Now by Sian Adiseshiah 9781349442171
Booksplease Price: £46.74This lively new volume of essays examines what happens now in 21st century fiction. Fresh theoretical approaches to writers such as Salman Rushdie, David Peace, Margaret Atwood, and Hilary Mantel,... -
The Aesthetics, Poetics, and Rhetoric of Soccer Ridvan Askin 9780367895693
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94Soccer has long been known as 'the beautiful game'. This multi-disciplinary volume explores soccer, soccer culture, and the representation of soccer in art, film, and literature, using the critical... -
Bloody Valentine: The Story of Britain's Worst Miscarriage of Justice by John L. Williams 9780857304698
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £4.76Bloody Valentine is the story of the murder of a young woman called Lynette White in the Cardiff docklands (aka Tiger Bay) on Valentine's Day 1988. It's also the story of the miscarriage of justice... -
Only Here, Only Now: A Guardian Best Summer Read by Tom Newlands 9781399607919
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Winner of the McKitterick Prize 2025Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2025Runner up for the the ADCI Literary Prize 2025'Absolutely loved this. Funny and heartbreaking in equal measure'DOUGLAS... -
Dashboard Elvis is Dead: The epic, extraordinary new novel from one of Scotland's most exceptional novelists by David F. Ross
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40A failed writer connects the murder of an American journalist, a drowned 80s musician and a Scottish politician's resignation, in a heart-wrenching novel about ordinary people living in extraordinary... -
There's Only One Danny Garvey: Shortlisted for Scottish Fiction Book of the Year by David F. Ross
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78A promising young football player returns home to his tiny Scottish village, his dreams in tatters and a dark secret haunting his conscience, in a beautiful, unforgettable novel about hope and... -
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There's Only One Danny Garvey: Shortlisted for Scottish Fiction Book of the Year by David F. Ross 9781913193508 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.69A promising young football player returns home to his tiny Scottish village, his dreams in tatters and a dark secret haunting his conscience, in a beautiful, unforgettable novel about hope and... -
The Psalm Killer by Chris Petit
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40With an introduction by Alan MooreIt was always the same nightmare. Cross saw them lined up in rows, in stretches of city wasteland - those derelict spaces once described to him by a child as the... -
Only Here, Only Now by Tom Newlands 9781399607896
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.24'THE SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE SUMMER' HERALD 'Tom Newlands may make several prize lists for his stunning debut'OBSERVER'This isn't just a great first novel; it's a great novel. And Cora, the mad,... -
The Defections Hannah Michell 9781782062585
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78'Stunning' The Times 'Excellent' Independent on Sunday 'Compelling, haunting and thrilling' David Peace Seoul, South Korea Mia is an outsider. Half-English, half-Korean, a translator at the British... -
Gringa Joe Thomas 9781529426601
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'As vibrant, colourful and complex as South America's largest city' Sao Paulo, 2013: a city at an extraordinary moment in its history. Mario Leme, a detective in the civil police, has... -
Recovering Police Legitimacy: A Radical Framework Rafe McGregor 9781032546414
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.44Transatlantic policing is experiencing an unprecedented crisis of legitimacy, epitomised by public responses to the murders of George Floyd and Sarah Everard during the COVID-19 pandemic. Legitimacy... -
The 2000s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction by Nick Bentley 9781350005426
Booksplease Price: £31.31How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 2000s shape contemporary British fiction? The means of publishing, buying and reading fiction changed dramatically between 2000... -
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The North of England Home Service by Gordon Burn 9780571219377 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £3.00In a forensic dissection of Britain's souring landscape Gordon Burn tells the tale of Ray Cruddas, a light entertainer effecting a semi-dignified retreat from his fading career, who returns to the... -
The Woman Who Laughed: a brand new installment in the critically acclaimed Finder Mysteries by Simon Mason 9781529439700
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'The very definition of unputdownable' David Peace'Mason packs more into 200 pages than many writers do at twice the length' Sunday TimesIn the first months of 2020 there was a spate of murders of... -
Ghost Country by Chris Petit 9781471188794
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40From the bestselling author of The Psalm Killer and The Butchers of Berlin 'One of Britain's most visionary writers' David PeaceA breath-taking contemporary thriller for readers of Robert Harris,... -
Crunch Lit by Katy Shaw 9781472506306
Booksplease Price: £113.11The financial crisis of 2008 quickly gave rise to a growing body of fiction: "crunch lit". Populated by a host of unsympathetic characters and centred around banking institutions, these 'recession... -
Orchid Blue by Eoin McNamee
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31January 1961, and the beaten, stabbed and strangled body of a nineteen year old Pearl Gambol is discovered, after a dance the previous night at the Newry Orange Hall. Returning from London to... -
Things Remembered and Things Forgotten by Ginny Takemori
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95'If we want to understand what has been lost to time, there is no way other than through the exercise of imagination ... imagination applied with delicate rather than broad strokes'. So wrote the... -
Millstone Grit by Glyn Hughes 9781915068033
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £10.48Millstone Grit takes the form of a fifty mile walk through the West Riding and East Lancashire, exploring the industrial towns and moors. Glyn Hughes had grown up in the Cheshire countryside but on... -
Best and Edwards by Gordon Burn 9780571353644
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Immaculately written, inspiring, sad and elegiac.' Daily TelegraphWith a new introduction by David PeaceDuncan Edwards played his first game for Manchester United at the age of fifteen and Walter... -
Oxblood by Tom Benn
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.11**Winner of the 2022 Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award** **Longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2022** 'Oxblood shows us that there are few places literature can't take... -
Bent Joe Thomas 9781911350736
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.66Guardian Best Book of 2020 Irish Times Best Crime Fiction of 2020 Times Book of the Month Mail on Sunday Thriller of the Month The Spectator Crime Fiction of the Month Crime Time Book of the Year... -
Fatale by Jean-Patrick Manchette 9781529977288
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'The French noir novel you need to help you vent your frustrations right now’ LitHubMurder isn’t always ugly.Aimée is drop-dead gorgeous, razor-sharp, and lethally efficient. A killer with a cool... -
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Promised Land: A Northern Love Story by Anthony Clavane 9780224082648 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.05This is a book about football. It's about unconditional love for a club, even when it doesn't always seem to love you back. But it is also a book about much more than that.Anthony Clavane loves Leeds... -
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The Tearaway by Dean Williams 9781849837743 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £2.53Dean Williams was born into the tough Scartho area of Grimsby in 1972. His father was a violent, hard-drinking trawlerman who spent most of the year at sea and his shore time drinking and fighting... -
Missing Person: Alice (The Finder Mysteries) by Simon Mason 9781529425987
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'Excellently lean and tense crime novel with a touch of the nouveau roman about it' Ian Rankin'Mason has been mainlining Simenon for a while, and it shows' Mick Herron'The very definition of... -
k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2004-2016) by Mark Fisher
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.13Edited by Darren Ambrose and with a foreword by Simon Reynolds, this comprehensive collection brings together the work of acclaimed blogger, writer, political activist and lecturer Mark Fisher (aka... -
In the Green Heart by Richard Lloyd Parry 9781787335097
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.07A father is stranded with his baby daughter as violence breaks out in the jungle, in this page-turning and explosive new novel'Brilliant, harrowing and heartbreaking, yet utterly compelling' David... -
Life After Dark: A History of British Nightclubs & Music Venues by Dave Haslam 9780857206992
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Nightclubs and music venues are often the source of a lifetime's music taste, best friends and vivid memories. They can define a town, a city or a generation, and breed scenes and bands that change... -
Oxblood: Winner of the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award by Tom Benn
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12**Winner of the 2022 Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award** **Longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger 2023** **Longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2022** 'Oxblood shows us... -
Hauntology: The Presence of the Past in Twenty-First Century English Literature by Katy Shaw 9783030091156
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.20Post-millennial writings function as a useful prism through which we can understand contemporary English culture and its compulsion to revisit the immediate past. The critical practice of hauntology... -
The Murderer’s Mother by Mahasweta Devi 9781803092324
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.99A tense sociopolitical novel exploring power, violence, and morality in 1970s India. The Murderer's Mother takes readers to the late 1970s in the Indian state of West Bengal, where the Communist... -
Hauntology: The Presence of the Past in Twenty-First Century English Literature by Katy Shaw 9783319749679
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.20Post-millennial writings function as a useful prism through which we can understand contemporary English culture and its compulsion to revisit the immediate past. The critical practice of hauntology... -
Come In and Shut the Door by Chris Petit 9781471188800
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.63A Telegraph 'Best Crime and Thrillers of 2025' selection'One of Britain's most visionary writers', David Peace 'That uniquely valuable writer and independent film-maker Chris Petit', Peter Bradshaw,... -
The Burnt Moor Nina Bhadreshwar 9780008645731
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.79The gripping new thriller featuring DI Diana Walker: a gruesome murder leads Diana into the heart of Sheffield's seedy underbelly *Praise for Nina Bhadreshwar* ... -
The Butchers of Berlin Chris Petit 9781471143434
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78'One of Britain's most visionary writers' DAVID PEACE 'An appalling, beautifully-lit abyss' ALAN MOORE A dark, chilling and mesmerising thriller set in wartime Berlin, for fans of Joseph Kanon and... -
Excavate!: The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall Tessa Norton 9780571396139
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38THE LOUDER THAN WAR #1 BOOK OF THE YEARA ROUGH TRADE, THE TIMES, MOJO, UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEAR'Thoroughly engrossing, insightful and immersive.' Record CollectorOver a prolific forty-year career, the... -
Conversations with James Ellroy by Steven Powell 9781617031038
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14As a novelist who has spent years crafting and refining his intense and oft outrageous ""Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction"" persona, James Ellroy has used interviews as a means of shaping...