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One Boat Jonathan Buckley 9781804271766
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91On losing her father, Teresa returns to a small town on the Greek coast - the same place she visited when grieving her mother nine years ago. She immerses herself again in the life of the town,... -
I Remain in Darkness by Annie Ernaux
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43A powerful meditation on ageing and familial love, I Remain in Darkness recounts Annie Ernaux's attempts to help her mother recover from Alzheimer's disease, and then, when that proves futile, to... -
What Have You Left Behind? by Bushra al-Maqtari
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.60In 2015, a year after it started, Bushra al-Maqtari decided to document the suffering of civilians in the Yemeni Civil War, which has killed over 350,000 people according to the UN. Inspired by the... -
The Singularity by Balsam Karam 9781804270813
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.33In an unnamed coastal city home to many refugees, a mother of a displaced family searches for her child, calling her name as she wanders along the cliffside road where her daughter used to work. She... -
The Private Lives of Trees by Alejandro Zambra 9781804270240
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Veronica is late, and Julian is increasingly convinced she won't ever come home. To pass the time, he improvises a story about trees to coax his stepdaughter, Daniela, to sleep. He has made a life as... -
Porn: An Oral History by Polly Barton
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $13.56How do we talk about porn? Why it is that when we do talk about porn, we tend to retreat into the abstract? How do we have meaningful conversations about it with those closest to us? In Porn: An Oral... -
The Observable Universe by Heather McCalden 9781804270141
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56Are we ever truly lost in the internet age? The Observable Universe is a moving, genre-defying memoir of a woman reckoning with the loss of her parents, the virus that took them, and what it means to... -
Precarious Lease Jacqueline Feldman 9781804271407
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56On 31 December 2012, Le Bloc opened its doors. Situated at a far edge of Paris, near where the banlieue began, the legendary squat was eight stories tall and four basements deep. It took in artists... -
frank: sonnets Diane Seuss 9781804271575
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91'The sonnet, like poverty, teaches you what you can do / without,' Diane Seuss writes in this brilliant, candid work, her most personal collection to date. These poems tell the story of a life at... -
The Tower Thea Lenarduzzi 9781804271797
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56Once upon a time, there was a tower on a hill, beyond the dark trees, somewhere north. An octagonal tower on two levels: glass upstairs and stone below, beneath a steep slate roof - a folly, it was... -
Pretentiousness: Why it Matters by Dan Fox 9781804270936
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60What is pretentiousness? Why do we despise it? And more controversially: why is it vital to a thriving culture? In this brilliant, passionate essay, Dan Fox argues that it has always been an... -
Portrait of an Island on Fire Ariel Saramandi 9781804271612
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56A deeply moving and revelatory reading experience, the essays collected in Portrait of an Island on Fire form a searing account of Mauritius at a crucial moment in its history. Unceasing in its... -
Flower Ed Atkins 9781804271742
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91'I like eating cold, clammy wraps from big pharmacies that are open late and sell just a few foods like protein bars and powders.' Flower is a book of realistic confessions, likes, dislikes,... -
The Possession Annie Ernaux 9781804271490
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60'The strangest thing about jealousy is that it can populate an entire city - the whole world - with a person you may never have met.' These first words set the framework for The Possession, a... -
Helen of Nowhere Makenna Goodman 9781804272206
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.01In the middle of the countryside, a realtor is showing a disgraced professor around an idyllic house. She speaks not only about the home's many wonderful qualities but about its previous owner, the... -
Erik Satie Three Piece Suite Ian Penman 9781804271537
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56Composer, pianist and writer Erik Satie was one of the great figures of Belle Epoque Paris. Known for his unvarying image of bowler hat, three-piece suit and umbrella, Satie was a surrealist before... -
Modern Poetry Diane Seuss 9781804271599
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Diane Seuss's signature voice-audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its attitude-has become one of the most original in contemporary poetry. Her latest collection takes its... -
This Little Art by Kate Briggs 9781804271322
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $43.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804271322Author Kate BriggsFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint -
Bricks and Mortar Clemens Meyer 9781804272107
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Bricks and Mortar is the story of the sex trade in a big city in the former GDR, from just before 1989 to the present day, charting the development of the industry from absolute prohibition to full... -
Mild Vertigo by Mieko Kanai 9781804270387
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Housewife Natsumi leads a small, unremarkable life in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and two sons: she does the laundry, goes on trips to the supermarket, visits friends and gossips with... -
Owlish by Dorothy Tse
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.73In the mountainous city of Nevers, there lives a professor of literature called Q. He has a dull marriage and a lacklustre career, but also a scrumptious collection of antique dolls locked away in... -
Tell by Jonathan Buckley 9781804270721
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56Curtis Doyle, a self-made businessman and art collector, has vanished from his palatial home in the Scottish Highlands. In the wake of his disappearance, the woman who worked as his gardener is being... -
This Little Art by Kate Briggs 9781910695456
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs's This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading,... -
The Mulai Munir Hachemi 9781804272732
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91An archaeologist travels to a distant planet to spend time among a mysterious community, a people who live in temperature-controlled domes, worship a deity called Dog, and repeat an elliptical phrase... -
A State of Siege Janet Frame 9781804271995
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56In A State of Siege, Janet Frame brings her signature playfulness to paint a thrilling psychological portrait. After the death of her invalid mother, Malfred Signal, a retired New Zealand art... -
The Birthday Party by Laurent Mauvignier
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.03Buried deep in rural France, little remains of the isolated hamlet of the Three Lone Girls, save a few houses and a curiously assembled quartet: Patrice Bergogne, inheritor of his family's farm; his... -
The Second Body by Daisy Hildyard
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Every living thing has two bodies. To be an animal is to be in possession of a physical body, a body which can eat, drink and sleep; it is also to be embedded in a worldwide network of ecosystems... -
Grove by Esther Kinsky 9781913097288
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91An unnamed narrator, recently bereaved, travels to Olevano, a small village south-east of Rome. It is winter, and from her temporary residence on a hill between village and cemetery, she embarks on... -
False War Carlos Manuel Alvarez 9781804271513
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56The characters in False Warare ambivalent castaways living lives of deep estrangement from their home country, stranded in an existential no-man's land. Some of them want to leave and can't, others... -
A New Name: Septology VI-VII by Jon Fosse 9781913097721
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. In nearby Bjorgvin another Asle, also a painter, is lying in the hospital, consumed by alcoholism. Asle and... -
The City and the World Gregor Hens 9781804271698
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56In The City and the World Gregor Hens considers the phenomenon of the contemporary city and our place within it. Hens travels the world - from Berlin to Las Vegas to Shenzen, from Cologne to Santiago... -
Septology by Jon Fosse
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.42What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not another? Asle, an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway, is reminiscing about his life. His only... -
The Young Man – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE by Annie Ernaux 9781804270677
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60In her latest work, Annie Ernaux recounts a relationship with a student thirty years her junior - an experience that transforms her, briefly, back into the 'scandalous girl' of her youth. When she is... -
Vaim Jon Fosse 9781804271827
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Jatgeir has come from Vaim to the big city, Bjorgvin, on his wooden boat, Eline, named after the long-lost love of his teenage years. He intends to buy a needle and thread to sew a button but he is... -
Women in Dark Times Jacqueline Rose 9781804271711
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56Women in Dark Times begins with three remarkable women: revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg; German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon; and film icon Marilyn Monroe. Bound together by their... -
This is Not Miami by Fernanda Melchor
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Set in and around the city of Veracruz in Mexico, This Is Not Miami delivers a series of devastating stories - spiralling from real events - that bleed together reportage and the author's rich and... -
plastic Matthew Rice 9781804271421
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Set during a single twelve-hour night shift in a factory, plastic is a book-length poem exploring the life of the industrial worker turned poet. Bringing together memoir, ekphrasis and satire,... -
Discord Jeremy Cooper 9781804272268
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56Jeremy Cooper, the author of Brian, returns with Discord, a subjective journey through the world of classical music. On a night in August, an audience at the Royal Albert Hall attends the first ever... -
Dooneen Keith Ridgway 9781804272459
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56Bartholomew Port, known to all as Mew, steps into the bushes in a London park and steps out of the bushes in a Dublin one. Not only that - there are no cars; there are moving footpaths; there is no... -
The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian-but not an historian of the Jews-is co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an...