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Meaningful Work: Stories by Joanna Novak
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $26.42Winner of FC2's Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize.A stunning look at the labor of obsession and the industry of self-destruction.In her lush, lyrical, and unflinching short fiction debut,... -
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston 9780349010335
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL NOVELS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'This novel is a packet of surprises as we have no idea what's going to happen next' GUARDIAN'One of the greatest writers of our time' TONI... -
American Salvage by Bonnie Jo Campbell 9780393339192
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $32.32American Salvage is rich with local color and peopled with rural characters who love and hate extravagantly. They know how to fix cars and washing machines, how to shoot and clean game, and how to... -
How to Write Stunning Sentences: 100 Simple Exercises from Beloved Authors to Improve Your Writing Style Nina Schuyler 9798897400003
Booksplease Price: $30.22You've got a great story, but do you have great sentences?Stylish sentences have their own powerful energy that mesmerizes and even rearranges a reader's world. Think of this book as a private lesson... -
The Weather In The Streets by Rosamond Lehmann
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE BRITISH WRITERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'With brilliant dialogue and intense passages of elation and despair, The Weather in the Streets takes you on the rollercoaster of... -
Complete Short Stories Elizabeth Taylor 9781844088409
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.63Elizabeth Taylor is finally being recognised as an important British author: one of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth - Sarah WatersElizabeth Taylor, highly acclaimed author of classic... -
Paris, He Said by Christine Sneed
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $22.81Jayne Marks is questioning the choices she has made in the years since college she is struggling to pay her bills in Manhattan when she is given the opportunity to move to Paris with her wealthy... -
Fireweed: A Political Autobiography by Gerda Lerner 9781566398893
RRP: $128.10Booksplease Price: $122.22A beautifully written, dramatic memoir from one of women's history's foundersA beautifully written, dramatic memoir from one of women's history's foundersAbout the AuthorGerda Lerner, a past... -
Fireweed: A Political Autobiography by Gerda Lerner
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $43.39A beautifully written, dramatic memoir from one of women's history's foundersA beautifully written, dramatic memoir from one of women's history's foundersAbout the AuthorGerda Lerner, a past... -
Why I Like This Story by Jackson R. Bryer
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $86.79Presents essays by leading short-story writers on their favorite American short stories and why they like them. It will send readers to the library or bookstore to read - or re-read - the stories... -
Memento Mori by Muriel Spark 9780349010342
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84Remember you must die.Dame Lettie Colston is the first of her circle to receive insinuating anonymous phone calls. Neither she, nor her friends, wish to be reminded of their mortality, and their... -
A View Of The Harbour: A Virago Modern Classic by Elizabeth Taylor 9780349010304
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.59INTRODUCED BY SARAH WATERS'Every one of her books is a treat and this is my favourite, because of its wonderful cast of characters, and because of the deftness with which Taylor's narrative moves... -
Little Sinners, and Other Stories by Karen Brown 9780803243422
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $26.67Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Karen Brown's Little Sinners, and Other Stories features a sad, strange mosaic of women and men grappling with the loss and pain of everyday... -
Cheri by Jo Ann Beard 9781800817852
RRP: $21.00Booksplease Price: $13.17An Irish Times Book of the Year 2023 'An extraordinary achievement' Mary Gaitskill 'In the hands of a maestro, less can be so much more' Independent Cheri has been living with cancer for... -
Direct Sunlight: Stories by Christine Sneed 9780810146167
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $29.69A collection of twelve stories by award-winning author Christine Sneed The stories in Direct Sunlight, award-winning author Christine Sneed's latest, are inspired by the memorable strangeness of... -
Deep Water: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith 9780349010328
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84'If I really don't like somebody, I kill him . . . You remember Malcolm McRae, don't you?'Melinda Van Allen is beautiful, headstrong and sexy. Unfortunately for Vic Van Allen, she is his wife. Their... -
Once Upon a River: A Novel by Bonnie Jo Campbell 9780393341775
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $22.41Bonnie Jo Campbell has created an unforgettable heroine in sixteen-year-old Margo Crane, a beauty whose unflinching gaze and uncanny ability with a rifle have not made her life any easier. After the... -
The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy 9780349010373
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84'One of the best novels about growing up fast' GUARDIAN 'One falls for Sally Jay Gorce from a great height from the first sentence' OBSERVER'Scandalous and entertaining . . . Both funny and true'... -
The Love of Singular Men by Victor Heringer
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87Rio de Janeiro, the 1970s. One hot Brazilian summer, Camilo meets Cosme and the two teenage boys discover a new kind of tenderness. But an act of violence will shatter their intimate world, and... -
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84A BESTSELLING NOVEL AND MAJOR FILM STARRING MERYL STREEP AND JACK NICHOLSON'I have bought more copies of this book to give to people, in a frenzy of enthusiasm, than any other . . . Heartburn is the... -
Legend of a Suicide by David Vann 9780141043784
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.64Roy is still young when his father, a failed dentist and hapless fisherman, puts a .44 magnum to his head and commits suicide on the deck of his beloved boat. Throughout his life, Roy returns to that... -
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin 9781529077223
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador BooksThe world just goes along. Nothing much matters, you know? I mean really matters. but then sometimes, just for a second, you get this grace, this belief that... -
The Visiting Privilege by Joy Williams
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.12'How to tell the story of a 500-page collection of stories spanning more than forty years? Especially when I really want to just exclaim, "Oh, Oh, OH!" in a state of steadily mounting rapture' ... -
The Collected Works of Jo Ann Beard by Jo Ann Beard 9781800817883
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $29.51'Too good... You should read her and not look away' Anne Enright, Guardian 'The stories are essays, the essays are stories. Even when they are not literally true, they contain the kind of truth... -
Secrets of Happiness by Joan Silber
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $30.18One of O: The Oprah Magazine's Most Anticipated Books of 2021One of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 picks for Spring 2021Ethan, a young lawyer in New York, learns that his father has long kept a second... -
The UnAmericans: Stories by Molly Antopol 9780393349962
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $21.59Moving from modern-day Jerusalem to McCarthy-era Los Angeles to communist Prague and back again, The UnAmericans is a stunning exploration of characters shaped by the forces of history. Molly... -
The Mystical Rose Adelia Prado 9781780372402
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $18.14Adelia Prado was "discovered" she was nearly 40 by Brazil's foremost modern poet, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, who was astonished to read her 'phenomenal' poems, launching her literary career with his... -
Blue in Chicago: And Other Stories by Bette Howland
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54'One of the significant writers of her generation.' Saul Bellow'Her prose is cooler than a cocktail and sharper than a Japanese knife . . . Nora Ephron meets Lorrie Moore, which is about as good as... -
Evening in Paradise: More Stories by Lucia Berlin
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.74'The chance to join "the Revival of the Great Lucia Berlin"' New York Times'Raw, elliptical, devilishly funny tales' ObserverRanging from Texas, to Chile, to New Mexico and New York, in Evening in... -
All Grown Up Jami Attenberg 9781781257050
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73'Hilarious, courageous and mesmerising' Maria Semple 'Think BBC's Fleabag set in Brooklyn' Stylist 'I'm alone. I'm a drinker. I'm a former artist. I'm a shrieker in bed. I'm the captain of the... -
Evening in Paradise: More Stories by Lucia Berlin 9781509882311
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54The chance to join 'the Revival of the Great Lucia Berlin' (New York Times)From the author of A Manual for Cleaning Women.Ranging from Texas, to Chile, to New Mexico and New York, in Evening in... -
Barefoot Dogs: Stories by Antonio Ruiz-Camacho 9781476784977
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $26.29Winner of the Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters * A San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book of 2015 * Fiction Finalist for the 2015 Writers' League of... -
Copper Nickel Issue 41 by Wayne Miller 9798999598202
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.24Copper Nickel is the national literary journal housed at the University of Colorado Denver. It is edited by poet, editor, and translator Wayne Miller (author of six collections, including The End of... -
Bronx Accent: A Literary and Pictorial History of the Borough by Lloyd Ultan
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $46.66For the last three hundred years, and through all its social and economic transformations, The Bronx has been a major literary center that many prominent writers have called home. Bringing together a...