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The Blue Tango by Eoin McNamee
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'At 2.20am in the morning of the 13th November 1952 the body of 19 year old Patricia Curran was carried into the surgery belonging to the family doctor. At first Dr Kenneth Wilson thought she had... -
The Curiosity Cabinet by Catherine Czerkawska
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67"Moving, poetic and quietly provocative." - The Independent. A novel sure to appeal to fans of Outlander. When Alys revisits the beautiful Scottish island of Garve after an absence of 25 years, she... -
Notes From a Swing State: Writing from Wales and America by Zoe Brigley 9781912681297
Booksplease Price: £11.04These creative nonfiction essays consider girlhood, motherhood, violence at home and abroad, violence against women, the consolation in writing, trauma, and redemption. The essays celebrate and... -
The Postman's Fiancee Denis Theriault 9781786071132
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.50The much-anticipated follow-up to the Radio 2 Book Club-favourite The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman Twenty-two-year-old Tania has moved to Montreal to study, fine-tune her French and fall... -
Poems of Home by Various
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82Place of refuge, place where we can be ourselves; place we long to escape from, place where we are confronted by absence and loneliness; shabby downtown apartment or idyllic country cottage. Like it... -
New and Selected Poems 1977–2022 by Sir Andrew Motion 9780571338559
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51This comprehensive edition draws on Andrew Motion's distinguished body of work from Secret Narratives (1983) to his most recent volume, Randomly Moving Particles (2020), and includes a substantial... -
Time & Tide: A Hew Cullan Mystery by Shirley McKay
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £3.391582, St Andrews. A violent storm wrecks a ship nearby, and the only man about dies without revealing how he came to be there alone, or where the ship was headed. But neither he nor the wreck is... -
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... -
Flatlands by Sue Hubbard
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.11'Beautifully-written, and highly evocative of the remote Lincolnshire landscape, the Second World War and the two people whose loneliness brings them together for a life-changing time... Full of... -
Window for a Small Blue Child by Gerrie Fellows 9781857548884
Booksplease Price: £12.95"Window for a Small Blue Child" is the story of the poet's experience of in vitro fertilisation, a sequence of poems underscored by the seasons and by the biological clock of a woman in her forties... -
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Time & Tide: A Hew Cullan Mystery by Shirley McKay 9781846972188 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £1.971582, St Andrews. A violent storm wrecks a ship nearby, and the only man about dies without revealing how he came to be there alone, or where the ship was headed. But neither he nor the wreck is... -
The Case Of The General's Thumb by Andrey Kurkov
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.99'Kurkov is a fine satirist and a real, blackly comic, find' ObserverDiscover the international thriller, shot through with black satire and authentic detail, by one of Ukraine's most highly... -
Dream Angus: The Celtic God of Dreams by Alexander McCall Smith
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.81Dream Angus comes to you at night and bestows dreams. Just the sight of him may be enough to make you lose your heart, for he is also the god of love, youth and beauty.In this mesmerising retelling... -
Master of Distances by Jordi Doce 9781848618862
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62Master of Distances consists of a hundred or so prose fragments fluctuating between dream, nightmare and a harsh reality: the bleakness of ageing, and accompanying the loved one through a long and... -
No Telling by Adam Thorpe 9780099428831
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.17Set in 1968 in the Parisian suburbs, No Telling is narrated by twelve-year-old Gilles as he approaches his Solemn Communion, puberty, and some sense of the chaos around him. His home is deeply... -
Night Boat Alan Spence 9780857868541
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23On the side of a mountain, in eighteenth century Japan, sits a man in perfect stillness as the summit erupts, spitting fire and molten rock onto the land around him. The man is Hakuin. He will become... -
Seeing by Jose Saramago
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Despite the heavy rain, the officer at Polling Station 14 finds it odd that by midday on National Election day, only a handful of voters have turned out. Puzzlement swiftly escalates to shock when... -
The Possession of Mr Cave by Matt Haig
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67FROM THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHORTerence Cave, owner of Cave Antiques, has already experienced the tragedies of his mother's suicide and his wife's murder when his teenage son,... -
The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Poetry by Colin Nicholson
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.96This is the first book to take political devolution as an organising context for the presentation and discussion of main currents in contemporary Scottish poetry. The book combines thematic chapters... -
Pretty Ahren Warner 9781852249779
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Ahren Warner's second collection of poems opens with the sequence Lutece, te amo: a raw paean to the Paris it inhabits that flits between past and present and offers both adoration and horror in... -
The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman by Denis Theriault
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.19*Selected for Simon Mayo's BBC Radio 2 Book Club* 'Quirky and charming' Guardian For readers of The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly and The Guest Cat comes this passionate, bittersweet love... -
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Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish by Richard Flanagan 9781843540700 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.67FROM THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 Once upon a time that was called 1828, before all the living things on the land and the fishes in the sea were destroyed, there was a man named William... -
A Chalice Argent: A swashbuckling, epic tale of adventure: Volume 2 in The Story of William Neilson James Buchan 9781800699038
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'Delightful ... William Neilson continues to exhibit basically all of the virtues. He's brave, stoical, generous, truthful, constant, protective towards the weak and honourable to a fault. Yet... -
Assorted Fire Events: Stories by David Means 9780007137565
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.99The paperback of the critically acclaimed story collection from David Means. 'One of the best American collections of the last ten years...This is food for the hungry.' Jonathan Franzen ... -
Indigo: A Novel by Clemens J. Setz 9780871402684
Booksplease Price: £24.00In the Austrian state of Styria lies the Helianau Institute, a boarding school for children born with a mysterious condition known as Indigo syndrome. Anyone who comes near them immediately suffers... -
Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science by Robert Crawford 9780199258123
Booksplease Price: £79.81A unique collaboration between leading poets and scientists, Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science demonstrates through its form, and through practice as well as reflection, that poetry and... -
The Tightrope Walkers by David Almond 9780241003237
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47The Tightrope Walkers by David Almond - a novel of young love and tragedy from the prizewinning author of Skellig'I was born in a hovel on the banks of the Tyne...'Dominic Hall grows up in the... -
The Pomegranates of Kandahar by Sarah Maguire 9780701181314
RRP: £9.00Booksplease Price: £6.84Sarah Maguire's rich and lyrical poems have been highly praised for the ease with which they ground precise, sensual detail within the wider context of world events. In this remarkable new... -
Tiger Facing the Mist Pauline Stainer 9781852249540
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £6.76Pauline Stainer is a poet 'working at the margins of the sacred', conveying sensations 'with an economy of means that is breathtaking - her poems are not merely artefacts, they have an organic life... -
A Station on the Path to Somewhere Better by Benjamin Wood
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'With his third novel, Wood's talent has burgeoned spectacularly. The book is a tremendous achievement, an unputdownable domestic thriller that is also subtle and moving ... travelling well beyond... -
Echoland by Per Petterson
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83Petterson's debut novel, published in English for the first time.Twelve-year-old Arvid and his family are on holiday, staying with his grandparents on the coast of Denmark. Dimly aware of the tension... -
The New Pastoral in Contemporary British Writing Deborah Lilley 9781032088006
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book identifies a major turn in contemporary British literature in response to environmental crisis. It argues that the pastoral is emerging as a new critical framework in which to explore the... -
Fallen Land by Patrick Flanery 9780857898791
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Poplar Farm has been in Louise's family for generations, inherited by her sharecropping forebear from a white landowner after a lynching. Now, the farm has been carved up, the trees torn down; a... -
Ours are the Streets Sunjeev Sahota 9781035061778
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74From Yorkshire to Afghanistan, Ours are the Streets is a poignant and powerful story of political radicalization by Sunjeev Sahota, author of Man Booker Prize shortlisted The Year of the Runaways... -
Missing Fay by Adam Thorpe
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'An intricately crafted novel, sharp-eared, current and full of heart' Guardian, Books of the YearA spirited fourteen-year-old, Fay, goes missing from a Lincoln council estate. Is she a runaway, or a... -
Some Great Thing by Colin McAdam 9780099458944
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.51Ottawa in the seventies is colourless, cold, and aching for character, ripe for the taking. Two men, from different ends of society, see the opportunities: Jerry McGuinty, plasterer-turned-builder, a... -
Along the Trenches: A Journey through Eastern Europe to Isfahan Navid Kermani 9781509535569
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £39.72Between Germany and Russia is a region strewn with monuments to the horrors of war, genocide and disaster - the bloodlands where the murderous regimes of Hitler and Stalin unleashed the violence that... -
The The Big Rip Andy Brown 9781905208548
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £9.38THE BIG RIP is a theory of the universe's end when allmatter disintegrates into elementary particles as the universeexpands and rips apart. In these deeply material poems,Andy Brown engages with such... -
The Point of Splitting Sally Read 9781852246853
RRP: £7.95Booksplease Price: £6.14From London's hospital wards to rural Italy and the Great Plains, Sally Read's first collection eulogises the emotional and physical borders we cross, whether in sexual surrender, the squeezing of a... -
Carnivalesque by Neil Jordan
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.03It looked like any other carnival, but of course it wasn't... It had its own little backstreets, its alleyways of hanging bulbs and ghost trains and Punch and Judy stands ... And at the end of...