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Short Story Theories by Charles E. May 9780821402214
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46Although the short story has often been called America's unique contribution to the world's literature, relatively few critics have taken the form seriously. May's collection of essays by popular... -
Ghosts by M. R. James
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.51A high-pitched laugh echoes in an empty church. Servants discover their master dead in his bed, the only sign of disturbance an open window. The coffin of a woman hanged as a witch is found to be... -
The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking by Olivia Laing
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Why were so many authors of the greatest works of literature consumed by alcoholism? In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing takes a journey across America, examining the links between creativity... -
Duane Michals: Portraits by Duane Michals
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £28.40Duane Michals, the subject of a major travelling retrospective exhibition organized by the Carnegie Museums, has long been recognized for his inventive photo sequences, which shaped the work of... -
All the Days and Nights by William Maxwell
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46In settings that range from small town Illinois to the Upper East Side of Manhattan, these stories are distinguished by Maxwell's inimitable wisdom and kindness, his sense of the small details that... -
Money: Vintage Minis by Yuval Noah Harari
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.85Selected from the books Sapiens and Homo Deus by Yuval Noah HarariHow did money come to be invented? Why does it now have such significance in our lives? Does it make us happier or unhappier? And... -
Assorted Fire Events: Stories by David Means 9780007137565
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.61The 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 ... -
Babies: Vintage Minis Anne Enright 9781784872588
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.85Babies: our biggest mystery and our most natural consequence, our hardest test and our enduring love. Anne Enright describes the intensity, bewilderment and extravagant happiness of her experience of... -
Encounters with American Culture: Volume 2, 1973-1985 by Peter Prescott
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94Peter S. Prescott was one of the most informed and incisive American literary critics to write for the general public. Never content merely to summarize or to pronounce quick judgments, Prescott's... -
Work: Vintage Minis by Joseph Heller
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.85Bob Slocum is anxious, bored and fearful of his job. So why is it he wants nothing more than the chance to speak at the next company convention? In this darkly satirical book, Joseph Heller takes us... -
That Was a Shiver, and Other Stories Mr James Kelman 9781786890924
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31SHORTLISTED FOR SALTIRE FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR, 2017LONGLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL PRIZE, 2018A local tries to sell his sister to a trucker as he passes through town; a couple put their children to... -
It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future Saul Bellow 9780241401989
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Sentence by sentence, page by page, Bellow is simply the best writer we have' The New York Times Book ReviewIn It All Adds Up, Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author Saul Bellow takes readers on a... -
Motherhood: Vintage Minis by Helen Simpson
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.85Enjoy Helen Simpson's sharply funny, humane take on the everyday joys and struggles of motherhood in this perfect Mother's Day gift. ... -
The Residential Is Racial: A Perceptual History of Mass Homeownership by Adrienne Brown 9781503638648
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.66Housing experts and activists have long described the foundational role race has played in the creation of mass homeownership. This book insistently tracks the inverse: the role of mass homeownership... -
About Love and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.72'the greatest short story writer who has ever lived' Raymond Carver's unequivocal verdict on Chekhov's genius has been echoed many times by writers as diverse as Katherine Mansfield, Somerset... -
The Bad Angel Brothers by Paul Theroux 9780241995563
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A deliciously dark, atmospheric novel about family and brotherhood from one of America's most distinctive writersThere's sibling rivalry and then there's the relationship of brothers Cal and Frank... -
Where One Hears the Rain: Finding Your Voice and Crafting Your Story, from Inspiration to Publication by Chris Epting 9798888454619
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.84Where One Hears the Rain is a comprehensive, entertaining, and informative guide that explores the art of memoir writing and provides aspiring authors with the tools and inspiration to craft their... -
The Black and White Museum by Ferdinand Dennis
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61From Ferdinand Dennis, the critically acclaimed author of the novel Duppy Conqueror, comes The Black and White Museum, a collection of both highly personal and universal short stories. These at their... -
Paper Anniversary by Bobby Rogers 9780822961246
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £13.00Starrett Poetry Prize "one of America' s most distinguished awards for a first book of poetry" for his collection Paper Anniversary. The collection will be published by the University of Pittsburgh... -
They Came Like Swallows by William Maxwell
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Discover William Maxwell's classic, heart-breaking portrait of an ordinary American family struck by the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic'A story of such engaging warmth that it would thaw the heart of any... -
It All Adds Up by Saul Bellow 9780143106685
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.35A fascinating journey through literary America over the last forty years, guided by one of the "most gifted chroniclers in the Western World" (The Times [London])A Penguin Classic"Sentence by... -
Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'I think it A Work of genius, I think it The Work of a Genius' John CheeverFor many years, the great poet Von Humboldt Fleisher and Charlie Citrine, a young man inflamed with a love for literature,... -
New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families by Colm Toibin
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47From Colm Toibin comes New Ways to Kill Your Mother, a fabulously entertaining book about writers and their families.In this wonderfully entertaining and enlightening collection, Colm Toibin not only... -
The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing Melissa Bank 9781405973762
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'Longevity is the only indicator of literature that really matters, and this book is built to last' Nick HornbyOne of the most beloved coming-of-age tales ever written, The Girls' Guide to Hunting... -
Directions to Myself by Heidi Julavits 9781408883495
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.37'An absolute stunner: frank, funny, self-aware, constantly surprising ... One of the most insightful representations I've read of what it feels like to be alive these days' GEORGE SAUNDERS ... -
Psychedelics: Vintage Minis by Aldous Huxley
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.85Could drugs offer a new way of seeing the world? In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen... -
A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré 1945-2020 by John le Carré 9780241994559
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.81John le Carre was a defining writer of his time. This enthralling collection letters - written to readers, publishers, film-makers and actors, politicians and public figures - reveals the playfully... -
The Paris Review Interviews: Vol. 3 by Philip Gourevitch
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Since The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest writers of our age, vivid self-portraits that are themselves works of finely-crafted literature... -
The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Generous-hearted and wickedly insightful, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing is the New York Times bestselling novel by Melissa Bank and part of the Penguin Essentials, a series which spotlights... -
The New Penguin Book of American Short Stories, from Washington Irving to Lydia Davis by Kasia Boddy
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31The short story is one of the most varied and exciting genres in American literature. This collection brings together many of its finest examples from the early nineteenth century to the present. It... -
More Matter: Essays And Criticism by John Updike 9780140289701
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.03More Matter is a collection of John Updike's best-loved critical essays and reflections.From the journals of John Cheever to the Queen of England, More Matter is a lively discussion on contemporary... -
Sleep by Honor Jones 9780008722937
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24'Beautiful ... Incredibly moving' ANN PATCHETT 'Sun-saturated prose' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING 'A rich tale you can't put down' ... -
Philip Roth: The Biography by Blake Bailey
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.54'Superlative... definitive and genuinely gripping' SUNDAY TIMES'Utterly engrossing' EVENING STANDARD'Compulsively readable... Beautifully written... Definitive' OBSERVER Appointed by Philip Roth and... -
To Promote the General Welfare: The Case for Big Government by Steven Conn 9780199858538
RRP: £46.49Booksplease Price: £40.19Americans love to hate their government, and a long tradition of anti-government suspicion reaches back to debates among the founders of the nation. But the election of Barack Obama has created a... -
The Hazards of Good Breeding: A Novel by Jessica Shattuck 9780393324839
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.52This "richly appointed and generously portrayed" (Kirkus Reviews) debut novel tells the story of a WASPy, old-Boston family coming face to face with an America much larger than the one it was born in... -
To Promote the General Welfare: The Case for Big Government by Steven Conn 9780199858552
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £20.70Americans love to hate their government, and a long tradition of anti-government suspicion reaches back to debates among the founders of the nation. But the election of Barack Obama has created a... -
Nights When Nothing Happened Simon Han 9781472156181
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Named a Best Book of the Year by TIME, The Washington Post, and Harper's Bazaar"A tender, spiky family saga about love in all its mysterious incarnations." Lorrie Moore, author of A Gate at the... -
The World Between by Zeeva Bukai 9781953002679
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.34With the breakup of her marriage, a once famous actress of the Yiddish theater travels to Tel-Aviv to revisit the apartment she once shared with her husband, Max. Soon after, she finds herself at the... -
Coaching for Professional Development: Using literature to support success Christine Eastman 9781138057272
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £31.19Coaching has emerged as one of the most significant aids in developing managers and executives in the professional world. Yet there is a degree of dissatisfaction with performance coaching models and... -
Fitzgerald and Hemingway: Works and Days by Scott Donaldson 9780231148177
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.20F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway might have been contemporaries, but our understanding of their work often rests on simple differences. Hemingway wrestled with war, fraternity, and the...