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Seeking Attention: 30 Ways of Being Present Dominic Pettman 9781915672674
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.34A book depicting the intimate complicity between attention and identity. . . "You are what you pay attention to."Simone Weil famously stated: "Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity."... -
Purging the Devil: Exorcism and Possession After the Death of God by Grafton Tanner 9781914420672
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A radical cultural and political history of exorcism and possession from the 1950s to the present day.Demands for exorcism have increased since the mid-twentieth century. What could be the cause of... -
Veteranhood: Rage and Hope in British Ex-Military Life Joe Glenton 9781913462451
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The military veteran is claimed by all sides. Conservatives, liberals and socialists all want to speak about and for ex-servicemen, yet far-right demonstrations are dotted with berets and medals and... -
A Small Man's England Tommy Sissons 9781912248926
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.91IS THE WHITE WORKING CLASS RIGHT-WING? AND IS IT RIGHT-WING TO EVEN SPEAK OF A "WHITE WORKING CLASS"? In recent decades, as class consciousness has been suppressed and eroded, many white... -
Discognition by Steven Shaviro
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50What is consciousness? What is it like to feel pain, or to see the color red? Do robots and computers really think? For that matter, do plants and amoebas think? If we ever meet intelligent aliens,... -
How We Used Saint Etienne to Live Ramzy Alwakeel 9781914420849
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Do you remember how we used to live? British indie favourites Saint Etienne do. But they also remember a load of other stuff that never happened, so maybe they aren't the best people to ask. Saint... -
Twelve Cries From Home: In Search of Sri Lanka's Disappeared by Minoli Salgado
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Since August 2020, the intimidation of witnesses and journalists has surged in Sri Lanka. Twelve Cries from Home navigates the memories and stories of twelve war survivors, mostly women and relatives... -
I Could Be So Good for You: A Portrait of the North London Working Class John Medhurst 9781914420344
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.12I Could Be So Good For You tackles head-on the pernicious and implicitly racist fiction that London, most especially north London, has no "real" working class in comparison to a more "authentic"... -
Strange Hate: Antisemitism, Racism and the Limits of Diversity Keith Kahn-Harris 9781912248438
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02How did antisemitism get so strange?Life-long anti-racists accused of antisemitism, life-long Jew haters absolving themselves by declaring their love of Israel. Today, antisemitism and philosemitism... -
The Rentier City: Making Modern Manchester by Isaac Rose 9781915672186
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50How did Manchester became the poster-child of neoliberal urbanisation, and what can the people that live there do about it? As the crane capital of Europe, Manchester's transformation since the... -
How Black Was My Valley: Poverty and Abandonment in a Post-Industrial Heartland by Brad Evans 9781913462840
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56How Black Was My Valley is a people's history of the former mining communities of South Wales. Weaving together the personal with the political, it offers a damning depiction of the hardship and... -
How the Railways Will Fix the Future: Rediscovering the Essential Brilliance of the Iron Road Gareth Dennis 9781915672483
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The world's railways were almost entirely created by capital and empire for extraction and exploitation, so what right do they have to exist and how can they be harnessed for good? Railway engineer... -
Born Slippy Tom Lutz 9781912248643
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A globetrotting novel about the seductions of and resistance to toxic masculinity. Frank Baltimore is a bit of a loser, struggling by as a carpenter and handyman in rural New England when he gets his... -
Lean Out by Dawn Foster 9781910924020
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78In her powerful debut work Lean Out, acclaimed journalist Dawn Foster unpicks how the purportedly feminist message of Sandberg's book neatly exempts patriarchy, capitalism and business from any... -
Your Body of Water by Siouxzi Connor 9781915672858
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Sex, death, nature and the 'feminine': an autofiction romance in four acts.Your Body of Water is an interweaving of autofiction with hydro-feminist mythologies, exploring via the emotional landscapes... -
The Garden: Visionary Growers and Farmers of the Counterculture by Matthew Ingram 9781915672681
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50The legendary countercultural growers who never stopped changing the world.In the 1970s, a generation underwent experiences with psychedelics and Eastern philosophy. They reacted violently against... -
Which as You Know Means Violence: On Self-Injury as Art and Entertainment Philippa Snow 9781913462468
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A few weeks before he died, Hunter S. Thompson left an answerphone message for Jackass' Johnny Knoxville: "I might be coming to Baton Rouge... and if I do I will call you, because I will be looking... -
The Weird And The Eerie by Mark Fisher
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the most haunting and anomalous fiction of the 20th century belongs to these two modes. The Weird and the... -
A Threat of the First Magnitude: FBI Counterintelligence & Infiltration From the Communist Party to the Revolutionary Union - 1962-1974 by Aaron J. Leonard
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.82Sometime in the late fall/early winter of 1962, a document began circulating among members of the Communist Party USA based in the Chicago area, titled "Whither the Party of Lenin." It was signed... -
Notes from the Sick Room by Steve Finbow
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Notes from the Sick Room takes place in an imaginary hospital that bends the rules of time and space. Within its wards and departments we meet artists, musicians and writers who have suffered from... -
Terraformed: Young Black Lives in the Inner City Joy White 9781912248681
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.38Since the 1980s, austerity, gentrification and structural racism have wreaked havoc on inner-city communities, widening inequality and entrenching poverty. In Terraformed, Joy White offers an... -
Justify My Love: Sex, Subversion, and Music Video Ryann Donnelly 9781912248414
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In Justify My Love, Ryann Donnelly explores sex and gender in one of the most widely consumed art forms of our age - the music video. Through an autobiographical reckoning with the author's life... -
The Great Psychic Outdoors: Lo-Fi Music and Escaping Capitalism Enrico Monacelli 9781914420603
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Homemade records, tape-hiss worship and a taste for a very peculiar kind of psychedelia have carved themselves a weird niche in the contemporary musical landscape under the name of lo-fi. This... -
Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema Willow Maclay 9781914420580
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.77In the history of cinema, trans people are usually murdered, made into a joke, or viewed as threats to the normal order - relegated to a lost highway of corpses, fools, and monsters. In this book,... -
Body High: Death, Drugs, and Eva Hesse Ryann Donnelly 9781915672872
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In Body High, the introduction to lurid sculptural practices from the 1960s and the author's own experience in proximity to opiate use will be used to offer a surreal and unsettling, yet seductive... -
Ode to Broken Things Dipika Mukherjee 9781910924143
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Colonel S - biomedical engineer, explosives expert, and the Malaysian government go-to hitman - has been doing the dirty work of the rich and corrupt for years now and is ready for his final job. One... -
Dispatches from the Vanguard: The Global International African Arts Movement versus Donald J. Trump Patrick A Howell 9781912248667
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Scheduled for release at the top of the 2020 US Presidential election, Dispatches from the Vanguard channels the global soul's hunger for freedom from authoritarian control. Partnering with... -
The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class Cynthia Cruz 9781912248919
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02To be working-class in a middle-class world is to be a ghost. Excluded, marginalised, and subjected to violence, the working class is also deemed by those in power to not exist. We are left with a... -
Retreat: How the Counterculture invented Wellness Matthew Ingram 9781912248780
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50The counterculture of the Sixties and the Seventies is remembered chiefly for music, fashion, art, feminism, computing, black power, cultural revolt and the New Left. But an until-now unexplored,... -
Code: Damp: An Esoteric Guide to British Sitcoms Sophie Sleigh-Johnson 9781915672070
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02An alternative occult and esoteric history of England told through one of its most popular cultural forms: the comedy sitcom.Code: Damp is a sometimes-comedic field report that charts an esoteric... -
Bad Dust: A History of the Asbestos Disaster Tom White 9781915672926
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Asbestos was once known as the "magic mineral." Cheap, versatile, and tough, it was used in a wide range of industrial and consumer products, from fireproofing spray on warships, to insulation... -
A Working Title I Want to Change: a Novel Saul Leslie 9781917516235
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Set against the backdrop of Britain's austerity years in 2013-14, A Working Title follows the lives of exhausted supermarket employees whose struggles mirror the political and social upheavals of... -
Confidence Men: Peterson, Musk, Tate and the Duping of the American Mind by Harrison Fluss 9781914420665
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38Why do millions of Americans support a system that is making them poorer, sicker, and less secure every day? If modern capitalism routinely exploits working people, then why do so many flock to its... -
Down With Childhood by Paul Rekret
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Sometimes popular music registers our concerns and anxieties more lucidly than we realise. This is evident in the case of an ideal of childhood innocence in rapid decay in recent decades.So claims... -
You're History: The Twelve Strangest Women in Pop by Lesley Chow
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40From Kate Bush to Nicki Minaj, from Janet Jackson to TLC and Taylor Swift, pop's greatest female pioneers are simply strange: smashing notions of taste and decorum, and replacing them with new ideals... -
Swan Songs by Lee Scott
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02"Unfortunately making the greatest rap album of all time was to be put on hold as the insidious Job Centre advisors had finally had enough of my shit. I would be forced to sign up to one of the... -
Acid Detroit: A Psychedelic Story of Motor City Music Joe Molloy 9781914420511
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Acid Detroit tells the story of Motor City through its revolutionary music past and present, in order to find the seeds of radical transformation among its ruins. Acid Detroit is an exhilarating,... -
Welsh (Plural): Essays on the Future of Wales Darren Chetty 9781913462666
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26What does it mean to imagine Wales and 'The Welsh' as something both distinct and inclusive? In Welsh (Plural), some of the foremost Welsh writers consider the future of Wales and their place in it. ... -
Peter Broetzmann: Free-Jazz, Revolution and the Politics of Improvisation Daniel Spicer 9781915672407
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Explores the heroic life and revolutionary music of the pioneering German saxophonist, and the radical social and political convictions that informed them.Peter Broetzmann is the first ever,... -
Taipei at Daybreak Brian Hioe 9781915672537
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02An Asian American coming-of-age novel set amongst social protests of the early 2010s in East Asia.2014 was the year of the Sunflower Movement in Taiwan, a moment that has Taiwanese defined politics...