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Forgetting is How We Survive David Frankel 9781784633011
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28A plane crashes. A boy drowns. A body is found on a dark lakeside. A woman tries to make sense of a strange memory from her childhood. A father searches for a missing dog - his only link to his lost... -
Cole the Magnificent by Tony Williams 9781784632786
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.10The orphan Cole wanders the world, seeking the fabled Underground City which he has promised his love Sigrid he will find. Somewhere else entirely, Niven sits in a palace garden taking lessons in... -
Shapeshifting for Beginners by Emma Simon 9781784632854
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.89Emma Simon's wide-ranging, work explores how strange and surreal the everyday can be and how real life and stories tend to bleed into one another. These poems - mysterious, mythic, magical - remain... -
Sunny and the Wicked Lady Alison Moore 9781784632298
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.18A notoriously scary ghost is supposed to haunt the ruined medieval castle where Sunny and his friends are spending the day. But when a troubling visitor arrives at the antique shop, it turns out the... -
Flotsam Meike Ziervogel 9781784631789
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28‘By turns beguiling and unsettling, Flotsam examines grief and loss through the eyes of an extraordinary child’ Rachel SeiffertTrine and her mother live in a cottage on the German coast. The mudflats... -
The South Westerlies Jane Fraser 9781784631956
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28The South Westerlies is an attempt to know place (Gower) through the creation of a collection of short stories. Place is not a cosmetic backdrop, but an affecting agent in the lives of a wide cast of... -
How To Be a Kosovan Bride Naomi Hamill 9781784630959
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.80Longlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2018How to be a Kosovan Bride opens up something entirely new to the reader: the history, culture and stories of one of the newest countries in... -
The Clocks in This House All Tell Different Times Xan Brooks 9781784630935
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.49Shortlisted for the 2017 Costa First Novel AwardShortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2018Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2018Longlisted for The Walter Scott Prize for... -
Magda Meike Ziervogel 9781907773402
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Irish Times Books Of The Year 2013Observer Books Of The Year 2013Guardian Readers' Books Of The Year 2013Short Listed For Guardian's Not The Booker Prize 2013Unloved sons turn their aggression on the... -
Bookside Down Joanne Limburg 9781907773525
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.39The poems in Bookside Down are written about and for 21st Century children, who are into their friends, the TV, Wiis, DS's, computers, collectibles and things that make them laugh. They deal with... -
The Night-Soil Men by Bill Broady 9781784633189
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.10Broady’s major work of fiction, nearly a decade in the writing, explores the origins and development of the Independent Labour Party – the working-class political movement founded in Bradford in 1893... -
The Homecoming Zoë Apostolides 9781784633394
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.61The Homecoming, is Zoë Apostolides’s debut novel. Quietly disturbing, it tells the story of Ellen, a young ghost-writer sent to record the memoirs of an elderly woman living in a remote... -
From the Castle to the Hovel: Volume 3 of The Down and Out Chronicles Nicholas Lezard 9781784633516
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.89From The Castle to the Hove-l brings together a selection of Nicholas Lezard's much-admired long-running column for the New Statesman, written between 2017 and 2021. Charting his expulsion from... -
The Children's War by Shaindel Beers 9781844719303
Booksplease Price: £10.29In the first half of The Children's War, Shaindel Beers looks at artwork done by and about child survivors of war, embodying the voices of the children, their families, and the humanitarian aid... -
How To Build A City by Tom Chivers 9781844718849
Booksplease Price: £10.29How To Build A City is the Crashaw Prize-winning debut collection of poetry by Tom Chivers. It is a poetic interrogation of the twenty-first century urban experience, drawing on the history, culture,... -
Call It Tender by John Saul 9781844713226
Booksplease Price: £10.89The stories in Call It Tender are devoted to love, hope, nostalgia; to life in its precariousness, absurdities and joys. Told with the author's characteristic wit and sense of atmosphere - set in... -
Poetry Wars: British Poetry of the 1970s and the Battle of Earls Court by Peter Barry 9781844712472
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.66Poetry Wars is an account of the six-year battle at the National Poetry Society during the 1970s when this highly conservative institution and its journal Poetry Review were taken over by radical... -
Eyes in Times of War by Ali Alizadeh 9781844712878
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.29This collection of poems speaks to an individual's place and emotions during war. The wars depicted in this volume - the `history wars', the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, `the war against terror', `the... -
The Lyric Touch: Essays on the Poetry of Excess by John Wilkinson 9781844713950
Booksplease Price: £17.37The Lyric Touch gathers John Wilkinson's essays on British and American poetry of the late twentieth century and on poetics, several of them referenced in standard works despite being hard to obtain... -
No Traveller Returns by Dr. Vahni Capildeo 9781876857882
Booksplease Price: £13.64This poetry collection includes prose. Some pieces tell stories. Others half-express, half-explain, a certain pressure of situation. Poems in a book do not sound, or signify, as do poems extracted,... -
To World by Juan Gelman 9781844719860
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95In To World, poems interrogate everything: nature, society, and thought itself, with no prejudice or even principle. In other words, they don't follow any rule, tradition, or discipline; they are... -
Terrain Seed Scarcity: Poems from a Decade by Peter Larkin 9781876857080
Booksplease Price: £11.90Terrain Seed Scarcity opens with a selection of poems in which the concern for scarcity as a speculative edge first surfaced, and is followed by six sequences arranged in short prose clusters or... -
The Salt Companion to Carter Revard by Ellen Arnold 9781844710904
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.23The Salt Companion to Carter Revard is a groundbreaking collection of critical essays on the poetry and scholarship of one of Native America's most loved and respected poets. Carter Revard, Osage... -
Ghost Moon by Ron Butlin 9781907773778
Booksplease Price: £9.14Longlisted: International Dublin Literary Award 2016 Having been thrown out onto the Edinburgh streets by her family, Maggie knows she must fight to survive. Many years later, the struggles she had... -
The Night Jar Louise Peterkin 9781784632168
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28Dynamic first collection from this popular Scottish poet, The Night Jar lifts the lid on a fizzing range of personas, dramas and states of mind - presenting them for our delight: 'I collect the... -
The Solex Brothers (Redux): And Other Prose Poems by Luke Kennard
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.89Like a toboggan of wolves who have eaten their driver, The Solex Brothers rushes blindly through the forest, drawing on the tropes and archetypes of folk tales, parables, political manifestos,... -
Candescent Blooms Andrew Hook 9781784632564
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Shortlisted for Best Collection in the British Fantasy Awards 2023Candescent Blooms is a collection of twelve short stories which form fictionalised biographies of mostly Golden Era Hollywood actors... -
Some New Ambush by Carys Davies
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.37From the award-winning author of West and The Mission HouseSome New Ambush is the first collection of short stories from award-winning writer Carys Davies. Love, loss, birth, death, betrayal, madness... -
The Ophelia Letters by Rebecca Tamas
RRP: £6.50Booksplease Price: £6.04The poems in the first half of The Ophelia Letters explore the interaction between self and place in ways both strange and loaded with magic: journeying to the Arctic with Werner Herzog, stopping off... -
To An Occupier Burning Holes Ken Evans 9781784632700
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.89Formally-innovative, wildly-inventive, comic, surreal and poignant - Evan's poetry is a restless delight as he tackles almost any subject from lost invoices, hearing aids, fruit flies, migration, bin... -
Connective Tissue Jane Fraser 9781784632526
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28This collection of short fiction aims to define the sometimes indefinable and to give voice to those struggling to make sense of what life throws at them. There are those who travel in a continuous... -
The Peckham Experiment Guy Ware 9781784632632
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Guy Ware's new novel charts a course from the 1930s onwards through the fragmentary memories of the 85 year-old Charlie, whose identical twin brother JJ has recently died. Sons of a working-class... -
Scablands and Other Stories Dr Jonathan Taylor 9781784632946
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.42These are tales from the post-industrial scablands - stories of austerity, poverty, masochism and migration. The people here are sick, lonely, lost, half-living in the aftermath of upheaval or trauma... -
Concrete Fields David Gaffney 9781784633035
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28The countryside - what is it for? A paradise on earth where you can relax and get creative? Or an outdoor wool factory where every other house is an Airbnb and there are fewer trees than Camden. In... -
Scarecrow by Matthew Pritchard
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67'You've displeased me. You things always do. Now it's time for us to part.' He watched, expressionless, as the thing raised a feeble arm; then he released a handle on the winch. The thing slumped,... -
Death and the Seaside Alison Moore 9781784630690
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67With an abandoned degree behind her and a thirtieth birthday approaching, amateur writer Bonnie Falls moves out of her parents' home into a nearby flat. Her landlady, Sylvia Slythe, takes an interest... -
Burnt Island by Alice Thompson 9781907773488
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67For disillusioned author Max Long, the offer of a writing-fellowship on the mysterious-sounding 'Burnt Island' is a godsend. Max is determined that, inspired by his tenure on this windswept outpost,... -
Bodies of Water by V. H. Leslie 9781784630713
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Shortlisted for Best Novella in the 2017 British Fantasy AwardsDen of Geek Top Books of 2016Ginger Nuts of Horror Top 20 Books of 2016After ministering to fallen women in Victorian London, Evelyn has... -
Please Don’t Bomb the Ghost of My Brother by Julian Stannard 9781784633066
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.89Julian Stannard has been described as the poet of cabaret. His poems sing and weep in equal measure; a poetry of wretchedness and hilarity, of discombobulation and the bizarre. In his new collection... -
The Frost Fairs John McCullough 9781844713981
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Winner of the 2012 Polari PrizeA Book of the Year for The Independent and The Poetry SchoolHoliday Read in The ObserverThe Frost Fairs is a compassionate book with a global and historical scope,...