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A Perfect Explanation Eleanor Anstruther 9781784631642
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.11Longlisted for the Not the Booker Prize 2019Longlisted for The Desmond Elliott Prize 2019Observer: Fiction to look out for in 2019The i Paper's 30 of the best new debut novels to read in 2019Scottish... -
It Gets Worse: Adventures in Love, Loss and Penury Nicholas Lezard 9781784632106
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.29Book of the Week: The IdlerIt Gets Worse is the second instalment of Nicholas Lezard's rueful, dissolute life. Beginning where his first volume, Bitter Experience Has Taught Me, ended, Nick's... -
Cracked Skull Cinema Mr David Briggs 9781784632076
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.29Poetry Wales: Poetry Books of 2019Cracked Skull Cinema offers poems on culture and society, colonialism and its legacies, media and power. Set between these are homages and reflections on middle age,... -
Temptation: A User's Guide Vesna Main 9781784631284
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.01Lush Library Recommends: Anna James' Books for 2018Variations and fugue on the theme of obsessionVesna Main disturbs our self-image as educated, reasonable and ironic people who read modernist... -
The Squeeze Lesley Glaister 9781784631161
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.74Set between 1989 and the downfall of Ceausescu, and 2013, The Squeeze travels between Edinburgh, Romania and Oslo and sees this multi-award-winning and bestselling author at the height of her powers... -
Sunny and the Hotel Splendid by Alison Moore 9781784632021
RRP: $14.68Booksplease Price: $11.45On the hottest day of the year, Ana Sharma and her mum check in to the Hotel Splendid, a place where bells seem to ring all by themselves, jam pots and milk jugs appear on the breakfast table as if... -
The Watch Bibi Berki 9781784632373
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $10.37Shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish 2020 Fiction PrizeOne sweltering midsummer night, two young women forge an unlikely bond. One of them is full of hope and ambition, the other devoid of it. How can... -
My Hummingbird Father Pascale Petit 9781784633110
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.57When artist Dominique receives a letter from her dying father, a reckoning with repressed memories and a pull for romantic and familial love sends shockwaves through her life, as she journeys to... -
Everything is Present Anna Woodford 9781784633509
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.68Poems within Everything is Present have won The Ledbury Competition, The Wigtown Prize, and were featured in The Forward Book of Poems of the Year. ‘As brave, as bravura, a performance as the... -
Sound Advice: Bringing transformative advice to life through pop song themes from the 1980s Alan Green 9781784633585
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.11Have you ever wanted a compelling reason to listen to more music? Sound Advice invites readers on a voyage of self-discovery that uniquely combines the immersive joy of listening to pop music with... -
The Harbour Beyond the Movie by Luke Kennard 9781844715336
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $16.57Luke Kennard is an award-winning poet, critic and short-fiction writer. He works as a research student and assistant teacher at the University of Exeter. He is an award-winning man. His first... -
Implacable Art by Anna Mendelssohn 9781876857004
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $18.80Excerpt from the book: "Europa" a little insight no great light, somewhere circulating, sorrow helps and trust in human compassion. What does not help is the piling up of pretence and... -
Nude by Nuala Ni Chonchuir 9781844716425
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $15.73The women and men in Nude play out their desires and frustrations from Dublin to Paris, Delhi to Barcelona, and beyond. In these stories there are mercurial lovers, illicit affairs and mistakes that... -
Effigies III by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke 9781784631833
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $18.80The Effigies series has woven a vibrant tapestry of indigenous poets from Native North America and the Pacific. As the third in this series, this anthology continues this weaving with the work of... -
Ossabaw by Dr. David Hamilton 9781844712601
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $17.26Believing in invention as the art of finding things, David Hamilton has been concerned with finding what, in memory, in nature, in his reading, and in daily events, suggests a poem. Some of the... -
The Wildflowers of Baltimore by Rob Roensch 9781844719075
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $17.26The Wildflowers of Baltimore is a collection of stories about young men on high-stakes searches for love, truth and understanding. In many cases, the searching young men discover that the answers... -
A Lost Expression by Luke Kennard 9781844718757
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $17.26Next Generation Poet 2014 This is Luke Kennard's fourth collection of poetry and departs from his previous work in its scope and outlook. The prose poems and dramatic monologues run deeper and, the... -
Tjanting by Ron Silliman 9781876857196
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $26.29Space heater. Writing gathers around the pigeons. This line leads to Uranus. Nun census. Silver fork upon a chipped blue plate. I saw sleeping bag, pillows in the Buick's back. The companionship of... -
Mother/Land by Cheryl Savageau 9781844712694
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $18.80In Cheryl Savageau's new book of poetry, Mother/Land, she radically re-maps New England as Native American space. Savageau retells and re-imagines creation stories, revealing a landscape of trees,... -
The Existential Detective by Alice Thompson 9781784630119
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73William Blake is a private detective. When he is asked by an eccentric scientist to investigate the where-abouts of his amnesiac missing wife, Louise, Will finds himself entangled in layers of... -
The World So Often: Poems 1982-2008 by Luis Garcia Montero 9781844719037
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $18.80Luis Garcia Montero (Granada, 1958) is one of the most read and influential Spanish writers today. He is an essayist, fiction writer, journalist, professor of Spanish Literature at the University of... -
The Word for Sorrow by Josephine Balmer 9781844719655
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $17.26Working on Ovid's extraordinary but often much-neglected exile poetry with an old second-hand Latin dictionary one stormy spring morning, Josephine Balmer noticed a school-boy's faded name inked on... -
The Poems of Sidney West by Juan Gelman 9781844714643
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $17.26This translation offers for the first time the splendid poems of Sidney West to English readers, supposedly their original addressees. West is among the best imaginary poets of America, allegedly his... -
On Leave: A book of anecdotes by Keith Tuma 9781844714865
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $15.73A book of and about literary anecdotes, On Leave presents passing observations concerning the anecdote in a modular prose that tracks the events of a year on leave. Its cast of characters includes... -
Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart and the Secret History of Maximalism by Michel Delville 9781844710591
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $42.95This book is not another critical biography, but an interpretive essay investigating what we feel is the cultural and historical importance of Zappa and Beefheart in the context of a wide-ranging... -
The Fork-in-the-Road Indian Poetry Store by Phillip Carroll Morgan 9781844712670
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $18.80Native Writers Circle Of The Americas First Book Award For Poetry These poems rise from the smoke of a Council Fire. Around the fire gather many nations of the world, some angry, some at peace. The... -
The Brand New Dark by Mark Waldron 9781844718177
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $17.26NEXT GENERATION POET 2014 POETRY BANK CHOICE. Mark Waldron's debut collection The Brand New Dark is a book about sex, eyes, eggs, dogs, death and sausages. It is a book concerned with our loss of... -
Red Earth: A Vietnam Warrior's Journey by Philip H. Red Eagle 9781844712687
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $17.26Native American men and women who wound up in Vietnam were very different from traditional warriors. Many had been removed from that traditional culture as many of these warrior traditions had been... -
Erec & Enide by Amy De'Ath 9781844718092
RRP: $13.65Booksplease Price: $11.91Erec & Enide is a bold and unashamedly intimate work that delights in the theatrical, communicative powers of language, and by turns gives way to a quiet sadness. Writing out of contemporary... -
Words Need Love Too by Kamau Brathwaite 9781876857493
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $17.26Words Need Love Too represents both a summation - a drawing together of concerns that the poet has explored in his writings through the previous `years of salt' - and a turning point, a hopeful new... -
Where You Live by Jill McDonough 9781844719099
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $17.26Martinis and fantastic breasts. A wild wedding hangover. Pink angora and instructing six women / to write tercets on snow. In lesbian love-poems, conversations, intimate jokes from a hundred parties,... -
The Redemption of Galen Pike: and Other Stories by Carys Davies 9781907773716
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.68Winner of the 2015 International Frank O'Connor Short Story AwardWinner of the 2015 Jerwood Fiction Uncovered PrizeShortlisted for the 2015 Wales Book of the Year: FictionShortlisted for the 2015... -
Fox Fires Wyl Menmuir 9781784632335
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.29A lost girl and a sprawling map of an unsettling city.Wren Lithgow has followed her concert pianist mother around the cities of Europe for almost two decades. When they arrive in the mysterious... -
Licensed Premises Neil Campbell 9781784632502
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.29In these fourteen northern tales, Campbell takes us from the edgelands of Manchester to the cloistered villages of The Peak District, Northumberland and Scotland, and illuminates the lives of... -
Scenes from Life on Earth Kathryn Simmonds 9781784632779
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.57Addressing the loss of the poet's mother - as well as themes of motherhood, birth, death, and the natural world - Scenes from Life on Earth explores how we grieve and remember those we love. Simmonds... -
Sawn-Off Tales by David Gaffney
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23David Gaffney's compact, surreal tales are filled with poignancy and wit. Each story goes off like a tiny depth charge in the mind, leaving you with the trace memory of some new urban myth - comic,... -
The Lighthouse Alison Moore 9781907773174
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.81Winner of the 2013 McKitterick PrizeShortlisted for the 2013 East Midlands Book AwardShortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012Shortlisted for New Writer of the Year in the 2012 Specsavers National... -
White Spines: Confessions of a Book Collector Nicholas Royle 9781784632137
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.29Editor's Choice, The BooksellerA mix of memoir and narrative non-fiction, White Spines is a book about Nicholas Royle's passion for Picador's fiction and non-fiction publishing from the 1970s to the... -
The Man Who Loved Kuras and Other Stories Brian Howell 9781784632618
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.29Howell's much-celebrated stories interweave elements of the commonplace with darkness, subterfuge and sheer weirdness, all realised with natural narrative flair. In this striking new collection, we... -
The Snowboy by Mark Burnhope
RRP: $13.65Booksplease Price: $11.24Mark Burnhope's poems present a generous but moral quizzing of the world. Peering out over disability, faith and the host of prejudices that spring from such ground, they negotiate a path through...