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The Snowboy by Mark Burnhope
RRP: £6.50Booksplease Price: £5.35Mark 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... -
Reservoir Livi Michael 9781784632908
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.89At the International Conference Centre in Geneva, Hannah Rossier, formerly Annie Price, comes face to face with Neville Weir, someone from her childhood whom she never expected, or wanted, to meet... -
Stewkey Blues: Stories D. J. Taylor 9781784632458
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28Fiction Category Winner in the 2022 East Anglian Book AwardsSome of the characters in Stewkey Blues have lived in Norfolk all their lives. Others are short-term residents or passage migrants. Whether... -
Some Bright Elegance Kayo Chingonyi 9781844718726
RRP: £6.50Booksplease Price: £5.15Some Bright Elegance is about the changes that are a part of life in the 21st Century. In the book this is explored in relation to the search for meaning and consolation in the wake of bereavement,... -
my name is abilene by Elisabeth Sennitt Clough
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.89Sennitt Clough’s twisty fen-Gothic narratives are filled with macabre imagery and sexual violence. Imagine a monstrous fair that has arrived in deepest Cambridgeshire, only to discover that the... -
Nameless Lake Chris Parker 9781784632588
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.95'It's a brilliant novel, I think, so sharply observed and so even handed in its treatment of the sexes.' -Patrick GaleNameless Lake is about the unspoken pressures of gender and desire, told through... -
Woof! Woof! Woof! Rob A. Mackenzie 9781784632809
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.89In a radical departure in style and tone, Rob A. Mackenzie's new collection, Woof! Woof! Woof!, offers biting satire and sweeping social commentary. From the murk of political engagement in an age of... -
Reaching for Utopia: Making Sense of An Age of Upheaval: Essays and profiles Jason Cowley 9781784631529
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.10Reaching for Utopia brings together insightful essays and profiles chronicling the remarkable political and cultural transformations of the last decade - from the fall of Gordon Brown, to the rise of... -
The Good Son Paul McVeigh 9781784630232
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Winner of The Polari First Book Prize 2016Finalist for The People's Book Prize 2016Shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2016Chosen for City Reads 2016Shortlisted for the Guardian... -
Seahurst by S.A. Harris 9781784632717
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.89Evie Meyer and her son Alfie flee from her abusive partner Seth to spend New Year with her half-brother Luke at their late father's summer home on the Suffolk Coast, only to find Seahurst abandoned... -
Falling Leaves Stefan Mohamed 9781784631420
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28The Guardian: Fresh voices: 50 writers you should read nowTwenty-three-year-old Vanessa is adrift in London. A year out of university and marooned in a quietly deflating relationship, she can't work... -
The Bothy Trevor Mark Thomas 9781784631604
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28Tom is grieving for his girlfriend. Her powerful family, convinced he is responsible for her death, place a bounty on his head. On the run, Tom seeks refuge in the Bothy, a dilapidated moorland pub... -
Son of Mine Peter Papathanasiou 9781784631680
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.10Son of Mine is a beautiful, multi-layered account of what it means to be a family. Peter Papathanasiou successfully intertwines two life journeys - his own and his mother's - over the course of... -
The Manchester Trilogy: Book 3 by Neil Campbell 9781784631703
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28The third part of Neil Campbell's Manchester Trilogy, in which our struggling young writer finds love with a girl called Cho. Where a love song to Manchester becomes a love song to Cho.Lanyards... -
Clara's Daughter Meike Ziervogel 9781907773792
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Michele is a successful business woman with a troubled private life. She has a high-powered job, a family, a husband, yet she is defined by a term of possession: she is 'Clara's daughter'. Nameless... -
The Fat of Fed Beasts Guy Ware 9781784630249
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67'Fleshing out the shadowy metaphysical hints of Beckett's novels, this intellectual romp is the best debut I have read in years' Nicholas Lezard, The GuardianMonday lunchtime: a bank is being robbed... -
The Bitter Sixteen Trilogy: Book 2 by Stefan Mohamed 9781784630676
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.06The Guardian: Fresh voices: 50 writers you should read now Stanly is frustrated. Having set himself up as London's protector, he's finding that the everyday practicalities of superheroism are... -
Septembers Christopher Prendergast 9781907773785
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67`Annabel was a black and white figure in the distance, going in through the front doors. She worked behind the reception. I was a history teacher.' As we meet Matt, lying across the backseat of his... -
Waiting for a Party Vesna Main 9781784633226
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Claire Meadows, 92, is lying in bed on a Sunday morning, looking forward to the 102nd birthday party of her friend Martin in his retirement home. As she reminiscences about her life, her failed... -
The Odyssey Complex: and Other Poems Mr David Briggs 9781784633301
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.89David Briggs' new collection offers a midlife counterpart to the Oedipus complex exploring themes of family ties, nostalgia and retreat, ageing and mortality, acts of memorial and the impulse towards... -
The Best British Short Stories 2013 by Nicholas Royle 9781907773471
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £12.92The third in a series of annual anthologies, The Best British Short Stories 2013 reprints the cream of short fiction, by British writers, first published in 2012. These stories appeared in magazines... -
Schedule of Unrest: Selected Poems by John Wilkinson 9781907773747
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22Schedule of Unrest selects from John Wilkinson's collections of poetry published from 1974 to 2008. A growing readership is seeking ways into an impassioned and beautiful body of writing. The... -
Luxe by Amy Key 9781844719716
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22Luxe is a magnificent spree in a bric-a-brac shop. A haul of pre-loved and glittering objets - pralines in a crystal bowl, a handful of tame ladybirds, a portrait in vinyl and cola-cubes - are... -
Vault: An Anti-Novel by David Rose 9781907773112
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.49A pre-war amateur cycling career is cut short by call-up. Trained as a sniper, the man, whose name we never know for sure, embarks for war-torn Europe. Undecided how to resume his life at the war's... -
Selected Poems by Geraldine Monk 9781876857691
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.78A major selection from Monk's work, including "Interregnum" in its entirety for the first time, here combined with new sequences not previously published. This is a substantial volume from... -
Collected Poems by John James 9781876857400
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.73"After Francis Amunategui": The appearance of a hot sausage with its salad of potatoes in oil can leave nobody indifferent ...it is pure, it precludes all sentimentality, it is the Truth... -
The Burning by Anna Selby 9781844719518
RRP: £6.50Booksplease Price: £5.67`The lyric poem works both to slow down our world, teasing out the many disparate elements of our experience, and to reorient it, by exposing an entire universe of instincts, paradoxes, and mysteries... -
Third Class Superhero by Charles Yu 9781844719822
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.74Moisture Man, the hero of "Third Class Superhero", is tired of watching his former classmates kick ass and claim their secret hideouts while he struggles to maintain his good-guy accreditation... -
Zoo by Tobias Hill 9781844715503
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22Zoo is Tobias Hill's third collection of poems. It shows the growing maturity of a voice already distinctive three years ago, when his first collection was noted for its `grand irony and playful... -
Tomorrow, We Will Live Here by Ryan Van Winkle 9781844717897
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22This is a terse, tough debut by an award-winning American poet with punch in the language. What you find here is the grist of life - death, love, sex, departure - honed by a voice obsessed with the... -
Zam Bonk Dip by Jonty Tiplady 9781844717378
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22Jonty Tiplady's prizewinning first collection Zam Bonk Dip is a must read for anyone keeping up with contemporary poetry. Awarded the 2009 Crashaw Prize, this book brings together "At the School... -
Leaves are Like Traffic Lights by Andrew Fusek Peters 9781844712779
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Featuring turbo-charged trees, double agent forests and leaves that perform magic, this is a wide-ranging collection of fun, lyrical and thought-provoking poems. Some have already appeared on... -
Drafts: Drafts 39-57, Pledge, with Draft, unnumbered: Precis by Rachel Blau DuPlessis 9781844710720
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.78This book brings Drafts, the long poem by Rachel Blau DuPlessis, to its mid-point. A polyphonic work, both monumental and provisional, Drafts asks how to represent our sense of direness and ethical... -
Apprenticed to Justice by Kimberly Blaeser 9781844712816
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22Apprenticed to Justice is a collection of vividly rendered lyrical and narrative poems that trace the complex inheritances of Indigenous America, this "strange map drawn of blood and history... -
Ring of Fire by Lisa Jarnot 9781844710072
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22Ring of Fire is a book of experimental lyric poetry in the tradition of American Poetry beginning with Walt Whitman and continuing through the Beat Generation, the New York School, and contemporary... -
Deception Island: Selected Early Poems, 1974-1999 by William Logan 9781844717170
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95William Logan's poetry has been called elegant, difficult, cranky, formidable, dazzling, intoxicating, and ominous. For almost forty years, he has published poems that do not fit comfortably with the... -
The Terrible Wife by Terry Ann Thaxton 9781844719167
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22The Terrible Wife, in this new collection of poems by Terry Ann Thaxton, has married four times and imagined marriages to a soap opera star, her brother-in-law, and any man who will give her a ride... -
The Land of the Flibbertigibbets by John Foster 9781844712885
Booksplease Price: £7.73In the Land of the Flibbertigibbets is a collection of playful poems and versatile verses bound to entertain and capture the imagination of the young reader. From poems about a wizard's dragon and a... -
The Mystic and The Pig Thief by Fran Lock 9781907773709
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22The Mystic and The Pig Thief is, in part, an elegy. It is also a book about the pain of being imperfectly assimilated, a book about being torn between the culture you come from and the society you're... -
The Golden Boat: Selected Poems of Srecko Kosovel by Srecko Kosovel 9781844718559
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.63There are very few major European poets of the early twentieth century not already known to English-language audiences, but Srecko Kosovel is one. Often called the Slovene Rimbaud (he died at...