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The Moon is Trending by Clare Fisher
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28This new short story collection from Clare Fisher explores of feelings of failure around gender, sexuality, and work, that arise in a success-obsessed capitalist culture. Dazzling, playful, and... -
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... -
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: £10.79In 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: £12.83Terrain 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... -
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RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.47"Hilary Mantel and Helen Simpson feature in the nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its fifth year ..."Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover - or... -
Fox Fires Wyl Menmuir 9781784632335
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28A 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28In 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.89Addressing 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73David 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: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05Winner 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28Editor'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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28Howell'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: £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: £5.67Some 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...