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Samuel Beckett’s Legacies in American Fiction: Problems in Postmodernism by James Baxter 9783030815745
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.56Samuel Beckett's Legacies in American Fiction provides an overdue investigation into Beckett's rich influences over American writing. Through in-depth readings of postmodern authors such as Robert... -
The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt 9780811225502
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.43Helen DeWitt's 2000 debut, The Last Samurai, was "destined to become a cult classic" (Miramax). The enterprising publisher sold the rights in twenty countries, so "Why not just, 'destined to become a... -
The Cruft of Fiction: Mega-Novels and the Science of Paying Attention by David Letzler
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £39.50A 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title What is the strange appeal of big books? The mega-novel, a genre of erudite tomes with encyclopedic scope, has attracted wildly varied responses, from... -
Trump Fiction: Essays on Donald Trump in Literature, Film, and Television by Stephen Hock 9781498598064
Booksplease Price: £33.49Trump Fiction:Essays on Donald Trump in Literature, Film, and Television examines depictions of Donald Trump and his fictional avatars in literature, film, and television, including works that took... -
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Lolita is comedy, subversive yet divine' Martin Amis, ObserverPoet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then... -
A Naked Singularity by Sergio De La Pava 9781782066576
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.00NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING JOHN BOYEGA, OLIVIA COOKE AND BILL SKARSGARD"The Wire written by Voltaire" Sunday Times"Crime and Punishment as reimagined by the Coen Brothers" The MillionsCasi is a... -
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 9780241953242
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is one of the best-known novels of the 20th century: the controversial story of Humbert Humbert who falls in love with twelve year old Lolita, beautifully repackaged as part... -
Planet Work: Rethinking Labor and Leisure in the Anthropocene by Ryan Hediger 9781684484591
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £98.40Labor and labor norms orient much of contemporary life, organizing our days and years and driving planetary environmental change. Yet, labor, as a foundational set of values and practices, has not... -
The 7th Function of Language by Laurent Binet
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.67'One of the funniest, most riotously inventive and enjoyable novels you'll read this year' - ObserverRoland Barthes is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. It's February 1980 and he has... -
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 9780141023496
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67'Lolita is comedy, subversive yet divine' Martin Amis, ObserverPoet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then... -
Abysmal: A Critique of Cartographic Reason by Gunnar Olsson 9780226629308
Booksplease Price: £58.04People rely on reason to think about and navigate the abstract world of human relations in much the same way they rely on maps to study and traverse the physical world. Starting from that simple... -
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 9780241638439
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43Vladimir Nabakov's shocking masterpiece, now in a beautifully designed clothbound edition'Lolita is comedy, subversive yet divine' Martin AmisPoet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by... -
Platform by Michel Houellebecq
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49From the author of cult favourite Atomised'Reading Houellebecq is like being caught up in a tropical storm: you are blown away by the ferocity of his imagination' ObserverMichel is a civil-servant at... -
Bestiary: The Selected Stories of Julio Cortazar Julio Cortazar 9781784875855
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15A collection of masterful short stories in Julio Cortazar's sophistocated, powerful and gripping style.'Julio Cortazar is truly a sorcerer and the best of him is here, in these hilariously fraught... -
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY' INDEPENDENTShortlisted for the Booker Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Arthur C. Clarke Award, winner of... -
Flat-World Fiction: Digital Humanity in Early Twenty-First-Century America by Liliana M. Naydan 9780820360560
RRP: £36.95Booksplease Price: £33.49Flat-World Fiction analyzes representations of digital technology and the social and ethical concerns it creates in mainstream literary American fiction and fiction written about the United States in... -
Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.03Julio Cortazar's crazed masterpiece, the forbearer of the Latin Boom in the 1960s - published in Vintage Classics for the first time'Cortazar's masterpiece. This is the first great novel of Spanish... -
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Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 9780340822784 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.20'ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY' INDEPENDENTShortlisted for the Booker Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Arthur C. Clarke Award, winner of... -
British Writing, Propaganda and Cultural Diplomacy in the Second World War and Beyond Beatriz Lopez 9781350412170
Booksplease Price: £30.54This book offers the first sustained analysis of the interactions between British writers, propaganda and culture from the Second World War to the Cold War. It traces the involvement of a series of... -
The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker 9781783786381
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31The Mezzanine is the story of one man's lunch hour. Pondering life's littlest questions - why does one shoelace always wear out before the other? Whatever happened to the paper drinking straw - our... -
Apocalyptic Patterns in Twentieth-Century Fiction by David Leigh
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £60.24David J. Leigh explores the innovative influences of the Book of Revelation and ideas of an end time on fiction of the twentieth century, and probes philosophical, political, and theological issues... -
The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02NED BEAUMAN HAS BEEN NAMED AS ONE OF GRANTA MAGAZINE'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2013LONGLISTED FOR THE 2012 MAN BOOKER PRIZEAN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEARA DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEARAN... -
Apocalyptic Patterns in Twentieth-Century Fiction by David J. Leigh
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.45David J. Leigh explores the innovative influences of the Book of Revelation and ideas of an end time on fiction of the twentieth century, and probes philosophical, political, and theological issues... -
The American Sentence: From Pulpit to Pulp Fiction Ira B. Nadel 9781350473089
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.73A compelling quest to locate a history and poetics of the American sentence, this book applies four stages of communication to the story of American writing - the sermon, the telegraph, the newspaper... -
Destiny Express by Howard A Rodman 9781644285534
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.35Hailed by Thomas Pynchon as "daringly imagined and darkly romantic-a moral thriller," Destiny Express captures both the glamour and the terror of an era, dramatizing the perilous moment when art,... -
Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'A great writer' James Baldwin'Part vision, part satire, part farce ... a wholly original, unholy cross between the craft of fiction and witchcraft' The New York TimesA plague is spreading across... -
Postmodern American Literature and Its Other by W.Lawrence Hogue
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.65Although literary postmodernism has been defined in terms of difference, multiplicity, heterogeneity, and plurality, some of the most vaunted authors of postmodern American fiction--such as Thomas... -
British Writing, Propaganda and Cultural Diplomacy in the Second World War and Beyond Beatriz Lopez 9781350412132
Booksplease Price: £90.57This book offers the first sustained analysis of the interactions between British writers, propaganda and culture from the Second World War to the Cold War. It traces the involvement of a series of... -
Rub Out the Words: Letters 1959-1974 by William S. Burroughs
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23These letters cover the activities of Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac in the years that gave birth to the Beat Generation. Written mostly to Ginsberg or Kerouac, the letters provide a... -
The American Sentence: From Pulpit to Pulp Fiction Ira B. Nadel 9781350473096
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £53.01A compelling quest to locate a history and poetics of the American sentence, this book applies four stages of communication to the story of American writing - the sermon, the telegraph, the newspaper... -
Glow by Ned Beauman
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'ADDICTIVELY GOOD' The Times'Over-whelming' Independent'Supercharged' Evening Standard'Deliciously, startlingly, exuberantly fresh' GuardianWith GLOW, Ned Beauman has reinvented the international... -
Who's Who of Twentieth Century Novelists by Tim Woods
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £110.69Taking in novelists from all over the globe, from the beginning of the century to the present day, this is the most comprehensive survey of the leading lights of twentieth century fiction. Superb... -
The New Pynchon Studies by Joanna Freer 9781108474467
Booksplease Price: £99.43This book captures a cross-section of the most significant recent developments in criticism on one of the most challenging authors of our time. It brings together essays by a new generation of... -
The Making of Incarnation: FROM THE TWICE BOOKER SHORLISTED AUTHOR OF C AND SATIN ISLAND by Tom McCarthy 9781529114386
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.99The most ambition and exciting novel yet from the Booker shortlisted author of C and Satin Island.Bodies in motion. Birds, bees and bobsleighs. What is the force that moves the sun and other stars?... -
History Meets Fiction Beverley Southgate 9781408220122
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £41.66The relationship between history and fiction has always been contentious and sometimes turbulent, not least because the two have been seen as mutually exclusive opposites. In this thought-provoking... -
Pynchon and the Political Samuel Thomas (Durham University) 9780415809146
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18Thomas Pynchon's writing has been widely regarded as an exemplary form of postmodern fiction. It is characterized as genre-defying and enigmatic, as a series of complex and esoteric language games... -
Gathering Evidence by Martin MacInnes
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.81With extinction imminent, researchers visit an exclusive national park to observe one of the last troops of bonobo chimpanzees. Amid unusual behaviour and unexplained deaths, Shel Murray suspects her... -
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov 9781857152722
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Initially an almost grotesquely comic figure, Pnin gradually grows in stature by contrast with those who laugh at him. Whether taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has not... -
The Adventures Of Augie March by Saul Bellow 9781857152159
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.73The fictional autobiography of a rumbustious adventurer and poker-player who sets off his native Chicago in the spirit of a latter-day Columbus to rediscover the world-and more especially,... -
The Business of America: The Cultural Production of a Post-War Nation by Graham Thompson 9780745318080
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.30The Business of America examines the complex linking of business and nationhood in post-war United States literature against the backdrop of changing concepts of the nation in the field of American...