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Short Cuts by Mick Evans 9781788649391
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.41When accomplished poet, Mick Evans, turns his attention to prose, we might know that what we will be reading will be surprising, original and brimming with humanity. Short Cuts might have been... -
Summer to Summer, Looking Gill McEvoy 9781788641814
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Gill McEvoy is a poet who moves through the world with all her senses open. The quality of attention here is profound and pays off in an elegance of phrase and originality of image that makes these... -
Strength in Petticoats Dawn Hart 9781788648745
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15What lengths will we go to for love? And in what forms could this love show up in?Strong-willed Lillibet, a Bolivian cholita wrestler, is enthralled by Emilio and Emiliano-twins in appearance only... -
Some Boys I Knew by Clea Myers 9781788649889
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95What does it take for us to put our lives on hold and begin to heal? In the midst of a sequence of traumatic events-recovering from crystal-meth addiction, facing infertility, battling chronic... -
Life's Stink and Honey by Lynn Valentine 9781788641258
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22Lynn Valentine is a distinctive new voice in Scottish poetry. With hints of fairytale and gothic, she writes precise and poignant poems embracing what is often overlooked or peripheral - a father who... -
Smog Isabelle Llasera 9781788641036
Booksplease Price: £13.29A young girl discovers that riding a bike is more than simply learning balance... A village is commandeered by the army for target practice... A drive south for the summer becomes a journey through... -
Reminded of Something Robin Thomas 9781788641449
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73In all of Robin Thomas's work there is a subtlety and wit so contained that it invites re-reading. It takes full immersion to savour the linguistic dexterity and intelligence at work, to appreciate... -
A Little Switch by Jennifer Young 9781788641227
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Max Falkland finds herself on a new mission, this time posing as a maid of honour at the Queen's coronation. Out of her comfort zone with an assignment that reminds her she is the daughter of a... -
Questor: Surgeon to the Republic Tallis Clark 9781788648837
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42A gripping story of danger, intrigue, jealousy and love set in the uncertain world of Oliver Cromwell's post-civil war Republic.When army surgeon, John Lockyer attends the pregnant victim of a street... -
Nocturne: Wayman's Sky by Andrew Dutton 9781788649070
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Alfred Wayman is an enigma: solitary, strange and with no past. All that is known of him is his hatred of falsehood and obsession with the night sky. Friends and enemies speculate on his character... -
Forgotten Futures: a memoir by Bonnie Thurston 9781788641319
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.66Bonnie Thurston's Forgotten Futures: a memoir is a tender heart's cry and a passionate celebration in one. There is deep poignancy and longing here, but not a mawkish or maudlin word. We travel in... -
Not Sonnets: Observations from an Ordinary Life by Bonnie Thurston 9781788641289
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.68For years Bonnie Thurston has written short poems that focus on a single image or one revelatory idea. They were not sonnets, but were all fourteen lines long. The great sonneteers wrote sequences,... -
Susanna: The Making of an English Girl by S M Saunders 9781788649353
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Thrust into a hostile world, and unable to comprehend the language, Heike, an immigrant and 'enemy' child, struggles to understand the English islanders as she adjusts to the new identity demanded of... -
The Tenor Man's Story by Carole Strachan 9781788641654
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Alex Ingram is well-acquainted with sorrow. He's overcome childhood polio to become a successful singer whose lyric voice 'lays bare the joy and pain of being alive.' When tragedy strikes again, Alex... -
Prospects 9781788648899
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Arriving in Los Angeles intent on donating her kidney to an unwell friend, She contemplates the powerful magnetism of California. Like the gold-diggers, the health-seekers and the movie moguls before... -
Late—Later Kathleen Bridget Eva O'Hanlon 9781788641913
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95In this extraordinary debut collection, Kathleen Bridget Eva O'Hanlon dives deeply into a personal history that holds a mirror up to all the ways we piece together a lifetime of memories to weave a... -
Sweet Anaesthetist by Jay Whittaker
Booksplease Price: £12.92Jay Whittaker's debut collection, Wristwatch, won the 2018 Saltire prize for Poetry Book of the Year. In this eagerly awaited follow-up, Jay explores themes of origin, asking what shapes us most: our... -
Coed Cae Claer Helen May Williams 9781788641395
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.32Lucid, linguistically dextrous, and woven through with Welsh phrases, and words and passages in French, this exquisitely observed sequence of haiku and haibun was written during lockdown, though only... -
Ultramarine by Lucy Weldon 9781788649643
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95In eleven beautifully observed stories, told with intelligent and textured prose, we travel far and wide to disparate places and distinctive cultures. Whether the protagonists are dealing with... -
Streetwise David Burridge 9781788649261
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22The art of people-watching is one we all engage in, and in Streetwise these observations, suffused with the many ways we imagine the lives of others, take on depth and focus as poet and passers-by... -
Rhondda Burning: Paintings and Poems by Robert Havard 9781788649452
Booksplease Price: £15.84In Rhondda Burning paintings and poems mirror one another, reflecting on life in the eponymous valley or in the area around Cardigan Bay, with its wide horizons. Havard looks at his native... -
The Glastonbury Triangle by Stephen Ford 9781788648912
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.29Journalist Simon, reporting on the Knights of Camelot theme park run by an eccentric Marquess, is drawn into a tangle of intrigue, witchcraft, alternative lifestyles, mythology and secret technology... -
Rehearsals for the Real World by Robin Lindsay Wilson 9781788649087
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Each of the compelling microfictions in this extraordinary collection is a monologue spoken by someone with a distinctive point-of-view. Weaving together, the human condition is expressed by... -
Marietta Merz by Adam Craig 9781911540144
Booksplease Price: £8.02A young woman walks, walks, walks... always in search of the wondrous hidden in the everyday. When she at last enters a place of marvels just a step away from the mundane world, she discovers that... -
The Glass House by Jody Cooksley 9781788649117
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95What is a life without Art and Beauty? Not one that Julia chooses to live. And so she searches the world for both, discovering happiness through the lens of a camera. A fictional account of... -
Mira's Story Nikki Ali 9781788641609
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Imagine a story that oozes sensuality, immerses you in sound, taste, touch and sight, that delves into sexuality. A story that's an incisive and urgent challenge to ablism and racism, that explores... -
Living the Loss Liliana A. Pasterska 9781788641708
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Grief runs through these poems, most beginning with an epigraph from a diary entry by Emily Bronte, whose first loss was her mother when she was just three years old.We are in an interior world in... -
Sunshine & Nothing Else by Sian Huges 9781788640961
Booksplease Price: £15.37"Beginning with a barely perceptible nod to William Carlos Williams's 'This is Just to say', Sunshine assumes the voice of a mistress addressing a now-famous film director's wife. Wielding a feminist... -
On the Level by Mark Wagstaff 9781788649360
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95With bugs in her skin and noise in her head, Riz is real and the rest are fake. What matters to her: Mark Rothko's art. So despite the horror of family time, it's a fine thing that a major Rothko... -
Degrees of Separation by Roger White 9781788649407
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Whatever the indifference or brutality of the world, love still thrives. September 1942: Following the collapse of the Allied resistance in Burma, the full might of the Imperial Japanese Airforce... -
A Crack in the Map Alexina Dalgetty 9781911540304
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.29Told in multiple voices over the course of one-hundred and twenty-five years, A Crack in the Map *is the evocative and immersive story of a house and its residents. From an elegant and simple... -
Cold Crash by Jennifer Young 9781910836774
Booksplease Price: £13.93For archaeologist Maxine 'Max' Falkland, life in early-50s London is difficult enough as she tries to move on from the death of her brother, an RAF pilot shot down over Korea. But, when she meets... -
The Posthumous Adventures of Harry Whittaker by Bobbie Darbyshire 9781788641586
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Harry Whittaker is a world-famous, superstar actor, as revered as Laurence Olivier, as roguish as Jack Nicholson. When he dies suddenly of a heart attack he finds, to his astonishment, that he's... -
The: Cleaning Woman's Daughter by Alexina Dalgetty 9781911540229
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68I am Eve. Collector of words. I look them up. I write them down. I knead them into sentences. I am the story. When her mum rescues a book from a garbage can, Eve's life changes. She reads her... -
Touched by Ian Marriott 9781788641364
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.32In the initial sequence of this pamphlet, and following short lyrics, the writer explores the experience of living with long-term, and severe mental states. There is no safe haven of medical... -
What is Near by Kay Syrad 9781788641135
Booksplease Price: £14.52[P]oems like delicate essays, in the sense of attempts-circling, being-with, tentative and tender [...] poems like seed heads, fragility and delicacy, balanced, a symmetry [...] seeding more thinking... -
Cusp Elaine Briggs 9781788641739
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22There is a density of imagery in Cusp that speaks to an exuberance of spirit and a lively mind. The poems sing off the page, create worlds and make leaps of imagination. We find ourselves unsure of... -
Say I am Merry by Gay Crace 9781788649827
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Fleeing London at the outbreak of the Second World War, Merry and her siblings are taken far from home, leaving their father behind and cutting them off from the both the 'real' world and contact... -
Waiting for the All Clear by LB Gray 9781788649551
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95For Eleanor Barton, fleeing from the bombs of the Birmingham Blitz during World War II changes her life. On the Isles of Scilly, she negotiates a teaching contract, her own sexual awakening, and a... -
Smiling at Grief in a House in a Forest Where Life Grows by Jan Fortune 9781911540250
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.12Summer Solstice 2065. 16 years after a devastating pandemic and societal collapse. Viola sets off into the forest to prepare for the gathering of her community, who bring their ghosts and fears,...