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The Writer's Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives by Nancy Pearl
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42NEW & NOTEWORTHY ~ THE NEW YORK TIMES With a Foreword by Susan Orlean, twenty-three of today's living literary legends, including Donna Tartt, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Andrew Sean Greer, Laila Lalami, and... -
Pew by Catherine Lacey
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31From the author of Biography of X, an eerie modern tale for fans of Shirley Jackson... 'I consumed it. It is the electric charge we need' Daisy Johnson, author of Everything Under One Sunday... -
Lynd Ward: Prelude to a Million Years, Song Without Words, Vertigo (LOA #211) by Lynd Ward
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £29.66The second volume of collected woodcut graphic novels from a "brilliant and iconoclastic" author who has been compared to Frank Capra and John Steinbeck (Jonathan Lethem, New York Times-bestselling... -
The Complete Short Stories: Volume 1 by J. G. Ballard
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.12First in a two volume collection of short stories by the acclaimed author of 'Empire of the Sun', 'Crash' and 'Super-Cannes'. The new edition is introduced by Adam Thirwell. With eighteen... -
The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic by Robert Musil
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £15.18With an introduction by Jonathan LethemIt is 1913, and Viennese high society is determined to find an appropriate way of celebrating the seventieth jubilee of the accession of Emperor Franz Josef... -
Conversations with Steve Erickson by Matthew Luter 9781496833884
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Much like his novels, Steve Erickson (b. 1950) exists on the periphery of our perception, a shadow figure lurking on the margins, threatening to break through, but never fully emerging. Despite... -
The Body Scout by Lincoln Michel
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.31An Esquire Pick for the Top 50 Sci-Fi Books of All TimeA New York Times Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Novel of 2021"A breathlessly paced techno-thriller characterized by stunning, spiky worldbuilding." -... -
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Big Red: A Novel Starring Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles by Jerome Charyn 9780857305244 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.40Narrated by a starry-eyed reporter, Big Red reimagines the tragic career of Rita Hayworth and her indomitable husband, Orson Welles. Set amidst the noir glamour of Hollywood's Golden Age, Big Red... -
The Removed: A Novel by Brandon Hobson
Booksplease Price: £10.32"A haunted work, full of voices old and new. It is about a family's reckoning with loss and injustice, and it is about a people trying for the same. The journey of this family's way home is... -
Still on the Road: The Songs of Bob Dylan Vol. 2 1974-2008 by Clinton Heylin
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38This is the second volume in Clinton Heylin's magisterial survey of the songs of Bob Dylan. The first volume - Revolution in the Air which is now available in paperback - charted the rise of Bob... -
Conversations with Steve Erickson by Matthew Luter 9781496833877
Booksplease Price: £88.60Much like his novels, Steve Erickson (b. 1950) exists on the periphery of our perception, a shadow figure lurking on the margins, threatening to break through, but never fully emerging. Despite... -
Contemporary American Fiction in the Embrace of the Digital Age by Beatrice Pire 9781789760835
Booksplease Price: £109.14This collection aims to examine the relationship between American fiction and innovations that marked the first decades of the 21st century: the Internet, social media, smart objects and... -
Big Mother: The Technological Body of Evil Jasun Horsley 9781801520539
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £20.58A bold examination of artificial intelligence, consciousness, technology, and the human urge to return to the womb. The thesis of Big Mother begins with the premise that our disembodiment as a... -
The Imaginary Corpse by Tyler Hayes
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Most ideas fade away when we're done with them. Some we love enough to become Real. But what about the ones we love, and walk away from? Tippy the triceratops was once a little girl's imaginary... -
The Digital Banal: New Media and American Literature and Culture by Zara Dinnen
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £78.51Contemporary culture is haunted by its media. Yet in their ubiquity, digital media have become increasingly banal, making it harder for us to register their novelty or the scope of the social changes... -
Postmodernism in Pieces: Materializing the Social in U.S. Fiction by Matthew Mullins 9780190067823
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £27.46Postmodernism in Pieces performs a postmortem on what is perhaps the most contested paradigm in literary studies. In the wake of a critical consensus proclaiming its death, Matthew Mullins breaks... -
Lynd Ward: Gods' Man, Madman's Drum, Wild Pilgrimage (LOA #210) by Lynd Ward
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £30.52Edited by Art Spiegelman, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel MausA wordless novel in woodcuts from Lynd Ward, a pioneering artist/novelist who was "an unmistakable soul-companion to ... -
The Complete Short Stories: Volume 2 by J. G. Ballard 9780007245765
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.39The second in a two volume collection of short stories by the acclaimed author of 'Empire of the Sun', 'Crash' and 'Super-Cannes'. The new edition is introduced by Adam Thirwell. With... -
In the Shadow of King Saul: Essays on Silence and Song Jerome Charyn 9781942658429
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26"Jerome Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature." -Michael Chabon"Whatever milieu [Charyn] chooses to inhabit . . . his sentences are pure vernacular music, his voice... -
Half-Lives by Lynn Schmeidler 9781637680919
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £13.88A playful debut short story collection imagining women's lives in a world free of social limitations. Amid heightened restrictions about what women can and cannot do with their bodies, Lynn... -
Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A. by Lili Anolik 9781471190247
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40The goddaughter of Igor Stravinsky and a graduate of Hollywood High, Eve Babitz posed in 1963, at age twenty, playing chess with the French artist Marcel Duchamp. She was naked; he was not. The... -
Red Hot and Blue: Fifty Years of Writing About Music, Memphis, and Motherf**kers by Stanley Booth 9781641601061
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.47This collection of over fifty years of writing about the South and its music by Stanley Booth, one of the undisputedly great chroniclers of the subject, is a classic, essential read. Booth's close... -
The Ink in the Grooves: Conversations on Literature and Rock 'n' Roll by Florence Dore 9781501766206
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.25Drop the record needle on any vinyl album in your collection, then read the first pages of that novel you've been meaning to pick up-the reverberations between them will be impossible to miss. Since... -
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Go the Fuck to Sleep by Adam Mansbach 9780857862655 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £4.70Go the Fuck to Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don't always send a toddler sailing off to dreamland. Profane,... -
Fuck, Now There Are Two of You by Adam Mansbach
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.75It turns out that two is a million more kids than one.Adam Mansbach famously gave voice to two of parenting's primal struggles in Go the Fuck to Sleep and You Have to Fucking Eat. Now Fuck, Now There... -
The Queen's Gambit: Now a Major Netflix Drama Walter Tevis 9781474600842
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.11NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES starring Anya Taylor-Joy from Academy-Award nominee Scott Frank and BAFTA nominee Allan Scott'Superb' Time Out'Mesmerizing' Newsweek'Gripping' Financial Times'Sheer... -
Distance No Object: Stories by Gloria Frym 9780872863583
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.78In Distance No Object, Gloria Frym turns her ironic, passionate gaze to post-Vietnam Berkeley and San Francisco. Private lives are still swept along by the currents of history, as in the sixties. But... -
The Undying: A Meditation on Modern Illness by Anne Boyer
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 2020WINNER OF THE WINDHAM-CAMPBELL PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 2020FINALIST FOR THE PEN / JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD 2020'Profound and unforgettable' Sally Rooney'A... -
But What If We're Wrong? by Chuck Klosterman 9781445663388
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.60This has always been the case, no matter how often that certainty has failed. Though no generation believes there's nothing left to learn, every generation unconsciously assumes that what has already... -
Cutting Across Media: Appropriation Art, Interventionist Collage, and Copyright Law by Kembrew McLeod
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.04In this collection of essays, leading academics, critics, and artists historicize collage and appropriation tactics that cut across diverse media and genres. They take up issues of appropriation in... -
Cutting Across Media: Appropriation Art, Interventionist Collage, and Copyright Law by Kembrew McLeod 9780822348115
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £76.14In this collection of essays, leading academics, critics, and artists historicize collage and appropriation tactics that cut across diverse media and genres. They take up issues of appropriation in... -
Pop When the World Falls Apart: Music in the Shadow of Doubt by Eric Weisbard
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Hearing Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan once said, was "like busting out of jail." But what happens when popular music isn't as simple as rock-and-roll rebellion? How does pop respond to such events as a... -
Dylan's Visions of Sin Christopher Ricks 9780857862013
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.55'I consider myself a poet first and a musician second''It ain't the melodies that're important man, it's the words'There is no shortage of books about Bob Dylan. This one, however, is unique in its... -
The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World by Lewis Hyde
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The Gift brilliantly argues for the importance of creativity in our increasingly money-driven society. Reaching deep into literature, anthropology and psychology Lewis Hyde's modern masterpiece has... -
The Tremor of Forgery: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN INTRODUCED BY DENISE MINA'Highsmith is a giant of the genre. The original, the best, the gloriously twisted Queen of... -
The Dead Run by Adam Mansbach 9780062199669
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.47With thrilling chills and crackling suspense, The Dead Run is an edgy novel set in the netherworld of the Mexican-American border from Adam Mansbach, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Go... -
The Novelist's Lexicon: Writers on the Words That Define Their Work by Villa Gillet 9780231150804
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.23At the renowned, international literary conference hosted by Villa Gillet and Le Monde, organizers asked more than seventy prominent authors to choose a word that opens a door to their work. Their... -
Go the Fuck to Sleep by Adam Mansbach
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Go the Fuck to Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don't always send a toddler sailing off to dreamland. Profane,... -
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Revolution in the Air: The Songs of Bob Dylan 1957-1973 by Clinton Heylin 9781849012966 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.32Bob Dylan has always regarded himself as a songwriter: 'I am my words,' he wrote in 1964.Distilling a lifetime's passion and study, leading Dylan author, Clinton Heylin charts the development and... -
Revolution in the Air: The Songs of Bob Dylan 1957-1973 Clinton Heylin 9781849012966
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Bob Dylan has always regarded himself as a songwriter: 'I am my words,' he wrote in 1964.Distilling a lifetime's passion and study, leading Dylan author, Clinton Heylin charts the development and...