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The Night Jar Louise Peterkin 9781784632168
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28Dynamic first collection from this popular Scottish poet, The Night Jar lifts the lid on a fizzing range of personas, dramas and states of mind - presenting them for our delight: 'I collect the... -
Elephant Paul Pickering 9781784632250
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.44In a country house in England a precocious teenage exile from revolutionary Russia sets down his adventures on paper, beginning with his first ball in St Petersburg and how he frees a huge African... -
To An Occupier Burning Holes Ken Evans 9781784632700
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.89Formally-innovative, wildly-inventive, comic, surreal and poignant - Evan's poetry is a restless delight as he tackles almost any subject from lost invoices, hearing aids, fruit flies, migration, bin... -
The Way to Work Dr Sean Ashton 9781784632922
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.89Have you ever boarded your morning commute and wished you'd never arrive at your destination? That is what happens to the protagonist of The Way to Work. Having boarded what he assumes to be his... -
Scarecrow by Matthew Pritchard
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67'You've displeased me. You things always do. Now it's time for us to part.' He watched, expressionless, as the thing raised a feeble arm; then he released a handle on the winch. The thing slumped,... -
It Gets Worse: Adventures in Love, Loss and Penury Nicholas Lezard 9781784632106
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28Book of the Week: The IdlerIt Gets Worse is the second instalment of Nicholas Lezard's rueful, dissolute life. Beginning where his first volume, Bitter Experience Has Taught Me, ended, Nick's... -
Robbergirls by Kaddy Benyon 9781784632892
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Written during a residency with The Polar Museum in Cambridge, Robbergirls reimagines The Snow Queen as a Sapphic rite of passage. Offered in seven sections that echo the fairy tale’s form, these... -
The Frost Fairs John McCullough 9781844713981
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Winner of the 2012 Polari PrizeA Book of the Year for The Independent and The Poetry SchoolHoliday Read in The ObserverThe Frost Fairs is a compassionate book with a global and historical scope,... -
The Chameleon Samuel Fisher 9781784631246
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28Shortlisted for the Collyer Bristow Prizes 2019 Shortlisted for The Betty Trask Prize and Awards Longlisted for The Desmond Elliott Prize 2019 John is infinite. He can become any book, any... -
The Electric Dwarf Tim Vine 9781784631727
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28A 'Withnail' for the twenty-first centuryTim Vine's satirical thriller appears to revolve around the dysfunctional lives of Norman and Peter - the latter becoming an accidental terrorist. Driven by... -
The Best British Poetry 2014 Mark Ford 9781907773686
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28The Best British Poetry 2014 presents the finest and most engaging poems found in literary magazines and webzines over the past year. The material gathered represents the rich variety of current UK... -
Dry Cleaning by Trevor Mark Thomas 9781784632823
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.89A hot summer. The countryside around Manchester is ablaze. Ethan Mallam is fresh out of prison and finds his old gang locked in a brutal civil war. Against his wishes, he is quickly drawn into a... -
Best British Short Stories 2023 by Nicholas Royle 9781784632991
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.89Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year... -
The Manchester Trilogy: Book 2 by Neil Campbell 9781784631482
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40In this, the second volume of a projected Manchester trilogy, the young writer takes a zero-hours job in a mail-sorting depot but struggles to cope with the demands of menial work and the attitudes... -
The Watch Bibi Berki 9781784632373
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £4.94Shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish 2020 Fiction PrizeOne sweltering midsummer night, two young women forge an unlikely bond. One of them is full of hope and ambition, the other devoid of it. How can... -
The Complex by Michael Walters 9781784631628
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.63The countryside, the near future.Gabrielle Hunter, husband Leo and son Stefan drive to a remote luxury retreat for a spring break at the invitation of new client Art Fisher, who will be there with... -
Earn Your Milk: Collected Prose by Tom Raworth 9781844715084
Booksplease Price: £12.11Earn Your Milk contains all the uncollected prose works of Tom Raworth, gathering together Letters from Yaddo, The Vein and Letter to Martin Stannard with his uncategorizable prose-work A Serial... -
The Redemption of Galen Pike: and Other Stories by Carys Davies 9781907773716
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Winner of the 2015 International Frank O'Connor Short Story AwardWinner of the 2015 Jerwood Fiction Uncovered PrizeShortlisted for the 2015 Wales Book of the Year: FictionShortlisted for the 2015... -
The Art of Keeping Quiet: Poems 1952-2011 by Rodolfo Alonso 9781784630331
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42The Art of Keeping Quiet is the first anthology in English translation by Rodolfo Alonso, one of today's most renowned Argentine poets. As early as 1956, Raul Gustavo Aguirre noted in Alonso "a... -
Quiet Leadership by Julian Stodd 9781838019624
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £7.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838019624Author Julian StoddFormat PaperbackPage Count 103Imprint < -
Clinging to the Crags Katharine Grant 9781784633899
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'I know you and this place. You're like a hefted sheep. If you come in, you'll never leave.' At heart, this memoir is about not leaving home. Except when a father believes in male primogeniture and... -
The Bitter Sixteen Trilogy: Book 3 by Stefan Mohamed 9781784630768
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.06The Guardian: Fresh voices: 50 writers you should read nowCynical, solitary Stanly Bird used to be a fairly typical teenager - unless you count the fact that his best friend was a talking beagle... -
Dead of Winter by Gerri Brightwell 9781784630492
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67A fast-paced, darkly funny crime novel set in Interior Alaska that follows down-on-his-luck cabbie, Mike Fisher, as he searches for his daughter. Her step-father has been shot in her bathroom, and... -
The Manchester Trilogy: Book 1 Neil Campbell 9781784630379
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67A young warehouseman, his promising football career cut short by injury, counts flanges, valves and couplings for a living. He longs for the warmth and women of the office, but the prostitutes who... -
Stranger, Baby by Emily Berry
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The powerful new collection from award-winning poet, Emily Berry. Emily Berry's Dear Boy was described as a 'blazing debut', winning the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2013. Stranger,... -
Sunspots by Simon Barraclough 9781908058263
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62The Sun is our neighbourhood star, igniting the imagination and setting the template for divinity. But in reality, it is crawling with sunspots of differing shapes, sizes, and power. Simon... -
is, thinks Pearl by Julia Bird 9781912915873
RRP: £6.50Booksplease Price: £5.28Step into Pearl's world and take a tour around her faded seaside town, past the graffiti walls, bus stops and the old mattress factory. Except - with Pearl as our guide - the colours suddenly pop and... -
Sir Morien: The Legend of a Knight of the Round Table by Holly Black 9780316424134
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Full of humor, drama, and adventure, this retelling of a little-known figure of Arthurian Legend, co-written by friends Kaliis Smith and #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black, is perfect... -
Adventures in Form: A Compendium of Poetic Forms, Rules & Constraints by Paul Muldoon
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Tom Chivers was born in South London in 1983. His publications include How To Build A City (Salt Publishing, 2009), The Terrors (Nine Arches Press, 2009; shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award for... -
Poems of Love and Hate Gaius Valerius Catullus 9781852246457
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £9.88Sensual, salacious and above all scandalous, the erotic verse of the Roman poet Catullus has delighted - and shocked - readers for centuries. Charting the lives and loves of a group of smart young... -
Chasing Catullus Josephine Balmer 9781852246464
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Josephine Balmer's 'Chasing Catullus' ventures into border territory, the no-man's-land between poetry and translation, juxtaposing new poems with fresh versions of ancient texts, brazenly... -
Classical Women Poets Josephine Balmer 9781852243425
Booksplease Price: £9.26Fragmented and forgotten, the women poets of ancient Greece and Rome have long been overlooked by translators and scholars. Yet to Antipater of Thessalonica, writing in the first century AD, these... -
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The Coward's Tale by Vanessa Gebbie 9781408822630 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £2.52'My name is Laddy Merridew. I'm a cry-baby. I'm sorry.''And my name is Ianto Jenkins. I am a coward. And that's worse.'The boy Laddy Merridew, sent to live with his grandmother, stumbles off the bus... -
Wolfstongue by Sam Thompson
Booksplease Price: £9.99"The best animal adventure since Watership Down" - The Times The children's debut by Booker-longlisted author Sam Thompson is an engrossing, thoughtful, beautifully written story about humans... -
The The Big Rip Andy Brown 9781905208548
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £9.38THE BIG RIP is a theory of the universe's end when allmatter disintegrates into elementary particles as the universeexpands and rips apart. In these deeply material poems,Andy Brown engages with such...