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Posthumanism in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut: Matter That Complains So by Andrew Hicks 9780367521677
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $51.20Posthumanism in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut: Matter That Complains So re-examines the prevailing critical consensus that Kurt Vonnegut was a humanist writer. While more difficult elements of his work... -
The Business of America: The Cultural Production of a Post-War Nation by Graham Thompson 9780745318080
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $33.93The 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... -
Claudia Anthony Trevelyan 9781473664791
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35How good are people? Let me tell you, Dee: people are as good as the pair of eyes they believe is on them...When Claudia Talwar is called to meet a mysterious visitor in the reception of her... -
Louis Althusser by Luke Ferretter
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $30.37Best known for his theories of ideology and its impact on politics and culture, Louis Althusser revolutionized Marxist theory. His writing changed the face of literary and cultural studies, and... -
Briar Rose & Spanking the Maid by Robert Coover 9780141192994
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.55These two novellas by the groundbreaking, fearless, and immeasurably influential Robert Coover are dirty, funny and brilliant. In Briar Rose a sleeping beauty is trapped in an enchantment for a... -
Pierre: Or the Ambiguities by Herman Melville
Booksplease Price: $18.67'Ambiguities indeed! One long brain-muddling, soul-bewildering ambiguity (to borrow Mr. Melville's style), like Melchisedeck, without beginning or end-a labyrinth without a clue - an Irish bog... -
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Night Train by Martin Amis 9780099748717 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $2.68A sharp twist on the noir genre from one of England's finest fiction writers'I worked one hundred murders,' says Detective Mike Hoolihan, an American policewoman. 'In my time I have come in on the... -
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov 9781857150674
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.43A beautiful work of art - Nabokov was such a master at both prose and poetry. This unique blend of prose and poetry offers a delightful sojourn to cherish.About the AuthorVladimir Nabokov (Author)... -
Jean-Francois Lyotard by Simon Malpas 9780415256148
RRP: $125.12Booksplease Price: $116.98Jean-Francois Lyotard is one of the most celebrated proponents of what has become known as the 'postmodern'. More than almost any other contemporary theorist, he has explored the relations between... -
Louis Althusser by Luke Ferretter 9780415327312
Booksplease Price: $116.98Best known for his theories of ideology and its impact on politics and culture, Louis Althusser revolutionized Marxist theory. His writing changed the face of literary and cultural studies, and... -
The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $25.17A beautiful fairytale filled with unexpected plot twists. ... -
Jean-Francois Lyotard by Simon Malpas
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $30.37Jean-Francois Lyotard is one of the most celebrated proponents of what has become known as the 'postmodern'. More than almost any other contemporary theorist, he has explored the relations between... -
Night Train by Martin Amis
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66A sharp twist on the noir genre from one of England's finest fiction writers'I worked one hundred murders,' says Detective Mike Hoolihan, an American policewoman. 'In my time I have come in on the... -
How to Read a Moment: The American Novel and the Crisis of the Present by Mathias Nilges 9780810143425
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.33In How to Read a Moment, Mathias Nilges shows that time is inseparable from the stories we tell about it, demonstrating that the contemporary American novel offers new ways to make sense of the... -
It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future Saul Bellow 9780241401989
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91'Sentence by sentence, page by page, Bellow is simply the best writer we have' The New York Times Book ReviewIn It All Adds Up, Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author Saul Bellow takes readers on a... -
Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991 by Salman Rushdie
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20Drawing from two political and several literary homelands, this collection presents a remarkable series of trenchant essays, demonstrating the full range and force of Salman Rushdie's remarkable... -
The Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck 9781857151541
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.82An epic story of the nineteen-thirties' Depression which traces the story of one destitute family among the thousands who fled the Dust Bowl to the promise of California, THE GRAPES OF WRATH awakened... -
The Carver Chronotope: Contextualizing Raymond Carver G.P. Lainsbury 9780415803489
RRP: $65.78Booksplease Price: $62.15Raymond Carver's fiction is widely known for its careful documentation of lower-middle-class North America in the 1970s and 80s. Building upon the realist understanding of Carver's work, Raymond... -
Yellow Dog by Martin Amis
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.51'Martin Amis at his best... Wonderful... Extravagantly funny' GuardianWhen 'dream husband' Xan Meo is vengefully assaulted in the garden of a London pub, he suffers head-injury, and... -
Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson 9780241951583
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Journalist, maverick, rebel and author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson offers another novel of American counterculture in Hell's Angels, beautifully repackaged as part of the... -
One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 9781857152234
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.98In the book which put South America on the literary map, Marquez tells the haunting story of a community lost in the depths of that almighty continent where time passes slowly. A poetic masterpiece... -
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 9781857151336
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.43Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of... -
If On A Winter's Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino 9781857151381
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.72Calvino's dazzling post-modernist masterpiece combines a love story, a detective story and a sardonic dissection of the publishing industry in a scintillating allegory of reading. Based on a witty... -
The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World by Malcolm Gaskill
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $9.98*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE**A TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR*'A bona fide historical classic' Sunday Times'Simply one of the best... -
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi 9781857152180
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.72An extraordinary kind of autobiography in which each of the 21 chapters takes its title and its starting-point from one of the elements in the periodic table. Mingling fact and fiction, science and... -
A House For Mr Biswas by V. S. Naipaul 9781857152135
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.82In the comic masterpiece which established him one of the greatest writers in the English language, Naipaul follows the fortunes of Mr Biswas, the outsider who refuses to conform to the customs of... -
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.54WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW O'HAGANIn the summer of 1976 Gary Gilmore robbed two men. Then he shot them in cold blood. For those murders Gilmore was sent to languish on Death Row - and could... -
The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51'A phenomenal writer' Sunday TimesAn intoxicating comedy about youth, the 1970s, the sexual revolution and its aftermath.Summer, 1970. Sex is very much on everyone's mind. Keith Nearing - a bookish... -
The David Foster Wallace Reader by David Foster Wallace
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.10'One of the most dazzling luminaries of contemporary American fiction' Sunday Times 'The most commanding and exciting and inventive rhetorical virtuosity of any writer alive... [He] nailed it like... -
Raw Spirit: In Search of the Perfect Dram by Iain Banks
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.41New introduction by Ian Rankin_________________________________________'One of the most playful and entertaining writers of our generation' Val McDermid, Guardian In an absorbing voyage as... -
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell by Tucker Max 9780141029450
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Tucker Max drinks to excess at inappropriate times, disregards social norms, indulges every whim, takes no responsibility for his actions, rebels against any authority, mocks idiots and posers,... -
Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $8.51From the father of 'gonzo journalism', Hunter S. Thompson's research for Hell's Angels involved more than a year of close association with the outlaws who burned a path through 1960s America,... -
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.43Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos: he is separated from... -
The Short Novels of John Steinbeck (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by John Steinbeck
RRP: $34.83Booksplease Price: $25.48Collected here for the first time in a deluxe paperback volume are six of John Steinbeck's most widely read and beloved novels. From the tale of commitment, loneliness and hope in Of Mice and Men, to... -
Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson 9780141041872
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.33With 'long hair in the wind, beards and bandanas flapping, earrings, chain whips . . . and Harleys flashing chrome', the Hell's Angels erupted into 1960s America paralysing whole towns with fear... -
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.91One of the twentieth century's great undisputed masterpieces, Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano includes an introduction by Michael Schmidt in Penguin Modern Classics.It is the fiesta 'Day of the... -
London Fields by Martin Amis
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51Writer, Samson Young, is staring death in the face, and not only his own. Void of ideas and on the verge of terminal decline, Samson's dash to a decaying, degenerate London has brought him through... -
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66**A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' TOP BOOK OF 2018**The Largesse of the Sea Maiden is the long-awaited new story collection from Denis Johnson, author of the groundbreaking, highly acclaimed Jesus' Son... -
Pobby and Dingan by Ben Rice
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62Pobby and Dingan live in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, the opal capital of Australia. They are friends with Kellyanne Williamson, the daughter of a miner: indeed only she can see them. Pobby and... -
The Revenge for Love by Wyndham Lewis
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62Published in the shadow of the Spanish Civil War, The Revenge for Love is a political thriller attacking the fraudulence and feeble-mindedness of life in the Britain of the 1930s. A brilliant satire...