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New Collected Poems by Lee Harwood 9781848618558
RRP: £27.50Booksplease Price: £25.69Lee Harwood's work defines the poetry of an era that saw poetry itself at its most exciting, expansive and innovative. His achievement runs through the very core of these qualities and has enriched... -
I Hear A New World: The Brand New Fantastical Historical Novel from Icon Alan Moore by Alan Moore 9781526643308
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.66'Extraordinary' Susanna Clarke, bestselling author of Piranesi and Jonathan Strange & Mr NorrellA continuation of The Great When; a dark and beguiling tour through the streets of London - fictional... -
I Hear A New World: The Brand New Fantastical Historical Novel from Icon Alan Moore Alan Moore 9781526643292
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.29'Extraordinary' Susanna Clarke, bestselling author of Piranesi and Jonathan Strange & Mr NorrellA continuation of The Great When; a dark and beguiling tour through the streets of London - fictional... -
London Clay: Journeys in the Deep City by Tom Chivers
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81'A lyrical meditation on landscapes and cities, vivid reportage and a memoir. And also a beautifully realised and moving read.' Financial Times'A beguiling mix of history, geology, folklore and... -
Greyhound Joanna Pocock 9781804271384
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51In 2006, in the wake of several miscarriages, Joanna Pocock travelled by Greyhound bus across the US from Detroit to Los Angeles. Seventeen years later, now in her 50s, she undertakes the same... -
Desire Paths: Real Walks to Nonreal Places by Roy Bayfield 9781911193043
Booksplease Price: £19.23Unpromisingly for a walking book Desire Pathsbegins on a hospital gurney as the author prepares for open heart surgery. Thereafter, it dances back and forth in place and time between an array of... -
Innominate by Naomi Pearce 9781913430146
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £10.88"Everything becomes familiar eventually. But there was something else, I'd tried to explain, a rhythmic presence like breath, barely a sound, more like pressure. I feel it on my stomach in bed, a... -
These Darkening Days by Benjamin Myers
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12As autumn draws in, a series of unexplained vicious attacks occur in a small northern town renowned for being a bohemian backwater. As the national media descends, local journalist Roddy Mace... -
The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave-Robbery in 1830s London Sarah Wise 9781844133307
Booksplease Price: £13.16Towards the end of 1831, the authorities unearthed a series of crimes at Number 3, Nova Scotia Gardens in East London that appeared to echo the notorious Burke and Hare killings in Edinburgh three... -
The City's Son: in hidden London you'll find marvels, magic . . . and menace by Tom Pollock
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'An impeccably dark parable, endlessly inventive and utterly compelling' M R Carey, author of The Girl with all the Gifts Beth's world is falling apart. Then she discovers a hidden London, full of... -
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Full Dark House: (Bryant & May Book 1) by Christopher Fowler 9780553815528 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £3.27When a bomb devastates the office of London's most unusual police unit and claims the life of its oldest detective, Arthur Bryant, his surviving partner John May searches for clues to the bomber's... -
Island Dreams: Mapping an Obsession Gavin Francis 9781786898203
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARIn Island Dreams, Gavin Francis combines stories of his own travels with psychology, philosophy and myth, shedding new light on the importance of islands... -
Deceit Yuri Felsen 9781913513238
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.96Appearing for the first time in English, Deceit is the debut novel by Yuri Felsen, a leading modernist writer of the interwar Russian diaspora. Known by his contemporaries as 'the Russian Proust',... -
Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England by Sarah Wise
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41This highly original book brilliantly exposes the phenomenon of false allegations of lunacy and the dark motives behind them in the Victorian period.Gaslight tales of rooftop escapes, men and women... -
Sir Thomas Browne: The Opium of Time by Gavin Francis
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.18In this book, Gavin Francis writes about the resonance for him as a medic in reading the work of early modern polymath Sir Thomas Browne. Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) was an English physician,... -
Soft City: Picador Classic by Jonathan Raban
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Jonathan Raban's Soft City is a compelling exploration of urban life: a classic in the literature of the city. First published in the 1970s, it is now more relevant to today's overcrowded planet than... -
Gold Fever: One Man's Adventures on the Trail of the Modern Gold Rush by Steve Boggan
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74Have you ever imagined giving up your day job and heading for the hills in search of gold? Journalist Steve Boggan decided to do just that when the price of the precious metal scaled dizzying heights... -
Night Thoughts: The Surreal Life of the Poet David Gascoyne by Robert Fraser 9780199558148
Booksplease Price: £68.61The poet David Gascoyne (1916-2001) led a life as surreal as his early poems. At eighteen he drafted the manifesto of the English Surrealist Group and at nineteen he published what remains an... -
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Weirdo by Cathi Unsworth 9781846687938 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £4.71Corinne Woodrow was fifteen when she was convicted of murdering one of her classmates on a summer's evening in 1984, a year when the teenagers of Ernemouth ran wild, dressing in black and staying out... -
London in Fragments: A Mudlark's Treasures Ted Sandling 9780711239296
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £12.99This is the fully-illustrated edition of LONDON IN FRAGMENTS. A new paperback edition is also available, published under the title A MUDLARK'S TREASURES: London in Fragments'A beautiful book.' Daily... -
The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum Sarah Wise 9781844133314
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'An excellent and intelligent investigation of the realities of urban living that respond to no design or directive... This is a book about the nature of London itself' Peter Ackroyd, The TimesA... -
Island Dreams: Mapping an Obsession by Gavin Francis
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.68SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARIn Island Dreams, Gavin Francis examines our collective fascination with islands. He blends stories of his own travels with psychology, philosophy and... -
Contemporary Masculinities in Fiction, Film and Television by Brian Baker 9781501320095
Booksplease Price: £42.22While masculinity has been an increasingly visible field of study within several disciplines (sociology, literary studies, cultural studies, film and tv) over the last two decades, it is surprising... -
The Gaelic Garden of the Dead MacGillivray 9781780374437
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64The Gaelic Garden of the Dead is three Books of the Dead bound as one. This trilogy comprises an alphabet of trees, ten dream pattern poems and thirty-five death sonnets deconstructed to Mary Queen... -
Henry Eliot's Book of Bookish Lists by Henry Eliot
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Who had birds called Death, Wigs and Spinach? How do you spell the noise of a door slamming? Whose working title was The Chronic Argonauts?Henry Eliot - author, editor and insatiable bookworm - has... -
The Ways of Paradise Peter Cornell 9781804271063
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95In his foreword to The Ways of Paradise, Peter Cornell presents this so-called found manuscript, the work of a now-deceased, obscure researcher who spent three decades in the National Library of... -
The Undiscovered Country: Journeys Among the Dead by Carl Watkins 9780099548584
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47'This is a wonderful book: curious and insightful' Ian Mortimer, author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval EnglandWe know what happens to the body when we die, but what happens to the soul?... -
Inheritance: The Lost History of Mary Davies: A Story of Property, Marriage and Madness by Leo Hollis 9781786079954
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.31'Brilliant' Financial Times 'Hollis expertly weaves together the human tragedy and high politics behind the explosion of one of the world's greatest cities' Dan Snow The reclaimed history of a... -
The Case for Love: Reflections on a Medical Career by A K Benjamin
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.11An exhilarating journey into the unfathomable depths of the human mind, from the acclaimed author of Let Me Not Be Mad.What does it take to care for a stranger? Really care.The Case for Love is a... -
Inheritance: The Lost History of Mary Davies: A Story of Property, Marriage and Madness by Leo Hollis
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74'Brilliant' Financial Times 'Hollis expertly weaves together the human tragedy and high politics behind the explosion of one of the world's greatest cities' Dan Snow The reclaimed history of a... -
The Unrecovered: A richly atmospheric gothic tale of madness, war and all-encompassing obsession set in Scotland Richard Strachan 9781526670557
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.97Shortlisted for the Bloody Scotland Debut prize 'Beautifully written' Michelle Paver'I devoured this' Rebecca Netley'A rare gem of gothic literature' A. M. ShineAt a Scottish manor house... -
River by Esther Kinsky 9781910695296
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31'After many years I had excised myself from the life I had led in town, just as one might cut a figure out of a landscape or group photo. Abashed by the harm I had wreaked on the picture left behind,... -
The Secret Lore of London: The city's forgotten stories and mythology by 9781473620247
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.68With a foreword by Iain Sinclair. London is an ancient city, whose foundation dates back literally thousands of years into the legendary prehistory of these islands. Not surprisingly it has... -
Let Me Not Be Mad: A Story of Unravelling Minds by A K Benjamin
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Let Me Not Be Mad is an immersive, virtuosic and provocative investigation of madness, love and self-destruction that defies categorisation. 'Exhilarating ... dazzling ... a miraculous feat'... -
The Illuminated Man: Life, Death and the Worlds of J. G. Ballard Christopher Priest 9781399417495
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.92This book is about J. G. Ballard. This book is also about death, love and time travel.J. G. Ballard possessed one of the most astonishing imaginations of our age, and he had an intense and turbulent... -
The Britannias: An Island Quest by Alice Albinia 9780241669631
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR'A dazzlingly brilliant book' Hannah Dawson'Fascinating, often exhilarating ... Albinia is an intrepid, imaginative guide' TLSThe Britannias... -
City State: New London Poetry by Jay Bernard
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.40City State showcases the work of twenty-seven London writers between the ages of 16 and 36. From hyperlinked walks of Battersea bombsites and guerilla gardening projects to jagged urban lyrics and... -
William Blake and The Sea Monsters of Love Philip Hoare 9780008534387
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58Named a BOOK OF THE YEAR by The Times and Sunday Times, New Statesman, Spectator, Prospect, and New Yorker. 'Undoubtedly Hoare's masterpiece' Olivia Laing ... -
The Unrecovered by Richard Strachan 9781526670540
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.34'Beautifully written' Michelle Paver 'Stunning' Rebecca Netley'Eerie' Naomi Kelsey 'Compulsive' Martin MacInnesWhat the years have buried, is about to be exposed...The gloomy fortress of Gallondean... -
Looking to Sea: Britain Through the Eyes of its Artists Lily Le Brun 9781529309249
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.20'Looking to Sea is a remarkable and compelling book... I loved it.' Edmund de WaalAn alternative history of modern Britain, Looking to Sea is an exquisite work of cultural, artistic and philosophical...