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The Portable Beat Reader by Ann Charters
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73Beginning in the late 1940's, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was "beat." Beat as in poverty and beatitude, ecstasy and exile. Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the... -
Writing Tangier in the Postcolonial Transition: Space and Power in Expatriate and North African Literature by Michael K. Walonen
Booksplease Price: £119.06In his study of the Tangier expatriate community, Michael K. Walonen analyzes the representations of French and Spanish Colonial North Africa by Paul Bowles, Jane Bowles, William Burroughs, Brion... -
The Laurelude W. N. Herbert 9781852244644
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £6.76For nearly three hundred years Scotland and England were the Laurel and Hardy of nations. For nearly two hundred years The Prelude was a poem by Wordsworth. Something had to give. As Britain begins... -
Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk & Postmodern Science Fiction by Larry McCaffery 9780822311683
Booksplease Price: £38.72The term "cyberpunk" entered the literary landscape in 1984 to describe William Gibson's pathbreaking novel Neuromancer. Cyberpunks are now among the shock troops of postmodernism, Larry McCaffery... -
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Literature but Were Afraid to Ask Zizek: SIC 10 by Russell Sbriglia 9780822363033
RRP: £86.00Booksplease Price: £69.59Challenging the widely-held assumption that Slavoj Zizek's work is far more germane to film and cultural studies than to literary studies, this volume demonstrates the importance of Zizek to literary... -
David Cronenberg: Author or Filmmaker? by Mark Browning 9781841501734
Booksplease Price: £31.20For more than thirty years, David Cronenberg has made independent films such as Scanners and A History of Violence which aim to disturb, surprise, and challenge audiences. He has also repeatedly... -
Slash: The Autobiography by Slash
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28It seems excessive...but that doesn't mean it didn't happen. The mass of black curls. The top hat. The cigarette dangling from pouty lips. These are the trademarks of one of the world's... -
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The Portable Beat Reader by Ann Charters 9780142437537 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £4.10Beginning in the late 1940's, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was "beat." Beat as in poverty and beatitude, ecstasy and exile. Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the... -
Queer: 25th Anniversary Edition by William S. Burroughs
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an enigma - both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, Burroughs' only realist love story... -
The Soft Machine: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.47A terrifying, surreal space-age odyssey, The Soft Machine initiated Burroughs' Cut-Up Trilogy that includes Nova Express and The Ticket That Exploded. The book draws the reader into an unmappable... -
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Literature but Were Afraid to Ask Zizek: SIC 10 by Russell Sbriglia
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Challenging the widely-held assumption that Slavoj Zizek's work is far more germane to film and cultural studies than to literary studies, this volume demonstrates the importance of Zizek to literary... -
Empire of Conspiracy: The Culture of Paranoia in Postwar America by Timothy Melley
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £18.78Why, Timothy Melley asks, have paranoia and conspiracy theory become such prominent features of postwar American culture? In Empire of Conspiracy, Melley explores the recent growth of anxieties about... -
I Swear I Saw This: Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own by Michael Taussig 9780226789835
Booksplease Price: £23.87"I Swear I Saw This" records visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig's reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through forty years of travels in Colombia. Taking as a starting point a drawing... -
Kerouac: Selected Letters: Volume 2: 1957-1969 by Jack Kerouac 9780140296150
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £23.44The first volume of Jack Kerouac's selected letters, published in 1995, was hailed as an important and revealing addition to Kerouac scholarship. This second and final volume, comprising letters... -
Empire of Conspiracy: The Culture of Paranoia in Postwar America by Timothy Melley 9780801436680
RRP: £116.00Booksplease Price: £92.20Why, Timothy Melley asks, have paranoia and conspiracy theory become such prominent features of postwar American culture? In Empire of Conspiracy, Melley explores the recent growth of anxieties about... -
The Ticket That Exploded: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.47An outrageous hybrid of pulp science fiction, obscene experimental poetry, and manifesto for revolution, The Ticket That Exploded is a last chance antidote to the virus of lies spread by the ad men... -
Angels the Size of Houses by Aaron Kent 9781848617667
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £8.93"This poetical collection, Angels the Size of Houses (70-plus sheets of cool and frantic paginated speech) is a buzzing and hyper-inventive set of multifarious devices, with exceptional prosodical... -
Touched by the Presence: From Blondie's Bowery and Rock and Roll to Magic and the Occult Gary Lachman 9798888503119
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £16.74A memoir of magic, rock and roll, and becoming who you are* Traces the author's journey from bassist and founding member of Blondie to writer on consciousness and the esoteric tradition * Explores... -
The Atrocity Exhibition by J. G. Ballard
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.63A prophetic and experimental masterpiece by J. G. Ballard, the acclaimed author of 'Crash' and 'Super-Cannes'. This edition includes explanatory notes from the author. The irrational,... -
Beat Atlas: A State by State Guide to the Beat Generation in America by Bill Morgan 9780872865129
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64A companion to our guides to San Francisco and New York, Beat Atlas: A Guide to the Beat Generation in America is a state-by-state guide to the rest of the nation's significant Beat locales. From... -
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess 9780434021512
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.51The fully restored fiftieth anniversary editionForeword by Martin AmisFirst published by William Heinemann in 1962, A Clockwork Orange is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential books of... -
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Slash: The Autobiography by Slash 9780007257775 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.41It seems excessive...but that doesn't mean it didn't happen. The mass of black curls. The top hat. The cigarette dangling from pouty lips. These are the trademarks of one of the world's... -
The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 by Martin Amis 9780099422228
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £8.99Like John Updike, Martin Amis is the pre-eminent novelist-critic of his generation. The War Against Cliche is a selection of his reviews and essays over the past quarter-century. It contains pieces... -
Reconstructing the Beats by Jennie Skerl 9780312293796
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £39.99This collection of scholarly essays reassesses the Beat Generation writers in mid-century American history and literature, as well as their broad cultural impact since the 60s from contemporary... -
Aggressive Fictions: Reading the Contemporary American Novel by Kathryn Hume 9780801450013
RRP: £49.00Booksplease Price: £40.68A frequent complaint against contemporary American fiction is that too often it puts off readers in ways they find difficult to fathom. Books such as Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho, Katherine... -
The Moronic Inferno: And Other Visits to America by Martin Amis 9780099461869
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.15At the age of ten, when Martin Amis spent a year in Princeton, New Jersey, he was excited and frightened by America. As an adult he has approached that confusing country from many arresting angles,... -
Trilogy of Resistance by Antonio Negri 9780816672943
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68With Trilogy of Resistance, the political philosopher Antonio Negri extends his intervention in contemporary politics and culture into a new medium: drama. The three plays collected for the first... -
Adjustment Day by Chuck Palahniuk
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49The author of Fight Club takes America beyond our darkest dreams in this timely satire. ... -
City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and 1970s by Edmund White 9781408809426
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.37______________'An open-throttled tour of New York City during the bad old days of the 1960s and early '70s ... it's all here in exacting and eye-popping detail' - New York Times'Energetic evocation... -
The English Opium-Eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey by Robert Morrison
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £8.64Definitive life of the author of CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, journalist, political commentator and biographer.Thomas De Quincey's friendships with leading poets and men of letters in the... -
Climbers: With an introduction by Robert Macfarlane by M. John Harrison
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'No one alive can write sentences like he can. He's the missing evolutionary link between William Burroughs and Virginia Woolf' Olivia Laing'Among the most brilliant novelists writing today' Robert... -
A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré 1945-2020 by John le Carré 9780241994559
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.81John le Carre was a defining writer of his time. This enthralling collection letters - written to readers, publishers, film-makers and actors, politicians and public figures - reveals the playfully... -
The Limits of Ferocity: Sexual Aggression and Modern Literary Rebellion by Daniel Fuchs 9780822350057
Booksplease Price: £39.34The Limits of Ferocity is a powerful critique of the culture of extremity represented in the works of D. H. Lawrence, Georges Bataille, Henry Miller, and Norman Mailer. Daniel Fuchs provides close... -
Memories, Dreams and Reflections by Marianne Faithfull
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95This book is a more personal history than has ever before been written by or about Marianne Faithfull. Anecdotal, conversational, intimate and revealing, this is her no-holds-barred account of her... -
Atomik Aztex by Sesshu Foster 9780872864405
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.27In the alternate universe of this glitteringly surreal first novel, the Aztecs rule, having conquered the European invaders. Zenzontli, Keeper of the House of Darkness, is visited by visions of a... -
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey 9780099528593
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.46WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD MARKSOnce upon a time, opium (the main ingredient of heroin) was easily available over the chemist's counter. The secret of happiness, about which philosophers have... -
Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac 9780140179071
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.32"What I'm beginning to discover now is something beyond the novel and beyond the arbitrary confines of the story. . . . I'm making myself seek to find the wild form, that can grow with my wild heart ... -
Paul Bowles's Literary Engagement with Morocco: Poetic Space, Liminality, and In-Betweenness by Bouchra Benlemlih 9781498548021
Booksplease Price: £91.39This study argues that Paul Bowles is more perceptive than many American travelers in Morocco. The book provides us with what are perhaps the most sustained meditations to date on Bowles's... -
Dead Writers in Rehab by Paul Bassett Davies 9781785634000
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78The only thing worse than waking up with the hangover from hell is waking up with a hangover in hell When literary reprobate Foster James wakes up in a strange country house, he assumes he's been... -
Just Kids illustrated by Patti Smith 9781526615008
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.92THE AWARD-WINNING MASTERPIECE THAT DEFINED ROCK'N'ROLL MEMOIR AND CAPTURED AN ERA Now richly illustrated with new material and never-before-seen photographs 'Sharp, elegiac and finely crafted'...