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A Reckoning Linda Spalding 9781999613501
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.10Spring 1855 and Virginian farmer John Dickinson has a dangerous secret that will lead to a tragic decision. The family's riches have been wasted by his reckless brother who holds all of them hostage... -
Scheherazade's Daughters: The Power of Storytelling in Ecofeminist Change by Barbara Bennett 9781433118715
RRP: £68.40Booksplease Price: £60.90Scheherazade, the storyteller of 1001 Arabian Nights, recounts stories literally to save her people, and in Scheherazade's Daughters, Barbara Bennett explores how contemporary female authors attempt... -
The Overstory Richard Powers 9781804951781
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.26THE MILLION-COPY GLOBAL BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION'Radical and exciting' Jessie Burton'Breathtaking' Barbara Kingsolver'It changed how I thought about the Earth and our... -
Animals in Our Days: A Book of Stories by Mohamed Makhzangi 9780815611486
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58Each story in Mohamed Makhzangi's unique collection Animals in Our Days features a different animal species and its fraught relationship with humans-water buffalo in a rural village gone mad from... -
Heartwood: 'nearly impossible to put down' Jennifer Egan by Amity Gaige 9780349127583
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'An unforgettable treat' JANICE HALLETT'Beautifully written . . . moving and suspenseful' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT'Gripping . . . each strand adds tension and drama' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING'One of my... -
Their Name Is Today: Reclaiming Childhood in a Hostile World by Johann Christoph Arnold
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.37There's hope for childhood. Despite a perfect storm of hostile forces that are robbing children of a healthy childhood, courageous parents and teachers who know what's best for children are turning... -
Shakespeare and the Evolution of the Human Umwelt: Adapt, Interpret, Mutate Timothy Day 9780367707903
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Shakespeare and the Evolution of the Human Umwelt brings together research on Shakespeare, biosemiotics, ecocriticism, epigenetics and actor network theory as it explores the space between nature and... -
Making Home: Orphanhood, Kinship and Cultural Memory in Contemporary American Novels by Maria Holmgren Troy
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £61.61Making home explores the figure of the orphan child in a broad selection of contemporary US novels by popular and critically acclaimed authors Barbara Kingsolver, Linda Hogan, Leslie Marmon Silko,... -
The Seasons of Women: An Anthology by Gloria Norris 9780393038606
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £40.95This collection of work by contemporary American women writers celebrates the passions, joys, losses, courage, quests, and wisdom of women through all the seasons of their lives. The unusually broad... -
Pelican Girls Julia Malye 9781472298225
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Stunning, moving, and remarkable' Nguyen Phan Que Mai, internationally bestselling author of The Mountains Sing and Dust Child'A celebration of complicity and love among women' Pilar Quintana,... -
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Mudbound by Hillary Jordan 9780099524687 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.98NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CAREY MULLIGAN, GARRETT HEDLUND & MARY J. BLIGEWhen Henry McAllan moves his city-bred wife, Laura, to a cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta in 1946, she finds... -
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CAREY MULLIGAN, GARRETT HEDLUND & MARY J. BLIGEWhen Henry McAllan moves his city-bred wife, Laura, to a cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta in 1946, she finds... -
A Good Animal Sara Maurer 9781250383563
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £17.40Staying is his dream. Leaving is hers. One secret threatens them both. In the farm country outside Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan-a border town where life moves slow and dreams run fast-most kids want... -
Reading Adoption: Family and Difference in Fiction and Drama by Marianne Novy 9780472032648
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.14A literary scholar who is an adult adoptee delves into one of the enduring themes of literature - the child raised by other parents. ""Reading Adoption"" artfully combines memoir with literary and... -
Landlocked by Doris Lessing 9780586090015
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68The fourth book in the Nobel Prize for Literature winner's 'Children of Violence' series tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa to old age in post-nuclear Britain. ... -
Pod: 'A pacy, provocative tale of survival in a fast-changing marine landscape' Daily Mail by Laline Paull
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION, 2023'Knocked my socks off . . . it is set entirely in the ocean. It's not science fiction. It's realistic. It's set in the here and now . . . And it's... -
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Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens 9781472154668 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.51#1 New York Times BestsellerA Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick"I can't even express how much I love this book! I didn't want this story to end!" Reese Witherspoon"Painfully beautiful... -
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens 9781472154668
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02#1 New York Times BestsellerA Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick"I can't even express how much I love this book! I didn't want this story to end!" Reese Witherspoon"Painfully beautiful... -
First Confession by Montserrat Fontes 9780393308471
Booksplease Price: £16.33Two spoiled children, the willful Andrea and her cousin Victor, take up spying and stealing when they discover where the town hooker hides her money. Their theft tragically unleashes a series of... -
Home Matters: Longing and Belonging, Nostalgia and Mourning in Women's Fiction by R. Rubenstein 9781349386635
Booksplease Price: £46.28Despite its typically regressive associations with homesickness, the longing associated with nostalgia may also function progressively as a vehicle for imaginatively 'fixing' the past in two senses:... -
Dripping Dry: Literature, Politics and Water in the Desert Southwest by David Nathan Cassuto
Booksplease Price: £28.37More than any other single characteristic, aridity defines the American West. Water scarcity and its biologically critical function have also molded the regional literature of the region. Using... -
September 11, 2001: Feminist Perspectives by Susan Hawthorne 9781876756277
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £13.74After September 11, feminists around the world spoke out, wrote for newspapers, for email lists and for the Internet. But in the male-dominated mass media, it was hard to find feminist perspectives... -
Teaching the Literature of Climate Change by Debra J. Rosenthal 9781603296359
Booksplease Price: £32.25Essays on teaching the global climate crisis through cli-fi.Over the past several decades, writers such as Paolo Bacigalupi, Octavia E. Butler, Kathy Jetil-Kijiner, and Margaret Atwood have explored... -
From Empire to Anthropocene: The Novel in Posthistorical Times by Betty Joseph 9781421446974
RRP: £88.50Booksplease Price: £63.15How contemporary novels use narrative time to counter cultural homogenization and historical flattening.In From Empire to Anthropocene, Betty Joseph celebrates how contemporary fiction contributes to... -
Teaching the Literature of Climate Change by Debra J. Rosenthal 9781603296342
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09Essays on teaching the global climate crisis through cli-fi.Over the past several decades, writers such as Paolo Bacigalupi, Octavia E. Butler, Kathy Jetil-Kijiner, and Margaret Atwood have explored... -
Landscapes of the New West: Gender and Geography in Contemporary Women's Writing by Krista Comer 9780807848135
Booksplease Price: £42.19In the early 1970s, empowered by the civil rights and women's movements, a new group of women writers began speaking to the American public. Their topic, broadly defined, was the postmodern American... -
Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination by Lee Siegel 9780465078004
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £23.70Sex and the City, Saul Bellow, Eyes Wide Shut , Dante and the American self, Barbara Kingsolver, acting in Hollywood, Soviet painting in Soho, Angels in America , Jane Austen in the present, J.K... -
Kaye Gibbons: A Critical Companion by Mary Jean DeMarr 9780313319334
Booksplease Price: £35.47Born to a tobacco farmer in rural North Carolina, Kaye Gibbons found her literary voice by speaking through the strong southern women who inhabit her novels. While concentrating on the places and... -
Outdoors in the Southwest: An Adventure Anthology by Andrew Gulliford 9780806142609
Booksplease Price: £29.98More college students than ever are majoring in Outdoor Recreation, Outdoor Education, or Adventure Education, but fewer and fewer Americans spend any time in thoughtful, respectful engagement with... -
Saoirse: Can a great love survive a great deception? Charleen Hurtubise 9781804441954
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.17'Beautifully written and enticingly intriguing' - Liz Nugent, author of Strange Sally Diamond'Audacious and propulsive, a story surges with emotion - this is a dazzling novel' - Colin Walsh, author... -
The Way Home by Bibi Wein 9781932195132
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £11.88Provocative from the opening lines, this is a treasure trove of love, loss, humor, and self-discovery amidst the trees and cabins of the Adirondack Mountains:Somewhere around the age of 40, when I... -
Poverty Politics: Poor Whites in Contemporary Southern Writing by Sarah Robertson 9781496824332
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Representations of southern poor whites have long shifted between romanticization and demonization. At worst, poor southern whites are aligned with racism, bigotry, and right-wing extremism, and, at... -
Appalachian Gateway: An Anthology of Contemporary Stories and Poetry by George Brosi 9781572339446
Booksplease Price: £27.46Featuring the work of twenty-five fiction writers and poets, this anthology is a captivating introduction to the finest of contemporary Appalachian literature. Here are short stories and poems by... -
From Daughters to Mothers I've Always Meant to Tell You by Constance Warloe 9780671563257
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.75In this extraordinary collection of letters written especially for this volume, more than seventy-five distinguished daughters -- novelists, poets, essayists, cartoonists, journalists -- speak to... -
Poverty Politics: Poor Whites in Contemporary Southern Writing by Sarah Robertson 9781496824325
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14Representations of southern poor whites have long shifted between romanticization and demonization. At worst, poor southern whites are aligned with racism, bigotry, and right-wing extremism, and, at... -
Ghalen: A Romance in Black by Walter Mosley 9780063451551
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.75A stellar addition to the Amistad list: a beautiful coming-of-age novel from MWA Grand Master and PEN and Edgar Award-winner Walter Mosley that explores love in all forms—romantic, familial, and... -
Home Matters: Longing and Belonging, Nostalgia and Mourning in Women's Fiction by R. Rubenstein 9780312238759
Booksplease Price: £46.74Despite its typically regressive associations with homesickness, the longing associated with nostalgia may also function progressively as a vehicle for imaginatively 'fixing' the past in two senses:... -
Robert Lowell In Context by Thomas Austenfeld 9781009465717
Booksplease Price: £95.79Robert Lowell was one of the most influential American poets of the 20th century. This volume explores the various contexts of Lowell's life and work and evaluates his oeuvre from new perspectives... -
The Leavers by Lisa Ko 9781616208042
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68FINALIST FOR THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, Entertainment Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, BuzzFeed, Bustle, and Electric Literature "There was a time I... -
Our London Lives Christine Dwyer Hickey 9781805461326
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.68'Sprawling yet intimate' Guardian'Huge of heart and soaring of soul' CLAIRE KILROY'A profound love story...Like Barbara Kingsolver, Hickey captures the pulse of the living moment' COLUM McCANN'A...