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Sojourn by Amit Chaudhuri 9780571360352
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £5.72'A mysterious, subtle, haunting novel.'Chris PowerAn unnamed man arrives in Berlin as a visiting professor. It is a place fused with Western history and cultural fracture lines. He moves along its... -
Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby 9780241969830
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31What happens when a washed-up musician looks for another chance? And miles away, a restless woman looks for a change? NICK HORNBY'S HILARIOUS INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER IS NOW A MAJOR FILM'A comic... -
The Second Life of Sally Mottram by David Nobbs 9780007449989
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £16.58The wonderfully entertaining new novel from bestselling author of The Fall and Rise of Reggie Perrin. Long-time Potherthwaite resident Sally Mottram cannot stand the decline of her town... -
Brexlit: British Literature and the European Project by Dr Kristian Shaw 9781350225817
Booksplease Price: £31.86Britain's vote to leave the European Union in the summer of 2016 came as a shock to many observers. But writers had long been exploring anxieties and fractures in British society - from... -
The Code of the Vavasors by Jonathan Pinnock 9781788424356
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Tom Winscombe and his ex-girlfriend Dorothy Chan are on a mission to crack a code - a code embedded in a chip inside two alpacas that used to belong to the famed dead mathematical geniuses, the... -
Don't Stop the Music: A Year of Pop History, One Day at a Time - From 1894 to the Present by Justin Lewis 9781783967926
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74‘Brilliantly simple as an idea but also ambitious, Justin Lewis creates a glorious interlocking history ... of our pop culture with all its coincidences, connections and shared enjoyment.’ We Are... -
A Heart so White by Javier Marias
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A Heart so White is the breathtaking international bestseller and IMPAC Award-winning masterpiece by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013. This... -
Blitz Spirit: 'Fascinating' -Tom Hanks Becky Brown 9781529347050
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56'Fascinating ' Elizabeth Day'Finally, a book that is proving very therapeutic in these difficult times... Full of doubt, fear, anger and rueful comedy, they give the lie to the idea that the Brits... -
All My Cats by Bohumil Hrabal
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37'One of the greatest European prose writers' Philip RothIn the autumn of 1965, Bohumil Hrabal bought a weekend cottage in the countryside east of Prague. There, until his death, he tended to an... -
The Seduction: An addictive new story of desire and obsession Joanna Briscoe 9781408873519
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.49'Addictive' Guardian 'A febrile, urgent tale' Sunday Times 'A sizzling new thriller' New York Times She knows your mind, she possesses your thoughts. What will she take next? 'I think I can... -
Community in Contemporary British Fiction: From Blair to Brexit by Sara Upstone 9781350244023
Booksplease Price: £105.96Examining how British writers are addressing the urgent matter of how we form and express group belonging in the 21st century, this book brings together a range of international scholars to explore... -
Diary of a Somebody by Brian Bilston
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2019, Diary of a Somebody is a unique mix of poetry and diary by the unofficial Poet Laureate of Twitter, the enigmatic Brian Bilston.'If you like a)... -
High and Low by Amanda Craig 9781408714706
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25'Craig anatomises the state of the nation with wit and empathy' JONATHAN COE'The most mischievous take imaginable on the way we live now' FRANCIS SPUFFORD'Sharp and funny, clear-eyed and... -
The Unspeakable Skipton: The Modern Classic Pamela Hansford Johnson 9781473679894
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Witty, satirical and deftly malicious' Anthony Burgess Described by the New York Times upon her death as 'one of Britain's best-known novelists', delve into the sparkling and satirical world of... -
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 9781529962277
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.07A beautiful deluxe gift edition of some of the very best, most mysterious and most satisfying Sherlock Holmes stories with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and... -
Novelists in the New Millennium: Conversations with Writers by Vanessa Guignery 9780230238244
Booksplease Price: £31.86A collection of interviews with leading writers such as Julian Barnes, Jonathan Coe, Kazuo Ishiguro, Hanif Kureishi, Arundhati Roy and Will Self. Through these interviews the book explores and... -
The Norm Chronicles: Stories and numbers about danger by David Spiegelhalter
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Meet Norm. He's 31, 5'9", just over 13 stone, and works a 39 hour week. He likes a drink, doesn't do enough exercise and occasionally treats himself to a bar of chocolate (milk). He's a pretty... -
Obstacles to Young Love by David Nobbs 9780007286287
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.78From one of the greatest comedic writers of a generation comes a story of love, faith and taxidermy. 'Three mighty obstacles threaten the burgeoning love of childhood sweethearts Timothy... -
The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950 by Carmen Callil 9781849016766
Booksplease Price: £20.70For Colm Toibin and Carmen Callil there is no difference between literary and commercial writing - there is only the good novel: engrossing, inspirational, compelling. In their selection of the best... -
Birth of a Bridge by Maylis de Kerangal
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Coca, Southern California. A small town on a wild river, at the margins of the red-rocked desert and the forest where the last of the state's Native Americans still make their home.When Boa, the... -
1982, Janine by Alasdair Gray
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Jock McLeish, failed husband, lover and businessman is alone in a hotel room, drinking whisky, fantasising about sex and contemplating suicide. As he tries to distance himself from reality, his... -
How to be Good by Nick Hornby
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31THE MILLION-COPY NO.1 BESTSELLER'Enormously powerful' Guardian'Hilarious, sophisticated, compulsive' The Times___________________'I am in a car park in Leeds when I tell my husband I don't want to be... -
The Mouthless Dead Anthony Quinn 9780349146928
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25A powerful and gripping crime novel based on the Wallace Murder, a national cause celebre of the 1930s and still unsolved today, by the author of Curtain Call and Our Friends in BerlinOne night in... -
Lest We Forget: War in 100 British Monuments Tessa Dunlop 9780008713140
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.53What monuments to conflict, and the people they commemorate, tell us about our history and ourselves. 'When you go home, tell them of us and say,... -
The Card by Graham Rawle 9780857891266
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £14.15Since childhood, Riley has been a keen collector of bubble gum cards. Now, thirty years later, the one card missing from his collection is the legendary card 19 from the 1967 Mission Impossible... -
Blitz Spirit: 'Fascinating' -Tom Hanks Becky Brown 9781529347081
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'An utterly fascinating book - conversations and human behaviours recorded in real time' Tom Hanks'Fascinating ' Elizabeth Day'A hugely affecting and absorbing read.' The Bookseller'Finally, a book... -
The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 9780099529675
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID PEACEThis volume collects together Sherlock Holmes's most memorable and intriguing cases, including adventures with mysterious masked strangers, ingenious heists,... -
Mortal Leap by MacDonald Harris 9781915812100
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.95A merchant seaman is the sole survivor when his ship is sunk in a battle in the South Pacific. Badly burned, he is stripped of every shred of identity and cast into the sea, naked, faceless, nameless... -
Different Every Time: The Authorised Biography of Robert Wyatt by Marcus O'Dair
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.04Robert Wyatt started out as the drummer and singer for Soft Machine, who shared a residency at Middle Earth with Pink Floyd and toured America with Jimi Hendrix. He brought a Bohemian and jazz... -
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey 9780241968185
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE MAJOR BBC DRAMA STARRING BAFTA AWARD-WINNING ACTRESS GLENDA JACKSON How do you solve a mystery when you can't remember the clues?Maud is forgetful. She makes a cup of tea... -
The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.87WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY P.D. JAMESThis book contains all the investigations and adventures of the world's most popular detective, Sherlock Holmes. From 'The Adventure of the Gloria Scott' to 'His... -
The Stirrings: Coming of Age in Northern Time by Catherine Taylor 9781474625319
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Winner of the 2024 TLS Ackerley Prize'Part poignant memoir of time and place. Part record of the violence, and indifference, against which most girls grow up. The Stirrings is a pleasure and a shock'... -
Wish I Was Here by M. John Harrison
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 'This dazzling anti-memoir is nothing less than a portrait of a writer with a beautiful mind. Harrison turns over what it takes to simultaneously be present to everyday... -
Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain by Fintan O'Toole
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.33'A wildly entertaining but uncomfortable read... Pitilessly brilliant' JONATHAN COE. 'There will not be much political writing in this or any other year that is carried off with such style' The... -
The Stirrings: A Memoir in Northern Time by Catherine Taylor
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.68No life exists outside the times.This is a story about one young woman coming of age, and about the place and time that shaped her: the North of England in the 1970s and 80s.About the scorching... -
Whoops!: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay by John Lanchester
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95John Lanchester's Whoops! Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay is the unbelievable true story of the economic crisis. We are, to use a technical economic term, screwed. The cowboy... -
Tales from a Master's Notebook: Stories Henry James Never Wrote by Various
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41A collection of stories from some of our best-loved writers, inspired by ideas found in Henry James's notebooks.When Henry James died he left behind a series of notebooks filled with ideas for novels... -
Sure Of You: Tales of the City 6 by Armistead Maupin
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49The sixth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin's best-selling San Francisco saga.'Maupin's adeptness at fluid dialogue, his flair for shaping characters who thread the... -
Together: A Manifesto Against the Heartless World Ece Temelkuran 9781837263042
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Now is the time for the new, the beautiful and the humane.In Together, award-winning political thinker, author and poet Ece Temelkuran provides an inspiring manifesto for change by revealing fresh... -
Mr Toppit by Charles Elton 9781408884881
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.89The bestselling Richard and Judy Book Club Pick 'Jangly with secrets' Sunday Times 'Funny, inventive, surprisingly moving' Guardian 'Royal Tenenbaums-style saga of dysfunctional family' The...