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The Ethics and Aesthetics of Vulnerability in Contemporary British Fiction Jean-Michel Ganteau (Universite Paul Valery, France) 9781138547742
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89This book visits vulnerability in contemporary British fiction, considering vulnerability in its relation to poetics, politics, ethics, and trauma. Vulnerability and risk have become central issues... -
Royals: The Autumn Radio 2 Book Club Pick by Emma Forrest
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05The Autumn Radio 2 Book Club Pick A Grazia Book of the Year 'An Eighties Breakfast at Tiffany's' David Nicholls 'Elegant, sexy, tender wild' Emma Jane Unsworth July, 1981. London. Shy,... -
Dear Senthuran: A Black spirit memoir by Akwaeke Emezi 9780571366163
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Unlike anything I've read . . . Remarkable.' Roxane Gay'An audacious sojourn through the terror and beauty of refusing to explain yourself. ' New York TimesIn letters addressed to their friends, to... -
Resisting Dialogue: Modern Fiction and the Future of Dissent by Juan Meneses 9781517906757
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £72.71A bold new critique of dialogue as a method of eliminating dissent Is dialogue always the productive political and communicative tool it is widely conceived to be? Resisting Dialogue reassesses our... -
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Royals: The Autumn Radio 2 Book Club Pick by Emma Forrest 9781408895214 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £4.22The Autumn Radio 2 Book Club PickA Grazia Book of the Year'Honest, provocative and disarmingly funny' Guardian'Charming, witty and touching, an Eighties Breakfast at Tiffany's' DAVID... -
Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back by Mark O'Connell
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.37In the remote mountains of Scotland, in high-tech bunkers in South Dakota and in the lush valleys of New Zealand, small groups of determined men and women are getting ready. They are... -
The Cure for Sleep: A book with the power to change your life by Tanya Shadrick 9781474618090
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.67'Moving and inspiring, courageous and true: real art. Just reading her is pleasure' Amy Liptrot, author of The OutrunWhat happens when you realise that you must change your life?When - after years of... -
Intimacy and Identity in the Postmodern Novel by Emilija Dimitrijevic 9783039110315
RRP: £49.95Booksplease Price: £45.03This book focuses on the themes of intimacy and identity in the contemporary novel and, in particular, in the novels of A. S. Byatt, Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson. Not only do the specificity... -
The First Day by Phil Harrison
RRP: £3.99Booksplease Price: £3.39Outside an east Belfast mission hall, pastor and family man Samuel Orr meets Anna, a young Beckett scholar. They embark on an intense love affair, their connection fuelled by their respective... -
The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony by Leigh Gilmore 9780801486746
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £20.89Memoirs in which trauma takes a major-or the major-role challenge the limits of autobiography. Leigh Gilmore presents a series of "limit-cases"-texts that combine elements of autobiography, fiction,... -
Twice upon a Time: Women Writers and the History of the Fairy Tale by Elizabeth Wanning Harries
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £39.05Fairy tales, often said to be "timeless" and fundamentally "oral," have a long written history. However, argues Elizabeth Wanning Harries in this provocative book, a vital part of this history has... -
Selected Short Stories Virginia Woolf 9780241372517
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Woolf is modern ... With Joyce and Eliot she has shaped a literary century' Jeanette WintersonVirginia Woolf tested the boundaries of fiction in these short stories, developing a new language of... -
Private Worlds: Growing Up Gay in Post-War Britain Jeremy Seabrook 9780745348421
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.35'All profound relationships have the quality of being a folie a deux; an intimate departure from reality, an imaginative creation of a world apart; perhaps this is a way of calling forth meaning -... -
The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony by Leigh Gilmore
RRP: £103.00Booksplease Price: £79.80Leigh Gilmore's The Limits of Autobiography is a fine addition to the body of excellent recent work in trauma studies, and is highly recommended for all working in the mental health disciplines...... -
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Number 11 by Jonathan Coe 9780670923793 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.92This is a novel about the hundreds of tiny connections between the public and private worlds and how they affect us all.It's about the legacy of war and the end of innocence.It's about how comedy and... -
Fall by Will Carver 9781913193928
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Estranged brothers are reunited over plans to develop the tower block where they grew up, but the desolate estate becomes a stage for reliving the events of one life-changing summer, forty years... -
Speak of the Devil: The ultimate revenge thriller by Rose Wilding 9781399805001
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'A clever and utterly absorbing thriller which marks the arrival of an author to watch' i News'A powerful feminist thriller . . . twisted in the best way' Clemence Michallon, author of The Quiet... -
Out of the Woods Luke Turner 9781474607162
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 WAINWRIGHT BOOK PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 POLARI FIRST BOOK AWARD'This is a book to get lost in . . . A disturbing trauma narrative, it's also a work of delightfully low,... -
The New Rulebook: Notes from a psychologist to help redefine the way youlive by Chris Cheers 9781460762868
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.86The bestselling, practical and inclusive guide to life from Instagram's favourite psychologist Chris Cheers.Shortlisted for the 2024 Australian Book Design Awards Best Designed Non-Fiction Cover ... -
The Rebel Girls Handbook by Rebel Girls
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.32All Rebel, all the time. The Rebel Girls Handbook is the ultimate ticket to trivia, activities, and more about 300+ extraordinary women featured across the bestselling Good Night Stories for Rebel... -
The Poetics of the Limit: Ethics and Politics in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry by Tim Woods 9780312293222
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book situates Louis Zukofsky's poetics (and the lineage of Objectivist poetics more broadly) within a set of ethical concerns in American poetic modernism. The book makes a strong case for... -
Night for Day Patrick Flanery (Author) 9781782396055
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.55Los Angeles, 1950. Over the course of a single day, two friends grapple with the moral and professional uncertainties of the escalating Communist witch-hunt in Hollywood. Director John Marsh races to... -
Gender and Short Fiction: Women’s Tales in Contemporary Britain by Jorge Sacido-Romero 9780367665722
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08In their new monograph, Gender and Short Fiction: Women's Tales in Contemporary Britain, Jorge Sacido-Romero and Laura M Lojo-Rodriguez explain why artistically ambitious women writers continue... -
Delicacy: A memoir about cake and death by Katy Wix
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Mesmerising . . . an extraordinary piece of writing.' - The i paper'A book that has the rare quality of being both poetic and accessible . . . missing Delicacy would be a huge mistake.' - Guardian'A... -
Wintering: The power of rest and retreat in difficult times by Katherine May 9781846048715
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.07THE NO. 1 BESTSELLING, LIFE-CHANGING PHENOMENON - SUNDAY TIMES and NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A beautiful, gentle exploration of the dark season of life and the light of spring that eventually... -
Virginia Woolf's Ethics of the Short Story by C. Reynier 9781349309726
Booksplease Price: £46.78Virginia Woolf's Ethics of the Short Story aims at a synthetic appraisal of Woolf's short stories as a space of encounter and a site of resistance. It throws a new light on Woolf's short stories as... -
Reading Trauma Narratives: The Contemporary Novel and the Psychology of Oppression by Laurie Vickroy 9780813937373
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £51.83As part of the contemporary reassessment of trauma that goes beyond Freudian psychoanalysis, Laurie Vickroy theorizes trauma in the context of psychological, literary, and cultural criticism... -
Virginia Woolf's Ethics of the Short Story by Christine Reynier 9780230227187
Booksplease Price: £46.74Virginia Woolf's Ethics of the Short Story aims at a synthetic appraisal of Woolf's short stories as a space of encounter and a site of resistance. It throws a new light on Woolf's short stories as... -
Heavy Light: A Journey Through Madness, Mania and Healing Horatio Clare 9781529112641
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'Deeply moving, darkly funny and hugely powerful' Robert Macfarlane'A brave, lit-up account of going mad and getting better' Jeanette WintersonAfter a lifetime of ups and downs, Horatio Clare was... -
Literary Modernism, Queer Temporality: Eddies in Time by Kate Haffey 9783030173005
RRP: £74.99Booksplease Price: £70.88This book explores the intersection between the recent work on queer temporality and the experiments of literary modernism. Kate Haffey argues that queer theory's recent work on time owes a debt to... -
Strangeland: A special 20th anniversary edition of one of Britain's most acclaimed artist's memoir by Tracey Emin 9781399748391
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25'Honest and extraordinary' GUARDIAN'A remarkable book - and an original, beautiful mind' EVENING STANDARDHere I am, a fucked, crazy, anorexic-alcoholic-childless, beautiful woman. I never dreamed it... -
Essays in Narrative and Fictionality: Reassessing Nine Central Concepts by Brian Richardson 9781527567481
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £34.67This book brings together several major essays on foundational topics of narrative studies and the theory of fictionality by one of the preeminent figures of postclassical narrative theory. It... -
The Contemporary British Novel by Philip Tew 9780826493200
Booksplease Price: £61.04"The Contemporary British Novel" is a lively, wide-ranging guide to the key issues in writing in Britain since the mid-1970s, including social change, gender, sexuality, class, history and ethnicity... -
The Penguin Guide to Literature in English: Britain And Ireland by Ronald Carter
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51This second edition of The Penguin Guide to Literature in English: Britain and Ireland provides an illustrated introduction to the work of the most important writers and their historical background... -
To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death Mark O'Connell 9781783781980
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.47WINNER OF THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2018 Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2017 A stunning new non-fiction voice tackles an urgent question... what next for mankind? 'Troubling and... -
Going to Extremes in Biblical Rewritings: Radical Literary Retellings of Biblical Tropes by Anthony Swindell 9783110781847
RRP: £101.50Booksplease Price: £69.18This book sets out to provide a matrix for surveying the literary treatment of biblical tropes. It supplies an overview of the literary reception of the Bible from the earliest times right through to... -
Contemporary British Fiction by Nick Bentley
Booksplease Price: £85.65This essential guide provides a comprehensive survey of the most important debates in the criticism and research of contemporary British fiction. Nick Bentley analyses the criticism surrounding a... -
Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine Harry Parker 9781788163118
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.55*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 BARBELLION PRIZE* *A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* As seen on Sky Arts Book Club with Elizabeth Day and Andi Oliver An eye-opening account of disability, identity, and... -
The Waves (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) Virginia Woolf 9781784870843
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.95Virginia Woolf wanted to write about the vast unknown uncertain continent that is the world and us in it' Jeanette Winterson, from her introduction to The Waves The Waves is an ... -
On Forgiveness: How Can We Forgive the Unforgivable? by Richard Holloway
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'Full of human wisdom, this is a psychologically acute and absorbing approach to a very important subject' PHILIP PULLMANIn this inspiring work, Richard Holloway tackles the great theme of...