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Lanyard by Peter Sansom 9781800170209
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62'On First Hearing Careless Whisper' is one of several poems in this compelling new collection that put time on pause to look at life through art, whether 1980s pop, or painting, or a congeries of... -
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Blue Diary by Alice Hoffman 9780099429142 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £1.69Ethan and Jorie, a perfect, beautiful couple, have been married for 13 years, and are still very much in love. Ethan is a pillar of the community, but 13 years ago he committed a brutal rape and... -
The Paris Review Interviews: Vol. 2 Philip Gourevitch 9781847670335
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51A second volume of fascinating interviews from one of the world's best loved literary magazinesSince The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest... -
Selected Essays by Clark Blaise 9781897231500
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.09Clark Blaise's Selected Essays brings together another aspect of his tremendous and courageous oeuvre: belle lettres, essays and occasional pieces which range over autobiography, his French-Canadan... -
An Organon of Life Knowledge: Genres and Functions of the Short Story in North America by Michael Basseler
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £26.00Can fiction teach us how to live? This study offers a fresh take on the North American short story, exploring how the genre has engaged in the construction and circulation of 'life knowledge'... -
Imagining Care: Responsibility, Dependency, and Canadian Literature by Amelia Defalco 9781487553814
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02Imagining Care brings literature and philosophy into dialogue by examining caregiving in literature by contemporary Canadian writers alongside ethics of care philosophy. Through close readings of... -
My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories from Chekhov to Munro by Jeffrey Eugenides 9780007291106
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.00A wide-ranging and eclectic collection of short stories on the theme of love in its various forms: romantic, erotic, impossible, undying and exhausted. No other aspect of the human... -
Italian Literature in the Nuclear Age: A Poetics of the Bystander by Maria Anna Mariani 9780192868855
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £76.92Italian Literature in the Nuclear Age: A Poetics of the Bystander explores the overlooked position of the bystander in the Nuclear Age by focusing on the Italian situation as a paradigmatic case... -
More Time: Contemporary Short Stories and Late Style by Lee Clark Mitchell 9780198839224
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £60.68More Time studies the contemporary short story and focuses on four recent collections: Alice Munro's Dear Life (2012); Andre Dubus's Dancing After Hours (1996); Joy Williams's The Visiting Privilege... -
No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49In 1779, driven out of his home, Calum MacDonald sets sail from the Scottish Highlands with his extensive family. After a long, terrible journey he settles his family in 'the land of trees', and... -
Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson 9781784879020
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.19This is a volcanic journey into the soul of a winged red monster named Geryon. It is queer coming-of-age love story, a Greek myth retold, and a modern classic.Tormented as a boy by his brother,... -
The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood by Coral Ann Howells
RRP: £86.00Booksplease Price: £81.72The field of Margaret Atwood studies, like her own work, is in constant evolution. This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood provides substantial reconceptualization of... -
Ache by Eliza Henry-Jones 9781460750384
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52The much anticipated new novel - about how a family, and a rural community, recover from a terrible bushfire - from a stunning young Australian writer, Eliza Henry Jones. A year ago, a devastating... -
Three Great Canadian Short Stories Tyler Keevil 9781917140768
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £9.11'Up Here' by Tristan Hughes won the O M Henry award.'Seal Skin' by Tyler Keevil, Winner of the Writers' Trust of Canada Journey Prize.'Flamingos' by Gail Hughes.Art designed and illustrated by Catrin... -
Forgotten: Narratives of Age-Related Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease in Canada by Marlene Goldman
Booksplease Price: £44.20Since the 1860s, long before scientists put a name to Alzheimer's disease, Canadian authors have been writing about age-related dementia. Originally, most of these stories were elegies, designed to... -
Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory by Sarah Polley 9781914613296
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £7.17FROM THE DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER OF WOMEN TALKING 'Fascinating, harrowing, courageous, and deeply felt, these explorations of "dangerous stories", harmful past events and trials of the soul... -
The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood by Coral Ann Howells 9781108707633
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £22.09The field of Margaret Atwood studies, like her own work, is in constant evolution. This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood provides substantial reconceptualization of... -
Robert Kroetsch: Essayist, Novelist, Poet by David Staines
RRP: £34.50Booksplease Price: £30.46Robert Kroetsch: Essayist, Novelist, Poet brings together an international cast of critics, scholars, and writers to examine, re-examine, and honour the celebrated author's immense significance in... -
Born Weird by Andrew Kaufman
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22A family drama unlike any other from the internationally acclaimed author of All My Friends are Superheroes. The Weirds have always been a little peculiar, but not one of them suspected... -
The English Short Story in Canada: From the Dawn of Modernism to the 2013 Nobel Prize by Reingard M. Nischik 9781476668598
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.19In 2013, the Nobel Prize for Literature was for the first time awarded to a short story writer, and to a Canadian, Alice Munro. The award focused international attention on a genre that had long been... -
Double Trouble Joyce Carol Oates 9781835415443
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.25A double dose of gripping psychological suspense, pairing two complete novels and two rare short stories, from six-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Joyce Carol Oates. Two serial killers - one female, one... -
Glory on Earth by Linda McLean 9781848426757
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.10'Whom shall I believe? And who shall be judge?' Tuesday, 19 August, 1561, 9 a.m. Through the fog a ship arrives in Leith docks, and Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, steps ashore. She is eighteen and... -
Oppositions: Selected Essays by Mary Gaitskill 9781788168168
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'Mary Gaitskill is willing to think about the problematic with complexity and humanity, and without taking sides or engaging in all the fashionable moral hectoring that passes for serious thought... -
My Husband by Rumena Buzarovska 9781628973457
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.59Adulterers, cheats, hypocrites, bad seeds-in My Husband, Rumena Buzarovska turns her wry and razor-sharp gaze on men, and on the lives of the women who suffer them. In these eleven devastatingly... -
The Short Story: A Very Short Introduction by Andrew Kahn
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73What defines a modern short story is much more than a question of length. Despite the efforts of early pioneers like Edgar Allan Poe, the genre was originally synonymous with the anecdote or tale and... -
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All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews 9780571305292 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £2.57Shortlisted for the Folio Prize 2015 Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2015 Sunday Times Top Choice Summer Read Elf and Yoli are two smart, loving sisters. Elf is a world-renowned... -
Red Doc> by Anne Carson 9780224097574
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.43In a stunningly original mix of poetry, drama, and narrative, Anne Carson brings the red-winged Geryon from Autobiography of Red, now called 'G', into manhood, and through the complex labyrinths of... -
Consent by Annabel Lyon
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION'Blistering... The most truthful exploration of sisterhood I have enjoyed since Fleabag' The Times'So, so clever and so concise yet just goes into the most... -
The Waterproof Bible by Andrew Kaufman
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16Rebecca has a most unusual problem: no matter how hard she tries, she can't stop broadcasting her feelings to people around her. Luckily, she's discovered how to trap and store her feelings in... -
Somewhere Towards The End by Diana Athill 9781803510927
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'There is a sense throughout Athill's work that you are making a new friend as much as reading a new story ... a delight to read' Observer WINNER OF THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZE, the moving and... -
Somewhere Towards The End by Diana Athill
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'There is a sense throughout Athill's work that you are making a new friend as much as reading a new story... A delight to read' Observer WINNER OF THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZE, the moving and witty... -
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Consent by Annabel Lyon 9781838952471 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.40LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION'Blistering... The most truthful exploration of sisterhood I have enjoyed since Fleabag' The Times'So, so clever and so concise yet just goes into the most... -
Autobiography Of Red by Anne Carson
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.43In this extraordinary epic poem, Anne Carson bridges the gap between classicism and the modern, poetry and prose, with a volcanic journey into the soul of a winged red monster named Geryon. There is... -
You Are Not What We Expected by Sidura Ludwig
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26This stunningly intimate collection of stories is an exquisite portrait of a Jewish community - the secular and religious families who inhabit it and the tensions that exist there - that illuminates... -
Attention: Writing on Life, Art, and the World by Anne Enright 9781324124139
Booksplease Price: £20.01For thirty years Anne Enright-one of our greatest living novelists (Times)-has been paying attention: casting her lucid and distinctive gaze across the world, literature, and her own life, and... -
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No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod 9780099283928 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.30In 1779, driven out of his home, Calum MacDonald sets sail from the Scottish Highlands with his extensive family. After a long, terrible journey he settles his family in 'the land of trees', and... -
Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith... -
Menstruation Now: What Does Blood Perform? by Berkeley Kaite
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £17.58Each of the 8 chapters in this volume addresses menstruation and/or menstrual blood in various media sites with a view to answering the question, what does blood perform? Menstrual blood may be... -
Critical Humanities and Ageing: Forging Interdisciplinary Dialogues Marlene Goldman (University of Toronto at Scarborough, Canada) 9780367630928
RRP: £140.00Booksplease Price: £123.25Providing a critical humanities approach to ageing, this book addresses new directions in age studies: the meaning and workings of "ageism" in the twenty-first century, the vexed relationship between... -
Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima 9780241312629
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67'Wonderfully poetic ... extraordinary freshness ... a Virginia Woolf quality' Margaret DrabbleIt is Spring. A young woman, left by her husband, starts a new life in a Tokyo apartment. Territory of...