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Birds With A Broken Wing by Adam Thorpe 9780224079440
RRP: £9.00Booksplease Price: £6.84Adam Thorpe's fifth collection finds purpose in the discarded, the secretive, the failed. Juxtaposing creation and destruction, hope and grief - a small boy deep down a lead mine; an unlit, nocturnal... -
Good Little Wolf by Nadia Shireen
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.17Once upon a time there was a wolf called Rolf - a good little wolf who liked baking cakes and was always kind to his friends. But real wolves aren't supposed to be good - they're supposed to be BIG... -
Stanley's Library by William Bee
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.51It's another busy day at Stanley's Library! Stanley loads his van with books and sets off to the village green.Who will visit today and which books will they choose? Later, Stanley arrives back at... -
Selected Poems by John Burnside
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.12Over seventeen years and nine collections, John Burnside has built - in the words of Bernard O'Donoghue - 'a poetic corpus of the first significance', a poetry of luminous, limpid grace. His... -
Collecting Sticks by Joe Decie
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.30Observer Graphic Novel of the MonthCollecting Sticks is a graphic novel about a family glamping trip. (It's like camping, but much more expensive.) Loosely based on actual events, but sometimes... -
Balladz by Sharon Olds 9781787334229
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £9.48Arguably America's greatest living poet, Sharon Olds enters her eightieth year with a book for our times: a book of fear, fragility and love of life***NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST******AN OBSERVER... -
Deep Lane by Mark Doty 9780224099837
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.74Mark Doty's poetry has long been celebrated for its risk and candour, an ability to find transcendent beauty even in the mundane and grievous, an unflinching eye that - as Philip Levine says - 'looks... -
The Women Behind the Door Roddy Doyle 9781787334908
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05'The undisputed laureate of ordinary lives' SUNDAY TIMES'A brilliant, one-of-a-kind writer' DAVID NICHOLLS* * *At sixty-six, Paula Spencer - mother, grandmother, widow, survivor - is finally living... -
The Scrapbook Heather Clark 9781787335424
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.07For years after I tried to tell myself that what happened between us was hardly worth remembering. Others told me the same. But now I write the truth. He was everything to me then. Everything... -
The One Hundred Nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg 9780224101950
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.13'A feminist fairy-tale... A wondrously intricate book, and a witty attack on the patriarchy, this is an instant classic.' ObserverFrom the author who brought you The Encyclopedia of Early Earth comes... -
Ferment: The transformative power of microbes by Tim Spector 9781787334656
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.07**As seen on Channel 4's What Not to Eat**'A super healthy and tasty gift for you and your gut microbiome - discover the joy of fermenting' Dr Clare Bailey MosleyFrom the world-leading gut scientist... -
A Sense of Occasion by Brodie Crellin 9781787335868
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16A death in the (dysfunctional) family - can they hold it together long enough to organise the funeral?'Sexy, terrifying, keen and startling' DAISY JOHNSON'At once shrewd and ethereal' CHRIS KRAUS'A... -
Black Cat Bone by John Burnside
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £9.48John Burnside's remarkable book is full of strange, unnerving poems that hang in the memory like a myth or a song. These are poems of thwarted love and disappointment, of raw desire, of the stalking... -
The Fixer by Joe Sacco
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.38In The Fixer Joe Sacco returns to Bosnia, the setting for his first masterpiece, Safe Area Gorazde. In 2001 he went back to Sarajevo to meet up with his old 'fixer', an army veteran called Neven who,... -
Wrong Norma: ‘I would read anything she wrote’ Susan Sontag by Anne Carson 9781787332355
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.71Wrong Norma is Anne Carson's first book of original material in eight years'Effortlessly readable and - a word critics don't often use about her - fun' DAILY TELEGRAPH'I'm a big fan... She pinpoints... -
Words From the Wall by Adam Thorpe 9781787330993
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.50These remarkable poems are despatches from the edges of experience: from the remote coast of northern Iceland where tree-trunks and dead whales lie beached, to the furthest outposts of the Roman... -
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... -
Collected Poems by Michael Longley
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74Michael Longley has been called 'one of the finest lyric poets of our time'. In assembling the work of forty years, his Collected Poems displays a brilliantly sustained achievement whose depth,... -
The Visit by Friedrich Durrenmatt
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.29In The Visit (original title Der Besuch der alten Dame), Claire Zachanassian, now a multimillion heiress and an older woman, returns to the impoverished town of her youth with a dreadful bargain: in... -
Monica: ‘A master. An auteur. Period’ Guillermo del Toro by Daniel Clowes
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.65This is Monica, one ordinary woman's extraordinary journey through the history of comics - from the creator of Ghost World'Rich, clever... A thrilling read'GUARDIAN'In Monica, Clowes reaches a new... -
But the Girl: ‘A wonderful new novel’ Brandon Taylor by Jessica Zhan Mei Yu 9781787333925
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.09Irreverent, witty and wise, But the Girl is a coming-of-age story about not wanting to leave your family behind'Impressive... Yu remakes the art of writing itself'GUARDIAN'A wonderful new novel for a... -
How It Works Out: 'Breathtaking' George Saunders Myriam Lacroix 9781787334922
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.73What if you had the chance to rewrite the course of your relationship, again and again, in the hopes that it would work out?'A cause for celebration'GEORGE SAUNDERS, author of Lincoln in the... -
I'm Never Coming Back Julian Hanshaw 9780224096447
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.94I'm Never Coming Back is a collection of surreal, comic and mournful interweaving tales travelling across three continents. In each destination we zoom in on unusual lives and remarkable situations,... -
Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art (Updated Edition) Julian Barnes 9781787332898
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05The updated edition of Julian Barnes' best-loved writing on art, with seven new exquisite illustrated essays'Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and... -
The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong 9781787335417
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.05THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Heartbreaking, heartwarming yet unsentimental, and savagely comic all at the same time' GuardianREADERS ARE OBSESSED WITH THE EMPEROR OF GLADNESS:'Read it slowly... -
The Empire of Forgetting by John Burnside 9781787334557
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £9.48A powerful exploration of life and death, illness and grace, wonder and beauty, in the posthumous collection from one of our greatest contemporary poets'It's impossible not to love the world more... -
What We Can Know by Ian McEwan 9781787335738
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.74'McEwan's most richly layered work' Sunday Times'A gripping page-turner' Observer'A daring, beautiful novel, full of wisdom and heart' Elif Shafak'A big, unabashed crowd-pleaser' TLSA quest, a... -
What We Can Know by Ian McEwan 9781787335745
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.23'McEwan's most richly layered work' Sunday Times'A gripping page-turner' Observer'A daring, beautiful novel, full of wisdom and heart' Elif Shafak'A big, unabashed crowd-pleaser' TLSA quest, a... -
Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon 9781787336339
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.07A private eye is catapulted on to a continent-hopping journey that proves difficult to escape.'A masterpiece... A vintage tale of adventure' Daily Telegraph'Swing bands, spies and surreal danger... A... -
One Secret Thing by Sharon Olds 9780224087841
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £9.48Sharon Olds completes her cycle of family poems in a book at once intense and harmonic, playful with language, and rich with a new self-awareness and sense of irony. The opening poem, with its... -
Ghost World by Daniel Clowes
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.03Ghost World is the story of Enid and Rebecca, teenage friends facing the unwelcome prospect of adulthood, and the uncertain future of their complicated relationship. Clowes conjures a balanced... -
Everything is Teeth by Evie Wyld
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.02Evie Wyld was a girl obsessed with sharks. Spending summers in the brutal heat of coastal New South Wales, she fell for the creatures. Their teeth, their skin, their eyes; their hunters and their... -
Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs by Leonard Cohen
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £18.29Leonard Cohen's legacy is that of one of the most literate, daring, and affecting poet-songwriters in the world. Stranger Music presents a magnificent cross-section of Cohen's work - including the... -
The Correspondence J. D. Daniels 9781910702369
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'What a nutjob!' - Geoff Dyer'Questions that occurred to me as I read this brilliant, baffling book: What the hell is this? Who the hell is this? Is this poetry?' - Tom BissellCan civilization save... -
The Book of Blood by Vicki Feaver 9780224076845
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Split between dark and light, this book records the dichotomy of human experience with unflinching force and clarity. It deals with break-up, depression, illness and death. But it also reveals an... -
Alive: An Alternative Anatomy Gabriel Weston 9781787330603
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24A profound and provocative journey through the human body from the award-winning writer, broadcaster and surgeon.What does it mean to live in a body? For Gabriel Weston, there was always something... -
The Scrapbook by Heather Clark 9781787335431
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.88For years after I tried to tell myself that what happened between us was hardly worth remembering. Others told me the same. But now I write the truth. He was everything to me then. Everything... -
Ferment: The Life-Changing Power of Microbes by Tim Spector 9781787336131
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.40**AS SEEN ON ITV THIS MORNING**'A super healthy and tasty gift for you and your gut microbiome - discover the joy of fermenting' Dr Clare Bailey MosleyFrom the world-leading gut scientist and no. 1... -
The Eleventh Hour by Salman Rushdie 9781787336056
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.62If old age was thought of as an evening, ending in midnight oblivion, they were well into the eleventh hour.'Salman Rushdie is a genius' A.M. HomesTwo quarrelsome old men in Chennai, India,... -
Gift Songs by John Burnside 9780224079976
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £9.48To the Shakers, a good song was a gift; indeed the test of a song's goodness was how much of a gift it was. In their call to 'labour to make the way of God your own', Shaker artists expressed an...