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A.L. Kennedy by Kaye Mitchell 9780230007567
Booksplease Price: £76.51This introduction places Kennedy's work in a clear historical and theoretical context. Its importance is considered in terms of contemporary Scottish identity and relevance to key issues in... -
A.L. Kennedy by Kaye Mitchell 9780230007574
Booksplease Price: £25.91This introduction places Kennedy's work in a clear historical and theoretical context. Its importance is considered in terms of contemporary Scottish identity and relevance to key issues in... -
We Are Attempting to Survive Our Time by A.L. Kennedy
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'Kennedy is a superb writer and the canniness of her observation keeps you reading' Sunday TimesHumour, fantasy, rage and despair both help and hinder the protagonists of these stories as they... -
Contemporary British Women Writers Emma Parker 9781843840114
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £62.90Essays illustrating the range and diversity of post-1970 British women writers. Despite the enduring popularity of contemporary women's writing, British women writers have received scant critical... -
Alive in the Merciful Country 9781916812284
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.44From a Costa Book of the Year winner, Booker nominee and double Granta-selected Best Young British novelist comes a searing portrayal of trauma, police abuse and the power of hope. Teaching... -
Granta 43: Best of Young British Novelists 2 by Bill Buford 9780140140583
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.53Ten years after the success of the 1983 Best of Young British Novelists issue, four judges -- A.S. Byatt, Salman Rushdie, bookseller John Mitchinson and Granta editor Bill Buford -- set out to... -
Dashboard Elvis is Dead: The epic, extraordinary new novel from one of Scotland's most exceptional novelists by David F. Ross
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.01A failed writer connects the murder of an American journalist, a drowned 80s musician and a Scottish politician's resignation, in a heart-wrenching novel about ordinary people living in extraordinary... -
The International by Glenn Patterson 9780856408120
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Saturday, 28 January 1967. It is a day like any other for eighteen-year-old Danny, pulling pints behind the bar of the International Hotel in Belfast, watching the comings and goings of the eccentric... -
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Jean Rhys's Good Morning Midnight is an unforgettable portrait of a woman bravely confronting loneliness and despair in her quest for self-determinationIn 1930s Paris, where one cheap hotel room is... -
Uncle Shawn and Bill and the Not One Tiny Bit Lovey-Dovey Moon Adventure A. L. Kennedy 9781406390926
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.26The third book in a hilarious, heart-warming series for children from Costa Award-winning author A.L. Kennedy, illustrated by celebrated cartoonist Gemma Correll.Uncle Shawn and his best friend... -
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Uncle Shawn and Bill and the Not One Tiny Bit Lovey-Dovey Moon Adventure by A. L. Kennedy 9781406390926 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £2.48The third book in a hilarious, heart-warming series for children from Costa Award-winning author A.L. Kennedy, illustrated by celebrated cartoonist Gemma Correll.Uncle Shawn and his best friend... -
The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Women's Writing by Glenda Norquay
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £30.23This book explores the richness of women's contribution to Scottish literature. By combining historical spread with a thematic structure, this volume explores the ways in which gender has shaped... -
The Contemporary British Novel by James Acheson
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.96Written by some of the world's finest contemporary literature specialists, the newly commissioned essays in this volume examine the work of more than twenty major British novelists: Peter Ackroyd,... -
The Contemporary British Novel Since 2000 by James Archeson
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £27.79The Contemporary British Novel Since 2000 is divided into five parts, with the first part examining the work of four particularly well-known and highly regarded twenty-first century writers: Ian... -
Night Geometry And The Garscadden Trains by A. L. Kennedy
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78The heroes and heroines of Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains, A. L. Kennedy's first collection of stories, are small people - the kind who inhabit the silence in libraries, who never appear on... -
The Little Snake by A. L. Kennedy
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.81'Charming lessons in life, death and kindness . . . Hugely moving' ObserverThis is the story of Mary, a young girl born in a beautiful city full of rose gardens and fluttering kites. When she is... -
Imagine A Country: Ideas for a Better Future by Val McDermid
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.60The first step on the road to change is to imagine possibility.Imagine A Country offers visions of a new future from an astonishing array of Scottish voices, from comedians to economists, writers to... -
Edith Holler by Edward Carey 9781805338000
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43A witty and entrancing story of a young woman trapped in a ramshackle English playhouse and the mysterious figure who threatens its very survival, from the author of Little 'Extraordinary... funny,... -
Imagine A Country: Ideas for a Better Future by Val McDermid 9781838857646
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The first step on the road to change is to imagine possibility.Imagine A Country offers visions of a new future from an astonishing array of Scottish voices, from comedians to economists, writers to... -
Plan B by Paul Muldoon 9781904634829
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.30An extraordinarily successful collaboration between the Irish poet, Paul Muldoon and the acclaimed Scottish photographer, Norman McBeath, in which there's an uncanny relationship between word and... -
Identity and Form in Contemporary Literature by Ana Maria Sanchez-Arce 9781138547971
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.80This ambitious and wide-ranging essay collection analyses how identity and form intersect in twentieth- and twenty-first century literature. It revises and deconstructs the binary oppositions... -
Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature by Anna Beer
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24Margery Kempe. Aemilia Lanyer. Aphra Behn. Lady Mary. Jane Austen. Warned not to write - and certainly not to bite - these women put pen to paper anyway and wrote themselves into history. ... -
Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature by Anna Beer 9780861546848
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £8.01Margery Kempe. Aemilia Lanyer. Aphra Behn. Lady Mary. Jane Austen. Warned not to write - and certainly not to bite - these women put pen to paper anyway and wrote themselves into history. ... -
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.19The shocking, heart-breaking - and often very funny - true story behind Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published. It was... -
Assorted Fire Events: Stories by David Means 9780007137565
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.61The paperback of the critically acclaimed story collection from David Means. 'One of the best American collections of the last ten years...This is food for the hungry.' Jonathan Franzen ... -
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp by Kennedy
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Winston Churchill hated The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, and tried to have it banned when it was released in 1943. But Martin Scorsese, a champion of directors Michael Powell and Emeric... -
Doubts and Loves: What is Left of Christianity by Richard Holloway
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31In this passionate and heartfelt book, Richard Holloway interrogates the traditional ways of understanding the Bible. In doing so he demonstrates the power of the great Christian stories as they... -
The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story by Philip Hensher
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78'Sometimes - not often - a book comes along that feels like Christmas. Philip Hensher's timely, but timeless, selection of the best short stories from the past 20 years is that kind of book. His... -
The Novel Now: Contemporary British Fiction Richard Bradford (University of Ulster, Coleraine) 9781405113861
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £30.31The Novel Now is an intelligent and engaging survey of contemporary British fiction. Discusses familiar names such as Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, and Angela Carter and compares them... -
The Gathering by Anne Enright
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'Witty, original, inventive...utterly compelling' Daily MailWinner of the Man Booker Prize The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam... -
The Novel Now: Contemporary British Fiction by Richard Bradford 9781405113854
RRP: £93.95Booksplease Price: £82.16The Novel Now is an intelligent and engaging survey of contemporary British fiction. Discusses familiar names such as Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, and Angela Carter and compares them... -
The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.15'Unputdownable' Sunday Times'I was hooked from page one' GuardianWhen Rilke, a dissolute auctioneer, comes upon a hidden collection of violent and highly disturbing photographs, he feels compelled to... -
The Moving Toyshop (A Gervase Fen Mystery) by Edmund Crispin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.96As inventive as Agatha Christie, as hilarious as P.G. Wodehouse - discover the delightful detective stories of Edmund Crispin. Crime fiction at its quirkiest and best. Richard Cadogan,... -
Waiting for the Last Bus: Reflections on Life and Death Richard Holloway 9781786890245
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Now in his ninth decade, former Bishop of Edinburgh Richard Holloway has spent a lifetime at the bedsides of the dying, guiding countless men and women towards peaceful deaths. A positive and... -
As If by Blake Morrison
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23"A remarkable, indispensable book" - Sunday Telegraph In 1993 toddler James Bulger was beaten to death by two ten-year-old-boys. In the wake of this brutal crime, came one of the most public and... -
Death of a Ladies' Man Alan Bissett 9780755319428
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02By day, Charlie Bain is the school's most inspiring teacher. By night he prowls the stylish bars of Glasgow seducing women. Fuelled by art, drugs and fantasies of being an indie star, Charlie... -
On Reflection: Looking for Life's Meaning Richard Holloway 9781837260737
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95In On Reflection Richard Holloway thinks back on some of the questions that have shaped his life, sharing the wisdom of poets, writers, musicians and artists he has encountered along the way.How can... -
Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man Thomas Page McBee 9781786890979
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionIn this groundbreaking new book, Thomas Page McBee, a trans man, trains to fight in a charity match at Madison Square Garden while struggling... -
Amateur: A Reckoning With Gender, Identity and Masculinity Thomas Page McBee 9781786891006
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.03Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionShortlisted for the Wellcome Book PrizeIn this groundbreaking new book, Thomas Page McBee, a trans man, trains to fight in a charity match at... -
Dark Chapter by Winnie M. Li
Booksplease Price: £12.27An astonishing and unique novel inspired by the author's own story `I highly recommend Dark Chapter...post-rape numbness, stifled rage, female victim alternating with rapist - how circumstances and...