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A.L. Kennedy by Kaye Mitchell 9780230007567
Booksplease Price: £75.81This 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
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We Are Attempting to Survive Our Time by A.L. Kennedy
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'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... -
Alive in the Merciful Country 9781916812284
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £9.99From 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... -
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: £7.40A 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... -
On Writing by A. L. Kennedy
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16After six novels, five story collections and two books of non-fiction, and countless international prizes, A.L. Kennedy certainly has the authority to talk about the craft of writing books - it's... -
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Jean 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... -
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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... -
All the Rage by A. L. Kennedy 9780099587422
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16The dazzling new collection from the Costa Prize-winning author of Day and The Blue Book.She doesn't ever lie to him unless it's for the best.A husband and wife wait for a train as their relationship... -
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... -
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Imagine A Country: Ideas for a Better Future by Val McDermid 9781838851699 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £2.24The 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... -
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... -
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,... -
Original Bliss by A. L. Kennedy
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16The stories collected in Original Bliss are concerned, appropriately, with the complexities of sex and the lack of it. In the long novella that gives the book its title, Helen Brindle thinks she has... -
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... -
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Original Bliss by A. L. Kennedy 9780099730712 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £1.98The stories collected in Original Bliss are concerned, appropriately, with the complexities of sex and the lack of it. In the long novella that gives the book its title, Helen Brindle thinks she has... -
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson 9780099556091 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £1.25The 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... -
Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man and Ninety Days by Bill Clegg 9781784708191
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16What makes one of the most gifted, charismatic and successful young literary agents in New York fall into full-blown crack-addiction: a collapse that would cost him his business, his home, many of... -
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46The 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: £6.99The 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: £10.72Winston 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... -
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The Dumb House by John Burnside 9781784870119 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £5.85As a child, Luke's mother often tells him the story of the Dumb House, an experiment on newborn babies raised in silence, designed to test the innateness of language.As Luke grows up, his interest in... -
The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story by Philip Hensher
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'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... -
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 Gathering by Anne Enright
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'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... -
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... -
Waiting for the Last Bus: Reflections on Life and Death Richard Holloway 9781786890245
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Now 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... -
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,... -
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The Gathering by Anne Enright 9780099501633 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.31'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... -
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... -
Serious Sweet by A. L. Kennedy
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEJon is 59 and divorced: a senior civil servant in Westminster who hates many of his colleagues and loathes his work, he is a good man in a bad world. Meg is a... -
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Serious Sweet by A. L. Kennedy 9780099587439 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.31LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEJon is 59 and divorced: a senior civil servant in Westminster who hates many of his colleagues and loathes his work, he is a good man in a bad world. Meg is a... -
Lanark: A Life in Four Books by Alasdair Gray 9781838852900
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.6840th anniversary edition'Probably the greatest novel of the century' ObserverLanark, a modern vision of hell set in the disintegrating cities of Unthank and Glasgow, tells the interwoven stories of... -
Scabby Queen by Kirstin Innes
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58'Gripping and moving. A literary triumph' Nicola Sturgeon 'A humane and searching story' Ian Rankin 'Kirstin...