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Pilcrow by Adam Mars-Jones
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Gripping.' New Statesman 'Compulsive.' Observer 'Strange and exhilarating.' Sunday Times 'A joy to read.' Sunday Telegraph 'Constantly surprising.' London Review of Books 'One of the most original... -
Second Sight: The Selected Film Writing of Adam Mars-Jones by Adam Mars-Jones 9781789141542
Booksplease Price: £20.48The film review can be a little art form, not just a consumer guide, as this collection shows. Covering more than 30 years of film releases, celebrated critic Adam Mars-Jones guides us through the... -
Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99On the Sunday of his eighteenth birthday, in 1975, Colin takes a walk on Box Hill, a biker hang-out. There he accidentally trips over Ray, a biker napping under a tree - and that's where it all... -
Caret by Adam Mars-Jones 9780571280063
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.34'Joyous.' Observer'Tremendously entertaining.' Irish Times 'Truly original.' The Times** A Times and Guardian Book of the Year **'We make lazy assumptions about the centre of things and its location... -
Cedilla by Adam Mars-Jones 9780571245376
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Cedilla continues the history of John Cromer ("adventures" sounds rather too hectic) begun by Pilcrow, described by the London Review of Books as " peculiar, original, utterly idiosyncratic" and by... -
Caret Adam Mars-Jones 9780571280087
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'We make lazy assumptions about the centre of things and its location. Who's to say that the centre of things isn't in a corner, way over there?''People in authority are always saying you should know... -
Batlava Lake by Adam Mars-Jones 9781913097622
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Pristina, Kosovo, 1999. Barry Ashton, recently divorced, has been deployed as a civil engineer attached to the Royal Engineers corps in the British Army. In an extraordinary feat of ventriloquism,... -
Noriko Smiling by Adam Mars-Jones 9781907903458
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.18'Late Spring, directed and co-written by Yasujiro Ozu, was released in 1949, which makes it an old film, or a film that has been new for a long time...' So begins this remarkable essay in narrative... -
Box Hill: A Story of Low Self-Esteem by Adam Mars-Jones 9780811230056
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.44In Box Hill, a vivid coming-of-age novel, a young man suddenly wakes up to his gay self-on his eighteenth birthday, when he receives the best gift ever: love and sex. In the woodsy cruising grounds... -
Granta by Ian Jack 9780903141024
Booksplease Price: £16.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903141024Author Ian JackFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Granta BooksPublisher Granta Books -
Granta 27: Death 9780140123579
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31This edition of Granta has articles by Martha Gellhorn, Eleanor Roosevelt, Oliver Sacks, Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, Raymond Chandler and Patrick Leigh Fermor. There are examples of letters to... -
Circus of Dreams: Adventures in the 1980s Literary World John Walsh 9781472133489
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £10.18Something extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years, a generation of young British writers took the literary novel into new realms of setting, subject... -
Circus of Dreams: Adventures in the 1980s Literary World John Walsh 9781472133472
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Something extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years, a generation of young British writers took the literary novel into new realms of setting, subject... -
Night for Day by Patrick Flanery
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.40A feverish vision of McCarthy-era Hollywood...Los Angeles, 1950. Over the course of a single day, two friends grapple with the moral and professional uncertainties of the escalating Communist... -
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... -
Boys and Girls by Joseph Connolly
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £3.39Susan wants another husband. Which comes as a shock to the current one. 'But not instead of you, Alan, my sugar - as well as. You see?' Yet once Susan has brazenly commandeered her boss's rich,... -
Body of Work: 40 Years of Creative Writing at UEA by Giles Foden 9780956186980
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £21.25'A book celebrating a remarkably successful programme and rife with examples of valuable craft and life lessons' - Peter Ho Davies, The GuardianAn essential companion for young writers facing the... -
Gay Male Fiction Since Stonewall: Ideology, Conflict, and Aesthetics by Les Brookes
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £46.08The conflict between assimilationism and radicalism that has riven gay culture since Stonewall became highly visible in the 1990s with the emergence and challenge of queer theory and politics. The... -
Love is Strange by Joseph Connolly
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.77In the kitchen Gillian loads the Hotpoint and frets about letting her baby go. In the bathroom Clifford styles his hair like Cliff's and wishes for a television. In the front room Arthur smokes a... -
England's Lane Joseph Connolly 9781780877211
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE - AS IF THE ROYLE FAMILY WERE WRITTEN BY MARTIN AMIS!'Vibrant tragicomic slices of cosmopolitan Englishness' Independent on Sunday'A rich and... -
Zoo by Tobias Hill 9781844715503
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22Zoo is Tobias Hill's third collection of poems. It shows the growing maturity of a voice already distinctive three years ago, when his first collection was noted for its `grand irony and playful... -
Granta 75: Brief Encounters by Ian Jack 9780903141468
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.58'I was approached by a courteous young man who handed me a visiting card engraved with his name, Joseph, and his profession: Senior Officers' Pimp.' Norman Lewis embarks on his career as a British... -
Midnight in the City of Clocks by Tobias Hill 9781844715497
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22This lively second collection from a young, much-travelled writer, falls into two parts. `Transit' includes poems of abroad, especially Japan, where Tobias Hill lived for two years. `Back to the... -
When You Are Engulfed In Flames by David Sedaris
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.99David Sedaris's remarkable ability to uncover the hilarious absurdity teeming just below the surface of everyday life is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this new book of... -
The Means of Escape by Penelope Fitzgerald 9780007105014
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24A collection of Penelope Fitzgerald's short stories. Penelope Fitzgerald was one of the most highly-regarded writers on the English literary scene. Apart from Iris Murdoch, no other writer... -
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When You Are Engulfed In Flames by David Sedaris 9780349116471 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.40David Sedaris's remarkable ability to uncover the hilarious absurdity teeming just below the surface of everyday life is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this new book of... -
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... -
That Old Ace in the Hole by Annie Proulx
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28A brilliant novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning Annie Proulx, author of 'The Shipping News' and 'Brokeback Mountain'. 'That Old Ace in the Hole' is a richly textured story of one man's... -
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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... -
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That Old Ace in the Hole by Annie Proulx 9780007151523 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.40A brilliant novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning Annie Proulx, author of 'The Shipping News' and 'Brokeback Mountain'. 'That Old Ace in the Hole' is a richly textured story of one man's... -
Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize, the overlapping lives of five newcomers to China's most dynamic city are the subject of this kaleidoscopic novel. Welcome to Shanghai. A restless... -
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Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw 9780007494187 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.78Longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize, the overlapping lives of five newcomers to China's most dynamic city are the subject of this kaleidoscopic novel. Welcome to Shanghai. A restless... -
All Made Up by Janice Galloway 9781847083272
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31In the second volume of her memoirs, the prize-winning author Janice Galloway reveals how the child introduced in This is Not About Me evolved through her teenage years. When she started secondary... -
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Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw 9780007494156 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £2.69In the Man Booker prize-longlisted 'Five Star Billionaire' Tash Aw charts the overlapping lives of migrant Malaysian workers, forging lives for themselves in sprawling Shanghai. Justin is... -
Annie Oakley's Girl by Rebecca Brown 9780872862791
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42"One of the freshest, most memorable story collections of my lifetime. And 'A Good Man,' one of the most important. Rarer than the newness, the wit, the vivid readability, is the deep caring... -
The Painter's Friend by Howard Cunnell 9781529030945
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'One of the books of the year. Cunnell's style is matchless: intimate, dark, sincere, wry and exquisitely beautiful' - Irish Times'A cracking, urgent page-turner of a novel' - ObserverThe painter... -
James Joyce: A Biography by Gordon Bowker
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.86Long-awaited and comprehensive biography of the great Irish author James JoyceJames Joyce was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, but he was not immediately recognised as such;... -
In Concrete by Anne Garreta
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £9.88Garreta's first novel in a decade follows the mania that descends upon a family when the father finds himself in possession of a concrete mixer. As he seeks to modernize every aspect of their lives,... -
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk 9781910695432
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31Flights, a novel about travel in the twenty-first century and human anatomy, is Olga Tokarczuk's most ambitious to date. It interweaves travel narratives and reflections on travel with an in-depth... -
The Painter's Friend by Howard Cunnell
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.09'One of the books of the year. Cunnell's style is matchless: intimate, dark, sincere, wry and exquisitely beautiful' - Irish Times'A cracking, urgent page-turner of a novel' - ObserverThe painter...