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Oasis' Definitely Maybe by Alex Niven
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.54Oasis's incendiary 1994 debut album Definitely Maybe managed to summarize almost the entire history of post-fifties guitar music from Chuck Berry to My Bloody Valentine in a way that seemed... -
Folk Opposition Alex Niven 9781780990323
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40For David Cameron and 'Big Society' Tories, folk culture means organic food, nu-folk pop music, and pastoral myths of Englishness. Meanwhile, postmodern liberal culture teaches us that talking about... -
The Last Tape by Alex Niven 9781782795452
Booksplease Price: £8.93In this haunting debut collection, Alex Niven explores a poetic hinterland that is also a psychological and cultural wilderness. Adopting a style grounded in the radical minimalism of northern... -
Letters of Basil Bunting by Alex Niven 9780198754817
RRP: £41.49Booksplease Price: £39.60An edition of the letters of the poet Basil Bunting (1900-1985). This is a long-awaited first selected edition of the letters of Basil Bunting, one of the major modernist poets of the twentieth... -
The North Will Rise Again: In Search of the Future in Northern Heartlands by Alex Niven 9781399414012
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78"Incorporating sharp questions and big ideas, Niven shifts deftly between history, politics, culture and literature to offer a fascinating and provocative analysis of the marginalisation of the North... -
New Model Island: How to Build a Radical Culture Beyond the Idea of England Alex Niven 9781912248254
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £5.25From Orwell-reading centrists to right-wing extremists, there have been countless attempts in recent decades to reimagine the feudal nation that was once England. But there is a strong case for... -
Capitalist Realism (New Edition) – Is there no alternative? by Mark Fisher
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78After 1989, capitalism has presented itself as the only realistic political economic system. What effects has this 'capitalist realism' had on work, culture, education and mental health? Is it... -
The Repeater Book of Heroism Tariq Goddard 9781914420023
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26"I don't have any heroes, they're all useless", opined John Lydon in 1976. As a spokesperson of sorts for the punk generation, Lydon was giving voice to a nihilistic, deconstructive impulse which,... -
When the Circus Leaves Town: What Happens When Football Leaves Home David Proudlove 9781801501736
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16What happens when a football club ups sticks and leaves its traditional home for pastures new? What replaces the terraces, stands and floodlights that tower above old town centres and terraced... -
The Broken Promise of Infrastructure Dominic Davies 9781913546359
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £16.37The Broken Promise of Infrastructure tackles the divisive cultural politics that have been used to deflect attention away from Britain's failing infrastructure, from Brexit through to the 'levelling... -
Starmergeddon Mark Perryman 9780745351094
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.8804.07.24: Fourteen years of Tory gross mismanagement of government, economy and society came to a crashing and well-deserved end. Keir Starmer's Labour government was elected with a landslide of... -
Borderland: Identity and Belonging at the Edge of England Phil Hubbard 9781526153876
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.67Over recent years, the issues of Brexit, COVID and the 'migrant crisis' put Kent in the headlines like never before. Images of asylum seekers on Kent beaches, lorries queued on motorways and the... -
Borderland: Identity and Belonging at the Edge of England by Phil Hubbard 9781526153869
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £75.65Over recent years, the issues of Brexit, COVID and the 'migrant crisis' put Kent in the headlines like never before. Images of asylum seekers on Kent beaches, lorries queued on motorways and the... -
Mother State: A Political History of Motherhood by Helen Charman 9780141996592
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'Charman writes with intelligence and generosity, and sprinkles her history with details that are enraging, provocative and, frequently, amusing' New StatesmanMotherhood is a political state. Helen... -
Autobiography by Morrissey
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Smiths (1982-1987), Morrissey has been a solo artist for twenty-six years, during which time... -
Pitch & Glint by Lutz Seiler 9781913505769
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60On its original publication in 2000, Pitch & Glint was widely hailed as a landmark in German poetry. Rooted in Seiler's childhood home, an East German village brutally undermined by Soviet Russian... -
The Invention of Essex: The Making of an English County by Tim Burrows 9781788166775
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.10SHORTLISTED FOR THE EAST ANGLIAN BOOK AWARD 2023 'Exceptionally well-written and intelligent ... if you are interested in this remarkable microcosm of England, the book will grip you; if you...