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10 Women: Stories by George Bowering 9781772140316
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.30Ten Women is a new collection of short fiction from one of Canada's preeminent writers. Each of these stories offers us a portrait of a woman with whom the author may or may not have had either an... -
Serpentine Loop by Elee Kraljii Gardiner 9781772140545
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.45"Writers, like skaters, score the blank sheet and test the edge of inclusion and exclusion. Most of these poems begin with a word from skating and push off to another topic. Others revisit ideas of... -
White Lie by Clint Burnham 9781772141740
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.45Part travelogue, part autofiction, part record of living under Western regimes that torture, kidnap, and murder its own citizens and those who wish to cross its borders, White Lie is a collection of... -
Mirror on the Floor by George Bowering 9781927380956
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.45Mirror on the Floor was first published in 1967 by McClelland and Stewart, the first novel from a young writer named George Bowering. Now with over 100 publications to his credit, we are proud to be... -
Garage Criticism: Missives in the Age of Distraction by Peter Babiak 9781772140507
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.30Montaigne Medal Finalist (Eric Hoffer Awards) In Garage Criticism Peter Babiak eviscerates and deflates some of the cultural sacred cows of our time. From Fifty Shades of Grey ("Hot for Teacher:... -
Door is Open, The by Bart Campbell 9781895636369
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.84'The Door Is Open' is a compassionate, reflective, and informative memoir about three-and-a-half years spent volunteering at a skid row drop-in centre in Vancouver's downtown eastside. In an area... -
All the Broken Things by Geoff Inverarity 9781772141757
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.45Geoff Inverarity writes poems for people who don't like poetry (and those who do). In this debut collection Inverarity writes of broken things, things that have come apart at the seams, things that... -
Frenzy by Catherine Owen 9781897535004
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.23In Greek mythology the muses preside over the arts and inspire writers and artists to produce works of genius. In 'Frenzy', Catherine Owen pays homage to the muses in a six-part compilation of... -
Lonesome Monsters by Bud Osborn 9781895636086
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.40'Lonesome Monsters' is a collection of prose and poetry from Vancouver writer Bud Osborn. Mr. Osborn's writing is as much chronicle, confession, testimony, as it is poetry-an unwavering account of... -
Chalk by Doug Diaczuk 9781772140781
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.45Winner of the 38th Annual 3-Day Novel-Writing Contest "You" and L, a mysterious third gender runaway, hit the road on a mission to find the meaning of life. Traveling by plane, bus and car, You run... -
Socket by David Zimmerman 9781895636420
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.18'Socket' tells the gripping tale of Ronald Percy, an international aid worker who travels to Ethiopia to assist with an irrigation project for the African Development Organization. Upon arrival, he... -
Sub-Rosa & Other Fiction by Catherine Bennett 9781895636116
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.01A wonderful hybrid of post-modern genre-bending and conventional narrative-an exploration of a state of mind rather than a description of events. This work deals with subjects as varied as memory;... -
Body Speaking Words by Loree Harrell 9781895636093
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.79'Body Speaking Words' is a novel about-what else-writing a novel in three days, at the same time offering insights into family, friendship, growing up female, and delighting in strange foods; a... -
Swing in the Hollow by Ryan Knighton 9781895636345
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.79'Swing In the Hollow' is a debut collection that struggles with the service and spoil of lyrical attention. In quirky and precise turns, Knighton's language teases a sense of phenomena from the... -
Bogman's Music by Tammy Armstrong 9781895636376
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.79'Bogman's Music' is a debut collection of poetry that is both elegiac and sensitive in its exploration of family dynamics, the enduring power of childhood experience, and the healing ability of faith... -
Intensive Care: A Memoir by Alan Twigg 9781895636475
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.79One night in April, after a Sunday soccer game, Alan Twigg couldn't remember the names of his two sons or his wife-and he couldn't hold a pen. An emergency CAT scan revealed a large brain tumour... -
Vs. by Kerry Ryan 9781897535349
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.84'Vs.' is a collection of poems chronicling the author's foray into the world of amateur boxing. A shy, bookish woman you'd never expect could hit someone in the face, Ryan was soon hooked on the... -
Red Mango: A Blues Monologue by Charles Tidler 9781895636383
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.18'Red Mango' is a one-man play about a "single celibate sensualist" who constantly thinks about women-though not for sex, but for sweaty joy and sensual contact on the booming dance floors of... -
Skin by Bonnie Bowman 9781895636321
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.01Salacious, funny, and painfully emotive, 'Skin' is a provocative and ruminative parable about our deep-rooted urge to ostracize the freakish and shun the disfigured among us. An unconventional love... -
A Credit to Your Race by Truman Green 9781897535868
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.45A longtime resident of Surrey, Truman Green wrote 'A Credit to Your Race' (1973), in which a fifteen-year-old black porter's son falls in love with, and impregnates, the white girl next door. Set in... -
A Toilet Paper: A treatise on four fundamental words referring to gaseous and solid wastes together with their point of origin by Rachel Mines 9781895636406
RRP: £3.99Booksplease Price: £3.35'A Toilet Paper' is a humorous examination, from a historical linguistic viewpoint, of four commonly used words relating to our posterior orifice and that which comes out of it.Book InformationISBN... -
Nondescript Rambunctious by Jackie Bateman 9781897535707
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.30Oliver is an elusive new addition to the dysfunctional small town of Dalbegie, Scotland. Unaware of his dangerous side, divorcee Lauren is charmed by Oliver's brief yet charismatic appearances... -
Singer, An Elegy by George Fetherling 9781895636611
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.79'Singer, An Elegy' is a long poem memorializing the author's father and, equally, the now-obsolete industrial culture that shaped him. 'Singer, An Elegy' has rhetorical lightning flashes but aspires... -
Swim / into the North's Blue Eye by Annette Lapointe 9781772142112
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.45Annette Lapointe's poetry collection swim / into the north's blue eye explores the gothic anxieties and bodily discomforts of constant travel. Some of its journeys are global, but many are more... -
As if by Alban Goulden 9781772140484
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.45As If is a collection of stories that, as its title suggests, points at an indubitable truth: all literature is speculative. Goulden's, however, extends past the boundaries of conventional fiction... -
Suburban Pornography by Matthew Firth 9781895636772
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.45'Suburban Pornography' is contemporary literature, which documents Canadian urban life in a raw and naked manner. The prose is stripped-minimalist, direct, urgent, unflinching. The stories revolve... -
Reading the Riot Act: A Brief History of Riots in Vancouver by Michael Barnholden 9781895636673
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.45"Reading the Riot Act" is a phrase that has entered the popular lexicon, meaning the action taken by authority figures when they perceive that their "charges" are getting out of hand. The act itself... -
The Devil You Know by Jenn Farrell 9781897535066
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.84'The Devil You Know' is the follow-up volume to Farrell's acclaimed debut collection, 'Sugar Bush & Other Stories'. The stories in 'The Devil You Know' deal with the familiar, yet ever-engrossing,... -
Monday Night Man by Grant Buday 9781895636079
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.01'Monday Night Man' is a back alley view of East Vancouver netherworlds. Horst Nunn, Ray Bunce, and Boyle Rupp are a trio of middle-aged, underemployed, intelligent "plungers" striving for redemption... -
Struck: 25th annual 3-day novel contest winner! by Geoffrey Bromhead 9781895636536
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.79Meet Finnigan Heller, drifter: reclusive, abrasive, and clairvoyant. He's also been struck by lightning more times than you've had hot dinners. It happens in every town he passes through. But is he... -
Who Killed Janet Smith? by Edward Starkins 9781897535851
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.15'Who Killed Janet Smith?' examines one of the most infamous and still unsolved murder cases in Canadian History: the 1924 murder of twenty-two-year-old Scottish nursemaid Janet Smith. Originally... -
Accelerated Paces: Travels Across Borders and Other Imaginary Boundaries by Jim Oaten 9781895636932
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.45Dodging down back-alleys in bomb-torn Beirut. Wheeling past God and traffic in Mombassa, Kenya. Slipping around the edges of Alzheimer's disease, the Gulf War, and the eternity of CNN. Set somewhere... -
Sideways by Heather Haley 9781895636543
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.62Heather Haley's poetry is tough, irreverent, and in-your-face. She asks all the questions that a nice girl's not supposed to ask. Down back roads and highways, her characters long to possess the past... -
Wombat: The Collected Comic Strip by Rod Filbrandt 9781897535301
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.38'Wombat' is a cartoon strip from Vancouver artist Rod Filbrandt and the precursor to his long-lived and much loved strip, 'Dry Shave'. In 'Wombat: The Collected Comic Strip' the reader witnesses... -
Exact Fare Only II: Good, Bad and Ugly Trips on Public Transit by Ian Cockfield 9781895636550
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.45Back with more, 'Exact Fare Only 2' is the follow-up collection of the weird, the wild and the wonderful of commuter literature. Whether by land, sea or air, public transit around the world says more... -
The Incomparables by Alexandra Leggat 9781927380628
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.30The Incomparables is the debut novel from the Trillium-nominated author of Animal. Lydia Templar is obsessed with fabric, the texture and weight of cloth. Through fabrics, curtains, costumes, she... -
DAMP: Contemporary Vancouver Media Arts by Oliver Hockenhull 9781895636895
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £21.38'DAMP: Contemporary Vancouver Media Arts', is a singular effort, a visually exuberant work that is also on the vanguard of theoretical engagement, a symbiosis of form and content, in full-colour... -
Suicide Psalms by Mari-Lou Rowley 9781895636925
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.23'Suicide Psalms' is both hymn and visceral scream-of loss, despair, hope and ultimately redemption. These poems are drawn out with quick precision, as if they were indeed written in haste, or... -
Thorazine Beach by Bradley Harris 9781927380543
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.84Jack Minyard is a private dick down on his luck. Hes badly overweight and on the wrong side of sixty. Hes lost his marriage, and maybe a little of his mind, too. After narrowly escaping charges in a... -
Cretacea & Other Stories from the Badlands by Martin West 9781772140491
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.30Montaigne Medal Finalist (Eric Hoffer Awards) The stories in Cretacea and Other Stories from the Badlands mostly take place in hot weather, where dust and sweat envelop everyone and everything. A...