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Mr Jones by Edith Wharton
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.92World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new Christmas ghost stories for 2021.Book InformationISBN 9781771964548Author Edith WhartonFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint
Say This by Elise Levine
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.05It's a cold spring in Baltimore, 2018, when the email arrives: the celebrity journalist hopes Eva will tell him everything about the sexual affair she had as a teen with her older cousin, a man now...
If You Hear Me Pascale Quiviger 9781771962711
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64In an instant, a life changes forever. After he falls from a scaffold on the construction site where he works, the comatose David is visited daily by his wife, Caroline, and their six-year-old son...
One Who Saw: A Ghost Story for Christmas by A. M. Burrage
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.30Originally published on Christmas in 1931 and widely regarded as A.M. Burrage's masterpiece, "One Who Saw" tells the story of a wrtier enchanted by a spectre of a weeping woman. His obsession builds...
How Fear Departed the Long Gallery: A Ghost Story for Christmas by E. F. Benson 9781771961943
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.30Biblioasis is thrilled to continue this series of beautifully illustrated, collectible, classic Christmas ghost stories designed and illustrated by world-famous cartoonist Seth.In How Fear Departed...
On Class by Deborah Dundas 9781771964814
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64Shortlisted for the 2024 Speaker's Book Award * Nominated for the 2024 Heritage Toronto Book Award * A Hamilton Review of Books Best Book of 2023Deborah Dundas is a journalist who grew up poor and...
Let the Empire Down by Alexandra Oliver 9781771960786
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In her second book, Alexandra Oliver takes us on a journey of escape from the suburbs of Canada to Glasgow, Scotland. Training her eye on the locals--on the streets, by rivers, in museums, on...
New Brunswick by Shane Neilson 9781771963053
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Heralding a new regionalism, New Brunswick interrogates the popular representations of Shane Neilson's home province. Structured as a group of serial long poems, this fifth book by the winner of the...
50 Greatest Red Wings by Bob Duff 9781771960588
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £17.55Gordie Howe, Steve Yzerman, Sergei Fedorov, Nicklas Lidstrom, Ted Lindsay, and Brendan Shanahan. Bob Duff's 50 Greatest Red Wings is the definitive list of Hockeytown's heroes. Including members of...
My Shoes Are Killing Me by Robyn Sarah 9781771960137
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.05Winner of the 2015 Governor General's Award for Poetry Winner of the 2015 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Poetry In My Shoes are Killing Me, poet Robyn Sarah reflects on the passing of time, the...
Lost Luggage by Salvatore Ala 9781897231951
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64Journeys and interrupted journeys are a well established theme in literature. Gustave Von Aschenback's fateful journey back to Venice and his death began with lost luggage. So also with Salvatore...
By The Book: Stories and Pictures by Diane Schoemperlen 9781927428818
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.93New from the Winner of the Writers' Trust of Canada Marian Engel Award and the Governor General's Award for English Fiction Once touted as compendiums of human knowledge, the encyclopedias and...
The Illustrated Edge by Marsha Pomerantz 9781926845180
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £7.50A BOSTON GLOBE BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2011 The poems in this collection inhabit several countries or no country at all, but many are concerned with boundaries: between words and silence, one person and...
Open Air Bindery by David Hickey 9781926845241
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64David Hickey's second collection builds upon the myriad strengths of his first. In a specimen book of songs, stories, and covenants, Hickey's subjects range from art and astronomy to snowflakes and...
The Signalman: A Ghost Story for Christmas by Charles Dickens
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.54"This book is amazing." Halloween might seem like the spookiest time of year, but Charles Dickens felt otherwise. He was among the many authors who set their scariest stories during the dim and...
Psychology and Other Stories by C. P. Boyko 9781926845500
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.75FINALIST FOR THE ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE VICTORIA BUTLER BOOK PRIZE "C.P. Boyko's second offering is brilliantly bold. Playful and dire and scholarly all at once, Psychology may...
God's Plenty: A Study of Hugh Hood's Short Fiction by W. J. Keith 9781927428474
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.26A companion volume to Canadian Odyssey: A Reading of Hugh Hood's The New Age, God's Plenty surveys the short fiction of the writer dubbed Canada's Marcel Proust. Hugh Hood, an unparalleled stylist,...
Yesterday's People by Goran Simic 9780973597172
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.23These eight stories deal with ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, war and its aftershocks prominent among them, where the reality is often much more surreal than fiction.About the...
Best Canadian Poetry 2020 Marilyn Dumont 9781771963640
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26"A best poem fulfills the promise set out in its first syllable, word, syntax, line break, and soundscape to its reader/listener." “What is a best poem?” asks Best Canadian Poetry 2020 guest editor...
The Kingdom of Redonda: The Curious History of the Kingdom of Redonda by Michael Hingston
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88In the middle of the Caribbean, there sits a small island called Redonda. But what at first appears to be an uninhabited rock turns out to also be the site of a fragmented, fiercely contested kingdom...
You Are Here by Cynthia Flood
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.05Gathering the best twenty stories from Cynthia Flood’s career, these spare, stylistically inventive stories explore subjects ranging from the domestic to the political.In this collection, Flood...
Come Again by Richard Sanger
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64A jubilant, irreverent, generous collection by a poet facing terminal illness.Following his New York Times Best of the Year Dark Woods, Richard Sanger's fourth and final book is a clear-eyed and...
Temerity & Gall by John Metcalf
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £12.83For more than five decades, John Metcalf has worked tirelessly as editor, anthologist, writer, critic, and teacher to help shape our understanding of Canadian literature and imagine its potential. A...
Confessions with Keith by Pauline Holdstock 9781771964975
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.05An outrageously comic novel documents a middle-aged writer and mother's grappling with mid-life crisis-her husband's and her own. Preoccupied with her fledgling literary career, intent on the...
Straight Razor and Other Poems by Salvatore Ala 9780973588101
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Straight Razor and Other Poems brings together Salvatore Ala's new poems and selections from his privately published broadsides. It is a beautiful and original collection. Both formal and lyrical, it...
Cape Breton is the Thought-Control Centre of Canada by Ray Smith 9781771960274
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Sophisticated, playful, and extremely funny, this collection begins the career of one of Canada's best humorists and storytellers. Featuring the adventures of Patchouli the Passionate, Sweet William,...
Off the Record by John Metcalf 9781771965453
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Editor John Metcalf has inspired, challenged, and championed countless writers over his long career. In Off the Record, he encourages six to reveal what one rarely discusses in polite society: how...
The Story of My Face by Kathy Page 9781771962957
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64Natalie Baron is a neglected teenager adrift in the world when she attaches herself to Barbara Hern and her family, followers of Envallism, an extreme Protestant sect. Their new relationship fulfills...
Metanoia by Sharon McCartney 9781771960687
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02T.S. Eliot and Tennessee Ernie Ford, Buddha and Jesus, Jung and Heidegger. Love, solitude, obliteration, the ocean, and a sad neighbor who feeds pigeons. Metanoia is an aphoristically narrative poem...
Dead Heat Benedek Totth 9781771963015
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64In a nameless Hungarian town, teenagers on a competitive swim team occupy their after-training hours with hard drinking and fast cars, hash cigarettes and marathons of Grand Theft Auto, the...
Best Canadian Poetry 2019 Rob Taylor 9781771963305
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Guest editor Rob Taylor, author of the widely acclaimed collection The News, brings a passionate ear for rhythm, an eye for narrative compression, an appetite for vital subject matter, and an...
A Few Things You Should Know About the Weasel David Starkey 9781897231890
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02David Starkey's "A Few Things You Should Know About the Weasel" is a far ranging and fearless collection, of great humour and intelligence and sympathy. Ranging through philosophy and art and history...
Here Come the Moonbathers by Patricia Young 9781897231432
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26While the tone of Patricia Young's latest collection, Here Come the Moonbathers, is perhaps more dark, difficult and tragic than her earlier work, beautifully hedonic poems spark and sizzle...
Pause for Breath by Robyn Sarah 9781897231593
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Diverse in subject, style and mood and rich in contrasts - from the lyrical to the rhetorical, from the public and collective to the personal and private - the poems in Pause for Breath are a...
For As Far as the Eye Can See by Robert Melancon 9781927428184
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26In the 144 poems of For as Far as the Eye Can See, Robert Melancon re-imagines the sonnet as a "rectangle of twelve lines," and poetry as "a monument as fragile as the grass." Impressionistic,...
Breaking and Entering by Don Gillmor 9781771965231
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Longlisted for the 2023 Republic of Consciousness US and Canada Prize • An Oprah Daily Best Book of 2023 • One of the Globe and Mail's Most Anticipated Titles of 2023 • Listed in CBC Books Fiction to...
The Hollow Beast by Christophe Bernard 9781771965552
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Finalist for the 2024 Governor General's Literary Award in Translation * A Globe and Mail Most Anticipated Spring TitleDon Quixote meets Who Framed Roger Rabbit in this slapstick epic about destiny,...
Standing Heavy by Gauz' 9781771966009
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771966009Author Gauz'Format PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint
On Book Banning 9781771966634
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771966634Format PaperbackImprint BiblioasisPublisher Biblioasis
Self-Care by Russell Smith 9781771966245
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88An electric examination of women and men, sex and love, self-loathing and twenty-first century loneliness.Between Daily Self Care, the weekly column she writes for the website The Hype Report, and...