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Hamlet: Poem Unlimited by Prof. Harold Bloom
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40In the bestselling Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, Harold Bloom showed us how Shakespeare shaped human consciousness, and addressed the question of authorship in Hamlet. In Hamlet: Poem... -
Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife by Mary Roach
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $20.04Does the light just go out and that's that - the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness, persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug... -
Missing by Karin Alvtegen
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40The murderer had sliced open the dead man's torso and removed unspecified internal organs. The police admitted that some kind of religious symbol had been left at the scene of the crime, suggesting a... -
Light by Margaret Elphinstone
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.92May, 1831, and on a tiny island off the Isle of Man a lighthouse provides a harsh living for an unusual family. Lucy and Diya, husbandless and with three children between them, watch over the ancient... -
Three Scottish Poets Edwin Morgan 9780862414009
RRP: $28.56Booksplease Price: $20.47MACCAIG * MORGAN * LOCHHEADThis book contains a selection of the finest work from three of Scotland's best-known and best-loved poets: Norman MacCaig, Edwin Morgan and Liz Lochhead. They have... -
The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Steven Rose 9780862417895
RRP: $14.28Booksplease Price: $11.33Genesis covers some of the most famous stories of all time, including the garden of Eden, Noah's Ark and Cain and Abel. Using the emergence of the people of Israel as a starting point, it tells the... -
A Glasgow Trilogy: The Boy Who Wanted Peace; Grace and Miss Partridge; Mr Alfred M. A. George Friel 9780862418854
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $34.22Distinguished by irony, compassion and the author's own dry wit, these three novels paint a memorable picture of life in the streets, schools and tenements of Glasgow in the 1950s and 60s. With a... -
American Purgatorio John Haskell 9781841956985
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97Jack's wife has disappeared. She was in the car when they stopped for gas, he knows that much. He walked back from the counter, and then ?Jack can't remember. But Anne has gone.John Haskell's... -
The In-Between World Of Vikram Lall by Moyez Vassanji
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $23.28Sweeping in scope, both historically and geographically, Vassanji weaves a rich tapestry of vivid characters (real and imagined) in a Kenya poised between colonialism and independence.Vikram Lall,... -
The Courage Consort Michel Faber 9781841955346
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40The Courage Consort, possibly the seventh best-known a cappella vocal ensemble in Britain, are given two weeks in a Belgian chateau to rehearse their latest commission, the monstrously complicated... -
In Real Life by Chris Killen
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97STILL FRIENDS A DECADE ON? WHAT ARE THE CHANCES?For a while, Ian, Lauren and Paul shared the same friends, the same university, the same dreams and the same potential. Ten years on they are worlds... -
Magnus Merriman by Eric Linklater
RRP: $35.70Booksplease Price: $25.06This hilarious novel charts the rise and fall (and perhaps the rise again) of Magnus Merriman-would-be lover, writer, politician, idealist and crofter-moved by dreams of greatness and a talent for... -
The No. 2 Global Detective: A Parody by Toby Clements
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $17.40Cuff College of Transgression and Pathology, Oxford. The quiet of the evening is shattered by the discovery of a Body In The Library.The police are Baffled. Tom Hurst, a junior lecturer at the... -
Being Emily by Anne Donovan
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40Things are never dull in the O'Connell family. Still, Fiona, squeezed between her quiet brother and her mischievous line-dancing twin sisters, thinks life in their tenement flat is far less... -
Clear Light by Alan Spence
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40Clear Light contains 150 haiku bursting with Alan Spence's characteristic verve and wit. Mythic and mesmerising, inspiring and hilarious, these poems shed clear light on the delights, hardships,... -
Before Burns: Eighteenth-Century Scottish Poetry by Christopher MacLachlan
RRP: $38.08Booksplease Price: $28.06This superb anthology offers a lively and indispensable collection of poems and songs from the eighteenth century. Here are the poets who created the literary tradition of vernacular directness... -
69 Things To Do With A Dead Princess by Stewart Home
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40This is where the novel has a nervous breakdown. Anna Noon is a twenty-year-old student with a taste for perverse sex involving an enigmatic older man and a ventriloquist's dummy. Anna lives in... -
The Paris Review Interviews: Vol. 1 Philip Gourevitch 9781841959252
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.01From William Faulkner's famous reply, 'The writer's only responsibility is to his art,' to James Salter's confession 'What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish', the... -
My Loose Thread Dennis Cooper 9781841954127
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40Larry is a teenager wrestling not only with his sexuality and the implications of a physical relationship with his younger brother, but with the very point of his existence. He is numb to almost all... -
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Emergency: One man's story of a dangerous world, and how to stay alive in it by Neil Strauss 9781847677600 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $2.98With the economic downturn, the hysterical Swine Flu frenzy and the systemic corruption of our political system we need someone to guide us through these difficult times. Emergency tells how Strauss... -
Simon's Cat: It's a Dog's Life by Simon Tofield 9781786897008
Booksplease Price: $27.73While patrolling his territory, Simon's Cat dips into the lives of the many dogs in his neighbourhood, including crazy poodles, a lovestruck bulldog and a pack of mischievous puppies. With... -
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Born Free by Laura Hird 9781841950488 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $4.74Punchy, acerbic, sharp-witted and above-all, acutely observed, Born Free tells the story of an ordinary family who are all trying to escape from something - and each other.The interactions between... -
Is Peace Possible? Kathleen Lonsdale 9781837264216
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97Kathleen Lonsdale was a groundbreaking chemist who was instrumental in developing the science of crystallography. She was also a midlife convert to Quakerism who campaigned for peace and prison... -
Avoidance, Drugs, Heartbreak and Dogs Jordan Stephens 9781838858117
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.92THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Brutally honest as well as poetic' DOLLY ALDERTON 'Necessary, urgent and totally original' AFUA HIRSCH'Intimately life-affirming . . . tackles enormously complex... -
Indian Nocturne by Antonio Tabucchi 9780857869432
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40'A lot of people lose their way in India . . . it's a country specially made for that.'Amid the backstreets, brothels and faded hotels of Bombay, Madras and the old Portuguese port of Goa, a man... -
Lucca by Jens Christian Grondahl 9781841953977
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97Lucca Montale, a 32-year-old Danish actress, is rushed into hospital after a motor accident. She is severely injured after a head-on collision with a lorry. Robert, the doctor responsible for... -
Mama Black Widow: A Story of the South's Black Underworld by Iceberg Slim 9780857869777
RRP: $23.80Booksplease Price: $17.42Iceberg Slim's third slice of ghetto life is recounted straight from the hip by Otis Tilson, a schizophrenic and ageing drag queen. However, the dominating presence and epicentre of this tragic tale... -
Seasons Of The Heart by Alan Spence 9781841950525
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40This is Spence's first book of poetry since "Glasgow Zen". In this collection he evokes the essence of the seasons with this cycle of haiku.'One of Scotland's most accomplished literary talents' The... -
The Wilderness Journeys: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth: A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf: My First Summer in the Sierra: Travels in Alaska: Stickeen by John Muir 9780862415860
RRP: $40.46Booksplease Price: $31.15The name of John Muir has come to stand for the protection of wild land and wilderness in both America and Britain. Born in Dunbar in the east of Scotland in 1838, Muir is famed as the father of... -
Children of Albion Rovers by Laura Hird 9780862417314
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97Children of Albion Rovers is the best-selling and critically acclaimed collection of novellas that features six of the most exciting young writers to emerge from Scotland in the 90s: award-winning... -
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Pride And Promiscuity: The Lost Sex Scenes of Jane Austen by Arielle Eckstut 9781841955827 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $4.71In 2002, an amateur Jane Austen scholar, while staying at a Hertfordshire estate, stumbled upon a hidden cache of manuscript pages and made an extraordinary literary discovery - lost scenes from Jane... -
Mr Holmes by Mitch Cullin 9781782113317
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $17.40NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING IAN McKELLEN It is 1947, and the long-retired Sherlock Holmes lives in a remote Sussex farmhouse with his housekeeper and her young son. He tends to his bees, writes in his... -
Devil's Island by Einar Karason 9780862419660
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.99Set in Reykjavik, this novel charts the changes that took place when the rural community clashed with the American popular culture brought by American troops. The story concerns two brothers, one of... -
Grey Granite by Lewis Grassic Gibbon 9780862413125
RRP: $23.80Booksplease Price: $17.42Chris Guthrie and her son, Ewan, have come to the industrial town of Duncairn, where life is as hard as the granite of the buildings all around them. These are the Depression years of the 1930s,... -
The Ghost Rider Ismail Kadare 9781847673411
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.40An old woman is awoken in the dead of night by knocks at her front door. The woman opens it to find her daughter, Doruntine, standing there alone in the darkness. She has been brought home from a... -
The Paris Review Interviews: Vol. 3 by Philip Gourevitch
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.01Since The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest writers of our age, vivid self-portraits that are themselves works of finely-crafted literature... -
Carthage Ross Leckie 9781847671011
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40I fought the Romans once. It no longer seems a prudent thing to do.Carthage concludes the internationally acclaimed trilogy that began with Hannibal and continued with Scipio. Here, Ross Leckie tells... -
Africa United: How Football Explains Africa by Steve Bloomfield
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.92Football inspires competition and inflames passions nowhere as strongly as in Africa. Travelling across thirteen countries, from Cairo to the Cape, journalist Steve Bloomfield meets players and fans,... -
Binu and the Great Wall of China by Su Tong
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $23.30In Peach Village, crying is forbidden. But as a child, Binu never learnt to hide her tears. Shunned by the villagers, she faced a bleak future, until she met Qiliang, an orphan who offered her his... -
The Flood David Maine 9781782114338
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40In this brilliant debut novel, Noe's family - his wife, sons and daughters-in-law - tell what it's like to live with a man touched by God, while struggling against events that cannot be controlled or...