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Paul by Daisy Lafarge
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31The critically acclaimed debut novel from the T.S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted poet -- Frances is a graduate student spending a summer volunteering in rural France, in the hope that tending... -
Lovebug by Daisy Lafarge 9781913512378
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In Lovebug, Daisy Lafarge explores metaphors of love and disease as she seeks to understand human vulnerability and our intimacy with microbial life. Turning to microbiology, mysticism, and... -
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY WINTER 2020 BULLETIN by Alice Kate Mullen
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.83The Winter 2020 Bulletin features Fred D'Aguiar, Safiya Sinclair, Bill Manhire, Daisy Lafarge, Nii Ayikwei Parkes, Matthew Sweeney, William Gee, Maram al-Masri Translated by Theo Dorgan and Kiwao... -
Pearl by Siân Hughes
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64Marianne is eight years old when her mother goes missing. Left behind with her baby brother and grieving father in a ramshackle house on the edge of a small village, she clings to the fragmented... -
Try To Be Better by 9781916052000
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.96Try To Be Better is a multi-disciplinary engagement with the idiosyncratic creative practice of W. S. Graham, foregrounding experiment and process. Contemporary writers and artists respond to prompts... -
Spells: 21st Century Occult Poetry Sarah Shin 9781739371739
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Spell-poems take us into a realm where words can influence the universe.Spells brings together over forty contemporary voices exploring the territory where justice, selfhood and the imagination meet... -
Summer Hours Alessandra Thom 9781846976711
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.60It's a hot Edinburgh summer, and Roisin's life is stagnating. She spends her days cancelling plans, skipping work and drinking lukewarm wine in the bathtub with her best friend Eve. When their... -
Hunchback Saou Ichikawa 9780241700785
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Without mud, the lotus could not survive.'Born with a congenital muscle disorder, Shaka Isawa has severe spine curvature and uses an electric wheelchair and ventilator. Within the limits of her care... -
In Defence of Leisure: Experiments in Living with Marion Milner by Akshi Singh 9781529928945
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.05Leisure is time when something can be discovered, where certainties are called into question, where lives change'Essential' Frieze'Elegant, invigorating and beautiful' Amy KeyThe celebrated... -
In Defence of Leisure by Akshi Singh 9781787335066
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.84We all want more free time. But do we know how to use it?'Illuminating and thought-provoking' Darian Leader'I feel renewed and accompanied by Singh's tender self-explorations and insights' Amy KeyThe... -
Cancelled Confessions: or Disavowals Susan de Muth 9781999794033
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £22.24Cancelled Confessions reveals Claude Cahun to be a major surrealist writer and pioneering queer theorist almost a century ahead of her time. 'The re-appearance of this glittering and dissenting... -
The Ginny Suite by Stacy Skolnik 9783945247341
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.83'Information didn't need to be remembered; it remembered her...' A mysterious global syndrome is affecting women, causing symptoms of submissiveness and aphasia. While the number of sufferers... -
Lotus Gatherers Amali Rodrigo 9781780372877
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Amali Gunasekera's first collection was published under her former name of Amali Rodrigo. This is a book marked by a sense of being on a threshold between worlds. In South and East Asian religious... -
The Jacques Lacan Foundation by Susan Finlay 9781913430085
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £10.88It's fall (or autumn) 2018. The Trump administration wants to fortify the United States-Mexico border, Robert 'Beto' O'Rourke is running for Senate, and British grifter Nicki Smith has just secured a... -
The Script of the Stones: A Short Walk at the End of the World by Francis Gooding 9781838957438
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73The Script of the Stones follows a single half-mile clifftop walk on the Gower Peninsula in South Wales - one the author has been making his whole life. It takes fifteen minutes, if you keep moving... -
Summer Hours: A vivid story of youth, desire and obsession Alessandra Thom 9781846977428
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67'Everything about this book is alive' - Maria Sledmere It's a hot Edinburgh summer, and Roisin's life is stagnating. She spends her days cancelling plans, skipping work and drinking lukewarm wine in... -
Migraine by Samuel Fisher 9781472158291
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'An essential contribution to modern storytelling' Emma Glass'With elegance and humanity, Migraine sheds light on some of our darkest and most urgent questions... What type of life can we hope to... -
May We Feed the King Rebecca Perry 9781803513867
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.65She is a curator, who spends her time dressing the rooms of historic buildings to bring them to life. But in the lush private quarters of a medieval palace, she finds herself so transfixed by the... -
The Tower Thea Lenarduzzi 9781804271797
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Once upon a time, there was a tower on a hill, beyond the dark trees, somewhere north. An octagonal tower on two levels: glass upstairs and stone below, beneath a steep slate roof - a folly, it was... -
The Son of Man by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo 9781804270912
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23After several years of absence, a man reappears in the life of a woman and their young son. Intent on being a family again, he drives them to Les Roches, a dilapidated house in the mountains, where... -
The Last Sane Woman Hannah Regel 9781804295373
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88Nicola Long is a few years out of a fine arts degree, listless and unenthusiastically employed in London. She begins to spend her hours at a small underfunded archive dedicated to women's art. There...