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Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Still Born, Guadalupe Nettel's fourth novel, treats one of the most consequential decisions of early adulthood - whether or not to have children - with the intelligence and originality that have won... -
Simple Passion – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE by Annie Ernaux
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.07In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion. Blurring the line between fact and fiction, she attempts to plot... -
Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors by Ian Penman
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.12Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, mystery – Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors is cult critic Ian Penman’s long awaited first original book, a kaleidoscopic study... -
Dandelions by Thea Lenarduzzi
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Where, or what, is home? What has it meant, historically and personally, to be 'Italian' or 'English', or both in a culture that prefers us to choose? What does it mean to have roots? Or to have left... -
Paradais by Fernanda Melchor
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasizes about seducing his neighbor - an... -
The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner 9781910695159
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.05No art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: 'I, too, dislike it,' wrote Marianne Moore. 'Many more people agree they hate poetry,' Ben Lerner writes, 'than can agree... -
Shame – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE by Annie Ernaux 9781804270561
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.88‘My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon.’ Thus begins Shame, the probing story of the twelve-year-old girl who will become the author herself, and the traumatic... -
Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $10.37A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the autumn evenings, escape the typhoon rains, share meals in small cafes and restaurants, and visit... -
Diego Garcia: A Novel by Natasha Soobramanien & Luke Williams
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Edinburgh, 2014: N. and L., two writer friends arrive from London, a city they believe killed L.'s brother. Every day they try to get to the library to write their blocks, but every day they get... -
Old Food by Ed Atkins
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37From one of the most lauded artists of his generation comes a purging soliloquy: a profound nowt delivered in some spent afterwards. Scorched by senility and nostalgia, and wracked by all kinds of... -
Happening – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE by Annie Ernaux
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.94In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she... -
The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild by Mathias Enard 9781804270592
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66To research his thesis on contemporary agrarian life, anthropology student David Mazon moves from Paris to La Pierre-Saint-Christophe, a village in the marshlands of western France. Determined to... -
In The Dark Room by Brian Dillon 9781910695722
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.48Boldly combining the highly personal with the brilliantly scholarly, In the Dark Room explores the question of how memory works emotionally and culturally. It is narrated through the prism of the... -
The Undercurrents by Kirsty Bell
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin is a dazzling work of biography, memoir, and cultural criticism told from a precise vantage point: a stately nineteenth-century house on Berlin's Landwehr canal,... -
Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett 9781804270462
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.94Feverish and forthright, Pond is an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudinous life told by an unnamed woman living on the cusp of a coastal town. Broken bowls, belligerent... -
A Woman's Story – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE by Annie Ernaux 9781804270943
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80On 7 April 1986, Annie Ernaux’s mother, after years of suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, died in a retirement home in the suburbs of Paris. Shocked by this loss which, despite her mother’s... -
House of Day, House of Night by Olga Tokarczuk 9781804271919
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08A woman settles in a remote Polish village. It has few inhabitants, but it teems with the stories of its living and its dead. There’s the drunk Marek Marek, who discovers that he shares his body with... -
Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation by Nuar Alsadir
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Laughter shakes us out of our deadness. An outburst of spontaneous laughter is an eruption from the unconscious that, like political resistance, poetry, or self-revelation, expresses a provocative,... -
Bolt from the Blue by Jeremy Cooper
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $12.48In Bolt from the Blue, Jeremy Cooper, the winner of the 2018 Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize, charts the relationship between a mother and daughter over the course of thirty-odd years. In October... -
On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37In this bold, fascinating book, Eula Biss addresses a chronic condition of fear - fear of the government, the medical establishment, and what may be in your children's air, food, mattresses,... -
Memory Theatre by Simon Critchley
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65A French philosopher dies during a savage summer heat wave. Boxes carrying his unpublished miscellany mysteriously appear in Simon Critchley's office. Rooting through piles of papers, Critchley... -
A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir 9781804270448
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.05Long considered one of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpieces, A Very Easy Death is a profoundly affecting, day-by-day recounting of her mother’s final days after she is hospitalized following a fall... -
Bonsai by Alejandro Zambra
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Bonsai is the story of Julio and Emilia, two young Chilean students who, seeking truth in great literature, find each other instead. Like all young couples, they lie to each other, revise themselves,... -
Fifty Sounds by Polly Barton
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08In this brilliant debut, winner of the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, Polly Barton reflects on her experience of moving to the Japanese island of Sado at the age of twenty-one and on her... -
Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor 9781913097097
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08The Witch is dead. After a group of children playing near the irrigation canals discover her decomposing corpse, the village of La Matosa is rife with rumours about how and why this murder occurred... -
The Possessed by Witold Gombrowicz 9781804270615
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08In The Possessed, Witold Gombrowicz, considered by many to be Poland’s greatest modernist, draws together the familiar tropes of the Gothic novel to produce a darkly funny and playful subversion of... -
It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track by Ian Penman 9781910695876
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37When all else fails, when our compass is broken, there is one thing some of us have come to rely on: music really can give us a sense of something like home. With It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track,... -
The Years by Annie Ernaux
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $8.08Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work, The Years is a narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present, cultural... -
The Naked Don't Fear the Water: A Journey Through the Refugee Underground by Matthieu Aikins
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08In this extraordinary book, an acclaimed young war reporter chronicles a dangerous journey on the smuggler's road to Europe, accompanying his friend, an Afghan refugee, in search of a better future. ... -
Emergency by Daisy Hildyard
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.08Emergency is a novel about the dissolving boundaries between all life on earth. Stuck at home alone under lockdown, a woman recounts her 1990s childhood in rural Yorkshire. She watches a kestrel... -
The Tribe: Portraits of Cuba by Carlos Manuel Alvarez
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Teeming with life and compulsively readable, the pieces gathered together in The Tribe aggregate into an extraordinary mosaic of Cuba today. Carlos Manuel Alvarez, one of the most exciting young... -
Ill Feelings by Alice Hattrick
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Long Description ILL FEELINGS is a collective biography of medically unexplained illness. Structured around the narrative of their own ill feelings, Alice Hattrick uncovers their and their mother's... -
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli 9781913097172
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $10.37Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba - the catastrophe that led to the displacement and expulsion of more than 700,000 people... -
The Book Against Death by Elias Canetti 9781804270899
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08In 1937, Elias Canetti began collecting notes for the project that ‘by definition, he could never live to complete’, as translator Peter Filkins writes in his afterword. The Book Against Death is the... -
Index Cards by Moyra Davey 9781913097264
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.08In these essays, the acclaimed artist, photographer, writer, and filmmaker Moyra Davey often begins with a daily encounter - with a photograph, a memory, or a passage from a book - and links that... -
Nicotine by Gregor Hens
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Written with the passion of an obsessive, Nicotine addresses a life of addiction, from the epiphany of the first drag to the perennial last last cigarette. Reflecting on his experiences as a smoker... -
The Appointment by Katharina Volckmer 9781913097325
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37In a well-appointed examination in London, a young woman unburdens herself to a certain Dr Seligman. Though she can barely see above his head, she holds forth about her life and desires, and her... -
Notes on Suicide by Simon Critchley
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.48Suicide is everywhere. It haunts history and current events. It haunts our own networks of friends and family. The spectre of suicide looms large, but the topic is taboo because any meaningful... -
Batlava Lake by Adam Mars-Jones 9781913097622
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Pristina, Kosovo, 1999. Barry Ashton, recently divorced, has been deployed as a civil engineer attached to the Royal Engineers corps in the British Army. In an extraordinary feat of ventriloquism,... -
Animalia by Frank Wynne
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Animalia retraces the history of a modest peasant family through the twentieth century as they develop their small plot of land into an intensive pig farm. In an environment dominated by the...