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The Naked Don't Fear the Water: A Journey Through the Refugee Underground by Matthieu Aikins
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51In 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. ... -
Simple Passion – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE by Annie Ernaux
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02In 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.79Melodrama, 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... -
The Tribe: Portraits of Cuba by Carlos Manuel Alvarez
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Teeming 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... -
Paradais by Fernanda Melchor
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Inside 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... -
A Woman's Story – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE by Annie Ernaux 9781804270943
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31On 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... -
Emergency by Daisy Hildyard
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Emergency 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... -
Happening – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE by Annie Ernaux
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67In 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... -
Strangers I Know by Claudia Durastanti
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31A work of fiction about being a stranger in your own family and life. Every family has its own mythology, but in this family none of the myths match up. Claudia's mother says she met her husband when... -
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli 9781913097172
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.74Minor 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: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51In 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... -
Bonsai by Alejandro Zambra
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Bonsai 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,... -
Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation by Nuar Alsadir
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Laughter 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,... -
Old Food by Ed Atkins
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.72From 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... -
Memory Theatre by Simon Critchley
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99Long 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... -
The Man Who Cried I Am by John A. Williams 9781804270967
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Max Reddick, a novelist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter, has spent his career struggling against the riptide of race in America. Now terminally ill, he has nothing left to lose. An expat... -
An Inconvenient Place Jonathan Littel 9781804271124
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23What is a place? A place where things happened, horrible things, the traces of which have been erased? Ukraine, for a long time, has been filled with these ‘inconvenient places’ which embarrass... -
Joy Is My Middle Name Sasha Debevec-McKenney 9781804271872
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Joy Is My Middle Name documents crawling through your twenties and emerging into your thirties. Walking uneasy cities and rural towns, talking about sex, race, womanhood, addiction, sobriety,... -
Fifty Sounds by Polly Barton
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51In 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... -
Diego Garcia: A Novel by Natasha Soobramanien & Luke Williams
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Edinburgh, 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... -
On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In 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,... -
Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor 9781913097097
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51The 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: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.31In 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... -
The Observable Universe by Heather McCalden 9781804270141
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Are we ever truly lost in the internet age? The Observable Universe is a moving, genre-defying memoir of a woman reckoning with the loss of her parents, the virus that took them, and what it means to... -
King Kong Theory by Virginie Despentes 9781913097349
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.74'I write from the realms of the ugly, for the ugly, the frigid, the unfucked and the unfuckables, all those excluded from the great meat market of female flesh, and for all those guys who don't want... -
The Tower Thea Lenarduzzi 9781804271797
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Once 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... -
It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track by Ian Penman 9781910695876
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23When 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,... -
Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.74A 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... -
Bolt from the Blue by Jeremy Cooper
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.31In 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... -
The Plague by Jacqueline Rose
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99What do you do with death and dying when they can no longer be pushed to the outer limits of your lived experience or dismissed from your conscious mind? How do you live with death or rather how do... -
Shame – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE by Annie Ernaux 9781804270561
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.37‘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... -
Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Still 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... -
The Years by Annie Ernaux
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.03Considered 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 Undercurrents by Kirsty Bell
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51The 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,... -
Dandelions by Thea Lenarduzzi
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Where, 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... -
Ill Feelings by Alice Hattrick
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Long 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... -
Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett 9781804270462
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Feverish 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... -
The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild by Mathias Enard 9781804270592
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43To 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... -
Big Kiss, Bye-Bye Claire-Louise Bennett 9781804271933
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The things that hold life in place have been lifted off and put away. Uprooted by circumstance from city to deep countryside, a woman lives in temporary limbo, visited by memories of all she’s left...