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A Disaffection by James Kelman
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92Patrick Doyle is a twenty-nine-year-old teacher in an ordinary comprehensive school. Isolated, frustrated and increasingly bitter at the system he is employed to maintain, he begins his rebellion,... -
Dirt Road by James Kelman 9781782118251
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.05Shortlisted for Saltire Fiction Book of the Year 2016'A celebration of what it is to be human' SpectatorMurdo, a teenager obsessed with music, dreams of a life beyond home. His recently widowed dad,... -
The Good Times by James Kelman 9780385495806
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Kieron Smith, boy James Kelman 9781916751491
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.35Rejected by his brother and largely ignored by his parents, Kieron Smith finds comfort - and endless stories - in the home of his much-loved grandparents. But when his family move to a new housing... -
How Late It Was How Late by James Kelman
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.44WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE'A passionate, scintillating, brilliant song of a book'GuardianSammy's had a bad week.Most of it's just a blank space in his mind, and the bits that he can remember, he'd... -
God's Teeth And Other Phenomena by James Kelman
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629639390Author James KelmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint < -
That Was a Shiver, and Other Stories Mr James Kelman 9781786890924
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80SHORTLISTED FOR SALTIRE FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR, 2017LONGLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL PRIZE, 2018A local tries to sell his sister to a trucker as he passes through town; a couple put their children to... -
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How Late It Was How Late by James Kelman 9780749398835 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $4.13Sammy's had a bad week - his wallet's gone, along with his new shoes, he's been arrested then beaten up by the police and thrown out on the street - and he's just gone blind. He remembers a row with... -
All We Have is the Story: Selected Interviews (1973-2022) by James Kelman 9798887440057
RRP: $32.15Booksplease Price: $22.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887440057Author James KelmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint < -
The Story of Stone: Tales, Entreaties, and Incantations 9798887441061
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887441061Author James KelmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint < -
A Long Island Story Rick Gekoski 9781786893420
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63It is 1953, a heat wave is sweeping across America and the Grossmans - Ben, Addie and their two children -are moving their lives from the political heart of Washington DC to suburban Long Island... -
The Story of Stone: Tales, Entreaties, and Incantations 9798887441078
RRP: $33.49Booksplease Price: $23.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887441078Author James KelmanFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint -
Darke Rick Gekoski 9781782119395
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE McKITTERICK PRIZEDr James Darke has expelled himself from the world. He writes compulsively in his 'coming of old age'... -
The Dear Green Place Archie Hind 9781846976865
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FICTION OF THE YEAR AWARD ONE OF THE LIST'S BEST SCOTTISH BOOKS OF ALL TIME Set in nineteen-sixties Glasgow, this novel portrays the struggles and conflicts of young... -
The Tragedy of Mister Morn by Vladimir Nabokov 9780141196329
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65Morn, a masked king, rules over a realm to which he has restored order after a violent revolution. Secretly in love with Midia, the wife of a banished revolutionary, Morn finds himself facing renewed... -
The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities Marguerite Duras 9781841593807
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $14.27Marguerite Duras was one of the leading intellectuals and novelist of post-war France, but her wartime writings were not published in full until after her death. The Wartime Notebooks trace Duras's... -
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And the Land Lay Still by James Robertson 9780141028545 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.62And the Land Lay Still is the sweeping Scottish epic by James RobertsonAnd the Land Lay Still is nothing less than the story of a nation. James Robertson's breathtaking novel is a portrait of modern... -
Grits by Niall Griffiths 9780099285175
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63In the late 1990s, a group of young drifters from various parts of Britain find themselves washed up together in a small town on the west coast of Wales, fixed between mountains and sea. Here, they... -
The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro 9781841593494
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.72In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past . . . A haunting tale of... -
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Rules of the Wild by Francesca Marciano 9780099274698 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $3.42In the vast space of East Africa lives a close-knit tribe of expatriates. They all meet at dinner parties; they share the same doctors and eat at the same restaurants; they sleep with each other and... -
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Human Punk by John King 9780099283164 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $2.71For fifteen-year-old Martin, growing up in Slough, the summer of 1977 means punk rock, reggae music, disco girls, stolen cars, social-club lager, cut-throat Teds and a job picking cherries with the... -
Rules of the Wild by Francesca Marciano 9780099274698
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71In the vast space of East Africa lives a close-knit tribe of expatriates. They all meet at dinner parties; they share the same doctors and eat at the same restaurants; they sleep with each other and... -
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The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson 9780141023359 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $2.93The Testament of Gideon Mack is James Robertson's acclaimed novel exploring faith and belief.For Gideon Mack, faithless minister, unfaithful husband and troubled soul, the existence of God, let alone... -
Staying On by Paul Scott
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04Tusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return 'home' when Tusker, once a Colonel in the British Army, retired, they chose instead to remain in the small hill town of Pangkot,... -
The Badness of King George by Judith Summers 9780141046471
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Judith Summers' life is about to change dramatically.Her five-year relationship with her on-off boyfriend has finally ended. Her son, Joshua, is off to university, and for the first time since her... -
To Be Continued by James Robertson
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.45SHORTLISTED FOR THE WODEHOUSE COMIC FICTION PRIZE 2017An utterly mad, entirely heart-warming Highland adventure from the Man Booker-longlisted author of And the Land lay StillDouglas is fifty years... -
Bad Attitudes: Two Novellas by Agnes Owens 9780747565925
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Bad Attitudes is a wickedly dark tale of Scottish council housing and murder. This first of two novellas also boasts a missing person, a lethally nosy neighbour, an extra-marital affair, a lusty... -
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Marabou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh 9780099435112 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $2.65Roy Strang is engaged in a strange quest in a surrealist South Africa. His mission is to eradicate an evil predator-scavenger bird, the marabou stork, before it drives away the peace-loving flamingo... -
Marabou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh 9780099435112
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $6.66Roy Strang is engaged in a strange quest in a surrealist South Africa. His mission is to eradicate an evil predator-scavenger bird, the marabou stork, before it drives away the peace-loving flamingo... -
Dashboard Elvis is Dead: The epic, extraordinary new novel from one of Scotland's most exceptional novelists by David F. Ross
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92A failed writer connects the murder of an American journalist, a drowned 80s musician and a Scottish politician's resignation, in a heart-wrenching novel about ordinary people living in extraordinary... -
There's Only One Danny Garvey: Shortlisted for Scottish Fiction Book of the Year by David F. Ross
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09A promising young football player returns home to his tiny Scottish village, his dreams in tatters and a dark secret haunting his conscience, in a beautiful, unforgettable novel about hope and... -
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There's Only One Danny Garvey: Shortlisted for Scottish Fiction Book of the Year by David F. Ross 9781913193508 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $3.60A promising young football player returns home to his tiny Scottish village, his dreams in tatters and a dark secret haunting his conscience, in a beautiful, unforgettable novel about hope and... -
A Goat's Song by Dermot Healy
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65'One of those books that makes its own language.' Anne Enright'The real stuff.' James Kelman'A rare and powerful book.' E. Annie ProulxJack Ferris, playwright, drunk, is mired in contemplative... -
Jen's Party Agnes Owens 9781846977039
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.94In Jen's Party, soon-to-be fifteen-year-old Jen immediately regrets agreeing to her crazy Aunt Belle's plan for a birthday party which involves, among other notions, flirting with the town's entire... -
Schoolmaster by Earl Lovelace 9780571196760
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'Each word is a revelation.' The Times'Earl Lovelace is the real stuff, a proper writer.' James KelmanIn the sleepy village of Kumuca, Trinidad, change happens slowly. Yet to move with the times and... -
Lean Tales: The Collected Short Stories Agnes Owens 9781846977046
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.65People Like That comprises Agnes Owens' complete life's work in short stories. Witty and dark, Owens' spare prose shocks and delights. Her talent for pithy, unsettling tales is as sharp as ever,... -
A Glasgow Trilogy: The Boy Who Wanted Peace; Grace and Miss Partridge; Mr Alfred M. A. George Friel 9780862418854
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.27Distinguished 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... -
Swing Hammer Swing! by Jeff Torrington
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92From the infamous Glasgow slum, the Gorbals, Tam Clay chronicles a week in his life, in the last days before the demolishers move in. Intersecting friends, old-timers and eccentrics, navigating his... -
Glasgow: The Autobiography by Alan Taylor
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Glasgow: The Autobiography tells the story of the fabled, former Second City of the British Empire from its origins as a bucolic village on the rivers Kelvin and Clyde, through the tumult of the... -
The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story by Philip Hensher
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37'Sometimes - not often - a book comes along that feels like Christmas. Philip Hensher's timely, but timeless, selection of the best short stories from the past 20 years is that kind of book. His...