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Victory by James Lasdun
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83**SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2020**Two timely novellas exploring male sexual violence, power and corruption'Victory makes a convincing case for James Lasdun as one of the most incisive... -
Besieged by James Lasdun 9780393320749
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £16.16His work has been described by the New York Times Book Review as an "elegant pathology report on the modern soul," and the Village Voice calls his prose "art that burrows into troubling new territory... -
It's Beginning to Hurt by James Lasdun 9780312429867
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312429867Author James LasdunFormat PaperbackPage Count 227Imprint St. Martins Press-3plPublisher... -
The Fall Guy by James Lasdun 9781784703981
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83Charlie, a wealthy banker with an uneasy conscience, invites his troubled cousin Matthew to visit him and his wife in their idyllic mountain-top house over the summer. As the days grow hotter, the... -
Lasdun Jump by James Lasdun 9780393305906
RRP: £12.50Booksplease Price: £10.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorJames Lasdun is the author of Afternoon of a Faun, The Fall Guy, The Horned Man, Seven Lies, several poetry... -
Water Sessions by James Lasdun 9780224097093
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.50James Lasdun's new book of poems, his first since his acclaimed collection Landscape with Chainsaw, applies his characteristic blend of the celebratory and the elegiac to a rich variety of new themes... -
Afternoon of a Faun: A Novel by James Lasdun 9780393357882
Booksplease Price: £15.72When an old flame accuses him of sexual assault, expat English journalist Marco Rosedale is brought rapidly to the brink of ruin. Marco confides in a close friend, the unnamed narrator, who finds... -
The Horned Man: A Novel by James Lasdun 9780393324389
RRP: £16.50Booksplease Price: £15.30The Horned Man opens with a man losing his place in a book, then deepens into a dark and terrifying tale of a man losing his place in the world. As Lawrence Miller-an English expatriate and professor... -
Seven Lies: A Novel by James Lasdun 9780393329087
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £15.30Part political thriller, part meditation on the nature of desire and betrayal, Seven Lies tells the story of Stefan Vogel, a young East German, whose yearnings for love, glory, and freedom express... -
The Fall Guy: A Novel by James Lasdun 9780393354942
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.65It is summer, 2012. Charlie, a wealthy banker with an uneasy conscience, invites his troubled cousin Matthew to visit him and his wife in their idyllic mountaintop house. As the days grow hotter, the... -
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Victory by James Lasdun 9781784709419 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.06**SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2020**Two timely novellas exploring male sexual violence, power and corruption'Victory makes a convincing case for James Lasdun as one of the most incisive... -
Landscape with Chainsaw: Poems by James Lasdun 9780393323702
RRP: £13.50Booksplease Price: £11.97An exuberant and bold series of poems drawing on the poet's life in the Catskill Mountains. Questions of exile and belonging figure prominently, as does the struggle to find a viable relationship... -
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The Fall Guy by James Lasdun 9781784703981 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £1.97Charlie, a wealthy banker with an uneasy conscience, invites his troubled cousin Matthew to visit him and his wife in their idyllic mountain-top house over the summer. As the days grow hotter, the... -
BlueStone: New and Selected Poems by James Lasdun 9780374535506
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £13.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374535506Author James LasdunFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Farrar, Straus and... -
Woman Police Officer in Elevator: Poems by James Lasdun 9780393318388
RRP: £13.50Booksplease Price: £11.93With this, his second collection of poetry, James Lasdun consolidates his reputation as a writer of rich, emotionally charged poems of utter virtuosity. The poems in this book concern themselves with... -
The Family Man: Blood and Betrayal in the House of Murdaugh by James Lasdun 9781787335073
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.17Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Family Man: Blood and Betrayal in the House of Murdaugh by James Lasdun 9781324075325
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £20.43In March 2023, Alex Murdaugh was found guilty of murdering his wife and younger son at Moselle, their home in South Carolina's Lowcountry. In The Family Man, James Lasdun takes a new angle on this... -
Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked by James Lasdun 9780099572312
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47A true story of obsessive love turning to obsessive hate, Give Me Everything You Have chronicles the author's strange and harrowing ordeal at the hands of a former student, a self-styled 'verbal... -
The Woman Who Rode Away, St. Mawr, The Princess by D. H. Lawrence 9780141441665
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78The three works collected in this volume, all written in 1924, explore the profound effects on protagonists who embark on psychological voyages of liberation. In St Mawr, Lou Witt buys a beautiful,... -
Selected Poems by Michael Hofmann 9780571237746
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Michael Hofmann's poems have been widely admired, notably for their gift of compressed and vividly pointed reportage, and the collision course of words and dictions that his poetry characteristically... -
Granta 91: Wish You Were Here by Ian Jack 9780903141802
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.50LAST GASPS Thoughts about Alan while waiting for Harold, by Simon Gray The author of the celebrated and widely-acclaimed The Smoking Diaries returns to print with a tender, affecting, and of course... -
Yalo by Elias Khoury
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Yalo was a soldier on one of the many sides in Lebanon's sectarian civil war, before becoming a deserter and a thief, a nightwatchman in Paris, an arms smuggler, and then a rapist. And then he falls... -
A Herring Famine by Adam O'Riordan 9780701187972
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.50The poems of this dazzling second collection are of contradictory impulses: of abundance and famine, of absence and presence, of endings and new beginnings. Here again are the intelligent, elegant... -
How to Read the Air by Dinaw Mengestu
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16A powerful and moving summer read that explores love, grief and the reality of the contemporary American immigrant experienceJonas, fresh from a failed marriage, is desperate to make sense of the... -
Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51When Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun's ground-breaking anthology After Ovid (also Faber) was published in 1995, Hughes's three contributions to the collective effort were nominated by most critics... -
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Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes 9780571191031 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.39When Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun's ground-breaking anthology After Ovid (also Faber) was published in 1995, Hughes's three contributions to the collective effort were nominated by most critics... -
Shylock is My Name: The Merchant of Venice Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare) by Howard Jacobson
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49A re-envisaging of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, from the Man Booker Prize-winner and our great chronicler of Jewish life. 'Who is this guy, Dad? What is he doing here?' With an absent wife... -
Kingdom Cons by Yuri Herrera 9781908276926
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.94In the court of the King, everyone knows their place. But as the Artist wins hearts and egos with his ballads, uncomfortable truths emerge that shake the Kingdom to its core. Part surreal fable and... -
Tales of Moonlight and Rain by Professor Akinari Ueda 9780231139137
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.80First published in 1776, the nine gothic tales in this collection are Japan's finest and most celebrated examples of the literature of the occult. They subtly merge the world of reason with the realm... -
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49**A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' TOP BOOK OF 2018**The Largesse of the Sea Maiden is the long-awaited new story collection from Denis Johnson, author of the groundbreaking, highly acclaimed Jesus' Son... -
Tales of Moonlight and Rain by Professor Akinari Ueda 9780231139120
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £72.43First published in 1776, the nine gothic tales in this collection are Japan's finest and most celebrated examples of the literature of the occult. They subtly merge the world of reason with the realm... -
Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University Richard White (Stanford University) 9781324004332
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £25.33In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford co-founded a university to honour their recently deceased young son. After her husband's death in 1893, Jane Stanford, a devoted spiritualist who expected the... -
The Burning Ground by Adam O'Riordan 9781408864791
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.89A masterful debut short story collection from the award-winning, critically-acclaimed poet Adam O'Riordan 'Wonderfully lyrical and bittersweet' OBSERVER 'This is a wonderful, beguiling collection... -
Kinder Than Solitude by Yiyun Li 9780007303137
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.63The new novel from Yiyun Li, author of The Vagrants and the Guardian First Book Award-winning A Thousand Years of Good Prayers. When Moran, Ruyu, and Boyang were young, they were involved... -
The Ruins Mat Osman 9781912248674
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26London, 2010: Icelandic volcanoes have the city in gridlock, banks topple like dominoes and Brandon Kussgarten has been shot dead by gunmen in Donald Duck masks. His death draws his twin brother -... -
Beijing Coma Ma Jian 9780099481348
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46REPUBLISHED ON THE 30th ANNIVERSARY OF THE TIANANMEN MASSACRE, WITH A NEW AFTERWORD FROM THE AUTHOR AND A NEW COVER BY AI WEIWEIBeijing Coma is Ma Jian's masterpiece. Spiked with dark wit, poetic... -
Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing 9780393867398
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.47In this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbulent political weather of the... -
Horace, The Odes: New Translations by Contemporary Poets by Horace 9780691119816
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21They have inspired poets and challenged translators through the centuries. The odes of Horace are the cornerstone of lyric poetry in the Western world. Their subtlety of tone and brilliance of... -
The Wherewithal: A Novel in Verse by Philip Schultz 9780393240948
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.80I, one Henryk Stanislaw Wyrzykowski, Head Clerk of Closed Files, a department of one, work... in a forgotten well of ghostly sighs This astonishing novel in verse tells the story of Henryk... -
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At Last by Edward St Aubyn 9780330435925 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £1.97At Last is the fifth and final instalment of Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels, adapted for TV for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic addict,...