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The Dumb House by John Burnside
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49As a child, Luke's mother often tells him the story of the Dumb House, an experiment on newborn babies raised in silence, designed to test the innateness of language. As Luke grows up, his interest... -
A Summer of Drowning by John Burnside
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.99A young girl, Liv, lives with her mother on a remote island in the Arctic Circle. Her only friend is an old man who beguiles her with tales of trolls, mermaids, and the huldra, a wild spirit who... -
Ashland & Vine by John Burnside
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Kate, a grieving, semi-alcoholic film student, invites an elderly woman to take part in an oral-history documentary. Jean declines, but makes her a bizarre counter-offer: if Kate can stay sober for... -
Learning to Sleep by John Burnside
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £9.48Lucid, lyrical and intellectually profound: this collection of poems resonates with real life and death, but mostly what falls in between: the charmed darkness.Several ghosts haunt Learning to Sleep,... -
Selected Poems by John Burnside
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.12Over seventeen years and nine collections, John Burnside has built - in the words of Bernard O'Donoghue - 'a poetic corpus of the first significance', a poetry of luminous, limpid grace. His... -
Glister by John Burnside 9780099507840
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16The children of Innertown exist in a state of suspended terror. Every year or so, a boy from their school disappears, vanishing into the wasteland of the old chemical plant. Nobody knows where these... -
The Hoop by John Burnside 9780856357428
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Glister by John Burnside 9780307455338
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307455338Author John BurnsideFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint -
Apostasy by John Burnside 9780993331190
RRP: £8.00Booksplease Price: £6.66Apostasy is a remarkable new collection of fourteen poems by John Burnside, one of the UK's foremost poets. A child struggles to reconcile a received Catholic world-view with a more instinctive... -
The Devil's Footprints by John Burnside 9780099479543
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Once, on a winter's night many years ago, after a heavy snow, the devil passed through the Scottish fishing town of Coldhaven, leaving a trail of dark hoofprints across the streets and roofs of the... -
Something Like Happy by John Burnside
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47In these remarkable stories, John Burnside takes us into the lives of men and women trapped in marriage, ensnared by drink, diminished by disappointment; all kinds of women, all kinds of men -... -
Ruin, Blossom by John Burnside 9781529909258
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £9.48A remarkable collection exploring ageing, mortality and environmental destruction**WINNER OF THE DAVID COHEN PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2023**'By far the best British poet alive' SPECTATOR'A master of... -
Gift Songs by John Burnside 9780224079976
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £9.48To the Shakers, a good song was a gift; indeed the test of a song's goodness was how much of a gift it was. In their call to 'labour to make the way of God your own', Shaker artists expressed an... -
The Empire of Forgetting by John Burnside 9781787334557
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £9.48A powerful exploration of life and death, illness and grace, wonder and beauty, in the posthumous collection from one of our greatest contemporary poets'It's impossible not to love the world more... -
Black Cat Bone by John Burnside
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £9.48John Burnside's remarkable book is full of strange, unnerving poems that hang in the memory like a myth or a song. These are poems of thwarted love and disappointment, of raw desire, of the stalking... -
Waking Up in Toytown: A Memoir by John Burnside
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.15In the early 80s, after a decade of drug abuse and borderline mental illness, John Burnside resolved to escape his addictive personality and find calm in a 'Surbiton of the mind'. But the suburbs... -
I Put a Spell on You by John Burnside
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73In this exquisite, haunting book, John Burnside describes his coming of age from the industrial misery of Cowdenbeath and Corby to the new world of Cambridge. This is a memoir of romance - of lost... -
A Lie About My Father by John Burnside
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15A moving, unforgettable memoir of two lost men: a father and his child.He had his final heart attack in the Silver Band Club in Corby, somewhere between the bar and the cigarette machine. A... -
Still Life with Feeding Snake by John Burnside
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £9.48From our earliest childhood experiences, we learn to see the world as contested space: a battleground between received ideas, entrenched conventions and myriad Authorised Versions on the one hand,... -
A Lie about My Father by John Burnside 9781555974671
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555974671Author John BurnsideFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint -
A Lie About My Father by John Burnside 9781529962888
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15John Burnside recalls the failed relationship with his father, in the first of his trilogy of exquisite memoirsWith a new introduction by Megan Nolan'A master of language' Hilary MantelHe had his... -
Waking Up in Toytown: A Memoir by John Burnside 9781529962871
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781529962871Author John BurnsideFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint -
I Put a Spell on You by John Burnside 9781529962864
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15The last of John Burnside's three memoirs, I Put a Spell on You is an enthralling ode to love and wonder in all its forms With a new introduction by Sean Hewitt'A master of language' Hilary MantelThe... -
Black Cat Bone: Poems by John Burnside 9781555977146
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £10.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555977146Author John BurnsideFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint -
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The Dumb House by John Burnside 9781784870119 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £5.85As a child, Luke's mother often tells him the story of the Dumb House, an experiment on newborn babies raised in silence, designed to test the innateness of language.As Luke grows up, his interest in... -
On Henry Miller: Or, How to Be an Anarchist by John Burnside 9780691166872
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.28An engaging invitation to rediscover Henry Miller-and to learn how his anarchist sensibility can help us escape "the air-conditioned nightmare" of the modern worldThe American writer Henry Miller's... -
The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century by John Burnside
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78A Financial Times Book of the Year Though we might not realise it, our collective memory of the twentieth century was defined by the poets who lived and wrote in it. At every significant turning... -
Aurochs and Auks: Essays on mortality and extinction John Burnside 9781908213891
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £10.48Aurochs and Auks is a deeply moving and intelligent meditation on the natural processes of death and extinction, renewal and continuity. Prompted by his own near-death in a time of pandemic, John... -
The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century by John Burnside 9780691218861
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.69A revelatory and deeply personal history of twentieth-century poetry by prize-winning poet and memoirist John BurnsidePoetry helps us to make sense of our world, transforming what the Russian poet... -
John Burnside: Contemporary Critical Perspectives by Ben Davies 9781350036970
Booksplease Price: £95.49Celebrated as a poet, novelist and non-fiction writer, and the winner of numerous major literary prizes including the Whitbread Poetry Prize, the T.S. Eliot Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial... -
John Burnside: Contemporary Critical Perspectives by Dr Ben Davies 9781350237445
Booksplease Price: £34.84Celebrated as a poet, novelist and non-fiction writer, and the winner of numerous major literary prizes including the Whitbread Poetry Prize, the T.S. Eliot Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial... -
Contemporary Scottish Poetry and the Natural World: Burnside, Jamie, Robertson and White by Monika Szuba 9781474450614
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.04With an exciting and provocative approach to the reading of landscape and the non-human world in the work of four major Scottish poets, this groundbreaking book merges phenomenology and ecocritical... -
Contemporary Scottish Poetry and the Natural World: Burnside, Jamie, Robertson and White by Monika Szuba
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £90.60Examines the representation of landscape in the poetry of John Burnside, Kathleen Jamie, Robin Robertson and Kenneth WhiteProvides an interdisciplinary approach to the representation of landscape in... -
Fair Helen by Andrew Greig
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2014. 'One of the best historical novels of recent years, Greig dusts off the past and presents it with tremendous skill' - Literary... -
Testament by Robert Crawford 9780224098076
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82To make a testament is to attempt to pass on what matters most. In his seventh full-length collection of poems Robert Crawford writes of love, loss, belief, and commitment. Whether in intimate erotic... -
The Valley at the Centre of the World by Malachy Tallack
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Longlisted for the Ondaatje PrizeShortlisted for the Highland Book PrizeShetland: a place of sheep and soil, of harsh weather, close ties and an age-old way of life. A place where David has lived all... -
The Trick Is To Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49From the corner of a darkened room Joy Stone watches herself. As memories of the deaths of her lover and mother surface unbidden, life for Joy narrows - to negotiating each day, each encounter, each... -
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RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.99A riotous urban picaresque, richly laced with black humour, Jeff Torrington's comic novel marks a milestone in Scottish literature. 'This tale of a week in the life of Tam Clay, Gorbals... -
Swing Hammer Swing! by Jeff Torrington
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15From 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... -
Its Colours They Are Fine Alan Spence 9781786892973
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A classic of short fiction, Alan Spence's celebrated debut collection, first published in 1977, brings Glasgow to vibrant life and captures the spirit of the city as it teetered on the brink of...