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The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis by Lydia Davis
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is the complete collection of short fiction from the world-renowned Lydia Davis.WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2013.'Big rejoicing: Lydia Davis has... -
Our Strangers by Lydia Davis 9781805301899
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $30.20A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023: FICTION 'A trailblazer in the world of short-form prose' New YorkerLydia Davis is a virtuoso at detecting the seemingly casual, inconsequential surprises of... -
Can't and Won't by Lydia Davis
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35Can't and Won't is the new collection from Lydia Davis, one of the greatest short story writers alive.WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2013Lydia Davis has been universally acclaimed for... -
Essays 2 by Lydia Davis
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $29.42Lydia Davis returns with a timeless collection of essays on literature and language.'Precise, concentrated, lyrical. No one writes like Lydia Davis, and everyone should read her' Hanif Kureishi'A... -
Essays One by Lydia Davis
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $34.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250758156Author Lydia DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint -
The End of the Story Lydia Davis 9780241205457
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35The first and only novel by Lydia Davis, winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2013.'It surprised me, over and over, to find that I was with such a young man. He was twenty-two when I met him... -
Night Train A. L. Snijders 9780811228565
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $24.74Gorgeously translated by Lydia Davis, the miniature stories of A. L. Snijders might concern a lost shoe, a visit with a bat, fears of travel, a dream of a man who has lost a glass eye: uniting them... -
Can't and Won't: Stories by Lydia Davis 9781250062437
RRP: $37.80Booksplease Price: $24.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250062437Author Lydia DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint -
Lydia Davis: A Study by Paul McDonald 9781910996164
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $21.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910996164Author Paul McDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint -
American Housewife by Helen Ellis 9781471153808
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.24Meet the women of American Housewife... They smoke their eyes and paint their lips. They channel Beyonce while doing household chores. They drown their sorrows with Chanel No. 5 and host book clubs... -
Don't Cry Mary Gaitskill 9781788168687
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.24'A writer of prodigious gifts' Guardian Full of jagged, complex emotion and powerful, incisive writing, the stories in Don't Cry are a testament to Mary Gaitskill's incomparable excavation of... -
Back Talk by Danielle Lazarin
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $7.12'Beautifully crafted' New York Times'The best collection I've read in years, from a phenomenal new talent' Celeste NgFrom an award-winning writer, a stunning collection of stories about women's... -
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True Tales of American Life by Paul Auster 9780571210701 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $5.04Chosen by Paul Auster out of the four thousand stories submitted to his radio programme on National Public Radio, these 180 stories provide a wonderful portrait of America in the twentieth century... -
True Tales of American Life by Paul Auster
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.53Chosen by Paul Auster out of the four thousand stories submitted to his radio programme on National Public Radio, these 180 stories provide a wonderful portrait of America in the twentieth century... -
Freeman's Arrival: The Best New Writing on Arrival by John Freeman
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70We live today in constant motion, travelling distances rapidly, small ones daily, arriving in new states. In this inaugural edition of Freeman's, a new biannual of unpublished writing, former Granta... -
This Little Art by Kate Briggs 9781910695456
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.07An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs's This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading,... -
The New Penguin Book of American Short Stories, from Washington Irving to Lydia Davis by Kasia Boddy
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $19.38The short story is one of the most varied and exciting genres in American literature. This collection brings together many of its finest examples from the early nineteenth century to the present. It... -
Things to Make and Break May-Lan Tan 9781473683624
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $16.84SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARDA motorcycle courier finds a cache of nude photos in her boyfriend's desk. The daughter of East German emigrants encounters her doppelganger, who has... -
The Dog of the Marriage Amy Hempel 9781847247322
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45A quietly powerful presence in American fiction in during the past two decades, these collected stories show the true scale of Hempel's achievement. Her compact fictions, populated by smart neurotic... -
Seeing Red by Lina Meruane
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.64Lucina, a young Chilean writer, has moved to New York to pursue an academic career. While at a party one night, something that her doctors had long warned might happen finally occurs: her eyes... -
Words Are My Matter: Writings on Life and Books Ursula K. Le Guin 9781837265084
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'One of the literary greats of the twentieth century' MARGARET ATWOOD 'A crafter of fierce, focused, fertile dreams' DAVID MITCHELL 'A literary icon' STEPHEN KING Hard times are coming, when we'll be... -
Tamarisk Row by Gerald Murnane 9781911508366
RRP: $25.10Booksplease Price: $18.75Clement Killeaton transforms his father's gambling, his mother's piety, his fellow pupils' cruelty and the mysterious but forbidden attractions of sex into an imagined world centred on horse-racing... -
Jealousy: Vintage Minis by Marcel Proust
RRP: $12.58Booksplease Price: $10.19Can we truly know the one we love? In this painfully candid book Marcel Proust looks straight into the green eye of every lover's jealous struggle. He broods on why we are driven to try possess one... -
No One Belongs Here More Than You Miranda July 9781782116295
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35Winner of the 2007 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award'Blisteringly good' GuardianIn her remarkable stories of seemingly ordinary people living extraordinary lives, Miranda July reveals... -
Guestbook: Ghost Stories by Leanne Shapton
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $35.78'Shapton has created a mystical territory - a performance, an exhibition, a guestbook - in which I felt the ghost within myself; the thing that will outlive me. A fearless and exquisite book'... -
Reborn: Early Diaries 1947-1963 by Susan Sontag
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could do to any person; I create myself.'Intimate, vulnerable and unsparing, Reborn bears witness to the evolution of Susan Sontag.With... -
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREIn these stories lives come into focus through single events or sudden memories which bring the past bubbling to the surface. The past, as Alice Munro's... -
The Progress of Love by Alice Munro
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREThese dazzling and utterly satisfying stories explore varieties and degrees of love - filial, platonic, sexual, parental and imagined - in the lives of... -
Open Secrets by Alice Munro
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 'A superb collection... Marriage, gambles, disappearances, motiveless vandalism - it is the stuff of unremarkable lives, conveyed in a remarkable fashion'... -
The American Sentence: From Pulpit to Pulp Fiction Ira B. Nadel 9781350473089
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $30.93A compelling quest to locate a history and poetics of the American sentence, this book applies four stages of communication to the story of American writing - the sermon, the telegraph, the newspaper... -
Old Babes in the Wood: New stories of love and mischief from the cultural icon by Margaret Atwood
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $30.74Atwood's first new fiction publication since The Testaments, this deeply personal collection includes a stunning sequence that follows a married couple as they travel the road together, the moments... -
Animal Person by Alexander MacLeod
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.75The highly anticipated follow-up to Alexander MacLeod's critically acclaimed debut, Animal Person is a wry and perfectly-observed collection of short stories about intimacy, family and the struggle... -
Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73The only novel from bestselling author Alice Munro, winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureCatching frogs, grazing knees, singing songs to save England from Hitler - that was childhood for Del... -
Dance of the Happy Shades by Alice Munro
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREAlice Munro's territory is the farms and semi-rural towns of south-western Ontario. In these dazzling stories she deals with the self-discovery of adolescence,... -
A Guest at the Feast by Colm Tóibín 9780241970614
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.38A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it.From the melancholy and amusement... -
A Guest at the Feast by Colm Toibin
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.64A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it.From the melancholy and amusement... -
The View From Castle Rock by Alice Munro
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREThe world's finest living short story writer turns to her family for inspiration; and what follows is a fictionalised, brilliantly imagined version of the past... -
Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Gustave Flaubert
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38A major new translation of one of the most popular classics of all time, now in a gorgeous deluxe edition. Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled... -
Nana by Emile Zola 9780140442632
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35Born to drunken parents in the slums of Paris, Nana lives in squalor until she is discovered at the Theatre des Varietes. She soon rises from the streets to set the city alight as the most famous... -
Slip by Amelia Loulli 9781787334670
RRP: $27.30Booksplease Price: $19.91One in three women in Britain have an abortion. For such a common procedure, it has not been the subject of a dedicated book of poetry - not, at least, until now.'Painful, brave and steadfastly...