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Vox by Nicholson Baker
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.00Vox is the story of two voices, his and hers: two strangers who, having met on a telephone chat-line, switch to a private, one-on-one connection - and find it impossible to hang up. Literate,... -
The Fermata by Nicholson Baker
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.40This is the story of Arno Strine, a modest temporary typist, who has perfected the knack of stopping time in its tracks and taking women's clothes off. He is hard at work on his autobiography, The... -
The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker 9781783786381
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80The Mezzanine is the story of one man's lunch hour. Pondering life's littlest questions - why does one shoelace always wear out before the other? Whatever happened to the paper drinking straw - our... -
U & I: A True Story by Nicholson Baker
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.94When Nicholson Baker, one of the most linguistically talented writers in America, set out to write a book about John Updike, the result was no ordinary biography. Instead Baker's account of his... -
Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups by Ben Holden 9781471153754
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.99There are few more precious routines than that of the bedtime story. So why do we discard this invaluable ritual as grown-ups to the detriment of our well-being and good health? In this... -
Best of Myles: A Selection from Cruskeen Lawn: Best of Myles by Flann O'Brien 9780007247189
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.84Under the pseudonym Myles na Gopaleen, Flann O' Brien wrote a daily column in the 'Irish Times' called 'Cruiskeen Lawn' for over twenty years which hilariously satirised the absurdities and... -
The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.11T.S. Spivet is a genius mapmaker who lives on a ranch in Montana. His father is a silent cowboy and his mother is a scientist who for the last twenty years has been looking for a mythical species of... -
Visiting Mrs Nabokov And Other Excursions by Martin Amis
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $14.73Fuelled by innumerable cigarettes, Martin Amis provides dazzling portraits of contemporaries and mentors alike: Larkin and Rushdie; Greene and Pritchett; Ballard and Burgess and Nicholson Baker; John... -
Sock by Kim Adrian
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.44Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Who ponders the sock? This common object is something people tug on and take off daily... -
Insomniac Dreams: Experiments with Time by Vladimir Nabokov by Vladimir Nabokov 9780691167947
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $22.85Nabokov's dream diary, published for the first time--and placed in biographical and literary context On October 14th, 1964, Vladimir Nabokov, a lifelong insomniac, began a curious experiment. Over... -
In the Rhododendrons: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf by Heather Christle 9781472158697
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75'In a memoir that pulses with feeling and intelligence, [Christle] excavates the past to expose difficult truths' GuardianWhen Heather Christle realises that she, her mother, and Virginia Woolf share... -
The Liar's Dictionary: A winner of the 2021 Betty Trask Awards Eley Williams 9781786090591
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04A WINNER OF THE 2021 BETTY TRASK AWARDSSHORTLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2021__________________________'Joyous' SPECTATOR'Remarkable' SUNDAY TIMES'A playful delight... A glorious novel'... -
Short Circuit: A Novel by Wolf Haas 9780063469167
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.77"An act of intricate, puzzle-minded fabulism. Part Italo Calvino and part Ed McBain."-Jim Lewis, Author of New York Times Notable Book Ghosts of New York"A playful literary mystery. . . . Fans of... -
Cleaner: A biting workplace satire - for fans of Ottessa Moshfegh and Halle Butler Brandi Wells 9781472299543
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.83'Razor-sharp . . . Biting and compulsive' GRAZIAI clean the offices and bathrooms and lobby five nights a week, but my actual job is to take care of everyone. They need so much help.At night, in a... -
Cleaner: A biting workplace satire - for fans of Ottessa Moshfegh and Halle Butler by Brandi Wells 9781472299581
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75'I clean the offices and bathrooms and lobby five nights a week, but my actual job is to take care of everyone. They need so much help.'At night, in a corporate office block in an unnamed... -
Practice by Rosalind Brown 9781399614535
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.48Six o'clock in the morning, Sunday, at the worn-out end of January.In a small room in an Oxford college, cold and dim and full of quiet, an undergraduate student works on an essay about Shakespeare's... -
Practice by Rosalind Brown 9781399614559
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92'A strange and shimmering joy' Jon McGregor'Entrancing' TLS'A lot of fun' Helen OyeyemiIn a small room in an Oxford college, at the worn-out end of January, Annabel works on an essay about... -
Hawthorn and Child by Keith Ridgway 9781847085276
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.80Hawthorn and his partner, Child, are called to the scene of a mysterious shooting in North London. The only witness is unreliable, the clues are scarce, and the victim, a young man who lives nearby,...