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Moon Jellyfish Can Barely Swim Ness Owen 9781913640972
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $10.37Moon jellyfish live a life adrift, relying on the current to take them where they need to go. They are the ultimate survivors and one of the most successful organisms of animal life. So how do they... -
Moving On: and Other Zimbabwean Stories by Jane Morris
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.45Moving On bristles with the talent of writers from Zimbabwe. This collection brings together twenty of Zimbabwe's finest storytellers, from within the country and without.Book InformationISBN... -
Country Dance by Margiad Evans
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.37Country Dance is a story of passion, jealousy and revenge centred around a young woman torn between the opportunities and dangers of her life who grows up in an isolated rural community on the... -
Gazooka by Gwyn Thomas 9781914595721
RRP: $12.06Booksplease Price: $9.46A small Welsh valley community come together to form a carnival marching band in Gwyn Thomas' farcical exploration of the social, economic and political turbulence abound in twentieth century Wales... -
Flame and Slag by Ron Berry 9781906998486
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.45Flame and Slag is Ron Berry's masterpiece. It is a richly complex novel which uses the fictional sieve of Caib Colliery and the village of Daren to give meaning to the kaleidoscopic history of all... -
Hummingbird Tristan Hughes 9781910901908
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $10.37"What you could change and alter could never be finished or complete or dead. This is what I had been told back then, and what I had tried very hard to believe in since."Beside a lake in the northern... -
In the Green Tree by Alun Lewis 9781902638874
Booksplease Price: $17.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorAlun Lewis (1915-1944) was one of the generation of writers born in the first two decades of the twentieth... -
The Valley, The City, The Village by Glyn Jones 9781906998134
Booksplease Price: $17.98An artist at heart, Trystan Morgan grows up in his grandmother's valley mining cottage, duty-bound by her deep wish for him to be a preacher. He comes from farming stock and longs to paint the Welsh... -
Fresh Apples Rachel Trezise 9781913640262
RRP: $12.06Booksplease Price: $11.30Sarah's not abnormal or ugly, just a little bit fat, and she's got cerebral palsy. "No way was it rape or even molestation... she's fourteen, not a child. I'm not a paedophile." Gemma's mother had... -
Flowers of War by Llyr Gwyn Lewis 9781912681259
RRP: $12.06Booksplease Price: $9.46When the author is given a small package, containing letters and papers relating to his grandfather's brother, who was killed in Syria during the Second World War, it leads him on an extended... -
The Vagabond King by 9781912109371
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.04Threon, the Vagabond King, is torn from a life in the palace by raiders and forced to scrape a living on the streets of a foreign land. Meeting a witch of the underworld, a rebel soldier and a woman... -
Love What is Mortal by 9781910901786
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $12.72'...a stimulating read...they richly reward rereading...fresh, vibrant...'Nigel Jenkins on Cadillac Temple: haiku sequences'...ebullient, rapscallion, hilarious and tender, Norman Schwenk's poems... -
Empaperment Angharad Price 9781917140942
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28With a title drawn from the work of TH Parry Williams – a master of the 20th-century essay form, on whom Price has written extensively – the subtlety and capaciousness of these writings reveal Price... -
The Herring Man by Cyril James Morris 9781913640613
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.54Part of a family's heritage is the tales they leave behind, but what happens if you don't have the voice to tell them? Known locally as the Herring Man, Samuel Evans was a fisherman and sailor. He... -
Where to Now?: Short Stories from Zimbabwe by Jane Morris 9781906998592
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.45Meet the prostitute who gets the better of her brothers when they try to marry her off, the wife who is absolved of adultery, the hero who drowns in a bowser of cheap beer, the poetry slammer who... -
Country Dance by Margiad Evans 9781902638843 [USED COPY]
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $2.55Presents a first person account of passion, murder and cultural conflict played out in the person of the young Ann Goodman, who is torn by 'the struggle for supremacy in her mixed blood', Welsh and... -
Hello Friend We Missed You Richard Owain Roberts 9781912681495
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36HELLO FRIEND WE MISSED YOU is a deeply poignant and bleakly comic debut novel about loneliness, the 'violent revenge thriller' category on Netflix, solipsism, rural gentrification, Jack Black, and... -
Women Who Blow on Knots by Ece Temelkuran
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.45Three young women and the extraordinary Madam Lilla embark on a road trip from Tunisia to Lebanon as the Arab Spring breaks around them. The novel's title is taken from a sura in the Koran that warns... -
Local Fires Joshua Jones 9781913640590
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $10.37SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2024 Chloe enters the local talent show, seeking fame, fortune and a ticket out of town. Meanwhile, her mother, Angie, wakes up hungover on the morning of... -
New Baltic Poetry by Jayde Will 9781912109050
Booksplease Price: $19.78New Baltic Poetry is a collection celebrating the diversity of writing from the three Baltic countries; Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. Six of the most talented poets from each country are translated... -
Notes From a Swing State: Writing from Wales and America by Zoe Brigley 9781912681297
Booksplease Price: $15.88These creative nonfiction essays consider girlhood, motherhood, violence at home and abroad, violence against women, the consolation in writing, trauma, and redemption. The essays celebrate and... -
The Volunteers by Raymond Williams 9781914595929
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36Foreword by Kim Howells Power and politics corrupt... this is the future. A worker is killed in the striking coalfields of south Wales. Some months later a government minister suspected of being... -
Max: Hymns & Arias: The Selected Stories, Songs and Poems of Max Boyce by Max Boyce 9781913640958
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $32.58When 'Hymns and Arias' rang out at Cardiff Arms Park some fifty years ago, those great Welsh anthems 'Calon Lan' and 'Cwm Rhondda' had found a companion and the valleys of south Wales had produced... -
The Cormorant by Stephen Gregory 9781912681693
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $11.07"We had been in the cottage for a week when the cormorant was delivered, that October evening." When a young family inherit a remote mountain-side cottage in north Wales, giving them the chance... -
Y Daith Ydi Adra: Stori Gwr Ar Y Ffin by John Sam Jones 9781913640453
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913640453Author John Sam JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint -
The Incandescent Threads by Richard Zimler 9781913640644
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.82FINALIST FOR THE 72ND NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS - BOOK CLUB CATEGORY ONE OF THE SUNDAY TIMES' BEST HISTORICAL FICTION BOOKS OF 2022 'Zimler is an honest, powerful writer' The Guardian 'A... -
Just So You Know: Essays of Experience by Multiple Authors 9781912681822
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36Edited by Hanan Issa, Durre Shahwar and OEzgur Uyanik. "I felt the city in my muscles, my saliva. I wanted to be changed. I wanted to be in love." A young woman weaves her experience of abuse... -
Gorwelion: Shared Horizons by Robert Minhinnick 9781913640552
RRP: $12.06Booksplease Price: $11.58Texts from Gorwelion will be made available as digital contributions to events at the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties COP26 in Glasgow, 1-12 November 2021, representing voices... -
Fox Bites by Lloyd Markham 9781914595172
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28When Taban wishes for the world to end something out there . . . hears him. Soon the young boy is being stalked by a fox whose salivating jaws drag him into strange dreams. Dreams where he is a... -
Now You're Talking: Drama in Conversation by Hazel Walford Davies 9781902638485
Booksplease Price: $21.95Insightful and informative, this volume of essays offers a fresh outlook and critical appraisal of contemporary plays.About the AuthorHazel Walford Davies is a cultural historian, a literary critic,... -
Half Plus Seven by Dan Tyte 9781909844414
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $21.17Twenty-nine years old with a less than healthy appetite for booze and a buzz, Bill lived in a messy rented room, sold his soul daily in a PR agency and couldn't remember the name of the last woman he... -
Living in the Delta: New and Collected Poems by Landeg White 9781910409886
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $16.75Living in the Delta, Landeg White's Collected and New Poems, brings together work from nine previous collections. Welsh by birth, White is a citizen of the world, having lived and written and taught... -
Woman Who Brings the Rain: A Memoir of Hokkaido, Japan by Eluned Gramich 9781917140027
RRP: $10.72Booksplease Price: $8.54Winner of the 2015 New Welsh Writing Awards: WWF Cymru Prize for Writing on Nature and the Environment Shortlisted for the 2016 Wales Book of the Year: The Open University in Wales Creative... -
Minnie Pallister: The Voice of a Rebel Alun Burge 9781914595790
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.42Points The latest title in Parthian's Modern Wales series. Minnie Pallister's life was so fantastic that not even a thriller writer could imagine it. A feminist, pacifist and socialist, she was... -
The Summer Without You by Petar Andonovski 9781914595813
Booksplease Price: $13.33A story of time slipping, desire just out of reach, like memories lost...At the beginning of the summer, I had to spend two weeks in hospital... If I hadn't fallen from the balcony, what happened... -
The Autobiography of a Super-tramp W. H. Davies 9781908946072
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28William Henry Davies was born in a pub and learnt early in life to rely on his wits and his fists - and to drink. Around the turn of the century, when he was twenty-two, his restless spirit of... -
The Rhys Davies Short Story Award Anthology Elaine Canning 9781914595837
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $10.37Judged by Rebecca F. John.In these twelve bold, tender, brilliant stories from the winners of the 2024 Rhys Davies Short Story Competition, adults, children - and even an elephant - are challenged by... -
The Plankton Collector Cath Barton 9781917140041
RRP: $10.72Booksplease Price: $8.55In this atmospheric novella, the mysterious Plankton Collector visits members of a family torn apart by grief and regret. he comes in different guises. For ten year-old Mary, he is Mr Smith who takes... -
Boundary Waters Tristan Hughes 9781914595844
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $12.21Lower Canada, 1804.Arthur Stanton, lacking direction in his life and desperately seeking the approval of his father, wanders the streets of Montreal filled with daydreams of exoticlands and... -
A Summer Without You by Petar Andonovski 9781917140737
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $10.37This short novel by Petar Andonovski tells a complex story of three men enmeshed in a love relationship. It is a novel about the internal struggles, about alienation between partners, about the...