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Losers by Josh Cohen
RRP: £6.00Booksplease Price: £4.92You are a loser. This isn't a personal slight, but an impersonal truth of the species, writes Josh Cohen in this essay about love, literature and politics. Today, no figure in more ridiculed and... -
The Baudelaire Fractal by Lisa Robertson 9781913512354
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Raised from babydom into doubt, I'm as feminine as Rousseau. I, Hazel Brown, eldest daughter of a disappearing class, penniless neophyte stunned by the glamour of literature, tradeless, clueless,... -
On Not Knowing: How to Love and Other Essays by Emily Ogden 9781913512156
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Moments of clarity are rare and fleeting; how can we become comfortable outside of them, in the more general condition of uncertainty within which we make our lives? Written by critic Emily Ogden... -
The Long-Winded Lady by Maeve Brennan 9781913512446
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99In these delightful, melancholy prose sketches Maeve Brennan goes in pursuit of the ordinary, taking us on a tour of the cheap hotels, unassuming restaurants, and crowded streets of New York City. ... -
The Cellist by Jennifer Atkins 9781913512118
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A piercing meditation on love and music, and the silence and inscrutability which underpins the performance of each. Luc has lived a long time as a soloist. She has not seen Billy for many years... -
Motion Sickness by Lynne Tillman 9781913512330
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02From the acclaimed cult writer of Weird Fucks For the narrator of Motion Sickness life is an unguided tour, populated with hotels and strangers, art, books, and films. Adrift in Europe, her life... -
Sterling Karat Gold by Isabel Waidner 9781913512040
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Sterling is arrested one morning without having done anything wrong. Plunged into a terrifying and nonsensical world, Sterling - with the help of their three best friends - must defy bullfighters,... -
Men And Apparitions by Lynne Tillman 9781913512002
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Ezekiel Hooper Stark is a cultural anthropologist nudging forty. His interest is family snapshots. At home, he is absorbed by his own family's idiosyncrasies, perversities, and pathologies, until... -
The Hearing Test by Eliza Barry Callahan 9781913512460
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A young woman reorients her relationship to the world in the wake of sudden deafness in this mesmerizing debut novel for readers of Rachel Cusk, Clarice Lispector, and Fleur Jaeggy When the... -
Mothercare by Lynne Tillman
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02From the brilliantly original novelist and cultural critic Lynne Tillman comes Mothercare, an honest and beautifully written account of a sudden, drastically changed relationship to one's mother, and... -
Love, Leda by Mark Hyatt
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42"It's mid morning. Cool. Not many coffee bars open. I, the brave one, god of any telephone kiosk, walk down Dean Street, see the man of the day; raincoat, shoulders round, hair black, falling out;... -
Haunted Houses by Lynne Tillman 9781913512170
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02From the author of Weird Fucks, a witty, bleak, and outrageous account of American girlhood. Haunted Houses is the story of three young women. Jane's occasionally violent father reads her the... -
We are Made of Diamond Stuff by Isabel Waidner 9781913512088
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and the Republic of Consciousness Prize Polar bears emerge from t-shirts. Reeboks come to life. Nothing is normal in the house of Mother Normal. In Isabel... -
Oval by Elvia Wilk 9781913512095
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Berlin is changing. Economic inequality is spiralling out of control, the party is moving on. Anja and Louis live on the mountain - an eco-community built and run by the corporation Anja works for... -
The Springs of Affection by Maeve Brennan 9781913512255
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'And at last Min was released from the duty she had imposed on herself, to remain with him as long as he needed her.' In the stories that compose this collection, Maeve Brennan turns her... -
A Nazi Word For A Nazi Thing by So Mayer
RRP: £6.00Booksplease Price: £4.92In 1937 the Nazis staged an exhibition of seized artworks to showcase the 'perverse Jewish spirit' pervading German culture. It contained work by Jewish artists, but also those were queer or foreign... -
The Waterfront Journals by David Wojnarowicz 9781999922313
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A visceral and carnivalesque mosaic of life at the fringes The Waterfront Journals is a road trip through the sensuous, perilous landscape of alternative America - a series of fictional monologues... -
Exposure by Olivia Sudjic 9781999922337
RRP: £6.00Booksplease Price: £4.92A personal essay on exposure, auto-fiction, internet feminism and the anxiety epidemic. Last year Olivia Sudjic published Sympathy, a novel about surveillance and connection in the internet age. If a... -
Lovebug by Daisy Lafarge 9781913512378
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In Lovebug, Daisy Lafarge explores metaphors of love and disease as she seeks to understand human vulnerability and our intimacy with microbial life. Turning to microbiology, mysticism, and... -
Centroeuropa by Rahul Bery 9781913512392
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Our lives do not start entirely with our births.' Prussia, the early 19th century. As he attempts to bury his recently deceased wife, Redo Hauptshammer uncovers the frozen body of a uniformed... -
Audition by Pip Adam 9781913512415
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'It would be better if we took a moment to be really grateful for this beautiful spacecraft which used to be so perfect for us. Which was built especially for us. When we got too big for Earth.' The... -
Living Rooms by Sam Johnson-Schlee 9781913512194
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02"Today the ideal home remains a site of illusory ease, a space that can be wiped clean of the residues of living..." In this radical and elegiac essay, Sam Johnson-Schlee invites readers... -
Still Life by Zoe Wicomb 9781913512101
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Juggling with our perception of time and reality, Still Life tells the story of an author struggling to write a biography of Scottish poet and abolitionist Thomas Pringle. In her efforts to resurrect... -
Weird Fucks by Lynne Tillman 9781913512057
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40A young woman drifts through a series of one night stands and truncated love affairs. Finding herself in a series of increasingly bizarre situations, she turns her curious and savage eye out on the... -
American Genius, A Comedy Lynne Tillman 9781913512521
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A former historian is spending time in a residential home - but is it an artist's retreat, a sanatorium, or a psychiatric hospital?In hypnotic and digressive prose, Tillman's narrator spins tales of... -
Mother Naked by Glen James Brown 9781913512484
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The City of Durham, 1434. Out of a storm, an aging minstrel arrives at the cathedral to entertain the city’s most powerful men. Mother Naked is his name, and the story he’s come to tell is the Legend... -
No Ghosts Max Lury 9781913512811
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Kieran and Harlow's best friend Annie disappeared a year ago. And now, so have the ghosts. After being reunited at Annie's memorial, Kieran and Harlow begin separate searches for their lost friend,... -
The Dissenters Youssef Rakha 9781913512675
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Amna, Nimo, Mouna - these are all names for a single Egyptian woman whose life has mirrored that of her country. After her death in 2015, her son, Nour, climbs to the attic of their house where he... -
Advanced Elvis Course CAConrad 9781913512545
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02When CAConrad's reverence for the King puts them on a trip to Memphis, the result is this wild joyride of a book, a homage that is bursting with love and twisted sincerity.Drawing on sources as... -
The Visitor Maeve Brennan 9781913512637
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Following the death of her mother, twenty-two-year-old Anastasia King leaves Paris to return to Dublin. In the time that she has been away, her estranged father has died. On arriving to her family... -
Dog Days Emily LaBarge 9781913512750
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26"The Good Story may be every story you write, but the Good Story is also not your story." Dog Days considers why we tell stories the way we do, and how we might tell them otherwise. Combining memoir... -
Bad Language So Mayer 9781913512798
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26In Bad Language, So Mayer blends memoir and manifesto as they explore the politics of speech, while looking at how language has been used - and abused - in their own life. What is the relationship... -
The Passenger Seat Vijay Khurana 9781913512712
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A mesmerising and unsettling novel from a powerful new voice Seeking release from their small-town existence, two teenagers drive north on a vaguely plotted road trip. Adam and Teddy hope to leave... -
The Novices of Lerna Ángel Bonomini 9781913512569
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.40When unambitious scholar Ramon Beltra receives a mysterious invitation to a lucrative six-month fellowship at the University of Lerna in Switzerland, he reluctantly complies with the unusual... -
On Breathing Jamieson Webster 9781913512651
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A beautiful, expansive essay about care, dependence, and what it means to breathe in an age of environmental catastrophe A few moments after birth we begin to use our lungs for the first time. From... -
Daddy Issues Katherine Angel 9781913512736
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Over the past decade, we have begun to talk more openly about the widespread harm inflicted by men on women. But little has been said about the fact that many of these men are also fathers. In Daddy... -
The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity Sarah Schulman 9781913512774
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26From award-winning writer Sarah Schulman, a longtime activist and critic of the Israeli war on Gaza, comes a brilliant examination of the misunderstood concept of solidarity which seeks to provide a... -
The Body in the Library by Graham Caveney 9781913512507
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26When Graham Caveney was a child the word 'cancer' was unspeakable, only uttered in jokes told by people too frightened to say the word in any other context. Now the boy with perpetual nervousness is... -
Thrilled to Death Lynne Tillman 9781913512699
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Over the last four decades, Lynne Tillman has established herself as one of America's most audacious writers, a tireless innovator whose shorter works have reimagined the story form. Thrilled to... -
Attention-Seeking Behaviour Aea Varfis-van Warmelo 9781913512583
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38'I have never told anyone about this before. There is no way to prove that it happened, but why would I lie?' The narrator of Attention-Seeking Behaviour thinks you should know about the body she...