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The Book of Absinthe: A Cultural History by Phil Baker
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.85La Fee Verte (or "The Green Fairy") has intoxicated artists, poets, and writers ever since the late eighteenth century. Stories abound of absinthe's druglike sensations of mood lift and inspiration... -
A The Dedalus Book of Absinthe by Phil Baker 9781910213803
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910213803Author Phil BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint -
William S. Burroughs by Phil Baker 9781861896636
Booksplease Price: $47.86Along with Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) is an iconic figure of the Beat generation. In this revealing study Phil Baker traces this cult writer's life - from the... -
City of the Beast: The London of Aleister Crowley by Phil Baker
RRP: $44.10Booksplease Price: $26.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913689322Author Phil BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint -
Devil Is a Gentleman: the Life and Times of Dennis Wheatley Phil Baker 9781907650321
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $33.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907650321Author Phil BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 699Imprint -
The Making of Mauritian Creole: Analyses Diachroniques a Partir Des Texts Anciens by Philip Baker 9781903292143
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $39.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903292143Author Philip BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 696Imprint < -
Norton Commando Restoration Manual by Norman White 9781785007590
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $63.21The Norton Commando is a motorcycle with an ohv pre-unit parallel-twin engine, produced by the Norton Motorcycle Company from 1967 until 1977. With over 700 colour photographs, this book provides... -
The Complete Stories by Anita Desai
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73The Complete Stories gathers together Anita Desai's short story collections Diamond Dust and Games at Twilight and the novellas of The Artist of Disappearance, with a new preface from the author... -
Rowing to Eden: Collected Stories by Amy Bloom 9781783782154
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Amy Bloom has long been regarded as a master of the short story form. Here, her brilliance shines across two decades and more than twenty-five stories. From the bereaved widow who finds unexpected... -
Nine Suitcases Bela Zsolt 9780712606899
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $24.21Originally published in weekly instalments, Nine Suitcases is the Hungarian writer Bela Zsolt's harrowing memoir of his experiences in the ghetto of Nagyvarad and as a forced labourer in the Ukraine... -
The Enemy: A Biography of Wyndham Lewis by Jeffrey Meyers
RRP: $193.18Booksplease Price: $190.43Originally published in 1980 and nominated for the Duff Cooper Prize, this was the first biography of Wyndham Lewis and was based on extensive archival research and interviews. It narrates Lewis'... -
Acts of the Assassins by Richard Beard
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $26.19SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZEA charismatic cult leader is dead. One by one his followers are being assassinated. Enter Gallio.Gallio does counter-insurgency. But the theft of a body he's... -
The Man Who Wouldn't Get Up and Other Stories David Lodge 9781784704681
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $21.97The first collection of short stories from one of Britain's finest novelists and criticsA nameless man who has fallen out of love with life, refuses to get out of bed, with unexpected consequences. A... -
Trespass by Clare Clark 9780349016979
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54When your past is a lie, who are you?'Provocative, moving and timely' Mail on Sunday'Angry and engaged' Sunday Times'So perceptive and clever... I read Trespass in one go' Cathy Rentzenbrink'As... -
Homesick For Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73'Razor-sharp' Zadie Smith An electrifying, prizewinning short story collection from the Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen and My Year of Rest and Relaxation.There's something eerily unsettling... -
We Are Attempting to Survive Our Time by A.L. Kennedy
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $17.12'Kennedy is a superb writer and the canniness of her observation keeps you reading' Sunday TimesHumour, fantasy, rage and despair both help and hinder the protagonists of these stories as they... -
The American Lover by Rose Tremain
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $17.12A seductive collection of stories from the 'magnificent story-teller' (Independent on Sunday). Rose Tremain has sold over one million copies of her books.Trapped in a London flat, Beth remembers a... -
The House of Rumour by Jake Arnott
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.94A mind-bending, thrilling journey into 20th-century history and outer space - 'a brightly coloured portrait of our times that is alternatively intimate and epic . . . brilliant' (Independent on... -
Fen by Daisy Johnson
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $17.12Revisit the haunting debut short story collection from the Booker-shortlisted author of Everything Under.'Full of unabashedly, refreshingly angry women... In a year that made me furious, Daisy... -
The Trouble with Happiness: and Other Stories by Tove Ditlevsen
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'So clear is Ditlevsen's eye that it is impossible to tear yourself away' John Self, GuardianAn unforgettable collection of stories from the author of The Copenhagen Trilogy'The most important thing... -
Batlava Lake by Adam Mars-Jones 9781913097622
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70Pristina, Kosovo, 1999. Barry Ashton, recently divorced, has been deployed as a civil engineer attached to the Royal Engineers corps in the British Army. In an extraordinary feat of ventriloquism,... -
The Way Things Were Aatish Taseer 9781447272717
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.24When Skanda's father Toby dies, estranged from Skanda's mother and from the India he once loved, it falls to Skanda to return his body to his birthplace. This is a journey that takes him halfway... -
The Unconscious: A Cultural History from Hippocrates to Philip K. Dick and Beyond Antonio Melechi 9780262051026
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $37.13A highly original first anthology on the cultural history of the unconscious that is destined to become definitive. 'Know thyself' the injunction that was once inscribed upon the Temple of Apollo... -
Ash before Oak by Jeremy Cooper 9781910695890
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $26.10Ash before Oak is a novel in the form of a fictional journal written by a solitary man on a secluded Somerset estate. Ostensibly a nature diary, chronicling the narrator's interest in the local flora... -
The Pier Falls Mark Haddon 9781784701963
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73The first collection of stories from the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and The Porpoise.'Terrifically compelling' GuardianA seaside pier collapses. An expedition to Mars... -
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The Pier Falls by Mark Haddon 9781910702185 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $5.31'He writes with the craft of Julian Barnes or, even, Truman Capote.' The TimesA Spectator Book of the YearAn expedition to Mars goes terribly wrong. A seaside pier collapses. A thirty-stone man is... -
Thomas and Mary: A Love Story by Tim Parks 9781784702007
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.34'Somehow it seemed to him the only thing that would really solve the problem would be to return to the sea and find the old ring with their names and the wedding date engraved inside, in 22-carat... -
Trespass by Clare Clark
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.38When your past is a lie, who are you?'Provocative, moving and timely' Mail on Sunday'All the excitement of a thriller with the depth of a literary novel' Cathy Rentzenbrink'As memorable for her sharp... -
Your Fault Andrew Cowan 9781784631802
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.11Metro: Best Fiction of 2019Longlisted for the Not the Booker Prize 2019'Elegant, unsparing, meticulously detailed novel in which a conscientious boy grows up with bedeviled parents. Where do men come... -
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The Accident by Ismail Kadare 9781847673404 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $4.14Why did the taxi crash on the autobahn in Vienna?Who exactly were Besfort Y and Rovena, the mysterious couple who died after being flung from the back seat?How was Besfort connected to the war in the... -
How Sherlock Pulled the Trick: Spiritualism and the Pseudoscientific Method by Brian McCuskey 9780271089874
Booksplease Price: $34.34A masterful combination of literary study and author biography, How Sherlock Pulled the Trick guides us through the parallel careers of two inseparable men: Sherlock Holmes and his creator, Sir... -
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The Pier Falls by Mark Haddon 9781784701963 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $4.91The first collection of stories from the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and The Porpoise.'Terrifically compelling' GuardianA seaside pier collapses. An expedition to Mars... -
The Accident Ismail Kadare 9781847673404
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35Why did the taxi crash on the autobahn in Vienna?Who exactly were Besfort Y and Rovena, the mysterious couple who died after being flung from the back seat?How was Besfort connected to the war in the... -
A History of Loneliness by John Boyne
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73Odran Yates enters Clonliffe Seminary in 1972 after his mother informs him that he has a vocation to the priesthood. He goes in full of ambition and hope, dedicated to his studies and keen to make... -
Black Car Burning Helen Mort 9781784706630
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73The debut novel from the brilliant and award-winning poet Helen MortAlexa is a police community support officer whose world feels unstable.Caron, Alexa's girlfriend, is pushing her away and pushing... -
Diving Belles by Lucy Wood
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.25LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2012 Along Cornwall's ancient coast, from time to time, the flotsam and jetsam of the past can become caught in the cross-currents of the present and a... -
To Feel the Music: A Songwriter's Mission to Save High-Quality Audio by Neil Young
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $33.87Neil Young, who removed his music from Spotify to protest COVID-19 vaccine misinformation, previously took on the music industry so that fans could hear his music-all music-the way it was meant to be... -
The High Places: Winner of the International Dylan Thomas Prize 2017 Fiona McFarlane 9781444776737
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.84Winner of the International Dylan Thomas Prize 2017'The judges recognised the mastery of form which is present in Fiona McFarlane's unforgettable collection of stunning short stories . . . highly... -
Dr Johnson's Dictionary: The Book that Defined the World Henry Hitchings 9780719566325
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.45By 1700, France and Italy already had dictionaries of their own, and it became a matter of national pride that England should rival them. Dr Johnson rose to the challenge, turning over the garret of... -
Mentored by a Madman: The William Burroughs Experiment by Andrew Lees
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.26Lees draws on Burroughs' search for an addiction cure to discover a ground-breaking treatment for shaking palsy, and learns how to use the deductive reasoning of Sherlock Holmes to diagnose patients...