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The Ophelia Letters by Rebecca Tamas
RRP: £6.50Booksplease Price: £6.04The poems in the first half of The Ophelia Letters explore the interaction between self and place in ways both strange and loaded with magic: journeying to the Arctic with Werner Herzog, stopping off... -
Scablands and Other Stories Dr Jonathan Taylor 9781784632946
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.42These are tales from the post-industrial scablands - stories of austerity, poverty, masochism and migration. The people here are sick, lonely, lost, half-living in the aftermath of upheaval or trauma... -
Concrete Fields David Gaffney 9781784633035
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28The countryside - what is it for? A paradise on earth where you can relax and get creative? Or an outdoor wool factory where every other house is an Airbnb and there are fewer trees than Camden. In... -
A Perfect Explanation Eleanor Anstruther 9781784631642
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Longlisted for the Not the Booker Prize 2019Longlisted for The Desmond Elliott Prize 2019Observer: Fiction to look out for in 2019The i Paper's 30 of the best new debut novels to read in 2019Scottish... -
Haverscroft by S. A. Harris 9781784632007
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28Longlisted for the Not the Booker Prize 2019Kate Keeling leaves all she knows and moves to Haverscroft House in an attempt to salvage her marriage. Little does she realise, Haverscroft's dark secrets... -
Cracked Skull Cinema Mr David Briggs 9781784632076
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28Poetry Wales: Poetry Books of 2019Cracked Skull Cinema offers poems on culture and society, colonialism and its legacies, media and power. Set between these are homages and reflections on middle age,... -
Like Fado: And Other Stories Dr Graham Mort 9781784632274
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28Longlisted for the Edge Hill PrizeLike Fado consists of thirteen individual stories that culminate in the extended novella-like story, 'Whitethorn'. Each story takes us into the lived experience and... -
Missing Alison Moore 9781784631406
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28Having moved from the Fens to the Midlands to the Scottish Borders, Jessie Noon finds herself struggling to leave the past behind.Following a family tragedy, Jessie Noon moved from the Fens to the... -
Heat Wave Julian Stannard 9781784632182
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.63Heat Wave is a form of poetic cabaret,'What good is sitting, alone in your room?/ come hear the music play!' If a cabaret is full of high jinks it can also land punches - truth can be masked by the... -
Dr. Mephisto by Chris Emery 9781844718405
Booksplease Price: £10.29Dr. Mephisto is in the form of a long sequence of poems. It traces Mephistopheles as he ranges freely through time and space, at times a laconic observer, at others a thuggish participant, but always... -
Making the Wedding Dress Jackie Wills 9781784633844
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Wills gives readers the exceptional at the heart of daily life, invites us to suspend disbelief, enable the surreal.She begins Making the Wedding Dress with a quote from a handbook on sewing and asks... -
The Weaning by Hannah Vincent 9781784631208
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.63For childminder Bobbi, it's all about keeping your babies safeWhen professional couple Nikki and Rob uncover their childminder Bobbi's secret everything changes. Bobbi has a child-shaped hole in her... -
Appearances in the Bentinck Hotel by Tim Cockburn 9781844719006
RRP: £6.50Booksplease Price: £5.35Shortlisted for the EDP-Jarrold East Anglian Book Awards Reading these poems there is a sense that, through `the sneakiness of words', their tantalising truths are continuing partly to elude us -... -
Fox Fires Wyl Menmuir 9781784632335
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40A lost girl and a sprawling map of an unsettling city.Wren Lithgow has followed her concert pianist mother around the cities of Europe for almost two decades. When they arrive in the mysterious... -
Every Seventh Wave Tom Vowler 9781784632397
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28Every Seventh Wave has strong echoes of Fiona Mozley's Elmet and Evie Wyld's All the Birds, Singing. Strongly lyrical, the novel also serves as a literary thriller, with a suspenseful pace that... -
The Retreat Alison Moore 9781784632212
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28Since childhood, Sandra Peters has been fascinated by the small, private island of Lieloh, home to the reclusive silent-film star Valerie Swanson. Having dreamed of going to art college, Sandra is... -
The Lighthouse Alison Moore 9781907773174
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05Winner of the 2013 McKitterick PrizeShortlisted for the 2013 East Midlands Book AwardShortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012Shortlisted for New Writer of the Year in the 2012 Specsavers National... -
Reservoir Livi Michael 9781784632908
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.89At the International Conference Centre in Geneva, Hannah Rossier, formerly Annie Price, comes face to face with Neville Weir, someone from her childhood whom she never expected, or wanted, to meet... -
God’s Country by Kerry Hadley-Pryce
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Guy Flood, returns to the Black Country with his girlfriend, Alison, to attend his identical twin brother's funeral. The reasons he left, and the secrets he left behind, slowly become clear. A... -
Woof! Woof! Woof! Rob A. Mackenzie 9781784632809
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.89In a radical departure in style and tone, Rob A. Mackenzie's new collection, Woof! Woof! Woof!, offers biting satire and sweeping social commentary. From the murk of political engagement in an age of... -
Single Journey Only: A Memoir Ursula Owen 9781784631871
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.10Ursula Owen has been a significant figure in the worlds of literature and free expression since the 1970s. A founding director of Virago Press in 1974, she worked there with a committed team as the... -
Shapeshifting for Beginners by Emma Simon 9781784632854
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.89Emma Simon's wide-ranging, work explores how strange and surreal the everyday can be and how real life and stories tend to bleed into one another. These poems - mysterious, mythic, magical - remain... -
Flotsam Meike Ziervogel 9781784631789
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28‘By turns beguiling and unsettling, Flotsam examines grief and loss through the eyes of an extraordinary child’ Rachel SeiffertTrine and her mother live in a cottage on the German coast. The mudflats... -
Deaf at Spiral Park Kieran Devaney 9781907773167
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Deaf at Spiral Park is a book about a bear that shaves off his fur to join humanity. The novel uses a range of generic approaches, such as comedy and philosophy, to question the humanity of the bear,... -
Best British Short Stories 2020 by Nicholas Royle 9781784632359
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28The nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its tenth year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or, more accurately, by its title. This new series... -
Mrs Pulaska and Other Stories by Mr Christopher Burns 9781784633158
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28With this new collection the acclaimed novelist Christopher Burns proves his mastery of the short story form. His intelligent but conflicted characters face their decisive moments across wide ranges... -
The Odyssey Complex: and Other Poems Mr David Briggs 9781784633301
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.89David Briggs' new collection offers a midlife counterpart to the Oedipus complex exploring themes of family ties, nostalgia and retreat, ageing and mortality, acts of memorial and the impulse towards... -
Best British Short Stories 2024 Nicholas Royle 9781784633097
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.89The nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its fourteenth yearInspired by Giles Gordon and David Hughes’s Best Short Stories series, which ran to ten volumes between 1986 and... -
A Day Like Any Other Guy Ware 9781784633769
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40A woman with a successful career in child protection is floored by her husband’s sudden death; a retired civil servant smothers his wife, but can’t go through with their pact; a teacher fleeing a... -
Justine, Joe and the Zen Garbageman by Matthew Licht
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73‘From the East Village to West Hollywood, from avant-garde poetry to pre-internet pornography, these stories – touching, scabrous, brutal – tell it like it is. Matthew Licht’s effortlessly inventive... -
The Night Jar Louise Peterkin 9781784632168
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28Dynamic first collection from this popular Scottish poet, The Night Jar lifts the lid on a fizzing range of personas, dramas and states of mind - presenting them for our delight: 'I collect the... -
Elephant Paul Pickering 9781784632250
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.44In a country house in England a precocious teenage exile from revolutionary Russia sets down his adventures on paper, beginning with his first ball in St Petersburg and how he frees a huge African... -
To An Occupier Burning Holes Ken Evans 9781784632700
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.89Formally-innovative, wildly-inventive, comic, surreal and poignant - Evan's poetry is a restless delight as he tackles almost any subject from lost invoices, hearing aids, fruit flies, migration, bin... -
The Way to Work Dr Sean Ashton 9781784632922
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.89Have you ever boarded your morning commute and wished you'd never arrive at your destination? That is what happens to the protagonist of The Way to Work. Having boarded what he assumes to be his... -
Scarecrow by Matthew Pritchard
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67'You've displeased me. You things always do. Now it's time for us to part.' He watched, expressionless, as the thing raised a feeble arm; then he released a handle on the winch. The thing slumped,... -
It Gets Worse: Adventures in Love, Loss and Penury Nicholas Lezard 9781784632106
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28Book of the Week: The IdlerIt Gets Worse is the second instalment of Nicholas Lezard's rueful, dissolute life. Beginning where his first volume, Bitter Experience Has Taught Me, ended, Nick's... -
Robbergirls by Kaddy Benyon 9781784632892
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Written during a residency with The Polar Museum in Cambridge, Robbergirls reimagines The Snow Queen as a Sapphic rite of passage. Offered in seven sections that echo the fairy tale’s form, these... -
The Frost Fairs John McCullough 9781844713981
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Winner of the 2012 Polari PrizeA Book of the Year for The Independent and The Poetry SchoolHoliday Read in The ObserverThe Frost Fairs is a compassionate book with a global and historical scope,... -
The Chameleon Samuel Fisher 9781784631246
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28Shortlisted for the Collyer Bristow Prizes 2019 Shortlisted for The Betty Trask Prize and Awards Longlisted for The Desmond Elliott Prize 2019 John is infinite. He can become any book, any... -
The Electric Dwarf Tim Vine 9781784631727
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28A 'Withnail' for the twenty-first centuryTim Vine's satirical thriller appears to revolve around the dysfunctional lives of Norman and Peter - the latter becoming an accidental terrorist. Driven by...