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Dreamtime by Venetia Welby
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.49'So, where is he then, your dad?' The world may be on a precipice but Sol, fresh from Tucson-desert rehab, finally has an answer to the question that has dogged her since childhood. And not a moment... -
Some New Ambush by Carys Davies
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.37From the award-winning author of West and The Mission HouseSome New Ambush is the first collection of short stories from award-winning writer Carys Davies. Love, loss, birth, death, betrayal, madness... -
The Meanwhile Sites Pete Green 9781784632694
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42What is a city for? How long do the vibrations persist from an economic shock wave, or a guitar chord? Is anything really permanent? The 'meanwhile site' is a place where change becomes a design... -
The Peckham Experiment Guy Ware 9781784632632
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Guy Ware's new novel charts a course from the 1930s onwards through the fragmentary memories of the 85 year-old Charlie, whose identical twin brother JJ has recently died. Sons of a working-class... -
Temptation: A User's Guide Vesna Main 9781784631284
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Lush Library Recommends: Anna James' Books for 2018Variations and fugue on the theme of obsessionVesna Main disturbs our self-image as educated, reasonable and ironic people who read modernist... -
Sunny and the Hotel Splendid by Alison Moore 9781784632021
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.45On the hottest day of the year, Ana Sharma and her mum check in to the Hotel Splendid, a place where bells seem to ring all by themselves, jam pots and milk jugs appear on the breakfast table as if... -
Old Men by Peter Daniels 9781784633172
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.89Peter Daniels has long demonstrated his skill as a poet who can write about being a gay man, and he now applies this to the experience of becoming older, finding new love and looking back on how he... -
Liminal by Bee Lewis 9781784631383
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £3.96Esther, a pregnant amputee, and her husband, Dan, are seeking a new life, setting up home - restoring an abandoned railway station called Rosgill, far away in the Scottish Highlands. Spanning the... -
Death Magazine by Matthew Haigh 9781784632069
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28Death Magazine is a neutropian vision of our soundbite, snippet-obsessed, digital and print magazine culture. It employs the Dadaist technique of cut-up to produce poems that range from the blackly... -
The Anechoic Chamber: and Other Weird Tales Will Wiles 9781784633288
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28'Funny, chilling, intriguing: each tale offers something different from the last, and the overall result is like listening to a perfectly made album.' -Mark WatsonAn anechoic chamber is a... -
The Catchers Xan Brooks 9781784633202
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.89Spring 1927. The birth of popular music. John Coughlin is a song-catcher from New York who has been sent to Appalachia to source and record the local hill-country musicians. His assignment leads him... -
Shams Meike Ziervogel 9781784633486
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.89Shams is a young Syrian refugee woman who lives in Shatila, one of the world's oldest refugee camps. She dreams of education and living a better life in Europe. But there are no schools in the camp,... -
Broken Doll by Neil Campbell 9781844713011
Booksplease Price: £10.84With both economy and compassion, Neil Campbell creates lyrical visions of loss and confinement. Children, teenagers, parents, single men and women all feature in the unflinching depictions of... -
Pitch: Drafts 77-95 by Rachel Blau DuPlessis 9781844717477
Booksplease Price: £11.18Pitch: Drafts 77-95 is a skeptical monument built and reassembled by a continuous folding over itself - tracking an encounter with an edge we might pitch over, with the pitch dark of our time, with... -
Creature by Jerry Harp 9781844710287
Booksplease Price: £12.52These poems function as experiments in epistemology. Attentive to the ways that sensory experiences coalesce into cognition and the ways cognition remains always thoroughly sensory, these poems... -
God of the Pigeons by Jay Merill 9781844717729
Booksplease Price: £9.10Pigeons fly us into the heart of the city to a little private space cut off by darkened gullies, the wing of a pigeon protruding dramatically, seeming to be a sign. The characters become obsessed... -
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... -
Imagination Verses by Jennifer Moxley 9781876857943
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22"Life Policy" - "Lit by the light of one lamp, with clarinet backdrop and ashtray, you pitch safety and comfortable Futures. Your neighborhood shows as you trace the map, ruffle the bills and conjure... -
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... -
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...