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Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung by Lester Bangs
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07Until his death aged thirty-three in 1982, Lester Bangs wrote wired, rock 'n' roll pieces on Iggy Pop, The Clash, John Lennon, Kraftwerk, Lou Reed. As a rock critic, he had an eagle-eye for... -
The Walk by Robert Walser
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61Ranging from one-page fantasies to novella-length studies of everyday existence, The Walk reveals the irresistible genius of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Under-appreciated even in... -
Wish I Was Here: 'The best writer you've never heard of' - Sunday Times by M. John Harrison 9781800812987
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.89'Wish I Was Here is a masterpiece' Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk 'It will surprise you, sometimes astound you, and leave you profoundly changed' Jonathan Coe, author of The Rotters' Club ... -
Sleepwalking Land by Mia Couto 9781852428976
RRP: $33.05Booksplease Price: $21.53An old man and a young boy, refugees from a civil war, seek shelter in a burnt out bus. Among the effects of a dead passenger, they discover a set of notebooks that tell of his life. As the boy reads... -
Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House by Matthew Collin
Booksplease Price: $20.18From its first publication in 1997, Altered State established itself as the definitive text on Ecstasy and dance culture. This new edition sees Matthew Collin cast a fresh eye on the heady events of... -
Sounds Like London: 100 Years of Black Music in the Capital by Lloyd Bradley
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.25For as long as people have been migrating to London, so has their music. An essential link to home, music also has the power to shape communities in surprising ways. Black music has been part of... -
Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.89Meet Blackwater USA, the private army that the US government has quietly hired to operate in international war zones and on American soil. Its contacts run from military and intelligence agencies to... -
Petite Mort by Beatrice Hitchman
Booksplease Price: $13.36'Part Moulin Rouge, part Alfred Hitchcock' Grazia 'A sly, erotic thriller concerned with doubleness and duplicity' Guardian Mesdames et Messieurs, presenting La Petite Mort, or, A Little Death ... -
The Sex Lives of English Women: Intimate Questions and Unexpected Answers by Wendy Jones
Booksplease Price: $17.45'There's a lot of stigma attached to sex. Particularly with women, you have a big dichotomy between: Do you have sex? Do you not? Do you be a slut? Do you be a virgin? Do you be a prude? Do you be a... -
Black by Design: A 2-Tone Memoir by Pauline Black
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61Born in 1953 to Anglo-Jewish/Nigerian parents, Pauline Black was subsequently adopted by a white, working class family in Romford. Never quite at home there, she escaped her small town background and... -
Black Bazaar by Alain Mabanckou
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.07Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015 Buttologist is down on his uppers. His girlfriend, Original Colour, has cleared out of their Paris studio and run off to the Congo with a... -
The Sexual Life of Catherine M. by Catherine Millet
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61A window into a life of insatiable desire and uninhibited sex - this is Parisian art critic Catherine M.'s account of her sexual awakening and her unrestrained pursuit of pleasure. From the... -
Lust by Elfriede Jelinek 9781852421830
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.42In a quaint Austrian ski resort, things are not quite what they seem. Hermann, the manager of a paper mill, has decided that sexual gratification begins at home. Which means Gerti - his wife and... -
Medusa of the Roses Navid Sinaki 9781800816374
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.25Anjir and Zal have been together ever since they first knew what love was. But living in Iran, the two men must keep their relationship hidden, potentially on pain of death. When Zal gets attacked... -
Live At the Brixton Academy: A riotous life in the music business by J. S. Rafaeli
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.89In 1982, aged twenty-three, Simon Parkes paid GBP1 for a virtually derelict building in Brixton. Over the next fifteen years he turned it into Britain's most iconic music venue. And now he's telling... -
The War for Gloria by Atticus Lish 9781800812659
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.42'A legendary writer entirely on his own account' Observer 'Stunningly good' Guardian Gloria Goltz's intellectual ambitions are derailed when she meets Leonard at college. Self-taught,... -
The Lights of Pointe-Noire Alain Mabanckou 9781846689802
Booksplease Price: $16.11Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015 Alain Mabanckou left Congo in 1989, at the age of twenty-two, not to return until a quarter of a century later. When at last he comes home to... -
I Was Dora Suarez: Factory 4 by Derek Raymond 9781852427993
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61An axe-wielding psychopath carves young Dora Suarez into pieces and smashes the head of Suarez's friend, an elderly woman. On the same night, in the West End, a firearm blows the top off the head of... -
Mrs Gulliver by Valerie Martin 9781800815391
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.84'Irresistible - a funny, sexy romp that's also smart, even wise' Kirkus starred review ' Pure elegance, subtlety and wit. A triumph of a novel' - Francesca Segal, author of Mother Ship It is 1954,... -
England is Mine: An Observer Best Debut Novel 2024 Nicolas Padamsee 9781800819535
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61'Nicolas Padamsee's subtle, satirical debut smartly explores the reasons frightened teenage boys become dangerous men' Financial Times 'A politically engaged, urgently plotted coming-of-age thriller... -
Wonderful, Wonderful Times by Elfriede Jelinek 9781852421687
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.07'That's brutal violence on a defenceless person, and quite unnecessary, declares Sophie, and she pulls with an audible tearing sound at the hair of the man lying in an untidy heap on the ground... -
How the Dead Live: Factory 3 by Derek Raymond 9781852427986
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.07This, the third novel in the Factory Series, sees Raymond's nameless detective leave London for a remote village called Thornhill, where he's meant to be looking into the disappearance of a local... -
Under the Frangipani by Mia Couto 9781846686764
RRP: $35.00Booksplease Price: $23.21A police inspector is investigating a strange murder, a case in which all the suspects are eager to claim responsibility for the act. Set in a former Portuguese fort which stored slaves and... -
The Witness by Juan Jose Saer 9781846686917
RRP: $35.00Booksplease Price: $24.02In sixteenth-century Spain, a cabin boy is bound for the New World. An inland expedition ends in disaster when it is attacked by Indians, leaving the young boy, as sole survivor, to face his fate... -
In the Night of Time Antonio Munoz Molina 9781781255094
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45October 1936. Spanish architect Ignacio Abel arrives at Penn Station, the final stop on his journey from war-torn Madrid, where he has left behind his wife and children, abandoning them to... -
1985 by Anthony Burgess
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.89In characteristically daring style, Anthony Burgess combines two responses to Orwell's 1984 in one book. The first is a sharp analysis: through dialogues, parodies and essays, Burgess sheds new light... -
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $13.63An Oprah Book Club selection Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize In a small Cajun community in the late 1940s, a young black man named... -
The Natashas by Yelena Moskovich
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.42Beatrice, a solitary young jazz singer from a genteel Parisian suburb, meets a mysterious woman named Polina. Polina visits her at night and whispers in her ear: 'There are people who leave their... -
Tomorrow I'll Be Twenty by Alain Mabanckou 9781846685842
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.42Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015 Michel is ten years old, living in Pointe Noire, Congo, in the 1970s. His mother sells peanuts at the market, his father works at the Victory... -
Closer by Dennis Cooper 9781800812895
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61With an introduction by Lynne Tillman 'The last literary outlaw in mainstream American fiction' Bret Easton Ellis Physically beautiful and strangely passive, George Miles attracts his fellow... -
Grief is for People: A Memoir by Sloane Crosley 9781805223023
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.89A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND VOGUE BEST BOOK OF 2024 'I am a Crosley fan and, to my mind, this is her best book: subtle, brutal and, amazingly, funny, with twists that made me catch my breath'... -
Girlfriend on Mars by Deborah Willis 9781800817586
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $12.81'Every detail is sharply placed ... a scorching sense of humor and a soft spot for humanity down here on Earth' The New York Times 'Fleishman Is In Trouble, but in space' Bobby Palmer A NEW YORK... -
The Material Camille Bordas 9781805220060
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.84'Utterly charming ... Bordas is an invaluable new voice' George Saunders Every comedian knows that there's a line between sharp and cruel, that sad becomes funny at the right angle, that any moment... -
Help Wanted: 'A superb, empathic comedy of manners' Guardian Adelle Waldman 9781805221661
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61'Help Wanted is like a great nineteenth-century novel about now, at once an effervescent workplace comedy and an exploration of the psychic toll exacted by the labour market' Elif Batuman, author of... -
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Sounds Like London: 100 Years of Black Music in the Capital by Lloyd Bradley 9781846687617 [USED COPY]
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $8.62For as long as people have been migrating to London, so has their music. An essential link to home, music also has the power to shape communities in surprising ways. Black music has been part of... -
Tea in the Harem by Mehdi Charef 9781852421519
RRP: $29.15Booksplease Price: $18.93A housing estate in the Paris suburbs. Madjid is growing up caught between two cultures. At home, he listens to his mother's constant invective in Arabic as she attempts to make sense of her... -
The Devil's Home On Leave: Factory 2 by Derek Raymond 9781852427979
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.07A man's corpse is discovered in a Rotherhithe warehouse, chopped up, boiled to avoid identification, and bundled into five Waitrose carrier bags. Our nameless narrator from A14 - the 'Unexplained... -
The Last Flight of the Flamingo by Mia Couto 9781852428136
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $19.15The civil war in Mozambique has ended but still the local soldiers are being hit by the landmines that litter the ground. When United Nations peacekeepers begin to suffer too, a high-level... -
The Adversary Michael Crummey 9781805228585
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61WINNER OF THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 'A vibrant historical novel... Potent' New Yorker, Books of the Year In a remote Newfoundland port settlement, ruthless company man Abe Strapp is set to... -
Her Privates We by Frederic Manning
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.07First published privately in 1929 as The Middle Parts of Fortune, Her Privates We is the novel of the Battle of the Somme told from the perspective of Bourne, an ordinary private. A raw and...