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Exhalation by Ted Chiang 9781101972083
RRP: $37.80Booksplease Price: $17.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2019.Book InformationISBN 9781101972083Author Ted ChiangFormat... -
Exhalation Ted Chiang 9781035039210
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84'Ted Chiang is one of the most exciting writers in science fiction . . . These parables are filled with hope and humanism.' - The Daily TelegraphFrom the acclaimed author of Stories of Your Life and... -
Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $37.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2019.Book InformationISBN 9781101947883Author Ted ChiangFormat... -
The Philosophy of Ted Chiang David Friedell 9783031816611
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $54.18Ted Chiang is one of the most insightful science fiction writers of our time. His writing has garnered high praise, including four Nebula awards, four Hugo awards and the John W. Campbell Award for... -
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang 9781101972120
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $27.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101972120Author Ted ChiangFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random... -
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang 9781035038596
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54'A science fiction genius . . . Ted Chiang is a superstar.' - The GuardianWith Stories of Your Life and Others, his masterful first collection, multiple-award-winning author Ted Chiang deftly blends... -
Power Plays in Transnational American Fiction: Gender, Race, and Genre Dr. or Prof. Ruth Maxey 9798765125236
Booksplease Price: $190.20Inspired by the career of Judie Newman, a genuinely ground-breaking scholar in the fields of U.S. and postcolonial literature, this book moves beyond strict national or genre boundaries in its... -
The Book of Records Madeleine Thien 9781803510750
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.40Why did people, who lived so briefly in this universe, contain so much time? Lina and her ailing father have taken refuge at an enclave called the Sea, a staging post between migrations, with only... -
The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien 9781803510743
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $27.97'Why did people, who lived so briefly in this universe, contain so much time?' Lina and her father have arrived at an enclave called the Sea, a staging-post between migrations, with only a few... -
Semiosis: A novel of first contact by Sue Burke
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.62'Up there with the best of Le Guin in terms of beautiful, engrossing, brilliantly imagined sci-fi' VULTURE ... -
The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien 9781803510729
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $31.48Why did people, who lived so briefly in this universe, contain so much time? Lina and her ailing father have taken refuge at an enclave called the Sea, a staging post between migrations, with only... -
Hum Helen Phillips 9781805461722
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.28In a hot and gritty city populated by super-intelligent robots called 'Hums', May seeks some reprieve from recent hardships and from her family's addiction to their devices. She splurges on a... -
The Hidden Girl and Other Stories by Ken Liu
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $18.80From the title story's fantastical inter-dimensional assassins to the steampunk dystopia of "Grey Rabbit, Crimson Mare, Coal Leopard" burrowing through the ruins of a civilisation destroyed by a... -
Vector Media Leonardo Impett 9781517921675
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $26.42Dispelling the notion of "generative" AINeural networks are designed to dissolve all media into the vector space-a universal space of commensurability. In Vector Media, Leonardo Impett and Fabian... -
Why Visit America by Matthew Baker
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.74Welcome, dear visitor, to a proud and storied nation. When you put down this guidebook, look around you. A nation isn't land. A nation is people. Equal parts speculative and satirical, the stories... -
Why Visit America by mr Matthew Baker 9781526618382
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $33.79Welcome, dear visitor, to a proud and storied nation. When you put down this guidebook, look around you. A nation isn't land. A nation is people. Equal parts speculative and satirical, the stories... -
From the Neck Up and Other Stories by Aliya Whiteley
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $13.94Short fiction collection from award-winning, Clarke Award, John W. Campbell, BFS, BSFA, Shirley Jackson, James Tiptree Jr and Saboteur Award nominated author, Aliya Whiteley. The new collection of... -
First Love by Ivan Turgenev 9780140443356
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $15.79When the down-at-heel Princess Zasyekin moves next door to the country estate of Vladimir Petrovich's parents, he instantly and overwhelmingly falls in love with his new neighbour's daughter, Zinaida... -
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by Samuel Johnson
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.59When James Boswell persuaded Samuel Johnson to embark on a tour of Boswell's native Scotland in 1773, the adventure resulted in two magnificent books, Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of... -
Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life by Elizabeth Gaskell
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.81Elizabeth Gaskell's remarkable first novel, Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life portrays a love that defies the rigid boundaries of class with tragic consequences. This Penguin Classics edition is... -
Armadale by Wilkie Collins
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38An innovative novel featuring an astonishingly wicked female villain, Wilkie Collins's Armadale was regarded by T.S. Eliot as 'the best of [his] romances'. This Penguin Classics edition is edited... -
The New Penguin Book of American Short Stories, from Washington Irving to Lydia Davis by Kasia Boddy
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35The short story is one of the most varied and exciting genres in American literature. This collection brings together many of its finest examples from the early nineteenth century to the present. It... -
How to Read the Air by Dinaw Mengestu
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.64A powerful and moving summer read that explores love, grief and the reality of the contemporary American immigrant experienceJonas, fresh from a failed marriage, is desperate to make sense of the... -
Tales of Hoffmann by E. T. A. Hoffmann
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70E.T.A. Hoffman's wildly original fictions are some of the most unusual examples of German Romanticism's dark passions, and the stories in Tales of Hoffman are selected and translated from the German... -
Games At Twilight by Anita Desai
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $21.97Set in contemporary Bombay and other cities, these stories reflect the kaleidoscope of urban life - evoking the colour, sounds and white-hot heat of the city. Warm, perceptive, humorous and touched... -
Caleb Williams by William Godwin
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.54When honest young Caleb Williams comes to work as a secretary for Squire Falkland, he soon begins to suspect that his new master is hiding a terrible secret. But as he digs deeper into Falkland's... -
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.07Published in 1872, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals was a book at the very heart of Darwin's research interests - a central pillar of his 'human' series. This book engaged some of... -
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.57On the day of his wedding, Conrad, heir to the house of Otranto, is killed in mysterious circumstances. His calculating father Manfred fears that his dynasty will now come to an end and determines to... -
Jewel Box: Stories E. Lily Yu 9781645660484
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $34.73Featured on LeVar Burton Reads "Like Oscar Wilde or Ray Bradbury, E. Lily Yu writes the kind of delicious short stories that come with a sting in the tail. Utterly beguiling." -Kelly Link,... -
The Italian by Ann Radcliffe 9780140437546
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35From the first moment Vincentio di Vivaldi, a young nobleman, sets eyes on the veiled figure of Ellena, he is captivated by her enigmatic beauty and grace. But his haughty and manipulative mother is... -
Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35Infamous as the inspiration for the novel which slowly corrupts Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray, Joris-Karl Huysmans' Against Nature (A Rebours) is translated by Robert Baldick with an introduction by... -
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg 9780141441535
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner is a Scottish classic, a quintessentially Gothic tale of psychological horror, and a relentless attack on Calvinist dogma. The... -
Toys by James Patterson
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.78Hays Baker and his wife Lizbeth possess super-human strength, extraordinary intelligence, stunning looks, and two beautiful children. Of course they do - they're Elites, endowed at birth with the... -
Collected Stories by Rudyard Kipling 9781857151992
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $31.61This selection covers the full range of Kipling's extraordinary short stories throughout his career. Ranging in subject matter from the Indain to the Occult, from children to animals, from domestic... -
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges 9781857151664
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $25.37FICTIONS is perhaps the single most mysterious and extraordinary collection of short stories written this century. Influenced by writers as disparate as Lewis Carroll, Stevenson and Cervantes, Borges... -
Communion: A True Story by Whitley Strieber
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87On December 26th, 1985, Whitley Strieber was woken in his isolated cabin in upstate New York, he saw a creature in his bedroom. His next memory is sitting in the woods around the cabin... -
Artemis: A gripping, high-concept thriller from the bestselling author of The Martian by Andy Weir
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $13.00Ever had a bad day? Try having one on the moon...'Fascinating' Tim Peake, Sunday Times bestselling author of Ask an Astronaut______________________WELCOME TO ARTEMIS. The first city on the moon... -
The Art and Science of Arrival by Tanya Lapointe
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $51.53Official retrospective companion book to the film Arrival starring Amy Adams, Jereny Renner and Forest Whitaker, featuring concept art, sketches, behind-the-scenes photography and interviews with key... -
Will Storr Vs. The Supernatural: One man's search for the truth about ghosts by Will Storr
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.75When journalist and ghost sceptic Will Storr heads to Philadelphia to meet Lou Gentile, a demonologist, he expects a little fun with an amusing eccentric. What he gets are terrifying experiences of... -
Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73J'ailbird has the crackle and snap of Vonnegut's early work - his best since Cat's Cradle. Using the laid-back, ironic voice that has become his stademark, Vonnegut combines fiction and fact to...