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Cinico: Travels with a Good Professor at the Time of the Scottish Referendum Allan Cameron 9781908251985
RRP: $10.26Booksplease Price: $9.31The narrator is an urbane, cynical and egocentric Italian journalist with little interest in the truth, though not as shabby as his companion, a professor of politics. The journalist meets people... -
The The Case for Optimism Jim Sillars 9781913212421
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $11.40Over a decade has passed since the Scottish referendum on independence, and the issue has faded into the background in spite of a chain of electoral mandates for renewed pressure for a second... -
Doubting Thomas by Heather Richardson 9781908251879
RRP: $15.42Booksplease Price: $13.40This is a story of sex, drugs and blasphemy in late seventeenth-century Edinburgh experienced through four viewpoints over fifteen years: Dr Robert Carruth, his wife Isobel, and university students... -
night exposures by Gerry Loose 9781908251947
Booksplease Price: $12.91Combining pressing geopolitical urgency with a subtle and gentle lyricism, as we have come to expect from Gerry Loose, his new book ranges wide, broad and deep, to settle back home in the... -
The Malavoglias Giovanni Verga 9781913212391
RRP: $18.71Booksplease Price: $16.85Giovanni Verga's masterful portrayal of Sicilian fishermen in the late nineteenth century is the story of an ancient society in which both egalitarianism and hierarchy coexist, partly because... -
Badlands Deirdre Chapman 9781913212407
RRP: $16.13Booksplease Price: $14.78Badlands opens with the horror of a man gradually waking to find himself fully and sharply dressed on a hotel bed in the Highlands with no memory of who he is or how he got there. And he is not... -
Things Written Randomly in Doubt by Allan Cameron 9781908251275
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $11.36A work in three parts, Things Written starts with aphorisms in "How Not to Be a Ruminant", shifts to essays in "Weights and Counterweights", and concludes with poetry in "By the Metre". Some... -
Circulation Magnus Florin 9781913212384
RRP: $10.26Booksplease Price: $9.31The bank. The bank is greyness and the monotony of modern working practices. The bank is modernity and its obsession with moving money around. The bank is perverse and its mechanisms unknown even to... -
Klaus Allan Massie 9781908251282
RRP: $11.55Booksplease Price: $10.33Klaus is a novella that recounts the last days of Klaus Mann's life, while referring back to the trials of the Mann family (Klaus being Thomas Mann's son) and Klaus's own autobiographical novel,... -
Redlegs by Chris Dolan 9781908251077
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $11.36Elspeth, a young Scottish actress, is selected by the elusive impresario Lord Coak for an acting career on the Caribbean Island of Barbados. She is briefly feted by the island community, but a... -
The Last Woman Born on the Island by Sharon Black
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $11.36The Last Woman Born on the Island is an exploration of the past and the present, and a celebration of the landscapes, both physical and emotional, that make up our lives. What are the colours of the... -
I'm a Pretty Circler Iain Morrison 9781908251886
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $11.36Iain Morrison's debut collection I'm a Pretty Circler is experimental without being intimidating; conversational without being casual; and outrageous without shedding tenderness. Within its pages,... -
Blessed Assurance by Stewart Ennis
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $11.36"The fact of the matter is Joseph Kirkland was afraid. Afraid of not being Saved. Afraid of being Saved. Afraid of the transformation that would occur the moment he uttered those words, Jesus! God! I... -
Things That Fruit in Darkness by Sharon Black 9781913212438
RRP: $15.42Booksplease Price: $13.40Following her poetry collection of home thoughts from abroad, The Last Woman Born on the Island, Vagabond Voices is very pleased to publish this prolific poet's latest collection, Things That Fruit... -
Giselle and Mr Memphis Jerry Simcock 9781913212261
Booksplease Price: $14.91This is the journal of Ignatz Himmelsputz, survivor, dwarf and entertainer. It is 1974 and Ignatz lives in Frankfurt with Giselle, who is the singer in his band, his teacher and a transvestite... -
The State of Northern Ireland and the Democratic Deficit: Between Sectarianism and Neo-Liberalism by Paul Stewart 9781908251961
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $17.31Since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, the image projected of Northern Ireland in the mainstream media is frequently that of a newly prosperous, modern, post-conflict society - a... -
The Spit, the Sound and the Nest Kathrine Sowerby 9781908251794
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $12.38The Spit, the Sound and the Nest is a novel in three parts set in distinct, unnamed locations over a winter, a day and a week. Each part revolves around a small group of central characters forced to... -
Indrek: Volume II of the TRUTH AND JUSTICE pentalogy by Anton Hansen Tammsaare 9781913212339
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $17.31This second volume of A.H. Tammsaare's monumental pentalogy portrays the education of Indrek who emerges here as the protagonist and will remain so throughout the next three volumes. This is a story... -
Presbyopia by Allan Cameron 9780956056030
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $11.40"My sight if fades and fading faded forms reveals; ageing looks beyond its age to shrivelled centuries beyond decades." The presbyopic poet cannot focus on "the self as subject", but only on what is... -
Our Real, Red Selves Harry Giles 9781908251466
RRP: $11.55Booksplease Price: $10.33An anthology of three collections bringing three poets together around the subjects of birth and war. The styles of these poets differ, but their imagery and intensity echo each other.Book... -
A Woman's War against Progress by Allan Cameron 9781913212353
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $11.40In 1916 a young woman, Rahvaema, leaves the forest community where she grew up, and sets off for a century-long adventure whose struggles and sufferings she could never have imagined. She becomes a... -
When the Storm Fell Silent A.H. Tammsaare 9781913212360
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $17.31When the Storm Fell Silent is an ironic, tragic and contradictory work which reflects the author's ambivalent attitude to the 1905 Revolution in Tsarist Russia, which Estonia was then a part of. He... -
Glasgoscopy Vicki Husband 9781913212414
RRP: $15.42Booksplease Price: $13.40In Glasgoscopy a community health professional takes the pulse of North West Glasgow, observes connections and disconnections between city and citizen, examines how language, physical and social... -
Surviving by Allan Massie 9781908251114
RRP: $11.55Booksplease Price: $10.33Like The Death of Men, one of Massie's great novels, Surviving is set in contemporary Rome. The main characters, Belinda (the heroine of the Massie's second novel, The Last Peacock), Kate, an author... -
The The Sweetness of Demons Anne Pia 9781913212322
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $12.54Anne Pia's responses to Baudelaire's poetry is not only emotional and intellectual but also linguistic. It comes from her profound love for France's language and culture, particularly when it looks... -
Fault Line Gerry Loose 9781908251343
RRP: $11.55Booksplease Price: $10.33'Fault line: 1) a line on a rock surface or the ground that traces a geological fault. 2) a divisive issue or difference of opinion that is likely to have serious consequences.' Poet Gerry Loose's... -
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Potter's Field by Chris Dolan 9781908251329 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $3.20In Glasgow's Kelvingrove Park, the bodies of two youths lie with bullet holes in their heads. Hungover, nicotine-starved and ill-attired, procurator fiscal Maddy Shannon attends the scene, unaware... -
In Praise of the Garrulous by Allan Cameron 9781908251244
RRP: $15.42Booksplease Price: $13.40This first and only work of non-fiction by the author of two novels, two collections of short stories and a collection of poetry, has an accessible and conversational tone, which perhaps disguises... -
Moon Country by Peter Arnott 9781908251473
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $11.36Fifteen years ago, Tommy Hunter committed a terrible crime. Now pursued by his own bad memories and the attentions of his criminal companions of the past (as well as the present-day curiosity of the... -
The Garden Magnus Florin 9781908251268
Booksplease Price: $11.74Long description: This novel is based on the life of Linnaeus, the eighteenth-century, Swedish enlightenment figure famous for his taxonomy or scientific classification still used in biology. It... -
18 by Pauls Bankovskis 9781908251787
RRP: $15.42Booksplease Price: $13.40As the First World War comes to an end, chaos takes over in much of Europe and even the victors sense that the old certainties have been lost in the massacre. In Latvia it appears that two centuries... -
Nakedness by Zigmunds Skujins 9781908251855
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $11.36Set in the 1960s, Nakedness is the tale of a young man who has just completed his military service and gone straight to Randava to surprise Marika, the beautiful woman with whom he's been... -
Klaus and Other Stories by Allan Massie 9780956056061
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $11.40Klaus, the core work in this collection, is a a novella that recounts the last days of Klaus Mann's life, while referring back to the trials of the Mann family (Klaus being Thomas Mann's son) and... -
Siblings by Magnus Florin
RRP: $10.26Booksplease Price: $9.31Siblings is the story of ten children, nine of whom are brought up by the eldest who, apart from being the narrator, is keen, capable and obedient to his parents. He has been taught to care for the... -
White Shroud by Antanas Skema 9781908251848
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $12.38White Shroud (Balta drobule, 1958) is considered by many to be Lithuania's most important work of modernist fiction. Drawing heavily on the author's own refugee and immigrant experience, this... -
A Happy Little Island Lars Sund 9781908251657
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $15.25In the beginning the page was blank and without form, and the scribe sat in front of it, a world forming inside his head. The world grew large, spilling out of him and on to the page. The scribe... -
Fear in the World by Corrado Alvaro
RRP: $16.13Booksplease Price: $14.78Corrado Alvaro's Fear in the World was published a decade before Orwell's 1984, but is not well known outside Italy, perhaps because of the timing of the publication just before the Second World War... -
Memoirs of a Life Cut Short by Ricardas Gavelis 9781908251817
RRP: $15.42Booksplease Price: $13.40Levas Ciparis, the anti-hero of this masterly critique of life in the late Soviet Union, is a man alone and he desperately wants to belong. He is obstructed in this quest by his own innocence and... -
Essays on Life by Thomas Mitchell, Farmer by Thomas Mitchell 9781908251299
RRP: $11.55Booksplease Price: $10.33Thomas Mitchell's essays on how to live well were completed in 1913, and reflect a clear mind and a good education, but also confidence about the world and society that were about to be shattered. No... -
Human Rights in a Big Yellow Taxi Kerr Peter 9781908251176
RRP: $11.55Booksplease Price: $10.33A twelve-year-old schoolchild was arrested at his school and questioned by an anti-terrorist police squad, because he was organising a picket of the offices of his member of parliament, who happened...