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Giselle and Mr Memphis Jerry Simcock 9781913212261
RRP: $14.13Booksplease Price: $12.38This 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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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,... -
A Barrel of Dried Leaves by Allan Cameron 9781908251640
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $11.36"A barrel not of laughs but of contortions, confusions and the occasional dry chortle - and of metre adorned with irregular, sometimes internal rhymes, assonances, alliterations, awkwardnesses and... -
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 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... -
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 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... -
Settle Theresa Munoz 9781908251633
RRP: $11.55Booksplease Price: $10.33A digital native and an actual immigrant, poet Theresa Munoz has considerable personal experience of two subjects that dominate the present day: migration and technology. Born in Canada, she came to... -
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... -
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... -
Gold Andrejs Upits 9781913212377
RRP: $16.13Booksplease Price: $14.78Andrejs Upīts’s classic novel Gold, set in Latvia still under Tsarist rule and on the brink of the First World War, is perhaps more topical in recent decades than it has been for a long time. In fact... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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,... -
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... -
On the Heroism of Mortals Allan Cameron 9781908251084
RRP: $11.55Booksplease Price: $10.33This is a collection of eleven short stories whose common theme is the heroism of our flawed lives. It explores the arduousness of people's lives and covers such diverse subjects as human solidarity,... -
The The Sweetness of Demons Anne Pia 9781913212322
RRP: $19.29Booksplease 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... -
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... -
Against Miserabilism by David Widgery 9781908251862
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $17.31Against Miserabilism is a love letter, out of the past, to a new generation of radicals. It's a collection of articles by David Widgery, who, in addition to working as a full-time medical doctor in... -
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... -
Be the First to Like This: New Scottish Poetry by Colin Waters 9781908251350
RRP: $15.42Booksplease Price: $13.40Throw a stone in Edinburgh or Glasgow today and you'll hit a poet. The Scottish spoken word scene has exploded, reaching a level of popularity last seen in the late 1970s, another era,... -
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... -
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... -
The Garden Magnus Florin 9781908251268
RRP: $11.55Booksplease Price: $10.33Long 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... -
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... -
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... -
The Lost Art of Losing Gregory Norminton 9781908251060
RRP: $6.39Booksplease Price: $6.24Gregory Norminton transforms the aphorism into something more accessible and personal. Ultimately he uses aphorisms to question everything - including the aphorism itself: 'Incessantly we ask the... -
The Nocturnal Library by Ermanno Cavazzoni 9780956056054
RRP: $16.13Booksplease Price: $14.78A fantastic evocation of life and learning in a dream sequence: Jerome, who has to sit an exam and suffers from toothache, enters a nighmarish library in which everything conspires to frustrate his...