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Word Virus: The William Burroughs Reader by William Burroughs
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.94William Burroughs was one of post-war America's most controversial and influential writers. This is the authoritative, indispensable anthology of his greatest work. Beginning early in... -
Soft Machine by William Burroughs 9780007341917
RRP: $9.73Booksplease Price: $7.82The first novel in William Burroughs' anarchic 'Cut-Up Trilogy'. A world populated by hanged soldiers, North African street urchins, addicted narcotics agents, Spanish rent boys, evil doctors,... -
The Ticket That Exploded by William Burroughs 9780007341924
RRP: $9.73Booksplease Price: $8.60This is the second novel, alongside 'The Soft Machine' and 'Nova Express', in William Burroughs' classic 'Cut-Up Trilogy'. A prophetic vision of a world in which technology has gone haywire, 'The... -
With William Burroughs by Victor Bockris 9780312147679
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $31.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312147679Author Victor BockrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint -
Last Words by William Burroughs 9780007341948
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.68'Where are the snows of yesteryear. And the speedballs I useta know? Well, I guess it's time for my Ovaltine and a long good night.' In 1996 William Burroughs began writing a final journal... -
The Place of Dead Roads by William Burroughs 9780007341931
RRP: $9.73Booksplease Price: $7.82A controversial reworking of well-trodden American myth by the author of 'Naked Lunch'. This surreal fable, set in America's Old West, features a cast of notorious characters: The Crying Gun, who... -
Mentored by a Madman: The William Burroughs Experiment by Andrew Lees
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.67Lees draws on Burroughs' search for an addiction cure to discover a ground-breaking treatment for shaking palsy, and learns how to use the deductive reasoning of Sherlock Holmes to diagnose patients... -
Pursuit: The Memoirs of John Calder by John Calder
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $27.73"Publish and be damned", Wellington's famous adage, runs like a leitmotiv through John Calder's memoirs. He has been damned by a censorious press, by politicians, by other publishers and by organs of... -
Wising Up the Marks: The Amodern William Burroughs by Timothy S. Murphy 9780520209510
RRP: $50.70Booksplease Price: $47.58William S. Burroughs is one of the twentieth century's most visible, controversial, and baffling literary figures. In the first comprehensive study of the writer, Timothy S. Murphy places Burroughs... -
Ablutions Patrick deWitt 9781803513577
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25'An instant classic' Dazed A nameless barman tends a decaying bar in Hollywood and takes notes for a book about his clientele. Initially, he is morbidly amused by watching the regulars roll in and... -
The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.64The Silence of the Lambs meets Interstellar. The terrifying, thrilling and ingenious science-fiction thriller from Tom Sweterlitsch. Film rights bought by Twentieth Century Fox with Neil Blomkamp... -
The Secret DJ by The Secret DJ
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00DISCOVER THE REALITY OF LIFE AS A SUPERSTAR DJ IN THIS SENSATIONAL EXPOSE OF WHAT REALLY GOES ON BEHIND THE BPMs.The glamour, the parties, the excess, the highs and, of course, the lows. In The... -
Great Expectations by Kathy Acker
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25'New York City is very peaceful and quiet, and the pale grey mists are slowly rising, to show me the world'Pip switches identities, sexes and centuries in this punk, fairytale reimagining of Charles... -
William S. Burroughs: A Life Barry Miles 9781780221205
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.08Authoritative biography of cult writer and author of NAKED LUNCH, William Burroughs (1914-1997).It has been 50 years since Norman Mailer asserted, 'I think that William Burroughs is the only American... -
Tangier: From the Romans to the Rolling Stones by Richard Hamilton 9780755654512
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.97In this first guide to Tangier's extraordinary cultural history , former BBC North Africa correspondent Richard Hamilton explores the city to find out what has inspired so many international writers,... -
The Lost Art Of Ah Pook Is Here: Images From The Graphic Novel by Malcolm McNeill 9781606994450
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $59.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606994450Author William BurroughsFormat HardbackPage Count 170Imprint < -
The Tangier Diaries by John Hopkins
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $26.31John Hopkins brings back to life all the decadence and flamboyance of Tangier in the 1960s and 1970s. Tangier in the 1960s and '70s was a fabled place. This edge city, the 'Interzone', became muse... -
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Firmin by Sam Savage 9780753823392 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $3.82A darkly comic tale of exile, unrequited love and the redemptive power of books.Firmin is born in the basement of a ramshackle old bookstore. He's a sensitive, creative soul but misunderstood... -
The Business of America: The Cultural Production of a Post-War Nation by Graham Thompson 9780745318080
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $51.29The Business of America examines the complex linking of business and nationhood in post-war United States literature against the backdrop of changing concepts of the nation in the field of American... -
Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson 9780141041872
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $24.32With 'long hair in the wind, beards and bandanas flapping, earrings, chain whips . . . and Harleys flashing chrome', the Hell's Angels erupted into 1960s America paralysing whole towns with fear... -
Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50From the father of 'gonzo journalism', Hunter S. Thompson's research for Hell's Angels involved more than a year of close association with the outlaws who burned a path through 1960s America,... -
On the Road by Jack Kerouac 9780241951538
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $12.19On the Road by Jack Kerouac is the exhilarating novel that defined the Beat Generation and is a 2012 major motion picture starring Kristen Stewart, Kirsten Dunst and Sam Riley, beautifully repackaged... -
Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson 9780241951583
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.50Journalist, maverick, rebel and author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson offers another novel of American counterculture in Hell's Angels, beautifully repackaged as part of the... -
Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.75Allen Ginsberg was the bard of the beat generation, and Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems is a collection of his finest work published in Penguin Modern Classics, including 'Howl', whose vindication at... -
Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness and Creativity by David Lynch 9781585425402
Booksplease Price: $33.31Musical verse accompanies a milkman and his cranky kitty as they make their morning rounds. The milkman knows his hometown; he knows who needs ice cream for a birthday party, who just broke a leg,... -
Mystery In Spiderville by John Hartley Williams 9780099426936
RRP: $13.63Booksplease Price: $11.08Alongside the names of James Hadley Chase and Erle Stanley Gardner we must now add that of John Hartley Williams - though Mystery in Spiderville is no run-of-the-mill hard-boiled thriller. The decor... -
Slapstick Modernism: Chaplin to Kerouac to Iggy Pop by William Solomon
Booksplease Price: $39.23Slapstick comedy landed like a pie in the face of twentieth-century culture. Pratfalls percolated alongside literary modernism throughout the 1920s and 1930s before slapstick found explosive... -
Queer: A Collection of LGBTQ Writing from Ancient Times to Yesterday by Frank Wynne 9781035920334
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $30.30LGBTQ writing from ancient times to yesterday, selected by award-winning translator Frank Wynne.Since the dawn of literature, queer people have turned to writing to document their existence: to share... -
This Is Your Mind On Plants: Opium-Caffeine-Mescaline by Michael Pollan
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.00THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR NEW NETFLIX SERIES, HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND'It's a trip - engrossing, eye-opening, mind altering' New Statesman 'Fascinating. Pollan is the perfect guide ... curious,... -
The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village by John Strausbaugh 9780062078216
Booksplease Price: $22.97Cultural commentator John Strausbaugh's The Village is the first complete history of Greenwich Village, the prodigiously influential and infamous New York City neighborhood. From the Dutch settlers... -
The Place of Dead Roads by William S. Burroughs
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50This surreal fable, set in America's Old West, features a cast of notorious characters: The Crying Gun, who breaks into tears at the sight of his opponent; The Priest, who goes into gunfights giving... -
Liarmouth: A feel-bad romance by John Waters 9781472157577
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64'It's just as deliciously witty and delightfully deviant as you'd expect from the man William Burroughs called the "Pope of Trash"' Independent 'Waters is undoubtedly among the greatest American... -
The Yage Letters: Redux by William S. Burroughs
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $18.70William Burroughs closed his classic debut novel, Junky, by saying he had determined to search out a drug he called 'Yage' which he believed transmitted telepathic powers, a drug that could be 'the... -
Nova Express: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.52The most ferociously political and prophetic book of the Cut-Up Trilogy, Nova Express fires the reader into a textual outer space to show us our burning planet and to reveal the operations of the... -
Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00An experimental novel which remained unpublished for years, Visions of Cody is Kerouac's fascinating examination of his own New York life, in a collection of colourful stream-of-consciousness essays... -
Naked Lunch @ 50: Anniversary Essays by Oliver Harris
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.48Celebrating and analyzing a landmark novel that is aberrant, obscene, and blasphemous, ""Naked Lunch"" was banned, ridiculed, and castigated on publication in 1959, and yet fifty years down the line... -
Self & I: A Memoir of Literary Ambition by Matthew De Abaitua 9781785630743
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $14.61A unique, remarkable and hilarious portrait of one our most talked-about and controversial literary figures.1994. Matthew De Abaitua, fresh out of university, is being interviewed for a job. The... -
Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.52An opium addict is lost in the jungle; young men wage war against an empire of mutants; a handsome young pirate faces his execution; and the world's population is infected with a radioactive epidemic... -
Doctor Sax by Jack Kerouac
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $12.48Jack Kerouac called Doctor Sax, the enigmatic figure who haunted his boyhood imagination, 'my ghost, personal angel, private shadow, secret lover'. In this extraordinary autobiographical account of... -
New Flesh, The: Life and Death in the Data Economy Adam C. Jones 9781803416120
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43From social media to so-called AI , from cyberpunk society to automated apartheid, The New Flesh asks and answers the same questions: What does it mean to live in an increasingly online world and...