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Word Virus: The William Burroughs Reader by William Burroughs
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.79William 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... -
Mentored by a Madman: The William Burroughs Experiment by 9781912559121
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.37A fascinating account by one of the world's leading neurologists of the profound influence of William Burroughs on his medical career. Lees relates how Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch and troubled... -
Last Words by William Burroughs 9780007341948
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58'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 Ticket That Exploded by William Burroughs 9780007341924
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.01This 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... -
Soft Machine by William Burroughs 9780007341917
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.01The 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,... -
With William Burroughs by Victor Bockris 9780312147679
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £16.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312147679Author Victor BockrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint -
Climate: Into the 21st Century William Burroughs 9780521792028
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.25Climate: Into the 21st Century features an unrivalled collection of essays by the world's leading meteorological experts. Compiled by an international team formed under the auspices of the World... -
The Place of Dead Roads by William Burroughs 9780007341931
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.01A 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... -
Reasons Give No Answers by William Burroughs 9781912613045
RRP: £59.95Booksplease Price: £39.78From Bacon and Burroughs to Halley and Lucas: the art collection of Damien Hirst This unique publication presents a varied selection of works from Damien Hirst's personal collection, including... -
William Burroughs in Context by Oliver Harris 9781009554749
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In Youth Is Pleasure: & I LEFT MY GRANDFATHER'S HOUSE by Denton Welch 9781878972132
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.75A beautiful and unassuming coming-of-age novel. Painfully sensitive and sad Orville Pym is fifteen, and the novel recounts the summer holiday after his first miserable year at public school. As in... -
Mentored by a Madman: The William Burroughs Experiment by Andrew Lees
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.60Lees 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... -
The Experimentalists: The Life and Times of the British Experimental Writers of the 1960s by Dr Joseph Darlington 9781350244382
Booksplease Price: £27.79The Experimentalists is a collective biography, capturing the life and times of the British experimental writers of the swinging 1960s. A decade of research, including as-yet unopened archives and... -
The Experimentalists: The Life and Times of the British Experimental Writers of the 1960s by Dr Joseph Darlington 9781350244399
Booksplease Price: £75.81The Experimentalists is a collective biography, capturing the life and times of the British experimental writers of the swinging 1960s. A decade of research, including as-yet unopened archives and... -
Subversion and Conformity of Literary Collage: Between Cut and Glue Magda Dragu 9781032689722
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Subversion and Conformity of Literary Collage: Between Cut and Glue fills a gap in the current scholarship on literary collage, by addressing how different the interpretations of the concept are,... -
Pursuit: The Memoirs of John Calder by John Calder
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.55"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... -
A Desire Called America: Biopolitics, Utopia, and the Literary Commons by Christian Haines 9780823286959
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Critics of American exceptionalism usually view it as a destructive force eroding the radical energies of social movements and aesthetic practices. In A Desire Called America, Christian P. Haines... -
Wising Up the Marks: The Amodern William Burroughs by Timothy S. Murphy 9780520209510
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £24.40William 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... -
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Liminality and "Communitas" in the Beat Generation by Aaron Christopher Mitchell 9783631727690
RRP: £64.55Booksplease Price: £57.60The Beat Generation questioned mid-twentieth century America and sought the margins of society. This book analyzes the literature and lifestyles of the Beat authors Jack Kerouac, William S... -
An Invisible Spectator: a Life of Paul Bowles by Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno 9780802136008
Booksplease Price: £19.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802136008Author Christopher Sawyer-LaucannoFormat PaperbackPage Count 538 -
The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The 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... -
Ablutions Patrick deWitt 9781803513577
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'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... -
Collage in Twentieth-Century Art, Literature, and Culture: Joseph Cornell, William Burroughs, Frank O'Hara, and Bob Dylan Rona Cran 9781138743335
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Emphasizing the diversity of twentieth-century collage practices, Rona Cran's book explores the role that it played in the work of Joseph Cornell, William Burroughs, Frank O'Hara, and Bob Dylan. For... -
Now Dig This: The Unspeakable Writings of Terry Southern, 1950-1995 by Terry Southern 9780802138941
Booksplease Price: £14.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802138941Author Terry SouthernFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint -
The Secret DJ by The Secret DJ
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23DISCOVER 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... -
Jesus' Son Denis Johnson 9781803513522
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A young, unnamed man, reeling from his addiction to heroin and alcohol, spirals through these interlinked stories of grief and transcendence, of rock bottom and redemption, of getting lost and found... -
The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs and Corso in Paris, 1958-1963 by Barry Miles 9780802138170
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802138170Author Barry MilesFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint -
Great Expectations by Kathy Acker
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'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: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.86Authoritative 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... -
Across the Wounded Galaxies: Interviews with Contemporary American Science Fiction Writers by Larry McCaffery 9780252061400
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12Modern science fiction writers have long inhabited a dimension far removed from the comfortable realms of filmic space opera franchises and Dr. Who. Too often lurking along the margins of literature... -
The Parameters of Postmodernism by Nicholas Zurbrugg
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89This ground-breaking work offers a challenging and positive view of postmodern culture. It draws on the author's extensive interviews with a number of leading postmodern artists, writers and... -
The Science Fiction of Poetics and the Avant-Garde Imagination by Michael Golston 9780817361006
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.32How the tropes of science fiction infuse and inform avant-garde poetics and many other kindred arts. This insightful, playful monograph from Golston does exactly what it advertises: modeling poetics... -
Tangier: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Josh Shoemake 9781788312837
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.40An edge city, poised at the northernmost tip of Africa but just nine miles from Europe, Tangier is more than a destination, it is an escape. The Interzone, as William Burroughs called it, has... -
Tangier: From the Romans to the Rolling Stones by Richard Hamilton 9780755654512
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.81In 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,... -
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Firmin by Sam Savage 9780753823392 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.96A 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... -
This Is the Beat Generation: New York-San Francisco-Paris by James Campbell 9780520230330
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £24.40Beginning in New York in 1944, James Campbell finds the leading members of what was to become the Beat Generation in the shadows of madness and criminality. Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William... -
The Tangier Diaries by John Hopkins
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.49John 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... -
Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95From 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,... -
Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson 9780141041872
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.66With '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... -
American Scream: Allen Ginsberg's Howl and the Making of the Beat Generation by Jonah Raskin 9780520246775
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £19.88Written as a cultural weapon and a call to arms, Howl touched a raw nerve in Cold War America and has been controversial from the day it was first read aloud nearly fifty years ago. This first full...