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Brideshead Abbreviated: The Digested Read of the Twentieth Century by John Crace
RRP: €13.08€9.25John Crace's 'Digested Read' column in the Guardian has rightly acquired a cult following. Each week fans avidly devour his latest razor-sharp literary assassination, while authors turn tremblingly to the appropriate page of the review section, fearful... -
The Very Salt Of Life: Welsh Women's Political Writings from Chartism to Sufferage by Jane Aaron
RRP: €10.70€7.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870206907Author Jane AaronFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Honno LtdPublisher Honno LtdWeight(grams) 352g -
Writing from Ukraine: Fiction, Poetry and Essays since 1965 by Mark Andryczyk
RRP: €13.08€9.25A selection of fifteen of Ukraine's most important, dynamic and entertaining contemporary writersUnder USSR rule, the subject matter and style of literary expression in Ukraine was strictly controlled and censored. But once Ukraine gained independence... -
Town and Country: New Irish Short Stories by Kevin Barry
RRP: €15.46€10.19Edited by award winning novelist and short story writer Kevin Barry, this volume will once again mix established names with previously unpublished authors, and will seek to offer fresh renditions to the Irish story - new angles, new approaches, new... -
Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald by Jonathan Bate
RRP: €29.75€26.41A dazzling biography of two interwoven, tragic lives: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald. 'Highly engaging ... Go now, read this book' THE TIMES 'For awhile after you quit Keats,' Fitzgerald once wrote,... -
The Humorous Magistrate (Osborne) Jacqueline Jenkins 9780719087011
RRP: €59.50€42.64The Humorous Magistrate is a seventeenth-century satiric comedy extant in two highly distinctive manuscripts. The earliest and clearly working draft of the play is bound with three other plays (including The Emperor's Favourite, published by the Malone... -
William Blake: Selected Poems by William Blake
RRP: €13.08€9.25'To see a World in a Grain of Sand 'And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour' William Blake wrote some of the most moving and memorable verse in the English language. Deeply committed to visionary... -
Murder at the Bailey by Henry Milner 9781785907043
RRP: €11.89€8.65A notorious loan shark is shot dead, in broad daylight, right outside the front doors of the Old Bailey. The killer is arrested at the scene and Adrian Stanford is lined up to take on the toughest defence case of his career. Can he steer his client past... -
Tennis Whites and Teacakes by John Betjeman 9780719569043
RRP: €13.08€8.81Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Earthly Signs by Jamey Gambrell
RRP: €20.22€14.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681371627Author Jamey GambrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,... -
Black Voices on Britain by Hakim Adi
RRP: €13.08€8.94A compelling anthology of Black voices from England, America, Africa and the Caribbean, from people who lived, worked, campaigned and travelled in Britain from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a... -
Island Stories: Britain and Its History in the Age of Brexit by David Reynolds 9780008282356
RRP: €11.89€7.90'Concise, elegant and lucid ... A very useful primer on the delusions of an English mentality' Guardian What do we get wrong about Britain's history and its place in the world? In... -
A Celtic Miscellany: Selected and Translated by Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson by Kenneth Jackson
RRP: €15.46€10.82Including works from Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Breton and Manx, this Celtic Miscellany offers a rich blend of poetry and prose from the eighth to the nineteenth century, and provides a unique insight into the minds and literature of the... -
Three Little Truths by Eithne Shortall
RRP: €10.70€7.04**AN IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER**___________________________'Funny, endearing, mysterious and outrageous, this book is wildly entertaining and hugely enjoyable.' Liz NugentOn this street, no secret is safe.___________________________The Pine Road WhatsApp... -
Blessed Are Those Who Thirst by Anne Holt
RRP: €10.70€7.24THE SECOND INSTALMENT IN THE HANNE WILHELMSEN SERIESThe detective hunts down a serial rapist - but can she find him before a father devastated by an attack on his daughter takes the law into his own hands?The Oslo police are baffled. Crime scenes are... -
Selected Writings by Alexander von Humboldt
RRP: €17.85€13.52Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His life was packed with adventure and discovery, whether climbing volcanoes in the Andes, swimming with crocodiles, racing through anthrax-infected Siberia, or... -
Betjeman's England by John Betjeman
RRP: €13.08€8.81For more than half a century, Betjeman's writings have awakened readers to the intimacy of English places - from the smell of gaslight in suburban churches, to the hissing of backwash on a shingle beach. Betjeman is England's greatest topologist: whether... -
Louder & Funnier by P. G. Wodehouse
RRP: €15.46€10.82In these articles first produced for magazines and substantially rewritten for book publication, Wodehouse reveals his enduring brilliance as a comic writer of non-fiction. But the move out of fiction does not mean a move into unfamiliar territory: any... -
The Oxford Book of Scottish Short Stories by Douglas Dunn 9780199556540
RRP: €17.84€13.03From tales of the supernatural to pungent social realism, and from the humorous to the disturbing, whether rural or urban, this anthology shows the vitality of the Scottish short story. Douglas Dunn's eclectic selection displays the marvellous range... -
Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012 by Geoffrey Hill
€39.51Broken Hierarchies collects twenty books of poems by Geoffrey Hill, written over sixty years, and presents them in their definitive form. Four of these books (Ludo, Expostulations on the Volcano, Liber Illustrium Virorum, and Al Tempo de' Tremuoti) have... -
Safe: On Black British Men Reclaiming Space by Derek Owusu
RRP: €11.89€8.09'It's brave and honest, and not a moment too soon.' Afua Hirsch, Brit(ish)'[An] outstanding myth-busting book. Everyone should read it.' Bernardine EvaristoWhat is the experience of Black men in Britain today? Never has the conversation about racism and... -
George Orwell: English Rebel by Robert Colls
RRP: €17.84€13.51An intellectual who did not like intellectuals, a socialist who did not trust the state, a writer of the left who found it easier to forgive writers of the right, a liberal who was against free markets, a Protestant who believed in religion but not in... -
Usborne Workbooks Grammar and Punctuation 5-6 by Jessica Greenwell 9781474990967
RRP: €4.75€3.14With the help of Olly the Owl and his friends, children can explore the rules of written English. The activities in this book build confidence in using capital letters, punctuating sentences and using plurals.An accessible introduction, with a variety of... -
The Passion of Harry Bingo: Further Dispatches from Unreported Scotland by Peter Ross
RRP: €10.70€8.14SHORTLISTED FOR SALTIRE SOCIETY NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR Quirky, hilarious, always engaging and often moving, The Passion of Harry Bingo enters the lives of some of Britain's least known but most amazing characters. From Orkney to the Sussex coast... -
The Norton Anthology of English Literature by Stephen Greenblatt 9780393603071
€46.08The most trusted anthology for complete works and helpful editorial apparatus. The Tenth Edition supports survey and period courses with NEW complete major works, NEW contemporary writers, and dynamic and easy-to-access digital resources. NEW video... -
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: Centenary Edition by Ludwig Wittgenstein 9781839982095
RRP: €29.75€28.30This new edition of Wittgenstein's book, strictly following the author's recommendations, allows a more immediate comprehension of the text and dissolves several false problems that had deceived readers and scholars for a century. The faithful... -
The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader by Brown Clarence
RRP: €24.30€18.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142437575Author VariousFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 493gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 129mm *... -
Paradoxes and Problems by John Donne 9780198127536
€82.78A scholarly edition of works by John Donne. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatusBook InformationISBN 9780198127536Author John DonneFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint... -
The Complete Short Stories of Natalia Ginzburg by Natalia Ginzburg
RRP: €23.79€20.87Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991) is today recognized as one of the foremost woman writers to emerge from twentieth-century Italy. The Complete Short Stories of Natalia Ginzburg brings together in English translation for the first time the eight short stories... -
The Norton Anthology of English Literature by Stephen Greenblatt
€38.75The most trusted anthology for complete works and helpful editorial apparatus. The Tenth Edition supports survey and period courses with NEW complete major works, NEW contemporary writers, and dynamic and easy-to-access digital resources. NEW video... -
The Writings of Julian of Norwich: A Vision Showed to a Devout Woman and A Revelation of Love by Nicholas Watson
RRP: €47.54€42.70Julian of Norwich (ca. 1343-ca. 1416), a contemporary of Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, and John Wyclif, is the earliest woman writer of English we know about. Although she described herself as "a simple creature unlettered," Julian is now widely... -
Where My Feet Fall: Going for a Walk in Twenty Stories by Duncan Minshull 9780008414115
RRP: €22.60€16.20The Independent Best Book for Walkers 2022 Where can a walk take you? It goes without saying, walking can connect us to our surroundings and free us from our worries. It can raise our heart rate and relax our minds. It can lead us... -
Reading Hegel Slavoj Zizek 9781509545902
RRP: €21.41€19.09A spirit is haunting contemporary thought - the spirit of Hegel. All the powers of academia have entered into a holy alliance to exorcize this spirit: Vitalists and Eschatologists, Transcendental Pragmatists and Speculative Realists, Historical... -
Irish Writing: An Anthology of Irish Literature in English 1789-1939 by Stephen Regan 9780199549825
RRP: €13.08€9.25'Can we not build up a national tradition, a national literature, which shall be none the less Irish in spirit from being English in language?' W. B. Yeats This anthology traces the history of modern Irish literature from the revolutionary era of the... -
In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas by Stanislav Aseyev 9780674268791
RRP: €20.17€16.48In this collection of dispatches, Stanislav Aseyev attempts to understand the reasons behind the success of Russian propaganda among the residents of the industrial region of Donbas. For the first time, an inside account shows the toll on real human... -
An Elegant Madness: High Society in Regency England by Venetia Murray 9780140282962
RRP: €28.56€19.40The Regency period was one of the most turbulent ages in British history, one that spanned the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, that witnessed unprecedented industrial progress, artistic accomplishment, and violent social unrest... -
Selected Poems by John Dryden 9780140439144
RRP: €22.60€20.60A new and comprehensive selection of Dryden's poetry, revealing him as a master of theatricality, ventriloquism, and unmistakable originality. Brought together here are many of the poems from his time as Poet Laureate and loyal servant of the crown,... -
Blithe Spirit, Hay Fever, Private Lives: Three Plays by Noël Coward 9780679781790
RRP: €14.27€11.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679781790Author Noel CowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
The Little Virtues: Essays by Natalia Ginzburg
RRP: €13.08€11.66With recent attention from The New Yorker and a big increase in sales, it's clear Ginzburg's work still resonates with readers. A fresh new package and layout will appeal to established fans and attract new readers. Will include a new foreword or... -
Letters to a Young Poet Rainer Maria Rilke 9780679642329
RRP: €16.65€10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679642329Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm)...