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In Defence of Dogs: Why Dogs Need Our Understanding by John Bradshaw
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $10.36What would dogs ask for, if they knew how? In the Sunday Times bestseller In Defence of Dogs John Bradshaw, an anthropologist at Bristol University who has been at the centre of the latest research... -
The Paper Man by Billy O'Callaghan
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.76An unforgettable and sweeping interwar love story, from the Costa-shortlisted and bestselling Irish author of Life Sentences'Imaginative, beautifully told... Superb'SPECTATOR'The best book yet by a... -
Ancient Light by John Banville
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.98'Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother.'Alexander Cleave, an actor who thinks his best days are behind him, remembers his first unlikely affair as a teenage boy in a small... -
The Blue Afternoon by William Boyd
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.97WINNER OF THE SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD'Achingly memorable' The Times ________________________________A quest for secrets in the blue afternoon . . .Los Angeles, 1936. Kay Fischer, a... -
Blue Ruin by Hari Kunzru 9781398532748
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.68From one of the sharpest voices in fiction today, a profound and enthralling novel about beauty, power, and capital's influence on art and those who devote their lives to creating it. Once, Jay was... -
Getting it in the Head Mike McCormack 9781786891396
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Prepare to enter a world where the infatuation with death, ruin and destruction is total. Set in locations from New York to the west of Ireland, and to the nameless realms of the imagination, it is a... -
There Are Little Kingdoms Kevin Barry 9781786890177
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43This award-winning story collection summons all the laughter, darkness and intensity of contemporary Irish life. A pair of fast girls court trouble as they cool their heels on a slow night in a small... -
The Maid's Room: 'A modern-day The Help' - Emerald Street Fiona Mitchell 9781473659599
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75'A modern-day The Help' - Emerald Street'It's a book to read and then read again.' The Book Bag'I loved The Maid's Room with its exquisite writing, married with a shocking and powerful story line... -
Paris, 7 A.M. by Liza Wieland
RRP: $21.93Booksplease Price: $13.98"A marvel of lost innocence" (O, The Oprah Magazine) that reimagines three life-changing weeks poet Elizabeth Bishop spent in Paris amidst the imminent threat of World War II. June 1937. Elizabeth... -
The North Water: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize by Ian McGuire 9781398511736
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.26NOW A MAJOR BBC TV SERIES STARRING COLIN FARRELL, JACK O'CONNELL AND STEPHEN GRAHAMA ship sets sail with a killer on board . . . 1859. A man joins a whaling ship bound for the Arctic Circle. Having... -
PN Review 261 by Michael Schmidt
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.82The September-October 2021 issue; PN Review has a 'soft relaunch' with a new cover design, new internal design and layout; Dutch supplement: outstanding new writing from Holland; Major essays:; Colm... -
My Perfect Place in Ireland by Roisin Ingle
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.32Delve into the minds of Ireland's extraordinary personalities as writer and podcaster Roisin Ingle uncovers the stories behind their most treasured spaces.Including a huge array of talent such as... -
A Christmas Carol: The Original Manuscript Edition by Charles Dickens 9780393608649
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.60Every Christmas, the Morgan Library & Museum in Manhattan displays one of the crown jewels of its extraordinary collection: the original manuscript of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol with its... -
Leading Men: 'A timeless and heart-breaking love story' Celeste Ng by Christopher Castellani
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.02Soon to be a film, written by Matthew Lopez (Olivier Award winner for The Inheritance), produced by Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name)'Movie stars in Italy, a longtime affair, and a missing... -
The Hoarder by Jess Kidd 9781786899842
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB CHOICESHORTLISTED FOR THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDUnintentional psychic Maud Drennan arrives to look... -
Edith by Martina Devlin
RRP: $18.06Booksplease Price: $15.80Martina Devlin, an award-winning columnist for the Irish Independent and podcaster for Dublin City of Literature #CityofBooks, has delivered a new novel based on the life of Edith Somerville of... -
Book of Numbers by Joshua Cohen
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.72'Dazzling and engrossing' Colm Toibin, Guardian A Granta Best Young American Author Book of Numbers is a novel about two men of the same age and with the same name: Joshua Cohen. The first Joshua... -
Maurice E M Forster 9781399736206
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.38A stunning new edition of Forster's classic queer novel, with a new introduction by Colm Toibin, bestselling author of Brooklyn and Long Island'A monument to a moment when change seemed possible'COLM... -
Another Country by James Baldwin
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.91'A masterwork... an almost unbearable, tumultuous, blood-pounding experience' Washinton PostWhen Another Country appeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly story of... -
Trauma and Recovery in the Twenty-First-Century Irish Novel by Kathleen Costello-Sullivan 9780815635857
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $9.47The desire to engage and confront traumatic subjects was a facet of Irish literature for much of the twentieth century. Yet, just as Irish society has adopted a more direct and open approach to the... -
Trauma and Recovery in the Twenty-First-Century Irish Novel by Kathleen Costello-Sullivan 9780815635673
RRP: $56.76Booksplease Price: $46.96The desire to engage and confront traumatic subjects was a facet of Irish literature for much of the twentieth century. Yet, just as Irish society has adopted a more direct and open approach to the... -
Revolutionary Bodies: Homoeroticism and the Political Imagination in Irish Writing by Michael G. Cronin
RRP: $104.49Booksplease Price: $97.01Revolutionary bodies provides a detailed study of the erotics and politics of the male body in Irish fiction. It examines work by Brendan Behan, John Broderick and Colm Toibin to critically analyse... -
ARE YOU SOMEBODY?: 30th Anniversary edition Nuala O'Faolain 9781835940488
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20Upon its original publication in 1996, Are You Somebody? quickly became an cultural sensation in Ireland, sparking an 'emotional episode in public life in Ireland'. O'Faolain's striking candour and... -
The International by Glenn Patterson 9780856408120
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $13.44Saturday, 28 January 1967. It is a day like any other for eighteen-year-old Danny, pulling pints behind the bar of the International Hotel in Belfast, watching the comings and goings of the eccentric... -
Tales from a Master's Notebook: Stories Henry James Never Wrote by Various
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.72A collection of stories from some of our best-loved writers, inspired by ideas found in Henry James's notebooks.When Henry James died he left behind a series of notebooks filled with ideas for novels... -
Ghost Wedding David Park 9780861549740
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.62A POIGNANT STORY OF LOVE AND REGRET, FROM A MASTER OF CONTEMPORARY IRISH FICTION * 'David Park is one of Ireland's great novelists.' Roddy Doyle, author of The Commitments * For fans of... -
An Apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures by Clarice Lispector
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'One of the very great writers of the last century' Guardian'Lispector had an ability to write as though no one had ever written before' Colm Toibin'He'd wait for her, she knew that now. Until she... -
The Wild Laughter by Caoilinn Hughes
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $8.39An exhilarating dark comedy about two brothers confronting their father's fate in contemporary Ireland, from a critically acclaimed Irish author 'Brilliant. A hilarious, poetical black comedy... -
When The Bulbul Stopped Singing: A Diary of Ramallah under Siege Raja Shehadeh 9781805224822
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66'Palestine's greatest prose writer' Observer 'Shehadeh is a great inquiring spirit with a tone that is vivid, ironic, melancholy and wise' Colm Tóibín Battered by repeated suicide bombs, the Israeli... -
Goodbye Yeats and O'Neill: Farce in Contemporary Irish and Irish-American Narratives by Edward A. Hagan 9789042029934
Booksplease Price: $149.25Goodbye Yeats and O'Neill is a reading of one or two books recently written by the following major authors: Roddy Doyle, Colm Toibin, John McGahern, William Trevor, Seamus Deane, Nuala O'Faolain,... -
The Late King of Thebes by Carlo Gebler
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $13.49After her father's death in exile, Antigone returns to Thebes determined to set the record straight and restore her father's reputation. Tracing the histories of Oedipus and his parents Laius and... -
The Wild Laughter by Caoilinn Hughes 9781786077806
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $11.80An exhilarating dark comedy about two brothers confronting their father's fate in contemporary Ireland, from a critically acclaimed Irish author 'Brilliant. A hilarious, poetical black comedy... -
Prophet Song: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 by Paul Lynch 9780861545896
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.18'IF THERE WAS EVER A CRUCIAL BOOK FOR OUR CURRENT TIMES, IT'S PAUL LYNCH'S PROPHET SONG... BRILLIANTLY HAUNTING.' OBSERVER * THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER * The explosive literary sensation:... -
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.01'IF THERE WAS EVER A CRUCIAL BOOK FOR OUR CURRENT TIMES, IT'S PAUL LYNCH'S PROPHET SONG... BRILLIANTLY HAUNTING.' OBSERVER The explosive literary sensation: a mother faces a terrible choice... -
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett 9780062278531
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $28.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062278531Author Ann PatchettFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins... -
The Barracks by John McGahern
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43The iconic debut novel by 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel) and 'the Irish novelist everyone should read' (Colm Toibin).Elizabeth Reegan, after years of freedom - and... -
The Garden by Paul Perry
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62The Garden is dying. Once an Edenic orchid farm, it has been decimated by the worst hurricane in Florida's living memory. Its glasshouses are shattered, the surrounding mangroves encroach, and its... -
Ghost Wedding David Park 9780861549733
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.18A poignant story of love and regret, from a master of contemporary Irish fiction An Irish Times and RTE Culture Book of the Year for 2025 * 'David Park is one of Ireland's great novelists.'... -
Going to Extremes in Biblical Rewritings: Radical Literary Retellings of Biblical Tropes by Anthony Swindell 9783110781847
RRP: $130.94Booksplease Price: $84.80This book sets out to provide a matrix for surveying the literary treatment of biblical tropes. It supplies an overview of the literary reception of the Bible from the earliest times right through to... -
Life Sentences: The #3 Irish Bestseller by Billy O'Callaghan
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.81*THE #3 IRISH BESTSELLER*'Momentous and epic' BERNARD MACLAVERTY'Superb and moving' JOHN BANVILLE'A lovely, piercing book' SEBASTIAN BARRYThree generations. More than a century of famine, war,...