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Maigret Travels: Inspector Maigret #51 Georges Simenon 9780241303825
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'His artistry is supreme' John Banville Eyes half-closed, head tilted against the back of his seat, he seemed not to be thinking, as the plane flew over a thick carpet of bright clouds. In reality,... -
Finding Mangan: The many lives and afterlives of James Clarence Mangan Bridget Hourican 9780717194834
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $21.80June 1849: Dr William Wilde, passing a wretched hovel in Dublin's Liberties, discovers James Clarence Mangan in a state of indescribable misery and squalor. Aged just 46, the man dubbed 'Ireland's... -
Irish Fiction by Kersti Tarien Powell 9780826415974
Booksplease Price: $46.22Following the structure of other titles in the Continuum Introductions to Literary Genres series, Irish Fiction includes: A broad definition of the genre and its essential elements. A timeline of... -
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera 9780571135394 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $3.0640th anniversary edition of the bestselling modern classic: Milan Kundera's iconic novel of love and politics in communist Czechoslovakia.'Shamelessly clever ... Exhilaratingly subversive and funny.'... -
Maigret and the Dead Girl: Inspector Maigret #45 by Georges Simenon
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.13'His artistry is supreme' John Banville Maigret wouldn't have admitted that what intrigued him most was the victim's face. All he had seen of it so far was one profile. Was it the bruises that gave... -
The Zoo by Christopher Wilson
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $3.29An Observer and Spectator Book of the YearShortlisted for the Historical Writing Association Gold Crown AwardMeet Yuri Zipit. A boy who's had a bang on the head in a collision with a Moscow milk... -
The Mahe Circle by Georges Simenon
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60'Powerful . . . unputdownably gripping' Guardian'The island itself. Its throbbing heat as if in a belljar under the sun, the scorpion in his son's bed, the deafening sound of cicadas'During his first... -
How To Read Joyce by Derek Attridge 9781862079120
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.24James Joyce is known as a 'difficult' writer, even if he is no longer thought of as a 'dirty' one. Yet many readers - and not just in colleges and universities - have discovered his books to be... -
The Predicament by William Boyd 9780241761137
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $21.40BRITAIN'S MOST BELOVED STORYTELLER RETURNS WITH A TWISTING ADVENTURE OF OBSESSIVE LOVE AND ELEGANT ESPIONAGE . . .---'William Boyd once again brings to the spy novel his particular storytelling... -
THE DEAD: with a new introduction by Nuala O'Connor James Joyce 9781835940303
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97Dublin, 6 January: the Feast of the Epiphany, also known in Ireland as Women's Christmas or Nollaig na mBan. Gretta and Gabriel Conroy attend the annual dinner party hosted by his aunts, the Morkan... -
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The Zoo by Christopher Wilson 9780571334469 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $2.54An Observer and Spectator Book of the YearShortlisted for the Historical Writing Association Gold Crown AwardMeet Yuri Zipit. A boy who's had a bang on the head in a collision with a Moscow milk... -
All Souls by Javier Marias
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43All Souls is a compelling black comedy of Oxford life by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013. This Penguin Modern Classics edition features a new... -
Teethmarks on My Tongue by Eileen Battersby 9781788543576
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.18Helen Stockton DeFoe's world disintegrates after her mother is gunned down on the streets of Richmond. The more intently she begins to observe her remote, detached father, the more she learns about... -
Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar Colm Tóibín 9781035055005
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35In Love in a Dark Time, Colm Toibin looks at the life and work of some of the greatest and most influential artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Linked by the common thread of their... -
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $8.51When We Cease to Understand the World shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schroedinger: these are... -
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.5140th anniversary edition of the bestselling modern classic: Milan Kundera's iconic novel of love and politics in communist Czechoslovakia.'Shamelessly clever ... Exhilaratingly subversive and funny.'... -
Maigret's Failure: Inspector Maigret #49 by Georges Simenon 9780241303788
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'His artistry is supreme' John Banville Conflict rather than harmony probably reigned in eight out of ten of the still magnificent houses that surrounded the park. But he had rarely had the... -
Maigret's Doubts: Inspector Maigret #52 by Georges Simenon
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.13'His artistry is supreme' John Banville While at this time the previous day he had never heard of the Martons, the train set specialist was beginning to haunt his thoughts, and so was the elegant... -
The Parthenon Marbles: The Case for Reunification Christopher Hitchens 9781786633958
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $10.98The Parthenon Marbles (formerly known as the Elgin Marbles), designed and executed by Pheidias to adorn the Parthenon, are perhaps the greatest of all classical sculptures. In 1801, Lord Elgin, then... -
The Crossings of Art in Ireland by Eamon Maher 9783034309837
RRP: $59.47Booksplease Price: $53.79The essays in this volume explore interartistic connections in Irish literature, drama, film and the visual arts. Within modern and postmodern culture, innovation is often driven by surprising... -
The Predicament by William Boyd 9780241761144
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $18.25BRITAIN'S MOST BELOVED STORYTELLER RETURNS WITH A TWISTING ADVENTURE OF OBSESSIVE LOVE AND ELEGANT ESPIONAGE . . .---'William Boyd once again brings to the spy novel his particular storytelling... -
Mr Hire's Engagement by Georges Simenon
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26Georges Simenon's chilling portrayal of tragic love, persecution and betrayal.'One sensed in him neither flesh nor bone, nothing but soft, flaccid matter, so much so that his movements were hard to... -
The Fallen: The Magdalene Laundries and Ireland’s Legacy of Silence by Louise Brangan 9781847928474
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.27When the gates of the last Magdalene Laundry closed in 1996, Ireland moved on. Or so it seemed. 'Enraging ... superb' JOHN BANVILLE, Guardian'Remarkable' Sunday Times 'An extraordinary gift ... both... -
The Odyssey: A New Translation by Homer
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95The classic tale of Odysseus's return home in a stunning new translation.THE ODYSSEY, which tells of Odysseus's long voyage home after the battle of Troy, is one of the defining masterpieces of... -
Tiepolo Pink by Roberto Calasso
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56'Tiepolo: the last breath of happiness in Europe'The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life creating frescoes that are among the glories of Western art, yet he ... -
Microcosms by Claudio Magris
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20Amid wars, failed revolutions and the shifting of frontiers, the bit-part players often have the best tales to tell - an astonishing, genre-blurring travelogue from Italian master Claudio Magris.In... -
Sentenced to Life: Poems by Clive James 9781631491726
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $33.98In this new collection of "technically and emotionally heart-stopping poems" (Spectator)-including "Japanese Maple," which was published in The New Yorker to great acclaim-Clive James looks back over... -
Machiavelli: A Man Misunderstood by Michael White
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95Machiavellian: a person who adopts the principles recommended, or supposed to have been recommended, by Machiavelli in his treatise on statecraft; a person who practises expediency in preference to... -
The Contemporary Irish Novel: Critical Readings Linden Peach 9780333948934
Booksplease Price: $52.62This essential guide offers innovative critical readings of key contemporary novels from Ireland and Northern Ireland. Linden Peach discusses texts that are representative of the richness of Irish... -
The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism, Second Edition by Richard Wolin 9780691192352
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.52Ever since the shocking revelations of the fascist ties of Martin Heidegger and Paul de Man, postmodernism has been haunted by the specter of a compromised past. In this intellectual genealogy of the... -
Making Sense: Sense Perception in the British Novel of the 1980s and 1990s by Prof Dr. Ralf Hertel 9789042018648
Booksplease Price: $92.97Fiction is fascinating. All it provides us with is black letters on white pages, yet while we read we do not have the impression that we are merely perceiving abstract characters. Instead, we see the... -
Shadowstory by Jennifer Johnston 9780755383498
Booksplease Price: $23.45A heartbreaking novel of the complexities of love, set against the tragedies of the second world war It is the Second World War, and tragedy strikes many families in Ireland. But it is also a... -
Death at Intervals by Jose Saramago
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.31In an unnamed country, on the first day of the New Year, people stop dying. There is great celebration and people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity: eternal life... -
Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia by John Gray
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26A prophetic warning against the foolishness of crusades, John Gray's Black Mass challenges our belief in human progress. Our conventional view of history is wrong. It is founded on a pernicious myth... -
The Irish Short Story: Traditions and Trends by Elke D'hoker 9783034317535
RRP: $68.18Booksplease Price: $61.30Often hailed as a 'national genre', the short story has a long and distinguished tradition in Ireland and continues to fascinate readers and writers alike. Critical appreciation of the Irish short... -
Angel Hill by Michael Longley 9781911214083
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20A Guardian / Herald Scotland Book of the YearWinner of the 2017 PEN Pinter prize Shortlisted for the 2017 Forward PrizeA remote townland in County Mayo, Carrigskeewaun has been for nearly fifty years... -
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Art Neil Murphy 9781032226187
RRP: $65.78Booksplease Price: $62.54The Routledge Companion to Literature and Art explores the links between literature and visual art from classical ekphrasis through to contemporary experimental forms. The collection's engagement... -
Connemara: Listening to the Wind Tim Robinson 9781844880669
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91The first volume in Tim Robinson's phenomenal Connemara Trilogy - which Robert Macfarlane has called 'One of the most remarkable non-fiction projects undertaken in English'. In its landscape, history... -
Charles Robert Maturin and the Haunting of Irish Romantic Fiction by Christina Morin
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $97.01A self-described "disappointed Author", Charles Robert Maturin (1780-1824) has been largely relegated to the margins of literary history since his death in 1824. Yet, as this study demonstrates, he... -
A Girl in Exile by Ismail Kadare
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66When a girl is found dead with a signed copy of Rudian Stefa's latest book in her possession, the author finds himself summoned for an interview by the Party Committee. Unable to guess what...