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Life Sentences: The #3 Irish Bestseller by Billy O'Callaghan
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.34*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,... -
Fall by Will Carver 9781913193928
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $13.44Estranged brothers are reunited over plans to develop the tower block where they grew up, but the desolate estate becomes a stage for reliving the events of one life-changing summer, forty years... -
Solar Bones by Mike McCormack 9781786891297
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDWINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEBGE IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016Marcus Conway has come a long way to stand in the... -
On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud by Andrew Blauner 9780691242453
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $31.33A collection of colorful and candid essays and other pieces about Freud and his legacy today, featuring twenty-five leading writersWith original contributions by André Aciman • Sarah Boxer • Jennifer... -
Elektra: A New Translation by Sophocles 9780062132062
RRP: $14.68Booksplease Price: $14.20Spotlighting an endless cycle of bloodshed that consumes a royal family, "Elektra" masterfully explores the causes of hatred and the consequences of revenge - both for those who bear the brunt of... -
On Heroes and Tombs by Ernesto Sabato
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38'A novelist of immense power ... uncompromising and original' Colm Toibin'I can feel the passage of time, as though it were coursing through my veins, along with my blood...'One June day in 1955... -
Last Days in Cleaver Square by Patrick McGrath 9781786332745
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.43___________________________________________'An atmospheric novel, with a magnificently unreliable narrator . . . McGrath is a connoisseur of this literary tradition.' Financial Times'The pleasure in... -
Traditions and Difference in Contemporary Irish Short Fiction: Ireland Then and Now by Tsung Chi (Hawk) Chang 9789813343184
RRP: $115.48Booksplease Price: $114.98This book focuses on traditions and transformations in contemporary Irish short fiction, covering pivotal issues such as gender, sexuality, abortion, the body, nostalgia, identity, and migration. In... -
Persuasion (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Jane Austen
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Written during Jane Austen's race against failing health, Persuasion tells the story of Anne Elliot, a woman who - at twenty-seven - is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years... -
The Black Snow by Paul Lynch
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84BY THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOKER PRIZE LONGLISTED PROPHET SONG.'Paul Lynch is peerless' Donal Ryan, author of Strange FlowersIn the spring of 1945, farm-worker Matthew Peoples runs into a burning byre and... -
Traditions and Difference in Contemporary Irish Short Fiction: Ireland Then and Now by Tsung Chi (Hawk) Chang 9789813343153
Booksplease Price: $97.19This book focuses on traditions and transformations in contemporary Irish short fiction, covering pivotal issues such as gender, sexuality, abortion, the body, nostalgia, identity, and migration. In... -
Looking Writing Reading Looking: Writers on Art from the Louisiana Collection Georgi Gospodinov 9788793659216
RRP: $56.70Booksplease Price: $42.13Today's leading poets and writers--from Anne Carson to Roxane Gay--respond to modern and contemporary masterpieces In this book, 26 internationally renowned poets, writers and essayists such as... -
Night for Day Patrick Flanery (Author) 9781782396055
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $34.42Los Angeles, 1950. Over the course of a single day, two friends grapple with the moral and professional uncertainties of the escalating Communist witch-hunt in Hollywood. Director John Marsh races to... -
Loaded by Christos Tsiolkas
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73Discover the explosive first novel from the author of The Slap Ari is nineteen, Greek, gay, unemployed, looking for something - anything - to take him away from his aimless existence in suburban... -
Her Mother's Daughter by 9781760630652
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.64Hello! magazine's April 2018 'book of the week'Set across two decades in London and Ireland, Her Mother's Daughter sees the lives of a troubled and emotionally abusive mother and her innocent... -
Multiples: 12 Stories in 18 Languages by 61 Authors by Adam Thirlwell 9781846275388
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Like Chinese whispers, the rules of this literary game are simple: the first writer translates an unknown story into English, which a second writer then translates into a different language, and a... -
Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Visual Culture by Michaela Schrage-Früh 9781032146904
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $85.97This book engages with ageing masculinities in Irish literature and visual culture, including fiction, drama, poetry, painting, and documentary. Exploring the shifting representations of older men... -
Henry James in Contemporary Fiction: The Real Thing by Bethany Layne 9783030316495
Booksplease Price: $148.85This book explores the extraordinary proliferation of novels based on Henry James's life and works published between 2001 and 2016, the centenary of his death. Part One concentrates on biofictions... -
Ruslan and Lyudmila: Dual Language by Alexander Pushkin
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23In order to rescue his beloved Lyudmila, who has been abducted by the evil wizard Chernomor, the warrior Ruslan faces an epic and perilous quest, encoutering a multitude of fantastic and terrifying... -
Henry James in Contemporary Fiction: The Real Thing by Bethany Layne 9783030316525
Booksplease Price: $148.85This book explores the extraordinary proliferation of novels based on Henry James's life and works published between 2001 and 2016, the centenary of his death. Part One concentrates on biofictions... -
Contemporary Irish Fiction: Themes, Tropes, Theories by L. Harte 9780312231644
Booksplease Price: $190.18Recent years have witnessed an extraordinary growth in the richness and diversity of Irish fiction, with the publication of highly original and consistently challenging work by both new and... -
Ulysses Unbound: A Reader's Companion to James Joyce's Ulysses by Terence Killeen
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70Ulysses is one of the foundational texts of modern literature, yet has a reputation for complexity and controversy. In Ulysses Unbound, Joyce expert Terence Killeen untangles this seemingly knotty... -
Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change, 1970-2000 by R. F. Foster
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38R.F. Foster's Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change, 1970-2000 examines how the country has weathered thirty years of rapid transformation, and what these changes may mean in the long run. ... -
The Art of the Novel: Critical Prefaces by Henry James
Booksplease Price: $52.71This collection of prefaces, originally written for the 1909 multivolume "New York" Edition of Henry James' fiction, first appeared in book form in 1934 with an introduction by poet and critic R. P... -
The Kingdom of Sand: the exhilarating new novel from the author of Dancer from the Dance by Andrew Holleran 9781529116380
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73'Affecting and engaging' COLM TOIBIN'A wistful, witty meditation on a gay man's twilight years and the twilight of America' GuardianOut in the drought-struck backwaters of rural Florida, The Kingdom... -
80 at 80 Paul Durcan 9781787304840
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.75A new selection of Paul Durcan's finest poems, published in celebration of his 80th birthday'He has written immortal poems. I revere him' Michael LongleyFor fifty years the poet Paul Durcan has... -
The Promise: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 by Damon Galgut
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021One family. One promise. One chance to tell a new story.'A moving, brilliantly told family epic' Elizabeth DayTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLEROn a farm outside Pretoria, the... -
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Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change, 1970-2000 by R. F. Foster 9780141017655 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $4.60R.F. Foster's Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change, 1970-2000 examines how the country has weathered thirty years of rapid transformation, and what these changes may mean in the long run. ... -
PN Review 276 by Michael Schmidt 9781800174191
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.98The March-April 2024 issue. Since we started as Poetry Nation, a twice yearly hardback, in 1973, we've been publishing new poetry, rediscoveries, commentary, literary essays, interviews and reviews... -
Love of the World: Essays by John McGahern
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $21.53An enlightening collection of essays, reviews and speeches by 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel) and 'the Irish novelist everyone should read' (Colm Toibin).'Wise and compelling... -
Irish Stories by Christopher Morash 9781841596419
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $25.39The short story flourishes in Ireland. All Irish conditions seem to favour it. With its roots in the fertile soil of the Gaelic folk tradition, it appeared to grow and thrive on the discontinuities... -
Women, Seated: A tight modern thriller about an elite family's downfall, power and corruption by Zhang Yueran 9781399756433
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.00'Memorable and fascinating' COLM TÓIBÍN'Propulsive, I couldn't put it down' MEG WOLITZER'A propulsive psychological thriller, immaculately plotted ' LUCY CALDWELL'Vivid, smart, suspenseful' MO YAN In... -
Biofictional Histories, Mutations and Forms by Professor Michael Lackey 9780367029890
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $93.18Biofiction, defined as literature that names its protagonist after an actual historical figure, first became popular in the 1930s, but over the last forty years it has become a dominant literary form... -
New Voices, Inherited Lines: Literary and Cultural Representations of the Irish Family by Claudia Reese 9783034307994
RRP: $103.53Booksplease Price: $93.37Irish writers have always been fascinated by the family, sometimes depicting it as a traditional space under threat from external influences, sometimes highlighting the dangers lurking within. More... -
Tender by Belinda McKeon 9781035086696
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84‘Gripping, completely compelling . . . A sublime talent’ – Donal Ryan, author of The Spinning Heart‘Captures what it is like to be young in Dublin with grace, subtlety and sympathy’ – Colm Tóibín,... -
Myths and Ancient Stories: Narrative, Meaning and Influence in the West by Professor Kevin Mills 9781350346840
Booksplease Price: $148.87An introduction to ancient myths and the critical discussions that surround them, this book dives into the stories of pre-modern culture, taking a comparative look at how they have shaped the West... -
Captains of the Sands by 9780143106357
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35A Brazilian Lord of the Flies, about a group of boys who live by their wits and daring in the slums of Bahia.They call themselves 'Captains of the Sands', a gang of orphans and runaways who live by... -
Going to My Father's House: A History of My Times by Patrick Joyce
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $37.28A historian's personal journey into the complex questions of immigration, home and nationFrom Ireland to London in the 1950s, Derry in the Troubles to contemporary, de-industrialised Manchester,... -
The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic by New York Times Magazine
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.07A stunning collection of new short stories originally commissioned by The New York Times Magazine as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy... -
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin 9780241342039
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23In this tender, impassioned fourth novel, James Baldwin created one of his most striking characters: a man struggling to become himself.'Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one...