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The Human Factor by Graham Greene
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'Graham Greene's beautiful and disturbing novel is filled with tenderness, humour, excitement and doubt' The Times A leak is traced to a small sub-section of the secret service, sparking off the... -
God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain by Rosemary Hill
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.37Pugin was one of Britain's greatest architects and his short career one of the most dramatic in architectural history. Born in 1812, the son of the soi-disant Comte de Pugin, at 15 Pugin was working... -
The Coming Thing by Martina Evans 9781800173453
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62A TLS and The Irish Times Book of the Year. The Coming Thing is a brilliant long narrative poem. It is not Evans's first: she has become celebrated for work on this scale, spoken, dramatic,... -
PN Review 270 by Michael Schmidt 9781800173699
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61The March-April 2023 issue An issue of dialogues, with whales, with Rimbaud, with Mexico, Afghanistan, Germany, Canada, with John Lucas, D.H. Lawrence and many more Includes new poems by Colm... -
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31** A Book of the Year in The Times - The New Statesman - Observer - Financial Times - Irish Times - Irish Independent - Times Literary Supplement **SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CILLIAN... -
History, Memory, Trauma in Contemporary British and Irish Fiction by Beata Piatek
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.19History, memory and trauma as well as their complex interrelations have been lying at the centre of interdisciplinary academic debates since the end of the previous century. These are also themes... -
The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe by Charles Nicholl
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41In 1593, the brilliant and controversial young playwright Christopher Marlowe was stabbed to death in a Deptford lodging house. The circumstances were shady, the official account - a violent quarrel... -
The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth Adrian Duncan 9781806490271
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 'An original voice' Colm Toibin 'Duncan brings a new way of seeing' Irish Times One winter, in a secluded Alpine city, Irish sculptor John Molloy meets... -
The Happy Couple: A sparkling story of modern love from the bestselling author of EXCITING TIMES by Naoise Dolan 9781474613514
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'A brilliant contemporary novel' Colm Toibin 'I am fully in awe of Dolan's talent' Douglas Stuart'I cannot tell you how much I enjoyed it' Marian Keyes'Dazzling. Not a word is out of place'... -
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Words Fail Us: In Defence of Disfluency by Jonty Claypole 9781788161725 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £3.54'TIMELY' David Mitchell 'MOVING ... REMARKABLE' SUNDAY TIMES 'ONE OF THOSE RARE BOOKS I HADN'T REASLISED I'D BEEN WAITING FOR UNTIL I READ IT.' Owen Sheers 'OPEN-MINDED, THOUGHTFUL AND... -
Words Fail Us: In Defence of Disfluency by Jonty Claypole 9781788161725
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'TIMELY' David Mitchell 'MOVING ... REMARKABLE' SUNDAY TIMES 'ONE OF THOSE RARE BOOKS I HADN'T REASLISED I'D BEEN WAITING FOR UNTIL I READ IT.' Owen Sheers 'OPEN-MINDED, THOUGHTFUL AND... -
Words Fail Us: In Defence of Disfluency by Jonty Claypole
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.67'TIMELY' David Mitchell 'MOVING ... REMARKABLE' SUNDAY TIMES 'ONE OF THOSE RARE BOOKS I HADN'T REASLISED I'D BEEN WAITING FOR UNTIL I READ IT.' Owen Sheers 'OPEN-MINDED, THOUGHTFUL AND... -
The Best Catholics in the World: The Irish, the Church and the End of a Special Relationship by Derek Scally
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31The Number One BestsellerShortlisted for the Irish Book Awards 2021'A great achievement . . . Brilliant, engaging and essential' Colm Toibin'At once intimate and epic, this is a landmark book' Fintan... -
A Luminous Republic by Andres Barba
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67One day, the children begin to show up in the subtropical town of San Cristobal, unwashed and hungry. No one knows where they have come from or where they disappear to each night. And then they rob a... -
Gaudi by Gijs van Hensbergen
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42The first critical biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest architects At the time of his death in 1926, Antoni Gaudi was arguably the most famous architect in the world. He... -
On Belonging and Not Belonging: Translation, Migration, Displacement by Mary Jacobus
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.53A look at how ideas of translation, migration, and displacement are embedded in the works of prominent artists, from Ovid to Tacita DeanOn Belonging and Not Belonging provides a sophisticated... -
The Irish Expatriate Novel in Late Capitalist Globalization by Joe Cleary
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.63This study of contemporary Irish expatriate fiction offers a boldly original world-facing rather than nation-focused overview of the contemporary Irish novel. Chapters examine how Irish narrative... -
On Belonging and Not Belonging: Translation, Migration, Displacement Mary Jacobus 9780691231679
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.08A look at how ideas of translation, migration, and displacement are embedded in the works of prominent artists, from Ovid to Tacita DeanOn Belonging and Not Belonging provides a sophisticated... -
Irish Fiction by Kersti Tarien Powell 9780826415974
Booksplease Price: £35.83Following 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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Esther Waters by George Moore 9780199583010 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.71'I daresay I shall get through my trouble somehow.' Esther Waters is a young, working-class woman with strong religious beliefs who takes a position as a kitchen-maid at a horse-racing estate. She... -
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.79'Until I die there will be those moments, moments seeming to rise up out of the ground like Macbeth's witches, when his face will come before me, that face in all its changes, when the exact timbre... -
Merciless Gods by Christos Tsiolkas
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67A collection of urgent, thrilling and original stories from the award-winning, bestselling author of The Slap and Barracuda. Love, sex, death, family, friendship, betrayal, tenderness, sacrifice and... -
Napalm in the Heart Pol Guasch 9780571375257
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43'Innovative and original.' Colm Toibin'Unforgettable.' Alejandro Zambra'A punk novel with prose as mysterious as it is beautiful.' Nicole Flattery 'Pol Guasch must be one of the best young writers... -
Quiet Dell by Jayne Anne Phillips 9780349725536
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A story of love, murder and obsession - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Night Watch'Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year... A compulsively readable story' STEPHEN... -
Biofiction: An Introduction by Michael Lackey
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.66Biofiction: An Introduction provides readers with the history, origins, evolution, and legitimization of biofiction, suggesting potential lines of inquiry, exploring criticisms of the literary form,... -
PN Review 257 by Michael Schmidt
Booksplease Price: £7.74The January-February 2021 issue.; Editorial considers the British Library's controversial Printed Heritage Provenance Research report and its negative impact on their welcome anti-racism policy.;... -
So Late in the Day: ‘A genuine once-in-a-generation writer.’ The Times by Claire Keegan 9780571382019
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31An exquisite new short story from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Small Things Like These and Foster. ** An Irish Times Book of the Year ** 'A genuine once-in-a-generation writer.' The... -
Esther Waters by George Moore 9780199583010
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'I daresay I shall get through my trouble somehow.' Esther Waters is a young, working-class woman with strong religious beliefs who takes a position as a kitchen-maid at a horse-racing estate. She... -
Mothercare by Lynne Tillman
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02From the brilliantly original novelist and cultural critic Lynne Tillman comes Mothercare, an honest and beautifully written account of a sudden, drastically changed relationship to one's mother, and... -
Giacomo Joyce: Faber Stories by James Joyce
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.39Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. This heart is sore and sad. Crossed in love?The manuscript of... -
Lions of Grunewald by Aidan Higgins
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £10.76Here is the great Irish novel of Berlin, way back before the Wall came down. Dallan Weaver, a writer and professor who's been feted and flattered but has seen better days, has come to the great... -
The Besieged City by Clarice Lispector
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'One of the hidden geniuses of the twentieth century' Colm Toibin'She suddenly leaned toward the mirror and sought the love liest way to see herself'Lucrecia Neves is vain, unreflective, insolently... -
Go Giants by Nick Laird
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95To a Fault, Nick Laird's debut collection, won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize; On Purpose, his follow up, won a Somerset Maugham award for... -
From Fiction to Psychoanalysis: Reimagining a Relationship by Rosemary Rizq 9781032351339
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £100.05How can reading literary fiction shed light on the way we speak ourselves within psychoanalysis? Rather than offering psychoanalytic insights into literature, Rosemary Rizq, a practicing psychologist... -
From Fiction to Psychoanalysis: Reimagining a Relationship Rosemary Rizq 9781032351346
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £26.09How can reading literary fiction shed light on the way we speak ourselves within psychoanalysis? Rather than offering psychoanalytic insights into literature, Rosemary Rizq, a practicing psychologist... -
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The Promise by Damon Galgut 9781784744069 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: £2.29**WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021**'A tour de force... A spectacular demonstration of how the novel can make us see and think afresh' Booker Judges 2021Discover the powerful prizewinning story of a... -
Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror by Carlos Basualdo
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £42.93An innovative retrospective look at the work of one of America's most iconic artists, utilizing the concepts of mirroring and doubling, which have long preoccupied Johns Jasper Johns (b. 1930) is... -
The Castrato: Reflections on Natures and Kinds by Martha Feldman 9780520292444
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.38The Castrato is a nuanced exploration of why innumerable boys were castrated for singing between the mid-sixteenth and late-nineteenth centuries. It shows that the entire foundation of Western... -
The Castrato: Reflections on Natures and Kinds by Martha Feldman 9780520279490
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £40.67The Castrato is a nuanced exploration of why innumerable boys were castrated for singing between the mid-sixteenth and late-nineteenth centuries. It shows that the entire foundation of Western... -
Myths and Ancient Stories: Narrative, Meaning and Influence in the West by Professor Kevin Mills 9781350346857
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £16.70An 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...