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The Tombs of Atuan: The Second Book of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50The second book of Earthsea in a beautiful hardback edition. Complete the collection with A Wizard of Earthsea, The Furthest Shore and TehanuWith illustrations from Charles Vess'[This] trilogy made... -
Contemporary British Fiction by Nick Bentley 9781137009661
Booksplease Price: €34.37This essential guide provides a comprehensive survey of the most important debates in the criticism and research of contemporary British fiction. Nick Bentley analyses the criticism surrounding a... -
The Broken Places: The compassionate and moving debut novel inspired by the Hemingway family Russell Franklin 9781399602297
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €15.91'Sunlit and dark, painful and joyous' David Mitchell, author of Cloud AtlasIn 1931, Gregory Hemingway's life begins in Kansas City, Missouri. The third and favourite child of an overbearing father,... -
The Broken Places: The compassionate and moving debut novel inspired by the Hemingway family Russell Franklin 9781399602310
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54'Sunlit and dark, painful and joyous' David Mitchell, author of Cloud AtlasIn 1931, Gregory Hemingway's life begins in Kansas City, Missouri. The third and favourite child of an overbearing father,... -
Twenty-First-Century Fiction: A Critical Introduction by Peter Boxall 9781107006911
RRP: €92.82Booksplease Price: €84.60The widespread use of electronic communication at the dawn of the twenty-first century has created a global context for our interactions, transforming the ways we relate to the world and to one... -
In Search of a Distant Voice by Taichi Yamada 9780571229727
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70A woman is trying to contact Kasama Tsuneo at a crisis point in his life. But she won't reveal her identity. Kasama is an immigration officer in Tokyo, struggling to live a 'normal' life after an... -
Twenty-First-Century Fiction: A Critical Introduction by Peter Boxall 9780521187299
RRP: €28.56Booksplease Price: €26.29The widespread use of electronic communication at the dawn of the twenty-first century has created a global context for our interactions, transforming the ways we relate to the world and to one... -
The Biopolitics of Disability: Neoliberalism, Ablenationalism, and Peripheral Embodiment by David T. Mitchell 9780472052714
RRP: €32.07Booksplease Price: €30.81In the neoliberal era, when human worth is measured by its relative utility within global consumer culture, selected disabled people have been able to gain entrance into late capitalist culture. The... -
Corpus Christi by Bret Anthony Johnston
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €4.03'A gorgeous, accomplished debut' David Mitchell By internationally bestselling author Bret Anthony Johnston, WINNER of the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award 2017. In Corpus Christi, Texas - a town... -
The Contemporary British Novel Since 2000 by James Archeson
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €33.07The Contemporary British Novel Since 2000 is divided into five parts, with the first part examining the work of four particularly well-known and highly regarded twenty-first century writers: Ian... -
Literature, Science, and Public Policy: From Darwin to Genomics by Jay Clayton 9781009263528
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €91.98Literature, Science, and Public Policy shows how literature can influence public policy concerning scientific controversies in genetics and other areas. Literature brings unique insights to issues... -
Music in Contemporary British Fiction: Listening to the Novel by Gerry Smyth 9780230573284
Booksplease Price: €109.12Alongside readings of modern novels (including work by David Mitchell, Zadie Smith, Jackie Kay and Andrew O'Hagan), Gerry Smyth offers an extended theoretical analysis of the relationship between... -
Granta 81: Best Of Young British Novelists 3 Granta 9780903141581
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.34As with the first two Young British Novelists issues, Granta's 2003 list was compelling and prescient. The issue introduced readers to fiction by Zadie Smith, David Mitchell and Monica Ali. From Ben... -
The Other Wind: The Sixth Book of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50The sixth book of Earthsea in a beautiful hardback edition. Complete the collection with A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Furthest Shore, Tehanu and Tales from Earthsea.With... -
Fictions of Infinity: Levinasian Ethics in 21st-Century Novels by Martin Riedelsheimer 9783110712346
RRP: €139.83Booksplease Price: €128.71This study traces the connection of infinity and Levinasian ethics in 21st-century fiction. It tackles the paradox of how infinity can be (re-)presented in the finite space between the covers of a... -
Experimental Fiction: An Introduction for Readers and Writers by Julie Armstrong 9781441189080
Booksplease Price: €134.60Ever since Ezra Pound's exhortation to 'make it new', experimentation has been a hallmark of contemporary literature. Ranging from the modernists, through the Beats to postmodernism and contemporary... -
Climate Crisis and the 21st-Century British Novel by Astrid Bracke 9781350107489
Booksplease Price: €43.82This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.The challenge of rapid climate change is forcing us to rethink... -
The Post-Apocalyptic Novel in the Twenty-First Century: Modernity beyond Salvage by Heather J. Hicks 9781137553669
Booksplease Price: €78.49Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, major Anglophone authors have flocked to a literary form once considered lowbrow 'genre fiction': the post-apocalyptic novel. Calling on her broad... -
Blanchot, Ecology and Contemporary Fiction: The Thought of the Disaster Jonathan Boulter 9781474499637
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €21.41Blanchot, Ecology and Contemporary Fiction: The Thought of the Disaster delves into Maurice Blanchot's enigmatic, and deeply influential, notion of the disaster a term Blanchot famously refuses to... -
Fictions of Infinity: Levinasian Ethics in 21st-Century Novels by Martin Riedelsheimer 9783110995244
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €22.88This study traces the connection of infinity and Levinasian ethics in 21st-century fiction. It tackles the paradox of how infinity can be (re-)presented in the finite space between the covers of a... -
The Novel Cure: An A to Z of Literary Remedies by Ella Berthoud
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98Mumsnet 'Best Books for Christmas 2016''Ideal for anyone who has ever wondered what on earth to read next' SJ WATSON'Witty, engaging and informative. The sort of book you choose for a friend and end... -
Tehanu: The Fourth Book of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50The fourth book of Earthsea in a beautiful hardback edition. Complete the collection with A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan and The Furthest Shore.With illustrations from Charles VessIn this... -
Psychic Connection and the Twentieth-Century British Novel: From Telepathy to the Network Novel Mark Taylor 9781399524490
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €21.68Criticism of the novel routinely starts with the assumption that characters must think, develop and strive for self-fulfilment as individuals. This book challenges the paradigm that individualism is... -
The Secret Life of William Shakespeare Jude Morgan 9780755358243
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54The greatest writer of them all, brought to glorious life.How well do you know the man you love? How much do you think you know about Shakespeare? What if they were one and the same? He is an... -
The Rude Guide to Being a Better Writer David J Hayles 9781836283751
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.02The Rude Guide to Being a Better Writer aims to help anyone who wants to improve their writing. It explains and demonstrates how plain English helps writers to write clearly and concisely, which in... -
The Book of Luce L R Fredericks 9781848543362
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81'Truly a slice of magic and a work of imaginative genius.' Starburst A mind-bending mystery spanning continents and centuries for all fans of Neal Stephenson and David Mitchell. 'A witty and weird... -
A Wizard of Earthsea: The First Book of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50The first book of Earthsea in a beautiful hardback edition. Complete the collection with The Tombs of Atuan, The Furthest Shore and TehanuWith illustrations from Charles Vess'[This] trilogy made me... -
The Wicked Cometh: The addictive historical mystery Laura Carlin 9781473661394
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.54'We have no need to protect ourselves from the bad sort because WE are the bad sort . . .' 'Beguiling' StylistThe year is 1831. Down murky alleyways, acts of unspeakable wickedness are taking place... -
Things Remembered and Things Forgotten by Ginny Takemori
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.39'If we want to understand what has been lost to time, there is no way other than through the exercise of imagination ... imagination applied with delicate rather than broad strokes'. So wrote the... -
Swallowed by a Whale: Writing Advice from Authors of Note 9780712355544
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02In this specially commissioned anthology, 60 accomplished authors share secrets and insights into their writing lives: on their inspirations, methods, wild ideas and daily routines; on the pleasure... -
The Testimony by James Smythe 9780007467723
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.40A global thriller presenting an apocalyptic vision of a world on the brink of despair and destruction. What would you do if the world was brought to a standstill? If you heard deafening... -
Konstantin by Tom Bullough
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.64Tom Bullough's Konstantin is a mesmerising novel about how the imagination can inspire the individual to greatness. 1867, Ryazan, a Russian city in winter. Ten-year-old Konstantin, deafened by... -
The Mountain in the Sea: Winner of the Locus Best First Novel Award by Ray Nayler 9781399600484
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54'I loved this novel's brain and heart'DAVID MITCHELL, AUTHOR OF CLOUD ATLAS'A first-rate speculative thriller, by turns fascinating, brutal, powerful, and redemptive'JEFF VANDERMEER, AUTHOR OF... -
Reconciling Divided States: Peace Processes in Ireland and Korea Dong Jin Kim (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) 9780367515317
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €45.20This book offers a distinctive perspective on peace processes by comparatively analysing two cases which have rarely been studied in tandem, Ireland and Korea.The volume examines and compares Ireland... -
The Bloomsbury Introduction to Postmodern Realist Fiction: Resisting Master Narratives by Professor T.V. Reed 9781350010819
Booksplease Price: €96.95Postmodernist realism is a body of fiction that uses realism-disrupting literary techniques to make interventions into the real social conditions of our time. It seeks to capture the complex,... -
Coronaverses by Armando Iannucci
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €3.52Tell, Mighty Wit, how the highest in forethought and, That tremendous plus, The Science, Saw off our panic and Globed vexation Until a drape of calmness furled around the earth And beckoned a new and... -
Walk the Blue Fields Claire Keegan 9780571382224
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70From the author of Foster and the Booker Prize shortlisted Small Things Like These.'Perfect short stories.' Anne Enright'Breath-taking.' Irish Times'Her stories are as good as Chekhov.' David... -
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr 9780008478674
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.98THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST 'A dazzling epic of love, war and the joy of books' Guardian 'There is magic in this... -
Strangers by Taichi Yamada
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.12**NOW A MAJOR FILM - ALL OF US ARE STRANGERS - STARRING PAUL MESCAL, CLAIRE FOY, ANDREW SCOTT AND JAMIE BELL** 'Deeply satisfying. . . a wonderful study of grief and isolation.' Daily Mail'A sharp,... -
Content Provider: Selected Short Prose Pieces, 2011-2016 by Stewart Lee 9780571329038
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.10Over the last five years, often when David Mitchell has been on holiday, the comedian Stewart Lee has been attempting to understand modern Britain, and his own place in it, in a series of irregular...