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Content Provider: Selected Short Prose Pieces, 2011-2016 by Stewart Lee 9780571329038 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €3.34Over 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... -
This Body of Death: Form and Decay in Early Modern Lyric Eileen Sperry 9781501784309
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €25.16This Body of Death explores how the lyric poetry and other nonnarrative literary forms of early modern England shape our understanding of what it means to be mortal. Previous studies of the nature of... -
In Plain Sight: The Startling Truth behind the Elizabeth Smart Investigation by Tom Smart 9781556526213
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €17.06This riveting inside story of the intense search for the Salt Lake City teenager reveals never-before-told details of the largest investigation in Utah state history. The firsthand account of Tom... -
This Body of Death: Form and Decay in Early Modern Lyric Eileen Sperry 9781501784316
RRP: €123.76Booksplease Price: €110.08This Body of Death explores how the lyric poetry and other nonnarrative literary forms of early modern England shape our understanding of what it means to be mortal. Previous studies of the nature of... -
Reconciliation by Naoya Shiga
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.94Reconciliation, published here for the first time in the English language, is an understated masterpiece of the Japanese 'I novel' tradition (a confessional literary form). Naoya Shiga's novella is a... -
Writers in Conversation with Christopher Bigsby: Volume VI Christopher Bigsby 9781911343134
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.60Writers in Conversation compiles Christopher Bigsby's interviews with the world's greatest writers from a decade of the Arthur Miller Centre's International Literary Festival at the University of... -
The Cosmopolitan Novel by Berthold Schoene 9780748640034
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €29.16While traditionally the novel has been seen as tracking the development of the nation state, Schoene queries if globalisation might currently be prompting the emergence of a new sub-genre of the... -
Genre Bending: The Plasticity of Form in Contemporary Literary Fiction Jeremy Rosen 9781503644625
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94Detective, horror, fantasy, romance, science fiction, spy thrillers, westerns, zombie novels. In recent decades, acclaimed and ambitious writers of literary fiction have increasingly gravitated to... -
Creativity in the British Television Comedy Industry by Brett Mills
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €48.72What is it like to make television comedy? How do writers get their ideas made, and how do commissioners and producers decide what to make? How do members of the comedy industry work with large... -
Cosmopolitanism in Twenty-First Century Fiction by Kristian Shaw 9783319849249
Booksplease Price: €96.06"Cosmopolitanism contains some of the most polished and enviably well-written chapters of literary criticism that have ever come my way. Shaw's readings are critically informed and theoretically... -
Genre Bending: The Plasticity of Form in Contemporary Literary Fiction Jeremy Rosen 9781503644236
RRP: €133.28Booksplease Price: €106.98Detective, horror, fantasy, romance, science fiction, spy thrillers, westerns, zombie novels. In recent decades, acclaimed and ambitious writers of literary fiction have increasingly gravitated to... -
Medusa’s Ankles: Selected Stories from the Booker Prize Winner by A S Byatt 9781529112993
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.20A luminous selection of short stories from the Booker prize-winning A. S. Byatt, celebrating over thirty years of writingWith an introduction by David MitchellByatt takes her readers to a place that... -
Collected Stories by John McGahern
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98A landmark event: the collected stories of 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel) and 'the Irish novelist everyone should read' (Colm Toibin).'Wise and compelling ... Elegiac and... -
The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction Daniel O'Gorman 9781032178455
RRP: €59.49Booksplease Price: €53.82The study of contemporary fiction is a fascinating yet challenging one. Contemporary fiction has immediate relevance to popular culture, the news, scholarly organizations, and education - where it is... -
Mini Psychology: A Small Book About Our Big Brains Jonny Thomson 9781035415434
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50'The most comprehensive - and delightful - guide to the human mind.' STEPHANIE HARRISON'This little book would persuade you that psychology is not just fun but hugely important.' PROFESSOR GEOFF... -
Realism: Aesthetics, Experiments, Politics by Professor or Dr. Jens Elze 9781501385520
Booksplease Price: €37.91Realism seems to be everywhere, both as a trending critical term and as a revitalized aesthetic practice. This volume brings together for the first time three aspects that are pertinent for a proper... -
Foster by Claire Keegan
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €7.18** Adapted into the Oscar-nominated film adaptation, An Cailin Ciuin / The Quiet Girl **From the author of the Booker-shortlisted Small Things Like These, a heartbreaking, haunting story of... -
My Story by Elizabeth Smart
Booksplease Price: €15.64On June 5, 2002, fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart, the daughter of a close-knit Mormon family, was taken from her home in the middle of the night by religious fanatic, Brian David Mitchell and his... -
Teaching the Literature of Climate Change by Debra J. Rosenthal 9781603296359
Booksplease Price: €40.47Essays on teaching the global climate crisis through cli-fi.Over the past several decades, writers such as Paolo Bacigalupi, Octavia E. Butler, Kathy Jetil-Kijiner, and Margaret Atwood have explored... -
Born Translated: The Contemporary Novel in an Age of World Literature by Rebecca L. Walkowitz 9780231165952
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €25.29As a growing number of contemporary novelists write for publication in multiple languages, the genre's form and aims are shifting. Born-translated novels include passages that appear to be written in... -
The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition by Ursula K. Le Guin
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €30.68Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the timeless and beloved A Wizard of Earthsea - '...reads like the retelling of a tale first told centuries ago' (David Mitchell) - comes this complete omnibus... -
Our House is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis by Malena Ernman
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.20The profoundly moving story of how love, courage and determination brought Greta Thunberg's family back from the brink'Urgent, lucid, courageous ... a must-read message of hope ... It is a glimpse of... -
The Persians Sanam Mahloudji 9780008589066
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.62SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE 2025 ... -
The Leavetaking by John McGahern
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70A haunting novel by 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel) and 'the Irish novelist everyone should read' (Colm Toibin). A day, crucial and cathartic, in the life of a young Catholic... -
Ex-Combatants, Religion, and Peace in Northern Ireland: The Role of Religion in Transitional Justice by John Brewer 9781137299352
Booksplease Price: €109.48Studies of Northern Ireland's ex-combatants ignore religion, while advocates of religious interventions in transitional justice exaggerate its influence. Using interview data with ex-combatants, this... -
The Fahrenheit Twins and Other Stories Michel Faber 9781841957777
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.20Deft and lyrical, this paperback edition of Michel Faber's collection of stories is his first since his auspicious debut, Some Rain Must Fall. It has sealed his reputation as one of Britain's most... -
Barry Cryer: Same Time Tomorrow?: The Life and Laughs of a Comedy Legend by Bob Cryer 9781526665324
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.47Foreword by Sandi Toksvig | WATERSTONES' BEST BOOKS OF 2023: ENTERTAINMENT 'Give this book to everyone you know - NOW!' Miriam Margolyes 'This is a joyous, uplifting book' Observer 'He was so funny... -
Tragedy, the Greeks and Us Simon Critchley 9781788161480
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70We might think we are through with the past, but the past isn't through with us. Tragedy permits us to come face to face with the things we don't want to know about ourselves, but which still make us... -
The Snow Ghost and Other Tales: Classic Japanese Ghost Stories by Various 9781784878726
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.89Enter the haunted world of Ancient Japan in this spine-tingling collection of ghostly tales told and retold across the centuries. From Goblin infested caves and haunted Tombs, to vengeful spirits and... -
The Grimmelings by Rachael King 9781916558250
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.07The same evening Josh Underhill went missing, the black horse appeared on the hill above the house. Ella knows that words are powerful. So she should have known better than to utter a wish and a... -
All Involved by Ryan Gattis 9781447283171
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.90That's when it hits me. I'm staring at a war zone. In South Central.On an April night in 1992, Payasa learns that her older brother has been stabbed to death, his body left out in the road to rot. He... -
The Persians by Sanam Mahloudji 9780008589059
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €14.30SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025 'Enormously entertaining' THE TIMES 'As funny... -
Swallowed By a Whale: How to Survive the Writing Life Huw Lewis-Jones 9780712353038
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50In this specially-commissioned anthology, sixty accomplished authors share secrets and insights into their writing lives: on their inspirations, methods, wild ideas and daily routines; on the... -
Medusa’s Ankles: Selected Stories by A S Byatt
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €23.24A luminous selection of short stories from the prize-winning imagination of A. S. ByattWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MITCHELLMirrors shatter at the hairdressers when a middle-aged client explodes in... -
On Writing and Failure by Stephen Marche 9781914502088
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.89'Good writers offer advice. Great writers offer condolences' If you want to be a writer, then you'd better be ready to hurl yourself at the door. That's the message from Stephen Marche in this... -
Female Identity in Contemporary Fictional Purgatorial Worlds Simon Bacon 9781350227071
Booksplease Price: €36.34Examining fictional purgatorial worlds in contemporary literature, film and video games, this book examines the way in which the female characters trapped within them construct identity positions of... -
Collected Stories by John Cheever
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €10.70John Cheever's Collected Stories explores the delicate psychological frameworks of 20th century suburbia.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HANIF KUREISHIThis outstanding collection by Pulitzer Prize-winning... -
Germania: A Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern by Simon Winder
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50The Sunday Times Bestseller and insipration behind David Mitchell's Unruly.'Entertaining and informative . . . Delightful' - IndependentThere are many reasons to be fascinated by Germany: forests,... -
The Barracks by John McGahern
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70The 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 Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €8.35Dazzlingly original, Kobo Abe's The Woman in the Dunes is one of the premier Japanese novels in the twentieth century, and this Penguin Classics edition contains a new introduction by David Mitchell,...