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Roads to Ruin: The Shocking History of Social Reform by E. S. Turner 9780571290253
Booksplease Price: £15.24'It is a salutary thing to look back at some of the reforms which have long been an accepted part of our life, and to examine the opposition, usually bitter and often bizarre, sometimes dishonest but... -
The Word on the Street by Paul Muldoon
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In this new collection Paul Muldoon goes back to the essential meaning of the term 'lyric' -a short poem sung to the accompaniment of a musical instrument. These words are written for music,... -
Schoolmaster by Earl Lovelace 9780571196760
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'Each word is a revelation.' The Times'Earl Lovelace is the real stuff, a proper writer.' James KelmanIn the sleepy village of Kumuca, Trinidad, change happens slowly. Yet to move with the times and... -
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In Darkling Wood by Emma Carroll 9780571317578 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £2.19'Absorbing, sensitive and genuinely magical in feel.' Independent'Destined to be a modern classic.' Irish Examiner'A tender tale.' Financial Times'The Hilary Mantel of children's fiction.' The... -
The Model by Robert Aickman 9780571316823
Booksplease Price: £13.27After Robert Aickman's death in 1981 the manuscript of The Model, a wintry rococo fable set in Czarist Russia, was located among his papers. Aickman had told a friend he considered this novella to be... -
The Little Magazines: A Study of Six Editors by Ian Hamilton 9780571287826
Booksplease Price: £15.24'There have been large magazines with tiny circulations and there have been diminutive sheets which have reached thousands of readers. But all 'little magazines' have been small in one or another of... -
Pains of Youth by Martin Crimp
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95You could do insane twenty hours shifts in theatre. You could be mother of ten children. You could be toughest whore on the block. You contain all possibilities. You are the ultimate cliche of... -
The Big Lebowski by Ethan Coen
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.66The screenplay to another offbeat movie by the Academy Award-winning Coen brothers. As a result of a case of mistaken identity, Jeffrey Lebowski - alias The Dude - finds himself entangled in a... -
Contemporary Irish Poetry by Paul Muldoon
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51First published in 1984, Paul Muldoon's The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry sought to establish a canon of Irish Poetry since the death of Yeats. Here the reader can explore substantial... -
The World's Two Smallest Humans by Julia Copus
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Julia Copus's poems bring humanity and light to some of our most intimate and solitary moments, repeatedly breathing life into loss. In two previous collections, she has been feted as among the... -
Reflections on Blue Water: Journeys in the Gulf of Naples and in the Aeolian Islands by Alan Ross 9780571296163
Booksplease Price: £16.22'To describe Alan Ross as a polymath does scant justice to the eclecticism of an extraordinary man . . . Ross was a war hero, poet, bon viveur, travel writer, incorrigible gossip, racehorse owner... -
Bear in Mind These Dead by Susan McKay
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.67Nearly 4,000 people were killed over the thirty or so years of the Northern Irish Troubles. And the killings were as intimate as they were brutal. Neighbours murdered neighbours. Susan McKay's book... -
Alexander Pope by Alexander Pope
Booksplease Price: £5.17In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer... -
Keith Douglas by Keith Douglas
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer... -
Pierced by Thomas Enger
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A Convicted Killer: Despite always maintaining his innocence, Tori Pulli, once a powerful player on Oslo's underground crime scene, has been found guilty of murder. A Loose End: Scarred reporter,... -
The Madonna of The Mountains by Elise Valmorbida
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31WINNER OF THE 2019 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTIONShortlisted for the Edward Stanford Award2019 Walter Scott Prize Academy Recommended1923, north-eastern Italy: Maria Vittoria's father... -
With Friends Possessed: A Life of Edward FitzGerald by Robert Bernard Martin 9780571300495
Booksplease Price: £19.72'[Edward] FitzGerald (1809-1883) won a small piece of immortality with his translation-adaptation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam... but in every other way he seems to have successfully avoided... -
Robert Lowell: A Biography by Ian Hamilton 9780571282616
Booksplease Price: £23.96Born in 1917 into an aristocratic Boston family Robert Lowell was not yet thirty when his first major collection of poems, Lord Weary's Castle, won the Pulitzer Prize. With Life Studies, his third... -
The Haw Lantern by Seamus Heaney 9780571352326
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.00Widely praised on its first publication in 1987, The Haw Lantern ventured into new imaginative territory with poems exploring the theme of loss - including a celebrated sonnet sequence concerning the... -
Rising by R. C. Hutchinson 9780571243310
Booksplease Price: £16.22Sabino - the outcast member of a rich mine-owning family - is renowned for his arrogance and brutality. For reasons of personal revenge, he agrees to lead an expedition to crush saboteurs who are... -
Selected Poems of Lawrence Durrell by Peter Porter
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In this new selection from the poetry of Lawrence Durrell (the first for thirty years), Peter Porter has drawn on the full range of the published work, from A Private Country (1943) to Vega (1973),... -
The Bend for Home by Dermot Healy
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.25One day, years after he's moved away from his childhood home in rural Ireland, Dermot Healy returns to care for his ailing mother. Out of the blue she hands him the forgotten diary he had kept as a... -
The Man With Night Sweats by Thom Gunn
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Thom Gunn's The Man with Night Sweats shows him writing at the height of his powers, equally in command of classical forms and of looser, more colloquial measures, and ready to address a wide range... -
The Red Moth by Sam Eastland
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31As Hitler's forces smash into Soviet territory, annihilating the Red Army divisions in its path, a lone German scout plane is forced down. Contained within the briefcase of its passenger is the... -
The Anglo-Irish Tradition by Professor J.C. Beckett 9780571242733
Booksplease Price: £16.22'I was brought up to think myself Irish without question or qualification,' wrote the Irish author and politician, Stephen Gwynn, in the 1920s, 'but the new nationalism prefers to describe me and the... -
The Bandit on the Billiard Table: A Journey through Sardinia by Alan Ross 9780571305186
Booksplease Price: £15.24'To describe Alan Ross as a polymath does scant justice to the eclecticism of an extraordinary man . . . Ross was a war hero, poet, bon viveur, travel writer, incorrigible gossip, racehorse owner... -
The Finest Music: Early Irish Lyrics by Maurice Riordan
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.37In a series of timeless and modern-day renditions, Maurice Riordan brilliantly introduces us to the poems that founded Ireland's rich literature. Memorable and accessible, these early lyrics are... -
Scarred by Thomas Enger
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95For fans of Borgen, The Killing and the Wallander series, a thrilling novel of murder and political scandal in Oslo.An elderly woman is found dead in a nursing home. Bjarne Brogeland, who heads up... -
The Poetry of Simon Armitage: A Study Guide for GCSE Students by Tony Childs
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £4.56Simon Armitage is one of the leading poets of his generation. Since his first collection, Zoom, in 1989 he has published ten full-length collections of poetry, while also writing and presenting... -
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The West End Front: The Wartime Secrets of London's Grand Hotels by Matthew Sweet 9780571234776 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £3.38The Ritz, the Savoy, the Dorchester and Claridge's - during the Second World War they teemed with spies, con-artists, deposed royals and the exiled governments of Europe. And now, Matthew Sweet's... -
The Order of Death by Hugh Fleetwood 9780571304851
Booksplease Price: £13.27Lieutenant Fred O'Connor of the NYPD Narcotics Bureau has a secret: an apartment on Central Park West, jointly purchased with ill-gotten gains by Fred and a corrupt fellow officer. The place is a... -
Martin Crimp Plays 2: The Country, Attempts on Her Life, The Misanthrope, No One Sees the Video and The Country by Martin Crimp
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.98This second collection of Martin Crimp's work includes the plays Attempts on Her Life, The Misanthrope, No One Sees the Video and The Country.'Crimp writes with extraordinary precision . . . The... -
Seven-Tenths: The Sea and its Thresholds by James Hamilton-Paterson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Seven-Tenths is James Hamilton-Paterson's classic exploration of the sea. A beautifully-written blend of literature and science, it is here brought back into print in a revised and updated edition... -
Drown by Junot Diaz
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Originally published in 1997, Drown instantly garnered terrific acclaim. Moving from the barrios of the Dominican Republic to the struggling urban communities of New Jersey, these heartbreaking,... -
Emergency Kit by Jo Shapcott
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Emergency Kit is an anthology with many differences. It is, to begin with, a book which gives prominence to poems rather than to the poets who wrote them. It is truly international, bringing together... -
Simon Gray: Plays 3: Quartermaine's Terms; Stage Struck; Close of Play; Rear Column; Month in the Country; Tartuffe by Simon Gray
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £11.04'The brave little lives that Gray so compassionately illuminates could be lived by any of us, and that's why they arouse emotions that are anything but small.'New York Times on Quartermaine's... -
81 Austerities by Sam Riviere
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23All three-dimensional objects can be experienced in two dimensions: it just takes some careful unpicking of the seams. Witty, comic, plaintive, touching, acerbic, droll, cavalier, caffeinated,... -
Prince by Matt Thorne
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £8.18Legendarily reticent, perverse and misleading, Prince is one of the few remaining 80s superstars who still, perhaps, remains unexplained. Now a firm fixture in the pop canon, where such classics as... -
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The Madonna of The Mountains by Elise Valmorbida 9780571336340 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.80WINNER OF THE 2019 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTIONShortlisted for the Edward Stanford Award2019 Walter Scott Prize Academy Recommended1923, north-eastern Italy: Maria Vittoria's father... -
Notes on a Scandal by Patrick Marber
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.47This unsettling black comedy about private passion and public shame is based on Zoe Heller's acclaimed novel, adapted for the screen by celebrated dramatist Patrick Marber (Closer). When art teacher...