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Harvard Square: A Novel by Andre Aciman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.80Harvard Square is the elegant and sexually charged story of a young emigre grad student, a Jew from Egypt, who meets a brash, magnetic Arab taxi driver-and how their friendship tests his loyalties... -
Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting Sarah Howgate 9781855148154
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £28.10Drawing into Painting reveals Lucian Freud's lifelong focus on the human face and form, tracing the intimate dialogue between his sketches and paintings from the 1930s to the early 21st century... -
The Woman from Uruguay by Pedro Mairal
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.50'A searing tale of seduction and betrayal, both wryly comic and deeply serious' Sigrid Nunez, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend 'Intimate, irreverent, fast-paced and raw' Sunday... -
Darke Rick Gekoski 9781782119395
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE McKITTERICK PRIZEDr James Darke has expelled himself from the world. He writes compulsively in his 'coming of old age'... -
Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life Michael Nott 9780571362523
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.61'With this meticulously researched biography, we don't so much move closer as move in with Gunn and shadow him through his life . . . Gunn's life is chronicled beautifully here.' Andrew McMillan,... -
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42WINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH WRITERS' PRIZE 2009LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2010'A tremendously vital book in every sense.' - Sunday TimesAt a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an... -
Autobiography Of Red by Anne Carson
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.43In this extraordinary epic poem, Anne Carson bridges the gap between classicism and the modern, poetry and prose, with a volcanic journey into the soul of a winged red monster named Geryon. There is... -
Cremation Rafael Chirbes 9780811224307
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.96Along the Mediterranean coastline of Spain, real-estate developers scramble to transform the once pastoral landscape into tourist resorts, nightclubs, and beachfront properties with lavish bars and... -
Pride and Joy: LGBTQ Artists, Icons and Everyday Heroes by Kathleen Archambeau 9781633535503
Booksplease Price: £13.16Stories of success, happiness and hope from the LGBT communityStories that comprise the best of LGBT history: Pride and Joy: LGBTQ Artists, Icons and Everyday Heroestells the stories of queer... -
Small Things Like These: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022 by Claire Keegan 9780571392605
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A stunning new edition of Claire Keegan's multi-award-winning, bestselling novel Small Things Like These.NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CILLIAN MURPHYA SUNDAY TIMES AND IRISH TIMES BESTSELLERONE... -
The Hyacinth Girl: T. S. Eliot's Hidden Muse by Lyndall Gordon
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.90The revealing of T. S. Eliot's hidden muse - Emily Hale, the Hyacinth Girl of the famous The Waste Land poem'Extraordinary... A rare work of sympathy and insight' Colm Toibin'Gordon sifts through the... -
Twelve Thousand Days: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Eilis Ni Dhuibhne
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.83'I caught a glimpse of him, behind the veil. And he knew I'd caught it. There was that understanding between us. We were members of the club of the X-ray eyes, the club of people who can see into the... -
Midsummer Nights: Tales from the Opera:: with Kate Atkinson, Sebastian Barry, Ali Smith & more by Jeanette Winterson
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In celebration of the Glyndebourne Festival, Jeanette Winterson has brought together some of the best loved and most critically acclaimed authors writing today to pen stories inspired by opera... -
Bad Faith: A History of Family and Fatherland by Carmen Callil 9780099498285
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.85Bad Faith tells the story of one of history's most despicable villains and conmen - Louis Darquier, Nazi collaborator and 'Commissioner for Jewish Affairs', who dissembled his way to power in the... -
Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott 9780099537458
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Absorbed in her own failings, 43-year-old Clara Purdy crashes her life into a sharp left turn, taking the young family in the other car along with her. When bruises on the mother, Lorraine, prove to... -
Freud's Trip to Orvieto: The Great Doctor's Unresolved Confrontation with Antisemitism, Death, and Homoeroticism; His Passion for Paintings; and the Writer in His Footsteps by Nicholas Fox Weber 9781942658269
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.33"[An] unusual meditation on sex, death, art, and Jewishness. . . . Weber weaves in musings on his own sexual and religious experiences, creating a freewheeling psychoanalytic document whose approach... -
Whale Fall: One of the Observer's Top Ten Debuts of 2024 Elizabeth O'Connor 9781035024766
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'I didn't want it to end' - Maggie O'Farrell'Powerful . . . written with a calm, luminous precision' - Colm ToibinAn Observer Best Debut of the Year 2024It is 1938 and for Manod, a young woman living... -
Frank Auerbach: Speaking and Painting by Catherine Lampert
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.09Born in Berlin in 1931 to Jewish parents, the eight-year-old Auerbach was sent to England in 1939 to escape the Nazi regime. His parents stayed behind and died in a concentration camp in 1943. Now in... -
The Supreme Court by Ruadhan Mac Cormaic
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'A wonderful book ... a superb book and it's not just for people interested in law; it tells you a lot about Ireland' Vincent Browne, TV3The judges, the decisions, the rifts and the rivalries - the... -
Felicia's Journey by William Trevor
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31*WINNER OF THE WHITBREAD BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD**WINNER OF THE SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD *From acclaimed author William Trevor, Felicia's Journey is a tightly woven psychological... -
Wild Houses: One of the Observer's Debut Novels of 2024 Colin Barrett 9781529932430
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49**LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024**'Sublime... A thrillingly moreish novel' SUNDAY TIMES'Beautiful...brings to life an entire world' SALLY ROONEYA small-town feud. A madcap kidnapping. A wild... -
How The Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67A powerful debut from an Australian novelist that features one of the most likeable but contrary figures you are likely to meet in contemporary fiction.Lou Connor, a gifted, unhappy sixteen-year-old,... -
Herod's Dispensations Harry Clifton 9781780374512
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Spiritual orphanhood, the loss and protection of innocence - from the first estates of Dublin to the karmic wastes of northern China - lie at the heart of this new collection by the eminent Irish... -
The End of the Story Lydia Davis 9780241205457
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31The first and only novel by Lydia Davis, winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2013.'It surprised me, over and over, to find that I was with such a young man. He was twenty-two when I met him... -
Gone Self Storm Harry Clifton 9781780374536
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02For half a century of ever-broadening vision, award-winning poet Harry Clifton has addressed what the Irish Times calls 'his large concerns and his angular relationship to Ireland, one that produces... -
Ambivalence Brian Dillon 9781804272473
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.23When Brian Dillon was sixteen his mother died and he simply gave up all schoolwork. While he courted exam failure, his real education was going on elsewhere: with books, music, films and television... -
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'A seminal meditation on race by one of our greatest writers' Barack Obama 'We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation'James Baldwin's impassioned... -
Herscht 07769 Laszlo Krasznahorkai 9781800815063
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46The International Booker Award winner's breathtaking new novel about neo-Nazis, particle physics, and graffiti vandalism 'Propulsive and revelatory' The New York Times 'A work of genius' 5-star... -
The Party by Tessa Hadley 9781529949315
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49An exhilarating winter tale of two sisters drawn into a new life of risk, passion and possibility.'Tessa Hadley is my favourite author' KATE ATKINSON On a winter Saturday night in post-war Bristol,... -
The Woman from Uruguay by Pedro Mairal 9781526633606
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.64From internationally bestselling Argentine author Pedro Mairal and Man Booker International-winning translator Jennifer Croft, the unforgettable story of two would-be lovers over the course of a... -
Small Rain Garth Greenwell 9781509874705
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.42A New Statesman Book of the Year'My book of the year . . . Rarely has illness made for such a compelling read' - John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas'Marvelous: exceptionally vivid,... -
Consuming Joyce: 100 Years of Ulysses in Ireland John McCourt (Professor) 9781350205826
Booksplease Price: £26.72"This book was crying out to be written." The Irish Times "Scandalously readable." Literary Review James Joyce's relationship with his homeland was a complicated and often vexed one. The... -
H of H Playbook by Anne Carson
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.75'Fans of Anne Carson, rejoice!... Carson's depth of knowledge about Greek mythology coupled with her poetic sensibility and illustrations is sure to breathe new life into this oft-told story.' Lit... -
Words Alone: Yeats and his Inheritances by R. F. Foster 9780199592166
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £16.71W. B. Yeats is usually seen as a great innovator who put his stamp so decisively on modern Irish literature that most of his successors worked in his shadow. R. F. Foster's eloquent and authoritative... -
Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life Michael Nott 9780571362561
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73Winner of the Hatchards & Biographers' Club First Biography Prize'With this meticulously researched biography, we don't so much move closer as move in with Gunn and shadow him through his life . . ... -
The New Life: A daring novel of forbidden desire by Tom Crewe 9781529919714
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49*Shortlist, Debut Fiction, 2023 Nero Book Awards * The Sunday Times Novel of the Year *London, 1894. John and Henry have a vision for a new way of life. But as the Oscar Wilde trial ignites public... -
Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Histories by Diarmuid Hester 9780141998060
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'With originality and subtlety, Diarmuid Hester examines how the gay imagination deals with place and with displacement, allowing for mystery and a kind of magic' Colm Toibin'Hester is a fizzingly... -
Whale Fall: One of the Observer's Top Ten Debuts of 2024 by Elizabeth O'Connor 9781035024728
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50A BBC 'BETWEEN THE COVERS' BOOK CLUB PICK'I didn't want it to end' - Maggie O'Farrell'Powerful . . . written with a calm, luminous precision' - Colm ToibinAn Observer Best Debut of the Year 2024It is... -
Saturday by Ian McEwan 9780099469681
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.19'Dazzling... Profound and urgent' Observer'A book of great maturity, beautifully alive to the fragility of happiness and all forms of violence... Everyone should read Saturday' Financial... -
Barcelona Dreaming by Michael Wolff
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56Set on the eve of the financial crash of 2008, Barcelona Dreaming is made up of three stories that are linked by time and place, and also by the moving, unexpected interactions of a rich cast of...