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There Will Be No Miracles Here: A memoir from the dark side of the American Dream by Casey Gerald
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Casey Gerald's story begins at the end of the world: on New Year's Eve 1999, Casey gathers with the congregation of his grandfather's black evangelical church to witness the rapture. The journey that... -
Songs for the Flames by Juan Gabriel Vasquez 9781529405477
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78"Like Bolano, Vasquez is a master stylist and a virtuoso of patient pacing and intricate structure" LEV GROSSMAN, Time Magazine"Juan Gabriel Vasquez . . . has succeeded Garcia Marquez as the literary... -
Outline of My Lover by Douglas A. Martin 9781643620237
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.66On the fringes of the music scene in a Southern college town, a lonely young student driven to fl ee a troubled adolescence pursues and forms a life-altering relationship with an acclaimed... -
Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923 by R. F. Foster
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.51OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR and OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014WINNER OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION'S MORRIS D. FORKOSCH PRIZE 2016'The most... -
A Very Strange Man: A Memoir of Aidan Higgins by Alannah Hopkin
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.59This is a love story, set in the Irish literary world between 1986 and 2015. When they were first introduced by the poet Derek Mahon, Alannah Hopkin was an arts journalist turned full-time writer and... -
Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World by Patrick Joyce 9780241543023
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53'A dozen pages in I realized that I had been waiting for much of my life to read this extraordinary book' Annie ProulxA way of life that once encompassed most of humanity is vanishing in one of the... -
Wrong Norma: ‘I would read anything she wrote’ Susan Sontag by Anne Carson 9781787332355
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.71Wrong Norma is Anne Carson's first book of original material in eight years'Effortlessly readable and - a word critics don't often use about her - fun' DAILY TELEGRAPH'I'm a big fan... She pinpoints... -
Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.60Clarice Lispector's sensational, prize-winning debut novel Near to the Wild Heart was published when she was just twenty-three and earned her the name 'Hurricane Clarice'. It tells the story of... -
The Thrill of it All Joseph O'Connor 9780099481539
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16At college in 1980s Luton, Robbie Goulding, an Irish-born teenager, meets the elusive Fran Mulvey, an orphaned Vietnamese refugee. Together they form a band. Joined by cellist Sarah-Therese Sherlock... -
There There by Tommy Orange 9781784707972
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49** Shortlisted for the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award **One of Barack Obama's best books of 2018, the New York Times bestselling novel about contemporary America from a bold new Native... -
Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Histories by Diarmuid Hester 9780241528457
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.44'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... -
The Dregs of the Day by Mairtin O Cadhain
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.44A riveting English translation the Irish classic tale of heartache, death, and loneliness by the beloved author of The Dirty Dust "Unique, funny and bursting with earthy language."-Kevin Gildea,... -
The Sleeve Should Be Illegal by 9781942884798
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £19.91Explore the treasures of The Frick Collection through the eyes of a diverse group of contemporary writers, artists and other cultural figures, from George Condo, Lydia Davis and Julie Mehretu to Abbi... -
God's Children Are Little Broken Things: Winner of the 2023 Dylan Thomas Prize by Arinze Ifeakandu
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'Although he writes about queer lives and loves in Nigeria, Arinze Ifeakandu's voice is sensually alert to the human and universal in every situation. These quietly transgressive stories are the... -
The Song of Youth by Montserrat Roig 9781913744021
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.01In the eight stories presented in The Song of Youth, Montserrat Roig (Barcelona, 1946-1991) employs language as a weapon against political and social "dismemory", enabling the stories of those... -
The Lives of Lucian Freud: YOUTH 1922 - 1968 William Feaver 9781408850954
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £7.30SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019 SELECTED AS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT AND... -
The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £5.99Winner of The Center for Fiction's 2021 First Novel Prize 'A gorgeously written, Franzen-calibre tale' O Magazine In this vivid, darkly funny and beautifully rendered debut novel, Kirstin... -
Touch: Recovering Our Most Vital Sense by Richard Kearney 9780231199537
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.59Our existence is increasingly lived at a distance. As we move from flesh to image, we are in danger of losing touch with each other and ourselves. How can we combine the physical with the virtual,... -
Question 7 Richard Flanagan 9781529935479
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15**Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024**'A work of non-fiction . . . but it has all the complexity of emotional heft of a great novel . . . Question 7 sets the high-water mark for what the genre... -
Before All The World Moriel Rothman-Zecher 9781472157416
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £11.96'ikh gleyb nit az di gantze velt iz kheyshekh''I do not believe that all the world is darkness'In the swirl of Philadelphia at the end of Prohibition, Leyb meets Charles. They are at a former... -
Here Are the Young Men by Rob Doyle
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73NOW A MAJOR FILM STREAMING ON ALL PLATFORMS, STARRING ANYA TAYLOR JOY SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 'NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR' AWARD CHOSEN AS ONE OF 'IRELAND'S 20 GREATEST NOVELS SINCE 1916'... -
The Future Future: ‘Unlike anything else’ Salman Rushdie by Adam Thirlwell 9781787334403
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 GOLDSMITHS PRIZE*It's the eighteenth-century and Celine is in trouble'A terrific novel'FINANCIAL TIMES'A radically beautiful new novel'SHEILA HETI, author of Pure... -
Canada by Richard Ford 9781408831007
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later. It was more bad instincts and bad luck that lead to Dell Parsons' parents robbing a bank... -
Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcon 9780007200528
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95'Lost City Radio' is a poignant and deeply moving novel from a promising new author, which looks intensely at war's damaging effect on society and the individual. Ever since the civil war... -
B-Side Books: Essays on Forgotten Favorites by John Plotz
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.40There are the acknowledged classics of world literature: the canonical works assigned in schools, topping every must-read list . . . and then there are the B-Sides. These are the books that slipped... -
The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88'Her highly personal and reflective memoir ... is a must-read for anyone who cares about our role in a changing world' Barack Obama THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS... -
On Chapel Sands: My mother and other missing persons Laura Cumming 9781784708634
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER****SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD**Uncovering the mystery of her mother's disappearance as a child: Laura Cumming, prize-winning author and art critic, takes... -
Where the Line is Drawn: Crossing Boundaries in Occupied Palestine by Raja Shehadeh
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15As a young boy, Raja Shehadeh was entranced by a forbidden Israeli postage stamp in his uncle's album, intrigued by tales of a green land beyond the border.He couldn't have known then what Israel... -
Joyce in Court by Adrian Hardiman
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £9.11Books about the work of James Joyce are an academic industry. Most of them are unreadable and esoteric. Adrian Hardiman's book is both highly readable and strikingly original. He spent years... -
No Name in the Street James Baldwin 9780241711187
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Candid, insightful, moving . . . a memoir, a chronicle of and commentary on America's abortive civil-rights movement' -The New York TimesIn this deeply personal book, Baldwin reflects on the... -
Rhythms of Writing by Helena Wulff
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.28This is the first anthropological study of writers, writing and contemporary literary culture. Drawing on the flourishing literary scene in Ireland as the basis for her research, Helena Wulff... -
The Fictions of Dreams: Dreams, Literature, and Writing Otto M. Rheinschmiedt 9781782204206
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £33.73The Fictions of Dreams explores the close connection between the narrative nature of dreams and the narrative devices employed in literature and creative writing. The book is unique in its... -
The House of Doors: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023 by Tan Twan Eng 9781838858339
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTIONA SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, NEW YORKER AND WASHINGTON POST BOOK OF THE... -
The Future Future: ‘Unlike anything else’ Salman Rushdie Adam Thirlwell 9781529922844
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 GOLDSMITHS PRIZE*It's the eighteenth-century and Celine is in trouble'A terrific novel'FINANCIAL TIMES'A radically beautiful new novel'SHEILA HETI, author of Pure... -
This Is How M.J. Hyland 9781847673831
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31All actions have consequences. This is how life goes. Patrick is a loner, an intelligent but disturbed young man struggling to find his place in the world. He ventures out on his own, and, as he... -
Car Trouble: A Novel by Robert Rorke
Booksplease Price: £9.68From a bright new talent, a witty, moving, and inspirational coming-of-age debut novel set in 1970s Brooklyn about a teenager and his abusive father whose obsession with broken down vintage cars... -
B-Side Books: Essays on Forgotten Favorites by John Plotz 9780231200561
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £72.50There are the acknowledged classics of world literature: the canonical works assigned in schools, topping every must-read list . . . and then there are the B-Sides. These are the books that slipped... -
The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde: An Annotated Selection by Oscar Wilde 9780674248670
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £20.79An innovative new edition of nine classic short stories from one of the greatest writers of the Victorian era."I cannot think other than in stories," Oscar Wilde once confessed to his friend Andre... -
The In-Between by Christos Tsiolkas 9781805461852
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'[Tsiolkas's] most heartfelt novel to date' Financial Times'A love story par excellence...he's simply one of the great writers of our time' Irish Times'Warm and rewarding...it triumphantly succeeds'... -
The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass Harry Clifton 9781852249359
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38At once a reckoning with a lost political legacy, a meditation on love, marriage and middle age, and a reaching back into foreign ancestry, The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass is Harry Clifton's...