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Alice in Jamesland: The Story of Alice Howe Gibbens James by Susan E. Gunter 9780803215696
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.95Alice in Jamesland, the first biography of Alice Howe Gibbens James-wife of the psychologist and philosopher William James, and sister-in-law of novelist Henry James-was made possible by the... -
Naked in the Promised Land by Lillian Faderman
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.05This modern classic of LGBT writing includes an introduction from Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties, and a new afterword from Lillian Faderman. Born in 1940, Lillian... -
Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas 9781838950224
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'We are despised, yet we grow. We are tortured and crucified and yet we flourish. We are hated and still we multiply. Why is that? You must wonder, how is it we survive?' In a far corner of the Roman... -
Touch: Recovering Our Most Vital Sense by Richard Kearney 9780231199520
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £54.13Our 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,... -
The Besieged City Clarice Lispector 9780811238502
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.87Rich with visions, miraculous horses, and linguistic ecstasy, The Besieged City stars Lucrecia. Clarice Lispector's heroine is a materialistic girl free of the burden of thought: "Behold, behold, all... -
The Crime Writer Jill Dawson 9781444731132
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Brilliant'Paula HawkinsIn 1964, the eccentric American novelist Patricia Highsmith is hiding out in a cottage in Suffolk, to concentrate on her writing and escape her fans. She has another motive... -
Going Home: A Walk Through Fifty Years of Occupation by Raja Shehadeh
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Winner of the Moore Prize 2020 In Going Home, Orwell Prize winning author Raja Shehadeh travels Ramallah and records the changing face of the city. Walking along the streets he grew up in, he... -
M for Mammy Eleanor O'Reilly 9781473672376
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Heart-breaking, heart-warming, and hilarious: a glorious debut' Ruth Hogan'Strong and taut' Anne Griffin 'Fresh, thoughtful and original' Irish Times'I really enjoyed... -
The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARA NEW YORKER BOOK OF THE YEARA WASHINGTON POST BOOK OF THE YEARIt is... -
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15FROM THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE MARS ROOMSHORTLISTED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE 2014LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONReno mounts her motorcycle and sets a collision... -
The Wonderful World that Almost Was: A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek Andrew Durbin 9781803512136
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.61The work of photographer Peter Hujar defined downtown New York in the 1970s and 1980s. Paul Thek was an American sculptor and painter. Hujar and Thek met in 1956 and shared a strong intellectual and... -
The Lives of Lucian Freud by William Feaver 9781408850930
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.92SELECTED AS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT AND SPECTATOR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR... -
This Plague of Souls by Mike McCormack 9781838859329
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.50A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARA TLS BOOK OF THE YEARHow do you rebuild a world that seems to be falling apart? Nealon returns to his family home in Ireland after a long time away, only to be... -
The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine by Ben Ehrenreich 9781783783113
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Profoundly powerful not only in observations and stories, but in how courageously and carefully it speaks to our present moment' Madeleine Thien, Guardian Over three years, journalist and... -
Twelve Sheep: Life lessons from a lambing season by John Connell 9781805461906
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23For John Connell, the lambing season on his County Longford farm begins in the autumn. In the sheep shed, he surveys the dozen females in his care and contemplates the work ahead as the season slowly... -
The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian-but not an historian of the Jews-is co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an... -
The Favourite: A razor-sharp suspense novel that will stay with you long after the final page Rosemary Hennigan 9781398718449
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £8.64'WOW! If this isn't a book to brag about I don't know what is... I started The Favourite late last night. Never did I anticipate I would be closing the book at 3am left in complete shock... This book... -
Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923 by R. F. Foster 9780393082791
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.76On Easter Monday, 1916, Irish rebels poured into Dublin's streets to proclaim an independent republic. Ireland's long struggle for self-government had suddenly become a radical and bloody fight for... -
Imaginary Bonnets with Real Bees in Them by Paula Meehan 9781906359911
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £15.56Imaginary Bonnets with Real Bees in Them is the third volume in UCD Press's The Poet's Chair series, publishing the public lectures of the Ireland Professors of Poetry. The Ireland Chair of Poetry... -
An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures by Clarice Lispector 9780811232210
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.17Lori, a primary school teacher, is isolated and nervous, comfortable with children but unable to connect to adults. When she meets Ulisses, a professor of philosophy, an opportunity opens: a chance... -
Twelve Sheep: Life lessons from a lambing season John Connell 9781805461920
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31For John Connell, the lambing season on his County Longford farm begins in the autumn. In the sheep shed, he surveys the dozen females in his care and contemplates the work ahead as the season slowly... -
Fragile Monsters by Catherine Menon
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67***ONE OF TELEGRAPH'S BEST NOVELS OF 2021******SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2022***'Supple, artful, skilful storytelling - it takes an immediate grip on the reader's... -
My Friends Hisham Matar 9780241987032
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2024WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTIONFROM THE PULITZER-PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF THE RETURN'A brilliant novel... -
Walking With Ghosts: A Memoir Gabriel Byrne 9781529027433
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38Walking with Ghosts is the stunningly evocative memoir by Irish actor and Hollywood star, Gabriel Byrne.'Dreamy, lyrical and utterly unvarnished' - Colm ToibinAs a young boy growing up in the... -
The Arms Crisis of 1970: The Plot that Never Was by Michael Heney
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73The number one Irish Times bestseller In 1970, Taoiseach Jack Lynch accused two cabinet ministers, Charles Haughey and Neil Blaney, of smuggling arms to the IRA in Northern Ireland. The criminal... -
We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected Essays by Shirley Hazzard
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £76.10Spanning the 1960s to the 2000s, these nonfiction writings showcase Shirley Hazzard's extensive thinking on global politics, international relations, the history and fraught present of Western... -
Edmund Spenser: A Life by Andrew Hadfield 9780199591022
Booksplease Price: £32.14Edmund Spenser's innovative poetic works have a central place in the canon of English literature. Yet he is remembered as a morally flawed, self-interested sycophant; complicit in England's ruthless... -
Ireland, the Irish, and the Rise of Biofiction by Professor Michael Lackey 9781501378515
Booksplease Price: £31.86Biofiction is literature that names its protagonist after an actual historical figure, and it has become a dominant literary form over the last 35 years. What has not yet been scholarly acknowledged... -
Barcelona Dreaming Rupert Thomson 9781472153517
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD PRIZE FOR FICTION WITH A SENSE OF PLACE'His confident, spellbinding prose is jewelled with uncanny details, gliding along in language that strikes, unsettles, and... -
We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected Essays by Shirley Hazzard 9780231173278
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.88Spanning the 1960s to the 2000s, these nonfiction writings showcase Shirley Hazzard's extensive thinking on global politics, international relations, the history and fraught present of Western... -
The Writer's Reader: Vocation, Preparation, Creation by Robert Cohen 9781628925388
Booksplease Price: £86.73The Writer's Reader is an anthology of essays on the art and life of writing by major writers of the past and present. These essays offer a wealth of insights into how writers approach their craft... -
The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong 9781787335417
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.82THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Heartbreaking, heartwarming yet unsentimental, and savagely comic all at the same time' GuardianREADERS ARE OBSESSED WITH THE EMPEROR OF GLADNESS:'Read it slowly... -
Threshold by Rob Doyle
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05'A wild, sleazy, drug-filled odyssey ... Doyle's maverick novel deserves the accolades coming its way' Independent 'The best work to date from a writer who gets better and better with each release'... -
The Lives of Lucian Freud: FAME 1968 - 2011 by William Feaver
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £8.47LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, MAIL ON SUNDAY, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN,... -
Walking With Ghosts: A Memoir by Gabriel Byrne 9781529027457
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Destined to be a classic' Sunday Independent'Gabriel Byrne tells his story brilliantly' - Edna O'Brien'Dazzles with unflinching honesty' Washington Post'An absolutely marvellous book' - Colm... -
Experiments on Reality by Tim Robinson
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.46Long recognized as perhaps the greatest non-fiction writer at work in Ireland, for his vast, polymathic accounts of nature and culture in the Aran Islands and Connemara, Tim Robinson is also an... -
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis by Lydia Davis
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is the complete collection of short fiction from the world-renowned Lydia Davis.WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2013.'Big rejoicing: Lydia Davis has... -
Little Great Island Kate Woodworth 9781960573902
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.44ON LITTLE GREAT ISLAND, CLIMATE CHANGE IS DISRUPTING BOTH LIFE AND LOVEAfter offending the powerful pastor of a cult, Mari McGavin has to flee with her six-year-old son. With no money and no place... -
Afterglow: A Dog Memoir by Eileen Myles
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Skinny's Book of the Year, 2018In 1990, Myles chose Rosie from a litter on the street, and their connection instantly made an indelible impact on the writer's way of being. Over the course of sixteen... -
The Shape of the Ruins: Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019 Juan Gabriel Vasquez 9780857056610
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019"Like Don DeLillo's JFK-themed Libra, the novel is an intoxicating blend of fact and fiction" Glasgow Herald"A masterful writer" Nicole...