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Oscar: A Life by Matthew Sturgis 9781803284347
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.08The first major biography of Oscar Wilde in thirty years, and the most complete telling of his life and times to date. NOMINATED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2019 'The Book of the Year,... -
The Dead of the Irish Revolution by Eunan O'Halpin
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £53.73The first comprehensive account to record and analyze all deaths arising from the Irish revolution between 1916 and 1921"A monumental new book [and] an incredible piece of research. . . . Formidable,... -
The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade 9781788168373
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16WINNER OF THE 2021 CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE An Amazon Best Book of April 2021 Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2021 by Oprah Magazine, The Week, The Millions, and Electric Lit... -
Discrepant Solace: Contemporary Literature and the Work of Consolation David James 9780198985914
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.31Consolation has always played an uncomfortable part in the literary history of loss. But in recent decades its affective meanings and ethical implications have been recast by narratives that appear... -
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... -
The Savage Detectives Reread by David Kurnick
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.56The Savage Detectives elicits mixed feelings. An instant classic in the Spanish-speaking world upon its 1998 publication, a critical and commercial smash on its 2007 translation into English, Roberto... -
The Holding Centre: Selected Poems 1974-2004 Harry Clifton 9781852249717
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64This selection presents for the first time the thirty year trajectory of an acclaimed Irish poet who has lived and worked between the secular and the religious, Eros and history, Ireland and... -
Beyond Belief by Colm O'Gorman
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'I was living in a world where a priest who spoke the words of God used me for sex, and there was no-one to tell. The world where this horror happened didn't exist for anyone else.' As a boy in... -
A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East by Laszlo Krasznahorkai 9780811234474
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.66The grandson of Prince Genji lives outside of space and time and wanders the grounds of an old monastery in Kyoto. The monastery, too, is timeless: a place of prayer and deliverance, with barely a... -
Before All The World by Moriel Rothman-Zecher 9781472157430
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'A mesmeric, enrapturing read' Eimear McBride'Beautiful and original' Colm Toibin'In startling language filled with the flavor of Yiddish's combination words, [Before All the World] moves forward and... -
My Friends: From the Pulitzer-prize winning author of THE RETURN by Hisham Matar 9780241409480
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.75'The first Booker contender of 2024... a deeply touching, beautifully composed book' Sunday TimesAn intensely moving novel about three friends living in political exile and the emotional homeland... -
Shall We Gather at the River by Peter Murphy
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Shall We Gather At The River tells the story of Enoch O'Reilly, the great flood that afflicts his small town, and the rash of mysterious suicides that accompany it. Charlatan, Presleyite and local... -
Love Me Tender by Constance Debré 9781800814844
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'Destined to become a classic of its kind' Maggie Nelson 'One of the most compulsive voices I've read in years' Olivia Laing, Observer When Constance told her ex-husband that she was dating... -
Blank Pages: And Other Stories by Bernard MacLaverty 9781324074656
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.36Tinged with melancholy but rooted in resiliency, the exquisite stories of Bernard MacLaverty's Blank Pages display the perseverance of the human spirit. In "A Love Picture," a middle-aged woman,... -
Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor Roger Lewis 9780857381743
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'The book of the year' SUNDAY TIMES'One of the very best biographies I have ever read' STEPHEN FRY'A hot thunderstorm of a book' DAVID HARE'Erotic Vagrancy gave me a week of pure joy' CRAIG... -
Cleanness by Garth Greenwell
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Written in precise, elegant prose, Garth Greenwell's Cleanness is an almost unbearably poignant book about a man whose life, like so many, has been transformed by the discovery and loss of love.'This... -
The Abstainer by Ian McGuire 9781471163593
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.06'Truly terrific' Richard Ford'Dickens for the twenty-first century' Roddy Doyle'A powerful, gripping tale' Sunday TimesA man hanging on by a thread. A city about to snap. From the acclaimed author... -
The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters Benjamin Moser 9781802060829
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer turns his eye to the seventeenth-century Dutch Golden Age Twenty years ago, Benjamin Moser followed a love affair to an ancient Dutch town. In order to make... -
The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1855-1872: Volume 2 by Henry James 9780803226074
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £62.00The Complete Letters of Henry James fills a crucial gap in modern literary studies by presenting in a scholarly edition the complete letters of one of the great novelists and letter writers of the... -
The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1855-1872: Volume 1 by Henry James 9780803225848
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.40The Complete Letters of Henry James fills a crucial gap in modern literary studies by presenting in a scholarly edition the complete letters of one of the great novelists and letter writers of the... -
The Unmade World: A Novel by Steve Yarbrough 9781609531430
Booksplease Price: £13.25Set against a backdrop of the current political and cultural upheaval in the US and Eastern Europe, The Unmade World is a thoughtful, scope-y literary novel with a dose of suspense that moves from... -
Weak Planet: Literature and Assisted Survival by Wai Chee Dimock
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £88.55Vulnerability. We see it everywhere. In once permanent institutions. In runaway pandemics. In democracy itself. And most frighteningly, in ecosystems with no sustainable future. Against these... -
The Abstainer by Ian McGuire
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.40'Truly terrific' Richard Ford'Dickens for the twenty-first century' Roddy Doyle'A powerful, gripping tale' Sunday TimesA man hanging on by a thread. A city about to snap. From the acclaimed author... -
Weak Planet: Literature and Assisted Survival by Wai Chee Dimock 9780226477107
Booksplease Price: £22.15Vulnerability. We see it everywhere. In once permanent institutions. In runaway pandemics. In democracy itself. And most frighteningly, in ecosystems with no sustainable future. Against these... -
The Saturday Evening Girls Club: A Novel by Jane Healey 9781503943278
Booksplease Price: £9.57In Boston's North End, four immigrant women leave childhood behind-but never one another. For four young immigrant women living in Boston's North End in the early 1900s, escaping tradition... -
The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters by Benjamin Moser 9780241586457
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.98The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer turns his eye to the seventeenth-century Dutch Golden Age Twenty years ago, Benjamin Moser followed a love affair to an ancient Dutch town. In order to make... -
Kafka: The Years of Insight by Reiner Stach 9780691165844
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.05This volume of Reiner Stach's acclaimed and definitive biography of Franz Kafka tells the story of the final years of the writer's life, from 1916 to 1924--a period during which the world Kafka had... -
Adults In The Room: My Battle With Europe's Deep Establishment by Yanis Varoufakis
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46** The Sunday Times #1 Bestseller**'One of the greatest political memoirs of all time' GuardianWhat happens when you take on the European establishment? Read as world-famous, provocative economist,... -
The Five Wounds: A Novel by Kirstin Valdez Quade
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.37It's Holy Week in the small town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and thirty-three-year-old unemployed Amadeo Padilla has been given the part of Jesus in the Good Friday procession. He is preparing... -
Love Me Tender by Constance Debre
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'Destined to become a classic of its kind' Maggie Nelson 'One of the most compulsive voices I've read in years' Olivia Laing, Observer When Constance told her ex-husband that she was dating... -
Poems: 1962-2020 by Louise Gluck
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51A major career-spanning collection from the inimitable Nobel Prize-winning poetFor the past fifty years, Louise Gluck has been a major force in modern poetry, distinguished as much for the restless... -
Whoops!: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay by John Lanchester
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95John Lanchester's Whoops! Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay is the unbelievable true story of the economic crisis. We are, to use a technical economic term, screwed. The cowboy... -
A Sense of Direction: Pilgrimage for the Restless and the Hopeful Gideon Lewis-Kraus 9780957548824
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A young secular writer's journey along ancient religious pilgrimage routes in Spain, Japan and Ukraine leads to a surprise family reconciliation in this literary memoir Gideon Lewis-Kraus arrived in... -
The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham Lucy Hughes-Hallett 9780008126599
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.45*PLUTARCH AWARD FOR THE BEST BIOGRAPHY OF 2024* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE* 'SUBLIME' A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE... -
Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain by Fintan O'Toole
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'A wildly entertaining but uncomfortable read... Pitilessly brilliant' JONATHAN COE. 'There will not be much political writing in this or any other year that is carried off with such style' The... -
Among the Ten Thousand Things by Julia Pierpont
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.50Longlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize 2016 An anonymous package arrives in the post: a cardboard box containing sheaves of printed emails chronicling New York-artist Jack's secret... -
Affinities by Brian Dillon
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51What do we mean when we claim affinity with an object or picture, or say affinities exist between such things? Affinities is a critical and personal study of a sensation that is not exactly taste,... -
West by Carys Davies 9781783784233
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 'This short novel will live on in your imagination long after you read the last page' Claire Messud When Cy Bellman, American settler and widowed... -
The Book of Homes by Andrea Bajani 9781646053810
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31From prizewinning Italian author Andrea Bajani: the secrets of a man and his country as seen through the eyes of the homes that have guarded them. The Book of Homes is the story of a man and his...