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As Others See Us: Personal Views on the Life and Work of Robert Burns by Tricia Malley 9781910021446
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.66As Others See Us is based on a new photographic exhibition from Tricia Malley and Ross Gillespie, who together form the renowned partnership broad daylight. It forms part of Homecoming 2009,... -
Rome the Sorceress: La Sorcière de Rome by Andre Frenaud 9781852243180
RRP: €10.65Booksplease Price: €8.04First known for his war-time poems written from a German labour camp - notably his sombre reworkings of the myth of the Magi - Andre Frenaud (1907-1993) is one of the most searching of French poets... -
Its Colours They Are Fine Alan Spence 9781786892973
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70A classic of short fiction, Alan Spence's celebrated debut collection, first published in 1977, brings Glasgow to vibrant life and captures the spirit of the city as it teetered on the brink of... -
Lean Tales: The Collected Short Stories Agnes Owens 9781846977046
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €9.46People Like That comprises Agnes Owens' complete life's work in short stories. Witty and dark, Owens' spare prose shocks and delights. Her talent for pithy, unsettling tales is as sharp as ever,... -
101 Poems for Children Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy: A Laureate's Choice by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.07Carol Ann Duffy, appointed Poet Laureate in 2009, has chosen her favourite poems for children for this stunning collection of classic and modern verse, exquisitely illustrated by multi-award-winning... -
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101 Poems for Children Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy: A Laureate's Choice by Carol Ann Duffy 9781447220268 [USED COPY]
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €2.23Carol Ann Duffy, appointed Poet Laureate in 2009, has chosen her favourite poems for children for this stunning collection of classic and modern verse, exquisitely illustrated by multi-award-winning... -
St Kilda: The Silent Islands by Alex Boyd 9781913025229
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.92Using a 'battered medium format camera' once belonging to Fay Godwin, Alex Boyd captures the archipelago of St Kilda in a new light, from a 21st century perspective. From the crumbling Cold War... -
The Observances by Kate Miller
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.06Winner of the 2016 Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize for First Full Collection. Shortlisted for the 2017 Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize. Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Poetry Award. In the... -
Light Unlocked: Christmas Card Poems by Kevin Crossley-Holland 9781904634188
RRP: €17.85Booksplease Price: €14.03A delightful anthology of poems sent by many contemporary writers as Christmas cards. From Advent to the New Year, these poems encompass the nativity, the natural world, weather and time's passing,... -
Arts of Resistance: Poets, Portraits and Landscapes of Modern Scotand by Alexander Moffat 9781906817183
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.45Arts of Resistance is an original exploration that extends beyond the arts into the context of politics and political change. In three wide-ranging exchanges prompted by American blues singer Linda... -
Woman : Plant : Language Agata Maslowska 9781913268763
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.34I will not diefor any monolithic country playing its anthem to the deadTime is my country,it counts my inhalations,a merciless teacher untying my hair Part lullaby, part insurrection, Agata... -
Them! by Harry Josephine Giles 9781035025213
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €8.57Them! by Harry Josephine Giles is an exuberant collection of poems about trans life as it is lived today, through the lenses of work, technology and ecology.In Them! Giles excavates the lexicon of... -
Almanacs by Jen Hadfield
RRP: €11.84Booksplease Price: €8.78Almanacs: a mythic scrapbook, bag of cats, a one-man band...Jen Hadfield's Almanacs is concerned with lists, rules and archetypes and what they don't account for. It takes as its subjects the Tarot,... -
Nigh-No-Place Jen Hadfield 9781852247935
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2008, shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection, Poetry Book Society Recommendation. The language of Jen Hadfield's poetry is one of incantation and secular... -
Fugitive Colours by Liz Lochhead
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98This stunning collection features never before published work along with poems written during her time as Scots Makar, and marks the end of her term as Scotland's Poet Laureate (2011-2016). Whether... -
A Memo for Spring: 50th Anniversary Edition by Liz Lochhead
RRP: €11.90Booksplease Price: €8.71This is an exclusive limited edition with a preface by Liz Lochhead and a new introduction by Ali Smith. Liz Lochhead is one of the leading poets writing in Britain today. This, her debut... -
Dirt by William Letford
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.06There are all types of bodies.If you're lucky you'll find someone whose skinis a canvas for the story of your life.Write well. Take care of the heartbeat behind it. Billy Letford's Dirt revels in the... -
Deep Wheel Orcadia by Harry Josephine Giles
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02Winner of the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Book of the YearAstrid is returning home from art school on Mars, looking for inspiration. Darling is fleeing a life that never fit,... -
The Bloodaxe Book of 20th Century Poetry: from Britain and Ireland Edna Longley 9781852245146
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €13.03This epoch-marking anthology presents a map of poetry from Britain and Ireland which readers can follow. You will not get lost here as in other anthologies - with their vast lists of poets summoned... -
Cabaret McGonagall by W. N. Herbert 9781852243531
RRP: €9.46Booksplease Price: €7.31Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. Come to the Cabaret - on tour somewhat erratically in the North. Sample its impassioned ballads, phantasmata, and despairing satires. The cast... -
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Cabaret McGonagall by W. N. Herbert 9781852243531 [USED COPY]
RRP: €9.46Booksplease Price: €2.25Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. Come to the Cabaret - on tour somewhat erratically in the North. Sample its impassioned ballads, phantasmata, and despairing satires. The cast... -
This Life, This Life: Selected Poems 1970-2006 Andrew Greig 9781852247133
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50What are the contours of a life? For Andrew Greig: childhood, adolescence, the country then the city, sex, love, marriage, break-ups and breakdowns personal and political, mountain adventures,... -
London Clay: Journeys in the Deep City by Tom Chivers
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.48'A lyrical meditation on landscapes and cities, vivid reportage and a memoir. And also a beautifully realised and moving read.' Financial Times'A beguiling mix of history, geology, folklore and... -
Omnesia (alternative text) W. N. Herbert 9781852249625
RRP: €11.84Booksplease Price: €8.78'Omnesia' is Bill Herbert's melding of omniscience and amnesia, the modern condition of thinking we can know everything about our world but, in actuality, retaining dangerously little. This doubly... -
Omnesia (remix) W. N. Herbert 9781852249694
RRP: €11.84Booksplease Price: €8.78'Omnesia' is Bill Herbert's melding of omniscience and amnesia, the modern condition of thinking we can know everything about our world but, in actuality, retaining dangerously little. This doubly... -
The Wreck of the Fathership W.N. Herbert 9781780375243
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €9.09Being appointed Dundee Makar (or City Laureate) implied that Bill Herbert might settle into middle age. He rented a ?at overlooking Broughty Ferry harbour to write about his home town in both its... -
The Voyage of St Brendan A.B. Jackson 9781780375663
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54In The Voyage of St Brendan, A.B. Jackson tells the tale of the legendary seafaring Irish abbot in poetry and prose. After burning a book of fantastical stories, Brendan is compelled to sail the... -
Moder Dy: Polygon New Poets by Roseanne Watt
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46Winner of an Eric Gregory Award, 2020 Winner of a Somerset Maugham Award, 2020 'The old Shetland fishermen still speak with something like reverence of the forgotten art of steering by the... -
Reading Barry MacSweeney Paul Batchelor 9781852249885
RRP: €14.28Booksplease Price: €10.28Barry MacSweeney was described as 'a contrary, lone wolf...[whose] ear for a soaring lyric melody was unmatched' (Nicholas Johnson, Independent). MacSweeney found fame with his first book, The Boy... -
Love Set You Going: Poems of the Heart by Janet Morley
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50'Love set you going'. The opening words of Sylvia Plath's poem for her newborn daughter are true of each one of us. Love is fundamental to our being, our growth, our development and our happiness... -
Keep Walking Rhona Beech by Kate Tough
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €4.03Incredibly insightful, funny and poignant' Helen Sedgwick'A warm and ferociously witty story. Truth rings from every page of this assured, engrossing debut' Zoe StrachanWhen Rhona's story comes to an... -
Shorelines: Memory, migration and the selves we become Alycia Pirmohamed 9781837262052
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.34WINNER OF THE NAN SHEPHERD PRIZEA BOOKSELLER SPOTLIGHT PICK'A truly original take on migration, family and faith' NOREEN MASUDAs a young Muslim woman, Alycia Pirmohamed grew up with her body as... -
The Best British Poetry 2014 Mark Ford 9781907773686
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.66The Best British Poetry 2014 presents the finest and most engaging poems found in literary magazines and webzines over the past year. The material gathered represents the rich variety of current UK... -
There She Goes: New travel writing by women Esa Aldegheri 9781916812093
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €11.40There she goes brings together seventeen women writers - of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - in an anthology of travel tales to inspire, encourage and empower women adventuring through the world in... -
Letters of Keith Douglas by Keith Douglas 9781857544770
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €17.02Keith Douglas (1920-44) loved his country. He also had an insatiable hunger for experience. When World War II began he enlisted: to fight, and to read history from within its turbulence. As with the...