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Young Skins by Colin Barrett
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49WINNER OF THE 2014 GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD *Winner of the 2014 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award *Winner of the 2014 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature This magnificent collection... -
A Bright Soothing Noise by Peter Brown 9781574412918
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65The title, A Bright Soothing Noise, refers to the sound that fire makes, promising not only warmth and light but also violence and destruction. Brown's greatest hero is Frank O'Connor, and like... -
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri 9780747596592
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Beginning in America, and spilling back over memories and generations to India, Unaccustomed Earth explores the heart of family life and the immigrant experience. Eight luminous stories - longer and... -
No One Belongs Here More Than You Miranda July 9781782116295
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Winner of the 2007 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award'Blisteringly good' GuardianIn her remarkable stories of seemingly ordinary people living extraordinary lives, Miranda July reveals... -
A Pagan Place by Edna O'Brien
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.37After leaving for a religious community in Belgium, the young woman in A Pagan Place becomes lost in memories of her childhood in rural Ireland, reflecting on the rituals of village life, the people... -
Stories of Fatherhood by Diana Secker Tesdell
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15This wide-ranging anthology pays tribute to fathers young and old. At one end of the spectrum, a touching story by Ann Packer tells of a man preparing for the wonder and terror of his first child's... -
The Oxford Book of Short Stories by V. S. Pritchett
RRP: £12.49Booksplease Price: £9.62V. S. Pritchett, one our greatest short-story writers, has chosen forty-one stories written in the English language for this volume, producing a collection that successfully displays the wealth and... -
Irish Autobiography: Stories of Self in the Narrative of a Nation by Claire Lynch 9783039118564
RRP: £45.80Booksplease Price: £41.45Ireland has passed through numerous identity crises in the last century, keeping the meaning of Irishness in constant flux. This book explores how diverse writers have positioned their life stories... -
If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This by Robin Black
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16From the blind girl who sees more than her parents can, to the portrait artist who sees more than her clients would wish, Robin Black illuminates secret fears, hidden desires, profound grief and... -
The Sweet Indifference of the World by Peter Stamm 9781783785759
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A man and a woman meet in a park. The man has a story to share, one of a past relationship that contains echoes, similarities to the woman's life too remarkable to be considered just a coincidence... -
Bark by Lorrie Moore
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.25Shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story AwardIn these eight masterful stories, Lorrie Moore explores the passing of time and summons up its inevitable sorrows and comic pitfalls... -
Country Girls by Edna O'Brien
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Edna O'Brien's wonderful, wild and moving novel shocked the nation on its publication in 1960. Adapted for the stage by the author, The Country Girls, the play, is a highly theatrical and... -
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges by Nathan Englander
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Ruchama, a wigmaker from an ultra-orthodox Brooklyn enclave, journeys into Manhattan for inspiration, frequenting a newsstand where she flips through forbidden fashion magazines. An elderly Jew with... -
Voices from a Journal by Bill Naughton 9781901866599
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.63This is a writer's journal of his friendships, encounters and observations during the 1950s and 60s, describing relationships with Cork author Frank O'Connor, Patrick Kavanagh, Charles Cape (onetime... -
Nothing Gold Can Stay by Ron Rash
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Ron Rash has been acclaimed as 'the best American novelist I have come upon in the last twenty years' (Scotsman), a writer with an 'exceptional quality of characterisation and storytelling' (Irvine... -
Contentious Terrains: Boglands in the Irish Postcolonial Gothic by Derek Gladwin 9781782052043
Booksplease Price: £46.20This book provides a political and geographical history of how boglands (or bogs) are represented in modern and contemporary Irish literature and culture (1880s-present). Drawing on a range of Irish... -
Swimmming home by Deborah Levy 9781911508083
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.94Selected for the 2012 Man Booker Prize shortlist. As he arrives with his family at the villa in the hills above Nice, Joe sees a body in the swimming pool. But the girl is very much alive. She is... -
Night by Edna O'Brien
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31The BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls trilogy begins in August 2019.Edna O'Brien's haunting spectre of a novel, Night, is narrated by one of her most memorable characters,... -
Infidelities by Kirsty Gunn
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05This new collection of stories offers a candid peek at infidelity in all its guises. These are tales of lust, deceit, resentment and regret - and of the secrets and lies that can chip away at... -
Joyce's Women Edna O'Brien 9780571386048
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.37I love fire. Fire is the colour of genius.In this audacious new work, Edna O'Brien gives voice to the women who were central to the life of James Joyce.'James Joyce had been my ultimate hero for... -
Leaving the Sea by Ben Marcus 9781847086365
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A bold new short story collection from one of the most exhilarating and innovative writers of our time. The stories in Leaving the Sea take place in a world which is a distortion of our own, where... -
Irish Stories by Christopher Morash 9781841596419
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.37The short story flourishes in Ireland. All Irish conditions seem to favour it. With its roots in the fertile soil of the Gaelic folk tradition, it appeared to grow and thrive on the discontinuities... -
Happiness, Like Water: Stories by Chinelo Okparanta 9781847088314
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In this debut collection, Chinelo Okparanta introduces us to families burdened equally by the past and the future. Here, we meet a childless couple with very different desires; a college professor... -
Girl by Edna O'Brien 9780571341184
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31** Winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2020 **Longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for FictionShortlisted for the 2020 Orwell Prize for Political FictionShortlisted for the James Tait... -
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.63Brilliant and original, 'A Thousand Years of Good Prayers' introduces a remarkable first collection of stories about China from an author set to become a major literary talent. In this... -
A River in Egypt: Faber Stories by David Means
RRP: £3.50Booksplease Price: £3.16Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. In his masterful story 'A River in Egypt', David Means paints... -
Turtle Moon by Alice Hoffman
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49When teenager Keith Rosen runs away from his Florida home - inexplicably taking along a motherless baby - his divorced mother is perplexed and terrified. she takes off on her own journey to find him... -
In the Forest Edna O'Brien 9780571397495
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31The spruces are so close together that the barks are a sable-brown.Michael O'Kane is known as the 'Kinderschrek', the 'child scarer'. He haunts Cloosh Wood in western Ireland. As a boy he lost his... -
Hystopia by David Means
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95At the bitter end of the 1960s, upon his return home from combat in the Vietnam War, twenty-two-year old Eugene Allen writes a novel called HYSTOPIA. It is set in a strangely destabilized historical... -
Shaken and Stirred: Intoxicating Stories by Diana Secker Tesdell
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15In this lively collection, wine snobs receive their comeuppance at the hands of Roald Dahl and Edgar Allan Poe; innocents over-imbibe in tales by Jack London and Alice Munro; riotous partying exacts... -
Paradise: Faber Stories by Edna O'Brien
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.39Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. An unnamed protagonist is on holiday with her new,... -
The Finest Music: Early Irish Lyrics by Maurice Riordan
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.37In a series of timeless and modern-day renditions, Maurice Riordan brilliantly introduces us to the poems that founded Ireland's rich literature. Memorable and accessible, these early lyrics are... -
Down By The River Edna O'Brien 9780571397532
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31The road silent, somnolent yet with a speech of its own, speaking back to them, father and child, through trappings of sun and fretted verdure, speaking of the old mutinies and a fresh crime mounting... -
The Little Red Chairs by Edna O'Brien
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31The legendary Edna O'Brien's tale of a mysterious stranger spellbinding an Irish village is 'the kind of masterpiece that reminds you why you read books in the first place' (Observer).ONE OF THE... -
SPIT by David Brennan 9781068716218
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Welcome to the village of Spit, where Danny Mulcahy is losing the run of himself, and where, as he and his friends dream of escaping, an unexpected death sets the rumour mill into motion.Suffering an... -
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An Elegy for Easterly by Petina Gappah 9780571246946 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.98Winner of the Guardian First Book Award, and shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award, this is an unforgettable collection of powerful stories by a stunning young voice from Zimbabwe.A... -
An Elegy for Easterly by Petina Gappah
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Winner of the Guardian First Book Award, and shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award, this is an unforgettable collection of powerful stories by a stunning young voice from Zimbabwe.A... -
State of Paradise Laura Van Den Berg 9781250390516
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.75Then, during a violent rainstorm, her sister goes missing. She returns a few days later, sprawled on their mother's lawn and speaking of another dimension. Now the ghostwriter must investigate not... -
The Country Girls Edna O'Brien 9780571396665
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23We want to live. Drink gin. Squeeze into the front of big cars and drive up outside big hotels. We want to go places.Caithleen is a romantic: she dreams of finding a handsome man who will sweep her... -
Exploring English 1 by Augustine Martin 9780717150410
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.80Difficult as it may be in understand today, the Exploring English anthology of short stories was revolutionary when first published forty four years ago in 1967. For the first time the short story...