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The Geometer Lobachevsky: Shortlisted for the 2023 Walter Scott Prize and the 2023 Kerry Group Novel of the Year by Adrian Duncan
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54'When I was sent by the Soviet state to London to further my studies in calculus, knowing I would never become a great mathematician, I strayed instead into the foothills of anthropology ...' ... -
Though the Bodies Fall by Noel O'Regan 9781783789481
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38From an exciting new voice in Irish fiction, a powerful novel set on an Irish clifftop - a story about duty, despair and the chance encounters upon which fate turns. Micheal Burns lives alone in... -
'Getting the Words Right': A Festschrift" in Honour of Eamon Maher by Eamon Maher 9781803741444
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $58.46This book is a collection of essays written in honour of Eamon Maher. The essays all speak to issues which Eamon has worked on, so there are pieces focusing largely on the connections between Ireland... -
City of the Tribes by Walter Macken 9781848407633
Booksplease Price: $24.74These stories, rich with the passion and drama which characterises all of Walter Macken's writing, were conceived by the author as a thematic collection, providing a stunning evocation of the life... -
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Though the Bodies Fall by Noel O'Regan 9781783789481 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $15.46From an exciting new voice in Irish fiction, a powerful novel set on an Irish clifftop - a story about duty, despair and the chance encounters upon which fate turns. Micheal Burns lives alone in... -
The Hurley Maker's Son by Patrick Deeley
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.81Patrick Deeley's train journey home to rural East Galway in autumn 1978 was a pilgrimage of grief: his giant of a father had been felled, the hurley-making workshop silenced. From this moment,... -
Writing the Irish West: Ecologies and Traditions by Eamonn Wall 9780268044237
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $41.39In recent decades, a large and well-regarded volume of creative work has emerged from the West of Ireland, written by residents of the region, by those raised in West of Ireland families outside the... -
Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel 1987 - 2007 Liam Harte 9781444336207
RRP: $54.50Booksplease Price: $52.96Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel 1987-2007 is the authoritative guide to some of the most inventive and challenging fiction to emerge from Ireland in the last 25 years. Meticulously researched,... -
Blank Pages and Other Stories by Bernard MacLaverty 9781529114256
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73The extraordinary new story collection from one of Ireland's greatest writers and bestselling author of Mindwinter Break. Bernard MacLaverty is a consummately gifted short-story writer and novelist... -
Little Republics: The Story of Bungalow Bliss by Adrian Duncan
RRP: $27.30Booksplease Price: $22.85Bungalow Bliss, first published in 1971, was a book of house designs that buyers could use to build a home for themselves affordably. It first appeared two years before Ireland was to join the EEC as... -
Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel 1987 - 2007 by Liam Harte 9781444336191
Booksplease Price: $159.94Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel 1987-2007 is the authoritative guide to some of the most inventive and challenging fiction to emerge from Ireland in the last 25 years. Meticulously researched,... -
The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities Marguerite Duras 9781841593807
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.38Marguerite Duras was one of the leading intellectuals and novelist of post-war France, but her wartime writings were not published in full until after her death. The Wartime Notebooks trace Duras's... -
The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 9780241968727
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.70The General in his Labyrinth is the compelling tale of Simon Bolivar, a hero who has been forgotten and whose power is fading, retracing his steps down the Magdalena River by the Nobel Laureate... -
We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It: A Memoir of My Irish Boyhood by Tom Phelan 9781501197109
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.24"You don't have to be Irish to cherish this literary gift-just being human and curious and from a family will suffice." -Malachy McCourt, New York Times bestselling author of A Monk Swimming In the... -
Irish Children's Literature and Culture: New Perspectives on Contemporary Writing Keith O'Sullivan (National University of Ireland at Dublin, Dublin, Ireland) 9780415623551
RRP: $111.28Booksplease Price: $104.77Irish Children's Literature and Culture looks critically at Irish writing for children from the 1980s to the present, examining the work of many writers and illustrators and engaging with major... -
A Few Quick Ones P.G. Wodehouse 9781841591605
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $23.08A collection from the master, containing The Fat of the Land (Freddie Widgeon) Scratch Man (The Oldest Member) The Right Approach (Mr Mulliner), Jeeves Makes An Omelette, The Word In Season (Bingo... -
Ripley Bogle by Robert McLiam Wilson 9780749394653
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $26.19'I'm Ripley Bogle. I'm the prince of the pavements, I'm the Parkbench King and the cold winds of the outside permanently fleck my flesh. To come with me, you must brave the air and the wide, bare... -
A Very Strange Man: A Memoir of Aidan Higgins by Alannah Hopkin
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $30.93This 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... -
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Train to Trieste by Domnica Radulescu 9780552774741 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $6.22It is 1977 and seventeen-year-old Mona Manoliu has fallen in love with Mihai, a mysterious boy who lives in the romantic mountain city where she spends her summers. She can think of nothing and no... -
Re-reading the Short Story by Clare Hanson 9781349103157
Booksplease Price: $97.82This collection of essays maintaining links with theory and practice applies a critical approach to the short story form. Some are theoretical in orientation, covering such issues as gender and... -
We Seldom Talk About the Past: Selected Short Stories by John MacKenna
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $21.97We Seldom Talk About the Past is John MacKenna's first selected collection of short stories, from a career spanning over three decades. The stories selected come from four collections of short... -
We Were Young Niamh Campbell 9781474611725
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54'I love this woman's writing. Golden sentences' Diana Evans'Witty, fiery, wistful and even shocking, with engrossing heady prose, Campbell's style is unique' Irish Independent'An immensely enjoyable... -
Soho Square: Bk. 6: New Writing from Ireland by Colm Toibin 9780747516125
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $26.33This work is dedicated to contemporary Irish writing, and consists of a mixture of poetry, prose and photography. The contributors include Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, John McGahern, Edna O'Brien,... -
THESE IMPERFECT BEINGS Dermot Bolger 9781835940464
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $21.97In a series of unexpected moments when past loves and choices re-surface with startling clarity, the imperfect beings who populate these stories find themselves finally grasping the impact of crucial... -
Shakespeare and Contemporary Irish Literature by Nicholas Taylor-Collins 9783319959238
Booksplease Price: $189.06This book shows that Shakespeare continues to influence contemporary Irish literature, through postcolonial, dramaturgical, epistemological and narratological means. International critics examine a... -
When All is Said: The Number One Irish Bestseller Anne Griffin 9781473683020
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54THE NUMBER ONE IRISH BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE SUNDAY INDEPENDENT NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD'A rare jewel' John Banville'A genuine page-turner' Donal... -
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When All is Said: Five toasts. Five people. One lifetime. by Anne Griffin 9781473682993 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $5.40Five toasts. Five people. One lifetime. THE NUMBER ONE IRISH BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL CHRISTOPHER BLAND PRIZE 2020'A hugely enjoyable, engrossing novel, a genuine page-turner.' Donal Ryan'An... -
Bernard MacLaverty Richard Rankin Russell 9781684485611
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.33This newly updated and expanded paperback edition of the first monograph in English on Northern Ireland-born Bernard MacLaverty discusses his fiction in its aesthetic, cultural, religious, and... -
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When All is Said: Five toasts. Five people. One lifetime. by Anne Griffin 9781473683020 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $4.45THE NUMBER ONE IRISH BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE SUNDAY INDEPENDENT NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD'A rare jewel' John Banville'A genuine page-turner' Donal... -
Granta 88: Mothers by Ian Jack 9780903141734
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $34.02Edmund White on Delilah Mae White: 'What made her uncertain were the proper boundaries between children and adults, love and sex, work and play. What bewildered her were her own children.' John... -
Life Sentences: The #3 Irish Bestseller by Billy O'Callaghan
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.34*THE #3 IRISH BESTSELLER*'Momentous and epic' BERNARD MACLAVERTY'Superb and moving' JOHN BANVILLE'A lovely, piercing book' SEBASTIAN BARRYThree generations. More than a century of famine, war,... -
Breaking the Mould: Literary Representations of Irish Catholicism by Eamon Maher 9783034302326
RRP: $83.58Booksplease Price: $76.19Catholicism has played a central role in Irish society for centuries. It is sometimes perceived in a negative light, being associated with repression, antiquated morality and a warped view of... -
Goodbye Yeats and O'Neill: Farce in Contemporary Irish and Irish-American Narratives by Edward A. Hagan 9789042029934
Booksplease Price: $242.97Goodbye Yeats and O'Neill is a reading of one or two books recently written by the following major authors: Roddy Doyle, Colm Toibin, John McGahern, William Trevor, Seamus Deane, Nuala O'Faolain,... -
Tretower to Clyro: Essays Karl Miller 9780857388391
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54In his latest book of essays Karl Miller turns his attention to appreciate certain writers of the English-speaking modern world. A new ruralism has come to notice in this country, and the book is... -
A History of the Irish Novel by Derek Hand 9781107674271
Booksplease Price: $93.07Derek Hand's A History of the Irish Novel is a major work of criticism on some of the greatest and most globally recognisable writers of the novel form. Writers such as Laurence Sterne, James Joyce,... -
Shakespeare and Contemporary Irish Literature by Nicholas Taylor-Collins 9783030071165
Booksplease Price: $169.51This book shows that Shakespeare continues to influence contemporary Irish literature, through postcolonial, dramaturgical, epistemological and narratological means. International critics examine a... -
Ageing in Irish Writing: Strangers to Themselves by Heather Ingman 9783319964294
Booksplease Price: $138.52Age is a missing category in Irish literary criticism and this book is the first to explore a range of familiar and not so familiar Irish texts through a gerontological lens. Drawing on the latest... -
Contemporary Irish Fiction: Themes, Tropes, Theories by L. Harte 9780312231644
Booksplease Price: $192.07Recent years have witnessed an extraordinary growth in the richness and diversity of Irish fiction, with the publication of highly original and consistently challenging work by both new and... -
The Found Voice: Writers' Beginnings by Denis Sampson 9780198752998
Booksplease Price: $85.43The Found Voice: Writers' Beginnings uses the means of literary biography and criticism to do something rarely attempted--to understand how a key creative period establishes the authoritative voice... -
The Distance of Irish Modernism: Memory, Narrative, Representation by Dr John Greaney 9781350328464
Booksplease Price: $66.91The Distance of Irish Modernism interrogates the paradox through which Irish modernist fictions have become containers for national and transnational histories while such texts are often oblique and...