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The City and the World Gregor Hens 9781804271698
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.61In The City and the World Gregor Hens considers the phenomenon of the contemporary city and our place within it. Hens travels the world - from Berlin to Las Vegas to Shenzen, from Cologne to Santiago... -
Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays by Norman Mailer
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €14.92The definitive Norman Mailer collection, as he writes on Marilyn Monroe, culture, ideology, boxing, Hemingway, politics, sex, celebrity and - of course - Norman MailerFrom his early 'A Credo for the... -
The Sidekick by Benjamin Markovits 9780571371532
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.77ONE OF THIS WEEK'S BEST NOVELS OF 2022The perfect novel for fans of The Last Dance, Hoop Dreams and Winning Time'Exquisite. . . Warm, humane, and tragic.' JONATHAN LETHEM At his high school... -
Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West 9780811220934
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €10.70Praised by great writers from Flannery O'Conner to Jonathan Lethem, Miss Lonelyhearts is an American classic. A newspaper reporter assigned to write the agony column in the depths of the Great... -
The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard by J. G. Ballard 9780393339291
RRP: €33.59Booksplease Price: €27.90With a body of work unparalleled in twentieth-century literature, J. G. Ballard is recognized as one of the greatest and most prophetic writers in the world. With the much-hailed release of The... -
The House Uptown by Melissa Ginsburg
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €7.80'Superb.' The Guardian 'A page-turner.' Jonathan Lethem 'Utterly unique, addictively readable.' Pandora Sykes'Intriguing, elegant and seductive.' Jessica Moor'You can't put it down.' Kevin... -
Free Planet Volume 2 by Aubrey Sitterson 9781534331365
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.60"FREE PLANET, a kind of space-politics-opera, brings shades of the cosmic imagination of Jack Vance, Jack Kirby, and Samuel Delany and Howard Chaykin's great lost Empire." -Jonathan Lethem (The... -
Nicotine by Gregor Hens
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08Written with the passion of an obsessive, Nicotine addresses a life of addiction, from the epiphany of the first drag to the perennial last last cigarette. Reflecting on his experiences as a smoker... -
Histories of the Future by Susan Harding 9780822334859 [USED COPY]
RRP: €112.80Booksplease Price: €14.92We live in a world saturated by futures. Our lives are constructed around ideas and images about the future that are as full and as flawed as our understandings of the past. This book is a conceptual... -
I Hate the Internet: A novel by Jarett Kobek
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €9.62In New York in the middle of the twentieth century, comic book companies figured out how to make millions from comics without paying their creators anything. In San Francisco at the start of the... -
Signature by Dr. Hunter Dukes
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €10.25Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Why do we sign our names? How can a squiggle both enslave and liberate? Signatures often... -
Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative and Fate by Daniel Mendelsohn
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €8.39Winner of the 2020 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, France's best foreign book of the year. 'Astounding' Sebastian Barry 'A masterpiece' Ayad Akhtar ... -
The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu: A Novel by Tom Lin
RRP: €16.79Booksplease Price: €11.86Winner of the Carnegie Medal for ExcellenceFinalist for the Young Lions Fiction AwardOrphaned young, Ming Tsu, the son of Chinese immigrants, is raised by the notorious leader of a California crime... -
How I Won A Nobel Prize by Julius Taranto 9781035006830
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €14.53A Times Best Novel of the Year'Taranto's hilarious, provocative debut novel . . . switches seamlessly between psychological realism and diabolical farce.' - The Times/The Sunday Times, 'Books of the... -
Dead Souls by Sam Riviere 9781474617666
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.88'Mordant, torrential, incantatory, Bolano-esque, Perec-ian, and just so explosively written that I had to stop and shake the language-shrapnel from my hair and wipe it off my eyeglasses so I could... -
An Honest Living by Dwyer Murphy 9781835010181
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.77Brooklyn, mid-2000s. After leaving behind the comforts of a prestigious law firm, a restless attorney attempts to make ends meet by picking up odd jobs from a colourful assortment of clients. When... -
The Paris Review Interviews: Vol. 1 Philip Gourevitch 9781841959252
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.61From William Faulkner's famous reply, 'The writer's only responsibility is to his art,' to James Salter's confession 'What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish', the... -
Pew by Catherine Lacey
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.77From the author of Biography of X, an eerie modern tale for fans of Shirley Jackson... 'I consumed it. It is the electric charge we need' Daisy Johnson, author of Everything Under One Sunday... -
The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic by Robert Musil
RRP: €25.19Booksplease Price: €18.22With an introduction by Jonathan LethemIt is 1913, and Viennese high society is determined to find an appropriate way of celebrating the seventieth jubilee of the accession of Emperor Franz Josef... -
The Complete Short Stories: Volume 1 by J. G. Ballard
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €16.91First in a two volume collection of short stories by the acclaimed author of 'Empire of the Sun', 'Crash' and 'Super-Cannes'. The new edition is introduced by Adam Thirwell. With eighteen... -
The Imaginary Corpse by Tyler Hayes
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.88Most ideas fade away when we're done with them. Some we love enough to become Real. But what about the ones we love, and walk away from? Tippy the triceratops was once a little girl's imaginary... -
Lynd Ward: Gods' Man, Madman's Drum, Wild Pilgrimage (LOA #210) by Lynd Ward
RRP: €48.00Booksplease Price: €36.19Edited by Art Spiegelman, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel MausA wordless novel in woodcuts from Lynd Ward, a pioneering artist/novelist who was "an unmistakable soul-companion to ... -
The Complete Short Stories: Volume 2 by J. G. Ballard 9780007245765
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €17.27The second in a two volume collection of short stories by the acclaimed author of 'Empire of the Sun', 'Crash' and 'Super-Cannes'. The new edition is introduced by Adam Thirwell. With... -
Still on the Road: The Songs of Bob Dylan Vol. 2 1974-2008 by Clinton Heylin
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €14.86This is the second volume in Clinton Heylin's magisterial survey of the songs of Bob Dylan. The first volume - Revolution in the Air which is now available in paperback - charted the rise of Bob... -
Postmodernism in Pieces: Materializing the Social in U.S. Fiction by Matthew Mullins 9780190067823
RRP: €35.99Booksplease Price: €34.50Postmodernism in Pieces performs a postmortem on what is perhaps the most contested paradigm in literary studies. In the wake of a critical consensus proclaiming its death, Matthew Mullins breaks... -
But What If We're Wrong? by Chuck Klosterman 9781445663388
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €16.32This has always been the case, no matter how often that certainty has failed. Though no generation believes there's nothing left to learn, every generation unconsciously assumes that what has already... -
The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €14.96In this tightly plotted yet mind-expanding debut novel, an unlikely detective, armed with only an umbrella and a singular handbook, must untangle a string of crimes committed in and through people's... -
Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A. by Lili Anolik 9781471190247
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.88The goddaughter of Igor Stravinsky and a graduate of Hollywood High, Eve Babitz posed in 1963, at age twenty, playing chess with the French artist Marcel Duchamp. She was naked; he was not. The... -
The Queen's Gambit: Now a Major Netflix Drama Walter Tevis 9781474600842
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.53NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES starring Anya Taylor-Joy from Academy-Award nominee Scott Frank and BAFTA nominee Allan Scott'Superb' Time Out'Mesmerizing' Newsweek'Gripping' Financial Times'Sheer... -
The Ink in the Grooves: Conversations on Literature and Rock 'n' Roll by Florence Dore 9781501766206
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.30Drop the record needle on any vinyl album in your collection, then read the first pages of that novel you've been meaning to pick up-the reverberations between them will be impossible to miss. Since... -
Fuck, Now There Are Two of You by Adam Mansbach
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €8.40It turns out that two is a million more kids than one.Adam Mansbach famously gave voice to two of parenting's primal struggles in Go the Fuck to Sleep and You Have to Fucking Eat. Now Fuck, Now There... -
Red Hot and Blue: Fifty Years of Writing About Music, Memphis, and Motherf**kers by Stanley Booth 9781641601061
RRP: €23.99Booksplease Price: €17.78This collection of over fifty years of writing about the South and its music by Stanley Booth, one of the undisputedly great chroniclers of the subject, is a classic, essential read. Booth's close... -
Cutting Across Media: Appropriation Art, Interventionist Collage, and Copyright Law by Kembrew McLeod
RRP: €42.00Booksplease Price: €36.05In this collection of essays, leading academics, critics, and artists historicize collage and appropriation tactics that cut across diverse media and genres. They take up issues of appropriation in... -
Go the Fuck to Sleep by Adam Mansbach
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54Go the Fuck to Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don't always send a toddler sailing off to dreamland. Profane,... -
The Tremor of Forgery: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.62BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN INTRODUCED BY DENISE MINA'Highsmith is a giant of the genre. The original, the best, the gloriously twisted Queen of... -
Attached to the Mouse: Disney and Contemporary Art by Holly Crawford 9780761834748
Booksplease Price: €51.90The Mouse and the Duck are celebrities created by Disney through its new art form, the animated cartoon. Using various outlets including mass-media, television, and theme parks, Disney made the Mouse... -
The Novelist's Lexicon: Writers on the Words That Define Their Work by Villa Gillet 9780231150804
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €15.88At the renowned, international literary conference hosted by Villa Gillet and Le Monde, organizers asked more than seventy prominent authors to choose a word that opens a door to their work. Their... -
Dylan's Visions of Sin Christopher Ricks 9780857862013
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €15.06'I consider myself a poet first and a musician second''It ain't the melodies that're important man, it's the words'There is no shortage of books about Bob Dylan. This one, however, is unique in its... -
The Dead Run by Adam Mansbach 9780062199669
RRP: €9.59Booksplease Price: €7.68With thrilling chills and crackling suspense, The Dead Run is an edgy novel set in the netherworld of the Mexican-American border from Adam Mansbach, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Go... -
The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World by Lewis Hyde
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08The Gift brilliantly argues for the importance of creativity in our increasingly money-driven society. Reaching deep into literature, anthropology and psychology Lewis Hyde's modern masterpiece has...