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The Country Funeral: Faber Stories by John McGahern
Booksplease Price: €6.41Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. 'My only concern', John McGahern once said, 'is that I get... -
Reckless by William Nicholson 9781782066453
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.541945. The Second World War has gone on too long. Shops are closed 'for the duration'. Trains run a restricted service 'for the duration'. Life has paused, for the duration. A little girl, Pamela, is... -
Long Island: The long-awaited sequel to Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín 9781035029457
Booksplease Price: €14.76'Heartbreak, wistfulness, cracking dialogue . . . This is Toibin at his best' - The Times'A masterful novel full of longing and regret . . . Intensely moving and yet full of restraint' - Douglas... -
The Master: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize by Colm Tóibín 9781035029860
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize'A triumph' - The Observer'A masterly achievement' - The IndependentIn January 1895 Henry James anticipates the opening of his first play, Guy Domville, in London... -
The Blackwater Lightship: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize by Colm Tóibín 9781035029853
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81Shortlisted for the Booker PrizeHelen's beloved brother Declan is dying. Now, she must join her mother and grandmother in a crumbling old house by the sea, three generations calling an uneasy truce... -
Long Island: The long-awaited sequel to Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín 9781035029440
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €13.73'Heartbreak, wistfulness, cracking dialogue . . . This is Toibin at his best' - The Times'A masterful novel full of longing and regret . . . Intensely moving and yet full of restraint' - Douglas... -
Washington Square Henry James 9781068661310
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €18.12A brand new edition of Washington Square by Henry James, introduced by Colm Toibin, who examines the importance of James's childhood home, at nearby Washington Place, on the location and setting of... -
A History of Running Away Paula McGrath 9781473641785
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02Book of the Year in the Irish Times'A wonderful storyteller' Joseph O'ConnorOn the quays of Dublin, Jasmine is running, training for a fight she can't compete in. It's 1982 and boxing is illegal for... -
Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar Colm Tóibín 9781035055005
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54In Love in a Dark Time, Colm Toibin looks at the life and work of some of the greatest and most influential artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Linked by the common thread of their... -
Adventures in Modern Marriage by William Nicholson
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02With pace, wit and a beady eye, Adventures in Modern Marriage revisits the characters from Nicholson's highly acclaimed The Secret Intensity of Everyday Life. But now the children are grown up, and... -
This is the Ritual Rob Doyle 9781408865378
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.20'Doyle is as good as everyone - from John Boyne to Colm Toibin - says he is' Daily Mail A young man in a dark depression roams the vast, formless landscape of a Dublin industrial park where he... -
Travelling in a Strange Land by David Park
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.02WINNER OF THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR 'I loved this delicate, beautifully written novella about fathers and sons' David Nicholls 'One of Ireland's great novelists' Roddy Doyle ... -
The Last Wolf & Herman by Laszlo Krasznahorkai 9780811229050
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.00The Last Wolf (translated by George Szirtes) is Krasznahorkai in a maddening nutshell-it features a classic obsessed narrator, a man hired (by mistake) to write the true tale of the last wolf in... -
The Golden Hour William Nicholson 9781849163934
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54She loves him. She's happy. But could she be happier? 'Capturing humour in the small, perfectly skewered moments of everyday life, this is a story of small, largely middle-class lives enclave, made... -
All the Hopeful Lovers William Nicholson 9781849163903
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54'Nicholson is a subtle and addictive writer who deserves to be a household name . . . [with] his remarkable eye for detail and for the weaknesses of human nature' ObserverThis is our own familiar... -
Revolutionary Bodies: Homoeroticism and the Political Imagination in Irish Writing by Michael G. Cronin 9781526178848
Booksplease Price: €28.01Revolutionary bodies provides a detailed study of the erotics and politics of the male body in Irish fiction. Some of the authors discussed in the book include: Oscar Wilde, Brendan Behan, John... -
So Late in the Day: The Sunday Times bestseller Claire Keegan 9780571398041
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.00From the bestselling author, Claire Keegan, an exquisitely written story which finds an unsatisfied man on his bus journey home reflect on the love that got away.'A genuine once-in-a-generation... -
I'll Be Right Here Amy Bloom 9781783788026
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.79Emigrating alone from Paris to New York after World War II, a young girl Gazala befriends two spirited sisters, Anne and Alma. When Gazala's beloved brother Samir joins her in Manhattan, this... -
Harsh Times by Mario Vargas Llosa
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE"A wildly enjoyable book; the 85-year-old Vargas Llosa is as sharp and mordantly funny as ever." Financial TimesGuatemala, 1954. A... -
Baumgartner: A tender masterpiece of love, memory and loss from one of the world’s great writers. by Paul Auster 9780571384938
Booksplease Price: €20.61A tender masterpiece of love, memory and loss from one of the world's great writers.The life of Sy Baumgartner - noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor - has been defined by his... -
I'll Be Right Here Amy Bloom 9781803513188
Booksplease Price: €12.33Emigrating alone from Paris to New York after World War II, a young girl Gazala befriends two spirited sisters, Anne and Alma. When Gazala's beloved brother Samir joins her in Manhattan, this... -
The Lovers of Amherst by William Nicholson
RRP: €4.75Booksplease Price: €4.03Passion and poetry: two love stories intertwine - a true historical one and an imagined contemporary one, both intimately connected with Emily Dickinson's life.In 1881 a young married couple, Mabel... -
Baumgartner: A tender masterpiece of love, memory and loss from one of the world’s great writers. by Paul Auster 9780571384952
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70And then it started, little by little it started, until they were married five years later and his real life began.'Exquisite ... A super-abundantly gifted, big-hearted novelist.' Ian McEwan'A writer... -
The Colony: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022 by Audrey Magee
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022'Vivid and memorable.' SARAH MOSS'Luminous.' Observer'I utterly ADORED... -
These Days: 'A gem of a novel, I adored it.' MARIAN KEYES by Lucy Caldwell
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70WINNER OF THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTIONWINNER OF THE E. M. FORSTER AWARDAS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4s BOOK AT BEDTIMETwo sisters. Four nights. One City.April, 1941. Belfast has escaped the... -
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector 9780811219495
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.77Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabea, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a... -
Larchfield: The moving, gripping and wonderful debut about finding human connection N/a Polly Clark 9781786481955
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54'Gripping' Margaret Atwood 'Captivating' Louis de Bernieres 'Magnificent' Alexander McCall SmithIn 1930, a young man, torn apart by his illegal desire, stands on a deserted Scottish beach. Wystan H... -
Though the Bodies Fall by Noel O'Regan 9781783789481 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €8.76From 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... -
Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51Never before available in hardback, this is a lavish edition of one of the greatest love stories of our time. The perfect gift for anyone captivated by Elio and Oliver.A sudden and powerful romance... -
The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velazquez by Laura Cumming
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.58WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONSelected as a Book of the Year in the Herald In 1845, a... -
An Arrow in Flight by Mary Lavin 9781529956481
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €17.30Mary Lavin is the great unsung voice of Irish fiction. Here are her very best, most electric stories: illuminating, moving, arrows in flight.'This is a wonderful collection, and a reminder that Mary... -
The Dead Girls by Jorge Ibarguengoitia
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54With an introduction by award-winning novelist Colm ToibinOpening with a crime of passion after a years-long love affair has soured, The Dead Girls soon plunges into an investigation of something... -
Other People's Children Ben Faccini 9781803513010
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.18A story of complicated families and a wartime secret that ripples down through the generations from a writer of exceptional talent. Tommaso is just about making it work: travelling abroad for his... -
Beyond the Sea by Paul Lynch 9781786077608
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.77Chosen as a Book of the Year by Sebastian Barry, Martina Devlin and Peter Cunningham Winner of the Prix Gens de Mer, 2022 Hector and Bolivar set sail from their South American fishing... -
Family Meal: 'This novel will break your heart twice over' Bryan Washington 9781838954468
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70From the bestselling author of Memorial, a novel that will 'break your heart twice over, with sadness, sure, but more unexpectedly, with joy.' Rumaan AlamGrowing up , TJ was Cam's boy next door. When... -
A Cultural History of Vertigo: Unbalanced Anindya Raychaudhuri 9781350523517
Booksplease Price: €101.92The first interdisciplinary history of vertigo, this book covers medical accounts from antiquity to the present, testimonies of lived experience, and literary and cultural representations of vertigo... -
Though the Bodies Fall by Noel O'Regan 9781783789481
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98From 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 Optimists by Andrew Miller
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54'ANDREW MILLER'S WRITING IS A SOURCE OF WONDER AND DELIGHT' Hilary Mantel 'ONE OF OUR MOST SKILFUL CHRONICLERS OF THE HUMAN HEART AND MIND' Sunday Times 'Exceptional' Sunday Times 'Powerful and... -
Hades, Argentina by Daniel Loedel 9780349994079
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €7.62'An astonishingly powerful novel about the complex nature of guilt' Colm Toibin'Remarkable . . . It will stay with me for a very long time' Kamila ShamsieA decade after fleeing for his life, a man is... -
The Fractured Life of Jimmy Dice by Ronan Ryan
Booksplease Price: €28.49If you enjoy Colin Barrett, Kevin Barry, Donal Ryan and Lisa McInerney, you will want to read THE FRACTURED LIFE OF JIMMY DICE by Ronan Ryan. Jimmy is born a twin, and while he doesn't know it, his...