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Mothers Don't by Katrixa Agirre 9781739823603
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.60A mother kills her twins. Another woman, the narrator, is about to give birth. She is a writer and realises that she knows the woman who killed the children. An obsession is triggered. She takes a... -
Sybil: The True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Separate Personalities by Flora Schreiber
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08A controversial cult classic, Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber is the extraordinary story of a woman who suffered from multiple personality disorder.'How are you today?' the doctor asked. 'I'm fine',... -
Dog Stories Diana Secker Tesdell 9781841596068
RRP: €18.00Booksplease Price: €13.72The unforgettable canines gathered here include Kipling's heroically faithful 'Garm', Bret Harte's irrepressible scoundrel of a 'yaller dog' and the aggressively affectionate three-legged pit bull... -
Dog Stories by Diana Secker Tesdell 9781841596068 [USED COPY]
RRP: €18.00Booksplease Price: €2.72The unforgettable canines gathered here include Kipling's heroically faithful 'Garm', Bret Harte's irrepressible scoundrel of a 'yaller dog' and the aggressively affectionate three-legged pit bull... -
The Deposition of Father McGreevy Brian O'Doherty 9781900850681
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €8.14"It should have won all the prizes" DORIS LESSING"Enthralling, chilling and memorable" Sunday Telegraph"So original that the text is illuminating" The Times"Remarkable and haunting" Guardian In a... -
The Novel Cure: An A to Z of Literary Remedies by Ella Berthoud
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08Mumsnet 'Best Books for Christmas 2016''Ideal for anyone who has ever wondered what on earth to read next' SJ WATSON'Witty, engaging and informative. The sort of book you choose for a friend and end... -
Woman's Hour: Words from Wise, Witty and Wonderful Women Alison Maloney 9781785942426
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €11.69For the last 70 years, the guests of Woman's Hour have been entertaining listeners with their compelling combination of wit, warmth, insight and humour. Woman's Hour has interviewed many of the... -
Cat Stories Diana Secker Tesdell 9781841596105
RRP: €18.00Booksplease Price: €13.72Playful kittens and ruthless predators, beloved pets and witches' familiars - cats of all kinds come alive in these stories. Maeve Brennan and Alice Adams movingly explore what cats can mean to their... -
The Fatal Eggs by Mikhail Bulgakov
RRP: €9.59Booksplease Price: €7.40Professor Persikov, an eccentric zoologist, stumbles upon a new light ray that accelerates growth and reproduction rates in living organisms. In the wake of a plague that has decimated the country's... -
The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture, 1830-1980 by Elaine Showalter
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.60In this informative, timely and often harrowing study, Elaine Showalter demonstrates how cultural ideas about 'proper' feminine behaviour have shaped the definition and treatment of female insanity... -
Shaken and Stirred: Intoxicating Stories by Diana Secker Tesdell
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.78In 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... -
The Arabian Nights by Muhsin Mahdi
RRP: €16.79Booksplease Price: €15.90The stories of The Arabian Nights (and stories within stories, and stories within stories within stories) are famously told by the Princess Shahrazad, under the threat of death should the king lose... -
Love and Other Thought Experiments: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 Sophie Ward 9781472154606
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €7.40Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020Longlisted for the Desmond Eliot Prize 2020Longlisted for the Polari Prize 2021Featuring on BBC 2's Between the Covers'Sophie Ward is a dazzling talent who writes... -
Black Sunset: Hollywood Sex, Lies, Glamour, Betrayal, and Raging Egos by Clancy Sigal 9781785784392
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08For me it begins in such an ordinary way ... with a gorilla, a blonde,and a gun ...Mid- 20th century Hollywood; 'RaymondChandler's LA before Pilates and cell phones'. Clancy Sigal (who would later... -
Stories of Art & Artists by Diana Secker Tesdell
RRP: €18.00Booksplease Price: €13.72Stories of Art and Artists gathers two centuries of stories from around the world. From Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Artist of the Beautiful" and Albert Camus's "The Artist at Work" to Bernard... -
Black Sunset: Hollywood Sex, Lies, Glamour, Betrayal, and Raging Egos by Clancy Sigal
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.77For me it begins in such an ordinary way ... with a gorilla, a blonde,and a gun ...Mid- 20th century Hollywood; 'RaymondChandler's LA before Pilates and cell phones'. Clancy Sigal (who would later... -
Love and Other Thought Experiments by Sophie Ward 9781472154606 [USED COPY]
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €2.38Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020Longlisted for the Desmond Eliot Prize 2020Longlisted for the Polari Prize 2021Featuring on BBC 2's Between the Covers'Sophie Ward is a dazzling talent who writes... -
Black Sunset: Hollywood Sex, Lies, Glamour, Betrayal, and Raging Egos by Clancy Sigal 9781785784392 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €2.71For me it begins in such an ordinary way ... with a gorilla, a blonde,and a gun ...Mid- 20th century Hollywood; 'RaymondChandler's LA before Pilates and cell phones'. Clancy Sigal (who would later... -
The Story: Love: Great Short Stories for Women by Women by Victoria Hislop 9781781856642 [USED COPY]
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €2.95'Love is, of course, a central preoccupation of literature...' Victoria Hislop, bestselling author and champion of the short story, has chosen her favourite short stories by women writers. Here... -
Stones of Bobello by Edwar Al-Kharrat 9780863565168
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €8.14Set in the small town called Tarrana in the Nile Delta in the 1930s, Stones of Bobello revolves around nine episodes in the life of a sensitive young Christian boy - a montage of philosophical,... -
Woman's Hour: Words from Wise, Witty and Wonderful Women by Alison Maloney 9781785942426 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €2.36For the last 70 years, the guests of Woman's Hour have been entertaining listeners with their compelling combination of wit, warmth, insight and humour. Woman's Hour has interviewed many of the... -
London Stories by 9781841596167
RRP: €18.00Booksplease Price: €13.72London has the greatest literary tradition of any city in the world. Its roll-call of story-tellers includes cultural giants who changed the way the world thought about writing, like Shakespeare,... -
Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara Ellah Wakatama Allfrey 9781408869024
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.74Africa has produced some of the best writing of the twentieth century from Chinua Achebe, Ayi Kwei Armah, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and the Nobel Laureates Wole Soyinka, Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee and... -
The Story: 100 Great Short Stories Written by Women by Victoria Hislop
RRP: €21.60Booksplease Price: €18.98A special reissue from Head of Zeus's bestselling anthology collection of the best 100 short stories written by women, selected by Victoria Hislop, one of the nation's favourite novelists. Witty,... -
The Story: Life: Great Short Stories for Women by Women by Victoria Hislop 9781781856666 [USED COPY]
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €3.22'Life provides infinite shades of light and dark...' Victoria Hislop, bestselling author and champion of the short story, has chosen her favourite short stories by women writers. Here are... -
Three Women of Herat: Afghanistan 1973-77 Veronica Doubleday 9781780601977
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.38In 1973, the Afghans still had a King who ruled from a palace in Kabul with his own resident court of musicians when Veronica set up home in Herat. This Afghan city sat close to the Persian frontier... -
Stranger Shores by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €15.79J. M. Coetzee is, without question, one of the world's greatest novelists. This volume gathers together for the first time in book form twenty-nine pieces on books, writing, photography and the 1995... -
Mysteries: Classic Edition by Knut Hamsun
RRP: €14.39Booksplease Price: €10.37'Knut Hamsun founded the modernist and postmodernist novel at once' writes James Wood in his introduction to this seminal work by a Nobel Prize-winning writer who has been recognised as one of the... -
Property: Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction by Valerie Martin 9780349117324
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.62WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2003Manon Gaudet is unhappily married to the owner of a Louisiana sugar plantation. She misses her family and longs for the vibrant lifestyle of her native New... -
Property: Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction by Valerie Martin 9780349117324 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €2.24WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2003Manon Gaudet is unhappily married to the owner of a Louisiana sugar plantation. She misses her family and longs for the vibrant lifestyle of her native New... -
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence 9780241951545
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €8.77'Connie was aware, however, of a growing restlessness...It thrilled inside her body, in her womb, somewhere, till she felt she must jump into water and swim to get away from it; a mad restlessness... -
Killing Stella by Marlen Haushofer 9780811238656
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.12Main description: Left alone for the weekend while her husband and two children are visiting her in-laws, the narrator of KILLING STELLA recounts the addition of her friend's daughter, Stella, into... -
Awakenings by Oliver Sacks 9781529087437
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.62'The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it' - Guardian Hailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature... -
A People without a Past: Between Three Plagues Volume 2 by Jaan Kross
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.62The second part in an epic historical trilogy - The Estonian answer to Wolf Hall - by the nation's greatest modern writer The year is 1563, and by any account Balthasar Russow can be said to have... -
The Ropewalker: Between Three Plagues Volume I by Jaan Kross
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11The first part in an epic historical trilogy - The Estonian answer to Wolf Hall - by the nation's greatest modern writer Jaan Kross's trilogy dramatises the life of the renowned Livonian Chronicler... -
Churchill's Wizards: The British Genius for Deception 1914-1945 by Nicholas Rankin 9780571221967 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €2.88The real story of how Winston Churchill and the British mastered deception to defeat the Nazis - by conning the Kaiser, hoaxing Hitler and using brains to outwit brawn. By June 1940, most of Europe... -
Churchill's Wizards: The British Genius for Deception 1914-1945 by Nicholas Rankin
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €14.58The real story of how Winston Churchill and the British mastered deception to defeat the Nazis - by conning the Kaiser, hoaxing Hitler and using brains to outwit brawn. By June 1940, most of Europe... -
A Daughter of Isis: The Early Life of Nawal El Saadawi, In Her Own Words Nawal El Saadawi 9780755651566
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €17.92In A Daughter of Isis, Nawal El Saadawi, author of Woman at Point Zero and one of the Arab world's greatest writers, tells the story of the formative years which shaped an iconic voice in global... -
The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw 9780007232284 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €2.81A landmark work of fiction from one of Britain's most exciting new writers: The Harmony Silk Factory is a devastating love story set against the turmoil of mid-twentieth century Malaysia. ... -
The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54One hot summer afternoon in South Yorkshire, Faro sits at a lecture on genetic inheritance. She has travelled from London to the Northern mining town where generations of her family have lived and...