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New England Nightmares: True Tales of the Strange and Gothic by Keven McQueen
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €20.02New England is renowned for its quaint towns, beautiful landscapes, and busy ports. But it is also infamous as the setting for unexplained deaths, ghost stories, bizarre murders, and peculiar wills... -
Death and Life in the Ottoman Palace: Revelations of the Sultan Abd�lhamid I Tomb by Lecturer in Ottoman Turkish Douglas Scott Brookes 9781399510431
RRP: €37.20Booksplease Price: €32.98This book reveals multiple aspects of life in the Ottoman palace, in both its public space (the chancery) and private space (the royal household and the harem). It does so by exploring the Sultan... -
Go Down Moses And Other Stories by William Faulkner 9780099546160
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €14.96This title includes seven dramatic stories which reveal Faulkner's compassionate understanding of the Deep South. His characters are humble people who live out their lives within the same small... -
The Persians and Other Plays: The Persians / Prometheus Bound / Seven Against Thebes / The Suppliants by Aeschylus
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. The Persians, the only Greek tragedy to deal with events from... -
Every Peach Is a Story: A Picture Book David Mas Masumoto 9781949480290
RRP: €16.79Booksplease Price: €11.65In this poignant debut picture book from authors and farmers Nikiko Masumoto and David Mas Masumoto, with illustrations by award-winning artist Lauren Tamaki, little Midori discovers that every peach... -
Becoming Mrs. Lewis: The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis by Patti Callahan
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €14.81Meet the brilliant writer, fiercely independent mother, and passionate woman who captured the heart of C.S. Lewis and inspired the books that still enchant and change us today, from the New York... -
Cambridge in the Great War by Glynis Cooper 9781473834026
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €5.38Cambridge is one of the most famous universities in the world and its library is one of only five copyright libraries in the UK. At the start of the twentieth century it was a privileged life for... -
The BRAVE SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH: A personal account of battles against the Japanese and then dacoits in Burma between 1944 & 1947 by Lt. Col. D O O'Leary OBE MC* 9781839521744
Booksplease Price: €13.69The Brave Shall Inherit the Earth is the motto of the Rajputana Rifles, the oldest rifle regiment in the pre-World-War-Two Indian Army. It is a fitting epitaph to this remarkable young officer who... -
Next Door to the Dead: Poems by Kathleen Driskell
RRP: €21.60Booksplease Price: €19.78When Kathleen Driskell tells her husband that she's gone to visit the neighbors, she means something different than most. The noted poet -- whose last book, Seed across Snow, was twice listed as a... -
So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away by Richard Brautigan
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.77In a small Pacific Northwest town we meet a young man who has shot dead his best friend with a gun. The novel deals with the repercussions of this tragedy: the anguish, regret, despair and... -
Sugar Man: The Life, Death and Resurrection of Sixto Rodriguez by Craig Bartholomew Strydom
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.35In the summer of 1972, during a compulsory stint in the South African military, Stephen 'Sugar' Segerman heard the music that would forever change his life. A decade later, on yet another military... -
Selected Poetry by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 9780199555826
RRP: €9.59Booksplease Price: €7.64Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was one of the most versatile minds in European intellectual history, and a shaping influence in the development of English poetry. As a radical young poet in... -
Report to Greco by Nikos Kazantzakis
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.77Kazantzakis's autobiographical novel Report to Greco was one of the last things he wrote before he died. It paints a vivid picture of his childhood in Crete, still occupied by the Turks, and then... -
The Poems of Shelley: Volume Five: 1821 - 1822 by Michael Rossington 9781138016644
RRP: €168.00Booksplease Price: €154.42Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was one of the major poets of the English Romantic period. This is the fifth volume of a six-volume edition of The Poems of Shelley, which aims to present all of... -
Thucydides's Melian Dialogue and Sicilian Expedition: A Student Commentary by Martha C Taylor 9780806161945
RRP: €32.39Booksplease Price: €28.21Best known for his account of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides (c. 454-c. 395 b.c.) was an Athenian general and historian. This valuable commentary addresses the most famous part of Thucydides's... -
The Gigli Concert by Tom Murphy 9780413659309
Booksplease Price: €17.63"One of the greatest Irish plays of the century" (Irish Times) "The language of the play is on a sort of inspired bender. It surfeits on its own potency. Tom Murphy's gift - here and in his other... -
Christ Recrucified by Nikos Kazantzakis
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.77The inhabitants of a Greek village, ruled by the Turks, plan to enact the life of Christ in a mystery play but are overwhelmed by their task. A group of refugees, fleeing from the ruins of their... -
The Fratricides by Nikos Kazantzakis
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.77The Fratricides is about internecine strife in a village in the Epirus during the Greek civil war of the late 1940s. Many of the villagers, including Captain Drakos, son of the local priest Father... -
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Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman 9781843546535 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €3.95THE BELOVED COMING-OF-AGE CLASSIC, NOW A WORLDWIDE BESTSELLERDuring a restless summer on the Italian Riviera, a powerful romance blooms between seventeen-year-old Elio and his father's house guest,... -
Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman 9781786495259
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €7.24Now a Major Motion Picture from Director Luca Guadagnino, Starring Armie Hammer and Timothee Chalamet, and Written by James IvoryWINNER BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY ACADEMY AWARDNominated for Four OscarsA... -
When Grandmama Fell Off the Boat: The Best of Harry Graham by Harry Graham
RRP: €19.14Booksplease Price: €13.32When Grandmama Fell off the Boat is an anthology of the humorous verse of Harry Graham, one of the early 20th century's wittiest writers. Graham made his name as the author of Ruthless Rhymes for... -
Latin: or, the Empire of a Sign by Françoise Waquet
RRP: €26.40Booksplease Price: €18.64Though not without its rivals, Latin stood at the apex of Western culture from the Renaissance until relatively recently. Francoise Waquet offers an enthralling, original history of the language's... -
The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Early Modern England by Michael Ullyot 9780192849335
RRP: €96.00Booksplease Price: €92.30In this study, Michael Ullyot makes two new arguments about the rhetoric of exemplarity in late Elizabethan and Jacobean culture: first, that exemplarity is a recursive cycle driven by rhetoricians'... -
Plays for England by John Osborne
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €12.06John Osborne (1929-1994) was the leading playwright of the post-war British theatre revival: a rennaissance that is said to have started when his Look Back in Anger was first performed at the Royal... -
The Last Temptation by Nikos Kazantzakis
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.77Kazantzakis's classic novel, blacklisted by the Vatican, filmed by Scorsese, has been labelled heretical, blasphemous, and also a masterpiece. His Christ is an epic conception, wholly original.'When... -
Steam Trains Today: Journeys Along Britain's Heritage Railways by Andrew Martin 9781788161459
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11'A delightful book ... the perfect companion as you wait for the 8.10 from Hove' Observer After the Beeching cuts of the 1960s, many railways were gradually shut down. Rural communities were... -
The Red Line: The Gripping Story of the RAF's Bloodiest Raid on Hitler's Germany by John Nichol 9780007486854
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €10.50From best-selling author of Tail-End Charlie and Tornado Down comes this powerful and deeply moving account of Bomber Command's 1944 Nuremberg Raid - the RAF's bloodiest night of the Second World War... -
Dreamers Of The Day by Mary Doria Russell 9780552774857
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €14.96'I am sure of this much: my little story has become your history. You won't really understand your times until you understand mine...'Reeling from the aftermath of the twin tragedies of the Great War... -
Soldier of Change: From the Closet to the Forefront of the Gay Rights Movement by Stephen Snyder-Hill 9781612348162
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €16.04When the U.S. military repealed "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," its official policy on homosexuality in the services, Capt. Stephen Snyder-Hill was serving in Iraq. After years enduring the culture of fear... -
Perla by Frederic Brun 9781496201027
RRP: €16.79Booksplease Price: €15.10Perla is the story of a woman who lived through the horrors of the Holocaust and would ultimately die unable to extricate herself from its corrosive memory. It is told from the point of view of her... -
Do What You Want: The Story of Bad Religion by Bad Religion
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €14.32DO WHAT YOU WANT: The Story of Bad Religion reveals the ups and downs of the band's 40-year career. From their beginnings as teenagers jamming in a San Fernando Valley garage dubbed "The Hell Hole"... -
Ancient Epigraphic Culture on the Aegean and Ionian Islands by Krzysztof Nawotka 9781350447653
Booksplease Price: €117.88Through a series of case-studies of nine Aegean and Ionian islands, the contributors examine the ancient epigraphic culture of each island's political, social and religious history from the archaic... -
Memento Mori: What the Romans Can Tell Us About Old Age and Death by Peter Jones 9781786494825
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54In this revealing and entertaining guide to how the Romans confronted their own mortality, Peter Jones shows us that all the problems associated with old age and death that so transfix us today were... -
Adorned: The Romantic Poetics of Ornament by Alexis Chema 9781503647169
RRP: €28.79Booksplease Price: €24.14Ornamental verses abound in Romantic-era commonplace books, albums, epitaphs, pamphlets, personal and commercial anthologies, newspapers, magazines, and periodicals - that is, in the repositories... -
Journey into Fear by Eric Ambler
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €10.16It is 1940 and Mr Graham, a quietly-spoken engineer and arms expert, has just finished high-level talks with the Turkish government. And now somebody wants him dead. The previous night three shots... -
Return of the Dambusters: What 617 Squadron Did Next by John Nichol
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.50(Previously published as 'After the Flood') Former RAF Tornado Navigator and Gulf War veteran John Nichol sets out on a personal journey to discover what happened to 617 Squadron after the... -
Soldier of Change: From the Closet to the Forefront of the Gay Rights Movement by Stephen Snyder-Hill 9781612346977
RRP: €21.59Booksplease Price: €19.08When the U.S. military repealed "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," its official policy on homosexuality in the services, Capt. Stephen Snyder-Hill was serving in Iraq. After years enduring the culture of fear... -
The Big Sleep and Other Novels by Raymond Chandler 9780141182612
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since' Paul Auster, author of The New... -
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Train Teasers: A Quiz Book for the Cultured Trainspotter by Andrew Martin 9781788163941 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €2.88When was smoking banned on trains? Which actor restored kippers to the menu of the Brighton Belle? What regular lineside event did Dickens describe as 'a shave in the air'? Perfect for a... -
Train Teasers: A Quiz Book for the Cultured Trainspotter by Andrew Martin
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €17.24When was smoking banned on trains? Which actor restored kippers to the menu of the Brighton Belle? What regular lineside event did Dickens describe as 'a shave in the air'? Perfect for a...