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Song Of Solomon Toni Morrison 9781857152166
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.16This is the story of Macon 'Milkman' Dead, heir to the richest black family in a midwestern town, as he makes a voyage of rediscovery, travelling southwards geographically and inwards spirituality... -
Rainbow's End by Katie Flynn 9781529984323
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.72Liverpool, 1904When Ada Docherty gives birth to twins, Deidre and Donal, in her tiny house in Evangelist Court, she has no choice but to make Ellen, her eldest daughter, bring them up, for she must... -
Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70Shortlisted for the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 20172017 PULITZER PRIZE Finalist for Fiction TIME Top Ten Novels of 2016 'It might be the best American novel about a middle-class family since... -
Lear's Other Shadow: A Cultural History of Queen Lear Thomas G Olsen 9781644533550
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94Lear's Other Shadow: A Cultural History of Queen Lear offers a deep cultural analysis of the figure of Queen Lear, who shadows and eventually sometimes overshadows her royal husband across the nearly... -
Tinkers by Paul Harding
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.51An old man lies dying. Confined to bed in his living room, he sees the walls around him begin to collapse, the windows come loose from their sashes, and the ceiling plaster fall off in great chunks,... -
Me, My Hair, and I by Elizabeth Benedict
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50"[A] splendid collection . . . By turns wry, tender, pointed, and laugh-out-loud funny." -Publishers Weekly"Untangles the many truths about hair, and the lives we lead underneath it." -Pamela ... -
One Grand Summer Ewald Arenz 9781916788183
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81When he fails his exams, 16-year-old Frieder is forced to stay with his grandparents for the summer, leading to an unforgettable and profound series of experiences that will change him forever. ... -
Tasting Sunlight by Ewald Arenz
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.77An extraordinary bond develops between an angry teenage runaway and a middle-aged woman running a large farm on her own, as they work the land and slowly heal ... the sublime, achingly beautiful... -
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46A novel of the friendships and woes of two couples, which tells the story of their lives in lyrical, evocative prose by one of the finest American writers of the late 20th century.When two young... -
Whisper of the Seals by Roxanne Bouchard
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81Detective Morales becomes immersed in a chilling case set on the icy seas of Quebec's remote Magdalen Islands, in the midst of a brutal seal hunt. A breathtaking, atmospheric, race-against-the-clock... -
The Children by Ann Leary
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.16As always, Leary makes dysfunction, pathology and even tragedy completely compelling. - The Huffington PostCharlotte Maynard rarely leaves her mother's home; the sprawling Connecticut lake house that... -
Adventurous Women in Contemporary American Historical Fiction: Girls' Own Stories by Jeannette King 9783030941284
RRP: €118.99Booksplease Price: €107.77This book brings together for the first time nine groundbreaking historical novels by women from the United States, Canada and Latin America, united by their focus on female adventurers. These novels... -
Adventurous Women in Contemporary American Historical Fiction: Girls' Own Stories by Jeannette King 9783030941253
RRP: €118.99Booksplease Price: €107.77This book brings together for the first time nine groundbreaking historical novels by women from the United States, Canada and Latin America, united by their focus on female adventurers. These novels... -
Black Beauty (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Anna Sewell
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98Anna Sewell's moving story is one of the best-loved animal adventures ever written, this Penguin Threads edition of Black Beauty includes a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley, cover... -
Telling Incest: Narratives of Dangerous Remembering from Stein to Sapphire by Janice Doane 9780472097944
Booksplease Price: €94.40In the last decade, women's accounts of father-daughter incest have prompted much public debate. Are these accounts true? Are they false? Telling Incest, however, asks a different question: what does... -
Post-War Jewish Fiction: Ambivalence, Self Explanation and Transatlantic Connections by David Brauner 9780333740354
Booksplease Price: €107.77In this groundbreaking study, David Brauner explores the representation of Jewishness in a number of works by postwar British and American Jewish writers, identifying a transatlantic sensibility... -
Telling Incest: Narratives of Dangerous Remembering from Stein to Sapphire by Janice Doane 9780472067947
RRP: €24.93Booksplease Price: €24.55In the last decade, women's accounts of father-daughter incest have prompted much public debate. Are these accounts true? Are they false? Telling Incest, however, asks a different question: what does... -
The Literary Bent: In Search of High Art in Contemporary American Writing by James D. Bloom 9780812215984
Booksplease Price: €29.62What is "literature in these postmodern, postcanonical times? And if a small number of works being written today are "literary," what distinguishes them from those many others that are not? The store... -
O's Little Book of Happiness The Editors of O, the Oprah Magazine 9781447294160
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81With a sprightly dose of insightful inspiration, a sprinkling of practical advice, and a bounty of exuberant stories by great writers, O's Little Book of Happiness features some of the best work ever... -
Working the Garden: American Writers and the Industrialization of Agriculture by William Conlogue 9780807849941
Booksplease Price: €50.58In 1860 farmers accounted for 60 percent of the American workforce; in 1910, 30.5 percent; by 1994, there were too few to warrant a separate census category. The changes wrought by the decline of... -
Postwar Academic Fiction: Satire, Ethics, Community by Kenneth Womack 9780333918821
Booksplease Price: €107.77As a literary genre, academic fiction has emerged in recent years as one of the most popular modes for satirizing the cultural conflicts and sociological nuances inherent in campus life. Drawing upon... -
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O's Little Book of Happiness by The Editors of O the Oprah Magazine 9781447294160 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €2.36With a sprightly dose of insightful inspiration, a sprinkling of practical advice, and a bounty of exuberant stories by great writers, O's Little Book of Happiness features some of the best work ever... -
Horse Stories by Diana Secker Tesdell
RRP: €17.85Booksplease Price: €13.60Horse Stories corrals two centuries of short fiction about the most majestic of domesticated animals. From writers old and new come stories of magnificent stallions, broken-down nags, racehorses,... -
The Good Parts: The Best Erotic Writing in Modern Fiction 9780425172254
RRP: €28.56Booksplease Price: €20.42They imbued their art with the truth about love and sex and seduction. They pushed erotic writing to the center stage of American fiction. They took risks, fed our imaginations, and explored our... -
A Little Bit of Fairies: An Introduction to Fairy Magic Elaine Clayton 9781454928720
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.07Whimsical and lyrical, this book explores what and who fairies may be and is sure to intrigue everyone who wants to acquaint themselves with these otherworldly beings. Elaine Clayton takes a look at... -
Fictive Fathers in the Contemporary American Novel by Professor Debra Shostak 9781501386008
Booksplease Price: €41.46Fictive Fathers in the Contemporary American Novel explores the unstable construction of heteronormative white masculinity in the contemporary United States by focusing on relationships between... -
The Greatest Horse Stories Ever Told: Thirty Unforgettable Horse Tales by Steven D. Price 9781493081547
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €19.10Throughout recorded history, the horse has played many roles in human life. He has been man's partner in war, his servant in work, his teammate in sports, his inspiration in art. So it is only... -
Independent People by Halldór Laxness 9781841593975
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.73Set in the early decades of the twentieth century, Independent People is a masterly realist novel evoking in rich detail a family and a rural community struggling to survive in the starkest of... -
Literature and The Contemporary: Fictions and Theories of the Present by Roger Luckhurst 9780582312043
Booksplease Price: €68.54At the end of the century, much criticism has become devoted to `last things': the end of history, the end of the subject, the end of the novel, the end, even, of the end. Literature and the... -
Life As We Know It: A Collection of Personal Essays from Salon.com by Jennifer Foote Sweeney 9780743476867
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €18.41"...these essays are jewels of the unexpected, and in introducing them, I don't want to steal any of their surprise. Suffice it to say that family life...is alive and well, but it is not like... -
A Little Bit of Angels: An Introduction to Guardian Healing Elaine Clayton 9781454928713
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €10.47Angels will warn us, protect us, and enhance our lives - if we understand how to work with their energy. But how do we ask our angelic guides for intervention? Or determine if their influence is... -
The Spaces of Violence by James Giles
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €24.23In The Spaces of Violence, James R. Giles examines ten contemporary American novels for the unique ways in which they explore violence and space as interrelated phenomena. These texts are Russell... -
A Story Larger Than My Own: Women Writers Look Back on Their Lives and Careers by Janet Burroway 9780226014074
RRP: €65.45Booksplease Price: €64.11In 1955, Maxine Kumin submitted a poem to the Saturday Evening Post. "Lines on a Half-Painted House" made it into the magazine - but not before Kumin was asked to produce, via her husband's employer,... -
A Little Bit of Angels: An Introduction to Spirit Guidance Elaine Clayton 9781454960706
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.07An "angelic" entry in the popular LITTLE BIT OF series! Angels will warn us, protect us, and enhance our lives-if we understand how to work with their energy. But how do we ask our angelic guides for... -
Aging Masculinity in the American Novel by Alex Hobbs 9781442266780
Booksplease Price: €96.07As each generation confronts aging and responds to its challenges, the literary community-ranging from Philip Roth to Jonathan Franzen-has provided nuanced and thoughtful depictions that transcend... -
Writers in Conversation with Christopher Bigsby: Volume VI Christopher Bigsby 9781911343134
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.60Writers in Conversation compiles Christopher Bigsby's interviews with the world's greatest writers from a decade of the Arthur Miller Centre's International Literary Festival at the University of... -
Bad Land by Jonathan Raban 9781035034529
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54Jonathan Raban's enthralling journey into the history of the Great Plains of Montana - the least populated, most uncharted region of the United States - to uncover the heart and soul of the country... -
The Financial Imaginary: Economic Mystification and the Limits of Realist Fiction by Alison Shonkwiler 9781517901523
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €21.71As the world has been reshaped since the 1970s by neoliberalism and globalization, increasing financial abstraction has presented a new political urgency for contemporary writers. Globalized finance,... -
The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950 by Carmen Callil 9781849016766
Booksplease Price: €24.63For Colm Toibin and Carmen Callil there is no difference between literary and commercial writing - there is only the good novel: engrossing, inspirational, compelling. In their selection of the best... -
Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne 9780141441979
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.29Jules Verne's wild and riotous fantasy Journey to the Centre of the Earth delves into the hidden mysteries of a vast, uncharted subterranean world. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from...