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![Funny Boy: A Novel in Six Stories by Shyam Selvadurai 9780099459217 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9701129/10717833/9780099459217__64102.1781355655.jpg?c=1 "Funny Boy: A Novel in Six Stories by Shyam Selvadurai 9780099459217 [USED COPY]")
Funny Boy: A Novel in Six Stories by Shyam Selvadurai 9780099459217 [USED COPY]
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €4.05'A quiet masterpiece' Gay TimesIn the world of his large family - affluent Tamils living in Colombo, Sri Lanka - Arjie is an oddity, a 'funny boy' who prefers dressing as a girl to playing cricket... -
Black Car Burning Helen Mort 9781784706630
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91The debut novel from the brilliant and award-winning poet Helen MortAlexa is a police community support officer whose world feels unstable.Caron, Alexa's girlfriend, is pushing her away and pushing... -
Key Persons in the Early Years: Building relationships for quality provision in early years settings and primary schools by Peter Elfer
RRP: €36.88Booksplease Price: €36.10Key Persons in the Early Years aims to explain what a Key Person is, the theory behind the approach and the practicalities of implementation. Practical in its approach and containing case studies as... -
Three Women and a Boat: A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Title by Anne Youngson
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91Tender and humorous novel of second chances and life-changing new friendship for fans of Rachel Joyce, Clare Chambers and Barbara Pym'Life-affirming and funny' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING'Anne Youngson's witty... -
Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2016 Plunge into this hypnotic tale of female sexuality and power - from the author of Swimming Home and The Man Who Saw... -
Clear Carys Davies 9781803510422
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70"Tender, riveting and inventive is Clear, the newest offering and masterpiece from the brilliant Carys Davies. It will take your breath away" Sarah Jessica Parker "An exquisite, hopeful masterpiece"... -
There Are Little Kingdoms Kevin Barry 9781786890177
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70This award-winning story collection summons all the laughter, darkness and intensity of contemporary Irish life. A pair of fast girls court trouble as they cool their heels on a slow night in a small... -
When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà 9781783788255
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70"Sola pushes past the limits of human experience to tell a story of instinct and earth-time that is irresistible in its jagged glory." - C Pam Zhang, author of How Much of These Hills is Gold ... -
No Love Lost: The Selected Novellas of Rachel Ingalls, Introduced by Patricia Lockwood by Rachel Ingalls 9780571376582
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70Introduced by Patricia Lockwood: Gothic tales from the mistress of the weird behind frogman-romance Mrs Caliban for fans of Shirley Jackson, Lucia Berlin and Patricia Highsmith.'Wonderful.' Margaret... -
Palace of the Peacock (Faber Editions) by Wilson Harris
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.94The visionary masterpiece, tracing a riverboat crew's dreamlike jungle voyage ...'My new all time favourite book ... A magnificent, breathtaking and terrifying novel.' Tsitsi Dangarembga'An... -
Rethinking Contemporary British Women's Writing: Realism, Feminism, Materialism by Emilie Walezak 9781350171350
Booksplease Price: €121.63This book addresses the reception of realist texts by contemporary women writers inherited from theories of social constructionism. Offering close readings of well-known British realist writers such... -
In the Cut: With an introduction by Olivia Sudjic by Susanna Moore
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81Living alone in New York, Frannie teaches creative writing to a motley bunch of students, and secretly compiles a dictionary of street slang: virginia, n., vagina; snapper, n., vagina; brasole, n.,... -
Killingly: A gothic feminist historical thriller, perfect for fans of Triflers Need Not Apply by Katharine Beutner 9781838959227
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.17*FEATURED IN SUNDAY TIMES, NEW YORK TIMES, APPLE'S BEST BOOKS, AMAZON'S BEST BOOKS OF JUNE,CRIMEREADS RECOMMENDS AND LITHUB'S TOP BOOKS*'SARAH WATERS AND DONNA TARTT SQUAD, BUCKLE UP: Killingly is... -
Gender and Short Fiction: Women’s Tales in Contemporary Britain by Jorge Sacido-Romero 9780367665722
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €51.27In their new monograph, Gender and Short Fiction: Women's Tales in Contemporary Britain, Jorge Sacido-Romero and Laura M Lojo-Rodriguez explain why artistically ambitious women writers continue... -
Rethinking Contemporary British Women’s Writing: Realism, Feminism, Materialism by Emilie Walezak 9781350258549
Booksplease Price: €37.51Providing close readings of well-known British realist writers including Pat Barker, A. S. Byatt, Rose Tremain, Sarah Hall, Bernadine Evaristo and Zadie Smith, this book uses new directions in... -
The Contemporary British Novel Since 2000 by James Archeson
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €33.07The Contemporary British Novel Since 2000 is divided into five parts, with the first part examining the work of four particularly well-known and highly regarded twenty-first century writers: Ian... -
Writing Animals: Language, Suffering, and Animality in Twenty-First-Century Fiction by Timothy C. Baker 9783030038793
RRP: €89.24Booksplease Price: €84.35This book surveys a broad range of contemporary texts to show how representations of human-animal relations challenge the anthropocentric nature of fiction. By looking at the relation between... -
The Dead Don't Bleed by Neil Rollinson 9781787335363
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.16Two brothers confront each other and themselves to overcome their family legacy, from the doomed coalfields of north-east England to sun-bleached southern Spain'Thrilling and brilliantly imagined'... -
Sown in the Stars: Planting by the Signs by Sarah L. Hall 9780813197043
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €23.47"To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted." - Ecclesiastes... -
Community in Contemporary British Fiction: From Blair to Brexit by Sara Upstone 9781350244061
Booksplease Price: €37.51Examining how British writers are addressing the urgent matter of how we form and express group belonging in the 21st century, this book brings together a range of international scholars to explore... -
The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western by Richard Brautigan
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70Magic Child, a fifteen-year old Indian girl, wanders into the wrong whorehouse. She is looking for the right men to kill the monster. The monster that lives in the ice caves under the basement of... -
Contemporary Feminism and Women's Short Stories by Emma Young 9781474427739
RRP: €119.00Booksplease Price: €107.81New reading of contemporary feminisms and the short storyThe short story has received renewed attention and notable popular acclaim in the twenty-first century. This book offers a wide-ranging survey... -
The Crossing Andrew Miller 9781444753523
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 'Enthralling' Financial Times 'Remarkable'... -
There Is No Meant to Be: A Family Story by Jarred McGinnis 9781787303850
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €18.45There is no meant to be but the love I’ve known has made it hard to believe thatAn inventive, funny and deeply moving family epic: a love story, an elegy and a reminder that even in the mess of... -
North Country: An anthology of landscape and nature by Karen Lloyd
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €8.73"Curlews give their liquid, burbling call, a call of pure happiness, the music of the fells." Ella Pontefract, 1936, Wensleydale The North of England abounds with beauty, from unspoiled beaches in... -
Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-1970 Richard Brautigan 9781782113782
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.20Revenge of the Lawn is Richard Brautigan in miniature and contains no fewer than 62 ultra-short stories set mainly in Tacoma, Washington (where the author grew up) and in the flower-powered San... -
This is Pleasure by Mary Gaitskill
RRP: €8.32Booksplease Price: €6.76'Gets deep under your skin ... Gaitskill is uniquely attuned to the moment.' Sunday Times 'Gaitskill achieves a superb feat. She distils the suffering, anger, reactivity, danger and social... -
The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story by Philip Hensher
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98'Sometimes - not often - a book comes along that feels like Christmas. Philip Hensher's timely, but timeless, selection of the best short stories from the past 20 years is that kind of book. His... -
Community in Contemporary British Fiction: From Blair to Brexit by Sara Upstone 9781350244023
Booksplease Price: €126.09Examining how British writers are addressing the urgent matter of how we form and express group belonging in the 21st century, this book brings together a range of international scholars to explore... -
The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson 9781786091321
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91'Utterly compulsive' Daily Telegraph'A gripping gothic read' Sarah Hall, Guardian'So seductive ... I was hooked' IndependentThe Forest of Pendle used to be a hunting ground, but some say that the... -
The Met Office Advises Caution by 9781784102722
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.06Shortlisted for The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry First Collection Prize 2017. Rebecca Watts's debut collection is a witty, warm-hearted guide to the English landscape, and a fresh take on nature... -
Open Up by Thomas Morris 9780571317042
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €17.10A GRANTA BEST YOUNG BRITISH NOVELIST 2023'Brilliant, funny, unsettling. . . Thomas Morris is a master of the contemporary short story' SALLY ROONEY'With precision, wry humour and a generous heart,... -
Hotel Milano: Booker shortlisted author of Europa by Tim Parks 9781529919639
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91From the bestselling, Booker-shortlisted chronicler of Italy, a classic novel about a man's emotional reckoning in a changed world far from homeFrank's reclusive existence in a leafy part of London... -
Oppositions: Selected Essays by Mary Gaitskill 9781788168168
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.02'Mary Gaitskill is willing to think about the problematic with complexity and humanity, and without taking sides or engaging in all the fashionable moral hectoring that passes for serious thought... -
Beastings by Benjamin Myers
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €10.02Winner of the Portico Prize for Literature and the Northern Writers' Award 'A brilliant, brutal novel' ROBERT MACFARLANE A girl and a baby. A priest and a poacher. A savage pursuit through the... -
Poems from an Attic: Selected Poems, 1936-95 by Iris Murdoch 9781784746124
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.16'...Without surpriseI see him now in evil company.A wicked face – but oh those eyes could charm –Heart, sudden heart, don’t beat me to my knees.'Long hidden in an attic, vivid and revelatory poems... -
This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Winner of the 2023 BBC National Short Story Award by Naomi Wood 9781399615891
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.66WINNER OF THE BBC NATIONAL SHORT STORY AWARD'Terrifically exciting . . . It's a beautiful, electrifying thing to witness - a writer so hilariously and so reasonably voicing the unspeakable'Sarah... -
Brilliant Blue by Karen Stevens 9781917352055
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54Welcome to the infamous Duncock Estate. Nestled on the South English coast, it is a place where identity matters; where people hold down jobs and do their best. Where taboos are broken, adultery is... -
Rewriting the North: Contemporary British Fiction and the Cultural Politics of Devolution Chloe Ashbridge 9781032485027
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23This book shows how twenty-first-century writing about Northern England imagines alternative democratic futures for the region and the English nation, signalling the growing awareness of England as a... -
Climate Crisis and the 21st-Century British Novel by Astrid Bracke 9781350107489
Booksplease Price: €43.36This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.The challenge of rapid climate change is forcing us to rethink...