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The Centre of the Bed: An Autobiography by Joan Bakewell
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.02'Honest and intriguing ... beautifully written.' Observer'Joan Bakewell was everywhere at every stage: reporting on the Cuban missile crisis, interviewing Allen Ginsberg and Vaclav Havel, taking... -
At the Garden's Dark Edge: Selected Poems Anthony Thwaite 9781481321839
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €14.97Anthony Thwaite (1930-2021) was one of the most formidable voices in postwar English letters. Deeply esteemed by fellow poets and critics for his original and technically controlled poetry, Thwaite... -
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius by Graham Farmelo
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51'A monumental achievement - one of the great scientific biographies.' Michael FraynThe Strangest Man is the Costa Biography Award-winning account of Paul Dirac, the famous physicist sometimes called... -
The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Maths Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets by Graham Farmelo 9780571321827
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51'A superbly written, riveting book.'MARTIN REES, Astronomer Royal'I am overcome with admiration for its range and profundity. An amazing achievement.'MICHAEL FRAYN'A wonderful book.'TOM STOPPARDA... -
A Country Doctor's Notebook by Mikhail Bulgakov
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.13TRANSLATED BY MICHAEL GLENNYWith the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural Russia which, in 1916-17, was still largely... -
Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98Jane Austen is the definitive biography of one of Britain's best-loved novelists, from the acclaimed author of Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, Charles Dickens: A Life and The Invisible Woman'As... -
Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin 9780141036939
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51Charles Dickens is the acclaimed definitive biography by bestselling author Claire Tomalin Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless... -
Understanding Jonathan Coe by Merritt Moseley 9781611176506
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €24.86In Understanding Jonathan Coe, the first full-length study of the British novelist, Merritt Moseley surveys a writer whose experimental technique has become increasingly well received and critically... -
Comedy Acting for Theatre: The Art and Craft of Performing in Comedies by Sidney Homan 9781350012776
Booksplease Price: €35.97Analysing why we laugh and what we laugh at, and describing how performers can elicit this response from their audience, this book enables actors to create memorable - and hilarious - performances. ... -
The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World by Claire Tomalin
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46A fascinating journey into the life of H.G. Wells, from one of Britain's best biographersHow did the first forty years of H. G. Wells' life shape the father of science fiction?From his impoverished... -
Einstein's War: How Relativity Conquered Nationalism and Shook the World by Matthew Stanley
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70'Deeply researched and profoundly absorbing . . . Matthew Stanley traces one of the greatest epics of scientific history . . . An amazing story' Michael Frayn, author of Tony Award-winning... -
Anton Chekhov: A Life by Donald Rayfield 9780571253739
Booksplease Price: €36.28The description 'definitive' is too easily used, but Donald Rayfield's biography of Chekhov merits it unhesitatingly. To quote no less an authority than Michael Frayn:'With question the definitive... -
Stage Blood: Five tempestuous years in the early life of the National Theatre by Michael Blakemore 9780571241385
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51In 1971, Michael Blakemore joined the National Theatre as Associate Director under Laurence Olivier. The National, still based at the Old Vic, was at a moment of transition awaiting the move to its... -
The Women by T. C Boyle 9781408800980
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.64Welcome to the troubled, tempestuous world of Frank Lloyd Wright. Scandalous affairs rage behind closed doors, broken hearts are tossed aside, fires rip through the wings of the house and paparazzi... -
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Gorsky by Vesna Goldsworthy 9781784700706 [USED COPY]
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €2.38Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction'Captivating' Sunday Times'Glittering' Sunday ExpressLondon dances to the tune of Gorsky's billions.The most enigmatic of oligarchs, Gorsky desires... -
The Upstairs Room by Kate Murray-Browne
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.97'An incredible read. Clever, chilling, I couldn't put it down' Joanna Cannon, author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep In Kate Murray-Browne's debut, Eleanor and Richard have stretched themselves... -
The Proof Stage: How Theater Reveals the Human Truth of Mathematics by Stephen Abbott 9780691206080
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €30.00How playwrights from Alfred Jarry and Samuel Beckett to Tom Stoppard and Simon McBurney brought the power of abstract mathematics to the human stageThe discovery of alternate geometries, paradoxes of... -
Arguments with England by Michael Blakemore
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51'Some of the most exhilarating writing about theatre ever committed to paper, a beady and original analysis of Britain (and incidentally British theatre) in the 50s and 60s, a profound account of the... -
Restless by William Boyd 9780747586203
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €10.02It is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian emigree living in Paris. As war breaks out she is recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas Romer, a mysterious Englishman,... -
A Long Watch: War, Captivity and Return in Sri Lanka by Ajith Boyagoda
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €28.48A Long Watch offers a story of human complexity amid entrenched narratives of Sri Lanka's long civil war. Pulled from a dark ocean after a battle at sea, Commodore Boyagoda became the highest-ranking... -
Penhall Plays: Blue/orange, Dumb Show, Wild Turkey: v. 2 by Joe Penhall 9780713689433
Booksplease Price: €30.10Penhall's 1994 play Some Voices was described as 'the most thrilling playwriting debut in years' by the Sunday Times. He has consistently lived up to and exceeded that early promise as the plays in... -
Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution by Richard Dawkins 9781838937850
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €27.38Richard Dawkins on how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to the skies. 'A masterly investigation of all aspects of flight, human and animal... A beautifully... -
A Tale Of Love And Darkness by Amos Oz
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.26Discover Amos Oz's most iconic work in this extraordinary memoir that is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation*OVER 2 MILLION COPIES... -
Willy Brandt: Prisoner of His Past by Viola Herms Drath 9780761831952
Booksplease Price: €67.43Originally published in 1975, this book chronicles the exciting and tragic rise and fall of Germany's first Social Democratic Chancellor, Willy Brandt. Viola Herms Drath recently participated in a... -
Comrade Jim: The Spy Who Played for Spartak by Professor Jim Riordan 9780007251155
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.78The true and remarkable story of the English double agent who ended up playing for Spartak Moscow. Like many working class children growing up in the war, the young Jim Riordan would... -
Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution by Richard Dawkins
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.97Richard Dawkins on how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to the skies. 'A masterly investigation of all aspects of flight, human and animal... A beautifully... -
The Proof Stage: How Theater Reveals the Human Truth of Mathematics by Stephen Abbott 9780691243375
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €18.46How playwrights from Alfred Jarry and Samuel Beckett to Tom Stoppard and Simon McBurney brought the power of mathematics to life on the stageThe discovery of alternate geometries, paradoxes of the... -
Anatomy of a Disappearance by Hisham Matar
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €7.43In Egypt, Nuri, a teenage boy, falls in love with Mona - the woman his father will marry. Consumed with longing, Nuri wants to get his father out of the way - to take his place in Mona's heart. But... -
Iron Curtain: A Love Story by Vesna Goldsworthy 9781529115291
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91'A piercingly evocative East-West love story' The TimesThis is a story of East and West. A story of love, betrayal, and lost illusions...The end of the Cold War seems unimaginable for Milena, a Red... -
English for the Natives: Discover the Grammar You Don't Know You Know Harry Ritchie 9781848548398
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.51'My first English lesson was grammar with the terrifying Mrs Petrie. She spent the entire time marching up and down the classroom, thwacking various items of school furniture with a ruler while she... -
Bitter by Francesca Jakobi
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.07'A novel to detonate the heart. Fans of Gail Honeyman and Joanna Cannon will love Bitter' A.J. Finn, author of The Woman in the Window 'As gripping as Zoe Heller's Notes on A Scandal' Peter... -
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98From the acclaimed author of Charles Dickens: A Life comes a celebrated biography that casts new light on the remarkable diaries of Samuel Pepys.Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a... -
A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller In this remarkable memoir of love, loss and literature, acclaimed biographer Claire Tomalin turns her eye to another fascinating literary life: her own. She tells of... -
The Fraud by Zadie Smith 9780241983096
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €6.99Book of the Year 2023 according to New York Times, New Yorker, Guardian, Economist, Observer, The Spectator, Financial Times, Vogue, The Times, The Oldie, i Paper, The Standard, Washington Post,... -
Consent by Nina Raine
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.02Why is Justice blind? Is she impartial? Or is she blinkered? Friends Ed and Tim take opposing briefs in a rape case. The key witness is a woman whose life seems a world away from theirs. At home,... -
Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality by Manjit Kumar 9781848310353
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98'This is about gob-smacking science at the far end of reason ... Take it nice and easy and savour the experience of your mind being blown without recourse to hallucinogens' Nicholas Lezard, Guardian ... -
The Fraud by Zadie Smith 9780241336991
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €14.52Book of the Year 2023 according to New York Times, New Yorker, Guardian, Economist, Observer, The Spectator, Financial Times, Vogue, The Times, The Oldie, i Paper, The Standard, Washington Post,... -
I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys by Miranda Seymour 9780008353254
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €21.12'An absolute belter of a biography' MARINA HYDE A Times Literary Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2022 An LA Times Best Book of... -
The Fraud: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller by Zadie Smith 9780241337004
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €18.87Book of the Year 2023 according to New York Times, New Yorker, Guardian, Economist, Observer, The Spectator, Financial Times, Vogue, The Times, The Oldie, i Paper, The Standard, Washington Post,... -
I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys by Miranda Seymour
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.21'An absolute belter of a biography' MARINA HYDE A Times Literary Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2022 An LA Times Best Book of...