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The Adulterants by Joe Dunthorne
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €10.94From the wickedly funny author of Submarine comes a hilarious new tragicomedy - a screwball tale of millennial angst, pre-midlife crises and one man's valiant quest to come of age in his thirties... -
Armadillo by William Boyd
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46'Marvellously paced and ingeniously plotted. A real page-turner' Observer_________________________One winter morning, Lorimer Black - young, good-looking, but with a somewhat troubled expression -... -
Strangers by Anita Brookner
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46'He was haunted by a feeling of invisibility, as if he were a mere spectator of his own life, with no one to identify him in the barren circumstances of the here and now.'Paul Sturgis is a retired... -
Stars and Bars by William Boyd
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46'One of the comic masterpieces' Daily Telegraph ______________________________________Henderson Dores is an Englishman in New York - and completely out of his depth.He should be concentrating on his... -
The Birth of Classical Europe: A History from Troy to Augustine by Simon Price 9780140274851
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €17.10'The Penguin History of Europe series ... is one of contemporary publishing's great projects' New StatesmanTo an extraordinary extent we continue to live in the shadow of the classical world. At... -
Coming From Behind by Howard Jacobson 9780099452034
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.66In an ever divided Britain, this wryly observed novel is a timely and thought-provoking read from the Booker-winning author of The Finkler Question.'A very funny, bitterly intelligent novel...do read... -
Kitchenly 434 by Alan Warner
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54'One of our finest writers' Michael Moorcock'Alan Warner is one of our best living writers' Jenni FaganKitchenly 434 is set in a sprawling Tudorbethan mansion in Sussex, Kitchenly Mill Race, on the... -
Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.29'I love this book. Put your life on hold while you finish it' Maggie O'Farrell A suspenseful and chilling novel of haunted landscapes and a teenage girl in danger... Seventeen-year-old Silvie... -
All Points North: the bestselling memoir from the new Poet Laureate by Simon Armitage
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.22'A joy. Celebrates the real world and revels in its mad glory' Sue Townsend, Sunday Times_____________________________________All Points North is part-memoir and part-excursion. Charting the rugged... -
The Blue Afternoon by William Boyd
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.20WINNER OF THE SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD'Achingly memorable' The Times ________________________________A quest for secrets in the blue afternoon . . .Los Angeles, 1936. Kay Fischer, a... -
Love by Roddy Doyle 9781529112672
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.13'A profound examination of friendship, romantic confusion and mortality' John BoyneOne summer's evening, two men meet up in a Dublin restaurant. Old friends, now married and with grown-up children,... -
History: The hilarious, unmissable novel from the brilliant Miles Jupp Miles Jupp 9781472239976
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02A satirical, tragicomic story about a man on the edge from actor and comedian Miles Jupp. For readers of Jonathan Coe, Mark Watson, Michael Frayn and David Nicholls.Clive Hapgood is feeling stuck... -
History: The hilarious, unmissable novel from the brilliant Miles Jupp Miles Jupp 9781472239952
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €16.05'The funniest man in Britain has written a wonderful novel. Rejoice!' - Richard Osman'Very funny set pieces and one-liners' - Daily MailClive Hapgood is feeling stuck. The private school he teaches... -
The Feast by Margaret Kennedy
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.77This summer holiday vintage crime classic exploring the mystery of a buried Cornish hotel invites us to solve the puzzle as detectives: perfect for fans of Celia Fremlin's Uncle Paul, Agatha... -
Confession With Blue Horses Sophie Hardach 9781788548786
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.20Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2019. Tobi and Ella's childhood in East Berlin is shrouded in mystery. Now adults living in London, their past is full of unanswered questions. Both remember... -
Unfinished Business by Michael Bracewell
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €10.38UNFINISHED BUSINESS focuses on an ordinary suburban office worker, fundamentally weak but always keeping his eyes fixed on some horizon where a heightened, romantic, better world must surely exist. ... -
The Registrar's Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages by Sophie Hardach
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.39The compelling and original debut novel from the Costa Prize-shortlisted author of Confession with Blue Horses. Swimming for his life towards traffickers on the Italian shore, Selim enters a world... -
The Rise & Fall of the Miraculous Vespas by David F. Ross
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.62When a young Ayrshire band unexpectedly hits the big time with the smash hit record of 1984, everything looks rosy, despite their delusional young manager and a thwarted plot to kidnap Boy George... -
The Last Days of Disco by David F. Ross
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.62Bobby and Joey's new mobile disco business seems like the answer to everything, until they lock horns with the local gangster ... First in the critically acclaimed, hilarious and heartbreaking Disco... -
The Man Who Loved Islands by David F. Ross
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.45The unforgettable finale to the international, bestselling Disco Days Trilogy ... Bobby, Joey and Max Mojo return in an attempt to reclaim the elusive stardom of their youth, reuniting a legendary... -
Dusty Answer Rosamond Lehmann 9781844082940
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54Mamma was fast asleep at home, her spirit lapped in unconsciousness. Her dreams would not divine that her daughter had stolen out to meet a lover. And next door also they slept unawares, while one of... -
The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46The Booker Prize-winning final novel in Pat Barker's classic 'Regeneration' trilogy - from the acclaimed author of The Silence of the Girls'An extraordinary tour de force. One of the few real... -
Changing Places by David Lodge 9781529965223
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91The first of the hilarious novels in the campus trilogy, Changing Places is a funny and wise tale of academic ill-manners - David Lodge at his comic best.When Philip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp... -
British Fiction Today by Rod Mengham 9780826487322
Booksplease Price: €48.54"British Fiction Today" provides students and readers with a critical introduction to key authors and novels since 1990 through a collection of the latest critical perspectives on current British... -
The Ascent: A house can have many secrets by Stefan Hertmans 9781529920543
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91The dazzling new novel by Stefan Hertmans, author of the modern classic War and Turpentine.'Magnificent' Philippe Sands'Powerful and humane' Observer'An utterly masterly book' Jonathan CoeIn 1979,... -
A Calling for Charlie Barnes by Joshua Ferris
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.66From the Booker-shortlisted author of To Rise Again at a Decent Hour comes a hilarious novel about fathers, sons, thwarted dreams and confronting the reality of who we really are'This is a fine... -
A Calling for Charlie Barnes by Joshua Ferris 9780241972953
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.94From the Booker-shortlisted author of To Rise Again at a Decent Hour comes a hilarious novel about fathers, sons, thwarted dreams and confronting the reality of who we really are'This is a fine... -
Last Days in Cleaver Square by Patrick McGrath 9781786332745
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.41___________________________________________'An atmospheric novel, with a magnificently unreliable narrator . . . McGrath is a connoisseur of this literary tradition.' Financial Times'The pleasure in... -
The Regeneration Trilogy by Pat Barker
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €17.55The Booker Prize-winning modern classic of contemporary war fiction from the Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the GirlsRecommended by Richard Osman 'One of the few real masterpieces... -
The Contemporary British Novel by Philip Tew 9780826493200
Booksplease Price: €73.33"The Contemporary British Novel" is a lively, wide-ranging guide to the key issues in writing in Britain since the mid-1970s, including social change, gender, sexuality, class, history and... -
The Last Resort: The Modern Classic Pamela Hansford Johnson 9781473679948
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54'A very cool and intelligent writer' TLS Described by the New York Times upon her death as 'one of Britain's best-known novelists', plunge yourself into the wry world of Pamela Hansford Johnson in... -
Wish I Was Here: 'The best writer you've never heard of' - Sunday Times by M. John Harrison 9781800812987
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70'Wish I Was Here is a masterpiece' Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk 'It will surprise you, sometimes astound you, and leave you profoundly changed' Jonathan Coe, author of The Rotters' Club ... -
An Impossible Marriage: The Modern Classic Pamela Hansford Johnson 9781473679801
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54'As her work reappears, another missing jigsaw piece is replaced' Independent Described by the New York Times upon her death as 'one of Britain's best-known novelists', plunge yourself into the wry... -
Resurrection Man by Eoin McNamee 9781529441062
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54'Achingly exquisite prose as concentrated as poetry, as unfailing an ear for the cadences and quirks of Belfast dialogue as Roddy Doyle has for Dublin and a fatalistic sense of suspense' Sunday... -
This Bed Thy Centre: The Modern Classic by Pamela Hansford-Johnson 9781473679856
Booksplease Price: €21.63'Striking first novel . . . qualities of vitality and humour which set it apart.' New York Times Described by the New York Times upon her death as 'one of Britain's best-known novelists', plunge... -
It Had to Be You by David Nobbs 9780007286294
Booksplease Price: €20.00Life after Deborah reaffirms Nobbs as the best writer of comedy and observer of the nuances of human nature that there is today. One man, five very different women. James... -
Trio by William Boyd
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.20'An elating read' Sunday TimesA producer. A novelist. An actress.It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. There are riots in Paris and the... -
There and Back: Diaries 1999-2009: The brand new volume from the beloved author, TV icon and Monty Python star by Michael Palin 9781474612777
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €10.95'A social history of Britain spanning four decades, told with unflagging empathy and wit ' Jonathan Coe, ObserverTHE FOURTH VOLUME OF MICHAEL PALIN'S BESTSELLING DIARIESThere and Back is a new window... -
The Comic Turn in Contemporary English Fiction: Who's Laughing Now? by Huw Marsh 9781474293037
Booksplease Price: €134.60The Comic Turn in Contemporary English Fiction explores the importance of comedy in contemporary literature and culture. In an era largely defined by a mood of crisis, bleakness, cruelty,... -
A History of the Booker Prize: Contemporary Fiction Since 1992 Merritt Moseley 9781032019109
RRP: €48.78Booksplease Price: €44.65In this book, Merritt Moseley offers a brief history of the Booker Prize since 1992. With a short chapter covering each year, we follow the change in criteria, the highs and lows, short lists,...