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Portrait of an Unknown Lady by Maria Gainza
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €10.95In this dazzling story of art and illusion, secrets and schemes, who is to be trusted - and what is real?From the internationally acclaimed author of Optic Nerve *A TLS Book of the Year*'A writer who... -
Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert by John Drury
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51For the first time, John Drury convincingly integrates the life and poetry of George Herbert, giving us in Music at Midnight the definitive biography of the man behind some of the most famous poems... -
De Profundis and Other Prison Writings by Oscar Wilde
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70De Profundis and Other Prison Writings is a new selection of Oscar Wilde's prison letters and poetry in Penguin Classics, edited and introduced by Colm Toibin.At the start of 1895, Oscar Wilde was... -
Heroes and Villains by Angela Carter
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46A modern fable, a post-apocalyptic romance, a gothic horror story; Angela Carter's genre-defying fantasia Heroes and Villains includes an introduction by Robert Coover in Penguin Modern Classics... -
Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector by Benjamin Moser
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.79"That rare person who looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf," Clarice Lispector is one of the most popular but least understood of Latin American writers, and now in Why this... -
The Guest Book: The New York Times Bestseller by Sarah Blake
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Powerful and provocative' Paula McLain'Beautiful, engrossing, heart-breaking' Rachel Rhys'Monumental in a way that few novels dare attempt' Washington Post The Miltons... -
Connemara: A Little Gaelic Kingdom Tim Robinson 9780141049595
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98The triumphant conclusion to Tim Robinson's extraordinary Connemara trilogy, which Robert Macfarlane has called 'one of the most remarkable non-fiction projects undertaken in English'. Robinson... -
What Maisie Knew by Henry James
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70What Maisie Knew is Henry James's damning portrait of adultery, jealousy and possession on the decadent fringe of English upper-class society. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an... -
Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald 9780241984482
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46Austerlitz is W. G. Sebald's haunting novel of post-war Europe.In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple... -
Quickly, While They Still Have Horses Jan Carson 9781804993170
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorJan Carson is a writer based in Belfast. Her first novel, Malcolm Orange Disappears, was published in 2014... -
State of the Union: A Marriage in Ten Parts by Nick Hornby
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70*THE SIDE-SPLITTING NEW COMIC SHORT FROM ONE OF BRITAIN'S BEST-LOVED WRITERS, NOW A MAJOR BBC TV SERIES*______________________________ 'It is as honest and multi-faceted an examination and... -
The Home Scar: from the Women’s Prize-longlisted author of Nothing But Blue Sky by Kathleen MacMahon
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €12.45"MacMahon writes with such beautiful simplicity, conjuring real and complex people straight off the page ... subtle and authentic" - Claire Fuller On opposite sides of the world, half-siblings Cassie... -
The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles by Giorgio Bassani
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70Into the insular town of 1930s Ferrara, a new doctor arrives. Fadigati is hopeful and modern, and more than anything wants to fit into his new home. But his fresh, appealing appearance soon crumbles... -
The Green Road Anne Enright 9781784875510
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91A book about family, selfishness and compassion on Ireland's Atlantic coast, from the Booker Prize-winner.Hanna, Dan, Constance and Emmet return to the west coast of Ireland for a final family... -
Cells: memories for my mother by Gavin McCrea 9781914484988
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70From the author of Mrs Engels and The Sisters Mao, an intimate family memoir about filial love and its limits, separation, and loss. Gavin is spending the quarantine with his eighty-year-old mother,... -
The Pornographer by John McGahern 9780571225712
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70The provocative novel by 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel) and 'the Irish novelist everyone should read' (Colm Toibin).Michael, a writer of pornographic fiction, creates an... -
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Ghost Light by Joseph O'Connor 9780099481546 [USED COPY]
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €2.52Dublin, 1907. A young actress begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works. Outspoken and flirtatious, Molly Allgood is a Catholic girl from the... -
South From Granada by Gerald Brenan
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.46Part autobiography, part travelogue, and wholly a tribute to the unspoilt beauty of southern Spain, Gerald Brenan's South from Granada includes an introduction by Chris Stewart, author of the... -
The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46Sam the Lion runs the pool-hall, the picture house and the all-night cafe. Coach Popper whips his boys with towels and once took a shot at one when he disturbed his hunting. Billy wouldn't know... -
All is Song by Samantha Harvey
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70Leonard is alone and rootless, returning to London after his father's death. He moves in with his distant brother William and his family, hoping to renew their friendship but learning to drop his... -
Names of the Women by Jeet Thayil
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.84From the Booker-shortlisted author of Narcopolis, in prose of extraordinary power, a novel about the women whose roles were suppressed, reduced or erased in the Gospels.'Dazzling, smouldering . . ... -
Three Summers by Margarita Liberaki
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70With a new introduction by Polly Samson, Sunday Times bestselling author of A THEATRE FOR DREAMERS 'Gorgeous... the written equivalent of lying in the sun eating figs' India Knight, Sunday Times'That... -
Notes to Self by Emilie Pine
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46'I am afraid of being the disruptive woman. And of not being disruptive enough. I am afraid. But I am doing it anyway.'In this dazzling debut, Emilie Pine speaks powerfully from her painful personal... -
Women by Mihail Sebastian
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.46A gorgeous, tender modern classic about the complexities of love, with an introduction from the Booker-winning author John BanvilleStefan Valeriu, a young Romanian student, holidays alone in the... -
The Queen of Dirt Island: From the Booker-longlisted No.1 bestselling author of Strange Flowers by Donal Ryan
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91From the Booker longlisted author, and an Irish Times No.1 bestseller - a searing, jubilant novel about four generations of women and the stories that bind them.'Beautiful, compassionate ... Donal... -
Too Much of Life: Complete Chronicles by Clarice Lispector 9780241597583
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51A TLS Book of the Year This exhilarating collection of non-fiction sees one of the greatest twentieth-century writers meditating on the moments that make up a life'How did I so unwittingly transform... -
Notes from a Coma by Mike McCormack 9781786891419
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70After suffering a catastrophic breakdown, J.J. O'Malley volunteers for a government project exploring the possibility of using coma as a means to keep prisoners under control. Floating in a... -
All Souls by Javier Marias
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70All Souls is a compelling black comedy of Oxford life by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013. This Penguin Modern Classics edition features a new... -
Selected Prose by Charles Lamb
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51This selection brings together the best prose writings of the great early nineteenth-century essayist Charles Lamb, whose shrewd wit and convivial style have endeared him to generations of readers... -
Memorial Bryan Washington 9781838950101
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'This feels like a vision for the 21st-century novel... It made me happy' Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We're Briefly GorgeousBenson and Mike are two young guys who... -
Paula Spencer by Roddy Doyle
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91Ten years on from The Woman Who Walked into Doors, Booker Prize-winning author, Roddy Doyle, returns to one of his greatest characters, Paula Spencer. Paula Spencer is turning forty-eight, and... -
Lot by Bryan Washington
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70* Winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize 2020 ** One of Barack Obama's "Favourite Books of the Year" ** A New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2019 *'A superb book' Max Porter, author of... -
The Scandal of the Century: and Other Writings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46A new collection of journalism from one of the great titans of 20th century literature"I don't want to be remembered for One Hundred Years of Solitude or for the Nobel Prize but rather for my... -
Doctor Faustus Thomas Mann 9780749386573
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.26A masterpiece of German modernism and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.Adrian Leverkuhn is a young man destined for success. He is a composer - creative and brilliant, but he will... -
The Man With Night Sweats Thom Gunn 9780571392612
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.89With an illuminating new preface by Colm Toibin, here is Thom Gunn's extraordinary memorial to love, life and death in the time of the AIDS crisisThe Man With Night Sweats, originally published in... -
Montaillou: Cathars and Catholics in a French Village 1294-1324 by Emmanuel le Roy Ladurie
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98An enthralling account of day-to-day life in a medieval French village. Using records gathered by the Catholic Church in its pursuit of heretics, the book recreates the lives of a rich cast of... -
Trying To Save Piggy Sneed by John Irving
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.58This collection of short writing is a treat for John Irving addicts and the perfect introduction to his work for the uninitiated. In a spirited opening piece, John Irving explains how he became a... -
Returning to Reims by Didier Eribon
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98'A deeply intelligent and searching book, one that makes you re-consider the narrative of your own life and reframe the story you tell yourself' Hilary MantelA Guardian reader's Best Book of 2018... -
From a Low and Quiet Sea: From the Number 1 bestselling author of STRANGE FLOWERS Donal Ryan 9781784160265
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.39Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2018'An engrossing, unpredictable, beautifully crafted novel' RODDY DOYLEFarouk's country has been torn apart by war... -
Evangelista's Fan by Rose Tremain
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91'A master class in the art of storytelling' ObserverThis short story collection demonstrates the enormous range of Tremain's talent and imagination. The teasing and brilliant title story,...