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Collected Stories by Tennessee Williams
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.26'Disturbing, moving, and funny; these stories help amplify Williams's tragic vision, for like the plays, they underline his preoccupation and insight into the conflicts of the human heart'New York... -
Tremor: 'Dazzling.' Deborah Levy Teju Cole 9780571283361
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70Life is hopeless but it is not serious. We have to have danced while we could and, later, to have danced again in the telling.Tunde, the man at the centre of this novel, reflects on the places and... -
Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time by Teju Cole 9780226641355
RRP: €24.99Booksplease Price: €20.35"Darkness is not empty," writes Teju Cole in Black Paper, a collection of essays that meditate on what it means to keep our humanity-and witness the humanity of others-in a time of darkness. Cole is... -
Facing the Abyss: American Literature and Culture in the 1940s by George Hutchinson
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €41.23Mythologized as the era of the "good war" and the "Greatest Generation," the 1940s are frequently understood as a more heroic, uncomplicated time in American history. Yet just below the surface, a... -
Not Heaven but Paradise Michael Mewshaw 9781609531522
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.22The son of a Spanish mother and an American father who claimed to have worked for the CIA, Paul Stewart lives in his family home, a carmen in the Albaicin district of Granada. The house, which... -
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46'Rarely has emotional turbulence been so delicately conveyed' The New York TimesWith delicacy of perception and memory, humour and pathos, Carson McCullers spreads before us the three phases of a... -
The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 by Martin Amis 9780099422228
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €10.70Like John Updike, Martin Amis is the pre-eminent novelist-critic of his generation. The War Against Cliche is a selection of his reviews and essays over the past quarter-century. It contains pieces... -
Surviving by Allan Massie 9781908251114
RRP: €10.65Booksplease Price: €9.53Like The Death of Men, one of Massie's great novels, Surviving is set in contemporary Rome. The main characters, Belinda (the heroine of the Massie's second novel, The Last Peacock), Kate, an author... -
The Girls by John Bowen 9781529970982
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.53In summer, and particularly when the wind blows south-west across the lawn, the sceptic tank gives out a strong stench... 'Oh, it is a body,' the girls say. 'We have a body in there. No one you know... -
The Complete Enderby by Anthony Burgess
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.26Enderby is a poet, social critic and Catholic. He may be found hiding in the lavatory where much of his best work is composed, or perhaps in Rome, brainwashed into respectability by a glamorous wife,... -
Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars by Lionel Friedberg
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.65Full Service is the ultimate guilty pleasure, revealing for the first time the shadow lives of the people who created popular culture, told by the man who was so central to fulfilling their desires... -
Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall by James Polchin 9781785785658
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.79'A grisly, sobering, comprehensively researched new history.' - The New YorkerIndecent Advances is a skilful hybrid of true crime and social history that examines the often-coded portrayal of crimes... -
The Moronic Inferno: And Other Visits to America by Martin Amis 9780099461869
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.65At the age of ten, when Martin Amis spent a year in Princeton, New Jersey, he was excited and frightened by America. As an adult he has approached that confusing country from many arresting angles,... -
Slim Aarons: La Dolce Vita by Slim Aarons
RRP: €83.30Booksplease Price: €57.14This lavish fourth volume in Abrams' Slim Aarons collection revels in this photographer's decades-long love affair with Italy. From breathtaking aerials of the Sicilian countryside to intimate... -
New Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut by D. Simmons 9780230120976
Booksplease Price: €66.71Kurt Vonnegut's darkly comic work became a symbol for the counterculture of a generation. From his debut novel, Player Piano (1951) through seminal 1960's novels such as Cat's Cradle (1963) and... -
Representations of the Intellectual Edward W. Said 9781804272244
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98Are intellectuals merely the servants of special interests or do they have a larger responsibility? In these wide-ranging essays, one of our most brilliant and fiercely independent public thinkers... -
Spurius: A Novel: Consul of Rome who crushed the cult of Bacchus, 186 BC David László Conhaim 9781836360407
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €36.21It is a perilous time for the Roman Republic. Victory over her nemesis Hannibal in the Second Punic War and the subsequent conquest of Greece have led to widespread debauchery and mayhem on the... -
The Rest of It: Hustlers, Cocaine, Depression, and Then Some, 1976-1988 by Martin Duberman
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €32.61For many, the death of a parent marks a low point in their personal lives. For Martin Duberman-a major historian and a founding figure in the history of gay and lesbian studies-the death of his... -
William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man by Duncan Wu 9780199549580
Booksplease Price: €62.63Romanticism is where the modern age begins, and Hazlitt was its most articulate spokesman. No one else had the ability to see it whole; no one else knew so many of its politicians, poets, and... -
Those Who Walk Away: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY, CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN 'Highsmith is a damn fine writer' GUARDIAN'No one has created psychological suspense more densely and deliciously... -
Story of the Amulet by Edith Nesbit 9781513219738
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €16.29The Story of the Amulet(1906) is a children's fantasy novel by English writer Edith Nesbit. The final book in Nesbit's beloved Psammead Trilogy-which also includes Five Children and It (1902) and The... -
Pinks, Pansies, and Punks: The Rhetoric of Masculinity in American Literary Culture by James Penner
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €21.71Pinks, Pansies, and Punks charts the construction of masculinity within American literary culture from the 1930s to the 1970s. Penner documents the emergence of "macho criticism," and explores how... -
Prelude To Revolution: France in May 1968 by Daniel Singer 9781608462735
RRP: €22.61Booksplease Price: €16.60Prelude to Revolution is an essential history of the May 1968 protests and upheaval in France, during which French workers staged the first wildcat general strike in history and the largest general... -
On Color by David Kastan
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €16.95Ranging from Homer to Picasso, and from the Iranian Revolution to The Wizard of Oz, this spirited and radiant book awakens us anew to the role of color in our lives Our lives are saturated by color... -
Writing the Republic: Liberalism and Morality in American Political Fiction by Anthony Hutchison 9780231141383
RRP: €73.78Booksplease Price: €59.01In this provocative book, Anthony Hutchison challenges the belief that the American novel is "antipolitical" and condemns the relative absence of American literature in studies of the political novel... -
The Story of the Amulet by Edith Nesbit 9781513269757
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €9.17The Story of the Amulet(1906) is a children's fantasy novel by English writer Edith Nesbit. The final book in Nesbit's beloved Psammead Trilogy-which also includes Five Children and It (1902) and The... -
A Game for the Living: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY, CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN 'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' THE TIMES 'I love Highsmith so much . . . What a revelation her writing is'... -
Baggage: Tales from a Fully Packed Life by Alan Cumming 9781838856670
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46Baggage is the story of Alan Cumming's life in Hollywood, taking us through the highs and lows of his career, from his struggle with mental health and failed relationships to encounters with legends... -
The Novel Stage: Narrative Form from the Restoration to Jane Austen by Marcie Frank 9781684481682
RRP: €142.80Booksplease Price: €117.102020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Marcie Frank's study traces the migration of tragicomedy, the comedy of manners, and melodrama from the stage to the novel, offering a dramatic new approach to... -
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The Maid of Buttermere by Melvyn Bragg 9780340423738 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €2.86'This is historical fiction with a human face'Peter Ackroyd, The Times'A vivid and erudite tour de force'Penelope Lively, Booker Prize-winning author of Moon Tiger'A skilled, ornate and convincing... -
The Maid of Buttermere by Melvyn Bragg
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54Melvyn Bragg's highly acclaimed, bestselling historical novel, the story behind one of the 19th century's greatest scandals.'This is the story of an impostor and bigamist, a self-styled Colonel Hope,... -
The Railway Children by E. Nesbit 9780099572992
RRP: €8.32Booksplease Price: €6.56'"Stand firm'" said Peter, "and wave like mad!"' They were not railway children to begin with. When their Father mysteriously leaves home Roberta (everyone calls her Bobbie), Phyllis and Peter must... -
Deadly Worlds: The Emotional Costs of Globalization by Anthony Elliott 9780742542396
Booksplease Price: €44.78Deadly Worlds offers an original analysis of one of the unsolved questions of the current age: what are the emotional costs and possibilities of globalization? Lemert and Elliott challenge the... -
Rogue State: A Guide to the Worlds Only Superpower by William Blum
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.50'After reading Rogue State, it is impossible to hang fast to the comforting illusion that the "American way" is some kind of enlightenment.' Will Self 'A book of charges to be tied to a... -
The Novel Stage: Narrative Form from the Restoration to Jane Austen by Marcie Frank
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €29.802020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Marcie Frank's study traces the migration of tragicomedy, the comedy of manners, and melodrama from the stage to the novel, offering a dramatic new approach to... -
Kerry James Marshall: History of Painting Hal Foster 9781644230152
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €40.70Kerry James Marshall is one of America's greatest living painters. History of Painting presents a groundbreaking body of new work that engages with the history of the medium itself. In Kerry James... -
Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson: A Study in Character by Roger G. Kennedy 9780195140552
Booksplease Price: €28.55This book restores Aaron Burr to his place as a central figure in the founding of the American Republic. Abolitionist, proto-feminist, friend to such Indian leaders as Joseph Brant, Burr was... -
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.08During his lifetime Zevon never quite achieved the recognition he deserved, but he did build up a huge cult following and critical acclaim for his songwriting from some of the biggest names in the... -
The Athenaeum: More Than Just Another London Club by Michael Wheeler
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €41.41A compelling history of the famous London club and its members' impact on Britain's scientific, creative, and official life When it was founded in 1824, the Athenaeum broke the mold. Unlike in other... -
Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics by Darieck Scott
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €22.63Winner of the 2023 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ+ Studies! Explores Black representation in fantasy genres and comic books Characters like Black Panther, Storm, Luke Cage, Miles Morales, and Black...