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What Am I Doing Here? by Bruce Chatwin
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.26In this collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, Chatwin takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary during a coup; to Boston to meet an LSD guru who believes he is Christ; to... -
Parlour Song by Jez Butterworth
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.46A blackly hilarious exploration of deceit, paranoia and murderous desire, as the spirit of the Blues lands in leafy suburbia. Demolition expert Ned lives in a nice new house on a nice new estate... -
A Writer's Eye: Collected Book Reviews by Eudora Welty 9781604732610
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.62Although she is eminent primarily as the prize-winning author of classic works of fiction, Eudora Welty is notable also as an astute literary critic. Her essays on the art of fiction and on the... -
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Spike Milligan by Humphrey Carpenter 9780340826119 [USED COPY]
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €4.09Spike Milligan was one of Britain's best-loved comics as well as one of the most original. In this reassessment of Spike's life and career, biographer Humphrey Carpenter has - through copious... -
Edgelands by Michael Symmons Roberts
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.26The wilderness is much closer than you think. Passed through, negotiated, unnamed, unacknowledged: the edgelands - those familiar yet ignored spaces which are neither city nor countryside - have... -
The World to Come Robert Macfarlane 9781915569462
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02Stunning picture book collaboration from bestselling author Robert Macfarlane, actor Johnny Flynn and illustrator Emily SuttonOn my way through the wood wound a thread through the dream... Take a... -
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster 9780141441450
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.39E.M. Forster's Where Angels Fear to Tread is amongst the greatest twentieth-century literary explorations of vice, virtue and the nature of prejudice, edited with notes by Oliver Stallybrass and an... -
A Boy in Winter Rachel Seiffert 9781844089994
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54Early on a grey November morning in 1941, only weeks after the German invasion, a small Ukrainian town is overrun by the SS. Deft, spare and devastating, Rachel Seiffert's new novel tells of the... -
Deaths of the Poets by Michael Symmons Roberts 9780099581321
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €17.30From Dylan Thomas's eighteen straight whiskies to Sylvia Plath's desperate suicide in the gas oven of her Primrose Hill kitchen; from Chatterton's Pre-Raphaelite demise to Keats' death warrant in a... -
Law, Literature, and the Transmission of Culture in England, 1837-1925 by Cathrine O. Frank 9781138260559
RRP: €66.63Booksplease Price: €62.40Focusing on the last will and testament as a legal, literary, and cultural document, Cathrine O. Frank examines fiction of the Victorian and Edwardian eras alongside actual wills, legal manuals... -
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €7.44'The book that redefined travel writing' Guardian ... -
Europa by Sean O'Brien
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81Europa, Sean O'Brien's ninth collection of poems, is a timely and necessary book. Europe is not a place we can choose to leave: it is also a shared heritage and an age-old state of being, a place... -
Georgian Bloomsbury: Volume 3: The Early Literary History of the Bloomsbury Group, 1910-1914 by S. Rosenbaum 9780333458242
Booksplease Price: €55.07Georgian Bloomsbury completes the literary history of Old Bloomsbury that began with Victorian Bloomsbury (1987) and continued with Edwardian Bloomsbury (1994). Covering the years between the First... -
The Corn King and the Spring Queen by Naomi Mitchison
RRP: €21.42Booksplease Price: €17.20Introduced by Naomi Mitchison. Set over two thousand years ago on the calm and fertile shores of the Black Sea, Naomi Mitchison's The Corn King and the Spring Queen tells of ancient civilisations... -
The Business of Reading: A Hundred Years of the English Novel by 9780718895952
RRP: €29.16Booksplease Price: €26.89In The Business of Reading, Julian Lovelock charts the development of the English novel over the past hundred years. Smuggling in titles from Scotland, Ireland and the Caribbean, he focuses on twenty... -
The Night Creatures: Firefly Robert Macfarlane 9781917044523
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.28From two of the UK's best-known book makers, Robert Macfarlane and Luke Adam Hawker, comes a stunning picture book to ignite wonder in readers everywhere.In the darkness of December,Through the... -
The Walk Home by Rachel Seiffert 9781844089956
Booksplease Price: €24.63Stevie comes from a long line of people who have cut and run. Just like he has.Stevie's been to London, taught himself to get by, and now he's working as a labourer not so far from his childhood home... -
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Spike Milligan by Humphrey Carpenter 9780340826126 [USED COPY]
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €3.07Spike Milligan was one of our best-loved comics as well as one of our most original. In this first major assessment of Spike's life and career, the highly respected biographer Humphrey Carpenter has... -
History and the Construction of the Child in Early British Children's Literature Jackie C. Horne 9781138268319
RRP: €71.39Booksplease Price: €66.45How did the 'flat' characters of eighteenth-century children's literature become 'round' by the mid-nineteenth? While previous critics have pointed to literary Romanticism for an explanation, Jackie... -
Some Men In London: Queer Life, 1945-1959 by Peter Parker 9780241370605
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €25.80Quite simply, this book is a work of genius - Matthew Parris, The SpectatorAn essential study of post-war gay London life... one of the best anthologies I have ever read - John Self, The ObserverWith... -
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Marry Me by Dan Rhodes 9780857868497 [USED COPY]
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €2.99Essential reading for anyone who is, has ever been, or might one day be married.MARRY ME by Dan Rhodes is the sequel to his ANTHROPOLOGY AND 100 OTHER STORIESAbout the AuthorDan Rhodes was born in... -
The Blood of the Martyrs by Naomi Mitchison 9780862411923
RRP: €16.66Booksplease Price: €11.76Introduced by Donald Smith. Set in Rome during Nero's reign of terror, The Blood of the Martyrs is a disciplined historical novel tracing the destruction of one cell of the early church. With a cast... -
Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence Geoff Dyer 9781782115137
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70Sitting down to write a book about his hero D.H. Lawrence, Geoff Dyer finds himself compelled to write about anything else. He is in fact compelled to do more or less anything else instead of write... -
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand 9781783190331
Booksplease Price: €16.95Swordsman, Philosopher, Poet, Raconteur Cyrano de Bergerac is all these things, but none of them makes him happy. What he desires above all is the love of the beautiful Roxane. But his problem is as... -
In the Wolf's Mouth by Adam Foulds 9780099586869
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.13From the author of the Man Booker shortlisted The Quickening MazeIn the Wolf's Mouth follows the lives of four very different men, all of them navigating the chaos and horror brought about by the... -
Elizabeth von Arnim: Beyond the German Garden Isobel Maddison 9781032922867
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23In the first book-length treatment of Elizabeth von Arnim's fiction, Isobel Maddison examines her work in its historical and intellectual contexts, demonstrating that von Arnim's fine comic writing... -
Jez Butterworth Plays:Two: Jerusalem, The Clear Road Ahead, The River, The Ferryman by Jez Butterworth
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €17.30'Come, you drunken spirits. Come, you battalions. You fields of ghosts who walk these green plains still. Come, you giants!' When Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem premiered at the Royal Court Theatre,... -
Zona: On Andrei Tarkovsky's 'Stalker' Geoff Dyer 9780857861672
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46In this spellbinding book, the man described by the Daily Telegraph as 'possibly the best living writer in Britain' takes on his biggest challenge yet: unlocking the film that has obsessed him all... -
Kim by Rudyard Kipling 9780141442372
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.94An epic rendition of the imperial experience in India, and perhaps his greatest long work, the Penguin Classics edition of Rudyard Kipling's Kim is edited with an introduction by Harish Trivedi, and... -
The Searchers: The Quest for the Lost of the First World War Robert Sackville-West 9781526613141
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.64SHORTLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITERS' ASSOCIATION CROWN AWARDS 2022 'Compelling and often horrifying' THE TIMES Best Paperbacks of 2022 The epic, moving stories of Britain's search to... -
See/Saw: Looking at Photographs by Geoff Dyer 9781838852115
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.70'Wide-ranging and eclectic' TLS'Seductively curious' Observer'A visual and intellectual journey' HeraldSee/Saw is an illuminating history of how photographs frame and change our perspectives... -
Kenneth Clark: Life, Art and Civilisation by James Stourton 9780007493449
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.90SHORTLISTED FOR THE BERGER PRIZE FOR BRITISH ART HISTORY 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2017 ... -
Mrs. Dalloway by Virgina Woolf
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.78Mrs. Dalloway (1925) is a novel by Virginia Woolf. Adapted from two short stories, "Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street" and "The Prime Minister," Mrs. Dalloway is a moving portrait of a day in the life of... -
The Paranormal Surrounds Us: Psychic Phenomena in Literature, Culture and Psychoanalysis Richard Reichbart 9780786495368
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €29.98Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Joyce, E.M. Forster and Ingmar Bergman all made the paranormal essential to their depiction of humanity. Freud recognized telepathy as an everyday phenomenon. Observations on... -
The World to Come – A Times Book of the Year 2024 Robert Macfarlane 9781917044554
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.33The Guardian Best Children's Books of 2024The Times Best Children's Books of 2024Waterstones Best Children's Books of 2024Shortlisted for Foyles Book of the Year 2024Shortlisted for Nibbies... -
Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham 9781841593692
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.52After a lonely boyhood, and the painful ordeal of his schooldays, Philip's yearning for adventure takes him to Germany and later Paris where he tries to make his mark as an artist before returning to... -
The Crichel Boys: Scenes from England's Last Literary Salon Simon Fenwick 9781472132482
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54In 1945, Eddy Sackville-West, Desmond Shawe-Taylor and Eardley Knollys - writers for the New Statesman and a National Trust administrator - purchased Long Crichel House, an old rectory with no... -
Dream Sequence Adam Foulds 9781787330825
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.02Henry Banks, a brilliant but narcissistic young actor, is prepared to go to any length for a role, to capitalise on his successes in television drama by securing the lead in the latest film by a... -
A Tale Without a Name Penelope Delta 9781805332107
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.08What can you do, when nothing can be done? What was once a glorious, thriving kingdom is now a place of despair and dereliction. An aged king and queen cling to the ghosts of memories, to the... -
Working the Room: Essays and Reviews: 1999-2010 by Geoff Dyer
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98Alive with insight, wit and Dyer's characteristic irreverence, this collection of essays offers a guide around the cultural maze, mapping a route through the worlds of literature, art, photography...