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Ireland in the 1950s: The Lost Decade? by Dermot Keogh 9781856354189
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.09This book brings to light the social, cultural, political and economic complexities and contradictions of Ireland in the 1950s. There is a strong emphasis on the development of economic thinking and... -
Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov 9780811216746
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.51"Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress; he loved; was not loved;... -
Gothic Hauntology: Everyday Hauntings and Epistemological Desire by Joakim Wrethed 9783031411106
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £106.08This book provides a theoretically informed account of Gothic Hauntology. It is distinctive foremost in two ways. It shows hauntology at work in modern as well as older gothic narratives and it has a... -
Collected Prose Paul Celan 9781800175402
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Paul Celan's Collected Prose reissued as a Carcanet Classic.About the AuthorPaul Celan (1920-1970) was born Paul Antschel into a Jewish family in Bukovina, a German enclave in Romania which was ... -
Life Lessons from Freud by Brett Kahr 9781447245636
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22The School of Life offers radical ways to help us raid the treasure trove of human knowledge' Independent on Sunday Sigmund Freud is best known as the father of psychoanalysis. Born in 1856, he was a... -
The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud 9780199537587
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.66This groundbreaking new translation of The Interpretation of Dreams is the first to be based on the original text published in November 1899. It restores Freud's original argument, unmodified by... -
Elizabeth Bowen: Collected Stories Elizabeth Bowen 9781841593920
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05A brilliant and much admired novelist, Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) surpassed herself as a writer of short fiction: 'the supreme genius of her time', writes John Banville in his introduction; 'There... -
Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Visual Culture by Michaela Schrage-Früh 9781032146904
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book engages with ageing masculinities in Irish literature and visual culture, including fiction, drama, poetry, painting, and documentary. Exploring the shifting representations of older men... -
Suffering in Anglophone Literatures by Martina Domines 9781666944129
Booksplease Price: £102.51Suffering in Anglophone Literatures engages with postclassical Trauma Studies and opens the traumatic envelope to embrace concepts such as toleration, mourning, nostalgia, vulnerability and... -
The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLEROne of the most influential voices in modern philosophy - the author of The Course of Love, Religion for Atheists, The Art of Travel and The School of LifeAlain... -
Life Lessons from Bergson by Michael Foley 9781447245612
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22The School of Life offers radical ways to help us raid the treasure trove of human knowledge' Independent on Sunday Henri Bergson was a French professor and philosopher. Born in Paris in 1859 to a... -
Ageing in Irish Writing: Strangers to Themselves by Heather Ingman 9783319964294
Booksplease Price: £65.96Age is a missing category in Irish literary criticism and this book is the first to explore a range of familiar and not so familiar Irish texts through a gerontological lens. Drawing on the latest... -
Contemporary Irish Fiction: Themes, Tropes, Theories by L. Harte 9780312231644
Booksplease Price: £92.17Recent years have witnessed an extraordinary growth in the richness and diversity of Irish fiction, with the publication of highly original and consistently challenging work by both new and... -
Moments that Made the Movies by David Thomson 9780500516416
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £32.87In the first fully illustrated work of his illustrious career, David Thomson re-examines a series of moments - which readers will experience in beautifully reproduced imagery - from seventy-two... -
With My Lazy Eye Julia Kelly 9781847249463
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Quercus is delighted to introduce Julia Kelly, the bright new voice in fiction. She writes with intelligence, honesty and tremendous wit, and her future as a leading light is as assured as this, her... -
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A Good Father by Catherine Talbot 9780241987537 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £2.93'Brilliant . . . I couldn't stop reading' Jo Spain 'Exceptional . . . Deeply chilling' Jane Casey______________Des is a good husband, a good father - a good man.He encourages his wife's artistic... -
Life lessons from Kierkegaard by Robert Ferguson 9781447245643
Booksplease Price: £8.42The School of Life offers radical ways to help us raid the treasure trove of human knowledge' Independent on Sunday Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian, literary stylist and social... -
A Good Father by Catherine Talbot 9780241987537
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.88'Brilliant . . . I couldn't stop reading' Jo Spain 'Exceptional . . . Deeply chilling' Jane Casey______________Des is a good husband, a good father - a good man.He encourages his wife's artistic... -
Slow Air by Robin Robertson 9780330488808
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95A Painted Field - Robin Robertson's first collection - was published in 1997 to unanimous acclaim. In language both sensuous and coolly forthright, the poems in Slow Air describe the arc of loss, the... -
Himself by Jess Kidd
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.15A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Choice Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards 2016Shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2017Longlisted for the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger 20171950. A... -
Heaven Lies About Us by Eugene McCabe
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16In these twelve stories, Eugene McCabe plumbs the soul of the Irishborder counties, where confusion, divided loyalties, and conflict arepart of everyday life. A master of arresting dialogue and... -
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Himself by Jess Kidd 9781782118459 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.80A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Choice Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards 2016 Shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2017 Longlisted for the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger 2017 ... -
The Saint-Fiacre Affair: Inspector Maigret by Georges Simenon 9780241788257
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'A small but resonant masterpiece... this is fiction of the highest order, transcending all conventions of mere genre' John Banville, The TimesA sinister note predicting a murder brings Inspector... -
Why Is This a Question?: Everything About the Origins and Oddities of Language You Never Thought to Ask by Paul Anthony Jones 9781783967025
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.32'As entertaining as it is engrossing' John Banville 'Enlightening, delightful' Arthur der Weduwen, author of The Library Why don't eleven and twelve end in -teen? The rest of our counting... -
Maigret and the Headless Corpse: Inspector Maigret #47 by Georges Simenon
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.85'His artistry is supreme' John Banville 'There was no lack of picturesque individuals in a neighbourhood like Quai de Valmy. But he had seldom encountered the kind of inertia he had seen in that... -
The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality William Egginton 9781805337652
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.61A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explore the greatest enigmas of the universe in this scintillatingly original book about the limits of human knowledge'Fascinating' Carlo Rovelli'Remarkable..... -
The Letters of Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney 9780571341092
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.18A marvellous book, lovingly edited, beautifully produced. . . and brimming with literary insights, much laughter, a sprinkle of gossip and the poet's insuppressible joie de vivre, even in adversity... -
Fictions of Infinity: Levinasian Ethics in 21st-Century Novels by Martin Riedelsheimer 9783110995244
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.88This study traces the connection of infinity and Levinasian ethics in 21st-century fiction. It tackles the paradox of how infinity can be (re-)presented in the finite space between the covers of a... -
The Other Renaissance: From Copernicus to Shakespeare by Paul Strathern 9781838955182
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'Enlightening and fascinating' John Banville, Wall Street JournalThrough the lives of major figures from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, including Copernicus, Gutenberg, Luther, Catherine... -
Fictions of Infinity: Levinasian Ethics in 21st-Century Novels by Martin Riedelsheimer 9783110712346
RRP: £117.50Booksplease Price: £79.49This study traces the connection of infinity and Levinasian ethics in 21st-century fiction. It tackles the paradox of how infinity can be (re-)presented in the finite space between the covers of a... -
Annaghmakerrig by Sheila Pratschke 9781843510901
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.40The Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig celebrates a quarter of a century this year and marks this important milestone with the launch of a beautiful volume, 'Annaghmakerrig'. The Centre is an... -
On Bullfighting by A.L. Kennedy 9780224060998
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.46Bullfighting - the ultimate spectator sport.Acclaimed novelist A. L. Kennedy unpeels the layers and explains the mechanics before dissecting them with surgical precision. Beyond the theatre, the... -
A Book of Irish Verse by W. B. Yeats
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.68In 1895 the thirty-year-old W.B. Yeats, already established as one of Ireland's leading poets and folklorists, published this outstanding collection of Irish verse as part of his campaign to... -
The Eighth: Mahler and the World in 1910 by Stephen Johnson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Thrilling.' John Banville, GuardianThe Eighth Symphony was going to be different from anything Mahler had ever done before: it would speak in different tones, and of a different kind of experience... -
A Book of Irish Verse W.B. Yeats 9780415289832
Booksplease Price: £15.34In 1895 the thirty-year-old W.B. Yeats, already established as one of Ireland's leading poets and folklorists, published this outstanding collection of Irish verse as part of his campaign to... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel by John Wilson Foster 9780521861915
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £43.05The Irish novel has had a distinguished history. It spans such diverse authors as James Joyce, George Moore, Maria Edgeworth, Bram Stoker, Flann O'Brien, Samuel Beckett, Lady Morgan, John Banville,... -
Byron: Great Thinkers on Modern Life by Matthew Bevis 9781605988085
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £13.44Born in 1788, Lord Byron was an English poet and a leading figure of the Romantic movement. A prodigious poetic gift and a scandalous private life made him famous throughout Europe, and his... -
Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Life in Joyce's Masterpiece by Declan Kiberd 9780393339093
RRP: £23.50Booksplease Price: £23.24Declan Kiberd, a professor of Anglo-Irish literature at the University College Dublin, offers an audacious new take on Joyce's classic novel. Ulysses, he argues, is a work written for and about the... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel by John Wilson Foster 9780521679961
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.45The Irish novel has had a distinguished history. It spans such diverse authors as James Joyce, George Moore, Maria Edgeworth, Bram Stoker, Flann O'Brien, Samuel Beckett, Lady Morgan, John Banville,... -
How To Read Wittgenstein by Ray Monk
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Though Wittgenstein wrote on the same subjects that dominate the work of other analytic philosophers - the nature of logic, the limits of language, the analysis of meaning - he did so in a peculiarly...