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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... -
All on Show: The circus in Irish literature and culture by Eleanor Lybeck 9781782052944
Booksplease Price: £54.86All on Show takes the circus in literature as its theme. The book introduces readers to the obscure history of the circus and travelling entertainment in Ireland while contextualising celebrated... -
Maigret Hesitates: Inspector Maigret #67 by Georges Simenon 9780241304198
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.85'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves'Maigret looked at him in some confusion, wondering if he waas dealing with a skilful actor or, on the contrary, with a sickly... -
The Life You Want by Adam Phillips 9780241766118
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38'The best living essayist writing in English' John GrayWhat does it mean to ‘get a life’ in a culture in which there is so much to want?And why do the lives we think we need so often fail to... -
Frogs for Watchdogs: 'A stunning novel that will live long in my imagination’ DONAL RYAN by Sean Farrell 9781399834070
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'A very special novel' Louise Kennedy'An enthralling novel and a remarkable narrative feat' John BanvilleA wild child with a ferocious imagination will stop at nothing to protect his family.After... -
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
Booksplease Price: £35.47The 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,... -
The Pitards by Georges Simenon
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'Read him at your peril, avoid him at your loss' Sunday TimesCaptain Lannec has finally managed to buy his own ship with the financial help of his in-laws, the Pitards - and they've never let him ... -
Life Lessons from Hobbes by Hannah Dawson 9781447245629
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02The School of Life offers radical ways to help us raid the treasure trove of human knowledge' Independent on Sunday Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher. Born in Wiltshire in 1588, his... -
Spies and Other Gods: An electrifying novel from a former spy set in the mysterious world of British espionage by James Wolff 9781399826327
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.31From a former spy comes an electrifying novel about the mystery, paranoia and ruthlessness of the secretive world of British espionage'Wonderfully entertaining' John Banville, author of Booker... -
The Crooked Timber Of Humanity by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.75'Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.' Immanuel KantIsaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century - an activist of the intellect... -
A Good Father by Catherine Talbot
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99'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... -
Anglo-Irish Novel by Vera Kreilkamp 9780815627524
Booksplease Price: £46.88This volume is a comprehensive study of the ascendancy novel from Maria Edgeworth's ""Castle Rackrent"" (1800) through contemporary reinventions of the form. Kreilkamp argues that Irish fiction needs... -
Konstantin by Tom Bullough
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Tom Bullough's Konstantin is a mesmerising novel about how the imagination can inspire the individual to greatness. 1867, Ryazan, a Russian city in winter. Ten-year-old Konstantin, deafened by... -
The Dog by Joseph O'Neill 9780007275755
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE FOR COMIC FICTION The first novel from Joseph O'Neill since NETHERLAND. ... -
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Grace's Day by William Wall 9781788545488 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.92An Irish Independent Book of the Year. As the great John McGahern used to say, there's verse, and there's prose, and then there's poetry; William Wall is a poet in both mediums' John Banville. ... -
Serious Noticing: Selected Essays by James Wood
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41The selected essays of James Wood - our greatest living literary critic and author of How Fiction Works'James Wood is a close reader of genius... By turns luscious and muscular, committed and... -
Even the Dead: A Quirke Mystery by Benjamin Black 9780241197356
Booksplease Price: £25.34NO CRIME IS EVER TRULY BURIED... Visceral, gritty and cinematic, Even the Dead is the latest stylish thriller from John Banville's crime-writing alter ego, Benjamin Black.Pathologist Quirke works in... -
Philosophy, Dreaming and the Literary Imagination by Michaela Schrage-Fruh 9783319821658
Booksplease Price: £26.57This book explores the intersections between dreaming and the literary imagination, in light of the findings of recent neurocognitive and empirical research, with the aim to lay a groundwork for an... -
The Year of Henry James: The story of a novel: With other essays on the genesis, composition and reception of literary fiction by David Lodge 9780099554523
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78In 2004, Henry James featured as a character in no less than three novels - David Lodge's Author, Author was one of them. With insightful and amusing candour, here he traces the history of his book... -
Maigret's Patience: Inspector Maigret #64 by Georges Simenon
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray Maigret finds himself back on the Rue des Acacias just ten days after cracking another case there. This time it is the murder of a criminal Maigret has... -
The Pub: A Great British Miscellany by The Fence 9781529935684
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74Would Queen Victoria have been good value over a pint? Where can you find the most northerly pub in the UK? What is good pub etiquette and do you follow it?This isn't just a book full of Britain's... -
Maigret Defends Himself: Inspector Maigret #63 by Georges Simenon
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray For the first time in his career Inspector Maigret receives written summons to the Prefect's office where he learns that he has been accused of... -
Maigret's Anger: Inspector Maigret #61 by Georges Simenon
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray During a quiet spell in June Maigret is called to investigate the disappearance of a reputable businessman. When a body is discovered near the famous... -
Maigret in Vichy: Inspector Maigret #68 by Georges Simenon
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves'What else did they have to do with their days? They ambled around casually. From time to time, they paused, not because they were... -
Maigret and the Killer: Inspector Maigret #70 Georges Simenon 9780241304266
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves'Leaning on the banisters, Madame Maigret watched her husband going heavily downstairs . . . what the newspapers didn't know was how... -
Independence Day by Richard Ford 9781526676139
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'The best novel out of America in many years, a funny, achingly sad account of a father's disastrous outing with his son and much else besides ... Simply, a masterpiece' JOHN BANVILLE, GUARDIANA... -
Maigret's Pickpocket: Inspector Maigret #66 by Georges Simenon 9780241304174
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves'Maigret would have found it difficult to formulate an opinion of him. Intelligent, yes, certainly, and highly so, as far as one... -
The Way of Forgiveness: A Story About Letting Go by Stephen Mitchell 9781250239891
Booksplease Price: £13.97"A unique and special kind of masterpiece." -John Banville In The Way of Forgiveness, the distinguished writer and translator Stephen Mitchell provides a stirring account of the power and wisdom... -
The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality William Egginton 9781805337676
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23NEW IN PAPERBACK: A 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... -
Life Lessons from Byron by Matthew Bevis 9781447245742
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 Born in 1788, Lord Byron was an English poet and a leading figure of the Romantic... -
Maigret and the Nahour Case: Inspector Maigret #65 by Georges Simenon
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray Maigret is called to the home of professional gambler, Felix Nahour, who has been found shot dead by his chambermaid. Maigret is shocked to recognise a... -
The Playground by Julia Kelly 9781784291358
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Eve is starting again. Newly single, unemployed and with a baby daughter, she joins the local mums trying to make their nearby playground the heart of the community. But not all games are innocent -... -
Introducing Heidegger: A Graphic Guide by Jeff Collins 9781848311749
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.15Martin Heidegger - philosophy's 'hidden king', or leading exponent of a dangerously misguided secular mysticism. Heidegger has been acclaimed as the most powerfully original philosopher of the... -
Maigret and the Reluctant Witnesses: Inspector Maigret #53 Georges Simenon 9780241303856
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.85'His artistry is supreme' John Banville It was as if suddenly, long ago, life had stopped here, not the life of the man lying on the bed but the life of the house, the life of its world, and even the... -
Maigret and the Man on the Bench: Inspector Maigret #41 by Georges Simenon
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.85'His artistry is supreme' John Banville'He was wearing a dark suit, a beige raincoat and on his feet, which were twisted at an odd angle, he wore yellow-brown shoes, which seemed out of keeping with... -
A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness by Michael Pollan 9780241509470
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.94'Big, generous, illuminating and beautifully written' John Banville, Financial TimesFrom the best-selling author of How to Change Your Mind, a pioneering search for consciousness in the brain and... -
Maigret and the Good People of Montparnasse: Inspector Maigret #58 by Georges Simenon
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'His artistry is supreme' John Banville 'Why all of a sudden did this shock him? He was annoyed with himself for being shocked. He felt as if he had been sucked into the bourgeois, almost edifying,... -
Maigret and the Lazy Burglar: Inspector Maigret #57 by Georges Simenon
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.85'His artistry is supreme' John Banville'Sullenly, he got dressed. Why, whenever he was woken on a winter night like this, did the coffee have a particular taste? The smell of the apartment was... -
Maigret's First Case: Inspector Maigret #30 by Georges Simenon
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray The profession he had always yearned for did not actually exist ... he imagined a cross between a doctor and a priest, a man capable of understanding...