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Flotsam and Jetsam by Aidan Higgins
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $16.85Considered to be one of the best Irish writers of the twentieth century, Aidan Higgins has earned a reputation throughout Europe as an unusual and astringent prose stylist. This omnibus of selected... -
Lions of Grunewald by Aidan Higgins
RRP: $27.30Booksplease Price: $21.26Here is the great Irish novel of Berlin, way back before the Wall came down. Dallan Weaver, a writer and professor who's been feted and flattered but has seen better days, has come to the great... -
A Bestiary: An Autobiography by Aidan Higgins
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.20"A bloody marvelous book." Harold PinterAbout the AuthorAidan Higgins has written short stories, novels, travel pieces, radio plays, and a large body of criticism. A consummate stylist, his writing... -
Blind Man's Bluff Aidan Higgins 9781564787255
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43Perversely, but perhaps appropriately, Aidan Higgins--one of the few contemporary writers worthy of comparison with Beckett and Joyce, now celebrating his 85th year--has chosen to wait until his... -
Langrishe, Go Down by Aidan Higgins 9781628973921
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $21.26Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Aidan Higgins: The Fragility of Form Neil Murphy 9781564785626
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $30.23Drawing together a wide range of focused critical commentary and observation by internationally renowned scholars and writers, this collection of essays offers a major reassessment of Aidan Higgins'... -
Windy Arbours: Collected Critisism by Aidan Higgins 9781564783912
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $25.35In addition to his novels and stories, Aidan Higgins--one of Ireland's most respected contemporary writers--has written a large body of criticism. Windy Arbours includes pieces written between... -
A Very Strange Man: A Memoir of Aidan Higgins by Alannah Hopkin
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $28.72This is a love story, set in the Irish literary world between 1986 and 2015. When they were first introduced by the poet Derek Mahon, Alannah Hopkin was an arts journalist turned full-time writer and... -
Writing The Sky: Observations and Essays on Dermot Healy by Keith Hopper
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $50.88Writing the Sky: Observations and Essays on Dermot Healy is a comprehensive collection of critical essays, memoirs, poetry, and other writerly responses devoted to the life and work of the late... -
John S. Beckett: The Man and the Music by Charles Gannon 9781843516651
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $49.92Remembered in his native Ireland primarily as a harpsichordist and interpreter of Bach's music, and in the UK as a conductor of the ground-shaking early music group Musica Reservata, John Beckett... -
Anglo-Irish Novel by Vera Kreilkamp 9780815627524
Booksplease Price: $93.44This 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... -
Patrick: From Patron Saint to Modern Influencer by Alannah Hopkin
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $32.37St Patrick is one of the most famous saints of all time. Thousands of people with no direct Irish connection celebrate St Patrick's Day, parading along the streets of New York, Boston, Chicago, San... -
The Irish Expatriate Novel in Late Capitalist Globalization by Joe Cleary
RRP: $152.10Booksplease Price: $145.53This study of contemporary Irish expatriate fiction offers a boldly original world-facing rather than nation-focused overview of the contemporary Irish novel. Chapters examine how Irish narrative... -
John Banville Neil Murphy 9781684485482
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.26John Banville offers a close analysis of most of Banville's major novels, his Quirke crime novels, and his dramatic adaptations of Heinrich von Kleist's plays. Banville's work has been marked by an... -
Narrating Death: The Limit of Literature by Walter Wadiak 9780367665012
RRP: $93.58Booksplease Price: $84.84Drawing on literary and visual texts spanning from the twelfth century to the present, this volume of essays explores what happens when narratives try to push the boundaries of what can be said about... -
Trauma, Memory and Silence of the Irish Woman in Contemporary Literature: Wounds of the Body and the Soul Madalina Armie 9781032409658
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08This volume studies the manifestations of female trauma through the exploration of multiple wounds, inflicted on both body and mind (Caruth 1996, 3) and the soul of Irish women from Northern Ireland... -
Fighting with Shadows by Dermot Healy
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06Initially published in 1984, Dermot Healy's stunning first novel, Fighting with Shadows, returns to print after almost thirty years. Largely set in the border village of Fanacross, Co. Fermanagh, as...