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Cal by Bernard MacLaverty
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Set in the Northern Ireland of the 1980s, Cal tells the story of a young Catholic man living in a Protestant area. For Cal, some choices are devastatingly simple: he can work in an abattoir that... -
Lamb by Bernard MacLaverty
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49On a promontory jutting out into the Atlantic wind stands the Home run by Brother Benedict, where boys are taught a little of God and a lot of fear. To Michael Lamb, one of the youngest brothers, the... -
Grace Notes by Bernard MacLaverty
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Returning to Belfast after a long absense, to attend her father`s funeral. Catherine McKenna-a young composer-remembers exactly why she left: the claustrophobic intimacies of the Catholic enclave,... -
Cal by Bernard MacLaverty 9780099767114
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49For Cal, some of the choices are devastatingly simple...He can work in an abattoir that nauseates him or join the dole queue; he can brood on his past or plan a future with Marcella. Springing out of... -
Matters Of Life & Death by Bernard MacLaverty
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Any book of stories from Bernard MacLaverty is a cause for celebration, but Matters of Life and Death is more than that, as it is - without question - one of the finest contemporary examples of the... -
Collected Stories by Bernard MacLaverty 9780099561583
Booksplease Price: £14.99'Characters all but leap off the page with believability in these marvellous stories of life (and death) in Belfast' Sunday TimesMelding his native Irish sensibilities to those of his adopted... -
Midwinter Break Bernard MacLaverty 9781784704919
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.19A Guardian / Sunday Times / Irish Times / Herald Scotland / Mail on Sunday Book of the YearWinner of the Bord Gais Novel of the Year'Midwinter Break is a work of extraordinary emotional precision and... -
The Anatomy School by Bernard MacLaverty 9780393324570
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £20.34Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Bernard MacLaverty Richard Rankin Russell 9781684485611
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.49This newly updated and expanded paperback edition of the first monograph in English on Northern Ireland-born Bernard MacLaverty discusses his fiction in its aesthetic, cultural, religious, and... -
Midwinter Break by Bernard MacLaverty 9781784704919 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.89SOON TO BE A MAJOR FILM A retired couple, Gerry and Stella Gilmore, fly to Amsterdam for a midwinter break. A holiday to refresh the senses, to see the sights and to generally take stock of what... -
Blank Pages and Other Stories by Bernard MacLaverty 9781529114256
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49The extraordinary new story collection from one of Ireland's greatest writers and bestselling author of Mindwinter Break. Bernard MacLaverty is a consummately gifted short-story writer and novelist... -
Blank Pages: And Other Stories by Bernard MacLaverty 9781324074656
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.43Tinged with melancholy but rooted in resiliency, the exquisite stories of Bernard MacLaverty's Blank Pages display the perseverance of the human spirit. In "A Love Picture," a middle-aged woman,... -
Midwinter Break by Bernard MacLaverty 9781911214212 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £3.44A Guardian / Sunday Times / Irish Times / Herald Scotland / Mail on Sunday Book of the YearWinner of the Bord Gais Novel of the Year'Midwinter Break is a work of extraordinary emotional precision and... -
Travelling in a Strange Land by David Park
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42WINNER OF THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR 'I loved this delicate, beautifully written novella about fathers and sons' David Nicholls 'One of Ireland's great novelists' Roddy Doyle ... -
On Tuesdays I'm a Buddhist: Expeditions in an in-between world where therapy ends and stories begin Michael Harding 9781473623507
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Searingly honest, funny, self-deprecating, Harding's narrative seems to rest on the pulse of Ireland' Irish TimesOne day in the summer of 2016, Michael Harding's wife brought an unusual gift home... -
Lies Of Silence by Brian Moore 9781784875527
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49When Michael Dillon is ordered by the IRA to park his car in the carpark of a Belfast hotel, he is faced with a moral choice which leaves him absolutely nowhere to turn. He knows that he is planting... -
Lies Of Silence by Brian Moore
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.15When Michael Dillon is ordered by the IRA to park his car in the carpark of a Belfast hotel, he is faced with a moral choice which leaves him with absolutely nowhere to turn. He knows that he is... -
The Green Road by Anne Enright
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2016Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Novel AwardLonglisted for the 2015 Man Booker PrizeWinner of the Irish Novel of the Year 2015Hanna, Dan,... -
The Green Road by Anne Enright 9780224089050 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.99Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Novel AwardLonglisted for the 2015 Man Booker PrizeA darkly glinting novel set on Ireland's Atlantic coast, The Green Road is a story of fracture and family,... -
The Green Road by Anne Enright 9780099539797 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.05Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2016Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Novel AwardLonglisted for the 2015 Man Booker PrizeWinner of the Irish Novel of the Year 2015Hanna, Dan,... -
Prosperity Drive by Mary Morrissy
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83'A wonderful writer' Hilary MantelAll of life is laid bare in Prosperity Drive. A woman falls and remembers a moment decades earlier that changed the course of her life. A failed priest teaches... -
The Boatman and Other Stories by Billy O'Callaghan
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12The breathtaking short story collection from the Costa-shortlisted Irish writerThree gunshots on the Irish border define the course of a young man's life; a writer clings fast to a star-crossed... -
My Coney Island Baby by Billy O'Callaghan
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83'A poignant, piercing meditation on middle age and the passing of time... will linger with you long after the book is closed' Guardian *SHORTLISTED FOR THE ENCORE AWARD 2020*On a bitterly cold... -
Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane 9780099744412 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.54A haunted childhood, lived out in two dimensions. One is legendary: the Sun-fort of Grianan, home of the warrior Fianna; the Field of the Disappeared, over which no gulls fly; the house in Donegal... -
The First Day by Phil Harrison
RRP: £3.99Booksplease Price: £3.39Outside an east Belfast mission hall, pastor and family man Samuel Orr meets Anna, a young Beckett scholar. They embark on an intense love affair, their connection fuelled by their respective... -
Free Love And Other Stories by Ali Smith
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A teenage girl finds unexpected sexual freedom on a trip to Amsterdam. A woman trapped at a dinner party comes up against an ugly obsession. The stories in Free Love are about desire, memory, sexual... -
Interviews with Writers: 1990-2026 Martin Doyle 9781843519751
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.49Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, has been an arts journalist for more than 35 years and in that time has interviewed many of the most talented and successful Irish writers at different... -
Life Sentences: The #3 Irish Bestseller by Billy O'Callaghan
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83*THE #3 IRISH BESTSELLER*'Momentous and epic' BERNARD MACLAVERTY'Superb and moving' JOHN BANVILLE'A lovely, piercing book' SEBASTIAN BARRYThree generations. More than a century of famine, war,... -
James Joyce and Samaritan Hospitality: Postcritical and Postsecular Reading in Dubliners and Ulysses Richard Rankin Russell 9781474499019
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £19.03James Joyce and Samaritan Hospitality reads Dubliners and Ulysses through studies of hospitality, particularly that articulated in the Lukan parable of the Good Samaritan. It traces the origins of... -
Without Warning by Will Napier 9780099472247
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83On the surface Joseph Pullman seems to have left his unhappy childhood far behind: as the town undertaker and a council member, he is now a respected citizen of Henderson, Maryland. But Joe's father... -
Cal by Bernard Mac Laverty
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Cal has very few choices in life. He can continue working at the abattoir that sickens him, or join the ranks of the unemployed. He can brood on his past or try to plan a future with Marcella. Cal is... -
The Ethics and Aesthetics of Eco-caring: Contemporary Debates on Ecofeminism(s) Margarita Estevez-Saa 9780367671297
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book applies ecofeminist ethics to the realm of aesthetics, offering instances of how alternative configurations of the self, of nature and of non-human animals can go hand in hand with... -
Summer Of The Cicada Will Napier 9780099472230
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.17It's 1987 and Joseph Pullman and his parents have just moved to Maritime, Maryland. This is white-picket-fence America, but for fifteen-year-old Joseph the threat of violence at home is as... -
Death And Nightingales by Eugene McCabe
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49NOW A MAJOR BBC TV DRAMA SERIESWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY COLM TOIBIN'Poetic and compelling, with a heart-stopping plot twist, Death and Nightingales seems to me a perfect novel' Hilary Mantel'A miracle... -
Shine/Variance by Stephen Walsh
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.23"Great, beautiful little studies of unspoken fear and longing and love, told with a sure-footed delicacy rare in a debut" Sarah Moss, Irish Times"An exciting, original, and very welcome new voice"... -
Blessed Assurance by Stewart Ennis
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £8.81"The fact of the matter is Joseph Kirkland was afraid. Afraid of not being Saved. Afraid of being Saved. Afraid of the transformation that would occur the moment he uttered those words, Jesus! God! I... -
Torn Water by John Lynch 9780007202690
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22Set in his native Northern Ireland, John Lynch's debut novel is a lyrically told and exquisitely tender story of innocence and loss. 'He remembers when he was very young standing by water.... -
That Beautiful Atlantic Waltz Malachy Tallack 9781838855017
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.311957. Sonny is working on a whaling ship in the South Atlantic, reckoning with the most vicious storms he has ever seen. It's a brutal way to make a living. When he finally returns to his Shetland... -
That Beautiful Atlantic Waltz Malachy Tallack 9781838854980
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.731957. Sonny is working on a whaling ship in the South Atlantic, reckoning with the most vicious storms he has ever seen. It's a brutal way to make a living. When he finally returns to his Shetland... -
Getting to Good Friday: Literature and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland by Marilynn Richtarik 9780192886408
RRP: £32.49Booksplease Price: £30.44Getting to Good Friday intertwines literary analysis and narrative history in an accessible account of the shifts in thinking and talking about Northern Ireland's divided society that brought thirty...