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The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.821979. Three old Cambridge friends are brought together at a party to celebrate New Year's Eve and the end of a decade. Esther, Liz and Alix first met in Cambridge in the early Fifties, a time when... -
Doubts and Loves: What is Left of Christianity by Richard Holloway
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70In this passionate and heartfelt book, Richard Holloway interrogates the traditional ways of understanding the Bible. In doing so he demonstrates the power of the great Christian stories as they... -
The Millstone by Margaret Drabble 9781838857134
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70Winner of John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, The Millstone is a radical celebration of the mother-child relationship. It is the Swinging Sixties, and Rosamund Stacey is young and inexperienced at a time when... -
Notes From Underground Fyodor Dostoyevsky 9781786899002
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.94'I am a sick person. I am a spiteful person. An unattractive person, too . . .' In the depths of a cellar in St. Petersburg, a retired civil servant spews forth a passionate and furious note on the... -
True North: Travels in Arctic Europe Gavin Francis 9781837261956
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46Driven by a yearning to experience the vast skies and frozen beauty of the North, Gavin Francis goes in search of the people living along the northern limits of Europe. From the first Greek explorers... -
Lost Woods by Rachel Carson
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70'Our origins are of the earth. And so there is in us a deeply seated response to the natural universe, which is part of our humanity.'Rachel Carson was one of the most important environmental... -
Godless Morality: Keeping Religion Out of Ethics by Richard Holloway
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70If the use of God in a moral debate raises more problems than it solves, is it better to leave God out of the argument altogether and find strong human reasons for the rules we live by? Godless... -
A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler 9781837266593
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70Andreas Egger knows every path and peak of his mountain valley, the source of his sustenance, his livelihood - his home. Set in the mid-twentieth century and told with beauty and tenderness, Robert... -
Misadventures by Sylvia Smith
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70Misadventures is a unique ensemble of mishaps and anecdotes revealing the ups and downs of one woman's life in twentieth-century London. Sylvia Smith's deadpan patter belies the startling... -
Writing to Save a Life by John Edgar Wideman
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70When Emmett Till was murdered aged fourteen for allegedly whistling at a white woman, photographs of his destroyed face became a flashpoint in the civil rights movement. A decade earlier Emmett's... -
The Needle's Eye by Margaret Drabble
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46Simon Camish, a resentful insecure barrister in a stifling marriage, would not have particularly noticed Rose Vassiliou had he not been asked to drive her home one night after a dinner party. Now,... -
The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46One hot summer afternoon in South Yorkshire, Faro sits at a lecture on genetic inheritance. She has travelled from London to the Northern mining town where generations of her family have lived and... -
Climbing Days Dorothy Pilley 9781805302537
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98When Dorothy Pilley first began climbing in the 1910s, female mountaineers were seen as a dangerous liability, their achievements ignored, unrecorded or disbelieved. Undeterred, Dorothy proved... -
Walking Through Clear Water In a Pool Painted Black: Collected Stories by Cookie Mueller
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.98Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black is the only story collection from the legendary writer, actress, ex-biker and columnist Cookie Mueller, published in the UK for the first time... -
All Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46Twenty-five years after running away from her family's farm in Idaho, Yumi Fuller returns home to care for her ailing parents and to confront her best friend and her conflicted past. She finds a... -
My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46In a single eye-opening year two women, worlds apart, experience parallel awakenings. In New York, Jane Takagi-Little lands a job producing a Japanese television show sponsored by an American... -
The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighbourhood by David Simon
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98The notorious corner of West Fayette and Monroe Streets in Baltimore is a 24-hour open-air drug market that provides the economic fuel for a dying neighbourhood. Through the eyes of one broken family... -
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RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €5.24Simon Camish, a resentful insecure barrister in a stifling marriage, would not have particularly noticed Rose Vassiliou had he not been asked to drive her home one night after a dinner party. Now,... -
A Summer Bird-Cage by Margaret Drabble
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70In her witty, masterful debut novel, Margaret Drabble conjures a gripping story of sibling rivalry. Louise, beautiful and sophisticated, marries wealthy novelist Stephen Fairfax. Sarah, recently... -
Rembrandt's Whore by Sylvie Matton
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70A sensitive innocent, Hendrickje Stoffels escapes the harsh realities of her garrison home-town to take up a servant's role in Rembrandt's household. She soon becomes his lover and closest... -
Jerusalem the Golden by Margaret Drabble
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70Brought up in a suffocating, emotionless home in the north of England, Clara finds freedom when she wins a scholarship and moves to London. There, she meets Clelia and the rest of the brilliant and... -
The Finishing School by Muriel Spark
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70'One of her funniest novels . . . Spark at her sharpest, her purest and her most merciful' ALI SMITHIn The Finishing School Muriel Spark is once again at her biting, satirical best. On the edge of... -
The Cello and the Nightingales: The Life of Beatrice Harrison by Patricia Cleveland-Peck 9781805300182
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46In May 1924, the BBC broadcast a miracle to the world: a wild nightingale singing a duet with a remarkable young cellist called Beatrice Harrison. Over a million people tuned in to hear this live... -
Silk Alessandro Baricco 9781786896421
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70In 1861 French silkworm merchant Herve Joncour travels to Japan, where he encounters the mysterious Hara Kei. He develops a painful longing for Kei's beautiful concubine - but they cannot touch; they... -
Looking In the Distance: The Human Search for Meaning by Richard Holloway
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46Spirituality, like morality, has historically been tied to religion - and yet it is possible for one to exist without the other. In this meditative and highly personal account, Richard Holloway... -
Forever Words: The Unknown Poems by Johnny Cash 9781838857943
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70Since his first recordings in 1955, Johnny Cash has been an icon in the music world. In his newly discovered poems and song lyrics, we see the world through his eyes. The poetry reveals his depth of... -
Academy Street by Mary Costello 9781805302339
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70WINNER OF THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2014She stood on the edge of the grass. She hovered between worlds, deciphering the ground, tracing in mid-air the hall, the dining-room, the stairs... -
A Field Guide To Getting Lost Rebecca Solnit 9781837264278
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46With a new afterword by the authorIn her map to loss, losing and being lost, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. Meandering eclectically through memory and mortality,... -
On Forgiveness: How Can We Forgive the Unforgivable? by Richard Holloway
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70'Full of human wisdom, this is a psychologically acute and absorbing approach to a very important subject' PHILIP PULLMANIn this inspiring work, Richard Holloway tackles the great theme of... -
The Realms of Gold Margaret Drabble 9781837264827
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46What do we owe to the past? What do we owe ourselves?Frances Wingate has it all, not least a flourishing career as an archaeologist and a razor-sharp mind. But when an old affair resurfaces - after... -
Let Us Compare Mythologies by Leonard Cohen
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70First published in 1956 when he was twenty-two years old, Let Us Compare Mythologies is Leonard Cohen's first collection of poetry. It is an accomplished and passionate collection which demonstrates... -
Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins Gavin Francis 9781837263912
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98WINNER OF THE SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Prize, RSL Ondaatje Prize, Banff Adventure Travel Prize and Saltire Book of the Year AwardBook of the Year for the... -
Leaving Alexandria: A Memoir of Faith and Doubt by Richard Holloway
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46Winner of the PEN/Ackerley Prize 2013.At the tender age of fourteen, Richard Holloway left his home town of Alexandria, north of Glasgow, and travelled hundreds of miles to be educated and trained... -
Capital: A Portrait of Twenty-First Century Delhi Rana Dasgupta 9781837263592
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98WINNER OF THE WINDHAM CAMPBELL PRIZE 2025WINNER OF THE PRIX EMILE GUIMET DE LITTERATURE ASIATIQUE 2017WINNER OF THE RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI AWARD 2017SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2015SHORTLISTED FOR... -
The Sea Lady by Margaret Drabble 9781838859725
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.47Ailsa and Humphrey met as children by a grey, northern sea in post-war Britain. She, freckled and furious; he, quietly studious; both fascinated by the other. Years later, their lives collide as... -
A Confederate General From Big Sur by Richard Brautigan
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70Jesse and Lee share a house owned by a very nice Chinese dentist, where it rains in the hall. They move to cabins on the cliffs at Big Sur where the deafening croaks of frogs can be temporarily... -
Sombrero Fallout: A Japanese Novel by Richard Brautigan
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70A heartbroken American writer starts a story about an ice-cold sombrero that falls inexplicably from the sky and lands in the centre of a small Southwest town. Devastated by the departure of his... -
Book of Mercy by Leonard Cohen
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70The poems in Book of Mercy brim with praise, despair, anger, doubt and trust. Speaking from the heart of the modern world, yet in tones that resonate with an older devotional tradition, these verses... -
The Goddess Chronicle by Natsuo Kirino
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70On an island in the shape of a teardrop live two sisters. One is admired far and wide, the other lives in her shadow. One is the Oracle, the other is destined for the Underworld.But what will happen... -
Iced by Ray Shell 9781838859961
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46Cornelius Washington is brimming with ambition and talent before his life is torn apart by a crack addiction. Taking the form of a diary and written in an arresting stream-of-consciousness style,...