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Vanishing by Gerard Woodward
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.07There is no such thing as an ordinary life. But Kenneth Brill's is more extraordinary than most. By the time he is arrested for espionage towards the end of the Second World War he has an incredible... -
Legoland by Gerard Woodward
Booksplease Price: €12.40A stunning new collection of stories from the Man Booker Prize and Whitbread Prize shortlisted author.Many of Legoland's stories begin with the seemingly every day, only for a turn of events to land... -
The Vulture by Gerard Woodward
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54The vulture, the presiding genius of Gerard Woodward's collection, is at once sympathetic and awful, intimate and other. Woodward naturally positions himself at uncomfortable borders and thresholds,... -
The Seacunny by Gerard Woodward
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81Gerard Woodward's poetry has long been admired for its sharp and unflinching eye, its fearless surrealism, its blacker-than-black humour, and its ability to find a little abyss in any detail, no... -
The Paper Lovers by Gerard Woodward
Booksplease Price: €22.26'Hugely enjoyable, a unique love story that's both witty and poignant.' John Boyne, author of The Heart's Invisible FuriesArnold Proctor's quiet life is thrown off balance when he falls obsessively... -
August: A Novel by Gerard Woodward 9780393332711
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €23.24Little did Aldous Jones know when he careened over his bicycle handlebars back in 1955, landing next to farmer Evans's field, that it would turn into the idyllic start to a series of camping holidays... -
A Curious Earth: A Novel by Gerard Woodward 9780393330977
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €20.79Left with an empty house after the death of his wife, Aldous Jones is tempted to spend the whole day sitting in his chair in the kitchen. But with admirable determination he resumes old pastimes... -
I'll Go To Bed At Noon by Gerard Woodward 9780099286936
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.66It is 1970 in the suburbs of north London and, from the untidy comfort of her crowded house, Colette Jones is watching her older brother go to pieces, drinking himself into oblivion on home-made wine... -
I'll Go to Bed at Noon: A Novel by Gerard Woodward 9780393328004
RRP: €27.97Booksplease Price: €26.66Colette Jones has had problems of her own with alcohol, but now it seems as though her whole family is in danger of turning to booze. Her oldest son, Janus, the family's golden boy, has wasted his... -
I'll Go To Bed At Noon by Gerard Woodward 9780701171186 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: €3.17Colette Jones has had drink problems in the past, but now it seems as though her whole family is in danger of turning to alcohol. Her oldest son has thrown away a promising musical career for a job... -
I'll Go To Bed At Noon by Gerard Woodward 9780099286936 [USED COPY]
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €3.02It is 1970 in the suburbs of north London and, from the untidy comfort of her crowded house, Colette Jones is watching her older brother go to pieces, drinking himself into oblivion on home-made wine... -
The Great World by David Malouf
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.66Every city, town and village has its memorial to war. Nowhere are these more eloquent than in Australia, generations of whose young men have enlisted to fight other people's battles - from Gallipoli... -
The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story by Philip Hensher
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98'Sometimes - not often - a book comes along that feels like Christmas. Philip Hensher's timely, but timeless, selection of the best short stories from the past 20 years is that kind of book. His... -
Gifted by Nikita Lalwani
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.89In a voice that is by turns very funny and fiercely tender, Gifted by Nikita Lalwani brings us a captivating story of high aspirations and deep longing, and of the sometime loneliness of childhood... -
Bullfighting by Roddy Doyle
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.84Bullfighting moves from classrooms to graveyards, local pubs to bullrings; featuring an array of men at their working day and at rest, taking stock and reliving past glories. Each is concerned with... -
A Dog's Life Michael Holroyd 9781848665248
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.07Eustace is undisputed patriarch of the Farquhar family. That is, he would be if everyone stopped mumbling, let him get on with his shaving and find his way downstairs. It's not Henry's fault that he... -
Speaking in Tongues J.M. Coetzee 9781787305137
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.58This is a book about languages, what languages can and what they cannot do.In this dialogue between a Nobel Laureate and a leading translator, provocative ideas emerge about the evolution of language... -
Ocean: The new novel from the prize-winning author of Larchfield Polly Clark 9781785634468
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.02A powerful yacht, a warring family, the unforgiving deep...Caught in a terrorist explosion on the London Underground, inner-city schoolteacher Helen is pregnant and lost until a stranger leads her ... -
The Price of Water in Finistere by Bodil Malmsten
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.84'In the same way as there's a partner for every person, there's a place. All you have to do is find the one that's yours among the billions that belong to someone else, you have to be awake, you have... -
The American Lover by Rose Tremain
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91A seductive collection of stories from the 'magnificent story-teller' (Independent on Sunday). Rose Tremain has sold over one million copies of her books.Trapped in a London flat, Beth remembers a... -
The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy by J. M. Coetzee 9780099598220
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.64The Good Story is an exchange between a writer with a longstanding interest in moral psychology and a psychotherapist with a training in literary studies. J. M. Coetzee and Arabella Kurtz consider... -
Will you walk a little faster? Penelope Shuttle 9781780373539
RRP: €11.84Booksplease Price: €8.78Penelope Shuttle's collection explores cities (London, Bristol) on foot and via inward exploration, drawing on architecture, history and personal memory. These are poems drawn from the flipside of... -
Unsent: New & Selected Poems 1980-2012 Penelope Shuttle 9781852249502
RRP: €14.28Booksplease Price: €10.28Penelope Shuttle is one of Britain's leading poets. This selection - drawn from ten collections published over three decades plus new work - shows both her consistency of voice and her energised... -
I Am No One Patrick Flanery 9781782397984
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.94Jeremy O'Keefe, a middle-aged Professor, returns to his native New York after a decade teaching at Oxford, and quickly settles into a lonely rhythm of unfulfilling lectures and long, silent evenings... -
Lyonesse Penelope Shuttle 9781780375540
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02The submerged land of Lyonesse was once part of Cornwall, according to myth and the oral tradition, standing for a lost paradise in Arthurian legend, but now an emblem of human frailty in the face of... -
Ocean: The new novel from the prize-winning author of Larchfield Polly Clark 9781785634529
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70'Strange, wonderful and compelling' - Louis de Bernieres A powerful yacht, a warring family, the unforgiving deep... Caught in a terrorist explosion on the London Underground, inner-city... -
The Ballad of a Small Player by Lawrence Osborne
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91'I waited patiently for the next hand to be played out, and I had a feeling it was going to be a Natural, a perfect nine.'His name is Lord Doyle. His plan: to gamble away his last days in the dark... -
Make Me A City: a novel Jonathan Carr 9781912854882
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €11.23A Times Book of the Month for readers of Golden Hill and Cloud Atlas. It is 1800, and the future of Chicago hangs in the balance, to be decided on the outcome of a game of chess. Win or lose, the... -
Addlands by Tom Bullough 9781783781669
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46Addlands is the moving and engrossing story of the Hamer family and their home, the Funnon Farm, deep in the hills of the Welsh borders. There is Idris, proud and insular, a man of the plough and...