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The Granta Book Of Reportage by Ian Jack
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51Since its relaunch in 1979, Granta magazine has championed the art and craft of reportage - journalism marked by vivid description, a novelist's eye to form and eyewitness reporting that reveals... -
The Granta Book Of India by Ian Jack
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.94The Granta Book of India brings together, for the first time, evocative, personal and informative pieces from previous editions of Granta magazine on the experiences of Indian life, culture and... -
Men Explain Things to Me: And Other Essays Rebecca Solnit (Y) 9781783780792
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.23A landmark, incendiary collection from one of the leading essayists working today. Inspiring everyone from radical activists to Beyonce Knowles, Rebecca Solnit's essay 'Men Explain Things to Me'... -
Granta 81: Best Of Young British Novelists 3 Granta 9780903141581
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.34As with the first two Young British Novelists issues, Granta's 2003 list was compelling and prescient. The issue introduced readers to fiction by Zadie Smith, David Mitchell and Monica Ali. From Ben... -
Rodinsky's Room by Iain Sinclair
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.70Rodinsky's world was that of the East European Jewry, cabbalistic speculation, an obsession with language as code and terrible loss. He touched the imagination of artist Rachel Lichtenstein, whose... -
Where The God Of Love Hangs Out by Amy Bloom
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.16A young woman struggles to come to terms with her friend's murder; a man and his daughter-in-law confess their sins in the most unlikely of places; a daughter returns to her hated father's house to... -
U & I: A True Story by Nicholson Baker
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.94When Nicholson Baker, one of the most linguistically talented writers in America, set out to write a book about John Updike, the result was no ordinary biography. Instead Baker's account of his... -
Granta 84: Over There: How America Sees The Rest Of The World by Ian Jack
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €20.65Granta magazine's 71st issue, "What We Think of America", published in April 2002, was a prescient reflection of the USA's deepening political unpopularity among people outside its own borders. But... -
Real England: The Battle Against The Bland by Paul Kingsnorth
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46We see the signs around us every day: the chain cafes and mobile phone outlets that dominate our high streets; the disappearance of knobbly carrots from our supermarket shelves; and the headlines... -
The Appointment by Herta Muller
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €8.77'I've been summoned, Thursday, ten sharp.' So begins one day in the life of a young clothing-factory worker during Ceausescu's totalitarian regime. She has been questioned before, but this time she... -
Heresies: Against Progress And Other Illusions by John Gray
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70By the author of the best-selling Straw Dogs, this book is a characteristically trenchant and unflinchingly clear-sighted collection of reflections on our contemporary lot. Whether writing about the... -
Nothing Like A Dame: The Scandals Of Shirley Porter by Andrew Hosken
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70Homes for Votes, three cemeteries at five pence apiece, the missing Tesco millions and a gold toilet seat - plus a procession of camels, pay-as-you-go toilets and a large plastic bin called Mr... -
Granta 85: Hidden Histories by Ian Jack
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €19.71Repressed personal experiences, neglected battles, forgotten civilizations: an issue of Granta that excavates the unfairly buried event, the secret life, the overlooked war. With Diana Athill on... -
The Smoking Diaries Volume 2: The Year Of The Jouncer by Simon Gray
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.16As a baby, Simon Gray discovered that he could move his pram while still nestling inside it. 'It was a complete mystery to the adult intelligences, how had he done it, if it was he who had done... -
Things You Should Know by A. M. Homes
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €6.71Things You Should Know is a collection of dazzling stories by one of the most talented and daring young American writers, whose distinctive narratives demonstrate how extraordinary the ordinary can... -
33 Artists in 3 Acts by Sarah Thornton
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46Is being an artist a radical form of entrepreneurship or a vocational calling like the priesthood? Is it an extension of philosophy or an offshoot of entertainment? In three richly interlinked but... -
What's It All About?: Philosophy And The Meaning Of Life Julian Baggini 9781862077805
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.94This book is aimed at the reader who is serious about confronting the big issues in life but is turned off by books which deal with them through religion, spirituality or 'psycho-babble'. It is for... -
Multiples: 12 Stories in 18 Languages by 61 Authors by Adam Thirlwell 9781846275388
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98Like Chinese whispers, the rules of this literary game are simple: the first writer translates an unknown story into English, which a second writer then translates into a different language, and a... -
The Ego Trick by Julian Baggini 9781847082732
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70Are you still the person who lived fifteen, ten or five years ago? Fifteen, ten or five minutes ago? Can you plan for your retirement if the you of thirty years hence is in some sense a different... -
Music For Torching by A. M. Homes 9781847087263
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.94Paul and Elaine have two boys and a beautiful home, yet they find themselves thoroughly, inexplicably stuck. Obsessed with 'making things good again', they spin the quiet terrors of family life into... -
The Last Jews Of Kerala Edna Fernandes 9781846270994
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.38Separated by a narrow stretch of swamp-like waters, and distinguished by the colour of their skin, the Black Jews and the White Jews have been locked in a rancorous feud for centuries. Only now, when... -
Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada 9781846276323
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70Three bears. The first, a diligent memoirist whose unlikely success forces her to flee Soviet Russia. The second, her daughter, a skilled dancer in an East Berlin circus. The third,... -
The Long Dry Cynan Jones 9781783780402
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.94When the farmer wakes at dawn, he can already feel the heat of the day rising and the silence from his wife hanging heavy in the air. As he sets out across his parched fields to find a missing cow,... -
The Cow Book: A Story of Life on an Irish Family Farm by John Connell 9781783784189
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.77Farming has been in John Connell's family for generations, but he never intended to follow in his father's footsteps. Until, one winter, he finds himself back on the farm and begins to learn the... -
The Written World: How Literature Shaped History by Martin Puchner 9781783783144
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70From clay tablets to the printing press. From the pencil to the internet. From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter. This is the true story of literature -- of how great texts and technologies... -
The Seven Good Years by Etgar Keret 9781783780471
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70Over the last seven years Etgar Keret has had plenty of reasons to worry. His son, Lev, was born in the middle of a terrorist attack in Tel Aviv. His father became ill. And he has been constantly... -
Rowing to Eden: Collected Stories by Amy Bloom 9781783782154
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98Amy Bloom has long been regarded as a master of the short story form. Here, her brilliance shines across two decades and more than twenty-five stories. From the bereaved widow who finds unexpected... -
One Day I Will Write About This Place by Binyavanga Wainaina 9781847083326
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70Binyavanga Wainaina tumbled through his middle-class Kenyan childhood out of kilter with the world around him.This world came to him as a chaos of loud and colourful sounds: the hair dryers at his... -
Aftershock: The Untold Story of Surviving Peace by Matthew Green 9781846273315
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98Over the last decade, we have sent thousands of people to fight on our behalf. But what happens when these soldiers come back home, having lost their friends and killed their enemies, having seen... -
Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?: A Story About Women and Economics by Katrine Marcal 9781846275661
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.51Adam Smith, the founder of modern economics, believed that our actions stem from self-interest and the world turns because of financial gain. But every night Adam Smith's mother served him his... -
History Keeps Me Awake at Night by Christy Edwall 9781783788446
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70Margit is at the point in life when things should have cohered. She's married, she's got a degree, she's got friends who throw good parties, and yet she's still adrift, moving from one precarious... -
Granta 64: Russia The Wild East by Ian Jack 9780903141246
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €19.54This issue on Russia explores how an old country is finding new ways to think and write. As well as fiction by Russian writers, there is a report on a visit to the once unvisitable Siberia,... -
Strange Heart Beating by Eli Goldstone 9781783783502
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.94Seb's beautiful, beloved wife Leda has been killed by a swan. Sorting through her belongings after her death, he comes across a packet of unopened letters from Olaf, a man whom Leda had never... -
No Art: Poems by Ben Lerner 9781783782765
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98This book brings together for the first time Ben Lerner's three acclaimed volumes of poetry, along with a handful of newer poems, to present a decade-long exploration of the relationship between form... -
How To Read Hitler by Neil Gregor 9781783780280
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.16Incoherent, obsessive and violent, Hitler's ideas nonetheless found an audience of millions and led to one of the most horrific and devastating conflicts of the 20th century. Taking two of Hitler's... -
Have You Been Good?: A Memoir by Vanessa Nicolson 9781783780785
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46Vanessa Nicolson is the granddaughter of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson. She was born to an illustrious name and an unhappy marriage. Her father, the art historian Ben Nicolson, was... -
I'm Jack by Mark Blacklock 9781783780860
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.94In this provocative novel Mark Blacklock portrays the true and complex history of John Humble, aka Wearside Jack, the Ripper Hoaxer, a timewaster and criminal, sympathetic and revolting, the man... -
Scorper: A Novel by Rob Magnuson Smith 9781783781065
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.94Scorper, noun, a tool used to scoop out broad areas when engraving wood or metal. Scorper, novel, an uncanny and sinister tale of an eccentric American visitor to the small Sussex town of... -
A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz by Sarah Death 9781783781300
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70On the 2nd of August 1947 a young man gets off a train in a small Swedish town. He has survived the Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz, and the harrowing slave camps and transports during the final months of... -
History of a Suicide: My Sister's Unfinished Life by Jill Bialosky 9781783782130
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70On the night of April 15, 1990, Jill Bialosky's twenty-one-year-old sister Kim came home from a bar in downtown Cleveland. She argued with her boyfriend on the phone. Then she took her mother's car...