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A Disaffection by James Kelman
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70Patrick Doyle is a twenty-nine-year-old teacher in an ordinary comprehensive school. Isolated, frustrated and increasingly bitter at the system he is employed to maintain, he begins his rebellion,... -
The Good Times by James Kelman 9780385495806
RRP: €17.85Booksplease Price: €14.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385495806Author James KelmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint < -
Dirt Road by James Kelman 9781782118251
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.70Shortlisted for Saltire Fiction Book of the Year 2016'A celebration of what it is to be human' SpectatorMurdo, a teenager obsessed with music, dreams of a life beyond home. His recently widowed dad,... -
How Late It Was How Late by James Kelman
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.94WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE'A passionate, scintillating, brilliant song of a book'GuardianSammy's had a bad week.Most of it's just a blank space in his mind, and the bits that he can remember, he'd... -
Kieron Smith, boy James Kelman 9781916751491
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.41Rejected by his brother and largely ignored by his parents, Kieron Smith finds comfort - and endless stories - in the home of his much-loved grandparents. But when his family move to a new housing... -
That Was a Shiver, and Other Stories Mr James Kelman 9781786890924
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70SHORTLISTED FOR SALTIRE FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR, 2017LONGLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL PRIZE, 2018A local tries to sell his sister to a trucker as he passes through town; a couple put their children to... -
James Kelman: Politics and Aesthetics by Aaron Kelly 9783039111305
RRP: €62.59Booksplease Price: €56.29Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Ideas In Empathy: Making Sense, Moving On by James Kelman 9781629638805
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629638805Author James KelmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint < -
How Late It Was, How Late: A Novel by James Kelman 9780393327991
RRP: €25.59Booksplease Price: €24.78Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
All We Have is the Story: Selected Interviews (1973-2022) by James Kelman 9798887440057
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €20.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887440057Author James KelmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint < -
The Story of Stone: Tales, Entreaties, and Incantations 9798887441078
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €20.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887441078Author James KelmanFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint -
A Long Island Story Rick Gekoski 9781786893420
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.66It is 1953, a heat wave is sweeping across America and the Grossmans - Ben, Addie and their two children -are moving their lives from the political heart of Washington DC to suburban Long Island... -
Darke Rick Gekoski 9781782119395
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE McKITTERICK PRIZEDr James Darke has expelled himself from the world. He writes compulsively in his 'coming of old age'... -
The Tragedy of Mister Morn by Vladimir Nabokov 9780141196329
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.46Morn, a masked king, rules over a realm to which he has restored order after a violent revolution. Secretly in love with Midia, the wife of a banished revolutionary, Morn finds himself facing renewed... -
The Dear Green Place Archie Hind 9781846976865
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FICTION OF THE YEAR AWARD ONE OF THE LIST'S BEST SCOTTISH BOOKS OF ALL TIME Set in nineteen-sixties Glasgow, this novel portrays the struggles and conflicts of young... -
The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities Marguerite Duras 9781841593807
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €12.67Marguerite Duras was one of the leading intellectuals and novelist of post-war France, but her wartime writings were not published in full until after her death. The Wartime Notebooks trace Duras's... -
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And the Land Lay Still by James Robertson 9780141028545 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €3.21And the Land Lay Still is the sweeping Scottish epic by James RobertsonAnd the Land Lay Still is nothing less than the story of a nation. James Robertson's breathtaking novel is a portrait of modern... -
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The Weekenders: Travels in the Heart of Africa by Alex Garland 9780091881801 [USED COPY]
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €2.28What would happen if you took some of Britain's best writing talent, put them on a plane and flew them to one of the most extraordinary and inaccessible places on the planet? What would happen if you... -
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Rules of the Wild by Francesca Marciano 9780099274698 [USED COPY]
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €3.03In the vast space of East Africa lives a close-knit tribe of expatriates. They all meet at dinner parties; they share the same doctors and eat at the same restaurants; they sleep with each other and... -
The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro 9781841593494
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.85In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past . . . A haunting tale of... -
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Human Punk by John King 9780099283164 [USED COPY]
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €2.40For fifteen-year-old Martin, growing up in Slough, the summer of 1977 means punk rock, reggae music, disco girls, stolen cars, social-club lager, cut-throat Teds and a job picking cherries with the... -
The Badness of King George by Judith Summers 9780141046471
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.84Judith Summers' life is about to change dramatically.Her five-year relationship with her on-off boyfriend has finally ended. Her son, Joshua, is off to university, and for the first time since her... -
Rules of the Wild by Francesca Marciano 9780099274698
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.84In the vast space of East Africa lives a close-knit tribe of expatriates. They all meet at dinner parties; they share the same doctors and eat at the same restaurants; they sleep with each other and... -
Staying On by Paul Scott
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91Tusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return 'home' when Tusker, once a Colonel in the British Army, retired, they chose instead to remain in the small hill town of Pangkot,... -
To Be Continued by James Robertson
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €15.49SHORTLISTED FOR THE WODEHOUSE COMIC FICTION PRIZE 2017An utterly mad, entirely heart-warming Highland adventure from the Man Booker-longlisted author of And the Land lay StillDouglas is fifty years... -
Marabou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh 9780099435112
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €5.91Roy Strang is engaged in a strange quest in a surrealist South Africa. His mission is to eradicate an evil predator-scavenger bird, the marabou stork, before it drives away the peace-loving flamingo... -
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Marabou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh 9780099435112 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €2.36Roy Strang is engaged in a strange quest in a surrealist South Africa. His mission is to eradicate an evil predator-scavenger bird, the marabou stork, before it drives away the peace-loving flamingo... -
Dashboard Elvis is Dead: The epic, extraordinary new novel from one of Scotland's most exceptional novelists by David F. Ross
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81A failed writer connects the murder of an American journalist, a drowned 80s musician and a Scottish politician's resignation, in a heart-wrenching novel about ordinary people living in extraordinary... -
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There's Only One Danny Garvey: Shortlisted for Scottish Fiction Book of the Year by David F. Ross 9781913193508 [USED COPY]
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €3.20A promising young football player returns home to his tiny Scottish village, his dreams in tatters and a dark secret haunting his conscience, in a beautiful, unforgettable novel about hope and... -
There's Only One Danny Garvey: Shortlisted for Scottish Fiction Book of the Year by David F. Ross
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.07A promising young football player returns home to his tiny Scottish village, his dreams in tatters and a dark secret haunting his conscience, in a beautiful, unforgettable novel about hope and... -
A Goat's Song by Dermot Healy
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46'One of those books that makes its own language.' Anne Enright'The real stuff.' James Kelman'A rare and powerful book.' E. Annie ProulxJack Ferris, playwright, drunk, is mired in contemplative... -
Jen's Party Agnes Owens 9781846977039
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.94In Jen's Party, soon-to-be fifteen-year-old Jen immediately regrets agreeing to her crazy Aunt Belle's plan for a birthday party which involves, among other notions, flirting with the town's entire... -
Schoolmaster by Earl Lovelace 9780571196760
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70'Each word is a revelation.' The Times'Earl Lovelace is the real stuff, a proper writer.' James KelmanIn the sleepy village of Kumuca, Trinidad, change happens slowly. Yet to move with the times and... -
Lean Tales: The Collected Short Stories Agnes Owens 9781846977046
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €9.46People Like That comprises Agnes Owens' complete life's work in short stories. Witty and dark, Owens' spare prose shocks and delights. Her talent for pithy, unsettling tales is as sharp as ever,... -
Swing Hammer Swing! by Jeff Torrington
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70From the infamous Glasgow slum, the Gorbals, Tam Clay chronicles a week in his life, in the last days before the demolishers move in. Intersecting friends, old-timers and eccentrics, navigating his... -
A Glasgow Trilogy: The Boy Who Wanted Peace; Grace and Miss Partridge; Mr Alfred M. A. George Friel 9780862418854
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.11Distinguished by irony, compassion and the author's own dry wit, these three novels paint a memorable picture of life in the streets, schools and tenements of Glasgow in the 1950s and 60s. With a... -
Glasgow: The Autobiography by Alan Taylor
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98Glasgow: The Autobiography tells the story of the fabled, former Second City of the British Empire from its origins as a bucolic village on the rivers Kelvin and Clyde, through the tumult of the... -
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... -
Blood by Janice Galloway 9780749391959
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.84'BLOOD is a virtuoso work: the writing sinewy and beautiful. . . the integrity of vision coruscating; the whole driven by the author's restless experimentation with form. And at least two stories,... -
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Swing Hammer Swing! by Jeff Torrington 9780749397470 [USED COPY]
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €3.07A riotous urban picaresque, richly laced with black humour, Jeff Torrington's comic novel marks a milestone in Scottish literature. 'This tale of a week in the life of Tam Clay, Gorbals...