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The Leavetaking by John McGahern
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80A haunting novel by 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel) and 'the Irish novelist everyone should read' (Colm Toibin). A day, crucial and cathartic, in the life of a young Catholic... -
The Pornographer by John McGahern 9780571225712
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80The provocative novel by 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel) and 'the Irish novelist everyone should read' (Colm Toibin).Michael, a writer of pornographic fiction, creates an... -
Collected Stories by John McGahern
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37A landmark event: the collected stories of 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel) and 'the Irish novelist everyone should read' (Colm Toibin).'Wise and compelling ... Elegiac and... -
By the Lake by John McGahern 9780679744023
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2003.Book InformationISBN 9780679744023Author John McGahern -
Amongst Women by John McGahern 9780140092554
RRP: $18.76Booksplease Price: $11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140092554Author John McGahernFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint -
That They May Face the Rising Sun by John McGahern
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Now a major motion picture: the Booker-shortlisted author's last novel: a 'masterpiece' (Observer) by 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel)Joe and Kate Ruttledge have come to... -
High Ground: and Other Stories by John McGahern
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65The stories in High Ground are set in ordinary places, in the streets and suburbs and dancehalls of Dublin, the small towns and fields of the midlands, the big houses of the beleaguered Anglo-Irish... -
The Country Funeral: Faber Stories by John McGahern
Booksplease Price: $7.22Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. 'My only concern', John McGahern once said, 'is that I get... -
The Rockingham Shoot and Other Dramatic Writings by John McGahern
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.40Sinclair; The Sisters; Swallows; The Rockingham Shoot; The Power of DarknessJohn McGahern, the leading Irish novelist of his generation, wrote a substantial number of compelling scripts for radio and... -
Creatures of the Earth: New and Selected Stories by John McGahern 9780571237852
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11McGahern's command of the short story places him among the finest practitioners of the form, in a lineage that runs from Chekhov through Joyce and the Anglo-American masters. When the collection was... -
Amongst Women: Cillian Murphy: 'One of the greatest Irish writers’ by John McGahern 9780571399475
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Introduced by Sinead Gleeson, John McGahern's Booker Prize-shortlisted Irish 'masterpiece' (Colm Toibin) is essential reading for admirers of Claire Keegan. As he weakened, Moran became afraid of his... -
That They May Face the Rising Sun: Cillian Murphy: 'One of the greatest Irish writers’ by John McGahern 9780571399499
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80With a new foreword by Kevin Barry, McGahern's 'timeless' (Sinead Gleeson) novel of rural Irish life is perfect for admirers of Claire Keegan.'I'm grateful for every sentence McGahern left in this... -
A Border Station by Shane Connaughton 9781784162559
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.82'Here is a ... writer with immense confidence and vitality. He has an extraordinary feeling for place and landscape.' - Jennifer Johnston'This is experience finely and skilfully distilled' - Irish... -
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Though the Bodies Fall by Noel O'Regan 9781783789481 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $9.86From an exciting new voice in Irish fiction, a powerful novel set on an Irish clifftop - a story about duty, despair and the chance encounters upon which fate turns. Micheal Burns lives alone in... -
The Geometer Lobachevsky: Shortlisted for the 2023 Walter Scott Prize and the 2023 Kerry Group Novel of the Year by Adrian Duncan
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92'When I was sent by the Soviet state to London to further my studies in calculus, knowing I would never become a great mathematician, I strayed instead into the foothills of anthropology ...' ... -
Though the Bodies Fall by Noel O'Regan 9781783789481
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37From an exciting new voice in Irish fiction, a powerful novel set on an Irish clifftop - a story about duty, despair and the chance encounters upon which fate turns. Micheal Burns lives alone in... -
The Hurley Maker's Son by Patrick Deeley
Booksplease Price: $17.63Patrick Deeley's train journey home to rural East Galway in autumn 1978 was a pilgrimage of grief: his giant of a father had been felled, the hurley-making workshop silenced. From this moment,... -
We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It: A Memoir of My Irish Boyhood by Tom Phelan 9781501197109
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09"You don't have to be Irish to cherish this literary gift-just being human and curious and from a family will suffice." -Malachy McCourt, New York Times bestselling author of A Monk Swimming In the... -
Blank Pages and Other Stories by Bernard MacLaverty 9781529114256
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04The 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... -
The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 9780241968727
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65The General in his Labyrinth is the compelling tale of Simon Bolivar, a hero who has been forgotten and whose power is fading, retracing his steps down the Magdalena River by the Nobel Laureate... -
The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities Marguerite Duras 9781841593807
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $14.27Marguerite 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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Train to Trieste by Domnica Radulescu 9780552774741 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $3.97It is 1977 and seventeen-year-old Mona Manoliu has fallen in love with Mihai, a mysterious boy who lives in the romantic mountain city where she spends her summers. She can think of nothing and no... -
A Very Strange Man: A Memoir of Aidan Higgins by Alannah Hopkin
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $19.75This is a love story, set in the Irish literary world between 1986 and 2015. When they were first introduced by the poet Derek Mahon, Alannah Hopkin was an arts journalist turned full-time writer and... -
Soho Square: Bk. 6: New Writing from Ireland by Colm Toibin 9780747516125
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.80This work is dedicated to contemporary Irish writing, and consists of a mixture of poetry, prose and photography. The contributors include Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, John McGahern, Edna O'Brien,... -
We Were Young Niamh Campbell 9781474611725
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92'I love this woman's writing. Golden sentences' Diana Evans'Witty, fiery, wistful and even shocking, with engrossing heady prose, Campbell's style is unique' Irish Independent'An immensely enjoyable... -
We Seldom Talk About the Past: Selected Short Stories by John MacKenna
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.82We Seldom Talk About the Past is John MacKenna's first selected collection of short stories, from a career spanning over three decades. The stories selected come from four collections of short... -
THESE IMPERFECT BEINGS Dermot Bolger 9781835940464
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $14.02In a series of unexpected moments when past loves and choices re-surface with startling clarity, the imperfect beings who populate these stories find themselves finally grasping the impact of crucial... -
When All is Said: The Number One Irish Bestseller Anne Griffin 9781473683020
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75THE NUMBER ONE IRISH BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE SUNDAY INDEPENDENT NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD'A rare jewel' John Banville'A genuine page-turner' Donal... -
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When All is Said: Five toasts. Five people. One lifetime. by Anne Griffin 9781473682993 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.40Five toasts. Five people. One lifetime. THE NUMBER ONE IRISH BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL CHRISTOPHER BLAND PRIZE 2020'A hugely enjoyable, engrossing novel, a genuine page-turner.' Donal Ryan'An... -
Life Sentences: The #3 Irish Bestseller by Billy O'Callaghan
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.15*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,... -
Tretower to Clyro: Essays Karl Miller 9780857388391
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92In his latest book of essays Karl Miller turns his attention to appreciate certain writers of the English-speaking modern world. A new ruralism has come to notice in this country, and the book is... -
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Grace's Day by William Wall 9781788545488 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $3.91An Irish Independent Book of the Year. As the great John McGahern used to say, there's verse, and there's prose, and then there's poetry; William Wall is a poet in both mediums' John Banville. ... -
Island by Alistair MacLeod
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92These slow, beautiful stories - resolute and resonant - are small masterpieces: apparently simple but actually crafted with enormous skill and precision. Set against the unforgiving landscape of Cape... -
The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth Adrian Duncan 9781806490271
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 'An original voice' Colm Toibin 'Duncan brings a new way of seeing' Irish Times One winter, in a secluded Alpine city, Irish sculptor John Molloy meets... -
The Grandmother's Tale by R K Narayan 9780749397319
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11'In the title story of this collection of marvellous stories, the narrator, a novelist, sits at the elbow of his grandmother as she tells of how her mother, betrothed at seven years old, had to... -
Horseman Pass by! by Michel Deon
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $11.58These reflective essays about Deon's life and experiences in the west of Ireland describe the colourful and varied personalities that the French novelist has come across since he and his family moved... -
Shadowstory by Jennifer Johnston 9780755383498 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $2.67A heartbreaking novel of the complexities of love, set against the tragedies of the second world war It is the Second World War, and tragedy strikes many families in Ireland. But it is also a... -
Paris Syndrome by Lucy Sweeney Byrne 9781838312626
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09Shortlisted for the Kate O'Brien Award 2020 Shortlisted for the John McGahern Annual Book Prize 2019 Shortlisted for the Dalkey Literary Awards Emerging Writer category 2020 Longlisted for the Edge... -
A Sabbatical in Leipzig: Shortlisted for the 2021 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year by Adrian Duncan
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09'Duncan brings a new way of seeing to the world of prose' Irish Times Michael has been away from Ireland for most of his life and lives alone in Bilbao after the death of Catherine, his girlfriend... -
Let's Dance Lucy Sweeney Byrne 9781739397975
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.83In her latest collection of dark, hilarious and provocative short stories, Lucy Sweeney Byrne explores women on the brink - of love, of joy, of disaster - with her signature wit, insight and daring...