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The Collected Stories of John McGahern by John McGahern 9780679744016
RRP: $48.30Booksplease Price: $35.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679744016Author John McGahernFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random... -
Memoir by John McGahern
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.68John McGahern's astounding memoir of his childhood:'A glowing masterpiece.' Hilary Mantel'The one Irish writer everyone should read.' Colm ToibinAs wise and compelling a book as any of his elegiac... -
The Leavetaking by John McGahern
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35A 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 Dark by John McGahern
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35The celebrated second novel by 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel) and 'the Irish novelist everyone should read' (Colm Toibin) is 'a perfectly written tour de force' (Sunday... -
By the Lake by John McGahern 9780679744023
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $30.14Apologies 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 McGahernFormat... -
Getting Through by John McGahern
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35Stories by one of the outstanding Irish writers of today, author of Nightlines, The Barracks, The Dark, The Leavetaking, The Pornographer, High Ground, Amongst Women (nominated for the Booker Prize... -
Collected Stories by John McGahern
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38A 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... -
Amongst Women by John McGahern
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.23SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME McGahern's 'masterpiece: the sort of book which you can give anyone of any age and know that they will be changed by it'... -
The Pornographer by John McGahern 9780571225712
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35The 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... -
Amongst Women by John McGahern 9780140092554
RRP: $29.40Booksplease Price: $18.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140092554Author John McGahernFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin... -
Love of the World: Essays by John McGahern
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $22.07An enlightening collection of essays, reviews and speeches by 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel) and 'the Irish novelist everyone should read' (Colm Toibin).'Wise and compelling... -
The Letters of John McGahern by Frank Shovlin 9780571387410
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.78'Magnificent.' Irish Times'Much to savour.' The Times'An event in Irish culture.' TLSThe collected letters of John McGahern, 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel) and 'the most... -
The Country Funeral: Faber Stories by John McGahern
Booksplease Price: $11.32Faber 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... -
High Ground: and Other Stories by John McGahern
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35The 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... -
John Mcgahern: Authority and Vision by Zeljka Doljanin
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $49.43This unique collection brings together essays by experts from a variety of disciplines, including history, sociology, education, journalism, creative writing and literary criticism, to offer new... -
That They May Face the Rising Sun by John McGahern
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $12.66Now 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... -
The Dark: A Critical Edition John McGahern 9780815638612
Booksplease Price: $57.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815638612Author John McGahernFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Syracuse University... -
The Rockingham Shoot and Other Dramatic Writings by John McGahern
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $28.83Sinclair; 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... -
Leitrim Observed: A Biography of John McGahern by Aubrey Malone
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $39.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899750603Author Aubrey MaloneFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Aureus PublishingPublisher... -
John McGahern and Modernism by Dr Richard Robinson 9781350075122
Booksplease Price: $79.40John McGahern's work is not easily conceived of as belatedly modernist. His memorialising, faintly archaic style implies a concern with 'making it old' rather than new, suggesting the symptomatic... -
John McGahern: Ways of Looking John Singleton 9781032285443
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $86.92John McGahern (1934-2006) believed that fiction could act as a window on the world. Such windows, however, frame our fields of vision, alter and shape our perspectives. Far from being static, the... -
John McGahern: Critical Essays by Raymond Mullen 9783034317559
RRP: $92.40Booksplease Price: $83.79This volume is a collaborative reassessment of the writing of John McGahern. The contributors provide provocative readings of his major works and also examine some of his lesser-known short stories,... -
Teaching John McGahern's the Dark Anna Teekell 9780815611783
Booksplease Price: $57.92Teaching John McGahern's The Dark provide an indispensable companion to the classic Irish novel. With an introduction aimed at first-time readers and four critical essays, this edition guides readers... -
Touchstones: John McGahern’s Classical Style by Frank Shovlin
RRP: $68.15Booksplease Price: $64.47Touchstones examines the ways in which John McGahern became a writer through his reading. This reading, it is shown, was both extensive and intensive, and tended towards immersion in the classics. As... -
John McGahern and the Art of Memory by Eamon Maher 9783034301008
RRP: $114.45Booksplease Price: $102.77In 2005, when John McGahern published his Memoir, he revealed for the first time in explicit detail the specific nature of the autobiographical dimension of his fiction, a dimension he had hitherto... -
Touchstones: John McGahern’s Classical Style by Frank Shovlin 9781781383216
Booksplease Price: $251.43Touchstones examines the ways in which John McGahern became a writer through his reading. This reading, it is shown, was both extensive and intensive, and tended towards immersion in the classics. As... -
Young John McGahern: Becoming a Novelist by Denis Sampson 9780199682348
RRP: $70.33Booksplease Price: $56.51John McGahern was the most admired Irish novelist of the past fifty years. His accessible fiction won him a wide readership throughout Ireland, but the accomplishment of his craft ensured that he... -
Young John McGahern: Becoming a Novelist by Denis Sampson 9780199641772
Booksplease Price: $53.82John McGahern was the most admired Irish novelist of the past fifty years. His accessible fiction won him a wide readership throughout Ireland, but the accomplishment of his craft ensured that he... -
Sacred Weather: Atmospheric essentialism in the work of John McGahern by Campbell 9781782053446
Booksplease Price: $116.24Is there such a thing as essential Irishness, something which can be experienced, invested in, and politically weaponised? Sacred Weather proposes to take this idea seriously, or literally, by... -
A Deep Well of Want: Visualising the World of John McGahern by Eamon Maher 9781800798106
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $58.46"Paul Butler's monograph is a wonderful illustration of how a visual reading of McGahern can reveal previously undiscovered aspects of the writer's aesthetic approach. 'The Deep Well of Want' of the... -
Irish Writers and The New Yorker in the Mid-Twentieth Century Yen-Chi Wu 9781041036654
RRP: $117.58Booksplease Price: $104.77Irish Writers and The New Yorker in the Mid-Twentieth Century draws on archival research in the New Yorker records to uncover the contractual details of the first-reading agreement, The New Yorker's... -
The Revelation of Ireland: 1995-2020 Diarmaid Ferriter 9781800810969
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87THE NUMBER 1 IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 An Irish Times Book of the Year 2024 Ireland is a strikingly different country now to... -
A Border Station by Shane Connaughton 9781784162559
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $15.39'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... -
Ageing in Irish Writing: Strangers to Themselves by Heather Ingman 9783030071899
Booksplease Price: $97.19Age is a missing category in Irish literary criticism and this book is the first to explore a range of familiar and not so familiar Irish texts through a gerontological lens. Drawing on the latest... -
The Geometer Lobachevsky: Shortlisted for the 2023 Walter Scott Prize and the 2023 Kerry Group Novel of the Year by Adrian Duncan
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.95'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: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38From 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... -
City of the Tribes by Walter Macken 9781848407633
Booksplease Price: $24.74These stories, rich with the passion and drama which characterises all of Walter Macken's writing, were conceived by the author as a thematic collection, providing a stunning evocation of the life... -
'Getting the Words Right': A Festschrift" in Honour of Eamon Maher by Eamon Maher 9781803741444
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $58.46This book is a collection of essays written in honour of Eamon Maher. The essays all speak to issues which Eamon has worked on, so there are pieces focusing largely on the connections between Ireland... -
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RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $15.46From 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
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $15.39Patrick 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,...