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The Collected Stories of John McGahern by John McGahern 9780679744016
RRP: €27.37Booksplease Price: €20.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679744016Author John McGahernFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint -
The Leavetaking by John McGahern
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70A 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: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70The 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... -
The Barracks by John McGahern
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70The iconic debut novel by 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel) and 'the Irish novelist everyone should read' (Colm Toibin).Elizabeth Reegan, after years of freedom - and... -
By the Lake by John McGahern 9780679744023
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €16.27Apologies 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 -
Getting Through by John McGahern
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70Stories 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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98A 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... -
The Pornographer by John McGahern 9780571225712
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70The 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... -
Love of the World: Essays by John McGahern
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.51An 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... -
Amongst Women by John McGahern 9780140092554
RRP: €16.66Booksplease Price: €10.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140092554Author John McGahernFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint -
The Country Funeral: Faber Stories by John McGahern
Booksplease Price: €6.41Faber 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 Letters of John McGahern by Frank Shovlin 9780571387410
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.74'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... -
All Will Be Well: A Memoir by John McGahern 9781400079865
RRP: €19.04Booksplease Price: €12.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400079865Author John McGahernFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint -
That They May Face the Rising Sun by John McGahern
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70Now 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: €32.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815638612Author John McGahernFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint -
High Ground: and Other Stories by John McGahern
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.46The 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: €29.75Booksplease Price: €28.01This 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... -
John McGahern and Modernism by Dr Richard Robinson 9781350075122
Booksplease Price: €44.99John 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... -
The Rockingham Shoot and Other Dramatic Writings by John McGahern
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.34Sinclair; 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: €23.80Booksplease Price: €22.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899750603Author Aubrey MaloneFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint -
John McGahern: Critical Essays by Raymond Mullen 9783034317559
RRP: €52.36Booksplease Price: €47.48This 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
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.62Teaching 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
Booksplease Price: €39.66Touchstones 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: €64.86Booksplease Price: €58.24In 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... -
John McGahern: Ways of Looking John Singleton 9781032285443
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €51.27John 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... -
Young John McGahern: Becoming a Novelist by Denis Sampson 9780199641772
Booksplease Price: €30.50John 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 9780199682348
Booksplease Price: €43.20John 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: €64.27Is 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... -
John McGahern and the Imagination of Tradition by Stanley van der Ziel 9781782051640
Booksplease Price: €55.04John McGahern (1934-2006) has been widely acknowledged as one of the foremost Irish prose writers of the twentieth and the early twenty-first century. McGahern has traditionally been regarded as a... -
Essays on John McGahern: Assessing a literacy legacy by Derek Hand 9781782053293
Booksplease Price: €64.46This collection of essays, written by many of the foremost McGahern scholars, provides solid reasons for why the Leitrim writer has assumed canonical status since his premature death in 2006, an... -
A Deep Well of Want: Visualising the World of John McGahern by Eamon Maher 9781800798106
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €33.13"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... -
The Dark: Cillian Murphy: 'One of the greatest Irish writers’ by John McGahern 9780571399505
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70With a new foreword by Colin Walsh, this is 'one of the most volatile, vital and unsafe novels in Irish literature', banned by the censor for obscenity in 1965 - and just as explosive today.He was... -
Memoir: Cillian Murphy: 'One of the greatest Irish writers’ by John McGahern 9780571399482
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46With a new foreword by Yiyun Li, this beloved memoir of an Irish childhood by the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of classics like Amongst Women is a 'healing book' (Sebastian Barry)'McGahern is... -
Amongst Women: Cillian Murphy: 'One of the greatest Irish writers’ by John McGahern 9780571399475
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70Introduced 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... -
Irish Writers and The New Yorker in the Mid-Twentieth Century Yen-Chi Wu 9781041036654
Booksplease Price: €67.95Irish 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... -
That They May Face the Rising Sun: Cillian Murphy: 'One of the greatest Irish writers’ by John McGahern 9780571399499
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70With 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... -
The Revelation of Ireland: 1995-2020 Diarmaid Ferriter 9781800810969
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.26THE 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: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.72'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: €55.79Age 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: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.47'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 ...' ...