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Intimacies by Lucy Caldwell
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.89*Includes the winner of the 2021 BBC National Short Story Award*'Smart, nuanced and sometimes heart-stopping.' Anne Enright'Outstanding.' Guardian'Eleven perfect stories.' Irish Independent'Glorious... -
Leaves by Lucy Caldwell
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.11We are where we come from?' That's not true. That's not true because if that's true there's no hope for any of us.Lori is coming home from her first term at university. It's only been a few weeks... -
The Meeting Point by Lucy Caldwell
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.89When Euan and Ruth set off with their young daughter to live in Bahrain, it is meant to be an experience and adventure they will cherish. But on the night they arrive, Ruth discovers the truth behind... -
All the Beggars Riding by Lucy Caldwell
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.89When Lara was twelve, and her younger brother Alfie eight, their father died in a helicopter crash. A prominent plastic surgeon, and Irishman, he had honed his skills on the bomb victims of the... -
Notes to Future Self by Lucy Caldwell
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.11Sophie and Calliope have never been to school. Their mum ran away from home when she was seventeen to join the New Age movement and the girls were raised in a series of ashrams, communes and... -
The Forester's Daughter: Faber Stories by Claire Keegan
RRP: $13.28Booksplease Price: $9.48*From the Booker-shortlisted author of Small Things Like These*Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles... -
These Days: 'A gem of a novel, I adored it.' MARIAN KEYES by Lucy Caldwell 9780571313570
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.89Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Art of the Glimpse: 100 Irish short stories by Sinead Gleeson 9781800249691
RRP: $34.20Booksplease Price: $27.85The #1 Irish Times bestseller A special reissue from Head of Zeus's bestselling anthology collection of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinead Gleeson, author of Constellations,... -
Openings: 'So varied, so subtle, so tonally poised - a stunning collection.' TESSA HADLEY by Lucy Caldwell 9780571382750
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $20.03'One of the finest short-storywriters at work today. These stories are honest, finely nuanced and indelible in their impact.'WENDY ERSKINE'One of our best short story writers.' THE TIMES'You'll lose... -
The Book of Tokyo: A City in Short Fiction by Masashi Matsuie 9781905583577
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $18.28At first, Tokyo appears in these stories as it does to many outsiders: a city of bewildering scale, awe-inspiring modernity, peculiar rules, unknowable secrets and, to some extent, danger. Characters... -
Being Various: New Irish Short Stories by Various 9780571354108
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.11Following her own brilliant short story collection Multitudes, Lucy Caldwell guest edits the sixth volume of Faber's long running series of new Irish short stories, continuing the great work started... -
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A Crooked Tree by Una Mannion 9780571357970 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $3.76My mother made a snap decision.How could we know it would change us forever?THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Brimming with curiosity and wonder.' Irish Times'Lushly atmospheric.' Daily Mail'Thoroughly... -
A Crooked Tree by Una Mannion
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $11.53My mother made a snap decision.How could we know it would change us forever?THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Brimming with curiosity and wonder.' Irish Times'Lushly atmospheric.' Daily Mail'Thoroughly... -
A Line Made By Walking by Sara Baume
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.23SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2017'When I finished Sara Baume's new novel I immediately felt sad that I could not send it in the post to the late John Berger. He, too, would have loved it and... -
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A Line Made By Walking by Sara Baume 9780099592754 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $4.45SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2017'When I finished Sara Baume's new novel I immediately felt sad that I could not send it in the post to the late John Berger. He, too, would have loved it and... -
Quickly, While They Still Have Horses Jan Carson 9781804993170
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorJan Carson is a writer based in Belfast. Her first novel, Malcolm Orange Disappears, was published in 2014... -
Spanish Short Stories by Gudie Lawaetz
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $16.32This second volume of short stories contains more diverse and lively writing from the Spanish-speaking world. Again much of it is from Latin America, Carlos Fuentes being Mexican, Norberto Fuentes... -
Shine/Variance by Stephen Walsh
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $19.44"Great, beautiful little studies of unspoken fear and longing and love, told with a sure-footed delicacy rare in a debut" Sarah Moss, Irish Times"An exciting, original, and very welcome new voice"... -
A Slanting of the Sun: Stories by Donal Ryan
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $14.92From the twice Man Booker longlisted author of From a Low and Quiet Sea'Donal Ryan, one of our most remarkable writers, has produced a book of short stories of such visceral power that they hit you... -
The Last Resort by Jan Carson
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.97'Profoundly imagined characters, spiced with the off-kilter and deliciously mad . . . a work of great empathy and imagination' THE IRISH TIMESThe season's just begun at Seacliff Caravan Park, but... -
The Glass Shore: Short Stories by Women Writers from the North of Ireland by Sinead Gleeson
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.58NEW PAPERBACK EDITION 2015 saw the publication of The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers, edited by Sinead Gleeson. The Long Gaze Back was widely acclaimed and went on to win Best... -
Monstrum: From the winner of the BBC Young Writers' Award 2020 by Lottie Mills 9780861545629
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $23.81What does it mean to be different in a world that values perfection, at any cost? 'Lottie's writing is a superb flight of the imagination' A.S. Byatt, author of Possession 'Haunting,... -
Habitat by Catriona Shine 9781843518877
RRP: $28.41Booksplease Price: $24.62Habitat follows seven neighbours over the course of a surreal and life-changing week as their mid-century apartment building in Oslo begins to inexplicably break down around them. Connected by... -
Her Mother's Daughter by 9781760630652
RRP: $15.18Booksplease Price: $11.44Hello! magazine's April 2018 'book of the week'Set across two decades in London and Ireland, Her Mother's Daughter sees the lives of a troubled and emotionally abusive mother and her innocent... -
Exile Aimée Walsh 9781399815871
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.06'A brilliant novel about friendship, consent and displacement from a vibrant new voice' Irish Examiner'The most unexpected close to a book that will take its place among the best of contemporary... -
Cape Fever by Nadia Davids 9781398544048
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $23.52An exhilarating tale of twisted desire and the unexpected shape of justice, for readers of The Safekeep'I come highly recommended to Mrs Hattingh through sentences I tell her I cannot read.'1920, a... -
Irish Stories by Christopher Morash 9781841596419
RRP: $28.50Booksplease Price: $23.50The short story flourishes in Ireland. All Irish conditions seem to favour it. With its roots in the fertile soil of the Gaelic folk tradition, it appeared to grow and thrive on the discontinuities... -
We All Come Home Alive: A Life in Shocks by Anna Beecher 9781399608084
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.24'Profoundly affecting' GUARDIAN'Extraordinary. It made me cry' MELISSA HARRISON'Wise and beautifully written' SINEAD GLEESON'Made me feel that I too was more alive' LUCY CALDWELLA life is made up of... -
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This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Winner of the 2023 BBC National Short Story Award by Naomi Wood 9781399615891 [USED COPY]
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $5.68WINNER OF THE BBC NATIONAL SHORT STORY AWARD'Terrifically exciting . . . It's a beautiful, electrifying thing to witness - a writer so hilariously and so reasonably voicing the unspeakable'Sarah... -
This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Winner of the 2023 BBC National Short Story Award by Naomi Wood 9781399615914
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.24'Excellent' IRISH TIMES 'Witty and biting and brilliant' i PAPER 'Full of dark mischief' EMMA HEALEY'Hilarious' EMMA JANE UNSWORTH WINNER OF THE BBC NATIONAL SHORT STORY AWARD A mother has an... -
The Moon is Trending by Clare Fisher
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.83This new short story collection from Clare Fisher explores of feelings of failure around gender, sexuality, and work, that arise in a success-obsessed capitalist culture. Dazzling, playful, and... -
Night Swimmers Roisin Maguire 9781800816763
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.06'A glowing, generous novel' Irish Times 'A warm, unsentimental and beautifully observed book for our times' Lucy Caldwell, author of These Days 'Grace is a fabulous character ... there's a touch of... -
The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers by Sinead Gleeson 9781848405486
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $16.00An instant classic, The Long Gaze Back, edited by Sinead Gleeson, is an exhilarating anthology of thirty short stories by some of the most gifted women writers this island has ever produced... -
The Unwilding by Marina Kemp 9780008637897
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.50SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ENCORE AWARD 2025 'Compelling and fine and rich, I devoured it' TESSA HADLEY 'Powerfully compelling' ... -
The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine 9781399741675
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $24.76'Brims with humanity . . . I adored it'Lucy Caldwell, author of These Days'A powerful, moving, compelling, utterly enthralling debut'Jon McGregor, author of Reservoir 13'Perfectly pitched,... -
Elsewhere: 'Wonderful writing' Sarah Hall by Yan Ge
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54'Wonderful writing.' SARAH HALL'Dazzlingly good.' DANIELLE McLAUGHLIN 'Precise, surreal and emotionally devastating' LUCY CALDWELL'How do you know this is all real and happening? How can you be sure... -
The First Day by Phil Harrison
RRP: $7.58Booksplease Price: $6.44Outside an east Belfast mission hall, pastor and family man Samuel Orr meets Anna, a young Beckett scholar. They embark on an intense love affair, their connection fuelled by their respective... -
Make Strange by Niamh Campbell 9781399631808
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $23.96'DELIVERS NEW PLEASURES ON EVERY PAGE' ANNE ENRIGHT'STYLISH, SHARP AND FIERCELY INTELLIGENT' LUCY CALDWELL'A GLOWING, MOVING, DARING BOOK' SEAN HEWITTIt begins on an orange afternoon, cool but... -
Gringa Joe Thomas 9781529426601
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.06'As vibrant, colourful and complex as South America's largest city' Sao Paulo, 2013: a city at an extraordinary moment in its history. Mario Leme, a detective in the civil police, has... -
The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story by Philip Hensher
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54'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...