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Facts and Fiction by Michael Holroyd
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €10.36'As deft and devastating as a piece of non-fiction writing in miniature as you're ever likely to read ... A collection to be savoured, its urbanity, wisdom and humorous probing best digested at... -
On Wheels by Michael Holroyd 9780701187439
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.99Michael Holroyd confronts an army of automobiles in this charming book. Weaving together memoir and historical anecdote, he traces his relationship with cars through a lifetime of biography. Learning... -
A Dog's Life Michael Holroyd 9781848665248
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €8.14Eustace is undisputed patriarch of the Farquhar family. That is, he would be if everyone stopped mumbling, let him get on with his shaving and find his way downstairs. It's not Henry's fault that he... -
The Good Bohemian: The Letters of Ida John by Michael Holroyd
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €14.14'It is right that, after more than one hundred years, she should have her say' John Carey, Sunday Times Twelve days before her twenty-fourth birthday, on the foggy morning of Saturday 12 January... -
A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and their Remarkable Families by Michael Holroyd 9780099497189
RRP: €21.59Booksplease Price: €15.70Henry Irving - a merchant's clerk who became the saviour of British theatre - and Ellen Terry, who made her first theatre appearance as soon as she could walk, were the king and queen of the... -
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Breaking Light by Karin Altenberg 9781780877174 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €2.88Steeped in its bleak and beautiful landscape, Mortford is a place of secrets and memories: of bitter divisions and shattered dreams. Returning to this Dartmoor village where he grew up, Gabriel... -
![A Natural Curiosity by Margaret Drabble 9780140122282 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9701779/10718483/9780140122282__45884.1781356548.jpg?c=1 "A Natural Curiosity by Margaret Drabble 9780140122282 [USED COPY]")
A Natural Curiosity by Margaret Drabble 9780140122282 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €2.90Liz, Alix and Esther are old friends whose lives continue to cross and uncross. As the years pass, they are more than ever disposed to question, to re-evaluate, to examine their motives and... -
Breaking Light by Karin Altenberg
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.88Steeped in its bleak and beautiful landscape, Mortford is a place of secrets and memories: of bitter divisions and shattered dreams. Returning to this Dartmoor village where he grew up, Gabriel... -
Edwardian Turn Of Mind by Samuel Hynes 9780712650281
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €16.15The Edwardian Turn of Mind brilliantly evokes the cultural temper of an age. The years between the death of Queen Victoria and the outbreak of the First World War witnessed a turbulent and dramatic... -
The Millstone by Margaret Drabble
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €9.88A celebration of the drama and intensity of the mother-child relationship, Margaret Drabble'sThe Millstone won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1965.It is the Swinging Sixties, and Rosamund Stacey is... -
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Merivel: A Man of His Time by Rose Tremain 9780099548430 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €2.46'One of the great imaginative creations in English literature' Daily TelegraphA dazzling novel of loyalty and dreams set in Restoration England.The gaudy years of the Restoration are long gone and... -
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The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble 9780140297164 [USED COPY]
RRP: €21.59Booksplease Price: €3.38It is 1905, and Bessie is a small child living in a South Yorkshire mining town. Unusually gifted, she sits quietly and studies hard, waiting for the day when she can sit the Cambridge entrance exam... -
Young Romantics by Daisy Hay 9781408809723
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €15.59'A most impressive achievement' Michael Holroyd 'Enthralling' Sunday Times 'Masterly' Telegraph _______________________ 'The web of our Life is of mingled Yarn' - John Keats In Young... -
A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: The Collected Stories by Margaret Drabble
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.54Margaret Drabble is one of the major literary figures of her generation. In this collection of her complete short fiction from across four decades, she examines the intense private worlds and... -
The Millstone by Margaret Drabble 9780241979174
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €8.39A celebration of the drama and intensity of the mother-child relationship, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.It is the Swinging Sixties, and Rosamund Stacey is young and... -
Painted Ladies by Lynn Bushell 9781912240487
RRP: €9.59Booksplease Price: €7.39For twenty-five years, the legendary Marthe has been Pierre Bonnard's companion and muse. His new model Renee, lovely and captivating, thinks it's time her rival stepped aside. But Marthe won't give... -
Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08Twenty-one, passionate and headstrong, Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to live her own life. When her father forbids her from attending a fashionable Ball, she decides she has no choice but to... -
Merivel: A Man of His Time by Rose Tremain
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.78'One of the great imaginative creations in English literature' Daily TelegraphA dazzling novel of loyalty and dreams set in Restoration England.The gaudy years of the Restoration are long gone and... -
Island of Wings by Karin Altenberg
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €7.99Longlisted for the Orange Prize 2012. 1830. Neil and Lizzie MacKenzie, a newly married young couple, arrive at the remotest part of the British Isles: St Kilda. He is a minister determined to save... -
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The Confessions of Frannie Langton: The Costa Book Awards First Novel Winner 2019 by Sara Collins 9780241984017 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €2.88A haunting tale about one woman's fight to tell her story, The Confessions of Frannie Langton leads you through laudanum-laced dressing rooms and dark-as-night alleys, into the heart of Georgian... -
The Confessions of Frannie Langton: The Costa Book Awards First Novel Winner 2019 by Sara Collins
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.77A haunting tale about one woman's fight to tell her story, The Confessions of Frannie Langton leads you through laudanum-laced dressing rooms and dark-as-night alleys, into the heart of Georgian... -
King Edward VIII by Philip Ziegler 9780007481019
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €16.91The authorised life story of the king who gave up his throne for love, by one of our most distinguished biographers. In this masterly authorized biography, Philip Ziegler reveals the... -
The Sea Lady by Margaret Drabble 9781838859725
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.54Ailsa and Humphrey met as children by a grey, northern sea in post-war Britain. She, freckled and furious; he, quietly studious; both fascinated by the other. Years later, their lives collide as... -
The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws by Margaret Drabble
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54In The Pattern in the Carpet the award-winning and beloved writer Margaret Drabble explores her own family story alongside the history of her favourite childhood pastime - the jigsaw. The result is... -
The Millstone by Margaret Drabble 9781838857134
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.77Winner of John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, The Millstone is a radical celebration of the mother-child relationship. It is the Swinging Sixties, and Rosamund Stacey is young and inexperienced at a time when... -
The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble 9781838859749
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.54The princess is taking her over, bodily and mentally. Dr Babs Halliwell is no longer herself.A young girl is plucked from obscurity to marry the Crown Prince of Korea. In her diaries, she chronicles... -
The Needle's Eye by Margaret Drabble
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54Simon Camish, a resentful insecure barrister in a stifling marriage, would not have particularly noticed Rose Vassiliou had he not been asked to drive her home one night after a dinner party. Now,... -
The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54One hot summer afternoon in South Yorkshire, Faro sits at a lecture on genetic inheritance. She has travelled from London to the Northern mining town where generations of her family have lived and... -
Isaac Newton by James Gleick 9780007163182
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.50From one of the best writers on science, a remarkable portrait of Isaac Newton. The man who changed our understanding of the universe, of science, and of faith. Isaac Newton was the chief... -
Plays Unpleasant by George Bernard Shaw
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08With Plays Unpleasant, Shaw issued a radical challenge to his audiences' complacency and exposed social evils through his dramatization of the moral conflicts between youthful idealism and economic... -
A Natural Curiosity by Margaret Drabble 9781838859718
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.54January 1987. Alix Bowen has moved away from London to Yorkshire. There, she regularly visits a mass-murderer in a high-security prison. But has her natural curiosity in his motives and character... -
Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw 9780140437874
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.54When Ellie Dunn joins a house-party at the home of the eccentric Captain Shotover, she causes a stir with her decision to marry for money rather than love, and the Captain's forthright daughter... -
A Summer Bird-Cage by Margaret Drabble
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.77In her witty, masterful debut novel, Margaret Drabble conjures a gripping story of sibling rivalry. Louise, beautiful and sophisticated, marries wealthy novelist Stephen Fairfax. Sarah, recently... -
Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €8.39One of Shaw's most unusual and enduringly popular plays. With SAINT JOAN (1923) Shaw reached the height of his fame and Joan is one of his finest creations; forceful, vital, and rebelling against the... -
The Worm Forgives the Plough by John Stewart Collis
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.35WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT MACFARLANEDuring the Second World War, John Stewart Collis volunteered to leave his comfortable life as an academic to work on the land for the war effort. His account... -
Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.77'Yes, you squashed cabbage leaf . . . you incarnate insult to the English language: I could pass you off as the Queen of Sheba'Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A... -
Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw 9780140437904
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €8.00Andrew Undershaft, a millionaire armaments manufacturer, loves money and despises poverty. His estranged daughter Barbara, on the other hand, shows her love for the poor by throwing her energies into... -
My Animal Life by Maggie Gee 9781846590900
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €8.14How do you become a writer, and why? Maggie Gee's journey starts a long way from the literary world in a small family in post-war Britain,. At seventeen, Maggie goes, a lamb to the slaughter, to... -
Plays Pleasant by George Bernard Shaw
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.61One of Bernard Shaw's most glittering comedies, Arms and the Man is a burlesque of Victorian attitudes to heroism, war and empire. In the contrast between Bluntschli, the mercenary soldier, and the... -
Sunset Oasis by Bahaa Taher
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.62As the 19th century draws to a close, the politically disgraced Mahmoud Abd El Zahir takes up his post as District Commissioner of the remote and dangerous Egyptian oasis of Siwa, knowing he has no...