Filter By
Books (38)
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
The Writing School: A memoir Miranda France 9781472157348
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €12.64'Both extremely funny and deeply sad, The Writing School examines how and why we tell our own stories. It's beautifully written and structured, compelling, wise and fabulously readable' Lissa... -
That Summer at Hill Farm by Miranda France 9780099555131
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €8.50To the casual outsider, Hill Farm is a rural idyll and the perfect retreat from urban life. Yet beneath the tranquil surface lie discontent, desire and death-watch beetles.Farmer Hayes loves the land... -
The Writing School: A memoir by Miranda France 9781472157355
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €8.40'Fascinating, hugely entertaining, instructive in the best sense. I always thought that writing could not be taught, only reading, but this book made me reconsider. I read it in one sitting' Alberto... -
Bad Times In Buenos Aires Miranda France 9780753805510
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.02A funny and poignant account of life in Buenos Aires, by a young prize-winning writer.In 1993 Miranda France moved to South America, drawn to Buenos Aires as the intellectual hub of the continent,... -
Don Quixote's Delusions: Travels in Castilian Spain by Miranda France
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81A humorous and affectionate look at modern Spain, and a celebration of the country's greatest book, from the pen of a brilliant young writer.When in 1987 Miranda France spent a year living in Madrid,... -
Empire and Underworld: Captivity in French Guiana by Miranda Frances Spieler 9780674057548
RRP: €60.63Booksplease Price: €49.78In the century after the French Revolution, the South American outpost of Guiana became a depository for exiles-outcasts of the new French citizenry-and an experimental space for the exercise of new... -
Slaves in Paris: Hidden Lives and Fugitive Histories Miranda Frances Spieler 9780674986541
RRP: €40.40Booksplease Price: €34.36A pioneering biographical study of enslaved people and their struggle for freedom in prerevolutionary Paris, by an award-winning historian of France and the French Empire.In the decades leading up to... -
UEA MA Non-Fiction & Prose Fiction Anthology 2024 Miranda France 9781915812605
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.41This provocative cornucopia of fiction and non-fiction reminds us why we read. Exploring the complexities of the human condition, UEA’s 2024 Prose Fiction MA graduates make fresh and astonishing... -
Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland by Sarah Moss
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46'One of the most enjoyable travel books I've read' The Times Acclaimed novelist Sarah Moss's compelling account of living in Iceland with two small children in the year the volcano erupted At... -
Latin Hitchcock: How Almodovar, Amenabar, De la Iglesia, Del Toro, and Campanella Became Notorious by Dona Kercher
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €21.90This study explores how five major directors-Pedro Almodovar, Alejandro Amenabar, Alex de la Iglesia, Guillermo del Toro, and Juan Jose Campanella-modeled their early careers on Hitchcock and his... -
Latin Hitchcock: How Almodovar, Amenabar, De la Iglesia, Del Toro, and Campanella Became Notorious by Dona Kercher 9780231172080
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €80.99This study explores how five major directors-Pedro Almodovar, Alejandro Amenabar, Alex de la Iglesia, Guillermo del Toro, and Juan Jose Campanella-modeled their early careers on Hitchcock and his... -
Medusa’s Ankles: Selected Stories from the Booker Prize Winner by A S Byatt 9781529112993
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.20A luminous selection of short stories from the Booker prize-winning A. S. Byatt, celebrating over thirty years of writingWith an introduction by David MitchellByatt takes her readers to a place that... -
Guernica: The Biography of a Twentieth-century Icon by Gijs van Hensbergen 9780747568735
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €18.50Of all the great paintings in the world, Picasso's Guernica has had a more direct impact on our consciousness than perhaps any other. In this absorbing and revealing book, Gijs van Hensbergen tells... -
Medusa’s Ankles: Selected Stories by A S Byatt
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €23.24A luminous selection of short stories from the prize-winning imagination of A. S. ByattWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MITCHELLMirrors shatter at the hairdressers when a middle-aged client explodes in... -
A Map of the Damage by Sophia Tobin
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.62Already a Sunday Times bestselling author with her first novel, A Map of the Damage confirms Sophia Tobin as a rising star. This is stunning historical fiction for fans of Tracy Chevalier. London,... -
Betty Boo by Claudia Pineiro
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.07The latest thriller from South America's best-selling crime writer.When a Buenos Aires industrialist is found dead at his home in an exclusive gated community, the novelist Nurit Iscar - Betty Boo to... -
Awkwardness: A Theory by Alexandra Plakias 9780197683606
Booksplease Price: €26.87Awkwardness offers an account of the psychology and philosophical significance of a ubiquitous social phenomenon. Our aversion to awkwardness mirrors our desire for inclusion. This explains its power... -
Six in a Bed: The Future of Love - from Sex Dolls and Avatars to Polyamory by Roanne van Voorst 9781509558421
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €22.17Love is the most important and intense experience of our life. It pushes us to elation, to heartbreak, to sing for joy and sob in disappointment. Connecting in this way to others is an essential... -
Broken Biscuits: Essays on Masculinity Adam Farrer 9780008710699
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.66Witty, tender and daring essays from the British David Sedaris 'A bold new voice in nonfiction writing.' Jenn Ashworth When... -
Y Tu Mama Tambien by Paul Julian Smith
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.10Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001), an intelligent and sensual road movie directed by Alfonso Cuaron and co-written by him and his brother Carlos, is both an acclaimed feature by a director who would go on to... -
Broken Biscuits: And other male failures Adam Farrer 9780008710729
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.62Witty, tender and daring essays from the British David Sedaris 'A lovely writer: supple, stylish and almost effortlessly witty.' Daily Mail 'Made me laugh out loud... -
The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by Antony Beevor
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.85The bestselling author of STALINGRAD and BERLIN: THE DOWNFALL on the Spanish Civil War, drawing on masses of newly discovered material from the Spanish, Russian and German archives.The civil war that... -
The Private Lives of Trees by Alejandro Zambra 9781804270240
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98Veronica is late, and Julian is increasingly convinced she won't ever come home. To pass the time, he improvises a story about trees to coax his stepdaughter, Daniela, to sleep. He has made a life as... -
The Condor Trials: Transnational Repression and Human Rights in South America by Francesca Lessa 9780300254099
RRP: €65.45Booksplease Price: €64.11Stories of transnational terror and justice illuminate the past and present of South America's struggles for human rights "Outstanding. . . . An Olympian view of the Condor system."-Philip Chrimes,... -
The Britannias: An Island Quest by Alice Albinia 9780241669631
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €19.77SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR'A dazzlingly brilliant book' Hannah Dawson'Fascinating, often exhilarating ... Albinia is an intrepid, imaginative guide' TLSThe Britannias... -
Small Bomb At Dimperley by Lissa Evans 9781804991978
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.20Discover the heartwarmingly witty new historical novel about changing (sometimes reluctantly) with the times in the aftermath of WW2, perfect for fans of Maggie O'Farrell and Rachel Joyce.'A deeply... -
Nonfiction: A novel Julie Myerson 9781472156785
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81'Her best novel yet' The Times'Incredibly compelling' Daily Mail'Incandescent'The Observer'Fiercely intelligent' Publishers WeeklyTwo parents stand by powerlessly as their only child seems intent on... -
Irresistible: How Cuteness Wired our Brains and Conquered the World by Professor Joshua Paul Dale 9781788162388
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €17.30A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week' 'Fascinating ... you'll never look at a Hello Kitty or a Pokemon the same way again' Mail on Sunday Why are some things cute, and others not? What happens to... -
How We Are Translated: a novel by Jessica Gaitan Johannesson
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.94LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE Do you ever feel like you're not speaking the same language? Swedish immigrant Kristin won't talk about her pregnancy. Her Brazilian-born Scottish boyfriend... -
Too Much of Life: Complete Chronicles by Clarice Lispector 9780241597583
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.02A TLS Book of the Year This exhilarating collection of non-fiction sees one of the greatest twentieth-century writers meditating on the moments that make up a life'How did I so unwittingly transform... -
How We Are Translated: a novel by Jessica Gaitán Johannesson 9781913348069
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.64LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE People say 'I'm sorry' all the time when it can mean both 'I'm sorry I hurt you' and 'I'm sorry someone else did something I have nothing to do with'. It's... -
Living Things Munir Hachemi 9781804270875
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98Living Things follows four recent graduates - Munir, G, Ernesto and Alex - who travel from Madrid to the south of France to work the grape harvest. Except things don't go as planned: they end up... -
Life of Picasso: v. 4 by John Richardson
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €31.76'A masterpiece' Sunday Times'Magisterial... thrilling' Guardian'Terrifically enjoyable' Daily TelegraphThe beautifully illustrated, long-awaited final volume of John Richardson's magisterial Life of... -
Midwinter Break Bernard MacLaverty 9781784704919
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.20A Guardian / Sunday Times / Irish Times / Herald Scotland / Mail on Sunday Book of the YearWinner of the Bord Gais Novel of the Year'Midwinter Break is a work of extraordinary emotional precision and... -
The Gold Machine: In the Tracks of the Mule Dancers by Iain Sinclair
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.03A New Statesman Book of the Year, 2021 'Follow Iain Sinclair into the cloud jungles of Peru and emerge questioning all that seemed so solid and immutable.' Barry Miles From the award-winning... -
The Gold Machine: In the Tracks of the Mule Dancers by Iain Sinclair 9780861543731
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.21A New Statesman Book of the Year, 2021 'Follow Iain Sinclair into the cloud jungles of Peru and emerge questioning all that seemed so solid and immutable.' Barry Miles From the award-winning... -
Forgotten Journey by Silvina Ocampo
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.31"The world is ready for her blend of insane Angela Carter with the originality of Clarice Lispector."-Mariana Enriquez, LitHubDelicately crafted, intensely visual, deeply personal stories explore the... -
The Promise by Silvina Ocampo 9780872867710
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.84Kirkus Reviews calls The Promise one of the Best Books of Fiction, and of Literature in Translation, of the year!* Voted one of the Big Fall Books from Indies by Publishers Weekly & LitHub's Most...