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To a Fault by Nick Laird
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In this impressive debut, Nick Laird explores the sharp edge of relationships, from the intimacy of lovers to the brutality of political violence. Journeying between his native Ulster and his adopted... -
On Purpose by Nick Laird
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Laird's debut collection, To a Fault (2005), signalled the arrival of a significant new talent, 'doing more, in its range and ambition,' wrote Deryn Rees-Jones in the Independent, 'than any first... -
Utterly Monkey by Nick Laird 9780060828363
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060828363Author Nick LairdFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint -
Glover's Mistake by Nick Laird 9780007197514
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Utterly Monkey by Nick Laird 9780007346721
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.63A very funny, energetic, wonderfully engaging novel about where we're from and where we'd like to get to... Danny Williams is talented, upwardly mobile and has left his Northern Irish... -
Up Late: Poems by Nick Laird 9781324110422
Booksplease Price: £11.83Reeling in the face of collapsing systems, of politics, identity, and the banalities and distortions of modern living, Nick Laird confronts age-old anxieties, questions of aloneness, friendship, the... -
The Zoo of the New: A Book of Exceptional Poems from Sappho to Paul Muldoon by Nick Laird
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'So open it anywhere, then anywhere, then anywhere again. We're sure it won't be long before you find a poem that brings you smack into the newness and strangeness of the living present, just as it... -
A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems: The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman by A. E. Housman
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A.E. Housman was one of the best-loved poets of his day, and A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems is a collection of poems whose elegant simplicity of form belies their hidden complexities. This Penguin... -
Whale Day by Billy Collins
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Funny but serious, accessible but rich in meaning, consistently surprising - the world looks slightly different after reading a Billy Collins poem. He's a one-off, an American treasure' Nick Laird ... -
My Voice by Sarah Maguire
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.94As this gloriously diverse, revelatory selection of translations from the Poetry Translation Centre's first decade proves, nothing has invigorated poetry in English more than translation. Here you... -
Penguin Modern Poets 4: Other Ways to Leave the Room by Three Poets
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Other Ways to Leave the Room features the work of three of the most beloved and lauded poets currently at large. Between them, Kathleen Jamie, Don Paterson and Nick Laird write lyrical, luminous and... -
Storm-Cat by Magenta Fox 9780241640357
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02We can't choose our weather, but we can choose what we make of it.Arwel is having a fine day. Yes, his sister has gone off to school for the first time, leaving him alone, and yes, there's a cloud... -
The Problem of the Many by Timothy Donnelly
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'The best collection I've read in ages: every poem contains something unexpected and unexpectedly powerful. This is serious, modern, ambitious and bold work - the kind of poetry you hope to find, and... -
The Duck Who Came for Dinner by Steve Smallman 9781801044721
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78The fifth book in the bestselling The Lamb Who Came for Dinner series, packed with wit and personality from Steve Smallman (Poo in the Zoo, Monkey With a Bright Blue Bottom, and Bear's Big Bottom)... -
The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry by Patrick Crotty
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.75The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry features the work of the greatest Irish poets, from the monks of the ancient monasteries to the Nobel laureates W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney, from Jonathan Swift and... -
The Armadillo Who Came for Dinner by Steve Smallman 9781801045667
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The sixth book in the internationally bestselling The Lamb Who Came for Dinner series, written by the inimitable Steve Smallman (Poo in the Zoo, The Eyebrows of Doom, The Monkey with the Bright Blue... -
A Herring Famine by Adam O'Riordan 9780701187972
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.50The poems of this dazzling second collection are of contradictory impulses: of abundance and famine, of absence and presence, of endings and new beginnings. Here again are the intelligent, elegant... -
The Year of Magical Thinking: A Play by Joan Didion based on her Memoir by Joan Didion 9780007270743
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58'This happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won't when it happens to you...' In this adaptation of her award-winning, bestselling memoir, Joan Didion transforms... -
The Duck Who Came for Dinner Steve Smallman 9781801044745
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02The fifth book in the bestselling The Lamb Who Came for Dinner series, packed with wit and personality from Steve Smallman (Poo in the Zoo, Monkey With a Bright Blue Bottom, and Bear's Big Bottom)... -
The Sheep Who Came for Dinner Steve Smallman 9781801048187
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £5.79The eighth book in the internationally bestselling The Lamb Who Came for Dinner series, written by the inimitable Steve Smallman (Poo in the Zoo, The Eyebrows of Doom, The Monkey with the Bright Blue... -
Remembrance Sunday by Darragh McKeon 9780241996799
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31WINNER OF THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD 2024'Exceptional ... The imaginative storytelling and fine prose of Remembrance Sunday puts McKeon in the big leagues' Irish Times'A supreme... -
Skeletons by Deborah Landau 9781472158994
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023'Deborah Landau's poems make me feel alive. They are the city, the body, the evening drink transformed into pure essence. If you want to be returned to your... -
Black Moon by Matthew Sweeney 9780224080927
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82Negotiating the borders and hinterlands of Central and Eastern Europe - with occasional coracle trips or forays to Antarctica for a round of golf - the homesick flaneur surveys the surrounding... -
The Armadillo Who Came for Dinner Steve Smallman 9781801045674
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02The sixth book in the internationally bestselling The Lamb Who Came for Dinner series, written by the inimitable Steve Smallman (Poo in the Zoo, The Eyebrows of Doom, The Monkey with the Bright Blue... -
The Year of Magical Thinking (Collins Modern Classics) by Joan Didion
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.63Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will... -
The Sheep Who Came for Dinner Steve Smallman 9781838917968
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The eighth book in the internationally bestselling The Lamb Who Came for Dinner series, written by the inimitable Steve Smallman (Poo in the Zoo, The Eyebrows of Doom, The Monkey with the Bright Blue... -
The Elephant Who Came for Dinner Steve Smallman 9781838917999
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Hotpot, Wolf and Omelette are back in the seventh book in the internationally bestselling The Lamb Who Came for Dinner series, written by the inimitable Steve Smallman (Poo in the Zoo, The Eyebrows... -
The Elephant Who Came for Dinner Steve Smallman 9781801047302
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Hotpot, Wolf and Omelette are back in the seventh book in the internationally bestselling The Lamb Who Came for Dinner series, written by the inimitable Steve Smallman (Poo in the Zoo, The Eyebrows... -
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28From one of America's iconic writers, a portrait of a marriage and a life - in good times and bad - that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. A stunning book of... -
The Burning Ground by Adam O'Riordan 9781408864791
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.89A masterful debut short story collection from the award-winning, critically-acclaimed poet Adam O'Riordan 'Wonderfully lyrical and bittersweet' OBSERVER 'This is a wonderful, beguiling collection... -
The Lights by Ben Lerner 9781915051080
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23From the celebrated author of The Topeka School, a collection of poetry that is dazzlingly intelligent, moving and speaks directly to our complex times. The Lights is a constellation of verse and... -
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2015WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY 2015WINNER OF THE PEN OPEN BOOK AWARD 2015WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE... -
Musical Tables by Billy Collins 9781035022489
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26"I've grown old-now my own namerings a bell."In each of the short poems in Billy Collins's Musical Tables, the former United States Poet Laureate tempers his characteristically jocular voice with... -
plastic Matthew Rice 9781804271421
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31Set during a single twelve-hour night shift in a factory, plastic is a book-length poem exploring the life of the industrial worker turned poet. Bringing together memoir, ekphrasis and satire,... -
The Station Before by Linda Anderson 9781789621679
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.73Shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2021Linda Anderson's much anticipated first collection travels across time and space, employing a range of voices, including historical... -
Cheryl's Destinies by Stephen Sexton
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best CollectionA Financial Times, Irish Times and Telegraph Book of the Year history is what we call / what might have happened differently / and didn'tIt is the... -
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson 9781783787623
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'A masterpiece... One of the best prose writers in our time' Michael Ondaatje An epic miniature of one man's life journey through the American West at the turn of the twentieth century. ... -
Train Dreams Denis Johnson 9781803510224
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'A masterpiece... one of the best prose writers in our time' Michael Ondaatje An epic miniature of one man's life journey through the American West at the turn of the twentieth century. ... -
Glorious Exploits Ferdia Lennon 9780241998007
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.74THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2024'One of the most original and brilliant debuts in years' Irish Times'Bold and totally unexpected ... I was hooked from the...