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Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.26In November 1929, Christopher Isherwood - determined to become a 'permanent foreigner' - packed a rucksack and two suitcases and left England on a one-way ticket for Berlin. With incredible candour... -
W B Yeats - Collected Poems by W. B. Yeats
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.96W.B. Yeats' life spanned the end of the nineteeth and the beginning of the twentieth century, and his poetry reflects all the turmoil, fervour, traditions and revolutions of that period. From the... -
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells 9781529981988
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €17.61A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Wells's time travelling classic with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.In the Time Traveller’s... -
Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen 9781529982091
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €17.61A beautiful deluxe gift edition of the very best, most dark and delightful fairy tales with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbonThis... -
Down There on a Visit by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY PHILIP HENSHER Berlin, the Greek Islands, London and California. 1928, 1932, 1938 and 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators, all known as 'Christopher... -
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf 9780099734314
RRP: €8.32Booksplease Price: €6.56WITH AN INTRODUCTION, PLUS EXTENSIVE NOTES AND REFERENCES BY HERMIONE LEE This volume combines two books which were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century. Together... -
Jazz Toni Morrison 9781784877224
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.47Joe Trace – in his fifties, door-to-door salesman, erstwhile devoted husband – shoots dead his eighteen-year-old lover.At the funeral, his determined, hard-working wife, Violet, who is given to... -
1984 by George Orwell 9781784878979
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €9.51A dystopian masterpiece - the powerful and prophetic novel that defined the twentieth century.The year is 1984. War and revolution have created an unrecognisable world. Great Britain, now known as... -
The Bells of Nagasaki by Takashi Nagai 9781529952599
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €11.15‘A book that everyone should read’ The TimesA harrowing, heart-rending first-hand account of the bombing of Nagasaki – and the acts of human kindness left in its wake.On 9th August 1945, the Japanese... -
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame 9781529982060
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €17.61A beautiful deluxe gift edition of a beloved classic, the story of Rat, Badger and Toad, with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.The day... -
The Sky Bridge of Birds: Classic Korean Folk Tales by Various 9781529994209
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.34Discover the dark, whimsical wonder of ancient Korea in this spellbinding hardback collection of magical tales told and retold across the centuries.Leave behind drab, dark nights to battle the... -
Ripley's Game Patricia Highsmith 9781784876784
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91Tom Ripley detested murder. Unless it was absolutely necessary. Wherever possible, he preferred someone else to do the dirty work. In this case someone with no criminal record, who would commit 'two... -
A Meeting by the River by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91Breaking a long silence Oliver, a young Englishman, writes to his elder brother, Patrick. Oliver, the idealistic younger brother is living in a Hindu Monastery and has decided to take his final... -
I Capture the Castle: A special gift edition by Dodie Smith 9781784878702
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.74A beautiful hardback edition of one of the most gorgeous, funny and heartbreaking novels ever written.'I write this sitting in the kitchen sink' is the first line of this timeless, witty and... -
The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison 9781784879105
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.20Read the searing first novel from the celebrated author of Beloved, which immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in post-Depression 1940s Ohio. Unloved, unseen, Pecola prays... -
Final Exam by Julio Cortázar 9781529956757
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781529956757Author Julio CortázarFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint -
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami 9781529988420
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781529988420Author Haruki MurakamiFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint -
Death In Venice And Other Stories by Thomas Mann 9780099541561
RRP: €4.17Booksplease Price: €3.69Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful ageing writer, travels to Venice for a holiday. One day, at dinner in his hotel, Aschenbach notices an exceptionally beautiful young boy. Soon his days begin to... -
Palm Sunday by Kurt Vonnegut 9781784877040
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €11.26In Palm Sunday, Kurt Vonnegut writes beguilingly about everything from country music to George Bush, his favourite comedians to his mother's midnight mania, and bittersweet tributes to a dead best... -
Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens 9780099540793
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.56'The novel has everything: absorbing melodrama, with a supporting cast of heroes, villains and eccentrics' The Times When Nicholas's father dies he, his mother and sister are left penniless. To earn... -
I Am a Cat: Volume One by Natsume Soseki 9781784879792
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.26I, ladies and gentlemen, am a cat. I still don’t have a name.Once a stray kitten, the narrator of this story is now a noble and insightful observer of the bizarre and funny foibles of the human... -
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 9781529982084
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €17.61A beautiful deluxe gift edition of the great American adventure novel with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.Huck is a young, naive... -
A Child of Bliss/A World Away by Maeve Gilmore 9780099282860
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €15.16These profound and moving accounts of life with Mervyn Peake provide poignant and revealing insights into the art, personality and friendships of the author of Titus Groan, Gormenghast and Titus... -
Three Elegies For Kosovo by Ismail Kadare
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.9128 June 1389, the Field of the Blackbirds. A Christian army made up of Serbs, Bosnians, Albanians and Romanians confront an Ottoman army. In ten hours the battle is over, and the Muslims possess the... -
The World in the Evening by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.02At a party in the Hollywood Hills, Stephen Monk finds his wife in the arms of another man. Betrayed and furious, he packs his belongings and returns to the home he was born in. There he begins to... -
The Narrow Road to the Deep North: Vintage War Richard Flanagan 9781784879860
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91This is a story about the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma... -
All the Conspirators by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.20The scene is 1920s Kensington and Philip and Joan are testing the very limits of politeness and restraint as they fight to expunge the oppression of their mother - by whatever means necessary. In his... -
Eileen: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016 by Ottessa Moshfegh 9781784878528
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91VINTAGE CLASSICS' AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIESSpine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics.*SHORTLISTED FOR THE... -
All Quiet on the Western Front: Vintage War Erich Maria Remarque 9781784879808
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91The most famous anti-war novel ever written.In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorious war'. With the fire... -
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 9781529982015
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €17.61A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Defoe's shipwreck classic with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.Robinson Crusoe runs away from home... -
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 9781529982046
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €17.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781529982046Author Robert Louis StevensonFormat HardbackPage Count 224 -
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 9781529996272
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €22.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781529996272Author Audrey NiffeneggerFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint -
Small Memories by Jose Saramago
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.26A delightful insight into the formation of an artist who would become one of the world's most respected writers. Born in 1922 in the tiny Portuguese village of Azinhaga, Jose Saramago was only a... -
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 9781784877521
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91'Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? - You think wrong!' This is the story of Jane, an orphan in Victorian England, she is relentlessly bullied... -
Slaughterhouse 5: Vintage Quarterbound Classics by Kurt Vonnegut 9781784879693
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.74A beautiful hardback edition of one of the most funny, moving and brilliant novels of the twentieth century.'A book to read and reread. He is a true artist' New York TimesBilly Pilgrim - hapless... -
Truth and Consequences by Alison Lurie
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91'Delightful... Her characters are, as always, wonderfully imperfect' New York Review of BooksAlan has changed because he's injured his back. Pain has altered his appearance and made him glum,... -
The Memorial by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91The First World War is over. Eric Vernon is on the cusp of adulthood. Tall, bony and awkward he finds himself torn between a desire to emulate his heroic father, who led a life of quiet sacrifice,... -
So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91Discover this extraordinary and beautiful novel from one of America's greatest novelists. In rural Illinois two tenant farmers share much, finally too much, until jealously leads to murder and... -
America Day by Day by Simone de Beauvoir 9781784879884
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.26In 1947 Simone de Beauvoir took a road trip across America.She travelled from coast to coast, from New York to Hollywood, taking in New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana and Washington DC. She rode a pony... -
Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima 9781529988437
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781529988437Author Yukio MishimaFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint