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Couples: How We Make Love Last Kate Figes (Books Editor) 9781844084708
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81These days, many of us enjoy unrivalled freedom and equality when it comes to choosing and building a relationship. Yet new myths about how to live and love compromise that happiness. Kate Figes... -
The Temporary Bride: A Memoir of Love and Food in Iran Jennifer Klinec 9781844088249
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.07A relationship was a mathematical formula: the correct variables of age, beauty, morality and finances were entered and the output was a successful, peaceful marriage. It couldn't be, therefore, that... -
The Tortoise And The Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54'A subtle and beautiful book . . . Very few authors combine her acute psychological insight with her grace and style. There is plenty of life in the modern novel, plenty of authors who will shock and... -
The Room Of Lost Things Stella Duffy 9781844082131
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €7.93Under his railway arch in Loughborough Junction, South London, Robert Sutton is taking leave of a lifetime of hard work. His dry-cleaning shop lies at the heart of a lively community, a fixed point... -
The Baroness: The Search for Nica the Rebellious Rothschild Hannah Rothschild 9781844086054
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02A Rothschild by birth and a Baroness by marriage, beautiful, spirited Pannonica - known as Nica - seemed to have it all: children, a handsome husband and a trust fund. But in the early 1950s she... -
Greene On Capri by Shirley Hazzard
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.02When friends die, one's own credentials change: one becomes a survivor. Graham Greene has already had biographers, one of whom has served him mightily. Yet I hope that there is room for the... -
Words That Burn by Josephine Hart
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €4.03Following the success of CATCHING LIFE BY THE THROAT, Josephine Hart compiles more poetry from the like of such poets as Milton, Byron, Keats, Shelley, Browning, Frost and Lowell. An audio CD... -
The Virago Book Of The Joy Of Shopping Jill Foulston 9781844082742
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81Jane Austen found her sister Cassandra a locket. Joan Didion bought nail enamel and a toaster on impulse. Karyn Bosnak charged $20,000 on credit cards - and wild child Elizabeth Wurtzel got caught... -
Life After Birth Kate Figes (Books Editor) 9781844084661
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.95Forget about the baby for just one minute; what about you? New motherhood changes everything. Few women are prepared for the radical shifts in identity, emotional intensity and relations with... -
We Had It So Good by Linda Grant
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.33Born to hardworking immigrant parents in sunny suburban Los Angeles, Stephen Newman never imagined that he would spend his adult life under the grey skies of north London, would marry Andrea for... -
The Engagements J. Courtney Sullivan 9781844089376
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.541947: Mary Frances Gerety, a young copywriter in an eminent advertising agency, has to convince the world of two things - that marriage means a diamond ring on every woman's finger, and that she is... -
Life Mask Emma Donoghue 9781844081752
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54A love story. A gamble. A battle. Let the games begin.It's an era of looming war, and the erosion of freedom in the name of national security. A time of high art and big business, trashy spectacles... -
The Girl From Hockley: Growing up in working class Birmingham Kathleen Dayus 9781844083022
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €11.76The Girl from Hockley is a new, revised edition bringing together in one new volume this remarkable story. Born into the industrial slums of Birmingham in 1903, Kathleen Dayus became a legend in her... -
Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby Sarah Churchwell 9781844087686
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €11.76Since its publication in 1925, The Great Gatsby has become one of the world's best-loved books. Careless People tells the true story behind F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, exploring in newly rich... -
Transgressions Sarah Dunant 9781844081790
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.54Terrifying, dark and bold, Sarah Dunant's breakthrough psychological thriller transcends genres and audiences; it crosses all boundaries, encroaching on the darker side of sex and fantasy, male and... -
The Spectacle Salesman's Family Viola Roggenkamp 9781844082216
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.33Paul Schiefer is a travelling spectacles salesman. Every Monday morning he leaves Hamburg on a week-long sales trip. His wife, his mother-in-law and his two teenage daughters Fania and Vera see him... -
Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds Lyndall Gordon 9781844084548
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50Emily Dickinson is regarded as one of the greatest poets of all time, but she has come to us as an odd and helpless woman living a life of self imposed seclusion. Lyndall Gordon sees instead a... -
The Givenness Of Things by Marilynne Robinson
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81A profound essay collection from the beloved author of Gilead, Houskeeping and Lila, including Marilynne Robinson's conversation with President Barack Obama. 'Grace and intelligence ...[her work]... -
Scarlett's Women: 'Gone With the Wind' and its Female Fans Helen Taylor 9780349005119
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02One of the most successful books ever published and the basis of one of the most popular and highly praised Hollywood films of all time, Gone With the Wind has entered world culture in a way that few... -
The Haunting Of Sylvia Plath by Jacqueline Rose
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02Since her suicide in 1963 at the age of 30, Sylvia Plath has become a strange icon. This book addresses why this is the case and what this tells us about the way culture picks out important writers... -
Charlotte Bronte: A Passionate Life Lyndall Gordon 9781844084722
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50In this groundbreaking and unconventional biography, Lyndall Gordon dismantles the insistent image of Charlotte Bronte as a modest Victorian lady, the slave to duty in the shadow of tombstones,... -
Bullying At Work: How to Confront and Overcome It Andrea Adams 9781853815423
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €9.67Through personal accounts and revelations, this book explores bullying at work and offers solutions to help overcome this stressful, often isolating experience facing many women and men. Based on... -
Hand to Mouth: The Truth About Being Poor in a Wealthy World Linda Tirado 9780349005485
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50Linda Tirado knows from experience what it is to be poor, to struggle to make ends meet. She has worked all hours as a food service worker in a chain restaurant to support her young family. She knows... -
Birth Notes: A Memoir of Trauma, Motherhood and Recovery by Jessica Cornwell 9780349014289
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50Following the birth of her first children, twin boys, Jessica Cornwell collapsed in a fever. Rushed back to hospital, she was initially dismissed, before a life-threatening infection was diagnosed... -
No Judgement: On Being Critical by Lauren Oyler 9780349016504
Booksplease Price: €16.74A brilliant and addictive collection of brand-new essays on modern culture - from 'the pre-eminent and most widely read critic of her generation' The Times Included as a 2024 highlight in the... -
The Rooster House: A Ukrainian Family Memoir by Victoria Belim 9780349017341
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54Radio 4 Book of the WeekIn the Ukrainian city of Poltava stands a building known as the Rooster House, an elegant mansion with two voluptuous red roosters flanking the door. It doesn't look... -
The Little Stranger Sarah Waters 9780349018515
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54'Sarah Waters' masterly novel is gripping, confident, unnerving and supremely entertaining' Hilary MantelIn a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely... -
Some Girls, Some Hats And Hitler: A True Story by Trudi Kanter 9781844088089
Booksplease Price: €21.63Vienna, 1938: Trudi Miller, young, beautiful and chic, designs hats for the smartest women in the city. She is falling in love with Walter, a charming and charismatic businessman. But their idyll is... -
Snow Storms In A Hot Climate by Sarah Dunant 9781844081875
Booksplease Price: €21.63Is Elly's love affair with a New York cocaine dealer too deep and dark to be broken - even by an old friend? When Marla responds to Elly's call from America she finds herself ensnared in the... -
Apology For The Woman Writing by Jenny Diski 9781844083862
Booksplease Price: €21.63Marie de Gournay was eighteen when she read, and was overwhelmed by, the essays of the French philosopher Montaigne. She had to be revived with hellebore. When she finally met Montaigne, she stabbed... -
Stand We At Last by Zoe Fairbairns 9780860689638
Booksplease Price: €30.50Written by the author of 'Benefits' and 'Closing', this novel spans 120 years and three continents and chronicles the lives of five generations of women set against a background of Victorian... -
She's Leaving Home by Joan Bakewell 9781844086702
Booksplease Price: €24.63Liverpool late 1950s. This is a story of three people: a suppressed mother; a father, projectionist at the local cinema which has seen better days; and their daughter Martha. It is a time of many... -
Never Mind Miss Fox Olivia Glazebrook 9781844089437
RRP: €4.75Booksplease Price: €4.03Clive and Martha have been together since they met at university; they have a young daughter, Eliza. Their marriage appears serene and content but when Eliza's adored new piano teacher turns out to... -
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess Becca Rothfeld 9780349016245
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €8.40From one of the most talented young thinkers in the US, a warm, funny and intellectually dazzling call for excess, ecstasy and disorder in an age of sterility and minimalism'Scintillating writing of... -
The Thinking Reed by Rebecca West 9780860684985
Booksplease Price: €28.16Isabelle is beautiful, immensely rich and a widow at the age of twenty-six. In 1928 she leaves America for Cannes and Paris in search of high society - and love. For though outwardly she has... -
Up The Country: Letters from India by Emily Eden 9780860684404
Booksplease Price: €28.16Emily Eden was born in 1797 into the charmed inner circle of the English upper class who conducted the country's political life. In 1836 this prominent member of Whig society joined her brother... -
Ghostroots 'Pemi Aguda 9780349018249
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54The supernatural looms over the grime and sweat of everyday life in Lagos in this celebrated collection from a prize-winning young Nigerian writer.A FINALIST FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK... -
The Judge by Rebecca West 9781844085828
Booksplease Price: €28.16Ellen Melville is a beautiful suffragette who, at seventeen, wants passionately to experience all that life can give her. From her abandoned, impoverished mother she inherits only a capacity for love... -
Untitled Pria Anand: A Neurologist on Mythology and the Mind by Dr. Pria Anand 9780349019116
Booksplease Price: €16.39'Reminiscent of Oliver Sacks and the best of medical writing. Fascinating' Abraham Verghese'A rich and humane work' Gwen Adshead, author of The Devil You Know A young woman channelling the voice of... -
It's Terrible The Things I Have to Do To Be Me: On Femininity and Fame by Philippa Snow 9780349017716
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €16.96'A brutal and brilliant study of female celebrity ... a joy to read, fizzing with intelligence' Megan Nolan, Telegraph'Wildly entertaining' Dazed'Snow's prose is beautiful, white-hot and breathless,...