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Time in Rome
Paperback,
06/03/2003,
£9.99
£8.99
Presenting an account of a time spent in Rome, the author describes its history, its architecture, its atmosphere, and the famous classical sites in the city.
Little Girls
Paperback,
27/05/1999,
£9.99
£8.99
In 1914 they had been eleven years old; three little girls at St Agatha's, a day school on the South Coast. Fifty years later, Dinah, beautiful as ever, advertises in the national newspapers to find the other two - Clare, now established with a successful business, and Sheila, a married woman, glossy, chic and correct.
Bowen's Court: &, Seven Winters : Memories of a Dublin Childhood
Paperback,
27/05/1999,
£10.99
£9.89
Describes the history of one Anglo-Irish family in County Cork from the Cromwellian settlement until 1959, when Elizabeth Bowen was forced to sell the family house she loved.
Virginia Woolf
Paperback,
02/10/1997,
£14.99
£13.49
A biography of Virginia Woolf which moves freely between a detailed life-story and attempts to understand significant questions. She is presented as occupying a distinct and even uneasy position within the Bloomsbury Set, and also as a radically sceptical, subversive, courageous feminist.
Virginia Woolf
Paperback,
18/02/2013,
£9.95
£8.96
Weaving together the life and work of Virginia Woolf, this book serves as an introduction to both. Following the chronology of Woolfs life, it gives due prominence to her dazzlingly inventive essays, traces the contentious course of her afterlife and shows why, seventy years after her death.
Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1929 - 1932
Hardback,
15/01/2009,
£30.00
£27.00
Fiction was the core of Virginia Woolf's work. But she took her essay writing very seriously, spending a great deal of time on each essay and finding they provided a refreshing diversion from fiction. Her essays informed her fiction, and vice versa. This title shows her thinking about the possibility of poeticising the novel.
Ballad Tales: An Anthology of British Ballads Retold
Paperback,
05/06/2017,
£9.99
£8.99
An innovative collection of folk ballads re-told by professional storytellers. In association with the Society of Storytelling
Sentimental Journey and Continuation of the "Bramine's Journal
Hardback,
31/05/2002,
£68.95
£62.06
This sixth volume of the Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne contains scholarly editions of two works of Sterne's last year of life: "A Sentimental Journey" and "Continuation of the Bramine's Journal". The works are presented as clean texts, with all scholarly apparatus at the end.
Yurei: The Japanese Ghost
Hardback,
25/08/2015,
£17.99
£16.19
An eerie yet insightful exploration into the phenomenon of yurei, or Japanese ghosts, both past and present.
Dear Mr. M
Paperback,
29/06/2017,
£8.99
£8.09
The thrilling, hair-raising new novel from Herman Koch, the New York Times bestselling author of The Dinner and Summer House with Swimming Pool
Two Stories
Hardback,
22/06/2017,
£8.99
£8.09
Virginia Woolf was one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. With her husband, she started the Hogarth Press in 1917. Celebrating the 100th anniversary of 'Publication No 1', this edition takes the original text of Virginia's story, 'The Mark on the Wall' and pairs it with a new story, 'St Brides Bay', by Mark Haddon.
Imaginary Friends From Daemon Voices
Paperback,
27/07/2017,
£2.50
£2.25
An essay on stories and the childhood imagination, taken from Philip Pullman's forthcoming collection Daemon Voices. All the essays in the collection focus on storytelling. Warm, funny and entertaining, they discuss Philip's own stories, the craft of writing, other storytellers and the importance of stories in our culture.
High Places
Hardback,
05/05/2016,
£18.99
£17.09
A scintillating story collection by the young Australian author of the Guardian First Book Award-shortlisted novel The Night Guest, described as 'glittering' (Independent), 'stunning' (Sunday Express), 'beautiful' (Daily Mail) and 'wonderfully devious' (Marie Claire).
Difficult Women
Paperback,
03/01/2017,
£13.99
£12.59
A collection of stories of rare force and beauty, of hardscrabble lives, passionate loves, and quirky and vexed human connection from award-winning author and powerhouse talent Roxane Gay
Madame Zero
Paperback,
06/07/2017,
£12.99
£11.69
She is running and becoming smaller, running and becoming smaller, running in the light of the reddening sun, the red of her hair and her coat falling, the red of her fur and her body loosening. Running. Holding behind her a sudden, brazen object, white-tipped. Her yellow scarf trails in the briar. All vestiges shed.
Beast
Paperback,
06/07/2017,
£7.99
£7.19
What kind of man am I? I wonder what I think about that now that I have spent a year here, watching the layers peel off, stripping myself back... Beast plunges you into the world of Edward Buckmaster, a man living alone on a west-country moor. What he has left behind we don't quite know; what he faces is a battle with himself.
Wuthering Heights
Paperback,
06/07/2017,
£7.99
£7.19
He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Catherine and Heathcliff's, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. Catherine's brother Hindley's hatred and humiliation of Heathcliff leads to tragedy when Catherine marries another and Heathcliff returns wealthy to enact his revenge on who wronged him.
Hours Before Dawn
Paperback,
06/07/2017,
£7.99
£7.19
Louise would give anything - anything - for a good night's sleep. Forget the girls running errant in the garden and bothering the neighbours. Forget her husband who seems oblivious to it all. If the baby would just stop crying, everything would be fine. Or would it? What if Louise's growing fears about the family's new lodger?
Leaving Las Vegas
Paperback,
06/07/2017,
£8.99
£8.09
A re-issue of John O'Brien's debut novel, a masterpiece of modern realism about the perils of addiction and love in a city of loneliness
Disciples
Paperback,
06/07/2017,
£8.99
£8.09
From the author of the lost masterpiece, Tony and Susan, comes a deeply intelligent and utterly thrilling novel about a kidnapped baby, a religious cult, and our collective need for gurus and gods, whether sacred or profane.
Prospector
Paperback,
06/07/2017,
£8.99
£8.09
A haunting, lyrical and mythic novel of a man haunted by visions of his ideal childhood, from the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for literature, J. M. G. Le Clezio.
Zoo
Hardback,
06/07/2017,
£12.99
£11.69
There are certain things that Yuri Zipit knows: that being official food-taster for the leader of the Soviet Union requires him to drink too much vodka for a 12-year-old. That you do not have to be an Elephantologist to see that the great leader is dying.
City of Secrets
Paperback,
06/07/2017,
£8.99
£8.09
From master storyteller Stewart O'Nan, a timely moral thriller of the Jewish underground resistance in Jerusalem after the Second World War.
Everyday People
Paperback,
06/07/2017,
£9.99
£8.99
Stewart O'Nan's critically acclaimed novel Everyday People zeroes in on one family in an African-American Pittsburgh neighbourhood during a fateful week in 1998.
Wish You Were Here
Paperback,
06/07/2017,
£9.99
£8.99
A family gathering brings decades of suppressed tension to the surface in this classic novel from master storyteller Stewart O'Nan.
How to Stop Time
Hardback,
06/07/2017,
£12.99
£11.69
The life-affirming new novel from the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and The Humans
Jane Eyre
Paperback,
06/07/2017,
£7.99
£7.19
A pleasant existence as a governess is all she is supposed to hope for - but Jane desperately wants more. And an appointment at the gothic mansion of Thornfield offers her more than she could ever dream of - including a chance at real love. But when tragedy strikes, she will have to use all her bravery.
Notes from a Coma
Paperback,
06/07/2017,
£9.99
£8.99
The critically acclaimed novel from the author of Solar Bones, winner of the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize and BGE Irish Book of the Year
Telling Time
Paperback,
06/07/2017,
£8.99
£8.09
From the author of the lost masterpiece, Tony and Susan, comes a brilliant, cacophonous novel of families, failings and fatal flaws.
Under The Skin
Paperback,
06/07/2017,
£8.99
£8.09
One of Michel Faber's best-loved novels, this is an utterly compulsive and mysterious masterpiece
Getting it in the Head
Paperback,
06/07/2017,
£9.99
£8.99
The celebrated debut short story collection from the author of Solar Bones, winner of the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize and BGE Irish Book of the Year
Voice In The Night
Paperback,
25/07/2017,
£7.99
£7.19
The twentieth thrilling mystery in the much-loved Inspector Montalbano series.
Stories of Eva Luna
Paperback,
13/07/2017,
£8.99
£8.09
The captivating collection of short fiction, beautifully repackaged for the first time on the Scribner list, from the internationally bestselling author of The Japanese Lover
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