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Spring

David Szalay

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"Spring confirms that [Szalay] is a writer with the whole range of talents... Often outstanding" (Theo Tait Sunday Times )

"A brave and intelligent novel... This is one of those books that leaves you not only with admiration for the novelist, but also with a sense of wonder about the precision of the novel form itself" (Chris Cleave Guardian )
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John Crow's Devil

Marlon James

€10.25

With language as taut as classic works by Cormac McCarthy, and a richness reminiscent of early Toni Morrison, Marlon James reveals his unique narrative command that will firmly establish his place as one of today's freshest, most talented young writers. Learn More
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce

€10.99

The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus' Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself, is also an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce and a universal testament to the artist's 'eternal imagination'. Learn More
If It Is Your Life

James Kelman

€12.00

With honesty, toughness and humour, he confronts the issues of language, class, politics, gender and age - identity in all its forms - with a sympathetic pen and a sharp and observant eye. Learn More
House of Exile

Evelyn Juers

€29.00

This is a unique portrayal of the strange, dislocated existence of the emigre, and how lives are connected and defined by writing. Evelyn Juers enlarges the boundaries of biography to provide an intimate, sensitively imagined view of an extraordinary time in history. Learn More
As a Man Grows Older

Italo Svevo

€11.99

Marked by deep humanity and earthy humor, by psychological insight and an elegant simplicity of style, As a Man Grows Older (Senilità, in Italian; the English title was the suggestion of Svevo's great friend and admirer, James Joyce) is a brilliant study of hopeless love and hapless indecision. It is a masterwork of Italian literature, here beautifully rendered into English in Beryl de Zoete's classic translation. Learn More
Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives

Brian Dillon

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Brian Dillon looks at nine prominent hypochondriacs - James Boswell, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Daniel Paul Schreber, Alice James, Marcel Proust, Glenn Gould and Andy Warhol - and what their lives tell us about the way the mind works with, and against, the body. Learn More
The Interpretation of Dreams

Sigmund Freud

€12.00

This new translation is the first to be based on the original text, unmodified by Freud's later additions. Joyce Crick's translation caputres with great immediacy the lightness and pace of Freud's style, freed from the jargon and Victorian elaborations of James Strachey's famous version. Learn More
The Slave Ship

Marcus Rediker

€15.99

Mindful of the haunting legacies of race, class and slavery, Marcus Rediker offers a vivid and unforgettable portrait of the ghost ship of our modern consciousness. Learn More
Weather a System

James Wilkes

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Weather A System captures shifts of weather, power and fashion: an energetic and darkly witty intervention in an eroded culture. Learn More