Search results for 'James Baldwin'

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

€10.99

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

James Hawes

€13.00

Written with the panache of a supremely gifted comic writer, Excavating Kafka is an engaging and involving reassessment of a major figure of literary modernism that will be welcomed and enjoyed by students of Kafka and by general readers alike. Learn More
Cultural Connections: Films

Bright Young Things

An adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel "Vile Bodies," directed by Stephen Fry is a look into the lives of a young novelist, his would-be lover, and a host of young people who beautified London in the 1930s. Learn More
How Late It Was How Late

James Kelman

€8.99

Sammy's had a bad week - his wallet's gone, along with his new shoes, he's been arrested then beaten up by the police and thrown out on the street - and he's just gone blind. He remembers a row with his girlfriend, but she seems to have disappeared. Things aren't looking too good for Sammy and his problems have hardly begun. Learn More
The Postmistress

Sarah Blake

€11.00

The Postmistress is an unforgettable story of three women: their loves, their partings and the secrets they must bear, or bury... Learn More
Two Gallants

James Joyce

€5.00

These four stories from that collection offer glimpses of defeated lives - an unremarkable death, a theft, a desperate plan, a failed writer's dream - yet each creates a compelling and ultimately redemptive vision of a city and of human experience. Learn More
The Beast in the Jungle

Henry James

€5.00

Henry James' devastating and profoundly moving novella is the story of John Marcher, a man who, for as long as he can remember, has been obsessed by the feeling that some life-changing - even catastrophic - event lies in wait for him like a jungle animal. Learn More
Burnt Shadows

Kamila Shamsie

RRP: €12.00

Our Price: €10.80 (10% off)

The shadows of history - personal, political - are cast over the entwined worlds of the Burtons, Ashrafs and the Tanakas as they are transported from Pakistan to New York, and in the novel's astonishing climax, to Afghanistan in the immediate wake of 9/11. The ties that have bound them together over decades and generations are tested to the extreme, with unforeseeable consequences. Learn More