It's Banned Books Week!

To celebrate banned books week, we’re highlighting the very best of the books we once considered ‘too much’!

First up, Ulysses, by James Joyce

Banned on release in Ireland, England, Canada, and America, James Joyce’s Ulysses is perhaps the ultimate banned book. Citing obscenity, censors sought to crush the utopian and revolutionary empathy at the heart of Joyce’s masterpiece. Ultimately, the ban was lifted in 1933. Since then, what was once considered obscene about the novel, is what we have come to celebrate about it. Telling the story of a young student’s encounters with a benevolent and well meaning older gentleman, Ulysses is at once hilarious and heartbreaking, a raucous and joyful expression of what it means to be alive.

'Intoxicating ... a towering work, in its word play surpassing even Shakespeare' Guardian

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Ulysses by James Joyce

Paperback £9.99

Following the events of one single day in Dublin, the 16th June 1904, and what happens to the characters Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly, Ulysses is a monument to the human condition. It has survived censorship, controversy and legal action, and even been deemed blasphemous, but remains an undisputed modernist classic: ceaselessly inventive, garrulous, funny, sorrowful, vulgar, lyrical and ultimately redemptive. It confirms Joyce's belief that literature 'is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'.

'The most important expression which the present age has found; it is a book to which we are all indebted, and from which none of us can escape' T. S. Eliot

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