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Affinities by Brian Dillon
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.49What do we mean when we claim affinity with an object or picture, or say affinities exist between such things? Affinities is a critical and personal study of a sensation that is not exactly taste,... -
Essayism by Brian Dillon
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Imagine a type of writing so hard to define its very name means a trial, effort or attempt. An ancient form with an eye on the future, a genre poised between tradition and experiment. The essay wants... -
Ambivalence Brian Dillon 9781804272473
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00When Brian Dillon was sixteen his mother died and he simply gave up all schoolwork. While he courted exam failure, his real education was going on elsewhere: with books, music, films and television... -
Suppose a Sentence by Brian Dillon 9781913097011
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.00In Suppose a Sentence, Brian Dillon turns his attention to the oblique and complex pleasures of the sentence. A series of essays prompted by a single sentence - from Shakespeare to Gertrude Stein,... -
Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction by Brian Dillon
RRP: $36.95Booksplease Price: $26.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681372822Author Brian DillonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint The New York Review of Books,... -
The Hypochondriacs: Nine Tormented Lives by Brian Dillon 9780865479463
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $29.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865479463Author Brian DillonFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Faber & FaberPublisher Faber &... -
Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives by Brian Dillon 9780141044057
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $24.32'It's so good that, after reading it, I needed a lie-down' - Hilary Mantel, Guardian Books of the YearBrian Dillon looks at nine prominent hypochondriacs - James Boswell, Charlotte Bronte, Charles... -
Blackstone's Emergency Planning, Crisis and Disaster Management by Brian Dillon 9780198712909
Booksplease Price: $82.25Blackstone's Emergency Planning, Crisis, and Disaster Management is a practical guide for those involved in all aspects of emergency preparedness, resilience, and response. Primarily focused on the... -
The Thinking-About-Gladys Machine by Mario Levrero 9781916751064
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.62Levrero's writing is distinguished by its bounteous imagination, and nowhere more so than in this 1970 story collection. From the Escher-like grammatical maze of 'The Boarding House' to the Lewis... -
Hidden City: Adventures and Explorations in Dublin by Karl Whitney 9780241966129
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.42Karl Whitney's Hidden City: a brilliant portrait of DublinDublin is a city much visited and deeply mythologized. In Hidden City, Karl Whitney - who has been described by Gorse as 'Dublin's best... -
Exquisite Cadavers by Meena Kandasamy
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.49From the author of When I Hit You, shortlisted for the 2018 Women's Prize for FictionKarim and Maya:[x] share a home [x] worry about money [x] binge-watch films [x] argue all the time Karim, a young... -
Central European Industry in the Information Age by Hans Van Zon 9781138724938
RRP: $66.28Booksplease Price: $60.82This title was first published in 2000: A study of the diffusion and effective use of ICT in industry in Hungary, Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine. It explores quantitative and qualitative overviews of... -
Central European Industry in the Information Age by Hans Van Zon 9781138724952
RRP: $204.75Booksplease Price: $178.52This title was first published in 2000: A study of the diffusion and effective use of ICT in industry in Hungary, Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine. It explores quantitative and qualitative overviews of... -
The Essay At the Limits: Poetics, Politics and Form by Dr Mario Aquilina 9781350235373
Booksplease Price: $65.99In the hands of such writers as Rebecca Solnit, Claudia Rankine, David Shields, Zadie Smith and many others, the essay has re-emerged as a powerful literary form for tackling a fractious 21st-century... -
Ai Weiwei: Making Sense by Justin McGuirk
RRP: $68.15Booksplease Price: $49.20The first book to dive exclusively into Ai Weiwei's approach to design and collecting, shedding light on the value we ascribe to everyday objects. Artist, film-maker, architect, activist, collector... -
Honyocker Dreams: Montana Memories by David Mogen 9780803249257
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.23Whether they were actually Hungarian or Bohemian, "Hunkies" or "Bohunks," or even from Eastern Europe at all, to the old ranchers of the Great Plains, the farmers and settlers who moved in and fenced... -
Death and the Author: How D. H. Lawrence Died, and Was Remembered by David Ellis 9780199546657
Booksplease Price: $102.94At the heart of Death and the Author is a dramatic account of D. H. Lawrence's desperate struggle against tuberculosis during his last days, and of certain, often bizarre events which followed his... -
The Anatomy of Harpo Marx by Wayne Koestenbaum 9780520269002
RRP: $122.85Booksplease Price: $116.47"The Anatomy of Harpo Marx" is a luxuriant, detailed play-by-play account of Harpo Marx's physical movements as captured on screen. Wayne Koestenbaum guides us through the thirteen Marx Brothers... -
American Genius, A Comedy Lynne Tillman 9781913512521
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06A former historian is spending time in a residential home - but is it an artist's retreat, a sanatorium, or a psychiatric hospital?In hypnotic and digressive prose, Tillman's narrator spins tales of... -
The Anatomy of Harpo Marx by Wayne Koestenbaum
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $51.48"The Anatomy of Harpo Marx" is a luxuriant, detailed play-by-play account of Harpo Marx's physical movements as captured on screen. Wayne Koestenbaum guides us through the thirteen Marx Brothers... -
Welcome to the Desert of the Real by Slavoj Zizek 9781781680193
Booksplease Price: $34.59Liberals and conservatives proclaim the end of the American holiday from history. Now the easy games are over; one should take sides. Zizek argues this is precisely the temptation to be resisted. In... -
We'll Never Have Paris Andrew Gallix 9781912248384
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.49In 1948 Robert Doisneau took a picture of a young woman working at her typewriter on the banks of the Seine. With her stylish sunglasses and short skirt, she seems to epitomise Left Bank bohemian... -
Ways of Curating by Hans-Ulrich Obrist
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.52Drawing on his own experiences and inspirations - from staging his first exhibition in his tiny Zurich kitchen in 1986 to encounters with artists, exhibition makers and thinkers - Hans Ulrich Obrist... -
Too Late to Awaken: What Lies Ahead When There is No Future? Slavoj Žižek 9781802063677
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.42We hear all the time that we're moments from doomsday. Around us, crises interlock and escalate, threatening our collective survival: Russia's invasion of Ukraine, with its rising risk of nuclear... -
Chris Marker by Nora M. Alter 9780252073168
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.07The maverick filmmaker's personal and political relationships with film Best known in the United States for his visionary short film La Jetee, Chris Marker spearheaded the bourgeoning Nouvelle Vague... -
Chris Marker by Nora M. Alter 9780252030734
RRP: $171.60Booksplease Price: $145.12The maverick filmmaker's personal and political relationships with film Best known in the United States for his visionary short film La Jetee, Chris Marker spearheaded the bourgeoning Nouvelle Vague... -
Performance: Aperture 221 by 9781597113243
RRP: $27.30Booksplease Price: $24.47Envisioning the intersections of photography and performance. This issue, a collaboration between Aperture and Performa, the nonprofit organization dedicated to exploring the critical role of... -
The View from the Train by Patrick Keiller 9781781687765
Booksplease Price: $42.65In his classic sequence of films, Patrick Keiller retraces the hidden story of the places where we live, the cities and landscapes of our everyday lives. This collection explores the surrealist... -
Bianca Brunner: Gap in the Real Bundner Kunstmuseum Chur. 9783858813091
Booksplease Price: $92.74Bianca Brunner is a young Swiss photographic artist whose work has gained considerable international recognition and acclaim. Following a degree in visual communication at the School of Art and... -
The Death of the Critic by Ronan McDonald 9780826492807
Booksplease Price: $30.95The critic has long been a reviled figure, at best the mere handmaiden of the 'creative' arts, at worst a parasite upon them. For playwright Brendan Behan, critics are like eunuchs in a harem. They... -
Erik Satie Three Piece Suite Ian Penman 9781804271537
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.49Composer, pianist and writer Erik Satie was one of the great figures of Belle Epoque Paris. Known for his unvarying image of bowler hat, three-piece suit and umbrella, Satie was a surrealist before... -
Animal Stories by Kate Zambreno 9798893380200
Booksplease Price: $26.83From a writer who has "invented a new form" (Annie Ernaux), an exploration of mortality, alienation, boredom, surveillance, and how we regard ourselves among the animals.Animal Stories begins with... -
Milkweed Smithereens by Bernadette Mayer
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $20.87Milkweed Smithereens gathers lively, wickedly smart, intimate, and indelible Bernadette Mayer poems: the volume ranges from brand-new nature poems, pastiches, sequences, epigrams, and excerpts from... -
Umbrella by Will Self 9781408831670
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.66SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2012 For half a century Audrey Death has been in a state of semi-consciousness. Severed from the world of the living after falling victim to Encephalitis... -
Painting and Photography: Aperture No. 258 by Aperture Aperture 9781597115797
RRP: $38.90Booksplease Price: $33.17How has the relationship between painting and photography evolved since the invention of the latter nearly two centuries ago? This spring, Aperture presents “Photography & Painting,” featuring... -
Shapeshifters: A Doctor's Notes on Medicine & Human Change Gavin Francis 9781781257739
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $19.60Unreliable bodies and shifting symptoms are all in a day's work for a GP. In his years of practising, Gavin Francis has seen it all: the promising law student trapped under the spell of anorexia;... -
Issam Kourbaj by Guy Haywood 9781904561729
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $36.47Issam Kourbaj was born and grew up in Syria before settling in Cambridge in 1990. Following the uprising in Syria in 2011, Kourbaj has been a constant creative witness to the continuing conflict in... -
Shapeshifters: A Doctor's Notes on Medicine & Human Change Gavin Francis 9781781257746
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $17.75'Stylish and exhilarating... from a wide-ranging mind and a profound humanity... inspiring' Hilary Mantel 'A wonderful series of meditations - clinical, anthropological, literary and deeply humane... -
Modern Poetry Diane Seuss 9781804271599
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Diane Seuss's signature voice-audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its attitude-has become one of the most original in contemporary poetry. Her latest collection takes its... -
On Mysticism: The Experience of Ecstasy Simon Critchley 9781800816947
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $17.18'A significant and courageous invitation to think again about the kinds of thinking that matter; the kinds of thinking that keep us awake' Rowan Williams Mysticism has been called 'experience at...