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Hannibal Rising: (Hannibal Lecter) by Thomas Harris
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €10.40_________________________HANNIBAL LECTER WASN'T BORN A MONSTER.HE WAS MADE ONE.Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front of World War II, a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain... -
The Ruin of Kasch by Roberto Calasso 9780141397016
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08A sparkling new translation of the classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and artThe Ruin of Kasch takes up two subjects: "the first is Talleyrand, and the second is... -
Walt Whitman Speaks: His Final Thoughts on Life, Writing, Spirituality, and the Promise of America by Walt Whitman 9781784108946
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €13.92The young journalist and reformer Horace Traubel visited Whitman nearly every day at his home in Camden, New Jersey. Whitman liked to talk, especially about the big issues, spiritual, political - all... -
German Phonology: An Optimality-Theoretic Approach by Caroline Féry 9781009277983
RRP: €47.99Booksplease Price: €42.55Drawing on an optimality-theoretic framework, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the phonology of German, with its idiosyncratic array of sound patterns. It starts with the consonants and... -
Roads to Berlin Laura Watkinson 9781848662919
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.11Roads to Berlin maps the changing landscape of Germany, from the period before the fall of the Wall to the present. Written and updated over the course of several decades, an eyewitness account of... -
Cancelling Socrates (NHB Modern Plays) by Howard Brenton 9781839040894
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €10.10'They say Pericles caught democracy from you in bed.' Today, Socrates is revered as the founding father of Western philosophy. But in 399 BC Athens, he was a pain in the neck. The plague is... -
A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €16.20Neil MacGregor's A History of the World in 100 Objects takes a bold, original approach to human history, exploring past civilizations through the objects that defined them. Encompassing a grand... -
Tributes: Interpreters of our cultural tradition by Leonie Gombrich
RRP: €23.94Booksplease Price: €16.85In this seventh volume of his collected essays, Professor Gombrich pays tribute to a variety of illustrious figures, to whom we owe the ideas and values that are woven into the fabric of our... -
A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor 9780241951774 [USED COPY]
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €2.88Neil MacGregor's A History of the World in 100 Objects takes a bold, original approach to human history, exploring past civilizations through the objects that defined them. Encompassing a grand... -
The Idea of Evil by Peter Dews 9781405117043
RRP: €41.94Booksplease Price: €39.43This timely book by philosopher Peter Dews explores the idea of evil, one of the most problematic terms in the contemporary moral vocabulary. Surveys the intellectual debate on the nature of evil... -
From Symptom to Reality: In Modern History by Rudolf Steiner 9781855844148
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €16.13In a radical approach to understanding current affairs and history, Rudolf Steiner presents a method of penetrating to the hidden causes and realities that lie behind outer appearances. Contemporary... -
Plays: Two: "De Sade Show", "Persons Unknown", "Salto Moltale" by Robert David MacDonald 9781840022254
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €14.76As witty as they are alarming, these three plays cover a considerable range of settings and offer unusual and rewarding opportunities to the actors. De Sade Show presents a gruesome picture of the... -
Peccadillo At The Palace Kari Bovee 9781036706340
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.28In the thrilling world of sharpshooting, Annie Oakley remains unparalleled. But when royalty beckons, will her skills be enough to untangle a plot dripping with treachery? When Queen Victoria... -
The Future of the Ancient World: Essays on the History of Consciousness by Jeremy Naydler 9781594772924
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €16.36The Future of the Ancient Worldsheds new light on the evolution of consciousness from antiquity to modern times. The twelve essays in this book examine developments in human consciousness over the... -
The Forest of Uruvela (Buddha, Book 4) by Osamu Tezuka 9780007224548
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €13.27The fourth book in the classic eight volume graphic novel series retelling the story of Buddha, from the godfather of the genre. In book four, unfulfilled by the teachings of renowned... -
Crime Passionnel by Jean-Paul Sartre 9780413310101 [USED COPY]
RRP: €14.39Booksplease Price: €2.38"A highly entertaining political political thriller...the play shows where that peculiarly Gallic combinations of sex, politics and suspense has its origins" (Michael Billington, Guardian) Crime... -
Tales of Hoffmann by E. T. A. Hoffmann
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.08E.T.A. Hoffman's wildly original fictions are some of the most unusual examples of German Romanticism's dark passions, and the stories in Tales of Hoffman are selected and translated from the German... -
Metamorphosis: Evolution in Action by Andreas Suchantke 9780932776396
RRP: €54.00Booksplease Price: €41.53Our understanding of life on earth is always developing. In this age of genetics and microbiology, Andreas Suchantke brings a lifetime of holistic biological research to the question of the... -
The Cambridge Introduction to German Poetry by Judith Ryan 9780521687201
RRP: €28.80Booksplease Price: €27.50German poetry has long held a special place within the Western literary tradition. Its major achievements include Luther's hymns, Goethe's unequalled poetic versatility, the Romantics' lyric songs... -
The Nightwatches of Bonaventura by Bonaventura
Booksplease Price: €20.10First published in German in 1804, under the nom de plume "Bonaventura," The Nightwatches of Bonaventura is a dark, twisted, and comic novel, one part Poe and one part Beckett. The narrator and... -
Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.08One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for... -
Mark Anchovy: Pizza Detective by William Goldsmith 9781848128613
RRP: €9.59Booksplease Price: €7.27Meet Mark Anchovy: pizza delivery boy and private detective!'Hilarious and exciting' The Scotsman'LOVE this proper funny series ... Funny, fast-paced adventure with loads of cheese (the good kind!)'... -
Sometimes I Think, Sometimes I Am by Sara Fanelli 9781854377289
RRP: €23.99Booksplease Price: €17.46Award-winning artist and illustrator Sara Fanelli is one of the world's foremost illustrators, renowned for her experimental techniques that have spawned many imitators. Her unique contribution to... -
Mario and The Magician: & other stories by Thomas Mann
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.78Mann's short stories explore his abiding interest in the split nature of humanity and the discordance of the world it inhabits. In 'A Man and his Dog', domestic tempests are symbols of the muddle of... -
Esoteric Christianity and the Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz by Rudolf Steiner 9781855840836
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €18.30In addition to the outer manifestation of Christianity as we know it from history, there exists a second, hidden stream of Christian thought and development, sometimes referred to as 'esoteric... -
Kapilavastu (Buddha, Book 1) by Osamu Tezuka 9780007224517 [USED COPY]
RRP: €14.39Booksplease Price: €2.17The first book in the classic eight volume graphic novel series from the godfather of the genre - an irreverent and humourous rendition of the life and times of Buddha. In book one,... -
Far by Rosa Ribas 9781738446346
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.54In a housing development in the middle of the nowhere, one of the many that were built in Spain, but never finished because of the crash, la small community of neighbours, trying to lead a normal... -
Compact Star Physics by Jurgen Schaffner-Bielich 9781107180895
RRP: €75.60Booksplease Price: €72.91This self-contained introduction to compact star physics explains important concepts from areas such as general relativity, thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and nuclear physics. Containing many... -
Chroma: A Book of Colour - June '93 by Derek Jarman
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.99A poetic, passionate and intensely personal exploration of colour written during the final year of Derek Jarman's life -- with a new introduction by Ali Smith.In Chroma, his most poetic and lyrical... -
A Drop of Light: Educating for the A-ha Moment by LIZ ATTWELL
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €16.13A-ha! Working through a topic or question, a shaft of sudden inspiration hits. The cloud of fragmented ideas and thoughts clear as a whole picture begins to form coherently in your mind. What you... -
The Liberation of Jerusalem by Torquato Tasso 9780199535354
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €13.56'The bitter tragedy of human life-- horrors of death, attack, retreat, advance, and the great game of Destiny and Chance. ' In The Liberation of Jerusalem (Gerusalemme liberata, 1581),... -
The Holy Grail: The Quest for the Renewal of the Mysteries by Rudolf Steiner 9781855840744
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €9.65The wisdom contained in this book is not derived via the usual methods of scholarly and historical research, and neither is it based on theory or speculation. Rudolf Steiner acquired his original... -
The Four Encounters (Buddha, Book 2) by Osamu Tezuka 9780007224524
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €13.27The second book in the classic eight volume graphic novel series retelling the story of Buddha, from the godfather of the genre - an irreverent and humourous rendition of the life and times of Prince... -
The Essential Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.35Translated by Peter ConstantineEdited and with a new introduction by Leo Damrosch'Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains' is the dramatic opening line of The Social Contract, published in... -
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse 9780811200684
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €8.66Here the spirituality of the East and the West have met in a novel that enfigures deep human wisdom with a rich and colorful imagination. Written in a prose of almost biblical simplicity and beauty,... -
Christian Rosenkreutz: The Mystery, Teaching and Mission of a Master by Rudolf Steiner 9781855840843
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €9.65The wisdom contained in this book is not derived via the usual methods of scholarly and historical research, and neither is it based on theory or speculation. Rudolf Steiner acquired his original... -
The Arts of Cinema by Martin Seel 9781501726170
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €16.04In The Arts of Cinema, Martin Seel explores film's connections to the other arts and the qualities that distinguish it from them. In nine concise and elegantly written chapters, he explores the... -
Thinking with Literature: Towards a Cognitive Criticism by Terence Cave 9780198824640
Booksplease Price: €31.93To speak of 'thinking with literature' is to make the assumption that literature (in the broadest sense) is neither a side-show nor a side-issue in human cultures: it belongs to the spectrum of... -
The Magic Mountain Editor 9780198889175
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €10.97'Hans Castorp filled his lungs with the pure mountain air--this fresh, light atmosphere that was so easy to inhale and held no scent of moisture, no content, no memories...' Thomas Mann's The... -
Ananda (Buddha, Book 6) by Osamu Tezuka 9780007224562
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €13.27The sixth book in the classic eight volume graphic novel series retelling the story of Buddha, from the godfather of the genre. In book six, as Kapiluvastu burns and it's people are hunted...