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The Night in Gethsemane: On Solitude and Betrayal by Massimo Recalcati
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95As the Gospels tell us, after the Last Supper Jesus retreats to a small field just outside the city of Jerusalem: Gethsemane, the olive grove. His prayers are interrupted when Judas arrives with a... -
Arturo's Island: A Novel by Elsa Morante 9781631496622
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.21Elsa Morante's novels were once considered the greatest of Italy's postwar generation. Here, Ann Goldstein's "deft translation" (Madeline Schwartz, New York Review of Books) of Arturo's Island... -
Exploring the Work of Michael Eigen (2 Volume Set): Primary Process Impacts, Dreaming the Undreamable Object, Toxic Nourishment and Damaged Bonds by Loray Daws 9781032768472
RRP: £67.98Booksplease Price: £60.38These books explore key aspects and themes present in the work of Michael Eigen.Primary Process Impacts and Dreaming the Undreamable Object in the Work of Michael Eigen examines Eigen’s rich... -
The Art of Astonishment: Reflections on Gifts and Grace by Professor or Dr. Alice Brittan 9781501383571
Booksplease Price: £91.39Part literary history, part personal memoir, Alice Brittan's beautifully written The Art of Astonishment explores the rich intellectual, religious, and philosophical history of the gift and tells the... -
Posthumanism in Italian Literature and Film: Boundaries and Identity by Enrica Maria Ferrara 9783030393694
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £98.67As humans re-negotiate their boundaries with the nonhuman world of animals,inanimate entities and technological artefacts, new identities are formed and anew epistemological and ethical approach to... -
The Vietri Project by Nicola Derobertis-Theye 9780063017719
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £6.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063017719Author Nicola Derobertis-TheyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint CollinsPublisher... -
Last House Before the Mountain by Monika Helfer 9781526657145
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83'Beautiful and heartbreaking ... I absolutely loved it' Monica Ali, Sunday Times Bestselling author of Love Marriage 'The whole, biographically inspired family drama tells of the greatest feelings... -
The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism by Sarah Chihaya
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £66.38Like few other works of contemporary literature, Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels found an audience of passionate and engaged readers around the world. Inspired by Ferrante's intense depiction of... -
The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism by Sarah Chihaya 9780231194570
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.40Like few other works of contemporary literature, Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels found an audience of passionate and engaged readers around the world. Inspired by Ferrante's intense depiction of... -
The Divine Mrs S by April de Angelis 9780571391936
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95This was your first go. Did Shakespeare let Titus Andronicus put him off? An experimental tragedy about a pie. You've just begun. Mrs Sarah Siddons, acclaimed as the greatest actress of all time,... -
The Impudent Ones by Marguerite Duras
Booksplease Price: £20.27Marguerite Duras, the Elena Ferrante of French literature, rose to global stardom with her erotic masterpiece The Lover, which won the prestigious Prix Goncourt, has over a million copies in print in... -
Last Days in Plaka: A Novel by Henriette Lazaridis 9781639365616
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.80An immersive and multifaceted novel—The Talented Mr. Ripley by way of Elena Ferrante—that explores the lies at the heart of an old woman’s identity and the desperation of a young woman’s struggle to... -
Silk Alessandro Baricco 9781786896421
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31In 1861 French silkworm merchant Herve Joncour travels to Japan, where he encounters the mysterious Hara Kei. He develops a painful longing for Kei's beautiful concubine - but they cannot touch; they... -
Disappearance and Candor in Contemporary Women’s Writing Lane Glisson 9781666950519
Booksplease Price: £75.81Using the example of Marcel Proust's character Albertine, this book argues that the trope of the disappeared woman stems from the male narrator's inability see beyond his own projections; women's... -
Corporeal Bonds: The Daughter-Mother Relationship in Twentieth-Century Italian Women's Writing by Patrizia Sambuco 9781442644250
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £37.56The mother-daughter relationship is a popular theme in contemporary Italian writing but has never before been analysed in a comprehensive book-length study. In Corporeal Bonds, Patrizia Sambuco... -
A New Sublime: Ten Timeless Lessons on the Classics by Piero Boitani
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23"[It] will move you across the globe and back in time." - Library Journal Europa Compass series - new format and covers For the readers of Mary Beard and Bethany Hughes (Re)discover the... -
What Is Progress by Aldo Schiavone 9781787702998
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.59Does it still make sense to talk about progress? The word "progress" conjures up a positivistic view of the world, a late Victorian boundless trust in humanity's talents for discovery and... -
Great Literary Friendships by Janet Phillips
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.20Close friendships are a heart-warming feature of many of our best-loved works of fiction. From Jane Eyre and Helen Burns' poignant schoolgirl relationship to Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn's... -
Bibliotherapy: Books to Guide You Through Every Chapter of Life Molly Masters 9780008587314
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42A beautiful, thoughtful guide to finding your perfect next read, no matter what life's throwing at you, from the founder of Aphra a.k.a. 'your inclusive AF feminist book club' ... -
The Secret of Provence House by Aubrey Rhodes
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68A sweeping, breath-taking tale of love, betrayal...and a secret that could change the course of history. The secret of Provence House might just be... -
Poems That Make Grown Women Cry by Anthony Holden 9781471148637
Booksplease Price: £8.38Following the success of their anthology Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, father-and-son team Anthony and Ben Holden, working with Amnesty International, have asked the same revealing question of 100... -
The Wicked Cometh: The addictive historical mystery Laura Carlin 9781473661394
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'We have no need to protect ourselves from the bad sort because WE are the bad sort . . .' 'Beguiling' StylistThe year is 1831. Down murky alleyways, acts of unspeakable wickedness are taking place... -
In Other Lifetimes All I've Lost Comes Back to Me: Stories by Courtney Sender
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56For readers of Elena Ferrante, Nicole Krauss, and Carmen Maria Machado, In Other Lifetimes All I've Lost Comes Back to Me is a braided story collection that invokes the real, surreal, and mythic to... -
In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri 9781408866139
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42_______________ 'A passionate love letter to language and to Italy ... a bold and quirkily engaging self-portrait' - Lee Langley, Spectator 'A writer of uncommon elegance and poise' - New York... -
Savage Kiss by Roberto Saviano
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05Roberto Saviano returns to the streets of Naples and the boy bosses who run them in Savage Kiss, the hotly anticipated follow-up to The Piranhas, the bestselling novel and major motion picture... -
Latin Poetry and Its Reception: Essays for Susanna Braund by C. W. Marshall 9780367552725
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37This volume offers 18 new studies reflecting the latest scholarship on Latin verse, explored both in its original context and in subsequent contexts as it has been translated and re-imagined. All... -
Untold Lessons Maddalena Vaglio Tanet 9781805330097
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The award-winning literary thriller from one of Italy's most exciting feminist writers, for fans of Sophie Mackintosh, Elena Ferrante and Sarah MossOne morning, a teacher disappears into the woods... -
The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.19'A dazzling, subtle, skilful knockout - I loved it' Charlotte Mendelson 'One of our finest living authors ... propulsively entertaining' New York Times 'Wonderfully strange and... -
The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li 9780008531829
Booksplease Price: £10.75'A dazzling, subtle, skilful knockout - I loved it' Charlotte Mendelson 'One of our finest living authors ... propulsively entertaining' New York Times 'Wonderfully strange and... -
Friendship and the Novel by Allan Hepburn 9780228020370
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £27.88Friends are at the centre of novels by everyone from George Eliot to Elena Ferrante. It is nearly impossible to name a work of fiction that is not enriched by the tensions and magnetisms of... -
Tales from the Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Bawdy and moving, hilarious and reflective - these stories offer the very best of Boccaccio's Decameron in a brilliant, playful new translation.This hugely enjoyable volume collects the best stories... -
Kerry Jackson by April de Angelis
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31So what have you got against gobby women running restaurants?El Barco is the newest tapas restaurant in fashionable Walthamstow Village, and it's Kerry Jackson's pride and joy.Wearing her... -
Friendship and the Novel by Allan Hepburn 9780228020066
RRP: £91.00Booksplease Price: £70.50Friends are at the centre of novels by everyone from George Eliot to Elena Ferrante. It is nearly impossible to name a work of fiction that is not enriched by the tensions and magnetisms of... -
Forbidden Notebook: A Novel by Alba De Cespedes 9781662602689
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £12.60A New York Times Notable Book of the Year "Powerful." -The New Yorker"Brilliant." -The Wall Street Journal"Astounding." -NPR"Forceful, clear and morally engaged." -The Washington Post"Subversive."... -
The Private Apartments by Idman Nur Omar
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31Finalist, 2023 Writers' Union of Canada Danuta Gleed Literary Award Finalist, 2024 Alberta Literary Awards Brittle Paper 100 Notable African Books of 2023 Moving, insightful, linked stories... -
The Garden of Monsters by Lorenza Pieri
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.87Set in the Maremma region of Southern Tuscany, this novel tells the story of two families against the backdrop of a rapidly transforming country. The Biagini are local ranchers, while the wealthy... -
Infamous by April de Angelis 9780571387106
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Famous and respectable? Can a woman be both?Emma Hamilton is the name on everyone's lips. Her attitudes are the latest dance craze sweeping Europe, inspiring a generation of artists from Romney to... -
The Lack of Light: A Novel of Georgia by Nino Haratischwili 9780063253612
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.55A page-turning epic of loss and redemption in the vein of Rebecca Makkai’s The Great Believers and Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels, about a group of four women who formed a deep friendship in the... -
Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio by Amara Lakhous 9781787703841
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Clash of Civilisations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio tells the story of the immigrant tenants of a building in Rome, who offer skewed accounts of a murder. In this award-winning satire by the... -
Poems That Make Grown Women Cry by Anthony Holden 9781471148644
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.62'A deep and valuable collection that you could rely upon in your time of need' The Times Following the success of their anthology Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, father-and-son team Anthony and Ben...