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The Magic of Silence: Caspar David Friedrich's Journey Through Time Florian Illies 9781509567546
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $28.98No German painter evokes such strong emotions as Caspar David Friedrich: his evening skies remain icons of longing, his mountain vistas testaments to the grandeur of nature. He inspired Samuel... -
The Boundless River: Stories from the Realm of the Rhine by Mathijs Deen 9781529424171
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.59"A joy to read" Times Literary Supplement"[A] stirring and accessible history of the mighty Rhine" Irish Times"It's easy to be swept away by Deen's delightful prose" New Statesman"A beautiful book,... -
Kant: A Revolution in Thinking Marcus Willaschek 9780674296107
Booksplease Price: $47.75A foremost Kant expert takes us on a lively tour through the revolutionary ideas of the founder of modern philosophy.Immanuel Kant is undoubtedly the most important philosopher of the modern era. His... -
What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt Hannah Arendt 9781324090526
RRP: $37.98Booksplease Price: $30.91Internationally renowned as one of the twentieth century's foremost public intellectuals, Hannah Arendt was also intensely private. Though she often acknowledged that the language of... -
Mwili, Akili Na Roho / Body, Mind, and Spirit: Ten Figurative Painters from East Africa by Don Handa 9781644231074
RRP: $45.60Booksplease Price: $31.83Mwili, Akili Na Roho: Ten Figurative Painters from East Africa features the work of ten artists from Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania, including Sam Ntiro, Elimo Njau, Asaph Ng'ethe Macua, Jak Katarikawe,... -
Shamanic Wisdom in the Pyramid Texts: The Mystical Tradition of Ancient Egypt by Jeremy Naydler 9780892817559
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $27.65A radical reinterpretation of the Pyramid Texts as shamanic mystical wisdom rather than funerary rituals * Reveals the mystical nature of Egyptian civilization denied by orthodox Egyptologists *... -
Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm: Beyond the Doors of Perception into the Dreaming of Earth by Stephen Harrod Buhner 9781591431350
RRP: $34.18Booksplease Price: $25.27In Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm, Stephen Harrod Buhner reveals that all life forms on Earth possess intelligence, language, a sense of I and not I, and the capacity to dream. He shows... -
The Caretakers of the Cosmos: Living Responsibly in an Unfinished World by Gary Lachman 9781782500025
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $26.60Why are we here? Human beings have asked themselves this question for centuries. Modern science largely argues that human beings are chance products of a purposeless universe, but other traditions... -
Miss Julie & Creditors by August Strindberg 9781848428539
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $18.58August Strindberg's classic portrayals of secrets and lies, seduction and power - both written in the summer of 1888 - in brilliant new versions by Howard Brenton. Miss Julie begins as a... -
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (stage version by Robert Tressell
RRP: $26.58Booksplease Price: $20.62Passionate, highly entertaining and gloriously funny - Robert Tressell's classic pre-First World War account of the working lives of a group of housepainters and decorators is vividly adapted by... -
December Breeze by Marvel Moreno
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $19.97From her home in Paris, Lina recalls the story of three women whose lives unfold in the conservative city of Barranquilla in Colombia. Amongst parties at the Country Club and strolls along the... -
Judas Amos Oz 9781784701956
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.23The Israeli master's exceptional final novelSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017 Shmuel - a young, idealistic student - has abandoned his studies in Jerusalem, taking a live-in job... -
Lawrence After Arabia by Howard Brenton
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $15.39Howard Brenton's Lawrence After Arabia explores the afterlife of a legend, when being a hero has become a burden, and the man once celebrated as Lawrence of Arabia wants only to be normal once more. ... -
Three Streets by Yoko Tawada
RRP: $26.58Booksplease Price: $24.91The always astonishing Yoko Tawada here takes a walk on the supernatural side of the street. In "Kollwitzstrasse," as the narrator muses on former East Berlin's new bourgeois health food stores, so... -
Tambora and the Year without a Summer: How a Volcano Plunged the World into Crisis by Wolfgang Behringer (Saarland University, Germany) 9781509525508
RRP: $34.18Booksplease Price: $26.37In 1816, the climate went berserk. The winter brought extreme cold, and torrential rains unleashed massive flooding in Asia. Western Europe and North America experienced a 'year without a summer',... -
Turning Points: Challenges for Western Democracies in the 21st Century by Holger Janusch 9783111631035
RRP: $43.70Booksplease Price: $31.22Turning Points: Challenges for Western Democracies in the 21st Century centers around the strikingly under-researched concept of turning points and its application in political science, including... -
Eurotrash: Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025 Christian Kracht 9781805226598
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.06'Odd and evocative, a frolicking rumination' TIMES CRITICS' BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Hilarious, unsettling and unexpectedly moving' FINANCIAL TIMES BEST TRANSLATED BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Astonishing... -
Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers by Cheryl Misak
RRP: $29.43Booksplease Price: $22.78The full story of Frank Ramsey's extraordinary life. When he died in 1930 aged 26, Frank Ramsey had already invented one branch of mathematics and two branches of economics, laying the foundations... -
These Letters End in Tears: Shortlisted for the 2025 British Book Awards Debut Fiction Book of the Year by Musih Tedji Xaviere 9781914344282
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $18.58'If by some chance you happen on these letters, know that I waited for you. And if you don't find me, it is not because I stopped waiting...'A chance encounter on a football pitch in Cameroon sees... -
The Traveller: The Revolutionary Life of George Forster and his Search for Humanity by Andrea Wulf 9780241711217
RRP: $57.00Booksplease Price: $44.14'Andrea Wulf belongs to the small, splendid canon of writers unafraid to render fact with feeling' Maria Popova, creator of The Marginalian and author of FiguringAn inspiring biography of the... -
Rosa Luxemburg by Dana Mills 9781789143270
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $26.45As an economist and political theorist Rosa Luxemburg's work still resonates powerfully today. Born in Poland in 1871 she became a revolutionary leader in Berlin, co-founding the anti-war Spartacus... -
Anne Boleyn by Howard Brenton
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.58A celebration of a great English heroine, Anne Boleyn dramatises the life and legacy of Henry VIII's notorious second wife, who helped change the course of the nation's history. Traditionally seen... -
Pleasure by Gabriele D'Annunzio
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $26.58The great Italian masterpiece of sensuality and seduction, published in a new English translation - the first since the Victorian era - that puts the sex back in Pleasure.Like Oscar Wilde's Dorian... -
Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel Yoko Tawada 9780811234870
Booksplease Price: $24.11Patrik, who sometimes calls himself "the patient," is a literary researcher living in present-day Berlin. The city is just coming back to life after lockdown, and his beloved opera houses are open... -
At the Heart of the White Rose: Letters and Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl by Hans Scholl
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $26.81Personal letters and diaries provide an intimate view into the hearts and minds of a brother and sister who became martyrs in the anti-Nazi resistance during World War II.Idealistic, serious, and... -
Blue Self-Portrait by Noemi Lefebvre 9780993009327
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.24A French woman haunted by her encounter with an American-German pianist-composer who is obsessed with Arnold Schoenberg's portrait, flies home with her lively sister and a volume of Adorno's letters... -
Speaking and Being: How Language Shapes Our Lives by Kubra Gumusay
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $19.95A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'I can't stop talking about this book' Jamie Klingler, co-founder #ReclaimTheseStreets 'What a gem. ... Makes you look at the world, and yourself, afresh.' Minna... -
River Clyde by Simone Buchholz
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $12.88Hamburg State Prosecutor Chastity Riley travels to Scotland to face the demons of her past, as Hamburg is hit by a major arson attack. Queen of Krimi, Simone Buchholz, returns with the emotive fifth... -
Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue by Yoko Tawada 9780811237871
RRP: $26.58Booksplease Price: $20.03SHORTLISTED FOR THE NBCC AWARD IN CRITICISM AND THE GREGG BARRIOS BOOK IN TRANSLATION PRIZE A New Yorker Best Book of 2025 I am trying to learn, with my tongue, sounds that are unfamiliar... -
A Blue New Deal: Why We Need a New Politics for the Ocean by Chris Armstrong
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $20.73An urgent account of the state of our oceans today-and what we must do to protect them "Provides a persuasive guide to recovery, and is an inspiring and invigorating read."-Phoebe Weston, The... -
Adorno and Existence by Peter E. Gordon
RRP: $49.31Booksplease Price: $41.93From the beginning to the end of his career, the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno sustained an uneasy but enduring bond with existentialism. His attitude overall was that of unsparing criticism, verging... -
Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.89'Vital... [Erpenbeck] is asking a compelling and timely question' Sally Rooney, Irish Times Richard has spent his life as a university professor, immersed in the world of books and ideas. Recently... -
The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science: Costa & Royal Society Prize Winner by Andrea Wulf
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $16.95WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDWINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2016'A thrilling adventure story' Bill Bryson'Dazzling' Literary Review 'Brilliant' Sunday Express'Extraordinary... -
The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth Century by Peter Watson 9781416526155
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $16.99From the end of the Baroque age and the death of Bach in 1750 to the rise of Hitler in 1933, Germany was transformed from a poor relation among western nations into a dominant intellectual and... -
The End of Craving: Recovering the Lost Wisdom of Eating Well by Mark Schatzker
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.59The international bestseller from award-winning writer Mark Schatzker that reveals how our dysfunctional relationship with food began-and how science is leading us back to healthier living and eating... -
Changing Woman: A Novel of the Camp Grant Massacre by Venetia Hobson Lewis 9781496235138
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $31.29Winner of the 2024 NM-AZ Book Award for Best First Book-Arizona Gold Medal Winner for the 2024 Will Rogers Medallion Finalist for the 2024 NM-AZ Book Award for Best Fiction-Historical Arizona... -
The Shahnameh: The Persian Epic as World Literature by Hamid Dabashi
RRP: $57.00Booksplease Price: $47.90The Shahnameh, an epic poem recounting the foundation of Iran across mythical, heroic, and historical ages, is the beating heart of Persian literature and culture. Composed by Abu al-Qasem Ferdowsi... -
Babylon: A Novel of Jewish Captivity by Michelle Cameron 9781637587614
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $31.14A multi-generational biblical saga of captivity, romance, faith, and redemption, set against the Judean exile in Babylon.Everything changes for Sarah the day Nebuchadnezzar's army storms Jerusalem... -
Adonis: Selected Poems by Adonis
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $23.37The first major career-spanning collection of the poems of Adonis, widely acknowledged as the most important poet working in Arabic today "Poetry for [Adonis] is not merely a genre or an art form... -
How Nations Remember: A Narrative Approach by James V Wertsch
Booksplease Price: $61.81How Nations Remember draws on multiple disciplines in the humanities and social sciences to examine how a nation's account of the past shapes its actions in the present. National memory can...