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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: $22.38As 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: $27.00Personal 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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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: $15.98WINNER 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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
The Emissary by Yoko Tawada
RRP: $23.75Booksplease Price: $20.31Japan, after suffering from a massive irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world. Children are so weak they can barely stand or walk: the only people with any get-go are the elderly. Mumei... -
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... -
Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire by Peter H. Wilson
RRP: $51.21Booksplease Price: $46.84An Economist and Sunday Times Best Book of the Year"Deserves to be hailed as a magnum opus."-Tom Holland, The Telegraph"Ambitious...seeks to rehabilitate the Holy Roman Empire's reputation by... -
Drugged: The Science and Culture Behind Psychotropic Drugs by Richard J. Miller 9780190235956
Booksplease Price: $62.70"Morphine," writes Richard J. Miller, "is the most significant chemical substance mankind has ever encountered." So ancient that remains of poppies have been found in Neolithic tombs, it is the most... -
Supernatural Woman and the Male Initiate: Bonded through Dreams Angel Millar 9798888503621
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $22.33Spiritual transformation through sex with transcendent beings* Explores the supernatural woman as the active agent of the male initiate's spiritual transformation* Traces the supernatural woman's... -
Eurotrash: A Novel by Christian Kracht 9781324097082
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.75From "the great German-language writer of his generation" (Joshua Cohen) comes the second novel of Christian Kracht's career narrated by an eponymous "Christian" (the first was his bestselling debut,... -
Blurred Iris Wolff 9781917593007
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.69In rural Transylvania, a young wife fearing for her unborn child takes a sleigh ride through all-enveloping snow. BLURRED tells the story of that child, Samuel, through the voices of those who know... -
The Trembling Hand: Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archive by Mathelinda Nabugodi 9780241997208
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $17.80LONGLISTED FOR THE DIVERSE BOOK AWARDS 2026Bracing and essential, a radical reframing of British Romanticism through the lens of Black experience - for fans of David Olusoga, Gretchen Gerzina,... -
Mozart in Motion: His Work and His World in Pieces by Patrick Mackie
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.11'A dazzling celebration and recalibration of Mozart's genius, written with an energy to match its subject' Ian Bostridge Mozart is one of the most familiar and beloved icons of our culture, but... -
Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada 9780811229289
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $22.86Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as "the land of sushi." Hiruko, its former citizen and a climate refugee herself, has a job... -
The Winter Harvest Handbook: Year Round Vegetable Production Using Deep Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses by Eliot Coleman 9781603580816
RRP: $47.50Booksplease Price: $33.42"Brimming with ingenuity, hope, and eminently practical advice, The Winter Harvest Handbook is an indispensable contribution."-Michael Pollan "Useful, practical, sensible, and enlightening... -
21: A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs by Martin Mosebach 9780874868395
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $26.30Behind a gruesome ISIS beheading video lies the untold story of the men in orange and the faith community that formed these unlikely modern-day saints and heroes.In a carefully choreographed... -
Green: The History of a Color by Michel Pastoureau 9780691159362
RRP: $66.50Booksplease Price: $60.99In this beautiful and richly illustrated book, the acclaimed author of Blue and Black presents a fascinating and revealing history of the color green in European societies from prehistoric times to... -
Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers by Cheryl Misak 9780198755357
RRP: $56.98Booksplease Price: $46.08When he died in 1930 aged 26, Frank Ramsey had already invented one branch of mathematics and two branches of economics, laying the foundations for decision theory and game theory. Keynes deferred to... -
Picturing the Apocalypse: The Book of Revelation in the Arts over Two Millennia by Natasha O'Hear
RRP: $29.43Booksplease Price: $24.26The book of Revelation has been a source of continual fascination for nearly two thousand years. Concepts such as The Lamb of God, the Four Horsemen, the Seventh Seal, the Beasts and Antichrist, the... -
In Byron's Wake by Miranda Seymour
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.59A Sunday Times Book of the YearShortlisted for The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize 'This magnificent, highly readable double biography...brings these two driven, complicated women vividly to life' The... -
The Imperial Mode of Living: Everyday Life and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism by Markus Wissen
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $23.41With the concept of the Imperial Mode of Living, Brand and Wissen highlight the fact that capitalism implies uneven development as well as a constant and accelerating universalisation of a Western... -
Designing Regenerative Cultures by Daniel Christian Wahl
RRP: $47.50Booksplease Price: $38.00This is a 'Whole Earth Catalog' for the 21st century: an impressive and wide-ranging analysis of what's wrong with our societies, organizations, ideologies, worldviews and cultures - and how to put...