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Planetary Modernisms: Provocations on Modernity Across Time by Susan Stanford Friedman
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $49.16Drawing on a vast archive of world history, anthropology, geography, cultural theory, postcolonial studies, gender studies, literature, and art, Susan Stanford Friedman recasts modernity as a... -
Queer Cambridge: An Alternative History Simon Goldhill 9781009528061
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $39.43Queer Cambridge recounts the untold story of a gay community living, for many decades, at the very heart of the British Establishment. Making effective use of chiefly forgotten archival sources -... -
Look What You Made Me Do: A Novel by John Lanchester 9781324131342
RRP: $46.80Booksplease Price: $41.55"Every successful marriage has its own private language." So it is for baby boomer Kate and her beloved architect husband Jack, thirty years into their seemingly idyllic metropolitan North London... -
If All the World and Love Were Young by Stephen Sexton
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.52Winner of the Forward Prize for Best First CollectionWinner of the E. M. Forster Award Winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize Shortlisted for the John... -
Screening Woolf: Virginia Woolf on/and/in Film by Earl G. Ingersoll 9781611479706
Booksplease Price: $149.19As the subtitle indicates, this book has three majors concerns. The first and most important concern is an examination of the film adaptations of Woolf's novels-To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and Mrs... -
Moonlighting: Beethoven and Literary Modernism by Nathan Waddell
RRP: $177.45Booksplease Price: $171.44How and why did the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) matter to experimental writers in the early twentieth century? Previous answers to this question have tended to focus on... -
Cybersonic Arts: Adventures in American New Music by Gordon Mumma
Booksplease Price: $54.85Composer, performer, instrument builder, teacher, and writer Gordon Mumma has left an indelible mark on the American contemporary music scene. A prolific composer and innovative French horn player,... -
Outlaw Fathers in Victorian and Modern British Literature: Queering Patriarchy by Helena Gurfinkel 9781683930709
Booksplease Price: $101.56Outlaw Fathers in Victorian and Modern British Literature: Queering Patriarchy traces the representations of outlaw fathers, or queer patriarchs, and their relationships with their queer sons, in a... -
The Shape of the Ruins: Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019 Juan Gabriel Vasquez 9780857056610
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019"Like Don DeLillo's JFK-themed Libra, the novel is an intoxicating blend of fact and fiction" Glasgow Herald"A masterful writer" Nicole... -
Grimoire by Robin Robertson
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2020From the author of The Long Take, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of both the Walter Scott Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize.'I've long admired... -
Amritsar 1919: An Empire of Fear and the Making of a Massacre by Kim Wagner
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.30A powerful reassessment of a seminal moment in the history of India and the British Empire: the Amritsar Massacre"Amritsar 1919 chronicles the run up to Jallianwala Bagh with spellbinding, almost... -
Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age by Timothy Bewes
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $49.16Everywhere today, we are urged to "connect." Literary critics celebrate a new "honesty" in contemporary fiction or call for a return to "realism." Yet such rhetoric is strikingly reminiscent of... -
James Ivory in Conversation: How Merchant Ivory Makes Its Movies by Robert Emmet Long 9780520249998
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $41.73James Ivory in Conversation is an exclusive series of interviews with a director known for the international scope of his filmmaking on several continents. Three-time Academy Award nominee for best... -
Prisms, Veils: A Book of Fables by David Bentley Hart 9780268208455
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $58.58From one of the most-read religious and philosophical scholars in the United States comes a collection of creative, thought-provoking fables. Alongside David Bentley Hart's widely read work in... -
Prisms, Veils: A Book of Fables by David Bentley Hart 9780268208448
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $30.17From one of the most-read religious and philosophical scholars in the United States comes a collection of creative, thought-provoking fables. Alongside David Bentley Hart's widely read work in... -
Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age by Timothy Bewes 9780231191609
RRP: $228.15Booksplease Price: $178.35Everywhere today, we are urged to "connect." Literary critics celebrate a new "honesty" in contemporary fiction or call for a return to "realism." Yet such rhetoric is strikingly reminiscent of... -
The Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic: Realism, Sovereignty, and Transnational Experience by Lauren M. E. Goodlad 9780198797616
Booksplease Price: $77.73How did realist fiction alter in the effort to craft forms and genres receptive to the dynamism of an expanding empire and globalizing world? Do these nineteenth-century variations on the... -
Consciousness and the Novel: Connected Essays by David Lodge 9780674013773
Booksplease Price: $54.66Human consciousness, long the province of literature, has lately come in for a remapping--even rediscovery--by the natural sciences, driven by developments in Artificial Intelligence, neuroscience,... -
Choice by Neel Mukherjee 9781805461043
Booksplease Price: $25.78'A brilliant, bleak moral maze of a novel' Guardian'Dazzling... by turns comic, lyrical and heartbreaking' Monica Ali'Profound and beautiful' Paul Murray, author of The Bee Sting'A vital, haunting,... -
The World Broke in Two by Bill Goldstein 9781408894552
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07'This is a brilliant book about the birth of modernism, one that taught me something on every page ... You will feel - and be! - much smarter after you read it' Edmund White 'The world broke in... -
Choice Neel Mukherjee 9781805460510
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25'A brilliant, bleak moral maze of a novel' Guardian'Dazzling... by turns comic, lyrical and heartbreaking' Monica Ali'Profound and beautiful' Paul Murray, author of The Bee Sting'A vital, haunting,... -
The Long Form by Kate Briggs
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.49It's early morning and there's a whole new day ahead. How will it unfold? The baby will feed, hopefully she'll sleep; Helen looks out of the window. The Long Form is the story of two people composing... -
100 Prized Poems: Twenty-five years of the Forward Books by William Sieghart
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25'The Forward Prizes have turned a spotlight on contemporary poetry which is both searching and glamorous'Carol Ann Duffy100 Prized Poems brings together the best of the poems published over a quarter... -
From Pompeii: The Afterlife of a Roman Town by Ingrid D. Rowland
RRP: $52.55Booksplease Price: $45.40When Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, the force of the explosion blew the top right off the mountain, burying nearby Pompeii in a shower of volcanic ash. Ironically, the calamity that proved so lethal for... -
Of Time and Lamentation by Raymond Tallis 9781788211741
Booksplease Price: $59.44Time's mysteries seem to resist comprehension and what remains, once the familiar metaphors are stripped away, can stretch even the most profound philosopher. In Of Time and Lamentation, Raymond... -
The Ethics of Memory by Avishai Margalit 9780674013780
RRP: $52.55Booksplease Price: $45.40Much of the intense current interest in collective memory concerns the politics of memory. In a book that asks, "Is there an ethics of memory?" Avishai Margalit addresses a separate, perhaps more... -
Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion Charlie Porter 9781802061147
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.09Why do we wear what we wear? To answer this question, we must go back and unlock the wardrobes of the early twentieth century, when fashion as we know it was born.In Bring No Clothes, acclaimed... -
Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane 9781324130734
Booksplease Price: $24.57Hailed in the New York Times as "a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler," Robert Macfarlane brings his glittering style to a profound work of travel... -
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RRP: $40.95Booksplease Price: $6.26The Ninth Edition offers more complete works and more teachable groupings than ever before, the apparatus you trust, and a new, free Supplemental Ebook with more than 1,000 additional texts. Read by... -
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RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $5.13The Ninth Edition offers more complete works and more teachable groupings than ever before, the apparatus you trust, and a new, free Supplemental Ebook with more than 1,000 additional texts. Read by... -
You Are Here: The new novel by the author of global sensation ONE DAY by David Nicholls 9781444715453
Booksplease Price: $24.61A highlight for 2024 for the Sunday Times, Guardian, Independent, New Statesman, i, Observer, Grazia, GQ, Irish Times, Sunday Independent, Prima, Good Housekeeping'Magnificent' MARIAN KEYES'A... -
You Are Here: The new novel by the author of global sensation ONE DAY by David Nicholls 9781444715446
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $22.64The new novel by the author of One Day, now a major Netflix series'A triumph, a real gift of a novel'SUNDAY TIMES'A comforting antidote to the grimness of our grim world'GUARDIAN'Nicholls's knack for... -
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You Are Here: The new novel by the author of global sensation ONE DAY by David Nicholls 9781444715446 [USED COPY]
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $7.57The new novel by the author of One Day, now a major Netflix series'A triumph, a real gift of a novel'SUNDAY TIMES'A comforting antidote to the grimness of our grim world'GUARDIAN'Nicholls's knack for...