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Ooga-Booga by Frederick Seidel
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Seidel grips the twentieth century between his teeth like a blade as he speaks. He is one of the more formidable poets of the last third of the century.' Calvin Bedient, Poetry'He is scary, but... -
On Not Knowing: How to Love and Other Essays by Emily Ogden 9781913512156
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Moments of clarity are rare and fleeting; how can we become comfortable outside of them, in the more general condition of uncertainty within which we make our lives? Written by critic Emily Ogden... -
The Joy of Secularism: 11 Essays for How We Live Now by George Levine 9780691156026
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.69The case for a thoughtful secularism from some of today's most distinguished scientists, philosophers, and writersCan secularism offer us moral, aesthetic, and spiritual satisfaction? Or does the... -
Freud and Psychoanalysis: Six Introductory Lectures John Forrester 9781509558124
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.85John Forrester's passionate yet probing engagement with Freud and psychoanalysis is legendary. Here, in six introductory lectures delivered to his students at the University of Cambridge, his range... -
Anxiety: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book X Jacques Lacan 9781509506828
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.48Jacques Lacan is widely recognized as a key figure in the history of psychoanalysis and one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th Century. In Anxiety, now available for the first time in... -
Collected Poems by Hugo Williams
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73In gathering four decades of work, Hugo Williams's Collected Poems brings back into print a vast body of material long since unavailable - from his 1965 debut Symptoms of Loss to Self-Portrait with a... -
This Is Me, Is That You?: Encounters with Schizophrenia Steven Poser 9780300288674
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78A psychoanalyst's sensitive exploration of schizophrenia through the stories and words of three women patients In the spring of 1994, psychoanalyst-in-training Steven Poser arrived for his clinical... -
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Marriage, Writing, and Romanticism: Wordsworth and Austen After War by Eric C. Walker 9780804760928 [USED COPY]
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £11.20Marriage, Writing, and Romanticism studies marriage in two sets of literary texts from the Regency decade: the novels of Jane Austen-who avoided marriage in her own life but seems to have written... -
Centuries Of Childhood by Philippe Aries
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16In this pioneering and important book, Philippe Aries surveys children and their place in family life from the Middle Ages to the end of the eighteenth century. The first section of the book explores... -
Selected Prose by Charles Lamb
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.16This selection brings together the best prose writings of the great early nineteenth-century essayist Charles Lamb, whose shrewd wit and convivial style have endeared him to generations of readers... -
Making Darkness Light: The Lives and Times of John Milton Joe Moshenska 9781529364293
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50'Making Darkness Light is an illumination' Adam Phillips'His sympathetic yet challenging account will undoubtedly win Milton new readers - and for that a chorus of Hallelujahs' SpectatorFor most of... -
Making Darkness Light: The Lives and Times of John Milton Joe Moshenska 9781529364286
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.90'Making Darkness Light is an illumination' Adam Phillips'His sympathetic yet challenging account will undoubtedly win Milton new readers - and for that a chorus of Hallelujahs' SpectatorFor most of... -
Grandmothers Salley Vickers 9780241371435
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.05The new novel from Salley Vickers, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Librarian'Heart-warming... Grandmothers is a beautifully written and moving celebration of this love, too often unsung, that... -
![The Librarian: The Top 10 Sunday Times Bestseller by Salley Vickers 9780241330234 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/4849982/8724053/9780241330234__93055.1743372870.jpg?c=1 "The Librarian: The Top 10 Sunday Times Bestseller by Salley Vickers 9780241330234 [USED COPY]")
The Librarian: The Top 10 Sunday Times Bestseller by Salley Vickers 9780241330234 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.76*A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller*'Vickers sees with a clear eye and writes with a light hand; she's a presence worth cherishing in the ranks of modern novelists.' Philip PullmanIn 1958, Sylvia... -
The Librarian: The Top 10 Sunday Times Bestseller by Salley Vickers
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95*A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller*'Vickers sees with a clear eye and writes with a light hand; she's a presence worth cherishing in the ranks of modern novelists.' Philip PullmanIn 1958, Sylvia... -
A Long Way Down: the international bestseller by Nick Hornby
Booksplease Price: £8.70'Extremely funny . . . and wise' Sunday TimesNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE__________________________'Can I explain why I wanted to jump off the top of a tower block?'For disgraced TV presenter Martin... -
Freud and Beyond: A History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought by Stephen A. Mitchell
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.61The classic, in-depth history of psychoanalysis, presenting over a hundred years of thought and theoriesSigmund Freud's concepts have become a part of our psychological vocabulary: unconscious... -
Adventures in the Orgasmatron: The Invention of Sex by Christopher Turner
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42The untold story of Wilhelm Reich and the dawn of the sexual revolution. An illuminating, startling, at times bizarre story of sex and science, ecstasy and repression. In the middle of the... -
Poems: (2015) third edition J. H. Prynne 9781780371542
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.98J.H. Prynne is Britain's leading late Modernist poet. His austere yet playful poetry challenges our sense of the world, not by any direct address to the reader but by showing everything in a... -
Set Thy Love in Order: New & Selected Poems by Stephen Romer
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Set Thy Love in Order: New & Selected Poems gathers the work of some thirty years, taken from Stephen Romer's four previous collections, along with a substantial selection of new poems. The title is... -
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Grandmothers by Salley Vickers 9780241371411 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.43The new novel from Salley Vickers, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Librarian 'Heart-warming... Grandmothers is a beautifully written and moving celebration of this love, too often unsung, that... -
Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Soren Kierkegaard by Clare Carlisle
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Selected as a Book of the Year in The Times Literary Supplement'This lucid and riveting new biography at once rescuses Kierkegaard from the scholars and shows why he is such an intriguing and useful... -
Jews Don't Count by David Baddiel
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.98How identity politics failed one particular identity. 'a must read and if you think YOU don't need to read it, that's just the clue to know you do.' SARAH... -
Jews Don't Count by David Baddiel 9780008530198
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.87How identity politics failed one particular identity. 'A must read and if you think YOU don't need to read it, that's just the clue to know you do' SARAH... -
![Cousins by Salley Vickers 9780241972298 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9665112/10681832/9780241972298__97920.1781288043.jpg?c=1 "Cousins by Salley Vickers 9780241972298 [USED COPY]")
Cousins by Salley Vickers 9780241972298 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.41From the bestselling author of THE LIBRARIAN How much can love ask of us?Brilliant and mercurial Will Tye suffers a life changing accident. The terrible event ripples through three generations of the... -
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The Gardener by Salley Vickers 9780241482797 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: £2.52The new novel from Salley Vickers, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Librarian and GrandmothersArtist, Hassie Days, and her sister, Margot, buy a run down Jacobean house in Hope Wenlock on the... -
Proust: The Search by Benjamin Taylor
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86An arresting study of the life, times, and achievement of one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century "Taylor's endeavor is not to explain the life by the novel or the novel by the... -
The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing by T. J. Clark 9780300137583
RRP: £28.50Booksplease Price: £19.99A renowned art historian confronts the specific powers of painting, and the hold of the visual image on the viewer's imagination Why do we find ourselves returning to certain pictures time and again?... -
Not Working: Why We Have to Stop by Josh Cohen 9781783782062
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'A PROBING EXPLORATION OF THE CREATIVE AND IMAGINATIVE POSSIBILITIES OF INACTIVITY' FINANCIAL TIMES 'To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world.' Oscar Wilde More than ever... -
![Reading Boyishly: Roland Barthes, J. M. Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust, and D. W. Winnicott by Carol Mavor 9780822338864 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/6583942/6660863/9780822338864__56075.1738900268.jpg?c=1 "Reading Boyishly: Roland Barthes, J. M. Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust, and D. W. Winnicott by Carol Mavor 9780822338864 [USED COPY]")
Reading Boyishly: Roland Barthes, J. M. Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust, and D. W. Winnicott by Carol Mavor 9780822338864 [USED COPY]
RRP: £108.00Booksplease Price: £33.15An intricate text filled to the brim with connotations of desire, home, and childhood-nests, food, beds, birds, fairies, bits of string, ribbon, goodnight kisses, appetites sated and denied-Reading... -
Mozart in Motion: His Work and His World in Pieces by Patrick Mackie
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'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...