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Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico by Javier Marias 9780811218580
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.53"It all happened because of Elvis Presley." Elvis, down south of the border to film a movie, has insisted his producers hire a proper Spaniard so that he can pronounce his few lines in Spanish with a... -
Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal by Tim Parks
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20'Parks...offers detailed cultural observation, witty yet eagle-eyed, of what makes Italians so Italian' The TimesHow does Italy really work?When Valeria travels from hot, dusty Basilicata to begin... -
Hotel Milano: Booker shortlisted author of Europa by Tim Parks 9781529919639
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66From the bestselling, Booker-shortlisted chronicler of Italy, a classic novel about a man's emotional reckoning in a changed world far from homeFrank's reclusive existence in a leafy part of London... -
Where I'm Reading From: The Changing World of Books by Tim Parks
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.98Should you finish every book you start?How has your family influenced the way you read?What is literary style?How is the Nobel Prize like the World Cup?Why do you hate the book your friend likes?Is... -
The Distance to China: Twentieth-Century Italian Travel Narratives of Patriotism, Commitment and Disillusion (1898–1985) by Linetto Basilone 9781789975109
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $55.91"As Italy tends to be studied increasingly in transnational and transcultural perspective, there is an ever-greater need for studies that explore the country's relationship with other geographical... -
Your Face Tomorrow: Fever and Spear by Javier Marías 9780811216128
Booksplease Price: $29.81Part spy novel, part romance, part Henry James, Your Face Tomorrow is a wholly remarkable display of the immense gifts of Javier Marias. With Fever and Spear, Volume One of his unfolding novel Your... -
Mr Geography Tim Parks 9781787304536
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $12.00Daniel Burrow once began a beautiful walk from Konstanz to Como with Julia, mercurial professor of literature, mother to two of his pupils, married, and the love of his life.After years of their... -
St. Paul: A Screenplay by Pier Paolo Pasolini 9781836740384
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.62Presented here for the first time in English is a remarkable screenplay about the apostle Paul by Pier Paolo Pasolini, legendary filmmaker, novelist, poet, and radical intellectual activist... -
Your Face Tomorrow: Dance and Dream by Javier Marias 9780811216562
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $29.45Your Face Tomorrow, Javier Marias's dazzling unfolding magnum opus, is a novel in three parts, which began with Volume One: Fever and Spear. Described as a "brilliant dark novel" (Scotland on... -
A History of Women's Writing in Italy by Letizia Panizza 9780521570886
RRP: $140.61Booksplease Price: $135.57A History of Women's Writing in Italy offers a comprehensive historical account of writing by women in Italy. Covering writing from the Middle Ages to the present day, it moves away from narrow... -
Thomas and Mary: A Love Story by Tim Parks 9781784702007
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.81'Somehow it seemed to him the only thing that would really solve the problem would be to return to the sea and find the old ring with their names and the wedding date engraved inside, in 22-carat... -
A History of Women's Writing in Italy by Letizia Panizza
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $56.30A History of Women's Writing in Italy offers a comprehensive historical account of writing by women in Italy. Covering writing from the Middle Ages to the present day, it moves away from narrow... -
Pasolini’s Lasting Impressions: Death, Eros, and Literary Enterprise in the Opus of Pier Paolo Pasolini by Ryan Calabretta-Sajder 9781683930204
Booksplease Price: $51.34Noted as a 'civil poet' by Alberto Moravia, Pier Paolo Pasolini was a creative and philosophical genius whose works challenged generations of Western Europeans and Americans to reconsider not only... -
Written Lives by Javier Marias 9780811216890
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $13.22In addition to his own busy career as "one of Europe's most intriguing contemporary writers" (TLS), Javier Marias is also the translator into Spanish of works by Hardy, Stevenson, Conrad, Faulkner,... -
Pasolini's Lasting Impressions: Death, Eros, and Literary Enterprise in the Opus of Pier Paolo Pasolini by Ryan Calabretta-Sajder 9781683930181
Booksplease Price: $133.40Noted as a 'civil poet' by Alberto Moravia, Pier Paolo Pasolini was a creative and philosophical genius whose works challenged generations of Western Europeans and Americans to reconsider not only... -
Out of My Head: On the Trail of Consciousness by Tim Parks
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66Is my experience real?Or just a movie in my head?Am I no more than a super computer? You are your brain, neuroscientists tell us. Everything happens in there. Yet even the most sophisticated brain... -
Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac Barry Gifford 9780857867643
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91'Jack Kerouac died in 1969 at the age of forty-seven . . . Most of his friends survived him. Our idea was to seek them out and talk with them about Jack's life and their own lives. The final result,... -
I Am No One Patrick Flanery 9781782397984
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60Jeremy O'Keefe, a middle-aged Professor, returns to his native New York after a decade teaching at Oxford, and quickly settles into a lonely rhythm of unfulfilling lectures and long, silent evenings... -
Can you hear me?: A gripping holiday read set during a scorching Italian summer Elena Varvello 9781473654891
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75'A novel of crime and darkness that eschews straightforward domestic noir' Guardian'Move over Ferrante, there's a new Elena in town' Independent'There is much beauty and sadness in this slim novel'...