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Issam Kourbaj by Guy Haywood 9781904561729
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.38Issam Kourbaj was born and grew up in Syria before settling in Cambridge in 1990. Following the uprising in Syria in 2011, Kourbaj has been a constant creative witness to the continuing conflict in... -
Shapeshifters: A Doctor's Notes on Medicine & Human Change Gavin Francis 9781781257746
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64'Stylish and exhilarating... from a wide-ranging mind and a profound humanity... inspiring' Hilary Mantel 'A wonderful series of meditations - clinical, anthropological, literary and deeply humane... -
Modern Poetry Diane Seuss 9781804271599
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Diane Seuss's signature voice-audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its attitude-has become one of the most original in contemporary poetry. Her latest collection takes its... -
On Mysticism: The Experience of Ecstasy Simon Critchley 9781800816947
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64'A significant and courageous invitation to think again about the kinds of thinking that matter; the kinds of thinking that keep us awake' Rowan Williams Mysticism has been called 'experience at... -
Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media into the Twenty-first Century by Marina Warner
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.48Phantasmagoria explores ideas of spirit and soul since the Enlightenment; it traces metaphors that have traditionally conveyed the presence of immaterial forces, and reveals how such pagan and... -
Unfinished Business by Michael Bracewell
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £7.11UNFINISHED BUSINESS focuses on an ordinary suburban office worker, fundamentally weak but always keeping his eyes fixed on some horizon where a heightened, romantic, better world must surely exist. ... -
Animal Stories Kate Zambreno 9781398556232
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50A curious exploration of mortality, alienation, boredom, surveillance and how we regard ourselves among the animals.'Few human animals have Zambreno's baleful honesty, insight, or relish for comedy,... -
It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track by Ian Penman 9781910695876
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23When all else fails, when our compass is broken, there is one thing some of us have come to rely on: music really can give us a sense of something like home. With It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track,... -
The Employees: A workplace novel of the 22nd century by Olga Ravn 9780811234825
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.92Now in paperback, The Employees chronicles the fate of the interstellar Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members complain about their daily tasks in a series of staff reports and memos... -
Night Train A. L. Snijders 9780811228565
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86Gorgeously translated by Lydia Davis, the miniature stories of A. L. Snijders might concern a lost shoe, a visit with a bat, fears of travel, a dream of a man who has lost a glass eye: uniting them... -
Long Live the Post Horn! by Vigdis Hjorth
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88Ellinor, a 35-year-old media consultant, has not been feeling herself; she's not been feeling much at all lately. Far beyond jaded, she picks through an old diary and fails to recognise the woman in... -
Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, 3: 1935-1938 by Walter Benjamin 9780674019812
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £25.12Radical critic of a European civilization plunging into darkness, yet commemorator of the humane traditions of the old bourgeoisie--such was Walter Benjamin in the later 1930s. This volume, the third... -
How to Build a Library by Ian Patterson 9781474618984
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25'A magnificent achievement . . . Hugely recommended' STEPHEN FRY'I simply adored this book' JILLY COOPER'Will send you rushing back to your bookshelves' DAVID NICHOLLS'A pleasure' DEBORAH LEVYThis is... -
Wish I Was Here by M. John Harrison
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 'This dazzling anti-memoir is nothing less than a portrait of a writer with a beautiful mind. Harrison turns over what it takes to simultaneously be present to everyday... -
![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... -
Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum 9780674417076
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £22.02The story of writing in the digital age is every bit as messy as the ink-stained rags that littered the floor of Gutenberg's print shop or the hot molten lead of the Linotype machine. During the... -
Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form by Sianne Ngai 9780674278745
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £16.19Christian Gauss Award ShortlistWinner of the ASAP Book PrizeA Literary Hub Book of the Year"Makes the case that the gimmick...is of tremendous critical value...Lies somewhere between critical theory... -
Index, A History of the by Dennis Duncan
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95*A TIME, New Yorker, Financial Times and History Today Book of the Year*'Hilarious' Sam Leith'I loved this book' Susie Dent''Witty and affectionate' Lynne TrussPerfect for book lovers, a delightful... -
Black and Blue: The Bruising Passion of Camera Lucida, La Jete, Sans soleil, and Hiroshima mon amour by Carol Mavor
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £21.62Audacious and genre-defying, Black and Blue is steeped in melancholy, in the feeling of being blue, or, rather, black and blue, with all the literality of bruised flesh. Roland Barthes and Marcel... -
The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise by Olivia Laing 9781324110385
Booksplease Price: £12.55In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an eighteenth-century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a crucial question for our age: Who gets to live... -
The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933-1973 by Mark Greif 9780691146393
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.60In a midcentury American cultural episode forgotten today, intellectuals of all schools shared a belief that human nature was under threat. The immediate result was a glut of dense, abstract books on... -
The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise by Olivia Laing 9780393882001
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £17.69In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an eighteenth-century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a crucial question for our age: Who gets to live... -
Berlin Childhood around 1900 by Walter Benjamin 9780674022225
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £17.08Begun in Poveromo, Italy, in 1932, and extensively revised in 1938, Berlin Childhood around 1900 remained unpublished during Walter Benjamin's lifetime, one of his "large-scale defeats." Now... -
The Promise by Silvina Ocampo 9780872867710
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.41Kirkus Reviews calls The Promise one of the Best Books of Fiction, and of Literature in Translation, of the year!* Voted one of the Big Fall Books from Indies by Publishers Weekly & LitHub's Most... -
Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights by Marina Warner
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £17.49Our foremost theorist of myth, fairytales, and folktales explores the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly, objects speak, dreams reveal hidden truths, and genies grant prophetic wishes...