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Photography and Belief by David Levi Strauss
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £8.00In this exploration of contemporary photography, David Levi Strauss questions the concept that "seeing is believing."Identifying a recent shift in the dominance of photography, Strauss looks at the... -
Professor Andersen's Night by Dag Solstad
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.46It is Christmas Eve, and 55-year-old Professor Pal Andersen is alone, drinking coffee and cognac in his living room. Lost in thought, he looks out of the window and sees a man strangle a woman in the... -
Straight Life: The Story Of Art Pepper by Art Pepper
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43Art Pepper was described as the greatest alto-saxophonist of the post-Charlie Parker generation. Straight Life, originally narrated on tape to his wife Laurie, is an explosive work chronicling his... -
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia by Rebecca West
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.97'Impossible to put down' Observer'One of the great books of the century' Times Literary SupplementRebecca West's epic masterpiece not only provides deep insight into the former country of Yugoslavia;... -
LOVE MAGIC POWER DANGER BLISS: Yoko Ono and the Avant-Garde Diaspora Paul Morley 9780571379248
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.61Art is my life and my life is art . . .The story of the twentieth-century avant-garde is a story of resistance, of the outsider, of strangeness, of individual freedom, of rejecting the ordinary and... -
Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany by Uwe Schutte
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Highly stimulating ... Kraftwerk is a pleasure to read' Jon Savage, New StatesmanThe story of the phenomenon that is Kraftwerk, and how they revolutionised our cultural landscape'We are not artists... -
Trickster Makes This World: How Disruptive Imagination Creates Culture. by Lewis Hyde
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.32Trickster disrupted the world around him, and in doing so he reshaped it. Playful, mischievous, subversive, amoral, tricksters are a great bother to have around, but they are also indispensable... -
West of West: Travels along the edge of America by Sarah Lee
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.51Swim out into the Pacific and look back to the shore. To the couple kissing in the hot afternoon, and the young girl rollerskating along the front, and the family setting up camp on the soft, warm... -
The Case for Love: Reflections on a Medical Career by A K Benjamin
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.11An exhilarating journey into the unfathomable depths of the human mind, from the acclaimed author of Let Me Not Be Mad.What does it take to care for a stranger? Really care.The Case for Love is a... -
The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews by Adam Biles 9781805300038
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38Shakespeare and Company, Paris, is one of the world's most iconic and beautiful bookshops. Located on the banks of the Seine, opposite Notre-Dame, it's long been a meeting place for anglophone... -
The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews Adam Biles 9781837260690
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Shakespeare and Company, Paris, is one of the world's most iconic and beautiful bookshops. Located on the banks of the Seine, opposite Notre-Dame, it's long been a meeting place for anglophone... -
Art Can Help by Robert Adams
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.24A collection of inspiring essays by the photographer Robert Adams, who advocates the meaningfulness of art in a disillusioned society In Art Can Help, the internationally acclaimed American... -
Wreck: Gericault's Raft and the Art of Being Lost at Sea Tom de Freston 9781783786633
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16An artist's obsession with Gericault's monumental painting The Raft of the Medusa, and an intensely personal reckoning that delves deep inside the making of an artwork. Artist Tom de Freston has... -
Selfish, Shallow and Self-Absorbed by Meghan Daum
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.96One of the most provocative and talked-about books of the year, Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed is the stunning collection exploring one of society's most vexing taboos. One of the main topics of... -
More Matter: Essays And Criticism by John Updike 9780140289701
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.03More Matter is a collection of John Updike's best-loved critical essays and reflections.From the journals of John Cheever to the Queen of England, More Matter is a lively discussion on contemporary... -
Art Essays: A Collection by Alexandra Kingston-Reese 9781609388119
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £20.18Art Essays is a passionate collection of the best essays on the visual arts written by contemporary novelists. This vibrant and diverse selection includes essays by award-winning writers such as... -
Paris by Julian Green
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'The most bizarre and delicious of travel books' Observer Julian Green was born to American parents in Paris in 1900, and spent most of his life in the French capital. Paris is an extraordinary,... -
Bourdain: In Stories by Laurie Woolever
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Powerful and profound' Esquire 'Unbridled and unapologetic' Vogue When Anthony Bourdain died in 2018, fans around the globe came together to celebrate the life of... -
The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial by Maggie Nelson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Selected as a Book of the Year 2017 in the Guardian'Maggie Nelson's short, singular books feel pretty light in the hand... But in the head and the heart, they seem unfathomably vast, their cleverness... -
On Grief And Reason: Essays by Joseph Brodsky
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51In this richly diverse collection of essays, Joseph Brodsky casts a reflective eye on his experiences of early life in Russia and exile in America. With dazzling erudition, he explores subjects as... -
Understanding a Photograph by John Berger
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95John Berger's writings on photography are some of the most original of the twentieth century. This selection contains many groundbreaking essays and previously uncollected pieces written for... -
The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 by Alistair Horne
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 is the second book of Alistair Horne's trilogy, which includes The Fall of Paris and To Lose a Battle and tells the story of the great crises of the rivalry between... -
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov 9781857151886
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.74An autobiographical volume which recounts the story of Nabokov's first forty years up to his departure from Europe for America at the outset of World War Two. It tells of his emergence as a writer,... -
Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives by Brian Dillon 9780141044057
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47'It's so good that, after reading it, I needed a lie-down' - Hilary Mantel, Guardian Books of the YearBrian Dillon looks at nine prominent hypochondriacs - James Boswell, Charlotte Bronte, Charles... -
Let Me Not Be Mad: A Story of Unravelling Minds by A K Benjamin
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Let Me Not Be Mad is an immersive, virtuosic and provocative investigation of madness, love and self-destruction that defies categorisation. 'Exhilarating ... dazzling ... a miraculous feat'... -
Wreck: A Story of Art and Survival by Tom de Freston
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31An artist's obsession with Gericault's monumental painting The Raft of the Medusa, and an intensely personal reckoning that delves deep inside the making of an artwork. Artist Tom de Freston has... -
Hermit in Paris by Italo Calvino
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Italo Calvino once said that he preferred to give false details about his biography since he felt that even the genuine data of a writer's life shed no light on the creative work. But this volume of... -
The Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in the 1000 Best Albums by Brian Morton
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.68Richard Cook and Brian Morton's Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in 1001 Best Albums is an indispensible guide to the recordings that every fan should know. Richard Cook and Brian... -
The Lost Pianos of Siberia: A Sunday Times Paperback of 2021 by Sophy Roberts
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15A SUNDAY TIMES BEST PAPERBACK OF 2021* Shortlisted for the 2021 Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year prize* A critically-acclaimed Sunday Times, Spectator and Independent Book of 2020* Now with... -
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Retreat: The Risks and Rewards of Stepping Back from the World by Nat Segnit 9781529111309 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £4.09Retreat takes us on a stunning journey through the many ways humans step back from daily life, both in today's world and in our past.'Open-minded, elegantly written and comprehensive' Daily... -
On Photography by Susan Sontag 9780141035789
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject.Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues... -
On Photography by Susan Sontag
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.48'The most original and illuminating study of the subject.' The New YorkerPhotographs are everywhere. From high art to family albums to legal evidence, they capture and document the world around us... -
Impossible Owls: Essays from the Ends of the World by Brian Phillips
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Hilarious, nimble, and thoroughly illuminating' Colson Whitehead, author of The Underground Railroad'Recalls the work of John Jeremiah Sullivan and the late David Foster... -
Retreat: The Risks and Rewards of Stepping Back from the World by Nat Segnit
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.37'Reads at times like Eat Pray Love as written by David Foster Wallace. A rich and almost eerily timely book' William Fiennes, author of The Snow GeeseStepping back from the world is an ancient human... -
Retreat: The Risks and Rewards of Stepping Back from the World by Nat Segnit 9781529111309
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Retreat takes us on a stunning journey through the many ways humans step back from daily life, both in today's world and in our past.'Open-minded, elegantly written and comprehensive' Daily... -
Lois on the Loose by Lois Pryce
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Young and beautiful, Lois Pryce was a rising star at the BBC. Unbeknownst to her co-workers, Lois lived a parallel life as a biker babe with an overwhelming sense of wanderlust. So she packed in her... -
The Restless Supermarket by Ivan Vladislavic
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.62It is 1993, and Aubrey Tearle's world is shutting down. He has recently retired from a lifetime of proofreading telephone directories. His favorite neighborhood haunt in Johannesburg, the Cafe... -
The Abundance Annie Dillard 9781782117735
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Annie Dillard has spent a lifetime examining the world around her with eyes wide open, drinking in all things intensely and relentlessly. Whether observing a sublime lunar eclipse or a moth consumed... -
The Paper Lantern Will Burns 9781474622028
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £6.40'Will Burns is a soulful English poet of the kind we don't make enough of' MAX PORTER'Hugely affecting and timely' LUKE TURNER'A boldly struck chord, one that contains many of the dissonances, but... -
The Paper Lantern Will Burns 9781474622035
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78When future generations come to ask themselves when England lost it and what it lost, they will pick up The Paper Lantern' Michael Hofmann, TLS'A remarkable achievement in a book that feels at once...