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The Wild Party by Art Spiegelman
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.67"Spiegelman's drawings are like demonic woodcuts: every angle, line, and curve jumps out at you. Stylishness and brutishness are in perfect accord." - The New York Times Art Spiegelman's sinister... -
Soft Weapons: Autobiography in Transit Gillian Whitlock 9780226895260
Booksplease Price: £26.68Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran,Marjane Satrapi's comics, and "Baghdad Blogger" Salam Pax's Internet diary are just a few examples of the new face of autobiography in an age of migration,... -
Soft Weapons: Autobiography in Transit by Gillian Whitlock 9780226895253
Booksplease Price: £91.99Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran,Marjane Satrapi's comics, and "Baghdad Blogger" Salam Pax's Internet diary are just a few examples of the new face of autobiography in an age of migration,... -
Women Without Men by Shahrnush Parsipur 9780241792513
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.05Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2026The internationally acclaimed masterpiece from one of Iran's most influential writers - a powerful and essential tale of female freedom 'The best... -
Coming Of Age Around The World: A Multicultural Anthology by Faith Adiele 9781595580801
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.78The editors of this anthology have set out to chronicle the global quest for identity, making a strong case for the personal and political importance of sharing our stories as they consider whether... -
The Performance of Listening in Postcolonial Francophone Culture by Jennifer Solheim
Booksplease Price: £34.03The Performance of Listening in Postcolonial Francophone Culture argues that globalized media has allowed for efficient transmission of transnational culture, and in turn, our everyday experiences... -
Reading Lessons in Seeing: Mirrors, Masks, and Mazes in the Autobiographical Graphic Novel by Michael A. Chaney 9781496818508
Booksplease Price: £31.89Literary scholar Michael A. Chaney examines graphic novels to illustrate that in form and function they inform readers on how they ought to be read. His arguments result in an innovative analysis of... -
Contemporary Arab Women Writers: Cultural Expression in Context by Anastasia Valassopoulos 9781138010345
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59This book engages with contemporary Arab women writers from Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon and Algeria. In spite of Edward Said's groundbreaking reappraisal of the uneven relationship between the West and... -
Drawing from Life: Memory and Subjectivity in Comic Art by Jane Tolmie 9781496802644
Booksplease Price: £31.89Autobiography has seen enormous expansions and challenges over the past decades. One of these expansions has been in comics, and it is an expansion that pushes back against any postmodern notion of... -
Fatherland: A Family History by Nina Bunjevac
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.13Standing alongside Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and Joe Sacco's Palestine, Nina Bunjevac's Fatherland renders the searing history of the Balkans in the twentieth century through the experiences of... -
Terms and Conditions by R. Sikoryak
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.10For his newest project, R. Sikoryak tackles the monstrously and infamously dense legal document, iTunes Terms and Conditions, the contract everyone agrees to but no one reads. In a word for... -
Fiction in the Age of Risk by Tony Hughes-d'Aeth
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24When Ulrich Beck theorised a 'Risk Society' (Risikogesellschaft) in 1986, the threat of global annihilation through nuclear war remained uppermost in the minds of his readership. Three decades on,... -
Representation and Memory in Graphic Novels by Golnar Nabizadeh 9780367670795
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book analyses the relationship between comics and cultural memory. By focussing on a range of landmark comics from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the discussion draws attention to the... -
Comics (1964–2024) by Anne Lemonnier 9780500028407
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £28.90A brilliantly illustrated survey of the international comic book landscape over the past sixty years. Published to accompany a major exhibition at Centre Pompidou, Paris in May 2024, this is a timely... -
Shenzhen: A Travelogue From China by Guy Delisle 9781787331709
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.30Guy Delisle's work for a French animation studio requires him to oversee production at various Asian studios on the grim frontiers of free trade. His employer puts him up for months at a time in... -
Punk Revolution!: An Oral History of Punk Rock Politics and Activism John Malkin 9798881807542
Booksplease Price: £20.90The most wide-ranging and provocative look at punk rock as a social change movement told through firsthand accountsPunk rock has been on the front lines of activism since exploding on the scene in... -
World Without End: The #1 International Bestseller Christophe Blain 9780241661949
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.65THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER* A Financial Times summer reads pick*Is this the end of the world? Perhaps not. In this eye-opening, hopeful and hugely entertaining bestseller, a climate expert takes... -
Persuasive Acts: Women's Rhetorics in the Twenty-First Century by Shari J. Stenberg
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £24.13In June 2015, Bree Newsome scaled the flagpole in front of South Carolina's state capitol and removed the Confederate flag. The following month, the Confederate flag was permanently removed from the... -
The Veil: Women Writers on Its History, Lore, and Politics by Jennifer Heath 9780520255180
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.70This groundbreaking volume, written entirely by women, examines the vastly misunderstood and multilayered world of the veil. Veiling - of women, of men, and of sacred places and objects - has existed... -
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel 9781529116168
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.67DISCOVER the BESTSELLING GRAPHIC MEMOIR behind the Olivier Award nominated musical.'A sapphic graphic treat' The TimesA moving and darkly humorous family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison... -
The Loneliest Revolution: A Memoir of Solidarity and Struggle in Iran by Ali Mirsepassi
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £19.03A memoir of life in Iran in the tumultuous years leading up to the 1979 revolution'Offers an intimate window onto the Iranian revolution just when we need to be thinking about it the most' - Marjane... -
The Penguin Book of Migration Literature: Departures, Arrivals, Generations, Returns by Dohra Ahmad
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Spanning a period of over three hundred years and twenty-five countries, The Penguin Book of Migration Literature is a wide-ranging anthology that brings together well-known authors such as Mohsin... -
Creating Comics: A Writer's and Artist's Guide and Anthology by Dr Chris Gavaler 9781350092815
Booksplease Price: £31.92For creative writers and artists, comics provide unique opportunities for expression - but unique challenges, too. Creating Comics brings together in one volume an authoritative guide to the creative... -
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.42DISCOVER the BESTSELLING GRAPHIC MEMOIR behind the Olivier Award nominated musical.'A sapphic graphic treat' The TimesA moving and darkly humorous family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison... -
The Loneliest Revolution: A Memoir of Solidarity and Struggle in Iran by Ali Mirsepassi 9781399511414
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £82.71A memoir of life in Iran in the tumultuous years leading up to the 1979 revolution'Offers an intimate window onto the Iranian revolution just when we need to be thinking about it the most' - Marjane... -
Women Write Iran: Nostalgia and Human Rights from the Diaspora by Nima Naghibi 9780816683826
RRP: £79.00Booksplease Price: £64.12Women Write Iran is the first full-length study on life narratives by Iranian women in the diaspora. Nima Naghibi investigates auto/biographical narratives across genres-including memoirs,... -
Punk Revolution!: An Oral History of Punk Rock Politics and Activism by John Malkin
Booksplease Price: £27.90The most wide-ranging and provocative look at punk rock as a social change movement told through firsthand accounts.Punk rock has been on the frontlines of activism since exploding on the scene in... -
Women Write Iran: Nostalgia and Human Rights from the Diaspora by Nima Naghibi 9780816683840
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01Women Write Iran is the first full-length study on life narratives by Iranian women in the diaspora. Nima Naghibi investigates auto/biographical narratives across genres-including memoirs,... -
Babe in the Woods: Or, the Art of Getting Lost Julie Heffernan 9781643755595
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.50From acclaimed painter Julie Heffernan, a wholly original and visually stunning four-color graphic work of autofiction about a young mother who-lost overnight on a hike with her infant... -
One Thousand and One Nights by Hanan Al-Shaykh
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95The Arab world's greatest folk stories re-imagined by the acclaimed Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh 'Magical ... bursting with jinnis and mischief' Donna Tartt 'One of the finest writers of her... -
The Republic of Imagination by Azar Nafisi
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15From the author of the bestselling memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran comes a powerful and passionate case for the vital role of fiction today.Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her... -
Mr. Watson's Chickens by Jarrett Dapier
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.10Interrupting Chicken meets Click, Clack, Moo in this zany classic-in-the-making! With rollicking rhythms, nonsensical refrains, and too many chickens to count, this modern classic will inspire... -
Breaking the Frames: Populism and Prestige in Comics Studies by Marc Singer
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2019Comics studies has reached a crossroads. Graphic novels have never received more attention and legitimation from scholars, but new canons and new critical... -
The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel by Jan Baetens 9781316622209
Booksplease Price: £32.74The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel provides the complete history of the graphic novel from its origins in the nineteenth century to its rise and startling success in the twentieth and... -
Forgiveness: The Story of Eva Kor, Survivor of The Auschwitz Twin Experiments by Joseph E. Lee 9781684351787
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56In March of 1944, at age 10, little Eva was arrested with her entire family, including her twin sister, Miriam, for the "crime" of being Jewish. Nazis loaded Eva and her family into a cattle car with... -
Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics by Hillary L. Chute 9780231150637
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.55Some of the most acclaimed books of the twenty-first century are autobiographical comics by women. Aline Kominsky-Crumb is a pioneer of the autobiographical form, showing women's everyday lives,... -
Freedom Hospital: A Syrian Story by Hamid Sulaiman
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.02'With the intimacy of a person who has lived the tragedy himself but with the restraint of a true artist, Hamid Sulaiman tells a powerful tale of Syria's descent into cataclysm while reminding us of... -
Imagine Wanting Only This by Kristen Radtke 9781787330504
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.95Imagine Wanting Only This is a haunting graphic memoir about leaving, and those left behind.After the sudden death of a beloved uncle, Kristen becomes obsessed with abandoned places - derelict... -
Girls and Their Comics: Finding a Female Voice in Comic Book Narrative by Jacqueline Danziger-Russell 9780810883758
Booksplease Price: £80.33In America, comics and comic books have often been associated with adolescent male fantasy-muscle-bound superheroes and scantily clad women. Nonetheless, comics have also been read and enjoyed by... -
The Arab of the Future: Volume 1: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984 - A Graphic Memoir by Riad Sattouf
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.25VOLUME 1 IN THE UNFORGETTABLE STORY OF AN EXTRAORDINARY CHILDHOODThe Arab of the Future tells the unforgettable story of Riad Sattouf's childhood, spent in the shadows of three dictators - Muammar...