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Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation by Professor John Guillory 9780226830599
Booksplease Price: £25.38An enlarged edition to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of John Guillory's formative text on the literary canon. Since its publication in 1993, John Guillory's Cultural Capital has been a signal... -
Helen of Nowhere Makenna Goodman 9781804272206
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In the middle of the countryside, a realtor is showing a disgraced professor around an idyllic house. She speaks not only about the home's many wonderful qualities but about its previous owner, the... -
The Last Samurai Reread Lee Konstantinou 9780231185837
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.75Considered by some to be the greatest novel of the twenty-first century, Helen DeWitt's brilliant The Last Samurai tells the story of Sibylla, an Oxford-educated single mother raising a possible... -
Corey Fah Does Social Mobility by Isabel Waidner 9780241632536
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.35The radical, joyful follow-up to the Goldsmiths Prize-winning Sterling Karat Gold.This is the story of Corey Fah, a writer on the cusp of a windfall, courtesy of the Social Evils prize committee, for... -
The Oak and the Larch: A Forest History of Russia and Its Empires by Sophie Pinkham 9781324036685
Booksplease Price: £22.41From the Baltic to the Pacific, from the Arctic to the steppes of Central Asia, Russia's forests account for nearly one-fifth of the world's wooded lands. The Oak and the Larch is the first-ever... -
Odd Affinities: Virginia Woolf’s Shadow Genealogies by Professor Elizabeth Abel 9780226825694
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £96.05A new reading of Virginia Woolf in the context of "long modernism." In recent decades, Virginia Woolf's contribution to literary history has been located primarily within a female tradition... -
The Last Samurai Reread by Lee Konstantinou 9780231185820
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £54.15Considered by some to be the greatest novel of the twenty-first century, Helen DeWitt's brilliant The Last Samurai tells the story of Sibylla, an Oxford-educated single mother raising a possible... -
How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History Josephine Quinn 9781526605221
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Ancient Greece and Rome have long been considered the parents of Western civilisation. But the ancient world was a very wide one, of conversation, commerce and theft, sex, war and enslavement. It was... -
Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life by Agnes Callard 9781631498466
Booksplease Price: £26.36Socrates has been hiding in plain sight. We call him the father of Western philosophy, but what exactly are his philosophical views? He is famous for his humility, but readers often find him arrogant... -
The Right to Sex: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Amia Srinivasan 9781526612540
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER BLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 Essential lessons on the world we live in, from one of our greatest young thinkers - a guide to what everybody is talking about today ... -
Corey Fah Does Social Mobility by Isabel Waidner 9780241998885
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.81SHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD SCIENCE FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024A radical, joyful novel from Goldsmiths Prize-winning author Isabel WaidnerIn flight from a traumatic rural childhood,... -
Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy with Kids by Scott Hershovitz
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Witty and learned ... Hershovitz intertwines parenting and philosophy, recounting his spirited arguments with his kids about infinity, morality, and the existence of God' Jordan Ellenberg, author of... -
The Lying Life of Adults: A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER by Elena Ferrante
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73"AN INCENDIARY PORTRAIT OF THE VOLCANIC CURRENTS OF SEX AND BETRAYAL."-Mail on Sunday THE INTERNATIONAL No. 1 BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF MY BRILLIANT FRIEND A BBC2 Between The Covers Book Club... -
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38"AN INCENDIARY PORTRAIT OF THE VOLCANIC CURRENTS OF SEX AND BETRAYAL."-Mail on Sunday THE INTERNATIONAL No. 1 BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF MY BRILLIANT FRIEND A BBC2 Between The Covers Book Club... -
The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism by Sarah Chihaya 9780231194570
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.57Like few other works of contemporary literature, Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels found an audience of passionate and engaged readers around the world. Inspired by Ferrante's intense depiction of... -
Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life Agnes Callard 9780241476192
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.67From philosopher Agnes Callard, one of today's leading public intellectuals, comes a new and vibrant understanding of Socrates, his work, and his unique approach to learningThe ancient Greek... -
Home/Land: A Memoir of Departure and Return by Rebecca Mead 9781611856606
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.23When the New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead relocated to her birth city, London, with her family in the summer of 2018, she was both fleeing the political situation in America and seeking to expose her... -
The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism by Sarah Chihaya
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £66.34Like few other works of contemporary literature, Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels found an audience of passionate and engaged readers around the world. Inspired by Ferrante's intense depiction of... -
Quarterlife by Devika Rege 9780349705132
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.80One of The New Yorker's Best Books of 2024'A fearless achievement' The New Yorker'Blazingly original . . . Fiercely intelligent . . . Rege is at the forefront of a new generation of authors' Vauhini... -
Home/Land: A Memoir of Departure and Return by Rebecca Mead
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31When the New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead relocated to her birth city, London, with her family in the summer of 2018, she was both fleeing the political situation in America and seeking to expose her... -
Love's Work by Gillian Rose 9780241645499
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.03'This small book contains multitudes' Marina Warner'For those who have suffered for and in love, this may prove to be one of the most useful books they will ever read' Nicholas Lezard, GuardianAn... -
The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins by Stefanos Geroulanos 9781324091455
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.75Books about the origins of humanity dominate best-seller lists, while national newspapers present breathless accounts of new archaeological findings and speculate about what those findings tell us... -
Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age by Timothy Bewes
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Everywhere today, we are urged to "connect." Literary critics celebrate a new "honesty" in contemporary fiction or call for a return to "realism." Yet such rhetoric is strikingly reminiscent of... -
The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle Anna Shechtman 9780063275485
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42"A surprising and ambitious investigation of language and the varied ways women resist the paradoxes of patriarchy both on and off the page."-New York TimesCombining the soul-baring confessional of... -
The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle by Anna Shechtman 9780063275478
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.05"A surprising and ambitious investigation of language and the varied ways women resist the paradoxes of patriarchy both on and off the page."-New York TimesCombining the soul-baring confessional of... -
Speaking in Tongues by J. M. Coetzee 9781324098560
Booksplease Price: £13.34Language, historically speaking, has always been slippery. Two dictionaries provide two different maps of the universe: which one is true, or are both false? Speaking in Tongues-taking the form of a... -
Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age by Timothy Bewes 9780231191609
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.46Everywhere today, we are urged to "connect." Literary critics celebrate a new "honesty" in contemporary fiction or call for a return to "realism." Yet such rhetoric is strikingly reminiscent of... -
Quarterlife by Devika Rege 9780349705156
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02**Winner of the 2024 MATHRUBHUMI BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD and the 2024 RAMNATH GOENKA SAHITYA SAMAAN AWAWRD FOR BEST DEBUT FICTION / Shortlisted for the 2023 ATTA GALATTA PRIZE FOR FICTION and the 2023... -
Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life by Agnes Callard 9781324123415
RRP: £12.50Booksplease Price: £10.39Socrates has been hiding in plain sight. We call him the father of Western philosophy, but what exactly are his philosophical views? He is famous for his humility, but readers often find him arrogant... -
I Fear My Pain Interests You: A Novel by Stephanie LaCava
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24Margot is the child of renowned musicians and the product of a particularly punky upbringing. Burnt-out from the burden of expectation and the bad end of the worst relationship yet, she leaves New... -
Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939 by Thomas Doherty 9780231163934
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £22.08Between 1933 and 1939, representations of the Nazis and the full meaning of Nazism came slowly to Hollywood, growing more ominous and distinct only as the decade wore on. Recapturing what ordinary... -
Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939 by Thomas Doherty 9780231163927
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £85.67Between 1933 and 1939, representations of the Nazis and the full meaning of Nazism came slowly to Hollywood, growing more ominous and distinct only as the decade wore on. Recapturing what ordinary... -
Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study by Professor John Guillory
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £22.99A sociological history of literary study-both as a discipline and as a profession. As the humanities in higher education struggle with a labor crisis and with declining enrollments, the travails of... -
Heaven by Mieko Kawakami
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2022From the bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs and international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami comes a sharp and illuminating novel about a... -
Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study by Professor John Guillory 9780226821290
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £82.26A sociological history of literary study-both as a discipline and as a profession. As the humanities in higher education struggle with a labor crisis and with declining enrollments, the travails of...