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Marcovaldo by Italo Calvino
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61Marcovaldo is an enchanting collection of twenty stories that are both melancholy and funny, farce and fantasy. Calvino charts the struggles of an Italian peasant to reconcile country habits with... -
Calm: Vintage Minis Tim Parks 9781784872595
RRP: $11.68Booksplease Price: $9.46How do we find calm in our frantic modern world? Tim Parks - lifelong sceptic of all things spiritual - finds himself on a Buddhist meditation retreat trying to answer this very question. With brutal... -
Mr Palomar by Italo Calvino
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61Mr Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose chief activity is looking at things. He is seeking knowledge; 'it is only after you have come to know the surface of things that you can venture to seek... -
The Road to San Giovanni by Italo Calvino
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25In five elegant autobiographical meditations Calvino delves into his past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a lifelong obsession with the cinema and fighting in the Italian... -
An Iliad: A Story of War Alessandro Baricco 9781847671035
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25Alessandro Baricco re-creates the siege of Troy through the voices of 21 Homeric characters. Sacrificing none of Homer's panoramic scope, Baricco forgoes Homer's detachment and admits us to realms of... -
Translating Style: A Literary Approach to Translation - A Translation Approach to Literature Tim Parks 9781905763047
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.40Arising from a dissatisfaction with blandly general or abstrusely theoretical approaches to translation, this book sets out to show, through detailed and lively analysis, what it really means to... -
If On A Winter's Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $13.61A masterwork by the incomparable, genre-defying, wondrous Italo Calvino. You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But there is a printer's... -
The Story of Manu by Allasani Peddana 9780674427761
RRP: $58.40Booksplease Price: $50.51The literary jewel of Telegu civilization, translated for the first time into any language.Manucaritramu, or The Story of Manu, by the early sixteenth-century poet Allasani Peddana, is the definitive... -
HOPE: The Autobiography Author 241768 9780241764107
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $36.93The groundbreaking, intimate and inspiring memoir from Pope Francis.Pope Francis originally intended this exceptional book to appear only after his death, but the needs of our times and the 2025... -
The History of Akbar, Volume 6 by Abu'l-Fazl
RRP: $58.40Booksplease Price: $50.51The exemplar of Indo-Persian history, at once a biography of Emperor Akbar and a chronicle of sixteenth-century Mughal India.Akbarnama, or The History of Akbar, by Abu'l-Fazl (d. 1602), is one of the... -
The History of Akbar, Volume 5 by Abu'l-Fazl
RRP: $58.40Booksplease Price: $51.48The exemplar of Indo-Persian history, at once a biography of Emperor Akbar and a chronicle of sixteenth-century Mughal India.Akbarnama, or The History of Akbar, by Abu'l-Fazl (d. 1602), is one of the... -
Mr Geography Tim Parks 9781787304536
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.25Daniel 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... -
Where I'm Reading From: The Changing World of Books by Tim Parks
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.66Should 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 History of Akbar: Volume 8 by Abu'l-Fazl
RRP: $58.40Booksplease Price: $49.92The exemplar of Indo-Persian history, at once a biography of Emperor Akbar and a chronicle of sixteenth-century Mughal India.Akbarnama, or The History of Akbar, by Abu'l-Fazl (d. 1602), is one of the... -
Ages of Anxiety: Auden Reading Jung in Times of War by Craig E. Stephenson 9781041030638
RRP: $72.13Booksplease Price: $69.11Craig E. Stephenson's Ages of Anxiety examines how W. H. Auden in his Pulitzer Prize winning poem, The Age of Anxiety, used C. G. Jung's psychological types to structure and explore his responses to... -
Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal by Tim Parks
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45'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: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.58From 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... -
The History of Akbar, Volume 3 by Abu'l-Fazl
RRP: $58.40Booksplease Price: $50.51The exemplar of Indo-Persian history, at once a biography of Emperor Akbar and a chronicle of sixteenth-century Mughal India.Akbarnama, or The History of Akbar, by Abu'l-Fazl (d. 1602), is one of the... -
The History of Akbar: Volume 7 by Abu'l-Fazl
RRP: $58.40Booksplease Price: $50.51The exemplar of Indo-Persian history, at once a biography of Emperor Akbar and a chronicle of sixteenth-century Mughal India.Akbarnama, or The History of Akbar, by Abu'l-Fazl (d. 1602), is one of the... -
The History of Akbar, Volume 4 by Abu'l-Fazl
RRP: $58.40Booksplease Price: $50.51The exemplar of Indo-Persian history, at once a biography of Emperor Akbar and a chronicle of sixteenth-century Mughal India.Akbarnama, or The History of Akbar, by Abu'l-Fazl (d. 1602), is one of the... -
The History of Akbar, Volume 2: Volume 2 by Abu'l-Fazl
RRP: $58.40Booksplease Price: $50.51The exemplar of Indo-Persian history, at once a biography of Emperor Akbar and a chronicle of sixteenth-century Mughal India.Akbarnama, or The History of Akbar, by Abu'l-Fazl (d. 1602), is one of the... -
The History of Akbar: Volume 1 by Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak
RRP: $58.40Booksplease Price: $50.51The exemplar of Indo-Persian history, at once a biography of Emperor Akbar and a chronicle of sixteenth-century Mughal India.Akbarnama, or The History of Akbar, by Abu'l-Fazl (d. 1602), is one of the... -
Thomas and Mary: A Love Story by Tim Parks 9781784702007
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.32'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... -
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $13.22Fifty-five fictional cities, each described in beautiful detail - each with a woman's name... In Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai... -
Clandestinity Antonio Moresco 9781646051724
RRP: $27.30Booksplease Price: $23.07In this four-story suite, a modern master of Italian literature delves into the wonder and strangeness of the human condition.Eerie, fabulist, and elegant, each of Moresco's stories features a... -
Poems of the First Buddhist Women: A Translation of the Therigatha by Charles Hallisey 9780674251359
RRP: $33.05Booksplease Price: $25.95A stunning modern translation of a Buddhist classic that is also one of the oldest literary texts in the world written by women.The Therigatha is one of the oldest surviving literatures by women,... -
Therigatha: Poems of the First Buddhist Women by Charles Hallisey 9780674427730
RRP: $58.40Booksplease Price: $49.92A stunning modern translation of a Buddhist classic that is also one of the oldest literary texts in the world written by women.The Therigatha, composed more than two millennia ago, is an anthology... -
Out of My Head: On the Trail of Consciousness by Tim Parks
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61Is 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... -
Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions by Alberto Manguel
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $21.18A best-selling author and world-renowned bibliophile meditates on his vast personal library and champions the vital role of all libraries."The author brings a fresh hopefulness to the enterprise of... -
The Ring of Truth: And Other Myths of Sex and Jewelry by Wendy Doniger
RRP: $73.11Booksplease Price: $59.81According to north Indian legend, there was once a Shah whose daughter was to marry a minister of the state of Sialkot. When the King heard of the girl's great beauty he tried to seduce her, but... -
Accidental Gods: On Race, Empire and Men Unwittingly Turned Divine Anna Della Subin 9781783785025
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.09A provocative history of race, empire and myth, told through the stories of men who have been worshipped as gods - from Columbus to Prince Philip. Spanning the globe and five centuries, Accidental...