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The Spirits of the Earth by Catherine Colomb 9780857423726
RRP: $24.79Booksplease Price: $22.42Swiss novelist Catherine Colomb is known as one of the most unusual and inventive francophone novelists of the twentieth century. Fascinated by the processes of memory and consciousness, she has been... -
![Degas: Passion and Intellect by Henri Loyrette 9780500300251 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9655379/10672099/9780500300251__18373.1781278962.jpg?c=1 "Degas: Passion and Intellect by Henri Loyrette 9780500300251 [USED COPY]")
Degas: Passion and Intellect by Henri Loyrette 9780500300251 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.65Booksplease Price: $3.36'I would like to famous and unknown', said Edgar Degas.His sublime paintings of ballet dancers, striking views of horseraces and intimate scenes of women bathing made him famous. Yet he remains... -
In Search of Lost Time: Mahler after Proust by Nicolas Mahler
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $22.22A twist on the French literary classic In Search of Lost Time told through Nicolas Mahler's distinctive graphic novel style. Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is one of the most important... -
Venice For Lovers by Louis Begley 9781907973703
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65Each year of their 30-year marriage, Louis Begley, the award-winning author of Wartime Lies, and his wife Anka Muhlstein have spent long, enjoyable months in Venice. They write and live there and... -
Proust's Overcoat: The True Story of One Man's Passion for All Things Proust by Lorenza Foschini 9781846272721
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.07The story of the overcoat began with a chance meeting - between an obsessive book collector, Jacques Guerin, and his physician, Dr Robert Proust, brother of the late writer. Guerin immediately... -
La Place de l'Étoile by Patrick Modiano 9781408867952
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11The first novel by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2014, which with The Night Watch and Ring Roads forms a trilogy of the Occupation'A Marcel Proust of our time' Peter Englund, permanent... -
Inclinations: A Critique of Rectitude by Adriana Cavarero
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $21.01In this new and accessible book, Italy's best known feminist philosopher examines the moral and political significance of vertical posture in order to rethink subjectivity in terms of inclination... -
![My Uncle Oswald by Roald Dahl 9780140055771 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9701756/10718460/9780140055771__46839.1781356519.jpg?c=1 "My Uncle Oswald by Roald Dahl 9780140055771 [USED COPY]")
My Uncle Oswald by Roald Dahl 9780140055771 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $4.81Roald Dahl's first-ever novel presents the scurrilous memoirs of that delightful old reprobate from switch bitch, Oswald Hendryks Cornelius - connoisseur, bon vivant, collector of spiders, scorpions,... -
The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting by Alice Miller 9780393328639
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.62Never before has world-renowned psychoanalyst Alice Miller examined so persuasively the long-range consequences of childhood abuse on the body. Using the experiences of her patients along with the... -
![The Orient of Style: Modernist Allegories of Conversion by Beryl Schlossman 9780822310761 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5031445/5030661/9780822310761__73316.1722858630.jpg?c=1 "The Orient of Style: Modernist Allegories of Conversion by Beryl Schlossman 9780822310761 [USED COPY]")
The Orient of Style: Modernist Allegories of Conversion by Beryl Schlossman 9780822310761 [USED COPY]
RRP: $125.96Booksplease Price: $1.38In this study of modernist aesthetics, Beryl Schlossman reveals how for such writers as Marcel Proust, Gustave Flaubert, and Charles Baudelaire, the Orient came to symbolize the highest aspirations... -
Edward VII (Penguin Monarchs): The Cosmopolitan King by Richard Davenport-Hines
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $5.51The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackLike his mother Queen Victoria, Edward VII defined an era. Both reflected the personalities... -
The Orient of Style: Modernist Allegories of Conversion by Beryl Schlossman 9780822310945 [USED COPY]
RRP: $36.17Booksplease Price: $3.62In this study of modernist aesthetics, Beryl Schlossman reveals how for such writers as Marcel Proust, Gustave Flaubert, and Charles Baudelaire, the Orient came to symbolize the highest aspirations... -
Edward VII (Penguin Monarchs): The Cosmopolitan King by Richard Davenport-Hines 9780241014806
Booksplease Price: $21.08Like his mother Queen Victoria, Edward VII defined an era. Both reflected the personalities of their central figures: hers grand, imperial and pretty stiff; his no less grand, but much more relaxed... -
![365: Great Stories from History for Every Day of the Year (Compact Edition) by W. B. Marsh 9781840466751 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9676875/10693595/9781840466751__32294.1781298866.jpg?c=1 "365: Great Stories from History for Every Day of the Year (Compact Edition) by W. B. Marsh 9781840466751 [USED COPY]")
365: Great Stories from History for Every Day of the Year (Compact Edition) by W. B. Marsh 9781840466751 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $3.26Whether it is major political events like the USA's annexation of Texas (1 March) or incredible discoveries like that of Tutankhamun's tomb (26 November), every event in history happened - of course... -
Letter from Provence: Two women, two centuries, and a village house in France by Sheryle Bagwell 9781761473531
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63'A tale of enduring love replete with hope.' Geraldine DoogueAfter buying an ancient stone house in Provence, Australian journalist Sheryle Bagwell finds in her attic an old edition of selected... -
The End of the Story Lydia Davis 9780241205457
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80The first and only novel by Lydia Davis, winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2013.'It surprised me, over and over, to find that I was with such a young man. He was twenty-two when I met him... -
Can't and Won't by Lydia Davis
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Can't and Won't is the new collection from Lydia Davis, one of the greatest short story writers alive.WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2013Lydia Davis has been universally acclaimed for... -
Eating Eternity: Food, Art and Literature in France by John Baxter
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.00"Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour," wrote Talleyrand. That Napoleon's most gifted advisor should speak so highly of eating says much about the importance... -
Essays 2 by Lydia Davis
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $18.77Lydia Davis returns with a timeless collection of essays on literature and language.'Precise, concentrated, lyrical. No one writes like Lydia Davis, and everyone should read her' Hanif Kureishi'A... -
Selected Writings by Gerard de Nerval
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Poet, visionary, short-story writer and autobiographer, Gerard de Nerval (1808-1855) explored the uncertain borderlines between dream and reality, irony and madness, autobiography and fiction with... -
Harbours and Heroes Rodney Lord 9781836285502
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79Harbours and Heroes is the story of a love affair with sailing which gradually developed into a vivid exploration of the history of Europe through its coastlines. From early on in his sailing career... -
The Food Lovers' Anthology: A literary compendium by Bodleian Library the
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $11.93'Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.' - Talleyrand 'He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.' - Jonathan Swift 'There is no love sincerer than the... -
A Little Book About Books: Quotes for the Bibliophile in Your Life by Orange Hippo!
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $7.61The world of books in one little book. It doesn't matter how well read you are, A Little Book About Books is packed full of quotes, one-liners and famous lines from names that everyone will recognise... -
Different Speeds, Same Furies: Powell, Proust and the Historical Novel by Perry Anderson 9781804290798
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.51There are few writers about whom opinions diverge so widely as Anthony Powell, whose Dance to the Music of Time sequence is one of the most ambitious literary constructions in the English language... -
The Great Philosophers: Nietzsche by Ronald Hayman
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $7.42'God is dead', announced Nietzsche - before going on to abolish himself.Envious contemporaries of Nietzsche ridiculed him as a mad man - and yet they came closer than they knew in characterising a... -
Neatness Counts: Essays on the Writer's Desk by Kevin Kopelson 9780816644025
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.11In Neatness Counts, Kevin Kopelson reflects on the poetics of the desk-rolltop or bureau-plat, cluttered or bare, the nestlike desk, the schematic desk, the dramatic desk, the dramatic lack of any... -
Monsieur Linh and His Child by Philippe Claudel
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75Traumatized by memories of his war-ravaged country, and with his son and daughter-in-law dead, Monsieur Linh travels to a foreign land to bring the child in his arms to safety. The other refugees in... -
Reading Style: A Life in Sentences by Jenny Davidson 9780231168595
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $21.82A professor, critic, and insatiable reader, Jenny Davidson investigates the passions that drive us to fall in love with certain sentences over others and the larger implications of our relationship... -
Franco by Paul Preston 9780006862109
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $24.52'Magisterial ... As engagingly readable as a good novel' Observer The definitive biography of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, from the acclaimed historian Paul Preston. ... -
1922: Scenes from a Turbulent Year Nick Rennison 9780857305015
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $8.521922 was a year of great turbulence and upheaval. Its events reverberated throughout the rest of the twentieth century and still affect us today, 100 years later. Empires fell. The Ottoman Empire... -
A Room of One's Own (The Norton Library) Virginia Woolf 9780393893991
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $10.22The Norton Library edition of A Room of One's Own features Virginia Woolf's original 1929 text. Dora Zhang crafts a thoughtful introduction and targeted notes that highlight the continued prevalence... -
At the Borders of Sleep: On Liminal Literature by Peter Schwenger
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.07At the Borders of Sleep is a unique exploration of the connections between literature and the liminal states between waking and sleeping-from falling asleep and waking up, to drowsiness and insomnia,... -
Thankfulness: A Colouring Book by Lizzie Preston 9780281077366
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92With ever-increasing pressures on our time and a perpetual stream of 'must-have' items advertised in the media, it's easy for all of us to overlook or fail to appreciate the people and things we... -
Love: Vintage Minis Jeanette Winterson 9781784872724
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $6.50How do we love? With romance. With work. Through heartbreak. Throughout a lifetime. As a means, but not an end. Love in all its forms has been an abiding theme of Jeanette Winterson's writing. Here... -
A Journey Around My Room by 9781847493088
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.07Finding himself locked in his room for six weeks, a young officer journeys around his room in his imagination, using the various objects it contains as inspiration for a delightful parody of... -
Mathematics of the Universe Soledad Romero Mariño 9780764368387
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $17.42The lyrical verses and captivating illustrations of this picture book explore how the concepts and patterns of mathematics shape the natural world. The universe seems in such disarray, ... -
Cousin Bette by Honore De Balzac 9781857150155
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68Set in Paris in the mid-nineteenth century, it relates the story of the vengeful Bette who, along with her scheming accomplice Valerie Marneffe, sets out to ruin her extended family. Exploring themes... -
Overstaying by Ariane Koch 9781805330165
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65An isolated woman clashes with an enigmatic visitor in this funny, jagged parable about integration, difference and hospitality An isolated young woman living in a small Swiss town decides to take... -
The Assommoir by Emile Zola 9780198828563
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.39'in this life, even if you don't ask for much you still end up with bugger all!' In a run-down quarter of Paris, Gervaise Macquart struggles to earn a living and support her family. She earns a... -
Lies: Vintage Minis by Oscar Wilde
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $6.50'The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.'Is lying simply an uncomfortable truth about life or...