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Wings of Desire by Christian Rogowski
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.99A guide through the many aspects of Wenders's groundbreaking film, employing archival research to bring out new insights into its making and its meanings. Filmed in 1986/87 in still-divided... -
In Conversation with Klaus Dermutz by Anselm Kiefer 9781803090382
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30In the ten conversations with the writer and theologian Klaus Dermutz collected here, Kiefer returns to the essential elements of his art, his aesthetics, and his creative processes. The only visual... -
Infinity (Stage) by Spencer Jay Golub 9780472110360
Booksplease Price: £75.60Infinity (Stage) is a highly original study and poetic meditation on the themes of death, memory, identity, and representation in theater, film, and literature. Inspired in part by the death of his... -
Professor Andersen's Night by Dag Solstad 9780811228305
Booksplease Price: £12.21In this existential murder mystery, it is Christmas Eve, and fifty-five-year-old professor Pal Andersen is alone, drinking coffee and cognac in his living room. Lost in thought, he looks out the... -
On the Royal Road - The Burgher King Elfriede Jelinek 9781803092300
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.92Carefully perched somewhere between tragedy and grotesque, high-pitched and squeamish, Jelinek's play, On the Royal Road, brings into focus the phenomenon of right-wing populism, which spreads like a... -
Panopticon by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.37A collection of daring short essays on topical themes, including politics, economics, religion, society. Hans Magnus Enzensberger takes the title for this collection not from Jeremy Bentham's famous... -
On the Royal Road: The Burgher King Elfriede Jelinek 9780857427786
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.76Carefully perched somewhere between tragedy and grotesque, high-pitched and squeamish, Jelinek's play, On the Royal Road, brings into focus the phenomenon of right-wing populism, which spreads like a... -
Lungs Duncan Macmillan 9781350270077
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30'I could fly to New York and back every day for seven years and still not leave a carbon footprint as big as if I have a child. Ten thousand tonnes of CO2. That's the weight of the Eiffel Tower. I'd... -
People, Places and Things by Duncan Macmillan 9781350519862
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.62"Macmillan doesn't shy away from difficult questions about addiction and recovery and, rightly, doesn't answer them ... this is a bold, timely and searching play" - Financial Times Emma was having... -
Starlite Terrace by Patrick Roth 9781803092119
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.55Dark stories of failed dreams and contemporary desperation in Los Angeles. In a rundown Los Angeles apartment building-the titular Starlite Terrace-Patrick Roth unfurls the tragic linked stories of... -
Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'An intense, courageous novel, equal to the best of Virginia Woolf and Samuel Beckett' The New York TimesPart detective novel, part love story, part psychoanalytic case study, Malina is a staggering... -
Handful of Sand by Marinko Koscec
Booksplease Price: £13.50This is a tale of life, love and loss, told through two nameless voices, a male character who is living in Canada and a female back in Croatia. Without recourse, to dialogue, the author creates two... -
City of Glass by Duncan Macmillan 9781786821706
Booksplease Price: £12.67When reclusive crime writer Daniel Quinn receives a mysterious call seeking a private detective in the middle of the night, he quickly and unwittingly becomes the protagonist in a thriller of his own... -
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Theatre and Politics by Joe Kelleher 9780230205239 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £2.00What happens to politics when it takes the form of theatre? How has theatre both exploited and undermined politics both in society and on the stage?Theatre& Politics explores the complex relationship... -
Theatre and Politics by Joe Kelleher
Booksplease Price: £8.22What happens to politics when it takes the form of theatre? How has theatre both exploited and undermined politics both in society and on the stage?Theatre& Politics explores the complex relationship... -
Aerial by Bin Ramke 9781890650605
Booksplease Price: £14.88Aerial is concerned with the sky-its cloud-laden aspects in the first section, its dry realms of severe spirituality in the second. And as poetry is always about attention to language, the words... -
The Children of the Dead by Elfriede Jelinek 9780300142150
Booksplease Price: £25.55The magnum opus of 2004 Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek-a spectral journey through the catastrophic history embedded in the landscape of Austria "The surface of [Jelinek's] prose cracks and bursts ... -
The Aesthetics of Clarity and Confusion: Literature and Engagement since Nietzsche and the Naturalists by Geoffrey Baker 9783319421704
Booksplease Price: £79.75What should literature with political aims look like? This book traces two rival responses to this question, one prizing clarity and the other confusion, which have dominated political aesthetics... -
In Hora Mortis / Under the Iron of the Moon: Poems by Thomas Bernhard
Booksplease Price: £27.84Internationally acclaimed Austrian novelist, playwright, and memoirist Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989) has been compared to Kafka and Beckett, and critics have ranked his novels among the masterpieces of... -
On Earth and in Hell: Early Poems by Thomas Bernhard 9781941110232
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50The first English translation of the earliest poetry of brilliant and disruptive Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard, widely considered one of the most innovative and original authors of the twentieth... -
Kruso by Lutz Seiler 9781911344414
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31Winner of the German Book Prize, from the winner of the 2023 Georg Buchner Prize. It is 1989, and a young literature student named Ed travels to the Baltic island of Hiddensee, a notorious... -
André Butzer. Hölderlin André Butzer 9783754400159
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £38.05Friedrich Hoelderlin is probably Andre Butzer's favorite poet and ranks alongside Walt Disney and Henri Matisse among his "favorite people ever." His identification with the poet goes even further,... -
Blurred Iris Wolff 9781917593007
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73In rural Transylvania, a young wife fearing for her unborn child takes a sleigh ride through all-enveloping snow. BLURRED tells the story of that child, Samuel, through the voices of those who know... -
Remnants of Another Age by Nikola Madzirov 9781934414507
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.25"These poems move mysteriously by means of a profound inner concentration, giving expression to the deepest laws of the mind. Their linguistic 'making' is informed by vivid evidence of a serious... -
Bandoneon: Working with Pina Bausch by Raimund Hoghe 9781783193271
Booksplease Price: £24.63Bandoneon: Working with Pina Bausch is a new translation of Raimund Hoghe's original rehearsal diary that documented the legendary Tanztheater Wuppertal's work on Bandoneon (1980), illustrated with...