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The Book of All Books by Roberto Calasso
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'Beautiful, intellectually thrilling . . . unlike anything else' TelegraphPromise and separation. Grace and guilt. The chosen and the damned. Roberto Calasso's captivating retelling of key stories... -
Let Me Not Be Mad: A Story of Unravelling Minds by A K Benjamin
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Let Me Not Be Mad is an immersive, virtuosic and provocative investigation of madness, love and self-destruction that defies categorisation. 'Exhilarating ... dazzling ... a miraculous feat'... -
Dead Long Enough by James Hawes 9780099759812
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.51Harry MacDonald had seen plenty of skulls - arsing about with some poor sod or other's skull is what pays Harry's rent - but until the day of his official thirty-ninth birthday (actually, Harry was... -
Dialogues on Consciousness by 9781682192245
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.33Over a period of many years, the celebrated English novelist Tim Parks and the Italian philosopher Riccardo Manzotti have been discussing the nature of consciousness. Not long ago, Parks suggested to... -
Forza Italia: The Fall and Rise of Italian Football by Paddy Agnew
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74When journalist Paddy Agnew and his girlfriend Dympna touched down in Rome in 1985 in search of adventure, sunshine and the soul of Italian football (well, Paddy was looking for that), they were... -
The Italians by Luigi Barzini
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron - and millions of tourists ever since - in its spell. Yet, beneath 'the brilliant and vivacious surface', what are the realities of Italian life? Few... -
Into the War by Italo Calvino
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Set in Italy in the summer of 1940, this trio of stories explores the relationships between the different generations caught up in the war as well as Calvino's own experiences as a teenager. In the... -
A History of Contemporary Italy: 1943-80 by Paul Ginsborg
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.43In this long-awaited book (already a major bestseller in Italy) Ginsborg has created a fascinating, sophisticated and definitive account of how Italy has coped, or failed to cope, with the past two... -
The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and its Citrus Fruit by Helena Attlee
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'4 stars. Attlee, who knows and loves Italy and the Italians, takes the reader through the country's scented gardens with her sharp descriptions, pertinent stories and quotes and intriguing recipes... -
L'Abbe C by George Batailles
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42L'Abbe C is a shocking, unnerving narrative about the intense and terrifying relationship between twin brothers. Charles is a modern libertine, dedicated to vice and depravity, while Robert is a... -
K. by Roberto Calasso
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23What are Kafka's stories about? Are they dreams? Allegories? Symbols? Things that happen every day? But where and when?In this remarkable book, Roberto Calasso sets out not to dispel the mystery but... -
The Italian Job by Gabriele Marcotti
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81Football lies at the heart of popular culture in both England and Italy. It is played, watched, written about and talked to death by millions virtually every day of the year. But how do the... -
The Theban Plays: Oedipus the King,Oedipus at Colonus, JACKET LO D2K by Sophocles
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Ancient Athens produced three great tragic writers - Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Of the three Sophocles has in many ways remained the most accessible and may have had the most extensive... -
Yoga: From the bestselling author of THE ADVERSARY by Emmanuel Carrère 9781529114324
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15This is a book about yoga. Or at least, it was.January 2015. High on literary success and familial bliss, Emmanuel Carrere embarks on a rigorous ten-day meditative retreat in rural France in search... -
Numbers in the Dark by Italo Calvino
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Numbers in the Dark is a collection of short stories covering the length of Italo Calvino's extraordinary writing career, from when he was a teenager to shortly before his death. They include witty... -
Italy and its Discontents 1980-2001 by Paul Ginsborg 9780140247947
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.85In this long-awaited book (already a major bestseller in Italy) Ginsborg has created a fascinating, sophisticated and definitive account of how Italy has coped, or failed to cope, with the past two... -
A Tuscan Childhood Kinta Beevor 9781780228648
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Wonderful ... I fell immediately into her world' Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan SunKinta Beevor was five years old when she fell in love with her parents' castle facing the Carrara... -
Vroom With A View: In Search Of Italy's Dolce Vita On A '61 Vespa by Peter Moore
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46It was the late night Tai Bo fitness commercial warning him that life comes to an end after 40 that prompted Peter Moore to chase a boyhood dream. To go to Italy and seek out its celebrated dolce... -
Italian Short Stories by Dimitri Vittorini
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42This second volume of Italian Short Stories, with its parallel translations aims - as the first volume did - to exemplify the richness and variety of Italian writing of the twentieth century. In this... -
The Moon and the Bonfires by Cesare Pavese
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67'Insinuating, haunting and lyrically pervasive' The New York Times Book ReviewA new translation by Tim ParksTwenty years after making his fortune in America, Eel is drawn back to the closest thing he... -
Literary Lunch by 9781784702083
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49A great book is like a feast. We love to concoct stories from food but what about making food from some of our favourite stories? To whip up your own Literary Lunch, just follow this simple recipe..... -
The Godmother: Murder, Vengeance, and the Women Who Took Over the Mafia by Barbie Latza Nadeau
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83The killing took place outside a busy coffee bar in Naples in broad daylight. Pupetta was eighteen years old and six months pregnant when she pulled the gun from her bag.The victim?A man known as Big... -
Londoners by Maureen Duffy 9780099587361
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Many of the Londoners in this novel are outcasts - some are criminals in society's eyes. Most are descended from adventurers and immigrants. The worlds they inhabit - the bedsit; the cruisers' pub -... -
Falling in Love Donna Leon 9781784750749
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'Donna Leon's deft and descriptive words do for Venice what Canaletto did for this serenest of cities with his brushes and paint palette and bring it to life in all its reach and colourful gaiety..... -
By Its Cover: (Brunetti 23) by Donna Leon
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'The multiple award-winning Leon has lost none of her talent for weaving intrigue, and the atmosphere of Venice is as beguiling as ever.' Living NorthA Washington Post BestsellerA New York Times... -
Retreat: The Risks and Rewards of Stepping Back from the World by Nat Segnit
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.37'Reads at times like Eat Pray Love as written by David Foster Wallace. A rich and almost eerily timely book' William Fiennes, author of The Snow GeeseStepping back from the world is an ancient human... -
Translation Of Poetry And Poetic Prose - Proceedings Of The Nobel Symposium 110 by Sture Allen 9789810239220
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £103.13Translation is a very important tool in our multilingual world. Excellent translation is a sine qua non in the work of the Swedish Academy, responsible for the Nobel Prize in Literature. In order to... -
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Retreat: The Risks and Rewards of Stepping Back from the World by Nat Segnit 9781529111309 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £4.09Retreat takes us on a stunning journey through the many ways humans step back from daily life, both in today's world and in our past.'Open-minded, elegantly written and comprehensive' Daily... -
Retreat: The Risks and Rewards of Stepping Back from the World by Nat Segnit 9781529111309
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Retreat takes us on a stunning journey through the many ways humans step back from daily life, both in today's world and in our past.'Open-minded, elegantly written and comprehensive' Daily... -
The Golden Egg: (Brunetti 22) by Donna Leon
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'The familiar characters and Venetian location are described with remarkable freshness and, as always, the edifying result is both amusing and thought-provoking.' Sunday TelegraphA New York Times... -
The Waters of Eternal Youth by Donna Leon
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'There is no one better than Donna Leon at showing the ripple effects of a single traumatic event . . . Leon has recast the city in her own venerable image: full of surprises and hidden beauty.'... -
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The Waters of Eternal Youth: Brunetti 25 by Donna Leon 9781784755027 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.48'There is no one better than Donna Leon at showing the ripple effects of a single traumatic event . . . Throughout this astonishingly consistent series Leon has recast the city in her own venerable... -
The Experience of Pain Carlo Emilio Gadda 9780241706992
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'The seething cauldron of life, the infinite stratification of reality, the inextricable tangle of knowledge are what Gadda wants to depict' Italo Calvino Gonzalo is a highly educated man living... -
Giuseppe Mazzini and the Globalization of Democratic Nationalism, 1830-1920 by C. A. Bayly 9780197264317
Booksplease Price: £93.10Giuseppe Mazzini - Italian patriot, humanist, and republican - was one of the most celebrated and revered political activists and thinkers of the nineteenth century. This volume is the first to... -
Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy 9780811229036
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.69A novel about obsessive love and madness set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's eerily beautiful novel begins innocently enough: "At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell." But... -
Beautiful Antonio by Vitaliano Brancati
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Having spent some time in Rome, Antonio - the handsomest young man in Catania - returns to his native town with the reputation of being a playboy and with a long list of amorous adventures behind him... -
Giro d'Italia: The Story of the World's Most Beautiful Bike Race by Colin O'Brien
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The story of the Giro d'Italia - Italy's equivalent of the Tour de France, and its superior in the eyes of many - is as dramatic and full of extraordinary characters as the story of Italy itself... -
Indian Nocturne by Antonio Tabucchi 9780811210805
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.35Translated from the Italian, this winner of the Prix Medicis Etranger for 1987 is an enigmatic novel set in modern India. Roux, the narrator, is in pursuit of a mysterious friend named Xavier. His... -
Dante: The Story of His Life by Marco Santagata
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £16.04A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year A Marginal Revolution Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year A Seminary Co-op Notable Book of the Year A Times Higher Education Book of the WeekA Choice... -
D. H. Lawrence and Italy by D. H. Lawrence
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51In these impressions of the Italian countryside, Lawrence transforms ordinary incidents into passages of intense beauty.Twilight in Italy is a vibrant account of Lawrence's stay among the people of...