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How to Seduce a Billionaire by Portia Da Costa 9780352347909 [USED COPY]
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $4.84The virgin and the billionaire... Just because Jess Lockhart is a virgin in her late twenties doesn't mean she isn't interested in men. In fact, far from it: she fantasies about finding the perfect... -
Art and Artist: Creative Urge and Personality Development by Otto Rank 9780393305746
RRP: $52.65Booksplease Price: $38.98Along with Adler and Jung, Otto Rank was one of the intellectual giants in the inner circle around Sigmund Freud. Art and Artist, his major statement on the relationship of art to the individual and... -
Never Trust a Rogue: A Rouge Regency Romance by Olivia Drake
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $24.32A devil in disguise... When wealthy heiress Miss Lindsey Crompton sneaks into the house of the Earl of Mansfield - a known cad and wicked scoundrel - she simply wants to investigate his involvement... -
Keith Haring Journals by Keith Haring
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.24Keith Haring is synonymous with the downtown New York art scene of the 1980's. His artwork-with its simple, bold lines and dynamic figures in motion-filtered in to the world's consciousness and is... -
Escape from Evil by Ernest Becker 9780029024508
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $24.41From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Denial of Death, a penetrating and insightful perspective on the source of evil in our world."A profound, nourishing book...absolutely essential to the... -
Gigi and The Cat by Colette
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.32The famous tale by the trailblazing subject of major new film ColetteGIGI TRANSLATED BY ROGER SENHOUSE, THE CAT TRANSLATED BY ANTONIA WHITEGigi's days are filled with cigars, lobster, lace and... -
Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents by Paul Theroux 9780241950548
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $24.32Sir Vidia's Shadow is a book that chronicles bestselling author Paul Theroux's long friendship with writer V.S Naipaul from its beginning to untimely end with both funny and moving moments and stark... -
Cursed Bread: Longlisted for the Women’s Prize by Sophie Mackintosh 9780241993903
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25GRANTA BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTSFrom the Booker Prize-nominated author of The Water Cure comes a chilling new feminist fable based on the true story of an unsolved mystery . . .'A shimmering... -
Dirty Books: Erotic Fiction and the Avant-Garde in Mid-Century Paris and New York by Barry Reay
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $30.19From the 1930s to the 1970s, in New York and in Paris, daring publishers and writers were producing banned pornographic literature. The books were written by young, impecunious writers, poets, and... -
Garden of Desires: The Evolution of Women's Sexual Fantasies by Emily Dubberley
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $23.93Female sexual fantasy began in 1973 with Nancy Friday's multi-million-selling collection of real women's fantasies, My Secret Garden. Until that book was published, female sexual fantasy did not... -
Peggy Glanville-Hicks: Composer and Critic by Suzanne Robinson
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.70As both composer and critic, Peggy Glanville-Hicks contributed to the astonishing cultural ferment of the mid-twentieth century. Her forceful voice as a writer and commentator helped shape... -
The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry by Gerald Moore
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.49'Poetry, always foremost of the arts in traditional Africa, has continued to compete for primacy against the newer forms of prose fiction and theatre drama.' This wonderfully comprehensive anthology... -
Lady Chatterley's Lover D. H. Lawrence 9781454953128
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.01Inspired by the long-standing affair between D. H. Lawrence's German wife and an Italian peasant, Lady Chatterley's Lover follows the intense passions of Constance Chatterley. Trapped in an unhappy... -
Uneven: A History of Bisexuality in Nine Pioneering Lives by Sam Mills 9781838956851
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00'Given bisexuality's all too frequent erasure, there is a need to represent [these] specific histories' Times Literary SupplementUneven tells the stories of nine pioneering bisexual artists, writers... -
Paris on the Brink: The 1930s Paris of Jean Renoir, Salvador Dali, Simone de Beauvoir, Andre Gide, Sylvia Beach, Leon Blum, and Their Friends by Mary McAuliffe 9781538121795
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $27.22Paris on the Brink vividly portrays the City of Light during the tumultuous 1930s, from the Wall Street Crash of 1929 to war and German Occupation. This was a dangerous and turbulent decade, during... -
Submit Sonnet 9781399729499
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $26.58'A series of true episodes from Sonnet's life as a sexual submissive . . . reveals a side to female sexuality that has been taboo - until now' SUNDAY TIMES'I was gripped. . . thought-provoking and... -
Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks: The New York Years, 1941–1950 by Patricia Highsmith 9781474617611
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48'My secrets - the secrets that everyone has - are here, in black and white.'Before Alfred Hitchcock adapted her debut novel, Strangers on a Train, for the big screen; before Thomas Ripley snaked his... -
Creative People at Work: Twelve Cognitive Case Studies by Doris B. Wallace 9780195077186
RRP: $138.45Booksplease Price: $109.67To demystify creative work without reducing it to simplistic formulas, Doris Wallace and Howard Gruber, one of the world's foremost authorities on creativity, have produced a unique book exploring... -
Indian Winter by Kazim Ali 9781552454657
Booksplease Price: $27.69CBC BOOKS: 2024 SPRING FICTION PREVIEW A queer writer travelling through India can't escape the regrets of his past, nor the impending ruin of his present. "I am leaving for the winter – I have to... -
The Making of a Counter-Culture Icon: Henry MIller's Dostoevsky by Maria Bloshteyn 9780802092281
RRP: $113.10Booksplease Price: $92.14At first glance, the works of Fedor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) do not appear to have much in common with those of the controversial American writer Henry Miller (1891-1980). However, the influencer of... -
New York: A Literary Anthology by J M Coghlan 9781035067664
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $14.86New York – the city that never sleeps – is brought to life in this vivid and lively anthology. From Staten Island to the Statue of Liberty, for centuries authors and poets have been inspired to write... -
I Shock Myself: Beatrice Wood, Career Woman of Art by Beatrice Wood 9780764355950
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $25.04In her own charming, spirited, and readable style, Beatrice Wood tells us the story of her unorthodox life and her influence on 20th-century art. Rebellious, radical, and romantic, Wood (1893-1998)... -
The House of Ulloa by Emilia Pardo Bazan
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00A rich and unforgettable tragic-comic novel of sexual intrigue and political scheming, The House of Ulloa is one of the greatest works of nineteenth-century Spanish literature.The House of Ulloa... -
Creative Collaboration by Vera John-Steiner 9780195307702
RRP: $76.03Booksplease Price: $51.87In Creative Collaboration, Vera John-Steiner offers rare and fascinating glimpses into the dynamic alliances from which some of our most important scholarly ideas, scientific theories and art forms... -
Hotel Modernisms Anna Despotopoulou 9781032081281
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.40This collection of essays explores the hotel as a site of modernity, a space of mobility and transience that shaped the transnational and transcultural modernist activity of the first half of the... -
Great Women Travel Writers: From 1750 to the Present by Bettina L. Knapp 9780826418401
Booksplease Price: $57.27This book includes ten contributor's writings on 250 years of women travel writers. Travel is sacred. Travel is a quest. Travel is an escape. Travel is a passion! It is enlightening, a distraction, a... -
The Crafty Reader by Robert Scholes 9780300191547
Booksplease Price: $60.04"I believe that it is in our interest as individuals to become crafty readers, and in the interest of the nation to educate citizens in the craft of reading. The craft, not the art. . . . This... -
Beerspit Night And Cursing: The Correspondence Of Charles Bukowski And Sheri Martinelli 1960 - 1967 by Charles Bukowski 9781574231502
Booksplease Price: $22.97Unmasks the tough, street-smart persona of Charles Bukowski-America's "Ultimate Outsider" * Amazing letters filled with passionate, literary, and personal observation * Insights into the author of... -
Sugar, Baby: Unmissable and intoxicating, the Tiktok sensation by Celine Saintclare 9781838958206
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25THE TIKTOK SENSATION'The perfect beach read: chaotic, darkly funny and keeps you on your toes' Liv Little for Elle UK'A bold, daring take on the wild, unconventional world of sugar babies' Harper's... -
Psychobiography: In Search of the Inner Life James William Anderson 9780197602096
Booksplease Price: $87.36Biographies are at their best when they convey that the subject is a three-dimensional human being who possesses an inner life. Psychobiography: In Search of the Inner Life offers tools for using... -
Letters of Note: Sex by Shaun Usher
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $11.74In Letters of Note: Sex, Shaun Usher collects together some of the most noteworthy missives ever written on the subject, from euphemism-laden, flirtatious exchanges and desire-driven expressions of... -
Portraits of Genius Friends by Sandra Hochman
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $30.23Sandra Hochman seemingly knew everyone, and throughout her life, she captured those friends' likenesses in one-of-a-kind watercolors that now adorn the walls of her Manhattan apartment. Hochman's... -
Framing the Margins: The Social Logic of Postmodern Culture by Phillip Brian Harper 9780195082395
RRP: $122.85Booksplease Price: $115.21This dramatic rereading of postmodernism seeks to broaden current theoretical conceptions of the movement as both a social-philosophical condition and a literary and cultural phenomenon. Phil Harper... -
Indian Winter Kazim Ali 9781068751578
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.25Indian Winter begins with a narrator trying to write about a long-ago lover whose death he has just learned of. While on this journey into memory, he flees his current faltering relationship in... -
Letters To Emil by Henry Miller 9780811211703
Booksplease Price: $25.74Prepared by Henry Miller for publication in 1938, Letters to Emil--correspondence from 1921 through 1934 with his boyhood friend and successful artist Emil Schnellock--remained unpublished until 1989... -
Quiet Days in Clichy by Henry Miller
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25'Here, even if I had a thousand dollar in my pocket, I know of no sight which could arouse in me the feeling of ecstasy'Looking back to Henry Miller's bohemian life in 1930s Paris, when he was an... -
On Replacement: Cultural, Social and Psychological Representations by Jean Owen 9783319760100
Booksplease Price: $176.59This book is an interdisciplinary study of the human drama of replacement. Is one's irreplaceability dependent on surrounding oneself by a replication of others? Is love intrinsically repetitious or... -
A Lure of Knowledge: Lesbian Sexuality and Theory by Judith Roof 9780231074865
RRP: $228.15Booksplease Price: $178.93Lesbianism in literature has been dealt with rather indirectly in the past. Editors have led readers to the "artistry" of a work containing lesbianism, emphasizing instead the literary history and... -
The Modern Fairies by Clare Pollard 9780241672457
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $28.35'Elegant and decadent, vulgar and clever, enchanting and dark. The love child of Angela Carter and Anais Nin - the book I really really needed' SARAH PERRY, author of The Essex SerpentWhy don't they... -
The Soul's Code by James Hillman
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.89Plato and the Greeks called it 'daimon', the Romans 'genius', the Christians 'Guardian Angel' - and today we use terms such as 'heart', 'spirit' and 'soul'. For James Hillman it is the central and...